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Ordinances for Ph.D. Research Program
Ph.D. Research Program
The Ph.D. Research program is being offered in the following fields of study:
- Law
- Engineering - Civil, Computer Science, Electronics & Communication, Information Technology
- Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
- Management
- Economics
- English
Eligibility for this course
- A candidate for the Ph.D. degree must have a Master's degree of any University incorporated by the law in force, in allied discipline and recognized by the Executive Council of the University.
- Candidate must have secured at least fifty five percent (55%) marks or a grade point average (GPA), equivalent to 55% marks at the Master's Degree examination. For S.C./S.T. candidates, the minimum marks shall be 50%.
- Candidates with bachelor's degree in engineering /technology/any other professional discipline, with either 75% or more marks in aggregate and a minimum of three years or 60% or more marks in aggregate and a minimum of fifteen years, relevant experience in recognized institute/university/industry/government organization, may be considered eligible for admission, on the recommendation of SRC and approval by BOS.
- Candidates possessing M.Phil. Degree in the allied discipline.
- For foreign national/NRI/PIO eligibility as per UGC/AIU guide lines/rules.
- Other candidates fulfilling the essential eligibility criteria will also be considered subject to availability of seats.
Details about the admission procedure
- The admission to Ph.D. course shall be done through Uttaranchal University Entrance Examination (UUEE) for eligible candidates and shall be followed by an interview.
- Those candidates who have cleared JRF/NET-UGC/GATE/SLET/USET will be exempted from entrance examination.
- Candidates possessing M.Phil. Degree in the allied discipline will be exempted from the entrance examination.
- The candidates shall be interviewed by the RDC about their research interest/area.
- Admission to Ph.D program will be based purely on merit, computed through the following criteria :
- 30% weightage to percentage of marks of Master's Degree.
- 30% weightage to the score of Uttaranchal University Entrance Examination(UUEE)/ JRF/NET-UGC/GATE/SLET/USET.
- 40% weightage to the personal interview by RDC.
- A candidate enrolled for Ph.D at any other university may be allowed to transfer his work to Uttaranchal University, on the recommendation of RDC, at the discretion of the Chancellor.
Such candidates will be required to take admission in Uttaranchal University and pay the requisite fee.
About the research supervisor
- A Scientist or Head of a section of a Research Institute/Department/Laboratory recognized for the purpose by the University, who holds a Doctorate's Degree and has at least 10 years teaching or research experience as a scientist/ postgraduate teacher.
- A scholar of exceptional merit, as proposed by the RDC and approved by the Academic Council.
- Guidelines for Research Supervisor
- The Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor with Ph.D. Degree are eligible to be nominated as Research Supervisor
About the place of work/ research centre
- Every full time research scholar shall normally work at University Campus. However permission to work at an outside place may be given for a limited period, on recommendation of the RDC.
- The Research Degree Committee (RDC) of the subject shall ensure, in the case of Assistant Professors and Associate professors, their ability to be approved as supervisors, which will be based on the quality of published/ project work carried out by them.
- A Co-Guide/ Co-supervisor can also be allowed by the RDC for interdisciplinary work. But, either guide or co-guide must be a teacher of this university.
- New supervisors has to be approved by the Academic Council on the recommendations of concerned RDC as per provisions of the Statutes of Uttaranchal University.
Information about the registration / course work
- A pre-registration presentation of the synopsis shall be held in the subject before the RDC of the University in which the candidate will have to present and defend his/her synopsis and related aspect of his/ her research.
- A Candidate shall be registered from the date of his/her application and submission of fees even though the RDC approves the subject at a later date, unless a different date has been specified by RDC.
- After his/her admission, the candidate shall undertake the prescribed course work for
one semester (six months). There shall be a total of three papers and the course work shall be supervised by the Dean of Faculty and concerned Head/ Convener.
- The course shall include, research methodology which may include Quantitative Methods and Computer Applications.
- An Advanced Paper in the subject/ area in which the candidate has proposed to follow his/her research work for the Ph.D. degree.
- Reviewing of Published Research in the relevant field. This shall be the minimum qualifying requirement for allowing a student to proceed with further work and the writing of the thesis.
- Upon satisfactory completion of the prescribed course work, the candidate shall undertake research work and produce a draft thesis. In case the candidate does not qualify the course, may be given one more opportunity to qualify the course. A candidate who could not appear in the examinations due to shortage of attendance may also be given one more opportunity to qualify the course provided.
- Admission/Registration of a candidate in research shall be cancelled by the University/competent authority (as the case may be), if any unsatisfactory report regarding the progress of the thesis and conduct of the candidate is given by the supervisor of the candidate.
- The application for registration shall be placed before RDC in each subject consisting of the Vice-Chancellor, the Dean of the Faculty, Convener of the RDC concerned and three experts to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor in consultation with the convener of the Board of Studies. The Committee shall satisfy itself that the subject and the synopsis offered are such which can profitably be pursued under the guidance of the proposed supervisor, that the candidate possesses the requisite qualifications and that adequate facilities and equipment for work exist at the institution level.
- A candidate must have at least three years standing as Master's Degree holder of the Subject/allied subject at the time of submission of the thesis.
- The application for registration and the research synopsis of a candidate must be submitted to the university at least one month before the actual date of the meeting of the R.D.C. of a subject.
- The maximum time of six months shall be allowed for submitting a revised synopsis. After this period the synopsis submitted shall be treated as withdrawn/cancelled.
- After the expiry of 3 years from the date of registration the candidate may be granted
one-year extension by the Vice-Chancellor provided that the candidate has applied for extension within 3 months before the expiry of the three year period. Unless the extension is granted by the Vice-Chancellor, the name of the candidate shall be removed from the list of those registered for the Ph.D. Degree, after expiry of three year period.
The candidate may apply for re-registration within a period of three months from the date on which the period of 3 years or the extended period has expired and, thereafter, he shall be re-enrolled after paying a fresh fee as prescribed and he/she shall be given a further maximum period of one year from the date or re-registration for the submission of his/ her thesis.
The submission of thesis and the payment of fee, both must be done within 3 years or extended period. Thesis shall not be accepted after due date.
More information on the pre-submission seminar
- A pre-submission seminar shall be held in the University Department of the subject in which the candidate shall present and defend the thesis work. The pre-submission seminar shall be open to all the faculty members and research scholars of the concerned department and the faculty.
The thesis to be submitted must be approved for submission by the majority of the teaching staff of the concerned department after the pre-submission seminar is over.
Such an approval must include the Dean of the department, HOD of that subject/Convener of the RDC as a Chairman. The thesis must be forwarded to the University by the convener of the RDC.
- Ph.D. candidate shall publish at least one research paper in a refereed Journal before the submission of the thesis for adjudication, and produce evidence for the same in the form of acceptance letter or the reprint.
