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Global Biopesticides Market 2012-2016
- July 2013
- Region: Global
- 47 Pages
- TechNavio
- AgBiTech Pty Ltd.
- Arysta LifeSciences
- Certis USA
- Isagro SpA
- Novozymes BioAg Ltd.
- Russell IPM
The analysts forecast the Global Biopesticides market to grow at a CAGR of 15.87 percent over the period 2012–2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increased consumption of organic food products. The Global Biopesticides market has also been witnessing an increasing demand for sustainable agricultural practices. However, government regulations that deter biopesticide commercialization could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.
The report, the Global Biopesticides Market 2012–2016, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the market in North America, Europe, the APAC region, Latin America, and ROW; it also covers the Global Biopesticides market landscape and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.
The key vendors dominating this space include Bayer CropScience, Becker Underwood Inc., Novozymes BioAg Ltd., and Valent BioSciences Co.
The other vendors mentioned in the report are AgBiTech Pty Ltd., AgraQuest, Andermatt Biocontrol AG, Arysta LifeSciences, BASF, Certis USA, Dow AgroSciences, EID Parry Ltd., FMC, Hebei Veyong Bio-Chemical Co. Ltd., Isagro SpA, Koppert BV, Makhteshim Agan Industries, Marrone BioInnovations, Natural Industries Inc., Pasteuria Bioscience Inc., Plant Health Care, Prophyta GmbH, Russell IPM, Sumitomo Chemical, Syngenta Bioline, T.Stanes and Company Ltd., and W. Neudorff GmbH KG.
Key questions answered in this report:
- What will the market size be in 2016 and at what will be the growth rate?
- What are key market trends?
- What is driving this market?
- What are the challenges to market growth?
- Who are the key vendors in this market space?
- What are the market opportunities and threats faced by key vendors?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of each of these key vendors?
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- AgBiTech Pty Ltd.
- Arysta LifeSciences
- Certis USA
- Isagro SpA
- Novozymes BioAg Ltd.
- Russell IPM
01. Executive Summary
02. List of Abbreviations
03. Introduction
04. Market Research Methodology
Market Research Process
Research Design
Research Methodology
05. Scope of the Report
Market Overview
Product Offerings
06. Market Landscape
06.1 Global Biopesticides Market
Market Size and Forecast
06.2 Biopesticides Market in Europe
Market Size and Forecast
06.3 Biopesticides Market in APAC
Market Size and Forecast
06.4 Five Forces Analysis
07. Market Segmentation
07.1 Market Segmentation by Chemistries
07.2 Market Segmentation on the Basis of Active Ingredients
Microbial Pesticides
Beneficial Insects
Biochemical Pesticides
Sub-segmentation of Microbial Pesticides
07.3 Market Segmentation by Crop Types
08. Geographical Segmentation
09. Vendor Landscape
10. Buying Criteria
11. Market Growth Drivers
12. Drivers and their Impact
13. Market Challenges
14. Impact of Drivers and Challenges
15. Market Trends
16. Key Vendor Analysis
16.1 Bayer CropScience
Business Overview
Key Information
SWOT Analysis
16.2 Becker Underwood Inc.
Business Overview
Key Information
SWOT Analysis
16.3 Valent BioSciences Co.
Business Overview
Key Information
SWOT Analysis
16.4 Novozymes BioAg Ltd.
Business Overview
Key Information
SWOT Analysis
17. Other Reports in this Series
List of Exhibits
Exhibit 1: Market Research Methodology
Exhibit 2: Global Biopesticides Market 2012–2016 (US$ billion)
Exhibit 3: European Biopesticides Market 2012–2016 (US$ million)
Exhibit 4: APAC Biopesticides Market 2012–2016 (US$ million)
Exhibit 5: Global Pesticides Market Segmentation by Chemistries 2012
Exhibit 6: Global Pesticides Market Size 2012–2016 Forecast by Segments
Exhibit 7: Market Segmentation by Active Ingredients
Exhibit 8: Global Biopesticides Market Segmentation 2012 by Active Ingredients
Exhibit 9: Global Biochemical Pesticides Market Segmentation 2012
Exhibit 10: Global Microbial Pesticides 2012 by Sub-segments
Exhibit 11: Global Biopesticides Market Segmentation 2012 by Crop Types
Exhibit 12: The Global Biopesticides Market by Geography 2012
- AgBiTech Pty Ltd.
- Arysta LifeSciences
- Certis USA
- Isagro SpA
- Novozymes BioAg Ltd.
- Russell IPM
Commenting on the report, an analyst from the team said: "One of the main trends witnessed in the Global Biopesticides market is the increasing grower-consultant collaboration. For the effective use of biopesticide on crops, the user needs to have an understanding of the procedure for correct and safe application. A lack of such knowledge has deterred farmers from adopting biopesticides. Use of chemical pesticides, on the other hand, is perceived as reliable and convenient. As a solution to this problem, several agrochemical companies, which produce biopesticides, have introduced field training programs for farmers and are encouraging consultant-farmer interactions. In addition, governments of many countries are increasingly conducting farmer training and counseling through biopesticide specialists."
According to the report, one of the main factors driving the market is the lower R&D costs and availability of new products at competitive prices. The R&D costs for biopesticides is relatively much lesser than that of chemical pesticides. This has led to a host of new biopesticide products being introduced in the market.
Further, the report states that one of the main challenges is the barriers to biopesticide commercialization. Many countries such as the US and the UK encourage biopesticide registration, but the registration process in most countries acts as a barrier to commercialization for companies.
The report also includes a discussion of the other vendors operating in this market. The other vendors in the market are AgBiTech Pty Ltd., AgraQuest, Andermatt Biocontrol AG, Arysta LifeSciences, BASF, Certis USA, Dow AgroSciences, EID Parry Ltd., FMC, Hebei Veyong Bio-Chemical Co. Ltd., Isagro SpA, Koppert BV, Makhteshim Agan Industries, Marrone BioInnovations, Natural Industries Inc., Pasteuria Bioscience Inc., Plant Health Care, Prophyta GmbH, Russell IPM, Sumitomo Chemical, Syngenta Bioline, T.Stanes and Company Ltd., and W. Neudorff GmbH KG.
The study was conducted using an objective combination of primary and secondary information including inputs from key participants in the industry. The report contains a comprehensive market and vendor landscape in addition to a SWOT analysis of the key vendors.
- Bayer CropScience
- Becker Underwood Inc.
- Novozymes BioAg Ltd.
- Valent BioSciences Co.
- AgBiTech Pty Ltd.
- AgraQuest
- Andermatt Biocontrol AG
- Arysta LifeSciences
- Certis USA
- Dow AgroSciences
- EID Parry Ltd.
- Hebei Veyong Bio-Chemical Co. Ltd.
- Isagro SpA
- Koppert BV
- Makhteshim Agan Industries
- Marrone BioInnovations
- Natural Industries Inc.
- Pasteuria Bioscience Inc.
- Plant Health Care
- Prophyta GmbH
- Russell IPM
- Sumitomo Chemical
- Syngenta Bioline
- T.Stanes and Company Ltd.
- and W. Neudorff GmbH KG.


