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Technically, The Witcher 3 hasn't been announced yet - though thanks to a secret message in the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer and the appearance of a familiar looking sword , everyone's expecting that to change as of February 5th with a big announcement from developers CD Projekt Red.
Of course, until we hear the announcement, we won't know for sure. It might be a spin-off game rather than a sequel, possibly as a base for the long-awaited REDKit editing tools. It could even be a massive troll leading up to, say, Fluffy McMathBunny's Sunny Day Out, the happy edutainment RPG where long division is the key to victory. Still, since the most we can say about those options is "Could be interesting", we know we want to see a Witcher 3 at some point. How can this inevitable sequel play its nudie cards right and build on its predecessors? Here are a few of our hopes...
Keeping Perspective. Sorry to start on a slightly boring one, but by far the biggest problem with The Witcher 2 was that its development felt like it had been very insular, with not enough fresh eyes during the process, or those eyes being too guided. The big tell for this is that the initial version had quests with misplaced map markers - the kind of thing that's easily fixed, but only missed if everyone involved simply knows where they're going. Likewise, elements like the lack of a tutorial and the first big fight in the game expecting players to instantly 'get' the combat system were serious mistakes, no matter how much some of the hardcore players appreciated being dropped in at the deep end.
(Incidentally, my favourite example of this insularity came when the game originally arrived for preview, with stern, genuine instructions not to give away what happened to King Foltest during the prologue. The prologue of a game called 'The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings'. Ahem...)
Many of these issues were subsequently patched on the system side, and hurrah for that. Others though were baked much too deeply into the narrative to be changed post-release - the real crash coming with Act 3, which all the branching and untaken paths made very easy to reach without really knowing what was going on and why it actually mattered. Especially coupled with...
Remembering All The Fans. Both The Witcher games have made a bit of an assumption that people playing know this world already. They make a few concessions to newcomers, sure, but I've had fans tell me that expecting the game to pause to explain, say, what Nilfgaard is, is like expecting Darth Vader in a Star Wars game to go "I will now crush you with The Force, which as you know is..." Which is nonsense. The series could absolutely do a better job when explaining the core elements, if not necessarily every little detail - especially factoring in how much you can miss by taking the wrong branches, and that the English speaking world at least only has a couple of Witcher books in print so far.
Some of which which are probably more canonically relevant than others.
Consequence Over Choice Nobody sane would say that The Witcher 2 lacked for choices to make. The end of Act 1, the entire of Act 2 and most of Act 3 didn't so much have a critical path as a critical spaghetti pile. Make no mistake, this was seriously impressive and deserves credit.
That said, while choices did have big consequences, the scale of the game and sheer number of paths did have a tendency to trip over its own feet - key characters simply disappearing or being shoved into the background, massive events being dismissed, and most painfully of all, much of the plot that Geralt should have been uncovering during the game having to be explained via the final boss actively holding an expositional Q&A. It was also unfortunate that your choices tended to be a step removed from what you were actually choosing - the lead-up to Act 2 being the decision to throw your hat in with Roche or Iorveth, not Henselt or Saskia - or simply swept under the table with the politics of Act 3.
For The Witcher 3, it would be good to see that willingness to take the tough road put to more focused use - the world itself changing as a direct result of decisions, for good and bad, rather than the focus being on altering the path through it. A central city like Vizima wouldn't hurt for this, with its development over the game altering based on who you kill, and what relationships you form. Kill too many crooked officials, and the entire thing becomes a fascist state out of fear, for instance, or have the monster population of the area directly tied to how much killing you bother to do. Direct responses, with unexpected twists, tend to be what make choices interesting. Especially with...
More Moral Ambiguity. The Witcher has never been short on this, but more! More! More! And not just in terms of people lying to you about their true intentions, but situations like the witch in the first game where both sides are at fault but Geralt still has to make fiendishly hard calls.
Save Game Importing That Actually Does Something. Not necessarily anything important for the sweep of the game, but things like only starting Geralt in bed with Triss if he actually pursued that relationship in the previous game seem fairly obvious. In The Witcher 3, a great use for this would be to fill in the What Happened Next for Temeria that the previous game skipped via a chat with Dandelion, now that CD Projekt knows exactly where they plan to take the story and doesn't have to worry about boxing itself into a corner. Assuming of course that this game isn't going to be set there again, in which case just picking an ending and running with it makes more sense than confusing the issue.
A Not Too Open World. If CD Projekt's teased game actually is The Witcher 3, we know it's going to be 'fully open-world game'. I can imagine that being excellent, and have faith that it'll be cool. If it's going to follow in the steps of the previous games though, I hope it's not a particularly big open world game - a tighter focus not only allowing for more loving design, but reinforcing when decisions have impact, and conveying their effects in more interesting ways than most games bother with. Now, that said...
Modding, Early. The Witcher 2 came out mid-2011. The REDKit mod tools still aren't out. If this is going to be an open world game, let's see those as soon as possible, and give Skyrim's world some real competition. Fans are ready to mod this universe , but how many are going to devote themselves to starting on something for a two year old game? Especially one so razor-focused on a specific story.
Nilfgaard Or (Actually, Knowing The Witcher, More Likely And ) Bust! Wherever the game takes place, it'll need a setting - and if the ending of The Witcher 2 is anything to go by, we'll at least be visiting Nilfgaard, City of the Baddies. That would seem the right choice too, at this point in Geralt's adventures, and with the amount of political messing around they were up to last time.
Speaking of which...
Yennefer? We Barely Know 'Er! But it's time we did. For the third game, Geralt's former lady-love really needs to put in an appearance. According to the end of The Witcher 2, she's alive and in Nilfgaard. All the more reason to pay it a visit and either make something of that thread point or tie it off.
Witchering Hours. The Witcher 2 was somewhat odd, in that Geralt wasn't so much used as a Witcher as a general badass with handy skills. It'd be good to get back to the monster killing this time - not simply smacking wandering enemies over the head, and definitely not buying loads of reference books again, but sorting out more of the dark fairy tale type encounters from the original stories.
No More Crap Geralt. The Witcher 2 especially had one of the strangest difficulty curves ever - the first act of the game being by far the hardest due to Geralt apparently having given up working out between sequels. Not again, please. He needs to start out feeling like a badass, and fight challenges worthy of one, with a levelling curve built around making him becoming more skilled/powerful rather than spending hours fighting to stop him being bloody useless. Burn that Stamina bar with fire too.
The Execution Of Anyone Responsible For Branding It "The Witch3r". Just saying.
Keeping It Brave. Something that absolutely shouldn't change though is The Witcher's willingness to take risks. Yes, the sex cards in the original were damn stupid, and The Witcher 2 was better for not having them. Other elements did work though, from the sequel's more character-based sex scenes, to the darkness of having characters getting their eyes put out for ending up on the wrong side, and the nature of the storyline and subquests. Most RPGs out there are as sterile as Geralt's third sword. The Witcher can't lose its balls now that CD Projekt Red has made it to the top tier.
And that'll do for the moment, at least until CD Projekt Red makes its big reveal and we can see exactly what we're meant to be getting excited about. If you haven't played The Witcher 2, firstly, King Foltest dies in it. Spoiler! Also it's absolutely worth it. For various reasons, it scored 89% originally. We don't typically re-review games, but while it still has some issues (some mentioned above), that number would have been a couple of points higher had it shipped with the patches and tweaks released since.
The full game is now only £15/$20 from either Steam or GOG, and well worth it if for some reason you missed it on release - especially if you have a PC with the oomph to see it in all its system-melting, game-CDP-clearly-really-wanted-to-make-whatever-the-cost finery.


