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These are a few images from my sketchbook:
This section is a series of photographs taken from the progression of my painting. I began by creating this image on the computer:
These are a few images from my sketchbook:
This section is a series of photographs taken from the progression of my painting. I began by creating this image on the computer:
As an illustrator, my work focuses on giving visual form to stories and ideas so that they can be shared universally. My paintings emphasize aesthetic detail and intricacies to build interest in the piece while creating characters and personalities in each work. As an artist, I am very intrigued with attempting to give each of my pieces a certain feeling that goes with it that can be then conveyed to the viewer. This collection of works is the result of taking my fascination with emotional transference and applying it to my personal experience with the city of Paris. Having lived in the city for a significant period of time with the program, I was able to engage myself with Paris in ways that many other visitors and travelers cannot. I spent long stretches of time researching these specific sites and observing the environment and how the people interacted with it. It is these experiences, in which I was spending time living in the city as a person, and not as a tourist, which I desire to share with others. Each of these paintings represents the feelings or emotions that specific locations in Paris and the surrounding areas evoked within me, and the general atmosphere of the area as I perceived it during my field studies. I hope to take these parts of the city and paint them as living, breathing organisms- to give them in a visual, more literal manner the life that they held in person. By personifying the city of Paris through my paintings, viewers will better understand the Paris that I not only visited, but experienced.
Growing up in Daytona Beach, besides being labeled as a party town, people really respected the environment they inhabited. There was a real conscious effort by all my friends growing up to do beach clean ups, also in the 90's there was a rise in more communication avenues, more knowledge how about green energy and recycling efforts were being made. The natural world has always enticed me ever since I can remember, especially when I was in high school. I was in Future Farmers of America for four years and took every science class possible. With marine biology at the top of my list and botany a close second, subsequently I became quite respectful of the earth and its atmosphere. Currently, my heart is in designing visual art that brings attention to the growing critical conditions of earths depleting resources. Water is the subject I encounter and research the most, and most conveyed throughout my sculptures and installations.
One of my goals this year was to go Europe and travel to one of the original places where the birth of art took prominence in the 18th and 19th centuries. Being an avid Romanticist myself, I truly have love for the environment that surrounds me like the Parisians. By receiving this particular research grant I was able to construct another project geared towards my love art and the natural world. Currently I am researching alternative forms of energy and energy conservation. While I was living in Paris I cataloged all forms that the French used as alternative services and reductions in contrast to United States of America. My data included the use of solar power on all new buildings in the making, and gardens on roofs to cool down the inside structures. The Parisians do not use Air condition, walk most places, and absolutely do not gorge on menial things like take out boxes or cups that Americans are so fond of. "The U.S. consumes 30 percent of the world's resources despite making up only 5 percent of the world's population. It also produces 30 percent of the world's waste." Parisians only use what is needed and find a way to reuse almost anything. They take pride in their environment and live modestly, with respect for the natural world.
The most inspiring to me was a trip to one of my favorite topics in art museums, the combination of art and science. The ESP foundation, a museum of art devoted to research in science. Located in the city of Paris, the exhibit was called "Carbon 12" and encompassed information about the growing possibilities of the molecule of carbon and its use in scientific studies. Also, the exhibit contained other information about the depleting rainforests, and unique phosphorous glow in plankton. One of the most prominent artists of France had a piece within this show as well. His name is He He. He is a visual artist that uses motion, audio, and the topic of global warming to produce a piece of work that brilliantly portrays the intensity and severity of emissions that will affect our world's atmosphere. He He became an instant inspiration for me and for where I want to be in the future with my art work.
My art encompasses the beauty of the very thing that we humans are depleting. This sculpture that will be installed in the 2nd floor of the library will be dedicated to France and their respect for the circle of life. With regards to France I chose to make an Art Nouveau chandelier which contains recycled materials and led lights. Art Nouveau is an era in Paris where art was breaking off from the traditional style to enhance organic design through wood, metal, and stained glass. Most Art Nouveau was used for decoration and mimicked the natural world. In my particular piece the raindrops hitting the growing leaf are metaphors for the continuation of green life. The Flower represents the sun and the fact that energy from the sun is important to keep our natural world flowing. My art deals with the very beauty that we are taking advantage of, and hope that by using recycled materials it will help explain the need to conserve and reduce waste.
From the time I was five onward, I always had some sort of creative project in the works. My teacher in elementary school began my early art education in 1996 by teaching me about artists such as O'Keefe, Picasso and Seurat and showing me their individual techniques. Throughout my basic schooling, I continued to have exemplary educators who took an extra interest in showing me how to hone my skill set and place in me a drive to be better. The methods of art historical inquiry that my educators instilled in me influenced the work that I produced. When I was younger and just learning about the vast capabilities of art, I focused more on completing works with a naturalistic feel to them and that were grounded in my familial relationships or societal on-goings. For example, I did a lot of graphite drawings from photographs of family events, my grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary and family vacations for instance, I wanted to manipulate those memories to construe a more controlled sense of individuality that the photos themselves lacked. And going back even younger, I won a state-wide poster contest that promoted a drug-free school environment. It focused on a working-class neighborhood's potential to foster productive behavioral habits in their children to lessen their chances at being consumed by the negative effects of drug use. In tackling these integrated subjects, I feel as if the means of analysis I learned as a young artist of breaking down a particular artist's style, their societal references and relevance helped me to break down my own inspirations and find the best means of expression for them.
However even with this abundance of outside encouragement early on, at home my artistic drive was only encouraged as a hobby. I was told to focus on another prospective career because there was no money in art -I wonder if my mom would tell that to Damien Hirst! So I tried to delve into another career track, Marine Science. I do not think I could have chosen a more different field. I was president of my Marine Science club in high school and that is the chosen degree path that I was accepted into the University of South Florida for. Ironically, I found that the part of Marine Science that I enjoyed most was being able to see the world with wonder, as a child would. This ability would resurface in my work and I hope it gives it a sense of raw honesty. Late in 2009, things began to fall apart for me scholastically and personally. It was art that I finally went back to in order to pull myself back together. In art I find the closest thing to religion I will ever understand; I finally found in myself a whole person.
I took that sense of childish wonder and am running with it as far as it will let me. My work more recently has focused on themes regarding a duality between personal wonderment and entrapment, complex and fragile familial relationships as well as the manipulation of knowledge in American society. I feel as if the American eduction system has been doing its students a disservice; we as a populace disregard the immense skill and dedication that it takes to master a craft or subject area and take these for granted. Particularly, the writings of Ayn Rand have inspired me to search for the individual's power and role within society, its connection to their personal skill set and its henceforth manipulation for the potentially ungrateful or unknowing masses. In our time of immense modernity, knowledge is at our fingertips and how we utilize its potential is maddening.
Most recently, I have traveled to Paris, France and combined two of these themes to focus on the differing attitudes of American and Parisian usage of public space. The creation and functionality of Parisian parks has been a great influence. The dichotomy of the classification of public space and its usage as a personal living space is very different from the majority of American spaces. The Parisian's use their parks as we would our living rooms; for exercise, naps, eating, socializing and studying. It takes American viewed "private" moments and makes them a part of a public lifestyle; it functions as a means of tying the population together in a way that this country lacks. The familial relationships that influenced the creation of these Parisian norms I believe stemmed from centuries of citizenship and an allegiance with one's fellow Frenchman.
I currently work with many mediums including but never limited to: graphite, charcoal, acrylic, styrofoam, wood, food particles, razor blades, and vodka. I am intrigued by the relationship materials have with one another and in finding corresponding humanistic roles that would fit into manipulations of those materials. I hope to bring knowledge of art practices, both material and metaphysical, to young students in the same way that my educators have done for me.
