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3 p.m. update: We've learned that IU expects the replacement of the field, which is to cost about $410,000, to be covered either by FEMA funds or the university's insurance. That information comes from H-T reporter James Boyd who spoke this afternoon with IU Vice President and Chief Administration Officer Terry Clapacs in South Bend where the university's trustees are meeting today.
11:30 a.m. update: IU has posted a brief statement on its athletics Web site saying that "the athletic department and the university are currently in negotiations to replace the existing turf with a state-of-the-art playing surface that will be installed and ready to use by the first week of August."
That timetable would have the field ready for the Drum and Bugle Corps event that's scheduled to draw thousands to Bloomington in early August.
Workers have begun tearing up the field at Indiana's Memorial Stadium this morning, making it apparent that the field will be replaced.
Using a backhoe, three workers from Crider and Crider construction peeled off a one-inch layer of green grass-like fibers and rubber pellets, revealing a gravel surface below it. The turf was placed in large red dumpsters.
The field was damaged during the recent flooding in the Bloomington area, but IU officials said as recently as yesterday that no updates were available on the university's plans to repair or replace the Astroplay turf field, which was installed in 2003 at a cost of about $450,000.
The damage centered around a manhole cover under the field in the south end zone, where the field surface sunk about a foot. Ripples in the field surface emanating from the area of the manhole cover ran past the 30-yard line, rendering a large portion of the field unusable.
No information was immediately available Thursday about the cost or timetable for the repairs. Athletic director Rick Greenspan said two weeks ago that he thought the repairs could cost $750,000 to $1,000,000, but that was before a detailed assessment of damage had been completed. IU athletics spokesman J.D. Campbell said this morning that the university will issue a formal announcement about the field in the next day or two.
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Heaven forbid they make their assessments public before the replacement contract is signed and the check is cut. Perhaps it took an anonymous donor to secretly buy-out the value of the old turf's remaining life-span before we could effectively part ways with it.
Speaking of cutting, before the old turf is cut up and sent to retirement in Terre Haute's landfill, did it ever occur to Greenspan & co. that they might be able to sell pieces of turf as collector's items in order to help recoup the replacement cost?
No, I say we leave the sink hole in place and use its murky depths to throw countless sums of money into, rather than spending millions on people who no longer work for IU athletics.
Good Lord. It amazes me the lengths people will go to complain about something. Also, before someone says it, the old turf was installed in 2003 and Greenspan came to IU in 2004. However, I'm sure someone will find a way to blame him for this.
What is the big secret?? It needs replaced or it doesn't need replaced?? Geez..
The turf would be considered part of the improvements to the land on which the stadium complex is located, and as such might actually be insured against damage or destruction. That would be under a hazard insurance policy. Because the damage resulted from a flood, however, it's possible that a flood policy would be required, and it's doubtful IU had one, as the field and stadium are not in what is normally considered a floodplain. So they'll probably have to foot the bill for replacing it, even if it was insured.
Thanks for the update!!! As a DCI parent (who has already purchased non-refundable airline tickets to Indianapolis), I am very interested in the COMPLETION DATE for this project.
Thanks again!!!!
Does anyone know if insurance covers any part of this replacement?
I am not sure if insurance would cover the replacement or not, but I do know the company that installed the turf went bankrupt recently and is no longer a public company. That could make even the ability to collect on the insurance murky if we were legally able to sue.
I look at that manhole cover and I am wondering what they were thinking when they tried to put turf over that thing. Seems like it was just something waiting to happen. It made it 5 years and that in itself was a miracle looking at it.
That manhole cover has never been exposed and I don't think anyone would want it to be and take a chance on someone being injured by falling on it. There hasn't been any construction at that end which means that it's always been there.
I don't think it was the problem anyway. In the picture it looks like the whole area around the cover is sunken and you can plainly see the drain behind it. Water goes down the drain, not the manhole. The soil is washed out under the gravel layer. It would be interesting to get down there and take a closer look. I might just do that.
How about a Kellen Lewis update? His status has become probably the most important matter for IU sports for the upcoming year, now that the hoops team is pretty much complete, for better or for worse.
If he plays, we are looking at another bowl game. If not, we'll be back to our usual 1-7 or 0-8 vs. the Big Ten
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> Hi all,
> I'd like to learn more about Solaris 10, to that end I have been
> thinking of buying a used sun server from ebay. I know nothing about
> the sun hardware, however, and am a bit overwhelmed.
> If I was just going to installed and play around and forget it, I dont
> think I'd have as much problem... but I was thinking of replacing a
> server at work with a solaris box. It does a little firewall/nat/vpn,
> a little database (postgresql), and a little web serving (lighttpd/
> php). Oh, and some samba. (and I'd like to play around with ldap
> someday).
My personal suggestion is to *not* let your firewall be anything
else -- put the rest on systems behind the firewall. You can probably
build a nice firewall on an Ultra-5 or Ultra-10 (really cheap, and you
can use IDE drives in those -- but no bigger than 120 GB per drive
thanks to limitations in the IDE interface hardware. The Ultra-5 and
Ultra-10 are dirt cheap.