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C. Edward Watson, Ph.D. Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Georgia
This is the last segment of a three-part blog series that I mentioned in a recent video that is meant to get students and parents to relax about locking in a college major. In the previous blog post, I said college is all about perspective and learning how to learn, and not just the "fun" stuff like art and music. In this post, I want to add this advice:
Students, a little STEM won't kill you. Your aptitude and happiness matter, and you need to know yourself and what makes you happy. But a job will also increase your happiness. After teaching arts entrepreneurship for years, I know that many music, art, dance, and theater majors hated my class. They hated thinking about taxes and contracts, and they thought having an elevator pitch was stupid. But years later, I continue to get emails and cards telling me that because of their website, they now have a thriving dance studio, or that they came up with a new way to price seats and saved their theater company, or that Yo-Yo Ma liked their elevator pitch so much, he made time for a free lesson. Few people get to follow their passion entirely (that is why most of us have hobbies.)
The world needs more artists and humanists, but being able to make some technology, manipulate a spreadsheet, and analyze numerical data are a good investment. Employers want to hire broadly educated graduates. Both colleges and students need to ask the really hard question: Are you really broadly educated if you took only one science course or avoided every course with statistics? A little pain here can provide a real gain.
It is possible to be successful regardless of major, but all of life involves tradeoffs and different levels of risks. Think now about what you really want out of college and make choices accordingly.
Your best hedge against uncertainty is to make the most of the divergent opportunities in college. Go to the best college you can afford: Yes, the more money you borrow, the more you have to pay back, and the more your major will matter. Take the best professors—no matter how early in the morning they teach or how scared you are of the subject. Discover what you love, but ALSO pursue more than just your passions.
I would tell Goucher students—and all students: Become broadly educated. For initial salary and employment, your major matters, but you can alter those statistics with some well-chosen electives. Take some things for fun, but not everything. This is your best opportunity to change what you are good at. Become a professional learner.
Goucher, like all colleges require math and science, but do more than the minimum. Learn enough STEM and especially quantitative analysis and (http://cew.georgetown.edu/recovery2020) coding, so you can learn more later. (When your children need braces, your priorities will change.) An early internship or a good professional mentor can help you find some useful electives.
This is not an appeal for every philosophy major to double major in business!! Do not major in something you hate! But death and taxes are unavoidable, and you should not avoid every business, science, or math course just because it seems boring or it is not your current strength. The same applies to the science majors: Ultimately you will want to understand what your research means to people (the humanities) and be able to explain this (writing and communication). All hard science and no fuzzy discussion will limit your career–and your happiness. Expanding your interests will pay enormous dividends later in life.
I teach music–jazz history. That might seem like a "fun" elective, but think about what music means. Nothing, actually. And yet we think it does. Music (without words) has no concrete meaning—it is abstract—it means only what you or your culture make it mean. That makes music the MOST political art form and the most political cultural artifact you will ever encounter because all of the meanings are culturally specific.
All of the music you hate (or don't know) sounds alike, so if someone says all country or hip-hop music sounds the same, or all trumpet players sound the same, they don't know much about those forms of music.
In learning about music or art, you will also learn about HOW cultures make meaning. You will learn not only how different types of cultures produce meaning, but how meaning is created. That is a very useful thing if you want to understand what your patients or clients are really trying to tell you. So the arts are more important than you might think, but not because they are "culture."
The arts are one of the best ways to experience other worlds and ways of creating meaning. They offer an entrance to hundreds of other ways of knowing; and your future will require that you understand a variety of perspectives. No wonder STEM students are being advised to think about STEAM (STEM + Arts.)
One thing is clear: A college degree is more valuable than ever. But at the same time, it is only a baseline. More and more jobs will require a graduate degree AND continued learning. Learn to be more than half a thinker: you need to be both hard and fuzzy. A true liberal arts education like we offer here at Goucher means studying both humanities and science in depth.
This is the second segment of a three-part blog series about why students (and their parents) shouldn't stress about choosing a major. It complements a video I also recently posted. In the previous blog post, I talked about my own college experience and how it taught me to think in complex ways, and from different disciplinary angles. In this installment, I present recent research to question my own hypothesis (that a college major doesn't matter), as well as to argue for the values of the liberal arts in the long run.
As a humanist, I am distressed at the recent research that demonstrates both that your major matters (for starting salary and unemployment) and that the humanities do relatively poorly by this measure. Anthony Carnevale at the Georgetown Center of Education and the Workforce found that the four majors that provided the least economic rewards were (from the bottom up) psychology and social work, education, arts, and humanities, with engineers and computer scientists making significantly more money right away and even after graduate school. Carnevale and his colleagues have repeatedly discovered that your choiceof major substantially affects employment prospects and earnings. Majors that are linked to occupations generally provide better employment, and being able to make technology is better for finding employment than just being able to use it. STEM graduates have lower unemployment than do arts and humanities grads.
Humanists have decided to do their own studies, and the AACU found (http://www.aacu.org/leap/documents/nchems.pdf ) that over time, humanities and social science majors actually surpass those in professional and pre-professional majors during the peak performing years (ages 56-60). This was widely reported as "Liberal Arts Grads Win Long-Term," but even in these articles, the data are explicit that STEM grads make more money—even when you average in all of those graduates degrees. With no graduate degree, humanities majors (on average) close the gap, but they never reach the unemployment levels of professional, pre-professional, and STEM majors.
As a scientist, I look at the data and question my hypothesis. It is fine to argue for the values of the liberal arts (even in Forbes), but we also need to look at the evidence.
The most recent study (this time from three Yale economists tells us that the difference in starting pay gets extended in a recession. They argue first that poor labor markets disrupt early careers by reducing wages and employment. They also found that while your chances of full-time employment eventually even out over seven years, the negative wage effect persists—forever. These effects are differential across majors, and the initial wage gaps across majors widen and persist in a recession. Apparently these effects are double in our recent great recession.
We should not ignore this evidence. When it comes to employment and wages, engineering is a better bet than history. If you are an English major seeking a higher salary, law school is a good choice. While I'd like everyone to be able to follow their passion, that is surely easier to do if your parents can afford it. If you need to pay for college, you cannot ignore the data on majors. (By the way, the reason I was a chemistry major? My mother insisted.)
As a humanist, however, I ask what all this means. Employers continue to say that they want critical thinkers and lifelong learners, which Goucher students are taught to be by the time they graduate. Jobs are changing faster than they ever have. Future employers will reward those who can adapt and continue to learn. There are plenty of opportunities to learn technical skills (https://developers.google.com/university/) for free on the Internet. A technical or professional major will probably continue to provide an initial wage and employment boost, but unless you keep learning, those skills will eventually be supplanted by others. College is about perspective and learning how to learn, which we emphasize a lot here at Goucher.
You probably learn somewhat differently in the humanities and the sciences. While the humanities are not merely qualitative, and the sciences are much more than quantitative analysis, thinking about proficiency in both is useful. You will need to continue learning in both ways to have the life you want.
Read Part III here
I recently sent out a video message to the members of Goucher's Class of 2018 and their families. In it, I try to allay the academic anxiety that paralyzes both students and parents alike. In this three-part blog series, I will explain why there's no reason to worry and why a student's major takes back seat to his or her ability to think critically, using a variety of perspectives that are enriched by a true liberal arts education. Here's the first part:
I had nine majors in college. I tried Japanese, physics, comp lit, and more, before graduating in chemistry (and one course shy of that double major in ancient history.) I still felt "uneducated," so I did an M.A. in "humanities" (what we jokingly called the "Evelyn Wood School of Western Culture.") The humanities and the sciences BOTH remain critical to my thinking.
In the sciences, I learned to look at data and crunch numbers. I learned to ask better questions and to be suspicious of theories (and results that adhered too closely to theories). Most importantly, if the data did not support the hypothesis, I learned I needed to change my mind and really look at what the data were telling me. Science taught me how to have an open mind.
