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Schools & Colleges
- College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences
- College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
- College of Business & Economics
- College of Education
College of Engineering
Robin N. Coger, Dean
Bala Ram, Interim Associate Dean
Leotis Parrish, Assistant Dean Student Development
Amanda McIver, Assistant Dean
The College of Engineering at NC A&T State University is proud of our rich legacy of academic and research excellence and civic engagement. The College consists of the Departments of Chemical, Biological, and Bio Engineering; Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering; Computer Science; Electrical & Computer Engineering; Industrial & Systems Engineering; and Mechanical Engineering; and the interdisciplinary Computational Science & Engineering program. These departments together offer eleven (11) Bachelor of Science, eight (8) Master of Science and four (4) Doctor of Philosophy degree programs.
The College of Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University is the nation's leading producer of African American engineers at the undergraduate level. Also, the College is 2nd in the nation in the number of African-American tenured and tenure-track faculty (2011 ASEE survey).
The Bachelor of Science degrees in Architectural, Biological, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Industrial & Systems, and Mechanical Engineering are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org. The Bachelor of Science in Computer Science is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org. We have recently added the Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering program.
Architectural Engineering – Bachelor of Science
Bioengineering – Bachelor of Science
Biological Engineering – Bachelor of Science
Chemical Engineering – Bachelor of Science
Civil Engineering – Bachelor of Science
Computer Engineering – Bachelor of Science
Computer Science – Bachelor of Science
Electrical Engineering – Bachelor of Science
Industrial and Systems Engineering – Bachelor of Science
Mechanical Engineering – Bachelor of Science
Our mission is to cultivate College of Engineering graduates with a command of engineering and computer science fundamentals, skilled in applying systems and diverse perspectives, and able to lead in the creation of innovative and collaborative solutions for the complex global challenges of society.
Admission into the college of engineering is coordinated through the University's Office of Admissions. Admission decisions are based on SAT or ACT scores, and High School GPA. For admission to all undergraduate programs in the college of engineering, the applicant must present the following minimum units of high school credit:
- English – 4 units emphasizing grammar, composition and literature
- Science – 3 units (including at least one unit in a biological or life science, one unit in a physical science, and one unit in Chemistry. At least one unit should have a laboratory component.)
- Mathematics – 4 units (including Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, and an additional unit beyond Algebra II - e.g., Trigonometry, Math Analysis, etc.). Students entering with a deficiency in mathematics must begin with Pre-Engineering Mathematics, which is not counted towards the required semester hours for graduation. In this case the normal mathematics sequence is shifted one semester.
- Social Sciences – 2 units (including at least one unit in United States History)
- Foreign Language – 2 units are recommended in one foreign language.
- Electives – 3 units (no more than 2 units in vocational subjects and 2 units in the disciplines of Music and Physical Education)
Transfer students are accepted into the college of engineering if the applicant has a minimum 2.5 GPA.
Students are advised to receive prior approval from their academic advisor and department chairperson for courses to be considered for transfer credit from other colleges and universities. The Office of Admissions may recommend a preliminary award of transfer credits. However, the authority and responsibility for the final decision for approval of transfer credits rests with the academic departments.
All students will be assigned an academic advisor. Students are expected to meet their advisor for help with the following issues:
- Interpreting university, college and department regulations
- Providing general information, advice, and academic recommendations
- Planning course selections. Students must consult their advisor before registering for courses.
- Ensuring that students take electives that satisfy degree requirements
- Helping students to understand the degree to which they must assume responsibility for their program planning
- Providing vocational and career guidance
- Referring students to appropriate individuals and offices when further assistance is needed.
Admitted students must demonstrate proficiency in mathematics and chemistry before being permitted to take freshman Mathematics and Chemistry courses. Mathematics proficiency can be demonstrated through acceptable scores on SAT or ACT Math, AP Calculus, or Math Placement test. Likewise, Chemistry proficiency can be demonstrated through acceptable scores on High School Chemistry, AP Chemistry, or Chemistry Placement Test.
The following policies apply to all engineering programs in the college of engineering and specifically refer to courses designated as Engineering Fundamentals (EF) courses. EF courses include Mathematics and Science courses required of each engineering major as well as several introductory engineering and engineering science courses that are part of the Fundamentals of Engineering examination and include the following courses:
Minimum C Grade Policy
When an engineering program requires students to take any of the listed EF courses, students will be required to obtain a minimum grade of "C" in each such course to meet graduation requirements. Furthermore, a minimum grade of "C" on any such course will be required to satisfy prerequisite requirements of subsequent courses. This applies both to courses that are explicitly required and those that are recommended as elective courses. Individual programs may have additional courses (identified as Gateway courses or otherwise) that also require a minimum C grade. Please refer to the requirements of each program stated in this bulletin or in the program handbook available from the academic advisor or the department chairperson.
Attendance Policy
The college of engineering abides by the university's policy on attendance that is explained elsewhere in this Bulletin. The University is committed to the principle that regular and punctual class attendance is essential to the students' optimum scholastic achievement. An absence, excused or unexcused, does not relieve the student of any course requirement. Attendance is required and punctuality is expected! A student is responsible for all the work, including tests and written work, of all class meetings.
Students are advised to follow their prescribed curriculum, especially noting the prerequisite requirements. It should be noted that prerequisites are subject to change and will normally be effective immediately. It is the responsibility of the student to understand and follow prerequisite requirements. The department chairperson reserves the right to drop a student from an engineering course if the proper prerequisites are not satisfied. Any prerequisite waivers must be formally approved by the student's advisor and department chairperson.
The North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors is charged with the responsibility of issuing a certificate of licensure to those determined to be properly qualified. In order to be licensed to practice engineering in North Carolina, an individual, in addition to paying the required fees, must be of good character and reputation, must satisfactorily pass the examinations administered by the Board, and must submit evidence of education, and a specific record of progressive engineering work of a nature and level acceptable to the Board.
To prepare for engineering licensure, all engineering majors are encouraged to prepare for and take the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Examination during their Senior Year. An FE review course is offered to all seniors in the college of engineering. After successful completion of the Fundamentals Examination, and upon completion of a minimum of four (4) years of progressive engineering experience, applicants are eligible to apply for the Engineering Principles and Practice Examination. Upon successful completion of the requirements for licensure, the Board will approve the applicant for licensure. For more information, visit the website www.ncbels.org.
Departments in the College of Engineering
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Points of Pride
Engineering Lab
The College of Engineering ranks No. 1 for the number of degrees awarded to African Americans
U.S. News and World Report ranks the COE in the top third of the Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs
ERC Research
N.C. A&T is the home of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC)
Ag Research
SAES brought in more than $20 million in research grant funding
Webb Hall
The School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (SAES) is the largest among the nation's HBCUs
F.D. Bluford Library
F.D. Bluford Library is one of the region's premier research libraries
Engineering Professor and Student
The MSIT Online Program in the School of Technology is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report
Academic Excellence
A&T had ninety-eight student athletes earn a cumulative 3.0 grade point average or higher for the 2011-2012 academic year
Janay Ferrell
Freshmen Janay Ferrell placed seventh at the Robert Shumke HBCU Classic
Jarrell Elliott
Track and Field sprinter Jarrell Elliott qualified for the Olympic trials
Aggie Baseball sliding to home
Aggie baseball player Xavier Macklin was drafted in the 12th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft
Aggie Track & Field
Aggies will host the 2013 Junior National Olympics
Shakia Forbes
N.C. A&T long jumper Shakia Forbes became the first Aggie female to earn All-American honors in a field event
Aggie's Baseball homerun
North Carolina A&T has had 16 players drafted to the major leagues
Graduation Crowd
The College of Arts and Sciences awards one-third of the university's degrees each year
University Choir
University Choir has performed for President Obama at the White House
Music Director and Choir rehearsing songs
The Music Program has been fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music since 1991
CD - Jazz Preeminence
A&T Jazz Ensemble released its first professional CD - Jazz Preeminence
Theatre program to perform at the regionally acclaimed "Center Stage Theatre" in Baltimore, Maryland
Black Nativity performances
A&T Lyceum Series brings provocative, culturally diverse programming to the campus and community
Travis Alexander
Travis W. Alexander has been named National Conductor for the 105 Voices Of History National Concert Choir


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Sunset Concerts 2012 are over, but as a colleague reminded us in pictures, "What a summer it was!"