> Anyway, I dont need a lot of drive space, I currently have
> 200 gig, and I think that's plenty. I dont need tape or backup stuff,
> I tar up the really important stuff and copy it to another box that
> does get backed up to tape.
> My first question: I'd like the web response time to be close (a
> little slower would not be too much of a problem). I found a Sun
> 420R, with 4x 450MHz, 4GB RAM, 2x18GB. It would be about $260. That
> sounds like a great play box, but I'm worried a web response from a
> 450mhz processor would be slow. Is a 450mhz ultrasparc II compareable
> to a Pentium III 450?
I suspect that it is noticeably faster than a 450 MHz Pentium
III, but I've not directly compared them. It does appear to be true
SPARC CPUs, unlike the later selection.
> Also, it only has 36 gig space if I raid 0 them. And it only has
> space for two drives? So if I want more I have to get external
> drive's (via scsi or something?) Thats starting to sound expensive.
Most likely via SCSI -- though my SunFire 280R uses FC (Fibre
Channel) drives as its internal drives, and has both SCSI and FC jacks
on the back for expansion. I've got no personal experience with the
Looking at the photos of the back of the 420R, it does have
external SCSI.
And the front looks very much like my 280R, except that it
apparently uses the slower SPARC CPUs which my Ultra 60 uses -- just
twice as many. (UltraSPARC-II instead of the UltraSPARC-III that the
280R uses. Note that both this machine and the 280R are designed as
enterprise servers, and have dual hot-swappable (from the front panel)
power supplies. You can download tons of manuals for this from Sun's
site, after registering.
These are *heavy* computers, BTW, so prepare for expensive
shipping. :-)
The 280R has a choice from 900 MHz CPUs up to 1.2 GHz CPUs, and
running an old benchmark on it and on a 2.3 GHz Intel box running
OpenBSD, the 280R is faster corrected for clock speed.
> Second question: what's a good, cheap, way to add hd space. I kinda
> like the two raid 0 drives for the os, and maybe database,
You might look into zfs (a software RAID which comes with the
later releases of Solaris 10) -- though I think that you can't boot from
it, so you'll need other disks to boot from.
Not sure whether it is supported by the x86 version of Solaris
10, which is what your second mentioned machine runs.
> but can I
> put IDE/Sata drives someplace?
Certainly not the IDE drives -- and I'm not sure about the SATA
ones. You would have to back down to something like the Ultra 5, Ultra
10, or Blade 100 to have native IDE -- and that would have no built-in
> If I get external drive bay, what sort
> of card do I need and how expensive are they?
Probably you will have the SCSI interface already present in the
system. Everything that I have other than the Ultra 5, Ultra 10, and
the Blade 100 have it. The interface will talk to up to fifteen drives.
If you need more, there are PCI SCSI cards which can talk to two banks
of fifteen drives at the same time.
As for the housing for them -- look on eBay for "Multipack"
drive housings. There are two models -- one will handle up to six 1.6"
high drives, and the other will handle up to twelve 1" drives. You
can't put the 1.6" drives in the 1" Multipack, even by skipping every
other slot, because the bulge of the drive hits the next connector up.
Externally, the two housings look the same, except that the one has only
six LEDs and the other has twelve of them. On the back of the six-slot
one is a switch to select whether the drives occupy the SCSI-IDs 1-6 or
9-14, so you can stick two of them on a single interface for twelve of
the 1.6" drives should you so desire.
All drives in this use the SCA (80-pin SCSI) interface, and are
hot swapable. I've run zfs in one of these for a while before moving it
to an A-1000 rack-mount JBOD housing for which I had to find a HVD SCSI
card. (The Multipack accepts LVD or SE SCSI instead.)
> What sort of
> performance would I see (can I run my database from there?)
Set up ZFS with "raidz" (the ZFS version of RAID-5), and you
will get rather impressive response, based on my experience -- though I
haven't actually tried clocking things.
> As an alternative, I found this:
> Newisys Sun Fire V40z Opteron 2x1.4GHz/4GB/146GB Server
> Its twice as expensive, but it seems to have much more cpu power under
> the hood. However, I'm left with the same HD questions.
Note that it is *not* SPARC -- but rather Opteron for the CPUs.
And it probably has FC drives. I've got a pair of 146 GB FC
drives in my 280R. (You can also get them in SCA interface, so twelve
of those in a twelve-slot Multipack should be impressive.
O.K. Looking through a few eBay auctions, it appears to use SCA
SCSI drives, not FC internally. Looking at photos of the back, I so far
don't see a good SCSI connector, but rather what looks like a FC
connector (not enough detail to be sure).
You might consider looking at the Sun Blade 2000 with dual 1.2
GHz CPUs which *are* SPARC, and which does have the SCSI and FC on the
back panel, along with two FC internal drives -- which can be 1.6" high,
unlike those in the Sun Fire 280R.