Evaluation of the Thesis
- The following documents shall be submitted by the candidate to the University at the
time of submission of thesis:-
- Thesis: 04 copies
- Summary: 04 copies
- Synopsis: 04 copies
- No-dues Certificate (Fee. Receipt, Departmental & Central Library)
- CD of the Thesis (PDF File) along with a certificate from Central Library, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun to the effect that the thesis has been scanned through anti piracy software
- Pre-submission Certificate.
- The candidate shall supply four printed or type written (typed both sides of the
paper) but not published copies of his/her thesis. Published matter may also be incorporated as a part of the thesis. The medium of expression for thesis shall be English.
The thesis shall be accompanied by a certificate from the supervisor stating:
- That the thesis embodies the work of the candidate himself/herself.
- That (unless he/she is a teacher) in the University he/she has put in the required attendance in his/her research centre during that period.
- The thesis shall comply with the following conditions :-
- It must be original research work showing discovery of facts or a fresh approach towards the interpretation of facts or theories. It should display the candidate's capacity for critical examination and sound judgment.
- The candidate shall communicate how far the thesis embodies the result of his/her advance knowledge in the subject.
- It shall be satisfactory with respect to language and presentation of subject matter.
- The examiners will also indicate whether the thesis is suitable for publication in its present form with or without amendments.
- Examiners for the thesis shall be appointed only after submission of the thesis. The Convener of the Board of Studies and the concerned supervisor shall be requested to suggest panels consisting of six names of examiners each for consideration of the Vice-Chancellor (10 names, in case of Convener being the supervisor). The thesis shall be sent to three examiners selected for the purpose by the Vice-Chancellor out of a panel suggested by the Convener and Supervisor.
- The thesis produced by the Ph.D. student submitted to the University shall be evaluated by three examiners, out of which at least one of them should be from outside the state.
- The Ph.D. examiner shall be required to submit his/her report normally in two months time. He/she may take some more time with permission of the Vice-Chancellor. Thereafter, a fresh examiner may be appointed.
- If the examiners recommend that the candidate be asked to improve his/her thesis the Executive Council may permit the candidate to resubmit his/her thesis, not earlier than six months and not later than one year. The period being counted from the date of the communication of the decision of the Executive Council granting the permission.
In case the candidate is allowed to re-submit his/her thesis, he/she shall have to pay a fresh fee of Rs. 5000/- or any other fee prescribed at the time of the re-submission of the thesis but it shall not be necessary for him/her to produce any certificate of further attendance.
- If any two examiners disapprove the thesis, it shall be rejected.
- The University shall have the right to withdraw or cancel the already awarded Degree, if it is found at any date that there is no originality or genuineness in the thesis concerned or if there is any other severe matter according to which it is established that the degree should not have been awarded to the candidate. The supervisor of such a candidate shall also be held responsible for such a work.
More about the Viva-Voce Examination
- In case, any two original examiners approve the thesis, the candidate shall be called upon to appear for a viva-voce test before a board of two examiners comprising the supervisor and one of the three persons (selected by the Vice-Chancellor).
If two viva-voce examiners are satisfied, the case shall be placed before the Executive Council. If the Executive Council, after considering the reports of the examiners, considers the candidate worthy of the Ph.D. Degree, it shall approve the Degree.
- The Dean of the University Department/ Convener of RDC of the University shall be the Chairman of the viva-voce examination of a candidate.
- Not satisfied with the viva-voce examination, the candidate shall be asked to reappear (after paying a fee of Rs. 10,000/-) at a second viva-voce examination within one year but not earlier than six months.
If the candidate fails to satisfy the viva-voce examiners the second time, his/her thesis shall be finally rejected.
- Along with the Degree, University shall issue a Provisional Certificate certifying that the Degree has been awarded in accordance with the provisions of the ordinance.
More about scholarships
Full time deserving candidates will be eligible to apply for suitable scholarship on successful completion of their pre-Ph.D. course work.
Such candidates will be awarded scholarship/stipend* per month as per the University rules. They will be required to take the teaching load of 10-12 hours per week during this period.
More about sponsored candidates
Adequate number of seats shall be made available for candidates who have been sponsored by the various government and non-government departments.
These candidates will be required to appear in all stages of the admission process, and fulfill the eligibility criteria.


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Maybe it's a sign of advancing age, disgust over all the recent campaign dirt or the sinking feeling that we're all being buried in online bile, but I'm starting to warm to the idea of good old-fashioned censorship.
Newspaper editors are, after all, censors - deciding every day what gets in the paper and what gets cut. But I've also devoted most of my adult life to the idea of free speech and decided long ago that I was about as close as you could get to an absolutist when it came to the First Amendment.
I've always believed that just about all expression should be protected, other than the libelous, the obscene and the specific incitement to immediate illegal activity. As John Stuart Mill observed, there is quite a difference between a newspaper editorial that decries the corn-seller as the starver of the poor and making the same claims to an angry mob out in front of the corn-seller's house.
As long as there is time, the theory goes, the answer to bad speech is good speech, not enforced silence.
But some people seem remarkably resistant to counter-speech and I've been getting my jollies lately taking down over-the-top Topix comments that cross those lines of the libelous, the lewd and the illegal. And my heart just isn't into defending speech for speech's sake these days.
Local gadfly Ken Frock, for instance, or Washington Times columnist Diane West, who've both been in the paper more out of our sense of first-amendment fairness than any agreement with what either has to say.
Frock, you might recall, first made the paper last year when officials tried to make him take down a sign that said, "We refuse to yield to 'Gestapo' tactics of Littlestown Borough."
Backed by the ACLU, Frock won his free-speech case and $16,000 in federal court.
This newspaper applauded the rightness of that decision and I congratulate Littlestown on the forbearance it has shown this time , despite complaints over Frock's latest sign.
"I believe in gun control I have a sharp eye and a steady trigger finger," the 12-foot sign says. "All Muslems 'burn in hell'"
One man I talked to over the phone saw a threat to the president there, but I have to agree with Police Chief Donald Baker that there's no specific incitement to imminent violence there.
I'm often quick to defend the publication of speech some find offensive or disturbing, because, after all, that's the kind of expression that needs the protection of the First Amendment. But this time, The Evening Sun was slow to report the story - after the television crews had been there, even.
Finally, though, the complaints and concerns over the sign posted in Frock's front yard made it news, even if the story gave him precisely the attention he was seeking.
No, I won't censor Ken Frock. But this time, I wish he would have censored himself.
I am, however, getting ready to pull the plug on Diana West, whose column often appears on Saturdays in The Evening Sun.
In an October 2007 column written when we had to replace some of our other columnists, I said West "never met a Muslim she didn't hate."
"I'm no mullah-lover myself," I added, "but OK already, we get your point. Find something else to write about or we'll find another columnist."
Nothing happened to change my mind, but I've been reluctant to dump a conservative columnist without a ready replacement in my budget.
