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Testing Center
The Testing Center, a part of the Division of Student Services, is located in the Warf Building, Room 126, and houses a testing facility that can provide testing for up to thirty-three (33) examinees.
To schedule a testing appointment with the Testing Center on the Main Campus in Gallatin, please call 615-230-3484 or send an email to email@example.com. For Livingston testing information, call 1-800-563-8220 ext. 5217. For Highland Crest/Springfield testing information, call 615-433-7032. Please note that some tests are only available at the Gallatin campus.
Please note that, before scheduling the Business Exit Exam or Paralegal Exit exam, you must complete the Business Review and/or Paralegal Review first. Please contact the Business Division at 615-230-3301 for review information for the Business Exit Exam. For information regarding the Paralegal Review, please contact the Social Science and Education Division at 615-230-3231.A student who has missed an exam in the classroom and needs to schedule a makeup exam must make prior arrangements with his/her instructor and then call the Testing Center at 615-230-3484 to schedule the exam. The instructor will also need to contact the Testing Center to provide instructions for administering the exam and to deliver the exam.
For information about how to schedule a HiSET (High School Equivalency Test), please call 615-230-3626 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
When is testing available?
The Testing Center is typically open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. The Center's hours may vary during peak periods such as registration, mid-term and final exams, semester breaks, etc. When scheduling an exam, students must allow enough time to be able to complete testing before the Testing Center's published closing time. Although walk-ins may be accommodated if possible and space permits, all testing after 3:00 p.m. is by appointment only.
What is required of examinees utilizing the Center?
- Examinees must call the Testing Center at (615) 230 - 3484 (or schedule online, if applicable) to schedule a testing date and time. The Center administers many different tests, and some are available only on certain dates and times.
- Examinees must pay the appropriate test fees, if applicable, and bring proof of payment to the Testing Center on test day.
- Examinees must bring photo identification for entry into the Testing Center, along with any pre-authorized materials and aids.
- Examinees must be aware of the Testing Center's operating hours and allow plenty of time to complete testing before the Center's published closing time.
- No food, drink, cell phones, and/or other electronic devices are permitted in the Testing Center.
- No children or other adults may accompany examinees into the Testing Center. Children may not be left unattended on campus or in the Center while examinees are testing, and the Center cannot be responsible for children or adults who require care and supervision while examinee is testing.
- Examinees should make sure they are given the correct exam in order to receive credit for the work performed.
What services are available to students with disabilities?
Accommodations and support services are provided to students with disabilities who register with the Office of Disability Services. The Testing Center strongly encourages students with disabilities to contact the Office of Disability Services at (615) 230 - 3472 prior to any testing to discuss possible accommodations.
What about Test Security?
The Testing Center has security measures in place, such as log in/log out monitoring of all tests and safe storage of testing materials in a testing vault located within the Testing Center office.
Test Security and Academic Dishonesty Policy
The Testing Center strives to provide test security by carefully tracking tests and scrap paper. In addition, the Testing Center supports and adheres to standards for academic honesty set forth in the student code. Incidents of academic dishonesty in the Testing Center are treated seriously. Students found to be cheating will lose Testing Center privileges for all classes for the remainder of the semester. If a student is observed using unauthorized aids, the Testing Center Staff will:
- Stop the student and quietly ask him or her to leave the Testing Center.
- Collect the test and all unauthorized aids.
- Retain the test and all materials as documentation of an invalid test administration.
- Report the incident, in writing, to the instructor, division dean, appropriate administrator, and/or testing publisher.
- Inform the student to contact the instructor, if applicable.
No Show/Rescheduling Fee
The Testing Center charges a $20 No Show/Rescheduling Fee for the A2/HESI exam.


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Add contrast to the potatoes by serving them with a crisp mixed green salad or vegetable, and cooked lean fish, meat or poultry.
When making mashed potatoes, use baking or red potatoes for best results.
Recipe can be prepared ahead of time. Cool, then place in resealable plastic bag. Press excess air from bag, then seal bag and refrigerate up to 24 hours. When ready to serve, transfer potatoes to microwaveable container. Microwave until heated through.
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So sad to see so many bad reviews. Someone wasn't sure about keeping the garlic after the potatoes were done cooking, I use cheese cloth to drain the water thus keeping the garlic with the potatoes. This could be why so many say that they do not have enough garlic flavor, the garlic went out with the water??? As far as how long it takes to cook the potatoes, cut them up a little smaller, mine are done in about 15 minutes, much easier to mash as well. I will agree that they are a lot thicker than ready made, but that is why I make my own, we like them thicker rather than runnier. Otherwise this is just like any other recipe, it is a guide to work with, tweak it to your liking, experiment.
I made these last night and boy did I have to alter them! Too thick and too bland. First off, I had to boil my potatoes for 45 minutes, not 20. Second, if you're going to call these garlic mashed potatoes, I shouldn't have to add garlic after making them. I also had to add salt and pepper. Last, if I hadn't added about 1/2 a cup of milk they would've come out like paste. On a positive note, I liked the idea of adding the cream cheese (I used chive and onion flavor).

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ZF2-142: Zend\Di ignores default parameters values
When method parameter has default value it is ignored by Zend\Di and it passes {{NULL}} if parameter is not defined explicitly. As an example try creating {{Zend\Authentication\Storage\Session}} without any parameters defined in Di configuration - it's constructor allows to create instance without passing any parameter and assigns default values then. But Di sees no parameter values in configuration and passes {{NULL}}, which overrides default values.
I think Di should check if parameter is specified explicitly to {{NULL}} in instance manager configuration and if not, do not pass anything (even NULL).
Problem lies in library/Zend/Di/Di.php at line 616 (commit 9bd4f0a30b1ab6b0d3ab2263b987a35bcab30393):
{{$resolvedParams[$index] = null;}} should assign default parameter vlaue if not explicitly specified by Di definition.
Let me just say... I'm new to ZF1 and ZF2 so went straight to ZF2. Just spent 7 hours to come across this... I just could not get Session to work and thought it was because I wasn't doing it correctly.
Would be nice to have this fixed or known about
This issue has been closed on Jira and moved to GitHub for issue tracking. To continue following the resolution of this issues, please visit: https://github.com/zendframework/zf2/issues/2451


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Media sources report news about North Central's "Harry Potter's World" exhibit, upcoming fine arts events and player-coach-student Sam Sweeney '11.
Daily Herald: "North Central hosts 'Harry Potter's World' exhibit" in Oesterle Library
North Central College is the host of a traveling exhibit about the real-life alchemists and physicians featured in J.K. Rowling's best-selling Harry Potter books.
North Central College prepares students to be informed,
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St Thomas' Church Philadelphia, Sheffield
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We are a multi-denominational Christian church for the whole city of Sheffield. Through contemporary expressions of spirituality and innovative ways, we seek to know God's love and make it known.
We encounter God in many different ways and places, every day of the week. There are many ways to belong – whether you're a busy adult, a student, from overseas or very young – and many ways to serve our city or the underprivileged.
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Co-Chairman Smith and Members of the Commission, thank you for the invitation to address you today. In October 2002, I traveled on behalf of Refugees International to Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Ingushetia to evaluate the conditions faced by refugees and internally displaced people. In the south, ceasefires have for the most part stopped the fighting, but have failed to bring peace. In the north, war rages on. All told over a million people remain displaced, and many remain locked in hopeless circumstances.
The majority of people of concern in the South Caucasus, which I've been asked to talk about today, were displaced by ethnically based independence movements shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union-in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, and by Abkhazia's attempt to break away from Georgia. They have been unable either to return to their homes in safety or to integrate satisfactorily in the places to which they fled. The deadlocked peace processes have created additional anguish and uncertainty. The affected population of concern to RI includes 572,000 IDPs in Azerbaijan who fled the autonomous republic of Nagorno-Karabakh; 4,000-10,000 Chechen refugees currently residing in the Azerbaijan capital city of Baku; over 250,000, primarily in the cities of Georgia, that were displaced during the 1992-1993 civil war in Abkhazia; a relatively small number of Chechens in the Pankisi Gorge and Tblisi areas of Georgia, and an estimated 100,000 Chechen refugees in Ingushetia.
I'll speak first about conditions in Azerbaijan, followed by Georgia.
The dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the contested ethnic Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan, is the biggest longstanding source of displacement in the South Caucasus. The dispute began shortly after the Soviet Union incorporated the Caucasus in 1920-21. Moscow placed the Armenian enclave under the governance of Azerbaijan. In 1988, Armenians began to demonstrate against Azeri control. Demonstrations turned into riots. Russian troops supported Baku's efforts to retain control of the enclave until 1991, when the population of Nagorno-Karabakh, which was 75 percent Armenian, approved a referendum calling for independence. Some 30,000 people died in the fighting that began after the Russians withdrew, and hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani refugees fled the region. All told the conflict uprooted some 844,000 Azeris, 600,000 IDPs and 200,000 refugees (ethnic Azeris who had lived in Armenia). Large numbers of ethnic Armenians fled Azerbaijan, and today nearly 265,000 continue to live in refugee-like conditions in Armenia.
A 1994 cease-fire ended the fighting but not the dispute and subsequent efforts by outside mediators (Russia, France, and the United States) have failed to yield a settlement. One displaced Azeri expressed a widely held sentiment: "Our situation does not attract attention because we wait for a peaceful solution and do not engage in violent acts. It just doesn't seem right." It is a view echoed by Brenda Shaffer of the Caspian Studies Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Because Nagorno-Karabakh is no longer the focus of a "hot" war and displaced Azeris have not turned to terrorism to highlight their plight, she says, the conflict has simply slipped off the screen, its victims forgotten.
While IDPs primarily emphasize the need for a political solution and their strong desire to return home, they also continue to face many hardships: lack of economic opportunity, inadequate shelter and placement on non-arable land, and the insufficient responses of both the Government of Azerbaijan and the international community.
Temporary, or poorly thought out, solutions to long-term problems are a recurring theme. The Azeri government's unwillingness to consider all possible outcomes of the Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K) dispute has made the IDPs political pawns. "Politics is keeping them victims to attract donors," one NGO worker told RI. The government has used the IDPs as a visual reminder of the war and to keep the hope of regaining N-K alive. This need outweighs any incentive to address Azerbaijan's protracted and chronic IDP problem. In addition, many NGOs have shifted from emergency assistance to development-related activities. "The gap has been ignored - maybe because it is too difficult," suggested one aid worker. While there is generally reported to be effective coordination among NGOs at the field level, it was repeatedly brought to RI's attention that the United Nations development programs are isolated from the rest of the aid community and are performing less than efficiently.
Shelter conditions of the displaced are inadequate, with irregular access to water and energy. About ten percent of the Azeri IDPs live in camps, the rest live in an array of situations - abandoned railroad boxcars, dugouts in the ground, old apartment complexes, makeshift shanties, new homes provided by the government, and in newly constructed dwellings in liberated areas.
Old boxcars are used as protection from only the most extreme elements. The metal structures are like an oven in the summer and a refrigerator in the winter. Some families make a living space underneath the boxcars as a summer resting place. Inside the boxcars there is electricity and a single burner to cook on. However, the cooking in the hot months is mostly done outside between cars. Water is often scarce, and the clinics and schools are barely adequate.
In the Agebedi region, an area where the nomadic herders from N-K historically spent winter, and thus also called winterground, became a year-round settlement and the herders are now IDPs. Their homes are built as holes in the ground covered, in most cases with dirt, but also with sticks, plastic and cardboard. In warmer weather and after heavy rains, many of the dwellings suffer severe water damage. If the occupants are fortunate enough to have a sheet of plastic to insulate their ceiling, water and mold often collect and make for chronically damp conditions and cause allergies and respiratory infections, particularly in children.
In the urban setting of Sumqayit, one of the largest industrial areas in the whole of the former Soviet Union, IDPs reside in crowded, nearly suffocating living conditions, surrounded by a sad symphony of smoke stacks, abandoned factories and aboveground gas pipes. At one dark and damp IDP flat RI visited, 72 families share one shower and a few "kitchens" (a single gas burner and an occasional faucet). "Ninety percent of the IDP families here are unemployed," one resident said. "This is a community where Soviets used to supply raw material, so factories don't work now."
In one shanty community, RI spoke to a bed-ridden resident whose leg was crushed when a rain-weakened shelter collapsed on him. In rural areas, IDPs reside on poor quality land and must rely on the government and foreign aid to sustain their families. Lack of access to water has prevented communities from agricultural self-sustainability. "We need irrigation systems," reported many of the IDPs.
The Azeri government has relocated some Bilesuvar IDPs from tent camps to newly constructed homes built by a government IDP fund from the oil revenues. The new homes are an improvement, but they are located where there are no viable agricultural or economic opportunities. NGOs are implementing training programs. "We have many trainings, but what we need is jobs", said one Fizuli IDP. This issue, along with large numbers of IDPs moving to cities and even other countries, suggests that the new communities are only a partial and temporary solution to a much more complex housing situation.
As an oil rich nation with a ninety-eight percent literacy rate, there is a lot of potential for Azerbaijan. The answer to Azerbaijan's trouble is not only found in a resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - Azerbaijan must protect itself from corruption and use all of its resources to look into the future. Issues related to permanent resettlement must be addressed so that Azerbaijan can fully develop its potential and becoming a civil, self-supporting society. Refugees International has recommended that:
The Government of Azerbaijan
Seek a permanent and peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, with a view to return for all those displaced wanting to do so.
Provide durable solutions, including integration, for those who choose that alternative.
Provide new settlements in regions with viable economic opportunity.
Develop and implement long-term development strategies including diversification of the economy to include sectors other than oil.
Provide irrigation programs in IDP/refugee settlements.
Ensure transparency in all transactions.
The International Community
Expedite efforts to negotiate a permanent political solution.
Continue providing humanitarian aid and ensure no phase-out before replacement by development assistance.
The United Nations Development Program
Assertively fulfill leadership and co-ordination roles.
With over 800,000 war-displaced Azeris depending upon the government for assistance, little aid is made available to the Chechen community of about 5,000-10,000. Security and protection are their most important concerns. The Government does not presently accord Chechens refugee status for political reasons. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has acknowledged their need for protection, identified more than six thousand individuals as "persons of concern", and provided identification cards for them to prevent police harassment and deportation. Healthcare, education, and food are also big concerns. Only a few hundred of the most vulnerable Chechens in Baku are getting sporadic monthly cash assistance from the UNHCR. When asked the reason for limited assistance, one former cash recipient explained, "They say it is lack of donors."
In Georgia, though the numbers are smaller, the IDP crisis is as acute and even more complex since no less than three conflicts have convulsed this poor country. Georgia has experienced two secessionist conflicts of its own, which have displaced about 5 percent of its population. South Ossetia began a campaign in 1990 to form a political alliance with North Ossetia, leading to an unsuccessful plebiscite in 1992 on the question of seceding from Georgia and uniting with Russia. The conflict displaced more than 60,000 people, most of who fled to Russia; some 12,000 of them remain displaced within Georgia. Georgia's northwest province of Abkhazia also rebelled in 1991, displacing an estimated 250,000 Georgians, who had been the dominant ethnic group in the province, making the ethnic Abkhazi a minority in their own region. In 1994, Georgian and Abkhazi negotiators agreed to a separation of forces, which is monitored by peacekeepers from former Soviet states and a U.N. military observer mission (we here note with concern the recent kidnapping of two of them).
Most of Georgia's 300,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Georgia face unemployment, horrible living conditions, a full range of relief and development needs, and a lack of healthcare. Most have settled in urban areas, in available buildings in the Samegrelo (bordering Abkhazia) and Imereti regions in the west and in Georgia's capital city, Tbilisi. Originally the host populations accepted the IDPs and Chechen refugees with open arms, but, over time, the large IDP influx has put a strain on the host community. In one location several resort hotels once used by vacationers are now used to house IDPs. Thus, the host population's livelihood has been taken away and there are not enough resources to accommodate everyone. The economic collapse of Georgia following the dissolution of the USSR left many people in a bad situation - not just the IDPs. The majority of IDPs are dependent on State assistance - often distributed with a delay.
Their plight is illustrated by Zuhra, eighteen, who escorted a Refugees International (RI) team into the dilapidated and windowless room he shares with his twelve-year-old brother. When Zuhra was eight, and his brother was two, the orphans left war-torn Abkhazia. At the hotel all they have is a small bed, a space heater, and each other. They use a neighbor's stove to cook. The bathroom, shared by half of the buildings' residents, is on the second floor. Occasionally Zuhra finds work as a day laborer, but making ends meet is impossible in Georgia's shattered economy. When RI asked if Zuhra had anything else to add to his story, with a depressed expression Zuhra simply looked around his hopeless surroundings and said, "Isn't it enough...what I've already said?"
