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I thought maybe this was overkill.
But then I glanced at the seating chart one hostess held. Actually, this looked less like a seating chart than a student's crude sketch of the Schlieffen plan or maybe the blitz packages of the '85 Bears.
377 Chesterfield Center Ctr.
Chesterfield, MO 63017
Category: Restaurant > American
Region: Chesterfield
Lobster bisque $7.99
Ten-ounce "Lodge Filet" $26.99
Herb-encrusted rack of lamb $26.99
"Coffee-Cured Filet" $28.99
And then I noticed the crowd waiting inside the front door. And the crowd waiting near the working fireplace. And the crowd waiting at the bar. And the crowd waiting around the bar (who were waiting twice, really: both for a table and just to get a drink at the bar).
I wondered whether four hostesses were enough.
Stoney River doesn't take reservations. It has "priority seating." You call the restaurant and ask for a specific time. If it's available, you're "guaranteed" a wait of no more than 30 minutes from that time.
If you're a smartass like I am, you're already thinking, "OK, so I just ask for 'priority seating' 30 minutes before I actually want to eat, and then I show up at the time I really want to eat, and my table's ready."
Sadly, no. Your wait begins when you arrive and give your name to the hostesses, who write your name on a slip of paper and, according to some theorem of higher restaurant mathematics, give it a place in the stack of slips of paper that comprises the waiting list.
And then you wait for one of the hostesses to come tell you your table's ready a much more stressful process than you might imagine, since your slip of paper has nothing on it except your name, and the interior of Stoney River is dim. The hostesses wander around the bar with bewildered looks that seem to say, "You know, at Applebee's, they have those little buzzy things to deal with this shit."
Stoney River has ten locations in six states. Its home office is in Alpharetta, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb, but its corporate parent is Nashville, Tennessee-based O'Charley's Inc., which runs several of its flagship O'Charley's restaurants in the St. Louis area.
The Stoney River concept splits the difference between big chains like Outback or the Cheesecake Factory and smaller, more refined steak-house chains like Ruth's Chris or Fleming's. Like the big chains, the wait is long and the scale huge: Four dining rooms surround the massive, high-ceilinged bar and open kitchen; among the desserts is a piece of chocolate cake so gigantic that it comes to the table with a steak knife sticking out of it.
But once you're seated in one of the cushy booths or spacious tables, you'll find service that's polished and friendly without being obsequious, and a menu that tries to appeal to a gourmet sensibility. In fact, there's even a section of the menu called "Gourmet Entrées."
But you'll probably order from the section called "Legendary Steaks." According to its Web site, Stoney River offers "premium, grain-fed Midwestern beef, [wet-]aged in our own lockers and trimmed by hand."
This isn't quite as fancy as it sounds. Grain-fed that is, corn-fed Midwestern beef is what most of us have been eating since we earned our carnivore merit badges. A growing number of aficionados believe the taste of corn obscures beef's true flavor not to mention their objections to the drugs you have to pump into a cow so it can digest corn in the first place. Wet-aging is certainly better than no aging but it's the minimum a steak house with any pretensions should serve. As for "premium," Stoney River serves Certified Angus Beef, a brand that, according its official Web site, grades as USDA prime or the upper 35 percent of USDA choice.
The ten-ounce "Lodge Filet" I tried was a tender, juicy and tasty steak but not a steak that distinguishes itself from any other tender, juicy, tasty steak I've had. The filet came seasoned with Stoney River's own blend of herbs and spices. This too didn't strike me as especially distinct a little salty, a little peppery, and not much else. In this case, I didn't mind. A good steak doesn't need much more than a little salt and pepper, maybe a dab of maître d' butter. (A great steak dry-aged, prime, grass-fed doesn't need a thing.)
Far more interesting was the "Coffee-Cured Filet," which as the name suggests was marinated for four hours in coffee. My first few bites did yield a strong coffee flavor good coffee at that, very dark, with hints of cocoa but this soon gave way to a deeper, funkier essence. The best comparison I can make would be mushrooms in a red-wine sauce, but I don't think that captures it entirely. At any rate, I wouldn't want every steak I tried to taste like this, but it was a welcome change of pace.
It was certainly more interesting than one of the other highlighted steak entrées, "Beef Medallions Oscar." This was satisfying the crab meat was flavorful (more on that in a moment), the asparagus nicely done and the meat tender but not memorable.
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Tom Hall: In the same week that 48 states agreed to a proposal to have national education standards, Chuck Wilkerson said that we should be busting teachers' unions, slashing teacher salaries and turning education over to private enterprise, to make a profit. 48 States. That's every state except Alaska and Texas, even the most "red" states want some minimum standards. But the Teabag position is that public education is bad and should be ended.

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Welcome to the official website of author Barry Eisler. If you like edge-of-your seat action, exotic locations, realistic spycraft, steamy sex, and protagonists who are "the stuff great characters are made of" (Entertainment Weekly), you've come to the right place...
A quick note: My previous publishing contracts have been amicably terminated and now that I have my rights back, I've changed the titles and covers on all the Rain books, and the covers of the Treven books. So don't be confused when you see the new look throughout the site.
I'm excited to announce that a new Rain novel, Graveyard of Memories, is now available! Published by Thomas & Mercer, it will be available in paperback, Kindle and audiobook. If you don't have a Kindle, don't worry, there are other options here.
What makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it was the lessons of love, war, and betrayal he learned in Tokyo in 1972 . . .
Publishers Weekly: "Best of the Year"
Amazon.com: "Top Ten Mystery"
News-Press: "Best of the Year"
San Francisco Chronicle: "Recommended Book"
Deadly Pleasures Barry Award winner: "Best Thriller of the Year"
Mystery Ink Gumshoe Award winner: "Best Thriller of the Year"
San Jose Mercury News: "Best of the Year"
January Magazine: "Best of 2005" list
"Eisler combines the insouciance of Ian Fleming, the realistic detail of Tom Clancy, the ennui of Graham Greene and the prose power of John le Carré."
"In his superb thriller series featuring charismatic Japanese-American assassin John Rain, author Barry Eisler serves up steamy foreign locales, stunning action and enough high tech weaponry to make for an A-plus read."
New York Daily News
"Furious and creative... Rain's combination of quirks and proficiency is the stuff great characters are made of."
Entertainment Weekly
"No one is writing a better thriller series today than Barry Eisler. He has quickly jumped into my top ten best American mystery/thriller writers, along with Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Walter Mosley, and Harlan Coben... Rating: A."
Deadly Pleasures
"Written with a delightfully soft touch and a powerful blend of excitement, exotica and what (ever since John le Carré) readers have known to call tradecraft."
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"Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings."
"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."
-Jimi Hendrix
"Our time is the flickering flame on a final ember, with the looming inevitability of a divine wind."
"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. "
-Theodore Roosevelt
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By Rudi WilliamsAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 26, 2004 Third in a Three-Part Series
Regional anesthesia, technically known as a continuous peripheral nerve block, theoretically can be used on all combat-wounded patients, noted Army Lt. Col. (Dr.) Chester C. Buckenmaier III, chief of the regional anesthesia section at Walter Reed Army Medical center here. But he pointed out that the military medical profession isn't at that point -- yet.
"Like so many wars, this war occurred before we were ready," he said. "These blocks here at Walter Reed have only been around since 2000. We're very busy building a program. It takes money, and the hospital's budget is for the hospital's daily function. I have to get resources to build this program so we can do the training and the academic research that is developing this anesthetic for the battlefield."
It takes money and time to train Army anesthesiologists, Buckenmaier said. "We've been very fortunate with Congressman John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, through the John P. Murtha Neuroscience and Pain Institute, who supported us with $1.2 million last year," he said. "We're looking for between $6 million and $8 million this year to do the research and the academics that it takes to get this to the field (and make it) commonplace."
Regional anesthesia is being used on the battlefield, but not to the level Buckenmaier would like it to be. "My belief is that it will be there for the next war," he said.
Regional blocks are only a slice of the Army's regional anesthesia and pain management initiative, which includes traditional narcotics, other medications and the whole gamut of professionals -- physical medicine, psychiatrists, rehabilitation specialists and other health care professionals.
"We're eventually going to move that concept out to the battlefield, where the anesthesiologist will be the pain management physician for the battlefield," Buckenmaier said. "Pain is our brass ring, and we're already doing a better job on the battlefield. But with this training, doctors will be able to give each soldier a more comprehensive pain management picture."
