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I was not going to cry. I just knew it. I always know I'm going to cry at an event when thinking about that event makes my eyes hot. Hot eyes are the prime indicator that I will cry. My eyes stayed perfectly cool when I thought about my son's upcoming middle-school graduation. I had zero emotional attachment to the school from which my son was graduating or, rather, "culminating." Eighth grade graduation is called "culmination," but wouldn't it be the middle-school years that were culminating and not my son? I might be wrong, but I'm going to call the event "graduation" anyway.
I had little personal connection to the school because my kids had switched districts just two years earlier. I had no particular bond with the teachers or administrators or coaches, only one crossing guard whom my son and I called "Black Ops Chuck." Black Ops Chuck was so enthusiastic about ensuring all kids made it across the street safely that we were sure his periodic days off were spent secretly fighting global evil.
At our old school's silent auctions, I always spent more than I should have on Coach for the Day so I could watch my son lead the bigger kids (i.e. his older sister and her friends) in calisthenics, wearing the whistle around his neck as the two coaches stood on either side of him like protective bodyguards. A round, little cherub, my son enraptured my heart with his wide smile, his big, alternately gleeful then soulful brown eyes and floppy mop of caramel-hued hair. My ex-husband once shaved off the coveted mop during a bout of the dreaded grade-school curse: lice. My ex called the coif a "buzz-cut," but more than a few people looked at my son's cue-ball head with cloying sympathy over the chemotherapy they were certain he was facing. Amazingly, my son, who made up silly songs like "Bowel Movement" and wanted to invent a toilet where brick walls magically slide up whenever you have to go, was fine with his shiny pate. His only complaint was that his head was cold. When I saw his "buzz-cut," which was sent to me via text from his dad's house, I cried. My eyes get hot just thinking about it.
But I wasn't going to cry at middle-school graduation. I ironed his emerald green gown, to be worn over black chinos, a white button-down shirt and Size 11 loafers. This was a strikingly different uniform than his usual attire of rock-band tee, long plaid board shorts and Converse sneakers that seemed to suffer blown-out sides no matter how new they were, as if they couldn't, for one minute longer, contain his perpetually growing feet. My son (who, as a baby, wouldn't let me put him down ever), at 14, towered over me by six inches. He would pick me up and stomp me around the kitchen just for laughs.
Why a gown is needed for middle-school graduation I'll never know. To me it's overkill, like the trophies given out to every child at every karate tournament. It kind of takes away from the real thing. Despite my bristling, I ironed the gown — and I am a terrible ironer as demonstrated by the triangular burn on my son's school band polo shirt. If you drop a hot iron on synthetic red carpet, do not, and I repeat, do not — place it on a white shirt.
The Big Day arrived without much fanfare. I asked my son if he was nervous. He grunted something akin to "no." His formerly goofy patter had shrunken to the requisite teen boy one-word answers. A typical conversation went something like this:
"How was school today?
"Whaddya do?"
"Anything new?"
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FAIR: Mormon immigration policy considered at conference
Michael De Groote, deseret news
SANDY — As an immigration law attorney, Cynthia Lange still feels an affinity with the LDS Church's 12th Article of Faith she memorized as a child: "We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law."
"And I really felt strongly about this," she told a crowd on Friday at the 2011 conference of FAIR, the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, at the South Towne Exposition Center in Sandy.
She and her co-presenter, attorney Patrick Shen, have had plenty of experience enforcing immigration law by deporting people — including some members of their faith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They explored the volatile subject of immigration policy and answering the question, as Lange put it, "How is the church asking Mormons to be different?"
"We have to deal with the 12th Article of Faith," said Lange, who has 26 years' experience in immigration Law and who now represents businesses in establishing global immigration programs. "This is probably one of the biggest things that sticks in LDS people's craw."
The 12th Article of Faith is a list of basic beliefs of the LDS Church and is part of the Mormon scriptures. Its teaching, "obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law," doesn't seem to leave much room for undocumented workers.
"We often hear … 'Illegal means illegal. What part of illegal don't you understand?'" said Shen, who has 12 years' experience with the U.S. Government in immigration and served as policy chief for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and headed the Office of Special Counsel for Unfair Immigration Related Employment Practices. "But breaking the law is one thing. Seeing the need to make better laws to make the country better is another thing. It is not an all or nothing proposition."
And it is toward encouraging better, moral laws that the LDS Church has directed its attention.
"There is a lot of emotion on all sides of the discussion," Lange said. "Even in the LDS Church there has been a division and a dissonance we haven't seen."
To illustrate the types of feelings people have about immigration, Lange pointed to a government report on immigration: The Dillingham Commission. The commission's report said new immigrants were immigrating for different reasons than earlier immigrants. The commission found the newer immigrant "comes with the intention of profiting" only to go back to their old country. It found they do not assimilate and don't learn English. The report's findings encouraged a clampdown on immigration. The commission's report wasn't very new, however. It was made in 1911 — a century ago. "You'll find every argument in here," Lange said. "It was the same feelings back then, but it was for eastern and northern Europeans."
If the feelings are not new, at least the controversy is contemporary and the LDS Church has issued several statements on immigration policy.
In a June 2011 statement, the church said, "As a matter of policy, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discourages its members from entering any country without legal documentation, and from deliberately overstaying legal travel visas."
Lange said, however, this policy isn't being used by the church to judge worthiness.
"The church has continued to baptize people regardless of their legal status in the country," Lange said. Immigration status is not a question in pre-baptism interviews. It is not a question in an interview to determine if a church member can attend an LDS temple. It also does not prevent a member from serving as a missionary — although it may effect where the person can go. "I know some people may struggle with some of this," Lange said.
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I have a tendency to see things as black and white. Weight loss is the same. Everyone says its a numbers game. Okay, then I will play by the numbers rule and I will "win", right? Not so much.
This week I EARNED a 2 pound loss. It was MINE!! Yet I came up short.
I did lose 1.5lb so yes I am trying real hard to see the glass is half full.
But in the past, if I didn't hit a number I wanted, I could justify it. I could look back and see where I either went wrong or where I could have done more or made better choices.
Not this week. No! This was a 2 pound loss week! period!!! I am throwing a temper tantrum over a measly .5 lb and I realize the stupidity in it but I need to just vent this out!
I ask myself what could I have done different. Answer: not one stinking thing! I killed it this week in cardio. I did awesome in my strength training, I tracked everything. I ate my fruits and veggies, you name it, I was the poster child for healthy living!!!
I am just PRAYING that there was something,anything, that I can't put my finger on that will change this week.
Something that I know that has me down is, earlier in the week I weighed. I know for me it is NOT a good thing. no no no no!!! I know better. I was all excited because it had showed the 1.5 loss and so I thought "awesome!!!" I am going to really go at it extra hard to set myself up for an awesome weigh in! ugh! The same exact weight!
Okay, new week, I have spewed out all the negativity that I needed to and I am now back to looking forward to the week ahead!
And no, there weren't inches lost so don't even try to go there! lol!!
I sure hope it all goes great for you this week.
Here's to a new week!!
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It's not quite what you expected Kim, but it is pretty good though isn't it!!
You are doing really well.
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Kim, you take that loss and own it. You worked hard for it and earned it. Those are pounds gone, never coming back. Be proud of yourself.
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Ahhhh Kim, I'm sorry that your weight loss didn't meet your expectations (I have soooooo been there) but it happens. No matter how we "calculate" we have to remember that our bodies are in constant flux, they don't follow exact mathematical equations so as much as we say that creating a 3500 calorie deficit will lead to a 1 lb weight loss we have to remember that it's only a guideline, doesn't occur perfectly every time. We can do "everything right" and still not get the exact results because we're not robots. 1.5 lbs is still ALOT to be proud of so
. Thank God for His blessings and rejoice in achieving much more than others did this week. You are doing so
that you can't afford to let .5 lbs affect your mood. Rejoice in all your victories!!