The Georgian government officially sanctioned some of the housing, while at other locations IDPs squat in deserted buildings. In either case, the housing is crowded and in disrepair. One aid worker told RI, "You can't rehabilitate something that needs to be rebuilt." In some buildings, exposed wiring has started fires and burned holes in the walls. Larger families, facing overcrowding, had their children play, and often sleep, in neighbors' rooms. One building RI visited had lost a piece of its ceiling, fatally injuring someone passing underneath. These conditions, coupled with a lack of water and expensive heating costs, make their accommodations nearly uninhabitable.
In addition to inadequate shelter, there is a diverse array of needs among the displaced population. Many IDPs are still in need of relief aid rather than development. The poor payback of micro-credit initiatives, a usual sign of economic development, indicates that people have few viable financial opportunities. This is especially apparent in Samegrelo. As one aid worker put it, "The further west in Georgia, the worse the conditions, because everyone who could afford to leave has moved to Tbilisi." When asked about food, the IDPs replied that there was no pattern to the sporadic food distributions. One elderly displaced woman said, "It is impossible to live like that. What can we eat?" Another IDP asked, "Are two kilos of macaroni supposed to feed me the rest of my life?"
Another problem is lack of transparency. "It's too hard to find anyone honest in government," RI was told repeatedly. For fear of companies importing products duty free under the guise of humanitarian aid, the Georgian government has imposed an import tax. One NGO requested RI, "Tell the world to wake up and push the Georgian government to allow NGOs to work freely."
There is a great need for affordable and accessible healthcare. In virtually every settlement RI visited, there was a healthcare gap. This is particularly disturbing since IDPs are dying from curable ailments, in particular tuberculosis. And, with no insurance, even if healthcare is available, it is not affordable. People bypass doctors entirely or use pharmacies as one-stop shopping. One young IDP who couldn't buy medicine for his earache could not even put a shirt over his head. A pensioner had the option of having her leg amputated, or dying. With no money, she lies in bed, waiting for an unknown fate.
Another major concern for Georgia's IDPs is the availability of psychosocial assistance. Few international organizations have addressed the psychosocial needs of Georgian IDPs. With their displacement having lasted ten years, the IDPs' psyche has been adversely affected. "Everyone is concerned about going to Abkhasia, to their native home. They have no real hope. They are depressed. What they want is just to return," an aid worker reported. "In Georgia, we have a saying, hope dies last," one IDP woman told RI. Refugees International recommended that:
The Government of Georgia
Actively seek permanent and peaceful solutions to the Abkhazia and South Ossetia conflicts.
Take responsibility for the welfare of displaced people, including timely stipend distributions.
Lift duties imposed upon the import of humanitarian aid.
The Government of Georgia, the United Nations, international aid agencies, and local NGOs
Identify and match needs of IDPs with the relief and development programs being implemented.
Implement permanent and sustainable solutions for shelter and long-term settlement.
Make non-emergency healthcare available to all IDPs.
Expand psychosocial programs for IDPs.
As in the case in Azerbaijan, the fact that Georgia is already struggling to support more than 250,000 displaced individuals from its own conflicts has affected others who seeking safety there. Georgia has provided weak protection and material support for Chechen refugees. About 4,000, took refuge in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge area. An additional 250-300 individuals stay in Georgia's capital city of Tbilisi. Their small numbers have also failed to gain the attention of most international aid agencies, while some of the few that had provided assistance have now pulled out due to insecurity and reduced funding.


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These are all the Games in the Grand Theft Auto series.
Please note that modifications or detail pages (eg Vehicles in GTA San Andreas) should NOT be put in this category, but more fitting categories of their own.
A brief list of the games that should be here is:
GTA 1, London 1969, Grand Theft Auto: London, 1961, GTA 2, GTA III, GTA Advance, GTA VC, GTA SA, GTA LCS, GTA VCS, GTA IV, GTA CW, GTA V.
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A part of NNSA's Small Business Week, today's profile highlights Vector Resources, Inc. (VRI), a woman-owned small business, which provides NNSA with project management, engineering, quality and safety services, performance assurance, and business process improvement across the full spectrum of DOE mission areas including energy, defense programs, science, security, and environmental management. Vector has extensive experience in the assessment of nuclear projects for quality, regulatory and safety compliance, and cost and schedule performance. Vector has worked closely with NNSA and its sites in addressing the technical and management aspects of several nuclear weapon and environmental related projects as well as the stockpile stewardship and defense science programs and campaigns. Vector has also performed work involving enterprise management and integration; project and construction management; portfolio analysis; programming, planning, budgeting, and evaluation (PPBE) process; governance transformation; line oversight; contractor assurance systems; and performance measurement systems. In addition to NNSA, VRI has supported various other DOE offices and programs including Science, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Environmental Management, and Management and Administration at Headquarters and field locations. "We are proud of our contributions to NNSA mission success including performance assurance, workforce development, science and technology advancement, improvement in quality assurance and nuclear safety, improvement in program and project management, resource optimization and cost savings, and facilitation of enterprise performance," said, Stephanie Weisband, President/CEO of Vector Resources, Inc.For additional information about VRI see: www.vector-resources.com
NNSA announced Monday that it distributed more than $362 million in small business obligations for federal prime contracts in fiscal year 2011. NNSA surpassed its departmental small business goal by 27 percent in fiscal year 2011.To highlight the success of its small business program, NNSA has launched the third annual "NNSA Small Business Week." This week, NNSA is featuring a different small business of the day on the NNSA Blog. Today's profile highlights Container Technologies Industries, LLC (CTI), a Small business located in Helenwood, Tenn. Since December 1999, CTI has provided the nuclear industry with many types of products, including containers for the storage, transport, and disposal nuclear waste. CTI has supplied Y-12 with shipping containers for the past three years and have supplied Y-12 in excess of 1670 containers with no rejections for quality issues. "B&W Y-12 treats small business as an important partner. CTI is fortunate to have a long standing relationship with Y-12," said Steve Fielden, president and chief operating officer of CTI.For more information about CTI see: http://www.containertechnologies.com/
David Young, NNSA's Deputy Exercise Program Manager in the Office of Emergency Response today received the 2011 Linton F. Brooks Medal for Dedication to Public Service.As a leader of the Nuclear Incident Team at NNSA, Young successfully coordinated the activities of deployed NNSA response teams during 125 Preventative Radiological/Nuclear Detection missions including 48 real-world responses to international, federal, state and local requests for assistance. He is specifically acknowledged for providing exemplary leadership and technical acumen during the response to the emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants.As part of the Operations and Exercise Program, Young was a key member of the planning teams responsible for the successful planning, execution, and evaluation of the DOE/NNSA-led national level exercises Diablo Bravo 2008 and Empire 2009, in addition to the numerous recurring interagency national level exercises, such as Marble Challenges, Nuclear Weapons Accident-Incident Exercises, and the DHS-coordinated National Level Exercises. The award recognizes newer employees whose actions and deeds exemplify the spirit of public service commitment. Nominees for the Linton Brooks Medal for Public Service must be NNSA employees, with fewer than five years of civilian federal service and fewer than five years of professional experience, whose work achievements demonstrate an exceptional commitment to public service excellence.
NNSA distributed more than $362 million in small business obligations for federal prime contracts in fiscal year 2011 and surpassed its departmental small business goal by 27 percent.To highlight the success of its small business program, NNSA has launched the third annual "NNSA Small Business Week." This week, NNSA is featuring a different small business of the day on the NNSA Blog. Today's profile highlights Contractor Name: Meyer Tool and Manufacturing, Inc., specialists in cryogenic, vacuum and pressure technologies. Meyer Tool provides a suite of services including engineering, process development and vertically integrated manufacturing. Meyer Tool's components are installed in the world's most powerful laser, the two most powerful particle accelerators, most powerful neutron source, at the South Pole, in advanced photon sources, in solar cell production lines, semiconductor production lines and other harsh and demanding environments.Since 1998 Meyer Tool has been a key supplier to the NNSA's National Ignition Facility (NIF). The majority of the contracts have been for large stainless steel or aluminum vacuum vessels requiring extensive post weld machining to tight tolerances and precision cleanliness levels appropriate to components for the world's most powerful laser. "Everyone at Meyer Tool is extremely proud to have contributed to the success of the National Ignition Facility and the important scientific and national stockpile stewardship programs being performed by the completed machine," said Ed Bonnema, vice president of operations of Meyer Tool. "For more than a decade Meyer Tool has maintained a collaborative relationship with the engineering and procurement staff at NIF. Meeting the challenges of fabricating the unique and difficult components for the NIF program expanded our capabilities and required us to develop new processes. We have been able to utilize these experiences as part of our objective to achieve the Lowest Total Cost of Ownership for all our customers." For more information about Meyer Tool and Manufacturing, see: www.mtm-inc.com.