He said when people have surgery, they're going to have pain. "If you go to war and you get an injury, you expect to have pain," he continued. "Well, our society has advanced now to where pain is the 'fifth vital sign.' He termed this a euphemism in the medical community, where pain is looked as importantly as the traditional vital signs temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiratory rate.
"A patient having to accept pain is no longer allowed," he said. "We as physicians have to treat that. So we're getting better training on how to manage pain. We're learning more about what pain is every day.
"It's pretty significant when you're able to use an anesthetic all the way through the levels of care," Buckenmaier added.
Turning to George Washington University Medical Center's Drs. Olya Quitkin and Lavern Bentt, who were observing the procedure, Buckenmaier asked: "Have you ever stubbed your toe and it hurts really bad, but the next day, it really hurts? That's a phenomenon called wind-up, which is a protective mechanism. Your body has been injured, and it doesn't want you to injure that area again. "That's great when you stub your toe, but when you've had your ankle blown off, that quickly becomes counterproductive," Buckenmaier said.
He explained that the body gets overwhelmed by pain signals, and the patient experiences "hyperalgesia," or super pain in layman's terms.
"If I do anything to this patient that has had his leg or arm blown off, like start an IV or inject a little bit of local anesthetic to get the IV in, they're like screaming sometimes," the doctor told the two visitors. "If I was to do that to you right now, you'd just bear it; it's just a little pin prick - - no big thing," Buckenmaier told the visiting doctors. "But in these guys, every nerve ending is on fire. But when we do these blocks and we stop those pain signals, we find that they don't develop this hyperalgesia."
Bentt said she and Quitkin wanted to see how Buckenmaier performed continuous regional anesthesia procedures and how the technique would apply in treating orthopedic injuries. They also wanted to obtain an idea of how Buckenmaier's section is organized at Walter Reed.
Doctors at George Washington have been performing regional anesthesia and providing regional anesthesia for a long time, but they haven't been doing continuous peripheral nerve blocks, Bentt noted.
"Some of our frustrations as physicians are that the public is afraid of the needle," Bentt noted. "In many cases, the nerve block technique is actually preferable to a general anesthetic, which is like using a hammer to put a stitch in when you could use a small needle. And there are fewer requirements for pain medications with the blocks.
"Many patients will resist that because of the fallacious idea that abounds in society, that if I have this, it will damage my nerves or I'll be paralyzed," said Bentt, co-director of GW's pain management center. "So the biggest obstacle is public acceptance."
She said patients normally have little or no recollection of the nerve block procedure because they're sedated. "You can't be completely asleep, because you don't want to risk injuring a nerve and the patient not being aware enough to tell you," Bentt said. "Most patients end up being very happy and say, 'If I'd known this is how good it would be, I probably would have done this a long time ago.'
"The biggest obstacle is public perception," she noted. "People should know that the needles are so small that the pain from the needle is minimal. In addition, it's done with sedation, so people have very little recollection of it happening."
Regional anesthesia minimizes some of the side effects of general anesthesia, such as nausea, vomiting, remaining in the recovery room for a long time trying to get their pain under control, and having to be admitted to the hospital overnight because their pain isn't well-controlled, Bentt said.
Quitkin said GW is trying to develop a regional anesthesia division that will do more anesthesia blocks. "We hardly do any now," said Quitkin, attending anesthesiologist at GW's regional anesthesia center. "Walter Reed already has an established service, and it seems to work quite well. So we decided since theirs work so well, we should go and see how they set it up so we can do the same thing.
"I haven't been trained in doing continuous peripheral blocks, and that's another reason I wanted see how they're done at Walter Reed," Quitkin pointed out, adding that the blocks are useful for a wide variety of patients.
Quitkin, who attended a workshop conducted by Buckenmaier last year, said she has already put to use a lot of what she learned at Walter Reed. She said using continuous peripheral anesthesia blocks would save GW time and money. It also greatly lessens the pain experienced by patients for such surgery as total knee replacements.
"Total knee replacement is probably one of the most painful operations in terms of postoperative pain," the doctor noted. "But when you place one of these peripheral catheters in, patients wake up comfortable, therefore their stay in the recovery room is much shorter, and that translates into dollars. It also saves time in nursing care. It can decrease their postoperative stay entirely. It's great for outpatients, because they can go home with these continuous catheters that they can remove by themselves. So their discharge time is also decreased."
Time is also saved when the blocks are put in before the patient is taken to the operating room.
"Patients who have this are thrilled with it," Quitkin said. "They come back and request it. But it's one of those things that's not well-known to the general public, and many people are still a little bit wary of it."
Quitkin said the procedure hasn't been publicized more because it's relatively new. "It has been around in Europe for a long time, but in the U.S. for some reason it hasn't really taken on," she said. "Every procedure involves a certain risk. When you put a needle in your nerve, there's always a chance that you might injure that nerve. But the way the technique is done now, that's so minimized that it's almost negligible."
Some patients also fear being awake during their operation, Quitkin said. "When you tell the patient that they're going to be sedated, to them that automatically means you're somewhat awake," she said. "It's basically been the fault of our profession for not presenting it appropriately to the patients."
Buckenmaier said he believes that regional anesthesia is making the process less fearful. "It's a historical issue," he noted. "Dr. (John) Snow was the first anesthesiologist in England who gave ether to the queen, and we've been going down the gas route ever since."
Snow administered chloroform to assist Queen Victoria with the birth of her son, Prince Leopold, on April 7, 1853.
Many patients fear anesthesia because, Buckenmaier said, "You never knew who your anesthesiologist was, because he showed up in the operating room, had a brief interaction and the next thing you know he has knocked you out. When you wake up, you're nauseated from that gas and you don't feel well. So when the anesthesiologist came back to see you, you weren't all that pleased to see him. That's because you're in pain, you're nauseated, and this is the guy that's sort of causing it all."
That doesn't happen with regional anesthesia, he said, noting a patient interaction that had just taken place. "I was actually building a relationship with that patient that they didn't have before with their anesthesiologist," he said. "I'm also becoming a true preoperative physician. One of the problems with anesthesiologists is that we put ourselves in the (operating room) and do an awesome job, but we pigeon-hole ourselves in there."
About two weeks after his shoulder operation, that patient Army Sgt. Jonathan M. Oliver Sr. -- said there was a world of difference in the intensity of pain after his knee surgery last January and his more recent shoulder surgery with regional anesthesia.
"That anesthesia was my friend," Oliver said during a recent telephone interview. "I didn't feel any pain at the surgery site. The block lasted longer than the general anesthesia I had during my knee (surgery). I didn't have any pain for more than a day after the (knee) surgery. But after the anesthesia block wore off, the pain kicked in, and I started paying the price. I'm still paying the price!"
Though he takes two strong drugs for pain, they don't control the pain as well as the anesthesia block does, said Oliver, 38, of the Army Reserve 400th Military Police Battalion at Fort Meade, Md. Oliver was activated for service in Iraq on Feb. 20, 2003. He wanted do his part in Iraq, but didn't go there because of a training accident. He slipped and fell on his shoulder and had to have surgery to repair the damage.
Buckenmaier said he needs to be interested in a patient's pain before, during and after the operation. "I need to be their perioperative medicine physician," he said. "I need to discharge them compassionately. If I do a block and when the patient gets through the operation I kick him out the door, have I really done him a service when that block wears off at 3 o'clock in the morning and he's in agony again? I would argue no.
"But with these continuous peripheral nerve blocks, I can put a catheter in this patient and send him home with a disposable infusion pump. Then that patient can control his own pain, take the traditional narcotics, and in many cases remove the catheter by himself a few days later."
Plans are under way at Walter Reed to follow up on patients in six months to a year and compare the pain experiences of those who had regional anesthesia with those who were treated traditionally with just morphine on the battlefield.
Pointing out that the majority of battlefield wounds are extremity wounds, Buckenmaier told the visiting doctors, "If I can turn off any of any extremity I want at will, you can see the power in that."
Noting that only a handful of major medical institutions perform the procedure routinely, Buckenmaier said Walter Reed is at the vanguard of regional anesthesia research and is taking the leadership role in developing these techniques throughout the country.