This election, though, has added sharp new subtext to the subject of Muslims and a couple of readers - one caller and one letter writer - have argued West's column is increasingly confrontational, inappropriate and out of place. I have to agree, and unless there's a chorus of reasoned argument on her behalf, she'll soon be replaced.
In my youth, demands that something be banned were usually enough to convince me they had to stay in print. But over time, I've come to realize some things just aren't worth saying.
Still, while we're on the subject of Muslims, the intolerance of some Islamic sects, their seeming affinity for censorship, continue to bother me more than the pronouncements of Ken Frock or Diana West.
"There are regimes in the world where ideas 'offensive' to the majority (or at least those who control the majority) are suppressed. There, life proceeds at a monotonous pace," Justice William Douglas wrote in one of his many free-speech opinions. "Most of us would find that world offensive. One of the most offensive experiences in my life was a visit to a nation where bookstalls were filled only with books on mathematics and books on religion."
It's clear Douglas is referring to one of the more conservative Islamic lands, and I never wanted my own country to be like that.
I'd still like to think we're up to the responsibilities that should come with freedom of speech.
Marc Charisse is the editor of The Evening Sun. Email: email@example.com


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Memento Mori
(A). Something to put us in mind of the shortness and uncertainty of life.
"I make as good use of it [Bardolph's face] as many a man doth of a
death's head or a memento mori." —
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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What: Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber
When: Sept. 4 to Oct. 6; 8 p.m. on Wednesday-Saturday; 2 p.m. on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday
Where: Playhouse Downtown, 125 S. Main St. in Hendersonville, N.C.
Tickets: $40, with discounts for seniors, AAA members, military personnel, students and groups
Information: 828-693-0731 or toll-free at 1-866-732-8008 or www.flatrockplayhouse.org
Andrew Lloyd Webbers Cats closed on Broadway in 2000 after a healthy life of almost 18 years.
But that was more than a decade ago. The enormously popular musical was ripe for a local, professional revival, said stage director Lisa K. Bryant.
Flat Rock Playhouse will stage a new production of Cats at its Playhouse Downtown in Hendersonville, N.C.
The show opens Sept. 4 for a monthlong run.
There are a couple of generations who either missed seeing it before it closed on Broadway or have been born since, said Bryant, director of the production. Were really thrilled to bring it to our community.
The show tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles who come together to decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer a sort of cat heaven.
Lloyd Webbers appealing score included the mega-hit Memory.
Cats has often been performed in large theaters, but the Playhouse Downtowns modest-sized, 240-seat space puts the audience close to the action.
Even if youve seen it before, because of the intimate space its going to be a whole new experience, Bryant said. Theres a whole new level of visceral connection for the audience. The audience is in the environment with the cats, which is kind of cool.
The scenic design surrounds the audience, giving patrons the feeling that theyre seated within the scrapyard where the show is set.
The musical also features all-new choreography by Jennifer Jancuska.
Thats been an extraordinary part of the process, Bryant said. She is building the dance with each dancer, making it unique to each. Its very contemporary, very athletic, highly inventive and really exciting lots of lifts, jumps and turns. Its a feast to watch.
Cats, in keeping with past productions throughout the world, includes extensive costuming for the 18-member Downtown Playhouse cast. The show will be performed to recorded accompaniment.
Winner of seven 1983 Tony Awards, Cats was the second longest-running show in Broadway history and the fourth longest-running musical in Londons West End.
For the latest in local arts news and reviews, follow Paul Hyde on Facebook or Twitter: @PaulHyde7. Paul also blogs under eGreenville at greenvilleonline.com.


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EARTH CITY, Mo. - The sweat is pouring this week at Rams Park, and not just by the professionals.
Some of the top high school players in the St. Louis area are preparing to represent the Rams in a national football tournament.
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Open daily 7:00am – 9:00pm
Just off the Pennine Way….
A warm welcome and just about anything and everything you could possibly need!
I am a Yorkshire expat living in Durban, South Africa and my late father spent some of his boyhood and youth at Highgate Farm.
Each time I have visited UK I have made a point of visiting the area and in particular May's shop which is well named as Aladdin,s Cave stocking everything imaginable from whisky to aniseed balls, unheard of in this part of the world, and home baked pastries..
My wish is that such a good and famous establishment and its fine service to the public will continue and prosper for many years..
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BISMARCK–You've seen the ads for Rick Berg and Heidi Heitkamp. Next up: Jack Dalrymple.
In a 60-second campaign ad for governor, Dalrymple highlights that North Dakota is at a unique time in its history, with the fastest-growing incomes in the country, low unemployment and budget reserves.
The ad says strong leadership made this happen and touts Dalrymple's work as lieutenant governor to help "craft smart budgets" that prepared North Dakota for a changing economy.
Dalrymple also has led the state through natural disasters, provided tax relief to residents and created a vision for the future in his two years as governor, the ad says.
Dalrymple took over the job in December 2010 when former Gov. John Hoeven was elected to the U.S. Senate.
"All we have to do is take the opportunity that we have, the resources that we have, roll up our sleeves, go to work and create the future that we want for North Dakota," Dalrymple says in a close-up while wearing a suit.
Dalrymple is said to have "the right experience" and be the "right leader" at the "right time."
"North Dakota has an incredibly bright future. This is our moment," he says in the ad. "We have all of the things in place that allow us to absolutely create our future."
Throughout the ad, Dalrymple is shown with Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley and first lady Betsy Dalrymple, walking inside and outside the Capitol. There are also images to show him on the front lines of natural disasters and the customary political shot with a baby.
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Schoolgirl's stalker jailed
- From: Townsville Bulletin
- May 23, 2014
A SEX creep stalked a 10-year-old girl through Castletown Shopping Centre, and then showed up at her school three days later.
Mark Alan Fisher, 43, tried to talk to the girl while she was reading books at Target and followed her through the store when she moved to get away from him.
Three days later on November 23, 2012, Fisher walked on to the girl's school grounds and tapped the 10-year-old on the shoulder, saying "hey".
She ran off and told the principal.
A Townsville District Court heard yesterday that Fisher had a similar offence about 10 years earlier, where he'd exposed himself to a child in Kingaroy.
Fisher appeared in court yesterday and pleaded guilty to unlawful stalking of a child and indecent treatment of a child.
Judge Kerry O'Brien jailed him for two years, without setting a parole release date.
"The difficulty in your case is your dreadful criminal history," he said. "It includes, I acknowledge, offences that are probably relatively minor, but also includes serious offences.
"You've spent most of your adult life in prison ... I don't know what could be said for your future. You'll need counselling assistance if you're to stay out of trouble."
The two-year jail sentence won't start until Fisher finishes his current sentence, for stealing offences, on October 11 this year.
The court was told the child's parents worked at a shop in Castletown, and the girl would wait in the centre until they finished working.
