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Nokia C5-04 to be launched by Wind Canada tomorrow
The Nokia C5-04 doesn't officially exist yet, but it will starting tomorrow – when Wind is going to launch it in Canada (not long after releasing the high-end Nokia C7).
The C5-04 seems to be nothing more than an AWS version of the Nokia C5-03, thus it's an affordable touchscreen smartphone that features Symbian, a 3.2 inch display with 640 x 360 pixels, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP camera, and a 600 MHz processor.
Wind will offer the new handset for $150 off-contract, or for free on contract.
The Nokia C5-04 has previously appeared bearing T-Mobile USA's logo. However, it's said that T-Mo cancelled its release.


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Claims of U2 being the Rolling Stones for the next generation have proven to be an undersell, if anything. U2′s recent worldwide, 100-date 360 tour, in promotion for their No Line on the Horizon album (which came out sometime in 2002 if memory serves), has absolutely demolished the Stones' previous record of $558 million grossed in one tour by raking in an unfathomable $736.1 million—as in, like, three-quarters of a billion—in gross. The tour, named after both the tour concept of the band being surrounded by 360 degrees of fans and the fact that the band had a so-called "360 degree" deal with promoter LiveNation, is now officially the most successful tour in the history of live music.
$736.1 million is such a daunting number that it can be kind of hard to put into perspective. So, we've done a little math and we've calculated some of the things that U2 will now be able to do with that kind of change in their back pocket:
Sounds about right. Here's looking forward to the band's "4D" tour starting in 2013, where the band will literally travel backwards and forwards through time while on stage, eventually jamming out to a 13-minute version of "Desire" with both their past and future selves for the set's big encore.

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As we are approaching a Super Full Moon Lunar Eclipse our bodies are feeling the effects three days before and three days after its full illumination. A Lunar Eclipse can be felt 30 days prior to its arrival. With its open worldly invitation, we are being pushed to expose the darkness that lies beneath our own surface. We are mostly made of water; the human body in mass is 55-78% water. Much of the percentage has to do with how much water we hold in the body. The moon represents our emotions and has a direct connect to all watery matter. Each full moon exposes and brings to light what we have intended to accomplish from the previous New Moon or it highlights the anxious and out of balance nature of who we really are.
The moon is our connection to the world of feelings. The vibration this month's Full Moon is pulling from is in the sign of Sagittarius. Sagittarius is known as the archetype of the Archer. This dominant spiritual seeking force pin points its views with his arrow targeting his accomplishments for himself and others. With no prisoners he pushes them out of the way or initiates them to join in the cause. What we are being asked in this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse is to connect with our deepest intentions and not allow the water of the Moon to drown out our fiery passions. The Lunar Eclipse is pushing us to break this resisting force that may be causing us to miss the point or target completely.
We have choices in our everyday lives and we determine our decisions based on a filter of potential and possibility. We weigh our thoughts through a scale of deserving measures.
"Am I worthy of this accomplishment, gift, person or situation?"
"Do I have the information I need to really move forward?"
"Am I ready to consider this part of me complete or do I need to enhance my experience more?"
Questions like these may come to mind, not in a direct sense, but in a feeling of sensation. The moon helps us in generating the emotional stimulation needed to release doubts, fears and illusions. We become exposed to what is; moving away with what we thought could be or should be. Again, a choice is available to us. We can either ignore the impending truth or we can embrace the light and let all the undeserving and dishonoring beliefs go.
Look for the patterns of discomfort to show up and greet you in the path of the moon this month and shake hands with a better understanding or push them off the cliff into an abyss to never be seen again. This Super Moon is known in astrology as the, Flower Moon. We are to take the seed of life we have been fertilizing since the start of spring and allow for its blossoming to break the surface of our skin. This could be a new idea that is ready to be exposed to the public, a project that is to be finished at work and highlighted, a relationship that has been on the verge of break-up or one that is ready for a stronger commitment. Whatever the resistance has been to allow for its fullest fruition now is the time to take a chance and move forward with the flow of decisive behavior.
The incoming moonlight is so bright that our inner soul of expansion can do nothing more than flower in this Flower Moon of May. Attending to the quality of our emotional waters is crucial to the gardens that grow in our interior. Remember that all that we see and explore, with purpose like the Archer, is determined by the balancing and purifying beauty of the Moons reflective emotions. Enjoy this superior splashing and cleansing Full Moon Lunar Eclipse with a determination to awaken and expose our greatness to the surface.
Purity from the inside out
The heart is the filter to all experiences. What are the obstacles that block you from allowing love to enter fully? Expose and conquer this barrier into the light of the Full Moon, May 24, 2013.
Clarity in sending out our vibrations
Our thoughts are the architects of our experience. We hold within us a blueprint to be exposed and lived in a joyful manner. Knowing what to keep and what to expand upon is our goal in this Super Flower Full Moon.
Sagittarius is lighting the fire toward faith
This Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, May 24, 2013 is one of a fiery nature as Sagittarius strikes the match and heats up our faithful desires to be recognized.


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In our experience working with over 80 public sector budgeting organizations, Public sector budgeting is fundamentally different than the private sector due in part to differences in organizational purpose, governance models, and resource allocation approaches. These differences should be carefully considered when selecting a public sector budgeting solution.
Most public sector organizations have a highly iterative budgeting process (executive and legislative) which includes a nearly limitless number of interested constituencies, participants, and incremental decision-makers. This creates a more complex decision-making model than found in the private sector where financial indicators primarily drive resource allocation decisions. In public sector, the allocation of resources tends to be more of a compromise between stakeholders' objectives and priorities rather than aligned with a unified corporate strategy. Thus, budgeting solutions for public sector must be very flexible in supporting a very broad range of policy and budget analysis requirements as the budget will be viewed through many different lenses.
At the same time, public sector budgeting is more participatory and more transparent. Public budgets, which often carry the weight of law, are typically available to the public for the world to see how different priorities were funded. In other words, the public can see if their elected and appointed leaders, as the expression goes, "put the money where the mouth is". This means the context behind the budget numbers, such as written justifications or performance information, is more critical to public sector budgeting. Accordingly, public sector budgeting solutions typically must provide integrated word processing functionality and automated budget publishing capabilities to fully support and automate the budget process.
There are many software applications marketed to public sector which were developed for the private sector and which do not translate over to the public sector successfully. For example, many commercial planning and budgeting tools have text handling limitations or lack detailed position and employee-level budget modeling and forecasting tools. It is, therefore, important to understand how public sector budgeting contrasts to the private sector and unique public sector budgeting solution requirements such as those mentioned above and which will be further explored in more depth in future posts.
Over the next several weeks, we will explore more detailed considerations when evaluating public sector budgeting solutions including: approaches to software and consultant vendor solicitation and evaluation, evaluating the degree of functional fit, the software's long-term viability, the underlying technology, implementation considerations, term software support, expected total cost of ownership (TCO), and the expected return on investment (ROI).


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This week begins the "Journey Into Nyx" previews on DailyMTG.com. There is no particular order to the previews on the "Magic: The Gathering" site and there is no particular order here as well. With that in mind, here is the next card:
Gnarled Scarhide - B - Uncommon - Enchantment Creature - 2/1 - Bestow 3B - Gnarled Scarhide can't block. Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and can't block.
As if minotaurs weren't strong enough, they go and get their own version of "Savannah Lions." Not to mention this makes black based aggro decks even stronger.
The fact that the minotaur can't block is not a big disadvantage. Take into account "Rakdos Cackler." Many times, players opt to unleash it, choosing to enhance its power by one point at the cost of being able to block. With a creature like this, your strategy is to defeat your opponent as fast as you can. The added "bestow" ability makes this card even more charming and should make it worthy of both constructed and Limited play. Will people bestow it? All signs point to "no," but having the option is always nice.
Aggressive players will definitely want to play the maximum four copies of this creature in their decks. This, combined with cards like "Tormented Hero" and "Mogis's Marauder" will having you swinging for lethal damage in very few turns.