For me, the pleasure wasn't only hearing great tunes or watching the showmanship of the artists, but enhancing the fan experience with good food. Each week, as I planned the menu for each of the popular pre-concert buffets, I drew inspiration from the feel of the music, the cultural and culinary heritage of the band, and the fresh summer bounty. It was fun to create something original, with music serving as my muse.
For the Sunset Concerts performance by La Santa Cecilia, among many dishes inspired by the band's Latin American background, I created lamb shoulder braised with guajillo peppers, cinnamon, and orange. As I greeted guests, many asked me for the recipe. I'm happy to share it now with all of you. Enjoy it year round… and be sure to dine at Zeidler's Cafe for next year's season to see what I come up with next!
Lamb Shoulder Braised with Guajillo Peppers, Cinnamon, and Orange
4 lbs. boneless lamb shoulder, cleaned of excess fat and connective tissue and re-tied
5 oz. Guajillo chili peppers, seeded and de-stemmed, soaked and rinsed
6 chili de arbol peppers, toasted
4 cups diced pineapple
12 whole garlic cloves
1 teaspoon cumin seeds, toasted
8 cloves
3 whole cinnamon sticks
1-1/2 cups orange juice
4 cups water
1-1/2 tablespoons cider vinegar
2-1/2 tablespoon sugar
- Blend chili peppers, pineapple, garlic, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, orange juice, and water.
- Blend until smooth.
- Heat a saucepan with 3 tablespoons olive oil.
- Add sauce and cook for 15 minutes.
- Season with vinegar, sugar, and salt.
- Strain sauce and let cool.
- Brown lamb in Dutch oven, then add 3/4 of sauce and 1/2 cup water.
- Cover and place in a pre-heated 350° oven for 3 hours.
- Serve with remaining sauce and enjoy!

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Yesterday's JP Morgan Healthcare Conference reveals more good data...
last time they reported 10 patients out of 10 tested were virus free
yesterday they reported- 100% of 20 people is virus free after 4 weeks of Maribavir...
besting the gold standard which was 4 patients virus free after 4 weeks.(which, if I heard correctly was used for their filing of NDA)
I remember de Rosen crowing about how good maribavir was back then...
too bad that they used the wrong dose for their phase III...
well, that is all water under the bridge- a wave that has gone un-ridden...live and learn...
and looks like the viropharma team learned and got the right dose this time..
and they also revealed that the FDA is onboard...
Stay Tuned!
other good things were at yesterday's CC..
check it out..
Thanks for the update, Kamoa. Do you happen to know whatever happened to the two patients that had elevated enzyme levels? I never heard.
bdinic bro,
don't think I forgot about this post bro! I didn't ignore you. I have been looking up and down the website and webcasts... and I haven't seen anything about elevated enzyme levels... are you sure it's maribavir and not the HepC drug they canned a few years back?
In the earnings call they again reiterated the 20 patients that are virus free in four weeks... they were especially upbeat about the prospect of this drug... looking at even a breakthrough!


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Deaf with Dementia Project
A project working to improve life for Deaf people with dementia. This unique joint project which started in April 2010 (and will finish in December 2012) aims to improve early diagnosis and management among Deaf people who use British Sign Language (BSL). It is funded by the Alzheimer's Society, and is a partnership between the University of Manchester, University College London (UCL), City University London and RAD (Royal Association for Deaf People). DCAL researchers are involved from UCL, as well as DCAL associates based at City University London. The project is led by Professor Alys Young of the University of Manchester.
This research study is the first of its kind anywhere in the world. The team encompass both Deaf and hearing researchers, and a wide range of professional backgrounds (including social work, speech and language therapy and clinical psychology) as well as multidisciplinary academic excellence in dementia, Deaf studies, linguistics and neuroscience. The team also includes a key specialist service provider in clinical neuropsychology.
The Deaf with Dementia project has three strands:
- Developing a screening instrument for dementia in BSL that is culturally appropriate and normed for the Deaf population
- Investigating the experience of dementia directly with Deaf people and their carers in order to provide an evidence base for culturally sensitive service provision
- Working with the wider Deaf community and service providers (such as the Alzheimer's Society) to better understand key features of acceptable and targeted information and support for Deaf people
DCAL/UCL is primarily responsible for the first strand which focuses on cognition in healthy older Deaf people. We set up the Healthy Older Deaf Brain Project which is part of the broader Deaf with Dementia project. Our remit includes developing a profile of normal ageing within the Deaf Community so that we can understand healthy cognition, memory and ageing in this group. This information will be used to develop a screening instrument for dementia in BSL that is culturally appropriate and normed for the Deaf population.
Research update: New BSL tests are now being used in Cognitive Disorders clinic
DCAL is glad to let readers know that the data collection for the cognitive screening instrument has now finished so that we have norms for healthy Deaf people. A test is now being used within the NHS to check the scores of people referred for cognitive difficulties against the normal range for their age. This means that in conjunction with DCAL, the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (a UCL Partner) in Queens Square, London can offer appointments in their existing Cognitive Disorders Clinic to Deaf patients worried about their memory or thinking. Appointments are for patient care rather than data collection.
Find out more:
DCAL contact, email Joanna Atkinson
To find out more about the Deaf with Dementia research project and to keep up to date with progress, please go to the project web site for information in both BSL and English.
- Download the Deaf with Dementia Project leaflet
- Read more about the Deaf with Dementia Project in the Living with Dementia article
- Download the New DCAL Briefing Sheet on Dementia
- Download the DWD Lancet Letter
- Poster outlining development of the British Sign Language Cognitive
Screening Test (BSL-CST)


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To most physicians atherosclerosis is a disease enshrouded in mystery. They are puzzled by the confused state of knowledge regarding basic causes and treatment. However, it is clear that atherosclerosis appears to be a disorder of lipid metabolism. The past ten years have seen a great surge of interest and work in lipid metabolism. A large amount of in- formation, shedding light but not certainty on some aspects of atherosclerosis, has been accumulated. Most of this information is scattered so diffusely and in such quantity throughout the medical literature that one person can no longer gather in this wealth of knowledge. Nor is he in a position to interpret the specialized chemical and physiological details. There is a need for periodic publications which will bring together in one volume the most important basic science contributions in this field.
In May, 1957, a symposium was sponsored by the National Advisory Heart
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By Brad Locke/NEMS Daily Journal
STARKVILLE – In Derek DePasquale's perfect little world, he has his red-tinted contact lenses, a Tom Selleck mustache, and neon green shoes.
Unfortunately for DePasquale, Nike no longer makes his preferred contacts, and his mother isn't too fond of the mustache. Not that he really needs them for the job he does – well, except maybe the shoes, and he's got those.
Mississippi State's 5-foot-8, 180-pound senior placekicker is easy to spot in those bright green cleats, which he began wearing this season. No special reason.
"I like those shoes," DePasquale said. "They're comfortable."
For a man who uses his feet so often, comfort is important. Regardless of shoe color, DePasquale has continued to be one of MSU's most consistent producers. He's made eight of nine field goal attempts this season, making him 28 of 33 for his career.
At 84.9 percent, DePasquale is the most accurate kicker in school history. He's not missed a beat despite having a new snapper (Reed Gordon) and new holder (Baker Swedenburg) this season.
The group was having trouble during the preseason getting in sync, but all is well now.
"It's a lot more comfortable than I thought it would be," DePasquale said.
'Gotta be the shoes'
In a season that's threatening to go sideways, the kicking game is one area coach Dan Mullen doesn't have to worry too much about.
"He's done a good job this year, and I'm sure he'll tell you how good he's doing, too. Derek is a confident guy," Mullen said.
Mullen, who coaches special teams, then couldn't help but tease DePasquale a little bit.
"It's gotta be the shoes. Stopped making his red contacts, used to come out with these red contacts and he'd have bright red eyes and stuff. Or maybe it's that big 'stache he wears sometimes. It could be any number of those things that keep him in his groove."
Perhaps aiding DePasquale's accuracy this season is the fact that, to use his words, he's not been "challenged." Six of his eight field goal makes are from 36 yards in, and he has a pair of 42-yarders. His lone miss was from 47.
"Just basic kicks," he said.
DePasquale was 20 of 24 through his first two seasons at State, and he tied a school record with five in one game last season, helping the Bulldogs to a 29-24 win over UAB. MSU faces the Blazers again on Saturday in Birmingham.
DePasquale said he's thought of last year's meeting quite a bit.
"I really wouldn't like that again," he said. "I wouldn't mind it, but I hope we can really put it on them this year."
