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This year's annual EcoCar 2 competition winner is Ohio State University. This year's theme was Plugging in to the Future.
The winning entry was a re-engineered 2013 Chevrolet Malibu with energy storage, electric drive and ethanol (E85) fueled engine technology.
University of Washington and Penn State University Teams Finish second and third. All participating university teams worked the same vehicle model, contributed to the program by General Motors.
EcoCar is a three-year competition managed by Argonne National Laboratory and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, GM and 30 other government and industry leaders. It is designed to give students real-world automotive engineering experience while striving to improve the environmental impact and energy efficiency of an already efficient vehicle – the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu.
Over the course of three years, the Ohio State University team consistently met incremental goals that strengthened their position against the other university teams.
Their series-parallel plug-in hybrid Malibu was track tested at GM's Proving Grounds in Milford, Michigan, through a series of strenuous technical and safety tests similar to those used for real-world production vehicles.
The team's unique design achieved 50 miles per gallon gas equivalent (MPGGE), while using 315 Watt-hours per mile (Wh/mi) of electricity, and even lessened the amount of criteria emissions by half, compared to the base vehicle.
"Ohio State met and exceeded the EcoCAR 2 goals at every point in the competition," said Dr. Michael Knotek - Deputy Under Secretary for Science and Energy, U.S. Department of Energy. "Their innovative work has contributed significantly to the future of energy efficient technology in the automotive industry, and we wish all members of the team the best as they move forward in the next step of their careers, whether in the classroom or in the professional world."
The second-place team from the University of Washington demonstrated the most energy-efficient vehicle, a B20 biodiesel parallel plug-in hybrid reaching 60 MPGGE and 333 Wh/mi of electricity, as well as the lowest well-to-wheel greenhouse gas emissions.
The Pennsylvania State University team placed third with their E85 series plug-in hybrid.
"For the past three years all 15 EcoCAR 2 teams have worked tirelessly to design the next generation of clean vehicles and we have seen exceptional outcomes," said Ken Morris, vice president, global product integrity, General Motors. "Ohio State stood out amongst the competition and truly did an outstanding job. All of the teams have helped advance innovative vehicle technology and improve the automotive industry and we thank them for their hard work, dedication and enthusiasm for this program."
This year's EcoCar competition builds on the successful 25-year history of Department of Energy advanced vehicle technology competitions by giving engineering students the chance to design and build advanced vehicles that demonstrate leading-edge, eco-friendly automotive technologies.
General Motors provides each of the 15 competing teams with a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu, as well as vehicle components, seed money, technical mentoring and operational support. The U.S. Department of Energy and its research and development facility, Argonne National Laboratory, provide competition management, team evaluation and logistical support. Through this important public/private partnership, EcoCAR 2 provides invaluable experience and training to promising young minds entering the North American job market.
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"Panda." The eater. And the surfer dude. Those three are the returning leaders of the group whose play will determine how well Keith Price, the offense – and thus the entire Huskies team – does in 2013.
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SEATTLE – Ben Riva doesn't tippy toe around the issue.
Which is great, because the Huskies don't need a 6-foot-6, 306-pound left tackle that tippy toes.
"We all know that the success of the team starts with us. It's on us. If we don't get it done then the offense won't produce," Riva says, dead on.
"That's definitely been our sole focus this year, to get the offense to where it was in 2011, and having Keith be comfortable.
"Because, obviously, everybody knows if he's cozy back there he can tear people apart."
"Keith," of course, is Keith Price. Huskies fans tend to pin the key to Washington's 2013 season and coach Steve Sarkisian's stated quest for true championship contention upon the senior quarterback performing like he did in 2011. That's when he became a record-setting passer and improvisational runner who outplayed Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III in the Alamo Bowl.
Many believe to do that Price needs career seasons of support from leading receivers Kasen Williams and, whenever he returns from a broken finger, Austin Seferian-Jenkins. That Price needs Bishop Sankey to rush for near or more than the 1,400 yards he had last season.
Yet absolutely none of that has a chance to occur if seven giant men – among them a "Panda," a surfer dude and a new left tackle who has gained 36 pounds in three years -- aren't huge for UW this season.
Riva is the junior left tackle who eats six meals a day to maintain his 306 pounds. The left guard is Dexter Charles. The center is Mike Criste. The right guards are James Atoe, and when he fully returns soon from reconstructive knee surgery, Colin "Panda" Tanigawa. The right tackle is Micah Hatchie. Erik Kohler will likely replace Atoe at right guard – that is, when the SoCal surfer dude from Ventura County, California gets back soon from a torn knee ligament, torn quadriceps and a June injury to his left foot.
Seven offensive linemen, driven hard by Dan Cozzetto, UW's irascible, 31-year veteran of college and NFL line coaching.
Those are the keys to the Huskies' 2013.
"Yeah, Coach Cozzetto he always preaches it: Basically, we are just going to control the game. If we are getting our (rear ends) kicked, we as a team are not going to be successful," Tanigawa said. "If we are out there handling our business, then we are going to score points."
Tanigawa has no problem with the notion that this entire season – more than any recent Huskies one – is riding on the offensive line.
In fact, he says the linemen are embracing that fact as a point of pride.
"Yeah, definitely. That's the way we want it," he said. "Might as well be that way."
Tuesday, Riva, Charles, Criste, Tanigawa and Hatchie continued to progress and grow closer – even nastier -- together during the Huskies' first full scrimmage of the preseason. They gave Price plenty of time to, as the quarterback assessed afterward, "take what the defensive gave me."
Viola! By unofficial count, Price completed 17 of 22 throws in the scrimmage. He and the Huskies will take those numbers once the games get real, beginning with the Aug. 31 Husky Stadium unveiling against Boise State.
"What I like about this group, especially with Colin coming back and the move of Ben to left tackle, this group's got some nastiness to it," Sarkisian said. "Four of those five guys are about as nasty as you can find – and that's a good thing. That's what you want up front. And to think James Atoe is a backup, we get Shane Brostek back as a backup, we're getting Kohler back – that's a deep group with a lot of experience.
"They play the game the way you want them to play the game, which is going to be good for us."
Good enough to define this Huskies' season.
"It just really comes down to us doing our job," Charles said. "As long as we can do that, Keith can play.
"We all know that. We'll keep him clean, he'll make the plays – and we'll have a good time."
A potentially historic time, too.
Every team that has goal posts talks about how important its offensive line is. But for Washington, its current offensive system and its quarterback, the O-line is absolutely paramount.
Consider this:
When Price set UW records with 33 touchdown passes, a completion rate of 66.9 percent and a pass efficiency of 161.09 two seasons ago, he had the same five starting linemen blocking for him over 11 consecutive games. Tanigawa injured his knee in late November and missed the final two games that year. Six linemen started at the five positions in 2011.
By the third game of last season, the O-line had only one of the previous season's starters remaining healthy: center Drew Schaefer. Four-fifths of the line was lost to injuries for parts of the season, for the entire year or forever. Consequently Price spent most of 2012 running for his life.