"We're doing things here at Walter Reed that nobody else is doing," said Buckenmaier, who received his training at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. "We've been driven to it because of the nature of the soldiers we're taking care of."
Buckenmaier said he wants to see the Army's regional anesthesia pain management initiative expanded to include the other services. He's starting a fellowship program in July and is looking at the Air Force and Navy "to train with us to be the proponent for regional anesthesia in those services," he said. "The Air Force is very interested, and (Air Force medical officials) think in the next three to five years they're going be coming right along with us."
He pointed out that spinals and epidurals, used in almost half of the casualties in Vietnam, are "really powerful tools" that deal with the spinal cord. But continuous peripheral anesthesia blocks involve the peripheral nerves that have already left the spinal cord."
"So it's the next level of regional anesthesia," Buckenmaier said. "We're all very good at spinals and epidurals, and if you open a standard textbook, that's what you're going to read about." Advanced regional anesthesia is taking it to the next level."
Calling regional anesthesia "the Cadillac of pain control," Buckenmaier said, "patients come to us literally in agony, and we have the ability to almost flip a switch and they go from being really miserable to almost entirely different human beings. Their entire outlook changes."
When a patient is in tremendous pain and a physician can switch that off, "it's a tremendous power," he said. "It makes you feel very good, particularly since these are American soldiers, the finest citizens we have in the country."
As with any medical procedure, regional anesthesia is not totally risk-free, the doctor said. "Any time I stick a needle anywhere, there's a risk of injury or infection," he explained. "Any time I'm working with nerves, there's a risk of injury to the nerve. Fortunately, because of the training we go through, those risks are very small."
No cases of a patient having a problem with toxicity from a continuous infusion of local anesthetic have turned up so far in the medical literature or in his own experience, Buckenmaier said.
"You can't say that for morphine," he noted. "You saw (in) the movie 'Saving Private Ryan,' when the medic gets hit and they use all those morphine ampules in his thigh? They basically euthanize him on the battlefield. I shudder to think in the history of medicine in the military, how many soldiers we've euthanized in that manner in the name of compassion."
Morphine, when it's your only choice, is a very difficult drug to use in a battlefield environment. But morphine and other opioid medications can be used with impunity in a hospital environment, he said.
"We're changing the way anesthesia is done on the battlefield today as we speak," Buckenmaier said.
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April matters.
That sounds obvious, but you won't believe the amount of people that make April baseball seem like this inconsequential prelude to the NBA playoffs. In the car yesterday I had the dial turned to AM 830, the local Angels radio network in the LA/OC area. I rarely listen to sports radio, but it was better than the Top 40 tripe filling the FM stations at the time. My suspicions were confirmed when the host was lauding pitcher wins and comparing the first half of Jered Weaver's 2012 season to Sandy Koufax, conveniently not mentioning Weaver's 3.72 post-All Star Break ERA.
Anyway, several minutes later a a guest came on. The host asked the guest if he thought the Angels poor start in 2012 affected them throughout the year. The guest said something to the effect of "well people always like to say the games in April count just as much as the games in September but I think the poor start negatively impacted the team mentally more than anything." While I do believe that early season struggles can negatively influence a roster's mental health, the statement amazed me. The guest acted as if April is just glorified Spring Training games, ignoring the more tangible effects of a poor April. As of April 30, 2012, the Angels were 8-15, nine games behind first place Texas. That was it. The division chase was done. I think we all kind of knew it if we were being honest with ourselves, but the grim reality of a season with such high hopes being rendered "over" in the span of three weeks is a tough pill to swallow. Sure, the Angels made their runs over the course of the year, but over the span of 140 games nine games is a ton to make up. For as awesome as Mike Trout was and as helpful as their midseason deals for Ernesto Frieri and Zack Greinke were, the Angels still finished four games behind Texas (and five games behind first place Oakland). Because April happened.
This year a strong April (or at least an April that isn't a total clunker) is imperative, given how strong the AL West is. The start of the season won't be easy, as they open against one of the three best teams in the National League, the Cincinnati Reds.* The Reds won 97 games last season en route to an NL Central title before being bounced in the NLDS by the Giants, the eventual World Series champs.
*The Angels earned a nice win on Opening Day.
The Reds may be a better team in 2013 while losing more games. For one, their Pythagorean record in 2012 (which takes a team's run differential and spits out an expected record) was that of a 91-win club. Secondly, they don't have 15 games against the Astros. But still, the Reds possess one of the more balanced teams in baseball. The offense features Joey Votto, arguably the best hitter on the planet and owner of a sparkling .474 OBP (!) in 2012. During the offseason, the team dealt for Indians outfielder Shin-Soo Choo and his career .370 wOBA. Third baseman Todd Frazier, entering his age-27 season, finished third in National League Rookie of the Year balloting last year.
The Red's greatest strength may lie in their pitching staff, whose 3.34 ERA last year tied them with the more vaunted Nationals staff. Johnny Cueto (who struck out nine Angels on Monday) is the staff ace, his 3.27 FIP the 11th best mark in baseball last year. Mat Latos, Homer Bailey, and Bronson Arroyo all threw over 200 innings last year and were worth at least 2.5 fWAR. Meanwhile, the bullpen's 2.65 ERA was the best in the majors. The back end of the pen is loaded thanks to Sean Marshall (2.24 FIP), Jonathan Broxton (2.42 FIP), and some guy named Aroldis Chapman, who only struck out 15.32 batters per nine innings last year. Chapman's 3.3 fWAR was more than any Angel starter last year. I don't know if that speaks to how poor the Angels' rotation was in 2012 or how ridiculous Chapman is. Probably both.
A subplot to this series is Josh Hamilton's return to the Reds, the team he made his MLB debut with in 2007 after a drug addiction nearly ended his career before it even started. In 90 games that year, Hamilton flashed the immense talent that scouts drooled over when he was taken first overall by the Rays in 1999. Hamilton, worth 2.4 fWAR in 2007 for the Reds, was traded to the Rangers after the season for Edinson Volquez. Volquez excelled in 2008 and has since struggled between his time in Cincinnati and San Diego. Hamilton, as we know, won the 2010 MVP and helped guide the Rangers to two AL pennants.
Conveniently, Hamilton doesn't have to wait long to visit his old pals in Arlington. The Angels close the week with a three-game set against one of their key rivals for the division crown. The Rangers had a rough offseason but will still be an extremely tough team to beat thanks to a still-effective offense, a loaded bullpen, and a stacked top of the rotation. We'll have plenty of time to discuss the Rangers as this season unfolds.
The Angels are 1-0. Against two very good clubs this week on the road, every win will be a nice way to build some early season success and good will in the standings.
Probable Pitchers, according to ESPN
Wednesday: CJ Wilson vs Mat Latos
Thursday: Joe Blanton vs Bronson Arroyo
Friday: Jason Vargas vs Derek Holland
Saturday: Tommy Hanson vs Matt Harrison
Sunday: Jered Weaver vs Yu Darvish
3 Bold Predictions. Yes I'm doing this again.
1) Chris Iannetta will hit the first home run for the Angels this year.
2) The Rangers will win the AL West. The Angels will snag one of the Wild Cards.
3) Tigers over Nationals in the World Series. So now of course it will be Pirates over Royals.
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Philip Carlsen conducted the orchestra and has taught music theory, composition, film music, non-Western music, and other subjects at UMF since 1982. A nationally recognized composer, he has had his music played at New York's Town Hall and the Museum of Modern Art, at the Kennedy Center, national conferences of the College Music Society and the Society of Composers, and other locations. He has received commissions from many Maine organizations, including the Portland Symphony Orchestra, Sebago-Long Lakes Region Chamber Music Festival, and the Bossov Ballet Theatre. Among his honors are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission, and a residency at the MacDowell Colony. Carlsen's automobile orchestra pieces are practically a UMF tradition. He is also an active cellist, performing in a variety of genres from Bach cantatas to improvised back-up tracks for singer-songwriters.