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- Nov 5:
- Contra Costa Times editorial: BART leaders didn't just cave -- they got rolled
- Nov 1:
- Contra Costa Times editorial: Careful what you wish for. BART strike ban could be worse the than the disease
- Oct 31:
- Coroner releases cause of death for BART workers
- Oct 29:
- Legislature to hold special hearing on BART worker safety
- Oct 28:
- Barnidge: There's a good reason BART wanted control of overtime expenses
- Oct 27:
- Barnidge: Visiting 44 BART stations on the way to an Assembly seat?
- Oct 26:
- BART raises follow similar pay bumps for Bay Area workers, especially in government
- Oct 25:
- Borenstein: BART upped offer on salary and benefits 48 percent in the final hours of negotiations
- Oct 24:
- BART: Controversial "simple approval" work practice eliminated
- Two arrested for graffiti at BART's Richmond yard during strike
- Oct 23:
- BART suspends 'simple approval' practice after fatal accident
- BART deaths investigation to halt service Wednesday afternoon between Pleasant Hill, Lafayette
- Man hurled hammer at striking BART workers, DA says
- Roadshow: Should BART workers be allowed to strike?
- Oct 22:
- Two trainees were being prepared to shuttle commuters during BART strike, feds say
- BART strike deal: how it happened and who gets what
- Contra Costa Times editorial: BART negotiators sold out riders and taxpayers
- Oct 21:
- BART tragedy: Trainee was operating train that struck and killed workers, NTSB says
- Barnidge: BART riders have spoken, and they're not happy
- BART strike: Calls for law to ban transit strikes pick up steam
- Oct 20:
- National Transportation Safety Board takes over BART tragedy investigation
- Oct 19:
- Two BART workers killed during maintenance work as strike moves into third day
- Oct 16:
- Barnidge: Worker demands weren't the only ridiculous thing about BART labor negotiations
- Jul 2:
- Data Center: Current and projected average BART wages
- Jun 9:
- BART's top-paid worker of 2012 never worked a day
OAKLAND -- BART management and its two largest unions have finally given Bay Area commuters the news they've been waiting several months to hear -- trains will almost certainly run uninterrupted for at least the next four years.
The unions Friday voted to approve a four-year contract that ended a strike.
BART's board of directors must still ratify the contract and is expected to do so when it next meets. The next board meeting is scheduled for Nov. 21, but BART spokesman Jim Allison said Saturday the board likely will call a special meeting to vote the week of Nov. 10.
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 155 and Service Employees International Union Local 1021 announced the results of their vote late Friday after polls closed at 10 p.m. The unions represent train operators, station agents, maintenance workers and others.
One more union, the AFSCME Local 3993, still must ratify the agreement. Calls and emails to the union were not returned Saturday, but the local is expected to approve the contract.
Antonette Bryant, president of the ATU local, said members of her union voted overwhelmingly to approve the agreement but said she wasn't sure whether a settlement will start the healing process between the two sides. The deal, which includes a standard no-strike clause, will expire in June 2017.
"I have mixed feelings," Bryant said. "We can't forget that two workers died in a tragedy during this whole process, and many of us feel that it should've never come to that. So I don't know how that will play out."
BART workers walked out on their jobs twice during negotiations, the second time last month. During that four-day shutdown, BART employee Christopher Sheppard and rail consultant Laurence Daniels were struck and killed while doing work on the tracks between the Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek stations. A trainee was operating the train that hit the two workers, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The contract calls for a pay increase of 16.4 percent over four years, with bonuses of up to $1,000 annually when BART ridership exceeds expectations. Union members made an average of $76,500 in gross pay last year.
If the contract is approved by the BART board, workers will begin paying into their pensions for the first time, with contributions reaching 4 percent of their pay by 2017. Monthly health care contributions will rise from about $92 to $129.
"The Bay Area and our riders will benefit from these contracts because BART will be able to move forward with the replacement of our aging fleet of train cars and the needed upgrades to meet demand," BART General Manager Grace Crunican said. "BART was able to gain the reforms it has sought for years and will have a positive impact on our ability to manage the system and improve service for our customers."
BART said the new agreement will give the agency better control over scheduling, attendance and preventing overtime abuse. It also said the agreement will allow for improvements in technology and equipment used to run the system.
Union workers shut down the train system for 4½ days in July after their old contract, which also included a no-strike clause, expired at the end of June. After a cooling-off period, the workers went back on strike for four days starting Oct. 18 before union and BART leaders agreed to the tentative deal that got trains running again Oct. 22.
Since then, lawyers have hammered out the final contract details, and workers have met with union representatives to review the details.
Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rderh. Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408-920-5705. Follow him at Twitter.com/rosenbergmerc.

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Things I saw at the North Lake College DART station grand opening
I swung by the grand opening ceremony for the North Lake College DART station this afternoon. The station won't actually go live until Monday, when the new Belt Line station will also open and extend the Orange Line allllmooooost all the way to D-FW International Airport. (You'll still need to hop on a DART shuttle bus to reach the terminal until 2014, when the Orange Line is completed.)
So today's event was less an actual grand opening than it was an opportunity for speeches, clowns, tents and giant scissors—pictures of which you can see after the jump. Let's call it a photo essay, rather than a rushed blog post I didn't have time to write words for.
My video of the ribbon-cutting is obscured by heads, muffled by wind and cuts off seconds before they actually cut the ribbon because my iPhone battery died. This is why the editors don't ask me to shoot a lot of video.
But I'll be keeping an eye on Irving's two new DART stations next week. Expect some newsier updates once I have a chance to see how many people make use of them.


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Some great night skating in Philly expertly shot by Chris Mulhern. Check out Brian Douglas braving the East Coast winter.
Upload your Thursday Theater clips to skateboarding.com! Just register on the homepage and load 'em up in the SHARE section on the right side of the page. Be sure to TAG them Thursday Theater (so we can find 'em!).
We are a small board brand based out of Philadelphia who just released the first of a series of HD promos leading up to a longer one in the spring. Our brand is Voyage Skateboard Co. and our first promo features Brian Douglas and the promos are filmed and edited by Chris Mulhern of independent skate film fame "few and far between," and his latest release "This Time Tomorrow".


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On 8 Feb 2007 21:52:17 -0800, "Raju Mahala"
>Anyone can describe the impact on Netapp filer if primary DNS server
>goes down.
>Configuration is as follows :-
>In "/etc/resolv.conf" file more than one DNS servers are mentioned.
>Primarily filer is bound with NIS as nis is first entry in "/etc/
>nsswitch.conf" file and dns is second.
>In "/etc/hosts" file hostname are not fully qualified.
>Filer is also bound with WINS as serving CIFS service also.
If you have more than one DNS server in the resolve.conf then you have
no issue, so long as at least one of them is up and servicing
The time it takes to run down the list is minimal and not something
users would ever see. Batch jobs may pause for a few hundred
milliseconds while the filer figures out which server is responding
but that's about it.
The nice thing about hosts files is that the filer will check that
first. So regardless of FQDN it will do a lookup, if there hold in
cache, and never actually go to the DNS server.
Scalability is obviously an issue there though, which is why DNS was
invented in the first place.
But I digress.
You are using NIS as your primary name service? I would counsel
against that. your NIS servers are already serving passwd, groups,
netgroups, etc., what then are your DNS servers to do?


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Best Shots Rapid Reviews: CHEW, GREEN LANTERN CORPS, More
by The Best Shots Team
Date: 13 September 2012 Time: 03:22 PM ET
'Rama readers, are you ready for some Rapid Review-age? Best Shots is locked and loaded with an even dozen pellet reviews, all for your reading enjoyment! So let's get right to it, as Vanessa Gabriel takes a look at the latest from John Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew...
Journey Into Mystery #643 (Published by Marvel Comics; Review by David Pepose; 'Rama Rating: 6 out of 10): Longtime readers of Kieron Gillen's run with the teenage god of mischief Loki, but if you've missed any steps of this trickster's tale, you might be in for a tough read. Gillen pulls a nice twist for Loki's story — a twist which could just be a counter-twist, given this kid's past as a lying villain — and that does help give this book some teeth. The problem: Way too much reliance on past issues' minutiae, and way too much text in an already hard-to-read Asgardian font by letterer Clayton Cowles. Artist Carmine Di Giandomenico looks slick and gorgeous as ever, but his fluid lines don't feel like the right fit for this book, particularly not the craggy Thor. Still, a pivotal moment for Loki and solid art make this book a decent enough read.
Batgirl #0 (Published by DC Comics; Review by Aaron Duran; 'Rama Rating: 5 out of 10): Considering Barbara Gordon isn't a part of DC's Trinity, even the most casual fan knows how she came to put on the cowl. Gail Simone tries her best to put a new spin on the early days of Babs, but I found myself more interested in the fleeting moments with James, Jr. When we get to the Joker standing outside her door, we learn that Batgirl #0 offers little insight. Ed Benes stills draws with an eye towards the sexy bad-girl look, which is not something I want in a story that's focused on a teenage girl. I know Barbara's transition from Oracle to Batgirl should take more than an issue. But, I can't help but feel it would have been a bolder choice for a #0 issue.
Conan the Barbarian #8 (Published by Dark Horse Comics; Review by Aaron Duran; 'Rama Rating: 4 out of 10): Conan the Travel Agent. Sure, a little harsh, but that's all that kept popping in my head as I read Conan #8. I understand that Brian Wood is trying to drive home the harsh and desolate landscape that is Cimmeria. But I'd rather feel these emotions through the art, not Wood's endless description of just how rough Conan's home can be. Which is where this issue again falters. Vasilis Lolos pencils, coupled with a rare coloring misstep by Dave Stewart turn in a rather bland book. While I understand it's a rough place, but if Conan sees the beauty in it and Belit the desolation, we as the reader should experience both. We do not. A rare stumble for a normally strong title.
Team #7 (Published by DC Comics; Review by Edward Kaye; 'Rama Rating: 5 out of 10): Team 7 is one part S.H.I.E.L.D., one part Suicide Squad, and one part The Boys (albeit a very tame version), all wrapped up in a Wildstorm-flavored candy coating. The idea has potential, but it's difficult to get a feel for the story with this issue. It seems very much like a soft launch, in that nothing really happens, except that we are introduced to the various members of Team 7. There are a few familiar faces, which are there to make fans go, "OMG! It's Amanda Waller!" But these are cheap thrills at best, and don't speak to the quality of the writing. Hopefully Issue #1 will give us something more substantial, because this was very much a false start. Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!