This will be the second of three consecutive day games for MSU, which makes it tough for DePasquale. The contacts helped against the sun, although he never actually wore them during a game.
Last year, however, most of MSU's games were at night.
"These pretty blue eyes are sensitive to light," DePasquale said, noting that he'd love to wear a visor on the field, but Mullen might not go for that (nor would the SEC).
As for the mustache, DePasquale said "it's in the vault." Perhaps he's saving it for the day he needs an extra edge.
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New York Court Refuses to Apply Six-Year Statute of Limitations, Despite Architect's Failure to Comply with the Terms and Conditions of a Contract
January, 2005
The New York Court of Appeals held in Kliment v. McKinsey, 3 N.Y.3d 538, 2004 N.Y.Slip Op 09319 (2004), that while an architect's failure to comply with the building code may have been a "particular bargained-for result," that result is not inconsistent with the architect's ordinary professional obligations for statute of limitations purposes pursuant to CPLR 214(6). In Kliment, the Court held that ordinary professional obligations which are contained in a contract will not remove a claim from the realm of negligence, nor convert the claim from malpractice to contract. Kliment, at 543.
CPLR 214 (6) states that "an action to recover damages for malpractice, other than medical, dental or podiatric malpractice, regardless of whether the underlying theory is based in contract or tort" is subject to a three-year statute of limitations. The Legislature specifically amended this statute in 1996 to counteract the effect of decisions by the courts that "abrogat[ed] and circumvent[ed] the original legislative intent" by allowing actions that were technically malpractice actions to proceed under a six-year contract statute of limitations. Id. at 541.
Kliment involved an architectural and interior design contract between McKinsey & Company, Inc. ("McKinsey") and R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband ("K&H"). Pursuant to the terms of the contract, K&H agreed to perform architectural and interior design services in connection with 13,000-plus square feet of office space McKinsey had leased in Stamford, Connecticut. The parties agreed that disputes arising from the contract will be subject to arbitration. Upon K&H's completion of the project, the Stamford Building Department issued a certificate of occupancy for the premises, dated November 3, 1998. However, four years later, McKinsey claimed K&H failed to provide fire protection in compliance with the Connecticut Building Code and as specified in the parties' agreement, and that McKinsey was required to install fire protection at its own expense. Id. at 540.
In April, 2002, four years after substantial completion of the project, McKinsey submitted a demand for arbitration. K&H responded by commencing an article 75 special proceeding for a permanent stay of arbitration, arguing that the claim was barred by the CPLR 214(6) three-year statute of limitations for non-medical malpractice actions. The trial court denied the petition, finding that McKinsey's claim was for breach of contract rather than malpractice because the architect failed to perform a contractual obligation. The trial court determined that the claim was timely under the CPLR 213(2) six-year contract statute of limitations and directed the parties to proceed to arbitration. Id. The Appellate Division reversed, stating that "whether petitioner's alleged failure to comply with the applicable code provisions was a breach of contract or tortious in nature is immaterial for statute of limitations purposes, since the resulting noncompliance is the same, as is the remedy sought." Id. at 541.
McKinsey sought leave to appeal and certiorari was granted by the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals affirmed stating "[a]llowing this claim to proceed would accomplish the precise result the Legislature sought to prevent - - allowing what is essentially a malpractice claim to be couched in breach of contract terms in order to benefit from the six-year statute of limitations." McKinsey's claim is fundamentally a claim that K&H failed to perform services in a professional, non-negligent manner by neglecting to comply with the relevant building codes as promised in the agreement. As a result, the claim is barred by CPLR 214 (6). Id. at 543.
Learning Point:
The Court of Appeals has taken a hard-line approach to restore symmetry to the period in which all professionals will remain exposed to malpractice suits. As a result of the Court of Appeals decision in Kliment, parties entering into contracts with non-medical professionals should act quickly in determining the viability of any potential claim they may have against these professionals despite the existence of a contract. Plaintiff's attorneys and insurers should keep the Kliment decision in mind when exploring available means to recover damages related to a parties' failure to perform "ordinary professional obligations," as their window of opportunity will not extend beyond three years. Similarly, in light of Kliment, defense attorneys will do their clients a great service in aggressively moving for summary judgment where the sole claim, or cause of action, against their non-medical professional client is beyond the reach of CPLR 214(6). •
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FEB 17, 2013 - Chicago Tribune
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State Sen. Toi Hutchinson dropped out of the 2nd District special Democratic primary today and endorsed former state Rep. Robin Kelly in the contest to replace Jesse Jackson Jr. in Congress.
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A Poison Tree
by William Blake
Symbol Analysis
The poem is called "A Poison Tree," so, naturally, vegetation plays an important role. Indeed, the speaker's anger grows until it eventually produces a poisonous apple that, presumably, kills his "foe." Plants, trees, and especially the processes necessary to make them grow (water, sun, care) are our speaker's primary metaphors for how anger develops from a feeling into a destructive action.
- Lines 4: The speaker says his wrath grows because he didn't say anything about it. Of course, anger doesn't literally grow, so growth is here a metaphor for the process by which one's anger becomes greater and greater.
- Lines 5-6: The speaker waters his anger (with tears and fears), but he doesn't literally water it because it's not a real thing. Watering is here a metaphor for the development and increasing power of one's anger.
- Lines 7-8: The speaker gives his anger sunshine, only he doesn't literally give it sunshine. "Sunn[ing]" is here again a metaphor for the things we do to make our anger grow. Does it sound like a pit of snakes in here? Ah. That repetition of the S sound in the beginning of "sunned" and "smiles" is called alliteration.
- Line 9: The speaker's anger continues to grow. Anger doesn't literally grow, so growth is here a metaphor for the process by which one's anger becomes greater and greater.
- Line 10: The speaker's anger bears an "apple bright." Maybe in Blake's head anger can bear fruit, but we know that the apple is just a symbol of, or metaphor for, the end result of one's potent rage (in this case, a poisonous fruit that will kill a man). The repetition of the "b" in "bore" and "bright" gives us another example of alliteration.
- Line 13: The speaker tells us that his foe "stole" into his garden. The garden here seems like a metaphor for the place in our mind where we let our anger fester, grow, develop, and become, essentially, destructive.
- Line 16: At last, the speaker's anger has matured in plant terms into a tree. The damage that it causes is also fully developed. The "foe" lies dead beneath the tree, which comes to stand for the giant, destructive thing that unchecked anger can become.


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JAN 09, 2013 - The Guardian
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Both countries claim drones will be used for surveillance, but experts warn of future skirmishes in region's airspaceDrones have taken centre stage in an escalating arms race between China and Japan as they struggle to assert their dominance over disputed islands in the East China Sea.China is rapidly expanding its nascent drone programme, while Japan has begun preparations to purchase an advanced model from the US. Both sides claim the drones will be used for surveillance, but experts warn the possibility of future drone skirmishes in the region's airspace is "very high".Tensions over the
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Some Big Banks Intend to Continue Working with SAC Capital
Some pillars on Wall Street are standing by SAC Capital Advisors LP, the hedge-fund firm that agreed to plead guilty to criminal insider-trading charges.
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. will continue to do business with the beleaguered firm, people familiar with the plans said. It's unclear how that relationship may change over time. Under SAC's agreement with prosecutors, the firm will close its investment advisory business to outside investors.
An SAC spokesman declined to comment for this story. The firm said in a statement: "The tiny fraction of wrongdoers does not represent the 3,000 honest men and women who have worked at the firm during the past 21 years. SAC has never encouraged, promoted or tolerated insider trading."
Federal prosecutors announced Monday an accord to settle its allegations against SAC, the investment firm run by manager Steven A. Cohen. SAC agreed to pay nearly $1.2 billion in criminal penalties, adding to the $616 million the firm already paid under its settlement pact with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
SAC uses prime-brokerage services from a number of Wall Street firms, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman and J.P. Morgan. The brokers provided financing and clear trades for hedge funds.
Julie Steinberg contributed to this post.


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Inland Empire average gas price tops $4
The average price is 25.7 cents more than one week ago and highest since November 2nd
The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the Inland Empire surpassed $4 for the first time since Nov. 2 today, increasing 3 cents to $4.024.
The average price in Riverside and San Bernardino counties has increased 11 of the last 12 days, rising 32.4 cents over that span, including 2.1 cents on Tuesday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.