Four different blockers started at right guard. Four guys started at right tackle. Criste was a third-stringer entering the season. By week two he was making his second career start – in a mad house at LSU.
Nine different linemen started at least one game. It wasn't until just before Thanksgiving, in the win at Colorado, that UW had the same starting line blocking for Price over four consecutive games.
Colin Porter, who should be a third-year starter at guard right now, was forced to retire in the spring of 2012 because of chronic shoulder injuries. Tanigawa played one game last season before he shredded his knee Sept. 8. Kohler was gone for the year by halftime of that second game at LSU because he dislocated his knee cap.
Price admits he was preoccupied with all the flux in front of him, and it showed. He was often under duress within two seconds of taking a snap. He got so used to having to scramble for self-preservation that he began doing it prematurely on pass plays on the relatively few times defenders weren't actually swarming him.
Price threw 18 touchdown passes and 11 interceptions while the Huskies allowed 38 sacks in 13 games.
"They've had their bumps and bruises along the way. They've had some hard times, and we've all witnessed a lot of those," Sarkisian said. "You go one of two ways when you have those rough times: You wilt and succumb to it all; or you work and start to fight back and have pride in what you do, and the next opportunity you get your overcome it."
This offensive line has chosen the latter path.
"I think it's a real tribute to Danny and his ability to mentor these guys and to develop a mentally tough group," Sarkisian said. "They are playing that way."
Hatchie agrees the linemen are far tighter. It's a bond born out of familiarity -- and out of having gone through times such as allowing four sacks while trying to keep NFL-quality pass rushers out of their backfield and 92,000 zanies out of their heads at LSU last September.
"We have more communication," Hatchie says. "And we've all grown together."
Indeed, UW is returning eight blockers who have experience starting a game. A year older makes them a year smarter – and presumably a year better, though we will soon find that out.
"I feel like our communication is much stronger this year with us five," Criste said. "That was our problem last year, we had new guys. But as the year went on we got a lot stronger in communicating and you could see that. In the spring we got even stronger."
Every team's offensive linemen are naturally bonded.
They get up before dawn to lift weights with each other all winter and spring. In the summer they run conditioning sprints in the same groups. In season they bang into each other incessantly, usually with a sharp-tongued, take-no-prisoners line coach berating them to do more. The harder the task, the tighter the bond.
They also relate to each other well because they tend to share a common trait: intelligence. Offensive linemen are usually among the smartest players on a team, the ones often majoring in business or science or math – UW's last Academic All-America, in 1991, was Ed Cunningham, a center. Last year's 101 Club Scholarship winner as Husky football's top student-athlete was Schaefer – you guessed it, a center.
The amount of information offensive linemen must process before each snap to make protection calls alone is daunting. They then must adjust those calls to what the defense is showing. They must pick up blitzers while processing the quarterback's play call at the line. Oh, yeah, and don't forget the snap count!
They must do all this in the span of 10 seconds or so that Sarkisian wants between plays for his fast-paced, no-huddle offense this season.
It's telling that backup tight end Evan Hudson's biggest revelation to moving to defensive tackle this month has been that basically all he now has to do is line up and go.
"You mean this is all we have to do?" Hudson asked defensive end Hau'oli Kikaha (formerly Jamora) when the senior was showing him defensive-line work this month.
During an offensive-line drill this week, Cozzetto was explaining to the linemen how each position's protection call will change depending on whether the defender on the right end is 2 yards off the ball, head up on the offensive tackle or shading on the tackle's outside shoulder. Three different calls, depending on where an end's or outside linebacker's feet are before the snap.
Call the wrong protection, and we are all ripping Price for not getting rid of the ball in time, or for throwing an incompletion – or worse – under duress.
Noticeably, there are no seniors on this year's offensive line. Perhaps because of that, there seems to be no Alpha Dawg among them. That also helps make this line more cohesive than any of the five Sarkisian has had leading his Huskies offenses.
Each Monday night the O-linemen go to Valarmos Pizzeria just north of the UW campus on Sand Point Way to eat calzones. They go to each other's houses on other nights, to hang out or barbeque.
When the freshmen arrived on campus last month, the upperclassmen took them to the Lake City home of Riva's girlfriend, Huskies softball ace Kaitlin Inglesby, for a big barbeque.
"The O-line knows they're welcome at my place anytime to hangout," Inglesby told me Wednesday – though she added that the big guys know they need to bring their own food to cook so they don't eat her out of house and home.
The cookouts add to the O-line's bonding – and thus to the Huskies' chances this season.
"The cohesiveness, we've really made it a priority this year," Tanigawa said. "We are going to bust it every day to make a run at a championship."
Though he brushes off the development, Riva has emerged as the line's leader through his dogged work and humor. Because of that, because of being the all-important left tackle, one might expect Riva to take extra pride in his status among his fellow linemen.
"No, not at all," he says. "I play for the Huskies. I take that as a badge of honor."
Riva thinks the togetherness stems from the fact this is the first UW offensive line recruited entirely by Sarkisian and his staff, who arrived in January 2009.
"These are some lifelong friends. We are really jelling, just in this past year," Riva said. "All of the guys here now are Sark's guys, and we're all close. We hang out a lot. We do a lot of activities together."
One of Riva's favorite activities is eating.
He shakes his head now recalling that when he arrived at UW from Seattle's O'Dea High School in 2010 he weighed 270 pounds.
"Right now?" Riva said last weekend. "I was 306 before dinner.
"I try to eat six meals a day."
Not snacks. That's six, full, more-than-square meals a day.
"If I don't eat a ton, I will lose weight," he says. "So I have to stuff my face at all times. A lot of protein. Complex carbohydrates, a lot of sweet potatoes, that sort of stuff. A lot of veggies. I try to eat as 'clean' as I can, because you don't want bad weight, obviously. Not a whole lot of Mickey D's.
"I go home to mom a lot. She's a great cook, spaghetti and meatballs."
So there's another bonding agent among these linemen: Food.
Hey, whatever gets this key group working well together.
"This group is a very tight-knit group, this offensive-line group. They are very together," he said. "They are almost like in a pack in a sense, and that's a great thing. They are looking out for one another on the field, off the field. That's exactly how you want them to be. When they get disconnected, that's not a good thing.
"So I feel good about this group coming together as one, which is a big deal to us."
Monday, Tanigawa got back into full scrimmaging at guard for the first time since his second knee injury in 10 months last September.
"I'm still thankful as hell, man," he said after the practice. "I'm so thankful every day being out here."
About that "Panda" nickname: It comes from Tanigawa's soft facial features and dark eyes, not his personality.
Even Cozzetto calls him that.
"He looks like a panda," Riva says. "And he says that's what people in high school (at Loyola in Los Angeles) called him, too."
Tanigawa just shrugs. It's almost a joke now, given his reputation as a nasty, get-out-of-my-way dude while on the field.
For Riva, Tanigawa's return – and the eventual one of Kohler, perhaps next month – will strengthen this all-important offensive line even more. That, in turn, should make Price far more comfortable than he was at any time last season.