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I'll take your 1.5 pounds and love it! I'll even throw a party for it! Hmmmm.....now what's the difference? Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice!! You're not perfect and neither am I. What you are disappointed with I would love to have. As they used to say "one man's trash is another's treasure". Maybe next week you'll lose 2.5 pounds!
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Kim you know you are doing great!! But you know that I sooooooo understand the frustration as I am sure many do! But this is the way I keep thinking...we are doing it the right way..the way to take it off and keep it off!! Just maybe I can talk you into going on a shopping spree with me to buy new clothes we will be needing!!
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Kim, you have more spunk and fire than anyone else I know on here! You do an awesome job at staying on track, and keeping yourself accountable when you eat, oh let's say cookies! I look to you like the great, inspiring teammate that you are! Whether you lose zero or 50 pounds in a week, you're doing it the RIGHT way, and that's what matters! Love you!
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Who can explain these things? Not I. They just happen and we can't let them get us down. If you keep doing the right things it WILL happen. Don't be stressed. That can definitely keep you from losing. So can not getting enough sleep. Hang in there!
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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27th October 2002
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, also referred to as just Vice City and GTAVC, is the second game in the GTA III era. Although it was released after GTA III, it was set 15 years earlier.
GTA Vice City is set in Vice City, Florida (USA) in 1986. It concerns the exploits of protagonist Tommy Vercetti as he rises to criminal power in the city.
Designed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games, it debuted in North America on October 27, 2002 for PlayStation 2 and quickly became the best-selling video game of the year. As of July 2006, GTA Vice City is, in the American market, the best-selling PlayStation 2 game of all time. GTA Vice City also appeared on the Japanese magazine Famitsu's readers' list of 100 all-time favorite videogames in 2006. Following this success, GTA Vice City saw releases in Europe, Australia and Japan, and became available on PC and Xbox. Later, Rockstar Vienna packaged the game with its predecessor, GTA III, and sold it as the Grand Theft Auto: Double Pack for Xbox.
More recently, a prequel to GTA Vice City was made: GTA Vice City Stories.
It uses a tweaked version of the Renderware game engine used by GTA III, and similarly presents a huge cityscape, fully populated with buildings (from hotels to skyscrapers), vehicles (cars, motorcycles, boats, helicopters, and planes) and people.
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- Welcome to Vice City. Welcome to the 1980s.
- Having just made it back onto the streets of Liberty City after a long stretch in maximum security, Tommy Vercetti is sent to Vice City by his old boss, Sonny Forelli. They were understandably nervous about his re-appearance in Liberty City, so a trip down south seemed like a good idea. But all does not go smoothly upon his arrival in the glamorous, hedonistic metropolis of Vice City. He's set up and is left with no money and no merchandise. Sonny wants his money back, but the biker gangs, Cuban gangsters, and corrupt politicians stand in his way. Most of Vice City seems to want Tommy dead. His only answer is to fight back and take over the city himself.
- From the decade of big hair, excess and pastel suits comes a story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile as Grand Theft Auto returns to the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system this October. Vice City is a huge urban sprawl ranging from the beach to the swamps and the glitz to the ghetto, and is the most varied, complete and alive digital city ever created. Combining non-linear gameplay with a character driven narrative, you arrive in a town brimming with delights and degradation and are given the opportunity to take it over as you choose.
- As a major gateway to South America and the Caribbean and attracting migrants, Vice City is brimming with diverse characters, so there's a friend for everyone. It is a sociable place and the new guy in town is sure to meet all manner of friendly people in the sunshine capital of America. Athletes, pop stars, real estate developers, politicians, trailer trash, everyone is moving to Vice City to find out what makes it the number one growth city in America. But, as Tommy quickly finds out, trust is still the rarest of commodities.
- Vice City offers vehicular pleasures to suit every taste. For the speed enthusiast, there's high-performance cars and motorbikes. For the sportsman, a powerboat or a golf buggy lets you enjoy the great outdoors. For those that need that sense of freedom and escape, why not charter a helicopter and see the beauty of Vice City from the air?
- As the party capital of America, you would expect your ears to be seduced by a host of sultry melodies and pumping beats, but the city is truly rocking. You'll be AMAZED as you sweep through Vice City's FM dial. If you are feeling like trouble, you can tune into some driving rock, or some crucial electro, or maybe you want to slow down with some sweet soul, and there will always be some great romantic anthems if you want to really take your mind off things, or maybe you want to have a good laugh and listen to Talk Shows.
- For the action man, or outdoors type, there's tons of fun things to do and adventures to be had… guaranteed. For the secretive or creepy type, Vice City is full of surprises, a place where you'll constantly be surprised by the vivacious, fun-loving types who live there and the things you can discover.
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Davailles, Aurélien and Climent, Eric and Bourgeois, Florent Fundamental understanding of swirling flow pattern in hydrocyclones. (2012) Separation and Purification Technology, vol. 92. pp. 152-160. ISSN 1383-5866
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This work is concerned with establishing and validating a physics-based model that describes the swirling flow inside hydrocyclones. The physics is embedded in a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation model whose key features are presented and justified in the paper. Some features are selected in such a way that the model can eventually be used to simulate dense flow inside hydrocyclones. Nevertheless, its underlying physics is here within validated against dilute flow conditions. The model applies a Eulerian multi-fluid modelling approach for fluid–particle turbulent flows, and is computed using the semi-industrial code NEPTUNE_CFD. Simulation results are successfully compared to water split, velocity profiles inside the hydrocyclone and partition function measurements, either produced using our own experimental setup or from the literature. The work finds velocity profiles to be the most discriminating parameter for validation of the physics that describes the swirling flow inside the hydrocyclone. Water split on the other hand shows no relation to the choice of turbulence model and hence cannot be used to validate a mechanistic model of the hydrocyclone. The physics-based model presented here is the first building block towards describing and understanding hydrocyclone flow under dense regime.
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TC TO JOHN FERGUSSON; 22 October 1820; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18201022-TC-JOFE-01; CL 1:284-286.
Annan, October 22 1820.
My dear Fergus[s]on,— I delayed writing to you chiefly for the old reason—want of anything to say; and I have begun to write not because that want is at all sufficiently supplied, but because I would not vex your mind by unfounded suspicions that absence and oblivion are interchangeable terms in my vocabulary, or that the light of two months' experience has shown me any flaws in your character to the prejudice of our wavering though agreeable correspondence. I prize the frankness of your procedure in writing a second time; there is so much of the counting-house in formal regularity, one likes to see a friend's letter sometimes want the 'I duly received your valuable favour, dated, and so forth.' It is not my inclination to put your generosity often to such trials; but I promise you the present exercise of it shall not be thrown away.