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Idaho Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 84(r). Other Procedural Rules.
Any procedure for judicial review not specified or covered by these rules shall be in accordance with the appropriate rule of the Idaho Appellate Rules to the extent the same is not contrary to this Rule 84. These rules shall be construed to provide a just, speedy and inexpensive determination of all petitions for review. If an appeal is de novo or the court orders an evidentiary hearing, the Idaho Rules of Civil Procedure, as applicable, shall apply to the de novo or evidentiary hearing.


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To the Editor,
A senior housing rental development for the Town of Eastchester is being proposed for a commercial parcel of property on Summerfield, Dunwoodie and Montgomery streets.
The North Eastchester Civic Association, the local homeowners association, has been involved over the past several years, since 2008, in the formation of the senior housing law for the Town of Eastchester. The law was passed by the town board in 2009.
The law is approximately 25 pages of specific detail on who, what and where senior housing is permitted. For the past year or so, the Summerfield Gardens proposal has been before the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals seeking approvals on numerous variances and design concerns. Some of the variances are in excess of 100 percent or greater than what the code allows.
For example, the density code allows 46 units and the requested variance is 92 units. The allowed building coverage of the lot code is 35 percent the variance requested is 84 percent. The height code is four stories and the variance is five stories. The maximum building height is 45 feet, the requested variance is 64.9 feet. The lot size requires a minimum of 40,000 square feet, this parcel has only 32,500 square feet and is 18 percent deficient.
But more important is the "projection beyond the building line," which is prohibited by the zoning laws of our town. Further detail states the foundation wall or any other portion of a building above or below ground shall not project beyond the building line. The developer needs this change in order to build an underground parking complex to satisfy the parking requirement within the senior housing law.
The real question is why the town has permitted this application to proceed. NECA has brought these concerns forward to the planning department and the town board members.
NECA is in favor of this development providing more reasonable variances are in compliance with the details of the senior housing law.
John J. Bassano,
Past president,
North Eastchester Civic Association


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Issue No.04 - July/August (2011 vol.15)
pp: 14-22
Florian Daniel , University of Trento
Fabio Casati , University of Trento
Patricia Silveira , University Oo Trento
Monica Verga , San Raffaele Hospital of Milan
Marco Nalin , San Raffaele Hospital of Milan
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2011.53

A personal health and lifestyle platform helps individuals maintain a personal health and lifestyle record and obtain personalized, lifestyle-related advice to improve their health by changing their daily habits. The platform leverages the data stored in a typical personal health record, augmenting it with environmental and sensor data and enabling the monitoring and analysis of an individual's habits. Sharing habits and advice with doctors and friends empowers individuals to become wellness coproducers and leads to a personal health and lifestyle record that is much more useful to the individual maintaining it.

Personal Health Record, Personal Health and Lifestyle Record, Social networks
Florian Daniel, Fabio Casati, Patricia Silveira, Monica Verga, Marco Nalin, "Beyond Health Tracking: A Personal Health and Lifestyle Platform", IEEE Internet Computing, vol.15, no. 4, pp. 14-22, July/August 2011, doi:10.1109/MIC.2011.53