The average price is 25.7 cents more than one week ago, 39.9 cents higher than one month ago and 25.1 cents greater than one year ago.
The increasing prices are the result of high oil prices, Middle East tension, maintenance at refineries that reduces supplies and investors shifting their money into the gasoline market "earlier and earlier," according to Jeffrey Spring of the Automobile Club of Southern California.
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Giorgio Scerbanenco is considered by many to be the father of Italian noir and has been called 'the Italian Simenon'. He worked as a journalist and as a contributor to women's magazines before turning to crime fiction and noir. The most prestigious Italian literary prize for crime fiction is named after him, and many of his novels have been dramatised for cinema in Italian, Spanish and French. The Duca Lamberti series, his most famous noir work, comprises:
Venere privata (1966) – A Private Venus
Traditori di tutti (1966)
I ragazzi del massacro (1968)
I milanesi ammazzano al sabato (1968)
Maurizio de Giovanni lives and works in Naples. In 2005, he won a writing competition for unpublished authors with a short story set in the thirties about Commissario Ricciardi, which was then turned into the first novel of the series. The last book in the series has been shortlisted for the Premio Scerbanenco and has won the Premio Camaiore.
His books have been successfully translated into French, Spanish and German, and are now available in English for the first time. He is a staunch supporter of SSC Napoli.
Commissario Ricciardi is the protagonist of the following novels:
Il senso del dolore. L'inverno del commissario Ricciardi (2007) – I Will Have Vengeance
La condanna del sangue. La primavera del commissario Ricciardi (2008)
Il posto di ognuno. L'estate del commissario Ricciardi (2009)
Il giorno dei morti. L'autunno del commissario Ricciardi (2010)
Per mano mia. Il Natale del commissario Ricciardi (2011)
Alessandro Perissinotto was born in Turin in 1964, where he teaches sociology and creative writing at the University. He has written various essays on linguistics and multimedia and started writing fiction in 1997, with a detective novel set in the Sixties (L'anno che uccisero Rosetta), followed by La Canzone di Colombano, set in the sixteenth century, and Treno 8017 which is inspired by a real life train accident the 1940s. In 2006 he published the first in the Anna Pavesi trilogy, Una Piccola Storia Ignobile, with protagonist the psychologist Anna Pavesi.
His novels have won numerous prizes including the Premio Grinzane Cavour in 2005 and the Premio Camaiore in 2006 (with Una Piccola Storia Ignobile, published in English as Blood Sisters and all of his books have been translated into several European languages as well as Japanese.
His latest book, Semina il Vento, is an inter-racial love story set in Piemonte.
He is also a contributor to the daily La Stampa, with articles and short stories published in the Torino Sette supplement. He has published the following novels:
L'anno che uccisero Rosetta (1997)
La canzone di Colombano (2000)
Treno 8017 (2003)
Al mio giudice (2004)
Una piccola storia ignobile (2006) – Blood Sisters
L'ultima notte bianca (2007)
L'orchestra del Titanic (2008)
Per vendetta (2009)
Semina il vento (2011) – Interview on Vanity Fair (in Italian)
Luigi Guicciardi is from Modena, where he lives and teaches Italian and Latin at the Liceo Tassoni. His successful Inspector Cataldo series includes:
La calda estate del commissario Cataldo (1999) *
Filastrocca di sangue per il commissario Cataldo (2000) *
Relazioni pericolose per il commissario Cataldo (2001)
Un nido di vipere per il commissario Cataldo (2003)
Cadaveri diversi (2004)
Occhi nel buio (2006)
Dipinto nel sangue (2007) – Interview (in Italian)
Errore di prospettiva (2008) – Review (in Italian)
Senza rimorso (2008)
La belva (2009) – Interview (in Italian)
La morte ha mille mani (2010)
* both shortlisted for the Premio Scerbanenco and translated in German by Heyne.


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Thailand's Abhisit: Won't Seek Office if Reform Plan Accepted
The leader of Thailand's primary opposition party, former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, said Thursday that he would present a political reform plan within two days–and wouldn't contest a new election as a candidate for prime minister if the plan is accepted.
"I will not attain any political status or position. I will be just an ordinary citizen to support my proposed reform outline to succeed," Mr. Abhisit, leader of the opposition Democrat Party, said during a news conference.
Thailand has been rocked by protracted political unrest that has left the country without a functioning government for months. In a bid to defuse street protests, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved parliament's lower house in December and called a general election for Feb. 2. The poll was ultimately disrupted by antigovernment protesters and later ruled invalid by a court.
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Ms. Yingluck's Pheu Thai Party is widely expected to win any election and return her to office. Some of her opponents want to suspend elections for an unspecified time while implementing reforms aimed at limiting the influence of her brother, ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Mr. Abhisit's comments came a day after Thailand's Election Commission and Ms. Yingluck's government agreed to the new election date.
However, antigovernment protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, who served as Mr. Abhisit's deputy prime minister from 2008-11, has said he would disrupt any effort to hold a new poll. The Democrat Party boycotted the Feb. 2 poll–which was invalidated by a court in March–and hasn't said whether it would participate in the new one.
Meanwhile, Mr. Suthep plans to hold a rally on Monday in Bangkok. The pro-government "Red Shirt" group said Wednesday that it will also hold a rally demonstration on the same day, but on the outskirts of the city, in support of
Ms. Yingluck, who faces two major legal challenges.
Ms. Yingluck is due to defend herself before the Constitutional Court next week on allegations that she abused her power by demoting the country's former top security adviser.
In a separate case, Thailand's anticorruption panel is investigating allegations that she is guilty of negligence involving major financial losses incurred by the government's rice-subsidy scheme.
Ms. Yingluck has denied any wrongdoing.
If the court finds her guilty, Ms. Yingluck's tenure as prime minister could be terminated.
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Starting a Ladder Back Chaircomments (2) November 16th, 2008 in blogs
Last week I showed the creation of the Back Slats for this classic 18th C Ladder Back Chair. This week I'll back-track and show how I started the modeling of the chair. First I need to give credit to Lester Margon who masterfully captured this design in his book "More American Furniture Treasures". I can't tell you how many times I've used his drawings for reproductions in my home. His drawings are exquisite and, I think, beautiful art.
I scanned Lester's drawing and imported "as an image" into SketchUp. As I've explained before, I adjust the scanned image so that it is perfectly aligned with SketchUp's axes, and also scale to full-size. Then I use the scanned image as a background for shaping and sizing components. Using the Line and Arc Tools, I draw over the boundaries of the various pieces of the chair. These sketch-overs produce flat planes that I copy over to a blank part of SketchUp for embellishment with the 3rd dimension and other details.
The first component that I create is the Back Post, and here are the steps that I used. But first I'll show an orthographic drawing showing the front, side and top views. (I've made this orthographic from three copies of the overall chair, each copy rotated appropriately, then displayed with parallel projection.
Step 1: By tracing over the Margon drawing, I create the half-shape of the turned Back Post. For turnings, I always extend the centerline beyond the two ends of the component. These extensions help position and dimension the components later in the process. I find that it helps to make the circle path by first running the radius in the red axis direction, which is aligned with the plane back post shape. I also placed a cut mark at the "knee" of the back post. This knee will be the location for the start of the bend backward for the upper section.
Step 2: After doing the Follow me, I made some additional cut marks in the upper taper section. At these points I've indicated a radius dimension to help me in the turning process. At these locations I will use the parting tool and calipers.
Step 3: I make a full-size template of the finial portion of the Back Post. This I will use to mark out the intricate cuts on the lathe. I like to use X-ray when making templates so I can see the centerline for helping with the template cutting process.
Step 4: Now I'm going to cheat a little bit. The Back Post is a "bent" shape to produce a slight cant with a 5/8" offset from perpendicular. This will be a steam bend on an arc shape, but in SketchUp I will simplify by rotating at the "knee" in a straight line. I select the upper half of the back post and grab the Rotate Tool. I obtain the correct orientation of the Rotate Tool (green axis my case) and place on the centerpoint of the knee (visible in X-ray view). Then I rotate the upper tapered section 2.3 degrees.
There are ways to do this tapered bend on an arc and Dave Richards has sent me a solution which involves a special plug-in. Perhaps we'll show this method in a later post.
Now we have a good start for the rest of the chair. I'll show further construction steps in the future.
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However, I think we do have a plethora of help on beginning tasks in SketchUp. Perhaps you have not seen the "Archive" which includes some 150 posts many of which are on the basics.