The first letter, written late, appears also to have lingered long on the road. It reached me while in the heat of managing a small concern, which not long after called me into Yorkshire; and I wilfully delayed sending an answer, till, the affair being finally adjusted, I might have it in my power to communicate what seemed then likely to produce a considerable change in my stile of life. The matter I allude to was a proposal to become 'a travelling tutor,' as they call it, to a young person in the North Riding, for whom that exercise was recommended, on account of bodily and mental weakness. They offered me £150 per annum, and withal invited me to come and examine things on the spot, before engaging. I went, accordingly, and happy was it I went. From description, I was ready to accept the place; from inspection, all Earndale [Euredale?]1 would not have hired me to accept it. This boy was a dotard, a semi-vegetable; the elder brother, head of the family, a two-legged animal without feathers, intellect, or virtue; and all the connections seemed to have the power of eating pudding, but no higher power. So I left the barbarous people—kindly, however, because they used me kindly, and crossed the Sark,2 with a higher respect for our own bleak fatherland than ever I had felt before. York is but a heap of bricks; Jonathan Dryasdust3 (see 'Ivanhoe') is justly named. It was edifying to hear the principal of their Unitarian College4 lament the prevalence of mysticism in religion; and as to their newspaper editor, though made of lead, he is lighter than McCullogh's5 little finger. York is the Boeotia6 of Britain; its inhabitants enjoy all sensual pleasures in perfection; they have not even the idea of any other. Upon the whole, however, I derived great amusement from my journey. I viewed a most rich and picturesque country. I conversed with all kinds of men, from graziers up to knights of the shire; argued with them all, and broke specimens from the souls (if any), which I retain within the museum of my cranium for your inspection at a future day.
It is scarce a week since I returned from this expedition; and now my plans must all be altered. If I come to Edinburgh, which seems likely, few manuscripts will accompany or follow me; no settled purpose will direct my conduct, and the next scene of this fever dream is likely to be as painful as the last. Expect no account of my prospects there, for I have no prospects that are worth the name. I am like a being thrown from another planet on this dark terrestrial ball, an alien, a pilgrim among its possessors; I have no share in their pursuits; and life is to me like a pathless, a waste, and howling wilderness—surface barrenness, its verge enveloped under 'dark-brown shade.'7 Yet hope will sometimes visit me, and, at the worst, complaint is weak, and idle if it were not. After all, one has a desperate struggle—and for what? For the bubble reputation,8 that we may fly alive through the mouths of men, and be thought happy, or learned, or great, by creatures as feeble and fleeting as ourselves. Sure it is a sorry recompense for so much bustle and vexation. Do not leave your situation, if you can possibly avoid it. Experience shows it to be a fearful thing to be swept on by the roaring surge of life, and then to float alone —undirected on its restless, monstrous bosom. Keep ashore while yet you may; or, if you must to sea, sail under convoy; trust not the waves without a guide. You and I are but pinnaces or cockboats yet; hold fast by the Manilla ship; do not let go the painter, however rough and grating.9 I am sorry you are tired of anatomy, and such things. I am tired too, but that does not mend the matter. Yet trust the best; nec deus intersit [let no god interfere]10 is indeed true, naturally as well as poetically. Yet in spite of this, all things will and shall be well, if we believe aright. I designed to tell you a long tale about my most neglected studies, but I have no room. I have lived riotously with Schiller, Goethe, and the rest. They are the greatest men at present with me,
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
The Department of Art will host international artist Mariana Depetris and her Prominences II exhibit through Thursday, Oct. 16, in the Main Gallery of the Humanities Building. An Artist Talk given by Depetris and a reception will open the exhibit on Thursday, Sept. 18, beginning at 4 p.m. The exhibit and opening events are free and the community is invited to attend.
The exhibit embraces the art of painting with molton beeswax mixed with colored pigments, which is an ancient technique called encaustic art. Depetris' work has been included in numerous shows in Europe and the Americas including Spain, Belgium, Japan and Latin America. Her tours as an artist and teacher have brought her to Canada, Great Britian, China and Korea.
Depetris' work is infused with Latin American traditions from her childhood that include universal themes of change and redemption, common objects like toys and food, as well as the influence of travel and other cultures and religions.
Stephanie Smith, gallery coordinator and art instructor, said it is important for artists to have experiences outside their normal day-to-day routines.
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Chocolove, Almonds & Sea Salt in Dark Chocolate, 3.2 oz (90 g)
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- 55% Cocoa Content
- Love Poem Inside Wrapper
- Belgian Chocolate
- Almonds
- Kosher
- 55% Dark Almonds Sea Salt
Dark semisweet chocolate, whole dry roasted almonds and sea salt.
At first bite, crunchy almonds release their flavor in a swirl with chocolate. The sea salt crystals continually reset your sweet taste buds and make a tantalizing taste combination that keeps you wanting more.
Suggested Use
Tastes best at 70º F.
Other Ingredients
Cocoa liquor, sugar, almonds, cocoa butter, sea salt, soy lecithin, vanilla.
May contain traces of milk, wheat, peanuts or other nuts.
Store at 55º-65º F.
|Supplement Facts
|Serving Size: 1/3 bar (30 g)
|Servings: 3
|Fat Cal.
|Total Fat
|11 g
|Sat. Fat
|5 g
|Trans Fat
|0 g
|0 mg
|123 mg
|Total Carb.
|12 g
|3 g
|11 g
|2 g
|Vitamin A
|Vitamin C
|*Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
This is a good chocolate, some salt makes it different and tasty. I started to add now some salt to my hot cocoa after trying this chocolate.
The almonds in the chocolate bar are BIG. They love it.
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I am not a dark chocolate lover, but my friends do, so we order it again and again. They said it is the best dark chocolate they have tasted. It is smooth and the almond is BIG. They love it.
very nice
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This is the best chocolate I ever had ... highly recommend ...
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It's a shame that I bought this right before iHerb stops shipping it for the Summer, this was absolutely delicious! Unlike other chocolates, this was not too hard to bite into despite me leaving in the fridge, and the almonds and sea salt was just the right amount of perfect. It's a lot smaller than I expected (I somehow pictured a full sized family bar by the packaging and have no concept of grams in food sizing) and this was kind of expensive.


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A Conversation With David Boies and His Newest Weapon
In today's WSJ, the Law Blog reported the news that Bill Ohlemeyer — the in-house lawyer at Altria, who since 1999 has orchestrated that company's nation-wide tobacco litigation — is joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner on April 1.
In the course of reporting the piece, we had a chance to sit down with Ohlemeyer, 49, and David Boies in a conference room at Boies Schiller's new Lexington Avenue digs. We covered a lot of ground — from representing controversial clients to alleged corruption in Mississippi to what it takes to work on big, cutting-edge cases. The highlights of the conversation are excerpted below.
Boies, drinking a root beer and dressed in his trademark suit and sneakers (open-collar, sweater draped over the shoulders) struck a contrast to that of his new hire, who was buttoned up and down in pinstripes.
Bill, you've spent much of your career representing companies that compete in controversial markets – namely, tobacco. What have you learned about people in the course of advising your clients?
Ohlemeyer: Well, people behave like people. They get defensive. They don't like criticism. They want to defend everything. One thing lawyers can help them do is understand that "legal" in today's world isn't always the answer; it's what people expect of you. Then, it becomes a question of finding the right people who can think like and communicate with, and ultimately persuade, the people who are going to judge your client. Sometimes that's the media, sometimes it's the government, and sometimes it's the jury.
So what's the strategy?
Ohlemeyer: You've got to decide what it is you need to do to succeed. There may be issues that aren't flattering to your client. But are those issues outcome determinative? How do I marshal the limited amount of credibility I have, and how do I marshal the limited amount of facts that I have and advance them in a way that's going to persuade the jury that my client's view of the case is the correct one?
I heard a writer this week say, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but boy, you can do a whole lot with silk." What lawyers like David do is spend time finding the silk. In every set of facts there's something that you can advance on behalf of your client that can help solve the problem.
David, presumably you hired Bill to help the firm solve big problems. How do you plan to deploy him?