And as 2011 showed, a comfortable Price is a potentially lethal one.
So what's Riva, the pivotal left tackle, all-important vanguard of Price's blind side, see in his quarterback now, 17 days before the season begins against Boise State?
"He's really happy," Riva said. "He's got his smile on and he's having fun.
"It's his senior year, and we want to make it the best for him."
Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director or Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for the Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
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Aluura was a dabo girl who worked in Quark's on Deep Space 9 in the 24th century.
In 2374, Quark praised Aluura's work with customers, although he also gave her a copy of Oo-mox for Fun and Profit claiming that she could be "nicer" to him. Quark later apologised to Aluura and gave her a raise after his experience posing as Lumba. (DS9 episode: "Profit and Lace")
Aluura was still working in Quark's in 2382. (ST - Typhon Pact novels: Plagues of Night, Raise the Dawn)
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Where did Brunswick stew originate? Like many things, it depends upon whom you ask!
Those of us from Virginia believe the first Brunswick stew was made in Brunswick County, Virginia when the cook of a member of the House of Delegates created a special stew for the gentlemen who participated in the Delegate's hunting expedition.
Not so fast, say residents of Brunswick County, Georgia. They even profess to have the original kettle in which the first stew was made.
Share these stories when serving Brunswick stew made from the following recipe.
- 1 (3 pound) chicken
- 1 teaspoon peppercorns & 1 bay leaf wrapped in cheesecloth
- 3 strips of bacon
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 4 boiling potatoes, diced
- 1 (28 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, drained (reserve liquid) & chop tomatoes
- 1 (10 ounce) box of frozen lima beans
- 1 (10 ounce) box of frozen corn
- 1/8 teaspoon red pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon dried leaf oregano
- 1/8 teaspoon dried rosemary
- salt & pepper to taste
- Put chicken and wrapped spices into large stock pot and cover with one inch of water.
- Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours. Drain, reserving broth.
- Remove and discard chicken skin. Remove meat from bone, shred and reserve.
- In clean pot, cook bacon until crisp. Remove bacon, crumble and reserve.
- Use the drippings from the bacon to sauté the onion until soft. When onion is cooked, add broth and potatoes.
- When potatoes are partially cooked, add remaining ingredients, bring to boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer until frozen vegetables are hot and tender. Adjust seasonings.
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Each guest brought a card with wishes for the baby that we put in an album for the family. We designed a printable banner, food labels, lollipop tags, drink tags and cupcake toppers. Guests enjoyed Chesapeake crab chips, corn crab chowder, chicken salad and fruit salad while sipping matching sodas.
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Tulane University has worked with DMI Travel, Inc. to secure blocks of rooms for the November belonging retrieval dates and Spring move-in and orientation. Please contact Chris Cavalier or Bobbe Petreikis at 504-524-0050 for assistance.
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This transition schedule takes into consideration the events and experiences that have altered the lives of all Tulanians. Students will participate in small-group discussions to talk about their fall experience—whether they were visiting students at other universities or decided to take the semester off to pursue other interests. Parents will receive the latest information from city and university officials regarding the health, safety and rebuilding of New Orleans and have the opportunity to talk with other parents about their experience.
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Coyotes hope break helps focus on Game 4
Friday, 05.18.2012 / 8:21 PM | Corey Masisak - NHL.com Staff Writer
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- The
Phoenix Coyotes
felt they played better in Game 3 of this Western Conference Final series. They also came up short again, and now are one loss from elimination.
There is an extra off day in the schedule between Games 3 and 4 because of the congestion at Staples Center with the
Los Angeles Kings
, Clippers and Lakers still participating in the postseason. Most of the Coyotes that played Thursday night took Friday off, as coach
Dave Tippett
tried to give them a break from the day-to-day grind of the playoffs.
"I think it can be really important,"
Adrian Aucoin
said of the extra day off. "I'm always the kind of guy that likes to keep playing, keep it rolling. Seeing how we haven't gotten the results, it's nice to take a day, refresh the mind, come back and go for a win on Sunday."
Kyle Chipchura
: "It is always nice to get in that flow of every second [day]. You kind of get used to that. I think we can use today as kind of a day to regroup and tomorrow get back at it and refocused. I think you just have to adjust to the schedule with no preference.
The Coyotes were clearly frustrated Thursday night after a 2-1 loss. Phoenix players felt they had played their best game of the series and that still wasn't enough.
Now they face a daunting task of trying to erase a 3-0 series deficit.
"All season long every time we've put ourselves in a hole or behind the eight-ball, we've done a good job of recovering and getting back at it," Chipchura said. "I know this is totally different, that this is something that is a lot harder. We're not going to roll over and die. We're going to go out there and fight to the last buzzer, until it's over. The old saying is 'it's not over till it's over.' We're going to give our all."
Aucoin could return from injury to help the Coyotes' defense corps. Phoenix will definitely get center
Martin Hanzal
back after a one-game suspension.
Both of those guys skated Thursday, and Hanzal seemed eager to return, to say the least.
"I already had couple days off. I'm fresh, ready to go," Hanzal said of the extra day off. "If I speak for my teammates, they're probably happy to take the day off today, practice tomorrow, be ready on Sunday."
Added Tippett: "I don't think you look at it one way or another. We'll take a rest day today. We got some players that didn't play last night and a few extra skating today. We'll take the day to evaluate the game last night, have a good practice tomorrow and that will be our prep for Sunday. You know, you manage your schedule accordingly. I don't think it's one way or another. Good or bad, you know what it is and you plan accordingly."
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The Brigham City Museum of Art and History is one of our favorite museum/galleries in the state. It's not big and is housed modestly underneath the senior center in BC, but the collection and exhibits are always thoughtfully curated and striking. BCMAH is a example of bringing art to the community.
A case in point: the BCMAH is opening the International Quilt Invitational July 1 through Aug. 23. Though it's coincidentally opening it time for Fourth of July celebrations, this is an international show with award-winning participants Germany, England and Canada, not to mention 11 U.S. states. The featured quilter is Zena Thorpe from California (that's her quilt above).
For the newest wave of DIYers and "makers" (Craft Lake City DIY is Aug. 8-9), quilting at this level art should be a revelation.
A favorite Utah motif, Busy Bees and Friend, but by Karen Eckmeler, Connecticut.


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Nathan Trapuzzano was gunned down while walking in Indianapolis early Tuesday morning. The 24-year-old innocent victim was a newlywed and father-to-be. The tragedy happened between 5:45 and 6 a.m.. that morning when police believe two people were involved in the murder.
An Apr. 3 report by CBS News explained that Trapuzzano was followed by two suspects. One "acted as a lookout" and the other was a gunman. In surveillance video footage obtained by police, they saw one suspect trying to catch up with Trapuzzano walking and another person showing up a short time later. Nathan Trapuzzano was gunned down right after that.
Police say the man was killed for "absolutely no reason" and that's what makes this murder "particularly troubling." Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Dept. is urging anyone who may know something about this to come forward. They said they would do everything in their power to protect their identity in an effort to find the two suspects. They believe they live in the area.