Steven Pane's career as a pianist and conductor emerges out of his life-long interest in the interdisciplinary study and performance of music. At UMF his work often involves collaborations such as the Celestial Emporium with poet Jeff Thompson and artist Dawn Nye; Intertextualiy, Bakhtin, and Ives's Concord Sonata with Tiane Donahue; or Bach's Goldberg Variations and Stories with author Pat O'Donnell. Most recently, Pane gave the American premier of Ana-Maria Avram's Musique pour Mallarme, at Harvard and UMF in 2010, and shares Avram and her partner Iancu Dumitrescu's interest in phenomenology and music. Dr. Pane has performed at universities and in major halls throughout the country including the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Aaron Davis Hall in New York City, Davies Hall in San Francisco, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Jayne Decker teaches Contemporary American Theatre, Commedia dell'arte and Social and Political Theatre. An award-winning playwright and director, Jayne often chooses plays with a strong social and political context. One of her scripts, Cracked Shells, a play about domestic violence, was comissioned by Franklin County's Peace in our Families and was featured at the 2009 Maine Women's Studies Conference. Three of her latest plays, Songbird, Good Medicine and Bridge, a play dedicated to the memory of Charlie Howard, were developed in workshop productions at UMF. Her production of Bruce Graham's Coyote on a Fence was a finalist for the Moss Hart Memorial Award at the New England Theatre Conference in 2012.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Katie Mann (Prince George, B.C.), a freshman swimmer on the University of New Hampshire women's swimming and diving team, was named the America East Swimmer of the Week by the conference Tuesday afternoon.
Mann helped UNH preserve its undefeated season (4-0), claiming first place in 14 of 16 events, taking down the University of Rhode Island, 160-128, on Saturday afternoon at Tootell Aquatic Center.
Mann raced to a first-place finish in all three individual events in which she competed and also swam a leg in the winning 400 medley relay to lead New Hampshire to a victory over Rhode Island. She was the first competitor to touch the wall in the 100 breaststroke (1:06.47), 200 breaststroke (2:24.44) and 200 IM (2:09.85) against the Rams.
Mann and the Wildcats return to action when they hit the road for the Boston University Invitational (Nov. 18-20) at Faneuil Pool.


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Olive's Live Music and Tasting Thursdays
- When: Thursday, June 6, 2013, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- Where: Olive Marketplace & Cafe, Walla Walla
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Established in 1988, Seven Hills Winery is one of Walla Walla Valley's oldest and most respected wineries. Check out what gives them such staying power as we taste through their line-up on June 6th. Along for the ride, local musician Franky Jo Stifler will entertain the crowd.
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The American Red Cross is holding an emergency blood drive at the Medical University of South Carolina this afternoon to make up for thousands of lost donations due to the severe winter storms. "Since the beginning of January, winter storms and freezing temperatures have resulted in more than 600 American Red Cross blood drive cancellations and nearly 20,000 uncollected blood and platelet donations," the Red Cross reported in a prepared statement.
The blood drive will run from 1 to 5 p.m. in the MUSC Horseshoe off Ashley Avenue.
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Yeah, a little off on the pitch but an "A" for effort and innovation. Gotta love some Doctor Who.
I came in with Jon Pertwee also,(got my older brother and dad hooked too) but Tom Baker will always be "THE" Doctor to me,, David Tennant a great second
EDIT...BWHAHAHAHAHA..I didn't even catch the Date,,just seen Doctor Who and jumped in with both feet
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Wines Have Personality??
People have personality, but wine? Sure wines taste different, but so do different coffees and teas, yet I wouldn't consider claiming they have personality. Wine is something different. There are thousands of wines out there, and most have as much personality as box of rocks. However, after years of tasting, comparing, and contemplating, and after visiting small wine growers and sharing their passion, it occurred to me that the wines that were most appealing had something different – something akin to personality.
My journey with wine began decades ago when my parents and I went to a little French restaurant called Du Midi in the New York theater district. My father always had filet mignon accompanied a Beaujolais Brouilly, and even though I wasn't technically old enough to drink wine, I got to sip a little and experience how it changed the taste of the food.
Years later, living in California, I did what was expected, tasting my way through Napa and Sonoma, but could not understand why everyone in California was so enamored of these wines. Maybe it was local pride or lack of any other experience. I'm thinking it was lack of experience, since wine shops at the time (mid 1980's) kept the French and Italian wines hidden in the back of the store. But it was these wines that I sought out. Without being able to describe it, I felt they did something to my palate that their California counterparts did not.
So what was the problem with California wines or was it with me? Was I becoming a wine snob who thought the wines was always better on the other side of the pond? I didn't give it much thought at the time; I just knew I liked French and Italian wines better. Coincidentaly, across the bay in Berkeley, a guy named Kermit Lynch had a wine shop that may have been the only one in the state that didn't sell any California wine. After reading his book about searching out wines in France, it's clear that he also simply liked those wines better.
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Quick update about our website
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The last two weeks have been extraordinary for The Planetary Society. As amazing as this increased traffic is, it has brought to light some issues with our website including latency and missing content that we are still working on fixing.
Don't Miss This Great New Video About Europa
Posted by Casey Dreier on 2014/11/21 02:38 CST
JPL released a slick new video highlighting the significance of Europa, the moon of Jupiter with more liquid water than the Earth.
Posted by Deepak Dhingra on 2014/11/21 09:17 CST
Deepak Dhingra gives an exciting update from the recent Lunar Exploration and Analysis Group (LEAG) meeting at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU-APL) in Baltimore.
A Mission to Europa Just Got a Whole Lot More Likely
Posted by Casey Dreier on 2014/11/20 08:14 CST
Rep. John Culberson, an outspoken supporter of Europa exploration, will assume leadership of an influential congressional committee that funds NASA.
How NASA Plans to Land Humans on Mars
Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/11/20 04:04 CST | 1 comments
On the surface, NASA's humans to Mars plans seem vague and disjointed. But that's because the agency is playing the long game. Right now, it may be the only game they can play.
Curiosity update, sols 782-813: Walking the outcrop at Pahrump Hills
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/19 07:50 CST
At Pahrump Hills, Curiosity is becoming the field geologist she was intended to be.
Remember Comet Siding Spring? Mars Orbiter Mission got photos, too
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/19 01:57 CST
A set of photos released by Mars Orbiter Mission last week completes the set of Mars spacecraft observations of the comet. Now we wait for science results!
Rosetta imaged Philae during its descent -- and after its bounce
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/17 05:10 CST | 18 comments
This morning ESA released a set of images of the Philae lander taken by the Rosetta orbiter during -- and after -- the lander's first touchdown. The images contain evidence for the spot Philae first touched the comet, and a crucial photo of Philae's position several minutes into its first long bounce.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/15 05:13 CST | 12 comments
My last post on the drama in Darmstadt, where ground controllers believe Philae may have fell asleep for good.
Want Funding? Then Be a National Priority
Posted by Jason Callahan on 2014/11/14 04:12 CST | 1 comments
On Monday, Jason Callahan published an article in The Space Review discussing the importance of aligning the goals of federally funded scientific communities with national priorities. This post highlights some of the main points of the article and suggests a possible role for The Planetary Society.
With New Horizons Ready to Wake Up, Scientists Prepare for Pluto Encounter
Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/11/14 03:08 CST | 2 comments
When New Horizons wakes up for the final time on Dec. 6, scientists will spend six weeks preparing for the start of the spacecraft's Pluto encounter.
Philae update: My last day in Darmstadt, possibly Philae's last day of operations
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/14 12:33 CST | 18 comments
Emily Lakdawalla gives a status report on Philae from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt.
LightSail Gets Burn Wire Redesign for Round 2 of Vibration Tests
Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/11/13 04:51 CST | 7 comments
The Planetary Society's LightSail-A spacecraft is less than three weeks away from an expected go/no-go decision on whether the CubeSat will be launched into space for a shakedown cruise next year.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/13 01:26 CST | 9 comments
The Philae team scrambled all morning to comprehend the initially confusing status of the lander, and the picture is much clearer today. Speaking of which, there are lots more pictures!
Brief Philae "Morning After" update: First ÇIVA panorama from the surface
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/13 04:53 CST | 1 comments
I'm just getting up to speed on the news from overnight, which is mostly good: Philae remained in contact with the orbiter (which means the CONSERT radar sounding experiment was working), and it's sitting stably on the surface, although it's not anchored in any way. And they released the first ÇIVA image from the ground!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/12 10:21 CST | 16 comments
The landing happened on time just after 16:02 UT today! Philae mission manager Stephan Ulamec said: "Philae is talking to us! The first thing he told us was the harpoons have been fired and rewound. We are sitting on the surface." Those words later turned out not to be true; but we do know at least that Philae survived the landing and is returning good data.