The humanities taught me that analysis is always influenced by perspective and that everything has meaning to someone. I learned to ask better questions, be suspicious of theories (and results that adhered too closely to theories) and most importantly, that if the data did not support the hypothesis, I needed to change my mind and look for what someone else might see in the data. The humanities also taught me how to have an open mind.
Data are awesome, but (almost) all of them are relative, and meaning can be found (almost) anywhere for someone. Both scientists and humanists make the really big discoveries when they look at a problem from a new perspective and ask a new question. In a way, these lessons can (and should) be learned in any major, but I find that without an education in both humanities and sciences, you are only half a thinker.
My major didn't really matter. College taught me how to think in complex ways, and it did that by forcing me to look at problems from different disciplinary angles. We call the different majors "disciplines," and disciplines imply focus. Students often think that the different departments study different types of things, but it is really that each asks different types of questions. A discipline constricts the sorts of questions you ask of data. That focus is essential for deep understanding, but we (in academia) also recognize that change of perspective is also useful, and so we are constantly creating "interdisciplinary" or "multidisciplinary" programs.
Most colleges, Goucher included, also try to balance these needs by having both a broad interdisciplinary core and majors that allow for more depth in one discipline. It sounds good, but general education requirements such as Goucher's liberal education curriculum are often seen as a chore to be finished before students get on to what they really want to do. Because we are organized in colleges by disciplines, it is also natural that our loyalty and attention tends to be on "our" students in "our" majors.
The jobs of the future (and indeed happiness in your future) will probably require both qualitative and quantitative work. Most colleges will let you major in one or the other (humanities or sciences in very broad terms), but your thinking and your potential will be advanced by depth in both areas.
Remember evolution? Random mutations create variations, some of which will be better suited to individual environments and will be more likely to reproduce (i.e. survive). Two points here might be useful to our conversation about higher education. First, it is really the environment that decides who survives and prospers. You can produce all of the yellow flowers you want, but if the bees prefer the red ones, your yellow ones are going to struggle. Second, especially in a time when the environment is changing rapidly (think ice age or economic downturn) more diversity gives you more chances for survival.
American colleges are already significantly more diverse than those in other countries (which are largely funded and controlled by governments), but that diversity of type, discipline and funding is not enough. Colleges run under an enormously fragile business model, based upon a radically different environment and set of assumptions that are now being questioned—all at once. We expanded colleges, grew enrollment and (most worrying) borrowed money to build more facilities, assuming that there would always be more students. In case you missed it, the number of high school graduates is decreasing and the number of students enrolled nationally in college dropped 1.5% this fall (after a 1.8% drop last year) http://chronicle.com/article/Enrollments-Slipped-This-Fall/143573/
Our problem is that we sell one product to a very precise demographic and we only sell it once a year. We need to diversify what we offer and to whom. No, I don't think American colleges are about to become extinct, but we need to recognize that all of our institutions, degrees and audiences are too much alike, and this is very dangerous in a time of drastic environmental change. Not everyone will make it in the coming ice age, and it is far too early to see what the new paradigm will be, so we need more experimentation and more diversity of approaches.
The government's desire for some accountability in where financial aid goes (in the new the White House college rating system) is hardly the only reason colleges should be leading the movement to establish better outcome measures. A whole range of new products, services and institutions are sprouting up to help employers find employees with the skills they want.
Open Education Alliance, for example, is a partnership between a group of employers (Google, Intuit and AT&T) and alternative education providers (Khan and Udacity) that aims both to make "high quality education" (i.e. training) available and connect these new learners with jobs. So instead of a traditional BA degree, these companies say they are willing to hire you, if you have mastered the right set of learning outcomes (i.e. badges). Don't complain too much—this anti-degree will be a terrific new opportunity for many who can't afford college.
An even wilder mutation is Knack! Here you play games to discover your "knacks" which might indicate to a future employer that your "behavioral profile" is "creative," "bold" "strategic" or "perceptive" or that you have skills in finance, sales or the arts (what they call "career knacks") Games have already been proven to be great teachers, so this too will surely evolve. NYU, Bain & Co and Shell are early adopters.
So much of what we do is driven by our endless quest to become just a little more like Harvard—or at least a little more like where we as faculty went to graduate school. As Clayton Christensen points out in The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out , all of these innovations (summer break, electives, majors, GenEd, specialized departments, tenure, instruction by TAs, grading on a curve, and big-time football) were meant as specific solutions for Harvard, and ultimately, Harvard had and has the enormous resources required to even attempt the radical plan of trying to be both an English undergraduate residential college and a German research university. As countless colleges try to imitate Harvard with a fraction of the resources, we end up with one unique and perhaps bizarre model and lots of poor imitations. Maybe being a woolly mammoth is not the best strategy right now.
But the best reason for more diversity in higher education is that it will better serve our students. We know from every study on the affect of college on students that our influence is somewhat random: college can either close your mind and make you more resistant to change, or make you a more autonomous critical thinker. There is not good info on why the same college can have such different effects. (Averages are not very useful here.) It makes me nervous to think that learning styles are that determined, but I also know that people are different and where one learning environment helps student A blossom, it might bore student B to tears. In the end, fit does matter.
We talk about fit all the time in admissions, but perhaps we need to expand this discussion. While there are indeed plenty of good practices that work in general, surely there are also different learning environments and different programs and strategies that will best support different populations in different circumstances.
If colleges are mammals, maybe you think Knack!, Open Education Alliance and even MOOCs are the cockroaches of our world. But in nature, there are lots of different ways for organisms to prosper. In a changing environment, organisms and institutions that can change rapidly and/or produce more diversity of options, have a greater chance of survival. If there is really an ice age coming, you might want to reconsider the chances of the cockroach.
We need (1) to find a way to encourage greater diversity of mission and practice in colleges and (2) find ways to reward different types of success.
Everyone hates student course evaluations. They don't measure what students are learning or even how much good teaching is occurring (although it is probably not good to have persistent high GPAs and low student evaluations). At best, they tell us what students perceive.
It also turns out that most student evaluation forms have one predictive question, usually some version of "Would you recommend this course to your friends?" or "Your general assessment of this teacher?" All the rest is commentary.
I find it can be useful to see if a professor gets consistently low marks for "supportive of diverse ideas in the classroom," but "How prepared was your professor for class?" or "Was the professor knowledgeable?" are completely useless.
There are great new survey tools, with tested questions, and these should be required reading for anyone thinking of redoing their course evaluations, but student course evaluations should mostly be about improving teaching and retention.
1. Your course evaluations should reflect your institutional student goals. Reminding both faculty and students in every course will help bring focus and integration to key campus learning outcomes.
If you want to be the creativity place, then every course should ask "How much did this course improve your ability to think and work creatively?" If you want to improve the critical thinking of your graduates, the easiest and cheapest way is simply to remind students (and faculty!) that they do this in every course. Naming what we do is itself a pedagogy that works.
Every degree and department should have learning outcomes and these too should be reflected in every course evaluation: "How much did this course improve your ability to manage a business?" "How much did this course contribute to your ability to solve complex problems?"
Not every course is aligned with a single student learning outcome, and administrators will need to be sensitive to low scores in courses designed with a different purpose, but having a small and focused list of outcomes and evaluating them in every course is an extremely low cost way of improving focus.