To get to the Archive, note the panel on the right titled "About Design. Click. Build.". In the bottom of this box is a link to the older posts, and when you get there, you need to look for another box in the right hand panel which links you to the old "Archive".
Also, we like to hear specific issues that you are having, including attachments to emails that we can work with and help you along.
Keep in touch,
Posted: 3:53 pm on November 18th
My post is not directly related to this particular topic but I couldn't find a place for a general Sketch Up query.
I am new to Sketch Up and have mastered all of the on-line tutorials. However, when I went to try designing something for myself I was hopelessly lost.
Can you recommend further publications etc that may be able to help me, or is there something for rank amateurs in Design Click & Build?
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Founder to Control 96.6% of Moelis Voting Rights After IPO
Ken Moelis is taking his namesake investment bank public, but he's not exactly giving up control.
The deal maker will maintain voting control over 96.6% of the company's shares after the initial public offering, according to the latest filing from Moelis & Co. The investment bank had already declared that Mr. Moelis would hold a special class of shares that come with 10 votes for every share, but Friday spelled out for the first time the extent that his ownership will keep him in power.
He doesn't actually have economic exposure to all those shares–many of them are held by employees in a partnership–but he has the voting power over the shares. His control could change depending upon how many shares are sold in the IPO or if partners sell shares. Mr. Moelis's control over the partnership shares is also contingent upon him holding over 5% of the firm's total shares, at least a third of his current stake and being "not deceased" or fired, according to the filing.
The filing details plans for the bank to sell some 7.3 million shares at $26 to $29 each, with the possibility to sell up to another 1.1 million more shares.
Dual-class voting structures and founder control is often a hot-button issue for IPOs, but it's typically a conversation about Silicon Valley deals. Facebook, for instance, gave Mark Zuckerberg special shares that allowed him to hold 57.3% of the voting power in his social network when it went public in 2012.
More than 7% of the 1,500 largest public companies were controlled by insiders as of October 2012, according to a study by Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. The study, conducted with the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute, found controlled firms actually underperform others over three, five and 10 years.
But while other rivals in the financial world don't tend to have dual-class shares, Moelis is not alone in going public when the management has a large percentage of the voting power. When Evercore went public in 2006, its leaders held 83.5% of the total vote with Roger Altman and Austin Beutner both holding about 34%.
Even in private equity, where the founders are viewed as powerful leaders with big paychecks, 96.6% would be an outlier. Blackstone Group's top executives held a combined 36% of voting power when it went public, Apollo Global Management executives had just under 80% and KKR & Co.'s cousin co-founders held 71%.
IRRC executive director Jon Lukomnik said, in practical terms, it actually matters little for other shareholders if the executive has just over 50% or 96.6%. Either way, it's control.
"Basically you've got someone who can effectively be a dictator," Mr. Lukomnik said. "You better be sure they can be a benevolent dictator."
He said any investors considering buying Moelis shares would have to think about their opinions of Mr. Moelis and his work.
"You can argue what you are buying here is Ken Moelis's contacts and intellectual property," Mr. Lukomnik said. "Add to the analysis [whether] you believe the guy is going to treat you fairly and that what you are buying is, in fact, a claim in Ken Moelis' future income."


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Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!
Captain: Absorbent and yellow and pourous is he!
Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!
Captain: If nautical nonsense be something you wish!
Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!
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Hello Kiddies! Swim on down to Bikini Bottom and visit the most famous inhabitants of the ocean floor!
Make your way to David Douglas Park in Vancouver, travel between the baseball fields on the asphalt path, left across the lawn, and down, down, down to Bikini Bottom. At the crossroads, head straight and find these happy neighbors in three stumps standing in a row. Bring lots of Deet because the mosquitos down here are brutal! Happy Hunting!


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- Ever regretted something afterwards? I think this guy probably regretted spraying his friend in the face with water.
- A group of students drop a huge water bomb from a high roof onto a porta-loo while someone is inside.
- A kite surfer goes out in very windy weather and gets swept high into the air, landing in shallow water.
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- This is cool. Some guys setup some rails and jumps in shallow water then dashboard them!
- An expensive and exotic water is put on a restaurants menu, lets see who can tell the difference from normal tap water.
- This is a pretty cool water craft that moves and looks like a dolphin, going along the surface and underwater too.
- These jets fly along at an extremely low altitude, just a few metres above land and water, amazing.
- This woman drives into a huge pothole full of water during some floods. What a smart person (sarcasm).
- To prove how cold it is where these people are they throw water in the air and IT FREEZES before it hits the ground!
- This guy locks in and lets 'er fly. Spot on hit.
- A slow motion camera captures a water balloon being popped. Pretty freakin' cool.
- Some video footage of a water balloon in zero gravity when it gets popped. Pretty cool!
- Holy crap! This guy chugs 6 beers in 10 seconds! I can't even drink that much water in 30 minutes!


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She asked for challenge, but the electric system judged that the ball has bounced slightly outside of the baseline. Point Challenge System ... It allows a player to challenge the line (or chair) umpire's call of a point. Players have unlimited opportunities to challenge provided the challenges made are correct. However, once three incorrect challenges are made in a set, they cannot challenge again until the next set. If the set goes to a tie break, players are given one additional opportunity to challenge the call. (wikipedia) [NOTE] The wikipedia says three, but I think now players have only two chances in a set. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kirilenko
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That's amazing. US Open champion Samantha Stosur lost the first set by Maria Kirilenko in 2-6, but in the second set, Kirilenko lost the set by her double faults. Kirilenko seemed to be very upset and left the court for a toilet break. Most of the audience must have thought Stosur beats Kirilenko as she did about 2 weeks ago at the 4th round in US Open 2011. The result was not the same. Kirilenko got focused on the play and kept devoted to the win, and finally she made it! She screamed. I was so impressed by her concentration and her desperate efforts to win. Congratulations, Maria!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kirilenko
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She was the No.1 singles player in June, 2008. Currently her ranking is 36. She is still young, so I guess she can come back to the top 10 player! Ana Ivanovic WTA Tour Ranking: 36 (as of Oct. 4, 2010) Residence: Basel, Switzerland DOB: November 6, 1987 Birthplace: Belgrade, Serbia Height: 6' 1 (1.86 m) Weight: 152 lbs. (69 kg) Plays: Right-handed (two-handed backhand) Status: Pro (August 2003) www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/player/ana-ivanovic_2257889_1... www.anaivanovic.com/ IMG5_15377
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Can you believe that? Yesterday, she defeated Maria Sharapova, who was the defending champion of Toray PPO tennis tournament. And today, it's her 40th birthday!! She battled against Daniela Hantuchova, and won the game again!! 2-6, 6-0, 4-0(ret.). I was so happy to see her incredible match and to cerebrate her birthday after the win. We sang a birthday song at the center court. Congratulations and happy birthday, Kimiko!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimiko_Date_Krumm IMG5_15497
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The right side player is Caroline Wozniacki. She comes from Denmark and her WTA ranking is No.5. I saw her last year at the same tournament, and I was so amazed at her powerful play. I took a lot of pictures of her. This year, unfortunately, her play was bad because she was sick. She retired at the game count 0-5. The other player, Aleksandra Wozniak, is the top Canadian player. Her WTA ranking is No.32. She is also a great player, and I heard they're very good friends each other. I hope I could see their game again! IMG5_6978
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I was asked by my colleague to upload her pictures. Yes, I heard she is one of the hottest tennis player. To tell the truth, I didn't know about her before watching her play at the tournament. Now I know why she is so popular. She's not just a good-looking woman player. I found a video on YouTube. www.wtatennis.com/player/tsvetana-pironkova_2257889_10365
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I had a day off to see Toray PPO Tennis tournament at Ariake, Tokyo, Japan. This is the biggest tennis tournament in Japan, and all of the top 40 players joined this tournament this year. This is great! Maria Kirilenko is one of my favorite players. Last year, I saw her play at the same tournament. I'm so happy to see her play this year again! www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/player/maria-kirilenko_225788... IMG5_6653
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two-handed forehand stroke by Aiko Nakamura
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Aiko Nakamura is the best woman tennis player next to Ai Sugiyama in Japan. She is a right-handed player, but she plays two-handed both sides. The above is the two-handed forehand stroke! 中村 藍子 / Aiko Nakamura (WTA TOUR) TORAY PPO TENNIS HP IMG_33396
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I thought Maria Kirilenko was a singles player, but in fact she also plays a doubles game. She surely has a remarkable ability for playing doubles such as volley. Maria Kirilenko (WTA TOUR) TORAY PPO TENNIS HP IMG_33421
Energetic Two-handed backhand stroke by Aiko Nakamura
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I found this strange covered camera at Toray PPO Tennis Tournament. One of the cameraman was taking pictures with this black box, which has a small glass hole (must be a finder), and a button (must be a shutter button). Sometimes he opened the box to check the photos... I believe it must be a prototype of Canon's next generation camera for sports photographer.