This work in particular I hope will bring light to other students regarding the potential utilization of a public lifestyle that I believe to be more beneficial for a nation than the isolationist standpoint we have been adopting as a result of Manifest Destiny. As the American dream has inspired, we want to own our own land and claim a space as ours. In pride of this ownership, as a people we want to make use of it for our own pleasure, which leads to the isolationist nature I am referring to. In combining the public and private spheres, Paris has maintained a level of connectivity and comradery with their fellow citizens. This piece exemplifies these different uses of space and will hopefully force these realizations onto the viewer, allowing them their own introspection and analysis of their private spaces.
Since the early 2000s I have been involved with photography and mix digital media. Most of my work is based on people, buildings, and location. I capture those irreplaceable moments that you long to cherish, such as your baby's first steps, your college graduation, your wedding day and even candid moments with friends. I have really been getting into night photography these past couple of months. I would say my work explores the relationship between the body and multimedia experiences.
With influences as diverse as Wittgenstein and Roy Lichtenstein, new tensions are created from both orderly and random layers. Ever since I was in high school the traditional understanding of relationships of the body and how you can photograph it has fascinated me. Checking out books, researching photographers, and practice has helped me become a better photographer. I have been into photography ever since I was given my first Polaroid camera; I would always take lots of pictures of people, faces, and bodies. My first job was working in a photography lab back in 2007; where I really took my photography skills to the next level.
I am currently attending the University Of South Florida for a Bachelors of Arts degree focusing on photography. My most recent work comes from Paris, France. What's shown in my work is how Paris has changed since the 1920's. I loved the idea of photographing images from the 1920's to today. The images I selected have to do with the locations in which these images where taken. I love the emptiness in the pictures that Atget took. Most of his images did not have people in them, and the Atget photography exhibition in Paris helped me see even more wonderful work of Atget that no other exhibition has ever seen. This exhibition showed me different places of Paris, shops, and even rivers. Most everything has changed for me and I'm glad I was able to get this opportunity to visit these places. My Paris experience has helped me look at the world threw my viewfinder a lot different than I have.
My work has always encompassed elements of psychology and the physicality of the art itself. Through investigations and observations I analyze elements of myself through different processes. I believe the artist coexists with the work. As growth takes place with the elements of the art, I, as the artist, evolve simultaneously.
The art piece, Souvenirs, shares my memories and experiences of Paris with the public. Souvenir in French means memory. The word is used to describe an object acquired to remember the associated experience. During my stay in Paris, I acquired small pocket-sized objects to capture impactful moments along my expedition.
I have participated in the collecting process since my early childhood. Random objects began to have strong emotions associated with them even though they appeared meaningless to others. This artwork analyzes psychological connections to physical entities. My collection is a mirror of my identity and unique to me. These objects once were scattered across Paris, but now have a dialogue of their own when presented together in a singular space.
Another aspect of Souvenirs is the way in which tourists interact with a foreign environment. This artwork focuses of the exploitation of tourism. Growing up in Orlando has impacted me at an early age of the way businesses lure masses into paying bountiful sums on branded objects. I used a process tourists partake in while being mindful of coercing tactics. The act of acquiring objects along my journey tells a story of my moments and allows me to share them with others.
The way in which this collection is displayed is similar to how an archeologist displays work in a museum. While overseas, I collected artifacts of the culture and brought them back like an explorer of a new found land.
Upon returning from Paris, my art making processes have been continually transforming, turning my personal identity and experiences into works of art. Paris was a challenge for my creativity and mind, in the sense that I was forced to use limited materials and work space while residing in the city. By practicing and exploring various mediums, some being but not limited to painting, drawing, and 3D, sculptural work, on a much smaller scale, often requiring mobility, my conceptual art work was strengthened. This practice has continued with me in the United States, as I continue to work out my responses to memories, location, and reality in a wide variety of mediums and tools.
I use photography as a way of interacting with my surroundings, to create a memory, and interpret reality. To me, a photograph serves as a way of remembering a time and space in relation to my reaction. Specifically with landscape photographs, my strength comes from capturing and using light in unique ways, as well as capturing fleeting atmospheric changes. Specifically, during this project, I had the opportunity to closely observe and study original works of French photographer Eugene Atget. Replicating the generally simple, poised compositions, I spent some time attempting to see things in a less literal way. The architecture, alleyways, and highly complex city layout, was such a fresh and exciting place to photograph a rich, multi dimensional image. My photographs started as a replication of Atget's photograph and then evolved into capturing the dynamic change occurring over time. Also, replicating the work of another photographer provided for most of the compositional planning and research. This allowed me to exert more concentration and energy on capturing an artistic vision, and appreciate the constant state of flux Paris provides.


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Some New Year Thoughts
Wednesday, 01.4.2012 / 4:55 PM ET / Mike Ulmer's Blog
By Mike Ulmer - Mapleleafs.com commentator
When you work for a hockey team that hasn't won the Stanley Cup since 1967, you don't throw a lot of stones.
It seems especially foolhardy to criticize the Montreal Canadiens, historically the most successful of all NHL teams.
But Quebec politicians and cultural sticklers have eviscerated the Canadians over the hiring of unilingual coach Randy Cunneyworth. Since then, the owner and the general manager have backpedalled furiously.
Faced with a mob, the Canadiens' management put a gun against their own temples.
The problem with blending culture and a ruthless competetiveness is that you never get the right guy, or at least you never keep him.
Since their last Stanley Cup win in 1993 the Canadiens have fired Jacques Demers, Mario Tremblay, Alain Vigneault, Michel Therrien, Claude Julien, Guy Carbonneau and most recently Jacques Martin.
Getting hired is a wonderful thing for an aspiring NHL coach. With one act, all those years in the minors or as an assistant have been validated. But firing a coach tells the league the hire was a mistake, that the candidate failed when presented with a big-league job.
The fact that the Canadiens were the last coaching stop for Demers, Tremblay and Carbonneau suggests that the Habs' embrace was actually death's kiss. Probably more galling to Canadiens' fans was the sight of Julien and Vigneault coaching against each other in the Stanley Cup finals. Put that in perspective: the last former Leafs coach to make to see the Stanley Cup finals was the late Roger Neilson and he left town 32 years ago.
Even then, cultural elitists still find fault with the Canadiens for neglecting promising French-speaking candidates.
Why let Claude Noel, who has passable French, spend 17 years working his way into the NHL without benefit of a call from the Canadiens? Why let Guy Boucher, a standout coaching prospect move from the team's AFL affiliate in Hamilton to Tampa where he piloted a flawed Lightning team into the final four?
There is no winning this game. Canadiens have two mutually exclusive and correspondingly impossible mandates. They have to return the franchise to a level of prominence that is no longer feasible in a 30-team league while worrying about the cultural correctness of the coach.
Still the Canadiens 'experience has a corollary in Toronto. Ron Wilson, born in Windsor of Canadian parents moved to the US when he was 12. He is invariably described as American.
When American-born General Manager Brian Burke announced the hiring of assistant coaches Scott Gordon and Greg Cronin, one of the first questions was why the new hires were American.
Pat Burns used to say that if he won in Montreal he was French, if he tied he was bilingual and if he lost he was English. Phil Kessel will start being a whole lot more American should he fall out of the top 10 NHL scoring leaders.
The argument that as cultural touchstones, ethnicity is a talking point for the Canadiens as well as the Maple Leafs is as spooky as it is seductive. Leaf fans may smirk at the Canadiens' cultural millstone but the same misguided instincts have found traction here.