It was about 5pm when Fisher approached her while she was reading a book on November 20, and asked her, "What school do you go to?"
The girl didn't answer him, but Fisher looked at her uniform and said, "Oh that school down the road".
Another customer said Fisher was standing so close to the girl that he was "almost touching her", and noticed Fisher was touching himself.
The girl saw the indecent act and moved to the toy section, only to have Fisher follow her. She later told police that she was confused.
Fisher later went home to his uncle's house and told him, "I flashed myself to a girl in Castletown and the police are looking for me".
The uncle had children at his house and became concerned for their safety, and told Fisher that he could not stay there and that he had to leave.
Crown prosecutor David Jones told the court yesterday that Fisher was three weeks into parole for stealing offences. Barrister Ted Bassett, for Fisher, said he left home at 13 years after his mother died when he was about eight.
Mr Bassett said he spent a lot of time in detention since.


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£24.99 | $38.95
11 March 2010
256 pages
216mm x 138mm
Development, Economics, Environment
Moving People
Sustainable Transport Development
Peter Cox
The local and global environmental impacts of transport are more apparent than ever before. Moving People provides an attention-grabbing introduction to the problems of transport and the development of sustainable alternatives, focusing on the often misunderstood issue of personal mobility, as opposed to freight. Re-assessing the value and importance of non-motorized transport the author raises questions about mobility in the face of climate change and energy security, particularly for the developing world.
Featuring original case studies from across the globe, this book is essential for anyone studying or working in the area of environmental sustainability and transport policy.
'When reading this book I was overwhelmed with many good memories; Peter Cox gives us a wonderful overview of developments these last decades in the field of mobility. He does not shy away from being technical and detailed on the one hand and generous in placing developments in their time and their continent; and in the context of sustainability. He quotes, explains, congratulates, reflects and brings hope; all in one book, and he does it well. At some point he quotes a Dutch minister who has said: 'We need to bypass the stumbling block of men aged 25-40 who occupy many of the decision making arenas and seem to forget everything else when they discover cost-benefit analyses. I agree wholeheartedly and would therefore like to dedicate this book to these men. They should read this book and by doing so, get back their youthful imagination. Then sustainable mobility will get a chance, where economical, environmental and social aspects of the debate get a fair chance to develop in balance, especially in the field of mobility, and all over the world.' - Pascal J.W. van den Noort, Executive Director Velo Mondial
'This book should be read by all interested in transport - especially politicians,local authority councillors, town planners and transportation engineers. The problem of congestion,global warming,future oil supplies and population growth are all factors requiring a rethink on transport and utilising public transport and the sustainable modes of non-motorised transport, especially mankind's greatest invention viz the bicycle.' - Louis De Waal, Chairman Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN)
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Movement and Mobility
2. Sustainable Development and EcoMobility
3. The Problem of Car-dominance
4. Automobility and its Alternatives
5. The City as a System: Transport as Network
6. Mobility in the Mega-City: Delhi
7. Non Motorised Transport: Bicycles and other wheeled vehicles
8. Bicycle and NMT programmes in Action
9. Bicycles and Rickshaws in South Asia
10. Institutional changes
About the Author:
Peter Cox is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography and Development Studies and the Department of Social and Communications Studies at the University of Chester, UK


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Jim Sault is the general manager at the Porter Music Box Co. in Randolph. The company makes high-end music boxes for their mostly Asian market. Sault is seen with a top-of-the-line twin disc-playing music box on Wednesday, August 7, 2013. The music box sells for $21,000. / GLENN RUSSELL/FREE PRESS
Brothers Adam (left) and Briar Alpert explain the structure of their business while touring the manufacturing facility at BioTek in Winooski on Monday Feb. 14, 2011.
Jim Sault cranks the handle on the clockwork motor of a twin-disc music box and turns it on to make the copper-plated perforated discs begin slowly spinning. The metallic notes sound like icicles falling on pavement.
Soon the sound spreads throughout the small upstairs workroom at Porter Music Box Co. in Randolph, evocative of another time and place. Music boxes entertainment centers of another era succumbed to Edisons phonograph around 1920, but a loyal following remains, especially in the Far East.
Sault, general manager of Porter, explains that the music box, encased in an exquisite Italian-made cabinet with a marquetry of horns, harps, violins and flowers is bound for a luxury store in Beijing. The suggested retail price in the United States is $21,000.
The Beijing store that carries Porters music boxes sells everything from Rolexes to diamond jewelry. Sault says he doesnt worry about being copied or pushed aside by a competitor, because no one else especially in China takes the time or effort to make boxes the same way they were made 100 years ago by the renowned Regina Music Box Co. in Rahway, N.J.
Porter copied the Regina down to the last detail the patents were long expired cramming a machine shop into the bottom floor of its production facility to cut the gears, music combs, star wheels and other parts that go into the device.
Were extremely labor intensive, Sault said. This is why we never really had a true fear of being copied, because we know what it takes to make it.
Porter is well established in Japan, but is just breaking into the Chinese market, even though Sault first visited in 2005. Sault is working to engender the same appreciation for the special attributes of the music box in China as buyers have in Japan.
With the Chinese were creating that culture and understanding that its not just a status symbol like a Rolex watch, Sault said. A music box brings more to your life, it brings serenity and peacefulness within yourself.
Sault is clear, however, on exactly why he wants to be in China.
Im there to take their money, he says.
And theres plenty of money to take. Chris Barbieri, president of Chinese Business Development Tours in Worcester, said incomes are dramatically increasing among Chinas 1.4 billion citizens.
There are billionaires and lots and lots of millionaires, Barbieri said. Its an enormous market.
Not only is the Chinese market enormous, Barbieri said, but its consumers are favorably disposed toward American products, movies, and fashion as better than what is available domestically.
Those are all pluses for us, Barbieri said.
A passion for music boxes
Barbieri opened a small Taipei trade office on behalf of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce in 1993 when he was president of the chamber, a position he held for 30 years before starting his own consulting business. He opened another office in Shanghai and lived there from 2003 to 2007 during which time he developed an intimate knowledge of the Chinese market.
The challenge is that the culture is different, not just the overall culture, but the business culture, Barbieri said. As Americans we want instant gratification. Heres the product, price and contract. Lets cut a deal. The Chinese like to take time to build a personal relationship with a partner, whether somebody is trying to sell something or set up offices in China.
Sault said the same patience is required in Japan, where personal relationships are also paramount. Owner Dwight Porter estimates at least 80 percent of his companys sales of just under $1 million annually go to the Far East, mostly to Japan.
Japanese culture already had a passion for music boxes before we got there, Sault said.
Porter Music Box stands out among Vermont companies for the improbability of its marketing strategy selling a technology in Asia that went obsolete in 1920. But the company is not alone in its imperative to export.