Sorry that I don't have direct experience with the specific
machines which you have listed, so a lot of this is speculation based on
the systems which I *have* got.
At the moment, I can't find any normal eBay auctions for the
Multipacks -- though there are some buy-it-now ones. This one is a
12-slot one -- though there is no photo, and the price is higher than
what I've paid: 130090249749
And a search on "Sun Multipack" hits a bunch of drives in
"spuds" (the bracket which mounts them in the Multipack or in most of
the Ultra computers which use SCS or FC drives) -- listed to fit in a
Multipack among other things, I guess.
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A quick post to highlight a remarkably valuable new report by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The Forum did a massive survey of the world's Muslims:
The survey, which involved more than 38,000 face-to-face interviews in over 80 languages, finds that in addition to the widespread conviction that there is only one God and that Muhammad is His Prophet, large percentages of Muslims around the world share other articles of faith, including belief in angels, heaven, hell and fate (or predestination). While there is broad agreement on the core tenets of Islam, however, Muslims across the 39 countries and territories surveyed differ significantly in their levels of religious commitment, openness to multiple interpretations of their faith and acceptance of various sects and movements.
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Financial astrology supports what the world economists have been saying for years now. The US dollar is tanking, yet they just keep printing more and more currency which of course just devalues it even more.
Right now we're in the midst of a hugely transformative Pluto square Uranus aspect that has already changed the landscape of how we live our life. It started a two years ago, and will continue on through to the middle of 2015, with certain time periods being more intense than others.
Pluto in Capricorn symbolizes plutocracy in general, as well as major institutions, corporations, governments, the economy, the world central banking system and the IMF (international monetary fund).
Uranus, the planet of sudden change, revolution, breaking apart and of separation is challenging that Pluto. Countries are going bankrupt, people are losing their pensions, and some their homes.
This aspect is HUGE! This aspect changes everything. This aspect symbolizes the end of a certain mindset and way of living. The old world order (pluto) is being demolished for the new world order (uranus).
What's really happening is the end of the US dollar standard.
Here's a wonderfully informative video from financial expert Michael Maloney. He actually put out a series of them, 6 in all, explaining in a very calm and simple manner how the US dollar standard is ending and why, the history behind currency and their cycles, why the economy is tanking, the global picture, as well as the cycles of gold and silver and what is coming up in that regard. Wonderful video. Highly recommend. Watch it here . This is number 3 in a his series.
From a non astrological point of view - Robert Kiyosaki's (Rich Dad Poor Dad) seminars on YouTube are a clear and concise source of information. He is arguably one of the world's most successful investors, yet he is also an educator. He is trying to teach people how to work with the changes and not be left with nothing. He is not an astrologer (that I know of), but he speaks from experience. He recommends gold and silver, simply because its real money that has real value. Cash is trash, or it soon will be. He also reminds us that there is only about 6 years of silver left in the world. After that, its gone. At the rate India is buying it up though, it could be sooner than that.
And what about India? India has recently been buying up Silver bullion like there's no tomorrow. Last spring India bought up 250 tons of silver in one month, 500 tons the next, and eventually bought up 16% of the entire world silver market in 2013! Not much left for the rest of us, since Silver is a consumable product used in technology. Once its used, its gone.
And what about China? .There is speculation that they have secretly accummulated tons of gold - 5,000 tons. Much much more than most people thought. The Chinese know that the US dollar standard is coming to an end, and they are likely hoarding gold to back their own currency. This scenario will send the price of gold surging upward as well, and we may very well see a gold-backed Yuan in the future.
Robert Kiyosaki says - 'Cash is trash'. The US dollar is continuing to devalue, and at the rate that things are falling apart, he says it looks like 2016 will be when it tanks altogether.
Robert has a book out which goes into more detail about how to survive the coming rough years.
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He's pretty close when one looks at the astrological timing, but it will likely be well before 2016. We've got the most intense hit of all this coming April (Cardinal Grand Cross), then another exact hit in Dec of 2014, and then the last and final hit in March of 2015. That's when we will be looking at exactly what has irrevocably (Pluto) changed in our lives. Irrevocably meaning its over, its done and there is no going back.
In terms of timing, we still have the two business planets Saturn and Jupiter in a trine right now. This offers some small support in terms of the economy. But what happens when Jupiter enters Leo on July 26th and those two planets will then in a square aspect? That is the point where we may see things really start to go downhill economically. So, the April Grand Cross is one major timer, and the Jupiter sign change is another.


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U.K.'s Osborne: U.S. Policy Shift Undermines Labour's Stance on Deficits
WASHINGTON—U.S. President Barack Obama's new push to shrink the budget deficit has undermined the British Labour Party's opposition to the U.K. government's deficit-cutting plans, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne told journalists Friday.