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Brush fire burns nearly 300 acres in Riverside
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A brush fire has burned nearly 300 acres of a Riverside wilderness park but no homes are threatened and no injuries have been reported.
The blaze began shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday in Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Park. More than 100 firefighters were trying to reach the flames in steep terrain and were aided by two helicopters and four air tankers.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports the fire had blackened about 280 acres. Full containment was expected by late Friday.
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Self-Regulatory Organizations; The Depository Trust Company; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change To Enhance Risk Management Controls Associated With the Receiver Authorized Delivery Function
Table of Contents Back to Top
- I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance of the Proposed Rule Change
- II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
- A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
- B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition
- C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others
- III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for Commission Action
- IV. Solicitation of Comments
- Electronic Comments
- Paper Comments
- Footnotes
November 28, 2011.
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act") [1] and Rule 19b-4 [2] thereunder, notice is hereby given that on November 16, 2011, The Depository Trust Company ("DTC") filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") the proposed rule change as described in Items I, II, and III below, which Items have been prepared primarily by DTC. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons.
I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance of the Proposed Rule Change Back to Top
The proposed rule change would enhance the risk management controls associated with DTC's Receiver Authorized Delivery ("RAD") function.
II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
In its filing with the Commission, DTC included statements concerning the purpose of and basis for the proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the proposed rule change. The text of these statements may be examined at the places specified in Item IV below. DTC has prepared summaries, set forth in sections A, B, and C below, of the most significant aspects of such statements.
A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
(1) The RAD function enables each Participant to control and review a Deliver Order ("DO") [3] or a Payment Order ("PO") [4] that is directed to its account by another Participant before its account is updated. The RAD function was built in 1990 to route money market instrument ("MMI") transactions for receiver approval. In 1996, there was a conversion for all transactions to settle in same-day funds subject to the net debit cap control [5] and collateral controls. [6] Any DO that obligated a Participant to pay $15 million or more and any PO that obligated a Participant to pay $1 million or more became subject to RAD. In order to minimize blockage, DTC excluded from RAD any DO under $15 million and any PO under $1 million. Transactions in such lower amounts were directed to the account of the receiving Participant without the RAD filter. For such lower amounts, the receiving Participant has the ability on the same day as the original delivery to instruct a matched reclaim [7] transaction not subject to the original delivering Participant's collateral monitor and net debit cap controls.
With this rule filing, DTC is proposing the following revisions to RAD:
(i) DTC will expand RAD to include Omgeo Institutional Delivery ("ID") transactions in excess of $15 million at the receiving Participant's election. If no election is made, these transactions will be processed for receipt in the same manner as they currently are processed. (Currently, ID transactions are not routed to RAD and are not subject to matched reclaim.) The change will reduce the receiving Participant's risk relating to ID transactions.
(ii) Participants will be able to elect to have all free MMI deliveries bypass RAD on a counterparty by counterparty basis. Currently, all free money market instrument ("MMI") deliveries are routed to RAD for receiver approval. [8] The change will help facilitate customer account transfers.
(iii) DTC will be able, in its discretion, to apply RAD to all DOs and POs initiated by a "Wind-Down Participant" [9] regardless of value. A receiving Participant will have the option to raise its RAD limit in accordance with its own transaction management objectives (but not to reinstitute matched reclaims in lieu of RAD). DTC views this improvement as a means for Participants, bilaterally, and DTC, multilaterally, to manage liquidity and credit risk in a Wind-Down scenario and to eliminate the risk of matched reclaims to a Wind-Down Participant.
(iv) DTC will exclude from RAD certain receives or deliveries (e.g., the OCC Market Loan program [10] account) because these are effectively matched and/or approved by other mechanisms.
DTC also seeks to conform the language of its existing procedures pertaining to processing of reclaims to its practices:
(v) Receiving Participants may, only on the same day as the original delivery, instruct a matched reclaim transaction. Any such matched reclaim of a DO with a settlement value of less than $15 million and a PO with a value less than $1 million may be processed without reference to the collateral monitor and net debit cap controls for the original delivering Participant. [11]
DTC has discussed these changes with selected Participants and with its Settlement Advisory Board which agreed that these enhancements should reduce risk.
These changes will be reflected in revisions to the existing DTC Settlement Services Guide, set forth in the attached Exhibit 5. [12]
(2) The proposed rule change is consistent with the requirements of the Act, and the rules and regulations thereunder applicable to DTC as well as the CPSS/IOSCO Recommendations for Securities Settlement Systems applicable to DTC. The proposed change is designed to facilitate the prompt and accurate settlement of securities transactions by promoting efficiencies and reducing risk in the system.
B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition
DTC does not believe that the proposed rule change will have any impact or impose any burden on competition.
C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others
Written comments relating to the proposed rule change have not yet been solicited or received. DTC will notify the Commission of any written comments received by DTC.
III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for Commission Action Back to Top
Within 45 days of the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register or within such longer period (i) as the Commission may designate up to 90 days of such date if it finds such longer period to be appropriate and publishes its reasons for so finding or (ii) as to which the self-regulatory organization consents, the Commission shall: (a) By order approve or disapprove such proposed rule change or (b) institute proceedings to determine whether the proposed rule change should be disapproved.
IV. Solicitation of Comments Back to Top
Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule change is consistent with the Act. Comments may be submitted by any of the following methods:
Electronic Comments
- Use the Commission's Internet comment form (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
- Send an email to email@example.com. Please include File Number SR-DTC-2011-08 on the subject line.
Paper Comments
- Send paper comments in triplicate to Elizabeth M. Murphy, Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549-1090.
All submissions should refer to File Number SR-DTC-2011-08. This file number should be included on the subject line if email is used. To help the Commission process and review your comments more efficiently, please use only one method. The Commission will post all comments on the Commission's Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all written statements with respect to the proposed rule change that are filed with the Commission, and all written communications relating to the proposed rule change between the Commission and any person, other than those that may be withheld from the public in accordance with the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for Web site viewing and printing in the Commission's Public Reference Room, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549, on official business days between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies of such filing also will be available for inspection and copying at DTC's principal office and on DTC's Web site at http://www.dtc.org. All comments received will be posted without change; the Commission does not edit personal identifying information from submissions. You should submit only information that you wish to make available publicly.
All submissions should refer to File Number SR-DTC-2011-08 and should be submitted on or before December 23, 2011.