Philae update: Photo documentation of Philae's separation!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/12 08:22 CST | 4 comments
Here it is. We knew hours ago that Philae separation happened, but there's nothing like seeing a photo, seeing Philae's mothership receding into the distance.
Philae update: "Go" for landing, despite apparent failure of cold-gas jet system [UPDATED]
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/12 01:26 CST | 4 comments
Philae is "go" for landing. But there has been drama overnight. One of the steps to prepare for landing did not proceed as planned. UPDATE: At 09:03 UTC, the lander separated from the orbiter, beginning a 7-hour descent to the surface of the comet.
Philae update: First of four "go-no-go" decisions is a GO!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/11 01:21 CST | 3 comments
It's been a day of calm before the storm here at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, as we get ready for the big event tomorrow: Philae's hoped-for landing on a comet. The first of four "go-no-go" decisions has been made, and it's a "go." Mission navigators have gotten data back from Rosetta that indicates that the spacecraft is on the correct trajectory to deliver Philae to the comet.
Report from Darmstadt: Philae status and early Rosetta results from DPS
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/11/11 03:04 CST | 3 comments
I'm reporting live from the press room at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. There's little news on Philae yet except that its status is good. Meanwhile, Rosetta scientists presented their first early comet results at the Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Tucson, Arizona, which I watched from afar using Twitter.
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Thursday, April 05, 2007
Carlos Spencer through the legs pass
Here's a great moment from the 2003 World Cup when King Carlos Spencer flicked the ball through his legs to create a try for Joe Rokocoko against the Springboks.
Looks simple, but that's because of the quality of the player. Most guys wouldn't be brave enough to try that in a match, and if they did and they failed, they'd be shot. Not Carlos.
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Anonymous April 05, 2007 4:20 pm
psycho! straight to hands
Anonymous April 07, 2007 4:57 pm
the man is simply a king , a legend
Anonymous May 08, 2007 2:07 pm
king carlos
Anonymous May 14, 2007 12:32 am
a nice pass but england still won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
howesy May 19, 2007 1:40 am
Madness! Long live King Csrlos!!
Anonymous July 12, 2007 7:31 pm
where does he come up with dat
Anonymous July 14, 2007 9:40 am
thats class, whats the name of that song
Anonymous July 23, 2007 7:29 am
ellieeee :) August 16, 2007 1:48 pm
watching legends like this makes me so proud to be a kiwi (Y)bring on the world cupSTAND IN BLACK
...:::JOSH:::... STA August 17, 2007 8:55 pm
when i saw this i went out and practised relentlesly loli was dropped to the bench for scool doing this and fucking it up lolbut when i came on in the semi nd did exactly the same and set up the match winning try!! but it was james spofford on the wingpeople like king carlos are a joy to watch but unfortunetly players are to scared of fucking up that they dont do it!real shame long live the king
Anonymous September 10, 2007 4:23 pm
you fool, this match is against south africa
Kev September 25, 2007 12:47 pm
Carlos sux... fact of life. He cannot run a backline or kick goals under pressure.
Anonymous December 07, 2007 9:12 pm
haha josh im in school too, and our outhalf did it perfectly except it was to the first centre and when we got the ball out to the wing the winger was put into touch. a pity would have been a great finish
petepecker January 20, 2008 3:41 am
one of my mates gave me a passa like that during a game ... obviously the pace of our game is nowhere near a rugby world cup ...still, its was brilliant!
COME-ON-MUNSTER April 26, 2008 12:04 am
UNREAL....Did he do the on the trainin pitch (you cant plan for what mite happen in a rugby match but still)Smart Arse Isint He HAHA I'd He Is The Funniest Person Ever Watch The Video Where He Takes A Stroool Do To The Corner To Put Down The Ball


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Today, that legacy of duty and love of country has been handed down to the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who guard our freedom at home and abroad. Whether in the skies over Bosnia, in the waters of the Persian Gulf, in the deserts of the Sinai and the mountains of Macedonia, or elsewhere, they stand tall in defense of freedom, doing the hard and dangerous work that must be done to bring peace and stability to a troubled world.
On behalf of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the men and women of our Armed Forces, I am proud to salute our veterans on this special day. May their example of service and sacrifice continue to inspire us all, and may we always treasure the gift of freedom they fought and, in some cases, died to preserve.
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Military families seem to have turned to the Okaloosa County Public Library Cooperative in the six weeks since Eglin Air Force Base closed its library.
Traffic has increased significantly at the Valparaiso and Niceville libraries, which sit close to the base.
Vicky Stever, the cooperative's coordinator, said she welcomes new patrons but is disappointed that Eglin families now lack a base library.
She expects the increased demand will strain local libraries to some extent because they have been making do with dwindling state funds.
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How long has it been that we've been taking blood pressure (BP) readings? About 200 years or so, I think, which is also, I believe, even longer than Regis has been on television. So given that we've been at it for so long, you'd think that we would never err in taking BP readings. This is not rocket science, after all. All that's involved in taking a BP reading is that a cuff is tied around someone's limb (most often an arm), the cuff is inflated so that the pressure shuts the artery in that limb. As the pressure is released, the BP reader records the point at which a sound appears as blood re-enters the artery (systolic reading), and the point at which the sound disappears or muffles (diastolic reading). This is so easy that if you had the time and money for the training, you could replace health professionals with apes to do BP readings (no obvious jokes here, please), and that the apes would still get it right every time.
If they did get it right most of the time, however, the news is that the apes would be way ahead of health professionals because according to a study presented at a meeting of the American Society of Hypertension, a significant proportion of BP readings are wrong, most often on the low side.
How can things go awry? Lots of ways. For a start, we've long known that errors occur when a patient is not relaxed enough, when the BP cuff is not the right size (bigger arms need bigger cuffs, something I'm sure they teach all cops in cop school), or even when the BP reading is taken with the patient sitting rather than lying down.
But this study found that inadequate equipment also plays a key role in BP reading errors. You see, unlike the old "mercury-in-the-glass-tube" blood pressure measuring devices that were the standard until a few decades ago and which were virtually foolproof, the new aneroid devices now used in most medical offices must be re-calibrated regularly because there is no way to tell if and when they have stopped working properly, and according to this study, up to one-third of aneroid devices have not been re-calibrated and are not working properly, and these devices, say the researchers, give misleadingly low BP readings. In other words, lots of you have been told your BP is OK when it may actually be high.
Well, now that I've made you all doubt your BP reading, let me destroy your faith in yet another procedure your doctor commonly does on you. Did you know that . . . Hey! Relax! I can smell your fear. So I'll simply save that for the future, OK?
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When will the price drops stop on the 5D Mark II?
I'm not sure, but it sure seems like Adorama and B&H are trying to one-up each other day after day.
Adorama now has the Canon 5D Mark II for $1999. This price gets you bundle with a 5D Mark II body, a SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro card, a Slinger camera bag and a collection of Red Giant production software.
Your move B&H.
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Pretty Little Liars Spoilers: 10 Hints About the Season 3 Winter Premiere
The Pretty Little Liars Season 3 winter premiere airs on January 8, but we've had a sneak peek of the episode (Season 3, Episode 14: "She's Better Now"), and we can tell you this: It's everything you could want for a return to Rosewood.
We can't give away any major spoilers, but we can give you a few hints about the episode.
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- A video once again plays an important role.
- An important character transfers schools.
- There's a surprising familiar face at Rosewood (and no, we're not talking about Mona or Meredith).
- Speaking of Mona (Janel Parrish), the other students' reaction to her may surprise you.
- Key line: "You make that call, you'll be very sorry."
- Phones play an important role — and not because of messages from "A."
- Some of your biggest questions from the Halloween episode (Season 3, Episode 13: "This Is a Dark Ride") will be addressed.
- One character whispers something to another, and we're dying to know what s/he said.
- Someone reveals a key bit of info to one of the Liars.
- Is it any surprise that the episode ends with an OMG moment?
Find more Pretty Little Liars spoilers here.
Catch the return of PLL Season 3 on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC Family.
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Daily Talk keeps Liberians informed about revolt against Gaddafi
As Col Muammar Gaddafi continues his grip on power, the African continent continues to follow the story. In countries like Liberia where years of civil war which Gaddafi had a hand in, many are following the fight for Libya in hope that Gaddafi can finally be brought to justice.