U.K. Labour leaders, who are the main opposition to Prime Minister David Cameron's conservative government, have pointed to the Obama administration's emphasis on promoting growth over deficit cuts as a reason to doubt the wisdom of the sharp budget cuts being pursued by Messrs. Cameron and Osborne. But Mr. Obama this week laid out plans to cut the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years, a pace of deficit reduction that Mr. Osborne said is similar to the U.K.'s deficit goals.
"It does reinforce the point that the British Labour Party are really now entirely isolated, I think, from the international community in arguing against the kind of pace of deficit reduction that is taking place in many, many countries and a pace of deficit reduction that the president of the United States is now proposing for the U.S.," Mr. Osborne said, speaking in between a series of meetings on global financial issues here.
The U.K. plan aims to cut the deficit from 11.1% of gross domestic product in 2009-2010 to 1.5% of GDP in 2015-2016.
Mr. Osborne said that the euro zone's debt problems haven't been exacerbated by the austerity budgets that governments across the 17-nation currency bloc are putting in place. He singled out Spain for enacting deficit cuts that appear to have reassured financial markets.
Officials from the Group of 20 developed and emerging nations are meeting here to agree on criteria that will be used to create a list of "systemically important" countries. These countries will then be subject to heightened scrutiny by international financial institutions. The U.K., Mr. Osborne said, is almost certain to be on the list.
"I fully expect the U.K. to be one of those countries given our very high deficit and our high levels of private debt and rising levels of public debt," he said. "I'm very relaxed about that, because that is a situation that I inherited, and I think the plan we've put in place to deal with it is near-universally seen as credible."
Mr. Osborne said the U.K. and Germany want the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to expand its lending to Tunisia and Egypt to support their transition to democracy.
"We think it's sensible to bring the experience to bear of the EBRD into trying to stimulate the private economies of Tunisia and Egypt," he said.


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Berry aneurysms are passed down through families more often than other types of aneurysms. Other types of cerebral aneurysms involve widening of an entire blood vessel. Or, they may appear as a ballooning out of part of a blood vessel. Such aneurysms can occur in any blood vessel that supplies the brain. Atherosclerosis, trauma, and infection can all injure the blood vessel wall and cause cerebral aneurysms.AtherosclerosisHardening of the arteries, also called atherosclerosis, occurs when fat, cholesterol, and other substances build up in the walls of arteries. These ...Image Read Article Now Book Mark Article About 5% of people have a brain aneurysm, but only a small number of these aneurysms cause symptoms or rupture. Risk factors include: Family history of cerebral aneurysms Medical problems such as polycystic kidney disease, coarctation of the aorta, and endocarditisPolycystic kidney diseasePolycystic kidney disease is a kidney disorder passed down through families. 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Exams and Tests An eye exam may show signs of increased pressure in the brain, including swelling of the optic nerve or bleeding into the retina of the eye. A brain and nervous system exam may show abnormal eye movement, speech, strength, or sensation.The following tests may be used to diagnose a cerebral aneurysm and determine the cause of bleeding in the brain:Cerebral angiography or spiral CT scan angiography of the head to show the location and size of the aneurysm Cerebral angiographyCerebral angiography is a procedure that uses a special dye (contrast material) and x-rays to see how blood flows through the brain.Image Read Article Now Book Mark Article Cerebrospinal fluid exam (spinal tap) Cerebrospinal fluid examA CSF cell count is a test to measure the number of red and white blood cells that are in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). 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Read Article Now Book Mark Article Clipping is done during open brain surgery (craniotomy). Brain surgery (craniotomy)Brain surgery is an operation to treat problems in the brain and surrounding structures.Image Read Article Now Book Mark Article Endovascular repair is most often done. It usually involves a coil or coiling. This is a less invasive way to treat some aneurysms.If an aneurysm in the brain ruptures, it is an emergency that needs medical treatment and often requires surgery. Endovascular repair is often used when this happens.Even if there are no symptoms, your doctor may order treatment to prevent a future, and possibly fatal rupture.Not all aneurysms need to be treated right away. Those that are very small (less than 3 mm) are less likely to break open.Your doctor will help you decide whether or not it is safer to have surgery to block off the aneurysm before it can break open (rupture). Sometimes people are too ill to have surgery, or it may be too dangerous to treat the aneurysm because of its location.Treatment of a ruptured aneurysm may involve:Being admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) Complete bedrest and activity restrictions Drainage of blood from the brain area (cerebral ventricular drainage) Drugs to prevent seizures Drugs to control headaches and blood pressure Drugs through a vein (IV) to prevent infection Once the aneurysm is repaired, the person may need to prevent a stroke from a blood vessel spasm. Outlook (Prognosis) How well you do depends on many things. People who are in a deep coma after an aneurysm rupture do not do as well as those with less severe symptoms.Ruptured cerebral aneurysms are often deadly. Of those who survive, about 1 in 4 will have some sort of permanent disability. Possible Complications Increased pressure inside the skull Loss of movement in one or more parts of the body Loss of sensation of any part of the face or body Seizures Stroke StrokeA stroke occurs when blood flow to a part of the brain stops. A