2. Your course evaluations should reflect high impact practices and research-based pedagogies.
"How much did this course expand your appreciation for diverse ideas?" "How much did this course expand your ability to collaborate and work with others?" While these again are perceptions, they are perceptions that matter. I should also be measuring students' actual improvement in self-regulation or motivation, but I also want to know what they think: "How much did this course expand your ability to think about your own thinking?" "How much did this course bolster your motivation to succeed in college?"
If we want faculty to make more use of active learning then asking "What percentage of class time did you spend in active learning?" (or negatively, "in passive listening?") This will vary in different types of courses, and again, administrators will need to be sensitive to different goals. Most studio, lab and art courses will score high here, but that is not a measure of their relative quality. Still, if faculty think we lecture only 40% of the time, and students say it is 80%, this is important is good to know.
(I will note that in more than a decade of reading tenure files and sitting through P&T meetings, I find that most faculty and administrators are highly sensitive to the problematic nature of the numeric part of course evaluations. Institutions need to avoid averages, but I have never seen a tenure case fail only because of low numbers. I also think we should use course evaluations primarily for development—in the same way we should use assignments and assessments for how they can help students. I know we credential eventually, but if I wanted to spend my life sorting, I would have joined the postal service.)
If we are trying to improve teaching at our institutions, then maybe we should ask "How useful was the feedback for improving your work?"
None of this is a substitute for real assessment of learning outcomes. We need better tools to measure the actual critical thinking, creativity and cultural sensitivity of our students. At the moment, we often use the poor surrogates of grades or distribution (you took an art class or studied abroad). Requiring something only tells us about quantity or exposure (100% of students were exposed to science or passed a test in a foreign language–—yeah us!) but we need to understand about the quality of student learning. In the meantime, we should keep doing everything we can to improve learning and provide incentives for faculty to try proven pedagogies: course evaluations are low-hanging fruit.
In the end, you are what you measure. When we measure and assess, we set values and priorities. All colleges measure, but what we measure is often irrelevant. Measuring for accreditation will do little to improve our graduation rates. While it is true that much of what we do is hard to measure, or at least hard to quantify, that should not deter us. I'd rather have high standards and improving assessments, but we are the people of judgment. We evaluate all day long. We just need to turn more of our attention to better evaluation of ourselves.
Rankings in higher education don't measure quality. Mostly they measure the status or brand of a college, so more and better applicants means a higher rank. Beyond the historical elites, most of what the public knows about colleges comes from football and basketball, both of which are essentially advertising programs for colleges. This is part of why you see so much investment here: a more visible sports program does increase applications, and often substantially.
Schools also tout their alumni networks, where the big state schools will always have more quantity and the elite privates more quality. A Harvard or a Texas transcript is about status—neither says anything about what students actually learned.
Students with the right grades and SAT scores in high school can get into a range of good colleges. The best strategy for poor students is to attend the best college they can afford: in other words, most colleges will offer a steep discount to students with better SAT scores than their current students. Students, though, often want to go to the highest ranked college to which they were accepted, and parents will either pay or borrow more money to fill these dreams. This is where colleges make money.
The average debt for graduating seniors is now almost $30,000. When graduates borrow more money, it is often because of want, not need. At least some of the problem with college debt is because parents and students don't want to attend a less prestigious school.
So is it worth it? Is your Ivy-league education worth $100,000 or $200,000 more than your state school?
The status of an elite degree surely has some additional value in the job market, but parents increasingly want to know the return on investment. There will always be some parents willing to pay for bragging rights, but more parents will want to know how much learning per dollar you offer. Is there really ten times more learning at a four-year college or is it just ten times the price? Will a Nobel Laureate (or her TA) really be a good teacher for introductory economics? The "draft" plan at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, to reduce the number of graduate students (but pay them higher stipends) has drawn criticism for the suggestion that with fewer grad students to teach and fewer TAs, faculty might need to teach 3 undergraduate + 1 graduate course a year instead of 2+2.
Will a course on a college campus have more interaction than an online course, or will the teacher just stand and deliver? Colleges need to be prepared to answer these questions and how they relate to pricing and value.
University pricing resembles wine pricing: there is enormous price variation in the market, but it is difficult to tell how different the actual products are. Both wine and higher education are subject to complicated rating systems and a belief that the experts can truly tell the difference, but the abundance of exceptions seems to undermine the basic value proposition. With more than 6000 blind tastings as evidence, the relationship between wine ratings and price is small and actually negative: on average even wine experts enjoy more expensive wines less when they do not know the price! It does not matter if expensive wine is not actually better, but it tastes better if we think it costs more.
Similarly, it ultimately does not matter if a student learns more with an Ivy League education. As long as everyone else believes it is better, it will be in high demand and continue to bestow genuine benefits. In the same way that a bottle of wine is about the quality of the experience, a college degree, in the current market, is really more about buying a credential or a degree than it is about buying learning. Both consumers and providers have been willing to continue their shared misconception, since little else could justify the massive price variation in both wines and education.
Still, value will be an increasingly important proposition in the college marketplace. Parents and students already make decisions based upon cost. As competition increases and accountability provides easier ways of comparing outcomes, liberal arts colleges especially will need to justify the added expense. Knowledge is now freely available on the internet, but that only increases the value of being able to find, sort, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize that knowledge. Colleges talk about critical thinking, but we need to do more to ensure we are increasing the complexity of the mental models of our students. Employers are clamoring for graduates with better communication and thinking skills, ethical reasoning and the ability to solve complex problems. That value will only increase.
The liberal arts are under attack largely because they are misunderstood. College is the best opportunity in your life to expand your world view, think about your own thinking, expand your imagination, focus your gaze, and most importantly to prepare for the unknown. That can be delivered in different ways and at different costs, but that is our value: preparing students to explore the unknown, where they will be required to analyze new information, reinterpret what they know and maybe even, change their minds.
It's time for course evaluations and grading: no wonder we love the end of the semester so much! Course evaluations are flawed mostly because they do not really tell us what we want to know—what did students learn and did we change them?
This semester, I've decided to look at my course evaluations differently. I will still look at the ratings (we all like to be liked) and even more carefully at the comments about what to improve and what went wrong. But this time, I am going to look deeply for signs that students have changed, are considering change, or might change in the future—that is the whole point of Teaching Naked.
Really, on the last day of class, a student walks by me and says "I hate your class. It changed my life." Naturally, I ran after this student to ask,
"I'm sorry you hated my class, can you tell me more?"
"It was all of that personal, thinking about thinking, blogging, and those #$%)!! cognitive wrappers But I did figure out that I need to rethink my major and career. I realized there is a connection between my past and what I want to do in the future. I realized that I can integrate my passions, and that I really do have something I now want to do. All of that self-reflection made my other classes both harder and easier too."
What luck! We often have to wait 20 years for this transformation, and both the student and I got the payoff and feedback immediately. This does not happen very often, and maybe it shouldn't, but this is the change most of us seek. I am also not sure I should take too much credit. It might have just been the right moment in this student's life, and many of the other students clearly just hated, without the epiphany.
The danger here is that it is too easy to ignore negative criticism and hope that students will look back in 20-years and thank you. It is very true that the best lessons and courses often settle months or even years later, but since we don't track this is any systematic way, we don't really know the long-term impact of our courses in most cases.
Still, it seems we might aim for a balance. We all know that "you can fool all of the people all of the time" (attributed to Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum and a few others) but for teachers and academics it might be better with the word change or convince: "you cannot change all of the people any of the time." So this year, I will look for signs that I changed some of the people, some of the time, and in the process did not make too many others crazy.