Boies: In the product-liability area, you can have tens, hundreds, thousands of lawsuits at the same time. And just the logistics of managing those cases in a sensible and cost-effective way is a challenge. Nobody in the country has had the kind of experience that Bill has. I think we already have one of the better product-liability practices in the country. And I think with Bill here we'll have a unique advantage over any other firm in terms of product liability.
Bill, when you managed Altria's tobacco litigation, there were days when the company had 1,000 lawyers billing time to its litigation. Tell us a bit about that experience.
Ohlemeyer: We were spending a million dollars-per-day, or more, back then on litigation. So there were a lot of moving parts. It was an interesting job. At the time our litigation was front page news, and we didn't know if were going to be able to successfully defend the cases or if the litigation was going to escalate. But over the years, we've demonstrated that we had the law and the facts to defend the cases, and that we had the right people involved. And the litigation obviously did not escalate, it decreased.
Where was most of the tobacco litigation concentrated?
Ohlemeyer: In places where you have pure comparative fault, non-unanimous juries, and mediocre state appellate courts. So Missouri, Florida, California.
David, you defended Georgia-Pacific in the Dioxin cases in Mississippi. There's been a lot of news of alleged corruption down there recently. What's going on?
Boies: I've tried some cases before Mississippi state court judges who were just great, and I've also tried cases in front of Mississippi judges who were just terrible. There is undoubtedly some real corruption – where a judge does something for money or favors. But I think that is a very small problem in Mississippi, and a tiny problem in most places. The bigger problem is where judges do things because they know the people, because they like the people, because they're comfortable with the people. That's a much more difficult thing to get your arms around, partly because its human nature. And the problem's not unique to Mississippi.
How is all of this going to impact Dickie Scruggs?
Boies: I don't know enough about it. But the one thing you can say is that whenever you get that many people involved in making accusations there's going to be serious problems. That's not a good place to be.
David, Bill may be representative of the kind of partner Boies Schiller is looking to hire. But there are hard-working 3Ls out there who would like nothing more in life than to land an associateship at Boies Schiller. What's your advice to them?
Boies: First, be sure you want to come here. When you talk to law students, every law student says they want a lot of experience very fast, that they want a lot of responsibility and to work on really hard cases. You say to them, be careful what you ask for; think about that. The fact of the matter is that not everyone really does want to work on cutting-edge cases, because cutting-edge cases are very hard, very intense, they take a lot of time, attention, a lot of intelligence and judgment. It's very hard work. We have a great retention rate after people have been here about 24 to 30 months. But we lose 20% of our people in the first 24 months, because they get in and find this really isn't the place for them. So the first thing I would say to people is be realistic. Be realistic about your abilities. Be realistic about your desire. Be realistic about where your comfort zone is.
The second thing I would say is prepare yourself. Think about preparation not just in terms of law school courses, but in terms of life and problem solving. What we do, at this level, is solve problems. And you solve problems with a whole variety of techniques. The more different disciplines you can know enough about to apply, the better off you're going to be at doing the kinds of things we do. I think a clerkship is great, but I also think spending a year studying economics, technology, psychology, or sociology, is also great.
So students should focus some of their time maintaining an interest outside law.
Boies: Yes, because you'll find that being a lawyer will encompass that interest. At law school I had a professor that said, we sharpen your mind by narrowing it. Now that's not wrong; it's not dumb. But I think it misses the breadth of what we do.


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Junior Derrick Daigre showed flashes of brilliance during his first two years at Washington, injuries the only thing seemingly holding him back. Last season, in a season that did not officially start until the end of April, Daigre still ran the fastest 800-meters on the team and qualified for NCAA West Prelims. Now the former Kent-Meridian product is building on the end of last season with by far his best indoor campaign. Daigre is coming off a 1:49.00 time at the Husky Classic, which has him ranked in the top-20 nationally. The only Huskies ahead of him are former NCAA Champion Ryan Brown and NCAA scorer Austin Abbott, so Daigre is already in good company. He talked to GoHuskies.com about how the season is setting up for him.
GoHuskies.com: How have you felt the season has gone so far? What's been the key to your early success?
Derrick Daigre: As far as the season, I think the biggest thing is being healthy. We had a little hiccup at the beginning of the season with my hamstring. But I think maintaining health up to this point has been the biggest difference, and finally being able to run what I am capable of. It is not a huge change or anything; everything feels familiar, it is just I am finally able to do it. I am really happy to just be healthy and running. It was tough last year, especially just watching everyone else compete while you are just stuck working in the event group or whatnot. I'm finally out there able to compete and it means a lot and I'm really happy about that.
GH: What is the biggest challenge to staying healthy?
DD: I wish there was a concrete answer, but I definitely want to say that it is the little things. The culmination of everything: making sure you are not running too hard, making sure your training is right, making sure you are resting when you need to rest. Even eating and sleeping have been some things that I have had to focus in on and make sure that everything is hitting at the right time to be healthy. I think between this year and last year I have really evaluated a few times over the course of the season to make sure that I am doing the things that will get me healthy.
GH: You're right on the bubble for NCAA Indoors, is that a big goal for you already or are you more concerned about outdoors?
DD: You know, I just love to compete. Whether that is moving up the ranks in the NCAA or looking at the big picture. As long as I am here in the now, I am focused on NCAAs. I think our DMR will for sure make it but I really want that individual accomplishment because it means a lot to finally be able to run the 800 meters and compete with some of the nation's best. I really do want to qualify, and I really do want to make that NCAA field. But if I don't make it, it is not the end of the world, however. But with a competitive nature you don't want to miss any opportunity.
GH: So is the plan for the DMR to take a shot at qualifying at the MPSF meet?
DD: We are definitely going to make a full DMR run at the MPSF without a doubt. I am completely confident even with that, I can still run an outstanding 800 meters the following day. I have raced three weeks in a row consecutively up to this point, and I have PR'd every week. Having this week in-between, I feel like I am going to be fresh to run two good 800's and just build confidence. If our DMR makes it then we will roll with the momentum.
GH: You're No. 3 indoors now but do you still feel like you still are just scratching the surface of what you are capable of?
DD: I really do. I feel like am healthy, but we really haven't been training hard at all. We are really kind of untapped right now. We are pretty much just playing with being healthy and just going out there and willing it to run fast. We haven't done any speed, or any strength stuff. We have just been having a normal season like we should; we have just been running fast. I feel like I have a couple seconds to shave off still in the 800. I think our goal at the end of the year is to be at 147 or faster. I believe whole-heartedly that I am fully capable of that, especially when I am feeling good and healthy. I'm excited.
GH: Did you grow up in Kent your whole life?
DD: No, I moved around quite a bit. My parents split up when I was young so I ended up moving down to Georgia for my entire middle school years. I just came up to Kent at the end of my 8th grade year and the start of high school and have been here since. Being here has definitely been a learning experience, after moving around a lot. I have learned to branch out through sports. Running track is just fun. I am just happy to be here, especially at Washington.
GH: Did you play many other sports before committing to track?
DD: I played basketball, I swam. I mixed it up a bit. I did a lot of extra-curriculars too. We had all kinds of dodge ball competitions and stuff like that. I played football one year too, but track was always my best sport.
GH: Is there any family history on the track?
DD: They claim they do, but I don't know how valid they are. My dad was actually a pretty good athlete. He was more of a long-jumper. He always used to say that he ran the 800 but I don't believe him. He used to say 'you got that from me', but I completely doubt it (laughs). My parents are both athletic and they are fairly tall. I believe that that is where I get it from, it has definitely been a lot of work to get to this level, but having natural height helps. I also have one brother and one sister, both younger and in high school. My brother is a standout football player at his high school and my sister is a freshman and plays volleyball.