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated authority. [13]
Kevin M. O'Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-30980 Filed 12-1-11; 8:45 am]
Footnotes Back to Top
1. 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).Back to Context
2. 17 CFR 240.19b-4.Back to Context
3. A Deliver Order is the term used to define an instruction initiating the book-entry transfer of a security from one DTC Participant, as delivering Participant, to another DTC Participant, as receiving Participant.Back to Context
4. A Payment Order is the term used to define an instruction initiating a transaction in which a Participant charges another Participant for changes in value for outstanding stock loans or option contract premiums. Payment orders involve no securities, only money.Back to Context
5. The net debit cap control is designed so that DTC may complete settlement even if a Participant fails to settle. Before completing a transaction in which a Participant is the receiver, DTC calculates the effect the transaction would have on such Participant's account and determines whether any resulting net debit balance would exceed the Participant's net debit cap. Any transaction that would cause the net debit balance to exceed the Participant's net debit cap is placed on a pending (recycling) queue until another transaction creates sufficient credit in such Participant's account so that the net debit cap will not be exceeded.Back to Context
6. An example of a collateral control is the Collateral Monitor ("CM"). DTC tracks collateral in a Participant's account through the Collateral Monitor. At all times, the CM reflects the amount by which the collateral value in the account exceeds the net debit balance in the account. When processing a transaction, DTC verifies that the CM of neither the deliverer nor the receiver will not become negative when the transaction completes. If the transaction would cause either party to have a negative CM, the transaction will recycle until the deficient account has sufficient collateral to proceed or until the applicable cutoff occurs.Back to Context
7. A "reclaim" is a separate DO or PO that a receiving Participant may use to return a DO or PO (typically received in error).Back to Context
8. A receiver that authorizes a free MMI transaction is deemed to have made an agreement with the deliverer that it will make payment outside of DTC in accordance with the agreement of the parties outside DTC. DTC does not monitor or enforce compliance with such agreements. Participants must enforce these agreements themselves.Back to Context
9. DTC Rule 32 defines a "Wind-Down Participant" and provides for actions that may be taken with respect to such a Participant.Back to Context
10. For more information about the OCC's Market Loan Program, see Securities Exchange Release Act No. 34-59298 (January 26, 2009) 74 FR 5692 (January 30, 2009) [SR-DTC-2008-15].Back to Context
11. For more information regarding this change, see Securities Exchange Release Act No. 34-48121 (July 2, 2003) 68 FR 41030 (July 2, 2003) [SR-DTC-2003-06].Back to Context
12. The text of the proposed rule change is available on DTC's Web site at http://www.dtcc.com/legal/rule_filings/dtc/2011.php.Back to Context
13. 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).Back to Context


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HAYWARD — Word is there's something dwelling in that 1886 Victorian next to Kennedy Park, and it doesn't like company.
Paranormal researchers and the curious public agreed after last weekend's investigation — whatever it is that's lurking in the old McConaghy House does not want you there, and it's not too timid to let you know.
"I was skeptical going in, trying to debunk everything," said Eric Borghesani, a 39-year-old San Francisco police officer. "But now I believe that there is definitely something in that house. It freaked me out."
Borghesani, his wife and daughter to went to the paranormal event, a dead-of-night affair that had 25 people tagging along with the American Paranormal Research Association at two of the Hayward area's most prominent historical homes — the Meek Mansion and McConaghy House.
The event started with the association's presentation of previous findings, both at the homes and during prior investigations — sort of a "best of" compilation of photos, videos and recorded Electronic Voice Phenomenons.
The EVPs are a staple of paranormal research. It's easy — take any voice recorder and stake out a suspected haunt.
Turn it on and ask away, as they did at the Meek and McConaghy — in the attic, in the bedroom, in the basement.
"What's your name?"
"What year is it?"
"Can you make a noise to let us know you're here?"
That last request is one that's rarely granted — EVPs aren't heard by the ear, but are picked up by the device. And even then, what's heard is subject to interpretation.
"Step ... back!"
"Get ... out!"
"Just let them know ... dad!"
Such are the voices of the McConaghy House, described as "darker" than the apparently aptly named Meek Mansion, where the best clip sounded like "You act like Molly" or "You act like Mommy" or "I want my mommy."
Then there are the photos.
Borghesani clicked one after another with an infrared camera, and as he did so, something caught his eye.
"There was movement," he said. "I couldn't see it with my eyes, but I saw it in the viewfinder."
The image was captured — two frames, taken seconds apart, show a doorway and little more, then a little more than that. A disembodied dress-shape hovers in the right side of the photo.
"We definitely felt like there was something in the room," Borghesani said. "Then I opened the closet door and there were three white dresses in there. I said, 'Holy crap!' "
The Hayward Area Historical Society, which hosted the event at a price of $75 per ghost-hunter, said the two evenings were both great successes.
"We've been getting a lot of people asking us when we're going to do it again," said Heather Farquhar, collections manager for the historical society. "I think we probably will, but we'll wait until the weather is warmer."
The historical society was approached by the Bakersfield-based paranormal investigators, who have hosted similar events with other historical groups around the country. They don't charge for their services — the goal is to gain access to potential paranormal hot spots and document their findings.
Brandon Alvis, 22, founded the group four years ago. He said he became interested in the paranormal after losing two brothers, one to cancer and the other to suicide.
He said the McConaghy evidence rated an 8 on a scale of 1-to-10. That's a high ranking, but not quite as compelling as the little girl's voice he heard in the first-class swimming pool of the Queen Mary, or the multiple shrieks recorded at the Villisca Axe Murder House.
But Alvis said he remains a skeptic. Despite all his unexplainable findings through countless hours of reviewing data, Alvis maintains he can't vouch for the existence of spirits at the Meek, McConaghy or anywhere else.
"I'm not saying it's a ghost," he said. "But things did happen that cannot be explained. What it is, we just don't know."
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Family Sausage Entrees
- PAM Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 1/2lb. smoked sausage, cut into 1/2-inch thick slices
- 1/2 cup chopped onions
- 1 can (14.5 oz.) Hunt's Diced Tomatoes with Basil, Garlic & Oregano, undrained
- 1 can (8 oz.) Hunt's Tomato Sauce-No Salt Added
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 cup elbow macaroni, uncooked
Spray large saucepan with cooking spray. Add sausage and onions; cook 5 min. or until sausage is heated through and onions are crisp-tender, stirring frequently.
Add tomatoes, tomato sauce and water; Mix well. Bring to boil. Stir in macaroni; cover. Simmer on medium-low heat 15 min. or until macaroni is tender, stirring after 8 min.
Tip: Serve topped with Kraft Grated Parmesan Cheese.
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Jacqueline Vitali, Ph.D.
Assoc Prof Physics and BGES
2121 Euclid Ave. SI 122, Cleveland, OH 44115
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Research Keywords:
Crystallography, x-ray Diffraction, Proteins, Drug discovery, Extremophiles, Archaeal Proteins, Proteins of the Pyrimidine Pathway, Ornithine Transcarbamoylase, Aspartate Transcarbamoylase, Regulatory Enzymes
Ph.D., Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo
B.S., Physics, University of Athens
Brief Bio:
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Honors and Awards:
Graduate Faculty Travel Award (for ACA 2015 meeting), 2015 (CSU). Amount: $800.
Graduate Faculty Travel Award (for IUCR 2014 meeting), 2014 (CSU). Amount: $1.2K.
Merit Recognition Award (research and teaching), 2014 (CSU). Amount: $1K.
Creative and Activities:
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Vitali, J., Singh, A.K. and Colaneri, M.J. (2015) Characterization of Dihydroorotase from Methanococcus jannaschii. Amer. Cryst. Assoc. Annual meeting at Philadelphia, PA. Abstract M28.
Singh, A.K., Colaneri, M.J. and Vitali, J. (2014) A preliminary study of Dihydroorotase from Methanococcus jannaschii. The 23rd IUCR Congress and General Assembly in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. MS29.P49.A325.
Acta Cryst. (2014). A70, C481
Research Interests:
My research involves the structural analysis of macromolecules by X-ray diffraction. Such studies provide direct and unambiguous information regarding all the details of the three-dimentional atomic arrangement of these molecules. This information is necessary in order to understand their properties and function.
My current efforts focus in acquiring a better understanding of de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis at the molecular level. In this connection, I have determined the structure of the catalytic trimer of the enzyme Aspartate transcarbamoylase from the hyperthermophilic and barophilic archaeon M.jannaschii in two crystal forms. This research gave insight into the strategies for thermostabilization of this important enzyme. The most intriguing feature of these structures is the association of crystallographically independent subunits in pairs into a novel staggered complex with a short inter-trimer distance of 33.8 Å. This novel staggered arrangement may be present in the holoenzyme in vivo in the presence of the regulatory subunits. In order to gain more insight into the mechanism of catalysis we co-crystallize the enzyme with substrate analogs.