In Monrovia, Daily Talk, a street news blackboard offers Liberians news about Gaddafi. The people on the street pay much attention here because of Gaddafi's role in the Liberian civil war. Cllr. Jerome J. Verdier , the former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Liberia issued a statement a few days ago saying the massacre of protesters in Libya reminded the people of Liberia of the killings that Gaddafi had much hand in as he supported President Charles Taylor during the civil war.
Verdier accused President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of being a key ally of Col. Gaddafi citing that she had consulted Libya throughout her six-year tenure. So today's Daily Talk had another political figure Sherman defending President Sirleaf on her ties with Gaddafi. President Sirleaf recently on BBC warned against military intervention to oust Gaddafi saying that "it's easier to destroy than rebuild", citing Liberia's experience. However the President condemned the violence that is taking place in Libya.
In a country that is still emerging from the ruins of a civil war that lasted more than a decade, Daily Talk does a great job bringing Monrovians news. Just like many institutions, the media still has a long way to go to be vibrant and contribute a lot to the country's development. Daily Talk offers ordinary Liberians up to the point news from the west Afric
an nation and beyond. Below are the pictures shot at the Daily Talk March 10 2011.
Abbey Bennett permalinkMarch 14, 2011 4:52 am
Hello again Rosebell –
It's interesting to see Gaddafi's past in Liberia now being reflected in Libya. Do you think that similar outcomes will be the result? This is already the beginning of what we're seeing. Is it thought to continue?
Another question: The US has had many disputes within newsrooms and in online journals over the spelling of Gaddafi's name. I noticed in this post that you have used the spelling Gaddafi. Is this something that Uganda press has decided upon? Is it your personal preference? I found an article on Facebook from the Associated Press on the spelling.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
April 29, 2011 11:37 am
Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKmhCi5SlE to watch a video about Liberia's Daily Talk produced by a participant at African Elections Project during our last training workshop in Liberia


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Sorry was late on this, but I would personally just avoid the whole thing by installing the WAD in Triiforce If it's not supported in triifoce then I probably don't need it anyway.
This competition is now closed. (besides how would Triiforce work if you installed Neogamma channel to it?
Not really doing much Wii stuff these days.
Since week 1 is at an end, this thread will now be closed. good luck with question #2!


text: Finals are starting to approach and my schedule is completely filled with tons of studying and classes that I must attend. I wish all my professors would just cancel class all next week. I have presentations to work on for Spanish and LAS but I really have to study for Anatomy and my Zoology lab practical. I know I know…I have no life! If you're a science major you must study every single day! I miss going out and having fun with my friends! I just have to hang in there and push harder for the next two weeks. I have to stay strong in order to make my GPA goal. I want at least a 3.0! This is seriously the most stressful time of the year and I can tell. There were tons of people in the library today and I'm pretty sure the library hours will be extended soon, if not already. Another thing I hate about this time of the year is that professors like to schedule a full exam the week before finals and then finals week a cumulative exam! I know this is college but that structure is exactly why people go insane! I already feel the stress coming on…time to go take deep breaths and think happy thoughts.


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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram interviewed UHD
Interim Provost Michael Dressman and UHD Undergraduate Student Body President
Ali Abedi for a story that appeared in Sunday's paper.
UHD's Public Affairs Office arranged the
interviews for the story that takes a closer look at six-year graduation rates
- rates that only take into consideration how first-time freshmen progress
through college. The reporter took a look at institutions in Texas that were
labeled "drop-out factories" in a recent Washington Post story, and found that
a single statistic does not tell the whole story. Both UHD, an urban, non-residential
university made up primarily of transfer students, and Sul Ross State, a rural
institution that serves southwest Texas, serve many first-generation
Both universities clearly meet the needs of
students who earn college degrees while working full or part time. Dressman
points out UHD ranks 33rd nationally for graduating Hispanic
students with bachelor's degrees, and Abedi talks about UHD's diversity, what
UHD has let him accomplish and UHD's affordability in the college marketplace.
The story gives readers a broader understanding and context of the varied roles
different colleges and universities play in Texas. You'll find the complete
story here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/10/02/2514577/texas-public-universities-trying.html.
An abbreviated version of the story ran in the Houston Chronicle today.
The Community Involvement Center and
the Rose, the Houston area's leading non-profit breast
cancer organization, will hold a breast cancer awareness event from 2 to 3 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 6 in the Library Special Event Room, N-420.
The event
is in recognition of Breast Cancer
Awareness Month. The program will teach participants the importance of cancer
awareness and also how to do a breast self-exam. According to the Rose, "Early
detection of breast cancer greatly improves the treatment options, chances for
successful treatment and, most importantly, survival."
UHD's Veterans Services Office is sponsoring a
Veterans Information Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, in the
Special Events Room, A-300, in the Academic Building.
Representatives from difference agencies will be
on hand to answer questions about benefits and services. For more information,
contact Michael Records, UHD's manager of Veterans Services.
Community Involvement Day will be from 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the Special Events Room, A-300, in the Academic
Representatives from area agencies will be on hand
to discuss their work and volunteer opportunities available for students. A
door prize will be given away.
The deadline for students to apply for the Red
Rose Scholarship is 5 p.m. Nov. 5.
The scholarship award is for $3,000 that pays
$1,500 per semester. To be eligible students must have a grade point average of
3.5, 57 total credit hours, 24 credit hours at UHD and be a full-time UHD
student the 2011-2012 school year.
For more information, go to the website, http://www.uhd.edu/financial/scholarships/institutional.html.
current list of universitywide standing committees, as well as links to details
about their charges and memberships is now available on the UHD website at http://www.uhd.edu/committees/ in the
Faculty & Staff section.
resource is intended to provide information to committee members and the
university community about committee responsibilities and representation.
locate it, go to "Faculty & Staff" in the homepage left hand navigation
area. "Committees" is now included as a subcategory in the left hand navigation
of the Faculty & Staff main page.
Faculty Senate will meet at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Room A-300 in the
Academic Building.
more information contact Phil Lyons,
Faculty Senate President, at 713-221-8489 or email@example.com.
The agenda includes the following:
Approval of Sept 21 Minutes
Old Business
Online Survey Report
Student phone contacts
New Business
Fall Senate schedule
UHD Police officers will participate in National
Night Out activities from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, at Discovery Green where
the Houston Police Department is sponsoring a "Give Neighborhood Crime and
Drugs a Going Away Party."
Contact HPD Officer Gail Sanchez at 832-394-0033
for more information.
National Night Out activities will be taking place throughout the Houston area. UHD Officers encourage students, faculty and staff to participate in National Night Out activities at Discovery Green or in their own neighborhoods, and join the effort to take a united stand against crime.
The Technology Teaching and Learning Center (TTLC)
is holding a Brown Bag Showcase on the ePortfolio tool Taskstream from 1 to
2:30 p.m. Oct. 19 in Room A-715 in the Academic Building.
Taskstream eliminates
the need for hardcopies of student portfolios and requires minimal effort to
retrieve material. It is organized and searchable. A flyer is available here. This training session
enhances computer and technology skills. Bring your lunch and dessert and
drinks are on the TTLC. Click here to reserve a spot for 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Oct. 19, in the TTLC (A715).
The UHD Veterans Services Office has scheduled its official opening
from 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, with refreshments in Room S-244, One Main
The new office offers veteran students the assistance and
support of a full-time staff who can provide them with educational benefits
information and guide them through the enrollment process. Staff members can
also certify their benefits and serve as their advocate at UHD. The office
includes a computer lab.
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences Study Abroad
Program this year is to London and Dublin and information sessions will be at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 5, and 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, in Room N-420, the Library Special Event Room.
The Study Abroad Program includes seven nights in
London and four nights in Dublin.
For information contact
Sandra Dahlberg, professor of English and program coordinator, at email@example.com
or phone 713-221-8949. A flyer is available here. Information is also available at the website, http://www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/humanities/chsssummerabroad/index.htm
Cadets in UHD's Criminal Justice Training Center's daytime class (BPOC 247) are selling armbands to help a young man who is recovering after being shot in the head with a pellet gun, and their effort was part of a broader story broadcast during the weekend on KHOU TV.