"Journey Into Nyx" hits stores on May 2. Prerelease events will be held the weekend of April 26 and 27. It will then be released online May 12. Finally, Game Day events will be held the weekend of May 24 and 25.
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Mary L. Dalton, 84, of Brunswick, passed away Friday, Jan. 25, 2008, at Golden Acres Nursing Home in Amherst.
She was born March 7, 1923, in Fort Gay, W.Va. Mary was a homemaker and enjoyed cooking, sewing and decorating.
She is survived by her sons, Eddie (Annie) Bartram of Lorain, Larry (Kathy) Bartram of Massachusetts; daughters, Bonnie Kraguljac of Medina and Toni (Larry) Fields of Vermillion; daughter-in-law, Adalyne Bartram; brother, Charles (Roberta) Jackson of Jacksonville, Fla.; sisters, Shirley and Charlotte; and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Dalton; sons, Glen and Alvis Bartram; daughter, Loretta Lavelle and Charlotte; parents, Walter and LeAnna (nee Crabtree) Jackson; brothers, Garland, Leonard, Hobert and Melvin Jackson; and sister-in-law, Julia Jackson.
Service: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Carlson Funeral Homes & Cremation Services, 1642 Pearl Road (one-half mile south of state Route 303), Brunswick. Sister Rita Costello will officiate.
Interment: Townline Cemetery, Brunswick.
Visiting hours: 1 to 3 and 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
Jake Blount Timeline and Summary
- Jake arrives in town and goes on a drinking bender, running up a huge tab at the New York Café.
- One night, he drags Doctor Copeland into the Café against his will, spouts off Communist ideas, befriends Singer, and gets into a brawl. Quite a night.
- He crashes at Singer's place and is stunned to learn the next day that Singer is deaf and mute.
- Jake lands a job as a mechanic at the Sunny Dixie Show.
- He tries to stop drinking, without much success.
- Then he tries to spread the socialist word in town, also with limited success. Not a great run for this guy. (As goes the whole novel…)
- Jake meets Simms, a crazy itinerant preacher, with whom he often argues.
- When he finds out what happened to Willie, Jake is compelled to action.
- He has a long conversation about politics with Doctor Copeland, but he ends up storming out after the argument heats up.
- After a deadly riot at the Sunny Dixie Show, Jake leaves town. Where do you think he's headed?


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If you're on the lookout for the perfect accessory to complement your titanium computer mouse, bike and lock, or your special guitar, then how about a nice new pen? Brian Fellhoelter has been privately selling his hand-made titanium TiBolt pens – featuring a nifty bolt-action mechanism – for the past few years, but can no longer cope with the demand so is scaling up production.Read More
Titanium is a tremendously useful metal and very abundant, yet only 186,000 tonnes (205,030 tons) of it are produced a year and it's not used very much outside of the aerospace field because it's so expensive and difficult to forge. To correct this, a team led by André Albert at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering in partnership with Thin Films (IST) in Braunschweig, Germany have developed a new process for hydroforming titanium at high temperatures in a single step that promises to make titanium more of an everyday material.Read More
While many players will insist that great tone can only result from the use of certain exotic woods, guitar design pioneer Allan Gittler saw things a little differently. He methodically stripped away all that he deemed unnecessary and redundant, and embarked on a minimalist instrument design adventure that resulted in the iconic Gittler guitar. Steel sitar or electric fishbone, the instrument had arguably its most famous public airing in the hands of Andy Summers of The Police in the 1983 Synchronicity II music video, and featured 31 frets, individual pickups for each of the six strings, and unique tuners. A new and improved version of the Gittler guitar is set to make its official debut at NAMM 2013 this coming January, and Gittler Instruments has opted to pull back the curtain early for a pre-production peek.Read More
Why carry two pieces of gear into the backcountry when you can carry one? That's the question that Vargo answers with the new Titanium BOT. The vessel combines two backcountry essentials - cooking pot and water bottle - into a single, lightweight package. Read More
The ability to create your own replacement curtain rings, door knobs or even a custom chess set at home using a 3D printer like the Replicator or the Cubify 3D printer has the potential to knock global production models on their heads. Such advances are certainly impressive but not quite in the same league as those being made in the field of medicine. We've already seen small bone-like objects printed by Washington State University researchers, and now an 83-year old patient with a serious jaw infection has become the first person to receive a full 3D-printed titanium lower jaw implant. Amazingly, the combined effort by researchers and engineers from Belgium and the Netherlands is said to have allowed the patient unrestricted mandibular movement within a day of surgery.Read More
We've seen quite a few gadgets made out of gold throughout the years. From a gold-plated USB flash drive to a 24 carat Gold- and Platinum-leafed Aston Martin DB7, gold has long been a symbol of class and a way to add a little flash to what might otherwise be an ordinary gadget. Now we can add computer mice to that long list of fancy gold items, with the new Sphere 2 by Ore Object. The mouse is made of surgical grade stainless steel with either a titanium, gold, or platinum finish. Both stain and dirt resistant, the mouse's surface repels germs, and can be easily sanitized if necessary.Read More
If you're looking to invest in a high-end, all-purpose bicycle that will last a lifetime, then feast your eyes on the beautiful lines of the No1 and No2 luxury bikes built by Paul Budnitz. Each of the two models currently available is based around a lightweight but strong Titanium frame, from which flows a veritable cyclist's wish list of components ... but yes, they don't come cheap. Read More
If you enjoy building model airplanes as a boy, and become a designer of high-end watches as an adult, what do you end up doing? If you're Maximilian Büsser, you create a watch that resembles an airplane – and that costs as much as one, too. That's the story behind the new watch from Switzerland's MB&F (Maximilian Büsser & Friends), the Horological Machine No. 4 Thunderbolt. The 50-jewel titanium and sapphire timepiece looks like it might wrench itself free of your wrist and start performing inside loops in the sky ... given that it sells for a mind-blowing 150,000 euro (US$196,812), however, you'd probably want to keep it close at hand.Read More
Leica used Photokina 2010 to unveil its beautifully crafted limited edition LEICA M9 'Titanium' digital camera. Created in collaboration with chief designer of the Volkswagen Group, Walter de'Silva, the camera is a reinterpretation of the classic LEICA M9. The special edition is strictly limited to 500 cameras worldwide. Read More
Back in June, those brainy folks over at Germany's Fraunhofer research group announced the development of Resobone, a material designed to replace the titanium plates used to patch holes in peoples' skulls. Now, perhaps a little ironically, they've announced the creation of TiFoam – a titanium foam to be used for replacing injured bone. Unlike Resobone, TiFoam is intended for load-bearing areas, where a balance of strength and flexibility are essential. Like Resobone, however, it's designed to encourage surrounding bone to grow into the implant.Read More
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I have seen a tool (Shed Skin) to translate one high-level language to another high-level language. Apart from knowing those languages what are the other areas of technical knowledge required to develop this kind of translators?
You are developing a compiler here (a program that translates from one language into another), so I'd consider a firm background in compiler theory both crucial and sufficient to do the job.
Any further knowledge depends on the scope of the job. Compiling Java to C++ would, for example, be mostly trivial when you have a garbage collector implementation at hand. Haskell to C seems to be a much more complicated matter, judging from the slow progress of the ghc.


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Which is the best Ubuntu Flavor for an old laptop?
I am totally new to Linux. I downloaded ubuntu 12.04 and installed it on my old laptop with 512MB ram, 1.66 ghz processor on a partition of size 10GB( with windows xp on another partition.) Now when I boot to linux it shows Lubuntu at the start screen(which i found out is a lighter version or something, may be because of low specs) .
Now when I run ubuntu and try to browse 5-6 tabs on firefox it starts getting sluggish. Do I need to switch to an older version of Ubuntu or is there any other fix to this??
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UNT Research Home | News Briefs
While the breadth and depth of a university's research is determined by the talent and energy of its faculty, the direction and vision for the future of scholarship, research and creative activities is the purview of its leaders.