Past research includes complexes of bovine thrombin with inhibitors including the leech protein hirudin, one Fab fragment, S100b, the EF-Tu-Ts complex, pectin lyase B, histidine decarboxylase, the Gly121Tyr mutant of ornithine decarboxylase from Lactobacillus 30a, the UP1 fragment of hnRNP A1, myoglobin, and insulin.
Postdoctoral fellow:
Aditya Singh, Ph.D., 10/2007-3/2009
Teaching Areas:
Algebra and Calculus based Physics
Undergraduate Research Students
Oana Sipos, 1/2004 - 5/2007
Nermina Covic, 7/2005 - 11/2006
Khadidja Benmerzouga, 4/2007 - 9/2009
Frank Marealle, 3/2008 - 5/2008
Jonathan Allen, 7/2008 - 9/2008
Nura Orra, 1/2009 - 9/2009
Charlie Dorflinger, 6/2010 - 9/2010
Elissar Daher, 5/2012 - 12/2013
Joseph Skladany, 1/2014 - 5/2014.
Graduate Research Students
Dan Meleason, Fall 2008
Graduate Student Committees
Baixi Su-Alexander (Electrical Engineering, D.E. 5/2008):
Ozge Can (Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, D.E. 12/2008):
Boo Seok Yun (Clinical Chemistry, Ph.D. program)
Professional Affiliations:
American Crystallographic Association
Pittsburgh Diffraction Society
Microscopy Society of Northeastern Ohio
University Service:
Academic Technology Committee, 5/13 - 7/14
COSHP nominating committee, 9/12 - present; Chair, 9/15 - present
COSHP steering at large member, 9/15 - present
Environmental Health and Safety Advisory Board, 9/12-9/13
Physics Peer Review Committee, 1/12 - present
Equal Opportunity Hearing Panel, 10/11 - present
Curriculum Committee in Medical Physics, 9/11 - present
Graduate Grade Dispute Committee, 8/09 - 10/11
Graduate Faculty Review Committee, 8/07 - 8/09
Graduate Admissions and Standards Committee, 8/05 - 8/07
Steering Committee in Medical Physics, 1/03 - present
Physics Faculty Search Committee, 2003 - 2004
Physics Faculty Search Committee, 2005 - 2006
Physics Faculty Search Committee, 2008 - 2009
Physics Visiting Faculty Search Committee, 4/12 - 5/12
Physics Faculty Search Committee, 2012-2013
Physics Faculty Search Committee, 2013-2014
Physics Lecturer Search Committee, 2013-2014, Co-chair
Professional Service:
Reviewer for Acta Crystallographica, Biochemistry, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Accounts of Chemical Research, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Chair of poster session on Biological Macromolecules in the 1994 Amer. Cryst. Assoc. Annual Meeting at Atlanta, Georgia.
Chair of the Theory Session of Contributed Papers in the "2005 World Year of Physics Einstein Centennial: From Brownian Motion to the Physics of Complexity" meeting of the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio (10/15/2005).
Judge for the Mitegen and Society of Physics Students Undergraduate Poster Prize at the 2015 American Crystallographic Association meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
Chair of the Theoretical and Computational Session (E4) of Contributed Papers in the "Physics in Biology and Medicine" Fall 2015 meeting of the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio (10/17/2015).
Research Grants:
Structural Studies of an Aspartate Transcarbamoylase. Faculty Scholarship Initiative; 9/14-present (CSU). Amount: $5k.
Structural Studies of an Aspartate Transcarbamoylase. Faculty Research Development Award; 7/09-12/10 (CSU). Amount: $15K.
Structural Studies of the Pyrimidine Pathway. NIH R15 grant; 9/04-9/09 (CSU). Amount: $210K.
Engaged Learning Undergraduate Program; summer 2010, summer 2009, summer 2008; ~ $4K per summer, Office of the Provost, CSU.
Startup Package Fund (CSU)
National Research Service Award from institutional training grant in experimental hematology; 9/92-7/94. (WSU)
Determination of the Crystal Structure of the S100b Protein. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Fellowship; 5/87-5/89. (UVa)


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UWO Convocation '13
Even though it meant for two long, busy, and hectic days, I was lucky enough to attend two convocation ceremonies.
I am both a Brescia University College grad as well as a University of Western grad; therefore, I attend two separate convocations. I recapped the Brescia Convocation yesterday and will be recapping my second convocation ceremony for the University of Western Ontario (UWO) today.
My busy day began at noon when all of us grads and our families met at Brescia for appetizers and coffee prior to the convocation ceremony held on main campus at UWO which began at 3:00 pm.
While munching on delicious appetizers such as beef sliders and the most delicious asparagus bundles drizzled with buttermilk dressing, I had time to visit and take pictures with my family and friends.
And then, before you knew it, it was time to walk down Brescia hill toward main campus!
I felt like I was in a parade and so thankful I did not wear a high heal as I know I would have taken a tumble down that always dreaded Brescia hill…
Once we made it to main campus, our parents took their seats in Alumnae Hall where the ceremony was held while the grads got into their lines and prepared for convocation.
Convocation was exactly two hours (3:00 – 5:00 pm) and included Brescia grads as well as grads from Huron and the Faculty of Health Sciences.
When I was called up on stage I was hooded by the principal of Brescia and admitted to my degree. I then received my diploma and had a few pictures taken back stage with my diploma by photographers.
I am very proud to hold this diploma from the University of Western Ontario.
I can't quite stress enough how much I've enjoyed my time at this university. I made the right decision to move to London from Yorkton to do my schooling here as both UWO and London feel like my homes.
A special thanks goes out to my parents today for supporting me and making it possible for me to obtain a degree from UWO.
I could have never in a million years done it without their love, support, and encouragement. So, thank you Mom and Dad for making it possible for me to be holding this degree in my hands today.
I now have a Bachelor of Science in Food and Nutrition and plan to do great things with it, but I can tell you one thing… I'm not done learning.
I hope you enjoyed my last grad recap post, but make sure to keep in touch as I will be sharing my future schooling and career plans with you in upcoming posts!
Have a great days lovies and don't forget to enter the DAVIDsTEA giveaway and submit your high fives to me for this week's High Five Friday! 😀
Love always,
Meg xo
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Oct. 24, 2011
New Britain, Conn. - The Stony Brook diving team competed at the Central Connecticut State Diving Invitational on Saturday and turned in several impressive performances.
Junior Jodie Darnell (Rocklin, Calif.) placed first in the three-meter dive with a score of 213.75, a new season-best. Junior Molly Swartz (Grass Valley, Calif.) took third in the event (204.10), while sophomore Serra Czapla (Glastonbury, Conn.) placed fifth with 175.95.
In the men's three-meter dive, freshman Kaleim Reid (Uniondale, N.Y.) finished second with a personal-best mark of 187.65. Classmate Kyle Gannon (North Babylon, N.Y.) placed fifth, registering a score of 172.35.
In the one-meter competition, Gannon posted a season-high score of 200.45 to place second, while Czapla (201.50), Swartz (197.90) and Darnell (190.45) took second, third and fourth, respectively.
Stony Brook was one of five teams at the event, including Providence, Fairfield, Wagner and host CCSU.
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AUTHOR: Josh - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, June 21, 2012POSTED: Thursday, June 21, 2012
I like CTU because it's one of the more reputable online schools out there, that uses such an aggressive schedule. It's kind of a total package for what I needed. There are other schools, public schools even, that offer online courses, but they are much more demanding of your time and may require you to show up weekly or every two weeks...they still call their classes "online". My work schedule is extremely demanding and subject to travel. This school has everything I need to work around my schedule.