Rex White, director of the center, says each class takes on a service project, but the corps tradition is not to seek publicity for their work. "Over the years, students in the program have quietly helped many organizations and individuals," he said. "This year Corporal Kevin Wolf, became aware that Seaton Jorden and his family needed assistance and the class decided to help."
The class is selling armbands for a minimum $2 donation that will help Seaton Jorden and his family pay for medical expenses. Anyone interested in purchasing an armband can contact the Criminal Justice Training Center.
Above: Director Rex White looks on while AllisonTriarsi, anchor and reporter for KHOU, shows her armbands while speaking to Capt. Susan Hobbs, Lt. David Browning and Matt Cenatiempo.
UHD community can join the Service Jam, an online event, that will engage
non-profit organizations, corporations, academic institutions, and government agencies
in a discussion Oct. 10-12 on how social innovation can help solve world problems.
event brings together prominent leaders, professionals, and passionate
individuals, to generate breakthrough ideas that will redefine service and social
innovation. Sponsored by IBM, participants can collaborate virtually and have
the flexibility to log into the Jam from anywhere in the world at anytime during
the three-day event. Eight discussion forums will occur at the same time.
register for the jam, go to this website: https://www.collaborationjam.com/minijam3/service.
Contact Jean DeWitt, UHD director of community engagement, for more information.
Gail S. M. Evans, J.D., Professor of Business Law in UHD's College of Business has assumed the role of Chairman of the Board
of Leadership Montgomery County for 2010-2011.
Evans received her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and
her BA from Northwestern University. She has been active in the South
Montgomery County Woodlands Chamber of Commerce, serving on the Economic
Outlook Conference team and the Education Conference team. Gail has also
had leadership roles with the Panther Creek Village Association, and Texas
Women in Higher Education.
A new report is available on the Office of
Institutional Research's website.
The Fall 2010 20th Day Fact Sheet is available here: http://www.uhd.edu/about/irp/sheet.html
It includes information on UHD students broken down by ethnicity,
gender, student type, classification, and majors. It also includes information
on the breakdown of semester credit hours our students are taking this
Soldier-Poet Brian
Turner will read his poetry from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, in the
Cullen Robertson Auditorium, third floor, Academic Building.
Tuner is regularly
referenced in the New York Times as a veteran/poet spokesperson for his
generation. His
debut book of poems, Here, Bullet,
won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the New York Times "Editor's
Choice" selection, the 2006 Pen Center USA "Best in the West"
award, and the 2007 Poets Prize, among others.
second poetry book, Phantom Noise, was released by Alice
James in the spring of 2010. Turner has recently been selected as one of 50
United States Artists Fellows for 2009.
For information
contact Jane Creighton, associate professor of English and Cultural Enrichment
Center director, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, at 713-221-8295 or email@example.com. A flyer is available here.
"The Journal of Applied Research on Children:
Informing Policy for Children at Risk is an open-access and peer-reviewed
online journal that is uniquely focused on the needs of children through a
holistic prism. Focused on interdisciplinary research that is linked to
practical, evidenced-based policy solutions for children's issues, JARC serves
to inform legislative and policy decisions, as well as existing and innovative
practice models....."
The Texas Association of School Boards
elected its 2010-11 officers during the Associations recent annual Delegate
Assembly and Convention in Houston and named UHD's Viola Garcia as a vice
Garcia is an associate professor and
she has served on the Aldine Independent School District since 1992. As a board
member, she has served as president, vice president, secretary and assistance
secretary. She was elected to the TASB Board of Directors in September 2004 as
served as a member of the Lone Star Investment Pool Board from 2003 to 2009.
She has chaired the TASB Bylaws and Resolutions Committees, and was vice chair
of the Legislative Committee.
A graduate of Leadership TASB and
master trustee, she is a fellow of the American Leadership Forum-Houston
Education Class 2, has participated in the Reform Governance in Action program
with the Aldine ISD Board and administrative team, and is actively involved in
the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Leadership
Initiatives. Garcia earned her undergraduate degree from Texas Woman's
University and master and doctorate degrees from the University of Houston.
TASB is a
nonprofit association established in 1949 to serve local public school
districts. School board members are the largest group of publicly elected
officials in the state. The districts they represent serve more than 4.7
million public school students.
College of Public Service will host an Information Session from 11:30 a.m. to
1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, in the Commerce Building, Room C100, for UHD students
interested in pursuing degrees in education or criminal justice.
event will provide information on declaring a major, THEA and TExES exams,
internships, and scholarships. CPS
advisors and faculty will be available to answer questions and meet informally
with students.
additional information session will be at 4:30 p.m. for Urban Education
candidates on Oct. 7 in Room C100.
will be served. For more information, please contact the CPS Advising Office at
UHD Sports and Fitness is sponsoring a
workshop, "Can You Breathe," from noon to 1 p.m. Oct. 8 in Room N-1099, One
The workshop is free and open to UHD
faculty, staff and students. Breathing is essential to healthy blood flow,
helps keep the body functioning properly and increases the body's ability to
heal. A person's posture, fitness level,
and sleeping habits can affect all of these things.The guest presenter, who is
a certified fitness and ergonomics professional, will lead participants through
breathing exercises and show proper body alignment that will improve the air
flow through your body.
Light refreshments and attendance gifts will be
provided. To reserve a spot for this seminar, please call 713-221-8481, stop by
the Student Life Center or email Rhonda Scherer at firstname.lastname@example.com. A flyer is available here.
Career Services is hosting the company, Renolds and
Reynolds, for a recruiting presentation, open house and question-and-answer session
from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12, in Room N-1099, One Main Building. (job #
1825 in jobs4gators)
Such company presentations usually include
information about the company, details on the positions available (see list
below) as well as tips for graduating seniors on interviewing, networking and
career fairs. All majors are welcome to
attend.They are typically recruit for: · Marketing · Sales · Consulting · Software Implementation · Programming · IT related positions · Technical writing · Software Education · Clerical
All classifications are welcome to participate and
network with the recruiters, but seniors/alumni
will be encouraged to submit resumes and/or apply for posted positions. (See
jobs4gators for multiple job openings for Reynolds & Reynolds.)
are not mandatory, but would be appreciated. If interested in attending, please RSVP to: email@example.com or call Career Services at 713-221-8980.
The UHD Spanish Program Open House
will be from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11, and from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 12, in Room N-602, One Main Building.
Participants can meet Spanish Program
faculty members and get answers to such questions as:
Why should I study Spanish?
I speak Spanish, is there a placement
test at UHD?
What are the requirements for a bachelor
of arts degree or a minor in Spanish?
What courses are offered in the
Are there any Hispanic associations on
Are there volunteer opportunities?
Do Spanish-speaking internships exist?
What are the job opportunities for
Spanish majors/minors?
Does UHD offer study abroad programs
in Hispanic countries?
A flyer is available here. The open house will also include a
special question and answer session with Rocio Cobo for the Study Abroad in
Cadiz, Spain next summer.
The Criminal Justice Speaker Series will feature Harris County Sheriff
Adrian Garcia who will provide an Overview of Harris County and Crime from 6 to
8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, in Room C-100, first floor, in the Commerce Street Building.
The free event is open to UHD faculty,
staff and students. The doors open at 5:30 p.m. for seating. A coffee reception
will follow the presentation.
The Speaker Series is sponsored by the
Department of Criminal Justice in the College of Public Service.
UHD Police Lt. Fred Varela is planning to step off
the roof of the Intercontinental Hotel-Galleria in October, and he'd appreciate
your support.
Varela will rappel down the hotel's 23 floors Oct.
30 to raise funds for Special Olympics. The rappelling event is open to anyone
willing to commit to raising $1,000, but a special contingent of Houston area law
enforcement officers, including Varela, has agreed to participate. "Go Over the Edge" is one of several Special Olympics
fund-raising events the policing community participates in throughout the year,
Varela said.
Varela has a goal of raising $2,000, but "I have a ways to go in raising funds," he said. The effort has special meaning for Varela.
"I've been blessed with a 12-year-old son who is
autistic. He is high functioning and interacts with regular kids. I see kids
not as fortunate and it is heartbreaking," Varela said. "Special Olympics gives
everybody a chance. Everybody can participate and everybody gets something at
the end of the day."