GH: As the season progresses, do you see yourself running much outside of the 800m? Maybe some 4x4 relays?
DD: I haven't thought to much about that. I really would be interested in getting in a 1500. Running 4:08 for the mile (at the UW Invitational) and I hadn't run a mile in almost three years, that was a huge surprise, but at the same time I could have gone much faster, being it was just such an ugly race. I really want to run a 1500 with some of our best guys on our team just to mix it up and see what I am fully capable of as far as distances go. Then I can take that confidence and bring it to 800.
GH: What motivates you most in the sport?
DD: I think I hold myself to a high standard. I don't like to lose at anything and I just like to always be relevant. Coach Metcalf says that a lot: 'Are you relevant? Do people know about you in the sport?' I really want to be that. I don't want to do anything and not have success in it. So what motivates me I guess is just wanting to be better. I always look at every year and see if I can PR and improve, if you keep improving you're bound to be relevant.
GH: You had sort of a mini outdoor season last year, but had one of the most dramatic races of the year with the win at the Dual Meet. What do you remember from that?
DD: That was pretty cool. It definitely took a while for the importance of it to sink in. It seemed like everything was spinning out of control. One day you're hurt and the next day you're in a race. But looking back on it I really appreciate the fact that I got the opportunity to run in uniform, that really meant a lot, being back on the team, working out fully with them. It's cool that you can just show up one day and immediately make an impact, winning the dual at the opening of the Husky Track. It's definitely one of the highlights that I tell everyone about, it means a lot and it's one of those memories that I'll probably have for a long time to come.
GH: Have you settled on your major yet?
DD: I am in the process. I did a lot of bouncing around. I was initially Business and then Material Science, and kind of learned the hard way that those weren't for me. Got into Communications and I just recently got really into Computer Science. Since I've taken so many prerequisites, I've got all the requirements for an Infomatics degree. So I'm really trying to pursue that hard now. I think I'm trying to get two degrees now, one in Communications and one in Infomatics.


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Imagine, what would it be like not to worry about the battery life of your laptop? Unfortunately, that's an obsolete dream because laptop battery is an exhaustible source of energy— it wears off with prolonged use and mishandlings. And when it does, the frantic search for a replacement battery sets in. The volume of laptop users have increased by leaps and bounds unlike few years ago when laptops used to be only on the desks of business magnets. The rapid increase in the demand for personal laptop computers is the direct result of the affordability of laptops, mobile computing ability, internet evolution, improvement in technology and lastly, the competition among manufacturers.
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Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900
Sophisticated, federated searching of a wide range of electronic sources on the subject of early modern and nineteenth-century British history.
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University of Sheffield
Institute of Historical Research (University of London)
University of Hertfordshire
British Isles, early modern period, early printed books, federated searching, historical records, history, large datasets, linked data, online resource, social history, text and image analysis, text data mining, transcriptions
Ajax, API, CSS, HTML, Java, Lucene, MySQL, Natural Language Processing, XML
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Project Description
This project has created a federated search facility, 'Connected Histories', which brings together a critical mass of quality content drawn from a wide range of electronic sources on the subject of early modern and nineteenth-century British history. More than simply creating a portal for accessing these historical resources, this project combines web crawling with Natural Language Processing techniques in order to remotely `tag´ previously unstructured texts and allow consistent, structured searching of names, places and dates. In so doing the project has added a new level of precision and intellectual rigour to the search process.
The Connected Histories search engine was developed by the HRI and is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research [IHR] within the University of London, sitting as an `umbrella´ over all the sources in the cluster. Testing was carried out by historians at Sheffield, Hertfordshire, and the Institute of Historical Research. Evaluation was conducted by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London.
In the first instance, 'Connected Histories' incorporated the following distributed historical sources:
- British History Online, including the forthcoming People in Place Database
- Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913
- Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London (incorporating several databases deposited with the former AHDS; website launch March 2011)
- 17th-19th Century Burney newspaper collection from the British Library
- Origins Network
- Parliamentary Papers
- Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835
- Strype´s Survey of London
- Charles Booth Online Archive
- Collage
In total, Connected Histories provided access to fourteen major databases of primary source texts, containing more than 412 million words, plus 469,000 publications, 3.1 million further pages of text, 87,000 maps and images, 254,000 individuals in databases, and over 100 million name instances.
Connected Histories has since gone on to incorporate many more datasets and continues to grow, providing access to in excess of 10 billion words.
Duration: 1st October 2009 – 31st March 2011
Project Team
- Prof. Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield)
- Prof. Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire)
- Dr Jane Winters (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)
- Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)
- Katherine Rogers (Digital Humanities Developer – University of Sheffield)


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Stellaria media buch-bucha sternmiere Moroliya yerum keirum Alsine Rocoina
Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Synonyms: Alsine media Linnaeus • Stellaria apetala Ucria Ex Roemer • Stellaria media var. procera Klatt & Richter
Common names: adder's mouth, chick wittles, chickweed, passerina, satin-flower, starweed, starwort, stitchwort
Assamese : মৰলীয়া Moroliya.
Bulgarian : Врабчови чревца.
Chinese : 繁缕 Fan lu.
Dutch : Gewone vogelmuur, Muur, Starkruid, Vogelmuur
Finnish: pihatähtimö, vesiheinä
French: morgéline, mouron des oiseaux, stellaire intermédiaire
German: sternmiere, vogelmiere, Vogel-Sternmiere,
Hindi: बुच बुचा buch-bucha
Folk name in Jammu: Kokoon
Folk name in Delhi: Safed Fulki, Buchbuchaa
Icelandic : Haugarfi.
Italian : Budellina, Centocchio, Centocchio comune, Erba paperina, Galinella, Mordigallina, Stellaria comune.
Japanese : ハコベ Hakobe, 繁縷 Hakobe, はこ べ Hakobe, コハコベ Ko hakobe.
Japanese: hakobe, kohakobe
Korean : 별꽃 Byeol koch.
Manipuri: যেৰুম কৈৰুম yerum keirum
Norwegian : Vassarve.
Polish : Gwiazdnica pospolita.
Portuguese: Alsine, Esparguta, Mastruço-Do-Brejo, Morrião-Branco, Morrião-De-Inverno, Morrião-Dos-Passarinhos, Morugem
Romanian: Rocoina
Russian : Звездчатка средняя, Мокрица.
Spanish: bocado de gallina, borrisol, morrons, pamplina, pararera, picagallina, quilloi quilloi, revola, yerba gallinera
Swedish: natagräs, våtnarv
Uses: Used in external applications for skin diseases such as dermatitis, eczema, and psoriasis. We also use it in treating skin diseases by including it in various oils and in tinctures externally. Internally we use this in treating bronchial problems such as coughs, bronchitis. Chickweed is effective in reducing the mucous in the lungs and acts as an expectorant to bring the mucous up. It has been used in past times in rheumatism and works on that particular condition as an anti inflammatory. Chemical constituents: saponins, mucilage, choline, copper, phosphorus, PABA, biotin, traces of several vitamins. [Gods Healing Leaves]
Indications — Abscess, Angina, Anasarca, Arthrosis, Asthma, Boil, Bronchosis, Bruise, Bug Bite, Cancer, Cancer, stomach, Carbuncle, Childbirth, Circulosis, Conjunctivosis, Constipation, Convulsion, Cough, Cramp, Dermatosis, Diarrhea, Diphtheria, Dropsy, Dyspepsia, Eczema, Elephantiasis, Epistaxis, Erysipelas, Exanthema, Fever, Fracture, Gastrosis, Gout, Hemoptysis, Hemorrhoid, Hepatosis, Hoarseness, Hydrophobia, Infection, Inflammation, Itch, Mucososis, Obesity, Ophthalmia, Pain, Phthisis, Psoriasis, Pulmonosis, Rheumatism, Sore, Sore Throat, Spasm, Swelling, Tuberculosis, Tumor, Ulcer, Ulcus cruris, Urogenitosis, Wart, Water Retention, Wound [Handbook of Medicinal Herbs]
Action : Demulcent, emollient, pectoral [Herbal Manual by Harold Ward]
Antirheumatic, antiinflammatory, astringent, refrigerant, demulcent, emollient, vulnerary, antipruritic. Dispels excessive body heat, relieves irritation. Used internally for rheumatism, externally in the form of ointment for chronic skin conditions, varicose ulcers and abscesses. Applied as a plaster for broken bones and swellings.