stroke is sometimes called a "brain attack. " If blood flow is cut off for longer th...Image Read Article Now Book Mark Article Subarachnoid hemorrhageSubarachnoid hemorrhageSubarachnoid hemorrhage is bleeding in the area between the brain and the thin tissues that cover the brain. This area is called the subarachnoid sp... Read Article Now Book Mark Article When to Contact a Medical Professional Go to the emergency room or call the local emergency number (such as 911) if you have a sudden or severe headache, especially if you also have nausea, vomiting, seizures, or any other nervous system symptom.Also call if you have a headache that is unusual for you, especially if it is severe or your worst headache ever. Prevention There is no known way to prevent a berry aneurysm from forming. Treating high blood pressure may reduce the chance that an existing aneurysm will rupture. Controlling risk factors for atherosclerosis may reduce the likelihood of some types of aneurysms. High blood pressureBlood pressure is a measurement of the force exerted against the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps blood to your body. Hypertension is the ...Image Read Article Now Book Mark Article People who are known to have an aneurysm may need regular doctor visits to make sure the aneurysm is not changing size or shape.If unruptured aneurysms are discovered in time, they can be treated before causing problems.The decision to repair an unruptured cerebral aneurysm is based on the size and location of the aneurysm, and the patient's age and general health. Open ReferencesReferencesBederson JB, Connolly ES Jr, Batjer HH, et al: American Heart Association Guidelines for the management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a statement for healthcare professionals from a special writing group of the Stroke Council, American Heart Association. Stroke. 2009;40:994-1025.Bowles E. Cerebral aneurysm and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Nurs Stand. 2014;28:52-59.Mack W, Dusick JR, Martin N, Gonzalez N. Principles of endovascular therapy. In: Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J, Mazziotta JC, eds. Bradley's Neurology in Clinical Practice. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 47.Meyers PM, Schumacher HC, Higashida RT, et al: American Heart Association. Indications for the performance of intracranial endovascular neurointerventional procedures: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention. 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Symptoms such as a severe headache, nausea, vomiting, vision changes or other neurological changes can indicate the aneurysm has ruptured and is bleeding into the brain. A ruptured intracranial aneurysm causes intracranial bleeding and is considered very dangerous.Cerebral aneurysmillustrationCerebral aneurysm - illustration An aneurysm is a sac-like protrusion of an artery caused by a weakened area within the vessel wall. If a cerebral (brain) aneurysm ruptures, the escaping blood within the brain may cause severe neurologic complications or death. A person who has a ruptured cerebral aneurysm may complain of the sudden onset of "the worst headache of my life."Cerebral aneurysmillustrationCerebral aneurysm - illustration Weakness, numbness, or other loss of nerve function may indicate that an aneurysm may be causing pressure on adjacent brain tissue. Symptoms such as a severe headache, nausea, vomiting, vision changes or other neurological changes can indicate the aneurysm has ruptured and is bleeding into the brain. A ruptured intracranial aneurysm causes intracranial bleeding and is considered very dangerous.Cerebral aneurysmillustrationRelated Information AneurysmIncidencePolycystic kidney diseaseCoarctation of the aortaStrokeEpilepsy - overviewMuscle function lossNormal pressure hydrocephalusEndovascular embolizationBrain surgeryHeadache - what to ask your doctor Brain aneurysm repair - dischargeStrokeEpilepsy Review Date: 7/27/2014 Reviewed By: Joseph V. Campellone, MD, Department of Neurology, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Isla Ogilvie, PhD, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team. The information provided herein should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. 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The MADG process
MADG is a process in which moisture is used to activate granule formation, without the need to apply heat to dry the granules. During this process, the generation of moist agglomerates is followed by the stepwise addition and blending of common pharmaceutical ingredients that absorb and distribute the moisture, which results in a uniform, free-flowing and compactable granulation.
There are two major stages in MADG: agglomeration and moisture distribution/absorption.
In moisture distribution/absorption, moisture absorbents, such as microcrystalline cellulose or silicon dioxide, are added while mixing continues. When they come into contact, the moisture absorbents pick up moisture from the moist agglomerates, resulting in moisture redistribution within the mixture. When this happens, the entire mixture becomes relatively dry. While some of the moisture is removed from the wet agglomerates, some of these agglomerates remain almost intact and some — usually the larger particles — may break up. This process results in granulation with more uniform particle size distribution.
The process continues with the addition of a disintegrant, such as crospovidone, to the mixture followed by blending for a few minutes. Then, while mixing, lubricant(s), such as magnesium stearate are added and blended for sufficient time to achieve adequate lubricity.
This completes the MADG granulation process.
Granule formation
The granule formation mechanism in MADG is the same as in conventional wet granulation. In both cases, it is a process of powder particle size enlargement, often in the presence of water and binders, through wet massing and kneading. The main differences between the two are the amount of granulating liquid used and the level of agglomeration achieved. In conventional wet granulation, substantially more water is utilised to create larger and wetter granules. This is then followed by heat drying to remove the excess water and milling to reduce the granule size.
In MADG, only a small amount of water is used to create agglomeration, followed by moisture distribution and absorption. Neither heat drying nor milling is required. Because the amount of water used in MADG is small (usually only 1–4% of the entire formulation), it is important that the water is delivered accurately and distributed uniformly during the agglomeration stage — this makes the selection of a spray system that provides accurate delivery and a well-defined spray pattern very important.
In terms of equipment, a high-shear granulator is more suitable for the MADG process, and an ideal machine should have efficient impellers/blades and choppers to allow good mass movement and proper mixing. It should also allow water to be sprayed only on the powder bed and not on the blades, choppers or granulator wall. Also, the blades and bowl configuration should be such that it does not allow "wet pockets" or "dead spots" to remain after the moisture distribution or absorption stage, which would then necessitate additional sizing and shifting of the granulation.


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Problems resaving PSD in CS3
Posted 14 October 2009 - 12:07 AM
"Could not open the file. An internal error ocurred."
And there is no way of reopening the png. It's happened with several different psd files, many times now.
Has anyone else run into this? any clues as to what it might de?
Posted 14 October 2009 - 07:14 AM
On this end, I've tried opening several PSDs, resaving to Fireworks PNG, and
then reopening the Fireworks PNG.
I've also tried editing one of the PSDs in Fireworks before resaving.
No troubles with any of them, sorry (?) to say.
I'm reopening the Fireworks PNG files from within FW using the Open command,
not from outside of FW.
This was on FW8 for Windows, on Win XP-Pro, 1.5GB RAM.
I saved the Fireworks PNG to the desktop in each case using the Save As
command before reopening them in FW.
What OS platform and Fireworks version are you running? (You mentioned
CS3 - Mac or Windows?)
Are there any commonalities you notice in the files themselves,
such as layer effects, text boxes or the lack of,
vector vs. bitmapped layers, the version of Photoshop or other
software originally used to create the PSDs, and so on?
Have you updated Fireworks CS3 to the latest build?
How about the location of the files you are opening and saving -
are they on your hard drive, or are they on removable storage?
Does this occur when you try and open the Fireworks PNG directly
from Explorer/Finder, or just when you're opening from within FW?
Hopefully with more information, we can begin to isolate your
Posted 15 October 2009 - 12:30 AM
A few more details:
I'm using Fireworks CS3 (184.108.40.2063- that should be the latest I think) on windows XP pro.
All my files (both the PSDs and the pngs ) are in my local harddrive.
I've tried to both open through the file dialog and drag the file into fireworks, it makes no difference.
I'm not too sure about the origins of the psd files, as invariably I get them from other designers. I have tried opening them in PS (CS4), and resavin, making sure "maximize compatibility" is set, and it makes no difference either.
I do believe it might have to do with PS effects, because the following happened too:
I copied and pasted several elements from the PSD into a new fireworks file. I saved, and could not reopen. But i I flattened each of the elements before saving, then there was no problem reopening the file.
I am attaching a test psd file, and the resulting unopenable png
thanks for the help!
Attached Files
Posted 15 October 2009 - 06:32 AM
I do believe it might have to do with PS effects, because the following happened too:
I copied and pasted several elements from the PSD into a new fireworks file. I saved, and could not reopen. But i I flattened each of the elements before saving, then there was no problem reopening the file.
There definitely seems to be something strange happening there with the layers
to which Photoshop Live Effects are applied. The funny thing is, only
gradient overlay effects have been applied to those layers.
I can't see why this would be a problem when exporting to FW PNG, but it is.
I came up with the exact same results when testing your file in FW CS3 for Mac.
The application crashed when I tried to open the resulting Fireworks PNG file.
However, when I flatten each layers containing PS Live Effects,
the file seems to open without problems. So we can deduce that there is some
problem with using Photoshop Live Effects and making the transition from
PSD to FW PNG.
The folder icons could just as easily be done using simple vector shapes
and vector gradients in FW - no need to use PS live effects for those anyway.
But maybe the simplest thing for now is just to flatten the layers with
PS Live effects - that seems to work ;-)
Posted 16 October 2009 - 12:44 AM
I agree, there's much easier ways of doing those things in fw, but these are files i get, done by someone else that has not yet seen the light of fireworks .
And they're often complex designs with loads of layers, so it'll be a drag to flatten the necessary ones, but at least now I know what the problem is and how I can solve it.
Can anyone with CS4 please test if the same happens?
Posted 16 October 2009 - 04:26 AM
Can anyone with CS4 please test if the same happens?
I've tested the file on FW CS4 for Mac.
CS4 offers quite a few more options for PSD import and export,
and does not exhibit the same problems as CS3 (although there
seem to be some layout problems when the PSD file is
exported to FW PNG that I couldn't work out).
Here is a screenshot of the options available in CS4 for
handling PSD files. These options aren't available in CS3.
Overall, it seems like you might have a lot better time handling PSDs
with CS4 than with CS3. (Almost makes me want to make the switch...)
Posted 19 October 2009 - 02:19 AM
Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out, Jeff. Now that I understand the problem better, I can find workarounds until I upgrade
Posted 19 October 2009 - 04:26 AM
Hm, yea, makes me want to switch too, but at this point, I think it makes more sense to wait for CS5.
Normally I would really be able to sympathize with what you're saying about upgrades.
I myself was quite hesitant to upgrade to CS4, considering that it was just released
about four or five months after I'd purchased CS3. The last thing I wanted to do was
to sink another USD$2000 or the likes into a new version.
Lately, however, I realized that there can be advantages to purchasing software several
months after release. Usually after the six-month mark is passed, quite a few bugs
and problems are ironed out through intense user scrutiny, and the product is much more
stable and mature. CS4 has actually been out for just over a year now, and
CS3 was released in early 2007, just about a year-and-a-half prior.
The problem with Adobe is that they stop the product update cycle for the previous
version, soon after the latest version is released. What this means to us is that
we have to purchase the upgrade version of the newest product to stay current with the
latest bug fixes. (For instance, Adobe only released two updates for
Illustrator CS3, and they have stated that they are not going to spend time
and resources trying to iron out the rough spots and the compatibility issues
with Snow Leopard.)
But it also means that there may be quality issues and bugs with the functionality
in the latest versions that we have to live with.
As far as PSD functionality goes, we've definitely seen that CS4 offers better
functionality than FW CS3. It will be interesting to see if the functionality is
improved in CS5. But we'll have to wait until next March or so to find out, I imagine.
Posted 13 September 2011 - 01:10 PM
For resolving out troubles with photoshop files you can use current application. recovery photoshop has many various capabilities for resolving out given problem for short time. The software can show the results of working with psd files.
It's happened to me many times now. I open a PSD without problems, edit,save as FW png. Then when I try to reopen the file, I get the error:
"Could not open the file. An internal error ocurred."
And there is no way of reopening the png. It's happened with several different psd files, many times now.
Has anyone else run into this? any clues as to what it might de?
Posted 13 September 2011 - 07:59 PM


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Materials 2012, 5(11), 2383-2402; doi:10.3390/ma5112383
Nopal Cactus (Opuntia Ficus-Indica) as a Holographic Material
1 Optical Department, National Institute of Astrophysics Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Luis Enrique Erro No.1, Tonantzintla, Puebla 72840, Mexico 2 Engineering Faculty, Autonomous University of Puebla, Puebla 72000, Mexico
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AbstractThe nopal cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) releases a substance through its mucilage, which comes from the degradation of pectic substances and chlorophyll. Combined in a polyvinyl alcohol matrix, this substance can be used as a recording medium. The resulting extract material has excellent photosensitizer properties, is easy to handle, has a low cost, and low toxicity. This material has the property of self-developing, and it can be used in holographic applications. The polyvinyl alcohol and extract from the nopal cactus was deposited by a gravity technique on a glass substrate, which dried to form a photosensitive emulsion. We show experimental results on a holographic grating using this material, written by a He-Cd laser (442 nm). We obtained diffraction gratings by transmission with a diffraction efficiency of approximately 32.3% to first order.
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From The Ark - Number 190 - Spring 2002
The Shame of Spain
In the village of Tordesillas, near Valladolid, preparations and minor celebrations begin on the feast of Our Ladyĺs Assumption, 15th August. The names are drawn of the bulls to be used during the bull-fighting season, including that of the victim for the notorious ĹToro de Vegaĺ (Bull of the Fertile Valley) to be held annually on 11th September. The one chosen for 2001 was Linosˇ, a black six-year old bull, weighing 680 kilos and raised on the cattle ranch of the Cardenilla de Cßceres.
In the second week of September the main celebrations of Tordesillas begin in honour to the local areaĺs patron, Our Lady the Virgin of the Rock. The main event is on the Tuesday, with the Toro de Vega. This unique bullfighting Ĺspectacleĺ has been celebrated for centuries, a descendant of the ancient pagan bullfighting ritual of Spain, the Alanceamiento of the Toro, practised before the introduction of todayĺs standard bullfights in the 18th century.
In the morning of Tuesday, at about 11 oĺclock, the bull is released from a lorry in the townĺs centre. The crowd, armed with lances and daggers, chases the bull through the streets along the traditional route to the townĺs bridge. Once across the bridge, the bull meets its fate. Waiting for him in a designated area of the valley is a further crowd provided with lances. The Ĺsportĺ is to stab the bull repeatedly until it dies of blood loss and stress - a death which takes usually about 35 minutes to bring about. Last year Linosˇ, surrounded by people spearing him on both sides, suffered the torment for more than twenty minutes before finally collapsing in agony and dying. The bull the year before had a spear driven through its entire body which remained embedded in the animal for 35 minutes as the bloody frenzy continued.