Varela said, "Something exciting like this with an
adrenaline rush is right up my alley. I haven't done any rappelling since I got
out of the military (U.S.Coast Guard) where we rappelled from a helicopter onto
the deck of a ship."
He encourages people to support the effort and to come out and watch the event. "We have to
learn to help one another. If you lend a hand to help people, somewhere down
the line, somebody will help you," Varela said. "I have a lot of faith. You
have to in this kind of job (law enforcement)."
support Varela's effort, visit the website, http://www.firstgiving.com/frederickvarela.
The Center for Public Deliberation is
sponsoring a the public discussion, "Religion and the Public Sphere," from, 8
to 9:45 a.m. Oct. 12 in room N-420, the Library Special Events Room, One Main
The discussion will focus on religion and
the First Amendement of the U.S. Constitution.
Students will address a set of questions
about how religion fits and does not fit in public spaces like universities,
government, courts, and the media. The discussion will focus on the document, "God
and the Commons," produced by the Kettering Foundation. Snacks and beverages will
be provided for participants. A flyer is available here.
IT Training for Faculty/Staff/Alumni
Register for IT training
opportunities at the links below. To schedule a one-on-one appointment or other
assistance, please call 713-221-8200.
Blackboard Vista
2 - 3 p.m. - Turnitin
Tuesday, Oct. 5
10-11 a.m.- Blackboard
Vista: Gradebook Set-up
Wednesday, Oct. 6
10 - 11 a.m. - Blackboard
Vista: Assessments
Wednesday, Oct. 13
1 - 2 p.m. - Blackboard
Vista: Communication Tools
Thursday, Oct. 14
2 - 4 p.m. - Respondus
Open Lab
Oct. 15 10 - 11 a.m.
- Blackboard
Vista: Assignments
Classroom Tools
Oct. 12 1-2:30 p.m.
- Useful
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Oct. 11 2 - 3:30 p.m.
- TaskStream
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A method of fabricating devices incorporating microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) using a UV curable tape includes providing a substrate (14) with a MEMS layer (18) arranged on one side (12) of the substrate (14). A further layer (10) is applied to the side (12) of the substrate (14). At least one operation is performed on the substrate (14) from a side (22) of the substrate (14) opposed to the side (12) having the MEMS layer (18). A holding tape (38) is applied to the side (22) of the substrate. At least one operation is then performed on the further layer (10) to define individual chips (20). Each chip (20) is composed of a part of the substrate (24), at least one part of the MEMS layer (18) and a part of the further layer (10). Individual chips (20) are then able to be released from the tape (38) by exposing the tape (38) to UV light.
1. A method of fabricating MEMS devices, the method including the steps of:—
providing a substrate and a MEMS layer, the MEMS layer arranged on one side of the substrate;
applying a further layer arranged to protect the MEMS layer to said one side of the substrate;
separating the substrate into discrete parts by performing at least one operation including a back etching operation from a side of the substrate opposed to the side having the MEMS layer, each discrete part carrying at least one MEMS part of the MEMS layer;
subsequent to the step of separating the substrate into discrete parts, applying a holding means to said opposed side of the substrate;
defining individual chips by performing at least one operation, including an etching operation on the further layer, each of said chips being composed of one of said discrete parts of the substrate, at least one part of the MEMS layer and a part of the further layer; and
causing the individual chips to be released from the holding means for removal from the holding means.
2. The method of
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This Application is a national phase (371) application of PCT/AU00/00583, filed on May 24, 2000, all of which is herein incorporated by reference.
This invention relates to the fabrication of devices incorporating microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). More particularly, the invention relates to a method of fabricating a MEMS device using at least one UV curable tape. For the sake of brevity, such a device shall be referred to below as a MEMS device and the part of the device comprising the microelectromechanical system shall be referred to as a MEMS layer.
Various methods, systems and apparatus relating to the present invention are disclosed in the following co-pending applications filed by the applicant or assignee of the present invention simultaneously with the present application:
The disclosures of these co-pending applications are incorporated herein by cross-reference.
According to the invention, there is provided a method of fabricating MEMS devices, the method including the steps of:
providing a substrate with a MEMS layer arranged on one side of the substrate;
applying a further layer to said one side of the substrate;
performing at least one operation on the substrate from a side of the substrate opposed to the side having the MEMS layer;
applying a holding means to said opposed side of the substrate;
performing at least one operation on the further layer to define individual chips, each chip being composed of a part of the substrate, at least one part of the MEMS layer and a part of the further layer; and
causing the individual chips to be released from the holding means for removal from the holding means.
The operations performed on the substrate may include separating the substrate into discrete parts, each part carrying said at least one MEMS part.
Similarly, the operations performed on the further layer may include separating the further layer into discrete parts, one part associated with each part of the substrate. The method may include performing the operations on the further layer after application of the holding means to the substrate.
Preferably, the method includes bonding the holding means to the substrate. Optionally, a handling means may be applied to the holding means. The handling means may impart rigidity to the holding means and may facilitate manipulation of a laminate, the laminate comprising the substrate, the MEMS layer and the further layer.
The holding means may be bonded to the layer by means of an adhesive which is curable by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light. By "curable" is meant that the adhesive loses its adhesive properties when exposed to UV light. Thus, the method may include exposing localised regions of the holding means to UV light to release one chip at a time from the holding means to enable each chip to be removed individually from the holding means. It will be appreciated that the handling means is transparent to UV light so that UV light is transmitted through the handling means to cure the adhesive of the holding means.
The handling means may be in the form of a glass, quartz, alumina or equivalent wafer.
The method may finally include removing each chip from the holding means by a transporting means.
The invention is now described by way of example with reference to the accompanying diagrammatic drawings in which:
In an initial step, illustrated at 10 in
The wafer 14 carries a surface macromachined MEMS layer 16 on the first surface 12 of the wafer 14. The MEMS layer 16 comprises individual MEMS elements 18.
The invention has particular application in the manufacture of ink jet printheads. For ease of explanation, the invention will be described with reference to that application. Thus, the layer 10 is a nozzle guard layer or wafer which is applied to the surface 12 of the silicon substrate 14. Each individual MEMS element 18 is in the form of a nozzle assembly. Each nozzle assembly 18 comprises an ink ejection nozzle and its associated actuator. The actuator acts on the nozzle for effecting ink ejection, on demand.
The purpose of the method of manufacture is to form individual MEMS chips 20 (
Hence, after the nozzle guard layer 10 has been applied to the wafer 14, the wafer 14 is turned over to expose a reverse side 22 as shown in
Various operations are then carried out on the wafer 14. In particular, the wafer 14 is back etched, from the surface 22 towards the surface 12 to separate the silicon wafer into discrete parts 24. In addition, in this application of the invention, ink inlet apertures 26 are etched through the parts 24. It is to be noted that each part 24 comprises a plurality of MEMS elements 18 and a bond pad 28. Also, as shown more clearly in
A holding means in the form of an adhesive tape 38 is bonded to the surface 22 of the layer 14 as illustrated in
Depending on the equipment used, a handling means in the form of a glass, quartz, alumina or other transparent handle wafer 40 is secured to an opposite surface of the tape 38.
The wafer 40, the tape 38, the silicon wafer 14 and the nozzle guard layer 10 define a laminate 42. The laminate 42 is then turned over, as shown in
Predetermined operations are carried out on the layer 10. More particularly, passages 44 are etched through the layer 10 from an outer surface 46 towards the chambers 36. In addition, individual nozzle guards 48 are formed by etching to remove material as shown at 50 in
In this embodiment of the invention, each chip 20 has a plurality of MEMS elements 18 in an array formed thereon.
The laminate 42 is placed on an xy wafer stage (not shown) which is reciprocated, as illustrated by arrow 52 in
Hence, it is an advantage of the invention, that a method of fabrication is provided which facilitates the performing of various operations to fabricate the individual MEMS chip 20 and which facilitates removal of the MEMS chips 20 for packaging. It will be appreciated that devices of the kind in question are measured in micron dimensions. Accordingly, the MEMS elements 18 on such devices are extremely fragile. The provision of the nozzle guard layer 10 and the use of the UV curable tape 38 facilitates that the MEMS elements 18 are not touched by solids or liquids after they are released by the release etch.
It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that numerous variations and/or modifications may be made to the invention as shown in the specific embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as broadly described. The present embodiments are, therefore, to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive.
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