In fall 2007, University of North Texas President Gretchen M. Bataille appointed two proven administrators, who also are respected researchers. Vishwanath "Vish" Prasad, vice president for research and economic development, and Wendy K. Wilkins, provost and vice president for academic affairs, are working together to engage the faculty in expanding UNT's strengths in science and technology while continuing to grow the university's nationally recognized programs in music, the arts and the humanities.
To do this, UNT's Office of Academic Affairs will make a major investment in faculty by adding new faculty positions to enhance its already outstanding academy. During the next two years, more than 100 faculty will be hired.
To foster inventive, collaborative research projects and substantially enhance UNT's research profile while adding depth to faculty representation and areas of study, Wilkins and Prasad are working with current faculty to determine the allocation and alignment of those new positions based on what kinds of "research clusters" can be created. The clusters will allow UNT to build its research capacity in strategically selected areas.
At the same time, Prasad is implementing a plan to develop Discovery Park, UNT's 285- acre research park, into a destination where industry can collaborate with academics. These partnerships will increase the capacity for new discoveries while helping fuel the economy and providing high-quality hands-on opportunities for students who will be tomorrow's researchers and industry leaders.
Inventive cross-discipline collaboration and student experience are key drivers for the future plans of research expansion at UNT.
Prior to joining UNT, Prasad grew the research profile of Florida International University, establishing the Motorola Nanofabrication Research Facility and the IBM-sponsored Latin American Grid System. He did so while attracting a highly diverse body of engineering and computing students — making FIU a national leader in producing Hispanic engineering graduates and African American and women engineers. He received the 2007 Educator of the Year Award at the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference.
Prasad's research interests include thermo-fluid sciences, energy systems, electronic materials and micro-electronics. A fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he has directed or co-directed several multi-disciplinary programs and centers supported by the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.
Prior to his roles as executive dean and distinguished professor of engineering and computing at FIU, Prasad served as an academic administrator and faculty member at Stony Brook University — State University of New York, Columbia University, Clemson University and Patna University in India.
Wilkins is a linguist whose primary research training is in syntactic theory. Her research interests include the evolutionary biology of language, cognitive science, language acquisition and comparative linguistic and musical cognition. These interests have provided her with a natural background in working collaboratively across disciplines in research clusters.
Fluent in Spanish, Wilkins previously was professor of linguistics and director of graduate studies at Michigan State University and served for six years as the dean of the College of Arts and Letters there. She has served in academic and administrative positions at Arizona State University and as a faculty member at the University of Washington and several institutions in Mexico City, including both the Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios, El Colegio de México, and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Ixtapalapa.
Two UNT faculty members — Rada Mihalcea, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and Pamela Padilla, assistant professor of biological sciences — have received National Science Foundation CAREER awards, the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of researchers and educators.
Mihalcea's five-year $500,000 grant will support her research in the semantic interpretation of text for language-processing applications. Anyone who has used a search engine to find information or translate a web page knows that understanding the meanings and similarities of words is important for effective information retrieval and translation. These language-processing applications use lexical resources such as dictionaries or thesauruses to understand word meanings, but distinctions in meaning differ from one resource to another.
For example, an English dictionary may define the word "plant" as "flora," "factory" or "an actor in an audience," while an English-Italian dictionary may translate it as "stabilimento" (factory) or "impianto" (machinery). By combining a number of these one-language and multi-language resources, Mihalcea will create rich, flexible word meaning representations that can be adapted to specific language-processing applications. She plans to explore the use of these representations in a number of areas, including word and text translation and text-to-text similarity. She also plans to integrate the models for word meaning interpretation into educational applications and use them to build a tool to help Spanish-speaking students comprehend English texts by providing simpler English synonyms or translation into Spanish.
The goal of Padilla's research is to understand the molecular mechanisms animals use to respond to and survive environmental stress, particularly the stress of oxygen deprivation. She will use the five-year $640,000 NSF award to continue her studies of oxygen deprivation in Caenorhabditis elegans, or nematodes, identifying the gene products required for oxygen deprivation survival and genetically manipulating the organisms so they can better survive the stress. One of her recent studies showed that nematodes with fewer offspring better survive oxygen deprivation, and she and the students in her lab are working to identify the underlying mechanism that regulates that phenomenon.
Oxygen deprivation is central to human health conditions such as myocardial infarction, pulmonary disorders, solid tumor progression and trauma because of blood loss or drowning. Padilla's research will begin to explain at the genetic level why some organisms or tissues are more resistant to oxygen deprivation and may one day lead to better treatment for organs, tissues or cells that have been deprived of oxygen. The research also may aid in understanding how organisms respond to the environmental changes that lead to oceanic "dead zones," areas of water deprived of oxygen.
Three faculty members representing history, business and art were named Fulbright Scholars in 2007.
Ted Farris, associate professor of marketing and logistics, will be based in Austria in spring and summer 2008, researching cash-to-cash financial flows of European business as the first key measurement of the supply chain. He will speak at top universities throughout Europe.
Constance Hilliard, associate professor of history, is spending the 2007-08 year teaching African American cultural history at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan. Her research interests include the legacy of slavery in contemporary American society, race science, and African and African American spirituality.
Nada Shabout, assistant professor of visual arts, will spend fall 2008 in Amman, Jordan, teaching contemporary Arab art history while conducting research on the topic for a book and continuing her efforts to document missing Iraqi modern art. She is teaching at MIT this spring.
Guido Verbeck, assistant professor of chemistry, was one of 29 scientists and engineers from across the United States to receive a three-year, $300,000 grant through the U.S. Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program last fall. The program supports scientists and engineers who have received doctorates or equivalent degrees in the last five years and show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program seeks to boost research in areas of major interest to the Air Force. A total of 215 proposals nationwide were submitted.
Verbeck will use the grant to develop new ways to use preparative mass spectrometry instrumentation for nanofabrication and the development of new materials such as smectic material or a type of "liquid crystals."The new materials may be used to create lighter, thinner and more flexible video monitors, or to develop new thin coatings on materials or new catalysts.
For the fifth year in a row, Ian Parberry, professor of computer science and engineering, has been selected a "Most Valuable Professional" by Microsoft. Parberry was recognized for his work in game development. In addition to computer gaming, his research interests include experimental algorithmics, computational complexity theory and neural networks. He is currently working to develop a system to incorporate real time video processing with gaming graphics.
Microsoft MVPs are experts in online and offline technical communities who share their expertise. They range from authors, artists and technology enthusiasts to professional developers, business managers and academics.
Tenor Richard Croft, professor of music, sang the lead role of Gandhi in the New York Metropolitan Opera's Satyagraha, a co-production with the English National Opera. The 1980 opera by Philip Glass, inspired by the formative years of Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa, opened April 11 in its Met premiere.
Croft, a Grammy-nominated singer, has performed to critical acclaim with leading opera companies and orchestras around the world. After he sang the lead role in the Salzburg Festival's production of Haydn's opera Armida last summer, the publication Salzburger Nachrichten noted that he "again demonstrated that he is in a league of his own."
The Knapsackers@UNT — a student computer programming team representing UNT's Department of Computer Science and Engineering — beat 129 other teams from 33 countries to win the second annual IEEExtreme 2008 24-hour Programming Challenge. IEEExtreme, which includes 15 problems to solve, is sponsored by the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an international professional society that also sponsors student branches on college campuses.
The team includes computer science and mathematics majors John Rizzo, Michael Mohler and Robert Burke. Coaches from the department are David Keathly, lecturer, and Ryan Garlick, visiting assistant professor.
Wes Borden, professor and Welch Chair of Chemistry, and Tom Cundari, professor of chemistry, are part of a group of 50 researchers nationwide sharing a five-year $15 million National Science Foundation grant to research chemical catalysis. UNT's selection was a result of its recognition as a national center of excellence in computational chemistry.
Working in UNT's Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (known as CASCaM), Borden and Cundari will supply most of the expertise and training in computational chemistry for the Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis, the first NSF chemical bonding center to receive this funding. CENTC includes chemists and biochemists from 10 universities and labs who are pooling their knowledge to tackle real-world problems related to catalysis.
