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I'd been planning to do a .50 Beowulf AK with a bent receiver, but a milled Chinese receiver is now laying on my workbench. It's part of some kind of training/DEWATS rifle; the barrel is welded up, the top cover has a few short (and pretty!) TIG welds anchoring it to the receiver, and it's missing the bolt and carrier.
I'll need the following:
.50 barrel
7.62x39 bolt to match the Beowulf case head
bolt carrier and operating rod
.223 magazine (may require some "adjustment" according to the AR15 sites)
modified or full-custom RSB, gas block, and FSB - the .50 barrel would have to be thinned unworkably to match the OEM bits. Though machining them from scratch is okay, I might cheat, saw the rings off, and weld or silver solder them to appropriate-sized tubes
At the moment, the only real point of uncertainty is the barrel attachment - it appears to be threaded into the receiver. I know I saw a chart around somewhere that gave the thread specs, but darned if I can find it now...
Anyone see anything major I've overlooked? Other than the gas and sight blocks, it looks fairly easy.


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ZF-7660: Zend_Dojo does not set required="false" if explicitly set
There is a minor problem with the decorator in Zend_Dojo_Form_Decorator_DijitElement:
Some Dijit form elements - like the number spinner - need an explicit "required=false" in order to accept blank values. This might be necessary if an input is optional and the user enters the input box but decides to exit it without entering a value. Therefore, the value is still empty but e.g. the number spinner validates and rejects the blank value.
If one sets "required=false" this problem does not exist.
The abovementioned decorator already sets required to true if explicitly set, but does not do so for false. Therefore, we need to change this behaviour in order to get the desired behaviour.
Careful: The decorator needs to set the value "false" as a String, not a boolean one. If set to boolean, it will be evaluated to 0 or "" (empty string) which will not be recognized by dojo.
I will attach my modified file. Please let me know whether this bug will be addressed in one of the next patches.
The numberspinner issue is a Dojo issue see http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/ticket/9643. Will be fixed in 1.4
Resolved by patching Dijit view helper; "required" attribute is always cast to a string now. Patch applied to trunk and 1.9 release branch.
Reopened as per request (irc)
I am still experiencing this on 1.9.6 with a Dojo Subform and a Filtering Select. I pass 'required' => false, in the initialization array for the form field, but it is still being required.
Isn't this just a matter of an incorrectly set fix version?
The fix attached to the bug works, while the fix that was committed does not.
Confirmed that the required="false" attribute will never be set (when set from the Element), since it does not set $attribs["required"] when $_required = false. This is because the parameter 'required' given to the Element calls 'setRequired()' rather than set the value in the $_attributes. Which is what happens when you give the exact same parameter from a Dojo ViewHelper like Zend_Dojo_View_Helper_NumberSpinner.
This would normally not be a problem if Dojo, just like ZF, assumes that an element is not required when the required attribute is not set. Unfortunately, like stated, this is not the case: FilteredSelect, NumberSpinner, TimeTextBox and maybe others assume that the element is required unless specifically told to. Might get fixed in Dojo 1.4 though?
So, imho, the attached patch is required to always set the required attribute on dojo elements. This might however, change the behavior of some elements (for the better; same required attribute for Zend_Form_Element and its Dojo counterpart, eliminating dependencies on Dojo's defaults), so not sure if it's possible to patch into 1.9 release. Maybe in time for 1.10??
Found a workaround: instead of passing required => false in the initialization (which calls setOptions, which in turn calls setRequired()), use the Element::setAttrib() function, like so
- {{$dojoElement->setAttrib('required', false);}}
- or: {{$dojoElement->setDijitParam('required', false);}}
- or even: {{$dojoElement->setAttrib('dijitParams', array('required' => false));}}
Fixed on trunk and 1.10 release branch.

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But that's not a bad thing for the two Mammoth, Calif., skiers.
Whether it's on the football field at Mammoth High School, where Teller, 29, coached Wallasch, 18, or at Teller's summer skicross camps, which Wallasch attended, the duo is always competing.
"He made me want to put on the pads and go and whack him a couple times," Teller said of coaching the versatile athlete.
On Friday, they were battling again, this time with a national championship on the line in the skicross finals at the U.S. Grand Prix at Canyons.
Moments after watching Madeline Riffel (who is also coached by Teller) win the women's national championship (finishing second overall to France's Ophelie David), Wallasch was chasing his idol down Doc's Run.
Teller got out to an early lead, something he had been doing all weekend.
"It's always easiest if you can get out in front and stay in front," he said of the narrow Canyons' course.
But Wallasch wouldn't go away, staying right behind Teller for the entire race, waiting for an opportunity to get around his coach. That opportunity never presented itself, however, and Teller held on to claim the national championship.
"I would have liked to beat him," Wallasch said. "But it's cool to finish behind him too. I've known him forever and he's an awesome guy. It's a dream come true and I hope I can continue to keep up with him."
Teller, who crashed during last year's Grand Prix at Canyons after crashing in the 2012 X Games, said this year's victory was very redeeming.
"It was kind of a disappointing month for me," he said of February 2012. "I had three crashes in a row and I was getting pretty sick of it."
Now Teller, who turns 30 on March 9, is skiing well heading into the 2013 Freestyle World Championships in Oslo, Norway. Despite being one of the older competitors, Teller said he's "still 18 at heart."
On the women's side, Riffel managed to avoid the worst of a three-skier crash in the women's race, staying mostly clear of danger to claim her second-place finish.
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Langely McNeal, the defending national champion, was caught up in the crash in the women's final and finished third.
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Remember what it was like to get eight solid hours of deep, uninterrupted sleep and wake up feeling rested and energetic? If not, you're probably a member of a not-very-exclusive club: sleep-deprived forty- and fifty-something women. "There's an enormous rise in sleep problems with the onset of perimenopause, which is usually around your midforties," says Nancy Collop, MD, director of the Emory University Sleep Center in Atlanta and president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. "Even if you were a sound sleeper before, you're likely to begin having problems now." And if you've always had trouble snoozing, your nights will probably get worse before they get better (improvement may happen in your sixties—one reason to look forward to aging!). Only 45 percent of peri-menopausal women report getting a good night's sleep almost every night, says the National Sleep Foundation.
What's to blame: hormonal shifts, coupled with new family obligations, such as needing to take care of elderly parents. "The result is that many women see their sleep quality go downhill," says Nanette Santoro, MD, professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado in Denver.
Poor sleep does more than make you yawn during meetings; it's lately been linked to heart disease, diabetes, weight gain, Alzheimer's and cancer. "Too many women struggle with sleep problems during the menopause years, thinking it's just something they have to live with," says Collop. But research shows there are effective solutions.
