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Would that all of our homes could be as quickly and as lovely renovated in six weeks time, as was Palmetto Cafe in the Charleston Place Hotel.
A late winter redecorating enlightened the breakfast, brunch and lunch spot of this premiere Orient-Express property in Charleston Place. No wrecking ball required but a fine eye for design opened a warren of dining areas into a spacious, light-welcoming conservatory of courtyard-inspired dining.
It's complete with indoor fountains, antique planters and the verdure of a wall alive with sculptured greenery that embraces the design aesthetics of the outdoor courtyard with all the charm of Charleston.
The white decor does for the dining room what a white plate does for food, providing a palette for visually arresting detail. British-inspired Southern Colonial furnishings dress the room with the emblems of good taste. The familiar has been rearranged, but Palmetto Cafe continues to play the notes of attentive service and intelligent cooking with gracious practice.
Taking a page from the culinary playbook of Charleston Grill chef Michelle Weaver, whose menu is divided into "pure," "lush," "Southern" and "cosmopolitan," the cafe menu of chef de cuisine Steven Manali is divided into "ocean," "range," "vine" and "cafe classics."
But customer favorites were not abandoned in favor of the new. The liquid velvet of she-crab soup ($12) is unsullied and sherry service remains for your personal adjustment.
Caesar salad ($25) comes with your choice of proteins: grilled shrimp, fried Edisto Island oysters, diver scallops or grilled chicken.
The exquisite blue crab cake ($14), rounded with lump backfin sections is lightly bound together and bears a smidgen of fresh herbs and chives.
Sister Orient-Express property, the 21 Club, allows the "21 Burger" ($25) to be reproduced at the Palmetto Cafe. This burger, originally priced at $2.75 when a burger could be had for a dime, is topped with caramelized onions and a roasted tomato.
If all of the menu choices confuse, the cafe has put together the "Palmetto sampler" ($28) that includes a demitasse of she-crab soup, a "21 burger" slider, a mini-crab cake and a small portion of crab salad with a mint julep cup of hot, tender, skinny fries.
Bread service is taken seriously here. Crisp sheets of carta di musica, the paper-thin flat bread of Italy, along with rustic multigrain sliced bread and modified Parker House rolls are served warm with a tricolor terrine of butter flavored with kalamata olives, roasted red peppers and herbs. Do not fill up!
If lunch is defined for you by soup and sandwich or salad, the cafe will not disappoint.
Larger appetites will find seared chicken with gnocchi ($27), filet mignon ($31), seafood linguini ($29) or simply prepared sea bass ($28).
The seafood taco ($28) preparation intrigued us. Sushi-grade tuna was seared and bedded down with fresh slaw and cilantro; a blue corn tortilla was loaded with plush lobster meat; and another with local shrimp towering over the taco's sides were cooked with respect and the cilantro garnish was so fresh, it literally was germinating from coriander seeds. Splashed with the juice of grilled limes and drizzled with cilantro-lime aioli, a seafood taco never had it so good.
Desserts are creative in both flavor profiles and presentation. They included an ingot of pistachio cheesecake; a drizzle of "Twizzler"-flavored syrup brightening chocolate cake; delicately formed quenelles of creme Chantilly; and dried pineapple entremets coated in bittersweet chocolate.
True to the context of Orient-Express restaurants, you will find a well-versed server who can address preparations, ingredients, portion size and signature dishes with the well-rehearsed discourse of a Charleston tour guide.
The servers here perform their jobs with awareness of you as the guest and of each other: a quick two-step to allow hot foods to come quickly to the table; a glance at the floor and quick return with a dust pan; a cursory look at neighboring tables assessing needs.
When we rejected the signature peach tea garnished with peach slices (we are purists for iced black tea); our server brought us each a glass to taste, along with fresh mint leaves and a cruet of simple syrup.
There is precision in mincing, there is inscrutable freshness, there is artistry in the plate presentation and there is sophistication that does not strain at pretense.
And all of this comes with a cost. The Palmetto Cafe is expensive. Wines by the glass tally in at $10-$19 and that $20 minimum per person is easy to attain. But in the price/value equation, your money is well spent.
Dressed in light, the Palmetto Cafe is a pearl in the jewel box of Charleston Place.
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This place should be a fave for us - it's close to home, has an appealing ambiance, and it relatively affordable. Despite the repeat attempts and changes in orders, the food remains mediocre, at best -- bland, ordinary Italian food often ill-prepared. The service, too, leaves something to be desired, as the servers are slow and often rude. When Regional first opened, it was good -- nothing special, but consistent and convenient. Now it's just blah, with menu that seems to get shorter and shorter with each visit. I wish I could praise this place because I want to like it, but alas, I don't.
Posted by Anonymous on 06/29/2011
First of all, I totally disagree with all the naysayers about the service. I probably dine here once a month, and I've never had bad service. The servers have always been attentive an polite. The food and presentation are consistently good, and Regional with its $9 pasta nights and $25 prix fixe nights offers probably the best value on the UWS.
Posted by Mark A. on 06/08/2011
Love this spot but dear god the service is subpar. Most of the pasta dishes are great (ravioli and other similar pastas have very small portions). Drink pours are generous as well. Once again though the service will make you grind your teeth.
Posted by anonymous on 03/05/2011
We should have known there would be a problem with this restaurant when we waited 20 minutes just to have the waiter take our order. Finally he came over, took our order and convinced me and my husband to try a different wine than the glasses we had ordered. The wine,which was good, and the bread and salad came soon thereafter. But then 45 minutes later, the entrees still hadn't come. We saw the food runners taking food to other tables of people who had come in after us, and it wasn't like we were getting anything special, just pasta for a party of four, and two were the specials. Finally I asked about our food order and was told by the waiter, "What do you expect. The restaurant is full and there is only one kitchen." Twenty minutes and two inquiries later, they finally brought our food. While two of the dishes were quite good, the special pasta, which I and a friend ordered, was mediocre at best. Altogether we waited an hour for our food, and were offered not even an extra soft drink or anything, just the same excuse that somehow we were being unreasonable for expecting better serive. We also found out that the half filled glass of wine which the waiter had pushed was $3 more a glass than the ones we had ordered. Although some of the food was good, the poor quality of my dish and the service would keep us for ever returning.