Everywhere but Mars
BioTek Instruments, Inc., in Winooski has executed one of the most successful export strategies of any company in Vermont, with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, and distributors just about everywhere else, including India, South Africa, and Australia.
Were not on Mars, the Mars market is very small, said Adam Alpert, BioTeks vice president of corporate development. But there are very few countries where were not represented in some way.
BioTeks business building instrumentation and software used to understand the underlying mechanisms of life, as Alpert explains it is global, and the company decided long ago to pursue that business wherever it was. On a practical level, BioTeks microplate instruments for testing biological processes can be used to check the blood supply or search for new sources of energy.
There are a lot of applications, but fundamentally were a life science company, Alpert said. The target group for our products is pretty big at the end of the day.
Alpert credits his father Norman Alpert, former chairman of the physiology department at the University of Vermont who started the company in 1968, with giving BioTek the outward-looking stance that has served it so well. Today, Alpert runs the company together with his brother Briar, who is president and chief executive officer.
Dad had a lot of international experience, Adam Alpert said. He was a world-renowned scientist who traveled to all these places and was very comfortable with the idea of operating in an international setting, so that helped.
Adam Alpert acknowledges that some Vermont companies, like his, have an advantage when it comes to exporting, because of their experience or the nature of their products. But he insists that every Vermont company should be scanning the overseas horizon for business opportunities.
When youre a state with what I would consider to be not quite a critical mass, to be viable you have to compensate, Alpert said. One of the ways you can be a lot stronger and bigger than the numbers suggest you normally would be is by creating value that transcends what your local economy requires.
Alpert declined to reveal BioTeks annual sales, but said the company has 370 employees, 250 in Vermont. In February 2011, Briar Alpert told the Burlington Free Press BioTek had sales in 2010 of about $85 million, and that the privately held company had been growing 10 to 15 percent a year for the past 10 years, doubling in size every five years.
None of that would have been possible without export markets, according to Adam Alpert. Vermont is pretty small, he said, and geographically isolated.
Help drying up
Brent Raymond, director of international trade and foreign investment for the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, says most Vermont companies agree with Adam Alpert. Raymonds job is to help companies develop export markets.
Although its a state thats 95 percent small businesses, Vermont does have a surprisingly dynamic exporting business community, Raymond said. The state is full of entrepreneurs.
The key to success in exporting, Raymond said, is international trade shows, and those are expensive, easily costing $20,000 to attend, a daunting amount for a small business. The Global Trade Partnership offers $3,000 grants to offset the cost of trade shows, as well as free training in cracking overseas markets, thanks to a $400,000 appropriation through the Department of Commerce secured by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., about three years ago, Raymond said.
That money is about gone, and there isnt likely to be any more coming, thanks to sequestration.
Theres no such thing as appropriations right now, Raymond said. Another term for appropriation is earmarks. Those havent been done for the past three or four years.
Another source of funds for Raymond has been the STEP (State Trade Export Promotion) grants from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The STEP grants were approved for three years, Raymond said, but only appropriated for two, and could end this September.
Vermont received approximately $360,000 in fiscal year 2011, ending in September 2012, and $265,000 this year, allowing Raymond to put together delegations to the Farnborough and Paris air shows hugely important international events in the aerospace industry and other trade shows.
We are running out of money but we have some remaining, Raymond said. Just yesterday I finished the paperwork with the SBA to be able to extend our funding for a few months. The next event well do is the Montreal aerospace show in December.
Northeast lags behind nation
A report Raymond helped to prepare for the Eastern Trade Council in March showed that exports in the Northeast were down nearly 5 percent in 2012 while United States exports as a whole grew by almost 5 percent.
It would appear that the Northeasts comparative reliance on recessionary European and Canadian markets contributed to this poor performance, reversing the improving trend of the past two years, the report stated.
Those overseas air shows that Raymond helped Vermont companies attend seem to have paid off. While total exports in Vermont fell from $4.25 billion in 2011 to $4.13 billion in 2012, exports of aircrafts and their parts rose from $53.1 million to $66.3 million.
Raymond stresses that just attending air shows, however, wont guarantee success for Vermont companies. The aircraft and aerospace industry demands a long-term strategy.
Its very rare that a company goes to one of these things and they get a sale and its immediate, Raymond said. You have to be very disciplined and proactive while youre at the air show, setting up meetings and following up afterward. It could be one year or two years down the road that youre seeing an export sale.
Compounding the challenge, Raymond said, other countries are much more diligent than the United States in supporting their companies trying to break into foreign markets. He said 70 percent of German businesses, for example, attend trade shows with the help of government support.
The problem for the United States is we have so many countries that promote and fund their businesses to export that were competing against, Raymond said. Were just being overspent.
In April, Gov. Peter Shumlin wrote a letter to the House and Senate leadership, urging the renewal of the STEP program for a third year, and beyond 2014.
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, 48% of all U.S. economic growth in 2012 was attributed to exports, Shumlin wrote. We must continue to work together to increase exports.
Right now, thats not looking too likely, according to Raymond. The U.S. Senate recently passed legislation to fund STEP for a third year, but now the bill goes to the ever-contentious House of Representatives.
Im not going to say it will die, but I have less hope it will come to the floor of the House and pass, Raymond said.
Without federal funding, Raymond says it would be difficult for the state to fill the void in a time of tight budgets.
As director Im concerned about continuing to be able to promote exports in the state by helping offset small but important amounts for small businesses, Raymond said. With the economy the way it is we need to be focusing as a state and as a nation on exports. But as federal funding diminishes for exports as well as social programs with the sequester, its difficult to decide whether you want to help companies offset costs for export training or if youre going to cut housing allowances.
Come to Hong Kong
At the end of July, Anita Chan, director of the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in New York, met with a small group of Vermont business owners and state officials for lunch at Chefs Table in downtown Montpelier.
Chans message on her first visit to Vermont was simple. Hong Kong wants to do more business with Vermont.
We have a lot of shoppers, Chan said. Thats good news for Vermont people who are selling. Hong Kong people love high-quality stuff. We dont want mediocre goods, but if you have a good product, we are a free port, there is no sales tax, and no tariff.
Last year, Chan said, 48 million people visited Hong Kong, many from China and around Asia, whom she described as rich shoppers. Chan was quick to point out that the United States runs a trade surplus with Hong Kong, shipping some $37 billion worth of goods to the city of 7 million while Hong Kong exported just $4 billion to the United States.
Chan ticks off the benefits Hong Kong offers: a free market economy; its own legal system, still modeled on the one the British left behind; the free flow of information, meaning you can Google whenever you like; a health system recognized as among the best in the world; zero tolerance for corruption.
Of course Hong Kong is not a country, but a special administrative region of China. That means the city can also serve as a portal into mainland China, Chan said. While Hong Kongs economy is more than 90 percent service-based, the city is also home to owners of factories across the border in mainland China that employ 10 million people, she said.