In "What the Best College Teachers Do" Ken Bains sums up a lot of research as basically telling us neither high standards nor supportive nurturing make much difference on their own. Together, however, they are a powerful and life changing pedagogical strategy. I see this everywhere in my research: test more often, but make each lower stakes; provide more feedback, but be both supportive and critical; challenge students without putting them down. How then, can I balance the need both to push and support change, but without pushing students away. Few of them actually want change.
I am also not sure what success looks like yet. Like great art, a great course disturbs its audience. But if it is too disturbing, the audience may withdraw (figuratively or even literally). If it is too affirming, it is just entertainment; fun, but with no real impact. So while not an excuse for low student endorsement, we need to look at our courses evaluation both for signs that students were engaged, but also that they were disturbed. It may be too early to tell what is working, but I can't wait 20 years.
At the end of August, President Obama outlined new proposals to make college more affordable and to develop a new rating system before the fall of 2015 that will appear in the existing College Scorecard. With the start of the semester, you might have missed the details, but the plan is essential reading—note that congress does not have to approve: this will happen. I applaud the effort. Students and parents need better ways to think about the cost/benefit of college, but if these new metrics become a singular way to judge the value of college, the conversation will be far too narrow. We will, however, only have ourselves to blame.
Despite our collective and constant pleas for prospective students to think more about fit than rankings, the US News rankings continue their stranglehold on how the public, and even many of us, think about higher education. We are not going to dissuade politicians or parents to give up looking for ways measure and rank something that is so important and expensive. The real question, and the place we should put our energy, is in creating better measures for what we do.
We have a choice. We can either develop our own measures of the learning that happens on our campuses, or prepare for the White House and others to measure less meaningful things. We need to do this quickly. Note that financial aid may eventually be tied to how we do in the new ratings: "In the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, the president will seek legislation allocating financial aid based on these college ratings by 2018, once the ratings system is well established. Students can continue to choose whichever college they want, but taxpayer dollars will be steered toward high-performing colleges that provide the best value." Ouch!
Let's be fair. The objectives and the general thrust on outcomes are good. Parents and students easily confuse prestige with quality and college costs too much. It is hard to argue with the political pressure for a "a new ratings system to help students compare the value offered by colleges and encourage colleges to improve." The US News rankings rely too heavily on input measures, and if we are going to be judged, it should not be on the students we attract, but on what we do for the students we have. The U.S. Department of Education says "These ratings will compare colleges with similar missions and identify colleges that do the most to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds as well as colleges that are improving their performance." Faculty often say to me, "just bring us better students," but surely the real measure of success is how different colleges improve the lives of similar students. But whatever we think, there will be a new ranking system soon.
Most of what are currently being considered as outcome indicators, are quantitative, but secondary measures like graduation rates or graduate earnings. Walter M. Kimbrough has correctly pointed out that these need to be modified with a "degree of difficulty" measure (as in judging diving). The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment and others have developed other measures, but we need to do better. We must start measuring the change we hope to produce.
Prestige, better pay, better job opportunities and fun in fraternities are often seen as benefits of college. Indeed, networking and alumni connections are a valuable part of the college experience, but if we sell jobs or salaries as the only or even primary outcome measure, then we all become network facilitators.
We need instead to talk about how thinking and more complex mental models are the real engines of future success, a robust democracy and a better life. We will then, need to focus our attention on getting serious about measuring this. Are we actually changing our students and improving their ability to think? Would they develop as quickly if we het left them alone or they got a job? The answers may make us nervous, but we can't improve without data.
If anyone from the White House is listening—we CAN measure learning! Please give us a chance to suggest, create and develop some better measures.
Today we launched a new teaching award in my school that will provide more support and aid for faculty groups or individuals to redesign a course or course sequence. Technology may have increased the availability of knowledge, but it has only made critical thinking, analysis and the development of our students more important. Technology makes course design more important than ever before, but it also creates new opportunities for rethinking the sequence of learning events.
Most of us have become very good at course delivery, but few of us have had training in course design. We could get by when course design meant selecting some content and a textbook, but it is more complicated now. According to the most recent student poll in the Almanac of Higher Education, students want instructors to make more us of course management systems, integrated use of laptops during class, online collaboration tools (like Google docs) and free online course content (like the Khan Academy). If that sounds like a lot of work, it is, but improved course design is key to making our institutions better. This proposal is designed to help faculty find the time both to gain expertise and to develop better courses.
Since innovation and risk need to be encouraged, student course evaluations from the first two semesters of the new course will not be included in our merit or tenure decisions. You will note that some other "robust measure of success" will be required (also know as assessment), so hopefully this will encourage innovation in courses design and better assessment practices. I am also offering up to $10,000 in financial support (including teaching relief) per proposal, but I can think of other incentives (fewer preparations, staff or TA support, perhaps) that might work where other funding is not available. I offer the entire set of guidelines below to any dean, provost or CTL director who wants to borrow the idea. (This is a model. Not an actual call for proposals outside of Meadows School faculty.)
WHO? Any FT or regular faculty member may submit a proposal. Some priority will be given to groups where more than one person delivers the same course or departments who envision larger projects (like the redesign of an entire sequence.)
WHAT? A typical proposal might include teaching relief or summer stipend plus support (new technology, a visiting consultant, internal support, conference travel, or books). I will be available directly to support these projects as needed. I highly recommend including this online course on course design as part of the process (and budget) http://www.deefinkandassociates.com/index.php/onlinecourse/.
To encourage innovation and risk, student course evaluations from the first two semesters of the new course will NOT be included in merit or tenure decisions. They will be available only to the involved faculty. Part of the project, however, should be to create a more robust measure of success. How will we know if the new design is working? Faculty will have wide latitude here, but examples might include higher retention in the program, better performance in a subsequent class, better performance in year-end juries, higher scores on a rubric, or something entirely different, but there must be some form of assessment.
HOW? Read Dee Fink's (2004) short (and free) self-directed guide for designing courses for significant learning.
Proposals should be brief and identify
(1) the course or sequence, the number of students and the need (What is the problem? How could students be better served?)
(2) which faculty will be involved
(3) the course learning objectives
(4) what a redesign might look like (very generally, what is the idea?)
(5) a budget and what support will be needed
(6) a schedule for when this will happen
(7) what assessment measure might be used to gage success (this is not binding!) and
(8) chair approval (this can come as a separate evaluation of all departmental projects)
A. You may propose a redesign of any regularly offered courses, but there will be some priority given to entry-level, high enrollment, or frequently offered courses. These grants are not intended only to support technology or technology-driven courses, although new uses of technology are also encouraged.
B. Involved faculty must agree to continue offering the course at least three more times. New pedagogies will take practice. You can tinker with the delivery, but unless it is a disaster, we will encourage sticking with it until we know if it is the design or the delivery.
C. The department must view this as a course of continuing importance in the curriculum and agree that all faculty who teach this course over the next three years will maintain a consistent use of these learning outcomes and this course design. (Again, if something is not working, the redesign can continue to be improved, but there needs to be a consistency of intent.)

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We Should Remain Steadfast with Rule of Law; Cecilia Munoz-Palma President, Claudio Teehankee Foundation and Center for the Rule of Law President, Constitutional Commission of 1986
RE: The Letter and Intent of the 1987 Constitution Prohibits the House of Representatives from initiating a Second Impeachment Complaint against the same individual within one year from the filing of the first complaint
The Board of Trustees and Officers and Members of the TEEHANKEE FOUNDATION AND CENTER FOR THE RULE OF LAW hereby express their strong and urgent concern over the initiation of a second impeachment complaint against the Honorable Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide Jr., its venerable Chairman, within the prohibited period of one year expressly provided for in Section 3(5) of Article XI of the 1987 Constitution.