Posted by anonymous on 02/26/2011
We finally tried Regional for the first time tonight. and it will be the last. The food is so-so, the ambiance ok, needs some acoustic dampering [too many hard surfaces], but the service was inexcusable. we were sitting at the bar and the bartender spilled a bucket of ice water on my wife's lap. 1. The manager was too busy chatting with the regulars to take notice. 2. i cleaned up the water all over the bar and the floor, no one from the restaurant--wait staff, bartender, manager--even asked if they could help, and 3. **no one** offered to buy my wife a drink, deduct anything from the bill; the bartender offered a lackluster apology and that was it. I've lived in this neighborhood for over 20 years and have never felt this shabbily treated.
Posted by Yummy on 11/27/2010
I think this place is a gem. The pasta is really fantastic.
Posted by Anonymous on 03/25/2010
We went for the first time for brunch at Regional last weekend and I got admit that the unlimited mimosa is a great deal. The food is very good and the service is fast. Beware of the manager....she can be very loud for no reason


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(Memphis) Friday's never-ending rain forced the Memphis Botanic Garden to reschedule Friday night's "Live at the Garden" concert featuring Foreigner.
Jim Duncan, executive director of the Memphis Botanic Garden, said the famous rock band was more than willing make sure Memphis fans weren't disappointed.
"We were very fortunate in that Foreigner was willing to make a re-routing to where they could come back in here on Monday night and have a concert."
The nearly sold-out concert will start at 7:30 Monday night instead of the usual start time of 8:30 p.m.
Those who have already purchased tickets just need to show up with ticket in hand.
And while the Foreigner concert is a temporary washout, Friday's heavy rain was a blessing.
Jim Duncan said it's just what the 96 acre complex has been needing after a long dry spell.
"The rain is a good thing because we haven't had any in quite some time. And of course our plants need water in order to thrive and to be beautiful for the public."


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When Iowa lawmakers return to Des Moines on January 13, they plan to tackle the state's infrastructure. That means finding ways to fix roads and bridges that are worsening by the day.
"We have to address it," said Iowa Rep. Cindy Winckler, (D) Davenport. "The longer we wait, the larger the price tag becomes."
"It's always an issue," added Iowa Sen. Joe Seng, (D) Davenport. "Illinois is right across the river. If we raise gas taxes, how's it going to affect my senate district?"
While Iowa must find a way to fix its outdated and crumbling roadways, the push for a gas tax hike could be a tough sell in the Hawkeye State.
Rep. Winckler suggests the need to develop a long-term plan. But, she warns, it will take bipartisan support to build the fund during an election year.
"We need to support the infrastucture," she said. "There's no getting around it. We don't want to wait until a tragedy occurs on our roads or in our bridges."
Sen. Seng suggests that an ethanol surcharge could raise $40 million for Iowa roads. And he says there are other possibilities to keep Iowa competitive with neighboring Illinois.
"We're the epitome of making good use out of local taxes and stuff to stimulate the people of Illinois to want Iowa," he said.
Whatever happens, both parties are predicting a short session. That's with the governor's race up for grabs in 2014.
Other hot topics for the legislature include funding for education and mental health programs. And there's always the challenge of balancing the state's surplus with growing the economy.
"We need to focus on quality and making good decisions, rather than focus on getting our job done quickly and getting out of town," Rep. Winckler said.
Big decisions from Des Moines during a critical legislative session for the state.


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Classic black and white designs are elegantly combined with a stunning purple flower to bring you Purple Flower Wedding Invitations. The cardstock quality, rectangle invitations can be easily customized with the font and styles you choose to match your wedding theme. Make your wedding or bridal shower beautifully personal.
The 25 count set comes complete with silver and white invitations, purple flower flap, and coordinating envelopes.
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I bought these for bridal shower invites along with the matching plates and napkins. These invites look great and I love the matching envelopes. The paper quality is much nicer than other DIY printing invites.
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Mark Stoops Talks Alabama State in Monday News Conference
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Game Time for UK-Missouri on Nov. 9 Set: The University of Kentucky football game with Missouri on Saturday, Nov. 9 has been set for a Noon ET kickoff on either ESPNU/FSN at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Ky.
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Heat sink structures employing carbon nanotube or nanowire arrays to reduce the thermal interface resistance between an integrated circuit chip and the heat sink are disclosed. Carbon nanotube arrays are combined with a thermally conductive metal filler disposed between the nanotubes. This structure produces a thermal interface with high axial and lateral thermal conductivities.
1. A micro-cooler device structure comprising:
a heat sink body having a heat sink surface;
a plurality of individually separated, multi-walled carbon nanotubes for transferring thermal energy from a surface of at least one integrated circuit chip to said heat sink surface, said plurality of individually separated, multi-walled carbon nanotubes being disposed between said heat sink surface and said surface of at least one integrated circuit chip; and
a thermally conductive material disposed within interstitial voids between said plurality of individually separated, multi-walled carbon nanotubes have a coverage density between 15 and 40 percent.
2. A micro-cooler device as recited in
3. A micro-cooler device as recited in
4. A micro-cooler device as recited in
5. A micro-cooler device as recited in
6. A micro-cooler device as recited in
7. A micro-cooler device as recited in
8. A micro-cooler device as recited in
9. A micro-cooler device as recited in
10. A method for fabricating a micro-cooler device, comprising:
providing a heat sink body having a heat sink surface;
growing a plurality of individually separated, rod like multi-walled carbon nanotubes on a micro-cooler surface, the multi-walled carbon nanotubes being configured to transfer thermal energy from a surface of at least one integrated circuit chip to said heat sink surface, said individually separated, multi-walled carbon nanotubes being arranged between said heat sink surface and said surface of at least one integrated circuit chip; and
placing a thermally conductive material disposed in interstitial voids between said plurality of individually separated, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, wherein the multi-walled carbon nanotubes have a coverage density between 15 and 40 percent.
11. A method for fabricating a micro-cooler device as recited in
12. A method for fabricating a micro-cooler device as recited in
13. A method for fabricating a micro-cooler device as recited in
14. A method for fabricating a micro-cooler device as recited in
15. A method for fabricating a micro-cooler device as recited in
This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/925,824, filed Aug. 24, 2004, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/497,849, filed Aug. 25, 2003. These two prior applications are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to the removal of heat generated by an integrated circuit and the components used in chip assembly and packaging to facilitate said heat removal. More specifically, this invention discloses the application of self-assembled nano-structures for improving the performance of heat sink structures coupled to integrated circuit devices.