Trapuzzano leaves behind his wife, Jennifer Trapuzzano, and their unborn child due next month.
What a senseless act of violence. Was it someone who knew the victim or just a random act of violence? Nathan Trapuzzano was killed during the best time of his life and his wife must deal with that unthinkable reality in addition to having a baby soon. Hopefully police will capture these two criminals soon!
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(b) When any of the following conditions exist on a public right-of-way between the property line and the curb or edge of the roadway and threatens, limits, impairs or creates a hazard to the use of the right-of-way by vehicles or pedestrians, such a condition is declared to be dangerous and prejudicial to the public health or safety and to constitute a severe nuisance:
(1) Any accumulation of animal or organic matter that is offensive by virtue of odors or which is inhabited by rats, mice, snakes or vermin which may be dangerous to the public health.
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(3) Any accumulation of hazardous refuse or concentration of combustible items such as mattresses, boxes, paper, housewares, tires, clothes, or furniture.
(4) Any accumulation of appliances, glass, building materials, demolition materials or rubbish.
(Ord. of 3-26-85, § 3; Ord. of 7-15-86, § 2; Ord. of 5-21-91, § 1; Ord. of 9-20-94, § 1; Ord. of 7-13-99, § 1; Ord. No. O-2006-113, § 1, 11-21-06)
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|Idaho bound for Louisiana Tech
Consistency. That is the key word for the Idaho Vandals as they head to Louisiana Tech to take on the Bulldogs, who were ranked 23rd nationally before last weekend's shoot-out loss to Texas A&M.
"We have to make plays when given the opportunity is the bottom line," coach Robb Akey said.
Kickoff is 6 p.m. local/ 4p.m. Pacific. The game airs on ESPN3.
In taking on the Bulldogs, Idaho faces a team that is ranked No. 1 in the Western Athletic Conference in rush offense, total offense, scoring offense, net punting and sacks allowed. Louisiana Tech's 53.83 points per game is the best in the country.
"They're a good football team," said Akey, complimenting the play of Tech quarterback Colby Cameron and his leading receiver Quinton Patton. "They have some skilled players that run well in all three phases of the game. Their fronts have good size to them."
Idaho counters with a team that has shown great promise in all three phases but hasn't had the consistency throughout the course of a game.
"What I'm talking about is consistency of the good things," he said. "Focus on what it is that we're capable of doing. Get those other things out of your mind. Snap back. Take care of the ball. Win the sudden change."


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The solar project will use groundwater, but its effect on the Colorado River needs to be determined.
While officials approved the 1,000-megawatt solar power project in California last week, its effect on the Colorado River needs to be determined before construction commences, according to the state's energy commission.
Planned for a site eight miles west of the town of Blythe in the Mojave Desert, the power complex will comprise four individual 250 MW units, generating electricity using parabolic mirrors. Solar Millennium, the project's owner, has signed a contract with Southern California Edison for the entire output of the complex, which will begin operating in 2013.
The Blythe facility will be the world's largest solar power operation, as well as double the installed commercial solar capacity in the United States, which was 603 MW in 2009, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has fast-tracked solar energy projects as California strives to meet its goal of obtaining 33 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. The California Energy Commission approved two solar projects earlier this summer and will rule on three more by the end of the month, according to a press release from the governor's office.
The plants in the Blythe project will be dry-cooled, a technology that uses ambient air to dissipate heat. While it will increase the cost of the plant and reduce its efficiency, dry cooling decreases water consumption by more than 90 percent.
Solar Millennium has decided to use dry cooling in all of its plants, company representative Bill Keegan told Circle of Blue.
"Obviously there's a trade off because of a loss of efficiency and power capacity, but we feel it's worth it with the water savings," Keegan said.
The Blythe plants will have an auxiliary wet cooling system for the summer months to keep critical equipment functioning at its designed capacity.
The company will drill wells on-site for its water needs: 4,100 acre-feet during construction and 600 AF annually to operate the plant. The CEC's environmental review found that the extraction rate will exceed recharge, but the plant will not significantly affect the groundwater basin because of the large amount—five million AF—of water already stored.
However, the groundwater recharge is believed to be connected with surface flows from the nearby Colorado River, which cannot add new users to its appropriation. As part of its decision, the CEC is requiring Solar Millennium to study the relationship between the groundwater and the river, as well as submit a plan to offset any effects its water use would have on the river. This plan will need approval before the company withdraws any water.
The CEC's suggested options include conservation programs; funding irrigation improvements elsewhere; purchasing water rights or participating in the Bureau of Land Management's program to remove tamarisks, a water-intensive invasive plant.
Keegan said Solar Millennium is still looking into how best to offset its water use.
The company wants to begin construction by Dec. 31 to take advantage of federal loan guarantees for renewable energy projects that expire at the end of the year.
The next step in the approval process will be in October when the BLM will decide whether to grant right-of-way and use permits for the plants and transmission lines.
This article was originally posted on the Circle of Blue website.
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His past is a mystery, even to him--a werewolf with memories so lost in a fog that even the Hunter's healers cannot help him. Two hundred years ago,Torontoawakened on an unfamiliar street, naked and alone. Dogged by the unanswered questions of his enigmatic existence, he fears he will never find the missing pieces of the puzzle that is his life.
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Men's Fitness is one of the greatest success stories in the men's magazine market over the last 5 years and competes on the newsstand with the premium male consumer titles. Men's Fitness delivers an edgy, witty editorial stance on health and fitness that perfectly encapsulates the attitude of older, open-minded, health aware, affluent male consumers.
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February 02, 2007
Compensation costs for State and local government workers increased 1.0 percent from September 2006 to December 2006, after increasing 1.4 percent for the quarter ended in September.
Wages and salaries in State and local government advanced 0.8 percent during the September to December period, slowing from the 1.4-percent gain in the prior quarter.
Benefit costs for State and local government workers increased 1.4 percent in the December quarter, compared with the 1.5-percent gain in September.
These data are from the BLS Compensation Cost Trends program. For more information, see "Employment Cost Index – December 2006" (PDF) (TXT), news release 07-0158.
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Joel Hartter
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Professor Hartter traveled to Uganda in June to conduct research on the impacts of a forest park on rural livelihoods.
Getting reacquainted with a former participant
This summer, I traveled to western Uganda to visit the communities outside Kibale National Park. Kibale is not the typical national park when you think of Africa. Most people I know think of the vast savannah landscapes, such as the Serengeti teaming with wildlife. They think of hot, dry days, with the lions and antelope seeking refuge in what little shade they can find, while elephants and hippos try to keep themselves cool near the water. Kibale is so strikingly different to that picture because it is a relatively small park comprising almost entirely tropical rain forest. The park lies just above the equator about 200km west of the capital city Kampala an about 50 km from the Congo border. While Kibale may be less known than some of the other flagship parks of East Africa, it is an extremely important reserve for biological diversity. My research continues to focus on the relationship of the people who live around Kibale and park management.