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For a long time now I've been referring to the country as "Formerly Great Britain". I don't say that lightly. I remember (from news, from reading) England before the inmates took over. From Kings and Queens - some of whom failed, many of whom succeeded; from "Britannia that ruled the waves", and upon whom the Sun never set; from statesmen like Disraeli, Pitt, Gladstone, Churchill; from military leaders like Nelson, Montgomery ... the list goes on.
There was a brief moment when the fog lifted, when Lady Thatcher was Prime Minister, but the people soon recovered from that attack of common sense.
A lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into making the Britain of the 50s. It would appear, though, that the ship of state has been handed over to children.
Britain is indeed broken. Even if there were enough Kings' horses and King's men, they couldn't put her back together again.
Nothing's ever hopeless, but when the disease reaches this advanced stage, the treatment is going to be drastic.
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I was educated in Manchester in the 1960s. Fortunate to attend a technical high school which produced from my generation,doctors,dentists,engineers and several barristers. Within a few years (1967) of being labelled a comprehensive (local school sic) it had sunk into a hell hole fed only from the surrounding council estate. I was plucked from that estate to be educated along side middle class kids from all over south M/c. What chance do these kids have now?


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Dreams of the Compass Rose by Vera Nazarian (norilana) has had an interesting history, first coming out in hardcover in May 2002 from Wildside Press, then in a much more attractive trade paperback edition from Betancourt & Company in September 2004. Both of these were Print-on-Demand editions. Then it was announced that ibooks would be bringing out an offset trade paperback edition in April 2006, but then ibooks declared bankruptcy in February, about a month ago, and the book was orphaned. Prime Books has offered to reprint the book as an offset paperback, but until the financial matters with ibooks are settled, the novel is in publication limbo.
Be that as it may, I will still be reviewing the book here, because you can find it in its previous editions. The trade paperback POD goes for $17.95, which is really not a bad deal. And it's available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and many other online booksellers, as well as Wildside Press's website.
Dreams of the Compass Rose is a unique animal. Not quite a novel or a short story collection, though it takes elements of both. It's a mosaic novel, in the purist sense of the phrase. It's separated into fourteen chapters, or Dreams, each a self-contained tale, though characters that are introduced in an early Dream may appear at different points in their lives in later Dreams.
There are two main threads in this tapestry of a novel. The first thread is the story of Cireive, the taqavor of all the known lands, and of the brave nameless servant who deigns to tell him the truth of things. The second thread, which takes place hundreds or maybe thousands of years later, is the story of Nadir, a zen-like warrior and bodyguard of Egiras, the princess of a far-off land. We follow these characters throughout their lives, and discover new things about them each time. There are other tales as well, such as the man stealing Death's blade and being chased endlessly over landscapes and the rooftops of cities. And there is the insane androgynous sea captain nearly losing her life and her ship because of the protean powers of a spoiled aristocrat. There's also the story of the City of No-Sleep, which is Dream Seven in the book, and is probably my favorite. Here's the opening:
If you ever get lost, somewhere west of the Compass Rose, look for a city called No-Sleep.Pretty groovy, huh? This chapter, and this passage in particular, remind me of the entries in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, where he describes fantastical cities that never existed. Nazarian brings the City of No-Sleep to life in baroque and lush prose, and it is the treatment she gives to all of her settings and all of her characters throughout the novel. Her landscapes, whether they are storm-tossed seas or sun-drenched desert, are harsh and difficult environments, but they are treated with such loving detail that it is apparent the author loves them.
The city is ancient yet young -- as each new day is young. And it's filled to the brim with miracles.
But the king here is old and mad like a mangy goat. They say his mind is broken; a fractured mirror, filled with disjointed, ever-changing images, which are his dreams. They reshape the fabric of the city every night.
The old madman spends his waking hours attempting to put together the shards of the mirror in order, and then sleeps erratically, during which time chaos returns to him. And the residents are known to keep themselves awake for as long as possible, so as to delay the inevitable changes, for they come only after sleep's oblivion.
You are welcome to visit this place if you like, to marvel at the wonders.
Only, whatever you do, don't fall asleep here. For the next time you wake, the city will have rearranged itself.
Every so often, though, the lushness descends to melodrama and purple prose, and these instances mostly occur at the beginning, such as when Queen Ailsan of Risei is captured by Taqavor Cireive and her son his executed in front of her. Plus, and this may be an authorial choice, I'm also bothered when every single character in the novel speaks at the same level of diction, from the loftiest of royalty to the impoverished servants who mop their floors. The language is an important part of the telling of this embroidered story, especially one where storytelling itself is highly valued, but it's unlikely that such a disparate group of people, from a range of different lands and cultures, as well as class distinctions, all speak in the same elevated mellifluous elocution.
Nazarian also tends to repeat facts that we as the reader should already know if we've been paying any kind of attention, as if she were anticipating that the lushness of the prose would make us forget that Nadir was "a tall silent man, with skin dark as the desert night." I've been reading about this character since the beginning of the book, and I do remember his ethnicity. It's not something that has to be pointed out to me every time he is reintroduced in the novel. A passing reference could be made to his dark skin, and that would be all the reminder I'd need.
Those complaints aside, the overall tale is a fascinating one, and Nazarian presents it well. With the importance that she places on storytelling within the book, I wish that she had explored a little more the ways that we construct our world and our experiences through narrative. She does some of this in Dream Ten: Gods and Fleas, and at the end of the entire book, where things are brought full circle, but still, I wish there had been more. Though this probably says more about my picky inclinations than Nazarian's choices as the author.
Dreams of the Compass Rose is an intriguing and intricate work of fiction, as if Nazarian has channeled Scheherazade, Calvino, and Lord Dunsany, all at the same time. It's certainly worth picking up if you're interested in a milieu where places have no names, cities spring forth like bouquets in the desert, gods and dreams walk the scorching sands in the South, ice floats like mirror shards upon the Northern sea, islands that do not exist are found in the East, death chases a thief on the rooftops of a Western city, immortal love spans time, and directions are intertwined into one road we all travel.
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Transitional Jobs
The Transitional Jobs Demonstration Project ended June 30, 2013. The Transitional Jobs Demonstration Project was created in the Department of Children and Families (DCF) by the 2009-11 Biennial Budget Act (2009 Wisconsin Act 28) to help thousands of people across the state gain skills and re-enter the workforce. This $34 million project was funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.By providing job training and job experience, transitional jobs create more financial security for families and improves our state's economy. Through the Transitional Jobs Demonstration Project, we created new opportunities for people across Wisconsin to build a career, provide more financial security for families, and create a brighter future for them and their children. If you have questions regarding the program, call Rebecca Brueggeman at 608-267-9886.
Partnering OrganizationsDCF is partnering with 17 organizations across the state for this project.
Eligible Participants
The Transitional Jobs program was established to provide low income adults who are not receiving W-2 and not eligible for Unemployment Insurance Benefits with an immediate income, an opportunity to develop the skills and experience their local labor market demands, and a positive work history. It provided those without other options with longer-term career preparation and support to move to unsubsidized employment.
Additionally the program provided businesses with needed workers at no risk or expense to the business. Transitional workers add the most value to businesses that want to either stay open or expand, but cannot immediately hire and pay new employees due to reduced revenue or reduced access to short-term credit lines. By completing projects and sustaining operations when cash is tight, transitional workers help position businesses to hire more permanent employees.
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August 25, 2006
TO: Kerrie Hoar, Convener
Instructional Academic Staff Committee
FROM: Carmen Wilson, Chair
Faculty Senate
RE: Committee Charge for 2006-2007 Academic Year
This memo is intended to serve as the initial charge letter to the Instructional Academic Staff Committee for the 2006-07 academic year. Please share this memo with the committee members.
Per Faculty Senate Bylaw II. (s): "Each faculty committee shall hold an organizational meeting and report the name of the chairperson to the senate office by October 1. (Joint Chairpersons are not permitted.)"