2. Description of the Related Art
Prior art used to cool semiconductor ICs incorporates the use of large and expensive chip packaging having externally mounted, finned heat sinks coupled to the ceramic or plastic encapsulated IC chip. As the speed and density of modem integrated circuits increase, the power generated by these chips also increases, often in geometric proportion to increasing density and functionality. In the video processing and CPU application areas, the ability to dissipate the heat being generated by current ICs is becoming a serious limitation in the advance of technology. In the current art, relatively large interface-thermal-resistances are added when the die is 'attached' to a heat spreader, heat pipe or heat sink. These multiple interfaces have the undesired side effect of increasing total die to heat sink resistance and making heat transfer more difficult.
Recently, U.S. Patent Application Publication number US2003/0117770 has disclosed a process of forming a thermal interface that employs carbon nano-tubes to reduce thermal resistance between an electronic device and a heat sink. Bundles of aligned nano-tubes receive injected polymeric material in molten form to produce a composite which is placed between the electronic device and the heat sink. The nano-tubes are aligned parallel to the direction of heat energy. However, the polymeric filler does little to spread heat laterally, potentially creating localized hot spots on the device surface. The use of bundles of aligned carbon nano-tubes may result in reduced thermal conduction as well. Theoretical molecular dynamics simulations have shown that isolated carbon nano-tubes show unusually high thermal conductivity, but that the thermal conductivity degrades by an order of magnitude when carbon nano-tube bundles are formed with tube-to-tube contacts (see for example Savas Berber, et al, Physics Review Letters, 84, no. 20, 4613, May 2000). U.S. Patent Application Publication US2003/231471 discloses an integrated circuit package that utilizes single wall or double wall carbon nano-tube arrays grown subsequent to the deposition of CVD diamond films. Due to the roughness of CVD diamond films, carbon nano-tubes are utilized to aid in making thermal contact between the surfaces of the circuit silicon die and of the integrated heat spreader. The interstitial voids between the nano-tubes are not filled in order to maintain flexibility. This disclosure, however, fails to provide any method to reduce matting and nano-tube to nano-tube contact, which reduces the effective thermal conductivity of the structure. Although CVD diamond films are good conductors, they may not be thermally compatible (from an expansion perspective) with a number of other metallic materials utilized in various heat sink structures. Additionally, commonly known techniques for growing carbon nano-tubes would preclude carbon nanotube deposition directly on a silicon circuit die, since these techniques require temperatures in the range of 700 to 800� C. Exposing a completed circuit die to these elevated temperatures is not a recommended practice.
What is needed is a method and structure by which interface resistances are minimized by integrating several thermal components to maximize heat transfer from hot surfaces on the integrated circuit.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a micro-cooler device structure containing a heat sink body having a heat sink surface, a plurality of individually separated, rod like nano-structures for transferring thermal energy from a surface of at least one integrated circuit chip to the heat sink surface, the plurality of individually separated, rod-like nano-structures being disposed between the heat sink surface and the surface of the integrated circuit chip, and a thermally conductive material disposed within interstitial voids between the rod-like nano-structures.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for fabricating a micro-cooler device includes fashioning a shallow cavity in a mounting surface of a heat sink body, growing rod-like nano-structures within the shallow cavity, and depositing a thermally conductive material in interstitial voids between the rod-like nano-structures.
The present invention will be better understood when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings, wherein:
Layer 408 contains individually separated, rod-like nano-structures that provide very high thermal conductivity to reduce interface contact resistance. These structures may be comprised of metallic nano-wires, or preferably multi walled carbon nano-tubes (MWCNT) or multi-wall carbon nano-fibers. Metallic nanowires (for example Au, Cu, Ni, zinc oxide, and metal borides) are metal crystals having the shape of a wire with dimensions comparable to the phonon mean free path (usually tens of nanometers at room temperature) so as to benefit from quantum confinement phenomena allowing for efficient heat transport characteristics and thermal contact. In one example, metal boride nanowires are believed to have good thermal contact resistance since low ohmic contact resistance has been demonstrated with Ni electrodes. Preferably, the MWCNTs are oriented (with their longitudinal axis) approximately perpendicular to surfaces 420 and 418, parallel to the direction of heat flow. MWCNTs have very high (on axis) thermal conductivity, generally within the range of 800 to 3000 W/m-� K. They may be up to a factor of two better than solid CVD diamond films. They are preferably grown on the micro-cooler 400 surface as an array of free standing, vertically aligned, individually separated carbon nanotubes (or nanofibers) that occupy between about 15 and 40% of the surface from which they are grown. In some embodiments, the MWCNT are grown by plasma enhanced CVD (PECVD) growth methods. For example, the methods described by Jun Li et al. (Applied Physics Letters, vol. 81, no. 5, July 2002) and L. Delzeit et al. (J. Appl. Physics 91, 6027, May, 2002) can be used. However, while axial thermal conduction of CNTs is very high, lateral thermal conduction (in the non-axial direction from nano-tube to nano-tube) is not as good. In fact, it has been found that lateral contact between axially aligned nano-tubes can reduce their effective axial thermal conductivity. If the number of carbon nano-tubes attached to substrate is too high (for example, >40% CNT density) Van der Waals force will create a bundle or mat situation resulting in poor thermal conduction. If, on the other hand the coverage density is too low (for example, <15%), thermal conduction will also be lower due to the reduced number of conducting nano-tubes. A preferred range a coverage density is between about 15 and 40%, with 25% to 40% being most preferred. Thus, as opposed to bundle or mat of CNTs, vertically aligned, individually separated, parallel CNTs with coverage between about 15 and 40%, can provide better overall thermal conduction. To improve lateral heat conduction, a thermally conductive material is placed within the interstitial voids between the MWCNTs. The thermally conducting material provides lateral heat conduction within the nano-tube containing layer. Lateral heat conduction facilitates the spreading of heat from a relatively small silicon die surface to the much larger surface area of the heat sink body 404. It also reduces localized hot spots on surface 418 of chip 402. The thermally conductive material may be a metal or metal alloy, thermally conductive ceramics, CVD diamond, or thermally conductive polymers. Preferably, the thermally conductive material is a metal such as copper, aluminum, silver, gold, or their alloys. Of the metal materials, copper and copper alloys are the most preferable. This is generally due to the high thermal conductivity, ease of deposition via electroplating or electrochemical deposition, and low cost. Copper electroplating is well known to those skilled in the art of dual Damascene processing common in the production of modem integrated circuits. Depending on the thermal conductivity of the thermally conductive filler material, layer 408 would typically be between 50 and 1000 microns in thickness.