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"Hormones are at the crossroads between the brain and the body. When they shift, it affects all your systems," says psychiatrist Robert Hedaya, founder of the National Center for Whole Psychiatry in Chevy Chase, Maryland. For instance, scientists have recently learned that the hormone progesterone in high oral doses functions like a natural sleeping pill. "It acts on the neurotransmitters in the brain to trigger relaxation, reduce anxiety and decrease sleep disruptions," says Jerilynn Prior, MD, founder of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. But progesterone levels drop during perimenopause, possibly interfering with the deep REM stage of sleep and increasing middle-of-the-night awakenings, which in turn contributes to the predawn insomnia familiar to many women in their forties and fifties.
The perimenopausal and postmenopausal shifts in sex hormones account for arguably the most sleep--disturbing experience in this stage of life: hot flashes. For reasons that are not quite clear, the inner thermostat goes haywire, causing up to 85 percent of American women to experience hot flashes around the time of menopause. Since a decline in core body temperature is essential to falling (and staying) asleep, anything that raises the temperature at night may wake you up.
The stress connection
A decline in estrogen influences your stress levels—and hence whether you're relaxed enough to nod off—in a few ways. Estrogen increases the availability of serotonin, the feel-good neurotransmitter that relaxes the nervous system. It is also converted into melatonin, the brain chemical that tells the body it's time to go to sleep, says Hedaya. When your levels of estrogen plummet during perimenopause, the intricate interplay of signals gets disrupted, and sleep troubles follow.
In addition, if you have been under stress for a long time, you become more sensitive to lower estrogen levels, which means that you get easily worked up during the day and are wakeful during the night, becoming alert at the slightest noise or touch and having trouble falling back asleep. Couple this with "the tremendous number of psychosocial stressors that hit at this age," from launching teens into the world to caring for aging parents, and you get a "double whammy" that sabotages sleep, notes Jan Shifren, MD, director of the Vincent Menopause Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.


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SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Four Idaho volleyball players earned Western Athletic Conference postseason honors Sunday night, as the league held its annual awards banquet on the eve of the conference tournament.
Outside hitter Allison (Walker) Baker earned first-team All-WAC recognition for the third season in a row, and joining her on the first team was sophomore middle blocker Alyssa Schultz. Senior middle blocker Alex Sele earned second-team All-WAC honors for the second straight year, and freshman outside hitter Katelyn Peterson earned WAC All-Freshman team honors.
Baker ranked second in WAC matches in both kills and points, with 4.09 kills per set and 4.65 points. She also averaged 2.79 digs and 0.76 blocks per set and hit .199 during league play. She had a total of 20 double-doubles on the season, including a streak of five straight to end the regular season. Baker earned WAC Player of the Week honors once during the regular season, after she averaged 5.33 kills, 2.44 digs, and 0.56 blocks per set while hitting .245 in a pair of wins over Texas State and UTSA.
Schultz joins Baker on the first team after ranking second in the WAC with 1.66 blocks per set and seventh with a .341 hitting percentage. She also added 2.19 kills per set and 13 service aces in WAC play. Schultz had career-highs in 2012 with 15 kills on Aug. 30 against Cal Poly, a .750 hitting percentage on Sept. 13 against Denver and nine total blocks on four occasions. Schultz was a WAC All-Freshman team selection after the 2011 season.
Sele is a second-team All-WAC selection for the second straight season as she finished her Idaho career by hitting .377 in WAC matches to rank third, while adding 2.25 kills and 0.97 blocks per set during conference play. Sele had a career-high 13 kills on two occasions in 2012, hitting .500 or better in both matches. She had 13 kills with just one error on 24 swings to hit .500 in a win over UTSA on Sept. 29, and had 13 kills with no errors on 23 swings, hitting .565 in a win over UT Arlington on Nov. 10. Sele hit .403 with 2.50 kills, 1.10 blocks and 3.15 points per set during Idaho's final eight matches of the regular season.
Peterson averaged 1.82 kills per set and hit .142 in WAC play in her freshman campaign at Idaho. She had a career-high 17 kills on Oct. 20 in a four-set win over San Jose State, hitting .308 in that match. Her career-high .400 hitting percentage, seven kills and one error on 15 attempts, came in Idaho's season finale at New Mexico State. She had double-digit kills in five matches for Idaho.
The second-seeded Vandals open the WAC tournament on Monday as they face Texas State in the quarterfinals. The winner of that match will advance to face the winner of (3) UTSA vs. (6) San Jose State in the semifinals on Nov. 22. The WAC Championship match is Nov. 23 at 2 p.m. Pacific, and will be broadcast on national television live on ESPNU.


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Full SubmissionOECD SECRETARIAT: INPUTS TO THE RIO+20 COMPILATION DOCUMENT In the face of pressing economic and environmental challenges, efforts to promote green growth as a new source of growth have been gaining momentum in recent years. The Rio+20 Conference in June 2012 represents a critical milestone in terms of providing impetus to this dynamic, and ensuring that it advances countries' common aspirations towards sustainable development and poverty eradication. The OECD is committed to supporting countries in reaching positive outcomes at Rio+20, and thereafter to implement emerging agreements. For any targets, goals or other commitments agreed at Rio+20, countries will need: - cost-effective and politically implementable policy measures to achieve them; - robust indicators and data to help track their progress; - mechanisms to review progress and provide guidance on any necessary policy adjustments; and - dedicated platforms and innovative ways to facilitate co-operation at the international level. The OECD?s analysis, indicators, country reports and policy recommendations provide a sound basis to support these efforts. OECD?s contribution to Rio+20 will include a global Environmental Outlook to 2050 and a range of analysis and policy guidance linked to the Green Growth Strategy. Together, these can help ascertain the implications of demographic and economic trends for four key areas of global concern ? climate change, biodiversity, freshwater and the health impacts of environmental pollution ? and to identify concrete ways in which green growth initiatives can address these to promote sustainable growth and well being. The OECD sees green growth as a practical and flexible approach for accelerating progress in the economic and environmental pillars of sustainable development, while taking full account of the social consequences of greening the growth dynamic of economies. The focus of green growth strategies is ensuring that natural assets can deliver their full economic potential on a sustainable basis. That potential includes the provision of critical life support services ? clean air and water, and the resilient biodiversity needed to support food production and human health. There is no ?one-size-fits-all? prescription for implementing green growth. Greening the growth path of an economy depends on policy and institutional settings, level of development, resource endowments and particular environmental pressure points. Advanced, emerging, and developing countries will face different challenges and opportunities. OECD is working to identify some of the policy mixes that can help countries in different situations implement green growth in a way that contributes to poverty eradication, employment opportunities, and a strong and sustainable economy. In May 2011, the OECD Green Growth Strategy was welcomed by governments from over forty developed and emerging economies as a useful tool for expanding economic growth and job creation through the sustainable use of natural resources, efficiencies in the use of energy, and valuation of ecosystem services. The Green Growth Strategy is a contribution to the Compilation Document. It identifies the sources of green growth and the policy frameworks needed, including for addressing the process of structural adjustment and facilitating employment opportunities. It provides insights on the key issues that will require enhanced international co-operation and the indicators that can help measure progress towards green growth objectives. This note provides details on the deliverables and background material of the some of the key areas of continued OECD work related to green growth, which can be used to inform specific issues raised in the Compilation Document. I. OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 Over the last four decades, the world?s population has increased by over 3 billion people, and the size of the world economy has more than tripled. This growth, however, has been unevenly distributed and incurred significant cost to the environment. Natural assets have been and continue to be depleted, and the services they deliver have already been compromised by environmental pollution. Providing for a further 2 billion people by 2050 and improving the