The Foundation makes of record its considered view, based on the RECORD OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION OF 1986, at pages 373 to 376, and at 382 that.
1. Initiation refers to the filing of any verified complaint by a Member of the House or by a citizen, with the endorsement of a Member of the House, as provided in Section 3(2) of Article XI of the Constitution, and initiation could not therefore refer to the filing of the Articles of Impeachment in the Senate;
2. The one-year prohibition was intended by the framers of the Constitution to allow Congress to continue with its main function of legislating laws, and limit the frequency of impeachment proceedings. As stated in the Record, at page 282;
MR. ROMULO. Yes, the intention here really is to limit. This is not only to protect public officials who, in this case, are of the highest category from harassment but also to allow the legislative body to do its work which is law making. Impeachment proceedings take a lot of time and if we allow multiple impeachment charges on the same individual to take place the legislature will do nothing else but that.
We therefore appeal to the President as the Chief Enforcer and Protector of the Integrity of the Constitution, and to the Senate President, and Speaker of the House and their colleagues in Congress, pursuant to their sacred oaths of office to uphold the Constitution of the Republic, to take all reasonable action to prevent the blatant disregard and violation of the fundamental law of the land, and in case of any doubt on this issue, we urge the Congress to jointly refer this matter to the Honorable Supreme Court, which under the Constitution is ordained to be the final interpreter of the Constitutions provisions and intent. …


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visit the New Glarus brewing company
Dan Carey is brewing here all sorts of wonderful beers.Deb Carey is the charming director of the(now 2 breweries)Take a tour at the brewery and enjoy real brewing.The guys at the brewery take pride at their profession and their product.Well,the result is that we can enjoy brands like ,,Spotted cow``.I highly recommend a visit to the brewery,you will enjoy it!
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Nature Trail and New Glarus Town Entrance
During spring, the annuals are planted, and the wildflowers begin to thrive in the countryside. New Glarus has a paved nature walk which is used by cyclists. At the entrance to town, the two intersect at the emblem of New Glarus.
Lumber Yard and Train Depot
New Glarus settlers had an ample supply of forest from which to build their homes. The lumberyard, still in business, is reminiscent of the retail value of this lumber, now long since deforested. Similarly, the defunct railroad depot, adjacent to the highway and a nature trail, reminds one of a bygone era.
- Architecture
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Town Hall and Church
These are among the oldest buildings in town. The church was actually moved from its former location outside of town to this hilltop location. The Town Hall served as a display of military collectibles on Memorial Day. New Glarus was well represented in the USA armed forces during WWII, a few of whom served as German language translators and decoders.
- Architecture
- Historical Travel
New Glarus Swiss Historical Village
Because this small town is so notable as a center of Swiss culture in the USA, there is a whole village museum devoted to telling the story of the founding of New Glarus and the culture of the settlers who arrived here. Unfortunately, the museum was closed on Memorial Day weekend, but here's a photo and a weblink. Visitors can expect to see how cheese is made and other such daily life activities among the settlers.
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- Arts and Culture
- Museum Visits
Swiss United Church of Christ
There's a substantial cathedral on a hill that's central to New Glarus. Although the large building is well kept, I understand that the congregation has reduced to about 400 members. This building is certainly the most visible landmark in town, the New Glarus Swiss United Church of Christ website dates the congregation back to the very founding of the New World colony. Out front is the monument dedicated to the original settlers of New Glarus.
- Architecture
Walk Around Downtown New Glarus
New Glarus is very small and downtown can be walked in just a few minutes. The earliest commercial buildings date to the nineteen century, but the more notable quality of the architecture is the Swiss influence.
- Architecture
Memorial Day Parade
Although the day was slightly overcast, it was otherwise beautiful for a small town parade. The New Glarus high school band played familiar John Philip Souza music and marched, while WWII either walked or rode. Fire Trucks and police escorted the parade while villagers and tourists lined the several block route. It doesn't last long, but in the afternoon the beer and wine producers, as well as farmers and restaurants fill up a downtown area for a feast.
- Festivals
New Glarus is for real
New Glarus is not a cute made for tourist Swiss town which is what you might think at first glance. Though indeed tourist do flock here to soak in the Swiss ambiance, it is such due to the high concentration of Swiss people who immigrated here and founded the town in 1845, naming it after the Canton of Glarus in their home country.
With most hotels and restaurants in the chalet style, flower beds the norm and the Swiss flag as popular as the US one, it is no wonder so many people fall in love with the place on first visit. Toss in some very authentic Swiss food, a bakery or two and one of the finest breweries in the region, and it's surprising that even more people don't pay it a visit.
- Food and Dining
- Road Trip
- Historical Travel
New Glarus Brewing
The New Glarus Brewery has been going strong since 1993 but despite its many awards, it has remained small and their beers are not available outside of its home state of Wisconsin. They brew some Germanic type beers which is understandable considering the make-up off the people of the town, largely descendants of that part of Europe. But their true claim to fame are their two fruit beers which use spontaneous fermentation as well as ample additions of fresh fruit to make some of the tastiest fruit beers in the world. Their Belgian Red has won a few Platinum medals at the World Beer Championships and it is largely regarded in the Top 10 Fruit beers in the world. If you do not like beer, this may be the one that changes your mind as long as you enjoy tart and refreshing beverages.
The have free self-guided tours and you can have three 3 oz tasters for $3.50. Please note, they only serve their tap beers in the brewery and the fruit beers are not generally on tap aside from the peak summer season.
A small gift shop sells glassware and clothes with their logos as well as all their beers in bottle form. The fruit beers come in 750 ml bottles and are not cheap though certainly not over-priced when you consider the Belgian Red has a pound of cherries in each bottle!
I paid $72 for a mixed six-pack and I believe six large bottles of the fruit beer.
- Beer Tasting
- Museum Visits
- Road Trip
Historic Residential Architecture
There are a number of homes in New Glarus brass plated for historical purposes, some of them now turned into Bed and Breakfast lodges.
- Historical Travel
- Architecture
New Glarus Settlers Monument
The monument to the settlers lists the names of the original folks who traveled from Switzerland in the 1850's.
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I think I'm pregnant but... update.. took a test.. update 2... another test
My dh has been fixed for over 7 and a half years. But I'm about 3-4 weeks late.
And no I have not cheated.
update1. I took a test this afternoon. I didn't see anything but my bff said she seen a faint line. So I am going to test in the morning.
Update 2.. took a test this am.. and it says that im not. but still no aunt flow. so I guess ill wait and see.. if i dont start in the next two weeks ill take another one..
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One of three things.
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With the approach of Christmas and the New Year, in Tuscany is a great movement of private transfers, chaffeaur and banqueting organization at the farmhouses, villas and castles of the VIP. Italy 'S Atmospheres, one of principal top players of the luxury properties in Italy, tells us what is happening in this region at this time.
Just for the famous Tuscan roads, we start to glimpse the large parties organizations. For example, almost every weekend, you can see between the Valdichiana and the Val D 'Orcia, Mr. Paolo and Nicola Bulgari, the founder of the famous fashion maison "Bulgari", owners of a beautiful farmhouse and winery, run around with their collection of old cars, mostly many Buick, for the province of Siena, where many Properties for sale in Tuscany , are much sought after by the international jet-set.