Another desirable feature of using metal as a filler material is that it is significantly lower in hardness than the MWCNTs. In some embodiments, planarization of layer 408 is used to maintain flatness for good "long range" contact. However, "short range" surface irregularities (on the order of a few microns) can also contribute significantly to interface thermal resistance. It is therefore desirable to have some portion of the MWCNTs extend from the bulk of layer 408 so that the exposed ends may conform to these surface irregularities and improve thermal contact. When layer 408 is planarized, the softer metal material is eroded more than the harder nanotubes, resulting in an undercutting of the metal layer. This undercutting leaves a portion of the nanotubes extending from the composite layer 408. This undercutting will automatically occur when layer 408 is planarized with CMP (chemical-mechanical planarization) or electrochemical etching techniques. An additional (optional) bonding layer 406 can be added, if eutectic metal bonding between chip 402 and layer 408 is desired. In this case, the exposed nanotube ends would protrude into this layer and may extend through it. Preferably, bonding layer 406 is a eutectic metal, but thermal polymer based bonding compounds may also be used. Layer 412 is an interface material which can be used with a silicon heat sink body 404. Typically, layer 412 would be composed of silicon nitride compounds. For metal heat sink bodies 404, layer 412 is optional, is only required to aid in the adhesion of catalyst metal layer 410. Metal catalyst layer 410 is used to initiate and control growth of the nanotubes in layer 408. Metal catalyst layer 410 may chosen from among Ti, Co, Cr, Pt, Ni and their alloys. Preferably, metal catalyst layer 410 are Ni and Ni alloys. Further process conditions related to these layers are discussed below.
The unsupported nano-structures in gap 1006 are relatively flexible, allowing the exposed ends to twist and bend (on a micron scale) to conform to undulations and imperfections in the heat generating surface of the integrated circuit chip. This "hair brush" effect produces intimate contact with the ends of the nano-structures, allowing heat extraction along the axis of the nanotubes, where their thermal conductivity is the greatest. If a eutectic or bonding layer is used, the exposed ends of the nano-structures would protrude into this layer, and would be allowed to conform to the opposing surface when the eutectic or bonding layer is fluid, as would occur prior to bonding the two surfaces. The expected gap dimension 1006 depends on the surface flatness of the circuit, silicon die and of the planarized micro-cooler surface. The RMS value of the surface asperity is believed to lie in the range of 0.2 um to 3 um with preferred values being at the lower end of the range.
The various embodiments described above should be considered as merely illustrative of the present invention. They are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the forms disclosed. Those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that still other variations and modifications may be practiced without departing from the general spirit of the invention set forth herein. Therefore, it is intended that the present invention be defined by the claims that follow.
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San Antonio airport taxi drivers seek help beating the heat
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SAN ANTONIO - "Cab driver" does not sound like it would be on a list of the "worst jobs to have in the summer", but try telling that to the nearly 200 drivers that work at the San Antonio International Airport.
"We're all cooking here," said Ricardo Delvalle. "We have to stay in cars with the A/C running, the engine running. It's a waste, as far as gas."
Unlike airports in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, the holding area for cab drivers at San Antonio International is a large uncovered parking lot.
There are two small aluminum canopies where drivers can sit in the shade, but without a larger covered area or indoor facility, many of them have to tough it out in the extreme heat.
"It's hot out here," said Irene Reyes-Garcia, a cab driver for 35 years. "These windows, it's like being in a fish bowl in the middle of the heat that's going to eventually boil over if you're in the car."
In February, the Alamo City Driver's Association (ACDA), which represents many airport cab drivers, sent a letter to the airport's aviation director asking that a large overhang or indoor facility be included in the airport's renovation plans.
Officials said they are aware of the cab drivers' concerns, but never received the letter.
"It's one of those things that is kind of a hazard of the job," said airport spokesperson Rich Johnson. "We're looking into their concerns to see if there's anything we can do about it, whether it's budgetary or whether it's helping them out."
The ACDA is also asking airport officials to build better bathroom facilities to replace the portable toilets in the holding area.
Johnson said the airport would look into that request as well, but there are currently no plans to make any major additions to the holding area.
The ACDA plans to take their concerns to the city council.
While her work conditions are not ideal, Reyes-Garcia said she has no choice but to grin and bear it.
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Welcome to TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas! Founded in 1893, TMI is the Flagship private school of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas. It is located in San Antonio between the greater downtown area and the city of Boerne. TMI educates students in grades 6-12 and is the oldest Episcopal Church-sponsored, college-preparatory school in the Southwest. TMI offers an optional JROTC program, designated as an Honor Unit With Distinction, and 5-day or 7-day boarding for students in grades 8-12.
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This is normally a piano song, at least it was when Joni originally did it on an early album. But this is from a David Crosby version from the "Alies" album. Typed from memory. Mea culpa if there's any errors. Phil- intro: C G D G C D G Fmaj7 Em I slept last night in a good hotel Am C F C I went shopping today for jewels G Fmaj7 Em The wind rushed around in the dirty town Am C F C And the children let out from the schools Am G I was standing on a noisy corner C G F C D Waiting for the walking green G Fmaj7 Em Across the street he stood, and he played real good Am C F C On his clarinet for free G Fmaj7 Em Now me, I play for fortunes Am C F C And the velvet curtain calls G Fmaj7 Em I got a black limosine and a few gentlemen Am C F C Escorting me to these halls Am G And I'll play if you have the money C G F C D Or if you're a friend to me G Fmaj7 Em But the one-man-band by the quick lunch stand Am C F C (Em D) He was playing real good for free G Fmaj7 Em Nobody stopped to hear him Am C F C Though he played so sweet and high G Fmaj7 Em They knew he had never been on their TV Am C F C So they passed his good music by Am G I meant to go over and ask for a song C G F C D Maybe put on a harmony G Fmaj7 Em I heard his refrain as that signal changed Am C F C (Em D) He was still playing real good for free
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|Tehreek Dawat-e-Faqr invites the Muslims to "Hold tight to the Rope of Allah all together and be not disunited among yourselves" and 'The rope' is the personal name of Allah (Ism-e-Allah-Zaat).
