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Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, Apollo Lunar Module Descent Engine
This is a Descent Engine designed by Space Technology Laboratories as used on the Project Apollo Lunar Excursion Module (LM) to land on the Moon. The engine could be throttled between 1,000 and 10,000 pounds of thrust and was also the first gimballed and throttable rocket engine used on a spacecraft.
The engine shown here is an early developmental model dating to 1966. During the Apollo lunar missions from 1969-1972, there were no problems with the Descent Engine, although on the Apollo 13 mission, no Moon landing was made and the Descent Engine served another purpose, that of taking the craft out of lunar orbit and back home. The engine was donated to the Smithsonian in 1972 by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
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- United States of America
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- Apollo to the Moon
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Regulatory Impact Statement - Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Bill 2009
Executive summary
The costs of the Accident Compensation Corporation Scheme have been rising above the rate of inflation (the Labour Cost Index) for some years.
Some of these additional costs are due to legislated increases in cover and entitlements over time. The government has asked for amendments to the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001 (IPRC Act) to help reduce costs. This is only the first phase of legislation. The government will be undertaking a Stocktake of all ACC Accounts, the results of which are likely to lead to further legislation in 2010. In addition, a review is planned of cover and entitlements under the ACC Scheme, the results of which may also require future legislative change.
The current amendments cover a range of proposals that trim some entitlements and cover, rescind some amendments made late last year, change the date for fully-funding the Residual Claims Account, allow different sources of funding for collection of the levy for the Motor Vehicle Account and enable experience rating in the Work Account.
Most proposals will reduce levies and Crown costs but will affect some entitlements and cover. Some costs are likely to be transferred to the health and social welfare budgets. Disentitlement of claimants with wilfully self-inflicted injuries including suicide is likely to affect the families of those claimants.
Changing the final date for fully funding residual claims will reduce levies but extend the payment time further into the future to levy payers who did not incur the residual claims. Allowing experience rating will provide an additional way of individual risk rating in the Work Account, which should encourage safer workplace practices and reduce subsidisation of employers who have high claims costs by employers with low claims costs.
Quantification of all cost and benefit impacts has not been possible. Figures are provided wherever relevant data exists. Qualitative assessment of costs and benefits has however been made.
Adequacy statement
"The Treasury Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) Team has reviewed the regulatory impact statement (RIS) and considers that it does not meet the RIS requirements. The RIS does not contain the required information and the analysis in incomplete in a number of key areas. For example, some of the proposals to remove ACC entitlements will shift costs onto other government agencies or on to individuals but the RIS does not quantify these costs. The proposal to introduce experience rating and risk sharing in the Work Account will increase administrative and compliance costs for business and for the ACC Scheme but these costs have not yet been investigated. In addition, the RIS consultation requirements have not been met."
Status quo and problem
The ACC Scheme provides, instead of the right to sue, cover and entitlements including compensation to all people currently in New Zealand. The Scheme is funded by levies paid by employers (Work Account), workers (Earners' Account) and motor vehicle owners (Motor Vehicle Account) as well as some Crown funding for people who are not working (Non-Earners' Account). The Treatment Injury Account is jointly funded by the Non-Earners' and the Earners' Accounts.
Claims received before 1 July 1999 are paid for from residual claims' accounts linked to the Work, Earners' and Motor Vehicle Accounts. The residual claims elements of the Accounts were funded by a pay-as-you-go system before 1999 and are required by the IPRC Act to be fully-funded by 2014.
Levies are charged to ensure that the current claims on the Accounts are fully funded. Levies are influenced by factors such as returns ACC makes on investments, interest rates, and discount factors, as well as numbers of claims, rehabilitation rates, and cover and entitlements. Cover and most entitlements are set by the IPRC Act and can only be changed by legislative amendment. Some entitlements are made at the discretion of ACC. The ACC has responsibility for administering the Scheme. The way ACC administers the Scheme also has a significant impact on Scheme costs.
The costs of the ACC Scheme are rising rapidly above the rate of inflation (Labour Cost Index). Some of the increased costs are due to expanded cover and entitlements available under the Scheme. New claims have increased around 16.7% since 2003/04. This compares to a population increase of approximately 7.4% over the same period. The cash cost (does not include the long term liabilities and therefore only has a partial effect on levies) of entitlements and services increased by 12% in the 2007/08 financial year. Rehabilitation rates for weekly compensation claims have been gradually decreasing since 2004/05 from a 93% 12-month rehabilitation rate to a 91% rate in 2007/08. The number of weekly compensation claims with duration of more than one year has increased from 13,890 at 30 June 2004 to 19,999 at 31 March 2009. Long-term liabilities have risen because of these factors but also because of decreased investment returns and a decreased discount rate, which means more funding is required to pay off liabilities. Liabilities have risen from $12,714 million at 30 June 2006 to $21,875 million (as estimated in December 2008) for 30 June 2009.
Changes made in 2008 and previously to the IPRC Act expanded cover and entitlements, thereby increasing Scheme costs and liabilities. Other existing legislative provisions, such as the requirement to fully fund residual claims by 2014, are also increasing pressure on the Scheme. Still other existing provisions, such as the inability to use the petrol levy to help fund residual claims, are inflexible. Costs are also rising for wilfully self-inflicted injuries, hearing loss, and rehabilitation.
The government has asked that all aspects of the Scheme are looked at, to reduce costs by:
- reviewing ACC administration, claims handling, and purchasing
- reviewing ACC legislation
- undertaking a Stocktake of ACC Accounts.
The ACC Board is undertaking a value for money exercise and reviewing all ACC's administrative procedures, purchasing and claims handling to identify areas where costs could be reduced.
The Stocktake of Accounts will examine, among other things, the underlying cost drivers of each Account and strategies to address them. The Stocktake will also examine where ACC's interpretation of the IPRC Act has affected costs. Alongside this work will be analysis of the IPRC Act to identify areas where cover and entitlements have changed over time and caused cost increases. Recommendations coming out of the Stocktake will be addressed either administratively through the ACC Board or through further legislative changes in 2010/11.
The first objective of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Bill 2009 is to reduce levy fluctuation and increases as a result of the existing requirement to fully fund the residual claims accounts by 2014.
The second objective of the Bill is to contain immediate and downstream costs to the ACC Scheme and to enable better co-ordination of service initiatives across the whole health sector, including ACC.
The third objective is to ensure sufficient flexibility in the levy setting mechanisms to allocate costs fairly, enable the costs of the Scheme to be allocated in a way that matches the sources of risk, and avoids excessive fluctuation in levies.A fourth objective is to reduce duplication of effort, improve efficiency, and facilitate co-operation between agencies.
Alternative options
Status quo
To retain the status quo would result in large ACC levy fluctuations, restrict the ability of ACC to restrain costs caused by extension of legislated entitlements, and would not achieve the government policy to improve individual risk sharing.
Other options
Other cost reduction measures are occurring at the same time, namely a review of ACC administration, claims' handling, and purchasing costs. An example of one result of this review is the renegotiation of high cost contracts with physiotherapists. ACC is also looking at regulating some payment rates that have previously been made under contract or paid on an ad hoc basis. ACC is also focused on improving its rehabilitation rates, particularly concentrating on long-term claimants.
Preferred option
There is no alternative to repealing or amending the current legislation for the proposals in the Bill revoking the 2008 amendments and making other changes to reduce costs and enhance collaboration across the health sector. These proposals collectively are estimated to generate savings of at least $65 million each year across levy accounts and the (Crown funded) Non-Earner's Account.
The proposal to extend the date by which the Scheme must fully-fund residual claims from 2014 to 2019 will improve affordability in the immediate term by spreading the costs over a longer time period. This proposal can only be effected by legislative amendment.
Another set of proposed amendments are not about cost containment per se. These include the disestablishment of ministerial advisory committees that are no longer needed, and enabling provisions to allow Ministers to have flexibility in the way residual claims are funded and to improve application of an ACC levy. These proposals cannot be achieved other than by legislative amendment.
Costs and benefits of the various proposals are set out in this table.
Implementation and review
Amendments to the IPRC Act will be implemented gradually, depending on their complexity.
Likely timeframes and cost involved with systems changes for the proposed reversal of the 2008 weekly compensation amendments is approximately 4-5 months at a cost of $285,000 (plus some contingency). In addition, the calculator function in EOS (ACC's claimant management system) would need to be updated at an estimated cost of $432,000. Other cost-saving mechanisms will be implemented as part of standard operations.
Implementation of the provisions changing collection of the residual Motor Vehicle Levy will be simple and can be incorporated into the levy round in 2009.
Implementation of the enabling experience rating provisions will require further consultation with stakeholders, collection of better claims data, development of methods of experience rating, and probably promulgation of regulations. Costs are not yet known.
The key parts of this amendment, namely, changes to entitlements and cover, experience rating, and changes to the collection mechanisms for the Motor Vehicle Levy, will be reviewed as necessary. It is unlikely that the residual claims funding mechanism will be reviewed as it provides for an ongoing means of dealing with any substantive increases in residual claims by folding the increases into the main accounts.
Consultation with external stakeholders on most proposed amendments has not yet occurred. This could result in opposition to parts of the Bill being expressed during the Select Committee process.
Consultation on the proposed content of the Bill occurred with ACC, The Treasury; and the Ministries of Health, Economic Development, Transport, Justice, and New Zealand Customs.
The Cabinet policy paper on which decisions on the Bill's content are based has been shared with the above agencies, plus the Ministries of Social Development and Women's Affairs; Te Puni Kokiri; State Services Commission; and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Concerns raised have been included in the Cabinet paper, and individual agencies have made separate comments in that paper. The primary concerns raised related to the effect on the potential transfer of costs from ACC to the Health and Welfare budgets and the lack of opportunity because of timing constraints for officials to analyse the impact of these flow-on costs.
The only proposal for which flow-on costs have been able to be estimated is the change to the threshold for hearing loss cover. The Ministry of Health estimates it will bear around $0.5 million p.a. in 2009/10 from this proposal, with costs rising as the population ages. This is considerably less than what ACC has been paying.Other areas where costs to the welfare and health budgets might occur but have not yet been estimated are in supporting workers who are on low weekly compensation, supporting families of people who commit suicide who may require benefit support and a funeral benefit, and ongoing support of people seriously injured as a result of wilfully self-inflicted injury (about 4 claimants ach year). Te Puni Kokiri also expressed a view that a number of the amendments would particularly affect Maori, including those reducing weekly compensation and the "repugnant to justice" amendment.

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Chris Valaika drew a bases loaded walk to force home the only run of the game in the Iowa Cubs 1-0 victory over the New Orleans Zephyrs (53-50) on Tuesday night at Principal Park. The game featured only eight hits, all of them singles. With the win, Iowa maintains first place in the PCL American North division.
The pitching matchup featured Dallas Beeler for Iowa (55-48) going against Andrew Heaney, top prospect of the Miami Marlins according to Baseball America, going for New Orleans. With the wind blowing in from left field, the game promised to be a pitcher's duel and lived up to that expectation.
Heaney (3-2) took a perfect game into the seventh inning, retiring the first 18 Cubs batters in order. In the seventh, Matt Szczur collected Iowa's first hit with a single to right through a semi-shift. Without the shift, Szczur's hit would have been an easy ground ball to second. Brett Jackson followed Szczur and attempted a sacrifice bunt. Jackson popped up the bunt and reached on an infield single when New Orleans catcher Rob Brantly dove for the ball but couldn't come up with it. Perhaps the key at bat of the inning belonged to Kris Bryant. Heaney quickly went ahead of Bryant 0-2, but Bryant was able to coax a walk to load the bases, leading to Valaika's walk to score Szczur. The Cubs had an opportunity to score more runs but Zephyrs shortstop Juan Diaz made a circus play on a missile off the bat of Rafael Lopez to turn a double play and end the inning.
Beeler (7-3) meanwhile tossed his fifth straight quality start for Iowa. Beeler allowed only one runner to third base over seven innings, allowing six hits and one walk while striking out a season-high seven batters. Beeler has now thrown 16 consecutive scoreless innings for Iowa.
Zac Rosscup, in his first appearance back from Chicago since begin optioned pitched the eighth inning and gave way to Blake Parker to pitch the ninth. Parker retired the Zephyrs in order and picked up his league leading 21st save of the season.
Javier Baez went 0-for-4, ending his 15-game hitting streak, one short of his career-high 16 game streak with single-A Peoria in 2012. The 15-game streak is a team-high for Iowa in 2014.
NOTES: Kyle Hendricks picked up his first major league victory on Tuesday night. Hendricks pitched seven shutout innings against the San Diego Padres, allowing five hits and three walks while striking out five. Wednesday, Tsuyoshi Wada will take the mound for the Chicago Cubs, looking for his first victory with Chicago in his second start.


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I just finished wading through the thread on this topic that ended on 04-24. Fascinating reading (and a lot of labor by a lot of diligent people) but at that time, no definitive solution. With the advent of 2.26 is there a generally accepted technique for building play lists when ... (a) you are using only internal memory, or (b) when you're using both internal and external memory?
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the only way of making lists (that i know) if you either use that mtp (or whatever method) by making your lists on the pc with some software or you go for the favorites list within the j3 but apparently its limited to 250 files...
the new firmware did not bring a change to that and generally i was not able to find a comfortable und functioning way for that.
(itunes is really good at that but cowon might be scared to do it the same way eventually apple would sue cowon because they violated the pattern of apple that no one is allowed to have a better device than them )
Some additional work has recently been done experimenting with both M3U and PLA playlists, and it seems that both are limited to 400 entries maximum. Favorites on the J3 are something else (and can reference music files on both internal and external storage), and that is limited to 250 maximum. This limit of 400 is hard and fast for M3U/PLA playlists.
With the firmware changes that I believe came out in 2.24, M3U playlists are restricted to referring only to music files that are located on the same storage where the M3U playlist file itself is stored. Previously M3U playlist files could only be stored on internal storage and refer to internal storage music files.
Now, with 2.26, you can put M3U playlist files on either internal or external storage. But wherever the M3U file itself lives, the referenced music files must also come from the same storage.
M3U playlists require the J3 to be set to MSC connection mode. And MSC connection mode results in a Windows drive letter getting assigned for internal and external storage separately, when you plug in the J3 to the PC. 100% of Windows programs and 3rd-party player, playlister, and organizer programs work perfectly with MSC mode since Windows drive letters are assigned.
Don't forget that when you're done with your maintenance of the J3 in MSC mode, you MUST "safely remove hardware" before disconnecting the USB cable.
In contrast, PLA playlists require the J3 to be set to MTP mode. There are no Windows drive letters assigned when the J3 is in MTP mode and plugged into the PC. Instead, it shows up in Windows Explorer as "Cowon J3" and underneath that "internal storage" and "external storage".
PLA playlists CAN refer to music files on both internal and external storage. However Windows Explorer is the only known program that can actually create and maintain PLA playlists of this type, that refer to music files on both internal and external storage.
Once you have the J3 in MTP mode and create PLA playlists, you can never go back to MSC mode... else you'll destroy your PLA playlists and they cannot be repaired. They can only be deleted and re-built, assuming you go back to MTP mode.
Very very few 3rd-party programs can handle the J3 in MTP mode because there are no Windows drive letters assigned. So again, you're stuck with Windows Explorer... even for functions as simple as just copying music files from PC to internal and external storage.
The only practical "workaround" for the issues regarding M3U and PLA playlists is to NOT use them at all. Or, you can use them but must live with their limitations.
A reasonable (though not perfect) alternative is to use either "genre" and/or "year" tag fields as one or two separate "playlist names" per music file. Obviously this depends on your NOT being upset because you've lost "genre" or "year" as real tag field data items, and that you can live with losing the ability to genuinely browse by "genre" or "year".
But if you're willing to accept those consequences, you can use the "genre" and "year" tag fields to store your own arbitrary "playlist names". Thus you can have one music file in up to two different "playlists".
The obvious benefits and value of this approach is that:
(1) there is NO limit to the number of music files in one of these "playlists", since the J3's tags database can include 100% of all the music files on your device. In other words, there is NO limit to how many music files can have the same "playlist name" in their genre or year tag field.
(2) music files on BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STORAGE are automatically examined by the J3 at boot time to build the tags database. That means ALL MUSIC FILES, on both internal and external storage, can be specified as part of one of these "playlists" based on genre or year tag fields.
Hope this clarifies things for you.
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it's unbearable to think that I spent $300 on the Cowon J3 + a 32GB microSD card, to end up with a player that can't:
1. Use my WPL playlists (which i can only convert to M3U using WMP)
2. can't play playlists with more than 400 tracks, when my i have >8K tracks altogether and 1200 tracks in my most popular playlist.
Why would a player allow you to have 64GB of tracks with only being able to play 400 tracks in a playlist?
No, i don't want to use the genre and year fields for playlist purposes, plus i don't want to recreate a 1200 tracks playlist!
does anyone know if Cowon are planning a firmware update which will allow playlists with more tracks?
if you have that much storage than you could make a folder system i mean i have 16gb without any cards and i have folders instead of playlists its the same so i mean forgeddaboudid
sounds like cowon firmware is abit lacking =\
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Orlando Claude Brown (Zeus)
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Height: 6-7 Weight: 360 lbs.
Born: December 12, 1970 in Washington, DC
Died: September 23, 2011 in Baltimore, MD
High School: Howard D. Woodson
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- noun - a kind of literary or artistic work
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Polina Edmunds doesn't have the distraction of the Sochi Olympics quite yet. The 2014 Winter Games are looking good for the athlete, but before she arrives she wanted to have a little more training. On Thursday the Team USA member shared where she was and it's obvious she is fine-tuning her performance before arriving in Russia.
"Training today in Munich, Germany -- practicing my ballet on ice!" tweeted Polina Edmunds from her official Twitter account. Attaching a picture to her message, the star of the ice reminded everyone just how serious she was about going for the gold.
Polina Edmunds knows her journey to the 2014 Olympics is special and every detail looks to be handled carefully. Taking time to prepare her mind and focus for the Olympics makes perfect sense. The young athlete needs to be mentally and physically ready for what she finds in Sochi. Knowing her competition will be looking to medal as well, it's definitely important to have every element ready for an epic showdown when she hits the ice.
When will Polina Edmunds get to Sochi? Many fans expect the athlete to march at the Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday, but the athlete has been tight lipped on whether she will be joining the team for the big moment.
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Differential of 22 points (1.4/g), 14th.
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This major is offered to those students who demonstrate excellence in acting, dance and singing, and who are committed to professional careers in musical theatre performances.
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Nancy, Gord and Suzanne Bell became owners of the Beauview Cottage Resort on June 4, 1993. They purchased the resort from Roy and Terry Parent who retired after 11 years of service.
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According to a Jan. 15 report from Bloody Elbow, Olympic silver medalist Yoel Romero (7-1) may have soiled himself during his fight against hard-hitting knockout artist Derek Brunson (11-3) at UFC Fight Night 35 in Duluth, Georgia.
Romero, 36, bounced back from an early deficit on the judge's scorecards, to score a brilliant knockout of Brunson in the third round of their tilt.
However, it was the strange stain on the back of his shorts that stole the spotlight when it came to social media.
MMA Fighting reporter Ariel Helwani was among the first to report on the stain on Romero's shorts.
"If Romero did in fact soil himself, that's nothing to be ashamed of. 185 champ Weidman recently said he did so while sparring w/ Villante," Helwani tweeted shortly after the incident occurred.
Unfortunately for UFC fans, Romero's accident wasn't the first time fans got a bit more than they bargained for.
At Ultimate Fight Night 3 in 2006, Tim Sylvia famously soiled himself during his bout against Assuerio Silva.
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Technology giving power to the people; climate change restructuring economic power, the resurgence of militant Russia, the emergence of China as economic and political world power, rearrangements of alliances - all of these are giving rise to the third Post-World War II global power architecture, says Dr. Ralph Buultjens, professor at New York University, former Nehru Professor at Cambridge University, consultant/advisor to the United Nations, author of 10 books including "The Decline of Democracy: Essays on An Endangered Political Species," former chairman of the International Development Forum and the Society of Asian Affairs, and syndicated columnist.
The US place as a singular superpower or even a co-superpower is not a sure thing - but will largely depend on domestic politics, he adds.
The days have passed when the United States could snap a finger and the rest of the world snap to. Is it because Obama is "feckless" or that the world is a radically different place with a different set of dynamics that made the US, briefly, a singular superpower?
But the world spins. History marches on. And as much as the adages "the more things change, the more they stay the same" and "history repeats itself" may hold some truth, but we are in a different time. Who could have imagined Israel befriending Russia, China building a railroad across the country, and Israel using technology to become an oil and gas producer?
Whether the US can hold onto its place as a singular superpower or even a co-superpower is not a sure thing going forward - but will largely depend on domestic politics, Buultjens adds
This was spelled out at a fascinating talk on Friday, March 28, by Buultjens at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck, to which the community. Buultjens has made this annual trek to Great Neck for many years, each year, seizing on the current topics.
This year's topic, "American Foreign Policy & Its Reaction to Worldwide Change," properly reflected the reemergence of the Russian Bear and the most serious crisis between the US and Russia since the end of the Cold War.
Putin's aggression has prompted the anti-Obama claque to blame Obama's "feckless" foreign policy - a seeming preference for diplomacy and engagement over military action (and yet, they refused to support bombing Syria when Assad went over the "red line" of using chemical weapons on his own people), and criticized him for going into Libya (after criticizing him for not going into Libya early enough).
To set the scene: Russia has taken over Crimea and threatens to take over more of eastern Ukraine by force. Obama has spent a week meeting world leaders in Europe - at the G-7 (was the G-8 but they threw Russia out), at Nuclear Summit,
Meanwhile, Michele Obama has been doing soft diplomacy in China, a major economic power and a rising political one.
And on the evening that Buultjens spoke, Putin had just phoned Obama to discuss the US proposal for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Crimea.
What follows are notes, virtually verbatim, from Buultjens (key points in boldface).
Buultjens begins his talk quoting the poet Matthew Arnold:
Wandering between two worlds, one dead
The other powerless to be born
We are transiting to something new, not yet quite clear what it is– but is clear it will be different from the earlier periods
Look at most of the disturbing events as contemporary crisis – what we are seeing is new structure of world power that is emerging.
[Reshaping of world profile of power isn't new, he says. It happened after World War I, with the emergent powers redefining national borders, punishing Germany, vigorously colonizing the Middle East, Africa, Asia.]
All changed during World War II – after WWII – was the first model, the first structure of post WWII power architecture – America and the Soviet Union – Europe had gone away, disappeared, other countries were not very significant
Every other part of world was subordinate to these two powers.
America had its allies – Western Europe, South America, Japan, Philippines, SE Asia; the Soviet Union had Eastern Europe, parts of Asia, North Korea, Vietnam. China was confused but leaning to Soviet Union.
A number of contested areas switched: Pakistan moved closer to America, India to the Soviets. In the Middle East, America had Israel, Turkey; the USSR had Syria, Iraq. Egypt alternated between Russia under Nasser and pro-America under Sadat and Mubarak. Iran was allied to the US under the Shah, and anti-American after the Islamic Revolution.
These were all less important to the great two figures that dominated for 40-45 years-producing a fairly stable balance punctuated with the occasional crisis – Berlin Wall, Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam.
Quite suddenly and painlessly this changed with dramatic speed in 1989-91- USSR dissolved without war, conflict and no one else rose to take its place.
For 20 years, the US was the dominant force in world affairs, Pax Americana – that period was begun with two agreements.
In 1990, as Eastern Europe was moving out from Soviet control, they worried that Russia would seek to recapture them by military means as they had done in Hungary in1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968. There were strong forces to urge Mikhail Gorbachev to use the Soviet army to bring them back under control.
So the first agreement: Western nations promised Russia they would not extend military alliances into Eastern Europe and not take Eastern Europe into NATO.
A couple of years later, Ukraine which had left over nukes from the USSR. The second agreement, signed by US and Russia assured Ukrainians that if gave back the nuclear material to Russia, its sovereignty would be assured.
Today, those agreements in tatters.
Over a 20 year period, 1990-2010, second post-WWII balance of power arose – the US made tremendous gains while many former Soviet states were taken into NATO and the European Union: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Albania.
That Pax American lasted 20 years. Now, once again, we are in the midst of change and what we see emerging is a third post-WWII architecture of power.
That really has begun to be the dominant challenge for America and rest of the Western World.
Six developments demonstrate to us the immensity of change taking place in global structure- two technological, one historic, three political:
Technology: What is reshaping the world and the world of politics is the digital revolution. We have seen the gallop of connectivity, out of 7 billion people, 5 billion have at least one mobile device (telephone, tablet, netbook).
In non-Western countries, like China, 90% use mobile; in India 60%; Mideast, 70-80%.
This is the first time in human history that those who cannot read and write can communicate over distance; the first time that young people have universal access to devices- mobile telephone is single largest selling device in history. This is having tremendous political impact-every political upheaval [in recent history has been ] driven by the mobile telephone: Cambodia, Brazil, Ukraine, Thailand.
Today, in half an hour, you can collect a crowd of tens of thousands of people – no need to visit, put up posters – but you can mobilize people through mobile technology.
Will the spread of devices make society ungovernable? I do not know – but this very recent phenomenon is changing the balance of power.
The second technological development connects environment and resources producing impacts never seen before. Global warming is changing boundaries between land and sea, melting of the Arctic ice cap is creating a new north passage –cutting transport distance from Asia to Atlantic by 50%. 90% of all goods are transported by sea so the impact of this is tremendous.
Also, [the melting] is exposing new resources that were covered with ice for thousands of years.
An Arctic Rush – like a gold rush – is beginning, with nations and companies going to capture resources in and around the North Pole. And suddenly, economic profiles change.
Greenland. The name hadn't been mentioned once, now you can't not talk about Greenland. A huge frozen island, one-fourth the land area of US, as its ice melts, it is slowly giving up huge amounts of coal, gas, mineral reserves. Only 50,000 people live there, a cornucopia of wealth, slowly become available to those who reach out.
New technology like horizontal drilling, fracking is changing the world of oil, natural gas. Who would have thought that Israel would be on the brink of being natural gas and oil exporter, with consequences for geopolitical Mideast?
Now, they can drill 5 miles down - ten years they could drill only one mile).
In East Africa, huge pools of hitherto unknown fresh water are being discovered. In a water-short world they will pump to the Middle East and become the water sheiks of Mideast.
New techniques mean that the principle source of oil in the US is not the Mideast but Canada. The US is within striking distance of energy independence.
How will this affect the balance of geopolitical power in the Mideast?
The third observation is historical. In the past decade for first time, the western world suddenly found itself on wrong side of history – since beginning of world affairs, 500 years ago, Columbus opened new world, [Marco Polo], Asia.
Now that balance is changing – and we don't know in what direction. Europe's great days are gone, Russia trying to assert itself. China is trying to assert itself.
Today, America is the last great Western power left, and if the US declines, fades or becomes less significant, the West goes as well. The US is the only Western nation capable of being great power.
What does this mean for Western world and US?
There are three challenges to Pax Americana: Jihadism, China, Russia.
Only in the past decade have we come to understand that Islamic Jihadism is a defining issue, more and less dangerous than Fascism: less because fascism could have taken over the world, but more dangerous because we don't know where it comes, no particular country, route, center. We have to deal with this challenge, but we must not in the course of this, make the mistake to assume every Islamic person, every Muslim is jihadist.
How to deal with this in the foreseeable future is playing out in the Mideast today.
The Mideast has gone through tremendous change in past 3 -4 years. For the first time since the collapse of Ottoman Empire, there is a big restructuring of Mideast underway.
The process that began 3 years ago is far from over. Then only two countries were in conflict, Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, it is the whole region – civil war in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, confusion in Tunisia, instability in Lebanon, Jordan, Algeria, etc.
The Middle East is a cauldron full of Jihadis, Sunis, royalists, militarists, Kurdists, modernizers, traditionalists – all armed with the most modern weapons.
One of the things that struck me is that in many of these countries, absolutely half of the country is determined to kill the other half, with automatic weapons.
All this comes together in Syria. We tend to look on Syria as one conflict, but there are three layers, each with lethal potential that is tremendous. On the ground layer is Assad and his proponents who have run the country for 40 years. The conflict overlaid – a regional political conflict – pits Assad (supported by Iran, Iraq, Hezbollah) versus the Saudis, Turks, Jordan which supply their local proxies.A step higher, is the international drama between Russia, to some extent China supporting Assad, and the US and Western Europe supporting opponents.
This will go on for years, and is symbolic of what is happening in Middle East today [with many of the same complicated and confused alliances with Al Qaeda].
These stressors and conflicts will go on for a long time.
The question, when reach Saudi Arabia – with a population of 25-30 million, 70% below 30 years of age; 95% literacy, 90% use mobile – how long will a feudal monarchy control that country?
This will pose a tremendous challenge for America when the royal family gets into trouble will ask us to defend them. We will be asked to put boots on ground or they will be wiped out Then we will have to decide whether to get into major war on behalf of the Saudi royal family, or let the oil fields to go Jihadists.
In the midst of all of this, Israel has managed quite well. For generations, the principal struggle was Israel facing its neighbors, that has been overtaken by Shias.... With Israel's enemies fighting among themselves, the situation in Israel better than for long time.
Israel's economy is doing well – Israel innovation is tremendous; the prospect of oil and natural gas is very helpful, hopeful thing for Israel – who would have thought? The Palestinians are not giving much trouble, Gaza…
One would think excellent time to make agreement on Palestinian issue [and the US is trying to facilitate an agreement]. But two things stand in way: the attitude of the Netanyahu government continuing to build settlements on West Bank; and the other thing, the militants who advocate killing any Jew.
Israel going through profound change, and will be different 10 years from today. [After 60 years of relying almost entirely on its friendship with the US], Israel is now reaching out to other countries.
The Israel-Russian relationship is remarkable – 90% of Israeli population was born in Russia – and there are [ethnic] connections [language, Socialism].
Putin was the first Russian leader to visit Israel [in June 2012]. Israel abstained from the United Nations vote condemning Russia for its takeover of Crimea.
But the big story is Israel's friendship with China –a tremendous development – not recognized as deserves.
Last September, the richest man in China gave the largest contribution in history to Technion - $120 million – with one condition – open Technion campuses in China. Hundreds of Chinese will study at the Israeli University and many Israelis will study in China.
The single largest construction project in Israel is a new railroad from the Mediterranean coast across to Red Sea – tremendously useful, so Israel can bypass the Suez Canal – financed and built by the Chinese.
There are very big changes taking place in Israel – the international atmosphere, the economic atmosphere is promising
But there are serious internal problems in Israel - perhaps the real danger to Israel is not from outside, but internal conflicts- Last week the Knesset passed bill which would oblige young orthodox to serve in military – it will be contested tooth and nail for next few months. The Knesset also passed bill to reduce number of political parties. It passed a bill that [requires any deal ceding Israeli territory to Palestinians] must be brought to a national referendum.
These are challenges of the Mideast- and promise to change the power structure in Mideast. [The US] can no longer dictate to that part of world.
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The Fourth q-bio Summer School on Cellular Information Processing
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The Fourth q-bio Summer School is sponsored by the New Mexico Center for Systems Biology, the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Los Alamos Institute for Advanced Studies. Participants will attend daily lectures about theory and modeling of cellular regulatory systems and networks. They will work in small teams on open-ended projects under the guidance of the summer school faculty. The summer school is designed for graduate students, postdocs, or anyone with a quantitative background who is new to modeling cellular regulatory systems and networks. After the summer school, students will participate in the Fourth q-bio Conference in Santa Fe, NM, August 10-14, 2010. Summer School applications are due on February 26th, 2010 and can be found at http://cnls.lanl.gov/q-bio/summer_school.html.
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- Multiscale modeling of biomolecules
- Other topics
"If I was a senior in college or a first-year graduate student trying to figure out what area to work in, I would be a computational biologist." - Francis Collins (Director, National Institutes of Health)
Schedule Overview
Unless otherwise noted, the school schedule will consist of approximately 3 hours of lectures in the morning. A typical schedule will look like
- 9:00-10:45 -- Lecture One
- 10:45-11:00 -- Break
- 11:00-12:45 -- Lecture Two
Afternoons will be left for other activities, such as ad hoc lectures, student talks (please come prepared to give an informal talk about your research), discussions, and study sessions, work on homework projects, continuation of the participants' regular academic work, and recreation. A classroom with wireless internet access will be reserved for the school participants for all afternoons during the school program. Additionally, we expect the students to spend some of the afternoons with the school faculty, most of whom are scientists at LANL, familiarizing themselves with the workings of the research institution and potentially starting collaborative research with the faculty.
Detailed schedule
- July 25 - Sunday
- Arrive in Los Alamos
Week 1
- July 26 - Monday
- Opening remarks - 8:00 AM
- Lecture 1, Ruy Ribeiro, Dynamics of CD4+ T cells in HIV-1 infection
- Lecture 2, Brian Munsky, Stochastic effects in systems biology: theoretical foundations and experimental results (part 1) Slides--Part1
- Lunch discussion with lecturers
- Student Talk 1 - Christoph Zimmer
- July 27 - Tuesday
- Lecture 3, S. 'Gnana' Gnanakaran, How multiscale modeling approaches have been applied to study a wide variety of biological problems
- Lecture 4, William S. Hlavacek, Rule-based modeling (slides)
- Lunch discussion with lecturers
- Student Talk 2 - Erin Rivera
- 14:00-15:00, Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge -- q-bio seminar talk.
- Student Talk 3 - Kentaro Hayashi
- Student Talk 4 - Abhinav Tiwari
- July 28 - Wednesday
- Lecture 5, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Phylogenetics (slides)
- Lecture 6, Brian Munsky, Stochastic effects in systems biology: theoretical foundations and experimental results (part 2) Slides--Part2
- Lunch discussion with lecturers
- Student Talk 5 - Anat Burger
- Student Talk 6 - Erwin Schoof
- Student Talk 7 - Paolo Cazzaniga
- Student Talk 8 - Dario Pescini
- July 29 - Thursday
- Lecture 7, Alan S. Perelson, How to model a viral infection
- Lecture 8, Bridget S. Wilson, Protein clustering
- Lunch discussion with lecturers
- Student Talk 9 - Sam Schwartz
- Student Talk 10 - Duncan Wadsworth
- Student Talk 11 - Jean Hausser
- Student Talk 12 - Jiankui He
- July 30 - Friday
- Lecture 9, Bette Korber, HIV vaccine design
- Lecture 10, Anurag Sethi, Molecular dynamics and network theory approaches with special emphasis on signaling and intrinsically disordered proteins
- Lunch discussion with lecturers
- Student Talk 13 - Michael Nip
- Student Talk 14 - Michael de Freitas
- Student Talk 15 - Julio Belmonte
- Student Talk 16 - Maria Mateescu
- July 31 and August 1 (Saturday and Sunday)
- Ideas for weekend activities -- TBA
Week 2
- August 2 - Monday
- Lecture 11, Cynthia Reichhardt, Computational Modeling of Directed Motion in Self-Driven Systems such as Bacteria and Cells
- Lecture 12, Helen Wearing, University of New Mexico
- Lunch discussion with lecturers
- Guest Lecture - Ramit Mehr (slides)
- Student Talk 17 - Alvin Tamsir
- Student Talk 18 - Barak Peleg
- August 3 - Tuesday
- Lecture 13a, Arjun Raj, Measuring cell-to-cell variability with fluorescence microscopy and single molecule Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) techniques.
- Lecture 13b, Babs Marrone, Measuring cell-to-cell variability with flow cytometry and fluorescence activated cell sorting. (slides)
- Lecture 14, Thomas Leitner, Molecular evolution: tracing HIV epidemics and the origin of the domestic dog
- Lunch discussion with lecturers
- Student Talk 22 - Rosemary Braun
- Student Talk 23 - Antoine Delmotte
- 14:00-15:00, Arjun Raj, University of Pennsylvania -- q-bio seminar talk A single molecule view of cell fate: FISHing for worm guts
- August 4 - Wednesday
- Lecture 15, Partha Ramakrishnan, Quantum mechanical and molecular modeling approaches with special emphasis on molecular recognition during host-pathogen and nanomaterial-protein Interactions
- Lecture 16A, Jim Werner, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) and 3 Dimensional Molecule Tracking:
- Lecture 16B, Brian Munsky, Using single-cell variability data (FISH and Flow Cytometry) to identify parameters and mechanisms of gene regulatory systems.
- Lunch discussion with lecturers
- Lecture 17, Arthur D. Lander, Biological Pattern and Growth: Mechanism and Control
- Student Talk 24 - Xiaojing Yang
- Student Talk 25 - Chunbo Lou
- August 5 - Thursday
- Lecture 18, Ryan Gutenkunst, Inferring population history and natural selection from genomic data
- Lecture 19, Giovanni Bellesia, Coarse-grained and statistical mechanical approaches with special emphasis on biofuels and membrane physics
- Lunch discussion with lecturers
- "Guest Lecture" - Ramit Mehr
- Student Talk 26 - Eyal Ben Isaac
- Special Talk - Mac Hyman, Tulane/Los Alamos, Good choices for great careers (this talk will start at 4 PM) (slides)
- August 6 - Friday
- Lecture 20, Ilya Nemenman, Signal processing in biochemical networks, Part 1.
- Lecture 21, Ilya Nemenman, Signal processing in biochemical networks, Part 2.
- Lunch discussion with lecturers
- Student Talk 27 - Paul Bogdan
- Student Talk 28 - Arfu Guo
- Student Talk 29 - Jonghyeon Shin
- Student Talk 30 - Sheng Wu
- August 7 and 8 (Saturday and Sunday)
- Ideas for weekend activities -- TBA
Week 3
- August 9 - Monday
- Lecture 22, Anton Zilman, History of Stochastic Modeling in Physics.
- Lecture 23, Anton Zilman, Advanced stochastic analyses: Fokker Planck equation, Moment Generating Functions, etc...
- Lunch - Panel discussion on the Necessary Complexity of Biological Models: Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Gnanakaran, S, Byron Goldstein, Ryan Gutenkunst, Ilya Nemenman
- Lecture 24, Elaine L. Bearer, Cellular dynamics: inside and outside
- Student Talk 34 - Mario Paz
- Student Talk 35 - Kimberly Kanigel-Winner
- August 10 - Tuesday
- Lecture 25, James R. Faeder, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Lecture 26,
Christopher A. Voigt, CANCELLED - Replacement 1/2 talk to be given by Alvin Tamsir. Synthetic biology
- Lunch discussion with lecturers
- 14:00-15:00, Chris Bystroff, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -- q-bio seminar talk (this talk will take place in Room 203A/B of the Los Alamos Research Park building)
- Lecture 27, Tomasz Lipniacki, Polish Academy of Sciences
- August 11 - Wednesday
- Depart to Santa Fe for the q-bio Conference -- Students will take a NM Park & Ride bus to Santa Fe in the morning ($3 exact change is required); organizers will arrange for separate transport of luggage to the conference site. A van will be waiting with an organizer at the school hotel at 8:15 am for transport of luggage to the site of the conference.


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Green Investing
A strategy of green investing means investing in companies that use "environmentally friendly" practices or that are involved in an industry, such as solar power, that aims to reduce humans' impact on the Earth.
Expanded Definition
Green Investing is a subset of socially responsible investing. It makes a company's environmental impact and agenda major criteria when making investing decisions. There are many mutual funds or exchange-traded funds offering investors a one-stop way to invest in a broad range of stocks that meet "green" criteria. This is a more efficient way for individual investors to find green companies than wading through tons of company annual reports and annual 10-K filings to make comparisons.
Obvious choices for green investment would include companies involved in solar power or ethanol, which are working in industries that offer alternatives to oil and coal, which can be considered unfriendly to the environment in terms of how they are gathered and processed and the byproducts of their uses, like carbon dioxide.
Another way to engage in green investing is to consider the overall Earth-friendliness of the companies in which you invest, whether or not they are in a specific industry deemed green. Whole Foods, for instance, focuses on organic food, and GE and Wal-Mart take big steps to reduce their energy consumption.
Publications such as Forbes are likely to contain rankings of "green" companies. Go to the online versions of finance publications and search for "green investing" to get some help finding companies for your green portfolio. Or an organization such as the Social Investment Forum or a service such as stockpickr would have ratings of green companies.
Related Fool Articles
- The Motely Fool Goes Green
- Give Green Investing the Green Light
- Earth Day the Fool Way
- Measuring Green Investing Success


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CarnivoresBig Cats, 2009
USDA. NAL. Animal Welfare Information Center.
This bibliography pertain to the health, care and housing of big cats. This information will be of use to research facilities, zoos, circuses and conservation programs to assist them in the care, breeding, husbandry and conservation of these beautiful animals.
Tigers, 2006
USDA. NAL. Animal Welfare Information Center.
Includes information on tiger biology, behavior, nutrition, feeds, reproduction, breeding, genetics, diseases, parasites, hand rearing, veterinary care and husbandry.
Felid Taxon Advisory Group
Felid TAG.
The Felid TAG is a committee of advisors with expertise in issues relating to wild cats. These advisors hold regular meetings attended by people from both Association of Zoos and Aquariums-member institutions and the private sector who have an interest in felids
Handling Frozen/Thawed Meat and Prey Items Fed to Captive Exotic Animals A Manual of Standard Operating Procedures, 2001
USDA. NAL. Animal Welfare Information Center.
Provides guidelines on all points of handling meant and prey items, from ordering, purchasing, and receiving through storage, thawing, and feeding-including cleaning and sanitation-to validating procedures and quality assurance sampling.
Husbandry Manual for Small Felids
Felid TAG.
Provides information on the nutrition, veterinary care, housing, environment, reproduction, and management of small felids in captivity.


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Villa Maria is a temporary home where women, homeless & without children, heal to wholeness.
In addition to raising awareness about the crucial, post-crisis phase of a domestic violence survivor's journey, the "Cycle for Change – from surviving to thriving" is a cycling event focused on raising resources to provide survivors of domestic violence with scholarships for educational opportunities, vocational training and therapeutic services.
Each scholarship will be in an amount not to exceed $500. All are gift scholarships and do not have to be repaid.
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|"The Interface of Two Fluids Under a Shear Flow"
|Ph.D. Oral Comprehensive Examination
|Stephanie Blanda, Adviser: Diane Henderson, Penn State
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|The generation of waves by wind has long been a topic of interest. However, it has only been in the past 50 years or so that significant progress has been made in understanding the effect of wind on water waves. Despite this progress, there is still much we do not understand about the interaction. Our goal is to look at dynamics that have been previously ignored and see if they help us better predict wave growth. In this talk, I will give a historical overview of wind-wave theory, describe the derivation of the equations for the linear theory dealing with the interface of two immiscible, incompressible viscous fluids under a shear flow, and conclude with a brief discussion of continuing work.
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Rodney has hired a cute new shoe sales girl, Nadia to help him in his awful job of trying high-heels on the sexy feet of beautiful girls. Nadia's pretty hot herself, and after he shows her how to suck up the feet of customers Whitney and Silvia, he shows how one guy can suck 3 pussies, and die a happy man. Of course, not before cumming on 3 faces. Meanwhile back at the executive offices of the athlete's foot powder company, CEO Rick is considering a merger with a well-known hemorrhoidal cream company. He's having his awesome secretary M take dick-tation. She wants her sore feet rubbed, though, and no sooner is boss man sucking her toes, than he darts his tongue all over her clit. She gets his cock nice and wet in her mouth, then after a warm up in her pussy, she rides him cowgirl style with his pecker deep up her ass. After an outrageous anal romp, he cums right inside her *****heel and she tips it to her mouth and drinks his spunk right from her shoe. Katherine has some hot red spiked *****heels, and she makes Rodney suck them and lick them. Then he licks her pussy, gets some head and shoves his cock inside her. When he pulls out, her pussy is so spread open he can fit on of her heels right inside of it. He also manages to fit his sperm insider her mouth. Nadia comes home to her roommate Lynx, and confesses that she really likes sucking feet. To prove it, she chows down on Lynx's luscious limbs, and works her way to her pussy. Lynx pulls out a big black dildo and Nadia straps it on and sticks it in Lynx. After several wild orgasms, Boss Rodney stops by just in time to get his share of foot and toe worship, and then shoots a big Rodney blast all over Lynx's foot. Nadia must have skipped dinner, cos she licks up every drop and swallows it all.
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Tusker moves offices to support expansion needs
The brand-new offices are at Croxley Green Business Park and provide three times the area of Tusker's previous premises. Designed in line with the company's brand image and corporate ethos and philosophy, the offices have also been designed with IT and communications rooms tailored to meet the requirements of the company's latest systems, including its Fleetdesk fleet management solution.
The new offices are extremely environmentally friendly and use the latest heating, cooling and ventilation technology to produce a 50% energy saving compared to traditional office systems.
Environmental considerations were key in deciding the location as Tusker was keen to ensure that its expansion was achieved with minimal impact on the environment.
Conservation initiatives were also of fundamental importance and the new offices have a target of zero waste and 100% recycling of materials, plus on-site food composting, cardboard bailing and rainwater harvesting.
To restrict car usage, there is a car sharing scheme across the entire 70-acre estate and bikes are available for staff trips into the centre of Watford, along with free bus travel for all employees.
CEO David Hosking commented: 'As the company continues to expand, we needed new offices that not only gave us the space we require to move the business forward, but that also reflected our forward-thinking and customer-focused approach.
'As a carbon-neutral company, our commitment to the environment remains vital and we had to bear this in mind in making such a significant move for the company. Croxley Green meets all our needs for now and going forward.'


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Arches National Park, photos courtesy NPS - Kait Thomas, discovermoab.com.
Got plans with the fam for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day? If not, plan a trip to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks with the kids. While any day would be great for getting the kids off the X-Box and into Southern Utah's stunning landscape, on Jan. 20, you won't pay any fees.
Fee Free Days enable visitors to take advantage of both parks, near Moab, in one day.
Keep visitor center hours in mind when you make your visit. Arches' is open daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., while the Island in the Sky Visitor Center and the Needles Visitor Center at Canyonlands will be closed until March 4, 2014.
Other fee free days include Presidents' Day Weekend, Feb. 15–17; the first weekend of National Park Week, April 19–20; the National Park Service Birthday, Aug. 25; National Public Lands Day, Sept. 27; and Veterans Days, Nov. 11.
Backcountry use of the Canyonlands Districts require permits from Central Reservations, located at 2282 S. West Resource Blvd., Moab. Fees for camping, tours, special use permits and programs at both parks wills still be required.
If you can't make it on a free fee day, or you just want to get in again, go for the Southeast Utah Group Annual Pass for $25. The SEUG pass enables visitors to enter Arches and Canyonlands, along with Hovenweep and Bridges National Monuments any day for the whole year. Pick them up at the Arches entrance station.


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November 2005
News, updates, & pronouncements from Pat Ballard, the Queen of Rubenesque Romances
Nobody can make you feel inferior
without your consent.
Something to think about....
Character cannot be
developed in peace and quiet.
Sometimes it seems as if
life is all uphill. We get through one hurtle and another one comes along.
Where is that peaceful oasis, I've wondered so many times? I get glimpses
of it, then it disappears under the burden of another life-lesson.
"A story is told of an
Eastern village that, through the centuries, was known for its exquisite
pottery. Especially striking were its urns; high as tables, wide as
chairs, they were admired around the globe for their strong form and
delicate beauty.
"Pearls are formed when a
piece of grit or sand or other abrasive, annoying, or even dangerous
substance enters an oyster and triggers its protective response. The
substance is coated with shimmering, opalescent nacre ("mother of pearl"),
the coats eventually building up to produce a beautiful gem. The
self-healing response of the oyster transforms suffering into a thing of
A Word From Pat
Joe and I kept the grand kids Saturday night. Joe had built them two swings the weekend before, so Shaun and Kayla were eager to wake up and go outside and swing on Sunday morning.
The day was right out of a Norman
Rockwell painting! It was as perfect a fall day as it could get. A gentle
breeze was blowing just enough to sprinkle the leaves from the trees,
occasionally, and the ground was covered in golden leaves.
Blog me at
Links About the Queen & Her Books
Books — Existing and Upcoming
Abigail's Revenge, my fifth novel, is published! My publisher, Peggy Elam, pulled a few rabbits out of the hat and the book debuted at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville the weekend of Oct. 7-9. In fact, it was delivered to the booth on Friday after the festival had started. That is where I saw my first copy... hot off the press!
It's a Romantic Suspense, and is different than any other novel I've written. It's also a good bit longer.
Abigail Avery was falsely
convicted of the murder of her father and sent to prison when she was only
eighteen years old. The supposedly good citizens of Leaky Springs,
Mississippi were silent as an innocent young woman was orphaned, accused,
swiftly tried and locked away. Her only clue in the travesty of justice is
that a bunch of crooked "good ole boys"—headed by the judge who presided
at her trial—keep pestering her to sell the family farm.
I'm continuing to work on my first nonfiction book, The 10 Commandments of Self-Love, a motivational book on accepting ourselves as we are instead of obsessing over trying to look like some unrealistic actress or image we see in a magazine.
Meanwhile, my short story collection Dangerous Curves Ahead is available through Pearlsong Press (www.pearlsong.com). After its May 2004 publication, Dangerous Curves Ahead received a glowing review from Cindi Appel on the Fearless Books review website. Appel wrote:
Ballard doesn't pull punches. She shows her heroines exhibiting ample will and tenacity to tell off those who would shame them into becoming something they aren't just to blend in with society's narrow-minded notions of beauty.
To read the entire review, go to www.pearlsong.com/dangerouscurvesahead.htm. You can also read an excerpt from Dangerous Curves Ahead's title story, Dangerous Curves, by clicking on the title link in this sentence.
Pearlsong Press has also re-released my existing books, Wanted: One Groom, Nobody's Perfect, His Brother's Child and A Worthy Heir.
The Pearlsong Press edition
of Nobody's Perfect was called
"a charming, witty love story with a twist"
in the July 2004 Small Press Bookwatch section of Midwest Book Review.
Read the whole review at
www.pearlsong.com/nobodysperfect.htm, or an excerpt at
I'm extremely happy that
my books are now available in both print and eBook format. (The eBook
edition of Abigail's Revenge has not yet been
published, however.) Please visit Pearlsong Press and check out all the
options that are available.
Ask your local
library to stock my books, allowing many others to enjoy them
Weighty Matters
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I have to tell you, I'm so worried
about what our government, schools, and the media are doing to our children. I
hate the entire "obesity craze" that's going on, for everyone's sakes, but our
kids are going to suffer the most.
Can't supposedly rational adults understand that to isolate a group of kids and make them the target of ridicule is just unthinkable? Can't they understand that the increased emphasis put on fat kids to "eat right" is sending the message that if a child isn't fat, then it's okay for that child to eat whatever they want to eat?
Children of all sizes
should learn what good nutrition is. And school is a perfect place to learn it,
since so many parents don't even know.
There are already websites where
young kids—but directed toward young girls—can go to practice anorexia! They
refer to anorexia as "Ana." "Ana" has taken on a life of her own. In some of
their minds, this eating disorder is a living person.
I believe we are headed for
an epidemic, but it has nothing to do with obesity, as those who push this idea
would have us believe. It has everything to do with starving children who live
in a land of enormous plenty.
Calendar Of Events
Pat will spend the next few months promoting Abigail's Revenge. She's in the process of setting up booksignings with local Borders Bookstores, and others.
You can still hear the taped radio shows from Size Matters with Veronica, WCRS Radio, on Pat's website.
Show #1
discusses Pat's romance novels
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GlassFish Support in Eclipse 3.3 Europa
By arungupta on Jul 01, 2007
Eclipse 3.3 Europa is now final
and supports configuring GlassFish V1,
V2 and V3 using pluggable adapters for WTP 2.0 which now supports Java EE 5 development. From the
GlassFishPlugins project at
Read a detailed writeup, with screenshots, from Ludo on how to configure the adapter, deploy a Web application and debug a JSP page on GlassFish V2 - all from within Eclipse Europa. The writeup can also be watched as a screencast and additionally shows how to deploy a JAX-WS based Web service using the Deployment Descriptor-free Web services deployment.
GlassFish and Eclipse relationship can be tracked in Earlier Posts at TheAquarium.


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Probation is assigned to all students in the College whose term grade point average falls below 2.0 but whose deficit is not severe enough to justify suspension. Students are placed on probation whenever the term grade point average falls below a 2.0 during a term or half-term, regardless of the number of courses or credits elected or whether the cumulative grade point average remains above a 2.0.
Probation Continued is assigned when a student on probation has earned a term grade point average above a 2.0 but the cumulative grade point average of 2.0 has not yet been achieved. Probation Continued might also be assigned if a probationary student has a term average of exactly 2.0 or slightly below 2.0, so long as members of the Academic Standards Board feel that the student is making minimum progress toward fulfilling degree and program requirements.
Special Probation is assigned to students whose record leaves some question about whether immediate continuation in the College is advisable. These students are required to meet with an Academic Standards Board member within the deadline specified in the notification letter to plan appropriate course electives. A student who fails to make this appointment will be disenrolled from the term.
The conditions for a student on Probation or Probation Continued are that all courses in the ensuing term will be completed by the end of the term with a term grade point average greater than 2.0. Specific conditions of probation are stated in a letter notifying the student of the action taken by the College.
All students placed on probation are required to discuss their academic situation with an academic advisor or a member of the Academic Standards Board and to take advantage of College and University resources to assist them in improving their level of academic performance.
Raised Probation officially confirms that a student has completed a probationary term with better than a 2.0 grade point average and that a student's cumulative grade point average is at least a 2.0.Pro