Just like any other school, there are good professors and bad ones. Many of the professors I've had, work at multiple schools, including ground campuses elsewhere. You can look at this as a good or bad thing. Good, because it shows they bring on qualified personnel, bad, because many of the professors tend to have very tight schedules. That being said, I have never had a professor who didn't respond to an email or didn't provide their personal number for over the phone assistance if it was sought out. If you have a bad instructor, you report them and/or you give them a poor write up in the course survey. CTU asks their students to critique every course upon completion. This feedback is the only way they know how to improve their practices.
Yes, they are a for-profit school, but that also means, they want to provide you a good service to ensure your patronage and recommendations to others. The point of any business is to ensure the customer is happy and tells others to shop there as well. The onsite library and archives are very informative. I watched a 6hr tutorial on MS Project Pro that taught me everything I needed to know about the program. There are tons of "lab" tutorials you can watch, whether or not it's a part of your degree program. Plus, as alumni, you can log into the school's site and utilize their resources whenever you want. Plus, they are only one of a handful of schools that work with PMI and help to expedite your PMP certification process, one of the biggest reasons I went to this school. Certs seem to be the hotness right now and the PMP is very desirable in my line of work.
And lastly, the school is expensive as all hell, I'll admit that. But for the convenience and service they provide, I think it is worth it for me. That being said, however, I may look to a "bigger name" when taking my MBA graduate courses, because, unfortunately, there are too many postings like the one above who give CTU a bad reputation.
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AUTHOR: Nila - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, April 23, 2012POSTED: Monday, April 23, 2012
When complaints were filed by myself and other students with the Dean the only response we all received was that the new instructors aren't on the same page as CTU and they hope to rectify the problem. How does that help a student with the current situation? It doesn't, and when the professor finds out you filed a complaint you are the one who suffers.
So granted for those who had a great experience with CTU two or more years ago that is great. Unfortunately students that are currently attending CTU wish they were able to have those experiences but unfornately can't and need to let future students know what they are signing up for.
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The professors I had were well versed on the subject that they were teaching and they were very supportive to my success in their class. The support of the learning center is great and the library resources are amazingly easy to navigate.
I am currently continuing my eduation at CTU on a MBA with a concentration in accounting and still have the same quality professors I have experienced in my undergraduate courses. It is unfortunate that some have had a bad experience at CTU but sometimes it may be a personal issue that interferes with the overall experience. It is important to be personally responsible when taking an online education and with a dedicated approach most should have a positive experience at CTU.
To address the initial post directly I never found the professors to be nasty to the students. The cost that was experienced by the individual is not what I have experienced what so ever. CTU from my experience and good judgement is not a rip-off what so ever.
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Schwarzenegger. I guess the posters on Thursday were right, any of you shorts care to comment? (or apologize for calling posters liars?) adding 250 jobs to California is GREAT, must mean MAGS is getting new contracts with California....A quote from the Globe article........"Another cooperative venture mentioned by Schwarzenegger was with Israeli company Magal Security Systems (Nasdaq: MAGS; TASE: MAGS), which will entail expanding its business in California to include the sale of protective systems for buildings, airports, railway stations, and hospitals. This venture is expected to create 250 jobs in California." eom
re: you can just smell a contract comingCompanies do not double their staff in this kind of economy without reason. I think the workforce expansion is very bullish for the company.The selloff, whether manipulative or just a return to earth, seems overdone.Thinking Mon, Tue will be very good.Expecting a good pop, possibly to 20ish
come on guys...when was the date of this article...if it's old news, it's worthless!anyone?Scott
Most of these articles are May 1 & 2, 2004. FYI, Looks like recent news.
DUDE the date of the article is YESTERDAY 5/1/2004read it again FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 1, 2004 CONTACTS:Mark Mosher 415/812-7500MarkCapitolo 916/372-3729 GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER ENCOURAGES ISRAELI COMPANIES TO INVEST IN CALIFORNIAGovernor announces five Israeli expansions totaling over 800 new California jobs TEL AVIV, ISRAEL � At a meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel today, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced five Israeli companies with plans to create more than 800 new jobs in California and urged dozens of other Israeli corporate executives to invest and expand their businesses in the state. I promised I would travel the world to sell California and find employers to provide new jobs for Californians, Schwarzenegger told a group of more than 200 Israeli and American business leaders, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs at the Tel Aviv Hilton. Tonight, as part of my first trip abroad as California Governor, my message to Israel is that California is open for business. We have the best educated workforce, the perfect climate and now we have a government that is making it easier for you to do business in California. As evidence of the governor's commitment to helping companies around the world do business in California, he met with and introduced five Israeli firms that will expand in the Golden State, resulting in the creation of more than 800 new jobs. These five companies were identified by my jobs commission, which will help them clear the way for their expansions in California, Schwarzenegger said. I have no doubt these firms will profit from their commitment to our state and our workers, and that our state will prosper from their business. The five deals the governor announced are: The relocation of the worldwide headquarters of the IP storage networking company SANRAD from Tel Aviv to Alameda, California, creating 300 new jobs in Alameda; A partnership between Yokneam, Israel?s Arad Technologies and Sacramento, California's USCL Corp. to develop "smart" utility meters so business and residential ratepayers can monitor and control their own energy usage, resulting in 200 new jobs in the Sacramento area; An expansion of the Fremont, California operation of Israel's Magal Security Systems, where the company will hire 250 Californians to make and sell its high-tech monitors to protect public buildings, such as airports, train stations and hospitals; A partnership between Tel Aviv's Netline Communications Technologies (NCT) and Santa Cruz-based Life Safety Systems to design and assemble equipment that will protect our ground forces in Iraq with a jammer to prevent bombs from being triggered remotely by cell phones, bringing 60 new jobs to Santa Cruz; and The expansion of the Israeli Internet security firm ForeScout in San Mateo, where it will locate the control center for a new worldwide service to stop Internet hackers, adding 30 new jobs. In March, Governor Schwarzenegger announced the creation of his California Commission for Jobs & Economic Growth (www.4cajobs.com) to help him find companies interested in locating in California or at risk of leaving the state; identify legislative, regulatory and administrative barriers to hiring California workers; and market California products and destinations. Israel is one of the top three centers for high-technology research and development in the world, said commission co-chair Warren Hellman. Increasingly, Israeli companies are basing their sales, marketing and production operations in California.


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Parma/Brussels – Four years ago, the EU Council and European Parliament adopted the Health Claims Regulation to ban food claims that could mislead consumers. At the end of October, members of the Federation of European Specialty Food Ingredients Industries (ELC) were questioning whether the Regulation is meeting that goal. Prior to the ELC statement, the EFSA announced that it has now evaluated 1,745 claims from a list of 4,637 generic health claims, as well as about 100 out of 300 claims on disease prevention. "Only 5 % of the claims received a positive opinion,"said ELC president Prof. Dr. Markwart Kunz. "A rejection rate of 95 % calls into question whether the criteria applied are appropriate."
Criticism from scientists and companies also grew louder after the latest evaluation round, when only 75 out of 808 pooled health claims received positive evaluations from the EFSA's NDA panel. While the body said the high attrition rate was attributable to the poor quality of applications, even companies whose health claims were granted said there was a lack of transparency about the criteria for evaluation. "We are evaluating case-by-case," explained an EFSA spokesman. However researchers from Cognis, which received approvals for two health claims in the latest evaluation round, told EuroBiotechNews that there are currently no defined criteria concerning either the number of clinical studies required for approval, or their minimum size and design. They added that "there is a lot of uncertainty in the industry, and many companies hope this will improve with the publication of guidelines that say more than that every claim is to be analysed case-by-case." Food expert Andreas Hahn from the University of Hanover said that health claims are being evaluated on a very high level at EFSA. "It's a matter of debate if the level of evidence demanded by EFSA is appropriate for the approval of an advertising claim," he said. According to Hahn, the current evaluation practice poses a threat to most SMEs developing functional foods, because when it comes to innovative approaches, the success rate at the EFSA is very low.