|Faqr is the true heritage of the Holy Prophet Sall'Allahu Alayhi Wa'alihi Wasallam. The manifesto of the Movement is to invite the muslims to get this legacy.
|To call for the commemoration and contemplation of the personal name of Allah (Zikr and Tasawur-e-Ism-e-Allah Zaat). According to Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo Rehmat-ul-Allah Alayh it is due to faqr only that vision (Deedar) of Allah and presence in the assembly of Prophet Sall'Allahu Alayhi Wa'alihi Wasallam is granted and a muslim becomes a faithful (Momin) to be raised at the heights of Beneficence (Ehsaan).
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|To invite Muslims for thoughtfulness and deliberation i.e. for meditation.
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This course is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.
Hey gang! This is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Deke's Techniques. Now, this week I had a kind of nutty idea. I was thinking about that photographic evidence that you sometimes see for monsters, things like Bigfoot and the Yeti, and if you're from the small island of Puerto Rico, the Chupacabra. Well, those things attack people and animals. I wanted to create a monster that attacks the other monsters. It's this guy right here, a creature that I'm calling El Terribla. Its name derives from two different languages--he is that scary.
Now we're going to start by combining a few real-world animals together. We're going to combine this tiger, for example, along with this gorilla, and this adorable little puppy dog. And we're going to be merging these images using a single tool. Do you know what tool that is? It's the Healing brush. You've been using it to retouch images. We're going to use the Healing brush to make an image. Then you might look at this guy and think, "He is not all that terrifying. In fact, he looks like he is kind of drooling." Well, he is at rest, give him a break.
Let me show you how to create this cute cuddly monster here inside Photoshop. In this movie, I'm going to show you how to blend a bunch of actual photographs to create something entirely fictional using the Healing brush. I've gone ahead and assembled and scaled and aligned a bunch of photographs in advance inside of this layered composition. And those photographs include the stretched version of an angry lion, below that we have this thoughtful gorilla, and then finally this adorable puppy dog. The copyright holders for each one of the images appears in the upper-left corner of the window.
They all hail from the Fotolia Image Library, about which you can learn more at fotolia.com/deke. I'm going to go ahead and turn off that credits group. And, by the way, you want to see these guide lines. If you're following along with and you can't see those guide lines, go up to the View menu, choose Show, and make sure that the Guides command is checked. All right! I'm going to go ahead and escape out. Below all of those layers, by the way, if you turn all them off, you can see that the Background image contains the normal version of the lion, un-stretched, and by the way, we're working low resolution because we don't need high resolution.
All we need is for the image to fill the screen at the 100% zoom ratio because we'll ultimately be shooting the screen with a digital camera. Also note that the Healing brush is a static tool. So that it goes ahead and permanently modifies the pixels on a given layer, we're going to be working in the Background layer. For starters, I want you to turn on the gorilla layer, click on it to make it active-- that's very important throughout here-- and then we'll switch from the Spot Healing brush tool to the standard Healing brush tool, which is much more useful for our purposes. You should be seeing that the mode is set to Normal, Source is set to Sampled, and Sample over here on the right- hand side is set to Current layer.
Those are the default settings. Once you've established those, go ahead and press the Alt key, or the Option key on the Mac, and I want you to click at the intersection of those two guide lines, which happens to represent the exact center of this image. That's not really all that important. You just want to make sure you have a couple of guide lines in order to establish an alignment point. All right! So go ahead and Alt+Click or Option+Click at that location. Then turn off the gorilla layer, click on the Background layer to make it active. Now I want you to go ahead and zoom out so that you can see the entire image. Then right-click inside the image window, and take that Size value up to 1,000 pixels, which is big enough to fill this entire image, because as I say, it's not particularly high resolution.
Make sure the Hardness value is set to 100%, and then press the Enter key, or the Return, key a couple of times in order to hide that panel. And then go ahead and align your cursor to the intersection of those two guide lines and click in order to heal the gorilla into the tiger background. Now it will take a moment, and you just want to apply a single-click, incidentally. Now it's going to look like all you did was just filled the screen with the gorilla. That's because you're seeing a brush preview right now. Go ahead and press the M key in order to switch to the Rectangular Marquee tool, and you'll see the result of that heal.
That in and of itself, if you ask me, is absolutely amazing that you can pull off that kind of effect inside of Photoshop, the sort of blend of two images, with a single-click. And now we get this sort of ancient sepia tone of this gorilla image, which will serve us a starting point. All right! I'm going to go ahead and zoom back in. The next step is to heal some of the tiger back into place. Specifically, I didn't want this ultimate monster here to look too much like a gorilla, and if we kept its nose the way it is, it really came off as being a kind of gorilla monster.
So let's replace that nose with the original tiger nose--actually a stretched version of it, by turning on that tiger (stretched) layer, clicking on it to make it active to make sure that we're sampling from that layer. Then I want you to go ahead and switch back to the Healing brush, which you can get by pressing the J key, right-click inside the image window, and let's go ahead and change the Size value to 100 pixels, which is going to be a lot more reasonable. Go ahead and press the Enter key a couple of times in order to hide that panel, press and hold the Alt key, or the Option key on the Mac, and click at the intersection of the two guides.
Then go ahead and turn the tiger (stretched) layer off, go ahead and click on the Background layer to make it active again, and I want you to just click at the intersection of those two guide lines. Now that goes ahead and establishes the alignment point for our healing effect. You now need to do two things. First of all, go up to the Edit menu and choose Undo Healing Brush because we don't really want to heal the nose like that, or press Ctrl+Z, Command+Z on the Mac. Even though the brushstroke is gone, the alignment point is still established if you go up to this Aligned check box and turn it on/ Now you can paint with that aligned brushstroke, and you see me just moving the brush around so I can see a preview.