A pair of Pantexans hit the road today in an effort to help stamp out hunger in the Texas Panhandle.
Byron Logan and Randy Stokes, officers in Pantex's Safeguards & Security Division at Pantex, ran 30 miles today from Pantex to the High Plains Food Bank's food drive, which is being hosted at Market Street United, in an effort to gather donations for families in need during this holiday season. The two gathered donations at Pantex and picked up items along the route in the hopes of filling a Bearcat armored vehicle with food items.
Stokes and Logan were joined for portions of the route by fellow Pantexans during the run. They collected donations along the route. They were followed by a Bearcat, which is an armored vehicle used by Security Police Officers at Pantex.Pantexans donated approximately 1,500 pounds of food and $500.
Sandia National Laboratories and Kirtland Air Force Base intend to save an estimated $7 million in electricity as part of a recently entered wholesale electricity contract for calendar years 2014 to 2016. This also adds up to $17 million when compared to the commercial retail rate.
Western Area Power Administration, with support from the NNSA's Office of Sustainability and Utilities, entered into
the contract per an agreement between NNSA and Western, in which Western secures contracts for Sandia/KAFB electric supplies and Sandia/KAFB provides Western with the requisite funds to pay for the electric supply services provided. Don Cook, NNSA's Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, said the contract is another example of NNSA's commitment to identifying ways to improve the efficiency of NNSA's operations to save money for American taxpayers. "We are continually seeking ways to improve the way we do business while maintaining the highest security and safety standards," he said.The 2014-2016 contract covers 83 percent of Sandia/KAFB's projected electricity needs (in lieu of 100 percent) to allow for potential energy reductions in the out years and/or potential renewable energy purchases. The annual electric power demand at Sandia/KAFB is about 65 MW and includes approximately 60 tenant organizations located on the Base. Presently, NNSA's needs are roughly 60 percent of the combined Sandia/KAFB electric power usage.In 2014, NNSA plans to issue another request for proposal (RFP) through Western to purchase future power for Sandia/KAFB for the years 2017 and beyond. These purchases are expected to continue to provide Sandia/KAFB with low cost electricity.
Livermore Site Office Manager Alice Williams yesterday received the NNSA Gold Medal for distinguished service in the national security of the United States and the NNSA Defense Programs Award of Excellence. Don Cook, Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, presented the awards and thanked Alice for her dedication to NNSA and to NNSA's Defense Programs. Alice is leaving the Livermore Site Office at the end of the year and is transitioning to the Environmental Management leadership team.
WATE in Knoxville, TN has a fantastic piece about the work being done by Y-12 employees this holiday season.
The Y-12 Apprentice Program held the first graduation ceremony in almost 30 years recently at the site's New Hope Center. Nine apprentices, including members of the carpenter's, painter's, insulator's and ironworker and rigger's unions, received their certificates of achievement for on-the-job and classroom training. The program, which was restarted three years ago, currently has 73 participants, and Y-12 is planning on adding machinists to its present list of eight trades. The last graduation ceremony before today was in 1982. Joe Riordan, at right, was recognized by B&W Y-12 Vice President and Deputy General Manager Bill Klemm for receiving his welder's certificate ahead of schedule as Beth Green of Facilities, Services and Infrastructure leads the ceremony.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has recommended new names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table.Scientists of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-Dubna collaboration proposed the names as Flerovium for element 114 and Livermorium for element 116.In June 2011, the IUPAC officially accepted elements 114 and 116 as the heaviest elements, more than 10 years after scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and Lawrence Livermore chemists discovered them. Flerovium (atomic symbol Fl) was chosen to honor Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, where superheavy elements, including element 114, were synthesized along with its former director. Georgiy N. Flerov (1913-1990) was a renowned physicist who discovered the spontaneous fission of uranium and was a pioneer in heavy-ion physics. He is the founder of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. In 1991, the laboratory was named after Flerov - Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (FLNR). Livermorium (atomic symbol Lv) was chosen to honor LLNL and the city of Livermore, Calif. A group of researchers from the Laboratory, along with scientists at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, participated in the work carried out in Dubna on the synthesis of superheavy elements, including element 116. (Lawrencium -- Element 103 -- was already named for LLNL's founder E.O. Lawrence.)Read more.


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At some point, you have to ask yourself: Why can't health care providers get it right?
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a scathing report, called To Err Is Human, which said almost 100,000 people die each year because of preventable medical errors. Ten years later, a follow-up report found little progress had been made in that regard.
That's not all that surprising when you see stats like this: A 2009 report revealed that less than half of the workers in intensive-care units and non-ICUs in the U.S. were meeting standards for hand hygiene. Yes, patients can be impatient, but, seriously, go wash your hands.
If that isn't bad enough, now comes word from the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation in a report titled Through the Eyes of the Workforce that many health care workers—who already are subjected to numerous workplace hazards such as exposure to blood-borne pathogens—often have to deal with bullying, harassment and even physical assault in the workplace.
In one incident detailed in the study released March 4, a physician allegedly grabbed a nurse by the throat and told her not to ask him a question in the delivery room ever again. Eventually the physician was suspended and had to complete an anger-management class to return to work, the report said, but the nurse was subsequently transferred. What kind of message does that send?
And it's not only doctors picking on other staff members; it's also nurses picking on nurses. "Nurses eat their young" is a common expression used in health care, according to the report. So do polar bears, but they do it to survive in hostile environments—not hostile work environments.
Bullying is often passed down to underlings; it's no different from hazing. For some people, the only saving grace of being hazed is knowing that they'll eventually get the chance to do unto others as was done to them. But that's nothing new. Hazing can be traced back to the 17th century when schools in Northern Africa and Western Europe required "pennalism" as part of the graduation requirements as a way to "civilize" underclassmen.
So what does an unfriendly work environment do to workers? It causes them to take time off—lots of time off. "More full-time employee (FTE) days are lost in health care each year than in industries such as mining, machinery manufacturing, and construction," the report states.
Additionally, some burned-out workers take out their frustrations on patients. Worse, burnout can lead to medical errors, the report says.
When I was in an auto accident in 2005, I went to the emergency room to have my back checked out. It wasn't a life-or-death situation, but I was in a lot of pain. I waited about four hours in the ER before I finally pushed a button to call a nurse to find out when someone would be able to see me. If it wasn't going to happen shortly, I wanted to leave. When I asked the nurse how much longer she thought it would be, she reprimanded me and said, "The ER isn't a deli; it's not first-come, first-served." Really? A hot corned-beef sandwich would have made me feel better than the medical attention I was receiving.
Now I'm not saying all health care workers act uncivilly at work, but a bad apple can put a bad taste in anyone's mouth.
When there's an unhealthy work environment, incivility tends to get passed down the line. But as in any business—and make no mistake about it health care is a huge business—it hurts the bottom line when workers are condescending to customers.
It's difficult to change a culture based on bullying, but it can be done with a commitment to training and hiring the right people. It starts at the top, but it's not as simple as it sounds, especially in health care where there aren't enough workers to begin with. For instance, it takes strong leadership—and excellent documentation—to dismiss a top surgeon who pulls in big bucks for a hospital saving lives while making other workers' lives miserable. But at some point, you have to say enough is enough if the staff is being threatened and morale is flat-lining.
Health care should take a page out of the Hippocratic Oath's playbook and teach workers to "First, do no harm"—to each other.
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So far, the interface is very nice and clean. The few people I have working in the interface have very few issues with it. It is, of course, only being tested now. I am sure more stuff would show up in production.
The only things users would like to see so far are:
Calendaring (minor issue)- if you have an appointment for 15 minutes, you cannot double click to open it, or mouse over it (tested in Firefox, not IE).
Inbox - Could use marking. would like to be able to select multiple messages and mark them as read or unread. Tagging is very nice for sorting, but the read/unread piece would also be very nice.
Contacts - I am sure when this gets to working with Outlook, this issue will disappear. Every user so far has asked for an ability to import froma file such as a .pst file or a delimited text file as most users have tons of contacts in Outlook or on their blackberry devices (another day).