Therefore, as the convener of the IAS Committee, please arrange, as soon as feasible, an organizational meeting. In addition to a chairperson, please also elect a secretary.
Primary responsibilities of the chairperson include:
o promptly informing the Senate office (5-8018) the results of the election of officers and any changes in committee membership.*
o organizing and conducting meetings.
o completing a year end report on the IAS Committee activities to be submitted to the Senate Office no later than May 31, 2007.
*The committee chairperson should carefully review Faculty Senate Bylaw II, "Faculty Standing Committees" for information on committee attendance and the role of alternates.
Primary responsibilities of the secretary include:
o recording minutes of each meeting.
o promptly sending meeting minutes to Sibbie Weathers (email@example.com) so that the minutes can be posted on the faculty senate website.
In the event the committee chooses to rotate secretarial duties, please designate one person to be responsible for e-mailing the meeting minutes to Sibbie Weathers.
In addition to the committee's normal duties, I ask that the committee consider and report on the following special charges:
- Address the process of career progression, including the make-up of a career progression committee, timeline for submission of materials, contents of a career progression portfolio, etc.
- Investigate IAS contracts, specifically with regard to contact length, wording, type, etc.
- Develop a mentoring program for IAS.
- Continue to work in conjunction with Human Resources to update IAS about any new policies/procedures.
Please plan to submit a reports on the above charges to faculty senate as you complete the work. If you have questions or concerns regarding these charges, please contact me at any time during the year.
Finally, if the Senate Executive Committee or I can assist your committee in any way during the year, please do not hesitate to ask.


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- 1 Tbs. vegetable oil, or more as needed
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- 2 cups fresh or frozen peas
- 1 cup low-fat mayonnaise
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- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 2 cups roasted sunflower seeds
- 2 cups cubed pineapple, preferably fresh
- 1 pint grape tomatoes
- ½ pound mesclun salad mix, rinsed and dried
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Famous writers, actors, sports figures, musicians and creators are interred in Georgia's cemeteries. Here are 10 of our state's most famous final resting places.
1. Ty Cobb– A professional baseball player that was both loved and hated, Ty Cobb dominated major league baseball in its early years. He died July 17, 1961, at Emory University Hospital after a battle with prostate cancer and is interred in his family's mausoleum in Royston.
2. Margaret Mitchell – The writer best known for her novel Gone With The Wind was hit by a drunk driver on Peachtree Street in Atlanta the evening of Aug. 11, 1949. She died five days later at Grady Memorial Hospital without ever having regained consciousness. She was buried at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta where her husband was buried beside her only a few years later.
3. Joel Chandler Harris – The author best known as the author of the Uncle Remus died July 3, 1908, from acute nephritis and cirrhosis of the liver. He is interred at Westside Cemetery in Atlanta.
4. Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones Jr. – Perhaps the greatest golfer to ever live, Jones was restricted to a wheelchair in his final years after developing syringomyelia. He died Dec. 18, 1971, three days after converting to Catholicism. He is buried in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery.
5. Otis Redding – The man who has "The King of the Soul Singers" inscribed on his tomb was killed Dec. 9, 1967, when the plane he was flying in crashed in Lake Monona, Wis. He was entombed on Dec. 19 at his home in Red Oak, 20 miles north of Macon.
6. Duane Allman – In 1971, the man that Rolling Stone would rank as the No. 2 guitarist if all time and the co-founder of The Allman Brothers Band was killed at the age of 24 in a motorcycle accident. Following his death on Oct. 29, Allman was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon.
7. John Herndon (Johnny) Mercer – Among his other professional singer and songwriter accomplishments, Mercer was a co-founder of Capitol Records. He died on June 25, 1976, in Bel Air, Calif. Mercer was buried in Savannah's historic Bonaventure Cemetery.
8. Uga – Since 1992, each of the University of Georgia's mascots has been interred in a mausoleum near the main entrance to Sanford Stadium upon their death.
9. (Mary) Flannery O'Conner – One of the best known Southern writers in history, O'Conner developed lupus at a young age and died at 39 at Baldwin County Hospital. The woman whose book Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction is buried in Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville.
10. Juliette Gordon Lowe – The founder of the Girl Scouts of America developed breast cancer in 1923 and died four years later on Jan. 7, 1927. The 66 year old, buried in her Girl Scout uniform, was laid to rest in a plot in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah.
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Brighton's very first Design Jam will take place on Saturday 5th November 2011 at Cogapp's lovely design studio.
Mentors & challenge will be announced soon - so watch this space!
Check out http://designjambrighton.eventbrite.com/ for details and tickets, and follow @designjambrighton #djbri on Twitter for updates.
Tickets have now sold out, however the waitlist is not too long at the moment.So if you add yourself to the list you've probably got a good chance of getting a ticket: http://designjambrighton.eventbrite.com/


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During the last edition of imm Cologne, Julian Sterz presented the 'Place Keeper Chair', a destructured seat that has been also mentioned at the young designers' competition D3 Contest. The designer chose to work on an icon object, like the chair, to study and analyze it during his industrial design thesis work.
The project, a cross between an installation and a product design, is based on conceptual and formal aspects developed by the designer. "The idea was to design a chair whose six basic elements (four legs, a seat and a backrest) were joined by a further part of molded plastic,"says Julian Sterz," During the design process I wanted to emphasize the features of the original chair through a systematic division of the parts."
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On July 10, 2012 the Lake County Board adopted 94 amendments to the County-wide Watershed Development Ordinance (WDO). The amendment is currently effective and includes the minimum County-wide standards for regulated development. The amendments address FEMA, IEPA, and NPDES mandates; floodplain; wetland; drain tile; and administrative related clarifications and enhancements with respect to development.
All communities in Lake County are required to adopt the revised ordinance by October, 8, 2012 as a requirement of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and to maintain community certification status. The Village of Deerfield is currently a Class 6 community with respect to the NFIP and is designated a "Certified Community" by the Lake County Stormwater Management Commission (SMC). Certified Communities are those communities that have been delegated authority by the SMC under the WDO to administer all, or portions of, the WDO within their community limits.
As part of the Village of Deerfield's policy on adopting new ordinances this item will be available for public review and comment for a period of 30 days. A hard copy of the ordinance is available at the Village Hall: 850 Waukegan Road Deerfield Illinois 60015.
Adoption of Lake County Watershed Development Ordinance
You can view the Lake County Watershed Development Ordinance (WDO) by clicking here.
The Village of Deerfield has developed a user guide to assist in the uniform interpretation of the subject ordinance. These requirements and procedures establish a basis for the Village to utilize in the administration of the ordinances of the Village of Deerfield.
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Indian Retail Industry - SWOT Framework Analysis
- July 2014
- Region: India
- 20 pages
- Aruvian's R'search
Huge population, increasing per-capita income and changing consumer habits – all these developments have culminated in the booming of the retail sector in India. The majority of retail sales take place through the unorganized sector, which is stores that are popularly known as the kirana, or the mom-and-pop-up stores. The organized retail sector that constitutes highly organized malls presently does not enjoying any significant share of the market revenue but it is estimated that future belongs to the organized retail sector in India.
SWOT Analysis, is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective.
The aim of any SWOT analysis is to identify the key internal and external factors that are important to achieving the objective. SWOT analysis groups key pieces of information into two main categories:
Internal factors – The strengths and weaknesses internal to the organization.
External factors – The opportunities and threats presented by the external environment.
A. Executive Summary
B. A Brief Profile of the Industry
C. SWOT Framework Analysis
C.1 Strengths to Build Upon
C.2 Weaknesses to Overcome
C.3 Opportunities to Exploit
C.4 Threats to Overcome
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Anarchist Sci-Fi Goodness
October 28, 2009
This new book from AK Press, Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers On Fiction combines two of our favorite topics. I'll definitely have to check that one out. I may even check out Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction while I'm at it.
Speaking of @ and sci-fi, Bruce Sterling's recent post on sci-fi and anarchism brought these two resources to our attention:
- Anarchism and Science Fiction Readling List (organized by author)
- Recommendations from the ""Beyond The Dispossessed: Anarchism and Science Fiction" panel at the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair last weekend.
Moorcock on H+ and Anarchism
June 23, 2009
BoingBoing and Tachyon Publications recently offered up the opportunity for people to ask questions that legendary sci-fi/fantasy author Michael Moorcock would answer. I was an avid reader of Moorcock's books when I was a kid, and I took an even greater interest in him when I found out he was an anarchist. He wrote an interesting piece on radical politics and sci-fi called Starship Stormtroopers that I recommend to radical sci-fi types. Pebrhaps ironically, one of my favorite quotes also comes from Moorcock: "Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves."