I'm going to press the Left Bracket key a few times to reduce the size of my brush, and then I'm going to paint in that slice of tiger nose over the original gorilla nose, like so. And we end up with this effect here. All right! It's not perfect. We'll come back to it in a moment. The next thing we need to do is paint in those tiger teeth. What I want you to do here, if you're following along, with me is turn that tiger (stretched) layer back on, then make it active, go ahead and grab the Rectangular Marquee tool. Let's go ahead and select a big chunk of tiger mouth like that, and press Ctrl+Alt+J, or press Command+Option+J on the Mac, in order to duplicate the selection into a layer.
Let's call it mouth, and then click OK. And I'm going to go ahead and turn off the tiger (stretched) layer so we can see the mouth by itself. Now I need to basically align the mouth inside of the gorilla face, the gorilla that we've created so far. So I'm going to go ahead and center my zoom a little bit, scroll down as well. And now with this mouth layer selected-- and I might as well move it down to stack a little bit, so that we can see it at the same time as the Background layer. I'll go up to the Edit menu and I'll choose Free Transform, or press Ctrl+T, Command+T on the Mac.
And then I want you, up here in the Option bar, to click on this little Warp Icon in order to switch into the Warp mode. Then go over to the Warp pop-up menu and choose Arc Upper, like so. And I want you to raise that Bend value. This is going to seem insane, but take it up to 65% like that. Then let's go ahead and drag this guy down a little bit. And you know what? We want to able to see what we're doing, so let's reduce the Opacity value here inside the Layers panel to 50%, so I can see whether I've got this guy aligned properly or not. And I want to scroll down a little bit more as well. All right! It's too tall is the problem.
So switch under the Warp mode by clicking on this icon up here in the Options bar again, and then change the Width value to 90% and tab over to the Height value and change it to 75%. Then go ahead and drag that mouth up just a little bit. We want it right underneath the gorilla's lip, like so, and press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac in order to accept your modification. All right! Press the 0 key in order to reinstate the Opacity value to 100%. And now we're going to go ahead and clone from this mouth. Now this is going to seem weird, but you want to go ahead and grab your Healing brush once again and Alt+Click or Option+Click at the intersection of the guide lines. Even though there's nothing at that intersection, that's what you want to do.
Then turn that mouth layer off, click on the Background layer once again, click at the intersection of those guide lines, just give it a click. Nothing will happen, but just to make sure, press Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z on the Mac, to undo any change you might have made. And now what we're going to do is paint under the gorilla's lip like so, just go ahead and paint under that lip. Try to be moderately careful, and you can go back later-- actually, we are going to go back and touch it up in just a moment, but you want to be as careful as you can be. And go ahead and paint those tiger teeth underneath the gorilla's lip, like so, and then Photoshop will go ahead and heal it into place.
Now obviously, it's not what we would call photorealistic, but it's amazing that it can get this much done this simply. All right! Go and turn the gorilla layer back on, so we can touch things up a little bit. Click on the gorilla layer to make it active, Alt+Click or Option+Click at the intersection of those two guide lines-- so it's a lot of back and forth here. Turn off the gorilla layer, click on the Background layer again, click at the intersection of those two guides to establish an alignment point. Obviously, we don't want that brushstroke, so press Ctrl+Z, Command+Z on the Mac, to undo it, reduce the size of your brush cursor, and go ahead and paint around the nose.
Now if you make a mistake, if you don't like what you've come up with here, then just go ahead and undo, press Ctrl+Z, Command+Z on the Mac, you might want to reduce the size of your cursor even further. And then just go ahead and paint around. You can paint in multiple brushstrokes. Don't feel like you have to get it all done in one brushstroke. In fact, that's probably not the wisest way to work because if you make a mistake, then you have to undo a bunch of stuff at once. Anyway, just paint around until you feel like you get something that looks moderately good. I want to paint some of those gorilla nostrils back into place. All right! Then come down here to the mouth and paint some of the mouth back in the place around the teeth, paint some of the mouth around the left side as well.
I'll paint underneath the mouth in order to get rid of some of that tiger action there. I do want to see this little line between the teeth because it'll end up looking like some saliva connecting the teeth together, which will enhance the scariness of the scene, don't you know. All right! I'm going to paint over the gums. This is going to seem strange. That's going to introduce some gorilla flesh into the gums, but that's better than seeing the tiger fur in that gum region which really doesn't make any sense. All right! The final thing we're going to do, let's go ahead and zoom back out, take it to 100%. Those eyes are just too human-looking, and one of the reasons that they're human-looking is because we can see pupils surrounded by irises, surrounded by whites.
And the whites of the eyes impart kind of a sympathetic trait to the monster. He is going to look a lot more monstrous, a lot more inhuman, if we get rid of those whites, and there's nobody like the puppy for having very small whites. So go ahead and turn that layer on, click on it to make it active, Alt+Click, or Option+Click at the intersection of the guide line in order to sample that layer. Then turn off the puppy layer, click on the Background layer, click at the intersection of those two guides in order to establish the alignment point, press Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z on the Mac, to undo that modification.
Increase the size of your cursor if you'd like by pressing the Right Bracket key a few times, and then paint the eye in, like so. Now this isn't going to look right initially. Go ahead and release and you'll see it looks way too blue, among other things, and we have some weird artifacting around the edge. So go up to the Edit menu and choose Fade Healing Brush, or you can press Ctrl+Shift+F, Command+Shift+F on the Mac, take the Opacity value down to 50% in order to get a kind of 50-50 blend of these two eyes. Then do the same thing to that right eye, the animal's left, I suppose.
Once you finish painting the eye, go up to the Edit menu, choose Fade Healing Brush again, and reduce the Opacity value to 50%, and click OK. All right! We have successfully healed these various animals together. I'm going to go ahead and press the M key in order to switch to the Marquee tool. I'll press Ctrl+Semicolon, Command+Semicolon on the Mac, in order to hide my guides, press the F key a couple of times in order to switch to the Full Screen mode. And this is our purely fictional animal, created by blending multiple images together using the Healing brush.
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He has served as a clinical assistant professor of surgery at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University since 2008. He also was an assistant professor of surgery at Uniformed Services University of the Health Science from 1997 until 2005. He has served as an attending trauma surgeon at Holston Valley Medical Center since 2006. He has been a member of Wellmont Health System's Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee since 2009.