We welcome more exports from Vermont, we welcome more of your businesses coming to Hong Kong to expand, Chan said. Hong Kong will serve you well if you want to attract more business from mainland China.
Donald Tong, Hong Kong commissioner for economic and trade affairs in the United States, urged Vermont to form a delegation to visit Hong Kong, perhaps under the leadership of Gov. Shumlin, to promote Vermont products as a whole, rather than individually, and establish an identity for the state in the minds of all those rich shoppers.
Forty years ago, for example, I tend to believe not many people in Hong Kong were aware of the Napa Valley, Tong said. By working over many years and promoting the name, people might not know individual brand names, but mention Napa Valley and people know about it. It must be good.
Jim Sault was among those attending the lunch with Anita Chan. As he explained later, he was not there for help, but out of curiosity. Sault says he already knows what it takes to succeed overseas, without help, governmental or otherwise.
You have to press the flesh, youve got to put your hand out, youve got to learn their culture, youve got to go over and suffer, Sault said. Do it. Take the 24-hour flight, go over and spend a month or three weeks or whatever. Dont go over and spend three or four days, hop on a plane and come back. Youre just going to piss them off.
Next, Sault says, have a believable product.
Its how we got where we are today, Sault said. Do as many trade shows as possible, be as nice and as kind as you can be, build the best product you can, and believe in your product. When people see that theyll fall into it.
For Adam Alpert of BioTek, exporting holds a significance beyond the health of his own company. Alpert believes its the only way Vermont can be the state it wants to be, investing in health care, alternative energy and high-speed internet, for example.
If you can reach beyond your border and tap into these larger markets, all of a sudden you can be a giant, Alpert said. Maybe you can afford to do those great things. Reach out to the world as a whole, and once you do that, if you can be successful, I think your future is very bright as a state.
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October 9, 2010 2:19 pm
'Conversation with the President' touches planning, building, finance
The fate of Chase Hall. The state of town-gown relations. The tradeoffs between finite resources and key priorities. And what does it say that Bates ranks fourth in a Newsweek listing of schools "stocked with jocks"? Those were a few of the topics some 60 parents raised in a conversation with President Elaine Tuttle Hansen and a handful of senior staff early on Parents & Family Saturday.
October 1, 2010 2:12 pm
Campus Construction Update, Oct. 1, 2010: Hedge and Roger Williams halls
So here we were contemplating the renovation of Hedge and Roger Williams halls and thinking, Steel, baby, steel! It's all about the steel! — But that's so two weeks ago. Because now it's all about the wood.
October 1, 2010 1:59 pm
Campus Construction Update: Oct. 1, 2010
With the Garcelon Field dedication and inaugural game just days away, it's a race to the finish for the R.A.D. Sports crew renovating the facility. Meanwhile, Hedge Hall is gaining headroom while Roger Williams Hall embiggens its footprint.
September 17, 2010 5:24 pm
Campus Construction Update, Sept. 20, 2010: Hedge and Roger Williams halls
Watching workers fasten wooden planks to the sides of steel beams near Roger Williams Hall the other day, we got vague ideas about some kind of bare-brick, hanging-fern, exposed-beam motif for the interior renovation.
September 3, 2010 1:59 pm
Campus Construction Update: Sept. 3, 2010
The new FieldTurf playing surface at Garcelon Field is "phenomenal," says one Bobcat. Roger Williams Hall is steeling itself for snow and earthquakes. And sometime soon the eagle will land at 10 Frye St.
September 3, 2010 1:49 pm
Campus Construction Update, Sept. 3, 2010: Hedge and Roger Williams halls
Paul Farnsworth, unlike Cole Porter, wants to be fenced in. Or at least he wants for the renovation of Roger Williams and Hedge halls to stay within its fenced-in work zone. But his goal, paradoxically, is the same as Cole's: unrestricted mobility. Now, thanks to the end of construction work outside the zone, wandering over yonder is almost as easy as it ever was.
August 20, 2010 3:29 pm
Campus Construction Update, Aug. 20, 2010: Hedge and Roger Williams halls
As this was written, on Aug. 20, Hedge Hall was something to watch as a crane swung long steel beams across the blue sky toward the building. There's plenty of new steel in Hedge already, says project manager Paul Farnsworth, but the creation of the building's framework will become more of a spectator sport as it increasingly happens outside the building's shell.
August 20, 2010 2:42 pm
Campus Construction Update: Aug. 20, 2010
A 19th-century house is Bates' newest student residence, the green carpet is rolled out at Garcelon Field and Campus Construction Update is beaming as the steelwork continues at Hedge and Roger Williams halls.
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Campus Construction Update: Week of July 26, 2010
In this week's Campus Construction Update: Rain and wind can't keep a good fence down, and a cure for neck pain will be found in the new location for the Garcelon Field flagpoles.
July 30, 2010 11:44 am
Campus Construction Update, week of July 26: Hedge and Roger Williams halls
Thunderstorms on July 21 that unleashed torrents of rain and spawned three tornadoes in southern Maine also made its mark, happily minor, on the Hedge/Roger Williams construction site. Winds, which gusted up to 90 mph in some parts of the state, knocked over 40 feet of the fence around the site. "We called the contractor," Portland-based Wright-Ryan, "and the superintendent was nearby, and he just came over and put it back," says project manager Paul Farnsworth.


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Conicella's Pizza is a Greenfield institution
The first day Conicella's Pizza shop in Greenfield was open for business, the owners ran out of dough, the second day, sauce, and the third, buns.
"We weren't sure what kind of business we would do, and we hadn't owned a pizza shop before," says Carmine Conicella, co-owner with brother Vince. "We didn't do any advertising and only had a small, hand-written sign out front. But, somehow, people knew we were here."
They still know, almost 29 years later. And the brothers are more experienced when it comes to ordering supplies.
"We can do it without thinking, now," Carmine says. "The more you do this business, the more you understand what you need every day. It's been a fun neighborhood business for us. We enjoy seeing the customers, many who live in the neighborhood where we grew up."
The Conicella family, originally from Oakland, moved to Greenfield in 1966. They purchased the building on Greenfield Avenue from the Diocese of Pittsburgh in 1982. The original plan was to make it an Italian store, but the sons talked to their father Arky and convinced him at the time that it might not be so successful because of an unstable economy and that a pizza shop would be a better choice.
Turns out they were right.
Conicella's, which is takeout only, features pizza, hoagies, calzones, salads and pizza bagels. They also have white pizzas. Through the years, they've added new items such as chicken breast and chicken parmesan hoagies and steak bagels. A small six-cut cheese pizza is $8 and a 12-cut extra-large plain pie is $11. Choose from 10 toppings. A small white pizza is $9. Calzones are $7.50 and include ham, ricotta cheese, green peppers, onions, pepperoni, pizza sauce and sauce. A chef salad is $3.50. Pizza bagels are $2 and steak bagels are $4. A whole meatball hoagie is $7.50.