As well as, sometimes also sees the famous stylist Valentino and the ex CEO of Fiat Automobiles Cesare Romiti, relax in their villas Cetona.
Through the Val D 'Orcia, the Tuscany properties characterized by the highest level of restoration with an amazing Tuscan architecture exaltation, where he is currently seeking a farmhouse or a villa to be restored is to search carefully what is left, talking with the people of these places, at Pienza, famous location where it was shot on film "The English Patient", there would be a famous English film director who recently restored a splendid farmhouse.
Mandatory step in the Val D 'Orcia is Montalcino, famous for its Brunello and its worldliness. One of the great lovers of Montalcino is Riccardo Illy, President of Illy Coffee, where in addition to relax produces a wine of the highest level. Bewitched by the charm of this area is also a popular actress Sharon Stone, great taster of Brunello.
Near the famous Montalcino, there is a beautiful village of San Giovanni D 'Asso, famous throughout the world for its exquisite white truffles, as well as for its prestigious villas of famous people. Gabriele Frunzi, Founder of Italy 'S Atmospheres, a great lover of these areas, committed to "export" the best of the best of Tuscany real estate, speaks of the great American and English communities residing in this area. For example in Montisi, village of San Giovanni D 'Asoo, Bruce Kennedy founded the "Piccola Accademia di Montisi" polo of music dedicated to the discovery and teaching of the ancient musical instruments, there is a great cultural fervor. It is in this area, Gabriele Frunzi, represents the sale of a villa, one of the most prestigious villas for sale in Tuscany with a view to the city of Siena, years ago belonged to the famous presenter and dancer Raffaella Carrà, where the will of the owners, privacy for the sale is highly.
It is no coincidence if Tuscany, where in addition to these popular areas, also includes the Chianti, the Valdarno and Florence itself, is the ideal of "buen retiro" from around the world. Here the quality of life is very high, which is also enshrined by the latest ranking by the famous Italian newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore", where crowns in second place, after Bolzano, just Siena, as the best city for quality of life.
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I'll show you mine if you show me yours....
Picture. Of your face. Geesh. Get your dirty, perverted minds out of the gutters!!
Show me your favorite (recent) picture of you. It doesn't have to be from yesterday, but if you have lost/gained 215lbs, cut/grown 14in of hair, or something that would make the picture of you unrecognizable... Eh, let's save that for a different post.
And I am going to be annoying about this! I will keep this bumped until I see pictures. Newbs, regulars, veterans! I know who you are, so show yourselves!!
PS- Bewb pics are okay provided they do not violate TOS.
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Usmclife58 this is the one!
The feeling is mutual ;)
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I have a crush on Nikki.
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I feel Hawt in this picture. ^_^
This was me about a month ago. Just had my haircut. I really like my shorter hair.
This is one of my favs!


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'LocationPlus' detects current location, and changes some settings of your Android device with Scene Switch by the specified plan.You can register some locations in advance. As location plans, you can make plans that scene you want to change when you are entering to the locations or when you are leaving from the locations.If matched location plan is found, the app changes the specified scene with Scene Switch. The Scene Switch has automatic scene change function by timer schedule. Plus with the LocationPlus app, automatic scene change function by location is available.[Operations]1.Register locations that you want to change scenes, for example home, office, and etc.1)Push 'Location settings' button.2)Tap any row in the location list.3)Long-tap on center point of the location in map.4)Push 'Area setting' button, enter radius of the location in meters and then push 'OK' button.5)Tap location name textbox and enter the location name.6)Push 'OK' button.7)Repeat the above process to register locations.8)Push 'Back' key on your device.2.Make location plans. Location plan is the settings that switched scene when you enter into the locations, or leave from the locations.1)Push 'Location plans' button.2)Tap any row in the location plan list.3)Set the scene you want to change when you are entering to the location or when you are leaving from the location. Also as the notification, you can set beep sound, vibrate, etc.4)Push 'Back' key on your device.4)Repeat the above process to make location plans.5)Turn on toggle buttons of the location plans you want to enable.6)Push 'Back' key on your device.3.Set my location option in location and security settings.1)Push top right Wi-Fi and GPS mark button. To find the current location, you should enable either 'Use wireless networks' or 'Use GPS satellites' at least.4.You should set the accuracy such as interval time and distance of location update. 1)Push 'Menu' button on your device. And then select 'Settings' option.2)Set interval time in seconds, and interval distance in meters. If you set small number as the interval values, the accuracy of current location is higher but battery consumption is higher. If you set big number as interval values, it conserve battery consumption but the accuracy of current location is lower and the app might make wrong judgment of entering/leaving the locations.3)Push 'Back' key on your device.5.Run LocationPlus.1)Tap toggle button of the top and turn on LocationPlus.2)You can use auto on/off timer to push alarm clock mark button. It turn off the LocationPlus in time period you don't move, and conserve battery consumption.3)You can record location log. To record the location log, push 'Menu' key on your device, select 'Location Log' menu and turn on 'Log recording' checkbox.[Notes]●At least either 'Use wireless networks' or 'Use GPS satellites' must be turned on to find current location.●The location accuracy and battery consumption depend on my location settings. You should set appropriate settings for your use.●The location accuracy and the battery consumption are also dependent on the interval time and distance you have set. Please set the appropriate values suitable for your moving method and moving area.●On Android OS 2.2 and older versions, the change of my location settings is not being reflected immediately. In that case, turn off the LocationPlus once and turn it on again after changed my location settings.●The app must have Scene Switch version 2.3.2 or higher to change the scene. If the app has not been installed, you can not change the scene by the current location but you can use LocationPlus as location notify.●If the log recording is turned on, the log is stored in memory area of your device. When the log data is no longer needed, please clear the log to free up the memory area.●If the app could not find current location and last known location, Tokyo area will be displayed as initial map.


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The Quabbin Reservoir... I have been there many times to photograph, lived in its shadow almost my entire life and have known people who were displaced by its construction. The Quabbin has affected, influenced and inspired many of us western Bay Staters.
I hope I never tire of wandering its paths.


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[ Charles C. Rich, one of the Twelve Apostles of the Mormon Church and a prominent leader of the sect, was going to California to help manage Mormon affairs there. His biography by John Henry Evans , is published as Charles Coulson Rich, Pioneer Builder of the West ( New York, 1936). He was forty years old in 1849.
The original of this diary is in the Historical Library of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. The Church Historian's office kindly supplied us a typed copy of the journal as published here. Some punctuation has been added for clarification.]
OCTOBER the 8th 1849 2 o'clock p.m. left my home and the city of the great Salt Lake on a mission to Upper California having been appointed to assist Amasa Lyman in the presidency of that country by the conference held on the 6th. Staid at G. M. Flake on cottonwood 12 miles.63
TUESDAY 9th Took breakfast at John Bills then went to Utau [Provo] accompanied by James Brown. Staid at Alexander Williams, found some excitement with regard to the Indians some of them having fired on some of our people. 39 mi.
WEDNESDAY 10th Early this morning the Indians came down in considerable numbers to attack the fort as was supposed all had called out after some consultation they wished peace. I mad a speech to the brethren and organized them, gave the Indians some council and left about 10 o'clock, passing Hobble Creek, Spanish Fork, Petete Creek and camped on a small clear stream. 21 miles.
THURSDAY 11th We passed the Springs, Willow Creek, Salt Creek, Toola, camped on a sage plain without watter, traveled about 50 miles.____________________


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VIENNA Japan's nuclear accident is not expected to have any serious impact on people's health, based on the information available now, the head of a U.N. scientific body said on Wednesday.