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What is a Clinical Study?
A clinical study is carefully designed to test the effects of a medication, medical treatment, or device in a group of volunteers. Clinical studies are an important step in making new medication available. They measure the study drug's ability to treat a condition, its safety, and its possible side effects. This information helps doctors and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decide if a drug is safe and effective for an illness or disease before it is made widely available to physicians and patients.
During an individual's participation in a clinical study, he or she will see doctors and nurses frequently. In many clinical studies, participants may receive either the drug being studied or a placebo (sugar pill). Study related physical examinations, laboratory tests, and study medications are usually provided at no cost throughout the trial. In addition, travel and other expenses accrued during the study may also be reimbursed.
We are currently enrolling for the following Clinical Research Studies:
Glutamate, hyperarousal and restless legs syndrome.
- Enrollment starts September 1, 2012 and stops August 31, 2015
- This is a National Institute of Health Grant (NS075184)
- This study will assess brain chemistry using special MR brain imaging and transcranial magnet stimulation in subjects with RLS compared to subjects without RLS
- The duration of subject involvement in the study is about 2 weeks
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The goal of the Arkansas Lifespan Respite Coalition is to improve awareness and access of respite information and services available to families across age and disability spectrums by expanding and coordinating existing respite systems in Arkansas.
Arkansas will partner with multiple state and local agencies representing all ages, populations and disabilities/chronic illnesses to achieve the following objectives:
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4. Streamline access to respite services through the Choices in Living Aging and Disability Resource Center; and
5. Conduct marketing and education activities to increase the public's awareness of respite.
Our Vision
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Our Mission
To support and promote the development of a comprehensive statewide respite and crisis care system that is responsive to the needs of caregivers and their families, and enhances the quality of life for all individuals.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The devastation caused by yesterday's tornado in Moore, Oklahoma has touched many people. But country music star Toby Keith is especially distraught because of his personal ties to the area.
He grew up in the area near Oklahoma City hit by the twister. And in a statement, he says he remembers riding his bike through some of the neighborhoods that were laid waste by the storm. The city of Moore has embraced Keith as their own — and his name is on the Moore water tower.
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
- Mahatma Gandhi.
I don't know how long I was outside the house for – definitely a few hours – before Carl finally emerged from the house, kissing his mother on the cheek. After his mother had forbid him goodbye, Carl began to walk back down the steep hill. I followed him carefully, padding softly along the pavement in a quick pace.
The sky was really dark by now. The moon was shining and the stars were twinkling down at me. While Carl had been holed up in his mother's cottage, I had gone through a range of reasons why his mother looked so ill – and why he had been smiling when he saw her in such a state – but none of my reasons made sense!
When Carl reached the bottom of the hill, he took a left turning into a busy street. Big, speeding vehicles sped past me in a blur of light, leaving me bewildered and scared. I continued stalking Carl, until he stopped at a small off-license.
When he came out, with a carton tucked under his arm, I sat and stared at him, wagging my tail excitedly. He looked down at me and smiled, before kneeling beside me and patting my head and ruffling my fur slightly.
"Hey, boy." He whispered, setting his carton of 'Soya Milk' beside me. I sniffed it. I couldn't quite put my paw on the smell, but I put it down as coconut, which I detected a faint whiff of.
"Who do you belong to?" Carl asked, smiling at me while he checked my neck for a collar. When he couldn't find one, he stared into my eyes and rubbed my back.
"You're a stray?" He asked. I inclined my head slightly, and he grinned.
"Come on," He said, picking up his carton and standing up, "I know somewhere we can go."
Carl led me down the street, and through a couple of dark alleyways, until we reached a large stretch of wasteland.
"Welcome to my home." Carl smiled wryly at me, as we trotted towards a small building at the far end. I carefully dodged anything that could potentially damage my paws, until we reached the building.
I sat and stared at it, my tongue lolling out of my mouth slightly. Carl stood next to me, the carton hanging in his hand as we stared at the shed.
This is where Carl Thomas lives?
I looked up at him pitifully. I felt sorry for him, but on the contrary, he seemed quite pleased to be 'home'. I waited while he unlocked the padlocked door, and then followed him inside.
It wasn't very homely, but it was quite cool! Carl had turned it into his own little shed. He'd painted the walls metallic blue, and had a little makeshift bed in the corner – a mattress and a few blankets, complete with a plain pillow. He had a whiteboard in the corner, where he had written a list of things to do over the holidays. A small lamp was by the door – Carl must have turned it on when we came inside. It wasn't much, but it was quite exciting.
Carl walked over to the 'bed'.
"You can sleep on the end." He told me, indicating the end of the mattress. I smiled gratefully and curled up on top of a blanket. Carl took off his jacket and boots, switched the lamp off, and then sat down beside me, watching me as I scampered around in a circle, choosing a comfortable position to lie down in.
Once I was satisfied, I curled up in a tight little ball and closed my eyes, desperate for sleep.
"You know, I don't have a name for you." Carl suddenly spoke into the darkness.
I opened an eye and peered at him. He was staring down at me sadly.
"I think I'll call you Snuffles… because you snuffle a lot – for a dog!" He grinned, then his face softened, "why don't you have a caring family? Surely every little kid wants a dog like you. You're amazing. Why wouldn't anyone want you?"
I continued to stare at him. He was interrupting my sleep. I dreadfully wanted to sleep. I was just lightly drifting off when he spoke again.
"I wonder why you chose me. I noticed you following me earlier, but I didn't think much of it. Did you wait for me while I was at my mothers? You must have been cold."
I had been cold, actually. It was freezing out there! How dare he leave me there?
"You're lovely," He concluded, "Goodnight, Snuffles."
I grunted, before dozing off.
I woke up to a loud scuffling noise by my head. Blinking blearily, I searched through the darkness for the strange noise – where was I? As my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I noticed Carl Thomas curled beside me, sleeping. He looked very sweet. I wanted to laugh, but then I remembered where I was. I wondered what time it was.
I slowly stood up onto my knees and looked around. The noise I had heard was just a stray mouse nuzzling into my hair. I lifted my hands up and ran them through my hair, sighing.