Innovation not rewarded
Currently, the British SME Provexis is the only exception. Its 12 employees recently licensed their Fruitflow® tomato extract to DSM Nutritional Products following the approval of the claim that the functional ingredient prevents platelet aggregation. According to COO Steve Morrison, platelet aggregation was a very specific endpoint that could be determined accurately. In cases where hard endpoints like heart infarction or neurological degeneration can't be determined, companies have to rely on surrogate markers. "It is very difficult to correlate biomarkers with a health effects," said Werner Klaffke, Director of Nutrition & Health at Unilever, "even for large companies."


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STOOD TOGETHER AGAINST THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE THAT HAS PLAGUED THE CITY. THE ORLEANS PEACEKEEPERS HOSTED A CITYWIDE TOUR FOR PEACE. WDSU REPORTER CASEY FERRAND WAS AT A-L DAVIS PARK AND HAS MORE ON THE PURPOSE OF THE EVENT :02-:06 THE MOTORCYCLE TOUR FOR PEACE ROLLED THROUGH THE STREETS OF THE NEW ORLEANS... AND RIDERS MADE THEIR WAY HERE TO A.L. DAVIS PARK IN CENTRAL CITY WHERE THERE WERE PLENTY OF ACTIVITIES AND EYE OPENING DISPLAYS FOR THE COMMUNITY. MORE THAN 15 MOTORCYCLE CLUBS JOINED FORCES WITH THE NEW ORLEANS PEACEKEEPERS... TO STAND IN UNITY AS THEY CALL ON THE COMMUNITY TO HELP STOP THE VIOLENCE. TODAY THEY OFFERED THINGS LIKE JOB TRAINING AND G-E-D PROGRAMS. THIS VAN GAVE AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE EFFECT OF VIOLENCE IN THE CITY. THE PEACKEEPERS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2009. ABOUT 60 MEMBERS DONATE TIME ON A WEEKLY BASIS AND WALK THROUGH SOME OF THE CITIES HIGH VIOLENCE AND HIGH CRIME NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY. THEY LAUNCHED THE BEEF HOTLINE IN 2011 TO HELP MEDIATE STREET CONFLICT. ORGANIZERS SAY THEY'VE LITERATLLY SAVED LIVES AND PREVENTED SHOOTING BY MEDIATING THESE CONFLICTS. we understand what's taking place in the community and we understand that none of us can diaignos the problems in the community from the pulpit or from an office desk or in a classroom on a college campus... We know we must Meet them where they are and let them know we care. THE PEACEKEEPERS WANT TO CONTINUE THEIR WORK AND CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THEIR BEEF HOTLINE... THAT NUMBER IS 504- 274-9426 THE NEW ORLEANS PEACEKEEPERS BRANCH IS PART OF A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION THAT HAS CHAPTERS IN VARIOUS CITIES. CAN YOU FEEL THE ANTICIPATION
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True to the Scooby-Doo storyline, The Scooby-Doo Mystery Mine Game follows the gang as they try to solve the mystery of who is hiding in the mine. The culprit is one of the eight characters pictured on the cards. To play, turn over all the clue cards, and select one. Then place it in the holder so nobody can see it and begin. On each turn, players move up the path and around the mine. When they land on a clue space, they can open one of the doors on the clue holder. By the time you see all three clues, you should be able to guess who the miner is, but watch out! If you land on the mine cart space, the mine cart is released and could knock you off the path as it careens down the track and activates the seven different traps built into the mine. The first person to get to the top and correctly guess the miner is the winner. The game is for two to four players.
This is a cute concept and a nice way to bring the popular Scooby-Doo characters to a game. But the idea is better than the gameplay. The guessing is very simple for even a 5-year-old, and the mechanism was frustrating to work with. It's not always clear which way the pieces are supposed to move, and things didn't work consistently.
The game is designed for ages 5 and up, and given how simplistic the guessing is, it's definitely for younger age kids.
We had a couple of problems with this game. The mine cart is on a ball bearing, so it swivels and won't always go fully down the track because it pivots and gets stuck. The instructions acknowledge this, but it can get a little bit annoying for kids. Getting the stuck car out from the back of the track can be frustrating, especially for adult fingers when you have to set it up again. You may have to ease the cardboard up a little so the cart won't get stuck on the turns. Be careful not to crease it.
We get it: These games don't always work, and it's been that way since the original Mousetrap in 1964, but this one was particularly frustrating.
The game took us about 10 minutes to set up, but you have to be careful with the cardboard pieces to ensure they stay in place. You'll also want to pay close attention to how the path is described in the instructions as it's not always clear which steps follow which.
You'll also want to make sure the game is being played on a level where players are looking into rather than down at the mine so they can see the whole playing area. That's going to make it a little clumsy for adults who want to play with kids.
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But the battle of the race was for second place, as Felipe Nasr pipped James Calado for the position in the very last few yards, outdragging him with superior traction out of the final chicane after an enthralling late duel.
"It was quite amazing, I was just waiting for the last moment," said Nasr.
Calado added: "A fantastic race, really. I got a lightning start, seventh to nearly first. I had good pace, but it was tough to keep with [Kral] and save the tyres. The last three laps were evil, it was unstable under braking."
Third-placed Calado made inroads into points leaders Davide Valsecchi and Luiz Razia after a controversial moment on the opening lap.
Having made a good exit from the first corner, third-placed Razia got a better run onto the Kemmel Straight than Calado, who appeared to leave him no room and force him onto the grass at 150mph as the Brazilian pulled alongside.
This sent Razia spinning across the track - in front of the majority of the pack - but amazingly he only took out one other car.
Ironically, this was Valsecchi, the man with whom he is tied with at the top of the points table. Valsecchi clanged into the barrier on the inside of the track, but both continued after a significant delay. Valsecchi had already come together with Giedo van der Garde and Julian Leal in one of several La Source tangles.
The stewards investigated the incident, but took no action during the race.
Valsecchi would retire after nine laps, while the chastened Razia trailed home in 20th. They remain locked on 204 points at the head of the table, with Calado 44 behind.
The fourth man in the title battle, Esteban Gutierrez, failed to score after an ill-judged move on Leal for fourth place meant he spun into the gravel at Malmedy. He rejoined to finish 13th.
Kral won by 5.1 seconds, his first-ever GP2 success and only his second points-scoring result of the season after he finished fourth on Saturday.
"We have been waiting for this, it's been really tough, I've had so much bad luck," said Kral. "Today it was just perfect, and yesterday was good as well - 14th to fourth. The tyre degradation was really bad, I was sliding a lot."
Saturday's winner Marcus Ericsson charged from eighth to fourth, but the star of the race was Fabio Leimer, who rose from 23rd on the grid to fifth.
The highlight of his quite brilliant drive was passing Fabio Onidi flat-out around the outside of Blanchimont.
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The Penn State sex scandal is the worst scandal that any NCAA athletic department has ever encountered. Late last night, a jury found Jerry Sandusky, the former defensive coordinator of Penn State's football team guilty of 45 of 48 counts of child sex abuse.
Jerry Sandusky is by far the worst monster to have ever coached at an NCAA school. My heart goes out to all of Sandusky's victims. According to published media reports, it appears that Penn State may have known that Sandusky was a sexual predator since at least 1998 when he was initially investigated by Penn State Police. Unfortunately, at that time nothing was done to stop this predator from having access to Penn State facilities with young boys.