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Las Vegas, NV (Sports Network) - Ty Lawson put home the winning layup as time
expired, lifting the Denver Nuggets to a 106-104 victory over the Los Angeles
Clippers in the preseason opener for both teams at Mandalay Bay Events Center.
Trailing, 104-102 with 7.6 seconds to play, Eric Bledsoe eased home a
beautiful reverse layup, tying the game at 104 with 3.1 seconds left.
After a 20-second timeout, Lawson received the in-bounds pass at the top of
the key and blew by the Clippers defense, dropping in the deciding bucket with
his right hand just as the clock showed zeroes
Lawson finished with eight points on 3-of-6 from the field and Kenneth Faried
led the Nuggets with 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting. Jordan Hamilton netted 17
points and Corey Brewer added 16 points off the bench.
Danilo Gallinari finished with 15 points and Andre Iguodala, who came to the
Nuggets in the four-team trade that sent Dwight Howard to the Lakers and
Andrew Bynum to Philadelphia, contributed eight points.
Bledsoe poured in a game-high 25 points to go with eight rebounds and six
assists, while Jamal Crawford donated 19 points off the bench for the
Clippers. Matt Barnes contributed 15 points and DeAndre Jordan added 14 points
and three blocks in the setback.
Blake Griffin had six points and seven rebounds.
Denver shot 53.2 percent overall and persevered despite turning the ball over
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Tokyo was no match for an all-business Blondzilla.
Maria Sharapova earned the first title since her return from shoulder surgery and 20th of her career by capturing the Toray Pan Pacific over an injured Jelena Jankovic. After losing the first two games the Russian broke out to a 5-2 lead in the opening set and won the first two points in the next game before JJ called the trainer. The Serb was forced to retire with a right wrist injury.
Shrieka, who also launched her Cole Haan Collection earlier in the week, was understandably thrilled to win her first trophy since her comeback and was appreciative of all the support this week:
I want to thank all of the fans for coming out here and supporting me, it meant a lot to me. To go from not knowing whether you'll ever play the sport again to holding a trophy, it's an unbelievable feeling. You realize what a gift it is to hit a tennis ball. I've put in so much work and this is just exciting.The 3-time Grand Slammer will move up to No. 15 in next week's WTA rankings.
I'm sure Shrieka is happy to get THAT monkey off her back. She went back to her old service motion this week and it seemed to be the right decision. Clearly her shoulder is feeling great which most likely gave her the confidence to let her game fly. Great news.
I'd say the Russian is setting herself up nicely for a strong start to 2010.
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Recently have started reworking loads for my old 280 rem. in a 700 mountain rifle. This gun has filled more tags for me than i can really remember. It is one of the most accurate production guns i have had. Depending on species i have a selection of bullets and loads worked up. From 120gr ballistic tips for pronghorn to 150 gr, gamekings for deer,elk and beer. Decidede to make this my long range light rifle getting away from the big mags i have used the last few years.
Giving Berger 140gr vld's a run. Havent even been past the realoading bench yet to find some accuracy. But wondering how they perform on game? I watch the shows like everyone else,that shows perfect drops on big animals at range. But would like to get some real world opinions.
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Policy on Email as an Official Method of University Communications
Increasingly, there is utilization, dependence and confidence in electronically based mail (email). This extends throughout the University and directly affects all students, faculty and staff. Because of benefits derived from its speed, ease of use, cost effectiveness, universal access, and environmental benefits, effective February 1, 2006, email will become one of the official forms of communicating business matters within the Kettering community. Some University communications will not be transmitted via email and all uses of University email shall be consistent with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and all applicable University policies.
All registered students, all full and part-time faculty, and full and part-time staff (as required by their supervisor) shall be provided with a University email account. Account holders shall be responsible for accessing their electronic mail on a regular basis. As it pertains to University business, each account holder shall be responsible for the content and requirements associated with the communication. It shall be the responsibility of the supervisor to communicate with employees who do not have email accounts via appropriate alternative means. This policy shall supersede any departmental policies pertaining to use of email as an official method of university communication.
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Information Technology will assign all official Kettering University email addresses and accounts. All official University email will be sent to this address and this address will be listed in all University email directories.
Access to email accounts will be provided from all Kettering University owned public workstations via a client and/or web browser interface. Off campus access will be provided via a web browser interface.
All members of the Kettering community may, of course, have electronic mail accounts on other systems, on or off campus. Electronic mail may be temporarily or permanently redirected from the official University account to any other account, but this is the responsibility of the email account holder and is done at their own risk. Kettering University will not be responsible for handling of email by any individual, departmental email systems, or any outside entities. Redirection of email does not absolve an individual from responsibilities associated with the communication.
All holders of official University email accounts, i.e., faculty, staff, and students, are expected to read their email on a regular basis, keeping in mind that there will be time-sensitive information contained in the email. Some communications (employment issues, contracts, etc.) will continue to be handled only through campus or U.S. postal mail.
Faculty and students may utilize email as an official way of communicating with the faculty and the students enrolled in their courses, and as stated above, are expected to read their email on a regular basis. All course related email communications shall be directed to an official University email address.
All holders of official University email accounts shall be responsible for use of the account and shall take all reasonable precautions to confine and protect its access to the holder of the account. Unauthorized use of the email address and account shall be the responsibility of the account holder. All use of University email shall be in compliance with FERPA, HIPAA and applicable University policies.
Account holders should be aware that email is not retained in perpetuity either on the University's email server (based on quota restrictions), or on backup media. Thus, when an account holder deletes an email, the content may not be retrievable beyond one week after the deletion. Therefore email communications that need to be retained after being deleted should be kept either electronically in a location other than the email server, or in print. The nature of a communication may also dictate requirements for its retention. Questions pertaining to requirements for records retention should be directed to the appropriate vice president.


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Video: Doctors report first cure of HIV in a child
Video: Toddler cured of HIV
ATLANTA -- "It's wonderful, absolutely wonderful," Karl Lehman told 11 Alive on Monday.
That was his reaction to learning that scientists said a baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured thanks to faster and stronger treatment than is usual for newborns.
Lehman runs Childkind, an Atlanta organization that helps children with special health needs.
It was founded in 1988 to help HIV infected children, but has since branched out to help those with other illnesses.
"This type of treatment can greatly reduce the numbers of children who will carry the HIV virus," Lehman hopes.
Scientists at a major AIDS meeting in Atlanta say the Mississippi child is now 2½ and has been off HIV drugs for about a year with no signs of infection.
If the child remains healthy, it would mark only the world's second reported cure. Specialists say it offers promising clues for more research to fight pediatric HIV.
"Standardly in the U.S., we don't really give treatment as early as this child received therapy. We wait to know whether the child is infected or not, and that can take sometimes up to four to six weeks to be able to identify an infected child," said Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins Medical Center. "So this case is distinct because the therapy was started so early."
Sunday's announcement in Atlanta suggests giving high-dose treatment right after birth wiped out HIV before it could form hideouts in the body that usually reinfect anyone who stops medication.
The baby was born to an HIV-infected mother who stopped giving her child medication at 15 months. She went back to the hospital around the child's second birthday.
"The mom admitted that she had not been giving the medicine for the past several months, and I fully expected the baby's viral load to have gone back up," said Dr. Hannah Gay, Pediatric HIV Specialist with the University of Mississippi Medical Center. "But when we drew the test, we got back still an undetectable viral load."
While the treatment will apparently not help older infected children, groups like Atlanta's Childkind hope it will mean fewer new infants needing help.
They feel that's especially important since after years of declining, the number of HIV infected children they're helping has begun to grow again.
"In the last two or three years we've seen the numbers of referrals, particularly in our foster care program, of HIV positive children increasing," Lehman said.
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Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston for treatment of a lingering cough.
Bush's chief of staff, Jean Becker, says the 88-year-old former president is being treated for bronchitis at Houston's Methodist Hospital. She says he was admitted last Friday and is expected to be released by the weekend.
Becker told the Houston Chronicle on Thursday that the illness was not life-threatening but there had been concerns it could have developed into pneumonia.
Becker's office referred questions to Bush's spokesman, who did not immediately respond to calls from The Associated Press.
Bush's son, former President George W. Bush, has been among visitors.
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Two of the Ohio Valley's premier small-school programs, which very seldomly play one another, are set to lock horns Friday night at Fleming Field in Shadyside.
The Tigers (4-0), who've yet to be challenged this season, will roll out the red carpet for Linsly (1-3), which hasn't won since Week 1 when it rallied past Magnolia.
''This is an acid test for us,'' Shadyside coach Mark Holenka said. ''They've played a really tough schedule and we understand why they play the schedule they do. Magnolia is by no means chopped liver, South is good, Alderdice is good and we know Wheeling Central is a thoroughbred. We're like a breather kind of game for (Linsly).''
Cadets coach B.J. Depew is by no means buying the idea that the Tigers are a ''breather.''
''Shadyside is a great program and they're really comparable to Wheeling Central because there is never a down year for them,'' Depew said. ''They really have no weakness on either side of the ball.''
The Tigers have cruised to victories against Strasburg, Monroe Central, Toronto and last week ran out to a 35-0 lead in the first quarter and subbed early and often in a lopsided victory against Shenandoah.
''I am pleased with our team,'' Holenka said. ''The kids have really responded to what we've asked of them at this point, and I think we've continued to get better, which is extremely important.''
The matchup within the matchup will certainly be one to watch as the stingy Shadyside defense will have to try to contain talented Linsly tailback Chinelo Oparanozie.
''He's certainly a concern,'' Holenka said. ''We've got to pursue, gang tackle and get him on the ground.''
Oparanozie has racked up 610 yards and scored seven touchdowns on 89 rushes thus far.
''We've faced Shadyside with good tailbacks in the past and they've always defended us very well,'' Depew said.
''They're not afraid to load up the box to stop the run and dare us to pass. We're really impressed with their linebackers (Alex Quinn and Austin Dorris).''
The Tigers may dare the Cadets to pass again since Linsly is preparing as if it will be without starting quarterback Jameson Murray because of injury. Sophomore Jibri Blount, son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Mel Blount, is preparing to be the starting quarterback.
''We're awaiting some (medical test) results and decisions on physical therapy for Jameson,'' Depew said. ''We'll put a plan together where we think Jibri can be successful without putting too much on his shoulders.''
The Shadyside offense has been scoring points in bunches, averaging 43.3 a game.
Senior Chase Kinemond triggers the attack. He's passed for 320 yards and eight touchdowns and is also a talented runner.
The brunt of the Shadyside ground game is led by senior Brooks Ramsey (27-157-2td), Chris Littell (15-152-3td) and Eric Howell (116 yards and two touchdowns).
The Tigers receiving corp is led by senior Cody Hudson and Dorris. The duo has combined for 20 catches for 310 yards and nine touchdowns. Also emerging as a playmaker, especially in special teams, is senior Ian Baker.
''Shadyside is a complete team,'' Depew said. ''It's going to be tough for us to contain them. They've got an outstanding quarterback who is extremely capable of leading them.''


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A band that grew up in the L.A. suburbs is wondering how hell could be any worse. And not just once, they did it over:
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Narcotics Units From Pamlico, Beaufort, and Craven Counties arrested three people during a drug bust Wednesday ending a month-long investigation involving the sale of cocaine and heroin in the area.
Investigators seized approximately 135 grams of powder cocaine, 1 gram of heroin, and 15 grams of marijuana having a total street value of approximately $5,000.
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|College Friday is this week
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
On Friday, April 12, proud alumni and students from colleges and universities near and far have an opportunity to celebrate higher education and show their pride by wearing the gear of their favorite college or university on College Friday.
College In Colorado encourages everyone to wear their favorite college shirts, hats, jackets and more.
College Friday is a fun opportunity to recognize and celebrate the importance of higher education by encouraging conversations with young people about their future.
Since it began in 2006, College Friday has grown every year. Businesses, schools and alumni organizations all join in.
Carl's Jr. and some Cold Stone Creameries are offering specials for those in college attire, and CSU-Global campus and CSU-Pueblo will waive application fees for College Week, April 7-14.
Community members are encouraged to get involved by putting on their favorite college jersey and talking to a young person about higher education and career training. Show college pride!
College In Colorado was initiated by the Department of Higher Education, which serves the citizens of the state of Colorado by promoting access to, affordability of and success in higher education for all students.
College In Colorado helps all Coloradans explore career and education pathways, break down barriers to postsecondary attainment and create a plan for their postsecondary and workforce success. For more information, visit www.CollegeInColorado.org.
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SOFTBALL: Strasburg Defeats St. John
May 24, 2013 NEW PHILADELPHIA — The Strasburg jinx continues. For the seventh time in eighth meetings, the Tigers have ended a fine softball season by St. John. more »»
St. John Girls Win District Semi
May 21, 2013 NEW PHILADELPHIA — For the first time since 2007, St. John Central has won a Division IV Eastern District semifinal softball tournament game. more »»
SOFTBALL: St. John Advances
May 16, 2013 SHADYSIDE — The further a team advances in the postseason, the more contributions it needs from up and down its batting order. It's no secret that S. more »»
Irish, Knights Move On
May 14, 2013 SHADYSIDE — Top-seeded S. more »»
SOFTBALL: St. John 14, Toronto 2
May 10, 2013 TORONTO — Hannah Absalom fanned 10 and doubled as St. John beat Toronto. Morgan DeLuca laced three hits for the Fighting Irish, while Caitlin Sliva added a doubl. more »»
SOFTBALL: St. John 10, Buckeye Trail 0
May 7, 2013 BELLAIRE — Hannah Absalom tossed another no-hitter, striking out 12 and walking one as St. John blanked Buckeye Trail. Absalom aided her own cause with a triple, double and three RBI. more »»
SOFTBALL: St. John, Absalom Rout Big Reds
May 5, 2013 BELLAIRE — Hannah Absalom picked up two victories in the circle Saturday as St. John swept Bellaire, 5-2 and 5-1, in prep softball action in the All-American Village. more »»
BASEBALL: Monroe Central 10, St. John 0
May 5, 2013 WOODSFIELD — Jacob Black doubled, singled and knocked in three runs as Monroe Central blanked St. John. Tanner Burkhart added a double and two RBI for the Seminoles. D.J. more »»
BASEBALL: River 8, St. John 1
May 5, 2013 WOODSFIELD — Logan Lucas had three singles and two RBI and Chad Isaly ripped two singles and knocked in a run as River topped St. John. Cody Caldwell added a double and two RBI for the Pilots. more »»
SOFTBALL: Crusaders Defeat Absalom, St. John, 3-2
May 3, 2013 BELLAIRE — Steubenville Catholic only laced four hits, but it made them count against pitcher Hannah Absalom and St. John in posting a 3-2 victory at Amanda's Field in prep softball action Thursday. more »»
TRACK: OVAC Qualifying Continues
May 2, 2013 ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Cal Giffin OVAC Track and Field Championship continued Wednesday evening at Red Devil Stadium with Classes 1A/2A and 4A wrapping up their qualifying rounds. more »»
BASEBALL: Frontier 9, St. John 5
May 2, 2013 NEFFS — D.J. Shoemaker hit two triples but it wasn't enough as St. John fell to Frontier. more »»
SOFTBALL: St. John 9, Steubenville 1
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SOFTBALL: St. John 10 Monroe Central 0
April 30, 2013 BELLAIRE —Hannah Absalom struck out 10 and scattered a pair of singles as she led St. John past Monroe Central. She also singled and drove in two for the Irish. more »»
BASEBALL: E. Richland Christian 10-8, St. John 9-13
April 27, 2013 ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Issac McIntire doubled and drove in a run in Game One as East Richland Christian and St. John split a twinbill. more »»
Softball: Absalom No-Hits Bishops in Class 1A Final
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Track: Brooke Relays
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SOFTBALL: St. John Blanks Paden City, 7-0
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Megos Makes Easy Work of Kalymnos Climbing Festival
Alexander Megos took home first place at the Kalymnos Climbing Festival last weekend after he made short work of the island's newest projects. Out of the four new routes, the 19-year-old German crusher managed to climb three of them on his first try:The Unexpected Journey (5.13b), Don't Call Me Greasy (5.13d/5.14a), and Don't Touch My Balls
(5.13d). The fourth route, Klesh (5.14b/c), fell to Megos after two attempts, according to 8a.nu.
"He is from another planet," said Italian climber Gabri Moroni of Megos on 8a.nu.
After completing these four routes in only four hours, Megos won the competition and received 3,000 Euros (~$4,000) in cash rewards.
Caroline Ciavaldini of France came out on top of the women's field when she became the only woman in the competition to flash two of the four climbs: Skin on My Left Hand (5.13b) and Banana Party (5.13b). She then went on to make an ascent of Match Point (5.14a) on her second try.
Two Americans also took part in the competition. Daniel Woods of Colorado placed third behind Austria's Kilian Fischhuber, and Sasha DiGiulian, America's super-strong talent, placed third in the women's competition.
"This place [Kalymnos] is spectacular. The ambiance is incredible: there is fabulous rock, beautiful scenery, delicious food, and good energy. I couldn't ask for more except more time here! Just having such short time is tough! I love this place and I hope to return soon," said DiGiulian on 8a.nu.
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Your Height maps and contours sir...
(A quick thanks to Neon for spot checking the height for me too).
OK, Area 15 comprises the following features:
(north) Kulukh Mountains
(west) Eastern Tawaren Basin
(center) Jaiyat Highlands
(east) Upper Hawksfoot River Valley
I've updated the wiki page for the Tawaren Basin and created one for the Jaiyat Highlands. I also will write the wiki page for the Kulukh Mountains.
If the people who adopted section 10 (Qashya Mal Central Steppe) and section 16 (unnamed) would like to cooperate with me on the articles for the Spice Road and the Hawksfoot River Valley, respectively, I'd appreciate it. The latter may be a little unclear until I finally get a map scanned, which should happen on Monday.
Your Height maps and contours sir...
(A quick thanks to Neon for spot checking the height for me too).
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Brilliant, thanks! ::prints out and gets to work::
Er...am I to assume that the lakes are at sea level?
You can put lakes anywhere you think you want them / they ought to be. The color image from the other thread with the green-blue was showing where sea level was tho. The contours show that there are many basins in the native data. You don't even have to follow them rigorously as that might lead to lots of little lakes. At this later stage in Ansium, not a great deal matters apart from some modest level of continuity to your neighbors.
Here is the tile with native data in 3D if that helps. You might decide to munge it about a bit first. The creator of FT recommends to do it and I did it on my tile. Its up to you tho. Nobody is making any attempt to be strictly continuous with neighbors in 3D or small detail height.
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Hello, Octopod. I'm the "people" for all of Qashya Mal. Just PM me for whatever your needs are. I preconceived the idea of rich spice empires to the south and east, well beyond Region 1 of the larger continental mass. Both the Silk Road and Spice Route give purpose to the vast Steppe that dominates the north central regions. Section 10, and both blocks east and west of it comprise the Khanate of Qashya Mal.
Calishem may be the largest city in the world, at least the largest in Region 1, with a population over 96,000 people. It is the western terminus of both the Spice Route and the Silk Road.
One thing to consider is neither the Silk Road, nor the Spice Route is actually a single road, rather within a 50 to 100 mile north-south swathe crossing the entire steppe from origins beyond Region 1, this is the general path traveled for the their respective commodities trading.
Like the Hochimen Trail wasn't a single trail through the jungle, rather hundreds of roads and pathways that ran parallel down Cambodia bringing supplies from China/North Viet Nam to South Viet Nam during the Viet Nam War. This is the same as what the Spice Route really is.
However certain isolated towns are found along the Spice Route have become resupply stations, thus many of the paths converge at these locations.
I would think that few if any paths do not end at Calishem. Thus regions like yours, Octopod, trade with merchants in Calishem, not off the Spice Route directly.
Within the confines of the Steppe, both the Silk Road and the Spice Route are jealously controlled by the cavalry horde of the Topaz Khan, forcing all western bound trade traffic to his western capital at Calishem.
I've placed a Slavic race of humans in the mountains and vales in the northern portions of Qashya Mal, no doubt their cultural range extends into your block. Also, no big deal, the Slavs here have named the mountain range that border our two squares as the Vahlvoska Mountains. There are many instances where major geographic locations have been given different names by different nearby cultures. Eventually one culture dominates and its name sticks...
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Thanks. PM'd you.
Edit: No I didn't. My PM abilities have been mysteriously curtailed -- not sure what's going on there -- so I'll put the discussion in this thread instead.
OK, so. Silk Road and Spice Route. Are these two trade routes operating by roughly the same route (getting to the Central Sea by way of the large river in map 28), or does the Silk Road go through 27 instead?
There seem to be two obvious mountain passes crossing the Vahlvoska/Kulukh Mountains. (Perhaps we can use the name "Vahlvoska" for the side of that mountain range to the west of the Jaiyat ridge, and "Kulukh" for that to the east? If not, your solution works too, or I could simply transfer the name "Kulukh" to the southern mountains in my map. Nothing's been inked yet.) Although, as you mentioned, the Spice Route is not a single road, I figured that the trade route to Calishem would tend to predominantly pass through the larger one to the west. So I situated a house of worship for the goddess of commerce there, tentatively called the Opulent Monastery, on the basis that her clerics might choose to run a sort of way-station to facilitate the mountain crossing. Past that point, I have the route heading relatively straight for a reasonably large tributary of the big river in 28 and thence, presumably, to the Central Sea. Is this OK?
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Perhaps its due to the recent SPAM attack (I was a recepient of SPAM here, yesterday) I did not receive your PM. Wait a day or two and submit the PM again, until the system is SPAM free again. PMing might be disabled for now.
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Oh, got it re: the PM thing. I was wondering if I'd accidentally stepped on a mod's toes or something...
Up to the time of the East Groam Plague, the Spice Route is north of that river, while the Silk Road is south of that river. Due to the plague, the Silk Road is temporarily (?) following the same route as the Spice route north of that river, south of Calishem.
When the route reaches the Qashya Mal Central Steppe, the routes diverge. The Silk Road starts heading southeast here, while the Spice Route continues east into my yet to be mapped Eastern Steppe of Qashya Mal and may fork as Spice Routes from different regions both south east and east enter that block.
PS: I'll have to look at the surrounding regions to get a better idea how to answer the rest of your question...
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I thought I might be able to confine the plague to the Tawaren Basin simply because the Jai hillfolk are not susceptible to it. (explained here) Do you think that is reasonable?


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Election Day speech
In a tone that swayed from conciliatory to chastising, President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address Jan. 27 contained one response to his uneven first year in the White House: "I don't quit." Obama admitted that "our administration has had some political setbacks this year, and some of them were deserved." Fearful of being counted out after the recent spate of losses in statewide races, Democrats left to Obama the job of reconnecting with the middle class: "Jobs must be our No. 1 focus in 2010," said Obama, tellingly burying last year's top priority-healthcare-until late in the speech. "What frustrates the American people is a Washington where every day is Election Day," he said. But that didn't stop him in his speech from taking his own jabs at the Supreme Court, senators, Republicans, and (yet again) the previous administration.
March for life
Politicians and pundits spoke to the tens of thousands of pro-life supporters at the National Mall Jan. 22, but the real heart of the 37th annual March for Life rally could be found in the story of one protestor. Seventeen years ago, Amanda Martis' mother had a choice after becoming pregnant her freshmen year in college: adoption or abortion. And her choice of life is the reason Amanda got to visit Washington, D.C., for the first time in conjunction with the annual rally held on the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Standing in front of the Supreme Court building, Amanda, who has never met her biological mother and lives in Toledo, Ohio, with her adoptive parents, held up a poster with the words: "Thanks mom."
Youth was featured at this year's rally, which seemed to co-opt President Barack Obama's campaign slogan of "hope." Hope, supporters said, because national polls show that the majority of Americans now oppose abortion, because House lawmakers successfully blocked the federal funding of abortion in a proposed healthcare reform bill, and because the growing personhood movement now has promising initiatives to protect life in 32 states.
Campaigns and the court
The primaries for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by President Barack Obama in Illinois take place Feb. 2, making it the first race that will test the impact of a January Supreme Court decision Obama strongly opposes-so strongly the president called out for Congress to rewrite the law during his State of the Union speech. The departure from protocol respecting the independence of the judiciary-something the Legal Times called "almost unprecedented"-underscored scorn by Democrats for the high court's 5-4 ruling, issued Jan. 21, that corporations' funding of campaigns no longer can be regulated. The decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission allows money to flow from corporations in support of a political issue or campaign, and law experts believe that from now on outside groups will be stronger voices in campaigns. In this ruling, the court overturned its own precedents as well as laws like McCain-Feingold that restricted campaign spending. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, supported by Chief Justice John Roberts as well as Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia. Kennedy wrote in his opinion that Congress' laws regulating campaign spending "burden speech."