Carmine and Vince's mother, Romilda, still makes the meatballs, and the sauce recipe was passed down from one of their relatives. Their sister Maria is part of the operation as well.
"My mother is the boss when she comes in here," Carmine says. "She notices things we sometimes don't notice. When my dad was alive, he would run and get supplies for us. My sister helps out, too. We have other family members working here, too. We are all a part of the business, which you have to be when you have a family-owned operation. It becomes a part of you."
Having a long-standing local establishment is good for the community, says Bill Smith, executive director of the Greenfield Organization and Greenfield resident.
"I probably eat more with Carmine and Vince than I do with my family," Smith says. "I usually get the steak hoagie, but I've pretty much had everything, and it's all really good. I like to support businesses like Conicella's because it is important to have them in the community."
It all begins with the freshness of the items, Carmine says. The dough, sauce and toppings are made fresh daily and nothing is deep-fried. They go through 60-plus pounds of dough a day.
Fridays are busy, as are the days the Steelers play. They deliver to a limited area.
"We know those times when people don't want to cook, so we do the cooking for them," Carmine says. " A lot of people know our family, so when they drive by and see the sign, they stop in. So, we make sure we have enough of whatever they want. We don't run out of ingredients any more."Additional Information:
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I would think you would treat this basically the same as a validation error. Save the ActionError/Message and forward the user to the same place as the input attribute.
From a processing stand point, what do you plan to do when this occurs? Show the user a message saying "I know you just spent 10 minutes updating this data but somebody else changed one of the fields so I am going to throw away all your changes and force you to restart" ;-) Is your code smart enough to know which fields changed and to merge the changes?
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The changes being made would most likely never take more than 2 minutes, but it's still something that I have to worry about. I don't think it would make sense to merge the changes, as some fields are dependant on others. The manner in which I decided to deal with it is to allow the user to decide if they wish to continue with the changes or if they wish to stop the changes and go reload the form. Perhaps not the best option, but it is already extremely unlikely that this situation will occur.
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- Sara Moulton | Chef, Cookbook Author, Television Personality - http://saramoulton.com -
Yeast Breads: Why do my cinnamon rolls shrink after baking?
Posted By Sara Moulton On August 13, 2012 @ 3:32 pm In Food 911,Kitchen Shrink | No Comments
I recently got an e-mail from Carol saying, "I've made cinnamon rolls for more years then I can remember,but lately they seem to shrink after I take them out of the oven. By shrinking I mean they get wide spaces between the layers. I'm wondering if maybe I'm letting them raise too long after I shape them. Any tips?"
It is perfectly normal for yeast breads to shrink a bit after they come out of the oven. Steam from the liquid in the recipe causes part of the increase in volume the bread experiences in the oven. When the bread cools, the steam disappears, and depending upon the stability of the dough, the bread will shrink some.
Many things affect the stability of yeast dough but if you experience unexpected results from a recipe you have made before and you haven't changed the flour or yeast or increased the butter or sugar in the dough, technique is most likely responsible. Over kneading and over raising during either the dough preparation and first raising stage or the shaping and second raising stage of the process can cause the dough to shrink after baking. Over kneading will over develop the gluten in the flour making a tough structure that will pull the dough together once the steam is gone from the loaf. Knead only until the dough is smooth, shiny, and pliable. Over raising will make the bread's framework too fragile and it will collapse as it cools. Raise only until an indentation pressed into the dough holds its shape.
Also, that delicious layer of butter that you spread on the dough before it is rolled up insures that the layers won't stick together and support each other making them free to shrink. You might try your recipe without the butter and sprinkle the dough with sugar or brown sugar and cinnamon before rolling it into a log.
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For those of who don't know this yet, the CBC is airing a 2 part, 4 hour mini-series titled "Canada-Russia '72", starting tonight (Sunday, April 9th) at 8pm EST.
You've all heard of Paul Henderson, though you wouldn't have had it not been for this series (oh drat, I hope I didn't give away the ending?!?!)
This is perhaps the most important Hockey event in Canadian History, and if you weren't around to see it the first time, now you have the chance to see what all the hoopla was about. (At least Director, Barrie Dunn's interpretation of it)
Typically Hockey movies haven't really lived up to anything more than cruddy movies.
We've got Slapshot, which is likely the King of Hockey Movies, and of course Youngblood, my favorite. Mystery, Alaska was a joke, and I've yet to see Miracle. (I do like the Mighty Ducks movies, but for all the wrong reasons)
Later on this Month (April 21), Denis Robert's "Rocket" will be premiering in theaters, and it is thought that this movie, spanning 12 years of Richard's career, could be the ultimate Hockey Movie to date.
Not much of a discussion oriented post, just really a plug for a History lesson to all of you wee bairns.
I suppose debating the Greatest/Worst Hockey movies could do…


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Gut-central nervous system axis is a target for nutritional therapies
1 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil
2 Faculty of Applied Science, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Limeira, SP, Brazil
3 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences I, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
4 Department of Psychobiology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
5 Laboratory of Exercise Biochemistry and Physiology, Health Sciences Unit, University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNESC), Criciúma, SC, Brazil
6 José Caetano de Lima, 682. Bairro Junqueira, Lins MA: 16403-162, SP, Brazil
Nutrition Journal 2012, 11:22 doi:10.1186/1475-2891-11-22Published: 10 April 2012
Historically, in the 1950s, the chemist Linus Pauling established a relationship between decreased longevity and obesity. At this time, with the advent of studies involving the mechanisms that modulate appetite control, some researchers observed that the hypothalamus is the "appetite centre" and that peripheral tissues have important roles in the modulation of gut inflammatory processes and levels of hormones that control food intake. Likewise, the advances of physiological and molecular mechanisms for patients with obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, inflammatory bowel diseases, bariatric surgery and anorexia-associated diseases has been greatly appreciated by nutritionists. Therefore, this review highlights the relationship between the gut-central nervous system axis and targets for nutritional therapies.


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Judge-elect Steve Koons has drawn a lot of fire for his opposition to red light cameras.
To put it simply, Koons claims the procedure used to issue the ticket is unconstitutional because you cannot cross-examine a photograph or video.