Specifically, Borden and Cundari will look for an environmentally friendly way to convert benzene and ammonia directly to aniline, a chemical used to synthesize the polyurethane foam that insulates refrigerators and freezers. Helping with the work is Zhuofeng Ke, who is spending a year in Denton in part thanks to a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council.
Timothy Montler, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of English, received a $317,502 Documenting Endangered Languages grant through a joint program of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a Klallam dictionary and electronic text archive. Klallam is the native language of the Klallam tribes in northwest Washington and southern Vancouver Island.
Montler's work, which includes the development of tools to teach Klallam, will ensure the survival of the language, which was rapidly disappearing 15 years ago because few tribal members grew up speaking it. Montler began working with Klallam in 1992 and already has created computer games for schools in Port Angeles, Wash., near the Lower Elwha Klallam reservation, to teach the language. After he developed teaching materials, Port Angeles High School began offering Klallam language classes for foreign language credit, and several elementary schools also teach Klallam.
The dictionary and electronic text archive are two other tools for teaching the language. Montler says the dictionary must be done now while there are still native-speaking elders to help with the project. According to the NEH, experts estimate that more than half of the about 7,000 currently used human languages will stop being spoken in this century.
The UNT-Chile Field Station at the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve provides students with the opportunity to study biocultural history, natural history, biology and field philosophy, and provides an outstanding location for researchers to test philosophic claims with real-world challenges. The information and insights brought back to the classroom for analysis from the field will help determine how to develop the Cape Horn region in a sustainable fashion.
The mission of the station is to incorporate a broad range of perspectives, including those of the members of the indigenous Yaghan tribe, members of the Chilean government and military, citizens of Chile, non-governmental organizations such as UNESCO, an international team of science and humanities researchers, and tourism managers. The UNT Chile Program at Cape Horn is supported by a $15 million grant from the Chilean NSF (CONICYT).
Ricardo Rozzi, assistant professor of philosophy and religion studies, is the director of the Chile program. Also involved in the interdisciplinary research are Robert Frodeman, associate professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies; J. Britt Holbrook, philosophy and religion studies research assistant professor; and James Kennedy, professor of biological sciences.
In the modern global economy, companies are looking for ways to make global teams more effective as increasingly employees must work in teams and on projects with people located in different countries. The National Science Foundation awarded a $499,252 grant to Kathleen Swigger, professor of computer science and engineering, to study the performance of student teams working on a large software project at UNT, Middlesex University in the United Kingdom, Middle East Technical University in Turkey and the University of Panama.
Students in advanced programming courses at the four universities will use computer-supported collaborative tools to work together to develop large software applications. Researchers will examine how factors such as differences in time, geography and culture affect the students and then create strategies to improve collaboration.
Swigger says the research will have implications for geographically distributed collaborative learning teams in general. An industry advisory panel for the project includes representatives from Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Travelocity, Motorola, IBM (in the United Kingdom) and AGEIA. Other UNT researchers involved in the project are Robert Brazile, associate professor of computer science and engineering, and Randall Schumacker, professor of educational psychology.
Two computer science and engineering faculty members are using an optical remote sensing technology called LiDAR, or light detection and ranging, to develop a flood model for urban watersheds. Learning how flood waters migrate over low-relief terrain in urban environments can help predict flood damage and assist local, county and state governments with pre-disaster planning and post-disaster damage assessment.
Bill Buckles, professor of computer science and engineering and associate dean of the College of Engineering, and Xiaohui Yuan, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, received $125,000 from the National Science Foundation, including $50,000 to produce 3-D renderings of flood-prone areas. Because the research is addressing signal processing and data fusion issues, the Department of Defense also is supporting the project with a $420,000 grant.
The UNT researchers, who are collaborating with researchers from Hefei University of Technology in China, have data renderings for parts of New Orleans and expect to publish their first paper on the flood model this summer. Visiting scholar Liangmei Hu from Hefei is in Denton for one year to help with the research.
Increased crop yields may be a future benefit of the research of Brian Ayre, assistant professor of biology. He is studying cotton, an important fiber crop, applying principles of plant architecture gleaned from other systems to modify its growth and developmental processes and improve productivity.
Ayre was awarded a $390,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation to study the transport of sugars in plants. He and postdoctoral researcher Avinash Srivastava have learned that manipulating a sucrose transporter protein in different parts of the plant affects sucrose distribution and plant growth. In one of their experimental systems, the leaves accumulate much more simple sugar than normal, results that may have important implications for generating biofuels from plant material since simple sugars are required for fermentation to ethanol.
In another line of NSF-funded research, Ayre is working to alter the sugar composition of the plant. By altering sugars produced in the leaves and simultaneously altering the capacity of a particular region of the plant to digest those sugars, Ayre believes he can target specific regions to receive the majority of nutrient-rich sap, thus improving harvest yields.
To meet the technological needs of the 21st century, the U.S. Department of Defense and other agencies are transforming the way they share and use information by moving from their current system-oriented computing to a new era of net-centric software and systems. The new approach will provide users with the ability to access applications, information sources and services and customize them to meet their needs through the Internet.
To develop the necessary research and new technologies, UNT and other institutions have formed the Net-Centric Software and Systems Consortium. UNT, Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas each received $10,000 from the National Science Foundation to explore the formation of an Industry/University Collaborative Research Center, which would lead to more research funding opportunities and industry collaborations. A February meeting included more than 20 industrial participants.
The universities have one year to recruit at least five industrial members each to pay annual dues to establish the I/UCRC. The institutions then will join Arizona State University, the University of California at Irvine and Southern Illinois University to expand the consortium capabilities. Krishna Kavi, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, is the founding director of the consortium. For more information, contact him at email@example.com.
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and UNT conducted a "Winter School on Nanophotonics" at UNT in February. In addition to leading researchers in the field, Japanese students from Shimane and Tsukuba universities visited as part of a National Science Foundation-funded research project that also allows for UNT students to conduct summer research in nanophotonics at the Japanese universities.
Arup Neogi, UNT associate professor of physics who served as chair of the conference, is researching how to use optical effects or photons in nano-sized material for optoelectronic and biomedical applications. He is developing new nanoscale multifunctional materials that can be used for ultrafast optical switches, transistors and lasers. Based on new photonic principles, his group has developed hybrid optical materials for microscale biomedical devices such as liquid flow controllers, photonic sensors and nanoscale mechanical pumps. The JSPS and the Japan Analytical Spectroscopic Co. are among the groups supporting Neogi's work in addition to the National Science Foundation.
With grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UNT libraries are digitizing historic Texas newspapers and helping digital libraries improve usability for targeted groups such as genealogists. The two projects are led by Cathy Nelson Hartman, assistant dean of libraries for digital and information technologies, and Mark Phillips, head of the Digital Projects Unit.
A $397,552 NEH grant will be used to digitize 100,000 pages of historical Texas newspapers dating from 1880 to 1910. An advisory board of Texas historians and archivists will select newspapers that reflect the political and economic history of the state, provide coverage for major regions and have a broad chronological span. The public will have access to the newspapers at UNT's Portal to Texas History, which brings together searchable digital images of Texas-related documents and photos, and at a web site of the Library of Congress.
The libraries' $448,548 IMLS grant will be used to explore how people interested in genealogy use digital libraries. Researchers will determine what information the genealogists use and develop a user interface for them to the Portal to Texas History. The project will provide a model for future studies of other targeted groups who use digital libraries with humanities collections.
Brian O'Connor, professor of library and information sciences, and Richard Anderson, information security coordinator in the Computing and Information Technology Center, are working on a method to analyze film structure in much the same way that text is analyzed, despite the lack of a rigid grammatical structure.
In their approach, numerical data from each pixel in each frame of film is analyzed and graphically displayed. For instance, instead of referring to a scene in general terms such as dark lighting or fast editing, a computerized graphic numerically defines patterns of change in colors. Calculations on so many pieces of data from a film have been possible for several years, but the researchers have established a new way to match the measurements with the models developed by film theorists.