Chemical Constituents: The plant contains saponin glycosides, coumarins, flavonoids (including rutin), carboxylic acid. The leaves contain vitamin C and carotene. Theplant also containsmucilage and is rich in potassium and silicon. The aerial parts, in post-flowering period, contain 44 mg/100 g of vitamn E. [Indian Medicinal Plants An Illustrated Dictionary]
Uses: to reduce swellings, including those of sprains and mumps, and other forms of inflammation. The heavy concentration on that class of ailments [Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition AN ETHNOBOTANY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND]
Stimulating to the mucous and serous membranes, improving digestion, increasing the appetite maintaining a good arterial circulation. It is of value in debilitated conditions, anaemia, consumption, rheumatism. [Physio-Medical Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Pharmacy]
The older herbals recommended chickweed for all sorts of swellings and sores, but by 1736, "it is now rarely used in Medicine" (Q). The Cameron manuscript
notation of its use in dropsy does not seem to fit into mainstream tradition [Southern Folk Medicine 1750–1820 - Kay K. Moss]
A postpartum depurative, emmenagogue, lactagogue; promotes circulation, treats mucus disorder; externally for rheumatic pains, ulcers, wounds. Chemical constituents - r-Linolenic acid, octadecatetraenoic acid [Taiwanese Native Medicinal Plants]
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Empire State Building Retrofit
Key Facts
Built during the Great Depression, the Empire State Building symbolizes America's limitless potential. Today the building is undergoing a major sustainability retrofit to become a leading example of economic and environmental revitalization. Consulting, design, and construction partners Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI), Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), and Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), recently completed an 8 month modeling and analysis project which will save up to 38 percent of the building's energy and $4.4 million annually. See www.esbsustainability.com for more info
A total of 8 projects were implemented:
- Daylighting, lighting & plugs: 2060 tCO2/yr, $941k/yr savings
- Building windows (insertion of thin film & gas between existing panes for each window): 1150 tCO2/yr, $410k/yr savings
- Radiative barriers (redirect heat away from walls): 480 tCO2/yr, $190k/yr savings
- Chiller plant retrofit (smaller load needed): 1430 tCO2/yr, $676k/yr savings
- Air handling units (newer, fewer units): 1520 tCO2/yr, $703k/yr
- Tenant energy management (submetering to provide online info): 743 tCO2/yr, $387k/yr
- Demand control ventilation (using CO2 sensors to determine occupancy): 300 tCo2, $117k/yr
- Other digital controls save an additional 1900 tCO2 and $741k/yr The listed components were identified after an 8 month modeling study, and completion of energy-efficiency retrofit (begun in Autumn, 2009) will take less than 24 months
- The project took 24 months to implement
- For the overall solution, the likely ROI is 3 year payback (based on incremental cost of $13.2M / annual savings of $4.4M)
A number of additional benefits were noted:
- Enhanced thermal comfort to occupants
- Demand control ventilation will improve indoor air quality by ensuring adequate, though not excessive, ventilation
- A high-quality visual environment will be provided through tenant lighting and daylighting efforts that layer ambient, direct/indirect, and task lighting to maximize comfort
- The recommended package of measures also reduces the buildings peak electric demand by approximately a third, freeing up currently constrained electrical capacity.
- The actual (or likely) cost of the project is $20M performance contract with Johnson Controls, but incremental cost to Empire State Building is $13.2M (some funds made available from existing capital investment plan)
- The actual (or projected) savings from the project are $4.4M annually
- The primary sponsor for the project was Stephen A. Roell, President and CEO of Johnson Controls, made a personal commitment to the project. - Anthony Malkin, ESB owner, was an active, enthusiastic and committed champion for the project.
What was the impact?
Did you use a specific methodology or third party to calculate CO2e or KWh savings?We will be measuring and verifying energy savings over a fifteen year period using the international performance measurement and verification protocol (IPMVP). If there is an energy savings short-fall, Johnson Controls will be responsible for making up for the difference. We are using option D, calibrated simulation and other options based on the specific improvement measure. We used a calibrated energy simulation model (DOE-2) to estimate energy usage and then e-grid emission factors to estimate scope 1 and 2 GHG reductions.
Comments on energy savings19 percent savings in KWh in the initial phase, and gradually increase the savings to 38 percent once the longer-term projects are completed. The improvements will place the Empire State Building in the top 10 percent of U.S. commercial office buildings in terms of energy efficiency.
- 105,000 t CO2e has been saved on this project
Notes about Carbon savings/calculationsSavings will accrue over a 15 year period
- The project has internal verification for results
Making it Happen
The following regulations or incentives allowed the business case to be more attractiveJohnson Controls received rebates from NYSERDA
Barriers experienced during the initiation of the project
Comments regarding barriers
Additional barriers include:
- lack of as-built building information
- time commitment - 60+ improvement measures were rigorously evaluated through calibrated simulation
- familiarity with performance contracting methods and a bundled project approach
- coordination of the multi-organization, integrated design team (highly valuable in the end)
- cost-effectiveness of renewable energy and other advanced technology solutions (would have liked to apply them but couldn't justify)
How were they overcome?ESB (Empire State Building) models were created to simulate the buildings energy, compute greenhouse gas reductions, and determine capital and operations cost implications. Public Domain Simulation Tools are available at esbsustainability.com
What were the key lessons learnt?
Developing robust solutions requires the coordination of several key stakeholders. In the Empire State Building, the project team included engineers, property managers, energy modelers, energy efficiency experts, architects, and building management. Each of these stakeholders was needed to help build a robust energy model that addressed the buildings changing tenant profile and helped the team model the impacts of its energy efficiency strategies. Coordination also included the tenants. Involving tenants and considering their perspective early on is critical because more than half of the energy efficiency measures that will be implemented at the Empire State Building involve working both with tenants and within their spaces.
For an energy efficiency retrofit to be cost effective, the retrofit needs to align with the planned replacement or upgrades of multiple building systems and components. Since these upgrades were already going to be carried out, the team redesigned, eliminated and created projects that cost more than the initial budget but had significantly higher energy savings over a 15-year period. However, the energy savings are not substantial enough to offset the full capital cost, because doing energy efficiency projects well before major systems and components are ready for replacement will likely be cost prohibitive. Capturing these reductions in a profitable manner demands careful planning and coordination to ensure that energy efficiency retrofits align with building replacement cycles.
In the Empire State Building, maximizing profitability from the energy efficiency retrofit leaves almost 50 percent of the CO2 reduction opportunity on the table. The building owner, while still selecting an optimal package of measures with a high net present value, sacrificed 30 percent of profit to deliver more CO2 reductions and improve the lighting and tenant comfort within the building. Changes in energy prices and/or the cost of energy efficiency technologies may help to better align profit maximization and CO2 reduction. However, as things stand currently, there is a gap between the socially desirable amount of CO2 reduction and the financially beneficial amount of CO2 reduction from a building owners perspective.
Having completed the recommendations for the Empire State Building, the project team recognizes a number of opportunities for condensing the study period, for example: developing experienced teams, creating tools for rapidly diagnosing and categorizing a building (or a portfolio of buildings), quickly developing a first-cut answer, and developing and using tools to quickly iterate between financial and energy modeling to arrive at the optimal package of measures.
The financial decision-making tool helped the team to understand that the recommended package of energy efficiency measures would not significantly change even if there were carbon regulations leading to higher energy prices over time. Carbon regulation that changed energy prices by less than two percent per year had little effect on the financial performance of the modeled packages.
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- 105,000 t CO2e
What makes this an innovative, replicable model for other commercial buildings is the process and complete system-wide approach to identifying optimal energy efficiency improvement measures, as compared to component by component, stated Iain Campbell, Vice President and General Manager, Global Energy and Workplace Solutions, Johnson Controls, Inc. Looking at the interaction of different measures allows smarter decisions regarding retrofitting buildings.
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"Johnson Controls provides innovative automotive interiors that help make driving more comfortable, safe and enjoyable. For buildings, it offers products and services that optimize energy use and improve comfort and security. Johnson Controls also provides batteries for automobiles and hybrid electric vehicles, along with systems engineering and service expertise".
Empire State Building LLCThe Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest building for more than forty years. The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The building and its street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
Clinton Global InitiativeBuilding on President Clintons lifetime in public service, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) reflects his belief that governments need collaboration from the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other global leaders to effectively confront the worlds most pressing problems. After attending thousands of meetings during his career in which urgent needs were discussed but no action was taken to solve them, President Clinton saw a need to establish a new kind of meeting with an emphasis on results.
Rocky Mountain InstituteRocky Mountain Institute ® (RMI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was established in 1982 by resource analysts L. Hunter Lovins and Amory B. Lovins. What began as a small group of colleagues focusing on energy policy has since grown into a broad-based institution with approximately eighty full-time staff, an annual budget of nearly $12 million (over half of it earned through programmatic enterprise), and a global reach.
Jones Lang LaSalleJones Lang LaSalle is a financial and professional services firm specializing in real estate services and investment management. Our more than 30,000 people in 750 locations in 60 countries serve the local, regional and global real estate needs of those clients, growing our company in the process. In response to changing client expectations and market conditions, we assemble teams of experts who deliver integrated services built on market insight and foresight, sound research and relevant market knowledge. We attract, develop and reward the best, and most diverse, people in our industry, challenging them to develop enduring client relationships built on quality service, collaboration and trust.


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College Hockey:What would the Atlantic Hockey playoffs look like today? Don't ask
We're near the midway point of the Atlantic Hockey season, and, with some minor surprises, the standings are shaping up close to the way the coaches expected in their preseason poll. Coaches thought the western scheduling "pod" would be best, picking all six teams above those in the eastern pod. While the standings are close, it is indeed skewed to the west, with five of the top six teams currently from that pod.
Due to the addition of Robert Morris and Niagara this season, which took the league to a seam-busting 12 members, teams were aligned into regional scheduling pods with American International, Army, Bentley, Connecticut, Holy Cross and Sacred Heart in the eastern pod and Air Force, Canisius, Mercyhurst, Niagara, Rochester Institute of Technology and Robert Morris in the western pod.
Each team plays the other five teams in its pod three times and the six teams in the other region twice.
A single set of standings are kept, but in the first round of the playoffs, the top two teams in each pod get byes in the first round of the playoffs. For the quarterfinals, the overall standings are used to seed the teams for a best-of-three series, with the four winners advancing to Rochester as in years past.
So what would the playoff schedule look like if the season ended today? It's not pretty.
• First-place Robert Morris — West pod No. 1 bye
• Second-place Niagara — West pod No. 2 bye
• Third-place Canisius — Home ice in the first round vs. Air Force
• Fourth-place Holy Cross — East pod No. 1 bye
• Fifth-place RIT — Home ice in the first round vs. Mercyhurst
• Sixth-place Mercyhurst — Road first-round game at RIT
• Seventh-place Air Force — Road first-round game at Canisius
• Eighth-place Bentley — East pod No. 2 bye
• Ninth-place Connecticut — Home ice in the first round vs. Army
• 10th-place American International — Home ice in the first round vs. Sacred Heart
• 11th-place Sacred Heart — Road first-round game at AIC
• 12th-place Army — Road first-round game at Connecticut
If the top seeds all win, the quarterfinal pairings would be:
• No. 10 AIC at No. 1 Robert Morris
• No. 9 Connecticut at No. 2 Niagara
• No. 8 Bentley at No. 3 Canisius
• No. 5 RIT at No. 4 Holy Cross
While this system was put in place to try to even out the results of an unbalanced schedule as well as reduce travel in the first round, single-elimination series, it will come at the expense of putting the sixth- and seventh-place teams on the road and giving the eighth-place team a bye. Right now, two of the top eight teams are guaranteed to be eliminated before the quarterfinals.
"We can't worry about it," RIT coach Wayne Wilson told me at the beginning of the season. "Your focus has to be to win your pod, since that's all you can control."
What are the alternatives? Teams could simply be seeded from 1-12 based on record, which might result in long trip for a single first-round playoff game, as well as punishing teams from the more competitive pod (although arguably not as bad as the current system).
Another option would be to simply eliminate the first round, and have only the top eight teams make the playoffs. Some coaches I talked to like this idea, while others don't think it's fair to eliminate teams playing an unbalanced schedule.
Another method would be to really divide the conference into two divisions and have them play down to an east and west champion and have those teams meet in the finals, similar to what's done in several Division I-A football conferences. The rub is that it doesn't solve the problem of potentially having the top teams in one pod.
And finally, the AHA could reduce the number of league games to 22, with each team playing the others twice. This is the current ECAC system, which leaves teams scrambling to schedule 12 nonconference games. Of course, the two leagues could help each other out.
We'll keep an eye on the standings as the season progresses.
Game(s) of the week
Mercyhurst and RIT, like most of the teams in the league, are struggling with inconsistency. Picked to finish at or near the top of the standings, neither has been able to put together a successful string lasting more than three or four games.
The Lakers started off slow, but then put together a four-game winning streak before being swept at home by AIC and splitting with Sacred Heart.
RIT hasn't been able to win more than two games in a row, but has managed to take at least two points every weekend, with the exception of a single-game loss at Niagara. The Tigers have four games in hand on first-place Robert Morris, while Mercyhurst has three.
RIT is coming off a Jekyll & Hyde weekend at AIC that saw the Tigers put together a complete 4-0 win on Friday but then get outscored 6-2 the following afternoon.
"[AIC] played pretty smart," Wilson said. "The timing of their goals was big. They're a good team. We're not the only ones who are going to have our difficulties with AIC. … They've beaten Air Force and swept Mercyhurst."
The Lakers had a similar weekend, winning 6-2 at Sacred Heart on Friday but falling behind 3-1 early to the Pioneers and never recovering in a 3-2 loss.
"[These will be] two tough games," Wilson said. "For us, we're trying to win our pod and these are best out of three. We've got two there and one at home. We've got to sneak out two of them if not more if we want to do that."
Warriors on ice
After its game against Colgate last Saturday, Army participated in a scrimmage with the USA Warriors, a team comprised of wounded war veterans from all branches of the U.S. military. The Warriors have both sled and standing teams, and compete around the country at charity events to raise money and awareness. For more information on the Warriors, go to www.usawarriorshockey.org.
USCHO covers Atlantic Hockey all week long on the Atlantic Hockey Blog, with weekend recaps on Monday, picks on Friday, and updates during the week.
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Quinn Epperly Earns Princeton's Eighth Bushnell Cup Player Of The Year Honor
Junior Quinn Epperly came into the 2013 season as a member of a promising young squad that was looking to break into the Ivy League elite.
He left it having broken Ivy League records while leading Princeton to its 10th Ivy League championship. On Monday, he walked away with the Bushnell Cup as the 2013 Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year.
This is the second straight season that Princeton took home one of the league's top two honors; last season, Mike Catapano, currently a member of the Kansas City Chiefs, took the Defensive Player of the Year honor.
Princeton was the only team with two Bushnell Cup finalists; defensive lineman Caraun Reid, only Princeton's second player to earn a Senior Bowl invitation, was a finalist for the Defensive Player of the Year honor, though Harvard junior Zach Hodges earned that honor.
Epperly became the third quarterback in program history to win the Player of the Year honor. Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett won the award in 1998, while Jeff Terrell earned the award after leading Princeton to its most recent Ivy title in 2006.
In many ways, Epperly reminded the Princeton fan base of Terrell. Both were left-handed, both wore the number 4, and both rallied Princeton to multiple heart-stopping comeback wins en route to the Ivy League championship.
Epperly matched the Princeton single-season passing touchdown record of Doug Butler '86 (25, 1983), and he came within one of matching the single-season rushing touchdown record of Keith Elias '94 (19, 1994). He missed the single-season completion percentage record by the slimmest of margins; his 68.0% finished second to Jason Garrett '89 (68.2%, 1988).
He set an NCAA record with 29 straight completions in Princeton's 53-20 victory over Cornell; that followed Princeton's 51-48 triple-overtime win at Harvard, when Epperly set Princeton single-game records for both completions (37) and passing touchdowns (six). He set an Ivy League record by earning the Offensive Player of the Week honor six times, including five in a row; all six of his honors followed Princeton's six Ivy League victories.
He ended the season ranked first nationally in points responsible per game (26.6), sixth in both completion percentage and scoring, and seventh in rushing touchdowns. Epperly is the only player in Ivy League history to account for more than 40 touchdowns in a single season; he had 43 during the Ivy championship performance.
His comeback wins during the Ivy season included a 17-point comeback at Brown, a 16-point comeback at Penn and a pair of comebacks in overtime during the 51-48 victory at Harvard.
Epperly is the eighth Princeton player to be bestowed with the Bushnell Cup, following Walt Snickenberger (1974), Jason Garrett (1988), Judd Garrett (1989), Keith Elias (1993), Dave Patterson (1995), Jeff Terrell (2006) and Catapano (2012).
While Reid didn't complete the Princeton sweep, he did complete his brilliant career with the program's 10th Ivy title.
A returning All-America and 2014 Senior Bowl invitee, Reid led the league in sacks in Ivy games (5.5), and he finished second to teammate Jason Ray in tackles for loss in Ivy games (9.0). A three-time first-team All-Ivy League honoree, Reid overcame double- and triple-teams all season to become one of the league's most disruptive forces on the line.
He had a team-best five quarterback hurries, and he recorded his first career interception in the victory over Cornell. Reid had at least one tackle for loss in seven of the team's final nine games, and he helped Princeton rank among the Ivy's top two in both total defense and rushing defense.
He ended his career in brilliant fashion, recording four tackles for loss and three sacks in the season finale at Dartmouth. He is the fourth player in Princeton history to be named to the All-Ivy first team three times, and the first since Matt Evans (1996-98).


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Dec 6, 2013 3:00 pm
Puyallup City Hall
William Stoner Council Chambers, 5th Floor
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Puyallup, WA
The Puyallup City Council will meet on Friday, December 6, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. to discuss the city's 2014 legislative priorities.
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Release Date: 2011-06-07
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: NR
Duration: 1hr 33min
Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye - and taste buds - of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton (Claire Forlani) and they soon both write a recipe for love that leaves both their hearts - and their stomachs - in full.
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He has the youthful passion and excitement that only a twenty-three year-old about to hit it big can possess. Jason Damato (he goes by Damato) is a musician who describes his music as "very uplifting, emotional, soul pop rock" and he says of himself that he represents love and forgiveness. The songs he writes and sings are about hope, determination and dreams come true, and yes, even about heartbreak.
When asked how it was that he came to discover his love for music as well as his musical talents, the young artist says that this came from listening to a lot of old school Smokey Robinson, one of his musical idols. "I would listen to 'Tracks of My Tears' in the car while my Mom would be out shopping." Of music, Damato says that, "It has always been my salavation. It's a euphoric force unlike any I've ever encountered thus far in my life." He says that he was hooked from a very young age and knew his calling. "My Mother and Father made a decision to raise us without any television or movies and secular music, except for a few golden oldies for which I'm so grateful now oddly enough." His parents had an old guitar and keyboard laying around that nobody touched for years. And so the story goes that every time Damato would get grounded for getting into trouble, which was apparently quite often, these were the only two objects that he was allowed to enjoy. These two instruments provided an escape from his universe as well as a much needed form of entertainment and as he grew older, these became his passion and way of life.
Dana Feldman - What do you personally see as the challenges for making it in the music industry today with all of the many changes this particular industry has seen lately?
Damato - Great question! Well, personally, I've found the greatest challenge for me has been to remain focused on the goal that I set out to meet, which was to be a part of changing lives somehow through my music. I try not to get too caught up in the glamour that this wonderful opportunity in life can wrap you up in. So, I always remember to remain focused, humble, grateful, confident and eager to perform, entertain and lift people up!
DF - What do you feel are the positives in making it in music today with the many changes including the Internet?
Damato - Music is so openly available to create now which is one really positive point. What used to cost a fortune to create now only costs a computer and some instruments. This has opened the door for so many new artists such as myself to be able to write, record and get their music out to the world! We're living in the viral age and that's why it's just one of the many positives in being a part of music today.
DF - Do you have any advice for other artists trying to do what you do?
Damato - You know a lot of people will tell you a lot of things. I have been told some good, some ok, and some down right insane! At the end of the day, you have to listen to your heart and remember that life is too short to ever give up.
Damato's final advice is simple and wise, "Live free, love hard, and keep making music! Live the life you love, and love the life you live!"
DF - How did you get your big break getting signed to Universal Motown?
Damato - It was a real fairytale! I still wake up and pinch myself just to make sure that it's all really happening! I went to meet with Sylvia Rhone, the President of Motown. Talk about nervous anxiety! I sang for her and she and I shared one of the most intense, emotionally uplifting conversations that I've ever had with anyone in my life. I just let go and told her the story of my life. I told her how I had run away from home at just seventeen years-old and how I was homeless, couch surfing all over San Diego as well as Los Angeles for three years. I was writing about all of my travels and the many lessons that I had learned along the way. Then just like that she says, "I'm signing you today!" Oh man, those words will never cease to replay and replay themselves in my head ever again! Now I feel that I am the luckiest kid alive to be a part of one of the greatest record labels in the world! Universal Motown has taken such amazing care and time with me over this past year and in return I've really poured my heart and soul into my upcoming debut album entitled 'Everybody vs You and Me' which is coming very very soon.
Certainly about to take the music world by storm, this young man has a lot to say, and from speaking with him, a lot to teach and a lot to give. In addition to his upcoming album, Damato is currently rehearsing with his band for an upcoming tour, details forthcoming. To find out more about him, you can check out his official website at www.officialdamato.com.