Role reversal
A new Pew Research Center study shows that wives make more than their husbands in 22 percent of households. In 1970 just 4 percent of women earned more than their mates. And today, 28 percent of wives have more education than their husbands-up from 20 percent in 1970. The study says that the current 33 to 44 age group is the first in U.S. history to include more women than men with college degrees. The role reversal means that more men are now enhancing their economic status through marriage: Today median household incomes of married men are about 60 percent higher than in 1970 but just 16 percent higher for unmarried men compared with four decades ago.
Fed head
Not much unites self-described socialist Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., with Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., one of the most conservative members of the Senate. But in January they and other senators from both parties joined to oppose the nomination of Ben Bernanke to another term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Bernanke's liberal opponents said he had been too cozy with the big banks, and to win the support of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Bernanke had to promise to "redouble his efforts" to make credit available to the middle class. That's just what troubles many conservatives: Bernanke, as a Fed governor, was instrumental in former chairman Alan Greenspan's easy money policies of the early 2000s, which they claim inflated the housing bubble until it burst. Conservatives worry that he may keep money too easy for too long again. With Bernanke's Jan. 28 confirmation in the Senate, questions linger: Did the Fed chairman box himself in with his promise to Reid? Will Bernanke be able (or willing) to raise interest rates if new bubbles appear likely? And just how politicized has the "independent" Fed become?
Copts endangered
Bipartisanship on Capitol Hill is an endangered species, but 16 lawmakers-ranging from the liberal Barney Frank of Massachusetts to conservative Dan Burton of Illinois-signed onto a letter expressing "grave concern" over events in Egypt surrounding the Christmas Eve killing of six Coptic Christians. The incident "is indicative of a systematic pattern of violence," the lawmakers wrote to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, calling on him to "better protect the Coptic Christian community," itself endangered, and to provide compensation to survivors of the victims.
The killings took place in the southern Egyptian province of Qena on Jan. 8 (the eve of Orthodox Christmas) when gunmen opened fire on worshippers as they exited the service. Later, as thousands of mourners in the town of Naga Hamady turned out in support of the victims, government security forces sprayed them with tear gas. Three perpetrators, all Muslims, turned themselves in and were charged with premeditated murder.
Nigerian clashes
Areas of Nigeria continued under curfew after ethno-religious violence in and around Jos, a city on the north-south fault line between tribal and religious divisions, left an estimated 500 dead and over 17,000 people displaced. State Police Commissioner Greg Anyanting said that Muslim youths attacked worshippers without provocation as they left services on Jan. 17, and other witnesses called the onslaught "premeditated, wicked, deliberate, and terrifying." At least two churches were burned during the riots and seminary students from the Evangelical Church of West Africa, at 5 million one of the largest denominations in Nigeria, died as a result of gunshot wounds.
The violence between Christians and Muslims in the largest African nation of 155 million underscores Nigeria's delicate political state: With president Alhaji Yar Addua out of the country for two months receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, vice president Goodluck Jonathan deployed the military to stop attacks. On Jan. 23 soldiers pulled bodies killed in the clashes from wells and sewage pits in the mostly Muslim village of Kuru Jantar near Jos. "They were armed with cutlasses, guns, sticks, and bags of stone. It was not the Christians from our community but those from outside who came," one 32-year-old resident of Kuru Jantar, who was not named, told Human Rights Watch. "The children were running helter-skelter. The men were trying to protect the women. People who ran into the bush were killed. Some were burned in the mosque and some went to the houses and were burned," he said.
Lights out
A Michigan defense contractor has had its sights set on getting the Word out, inscribing Bible verses on more than 300,000 combat rifle sights made for the U.S. military. For the last three decades, Trijicon of Wixom, Mich., has embedded New Testament references in the end of stock numbers. The raised lettering includes "JN8:12" ("I am the light of the world") and "2COR4:6" ("the light to shine out of the darkness"). Why the references to light? The company uses a form of radioactive hydrogen in its sights to create light to improve a shooter's aim. The references are not obvious, but that didn't stop claims that the practice violates a government rule against proselytizing. After Gen. David Petraeus, head of the Central Command, this month called the practice "disturbing," the company agreed to stop-and to provide the military with free modification kits to scrub the Scripture references on current weapons.
Custody controversy
Rifqa Bary, the Ohio runaway teen who said her Muslim father threatened to kill her after learning she had converted to Christianity, will not be forced to return to her parents' home after they dropped their opposition to her dependency request. In exchange, Bary agreed to plead guilty to an "unruly minor" charge, which will not count as a criminal charge against her. Bary is expected to remain in foster care until her 18th birthday on Aug. 10, at which time she will have another dependency hearing.
A new audio tape has surfaced detailing a heated conversation last September between pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz, the Florida couple who housed the Christian convert after she ran away from her parents, and officials at Global Revolution Church. During the recording (which the Lorenzes contend was done without their consent) church officials fired the couple, saying the Lorenzes' involvement with Bary had forced the church to face "difficult decisions." Since then, Blake Lorenz has filed an affidavit alleging that church official Brian Smith intercepted personal mail and "apparently sent my mail to the attorneys for the father of Rifqa Bary in Ohio." Smith provided his own affidavit to attorney Omar Tarazi, who represents Bary's parents and was appointed by the controversial Muslim group CAIR, claiming the Lorenzes used deception and failed to heed legal advice in helping Bary-allegations the Lorenzes deny.
Ice capades
In 2007, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made a shocking prediction: Himalayan glaciers may disappear by 2035 because of global warming. Some scientists who study glaciers were suspicious of the claim, and last year the Indian government published a paper stating that India's 9,500 Himalayan glaciers showed no evidence of abnormal retreat; environmental minister Jairam Ramesh called the IPCC claim "alarmist." IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri shot back that the report was based on "voodoo science."
As experts dug into the controversy, it became clear last month that Pachauri himself was the voodoo scientist. It turns out that the IPCC prediction on glaciers was based on a single comment that Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain made in a 1999 interview with the journal New Scientist, a comment that Hasnain now says was speculative. The IPCC was forced to admit the mistake, even as the IPCC's Murari Lal admitted the political motivation behind it: to "impact policy makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action," he told Britain's Sunday Mail.
The Sunday Times of London on Jan. 24 reported that the same 2007 IPCC report also included another claim that was based on unpublished and non-peer-reviewed research: that the world had "suffered rapidly rising costs due to extreme weather-related events since the 1970s." In 2007, the same year of the IPCC's bogus claims, the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for its work involving global warming.


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See Why We're Excited About the New Library!
"The Library project meets a set of immediate practical problems and a set of wonderful opportunities. Our new library will make a difference for Ringling College and be a distinctive expression of its identity."
Dr. Larry Thompson, President
"With the new building, the College redefines the Library's mission, fundamentally repositioning it in the lives of students and faculty."
Kathleen List, former Director of Library Services
The new library will be 46,000 square feet in a multi-story design. It will feature seating for more than 400, a large computer lab and interactive study area, a coffee bar/café, 15 group study/meeting rooms, 2 large instruction rooms, the Academic Resource Center, a technology help desk, quiet study areas, room to double the collections, and a special collections department.
Opening Date
Fall 2016
Architect's Model of the New Library
View from Old Bradenton Road
View from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way
View from the Bayou
The site of the new library facility is southeast of the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Old Bradenton Road, adjacent to Whitaker Bayou. On that location there is currently a parking lot and the Brandenburg Studio. In a single location, the new library learning facility brings together resources, spaces, experts, and opportunities that presently may be scattered or insufficient to our needs and vision.
The site will be a beautiful setting for the library in several ways. It takes advantage of the bayou view, a feature our architects already see as an opportunity to develop a green space on the southeast approach to the building—a "bayou green"— with stepped terraces, outdoor seating and long views. On the west side of the building, with a set back from Old Bradenton Road and the future planned removal of older buildings, the western façade entrance will be approached from a "campus green." The site is also home to several native trees, referred to as the "grand trees," whose massive canopies provide welcome shade. The view across the bayou to the east is a city park and private residences with their own docks. To the south are Ringling's Bayou Studios. To the north is Ringling's new Student Health Center.
The location allows for one, two, and three stories, depending upon their position on the site. Three stories are permitted closer to Old Bradenton Road, while two stories are permitted closer to Whitaker Bayou.
The architects will design the exterior of the building with consideration for passive shading solutions. All of Ringling's recently-constructed buildings meet LEED certification, as will the new library building.


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