Wolfgang Weiss, chairman of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), also said the Fukushima disaster was less dramatic than Chernobyl in 1986 but "much more serious" than Three Mile Island in 1979.
"It is in between in terms of environmental effects, not in terms of health impact," Weiss told reporters.
Weiss said the committee planned to look formally into the Fukushima accident and its conseequences, but stressed the emergency was not yet over. He was speaking after Japan on Wednesday stopped highly radioactive water leaking into the sea from the damaged nuclear power plant.
Despite the breakthrough, experts in the country said the damaged reactors were far from being under control almost a month after they were hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami.
Weiss praised Japanese authorities for starting to implement thyroid screening for children and said all measurements so far in this respect were below acceptable levels in the country.
"The only proven effect after Chernobyl was thyroid cancer in children," he said.
Highlighting the differences between Chernobyl and Fukushima, he said people in villages close to the plant in the then Soviet Union were exposed to radioactive iodine that contaminated milk and vegetables.
"They inhaled first, then they ingested this iodine and this caused the problem," Weiss said. "In Fukushima, the people were evacuated before any release took place, so this is a totally different situation."
Asked what health consequences he expected from Fukushima, he said: "From what I know now, nothing, because levels are so low. In food, people are talking about levels which would give you one millisieverts per year, five millisieverts per year ... this is nothing where we would expect major health impacts."
Radiation is measured using the unit sievert, which quantifies the amount absorbed by human tissues.
Weiss said: "We have seen traces of iodine in the air all over the world now but they are much, much, much lower than traces we have seen at similar distances after Chernobyl."
In Chernobyl, hundreds of people received high doses of radioactivity and about 135 got acute radiation sickness, Fred Mettler, another member of UNSCEAR, said.
"We haven't seen any of that at Fukushima so the early management by the Japanese here is very different from what happened at Chernobyl," Mettler said.
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KBC rolls-out PetroSim 5 (December 2013)New process simulator spans upstream—downstream facility modeling.
London-based KBC Advanced technologies claims to have 'reinvented' process simulation with the latest release of its PetroSim package. PetroSim 5 adds scenarios for lifecycle facility modeling and decision support tools to test investment and capacity hypotheses against changing conditions such as declining reservoir feeds in the upstream. The toolset claims to release value in capital and operating efficiency that is currently obscured by process simulator limitations.
PetroSim now embeds Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation technology so that users can customize modelling with their own design standards or methods.
This technology will decrease simulation time dramatically, allowing more time for the analysis of facility performance and plans. The simulator also includes third party KBC/Infochem multiflash technology in its thermodynamics module for hydrate mitigation studies in upstream and midstream applications.
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Over 100 units including The Grinch, lots of Shriner clowns, Allen County Sheriff Posse, and many floats from Bluffton organizations.
With the Citizens National Bank time and temperature reading 44 degrees, Bluffton celebrated its rite of the holidays with the Blaze of Lights on Nov. 28.
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. - The Bluffton University women's basketball team remained unbeaten, dispatching the Kalamazoo College Hornets, 74-58, on Saturday, Nov. 28. The Beavers improved to 4-0 on the season, while the Hornets record slipped to 1-2.
Saturday is "Junior Weihrauch Day in Bluffton." The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce announced the designation at its Nov. 13 breakfast meeting
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John George, as the town crier, has served as Blaze master of ceremonies each year since 1995. You'll find him on the review stand announcing the parade units.
Romick Railway for kids is one of Bluffton's Blaze popular activities. The railway will be in Saturday's parade. Following the parade it will provide rides of youngsters on Main Street in front of the Senior Citizens Center. (Santa and Mrs. Claus are inside the center.)
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Well, didn't take much time. You had such a good start, talking about bad acting, lackluster character arcs, and inconsistent writing... all good, sensible reasons to dislike her character. Turns out it was good ol' misogyny. Too bad.
Rush Limborg wrote:
I'm not a hater of Jadzia--
And yet, you always find the time to say something offensive about her every time she's mentioned. What an unlikely coincidence!
Rush Limborg wrote:
Still...I do find her constant "irreverence" quite off-putting. She constantly goes out of her way to make jokes at the expense of everyone and everything she can--and when someone dares to bust
chops, she acts all offended!
There's also the running gag that whenever a secret a regular wants to be
--and it gets spread around the station...the explanation almost invariably is that "so-and-so told Dax"--"Oh, well, yeah--that explains it."
And then, there's the constant mind game she seemed to enjoy playing at Bashir's expense--spinning him around her finger, and snickering all the way. *sigh*
In short, she has respect for precious little--while she seems incapable of laughing at
Weren't you guys hating on her because she was "too perfect"? Seems you are pretty inconsistent with your complaining.
JustKate wrote:
Ryva Brall wrote:
Rush Limborg wrote:
And then, there's the constant mind game she seemed to enjoy playing at Bashir's expense--spinning him around her finger, and snickering all the way. *sigh*
The more I think about it, Jadzia was pretty danged manipulative when it came to Bashir... and Quark, for that matter. She knew they both had feelings for her, and she loved using it against them. If there's anything I can't stand, it's somebody who toys with others' emotions.
I would say that rather than having "feelings" for her, what Bashir and Quark had for her was the hots. Not a lot of feeling there (at least not in the heart or mind
) is what I'm saying. If they did have feelings for her that were more substantive than lust, they didn't let these "deep" feelings get in way of making plays for plenty of other women, that's for sure.
And maybe this is because I am a female too, but I say any guy who goes around making passes at a woman who has made it very clear she isn't interested in him deserves to find out over and over again that - guess what - she is
interested in him. Actually, any female who does this (e.g. Chapel and Spock) deserves the same treatment as well.
I found many of Jadzia's "flirty" moments heavy-handed - not sure if that was Ferrell's fault, the writers' or both. But it is silly to equate flirting with whoredom.
Nonono, you have it wrong: women who flirts with men are whores.
Socially maladjusted geeks have troubles discerning between playful teasing as a normal social interaction and actual signals of sexual interest. This is why sometimes they think a woman is interested in them, and when they find out she's not and she was only enjoying some playful social niceties, they become enraged and feel they have been "led" and "wronged". I've found that much (obviously, not all) of the vitriol against Jadzia in fandom stems from apparently still-stinging memories of this kind of encounters.
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"San Francisco's nonprofit sector is large and varied, accounting for nearly 8% of total wages. We rely on them to help keep San Francisco the great city it is. And they need places to work. Imagine the city without them: no clinics, few theatres, no places to serve our elderly, homeless, or disabled. If they can't afford to stay we all lose," notes former Special Assistant to Mayor Willie Brown and Director of the Mayor's Office of Economic Development turned consultant, David Prowler. The rents are effecting them as they are residents of the city.
The Google Bus protests recently put a spotlight on the skyrocketing rents in the city—rents that effect residents and non profits alike. However, this isn't the first time a tech boom put rent pressure on non profits. In 2000, a study "found that 58% of sites rented by nonprofits are at risk of displacement within the next 15 months. 65% of nonprofits that don't provide direct services are thinking of leaving the City."
In this tech boom, as in the 2000 boom, "[n]imble nonprofits are meeting the challenges. Some are shrinking their own space and subletting to others to share the cost. Others are working in shared space . . . or even learning how well they can do without any office space. They are reaching out to resources like the Northern California Community Loan Fund and the Community Arts Stabilization Trust for technical and financial help...They are partnering with developers..."
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