I was extremely busy during my time in Uganda. I had two objectives with my trip. The first objective was to meet with and discuss results from previous research with Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) officials and the communities where I had worked. In addition, I was invited to a research symposium at Kibale to present results to UWA officials, park wardens and research scientists. I spent time meeting with individuals and new researchers to discuss my results and current conditions on the ground; and revisited villages and spoke with community members to learn about new developments and social change. My second objective was to learn about the social and institutional differences in the northern part of Kibale. Through discussions with UWA and park officials, research scientists, and local NGO's, I began to develop a sense of the social context that perhaps could shape the perceptions of local communities and how they were different from other areas around the park. I worked to start up a new set of interviews. My research assistant from the area will travel in the coming six weeks to six new villages to discuss more issues related to the park.
Joel and his lead field assistant Erimosi Agaba enjoying their usual lunch of peanut butter and jelly and roast maize
On a more personal note, this summer was extremely beneficial to me not only to develop relationships with park officials and other research scientists, but also those people on the ground who are impacted everyday by the park. The Batoro and Bakiga give freely of their time to help me understand their lives and cultures in order to tell their story. They have rich cultures that began separately and have fused together in the Kibale region. Though the issues surrounding the park are the main focus of my research, I am confronted with other pressing social issues: extreme poverty (the daily working wage is about $1/day), health and sickness (HIV/AIDS, malaria), and population growth (Uganda's population growth is among the highest in the world). These cannot be ignored and certainly play a role with my interaction in the villages. The hardest part about being a researcher there is that I am only one person here and the needs are many. Everyday I am asked to employ somebody's brother or friend, sponsor a child for school, or donate money to send a person to the clinic. Should I say yes? To whom should I give? How much? These are questions I think with which anyone would struggle. It takes time to figure out where I fit in and how I can help. I have since begun to find answers to the many questions through supporting rural libraries around the park (please visit www.booksopentheworld.org).
I am extremely grateful to the Center for International Education. Funding for this research was also provided by a UNH Faculty Development Grant and the American Geographical Society McColl Family Fellowship. Certainly this work could not go on without my hard-working field assistant Erimosi Agaba.
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Sevendust are no strangers to Cleveland.
"We love it!" confirms guitarist Clint Lowery, checking in from the road in early May.
The hard-hitting Atlanta quintet has played just about every venue in Northeast Ohio since their inception in the mid-1990s, growing their audience with each return trip. They teamed with Shinedown at Jacob's Pavilion for Carnival of Madness last August, then doubled back to headline the first annual Ohio Metal Fest (with Asking Alexandria) at The Agora.
Missed those shows? Don't worry. Sevendust are coming back to House of Blues on July 23rd.
The group—which still features (along with Lowery) singer Lajon Witherspoon, guitarist John Connelly, drummer Morgan Rose, bassist Vince Hornsby—kicked off 2014 by eschewing its usual groove-metal in favor of a laid-back acoustic album, Time Travelers & Bonfires. Following close on the heels of their acclaimed Black Out the Sun CD, the disc is front-ended with six brand new songs—but it also contains "campfire" versions of Sevendust classics like "Gone," "Denial," "Black," and "Trust."
By the time we spoke with Lowery about the project, he and the guys were already a couple weeks into the second leg of their "Evening With Sevendust" acoustic tour. The forthcoming makeup date at House of Blues (originally scheduled for June 1st) now falls at the end of an exhausting run across North American—and will find Lowery and company reverting to their electric guitars and massive amplifiers. Which means Cleveland won't get to witness the stripped-down set.
We don't think that'll be a problem for Sevendust diehards. Still, it was nice chatting with Clint about bringing Time Travelers to life at Architekt Studios in New Jersey.
CLEVELAND MUSIC EXAMINER: Originally, fell smack in the middle the acoustic tour, but then we got nudged back to the end. Routing problems?
CLINT LOWERY: Just a scheduling thing. Yeah, a couple dates got shuffled around. But we're excited, man. Excited to get back out to it!
EXAMINER: How was the Easter holiday for the band? Get any family time in?
CLINT LOWERY: Yeah, it's great man. We were away, but whatever. We're used to being gone over the holidays. We've got fifteen years in now. It was a good holiday, and the show was good, so everything's on track.
EXAMINER: What prompted the decision to do a full-on acoustic project this time out?
CLINT LOWERY: Well, we'd done an acoustic tour a few years ago—it was called Southside Double-Wide: Live 2004—and we had a lot of people asking about whether we were going to do another tour like that. So we figured it would be cool to go into the studio and record some new tracks, and maybe retool some of the old songs. Everything kind of lined up, and then we got involved in the Pledge Campaign. That was a cool was to connect with fans, and to get them the product much earlier. We got that exposure, and we gave them exclusive insides on the process and everything. So it was pretty cool—the way the whole thing rounded off. It was awesome.
EXAMINER: You guys went the Pledge Music fan-funding route again, raising scratch for the new record very quickly and meeting your goal early on—all over the first weekend. You also offered some cool perks: Signed gear, autographed guitars, dinner with the band.
CLINT LOWERY: Yeah, it was super-quick. We thought it would be pretty good, because we love our fans. They're all very supportive. But still, that was definitely humbling to see that happen.
EXAMINER: Time Travelers flows well, but is split between six old songs, and six new. How'd you decide which old songs to rework for the "unplugged" project?
CLINT LOWERY: We actually put a form up on Facebook asking people to submit three songs they'd want us to redo, so we pulled from that list. There was a couple we'd done for a long time that we thought we would solidify and track. It was a pretty…it was grueling at first, because there were so many options. We have like 130 songs in our catalog, so it was tough picking the ones we'd do. But with help from the people, it narrowed things down for us.
EXAMINER: How does the process change, going from aggressive, hard-rock Sevendust to the relatively quiet acoustic sound in the studio? How does the writing process change?
CLINT LOWERY: On the one hand there's less pressure, because there's more of an arrangement. There's lyrics, there's melody. We didn't want to just redo the songs with acoustic guitars. There were a couple songs that I would strum, like "Crucify," and I always liked having this kind of swing feel to them. So we went for the different approach. Some of the artists you see—cover bands and stuff—you hear them put their own spin on things. So we're covering our own band, trying to give a different look to what we do. We give people the same song, but with a different twist. It's not just acoustic; there's a whole different feel, different tempo, everything.
EXAMINER: I recall reading years ago, I think it was David Bowie who remarked that the true test of a good song is when you strip everything away except for the lead vocal and a single guitar or piano. If it still holds up when stripped-down, then it's a good song. And you definitely get a sense of that with the tunes on Time Travelers & Bonfires.
CLINT LOWERY: Oh, yeah. David Bowie was right about that, for sure!
EXAMINER: Were the new acoustic songs written on the road? I mean, given the band's rigorous tour itinerary, it's hard getting a sense of how you and John and the guys found time to keep writing.
CLINT LOWERY: I had three ideas going in, musically, that I already formulated on the music side of things. The main parts—the chorus and verses and bridges. Then we'd put it together as a band in the studio. There were also a few preexisting ideas. John had a couple, like "The Wait" and "Bonfire." He'd written those. And I wrote the song, "Under It All." I wrote the music for that while we were in there. So there was at least full one song born while we were there. I would also write a bit while Lajon was tracking vocals on a couple songs, so then we'd have even more.
EXAMINER: So right now the tour is all acoustic?
CLINT LOWERY: On the tour now? It's all acoustic. No electric at all.
EXAMINER: But with Cleveland rescheduled for July 23rd….
CLINT LOWERY: That's an electric show. Full electric.
EXAMINER: Sevendust recently did another radio interview with Bob Coburn on Rockline. The show isn't syndicated on any terrestrial station in these parts anymore, but I loved listening to that show as a teen and hearing all my favorite bands discussing their latest albums and taking phone calls from fans.
CLINT LOWERY: Bob's a great guy, man. Hell of an interviewer. A class act all the way.
EXAMINER: You guys also headlined the Shiprocked! 2014 Cruise again, and played with Five Finger Death Punch and Three Days Grace. You've done the boat tour thing a few times now.
CLINT LOWERY: Yeah, it's like we're like the house band for that thing! We've done it four years in a row, and it's been great. Every year they kind of get it more locked in. They're getting some really good artists on it. This past experience for me was the best. There was this new boat called the Norwegian Pearl. The way the thing was set up was great, and we had an amazing time. And we'll probably do it again.
EXAMINER: Do you practice at all on the road? Loosen up before shows, maybe?
CLINT LOWERY: Of course! There are times where I'll practice before I go on, do some scales or whatever. But that's a good maintenance for me, as far as my skill level. Or daily, I'll just play for a good solid hour. That keeps my chops up a bit. Especially with the acoustic—practicing on those strengthen my muscles for the tour.
EXAMINER: What's next on the horizon for Sevendust? The current tour takes you deep into the summer. Can fans expect another "plugged-in" record next year?
CLINT LOWERY: Yeah. Obviously, we won't put a new record out this year. But we'll start the process again early next year, in terms of writing it. But we're going to tour for a couple more months, then shut it all down for the holidays. I'm guessing it's going to be more on the aggressive side, since we've explored the melodic side of the band. By the time we get to doing the new record, I think we'll want to do a super-heavy record! So it'll be fun.
EXAMINER: Sevendust have a couple live CDs / DVDs in the can already, but I'd imagine fans would enjoy a film documenting this acoustic outing. Or maybe something to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary?
CLINT LOWERY: All that is happening. Full-bore electric and acoustic. A live DVD, a history of the band. All that will happen. Absolutely!
Sevendust, Gemini Syndrome, Silent Scream. Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at House of Blues Cleveland (308 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland OH). Tickets $42.00 reserved balcony seating / $31.00 general admission. Doors at 7:00pm, show at 8:00pm.
Advance tickets here: http://www.houseofblues.com/cleveland/events/eventdetail/?viewNav=/event...
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On Tuesday, President Obama delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. I would like to say that he said something new but he did not. It was not long after his address that the fact checking websites went to work pointing out the list of inaccuracies in his statements. I am not going to harp on all of them; just a couple that I find the most troubling.
The first has to do with jobs. Obama was quick to tout the eight million jobs he has created. He neglected to point out that if you count the jobs lost once he started, the number is around three million and the other thing he left out was that most of those jobs are part-time and minimum wage jobs. Obama also praised the unemployment numbers as the lowest since his presidency. While the number going down might be true, the numbers they report are not an accurate depiction of the unemployment picture in the United States. The Department of Labor has several different unemployment numbers but I wanted to look at something that was an easy way to tell how distorted the unemployment number really is. Take a look at the employment numbers. While the number of unemployed people is going down, the number of people employed should be rising but it is not. The number of working Americans has been steady, not rising. If unemployed people were getting jobs, that number should be rising. Unemployed people are not getting jobs; they are dropping out of the workforce. There is no other possibility. If unemployment numbers go down, but the employed number remains constant the figures have no relation, even though they should. Along those same lines, Obama stressed the need to extend long term unemployment benefits. That contradicts the job numbers he was touting. If he is creating all of these jobs, why is there a need to extend benefits? Besides, how is giving people money for nothing helping them? I am not against unemployment benefits (on the state level) but there needs to be a limit, everyone needs some help once in a while, but when there is no end to the help, it becomes a dependency.
The second thing I wanted to mention was his blatant violation of the Constitution. Several times leading up to the State of the Union, Obama was running around telling everyone he had a pen and a phone and that he would use executive orders to push through his agenda. The most upsetting part about that is that half of Congress gave him a standing ovation. A tyrannical President stands and tells the legislative body that he is going to ignore them, which means ignoring the rule of law. He is going to take Constitutional given power away from them and do it himself, and they applaud him. Obama is not the first President to consolidate power in the executive branch, but he is the first to stand in front of Congress and tell them he is taking their power. Checks and balances will not work if the ones doing the checking are letting the balance be upset.
Radio talk show host Mike Church had the best comment regarding the State of the Union. He commented, what union? He is right; the federal government has ruined the Union. It is no longer a union of independent states, it is a leviathan controlled by a central government using force to impose its will on those entities that created it.


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The AIA's Architecture Billings Index (ABI) unexpectedly showed a modest rebound in architecture firm billings in August with a score of 51.4. (A score over 50 indicates growth in firm billings.) This comes on the heels of four consecutive months of fairly substantial declines. Comments from survey panelists this month continue to indicate very mixed business conditions around the country, and the AIA will be tracking the score closely over the coming months.
The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index declined sharply in August, falling to a score of 44.5 (1985=100), the lowest in more than two years, as consumers became more negative about the future outlook.
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College Hockey:2002-03 Michigan Tech Season Preview
College hockey in Houghton, Mich., might be entering a critical stage. Michigan Tech, mired in a long stretch of disappointing seasons, knows it can't afford to lose the support of its students, its fans and its community.
As the Huskies have found in the last few seasons, losses have a way of multiplying. To avoid having his team continue its downward spiral, coach Mike Sertich has implemented a number of controls.
There's an effort to get the community involved with the team, and, equally as important to Sertich, get the team involved in the community. They're trying to recapture the interest of the students. A sports psychologist is working with the players to get them in the right frame of mind.
And, maybe above all, there has been this message from Sertich:
Jobs are on the line. His included. That's not meant to scare them (or maybe it is), but it's the truth.
"For a long time, it was the hockey player kind of does his own thing" at Michigan Tech, Sertich said. "Well, we're not going to have that kind of attitude. … We're going to reach out to our fans and we're going to get people back in the building. They're going to come not because we're winning — which really helps — but we have to show them that we've changed."
Maybe the problem is change has come too slowly at Tech. In some cases, though, that's the way it has to be, and college hockey usually is one of those cases.
"When you're a program that needs to be restructured, it takes time," Sertich said. "You've got to plant those seeds and boy, as much as you water it, you wish it would grow faster, but some things are out of your control, too."
But Sertich can control some things, and the makeup of his team is one of them. The Huskies are more experienced and a little quicker, but depth is a concern and there's still no telling exactly what form they'll take this season.
Will they, led by captain Brett Engelhardt, the heart and soul of the team, take strides on offense, shore up a shaky defense and get consistent goaltending? Or will they again have not quite enough leadership and fall victim to a lack of players with enough drive to put the Huskies on the road to recovery?
One of the highlights of the 2001-2002 season was the line of Engelhardt, Colin Murphy and Jon Pittis. They finished 1-2-3 on the team's scoring chart and were the dominant scoring force.
On the other hand, they were pretty much the only scoring force, and that's the problem. Sertich likely will break up the trio, if only to spread out some of the scoring.
— Mike Sertich, on his forwards' duties away from the puck
"Last year, we were pretty much a one-line team," he said, "and when you stopped that line, you stopped us."
The Huskies will be looking for someone to step forward and provide more scoring, and for a number of players to simply show an effort worthy of playing on a WCHA team.
"You look at a kid like Chris Durno now, he'll be a four-year regular," Sertich said. "He needs to come to the front for us. We can't have guys like that almost being content with just being in the lineup. Well, now we have some depth, so now jobs are on the line. It's going to be an interesting battle here."
The Huskies' defense is of particular concern to Sertich. Greg Amadio, Justin Brown, Brad Sullivan and Clay Wilson emerged last season as big players on the blue line, but inconsistency led to the Huskies having the worst defense in the WCHA.
But Sertich won't lay all of the blame on the defensemen. They're only two of the five skaters on the ice, and the other three take their share of the culpability.
"They have to understand that if they get 17 minutes of ice time in a game, they're only going to have the puck on their stick for a little over a minute," Sertich said. "So the other 15 1/2 minutes, they'd better be doing something right. If you want to be a spectator, we can certainly arrange that, too."
Cam Ellsworth will start the season as the No. 1 goaltender, but newcomer Rick Cazarres, who signed late in the offseason after the Huskies lost incoming freshman Marty Magers to major juniors, will challenge him.
Sertich is looking for a new mindset from the Huskies. He met with the players throughout the offseason, and some of those meetings included a sports psychologist. That's something Sertich used in his days as coach at Minnesota-Duluth, and it's supposed to help the players with relaxation and visualization.
He's also brought in members of the Houghton business community to talk to the team, part of a mending of bridges with the community.
Sertich has been impressed with the improved attitude his team has brought into camp this season. But there's still plenty of work to be done, on the ice, off the ice and in the players' minds.
"There's some old, old things that needed to be addressed and needed to be corrected," Sertich said. "They understood that before you can change a behavior you need to change the attitude.
"They came here from different programs all over the country. and a lot of them were highly successful. So what are we going to do to be successful? What are the attributes that your teams had? We went into great detail and great depth with that, and I think it's paying some dividends."
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I was doing some of the previous math contests and faced a question that asked me "the number of two digit primes that are still primes when the digits are reversed".
I actually wrote down every two digit primes and then checked with the condition. Honestly it was not a hard work but it took me about five minutes only for this problem while only 30 minutes are allowed for the whole test of 15 problems. And even more, I made a small mistake of thinking "91" is a prime so got this problem wrong.
So my question is, is there any special shortcut way that I can get the prime numbers quickly and without missing? What should I do if the problem asks me about three or more digit prime numbers?
Thanks! It is #7 of Part 1 [From this test] http://www.wsmc.net/contests/2008_Contest/regtopprob.pdf


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Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis The Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis was established by a direct grant from the University of St Andrews in 2003. The Centre facilitates a programme of research centred on macroeconomic theory and policy and disseminates working papers.
The Director of the CDMA is Rod McCrorie.
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Peter C.B. Phillips , May 20 2016.
SIRE-CDMA Workshop on Time Series Econometrics, May 20 2016.
Workshop on Structural Transformation, August 20-21 2015.
Theodore Koutmeridis wins the Cairncross Price.
Workshop on Dynamic Econometric Models, 16 October 2013.
Workshop on Macroeconomic Policy and Expectations, 12 September 2013.
Workshop on DSGE Models , 6 March 2013.
Alan Sutherland has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Roderick McCrorie a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Kaushik Mitra has been appointed an Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics and a Member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College.
Richard Fisher, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, will be giving a talk on The Limits of the Powers of CentralBanks (with Metaphoric References to Edvard Munch's 'Scream' and Sir Henry Raeburn's 'Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch')" at 12 noon, Tuesday 5th June 2012, in School 1.
Seppo Honkapohja, Bank of Finland, will be visiting the CDMA and the School of Economics and Finance, from February 16-20. He will be giving a talk on the 16th of Feb from 13-13.45 pm in F2 titled "The current stage of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe".
All invited.
SIRE/CDMA Workshop: 18-19 August 2011, "Advances in Economic Growth"
CDMA Conference 2011: Aug 31-Sept 2, "Expectations in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models".
Preliminary Programme (PDF)
Alan Sutherland has been awarded an ESRC grant "The Macroeconomics of Financial Globalisation" (ES/1024174/1) with a total award value of £584,000 at Full Economic Costing (with £348,000 coming to the University of St Andrews) effective July 2011 for a period of four years.
Kaushik Mitra has been given an ESRC grant "Macroeconomic Policy Changes and Adaptive Learning" (Ref RES-062-23-2617) with an award value of £259,000 at Full Economic Costing effective October 2010 for a period of three years.
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Working Paper 1308:Emanuel Gasteiger, 'Heterogeneous Expectations, Optimal Monetary Policy and the Merit of Policy Inertia', Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 46(7), 1535-1554, 2014.
Working Paper 1301:Emanuel Gasteiger and Shoujian Zhang, 'Anticipation, Learning and Welfare: the Case of Distortionary Taxation', Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 39(C), 113-126, 2014.
Working Paper 0909:Ansgar Rannenberg, 'The Taylor Principle and (In-) Determinacy with hiring Frictions and Skill Loss', forthcoming in Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Working Paper 1104: Tatiana Damjanovic, Vladislav Damjanovic and Charles Nolan, 'Ordering policy rules with an unconditional welfare measure', forthcoming in the International Journal of Central Banking.
Working Paper 1111: Kaushik Mitra, George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja, 'Policy Change and Learning in the RBC Model', Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37, 1947-1971, 2013, lead article.
Working Paper 1309: Michael B. Devereux, Ozge Senay and Alan Sutherland, 'Nominal Stability and Financial Globalization', forthcoming in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
Working Paper 1306: William A. Branch and George W. Evans, 'Bubbles, Crashes and Risk', Economic Letters, 120, 254-258, 2013.
Working Paper 1209: George Evans and Kaushik Mitra, 'E-stability in the Stochastic Ramsey Mode', Economic Letters, 118, 407-410, 2013.
Working Paper 1008: George Evans, Seppo Honkapohja and Kaushik Mitra, 'Does Ricardian Equivalence Hold when Expectations are not Rational?', Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 44, 1259-1283, 2012, lead article.
Working Paper 1006: Ozge Senay and Alan Sutherland, 'The Timing of Asset Trade and Optimal Policy in Dynamic Open Economies', forthcoming December 2013 in Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Working Paper 1010: William A. Branch and George W. Evans, 'Learning about Risk and Return: A Simple Model of Bubbles and Crashes', American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 3, 159-191, 2011.
Working Paper 1011: William A. Branch and George W. Evans, 'Monetary Policy and Heterogeneous Expectations', Economic Theory, 47, 365-393, 2011.
Working Paper 0902: James Bullard, George W. Evans and Seppo Honkapohja, 'A Model of Near-Rational Exuberance', in Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol.14, 2010, 166-188.
Working Paper 0802: George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja, 'Expectations, Learning and Monetary Policy: An Overview of Recent Research', in Monetary Policy under Uncertainty and Learning, ed. by Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Carl Walsh, 2009, Central Bank of Chile, Santiago, 27-76.
Working Paper 0719: George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja, 'Robust Learning Stability with Operational Monetary Policy Rules', in Monetary Policy under Uncertainty and Learning, ed. by Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Carl Walsh, 2009, Central Bank of Chile, Santiago, 145-170.
Working Paper 0717: George Evans, Seppo Honkapohja and Kaushik Mitra, (2009), ''Anticipated Fiscal Policy and Adaptive Learning'', in Journal of Monetary Economics, vol.56 (7), pp.930-53.
Working Paper 0611: Charles Nolan and Tatiana Damjanovic, 'Relative Price Distortions and Inflation Persistance', in Economic Journal, vol. 120, (547) September 2010, pp.1080-1099.
Working Paper 0807: Charles Nolan and Tatiana Damjanovic, 'Seignorage-Maximizing Inflation Under Sticky Prices', in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 42, No.2-3 (March-April 2010) pp.503-519.
Working Paper 0809: Alex Trew, 'Infrastructure Finance and Industrial Take-Off in_England', in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 42 (6), pp.985-1010.


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Sooner Jr. to host Halloween Bash
Putt to a ghoulishly good time at Sooner Jr. Miniature Golf's annual Halloween Bash. Sponsored by the Bartlesville Downtown Kiwanis Club, this free event is from 5-10 p.m. on Monday. Trick-or-treaters of all ages will collect goodies as they golf their way around the 18-hole course. And there's always the Wheel of Fortune at the end, to tell if a person will have good or bad luck. Costumes optional.
Sooner Jr. is located at the north end of Sooner Park, just off of Madison Blvd. and Tuxedo Ave. For more information, go to www.kiwanis-ok.org.
Hallelujah Carnival to be held at FWC
The Hallelujah Carnival will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday at First Wesleyan Church. The event will include games, inflatable toys, prizes, candy and fun. Admission is free and a concession will be available.
The Hallelujah Carnival is a fun and safe Halloween alternative for the entire family.
First Wesleyan Church is located at 1776 Silver Lake Road in Bartlesville. For more information, call 918-333-4760 or visit fwcbartlesville.org.
'Light the Night' slated in Earl Sears Park
"Light the Night" is a free event sponsored by Bartlesville First Assembly of God Church.
The event, for ages infant through fifth grade, will be held from 6-8 p.m. Monday in Earl Sears Park, next to Central Middle School. The event will include inflatables, candy, a big screen TV, puppets, games and a free gift to the first 500 kids at registration. In case of inclement weather the event will move to 900 S. Dewey, two blocks west of the park.
For more information, contact Bartlesville First Assembly at 918-336-1131.
Dewey VFW giving out treats Monday
The Dewey VFW Post No. 10099 will be handing out candy at the trunk or treat planned on Monday in downtown Dewey.
Dewey plans Trick-or-Treat event
Dewey's fifth annual downtown Trick-or-Treat event will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday on the 300-600 blocks of Don Tyler Ave. on Monday.
If interested in handing out candy or other trinkets to the kids, set up anywhere along Don Tyler, or on the block of N. Shawnee, between Ninth Street and Don Tyler Avenue. Sites are a first-come, first-served basis.


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Not all government waste is intentional. Some of it is just carelessness. Exhibit A is a December Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, which found that the Social Security Administration (SSA) does not accurately confirm the deaths of beneficiaries. The upshot is that payments continue to be made to people who are dead — sometimes for decades. If this revelation isn't sobering enough, note a large chunk of the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill contains past last week is earmarked for the SSA.
And it's not just Social Security payments that are affected, notes The Foundry. "Multiple other federal agencies that pay benefits — from federal pensions to payments to farmers and the disabled — rely on SSA's flawed death data."
So where do these payments to the grave end up? The answer in many cases is in the hands of surviving relatives. The post's author, Laura Trueman, writes:
Raymond O'Dell made news this week when he was sentenced for collecting his dead mother's Social Security benefits for 23 years. O'Dell collected $188,000 in benefits, while building a successful Taco Bell franchise. His accountant put his net worth at $4 million (including $431,000 in cash). This week, he was sentenced to pay back the benefits, along with a $20,000 fine, and will serve six months in prison.
Read the rest of the story here.
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Urogynecology is a subspecialty within the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Urogynecologists specialize in female pelvic disorders such as pelvic organ prolapse (displaced pelvic organs such as the uterus, bladder, rectum, and urehtra due to decreased vaginal support creating a bulge-like sensation in the vagina), urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence and constipation, and painful bladder syndromes.
Urogynecologists have completed medical school, a four-year residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a three-year fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery. These doctors become specialists with additional training and experience in the evaluation and treatment of conditions that affect the female pelvic organs, and the muscles and connective tissue that support the organs. The additional training focuses on the surgical and non-surgical treatment of non-cancerous gynecologic problems.
Although your primary care physician or Ob/Gyn may have knowledge about these problems, a Urogynecologist can offer additional expertise. You should see or be referred to a Urogynecologist when you have problems of prolapse, and/or troublesome incontinence or when your primary doctor recommends consultation.
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TUCSON, Ariz.- Arizona women's basketball head coach Joan Bonvicini today announced the signing of the Wildcats' first-ever African player, Amina Njonkou of Foumban, Cameroon.
"We're very excited to have Amina join our team," Bonvicini said. "She will make an impact right away. She is a powerful presence, both offensively and defensively, and has the power to step out and hit a jumper. She can also handle the ball."
A member of the Cameroon Junior National Team, Njonkou is playing her senior season at West Memphis High School in West Memphis, Ark.


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Adam Schlosser, assistant director for science research at MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and his research partner, Ken Strzepek, discuss their research on quantifying the likelihood of regional climate change with E7E News reporter Colin Sullivan:
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think they have developed the best method yet for city planners and policymakers looking to prepare for the prospect of extreme weather events on a warming planet.
Scientists at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., recently published a paper detailing a method that combines their own computer models with climate-projection work done by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They say the result is especially timely in light of Superstorm Sandy, which barreled through New York and New Jersey last week and exposed what many regard as the sort of regional vulnerabilities that could become more prevalent as sea levels rise and more potent storms endanger low-lying cities.
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