They say their work would allow film scholars to take a more scientific approach to film study and would open the door for film producers to map film structure to the message they are creating. Fingerprinting film in this way would also lead to a more precise method of labeling and cataloging photographs, films and recorded images of all types.
Mickey Abel, assistant professor of art history, is analyzing about 50 12th-century churches built after the Christian reconquest of the Soria region of Spain. Her research combines the technology of a global information system from the geography department with the architectural analysis common to art history. With a Hispanic Global Initiative grant, she will take three students to Spain to study the orientation of the churches' portals in relation to topography and cultural developments. She is collaborating with Bruce Hunter, director of the Center for Spatial Analysis and Mapping, and Lisa Nagaoka, associate professor of geography.
Abel says although the main portal of Christian churches is typically on the west end, in Soria the portals are generally on the north or south. Her mapping of ninth- and 10th-century Christian churches in the region showed that, while they also had north or south portals, they were oriented in relation to the Duero River and surrounding castles — regardless of whether the castles were occupied by Islamic or Christian forces. The question now is whether the 12th-century orientations are simply following local tradition or if other factors are involved.
Abel also is analyzing the Maillezais Abbey, originally located on an island off the French coast. She will map the ancient canals the monks built to drain the surrounding gulf away from the island and analyze their topographic relation to the abbey's western portal.
As a college student in the West African nation of Togo in 1990, Ami Moore says she witnessed the emergence of HIV/AIDS at a time when most people thought it was a disease of the West and most African countries were reporting prevalence rates of less than 1 percent. Five years later, doing graduate work in the United States, Moore learned that an increasing number of deaths in Togo were due to AIDS and a growing number of the victims were poor females.
Now a UNT assistant professor of sociology, Moore primarily focuses her research on HIV/AIDS-related issues. In some of her latest work, funded by a Fulbright research grant, she returned to Togo for six months to collect data on informal caregivers of children living with HIV/AIDS. She developed formal measures of the caregivers' experiences, including financial difficulties and family support, and identified resilient qualities such as problem-solving skills and a sense of mission. She will present a paper about how the caregivers manage stigma — strategically selecting people to whom they disclose the status of the child — at the International Sociological Association meeting in Barcelona, Spain, this fall.
U.S. and Korean college students use eBay and related sites for different reasons, according to a study conducted by HaeJung Kim, assistant professor, and Sua Jeon, lecturer, both in the School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management, and Eunju Ko of Yonsei University in South Korea.
A survey of 341 UNT students indicates U.S. consumers using online auction sites are motivated by functional and extrinsic factors such as product value and transaction costs. But a survey of 405 students from Yonsei, Seoul National and Han-Yang universities indicates Korean consumers are motivated by social and intrinsic factors emphasizing interaction with other auction users, such as forums that provide a social networking aspect beyond buying, selling and bidding. The researchers presented their findings in January at the Academy of Marketing Science's 2008 Cultural Perspectives in Marketing Conference.
Jeon, Kim and Christy Crutsinger, professor of merchandising and associate dean of the School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management, also presented a study about online auction users at the 2007 American Collegiate Retailing Association conference. Jeon, who received her master's degree from UNT, won the Graduate Student Best Paper award at the 2006 International Textile and Apparel Association annual meeting for her thesis on the effects of consumer shopping motivations on online auction behaviors.
Simon A. Andrew, assistant professor of public administration, received a junior scholar research grant from the Paul A. Volcker Endowment for Public Service Research and Education to investigate informal network structures of emergency managers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He and research assistant Pamela M. McGehee surveyed emergency managers to examine the frequency of interactions between them, how they communicate and why they communicate with some people and not others.
Preliminary results suggest that a close-knit network structure exists among key emergency managers when planning for future disasters. Andrew says using network analysis to study emergency managers' contacts is necessary to increase predictability about the roles local emergency managers play, with whom they form ties and for what purpose they develop and maintain their relationships.
PACCAR Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., acting through its foundation, announced a $1.5 million donation to benefit research and teaching in the UNT College of Engineering. The gift from the multinational transportation and technology company — the parent company of Peterbilt Motors Co., headquartered in Denton — created permanent endowments to establish the PACCAR Technology Institute at Discovery Park and the PACCAR Professorship in the UNT College of Engineering.
About $1 million of the gift is endowing multidisciplinary research at the new institute that UNT is supplementing by furnishing state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms. The remainder of the donation is endowing the PACCAR Professorship for a full-time, tenured engineering professor.
Some of UNT's distance learning courses in computer education and cognitive systems use a 3-D online learning environment created by the same graphics interface found in video games. Students "walk" into class from the comfort of their homes by controlling a mouse, keyboard or other device. They are denoted as a graphical figure on the screen and can physically interact with others on the screen.
Greg Jones, assistant professor of learning technologies — whose research focuses on emerging technologies for learning, including virtual communities and telementoring — has used the 3-D online learning environment in some classes since 2003. His research shows that a majority of students report having higher satisfaction, better rapport with faculty and better overall experience with courses that use the 3-D environment over only web-based or e-mail course delivery. The technology also can be used beyond the typical university classroom for virtual training or in other areas in which engagement and immersion assist with learning, Jones says.
Jones and Scott Warren, assistant professor of learning technologies, are collaborating on a number of projects related to 3-D online learning environments and their use in education and information settings. The two won an award at the 2008 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference for a presentation about the use of such environments to improve middle school literacy.
Ione Hunt von Herbing joined UNT in fall 2007 as an associate professor of biological sciences after serving as a National Science Foundation program director in the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems in the Biological Sciences Directorate. Her work focuses on the effects of the environment on the bioenergetics of developing vertebrates, specifically marine fish.
Prior to coming to UNT, she also spent 11 years at the University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, conducting research funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and NSF on the growth and metabolism of Arctic fish as well as commercially important food fish. Research on cod revealed an unusual trait similar to sickle cell anemia in humans, and her research is ongoing to characterize the importance of this finding in other marine fish species.
At UNT, she will continue her bioenergetics work by selecting fish relevant to Texas, such as striped bass, redfish and cobia, as well as beginning new studies on Antarctic fish affected by changes in global temperatures. She intends to develop some of these species as new alternative model organisms for research in areas as diverse as medicine, global climate change and aquaculture.
Women shopping for clothes have long realized that the fit of a labeled size is dependent on the brand. Tammy Kinley, associate professor of merchandising and hospitality management, found through examining more than 1,000 pairs of pants that as much as an 8-inch variation in the waist measurement exists in pants labeled the same size.
But how does the labeled size affect body image and self-esteem? Her research shows that while a smaller size has a positive effect on body image, particularly for younger women, the need for a larger size does not have a significant effect on either self-esteem or body image. Her findings contradict a concept promoted by some fashion magazines that standardized sizing is the answer. She says the "chaos" of garment sizing allows a diversity of women to fit most sizes and is preferable to having all women fit into a single vision of what size they should be.
If today's nonstick cooking surfaces — polymers made with the element fluorine — are scratched or exposed to high heat, an adhesive between the polymer and the pan can be released that may cause cancer. And it doesn't require much cooking experience to know that current pan or pot coatings are easily scratched. Witold Brostow, Regents Professor of materials science and engineering who is leading the research at UNT's Laboratory of Advanced Polymers and Optimized Materials, was cited in the London journal Chemistry and Industry for his work to develop a new, safer nonstick cooking surface.
Several years ago, LAPOM developed a polymer with low friction and wear resistance using an additive originally developed for NASA, but it costs $1,000 for one-third of an ounce. The focus now is on polymers with similar properties that are less expensive to produce. Brostow predicts one possibility is to develop polymers that directly bond to the pan itself, without an adhesive in between, and with scratch and wear resistance much better than current coatings on metals. His work is conducted using nanotechnology as well as other scientific techniques such as irradiation and magnetic field application.
With a $1 million National Science Foundation grant, faculty members in the College of Engineering and the College of Education are partnering to create an innovative curriculum for the electrical engineering program. The curriculum, serving as a model for secondary school teachers and UNT's new mechanical and energy engineering program, focuses on project-oriented courses team-taught by industry instructors beginning at the freshman level.
Collaborations with industries such as Texas Instruments, Nortel, Lockheed-Martin and PACCAR/Peterbilt are helping students integrate theory, practice and business sense. Students also study learning styles and problem solving skills to promote lifelong learning. The grant is led by Oscar Garcia, founding dean of the College of Engineering, with co-investigators Murali Varanasi, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering; Reza Mirshams, professor of engineering technology and associate dean; Kathleen Swigger, professor of computer science and engineering; and Jon Young, professor of educational psychology.
UNT and the Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana in Venezuela have been collaborative research partners for 10 years in the areas of environmental sciences, applied ecology and applied geography, with particular interests in tropical forest dynamics. Rector Jose Tarazona, president of UNEG, visited UNT in October to discuss expanding the partnership to include engineering, culture and the arts. UNEG was involved in National Science Foundation grants led by UNT in 1996 and 2002, and a general memorandum of agreement was signed by the two universities in 2003 and updated last year. UNT is the only U.S. university with which UNEG has signed such an agreement.
While on campus, Tarazona met with members of the School of Library and Information Sciences, the Institute of Applied Science, the College of Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Public Affairs and Community Service, and the College of Visual Arts and Design. He also met with a group of research scholars visiting campus from the Universidad de Alicante in Spain, Universidad de Los Andes in Venezuela and Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México to explore the possibility of expanding UNT's agreements with these universities to include UNEG.
UNT's Next Generation course redesign program is leading the way in the nation's efforts to transform traditional large enrollment lecture courses by blending online and high-impact classroom lessons to improve student learning. The work to redesign these courses, which cover a variety of disciplines in the arts, humanities and sciences, is supported by nearly $2.5 million in grants from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the U.S. Department of Education.
As part of the state-legislated Texas Course Redesign Project, a redesigned UNT history course is being taught at other universities and community colleges. A version of the course materials is being created for use with high schools as a dual credit course to allow students to earn college credit before starting at a university. The state project has also awarded funds to UNT to build a learning objects repository, an online database that can store and make these course materials accessible to faculty at public universities and colleges across the state.
A $45,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to President Gretchen M. Bataille is supporting an effort to develop professional science master's degree programs in biotechnology, environmental science, industrial chemistry and applied economics at UNT and other UNT System institutions. The degree programs, three of which will be offered beginning in fall 2008, are designed to provide science-trained professionals with business/management, communication and policy skills so they may fill the next generation roles in industry and government that will require both technical and practical skills.
Project coordinators Art Goven, professor and chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, and Jean Schaake, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, are working with private sector executives to tailor degree programs to meet their current and future workforce and employment needs.
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A licensed practical nurse from Freeport was criminally charged Wednesday for allegedly giving a patient at an Island Park nursing facility morphine instead of a prescribed muscle relaxant and is also accused of falsifying paperwork about the incident, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.
Vicki Price, 46, was charged with endangering the welfare of a vulnerable person, endangering the welfare of a physically disable person, falsifying business records and willful violation of the public health law. She was released without bail after pleading not guilty during her arraignment at the Nassau County Court and is due back before a judge on Oct. 16. Her attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"New York's health care professionals take an oath to care for their patients – and that care is their first duty," Schneiderman said in a statement. "Our most vulnerable patients deserve our care, and my office will pursue justice when our basic tenets of care are not met. There is one set of rules for all caregivers, and those rules must be enforced."
Prosecutors said Price was working as a licensed practical nurse at the Bayview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Long Beach Road in Island Park in February 2012, when she allegedly administered morphine to a patient instead of a prescribed muscle relaxant. The 46-year-old wheelchair-bound patient had suffered from spina bifida, a congenital disorder that sometimes causes paralysis. The unidentified patient lost consciousness, was hospitalized for five days and given medication to counter the effects of an opiate overdose, the attorney general's office said.
Authorities allege that Price allegedly "attempted to cover up her mistake" by falsifying documents and not revealing the suspected slip-up. Patrick Formato, an attorney who represents the South Point Plaza Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, which was formerly the Bayview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, said Price was fired after the incident. He said she had been hired through a staffing agency and had worked at the facility for about seven months.
Formato said the incident had been uncovered by other staff members at the nursing facility and was immediately reported to the state health department. He said they have been cooperating with the attorney general's criminal investigation. "The facility takes these things very seriously," he said, noting it "does not condone this behavior."


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With one weekend left in the regular season and the four playoff contenders set, all that is left to be decided for University of Massachusetts men's lacrosse alumni Ryan Izzo, Will Manny and Tim Soudan is postseason seeding.
Izzo is on the Ohio Machine's roster, but is part of the college in-actives list and has not played yet in 2015. Manny has 41 points via 27 goals, including a two-pointer, and 13 assists as the Boston Cannons' leading scorer. Soudan is the head coach of the Rochester Rattlers, who are making their second consecutive postseason appearance with Soudan as the team leader.
Information covering the previous week of MLL action follows:
MLL Playoff Field Set | Inside Lacrosse
Ohio Holds Advantage In Race For Second MLL Playoff Home Date | Sean Burns, Lacrosse Magazine
MLL Team Ranks: Week 13 | Chris Rosenthall, Inside Lacrosse
Photos & Highlights: Boston 9, Chesapeake 8 | Inside Lacrosse
Boston Nips Bayhawks In OT To Clinch Playoffs | Lacrosse Magazine
Photos: Boston Clinches Playoffs With Win Over Bayhawks | John Strohsacker, Lacrosse Magazine
More information on the close of the MLL regular season & the playoff contenders can be found via the Major League Lacrosse official website. Keep up-to-date with the Minutemen through UMassAthletics.com.


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RESIDENTS of Mtwapa town, Kilifi have protested poor infrastruture in the county.
They blocked the Mombasa-Malindi highway on Wednesday.
Reformed Matatu Owners Association chairman Elvis Kipkoech accused the county government of failing to deliver necessary services.
He said instead county officers have engaged in corruption and mismanagement of funds meant for development.
"We have waited for one year and the county government has not delivered anything. What we continue to witness is poor roads, poor health services, luck of sanitation facilities and insecurity in Mtwapa," Kipkoech told the Star during the demonstrations.


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Gigwalk is just one of the many apps out there that will allow you to earn money with your iPhone, and I may not have known it existed if not for one of my readers who clued me in to its existence yesterday. You're going to be seeing a lot of posts like this from me over the next few weeks because as a new owner of an iPhone myself, naturally finding ways to make money with it is the first thing I've started researching.
Unfortunately, Gigwalk is one app that I can't really use at the moment because they don't have any work available in my area, but hopefully that will change in the not-too-distant future.
So how does Gigwalk work?
If you sign up to be a Gigwalker and download the free app they offer for your iPhone, you'll get the opportunity to do little odd jobs, or "gigs," as Gigwalk calls them. These jobs might consist of taking pictures of different businesses, downloading and trying out different apps, and answering consumer research questions. An example of something you might be asked to do is verify the hours a certain business is open, which you could do by taking a picture of the hours sign on the door of that business and submitting the picture to Gigwalk. Sometimes mapping companies also need information about roads, and you may get the chance to go out there and verify certain things for those companies. You can only take on one gig at a time, and you have eight hours to finish the gigs you take. The more gigs you do, the more street cred you will build up, and this means that you could get access to jobs that pay much more.
How much does Gigwalk pay?
Gigwalk pay varies depending on the job, but their website states that on average gigs pay between $3 and $50. You're paid with Paypal after the customer who posted the job to Gigwalk approves your work, and this could take up to five days to happen. Gigwalk pay does have Paypal fees coming out of it, and this isn't totally unheard of. There are some companies that don't eat the Paypal charges and others that do. Because of the fees, you might lose around .50 cents of every $5 you earn.
Who can apply to Gigwalk?