Since at least 2002, the Penn State athletic department knew about allegations that Sandusky may have raped a young boy at its athletic facilities but did nothing to report him to law enforcement or to stop him from having access to its facilities. Since it appears that the athletic department knew or should have known that Sandusky may be committing multiple sexual abuse crimes on its campus it may have significant civil legal liability. Administrators who lied about their knowledge of Sandusky's alleged criminal activities when questioned by police may also have criminal legal liability. In addition to potentially having criminal legal liability for lying about their knowledge of Sandusky's then alleged criminal activities, Penn State and its employees may also have significant civil liability for Sandusky's on and off-campus activities since it appears that Penn State knew that Sandusky may be committing multiple sexual crimes and did nothing to stop him.
If Penn State wasn't informed about Sandusky's alleged sexual abuse of young boys it would be very difficult to prove that Penn State and/or any of its employees should be held liable for not stopping these terrible activities. However, since it appears that Penn State coaches, athletic department members, and members of the university administration knew or should have known that Sandusky may be committing major crimes on and off campus Penn State and some current and/or former employees may have significant legal liability.
The Virgina Tech case should have been a wake up call that NCAA schools should not require their student-athletes or employees to provide access to their password protected digital content and/or to turn over their social media usernames. Next, the lawsuit by the family of a University of Virginia lacrosse player who was murdered by another student-athlete should have been another wake up call that athletic departments must stop these practices. Now, the Penn State guilty verdict appears to prove that if a university and/or its employees want to avoid legal liability for the digital content of their student-athletes or employees they must not require students or employees to provide access to their password protected personal digital content.
On November 15, 2011, I stated, if Penn State was aware of Sandusky's alleged criminal activities and failed to stop him the school may have major legal liability issues to defend against. Since it appears that Penn State knew about Sandusky's criminal behavior the economic cost of this matter to Penn State may be north of $100 million dollars due to court costs, litigation expenses, attorney fees, investigation costs, judgements, settlements, reputation costs, etc... It is premature to determine how much of these costs the school's insurance companies will pay but there is already litigation regarding the matter.
The Penn State sex scandal once again proves that NCAA schools need to ensure that their social media policies do not create unintended legal liability. Compliance personnel, coaches, or university employees who require their student-athletes or employees to turn over their social media usernames, passwords, or to download social media monitoring software, or to use any other unethical or illegal method to obtain access to their students' or employees' personal password protected digital content may create millions of dollars of legal liability for their schools and/or themselves.
To learn more about these issues you may contact me at http://shearlaw.com.
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On a one way street
Lookin for love but it ain't
Lookin for me
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Life is to short to waste on regrets
Look at me now it must be
Hard to tell...
That I'm alive and well
I'm alive and well
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That I'm alive and well
Ten years later and it's all the same
No reason to bitch but I still complain
God only knows what God only knows
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Philadelphia Phillies have moved within
one victory from returning to the World Series for the second
straight year by rallying with two runs in the bottom of the ninth
to shock the L.A. Dodgers 5-4 for a 3-1 series lead in the National
League Championship Series.
Jimmy Rollins was the Phillies hero. He delivered a two-out,
two-run double off Dodgers closer Jonathan Broxton for the walkoff
winner for the defending World Series champs.
With one out, pinch-hitter Matt Stairs started the rally with a
walk. Carlos Ruiz was hit with a pitch. After Broxton got the
second out, Rollins hit a line-drive double in the right-center gap
that sent the crowd at Citizens Bank Park into delirium.
Ryan Howard hit a two-run homer in the first inning off Dodgers
starter Randy Wolf and tied Lou Gehrig's Major League record of
eight straight postseason games with at least one RBI. Gehrig drove
in runs in eight consecutive games for the New York Yankees during
the 1928 and 1932 World Series.
Joe Blanton retired his first 10 batters but the Dodgers rallied
with two runs in the fourth and single runs in the fifth and sixth.
Kemp hit his homer to center over the 401-foot sign for a 3-2 lead
in the fifth. Casey Blake made it 4-2 with a run-scoring single in
the sixth. Philadelphia cut it to 4-3 on Chase Utley's RBI single
in the sixth.
The Dodgers bullpen got out trouble in the sixth and eighth
innings before Rollins climaxed the ninth inning rally with his big
After an off day, Philadelphia's Cole Hamels and the Dodgers'
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Several Upshur County schools are hopeful that a state agency will soon approve construction projects to provide new heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.
Projects at Rock Cave, Tennerton and French Creek Elementary schools are included in a bid that is being submitted to the state School Building Authority, officials said at Tuesday's Upshur County Board of Education.
The exact costs for the projects are not yet known. If the SBA approves the bid, specific plans will be created, Superintendent of Schools Scott M. Lampinen said.
"That's what makes it fluid," Lampinen said. "You submit it to the SBA, get their approval and then start the design."
All schools in the area were inspected to determine their need for HVAC improvements. The three selected schools were determined to be those with the greatest need, officials said.
In a separate project, an addition is currently being constructed at Fred Eberle Technical Center to accommodate the growing use of the facility.
With the new 654-square-foot addition, more students will be able to use the building at any one time, officials said.
Two distinct spaces will be created in the modular building - an open area and a section reserved for one-on-one teaching.
Further along in the meeting, Roy Wager, the federal programs director for the county, gave a presentation about No Child Left Behind and local students' test scores.
Buckhannon-Upshur High, Buckhannon-Upshur Middle, Buckhannon Academy Elementary and French Creek Elementary schools have all fallen behind in the Adequate Yearly Progress measure, Wager said.
AYP is a part of No Child Left Behind and provides information about where schools need to improve and where funds need to be distributed.
To remedy the problem, schools are allowed to apply for a state educational agency waiver, which allows schools to be prioritized.
The bottom 5 percent of schools in the state will be listed as priority schools. They will receive extra funding and will be presented with materials to help improve educational outcomes, Wager said.
A committee would be assigned to each school to help them develop specific education plans.
"Instead of penalizing schools that are still growing, they will prioritize schools," Wager said.
"We want to continue to work on improvement for our students and our teachers," Lampinen said.
In other news from this week's meeting:
Ashley Kimble resigned as a substitute teacher, Barbara Harvey as a substitute secretary and Lucas Zeims as an assistant wrestling coach at Buckhannon-Upshur Middle School.
Patricia Tallman and Amy M. Lewis have been hired as substitute teachers for Upshur County, pending background checks.
Alisa Lemley Compton is a new senior class advisor at Buckhannon-Upshur High School, pending a background check.
Sheena Westfall is the new multi-categorical special education teacher at Buckhannon-Upshur Middle School, pending state certification.
Brent Kimble, Marguin Godfrey, Brenda Hamrick, Fred Dumire and Deborah Strader are on emergency medical leave from their education positions.
Lucy A. Swecker has been transferred from third grade teacher at Buckhannon Academy Elementary School to fourth grade teacher at Union Elementary School. She will begin at the start of the 2013-2014 school year.
Brian Brandish has been transferred from multi-categorical special education teacher at Buckhannon-Upshur Middle School to multi-categorical special education teacher with autism teacher at Union Elementary School.
Tammi Wilt has been placed in a 6th grade classroom as the Alderson Broaddus College teacher candidate.
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BLOOMINGBURG — A Bloomingburg man is facing multiple felonies after a state police drug investigation yielded drugs, cash and a stolen handgun, police say.
On Saturday, state police said they found drugs, $7,820 in cash and a stolen gun at the home of Jason Nocera, 24.
He was arrested and charged with seven counts of felony drug possession and sales and one count of felony criminal weapons possession.
Nocera was arraigned in Mamakating court and sent to Sullivan County Jail without bail.
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