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PRACTICAL TRAVELER; Student Travel: The First Step
By BETSY WADE
Published: October 12, 1997
IT is shopping season for high-school student travel overseas for next summer. These days, it is also shopping time for children as young as sixth grade. Catalogues and applications arrive and are perused. Notices appear on school bulletin boards. Meetings are held. Families call other families about their experiences.
Parents have good reason to be concerned with good references. Unlike a summer camp, which you can visit, organizations that sponsor student travel may be just an amorphous 800 number. Adults may be unsure whom they are dealing with, even if a familiar teacher has signed on as a tour leader. Frequently, as families learn, a teacher is signing up after hearing from a colleague about a good experience a year, or even years, before.
But a company that got good reports on its trips may be taken over. So some trade organizations, including the new Student and Youth Travel Association of Sacramento, Calif., require applicants to show stable ownership over three years.
A rare resource for parents of high school students is the Advisory List published by the Council on Standards for International Educational Travel, an independent nonprofit organization set up at the behest of the State Department in the 1980's. The 13th edition of this booklet, just published, lists 64 organizations, both nonprofit and profit-making, that sought endorsement. All paid $1,100 to $13,000, depending on size, for evaluation. The council has rejected applicants, or given a provisional listing pending changes.
Seven listings were new this year. The majority of the groups sponsor foreign students on visits to the United States, some sponsor students' trips overseas and some do both.
Some exchange organizations are big, for example, A.F.S.-U.S.A., formerly the American Field Service, in New York, which operates in 62 countries and has been sponsoring exchanges since 1947. It sponsored almost 4,000 students in the last year. Other groups are tiny, for example, the Association for Teen-Age Diplomats in Rochester, which sponsored about 40 students traveling to and from Rochester last year. Some small groups use a listing in the book as an economical way to tell parents what they do, while demonstrating that they are accredited.
But the book also prints the standards by which programs are judged; this chapter can help parents appraise programs that may never have sought the organization's approval. The most crucial question is who has direct, hands-on control: Who will be responsible for the well-being of the children. Frequently, a sponsoring group uses a commercial operator to conduct the actual trips, and this is vital information. Parents need to be tough in questioning people who will take charge of their children on a trip that will inevitably involve the unexpected.
The advisory list is available by mail from the council, 212 South Henry Street, Alexandria, Va. 22314, for $15, which includes postage, plus 4.5 percent sales tax for Virginia residents. Phone inquiries, but not orders, may be made to (703) 739-9035.
The A.F.S. Program
In its 50 years, A.F.S. has placed more than 200,000 students and teachers with families in 80 countries. Sarah Morse, who worked for the organization for 15 years, said the organization and its vast volunteer network engender the sort of lifelong loyalty that colleges can. ''When people see one of our A.F.S. T-shirts in an airport,'' Ms. Morse said, ''they are willing to speak to utter strangers.''
The organization runs semester, academic-year and summer programs. In the summer, there are basic home-stay programs, where young people 15 to 18 are placed with a family and, in the words of Janet Stark, a spokeswoman, ''just hang out.'' Then there are four- to eight-week programs in which the visitors study the language, and six- to eight-week stays during which they also take an adventure trip -- camping, bicycling, rock-climbing.
The Americans do not travel in groups. Ms. Stark says the students are even discouraged from going with a friend, although sisters and brothers have gone together. The work in the host towns is carried on by community-based volunteers, although A.F.S. has a paid staff in New York.
Ms. Morse said her own experience as an exchange student in high school led her to work for the organization, which she still refers to as ''we,'' although she is now an admissions officer for a school in Baltimore. ''I stayed with a family in Belgium,'' she said. ''They had a gas station. My parents thought I would be visiting the Louvre, but I was pumping gas. You learn a lot.''
She said the growing-up on A.F.S. trips surpasses that on usual student tours because students get past the ''everything is wonderful and new'' stage and learn how to manage when things are difficult simply because it's not home. She said tests had shown that A.F.S. students became less materialistic and developed skills at thinking critically.
Last summer, 600 students participated in the summer programs in 20 of the organization's 62 host countries. The cost for the coming summer will be $3,000 to $3,900, including international transportation.
A.F.S.-U.S.A. has a Web site at www.afs.org/usa. Catalogues can be obtained from the organization at 198 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016; (212) 299-9000.
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Definition of bowel in English:
1 (often bowels) The part of the alimentary canal below the stomach; the intestine: he felt his bowels loosen the lining of the bowel [as modifier]: bowel cancer
More example sentences
- The large intestine or large bowel consists of the colon and the section before the anus, the rectum.
- This misplaced tissue may be found on the ovaries, uterus, bowel, pelvis and abdomen.
- Cancer of the small bowel, the longer, thinner part of the intestines is much rarer.
intestine(s), small intestine, large intestine, colon;
entrails, viscera
informal guts, insides, innards
1.1 (the bowels of) The deepest inner parts or areas of (something): the mineshaft descended deep into the bowels of the earth
More example sentences
- But what if someone stood up and admitted whatever he held deep within the bowels of his soul.
- Deep in bowels of the mansion was the epicentre of communication technology and field command.
- He would have to take it deep into the bowels of the earth, for the glorious Garland Battle was about to begin.
interior, inside, core, belly, cavity, pit;
depths, recesses
informal innards
rare penetralia
Middle English: from Old French bouel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus 'sausage'.
Old French bouel has given bowel in English, from Latin botellus 'little sausage', from botulus, source of botulism (late 19th century), a form of food poisoning, adopted from German Botulismus, originally 'sausage poisoning'.
Words that rhyme with bowelavowal, Baden-Powell, disembowel, dowel, Howell, Powell, rowel, towel, trowel, vowel
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Definition of wandering albatross in English:
wandering albatross
A very large albatross of southern oceans, having white plumage with black wings and a wingspan of up to 11 feet (3.3 m).
- Diomedea exulans, family Diomedeidae.
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- Giant petrels, wandering albatrosses, penguins and other sea birds are getting caught in fishing tackle and dying by the tens of thousands.
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- Storing data with SQL Server
- Using the GridView control to present and edit dynamic data
- Creating a data entry system
- Attaching external CSS files
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- Installing Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows XP and Windows Vista
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In a dynamic data driven website, it's sometimes useful to be able to create printable reports, web pages that are able to be printed elegantly, but don't include all of the graphics and additional components that are needed on the screen. There are no particular components you use in ASP.NET for this purpose. For example, there is no built-in report class. Instead you use the existing web form controls such as the GridView control to present the data. And then combine those controls with some creative use of Cascading Style Sheets to modify the way the data is presented.
For the demonstrations in this chapter I'll use a website that's a part of the Exercise Files. Go to the menu and select File > Open Web Site, select the Reports folder under Ch10Reports and click Open. And then open the file JoinedData.aspx. Look at the file in Design view, you will see that it presents the website's banner graphic and menu, but little else. The first step to creating a report is to start with a GridView and an SqlDataSource. I'll go to the Database Explorer and then from there locate the titles table and then I'll drag the titles table and place it into the page. As always dragging the table into the page results in creating a GridView and a linked SqlDataSource. Now I'm going to modify the SqlDataSource by modifying its Select command. The Select command is a query, if you know your SQL you can hand code the query, but if you are fairly new to SQL you can use Visual Web Developer's Visuals Query Tool.
With the SqlDataSource object selected, I'll go to the Properties panel and double-click its header to make it float and then I'll drag it out, so I can see the properties more easily. Then I'll locate the SelectQuery property. The SelectQuery is the query that will be executed to retrieve data for presentation on the page. I'll click the button next to SelectQuery and that opens the Command and Parameter Editor. Now once again if you know your SQL you can hand code it here, but I'll use the Query Builder by clicking that button. When the Query Builder opens, it opens in a small window. I'll click in the lower corner and drag it out to full screen, so I can see more of its information. Now I would like to join the titles table with two other tables in the database, the Publishers and the Author's Information.
I will go to the top pane of the Query Builder, right-click and select Add Table and I'll choose Publishers and click Add. Then with the Add Table dialog still open I'll click Authors and click Add again. Then I'll close the Add Table dialog. Notice that when you add these tables, links are created automatically that's because the names of the columns in the tables are identical. So the pub_id column in publishers matches pub_id in titles and so on. Now I'm going to modify the columns that I want to display from the titles table. Notice that by default all of the columns are being displayed. I'm going to deselect all the key columns, title_id, pub_id and au_id. I'll definitely show the title and the price, but then I'll deselect the pubdate and notes.
Next I'll add the author. For the moment I'm only going to add the author's last name and then I'll add the publisher's name as well. I'll execute the query and show what the data looks like so far. The return data shows up in the bottom pane and I can see that I'm retrieving those four columns all joined together. Now I'm also going to sort the data. I'll go to the title row and then in the Sort Type column I'll choose Ascending. This will cause the data to be returned in ascending order by title. I'll execute the query again, check the results and sure enough it's in alphabetical order by title.
Finally, I'm going to take two of the columns from the authors table and join them together to create a single column with both values. Instead of returning the authors name as two columns, I'm going to return it for reporting purposes as a single column. I'll start in the first column, the one with a header of column, and I'll change the expression like this. First I'll drag this out so I can see more of it and then I'll start the expression with au_fname + ' ' + au_lname. This means that I'm using the value from the au_fname column plus a literal space wrapped in the single quote characters plus the au_lname column.
It's critical that you use single quotes in this context and not doubles. Then I'll tab over to the Alias column. I'm going to name this column fullName. So the result will be that when I get the data back from the server it will be exposed as a single column with the author's full name. Now I'll click Execute Query again and sure enough the fullName column contains the author's full name. So that's my query. Now I'll click OK and that takes me back to the Command and Parameter Editor where I can see the finished Select command. Then I'll click OK and that takes me back to the Properties panel.
Now I've finished the work on the SqlDataSource object. The next step is to modify the GridView. I'll click on the GridView. I'll open the task list and choose Refresh Schema. This prompt is telling me that I'm about to regenerate the column fields for the GridView and it will result into leading any changes I might have already made to existing column fields. That's okay. I didn't customize the GridView yet on purpose so I'll click Yes and then I'll take a look at the GridView and I'll see that in fact it is displaying the actual data I asked for. Now I'll save my changes pressing Ctrl+S and then preview the page in the browser by selecting Debug > Start Without Debugging and there is the result, the actual data displayed on the screen.
Now before I complete the video, I'll show you a couple of standard formatting tricks you can use. I'll close the browser and return to the GridView, open its task list and select Edit Columns. First I'll set the Header Text, I'll click on each field, go to the Header Text property and change it to a value that I want the user to see at the top of the column. For Title and price I'll simply uppercase the first character. For fullName I'll split that up into two words of Full Name. And for pub_name I'll replace that with the string of Publisher.
And I'll click OK. I will also deal with the price. When I run the page right now I see that the price is displayed in a raw numeric format. I'm going to fix that by applying currency formatting. I'll close the browser and go back to Visual Web Developer. Once again I'll edit the columns and I'll select the price. I'll go to the data section of the BoundField properties to the DataFormatString and I'll use the following format. I'll start with the brace, then zero meaning that I want to format the first value, the only one in this context, then a colon and an uppercase C for currency. I'll click OK and then I'll save and run the page again. And you will see this time that the numeric value is formatted as a currency value.
In the last step I'll apply some formatting, I'll go to the GridView, I'll select Auto Format and I'll choose one of the formats. I'm going to choose this one, Classic and click OK, and that applies Classic formatting to the GridView with a bluish background, white foreground for the heading and pretty standard text in the middle and alternating row colors. I will run the page and there is the result presenting joined data in a friendly, easy to look at HTML table with alternating row colors and a colorful presentation.


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When a job offer brought Maimuna Farah Samatar back to her birthplace, the Galkacyo Mudug Region in Somalia's Puntland State, she saw an additional opportunity to serve those who were most affected by the local conflicts—the women and children.
Maimuna has seen many people suffer throughout her more than 25 years as a doctor. She and her family, including her seven children, lived in Djibouti and Saudi Arabia for a time before returning to Somalia. Beyond her work in medicine, she is concerned about minority communities who seem resigned to a fate as second-class citizens. She works to educate minority groups to recognize that they are worthy of being full members of their communities.
When her work brought her back home to Galkacyo in 1997, she dedicated her time to improving the lives of the region's most vulnerable groups.
In schools, she found traumatized children, but she also found that enrollment in schools was low. Many families simply saw no need to educate their children. For others, children were neglected while their mothers concentrated on providing food and shelter for them.
Maimuna mobilized women in the community and called on them to prioritize education and child care. She started the Hormud School to provide education to 120 children from all parts of the community.
Then, in 2001, she and a group of women founded the Puntland Minority Women's Development Organization (PMWDO), whose mission is to improve social welfare and build the capacity of marginalized minority women and children. PMWDO provides primary education, health care services, trainings in environmental management and earning an income.
As a partner with AFSC, PMWDO is creating spaces for Somali communities to engage in activities that promote peace and emphasize the role of youth leadership. AFSC's office in Kenya provides PMWDO moral, financial, and technical support.
Now PMWDO's executive director, Maimuna employs youth in all of the organization's programs in order to enhance their knowledge and skills—both for their personal development and for Somalia's. One day she would like to see these youth and the minority community they serve holding high positions in high places. "As a mother and a community doctor, I call upon the youth to put down the gun and embrace peace."
Influencing such change is hard work, but a strong will and fearlessness have seen her through most of the hurdles. She also credits her good working relationships with local authorities and the state.
She already sees signs of change. Many of the conflict-related problems in Galkacyo have lessened, including a decrease in the number of killings and an increase in the construction and establishment of infrastructure and businesses.
She also hopes that one day the organization's reach will extend nationwide. In order to give a stronger voice to champion minorities in Somalia, she would like to form an umbrella of all minority organizations within the country and the Somali diaspora. Such a coalition would serve as a resource to share information to bring about development.


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SALUDA, S.C.---They haven't exactly been world beaters the last couple of years, but the Saluda Tigers are a team on the rise. Three wins two years ago, five, a season ago has Saluda thinking big.
It won't come easy for coach Bill Wayne and company as a lot of underclassmen will need to step up. While they return pretty much their entire line, they need to replace a quarterback and a couple of wide receivers. Colby Watkins returns in the backfield and the Tigers are hoping to score more points this year.
Lewis Coleman says, "Our offensive line is going to have to help a lot this year. They were one of our weak points last year but we have a lot of them coming back this year and maybe we'll be able to run the ball some more."
Bill Wayne says, "We can't use the excuse of being young. We're young but we have some experience so we can't use that excuse. We just hope our young men go out each and every day and compete, practice hard and try to cut down on mistakes."
One thing that's improved already, the overall strength as they've worked hard in the weight room. Coach Wayne is hoping upcoming scrimmages and jamborees will go a long way in preparing them for the season.


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Westmeath 3-15 Carlow 1-10
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Westmeath set up a Leinster SFC quarter-final date with Dublin after seeing off a lacklustre Carlow side by 3-15 to 1-10 in Mullingar.
A scrappy tenth-minute goal from Seán Gannon gave Carlow early hope, but two goals from Kieran Martin helped Westmeath take a 2-08 to 1-03 interval lead.
Despite the best efforts of Carlow talisman Brendan Murphy, Westmeath cut loose again with 1-03 without reply to secure the victory, their final goal coming from man-of-the-match James Dolan.
The first 10 minutes illustrated Westmeath's superiority as they dominated the battle for primary possession and cut through the visitors' defence with some exquisite running lines.
However, if the hosts' approach play proved why they will play football in Division 1 of the Allianz League next year, their finishing in that period was very much of a Division 4 calibre, with only veteran Dessie Dolan showing a good eye for the posts.
He kicked three of Westmeath's first four scores, but a lucky break for Carlow kept the tie competitive. Boss Anthony Rainbow elected to play Brendan Murphy at full-forward and while the big Rathvilly man got on a lot of ball in the early stages, he struggled to break the shackles imposed on him by Kieran Gavin.
However, in the 10th minute, he got a shot away from the left wing after breaking a tackle, only for the ball to drop under the crossbar. Westmeath goalkeeper Gary Connaughton fielded the delivery initially but Seán Gannon was on hand to punch the ball over the line.
Two John Heslin frees settled Westmeath's nerves a little, but when Darragh Foley got Carlow's first point after 25 minutes – following on from seven wides – the game was finely balanced at 0-06 to 1-01.
Just as the home crowd were beginning to show signs of nerves, Westmeath sharpshooter Kieran Martin essentially settled the game with two excellent goals, his first coming after 28 minutes.
David Duffy put Westmeath on the attack with a fine punch on a Carlow kick-out, sending the ball through to Dessie Dolan. The former All-Star delayed his hand pass perfectly before playing Martin in and the wing forward gave the move a worthy finish, planting a perfect shot into the bottom right hand corner.
After Murphy and Heslin exchanged points, Martin again got in to rattle the twine and again Westmeath took their score after capitalising on a poor Carlow kick-out.
Trevor O'Reilly attempted to go short with his restart and Callum McCormack was on hand to intercept and send Denis Glennon clean through with a hand pass.
Shane Mernagh attempted to bring down Glennon and prevent the goalscoring opportunity but the Tyrrellspass man got his pass away to Martin, who again produced an immaculate finish.
With no wind advantage and Rainbow unwilling to go to his bench, Carlow's task looked formidable at the break, but two wonderful scores from Murphy in spite of good pressure from Gavin got the underdogs off to a great start.
However, while Murphy's presence at full-forward was causing Westmeath some difficulty, his absence from the midfield sector allowed Westmeath to dominate possession and four scores from the 40th to the 50th minute doubled Westmeath's lead and extinguished any lingering Carlow hopes.
James Dolan's goal was by far the most impressive score and it was the least he deserved after a tireless display on the wing.
Heslin collected a breaking ball in midfield and won a free, which Ger Egan sent into Denis Glennon. Glennon played an exquisite blind hand pass into Dolan, who tucked his shot perfectly inside the bottom corner, just an inch or two inside the post.
The closing stages saw ten further scores evenly split between the two sides, but with both managers emptying the bench, future engagements were clearly foremost in the thoughts of Flanagan and Rainbow.
Flanagan's charges will travel to Croke Park in two weeks' time for a glamour battle with Jim Gavin's Dublin, while for Carlow, the more humble path of the All-Ireland qualifiers lies in wait.
WESTMEATH: G Connaughton; M McCallon, K Gavin, K Maguire (0-01); D Harte, P Sharry (0-01), J Gaffey; D Duffy, J Heslin (0-05, 0-05f); K Martin (2-00), C McCormack, J Dolan (1-01); G Egan (0-01), D Glennon (0-01), Dessie Dolan (0-05).
Subs used: D Corroon for Egan, C Curley for Dessie Dolan (both 54 mins), D Daly for Duffy (61), Damien Dolan for Harte, L Smyth for Martin (both 64).
CARLOW: T O'Reilly; C Lawler, S Mernagh, BJ Molloy; K Nolan, S Redmond, B Kavanagh; D Foley (0-02, 0-02f), J Murphy; Brian Murphy (0-02, 0-01f), P Reid, E Ruth (0-01); S Gannon (1-00), Brendan Murphy (0-05, 0-01 '45'), D Hayden.
Subs used: J Kennedy for Reid (55 mins), M Doyle for Molloy (59), A Kelly for J Murphy (66), T Bolger for Hayden (68), C Moran for Ruth (69).
Referee: Ciarán Branagan (Down)
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Issue No.05 - September/October (2004 vol.24)
pp: 55-69
Zhangxi Tan , Tsinghua University
Chuang Lin , Tsinghua University
Hao Yin , Tsinghua University
Bo Li , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2004.54
This work compares and analyzes architectural characteristics of many widespread cryptographic algorithms on the Intel IXP2800 network processor. It also investigates several implementation and optimization principles that can improve overall performance. The results reported here are applicable to other network processors because they have similar components and architectures.
Zhangxi Tan, Chuang Lin, Hao Yin, Bo Li, "Optimization and Benchmark of Cryptographic Algorithms on Network Processors", IEEE Micro, vol.24, no. 5, pp. 55-69, September/October 2004, doi:10.1109/MM.2004.54


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The group working to save Hangar One at Moffett Field saw half of its wish fulfilled Wednesday night when the Navy announced plans to remove the structure's toxic siding and leave the steel framework in place.
The announcement comes more than two years after the Navy identified demolition as the most cost-effective way to rid the site of PCBs, asbestos and other toxins. The Navy opted to re-examine its decision in the face of public outcry.
Members of the Save Hangar One Committee were mixed in their reaction to Wednesday's long-awaited announcement.
Lenny Siegel, chairman of the committee, said the Navy has an obligation under federal law to restore the hangar as part of its cleanup, not just remove the panels.
"We intend to keep pushing," Siegel said. "We think it's the Navy's job to restore the hangar."
Siegel said he is relieved, however, to see the huge structure spared.
"If the hangar was torn down, there would be no rebuilding it," said Siegel, who drew parallels with the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. "We have a chance to recover the hangar now, even if it is stripped to a skeleton."
Moffett Field was commissioned in 1933 as a naval air station to support a "lighter-than-air" program, according the Navy's Base Realignment and Closure Web site. Hangar One housed the 785-foot-long USS Macon, a rigid frame airship. The base was closed in 1994 and transferred to NASA.
The decision to leave Hangar One's skeleton intact was one of 13 alternatives considered by the Navy in its most recent "engineering evaluation/cost analysis," according to a statement by Darren Newton, the Navy's BRAC environmental coordinator. Newton wrote that the Navy intends to remove the PCB-contaminated siding and coat all exposed surfaces. The hangar's interior rooms will be demolished as well.
A Web link to the Navy's new report www.bracpmo.navy.mil was not functional by the Daily News' press deadline and Newton did not immediately respond to an e-mail for further comment.
Siegel said the Save Hangar One Committee plans to meet next week to develop a response to the Navy's decision. The group has backed a plan to reskin the hangar with a durable fabric. Early estimates peg the cost at about $12 million, architect Linda Ellis said.
"Maybe someone will step forward (with funding) or maybe the Navy can be convinced to do more," Ellis said. "We'll see what we can do."
The Save Hangar One Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at the Moffett History Museum, adjacent to Hanger One.
The Navy will accept public comment on its report for a period of 45 days, ending Sept. 13. Two copies will be available at the Mountain View City Library, 585 Franklin St.
The Navy has scheduled a public meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 26 at American Legion Post 564, located at 2120 Walsh Ave. in Santa Clara. For more information, contact Newton at 619-532-0963, or e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Dell and Internet2 NET+ Services increase access to research computing and enable discovery with cloud services
- Dell and Clemson University bring Internet2 members cloud-based, collaborative research computing solutions and services
- High performance computing services give research institutions shareable compute time
- Dell works with Internet2 community to develop services that enable the next generation of collaborative discovery
Dell is working with Clemson University to provide more Internet2 institutions and organizations access to high performance research computing technology, responding to the Obama administration's Big Data R & D Initiative and a continued commitment to the global research community. Scientific research requires intensive computation capabilities to help solve complex, and many times life-saving issues. Dell and Clemson University will support members with cloud-based research computing solutions and services that can efficiently meet these demands.
Dell and Internet2's NET+ Services program will provide high performance computing solutions and services that support the next generation of collaborative research and simplify research computing from the desktop to the datacenter including:
- Dell Virtual Desktop as a Service;
- Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service; and
- Dell Virtual Private Cloud (VPDC) Services offering customers a dedicated by the blade virtual data center service where customer specific applications and infrastructure can be configured and managed in a custom environment.
Working with Internet2 and other national research and education networks, Dell will continue to collaborate with the global research and education community to advance innovation around big data and research storage services, open source frameworks for research, academic and administrative initiatives facing institutions today.
In a parallel effort, Janet, the United Kingdom's research and education network, has chosen Dell as a leading supplier of cloud and data center services for its new dedicated procurement framework. Dell will offer Infrastructure as a Service and Software as a Service through the new framework, as well as comprehensive IT outsourcing services from its UK data center, including security storage and platform services. Dell Virtual Desktop as a Service and Dell Cloud with VMware VCloud Datacenter Services will also be available to Janet network members later this year.
These initiatives support Dell's long-standing commitment to the education community, as evidenced by Gartner's recent rankings. In the education sector, Gartner ranks Dell first worldwide for hardware support, second for IT services and third for IT outsourcing based on 2011 revenue.1
John Mullen, vice president and general manager for education, state and local government, Dell
"The US invests 2.68 percent of its GDP on publicly-funded research and development and is second only to Japan in research and development investment. It is clear that academic communities and research institutions are helping to lead these efforts and drive innovation. Dell is pleased to offer its industry leading solutions including cloud and virtualization services and continuing our partnership with the Internet2 community to even further enable the next generation of discovery."
Jim Bottum, chief Information officer and vice provost for computing & information technology, Clemson University
"Clemson and Dell are establishing a groundbreaking partnership that extends Dell's community-based management model, empowering the research and education community. This partnership is a first step in pulling together a broader set of partners to extend the benefits of High Performance and Data Intensive Computing to more research communities. Reaching this broader audience aids the acceleration of research and inquiry to help solve the ever-increasing and complex problems facing society. Using Internet2's Innovation Platform concept and emerging suite of NET+ services will allow the academic community to deploy massive resources in response to the data grand challenge."
Dave Lambert, president and chief executive officer, Internet2
"Internet2 and our members are excited about collaborating with Dell to identify and implement cloud solutions for our global research computing needs. We expect innovations to provide a variety of technologies that our members can use to solve and address numerous real-world issues."
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synthetic differential geometry
A kind of infinite-dimensional manifold. In analogy to how a smooth manifold is a manifold modeled on a Cartesian space in CartSp, a Fréchet manifold is a manifold modeled on a Fréchet space.
It is possible to define, analogous to the finite dimensional case, the notion of smooth functions between Fréchet spaces, see there. Therefore, the usual definition of manifold carries over word by word:
A Fréchet manifold is a Hausdorff topological space with an atlas of coordinate charts taking their value in Fréchet spaces, such that the coordinate transition functions are all smooth functions between Fréchet spaces.
It is possible to generalize some concepts of differential geometry from the finite case to the Fréchet case, one has to be careful, however:
The dual of a Fréchet space that is not a Banach space is never a Fréchet space, therefore one cannot e.g. define both the tangent and the cotangent bundle as Fréchet manifolds. More serious is however
The existence and uniqueness theorems for ordinary differential equations fail in infinite dimensions, so that theorems depending on that from finite dimensional differential geometry cannot be transscribed to the infinite situation in general. It is possible to do this on a case by case basis however.
There are several definitions of tangent vectors that are equivalent in the finite dimensional setting, but may be different in infinite dimensions. Tangent vectors can be defined to be derivations on germs of functions (algebraic definition), or as equivalence classes of smooth curves (kinematic definition). For the time being we settle with the kinematic definition:
kinematic tangent vector
The kinematic tangent vector space of a Fréchet manifold at a point consists of all pairs where is a smooth curve
As usual, the set of pairs forms a Fréchet manifold, the tangent bundle .
The last sentence makes use of the notion of vector bundle, which can be defined exactly as in the finite dimensional setting:
vector bundle
A Fréchet manifold is a Fréchet vector bundle over with projection , if for every point there are charts of and such that is mapped locally to for Fréchet spaces , the projection corresponds to the projection of to , and the vector space structure on each fibre is that induces by the vector space structure on .
Since, as mentioned before, the dual space of a Fréchet space that is not a Banach space is itself not a Fréchet space, we cannot define the cotangent space canonically as the dual space of the tangent space. Instead we define it directly:
differential form
A differential form (a one form) is a smooth map
where is the tangent bundle.
We discuss how Fréchet manifolds form a full subcategory of that of diffeological spaces.
Define a functor
from Fréchet manifolds to diffeological spaces (and hence to smooth spaces and smooth stacks) in the evident way by taking for a Fréchet manifold for any CartSp the set of -plots of to be the set of smooth functions .
The functor is a full and faithful functor.
This appears as (Losik, theorem 3.1.1).
Let with a compact manifold.
Then under this embedding, the diffeological mapping space structure on the mapping space coincides with the Fréchet manifold structure :
This appears as (Waldorf, lemma A.1.7).
Standard examples of Fréchet manifolds are smooth mapping spaces such as the
For instance
V.I. Arnold, ; B.A. Khesin: Topological methods in hydrodynamics. (Springer 1998, ZMATH)
Boris Khesin, Robert Wendt: The geometry of infinite-dimensional groups. (Springer 2009, ZMATH)
The embedding into diffeological spaces is due to
and reviewed in section 3 of
The preservation of mapping spaces under this embedding is due to


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Translation of dying in Spanish:
- (before noun)(person/animal)
en vías de extinción(flame/embers)
mortecino [literary](year/day) [literary]
que se apaga [literary](words/breath)to my dying day
postrero [literary]hasta el fin de mis díasit was her dying wish that …fue su último deseo que …a dying artun arte que se está perdiendoExample sentences
Example sentences
- What is set up as a life and death struggle, a dying father at the mercy of experimental science, is left unresolved.
- The bright sky shone down on the dying beast as its death knell rang in my ears.
- So how do you write a letter to your dying mother - a letter which both you and she know is basically a goodbye?
Example sentences
- His dying words and writing helped police catch the man suspected of killing him.
- The dying words of a young woman were a description of her killer whispered to a policeman as he cradled her in his arms.
- Renato murders him, but with his dying words Riccardo declares Amelia innocent and pardons his former friend.
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- But contrary to being a dying art, brewing is flourishing north of the Border.
- A piece of wood dropped on the dying embers in the fire soon burst into flame.
- Once upon a time there was a petty bourgeois intellectual born into the dying culture of a declining empire.
- Reid was very close to doubling the lead in the dying moments when he hit a fierce shot following a Whatmore knock down.
- The various candidates had been busy rallying support in the dying moments before the polls closed.
- Australia closed down the defending champions in the dying moments of the first quarter despite some wayward shooting.
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A Lannister council at Harrenhal. The man standing at the end is apparently Reginald Lannister, a cousin of Lord Tywin's.
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Futurism or futurism - A modern art movement originating among Italian artists in 1909, when Filippo Marinetti's first manifesto of futurism appeared, until the end of World War I.
Futurism was a celebration of the machine age, glorifying war and favoring the growth of fascism. Futurist painting and sculpture were especially concerned with expressing movement and the dynamics of natural and man-made forms.
Some of these
ideas, including the use of modern materials and technique, were taken
up later by Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968), the cubists,
and the constructivists.
Giacomo Balla (Italian, 1871-1958), Street Light (Lampada — Studio di luce), 1909, oil on canvas, 68 3/4 x 45 1/4 inches (174.7 x 114.7 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY. An extra-large image of this painting.
Giacomo Balla, Speeding Automobile (Automobile in corsa), 1912, oil on wood, 21 7/8 x 27 1/8 inches (55.6 x 68.9 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Giacomo Balla, Abstract Speed — The Car has Passed, 1913, oil on canvas, 50.2 x 65.4 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Giacomo Balla, Figure in Movement, 1913, pencil and watercolor on paper, 22.5 x 29.5 cm, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran.
Giacomo Balla, Swifts: Paths of Movement + Dynamic Sequences (Volo Rondini Grondaia Cielo), 1913, oil on canvas, 38 1/8 x 47 1/4 inches (96.8 x 120 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Joseph Stella (American, 1877-1946), Battle of Lights, Coney Island, c. 1913-14, oil on canvas, 39 x 29 1/2 inches, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, U of Nebraska, Lincoln. One of very few American Futurists, Stella's contribution to Futurism is contained in a series of paintings celebrating the dynamism of New York's Brooklyn Bridge and Coney Island. This painting seems to be a kind of final synthesis of the series as a whole.
Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme, 1939, oil on canvas, 70 x 42 inches (177.8 x 106.7 cm), Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Notice that Joseph Stella produced this painting more than twenty years after the Italian Futurists produced their pioneering work; and, excepting Balla, Stella was older than they were.
Carlo Carrà (Italian, 1881-1966), Funeral of the Anarchist Galli [Funeralli dell'anarchico Galli / Funérailles de l'anarchiste Galli), 1911, oil on canvas, 6 feet 6 1/4 inches x 8 feet 6 inches (198.7 x 259.1 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Carlo Carrà, Jolts of a Cab (Sobbalzi di fiacre), 1911, oil on canvas, 20 5/8 x 26 1/2 inches (52.3 x 67.1 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Umberto Boccioni (Italian, 1882-1916), The City Rises (La città che sale / La ville qui monte), 1910, oil on canvas, 6 feet 6 1/2 inches x 9 feet 10 1/2 inches (199.3 x 301 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY. Boccioni also produced a Study for The City Rises, 1910, crayon, chalk and charcoal on paper, 23 1/8 x 34 1/8 inches (58.8 x 86.7 cm).
Umberto Boccioni, The Laugh (La risata), 1911, oil on canvas, 43 3/8 x 57 1/4 inches (199.3 x 301 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Umberto Boccioni, States of Mind I: Those Who Go (Sati d'animo: Gli Addii), 1911, oil on canvas, 27 3/4 x 37 3/8 inches (70.5 x 96.2 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Umberto Boccioni, States of Mind II: The Farewells (Sati d'animo: Quelli che vanno), 1911, oil on canvas, 27 7/8 x 37 3/4 inches (70.8 x 95.9 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Umberto Boccioni, States of Mind III: Those Who Stay (Sati d'animo: Quelli che restano), 1911, oil on canvas, 27 7/8 x 37 3/4 inches (70.8 x 95.9 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Umberto Boccioni, Development of a Bottle in Space, 1912 (cast 1931), silvered bronze, 15 x 23 3/4 x 12 7/8 inches (38.1 x 60.3 x 32.7 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Umberto Boccioni, Antigraceful, 1913, cast 1950-51, bronze, 23 x 20 1/2 x 20 inches (58.4 x 52.1 x 50.8 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Umberto Boccioni, Dynamism of a Soccer Player (Dinamismo di un footballer), 1913, oil on canvas, 6 feet 4 inches x 6 feet 7 inches (193.2 x 201 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio), 1913, cast 1972, bronze, 117.5 x 87.6 x 36.8 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
The Museum of Modern art, NY, has a bronze cast in 1931.
Gino Severini (Italian, 1883-1966), Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, 1912, oil on canvas with sequins, 63 5/8 x 61 1/2 inches (161.6 x 156.2 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Gino Severini, Armored Train in Action (Train blindé en action), 1915, oil on canvas, 45 5/8 x 34 7/8 inches (115.8 x 88.5 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Gino Severini, Red Cross Train Passing a Village, summer 1915, oil on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY.
Gino Severini, Suburban Train Arriving in Paris, 1915, oil on canvas, 88.6 x 115.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Gerardo Dottori (Italian, 1884-1977), Explosion of Red on Green (Esplosione dirosso sul verde), 1910, oil on canvas, 49.2 x 69.5 cm, Tate Gallery, London., Tate Gallery, London.
Luigi Russolo (Italian, 1885-1947), Dynamism of an Automobile, 1912-1913, oil on canvas, 106 x 140 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris.
Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968; in U.S.A. 1915-18, 1920-23, 1942-68), Nude Descending a Staircase, 1911-12, oil on canvas, 58 x 35 inches, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA. Sometimes called Cubo-Futurist, so also see Cubism, as well as the Armory Show of 1913, in which this painting was highly controversial.
Marcel Duchamp, The Passage from Virgin to Bride (Le passage de la vierge à la mariée), July-August, 1912, oil on canvas, 23 3/8 x 21 1/4 inches (59.4 x 54 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Tullio d'Albisola (Italian, 1899-1971), Parole in libertà futuriste, tattili-termiche olfattive by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, 1932-34, illustrated book with 26 lithographs on metal, edition: c. 25, page: 9 3/16 x 8 11/16 inches (23.3 x 22 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY. Publisher: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, Rome.
Also see four-dimensional, isms and -ism, kinesiologist, kinetic, space-time, time, and Vorticism.


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"It took me a while to realize that my parents needed help. I was so close to the situation and it happened so gradually that I didn't catch on -- or maybe I didn't want to catch on and admit that they were in trouble, because it was painful to see. Anyway, my best friend came with me to visit them one afternoon. Since she was more removed and not personally involved, she could see what was going on more clearly, and she opened my eyes to the fact that I needed to take some action."
-Louise Grady
Define your responsibilities as a caregiver. Make a list. Set up guidelines for what you will and won't do. Put it in writing and stick to it. If other family members can't help, make a decision to hire someone to perform the duties you can't or would rather not handle.
Make sure your parent joins AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons). Anyone age fifty or older is eligible. Members get tons of discounts on everything from prescriptions to travel, plus a subscription to the AARP magazine Modern Maturity.
Although many programs for older adults are federally funded, the best way to contact them is through your local Area Agency on Aging. There is one in your community, even if you're not aware of it. These offices will connect you with a host of services for older adults in your area, including transportation, day care and respite care programs, residences, meal delivery, home care, legal assistance, and just about anything else you can think of (and plenty that you haven't!).
Get your father hooked into the local senior center. These centers provide transportation services, classes, information, recreation, and the chance to make new friends. Offer to go with him the first few times to help put him at ease. It's not all-or-nothing. Even if you are not making regular use of the local senior center, people there are still available to answer questions or provide resources. And if your dad only wants to visit the center occasionally, even if it's just for lunch, you're still welcome there.


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BAA Sale May Be First Painful Step for Ferrovial
Ferrovial always looked like the smart ones. Now look at them.
Saddled with over €24 billion in debt and major problems on both sides of the Channel, the Spanish infrastructure company, once the toast of investment bankers for spending big to take over U.K. airports and subways, Friday said it's looking to sell 10% of the holding company controlling BAA Ltd. That may be just the beginning of a full retreat from the wicked shores of Albion.
Ferrovial may still find a way to keep BAA, which after all accounts for 45% of its operating income, especially if Spain's economy performs better than economists expect. But the fact remains that BAA has been a disastrous investment ever since Ferrovial led a consortium that took over the British airport operator in 2006 for the princely sum of £10.3 billion.
At the time, that sounded like a lot of cash for a firm running airports that were short on duty-free shopping space and in need of investment in key areas, security arrangements being top among them after the 2005 London bombings. BAA's performance since then shows those fears were warranted.
Ferrovial has struggled with regulatory reviews, bad press and, worst of all, losses. BAA's first-half pretax loss in 2010 was £279.7 million, about half of what it was a year earlier but still a major factor in Ferrovial's overall €164.5 million first-half net loss.
Debt servicing costs are a key reason for the bottom line setback; BAA's debt alone stands at £8.65 billion.
Ferrovial's assets in Spain remain its top priority. Around 40% of revenue comes from Ferrovial's home country, and much of that comes from construction, a segment under threat as Spain's government cuts down civil works projects while it goes into austerity mode.
Societe Generale, for example, is anticipating that overall Spanish construction output will decrease 16% this year, 4.5% next year and 0.6% in 2012. That's a quickly shrinking pie for a market with multiple contenders willing to outbid each other.
Still, Ferrovial may find some good news by tweaking its books. Banco Sabadell analyst Maria Cebollero notes a 10% reduction of its 55% stake in BAA's holding company would allow Ferrovial to treat the investment as a majority stake, rather than a subsidiary, and lower its overall debt at a stroke of the pen, by 79% to €4.75 billion. Of course, operating income would go down too, by 63%, but nobody said accounting is perfect.
If everything goes well, Ferrovial may still hang on to BAA. For now, investors are cheering a plan that involves finding somebody who will take 10% of that problem. The stock rose Friday on the news to an eight-month high at €8.10. That's still around €3 less than the stock price was before the BAA purchase, so Ferrovial may need to do more to erase the bad memories.


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Sherman has made an indelible mark as a respected and accomplished litigator and trial lawyer, as well as a strategic negotiator in complex mediation and settlements. Currently, she serves by appointment of U.S. Federal District Judge Dan Aaron Polster as Defense Liaison Counsel for major multidistrict litigation pending in the Northern District of Ohio. In a still mostly male profession, she is also nationally and internationally recognized as a leading advocate on diversity in the legal profession. Sherman is a frequent speaker and media resource on the full spectrum of her professional activities, including offering media commentary on some of the country's highest-profile white collar trials.
As of January 2011, Sherman withdrew from the partnership of an Am Law 100 firm, where she co-chaired the corporate compliance, investigations, and white collar defense practice. Previously, she was a partner at a top-ranked regional firm in Cleveland and also worked for Cleveland's premier trial lawyer, Gerald Messerman. Before returning to her hometown of Cleveland in 1989, Sherman was privileged to start her legal career at the renowned trial firm of Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C.
Right after law school, Sherman was selected for a coveted clerkship with The Honorable John H. Pratt of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Before law school, she served as a legislative and personal assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan and worked for esteemed Ohio Congressman Charles Vanek on the House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on International Trade.
Most of Sherman's career over the last 25 years has been devoted to representing major clients, including Fortune 5 companies, in sensitive, high-stakes litigation and complex mediation and settlements. She has represented numerous individual and corporate clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of cases in federal and state courts, including complex commercial and other civil litigation, as well as white collar criminal defense.
Passionate about the law, Sherman is equally compassionate: initiating and supporting several philanthropic causes. Her latest philanthropic venture is the Ruby Shoes Fund, which she launched concurrently with the introduction of Charna E. Sherman Law Offices Co., LPA. The Ruby Shoes Fund supports new initiatives to empower women on the ladder of success in the legal profession, with a groundbreaking focus on strategies to help them overcome the unique challenges engendered — ironically — by their success. The Ruby Shoes Fund is a reference to the power of the ruby slippers worn by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Just like Dorothy discovered, Sherman believes the power to change the world and reach our potential lies in each of us. Sherman has created a philanthropic fund to which she is committed to sharing 10 percent of the firm's profits, and thus envisions as her "profit partner." The greatest share of the fund will be dedicated to the Ruby Shoes Fund.


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Grappling with an expected bump in the summer crime rate and a force of officers quickly falling to what could be an all-time low number, Oakland police Chief Anthony Batts detailed this week a plan to dramatically overhaul the structure of the department he commands.
The first steps of the plan go into effect Saturday: Bike and motorcycle cops will be taken off those duties and folded into regular patrol; the department will now split the city into two geographic regions, rather than three; and 15 sergeants will move into patrol, tightening the command structure there with more supervisors.
What changes will residents notice?
"I'm moving many department chiefs down closer to the street, and the highest-ranking officers in the Oakland Police Department will be engaging the community more," Batts said. "I go out regularly and meet with the community, and now they will go out, too. You will see them, you will touch them."
The chief emphasized several times that the OPD must come into full compliance with the city's negotiated settlement agreement -- a long list of reforms the city agreed to in settling the Riders federal corruption case almost nine years ago. The judge in that case has repeatedly castigated the OPD for making slow progress on those reforms, even threatening to put the department under state or federal control. Mayor Jean Quan has said coming into full compliance is her top priority for the second half of this year.
After Saturday's changes, Batts said he plans to boost staffing in the homicide investigations unit by combining those detectives with others who work on robberies, assaults and fugitive crimes. The new team, dubbed the Major Crimes Unit, would bring more resources to a badly overworked staff, Batts said. While the statewide average for a homicide detective is three cases per year, Oakland investigators are saddled with between 10 and 16, he said. That part of the reorganization is not scheduled until early August.
Also, injured patrol officers, often forced to man a desk for "light duty" while they recover, will begin pitching in with detective work for some of the 16,000 annual property crimes currently handled by three investigators. At any given time, usually 30 to 40 officers are on light duty, and Batts said he hopes the new system will increase the OPD's capacity for responding to crimes while also training officers in more sophisticated duties.
The goal: higher clearance rates for violent crimes and a lowered rate in property crimes.
Concerns arise
Oakland had as many as 837 officers in November 2008, and as few as 610 in 1979, the lowest number in modern Oakland history.
When Batts came to the department almost two years ago with a force of 803, he said fighting the city's severe crime problem effectively would require more than 900 officers. Instead, the force is down to about 636, with an unusually high attrition rate shrinking the department by an average of six officers every month.
The department is also facing challenges from city policy, Batts said. The police helicopter has been grounded, city hall leadership "has stepped away from doing gang injunctions," and "the city doesn't seem like it has the stomach for curfews," he said.
Under current budget projections from City Hall, officers' numbers could fall below even the 610 mark as soon as August 2012, and into the 500s just a few months later.
Just 290 officers are currently assigned to patrol, and of those, only 247 are active, with the others on light duty or assigned to special operations, Assistant Chief Howard Jordan said.
The plan is experimental -- unlike and larger than anything Batts has tried in his nearly 30-year career -- and "should not be seen as a panacea," he said. "This isn't going to change everything."
He presented the plan to the City Council on Tuesday night and met with cautious approval.
"I look forward to supporting the plan," said Councilwoman Libby Schaaf (Laurel-Montclair), though she asked that Batts keep track of the resources currently devoted to the central part of the city, concerned that they could be split unevenly in a tug-of-war.
The dividing line between the city's two new regions will be 23rd Avenue from the bay to Interstate 580, and will then run east along the highway until Keller Avenue. Batts said this will unite the Oakland hills as a single policing community.
Gun problem
Also a major concern within the council is how the city is tackling the gun problem. The city's Shot-Spotter technology is not currently operating as it should, said Councilwoman Desley Brooks (Eastmont-Seminary), and it's unclear whether federal assistance in getting guns off Oakland streets is going to be reliable in the coming year. Batts said he and Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan (at-large) are working on a plan for guns but declined to get into the details.
Dom Arotzarena, a former homicide detective and president of the police union, said he has some problems with the reorganization.
"This completely restructures how we investigate homicides and felony assaults," Arotzarena said. "The homicide division has never been broken aside from the fact that it's understaffed."
Bringing on robbery and assault investigators isn't a solution, he continued, because "homicides are not like robberies. The interviews are different. Investigations are more meticulous and require a lot more investigation experience, period."
With specialized units, each focused on homicide, robbery and assault being merged into generalized teams, Arotzarena added, he worries robbery cases "will fall to the wayside" as investigators tackle other cases.
As for having injured officers pitch in with detective work for property crimes, "they can do some minor stuff, but they're only going to be there a few weeks at a time. It sounds good, but bottom line, you don't have someone consistently doing the same job."
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To identify and develop germplasm with resistance to the major diseases affecting sugarcane in the United States, highly domesticated and wild clones of sugarcane and near relatives will be evaluated for disease resistance following either natural infections or artificial inoculation. To identify molecular markers that are linked to genes for disease resistance, Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA (RAPD), Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), and Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) markers in combination with the bulk segregant analysis (BSA) will be used to screen potential DNA markers for resistance to smut and other important diseases. Variations among the DNA sequences of polymorphic DNA fragments will be analyzed and used to design new pairs of specific primers to develop Sequenced Characterized Amplified Region (SCAR) markers. Genotypic and phenotypic expressions of variability within populations of pathogens will be used to identify the genetic variability among pathogen populations and determine the distribution of races, strains, or biotypes. The domestic sugarcane industry will be monitored for the introduction of exotic pathogens.


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INDIANAPOLIS —Celadon Trucking has expanded the scope of its onsite health and wellness clinic with the selection of RepuCare to manage the facility.
The clinic provides primary care for the company's drivers and administrative employees as well as their spouses and dependents.
The healthcare team at RepuCare includes practitioners, nurses, medical assistants, a registered dietician/wellness coach and a physical therapist.
Comprehensive wellness and coaching programs will be offered to engage employees and to address unhealthy lifestyle behaviors before they escalate to costly chronic conditions.
Occupational health services will also be offered to diagnose and treat worksite injuries and illnesses, support DOT driver testing requirements, and provide physical therapy and injury prevention programs.
Among the expanded services are a health coach, who is also a registered dietitian as well as a physical therapist; and women's health services.
RepuCare's occupational health/Department of Transportation services have extended hours on Monday and Tuesday from 7 a.m.-7:30 p.m. and Wednesday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
In addition, family practice hours have been extended to 40 hours per week Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. with appointments available over the lunch hour.
"We intend to remain an innovator in all aspects of our industry, including the most comprehensive worksite health and wellness program for our employees and families," Paul Will, Celadon president and chief executive officer, said. "It's a win-win program as our employees and families gain access to quality care and become engaged to improve their health and wellness, while the company benefits as the employer of choice while continuing to contain costs."
The clinic will work with individuals in a non-rushed atmosphere to raise awareness for health risks and prevention needs, help with condition management or wellness goals, and other important needs such as annual check-ups and prescription drug management, a Celadon spokesperson said.
Additional clinic services will include a limited list of generic maintenance medications and antibiotics as well as laboratory services.
RepuCare also operates a second onsite health and wellness clinic for Celadon at the new driver training facility, since it opened in February 2014.
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