In any case, I pitched a question to Moorcock, and he answered it. I was a bit disappointed to see that he's not into transhumanist sci-fi at all (hrm, maybe I need to revisit that quote of his again), but it's good to see he's still waving the black flag. Here's my question (and one posed by another) and his responses:
Moorcock has been critical of authoritarian tendencies in science fiction in the past and I'm curious what he thinks about the state of modern sci-fi and if there are any authors he thinks excel or fail here. In particular I'm curious what his take is on the transhumanist genre of science fiction (Ken Macleod, Alistair Reynolds, Iain Banks, Richard Morgan, etc.) and their take on technology and politics. Also, does Moorcock still consider himself an anarchist and how does he view the prospects for a horizontal, non-hierarchical, egalitarian society actually emerging?
I'm not entirely sure about transhumanist fiction. It holds no attractions for me. Assuming I really know what it is. I've only really ever been interested in 'humanist' fiction. That is, fiction about people. As I've said, I don't read sf for pleasure and very little of it for review, so I'm no expert. I think I'm probably sympathetic to the writers you mention, but personally believe political fiction should be set in at least some version of the here and now. When I want to tackle a political theme I'll do either a Jerry Cornelius story or something like a Pyat story, making it clear to the reader what I'm doing. To abstract a theme — that is, to put it in the future — seems to move it away from relevance. Even Mieville's Iron Council would have been more satisfying to me if he had set the story in, say, South America or Central Africa. This was always my argument about sf — that generally, by abstracting it, putting it in some 'other place', you lost some of the relevance. That said, I haven't been vastly interested in technological advance since I was young. I have every sympathy with Banks, Mcleod et al, but to be honest I've been no more able to read more than a page of their stuff than I have Heinlein's or Asimov's. The moment a spaceship turns up, you've lost me. I tried to watch 2001 (the first time in the company of Arthur Clarke) three times and fell asleep all three times. I've said this many times, but the moment that big, long spaceship starts to move across the screen, I'm heading for Planet Zzzz. Can't help it. Have nothing against people who enjoy it, but I really don't. In fact, in some ways, I'm answering your questions under false pretences in that my preferred default reading for the past fifty years has been mostly fiction about the here and now. My favourite fantasy writers are Jonathan Carroll, Jeff VanderMeer, Jeffrey Ford and China Mieville. I still love Disch, Ballard and Bayley! 'Light' reading includes, as said, Wodehouse, Allingham. My favourite relatively recent 20th century literary writers are Aldous Huxley (never read Brave New World, though), Elizabeth Bowen (though I haven't read her horror fiction!) followed by Elizabeth Taylor, Angus Wilson, Albert Camus, Blaise Cendrars, Colette, Peake I also enjoy Wells, Bennett and Pett Ridge. Favourite contemporaries include Iain Sinclair, Walter Mosley (in all his variety), Don DeLillo, Michael Chabon, Thomas Pynchon. Favourite moderns include Ford Madox Ford, Conrad, Mann, Woolf, Proust. Favourite 'classics' include Scott, Dumas, Balzac, Dickens, In other words, there are very few fantastic writers there, although almost all had a fantastic turn of mind.
I've often wondered why I had such a facility for writing fantasy, but clearly I did! So I guess I'm saying I'm not the best person to ask about transhumanist science fiction! I answer the anarchist part of the question below.
I remember in the foreword to one of your novels you said you are an optimist. I was wondering, in view of your anarchist sentiments and the current insidious morphing of England (and elsewhere) into a police state, if you still feel optimism and if so, what do you think will improve?
I remain a great optimist, though I have few theories how we're going to get out of our present predicaments. I remain a Kropotkinist anarchist, which many people will see as unrealistic, but, if I'm unrealistic, so be it. I see my anarchism as a moral position, in that it's scarcely a realistic political one! But from that position I can very quickly determine what action to take.
I am of course concerned about the erosion of civil liberties in our democracies. There was a wonderful period in the 60s and 70s when many of the basic liberties we now take for granted were established in the UK and US. Since around 1980 a variety of politicians under a variety of political flags have been trying to take those liberties away from us. I'm not as worried about CCTV cameras as the symbol of that erosion since they seem to have been as useful in catching crooks and crooked cops as anything else, at least so far. I am more worried about any extension of police powers, erosion of civil liberties in general and rationales allowing 'authorities' further unchecked, unsupervised behaviour. It's up to us to remain vigilant and aggressively vocal wherever we can be heard. I believe we also have to extend our civil liberties, building on the gains made in that 60s/70s decade. I think we can do it, and that we have to keep a clear eye on what's happening. Moreover we have to extend other civil rights, including the right to improve healthcare, education and the legal system according to our needs. We can do this by increasing our power at a local level and extending it up to national level. We don't serve such ambitions by being nostalgic about a past that never really was. Politicians have always been pretty corrupt and need a good press to keep an eye on them. It's up to us to demand the highest standards from our press and to adapt to every change in the nature of that press so that we're clear about what's going on. We need sturdy laws and good law-makers to ensure that we're as far ahead of the corrupt guys as possible. If we have to take to the streets, flood our politicians' mailboxes, make it harder for them not to hear us than to hear us and so on, then we must be prepared to spend the time doing it. We can't afford to be lazy and there's no point in just sitting around talking and making ourselves feel virtuous. We must feel virtuous from the actions we take not the fingers we wag at others. My argument against 'liberal' sf has always been that it can easily be a substitute for real action. And by action I don't mean sentimental exhortations to our politicians to be nicer, sweeter people. We need sturdy laws and real rights. We have to let the bastards know that not only are they not above the law but that the law demands MORE of them because they have been elected to maintain it, they need to be better than the average person, not worse.
I have to say that I completely disagree with his assertion that once you place a political issue within a future setting you remove it from relevance. To me science fiction has always been about examining modern issues, and taking advantage of those future settings to explore possibilities that the here-and-now modern simply doesn't allow.
On a side note, sci-fi author and radical Ken Macleod also took note of the question and response.
Anarchists and Space
April 7, 2009
I must admit, I wasn't that excited when I first heard that the topic for this year's Finding Our Roots anarchist theory conference in Chicago was going to be "space" — as in, the anarchist use of locations, territory, or idea/cultural space. Now that the conference is just a few weeks away, however, I've been toying with the idea of putting together a guerrilla workshop on anarchists _in_ space — as in, outer space.
An obvious starting point for a discussion of this sort would be the Association of Autonomous Astronauts, and similar groups like Red Giant, that tackled issues like the demilitarization and (non-)corporate colonization of outer space. On the more abstract/theoretical level, we could discuss science fiction portrayals of anarchists in space — Robinson's Mars books, LeGuin's Dispossessed, Ian Banks's Culture books, MacLeod's Fall Revolution, etc. — and how anarchists could play a role in expanding outward from Earth and potentially use it to claim autonomous anarchist space.
While such sci-fi and speculative fiction is often dismissed, it does open the door for anarchists to talk about these issues with people unfamiliar to anarchism.
Anyone reading this going to FOR? Anyone potentially interested in such a guerrilla workshop?
Think Galactic Paolo Bacigalupi Reader
April 6, 2009
Some local friends of ours, who hold a monthly radical-left sci-fi reading group called Think Galactic, were BoingBoinged yesterday thanks to a free PDF download they are offering for three of Paolo Bacigalupi's short stories. I haven't read any of Paolo's stuff yet, but it sounds interesting, so I recommend checking it out. There's also an amusing interview with Paolo over at EcoGeek.
The Think Galactic group is also holding a Think Galacticon radical sci-fi convention here in Chicago on July 26-28. Check it out if you're in the area.


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By Kevin Grandia • Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 13:31
Check out this new animation by well-known animator Mark Fiore. Very well done commentary on the absurdity of so-called "clean coal."
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Great video - perfect fit for some of the stuff that we've doing here at the Sierra Club. I posted it, along with a link to this post, on our blog compass (http://sierraclub.typepad.com/compass/2008/05/coal-is-the-cle.html) and sent it to some people. thanks Kevin!
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Toast the Clean Coal
Very nice, in the spirit of (but not surpassing) "Toast the Earth with Exxon Mobil": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhExwgiSxt8