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Genesys Works starts national expansion by opening its first expansion site in the Twin Cities
Nationally recognized program to equip Minneapolis/St. Paul-area high school students with tools needed to achieve professionally and academically
ST. PAUL, MN (March 31, 2008)
Genesys Works, a non-profit social enterprise formed to unite secondary education with Fortune 1000 companies to transform the lives and futures of underprivileged high school students, announced today that St. Paul will be the first expansion location as the organization looks to replicate its success across the nation.
Genesys Works engages high school students in underserved communities the summer prior to their senior year and trains the students in the areas of computer repair, engineering drafting and accounting. In addition, the students are taught the professional skills necessary to enter and succeed in a corporate environment, such as effective communication skills, business etiquette, corporate culture and goal setting. Upon completion of the training program, the students are employed to perform technical services for Fortune 1000 partner corporations where they earn an hourly wage for their work while receiving valuable professional experience and real-world mentoring. The experience has literally changed the students' outlook on and expectations for their life, giving them the drive to achieve academic success, a desire to pursue higher education, and the knowledge that they can be more than what they ever thought they could be.
"Programs and resources such as Genesys Works are a vital component to the educational advancement of local youth and the development of our future workforce," says Meria Carstarphen, Superintendent of St. Paul Public Schools. "We are thrilled that Genesys Works is bringing its proven model of public/private partnership to the St. Paul area and look forward to working together to better equip our students with the tools necessary to reach their full potential and encouraging them to become active members of the community."
Key to the success of Genesys Works in the Twin Cities is local leadership. To this end, Genesys Works has appointed Jeffrey Tollefson as executive director of the Twin Cities operation. Through his work as a partner at Social Venture Partners of Minnesota and his passion for helping at-risk youth, Tollefson was introduced to this innovative program. After meeting current Genesys Works students and realizing the positive impact this program has on young adults, he was eager to become more involved and replicate the model in the Twin Cities.
"After spending the last 20 years of my professional life helping young companies grow and prosper, I am excited to make the transition from venture capitalist to full-time social capitalist," commented Tollefson on his new non-profit role. In addition to his work with Social Venture Partners, Tollefson also co-founded and served as a general partner of Crescendo Ventures, a global venture capital investment management firm with more than $1.1 billion under management and offices in Minneapolis, Palo Alto and London. In this position, Jeff was involved in the creation, financing and growth of new business ventures in the communications, information technology and medical device fields.
"The Twin Cities provides Genesys Works the opportunity to partner with many large Fortune 1000 corporations, supportive schools and progressive business leaders," says Tollefson. "Through Genesys Works, we have an opportunity to alter the mindsets and futures of many less privileged youth in our inner-city communities, and I am thrilled to be a part of this impressive organization."
Despite the overall economic health and affluence of the Twin Cities metropolitan region, this prosperity is not widely shared as large social and economic disparities continue to exist between groups based on race, ethnicity and economic class. As highlighted in the Brookings Institution report Mind the Gap: Reducing Disparities to Improve Regional Competitiveness in the Twin Cities, new initiatives are needed to better educate and train low-income and minority groups to build a more competitive regional workforce for the future.
"It is vital that we provide area students, our future leaders, the opportunity to realize their dreams of a professional career and set them up for success," Tollefson added. "Genesys Works is a life-changing program that can do just that."
Since its inception in 2002, Genesys Works, a Houston-based 501(c)(3) social enterprise, has provided professional job training, employment and personal development guidance to hundreds of students. These students have effectively overcome environments of low expectations and resources to achieve in college and in their pursuit of professional careers.
"The Twin Cities expansion is an exciting first step for Genesys Works in our vision to bring a cultural change and revolutionize education around the country," says Rafael Alvarez, founder and president of Genesys Works. "In Jeff Tollefson, we have found a proven business leader capable of successfully launching the Genesys Works program in the Twin Cities, and we look forward to the positive contributions Genesys can make to both the futures of Twin Cities' students and the community as a whole."


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As noted recently, the new WWE logo, which has been used for the WWE Network, will become the official logo for the entire company starting the day after SummerSlam, August 18th.
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How wonderful!! These are beautiful little bouquets. Lucky you having a garden. I enjoy flowers whenever and wherever possible.
Happy Summer!
I'm so with you on this one, Sharon! We have vases of flowers all over creation, all with wonders from the gardens. I love it. Actually, we put some sort of flower all over even in winter, but there's more of a profusion now. It's sublime...these sprays in your photos are beautiful!
Me too! Gorgeous blooms and arrangements. I love little vases tucked here and there.
I could kick myself now for not getting a cutting garden going this summer--my yard is largely devoid of flowers! :-(
There used to be a roadside florist who sold huge bouquets of wildflowers for $8, but she gave it up, and I really miss her!
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Chapter 6
Attributes of Good Listening
"listening involves hearing,
sensing, interpretation, evaluation and response"
Good listening is an essential part of being a good leader. You cannot be a good leader unless you are a good listener. You as a leader must be very aware of the feedback you are receiving from the people around you. If you are not a good listener, your future as a leader will be short. I might add that being a good listener is a skill important in many other settings. For example, being a good listener will enhance your social relationships of all types, marriage, dating, parties, work, etc.
Have you ever stopped to think that we require courses and training in our education in speaking and writing, but not in listening? Why not? Are such skills important? Yes! Can you or I improve our listening capacity through purposive efforts? Again, the answer is clear: yes! Do we know what it takes to be a good listener? Another, yes. Why do we leave the learning of good listening skills to hard-earned experience or chance? Probably, the only answer is tradition. The people who established "reading, writing and arithmetic" as the content of American schools did not recognize the need for other skills such as listening. And even today, how many parents will insist that their child develop good listening skills through training in schools or elsewhere? All to few!
Good listening includes a package of skills, which requires knowledge of technique and practice very similar to good writing or good speaking. Many people believe that good listening skills are easy to learn or automatically part of every person's personality. Neither is correct. The difference is that poor listening skills are often not as obvious to other people. If we cannot speak effectively, it is immediately obvious, but it may take a little time for other people to become aware that you or I are poor listeners.
Poor listening habits are very common. Indeed, poor listening skills are more common than poor speaking skills. I am sure that you have seen on many occasions, two or more people talking to (by) each other at the same time. People cannot talk and be an effective listener at the same instance. What is not so obvious is when you and I are only paying partial attention or don't fully understand. I am frequently amused and bemused in my classes, I can give a lecture on a complex topic and all too often very few questions are asked, but bring up a topic such as tests and hands will go up all over the room. Why? Is it that they listened to and understood the lecture, but not the announcement about a test? Obviously, not. The test has immediate relevance called grades, while the material in the lecture? Well, maybe some time in the future. I strongly suspect that the same conclusions can be drawn about many or most other conversations or other listening. There are some games that we use in the classroom and elsewhere in which we start some information through a line of people. Each one passes the information to the next. The end result is usually very different than what was started. Some of the differences are the result of poor listening skills.
There is shallow listening and deep listening. Shallow or superficial listening is all too common in classes and many other settings. Most of us have learned how to give the appearance of listening to the professor while not really listening. Even less obvious is when the message received is different from the one sent. We did not really understand what the message is. We listened, but we did not get the intended message. Such failed communications are the consequences of poor speaking, poor listening and/or poor understanding.
Good listening skills will vary from one communications situation to the next. For example, what is effective feedback will vary from one person to another. Some people to whom you are listening may need more feedback than other people.
Listening skills can always be improved. Perfection in listening, just as in other communications skills, does not exist.
There are several good books and many articles on good listening. The following skills and attributes are taken from the literature.
There are three basic listening modes: combative, attentive and reflective. Most of us would describe our listening as attentive, that we are interested in the other person's point of view. I have had many students come up to me in a combative mode when discussing grades. They clearly did not want to hear my explanations, but wanted to promote theirs. All to seldom do we take the reflective mode in which we take an active roll in the communications process. We are not just passive vessels into which information is poured, but we think critically about the topics, the messages we receive. This when real learning occurs.
The following attributes of good listening are suggestive of the skills needed. There is some overlap between the various attributes, but each suggests something different.
Remember, we hear only what we want to hear and remember only part of what we heard. Good listening can improve both the content and quality of what we hear and remember.
A good leader is good listener. A good listener may be or may not be a leader. But a good listener is usually popular which is an important step in becoming a leader. People like to be around someone who listens well. You and I can improve our listening habits. It will take concentration and hard work. Our listening habits are the results of years of often-unconscious behavior. Do we maintain eye contact? Do we really work at listening?
Today is the day to start developing those good listening habits!
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We have demonstrated numerically that the interface between metal and uniformly magnetized 2D photonic crystal(PC) fabricated from a transparent dielectric magneto‐optic(MO) material possesses a one‐way frequency range where only a forward propagating surface plasmon polariton mode is allowed to propagate. By using a simple theoretical model we have shown that nonreciprocity is introduced by the MO properties of the PC. Transport properties of the structures within this frequency range have been investigated by FDTD method which enables to calculating propagation of EM waves through media with full tensorial MO permittivity. We found that in the presence of a time‐dependent external magnetic field interesting features associated with the redistribution of the EM field appear.
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text: › Academics » Earth and Environmental Sciences » Meet Our Faculty » Brannon Andersen Home Program Overview Major Requirements Course Descriptions Global Experience Prospective Students Career Opportunities Research Opportunities Meet Our Faculty Christopher S. Romanek Current Students Awards Graduate School Resources Facilities Contact Us Plan a Visit ›Apply Now ›Give to Furman › Back to Faculty Profiles Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences 864.294.3366 Plyler Hall 119D firstname.lastname@example.com Biography Courses Publications Research Faculty Short BiographyDr. Brannon Andersen came to Furman in 1994 after completing his Ph.D. at Syracuse University, where he also was a senior geochemist studying leachate mitigation as part of the closure of the Freshkills Landfill on Staten Island, NY. He is trained in geology, but has morphed into an environmental scientist with a focus on biogeochemistry and sustainability science. Dr. Andersen believes in the transformative impact of undergraduate research experiences, and has co-authored over 110 abstracts with undergraduate students that were presented at regional and national professional meetings. He has also published over 25 journal articles/book chapters and has been awarded over $2 million in external grants. Dr. Andersen was chair of the department (2009-2014), was named the Henry and Ellen Townes Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (1998-2000), the Association of Furman Students Faculty Member of the Year (2003-2004), a South Carolina Independent Universities and Colleges Teacher of Excellence (2008), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor (2010). Dr. Andersen is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of the Environment at Clemson University and associate editor of the journal Environmental Geosciences. Currently, Dr. Andersen is a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Zadar in Zadar, Croatia, where is is affliated with the Department of Ecology, Agronomy, and Aquaculture, the Department of Geography, and the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. Faculty Courses Taught Name Title Description EES-112Environmental ScienceStudy of human transformation of Earth as a trade-off for growth of the human enterprise. Topics include changes in population, land cover (agriculture, deforestation, urbanization), climate, nitrogen and phosphorous cycles, biodiversity; limits of water, soil, energy and mineral resources; and links between population and consumption patterns.EES-175ECOS SeminarEES-310Sedimentary SystemsPrinciples of sedimentology, sedimentary processes, and depositional environments. Description, classification, and interpretation of sedimentary rocks.EES-343Environmental SystemsSame as BIO-343 (43). Interdisciplinary examination of the physical, biological and chemical processes that control the flow of matter and energy in surface environments on planet Earth. Emphasis on the interactions between abiotic and biotic processes. Lab includes field studies and weekend trips.EES-402GeochemistryDistribution of the elements and geochemical evolution of the earth and solar system. Isotope geochemistry. Chemical equilibrium in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary environments. Application of thermodynamics to geologic systems.EES-472Research and AnalysisAnalysis of data, reading of scientific literature relevant to individual research, and writing of a thesis based on the results of an independent research project. Students must also present results at a professional meeting and to the department. EES-502 must be enrolled at the same time.EST-301Environment and SocietyInterdisciplinary examination of the causes, potential solutions and ethical dilemmas associated with environmental problems on various spatial, temporal, political and social scales (individual to global).FYW-1196Eating as a Sustainable ActThis course will examine the relationship between you and the food you eat, how that food is produced, and the economic, social, and environmental impacts of eating. Course will involve visiting local farms to help define sustainable agriculture, and of course, sharing a meal or two together.SUS-242Dynamic System ModelingAn introduction to systems thinking and modeling of the human-environment relationship. Stocks, flows, feedback loops, homeostasis, and cyclic processes will be considered. Problems in sustainability such as climate change, population growth, and energy consumption will be modeled.SUS-472Research and AnalysisAnalysis of data, reading of scientific literature relevant to individual research, and writing of a thesis based on the results of an independent research project. Students must also present results at a professional meeting and to the department. EES-502 must be enrolled at the same time. Faculty Tab 3 description*Denotes undergraduate co-author Recent Journal articles Andersen, C.B., Lewis, G.P., *Pugh, J., and *Hart, M., 2014, The impact of wastewater treatment plant effluent on the biogeochemistry of the Enoree River, South Carolina, during drought conditions: Water, Soil, and Air Pollution, v. 225, DOI 10.1007/s11270-014-1955-4, 21 pp. Dripps, W.R., Lewis, G.P., *Baxter, R., and Andersen, C.B., 2013, Hydrogeochemical characterization of headwater seepages inhabited by the endangered Bunched Arrowhead (Sagittaria fasciculata) in the Upper Piedmont of South Carolina: Southeastern Naturalist, v. 12, p. 619-637. Halfacre, A., Horhota, M., Kransteuber, K., DeKnight, B., Andersen, C.B., Byrne, J., Trombulak, S., and Jenks-Jay, N., 2013, Shaping sustainability at Furman and Middlebury: Emergent and adaptive curricular models, in, Johnston, L. (ed.), Higher Education for Sustainability: Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum, p. 185-200. *Williams, A. J., Andersen, C.B., and Lewis, G.P., 2009, Evaluating the effects of sample processing treatments on alkalinity measurements: Journal of Hydrology, v. 377, p. 455-464. Andersen, C.B., and Dripps, W.R., 2009, Global competition for planetary resources, in, Worthen, W. B., Henderson, A. S., Rasmussen, P.R., and Benson, T.L., eds., Competition in Theory and Practice: A Multidisciplinary Analysis: Sense Publishing, Rotterdam, p. 33-43. Lewis, G.P., *Mitchell, J., Andersen, C.B., Haney, D., and Liao, M.K., and Sargent, K.A., 2007, Urban influences on stream chemistry and biology in the Big Brushy Creek watershed, South Carolina: Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, v. 182, p. 303-323. Muthukrishnan, S., Lewis, G.P., and Andersen, C.B., 2007, Chapter 24. Relationships between land cover, vegetation density, and nitrate concentrations in streams of the Enoree River basin, piedmont region of South Carolina, USA, in, D. Sarkar, R. Datta, and R. Hannigan (eds.), Concepts and Applications in Environmental Geochemistry, Elsevier Press, New York, p. 517-542. Recent abstracts presented at professional meetings: Donovan, K., Andersen, C.B., and Quinn, J., 2014, Human appropriation of net primary productivity of an agriculturally-dominated watershed, southeastern USA: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers. *Cowell, D., and Andersen, C.B., 2014, The ecological footprint as a metric for sustainable agriculture: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers. Andersen, C.B., Kransteuber, K., and *Joliff, M., 2013, Integrating ecological footprint analysis into university sustainability plans: National Meeting of the American Association for Sustainability in Higher Education. *Jolliff, M. and Andersen, C.B., 2013, Evaluating the ecological footprint of Furman University: Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Sociological Society. *Campbell, C., Andersen, C.B., and Lewis, G.P., 2013, Soil organic carbon associated with pasture land in the upper piedmont of South Carolina: Geological Society of America Programs with Abstracts, Southeastern Sectional Meeting, v. 45. *Morrison, A., Andersen, C.B., and Lewis, G.P., 2013, The impact of artificial ponds on the biogeochemistry of urban streams: Geological Society of America Programs with Abstracts, Southeastern Sectional Meeting, v. 45. *Bressler, A., Dripps, W., and Andersen, C.B., 2013, The effectiveness of rain gardens at mitigating nitrogen runoff to a Piedmont lake, Greenville, South Carolina: Geological Society of America Programs with Abstracts, Southeastern Sectional Meeting, v. 45. Faculty Tab4 descriptionDr. Andersen is a biogeochemist that studies how human activities have transformed the landscape and altered the biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen. He conducts this research in collaboration with other members of the EES department and the Biology Department as part of the River Basins Research Initiative. His current research focuses on how intensive grazing practices are improving soil health in the Upstate of South Carolina, the response of nitrogen and carbon cycling in streams to urbanization, and modeling the intensity of land use by humans over the last half century using the human appropriation of net primary productivity method. For more information about his research program, please see the River Basins Research Initiative website. He is currently in Croatia studying the biogeochemistry of carbon and nitrogen in the vineyard soils of the Dalmatia region, the potential of seagrass ecosystems to store carbon in the Novigrad Sea, and the biogeochemistry of the Sava River. Education Faculty Education Ph.D. Syracuse University M.S. Miami University B.S. Texas A&M University Faculty Training Faculty Optional Main Content Column 1


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Ah Yes the Knit and rip method of knitting I know it so well.
Some observations from my experience.
Knitting should and can be relaxing; knit for fun and relaxation not perfection.
Imperfections that you see will never be seen by others.
Knitting stitches are under tension and as the item is used, worn and laundered the tension between all stitches it trying to even out. As the tension evens out many "imperfection" will disappear.
There are no imperfections in knitting there are just unplanned design elements.
Knitting in the round is the same as knitting squares, you just do not have any edges.
There are excellent videos on this site and Youtube that will help you expand your abilities.
No matter what the hat looks like your Grandson will love it because it was knit be HIS GRANDmother.
I have learned these concepts over the years. In the beginning I worn out more yarn by knit/rip, knit/rip, knit/rip than by wearing.
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N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote:
> 506. trying to convert a visionFS user to samba. d'led
> 3.0.14Aa from sco's website, went to load gwxlibs,
> and samba won't start:
> dynamic linker: /usr/sbin/nmbd: relocation error: symbol not found: cur_term
> /etc/init.d/nmb: 12048 Killed
> Enabling Samba ... Done
> dynamic linker: /usr/sbin/smbd: relocation error: symbol not found: sys_nerr
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> Meh. Any suggestions?
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Financial Resources and Options to pay for your care4you2 STNA Class
As we learn of different options that exist for program fee assistance, we will add that information to this page.
Call to see whether you qualify for the following programs:
Pathway to Healthcare Careers/HPOG Project- Jeff Smith (419) 213-6342
Employment Readiness Training- Ms. Huffman (419) 242-7304 ext. 7030
Youth Enhancement Services (ages 16-24)- Rachel Rodriguez (419) 720-1703
Or, contact the following facilities for possible employment/STNA class opportunities:
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Kingston of Perrysburg
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Otterbein Monclova
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1. Pay On Your Own: You can register and pay for your classes with cash or a money order. We do NOT accept personal checks. If you register online, you must use a PAYPAL account to pay in full for your classes. If you pay in person, you can use any of the payment methods (except PAYPAL) listed above.
2. Use the NEW PAYPAL 6 months financing option! Submit your online payment information and request the 6 month option to pay. The applicant's credit history is checked and, if approved the applicant knows within seconds of the approval. Payment is immediate to care4you2 and the student then makes payments over 6 months to the finance company who approved him/her.
3. Apply for a student credit card. We have the name and telephone number of an organization that offers College Credit Cards with a limit of $300-$2500. They will ask for our name, address, phone number, date of birth, if you are working-name of company and your work telephone number, your income, the name of the school you are attending (care4you2), and your expected graduation date. They will assign you an ID and try to have an approval/denial within 2 hours to 7 days. If approved it will take 7-10 business days to receive the credit card. Please call or visit us for details.
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Hahne and Company was founded in 1858 by Julius Hahne. The first store was a specialty store and later grew into an up-scale department store known for catering to the carriage trade and for friendly service.
In 1906 a new store was built on Broad Street in downtown Newark. The 441,000 square foot building had four floors plus a basement. An atrium in the center of the building allowed sunlight into all the floors to compensate for the lack of good electrical lighting.)
To the delight of the children, the basement had a merry-go-round. The Toy department was also located in the basement along with Housewares, Small Electrics, Sporting Goods, Luggage, Televisions, and the Budget Store.
The store had two restaurants. The Pine Room, a wood paneled fine dining area on the street level, was formal and until the late 1970's had a dress code for patrons. The Maple Room, located in the basement and offering counter service, appealed to downtown workers. It closed in the 1980's when the basement selling floor was closed.
In 1929, the company opened the first suburban store in Montclair, New Jersey. Later, suburban stores were opened in Westfield, Livingston, Monmouth, Quaker Bridge, Woodbridge, and Rockaway.
Hahne and Company was a founding member of Associated Dry Goods when the company formed in 1916. Other founding members included: H.B. Clafin & Co (NYC), Lord & Taylor (NYC), Stewart & Co (Baltimore), Heneger's (Buffalo), and J.N. Adam & Co. (Buffalo). This grouping of companies helped each division secure needed financing and also helped combine buying power.
What happened???? The company became too focused on its downtown store in Newark. As a result, when the Newark retail market declined in the 1960's and 1970's, the business did not stand out in the New Jersey market. A&S, Lord & Taylor, and Bloomingdale's moved into the better suburban markets in New Jersey and left little room for Hahne's. In 1986, the parent, Associated Dry Goods, was sold to The May Company Department Stores. The downtown store closed in 1987 and the corporate headquarters were moved to the newly acquired store in Paramus. Since there was not much difference between a Hahne's store and the May Company's Lord & Taylor division, the decision was made to close the Hahne's stores and replace some with Lord & Taylor stores.
In the late 1970's while working for A&S, I visited many of the Hahne's stores. One of my colleagues from Bullock's had also joined the company. I found the stores to be wonderful up-scale stores with excellent customer service. However, the stores were never full of customers and you could see the facilities were in need of new investment.
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Are you interested in visiting our state? In recent years, our little home in the Pacific Northwest has gotten a lot of attention.
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It's easier to get to know one another that way.
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> I dont know where to post this. Sorry if this is the wrong place.
> I had the following during install.
> 'Do you want to enable linux binary compatability?'
> 'Sorry, package linux_base-8 was not found in the INDEX'
Sure looks like a bug from /usr/ports/UPDATING:
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Today: Tesla stock soars 17 percent. Plus: Microsoft complains about Google (GOOG). And: Real estate update, Silicon Valley tech stocks.
Tesla stock skyrockets
Tesla Motors (TSLA) stock skyrocketed today after a Morgan Stanley analyst suggested the Palo Alto company could benefit from a shift to electric vehicles to become America's next global auto giant.
"Tesla has a viable opportunity to be a significant volume player in the global auto industry," analyst Adam Jonas wrote, according to a Bloomberg News report. "The transformation from California startup to global auto player may require well more than a decade to achieve -- not unlike the genesis of many of today's established automotive companies."
Of course, Tesla -- maker of the $100,000-plus electric Roadster and the coming Model S sedan -- has yet to make a profit. And the Bloomberg report noted many obstacles faced by Tesla, including high startup costs and a lack of infrastructure for electric vehicles.
Jonas, though, raised his rating on Tesla shares to "overweight" from "equal-weight" while noting that there's "not much room for error" for the company, according to Bloomberg.
Tesla -- backed by such investors as Toyota, Daimler and Panasonic -- plans to build the next-generation Model S sedan at the former NUMMI auto plant in Fremont. According to a Merc report last month, Tesla completed its first drivable "alpha build" of the Model S at the end of December. The car is expected to be priced starting about $50,000 after a $7,500 federal tax credit.
Earlier this month, Tesla Vice President George Blankenship wrote in a blog post that the company plans to make 5,000 Model S sedans next year and ramp up to 20,000 in 2013.
Tesla's stock debuted on the Nasdaq last year after a $17-a-share initial public offering.
The shares finished regular trading today at $27.75, up $4.04, or 17 percent, from Wednesday's closing price. Earlier, Tesla stock traded as high as $28.71.
Microsoft vs. Google
Microsoft -- the Redmond, Wash., software behemoth -- today charged that Google -- the Mountain View Internet juggernaut -- has abused its monopoly position in the search-engine market to bully competitors.
In a complaint to the European Union, Microsoft is charging that "Google has engaged in a broadening pattern of walling off access to content and data that competitors need to provide search results to consumers and to attract advertisers," Brad Smith, the company's general counsel and senior vice president, wrote in a blog post.
Yes, Microsoft gets the irony here.
"Having spent more than a decade wearing the shoe on the other foot with the European Commission, the filing of a formal antitrust complaint is not something we take lightly," Smith wrote. "This is the first time Microsoft Corporation has ever taken this step."
As an example, Microsoft contends that Google has restricted competing search engines -- including Bing -- from indexing content on its YouTube video sharing site. Microsoft also complains that Google has blocked Windows Phone from working well with YouTube, even though it has provided access for YouTube apps on Android devices and Apple's (AAPL) iPhone.
As for Google, Brussels-based spokesman Al Verney told The Associated Press that Microsoft's move isn't surprising. "For our part, we continue to discuss the case with the European Commission and we're happy to explain to anyone how our business works," Verney told the news service.
Real estate update
Mortgage rates: They were up this week, according to home loan giant Freddie Mac. The average rate on 30-year fixed mortgages was 4.86 percent, up from 4.81 percent last week but down from 5.08 percent a year ago. Borrowers also paid an average upfront fee (known as "points") of 0.7 percent of the loan value.
Rates on other popular loan types edged higher as well.
"Fixed mortgage rates rose slightly for a second week in a row, but continue to remain quite low," Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist Frank Nothaft noted. "Low rates have benefited from relatively benign inflation reports."
Apps for that: Real estate websites Trulia and Zillow released new apps today for mobile devices.
San Francisco-based Trulia announced apps that have been designed for Apple's iPad and devices running Google's Android operating system.
Seattle-based Zillow has added an app for Research In Motion's BlackBerry devices to its lineup, which also includes Android, iPad and iPhone apps.
Short sales: The California Association of Realtors is working with mortgage giant Fannie Mae to speed up "short sales" -- those transactions with a sales price less than the value of a mortgage on a home.
Fannie Mae has set up as assistance desk that "will expedite a timely resolution of short sales transactions, eliminating the long approval delays" for many such deals, California Association of Realtors President Beth L. Peerce said in a news release.
Real estate agents will be expected to first make a "reasonable effort" to get approval from mortgage servicers for short sales," Fannie Mae Vice President Marcel Bryar said.
Silicon Valley tech stocks
Up: Google, Oracle (ORCL), Juniper Networks.
Down: Apple, Intel (INTC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), eBay (EBAY), VMware, Gilead Sciences (GILD).
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 4.28, or 0.2 percent, to 2,781.07.
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Down 30.88, or 0.3 percent, to 12,319.73.
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Down 2.43, or 0.2 percent, to 1,325.83.
Check in weekday afternoons for the 60-Second Business Break, a summary of news from Mercury News staff writers, The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and other wire services. Contact Frank Russell at 408-920-5876. Follow him at Twitter.com/mercspike.


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Charles Web Debugging Proxy
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
Charles can act as a man-in-the-middle for HTTP/SSL communication, enabling you to debug the content of your HTTPS sessions.
Charles simulates modem speeds by effectively throttling your bandwidth and introducing latency, so that you can experience an entire website as a modem user might (bandwidth simulator).
Charles is especially useful for Macromedia Flash developers as you can view the contents of LoadVariables, LoadMovie and XML loads.
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Super useful if you are doing mobile app dev, or anything else where its a bit harder to see what is going into/coming out of of web API, or want to throttle the traffic to see how it behaves when the internet is slow, or ... bugger it, just buy it. It's the best.
A somewhat obscure, but incredibly useful application. The UI is polished and intuitive, and you're almost fooled into thinking that it's a Cocoa app. The price is a bit steep, but it does offer a generous trial (it automatically quits after 30 minutes but you can restart it).
It worked for me (after installing the firefox add-on which it guided me through) however after a while it seemed to have interrupted my network settings. I am working in a big organization and so took me a while to work out that my proxy settings for the OS had not been put back to normal once I turned off charles. I also had to re-change Firefox's network settings. So non-tech people in large organization beware but while I was using it (mainly for throttle) it worked well.
It's a must-have for anyone dealing with dynamic web-apps.
Charles plays nice with AMF, JSON, XML and have many other great features which are hard to summarize in few words.
Grab it and give it a try - heavily recommended!


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feminine napkins, fluorescent lights, wooden stool, glass vial, blood, and photograph
108 x 144 x 22 in. (274 x 366 x 56 cm)
wooden table, organic rice, soil, Coca-Cola bottle, and condom
40 1/2 x 41 x 41 (102.5 x 457 x 71 cm)
acrylic and rice paper on canvas
55 x 47 in. (140 x 120 cm)
acrylic on canvas
55 x 47 in. (140 x 120 cm)
acrylic on canvas
diptych: 55 x 94 in. (140 x 240 cm)
handmade book
7 x 7 x 3/4 in. (18 x 18 x 2 cm)
January 9 - February 22, 2014
January 9 - February 22, 2014
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January 9 - February 22, 2014
January 9 - February 22, 2014
January 9 - February 22, 2014
Mount Merapi, Indonesia
Installation, Richmond Center for the Arts
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Installation, Museum Bochum
Bochum, Germany
acrylic on canvas
diptych: 79 x 142 in. (200 x 360 cm)
acrylic on canvas
diptych: 55 x 39 in and 55 x 47 in. (140 x 100 cm and 140 x 120 cm)
acrylic on canvas
diptych: 55 x 94 in (140 x 240 cm)
acrylic on canvas
diptych: 55 x 94 in. (140 x 240 cm)
Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Tokyo, Toyama, Japan
Performance, Valentine Willie Gallery
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Performance, Second Dadao Live Art Festival
Beijing, China
Performance, Nagano Expo
Nagano, Japan
Performance, Kedai Kebun Forum
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Performance, Venice Biennale
Venice, Italy
Locations in Werkleitz, Dresden, Jakarta, Taipei, Nagano, Nagoya, and Tokyo
Esplanade, Singapore
Installation view of "Stitching the Wounds" at Jim Thompson Gallery
Bangkok, Thailand
acrylic on canvas
diptych: 55 x 33.5 in. and 55 x 47 in. (140 x 85 cm and 140 x 120 cm)
acrylic on canvas
diptych: 55 x 39 in. and 55 x 47 in. (140 x 100 cm and 140 x 120 cm)
Performance, Musée de Castieva
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Performance, Cultural Center Philippines (CCP)
Manila, Philippines
Brisbane, Australia
Performance, Padaeng Cemetery
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Performance, Biennal IX
Jakarta, Indonesia
Installation with found objects
37 3/8 x 57 5/8 x 25 3/4 inches (95 x 146.5 x 65.5 cm)
Installation with photograph, sanitary napkins, fluorescent lights, stool, and plastic sheet
Installation detail
Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Tokyo, Japan and Hiroshima, Japan
Installation, Asia-Pacific Triennial
Brisbane, Australia
Installation, Claremont Art School
Perth, Australia
wooden table, organic rice, soil, Coca-Cola bottle, and condom
acrylic on canvas
71 5/8 x 55 1/8 in. (182 x 140 cm)
Bandung, Indonesia
Bandung, Indonesia
Arahmaiani's work is currently featured in the group exhibitions: Die Kunst Ist Schon In Der Kirche. Uber Readymades., St. Michael, Berlin, Germany (through Aug. 6, 2016); In & Out of Context, Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (through Jan. 8, 2017); and When Things Fall Apart – Critical Voices on the Radar, Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark (through Nov. 28, 2016).
Arahmaiani is one of Indonesia's most respected and iconic contemporary artists, and her work is internationally recognized for its powerful and provocative commentaries on social and cultural issues. In the 1980s and '90s, she established herself as a pioneer in the field of performance art in Southeast Asia, although her practice also incorporates a wide variety of media, including video, installation, painting, drawing, and sculpture. Since her first exhibition in 1980, her work has been included in over one hundred solo and group exhibitions around the world. In early 2014, Tyler Rollins Fine Art presented Arahmaiani's first solo exhibition in the United States, titled Fertility of the Mind. The exhibition featured the first survey of the artist's 30 years of performance work, and also included key installations from the 1990s, selected paintings, and her seminal 2004 video, I Don't Want to Be Part of Your Legend. The exhibition mapped the evolving meditations of an artist whose prolific life of activism and artistic practice has been steadfast in its relentless probing of social and political issues.
Arahmaiani was included in the landmark 1996 exhibition, Traditions/Tensions, at Asia Society in New York City, with multimedia work that explored themes of sexuality and spirituality in contemporary culture. In 2007, she returned to New York as part of the acclaimed group exhibition, Global Feminisms, at the Brooklyn Museum. Since 2010, a particular focus of her work has been on environmental issues in the Tibetan plateau region, where she has been actively collaborating with local monks and villagers to foster environmental preservation. She developed a new performance work related to this project, entitled Memory of Nature, which incorporates Tibetan cultural influences with her characteristic flag ceremonies.
In September 2014, she participated in Chain of Fire, the prologue exhibition for the 2016 Honolulu Biennial. In 2013, her work was featured in the group exhibitions, Suspended Histories, at the Museum Van Loon in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (October 5 – January 23, 2014), and Women in Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, at the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in Japan (April 13 – June 23, 2013). Since the 1980s, Arahmaiani's work has been exhibited widely in museums and biennials throughout the world, from Asia to the Americas, Australia, and Europe, including the Venice Biennale (2003); Biennale of the Moving Image, Geneva (2003); Gwangju Biennale (2002); Bienal de São Paulo (2002), Performance Biennale, Israel (2001); Biennale de Lyon (2000); Werkleitz Biennale (2000); Bienal de la Habana (1997); Asia Pacific Triennial (1996); Yogya Biennial, (1994).


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In this Feb, 5, 2013 photo, Arli Mujica, from Venezuela, supports herself on crutches as she wears a piece of her costume before the start of the Bionic Fashion show, backstage at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito, Ecuador. Mujica, a former runner whose whose left leg was amputated due to cancer and uses a prosthetic leg, joined 15 other models from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador to model creations by Ecuadorian designers at an event organized by the Youth Against Cancer Foundation which aimed to break stereotypes and social barriers for the young cancer survivors. Today, Mujica now swims at the paralympic level. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)


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Each October the streets of Downtown Mt. Vernon are packed and overflowing with friends and families, live performances, incredible foods and celebrations of autumn. In its fifth year, the Mt. Vernon Fall Fest theme is "My Hometown." You'll see the theme permeating throughout the entire three-day festival where locals and visitors alike will feel at home in Mt. Vernon! Classic favorites return with exciting new events. The Tri-State Treasure Hunt, a new 5k for Special Olympics, a Car and Motorcycle Cruise-In and even a "Great Pumpkin Contest" will be held. Local brewers will be onsite throughout the weekend to offer tastings of their Southern Illinois crafts and wines. Fall Fest 2016 Presented by Continental Tire boasts a parade, expanded kid zone, fan favorite Paw Fest and Main Stage entertainment every day!
CITY:Mount Vernon
This fun Fall destination features mazes, inflatable games, face painting for the little ones, and hayrides. Grab a snack from the concession stand (try the sweet rock candy) before heading home with the perfect pumpkin. (open Oct. 1-30, 9am-6pm)
CITY:Johnston City
"Ciao" on delicious Italian food and delight in a grand parade. This week long festival will include midway rides and games, live music from award winning artists, a bocce tournament, a grape stomp, a pasta cook-off, a kids pet and bike parade, a road race and an art contest.
Du Quoin Annual Holiday Lights Fair
Starting the day after Thanksgiving and continuing through the month of December. Come experience Du Quoin Tourism's transformation of the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds into a magical place with lights and decorations. The event features a 1 1/2-mile drive through over $250,000 worth of lighted displays as well as decorated trees, entertainment, food, crafts and visits with Santa in the Expo Hall. The light trail opens nightly from 5:30 – 9:30 p.m., and the Expo Hall will be open on the second and third weekends in December from 5:30 — 9:30 p.m. The Expo Hall features Santa's train ride and Santa's Workshop.
CITY:Du Quoin
Annual Gem and Mineral Show showing off Indian artifacts, fossils, lapidary displays, shell crafts and much more.
All day event featuring car show, food vendors, and live entertainment. Lots of activities for kids including bounce houses, face painting and games. Street fair all day long.
Look for over 120 artists to be showcased at this year's Cedarhurst Art & Craft Fair featuring glass, ceramics, jewelry, fiber, wood, basketry and leather, two-dimensional art and much more. An exciting area just for Children will include lots of games and make and take crafts for children to enjoy as well as their very own place to shop, the "Children's Store." Have a seat in the Grand Tent and enjoy entertainment by national and regional bands and tasty treats in the Cedarhurst Beer Garden! Local civic groups will be serving up delicious items at a variety of food booths throughout the weekend. There's plenty of seating in the Grand Tent plus the Beer Garden!
CITY:Mount Vernon
Southern Illinois Boat & Fishing Show
A weekend long event sponsored by the Youth Outdoor Education Foundation and the Williamson County Tourism Bureau. The show features boats, trailers, trucks, ATVs, fishing tackle, live entertainment and more. Admission and parking is free. Great fun for all ages.
March 16, 2015 - Bluegill Music Festival will lunch its inaugural event on July 4, 2015 for a one-day festival packed with some of country music's hottest acts. The all-day festival will be complete with Southern Illinois' largest fireworks display, along the shores of the Rend Lake Dam, in Benton, IL. The lineup includes Eli Young Band, LoCash, Clayton Anderson and more exciting acts to be announced. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, March 20th and can be purchased at www.bluegillfest.com and at Black Diamond Harley Davidson. Drawing fans from around the country, including Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, the festival is at the intersection of some of the nation's most dedicated country music fans. Bluegill Music Festival will feature nationally recognized BBQ vendors from around the country. Interactive entertainment for fans will also include activations, like: bags, washers, bubble soccer, Illinois longest slip n' slide, helicopter rides from Black Diamond Harley Davidson, a mechanical bull, a kids area with a large inflatable slide and the "Bluegill Lagoon", featuring a 60 x 100' VIP beach, with cabanas, private wading pools & lounge area. Additionally, Southern Illinois' largest fireworks display will begin at 9:30pm, and is free for all guest.
John A. Logan College Autumn Fest
This annual event features over 100 original, handmade arts and crafts, great food, free admission, and free parking. For more information call 1-800-851-4720, extension 8287.
The DuQuoin fair is one of the nation's best agricultural events. The fair offers plenty of entertainment, including a carnival, livestock shows, agricultural exhibits, contests, and national acts on the grandstand stage.
CITY:Du Quoin
Downtown Car Show/Cruise Night
Downtown Car Show / Mt. Vernon Cruise Night - The Car Show will be located on 9th Street between Harrison and Jordan. Features cruise night, car, truck, and motorcycle show; entertainment, food, demonstrations, and a 50/50 drawing. The Car Show will have various models from "Classics" to "Modern."
CITY:Mount Vernon
Cannon Park Community Market is a producer-only market that features many of the Southern Illinois region's farmers, growers, and artisans. Wednesdays from 3-7pm at the Carterville Community Center in Cannon Park, the market provides the Tri-C area with fresh local foods, artisan crafts, and family-friendly activities.
Southern Illinois Hunting and Fishing Days
The 26th Annual Southern Illinois Hunting and Fishing Days will be held at John A Logan College. It is the largest celebration of Hunting and Fishing Day in the country. This 200+ vendor show offers something for the whole family. Bass Fishing and Crappie seminars, catfish contest, Goose calling contests, Dock Dogs competitions, retriever demonstrations and a kids fishing hole are just a few of the activities throughout the weekend.
Annual Recreational League Soccer Tournament for ages 5 to 18. Hosted by Marion Soccer, Inc. and held at the Marion Soccer Complex. This invitational tournament will bring over 100 teams from six states to play for the Whirlwind Title.
The Jefferson County Historical Village will host its annual Heritage Festival the first weekend of October. Demonstrations and old-time crafters will be on the grounds, as well as costumed docents to provide tours of the Historical Village. Food and drink will also be available for sale. There will be a church service at 10 a.m. Sunday in the Mt. Olive Church. Musical performances are scheduled throughout both days.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Fly with the Eagles Half Marathon
Fly With The Eagles Half Marathon is organized by the River to River Runners Club and is the club's first race on the calendar each year, coming in the late winter season for a cold-weather half marathon that takes runners along the roads and trails of the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge.
Crappie USA will hold one of its fishing Super Tournaments on Lake of Egypt in Marion, IL. This will be a guaranteed payout of $10,000 and prizes to winners. The tournament starts at 6:30am and will run until 3pm with a weigh-in at 4pm.
Bald Eagle Tours at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Crab Orchard is home to six nesting pairs of resident bald eagles and their offspring. A few nesting sites are visible from public roads throughout the Refuge and eagles are spotted daily. Guided tours visit eagle nests and areas of the Refuge where eagles may be spotted. The cost is $5 for adults and $2.50 for youth under the age of 12. Reservations are required.
Buy a dress, pick out flowers, and find a photographer all in one place. Over 100+ vendors to choose from all under one roof. This annual event is presented by River Radio and held at The Pavilion of the City of Marion.
This annual Christmas celebration encompasses the entire downtown area of Carterville. Santa and his helpers will be on hand for photos. There will be hot chocolate and cookies, caroling, chili supper, gingerbread contest, festival of trees, Sugar Plum Dance Fairies, face painting, Candy Land Path, horse and carriage rides and much much more. This event is held in downtown Carterville.
Marion proudly presents a parade to honor all Southern Illinois veterans. Over 17 bands will march & perform plus floats and over 1000 veterans from all branches of service will ride or march. Entertainment and food at Fairgrounds. The annual Veterans on Parade is being held to honor all the men and women veterans throughout Southern Illinois, who have ever served our country in both war and peacetime. For more information contact Ed Davis at 618.993.3379 or email email@example.com
Plane & Pilot Midwest LSA Expo
At the Plane & Pilot Midwest LSA Expo, you'll find Light Sport Aircrafts lined on the tarmac of the Mt. Vernon Airport. Also find LSA's for sale, ancillary equipment and related services.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Balloons Over Mt. Vernon & Fly-In
The event will host over 15 hot air balloons including a 140 foot Shark balloon that goes by "Sharky" taking flight October 14, 15 & 16, 2016 at the Mt. Vernon Outland Airport. There will be a balloon glow, tether balloon offering paid rides, a Vietnam Veteran's Reunion, VIP seating, sponsor booths, family activities, vendors, crafters, inflatables and much more family fun.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Come to the huge fireworks display at the Mt. Vernon Airport for July 4th. This event also includes live entertainment, children's area, food vendors, and much more!
CITY:Mount Vernon
The 103rd annual Carterville Free Fair will include a Twilight 5K Run/Walk hosted by the Carterville Chamber of Commerce. Sponsored by the Carterville Lions Club, the fair will be Sept. 8 through Sept. 10 at Cannon Park Midway off Greenbriar Road. The event offers carnival rides, games, free entertainment, food and more. The annual free fair parade begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 10.
Cedarhurst Craft Fair Preview Night
Every year visitors look forward to the Cedarhurst Craft Fair Friday evening preview, featuring jazz, great food and beverages, and first choice among hundreds of vendors' merchandise.
CITY:Mount Vernon
Locally grown seasonal fruits and vegetables, as well as delicious baked goods, plants and much more. Come out Wednesday and Saturday mornings 6am- 10am to shop fresh twice a week!
Midwestern Herb and Garden Show
Come to a garden oasis in February! With vendors throughout the midwest, nationally known speakers, exhibitors, and topics from water gardening, herb growing, bulbs, bird items, topiaries and antiques; there's something of interest for everyone!
CITY:Mount Vernon
A KR is a 2-seat composite home built aircraft, and is named KR after the names of the first builders. Each year enthusiasts, builders, and pilots travel to the KR Gathering to exchange ideas, to learn more about the KR, talk to pilots and other builders, take pictures to assist in the building process and to see friends from past gatherings.
CITY:Mount Vernon
The 6th Annual Carbondale Rocks Revival will be held September 30 though October 1st. This two day music festival will feature the Woodbox Gang, NIL8, and Houndmouth among others. For ticket and venue information visit Carbondalemusiccoalition.com
The Great Carbondale Pumpkin Race is a chance to have fun and raise money for a local charity by designing, building, and racing your very own Pumpkin Racer! Build the fastest racer you can, or go nuts with the most original design you can think of! Saturday October 29th at 1:00pm!
Ironclad Art: The Motorcycle is a family friendly event using the outdoor Sculpture Park at Cedarhurst as an exhibition area to recognize the motorcycle as a sculptural object and a vehicle for self-expression. This event is unlike any other bike show in southern Illinois as it strives to capture the history and culture of motorcycling.
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Dr. Hight Walker's research focuses on understanding the underlying chemistry and physics of nanomaterials, including noble and transition metallic nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, and graphene. While the tool of choice is Raman spectroscopy, they use a suite of measurement methods to characterize the physicochemical properties of nanomaterials that enable key applications, such as medicine and energy, as well as predict their impact on the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS).
The Raman facility is unique. Multiple laser lines, two spectrometers including a triple grating, cryostats, magnetic field, and an atomic force microscope combined instrument, provide the basis for the measurement capabilities. Through our extensive in-house engineering and synthesis capabilities, we are able to uniquely synthesize the nanomaterials, fine tune their properties and isolate specific parameters for study. This cycle of production, isolation, and characterization is fundamental to a meaningful, detailed analysis.
Multidisciplinary collaborations, both those inside of NIST and beyond, are crucial to the group's success. By working in research teams, we learn more and contribute more fully to the physics of nanotechnology. NIST teams with which her group actively collaborates include Carbon Nanotube Metrology, Biomagnetic Imaging, Graphene, and Nano EHS.
Dr. Hight Walker is actively involved in standard activities regarding nanotechnology. Under ISO/TC 229, she chairs the US Technical Advisory Group for Working Group 2: Measurement and Characterization, as well as an international Joint Task Group titled Measurement and Characterization of Nanomaterials for Environment, Heath, and Safety. Angela also is a contributor to the characterization of the NIST carbon nanotube reference material.
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By Sgt. 1st Class Abram PinningtonJune 6, 2014
NORMANDY, France - Buses full of Soldiers navigated the narrow French streets. As they passed through villages, they found the roadways packed with people waving American flags. When they unloaded at each destination, they were greeted with cheers, hugs and photograph requests.
The Soldiers got a hero's welcome as they helped commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landing here.
More than 20 Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division, alongside members of 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), the 75th Ranger Regiment, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, the 10th Special Forces Group, the 29th Infantry Division, British forces and French and German army were asked to provide supporting during ceremonies honoring the troops who stormed the beaches during World War II, seven decades ago.
Atop a hill overlooking Omaha Beach, Soldiers of the 1st Inf. Div. conducted a ceremony yesterday, honoring their fellow "Big Red One" Soldiers.
Patrick Thomines, mayor of the coastal village of Colleville-sur-Mer, spoke during the event about the famed division.
"The 1st Infantry (Division) will always have a home here," Thomines said through a translator. "The sacrifice and loss you made cannot be repaid. It has created a lasting bond that is not bounded by continents and oceans."
The town was a strategic beachhead that bared the brunt of the initial invasion. Much of the town was destroyed during American navel bombardments as the Germans were pushed farther from Omaha Beach.
"The lives of the sons of America allowed us to be free," Thomines said. "You gave us our village back. From my heart, thank you."
The ceremony also featured a "Big Red One" Soldier who approached that beach on June 6, 1944.
"I remember, as I approached the beach looking out from our landing craft, and seeing the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption steeple," retired Command Sgt. Maj. Bill Ryan said. "I thought it was the only pretty thing in front of me."
That was the last memory Ryan recalled before hitting the sand.
Ryan suffered a concussion as his boat was hit by an 88mm mortar, launching the boat on its side and ejecting its passengers. He awoke almost two hours later against an embankment as the battle raged on around him.
"My boat getting hit by that round saved my life," Ryan said. "There is no way I would've survived that landing if the door would've dropped. If you stayed on the boat long enough for it to open, you died."
Ryan would remain on the beach until 10 p.m. before being sent to England for medical treatment. His recount of that morning resonated with many. Tears were streaming from the faces of those in the crowd that surrounded the monument.
As the ceremony concluded, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael A. Grinston, 1st Inf. Div. senior enlisted adviser, and honorary guest, Ryan and Thomines, laid flowers at the base of the monument.
Many in the crowd follow behind them to pay their respects the fallen men of the "Big Red One."


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The move to PCI Express 3.0 is an evolution for LSI that will provide a much-needed boost in transfer performance.
When we last tested the 9265-8i with FastPath we achieved read performance in excess of 3GB/s with eight consumer Crucial C300 256GB SSDs. Given the results we achieved it was clear that RAID controller technology was ready for PCIe 3.0.
Motherboard manufactures, server OEMs and the market have adapted PCIe 3.0 whole-heartedly. The interface and bandwidth that it provides are already deployed in new systems. Going forward, PCIe 3.0 will enable storage professionals to reduce the number of servers deployed to achieve their performance goals.
We're looking forward to testing LSI's new entries to the market. In the coming days Paul will conclude his first look at a new LSI HBA with PCIe 3.0 and in the fall test a new RAID controller. TweakTown isn't abandoning the enthusiast / power user RAID controller articles. I'll have a run with the new 9271-8i around the same time TweakTown is shipping out to sunny California for LSI's AIS event.


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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin Chapter 28 Summary
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- St. Clare tells Tom that he intends to set him free. Tom is overjoyed but he says he won't leave until "Mas'r" is a Christian.
- A servant accuses Topsy of stealing something, but the girl is just holding Eva's curl and some scripture verses in a little packet. She admits that she holds these keepsakes as a reminder of Miss Eva.
- Miss Ophelia wants St. Clare to sign Topsy over to her, making Topsy Miss Ophelia's legal property. St. Clare says he'll be glad to do it one day, but Miss Ophelia wants him to take care of the paperwork NOW.
- You never know when death will strike, she says, and she wants this done sooner rather than later. Miss Ophelia means to take Topsy to the North and make her a free woman.
- St. Clare reads some Bible verses to Tom about how people who don't help the poor and needy will be cast into the fires of hell.
- St. Clare is thoughtful, commenting that he himself is just like these sinners – living a life of pleasure, unconcerned about the suffering of others.
- Miss Ophelia and St. Clare discuss how it is not enough just to refrain from doing harm.
- You can't be a good person unless you also actively do good in the world.
- St. Clare relates this principle to his lack of involvement in the abolition movement. He hopes now to do his duty to the poor and lowly.
- St. Clare does point out a problem with instant emancipation (freeing the slaves all at once), which is that it is unreasonable to expect people raised and trained for slavery to integrate into society instantly and seamlessly. Without education in a broad range of skills, St. Clare sees instant emancipation as cruelty.
- St. Clare goes out for an hour while Tom sits on the verandah to think about the promise of freedom. He begins to get excited as he contemplates working to buy his wife and children so they can all be free.
- Tom falls asleep and wakes up to the sound of knocking at the door.
- Several men bring in a body lying on a shutter: it's St. Clare.
- Apparently, St. Clare tried to stop a bar brawl and was stabbed. As he dies, St. Clare asks Tom to pray for him. He cries out "Mother!" and is gone.
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Definición de provincial en inglés:
1Of or concerning a province of a country or empire: provincial elections
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Another reason for low results is that people just didn't feel as informed as they did for the provincial election and decided that voting would therefore be a waste.
- The teachers threatened to stage a sit-in outside the provincial governor's house if the problem was not resolved.
- The march led to traffic being blocked, before it came to a halt outside the provincial governor's office.
nonmetropolitan, small-town, nonurban, outlying, rural, country, rustic, backwoods, backwater
informal one-horse, hick, country-fried, jerkwater, freshwater
2Of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded: scenes of violence were reported in provincial towns the whole exhibition struck one as being very provincial
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- For all over Ireland, ribbon development of houses persists outside provincial towns and one-off badly sited homes are built without regard for the landscape as a whole.
- Well over €1million an acre is being achieved for retail parks outside provincial towns.
- A young woman in her twenties returns from the capital city to a provincial town where she grew up.
regional, state, territorial, district;
sectoral, zonal, cantonal
unsophisticated, narrow-minded, parochial, small-town, suburban, insular, bush-league, inward-looking, conservative;
small-minded, blinkered, bigoted, prejudiced
informal jerkwater, corn-fed, bridge-and-tunnel
1An inhabitant of a province of a country or empire.
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- Augustine was a local boy who made good, a provincial from the southern edge of Fourth-Century Roman Africa, vain and enslaved to a fierce mother.
- Roman citizens paid little tax, but provincials paid a property tax and a poll tax amounting to 10 or 15 percent of income.
- The proud son of the Franche-Comte was on his way to success in Paris when he met Bruyas, an art collector and a provincial from another region of France.
1.1 (provincials) (In Canada) athletic contests held between teams representing the country's administrative divisions.
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- Niverville rolled through the round robin at the provincials without a loss scoring four straight-set victories.
- Walking into the house we saw copies of pictures of Rachel and I from her birth until just last summer when her soccer team won provincials.
- The boys' baseball team will be competing at the 12-team provincials June 5-7 at Reston.
2An inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- But then people stopped wearing dunces-caps in the towns because it came to be seen as a sign of a provincial, a peasant.
- Instead it reminds us that men such as Dabney were hardly rustic provincials.
- Ask yourself why countless numbers of people (maybe provincials like yourself) like lemmings are fleeing the capital?
hillbilly, (country) bumpkin, country cousin, rustic, yokel, village idiot, peasant, hayseed, hick, rube, redneck
3 Christian Church The head or chief of a province or of a religious order in a province.
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- As provincial of his order, he addressed temperance meetings throughout Ireland.
- By 1923, the Capuchin provincial asked Solanus to keep a notebook of special cases and reported healings related to his consultations.
- It does say that he was upset with the poor catechetical materials used in parishes in Australia and that his provincial reprimanded him for preaching on hell.
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- Over the generations, men who saw themselves as metropolitan sophisticates traveled to America and were suddenly confronted with their own provinciality.
- To be smug about any locale - even New York City - is itself a mark of provinciality and bad taste.
- The Early Devonian saw a decline to 20 genera, with a slow return by the end of the Pragian, a tectonically active phase marked by global sea level drawdowns, and provinciality.
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- One could even say that the American artistic and literary culture has a tendency toward 'provincialization.'
- Contemporary dacha settlements, according to Lovell, can be seen variously as 'a symptom of the provincialization of city life,' 'evidence of the peasantization of Russia's 'middle class',' or 'a form of shanty exurbanization.'
- No doubt, too, Labour concluded that provincialization inhibited its effective involvement in national policy-making.
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- He's bright, he's articulate, he knows and understand politics, he's worked federally and provincially, he gets the business play - I think he'd be a great mayor.
- 'Health care is a provincially mandated service,' said McKeon Holmes.
- It's remarkable [because] he's been in politics five years provincially, that it has taken him this long, but what can you say?
Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin provincialis 'belonging to a province' (see province).
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Anyway, about Berlin. As soon as we got off the ship, we were met by an SPB tours bus driver who took us to the city (3 hour drive) to meet our guide, a delightful American ex-pat named Preston. It was pouring rain and freezing cold and yet we had an amazing day and so much fun seeing the city! I know a lot of people want to stay in Warnemunde, which I heard good things about and actually might have wanted to do if the weather was better. However, going into Berlin is really worth it - it was the most interesting city we saw! SPB tours takes you to all the important places - checkpoint Charlie, the reichstag parliament building, the main church in the city, the Olympic Stadium, etc. Wherever our bus parked, we also saw the NCL tour bus parked and felt good that we paid a lot less to see the same things ;)
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