Anyone from the United States can apply, but they currently only need people in certain locations. Right now, these locations include Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, Chicago, south Florida, and also Seattle. Don't get too disappointed if you're not living in any of these places — Gigwalk is definitely planning to expand some, so I would recommend either downloading the app anyway or at least keeping tabs on their website so you'll know if/when jobs become available around where you live. You can also "like" them on Facebook and go vote in their poll for your city to be the next one they expand into.
Can you do the work with any type of smart phone or does it have to be an iPhone?
Right now the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad are the only things you can use for Gigwalk, but they could change this in the future.
Update on this 1-11-12: Gigwalk now has an app for Android in beta mode. If you want to try this and have an Android phone, you should sign up because you could end up with a beta invite!
Gigwalk launched just this month, so there's not much user feedback out there yet. However, the app is already getting lots of media buzz. Here are just a few articles from reputable sources reporting on the app if you want to take a look:
I believe Gigwalk sounds like an easy, fun way to make some money, and am seriously hoping they venture into the Atlanta area soon!
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Fifth Monarchists or Fifth Monarchy Men
The Fifth Monarchy Men or the Fifth Monarchists were a quasi-political religious movement which was prominent from 1649-61. It was based on a strong millennium message, they hoped to reform Parliament and the government for the imminent coming of Christ's' Kingdom on Earth.
The movement was prominent throughout the Commonwealth and was organized. Congregation were still active in England, and Wales into the 18th Century After their planed conversion of England to a theocracy, a new English Fifth Monarchist army of saints would march on Europe, and would eventually convert the whole world for the imminent coming of Jesus Christ, with the spirit of Jesus Christ.
The term "Fifth Monarchy" or the "Fifth Kingdom" is a biblical reference to the Old Testament for Daniel 2: 44. It relates a prophesy in a dream by
Works such as Henry Archer's: The Personal Reign of Christ upon Earth (1642) became a popular work on the Millennium during the period. It foretold of the conversions of the Jews (1650), the destruction of the Turks, and the second coming of Christ(1700). The Civil War was seen by some as a metaphor of the coming new religious fervor. The execution of King Charles I in January 1649 also became a sign for some from God ushering in His New Kingdom on Earth for many of the faithful.
The Fifth Monarchy Men were a religious reform movement that used both social and political pressure to effect their message and vision of a new religious "Golden Age". They represented a diverse collection of various religious and political views. They hoped to replace the Long Parliament (1640-48) and its replacement the Rump Parliament (1648-53) with another "church-parliament" favorable to their views.
The Fifth Monarchists movement represented a broad group of interests. The membership might be divided into two general groups. One group saw the conversion of a corrupt English society into a new religious community of the Saints that was only possible through the power of prayer, and by setting a moral Christian life style, as an example for others to follow, i.e. being in society but not being of the society. Another group might argue for change through the legislative process, and reforms through political influence. A more radical small segment of the movement would later advocated for the force of arms to accomplish its godly mission. Members of both of these groups tended to hold more moderate positions in the early days of the movement.
The early beginnings of the Fifth Monarchists movement may date from the Norwich area as early as 1649. Both Independents and Baptist laymen and ministers had joined the New Model Army during the Civil War and many rose to positions of trust and influence in their respective regiments. Many of these individuals in turn influenced the views others with their own millennium message which may have helped to influence the early origins Fifth Monarchist message.
Many of these individuals came from General and Particular Baptists congregations. Among these were the so-called Seventh-Day Men, or Sabbatarians who worshiped on Saturday as the Sabbath following the Jewish traditions. Between 1650-1660 there were strong religious and political ties of support between these various groups against the Cromwell government.
Some of the more prominent Fifth Monarchy Men leaders were London preachers including:
These preachers may have held slightly differing interpretations of the text of The Book of Daniel. The common themes of the period included: 1) prepare for the Second Kingdom, 2) reform the government in preparation for Christ's rule, 3) that greed and power would be replaced with more brotherly love, 4) the collection of tithes and taxes should cease, 5) more consideration for the care, and feeding to be given for the poor, 6) the release of debtors from prison,7) to pay the back salaries due the New Model Army.
The Fifth Monarchists were early supporters of Oliver Cromwell, "God's Instrument"against the Royalists and pro-Presbyterian members in the Long Parliament. They had anticipated that Cromwell would support their holy mission to change this corrupted society into a new Saintly kingdom on Earth anticipating the return of Jesus Christ.
The Fifth Monarchists movement found support with a number of groups of the period, including the New Model Army and the Leveller movement. The New Model Army Uprisings of 1649 at Burford, Oxfordshire were crushed under the General, Lord Fairfax, and Lt. General Cromwell. The back pay issue for the Mobile Army was finally resolved with payments. The Leveller movement was dealt a heavy blow when the Leveller leadership were arrested and jailed in 1649, and the trial of Free-Born John. The Fifth Monarch Men became one of the few remaining major organized movements with a militant minority to oppose Cromwell's government after 1650.
On 25 April 1653, the Cromwell government dissolved the the ill fated Rump Parliament. Cromwell was motivated politically by a desire to generate a period of"christian peace" before a national Parliamentary elections. Lacking any real authority to call for a new elected national Parliament, a decision was made by the Council of Officers to form a Nominated Assembly of 144 nationally elected delegates for a period of sixteen month.
The Assembly was duly opened from 4 July 1653, and they promptly designated itself as a Parliament. Needing an official name, a vote was called for. It was duly designated as the Praise-God Barebone's Parliament.
The majority of the duly elected delegated were mostly moderate businessmen, and "gentlemen". An early conflict developed over certain political or religious reform policies being proposed by certain group within the minority delegates. A majority generally found these proposed reforms too radical in scope, and might even undermine the current basic State and Church institutions. Problems with the "radical minority" ultimately led to a non-functional governing body. On 12 December 1653, the majority of moderate delegates basically hand their authority back to the Cromwell government, probably to their own relief. It might not be unreasonable to suggest that the majority may have been simply voting their own pocket books, and a stable government.
The Fifth Monarchy Men supported certain delegate for election that supports their policies, and religious views. Unfortunately these were generally consider part of in minority view, and somewhat radical leaning by the moderate majority in Parliament. The Fifth Monarchy Men movement were critical of what they considered as the "pro-Cromwell" leaning delegates in the Barebone's Parliament between July to December 1653. It only helped their resolve to take down the Cromwell government.
The closing of the Barebone's Parliament caused a major outcry by the general public for a separate publicly elected body between them, and the current Cromwell government machinery. Their cries of protest, and outrage fell on the deaf ears of the Cromwellian government for redress according to the critics of Oliver Cromwell.
The Cromwell government with the closure of the Barebone's Parliament in December 1653 needed a decision. In conciliation Council of Officers an earlier draft document of a reform English constitution was dusted off, and amended. Working with the Long Parliament, and the Rump Parliaments had issues with the Army Council. A more centralized form government was considered as necessary. There was little, or no acceptable compromise with some of the "more radical" social and religion reform movements in society. "Those that could not be controlled must be crushed" has been attributed to Oliver Cromwell.
Within days of the Barebone's Parliament closure on 12 December 1653, the The Instrument of Government was issued on 16 Dec. 1653. It was a new written constitution, the first of its kind in English history. The document was attribute to
The Instrument of Government was clearly aimed at a strong central administration, with a firm hand on the reigns of government, and the rule of Law. The new institution was seen necessary to deal with past problems with Parliament, and more active security from radical elements. There was seen for a need for a stable English economy, national defense, and the rule of Law. Cromwell establish a strong national system of military governors that reported to him, and the Council of Officers.[Editor Note:Oliver Cromwell is a major historical beyond the scope of this work. Please consult the General Bibliography for additional sources.]
The critics of Cromwell were still outraged over the Barebone's Parliament closure, when the Instrument of Government was issued. This only angered his critics more. These groups were still seeking more personal and religious reforms as promised during the Civil War. Cromwell had betrayed them in their own eyes for his own perceived personal political ambitions according to his critiques. Some even commended that they had only replaced one old yoke with a new one.
Major General
He was elected an MP for Wendover, Bucks.,in 1646, but he instead sailed to Ireland during 1647 to join his men. He was at the Putney Debates in October 1647. He was the Commander of Forces in Wales (1649) and Chief Commander of Forces in England (1650-51). Harrison had been a good friend of Cromwell, and a comrade in arms.
Harrison was one of many prominent delegate to the Barebone's Parliament(1653). His personal situation began to changed after the Parliament dissolved. Harrison was a religious individual, and he had begun to have objections to the some of the new policies of Oliver Cromwell and his new government on certain religious grounds. The questionable actions of the delegates in closing the the Barebone's Parliament (1653) had an adverse impact, as did the sudden elevation of his old friend, Oliver Cromwell, as the new "Lord Protector". These had only helped to increased his own growing objections of the new government policies under Oliver Cromwell.
Harrison would become a leading spokesman for the Fifth Monarchy Men and their movement. General Harrison was well respected as a national military War hero, and as a Regicide signer. He was an educated man, and a good speaker able to rally support for the Fifth Monarchists cause and their anti-Cromwellian government message from Wales to London. The Fifth Monarchists had strong support in London, East Anglia, and Wales.
Under the Protectorate (1653-60), Harrison had publicly expressed his opinions of the Protectorate, and was stripped of his commission, and decorations by the government. Cromwell was instrumental in having Harrison sent to prison during 1655-6, and again in 1658-9 on what were considered questionable charges of subversion against the government, i.e. support for the Fifth Monarch Men. Harrison was one of the first Regicide Signer to be arrested, and tried under the new Restoration government. He was summarily convicted, brutally tortured, and than executed, a fate which Oliver Cromwell was able to escaped. There was a strong public out cry for the brutal treatment handed out to General Harrison, who was already in poor health by the Crown. These action only increased the growing public ire of City of London towards the new Crown, and the resolve of the Fifth Monarchy Men to act.
There were various radical movements with militant elements during the Interregnum. The Fifth Monarch Men movement was one of the best known and maybe one of the most radical of the period. The most radical of the Fifth Monarchy Men were the Vennerites, a militant faction named after their leader,
Venner was born in Littleham, Devon. By 1633, he was working as a cooper in London, and was associated with Praise-God Barebone, and Stephen More congregations. In 1637, Venner immigrated to New England, and raised a his family there. He is known to have resided in Salem, Mass, and then later in Boston. He held a number of jobs and positions some of them more legal than others, according to his critics. He returned to England during late 1651 a few steps ahead of the Boston police according to some accounts.
After returning to London, Venner became familiar with the Fifth Monarchy Men. In 1655, Venner worked as a cooper at the Tower of London, he was arrested and gaoled on suspicion of trying to blow the place up. By 1656, he had become the minister to a growing London congregation in Swan Alley, off of Coleman Street from 1655-61, with Fifth Monarchy Men leanings. During 1656/57, Venner and members of his own congregation were already making plans to overthrow the Cromwell government. Many of the Fifth Monarchy Men leadership including General Thomas Harrison were opposed to Venner's plan, and argued against it.
Venner's plan included the distribution of a certain work: A Standard Set Up written by Venner's son-in-law outlining the movements aims, and views. The planned objectives were to overthrow the current government, and to capture, to capture the King, and to establish a theocracy in England. But before the plan could be put into action many individual were arrested by the government, but not put on trial. Venner and two of his associates were confined in the Tower of London on Cromwell's direct orders until 1659. Additional attempts continued to be made on Cromwell life by other Fifth Monarchy Men.
The government made regular raids on suspected Fifth Monarchy Men congregations, looking for caches of arms, weapons, and horses sometimes with success. These efforts did not deter the more militant members who had found certain financial supporters willing to supply the necessary funds to supply the troops.
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), the Lord Protector office was passed on to his son
Richard Cromwell administration was replaced by a new Rump Parliament. They too did not supply the necessary security or stability sought by the government power brokers, or to address the fear of radical unrest in society. The new Rump Parliament was removed by army troops under the command of General George Monck. Overtures were quietly being undertaken to initiate secret negotiations with King Charles II of Scotland, on a possible reinstatement of the House of Stuart to the English Crown with stated reforms of government.
General George Monck was crucial player in facilitating the Restoration of King Charles II (1660) to the English throne. General
A group of wealthy power brokers had initiate a dialogue with King Charles II for his possible restoration to the Crown. General Monck was approached to act as the logical middle man for the task. After some difficult negotiations a deal was finally struck to return the House of Stuart back to the throne of England. On Monck's first greetings with the new king in England, he was made a Knight of the Garter. A short time later he was again presented to the king, and given a dukedom. General Monck fought during the Anglo-Dutch War for the navy, and was part of the new government, and a good friend to the Crown.
With the reinstatement of King Charles II underway, one of the first things done by the new government was to find, and to arrested all of the available signers of the Death Warrant of King Charles I. The Major-General
After the cruel execution of General Harrison, the growing fear of the return of aspects of the former reign under Church and State in some quarters, and fear of a possible return of the Catholic Church of England in another.
Venner and his supporters had planned for the overthrow of the Protector, or even the possibility of the return of the Monarchy
What is known as Venner's Rising happened on 1-4 January 1661. Venner with his Fifth Monarchy Men, and some reported 1,000 Quaker supporters attacked the centers of power in and about Greater London under the cry "King Jesus and the heads upon the Gates".
The rebels initially instilled fear, unrest for the City of London. Venner and his troops were somewhat successful during the first few days, but without the success that they had initially planned for. As more government troops arrived the tide of battle turned against Venner. The influx of professional soldiers brought the uprising to a relatively quick end. Many of the rebels troops were killed, some were captured by military units, and others escaped in the confusion. A wounded Veneer and the other rebel leaders were captured and put on trial. Venner and the other leaders were executed on 19 Jan. 1661. Venner was hanged, drawn and quartered, and displayed outside of his own congregation doors. The general executions went on a few days. Venner represented a radical faction of the larger movement.
More than one hundred Fifth Monarchy Men were arrested, and put on trial as rebels by the new government. Many of these "rebels" may not have been involved in the actual fighting. But were simply labelled as potential radicals elements for their comments regarding the new government. May were sent to gaol, or prison, and or fined. There were public out cries on their treatment for just for being associated with the Fifth Monarchy Men movement.
Venner's Rising did not end the Fifth Monarchist presence in England. Many of their congregations across the country continued unabated after the Restoration (1660) into the 18th Century. King Charles II and his government kept a careful eye on these congregations, and its leadership.
Many of the suspected "radical" of Fifth Monarchist leaders were imprisoned by the Crown, and served long sentences in prison. Many of former radical leadership quickly find refuge in Europe, and the government kept catch for them, or place them under surveillance too. There was some suspicions by the public at the tyme that the government may have made sure that radical elements of the Vennerites rebels did not return to England.
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On 19 October 1661, James was arrested in Bulstake Alley (Whitechapel). James was arrested with his congregation on charges of high treason against the new King Charles II. At his trial James denied all the charges, but had stated that did have some second thought about Venner later. The court found James guilty of the charges with no involvement a year after the Venner trials. On 26 November 1661, James was duly hanged, quartered, and disemboweled at Tyburn for high treason against the Crown. His head may have been placed on a spike located outside of his own congregation.
There was little real legal justification to support the Crown's changes against John James (d. 1661). He may have been simply used as a public example to place fear in the minds of other with any lingering Venner supporters within the Fifth Monarchy Men movement. John James would not be the last martyr to suffer during the early reign of King Charles II.
Existing Fifth Monarchy Men congregations would still continue in England, Wales into the 18th century, sans their military factions. The Crown would still keep a watchful eye out for any potential trouble makers. Many who had fled England did not give up their intrigues and plots against the Crown. There were some suspicions at the time that certain government agents made certain that these elements would not return to England.
The Fifth Monarch Men were a radical reform movement with a strong millennium movement during the Interregnum. They voiced many of the concerns for a new society based on religious equality and the rejection of the corruption on Man. They called for legal and land reforms for changes in the very structure of English society. They fell victims to their own radical minority, and Venner's Rising (1661) against the new Crown.
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