living standards for all, will challenge our ability to manage and restore those natural assets on which all life depends. Failure to do so will have social consequences, especially for the poor, and ultimately undermine growth and human development of future generations. The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 focuses on four areas: climate change, biodiversity, water and the health impacts of pollution and asks ?What could the next four decades bring us?? Based on model-based projections, it looks forward to the year 2050 to ascertain what demographic and economic trends might mean for the environment if humanity does not manage natural assets with much greater care, and examines how specific policy actions can help to shift these projections to a more sustainable course. Can the planet?s resource base support ever-increasing demands for energy, food, water, wood products and other natural resources, and at the same time absorb our waste streams? Or will the growth process undermine itself? How can we balance the environmental, economic and social objectives and secure the life support systems on which all human development depends? See: www.oecd.org/env/outlook II. Selected areas of OECD work on green growth Green growth country reports Building on the general framework developed in the Green Growth Strategy, the OECD is mainstreaming green growth in its national and multilateral policy surveillance exercises to provide policy advice that is targeted to the needs of individual countries. These include the Economic Surveys, Environmental Performance Reviews, Innovation Reviews, and Investment Policy Reviews, as well as the Going for Growth annual report and the Green Cities Programme. These analyses will cover advanced, emerging and other economies. Already a number of Economic Surveys and Environmental Performance Reviews have examined selected green growth issues, and can provide some first insights into countries' recent actions to green their economies, for example some recent ones include: ? OECD (2011), OECD Economic Surveys: India 2011, chapter on ??Phasing out energy subsidies?, OECD Publishing. www.oecd.org/document/36/0,3746,en_2649_33733_48079140_1_1_1_1,00.html ? OECD (2011), Greening Public Budgets in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, OECD Publishing. www.oecd.org/document/51/0,3746,en_2649_37465_48665971_1_1_1_37465,00.html ? Jones, R. S. and B. Yoo (2011), "Korea's Green Growth Strategy: Mitigating Climate Change and Developing New Growth Engines", OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 798, OECD Publishing. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/korea-s-green-growth-strategy_5kmbhk4gh1ns-en ? Capozza, I. (2011), "Greening Growth in Japan", OECD Environment Working Papers, No. 28, OECD Publishing. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/greening-growth-in-japan_5kggc0rpw55l-en ? Carey, D. (2010), "Implementing Cost-Effective Policies in the United States to Mitigate Climate Change", OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 807, OECD Publishing. www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/displaydocumentpdf/?cote=eco/wkp(2010)63&doclanguage=en ? OECD (2010), OECD Economic Surveys: Australia 2010, including a focus on water management, OECD Publishing. http://www.oecd.org/document/37/0,3746,en_2649_34569_46255013_1_1_1_1,00.html ? OECD work on Green Cities: www.oecd.org/greencities Green growth indicators and measurement tools Developing and implementing framework conditions that promote green growth requires a good understanding of the determinants of green growth and of related trade-offs or synergies. It also requires appropriate information to support policy analysis and to monitor progress. Monitoring progress towards green growth requires indicators based on internationally comparable data. The report Towards Green Growth: Monitoring Progress - OECD Indicators (www.oecd.org/dataoecd/37/33/48224574.pdf) proposes a preliminary set of twenty-five indicators on the basis of existing work in international organisations, and in OECD and partner countries. The proposed set is neither exhaustive nor final, and has been kept flexible so that countries can adapt it to different national contexts. It has been structured to capture the main features of green growth: See Submission Document In the coming years, the OECD will work with countries to advance the green growth measurement agenda, fill some of the most important information gaps, and contribute to the implementation of the System of Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA) in areas relevant to green growth. The aim is to: ? Fill gaps in environmental-economic data at the industry level. ? Develop and improve the physical data for key stocks and flows of natural assets, including information on land resources and non-energy mineral resources that often constitute critical inputs into production. ? Further develop physical data to help improve material flow analyses. ? Improve information on biodiversity. ? Develop monetary values to reflect prices and quantities for (changes in) key stocks and flows of natural assets. Such valuations, even if incomplete and imperfect are required for extended growth accounting models, more comprehensive balance sheets and for adjusted measures of real income. ? Produce information on how environmental concerns trigger innovation in companies. ? Develop indicators on environmental regulation to complement indicators on economic instruments. ? Improve measures on both the objective and the subjective dimensions of quality of life, in particular measures of environmentally induced health problems and related costs; and public perceptions. ? Identify a small set of ?headline? indicators to track central elements of green growth and which are representative of a broader set of green growth issues. Further information and key documents: ? Environmental Statistics and Indicators: www.oecd.org/env/indicators ? Measuring Progress in Societies: www.oecd.org/progress ? Measuring sustainable development, UNECE, OECD, Eurostat (2009): www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/20/41414440.pdf ? Measuring the Relationship between ICT and the Environment (2009): www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/50/43539507.pdf ? Sustainable Manufacturing Toolkit (2011): /www.oecd.org/innovation/green/toolkit Green Growth and Developing Countries To realise global sustainable development, the collective efforts of all nations are needed. Developing countries are particularly important in meeting this objective because these countries will increasingly be sources of economic and population growth, and this will be accompanied by new pressures on the environment and natural resources. Given the importance of natural assets in low-income economies, green growth can help foster more resilient economic growth and better livelihoods for the poor. OECD is exploring how green growth strategies can be applied in the context of developing countries, taking into account differences in natural resource endowments, levels of socio-economic development, sources of economic growth, and institutional capacity. A preliminary report on Green Growth and Developing Countries will be part of OECD's contribution to the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012. It will identify promising areas in which green growth objectives could be achieved and the policies, regulations, technology transfer and new market and innovation opportunities that could help to deliver them. The report will recognise the importance of international co-operation and the mutual benefits between the advanced and developing economies in striving for greener growth. OECD countries make up the main donor countries, and have been working with partner countries to identify how development assistance can best support sustainable development. The OECD has been tracking aid for environmental purposes for over a decade. It has used "Rio-markers" to track international public finance flows that support the Rio Conventions on biodiversity, desertification, and climate change. At the same time, OECD also collects data on aid flows to key sectors related to green growth and sustainable development such as energy, water, agriculture and forestry. Forthcoming OECD work in early 2012 includes comprehensive guidance on capacity development for environmental management. It consists of recommendations to help build the necessary capacity for implementing green development policies and facilitating environmental governance, finance and planning in both developing countries and by development support providers. Further information and key documents: ? OECD 2012( forthcoming) Greening Development: Capacity Development for Environmental Management www.oecd.org/document/39/0,3746,en_2649_34421_40859367_1_1_1_1,00.html ? Statistics on Environmental Aid: www.oecd.org/document/59/0,3746,en_2649_34421_46670203_1_1_1_1,00.html ? OECD (2009), Integrating Adaptation to Climate Change into Development Co-operation: Policy Guidance www.oecd.org/env/cc/adaptation/guidance ? OECD (2008), Natural Resources and Pro-poor Growth: The Economics and Politics http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/61/43/42440224.pdf ? OECD (2005), Environmental Fiscal Reform for Poverty Reduction www.oecd.org/dataoecd/14/25/34996292.pdf Innovation and technology transfer Innovation is key to green growth. It helps decouple growth from natural capital depletion and contributes to economic growth and job creation. Business is the driver of innovation, but governments need to provide clear and stable market signals, for example through carbon pricing. Recent OECD work explores policy actions for the deployment and transfer of new technologies and innovations as they emerge. Some of the key findings include: ? Investing in energy and environmental R&D is not enough. Only a small share of the key green growth inventions emerge from energy or environmental R&D. R&D in fields such as chemistry, material sciences and engineering are also important sources of scientific research for green technologies. ? Carbon and resource prices are essential to stimulate green innovation. Putting a price on carbon is critical for incremental improvements to clean tech and the take up of low-carbon technologies, but it will not necessarily lead to breakthrough innovations. Public and private investment in research is also needed, including in emerging and developing economies that may need to adapt existing technologies to their own local context. ? Emerging and developing economies have opportunities to leapfrog, e.g. by an effective use of ICT. ICT offers important opportunities for greening growth in countries that are still developing their infrastructure, e.g. in integrating ICT in electric grid systems, and in using ICT to enhance Access to information and markets. ? Not all policies for green innovation cost money. Removing regulatory barriers to the growth of new firms can help spur entrepreneurship and generate new business models that challenge incumbent firms. OECD?s work on innovation has found that young firms account for a large share of patenting. ? A key factor in facilitating technology transfer is the absorptive capacity in recipient countries. The higher the level of domestic human capital, the higher the level of technology transfer as well as the positive local spillovers from trade and foreign direct investment. This illustrates the importance of long-term capacity building and education in technical and scientific areas. ? Technology-neutral domestic policy regimes and international policy co-ordination are important factors for increasing the flow of technologies across borders. If environmental policy is too prescriptive and un-co-ordinated this can result in fragmented technology markets, with the potential market for the innovations induced split across different policy jurisdictions. ? To accelerate the diffusion of innovation, new mechanisms for enhancing technology transfer to developing countries are currently being explored e.g. voluntary patent pools and other collaborative mechanisms for leveraging intellectual property. Some good practice already exists but significant scale-up is required. Governments need to underpin such new mechanisms by supporting investments in the required knowledge networking infrastructure, fostering the sharing of public-sector knowledge, and developing guidance and soft rules to underpin these mechanisms. Further information and key documents: ? OECD (2011), Fostering Innovation for Green Growth www.oecd.org/document/3/0,3746,en_2649_37465_48593219_1_1_1_37465,00.html ? OECD (2011), Invention and Transfer of Environmental Technologies www.oecd.org/document/28/0,3746,en_2649_37465_48792476_1_1_1_37465,00.html ? OECD (2010), Eco-Innovation in Industry: Enabling Green Growth www.oecd.org/document/34/0,3746,en_2649_37465_44416162_1_1_1_37465,00.html Ensuring freedom of investment for green growth and preventing protectionism International investment is a vital source of finance and a powerful vector of innovation and technology transfer as countries seek to promote green growth. Work at the OECD on "Harnessing Freedom of Investment for Green Growth" addresses how the international investment policy community can help countries achieve green growth. It underscores the importance of continued monitoring by governments of their investment treaty practices with regard to environmental goals. It is also important that new environmental measures observe key international law principles such as non-discrimination (creating a level playing field for domestic and international investors). International investment arbitration is assuming a growing role in resolving disputes involving environmental issues, placing special responsibility on the investment policy community to ensure the integrity and competence of arbitral tribunals and to improve their transparency. The Freedom of Investment Roundtable (FOI) hosted at the OECD also addresses concerns expressed by some countries that investment could be affected if the green growth policy agenda were captured by protectionist interests. However, to date, none of the 42 OECD and emerging economies that report regularly to the Roundtable about investment measures have reported overt discrimination against non-resident or foreign investors in relation to environmental policy. Nonetheless, vigilance is encouraged. Environmental policy measures that appear to be neutral may potentially involve de facto discrimination or create barriers to trade which constrain development. Some environment-related state aids (such as grants, loan guarantees or capital injections for individual firms), may potentially pose risks to competition. The FOI Roundtable will continue to monitor investment measures to ensure that they are not used as disguised protectionism. Further information and key documents: ? OECD (2011), Harnessing Freedom of Investment for Green Growth www.oecd.org/document/0/0,3746,en_2649_34887_47721600_1_1_1_1,00.html. ? OECD (2011)," Defining and Measuring Green FDI: an Exploratory Review of Existing Work and Evidence", OECD Working Paper on International Investment No. 2011/2 www.oecd.org/dataoecd/26/8/48171454.pdf ? OECD (2010), Transition to a low-carbon economy: public goals and corporate practices, www.oecd-ilibrary.org/finance-and-investment/transition-to-a-low-carbon-economy_9789264090231-en. Green growth sectoral studies: energy, food and agriculture, water It is important to understand the implications of green growth for key sectors and themes such as energy, food and agriculture, and water. The key message from OECD sector-specific work to date is that, over the longer term, greening these sectors can reinforce environmental sustainability, economic growth and social well-being. Indeed, green growth is essential to meet the energy, food and nutrition, and water and sanitation requirements of future generations. Some of the priority areas where coherent action is required include: ? Increase productivity in a sustainable way. If resources are used more efficiently throughout the supply chain, production can be increased to meet the demands of an expanding population with changing dietary and consumption habits while natural resources are used sustainably and natural capital is conserved. Higher priority needs to be given to research, development, innovation, education and information. ? Ensure that well functioning markets provide the right signals. Prices that reflect the scarcity value of natural resources will contribute to greater efficiency. Economically inefficient and environmentally harmful subsidies should be phased-out. The Polluter Pays Principle needs to be enforced through charges and regulations. Incentives should be provided for maintaining biodiversity and environmental services. ? Establish and enforce well-defined property rights. Over-exploitation can result when marine resources, land and forests lack clearly defined rights and ownership. ? Address the political economy of reform. Ensuring involvement by all relevant stakeholders and phasing-in policy reforms will be important for successful implementation. Addressing the distributional and competitiveness aspects of policy reform to meet green growth objectives is essential. A multi-level approach integrating international, national and local decision-makers and stakeholders can help identify challenges and formulate coherent policy responses. Further information and key documents: ? OECD, IEA (2011, forthcoming), A Green Growth Strategy for Energy: Preliminary Report http://www.oecd.org/document/38/0,3746,en_2649_37465_48469158_1_1_1_37465,00.html ? OECD (2011), A Green Growth Strategy for Food and Agriculture: Preliminary Report www.oecd.org/dataoecd/38/10/48224529.pdf ? OECD work on Green Growth for food, agriculture and fisheries: www.oecd.org/agriculture/greengrowth ? OECD (2011), Meeting the Challenge of Financing Water and Sanitation: Tools and Approaches, OECD Studies on Water, OECD Publishing. www.oecd.org/document/31/0,3746,en_2649_37465_48911647_1_1_1_37465,00.html ? OECD (2011), Water Governance in OECD Countries: A Multi-level Approach, OECD Studies on Water, OECD Publishing. www.oecd.org/document/13/0,3746,en_2649_37465_48896205_1_1_1_37465,00.html OECD work on Water: www.oecd.org/water
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The Leonardo's Cool-Person-in-Residence: Shawn Rossiter
The Leonardo has added a spin to their art displays in The Lab: the artists themselves. Every week, a different local artist, designer, architect, scientist or another cool person moves his or her studio into The Leonardo to showcase artwork, mingle with the visitors, teach their craft and display masterpieces. Read More


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Let's Get Fit is a free adult wellness program offered by the City of Lexington Parks and Recreation department. There will be four sessions beginning on at 6 p.m. April 7. This program will educate participants about nutrition, healthy food choices and exercise. Health screenings will be provided by Wake Forest Baptist Health – Lexington Medical Center. A mobile mammogram screening is scheduled as well. Register at www.lexingtonnc.gov. For more information, please contact Tammy Curry at 248-3960 ext. 3237 or email@example.com.
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Once again, it's been a long time since I've pushed out an update for Pokemon Dream. However, that is changing (and I mean it this time); there are many exciting new features and enhancements to come. I plan on applying the many insights and skills I've gained this summer while interning at a company that makes insanely great products.
Recently, you may have noticed this new layout. I am currently in the process of adapting all pages to run smoothly with it. Along with the new layout comes some organizational changes. Most notably, if you look on the right menu bar, the Anime section is gone. It has joined its brother, the Trading Card Game section, under the renamed Medley category (which was previously called "General"). As you all probably know, it's been literally years since our anime and TCG content has been updated, and I think it makes sense now to throw them in the backstage. Don't get me wrong -- the Pokemon anime and TCG themselves are still very popular after all these years. Unfortunately, here at Pokemon Dream, we simply don't have enough resources to keep up with all that information.
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Medicago previously entered a $21 million Technology Investment Agreement with DARPA to develop a 97,000-square-foot vaccine facility in RTP. This facility is a large, scaled-up facility for Medicago's VLP plant-based vaccine technology, designed for the delivery of cGMP-grade vaccine. Medicago intends to demonstrate its capacity to produce 10 million doses/month of influenza vaccines with the potential for future further expansion.
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Hello everyone,
I will try to make a artificial horizon, with a compass sensor and a acceleration sensor.
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I plan to load the up, so maybe someone can add it to the project.
I start the project next week.


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workers compensation community has a language of its
own. This information is intended to help clarify Oregon
workers compensation terms and acronyms.
condition - A medical condition for which an insurer
accepts responsibility for the payment of benefits on a
claim filed by an injured worker. Insurer provides written
notice of accepted conditions. (ORS 656.262) The insurer
generally will accept specific conditions based on the diagnosis
by the physician or nurse practitioner. It is important
that the health care provider report a diagnosis rather
than a symptom.
administrative law judge - An employee of the Workers'
Compensation Board who reviews appealed administrative orders,
holds impartial hearings, and issues legal opinions.
aggravation claim - A claim for further benefits
because of a worsening of the claimant's accepted medical
condition after the claim has been closed. Aggravation rights
expire five years after first closure on disabling claims
or five years from date of injury on non-disabling claims.
alternative dispute resolution (ADR) - A voluntary
process through which parties resolve disputes instead of
using the formal hearing process.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - A
private non-profit organization that oversees the development
of voluntary consensus standards for products, services,
processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.
The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international
standards so that American products can be used worldwide.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - A federal
act directing employers to make reasonable accommodations
for people with disabilities.
ancillary care - Care such as physical or occupational
therapy provided by a health care provider other than the
attending physician, specialist physician, or authorized
nurse practitioner.
appeal rights - Legal rights that any party may exercise
when not satisfied with an insurer's decision, action, or
assigned claims agent - The company contracted to
process claims referred under a noncomplying employer order.
assigned processing agent - The company contracted
to process and pay supplemental disability benefits to injured
workers on behalf of the Workers' Compensation Division.
attending physician - A health care provider primarily
responsible for the treatment of an injured worker. (ORS
authorized nurse practitioner - A nurse practitioner
authorized by the director to provide compensable medical
services to an injured worker for a period of 180 days
from the date of the first visit to a nurse practitioner
on the initial claim. The nurse practitioner also may
authorize temporary disability benefits for a period
of up to 180 days from the first visit to a nurse practitioner
on the initial claim.
authorized training plan (ATP) - A contract between
the insurer and worker regarding the type of training that
the worker will complete as well as the responsibilities
of both parties during the course of the training plan.
average weekly wage (AWW) - The
Oregon average weekly wage of workers in covered employment,
as determined by the Employment Department. (ORS 656.211)
The AWW affects the rate of temporary disability, permanent
partial disability, permanent total disability, and death
benefits. (ORS 656.204, 656.208, 656.210, 656.212, 656.214)
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- An injured worker's spouse, domestic partner, child, or
dependent entitled to receive payments under workers' compensation
law. (ORS 656.005)
board - The Workers' Compensation Board of the Department
of Consumer and Business Services.
board review - The appeal level following a hearing
before an administrative law judge of the Workers' Compensation
Board Hearings Division.
board's own motion (BOM) - The
reopening of a workers' claim after aggravation rights have
expired for a worsening, new, or omitted medical condition
claim. ORS 656.278
bulletin - A director/administrator approved release
of information outside the agency regarding legal provision,
requirements and/or administrative rules.
Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) - The state
agency that investigates discrimination in the workplace
and enforces employee rights.
business identification number (BIN) - The number
assigned to a business by the Oregon Department of Revenue
(printed on the employer's Oregon tax coupons). This number
is used by the Oregon Employment Department and the Oregon
Department of Consumer and Business Services to keep track
of taxes and workers' compensation premium assessments and
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certified rehabilitation counselor - A certified
vocational counselor on staff of an authorized vocational
assistance provider, insurer, or self-insured employer.
claim - A written request by the worker, or on the
worker's behalf, for compensation.
claim closure - The process of closing a claim and
determining permanent disability when an injured worker
is found to be medically stationary.
claim disposition agreement (CDA) - An agreement
between the parties to a workers' compensation claim. The
worker agrees to sell back his or her rights (e.g., rights
to compensation, attorney fees, expenses) except medical
and preferred-worker benefits on an accepted claim. Also
known as a "C&R" or a "compromise and
release." (ORS 656.236)
claimant - A person who files a claim for occupational
disease or injury benefits under workers' compensation law.
examiner - An insurer representative who processes claims
filed by workers.
claims information system (CIS) - The computer data
system the Workers' Compensation Division uses to track
activity and status of claims that are required to be reported
to the division (only disabling and denied claims must be
CLE - Continuing legal education. Active members
of the Oregon State Bar are required to complete a minimum
number of credit hours of CLE activities to maintain their
closed claim - A claim for which the insurer or the
Workers' Compensation Board has issued a Notice of Closure.
closing examination - A medical examination to measure
a worker's impairment, which occurs when the worker is medically
combined condition - Occurs when a pre-existing condition
combines with a compensable condition. A combined condition
may cause disability or prolong treatment. (ORS 656.005)
compensable fatality claims - Compensable fatalities
are claims accepted by insurers during the year resulting
from a fatal occupational injury or disease that entitles
workers and their survivors to compensation. Data exclude
deaths of non-covered workers, such as workers who were
self-employed, worked in Oregon for out-of-state employers,
city of Portland police and fire employees, or federal employees.
compensable injury - An accidental injury to a person
or prosthetic appliance, arising out of and in the course
of employment that requires medical services or results
in disability or death. (ORS 656.005) A claim is compensable
when it is accepted.
consequential condition - A condition arising after
a compensable injury and for which the major contributing
cause is the injury or treatment rendered that increases
either disability or need for treatment. (ORS 656.005)
consulting physician - A physician who advises the
attending physician or authorized nurse practitioner regarding
the treatment of a worker's injury.
Consumer and Business Services Fund - The major operating
fund of the Workers' Compensation Division and workers'-compensation-related
functions of other divisions within the Department of Consumer
and Business Services. (ORS 656.612)
contested-case hearing - A formal proceeding at which
parties can present evidence in support of their case to
an administrative law judge who issues an order resolving
the dispute.
Court of Appeals - The level of appeal for workers'
compensation disputes following a Workers' Compensation
Board review or director review after hearing.
curative care - In the workers' compensation system,
treatment to stabilize a temporary waxing and waning of
symptoms after a worker is medically stationary. (ORS 656.245)
CY - The calendar year (Jan. 1 through Dec. 31).
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de facto denial - The failure of an insurer to accept
or deny a claim within the statutory time frame. The insurer
has 60 days to accept or deny a claim.
deferred claim - A claim not yet accepted or denied
by the insurance company or self-insured employer.
degree - For dates of injury before Jan. 1, 2005,
a unit of measure for permanent partial disability benefits
that is used to convert disability percentages to dollar
denied claim (denial) - A written refusal by an insurer
to accept compensability or responsibility for a worker's
claim of injury. (ORS 656.262)
department - See the Department of Consumer and Business
Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS)
- The state agency consisting of the Workers' Compensation
Division, Workers' Compensation Board, Oregon OSHA, Insurance
Division, Building Codes Division, Division of Finance and
Corporate Securities, Ombudsman for Injured Workers, Small
Business Ombudsman, and other offices and programs.
Department of Justice (DOJ) - The state agency that
provides legal representation to other state agencies. The
attorney general is the head of the Department of Justice.
designated paying agent - The insurer temporarily ordered
to pay benefits for a compensable injury until responsibility
for the claim is determined. (ORS 656.307)
disability payment - The payment for disability resulting
from an accident or disease from which a worker is not expected
to recover. Determined at the time the condition becomes
medically stationary. May be partial or total. See also
permanent partial disability and permanent
total disability
disabling claim - Any injury is classified as disabling
if it causes the worker temporary disability (time-loss),
permanent disability, or death. The worker will not receive
time-loss benefits for the first three days unless he or
she is off work and not released to return to any work for
the first 14 consecutive days or is admitted to a hospital
as an inpatient during the first 14 consecutive days. The
claim is also classified as disabling if there is a reasonable
expectation that permanent disability will result from the
disabling compensable injury - An on-the-job injury
that entitles the worker to temporary, permanent partial,
or total disability payments, or results in death benefits.
disputed-claim settlement (DCS) - A DCS is a settlement
of a workers' compensation claim in which the worker gives
up all rights to benefits for the entire claim or for a
specific medical condition. If the DCS settles the entire
claim, the claim remains forever denied, the worker has
no right to any medical benefits, and medical bills are
not paid by the insurer except as specified in the DCS or
unless they were paid as interim medical benefits. Oregon
law requires that, under a DCS, health care providers be
reimbursed for medical services at half the amount allowed
by the fee schedule; however, total reimbursement to health
care providers cannot exceed 40 percent of the total settlement.
Generally, only those bills that have been received by the
insurer are included in the DCS.
division - The Workers' Compensation Division of
the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
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electronic data interchange (EDI) - The electronic
transmission of data such as workers' compensation claims
data, coverage data, and medical bills data.
employer - Any person who contracts to pay for work
or services, with the right to direct and control the work
or services of any person. (ORS 656.005) See also subject
employer-at-injury - A worker's employer at the time
the worker was injured.
employer data system (EDS) - The Workers' Compensation
Division's database used to capture coverage data for Oregon
employer knowledge date (EKD) - The date on which
an employer has notice or knowledge of a worker's claim.
Employer's Liability Law - An Oregon law requiring
employers to exercise a higher degree of care for their
employees and the public in work involving risk or danger.
employment purchases (EP) - Tools, equipment, clothing,
tuition, and other purchases through the Preferred Worker
Program that are necessary for a worker to find, accept,
or continue employment.
exclusive remedy - One of the basic concepts of workers'
compensation - that an employee injured on the job is entitled
to workers' compensation benefits but may not sue the employer
for damages. Workers' compensation is thus the exclusive
remedy for a work-related injury.
experience rating modification - A calculation that
compares the employer's actual claims experience to the
average for the employer's type of business. If the employer's
experience is better than average, it gets a rating lower
than 1.00. If it is worse than average, it gets a rating
that is higher than 1.00. This rating affects the cost of
the employer's workers' compensation premium.
extraterritorial coverage - Oregon workers performing
temporary work in other states receive benefits for an injury
as if the workers were in Oregon.
extraterritorial reciprocity - Oregon honors the
extraterritorial coverage of other states as long as the
other states honor Oregon's extraterritorial coverage.
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Calof's Hat Trick Leads Men's Hockey to 3-2 OT Win Over Harvard
PRINCETON, N.J. (1/4/13) - A hat trick by junior Andrew Calof gave the Princeton men's hockey team a 3-2 overtime win over Harvard on Friday, Jan. 4 at Hobey Baker Rink before a standing-room only crowd of 2,473.
"It was a great team effort with some incredible individual performances," head coach Bob Prier said. "Calof scoring a natural hat trick and an OT winner, along with Bonar making two timely breakaway saves in the third period was great. This win gives us tremendous motivation and confidence after being winless for the last few games. Getting points at home is crucial and we're hoping to build off of these two points."
After eight two-goal games, this marks Calof's first career hat-trick.
Calof put Princeton on the board at 12:20 with help from sophomore Tom Kroshus and freshmen Mike Ambrosia. Calof scored on the doorstep after Kroshus faked a shot inside the left circle before centering.
His second goal came midway through the second period. Junior captain Jack Berger pushed the puck up the ice and freshman Kyle Rankin grabbed the puck on the right boards and skated into the slot. Calof came running on one-timed the puck past Raphael Girard.
Marshall Everson cut Harvard's deficit back to one at 15:38 in the second with help from Colin Blackwell and Alex Fallstrom.
A power-play goal tied the game at 12:50 of the third period, when Blackwell took advantage of Princeton's second penalty of the game with Everson and Fallstrom assisting.
Just 58 seconds into the overtime, Calof scored the golden goal banking the puck off a defender. Freshman Jonathan Liau tossed the puck to Calof on the extended red with Ambrosia getting his second helper of the evening.
Junior Sean Bonar made 16 saves in his first win of the season. His biggest save, by far, was on a short-handed breakaway. Blackwell intercepted and went 1x1 with Bonar coming up with a huge pad save on Princeton's first power play of the game midway through the third.
Girard made 33 saves for Harvard, which drops to 4-6-1 overall and 3-4 in the league. Princeton outshot Harvard 36-18, with a 14-9 differential in the first and a 15-4 differential in the third.
Princeton improves to 4-7-4 overall and 3-3-3 in the ECAC which puts the Tigers tied for second in the standings. Princeton faces No. 8 Dartmouth tomorrow at 4 p.m. Dartmouth lost a 3-2 OT game at Quinnipiac this evening.


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Cheap and plentiful natural gas from shale formations has revolutionized the nation's manufacturing, giving the U.S. petrochemical industry in particular a big advantage over foreign competitors. "I would tell you there are probably 50 European companies right now walking around this part of the United States, looking for places to put a factory," Donohue said. The energy revolution and manufacturing's competitive advantage mean new jobs, stronger economic growth and more revenue. An abundant supply of domestic energy means higher productivity and exports. Despite this, the United States is missing out on an enormous opportunity: developing offshore oil and gas resources. Roughly 87 percent of the offshore areas are off limits to drilling and exploration, he said. And the federal government is not being particularly helpful in furthering the energy revolution being driven by private industry. The recoverable oil off the U.S. coast is greater than that in Asia and Europe combined. And the amounts are probably even higher because the estimates of those reserves are 30 years old. The federal government will not allow companies to take new estimates using state-of-the-art technology. But if the surveys were done, Donohue believes they would show the United States has the most influence in the world in terms of energy resources. Donohue said most people are laboring under an incorrect impression: that the country lacks an adequate energy supply. But the shale developments have shown the United States is sitting on a 200-year supply of oil and more than 100 years of natural gas. What's needed, he said, is a faster permitting process for drilling and a predictable and fair regulatory environment. The country needs to put the right infrastructure and policies in place if the United States wants to capitalize on these enormous resources, he said. Donohue touched on a handful of other topics, including reforms to entitlement programs and immigration reform. The country must reform its Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlement programs or face economic ruin. Not a single entitlement program will be solvent in 20 years. The cost for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is now around $1.6 trillion this year. Ten years from now, those programs will cost $3 trillion. Every day for the next 17 years, 10,000 Americans will turn 65 and become eligible for Social Security. The system can't pay for itself because people are living longer, health costs are higher and fewer workers provide the funding. When Social Security began, there were 40 workers for each retiree. Now, there are two. Donohue said the U.S. could achieve large savings over time while having a very small impact on individuals. Relatively small changes to payments, benefits, eligibility, administration and overhead, coverage options, and program efficiencies could be made without harming the elderly, disabled and poor. But entitlement reform will take courageous leaders, and no one in Washington, D.C., wants to talk about that. Donohue said Congress should also reach a compromise on immigration reform, and an agreement in that area could lead to a breakthrough in the budget process. The Senate hasn't voted on a budget in four years. That's got to stop. So does this: "So many people in this country are saying, 'We don't want to let those people in.' Well, who the hell do you think you are? You are those people," Donohue said. What's needed is an immigration policy that secures U.S. borders, an employment-based visa program that lets business use immigrant labor when U.S. workers aren't available, and a reliable national employee verification system. The reform also needs to address undocumented workers — there are roughly 11 million in the United States — because the economy relies on them. Donohue touched on many of the same themes in Covington, but also hammered on how government overregulation is restricting economic growth, pointing to the Keystone Pipeline as an example of a vital project that is being stymied by Washington. He criticized trial lawyers and the role that they have played in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. BP has a responsibility to make things right, Donohue said, and many small businesses were hurt in the oil leak. But he blasted lawyers, who he said are recruiting people who suffered no losses and are showing them how to game the system, making a mockery of the process. Courageous elected officials are crucial, Donohue said, but "business isn't off the hook.'' After Hurricane Katrina, it was the private sector that came to the rescue. "Nobody asked, we just did it,'' he said, bringing water, food, generators, vehicles and equipment. Bureaucracy, by contrast, got trapped in red tape. The private sector has the flexibility, ingenuity, ideas and responsibility to lead, he said, while government's role is to provide infrastructure and support. "Business is the solution, not the problem. We need to rally around and provide the leadership this country needs,'' he concluded. Advocate St. Tammany Bureau Chief Sara Pagones contributed to this report. Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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The simple tasks of reaching for a cup of coffee or fixing your gaze at an object while moving about are often taken for granted but these are the culmination of an intricate interplay between the environment and our brains. Specifically, it is the domain of the cerebellum to coordinate motor movement. This is accomplished by cerebellar connections that function to refine signals originating in other brain areas. Thus, it's not surprising that the cerebellum has been coined a 'neuronal machine'. Behind this machine lies its circuitry made from trillions of synapses. Synapses within the cerebellum are built to receive information and rapidly return a clear response to the nervous system. We study how synaptic transmission contributes to the timing of information processing: from vesicular release and transmitter clearance to the plasticity between cerebellar elements. Our research focuses on the details of fast synaptic transmission. Experiments in the lab incorporate a multidisciplinary approach of electrophysiological, imaging methods, and molecular biological approaches to study the activity of synapses and glutamate transporters. By combining these approaches, our goal is to understand how synaptic mechanisms refine temporal signaling. We believe that the principles learned from these studies will lead to a greater understanding of cerebellar function as well as provide a framework for the regulation of signal processing in more complex brain structures.
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(2) The role of cerebellar neuro-glial signaling. The cerebellum is responsible for coordinated skilled movements and the control of muscle tone. The functional output of the cerebellum is through Purkinje cells. Each Purkinje cell receives excitatory input from thousands of parallel fibers and a single climbing fiber. These excitatory synapses are isolated from one another by Bergmann glia membranes that express a high density of glutamate transporters. In addition, glutamate released into the synaptic cleft is cleared via transporters found on the postsynaptic Purkinje cells. By recording and imaging Purkinje cells and Bergmann glia, we study how transporters can influence the strength of synaptic signals and regulate the signal transduction pathways underlying cerebellar long-lasting plasticity. We are using computer models and heterologous expression systems to study the biophysical properties of these molecules. We are also testing how disruptions of neuro-glial interactions alter behavior. By combining these methods, we aim to better understand how glutamate transporters shape synaptic signals and their physiological roles in normal and pathological states.
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Outdoors - N.C. Sen. Rabon, brother remain avid hunters
Published: Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 11:06 p.m.
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While some hunters walked across Mill Pond Road, others rode to a harvested cornfield in a horse-drawn wagon. Except for the small children and grandchildren riding in the wagon, everyone else was carrying a shotgun and a stool on which to sit.
Two of the hunters were North Carolina Sen. Bill Rabon (R), who represents District 9, which includes Wilmington and Brunswick, Pender and Bladen counties, and his brother, Jim. Both men are veterinarians and avid hunters. They were hunting doves at the Mill Pond Hunting Club, near Whiteville, which includes a historic clubhouse, 70-acre millpond and hunting grounds.
It was Labor Day, opening day of dove hunting season. Most years, the season opens on the Saturday before Labor Day, unless that day falls in August. A Saturday hunt allows time for a dove feast following an afternoon hunt, with hunters traveling long distances spending the night. However, since it fell on Monday, the hunt commenced 30 minutes before sunrise, followed by a shrimp-and-grits brunch to give everyone time to drive home.
"It would have been nice to hunt Sunday afternoon, followed by the traditional dinner," Bill Rabon said. "I'm a proponent of Sunday hunting. We golf, fish and enjoy every other form of recreation. Hunters are the most ethical people on earth and should have the same opportunity everyone else has. The pros outweigh the cons."
Bills that would have allowed Sunday hunting failed to exit committees in either the N.C. House or Senate this year. However, Bill Rabon said he would introduce legislation in the Senate, if he gets re-elected.
Bill Rabon said he was a two-dog man. However, his older dog, Kudzu, was out of commission and his younger retriever was still in training. Both dogs would be ready to hunt later in the season.
"This is such a busy time of year," he said. "My Senate duties take up a lot of time. But once the second season comes around, I will hunt doves more often, probably once or twice a week."
Both hunters travel to other countries to hunt other dove species, where there are no bag limits because doves are hunted to reduce crop damage. In North Carolina, the bag limit is 15 birds daily and 45 in possession.
"I've been hunting doves since I was 12," Jim Rabon said. "I grew up in Fair Bluff, where we hunted doves, ducks, turkeys and deer. We have hunted doves in Uruguay and Argentina. I like hunting in Uruguay the best. You can become a member of the thousand-dove club in one day on those hunts. But, I usually limit my shooting to 10 boxes of shells in the morning and 10 boxes in the afternoon. I've probably shot 20,000 doves."
Jim Rabon had downed only four doves, a small bag in comparison to the potential of a South American hunt. Asked why he had come to the hunt, he said it wasn't for the shooting.
"I come for the camaraderie," he said. "The best part of the morning was watching someone shoot a dove and seeing five small children running into the field to pick it up."
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A collection of Jean-Claude Langer's latest paintings.
Jean-Claude was born, raised and educated in Paris, France. After a passage at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the Architecture section, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he graduated from Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Advertising Design.
For the past fifteen years, Jean-Claude earned over thirty major feature film credits as a digital texture artist at Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco.
He has exhibited his fine art work in numerous galleries, both in Europe and in the U.S. Jean-Claude was honored to be selected by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation to create one of the heart sculptures for the 2012 Heroes & Hearts fundraising project.
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Did you know that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has hours of film in our movie theaters and exhibits? Here's a look at what's in store for you:
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A New Side of Elvis Exhibit Film, 2013 (12 minute) Located in the Main Exhibit Hall
Elvis Presley Enterprises
Graceland created this film exclusively for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Elvis Presley exhibit. The film is a fast-moving and fun look at Elvis' entire career – from his earliest days to some of his final performances. Besides footage of Elvis, the film features interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Miranda Lambert, Lisa Marie Presley and many others.
The Beatles Albums, 2009 (40 minutes) Located in the Beatles Exhibit
This film chronicles all 13 of the Beatles' studio albums in mini-documentary form, featuring commentary by all four members of the band and their producer, George Martin.
Derek Taylor, longtime press officer for the Beatles, wrote:
The story began in Harold Macmillan's "never had it so good" 1950s Britain. It should be fiction: four teenagers with no more than eight O- Levels between them, running and biking and busing and busking all over Liverpool in search of new chords and old guitars and half-decent drum kit and any gig at all.
They were determined to amount to something – in George Harrison's words "we just had this amazing inner feeling of: 'We're going to do it'. I don't know why... we were just cocky" – and make a record -- in Ringo Starr's words, "you'd kill for that bit of plastic and make some money and have a laugh and shout. That would do to be going on with."
Six years later, they were the four most famous and musical men on earth, the best dressed and on a good day the most captivating people anyone can remember. The narrative that began where Paul met John and clicked at a garden fete in leafy Liverpool, and ended in high dudgeon in high-end London, is so far-fetched that it needs the power of a song punctuating every page to remind you with a joyous jolt that it was all true.
We didn't dream it... though it came out of John's dream of the "man on a flaming pie" who said "You are Beatles with an 'A'". It did all happen. The whole wonderful thing did happen, a long time ago, on the Mersey, on the Elbe, by the Thames and the Hudson River.
Amazing and marvelous and, nearly fifty years on, forever young.
The Rolling Stones: LIVE!, 2012 (14 minutes) Located in the Rolling Stones Exhibit
This film documents the career of the Rolling Stones from their earliest live performances through their worldwide tours of recent years.
Since the early Sixties, the Rolling Stones have been criss-crossing the globe, playing to millions of adoring fans and earning the distinction of being the greatest touring band of all time. Their energy, their spectacle and, most importantly, their music has set the standard for all others to follow. From their modest beginnings in 1962, playing small London jazz clubs, to headlining tours in Britain and the U.S. in the mid-Sixties, to the theatrical mega-tours of following decades, the Stones have conquered countless stages in hundreds of cities and have graduated from cramped tour vans to private jets and from dark clubs to large outdoor stadiums. Today, the Rolling Stones are known not only for their cutting-edge concert productions, but their enduring and peerless catalog of songs. The Rolling Stones are still the toughest act to follow.
Dick Clark's American Bandstand: The Longest-Running Music Program in Television History (19 Minutes) Located in the Forest City Charitable / RMS Foundations Legends of Rock Theater
From 1952 to 1989, American Bandstand brought the latest dance crazes and the most popular artists of the day into American living rooms, sparking the imaginations of generations of teenagers from coast to coast. This film features segments from the show.
Hall of Fame Film, 1986-2013 (75 minutes) HALL OF FAME THEATER
Often cited as a highlight of the visitor experience, this multi-media production combining film footage, music, interviews, animation and still photography tells the story of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees on three giant movie screens. The story begins in 1986 and is told year by year until the current class takes center stage.
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