Suddenly, I realised that I had hands – where were my paws? I swore silently and realised that I must have transformed in my sleep. Checking that Carl was still fast asleep, I squeezed my eyes shut and concentrated on the image of 'Snuffles' as Carl called me.
After a moment, I opened my eyes again and examined my body. I checked that I had fur instead of hair; paws instead of hands and feet and a tail. I grinned and checked the other parts of my body. Perfect.
I curled up again, but I just couldn't seem to sleep, at all. I changed my position, but nothing seemed to work. Eventually, I gave up trying and just lay in the dark for an hour or two, mulling things over in my mind. A lot had happened in the last few days – I'd been chucked out of my home, for starters.
I could see the sky through a small, square window now. It was getting lighter, so I nudged Carl's feet with my nose. He didn't respond, so I tried again.
After a few more, feeble attempts, I proceeded to licking his face. He stirred, but didn't wake up. I snorted in frustration and bit his leg – gently, but firmly.
He shot up with a yelp of pain.
"What the hell – Oh, it's just you, Snuffles!" Carl smiled as he caught sight of me, but I could see he was a bit miffed that I'd bitten him.
"Why did you bite me?" He groaned.
I stared at him through big, watery brown eyes. I must have looked innocent because his expressional softened and he chuckled lightly, tickling me behind the ear.
"Thanks," He said. I was bewildered – why was he thanking me? I'd just bitten him! He continued, "I needed to be up soon anyway. I have some stuff to do today."
I looked at him excitedly, my ears pointing towards the ceiling.
"I'm sorry boy, but you can't come."
My ears flopped down and my eyes glazed over. Why not? Why couldn't I come? I was his pet dog, for God's sake!
Carl must have sensed that I was annoyed, as he sat down beside me and started apologising profusely. Well, not quite.
"I'm really sorry, Snuffles, but you just can't come! Tell you what – why don't you go out and explore the city – enjoy yourself! Just make sure you're back here tonight. And not too late, mind. I'd miss you.'
He smiled at me, kindly. I nodded my furry head and he stood up, unbuttoning his shirt and shoving it off, draping it over the lamp. It was getting quite light outside now.
Suddenly, it dawned on me. Carl Thomas was in a shed with me – half naked! Half the girls at school would wet themselves with excitement if they were given this opportunity. Some of the boys would too!
But I wasn't that kind of guy. I'd seen Carl naked before – in the dormitory, at Hogwarts, and the changing rooms in Quidditch. It was no big deal. Well, it was if you liked a muscular man…
Once he had changed into a stripy black and white tee, and pulled his boots and jacket on, Carl opened the shed door and we stepped into the morning.
"I'll see you later, boy." He said.
And I was off, bounding excitedly into the sunrise.
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The Charleston County Sheriff's office says in a report that deputies found a man covered with blood when they arrived at Helen Williams' North Charleston home early Wednesday. She told investigators the man fell and cut himself, but couldn't explain why her hands and clothes were also bloody.
Deputies say the man said Williams was so angry when he returned without beer because stores were closed on Christmas Eve that she grabbed a ceramic squirrel, beat him in the head, then stabbed him in the shoulder and chest.
Williams was in jail Friday and charged with criminal domestic violence. It wasn't known if she had a lawyer.
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The purpose of IT is the capture, storage, and retrieval of business information to further the organization's core business objectives. In today's environment all the information that used to be captured on paper records is now captured in electronic records that must be stored for retrieval in an electronic repository. This requires the use of relational databases for all but the smallest, simplest applications and the use of relational databases requires the skills of a database administrator and/or data architect.
Differences between Data Architect and Database Administrator
There is little difference between the skill sets possessed by data architects and those possessed by database administrators. The difference tends to be in the focus of the two roles. Database administrators are responsible for the health of the database and the data it manages. This responsibility will include the architecture of new data and database dictionary as the business grows and changes. Database changes may occur as a result of a project which delivers new functionality, or in response to changes in the existing data. The focus of the database administrator is overall health of the database and the data it contains, including database availability, performance, and access. The data architect is a role that tends to come with the implementation of the initial database instance and large expansion projects. It is the database architects job to ensure that the database design and data dictionary are optimized to support the data storage retrieval and performance goals of the project.
The key difference between the skill sets of data architects and database administrators is the emphasis on operational activities and the health of the database on the one hand and the emphasis on the performance of the database on the other. The database administrator will inherit the work of the data architect if one is employed to design a database, or a database extension, as part of a project. They will be responsible for support of the database they designed if one is not. Other than this difference the skill sets are very similar, indeed most database courses make no distinction between the two roles. This article will treat the two roles interchangeably; the best practices described here are applicable to both roles. The only time a different approach is required is when you have both roles on the project in which case you will be required to distinguish between the two roles and assign each role the work they are best suited for.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A worker at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine has agreed to surrender his underground assistant foreman license for three years.
The agreement settles allegations that Jeremy L. Burghduff didn't turn on his methane detector when he was supposed to check for the explosive gas.
An explosion at the former Massey Energy mine killed 29 miners on April 5, 2010. The state Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training had alleged that Burghduff had his gas detector off in late March and early April 2010, including the day of the explosion.
Under the agreement, Burghduff will keep his underground miner license. He can apply for licenses for assistant underground or surface foreman, or belt examiner at the end of the three-year period.
It also prohibits Burghduff from working as an assistant foreman or belt examiner, either at a surface or an underground mine. Nor can he work as a surface construction supervisor. He can, however, seek certification to work as an apprentice electrician, a shot firer or a surface miner.
Four investigations found the blast was sparked by worn and broken equipment, fueled by accumulations of methane gas and coal dust and allowed to spread because of clogged and broken water sprayers. Investigators also found "systematic, intentional and aggressive efforts" to hide problems and throw off inspectors including the falsification of safety records.
Managers also alerted miners when inspectors arrived allownig time to disguise or temporily fix dangerous conditions.
Former superintendent Gary May and security chief Hughie Elbert Stover are behind bars for their actions at the mine.
A former president of another Massey subsidiary, meanwhile, is awaiting sentencing for conspiracy June 25 in Beckley, David Craig Hughart, who is cooperating with federal prosecutors in the continuing criminal probe, has testified that advance warnings were a widespread company practice