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Sukhbir (Sonny) Guram, MD
Orthopedic Spine Surgery Fellowship
The Boston Spine Group
Newton, MA
August 2011
Orthopedic Surgery Residency
Palmetto Health/University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
July 2010
Doctor of Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
Charleston, SC
May 2005
Bachelor of Science (Economics)
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
May 1999
New York Spine Specialists
Orthopedic Spine Surgeon
December 2011- May 2013
Supplemental Instructor, Anatomy and Physiology
Center for Academic Excellence, MUSC
August 2001-May 2003
Kaplan Test Prep Instructor: General Chemistry and Biology
Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
Charleston, SC (May 2003-August 2003)
Greenville, SC (January 2001-March 2001)
Anatomy Teaching Assistant
Dept. of Cell Biology and Anatomy, MUSC
August 2001-December 2001
Research Assistant
Department of Developmental Neurogenetics, MUSC
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- Passed American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) Part I Exam, July 2010
- Eligible for American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery Part II Exam, July 2014
- Podium Paper Presentation at American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meeting (2009)
- Boyd Research Award, University of South Carolina Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery: 2008, 2009, 2010
- Outstanding Supplemental Instructor Award Nominee, MUSC
- Omicron Delta Epsilon: International Economics Honor Society, Clemson University
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Tractor trailer trucks and pallets were tossed around like toys by the Good Friday Tornado on April 10, 2009, at ITNOLAP, a pallet an manufacturing company that was formerly located on Thompson Lane in Murfreesboro.
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God moves in mysterious ways, Bill Clark said looking back five years to the Good Friday tornado that struck on the afternoon of April 10, 2009.
Clark's company, ITNOLAP Pallet and Crating on Thompson Lane, was directly hit by the EF-4 tornado that laid waste to a 23-mile long path across Rutherford County.
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RENO, NV - A private catholic school is asking the city of Reno to abandon a street right in front of its building. Our Lady of Snows wants to take one block of Lander Street between Monroe and Walker and turn it into a playground for their school children. The idea is at best getting a lukewarm reception from neighbors.
320 students currently attend Our Lady of Snows School.
During breaks they cross the street and use a city park for recess.
At pick up and drop off parents meet their children across the street at public parking spaces that surround the park.
But the principal says there has to be a safer and more efficient way to do all of that.
"They are in a public park any stranger can come across that park at anytime. That's number one. Number 2 during peak times of the day, pick up and drop off there are cars pulling in and backing up all the time," says Tim Fuetsch, the principal at Snows.
"I'm saying it has a real massive negative impact on not just the traffic flow, but the actual inter-connectiveness of this neighborhood," says George Swainston who lives down the street from the school.
Swainston is one of many residents in the area opposed to the street abandonment idea.
He says Lander Street is not heavily traveled, however when backups occur on the busy Plumas Street or Arlington Avenue its an alternative for drivers to get from California Avenue to Plumb Lane.
His second objection involves parking in the area, normally its not bad but when soccer games, other activities occur--including church it quickly spreads to the adjacent neighborhoods--with some people even parking in resident's driveways.
"Actually, one of the people who lives on Humboldt Street close to the park has an A-plex adjacent to her house. And she has gotten a letter from her tenants saying that they are going to move out if traffic flow increase and public parking spots are eliminated--that they aren't going to be able to rent. And it extremely negatively impacts her," says Swainston.
The school has said it will actually increase the number of parking spaces in the area if the city will abandon a block of Lander Street.
They also say they will resurface the basketball courts their students currently use.
Fuetsch says the school use to have a playground of its own but they got rid of that when they built on to the school.
The city of Reno says Snows pays $1800 a year to use the public park.
A city staff report on the proposed project says if approved the school would have to pay full market value of the property.
Reno City Council will take up the issue at its January 25th meeting.


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I need to make a database connection to a remote server (NT).
I can connect to my local database with this URL, "jdbc:odbc:JSurvey" But when I try to simulate a network connection with this URL, "jdbc:odbc://192.168.1.143:1433/JSurvey", I get the error message,
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Canon readies D10 as first rugged PowerShot
updated 12:35 am EST, Wed February 18, 2009
Canon PowerShot D10
In an uncharacteristic step for the company, Canon this evening has broken ground with its first ruggedized PowerShot. As the first in its series, the D10's housing has been rounded, sealed off and internally hardened to resist extremes: the camera can operate underwater at depths up to 33 feet, take drops from as much as 4 feet up, and resists freezing with temperatures as low as 14F. Some controls and the flash are also oversized to ensure good control and shot quality while swimming or wearing gloves.
As a camera, the D10 has the 12-megapixel image resolution of most of Canon's 2009 SD cameras and touts a 3X lens with optical image stabilization, a full-auto scene recognition mode, blink/face detection and support for ISO levels up to 1,600. Movie shooting, however, is limited to 640x480. It ships in early May for $330 and will have the option of custom straps and carabiners as well as less practical faceplates for the camera's front.


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Making Memories
A glowing protein provides insight into how learning strengthens the ties between neurons.
A new strain of genetically engineered mice has allowed researchers to pinpoint, for the first time, the precise cellular connections that form as a memory is created. By tracing a protein tagged to glow fluorescent green as it migrates through individual neurons, from the cell body out through the branching dendrites, the researchers could see exactly which synapses–connections to other neurons–were involved when the mice learned to fear an electric shock.
"It's a first step in visualizing the synapses that encode memories," says Stephen Maren, director of the neuroscience graduate program at the University of Michigan, who was not involved with the research. "We really haven't had a tool like this to see memory encoding at a synaptic level. It's an exciting paper."
"We are developing techniques that allow us to focus on the actual physical sites that are changing in the brain with learning, at finer and finer resolution," says the study's lead investigator, Mark Mayford, associate professor of cell biology at the Scripps Research Institute.
Neuroscientists believe that in order for a memory to form, individual synaptic connections must be strengthened in response to a memory-generating stimulus. This strengthening is likely the result of a specific set of proteins migrating to synapses in a precisely choreographed pattern, but it remains a mystery which proteins are involved and how they are targeted to their destinations. The new study, which appears in today's issue of Science, is the first to trace a particular protein as it makes its way to particular synapses.
The studied protein is a receptor for glutamate, a neurotransmitter previously implicated in memory formation. The researchers engineered a strain of mice so that the glutamate receptor would glow green under extremely specific, manipulable circumstances.
The genetically modified mice were then trained to expect an electric shock to their feet whenever they were placed in a certain box. The resulting fear is "a very long-lasting, very robust memory," says Mayford. Presumably, he says, the neurons activated as the mice learned to fear the box were those responsible for forming the aversive memory.
The fluorescently tagged glutamate receptor was modified so that neurons would only manufacture it when they became active. This allowed the group to identify which neurons contributed to the memory formation by following the green glow.
In addition, the researchers could completely turn off the entire tagged protein system by administering the drug doxycycline. The mice were fed doxycycline throughout their lives–right up until the learning task, and again when the task was over. In this way, the tagged protein was manufactured only during the formation of this particular memory.
"You're capturing only the events surrounding the learning episode," says Craig Powell, assistant professor of neurology and psychiatry at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who was not involved with the research.
Mayford's group followed the glowing glutamate receptor as it migrated through neurons in a region called the hippocampus by examining brain slices at several time points after the learning task. They found that after the protein was manufactured in the nucleus, it traveled outward through the cell's many branching dendrites and eventually settled in far-flung synapses.


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