Until recently, the person who had been able to give the fatal lance-thrust, the Ĺlanzazo mortalĺ, had the right to remove the bullĺs testicles and to parade them with pride on the end of his lance. (Some Ĺwinnersĺ still do.) Now the town council grants a gold standard to the winner and honours him with a forged iron lance. According to local media reports, the 2001 fiesta was praised by organisers as a success. ĹThe competitors decided that they were all victors and that the winner was Tordesillas town. The general feeling of the participants was that they had enjoyed a clean tournament, the cleanest for many years, and that the fiesta took place with excitement and respect for tradition.ĺ
However, Spainĺs National Association for Animal Protection and Welfare (ANBPA) described the fiesta as Ĺabhorrent, shameful and a horrendous crime in which a horde armed with spears, whose blades measure 35 centimetres, hound an animal with the sole purpose of spearing it in any part of its body until they kill it ... The local government is justifying a cruelty, thus showing its backward nature and unworthiness to be governing a people who have shown that they are against animals suffering in events involving bulls.ĺ
This is a view that is shared by the majority of Spaniards. An opinion poll showed that 59 per cent view the Toro de Vega as Ĺmurderousĺ while only 13 per cent see it as a tradition worth keeping.
However, to protect their right to continue the Toro de Vega torture, despite the huge campaign from animal welfare organisations world-wide, the town council of Tordesillas applied to the government of Castilla and Leˇn to have it declared a Ĺtraditional spectacleĺ. So now it can no longer be subject to prosecution in the courts by animal protection organisations. International pressure is needed to inform the government that animal abuse cannot and will not be justified in the name of tradition.
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Howard Payne University wants students to be aware of college rape, sexual assault dangers
BROWNWOOD, Texas - President Obama is urging colleges to step up their game to reduce the number of rapes and sexual assaults on campus.
Howard Payne University Dean of Students Brent Marsh said there haven't been any reported cases at HPU, but he still wants students to be educated and feel safe. He said awareness is key.
"We all just need to be vigilant," Marsh said. "We all need to be aware and alert, and just have respect and care for one another.
According to a recent White House report, one out of five female students have been assaulted on college campuses. However, only one out of eight of them are reported. Alcohol and drugs can sometimes be a factor in these incidents. Often, the victim knows the perpetrator.
"I think because of fear and other reasons, those rape incidents go unreported and that needs to change," Marsh said.
Marsh said students can turn to resident directors, university counselors and nurses, and campus police for help and guidance.
There will be a seminar at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, in the women's dorm, where all female students are invited to come discuss the issue of rape and sexual assault, learn about campus resources and ask any questions they may have.
"I want our women to have a voice on campus and I want them to feel empowered," Harvey said. "Some of them might think that rape is a bad word or that it's a faux pas thing, but it's ok to talk about these things. They happen. It doesn't make you less of a woman, less of a person ... it just means let's handle it."
Marsh said there are many student leaders and faculty who go through trainings so they know how to handle and investigate allegations of sexual assault.
"I feel like Howard Payne is very well-prepared for those kinds of incidents," Marsh said. "That's just not something we tolerate. We don't treat people that way. If these incidents occur, they need to report it. That allows us to do the appropriate follow-up as a university to respond."
Be confident and trust your instincts. If something doesn't feel right, it probably isn't. If you feel uncomfortable, speak up. Understand that no means no.
"People need to be sensitive to and respect other people's feelings," Marsh said.


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This 8-page booklet provides you with a useful walk through of how to respond to immigration raids and assert your rights. It includes a "right to remain silent" card. Protect Yourself from Immigration Raids, produced by CASA of Maryland, is also known as the "Know Your Rights" booklet.
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MakovskyThursday, October 11, 2012
I recently had the good fortune to hear Adam Lashinsky, an editor at Fortune Magazine and the author of the relatively new book, Inside Apple, speak about many of the principles revealed in his book. This is particularly timely because October 5th was the first anniversary of Steve Job's passing.
Overall, Lashinsky confirms our perception that Apple breaks rules and does things differently. Below I state a few of the other points I found particularly interesting:
•Apple Managers Micromanage. Steve Jobs was a micromanager and he expected his managers to "micro" too. Adam spoke of a press release that went through an editing process of 17 iterations — with one person.
•Apple is a Very Secretive Culture. Apple management does not want customers, competitors or employees not involved in a particular project to know what is going on. Thus, it is important to keep things secret inside as well as out. Employees do not chit-chat about what they are doing with others. You need to badge in and out of locked-down rooms, where secret projects are under way. Everyone in a meeting needs to be "disclosed" on the topic, if they do not badge in. Jobs threatened to publically fire anyone who violated an employment agreement.
•Apple Sweats the Details. There were 100s of design approaches considered for the iPhone. Sound quality was tested extensively, as was the packaging, how it would be wrapped. The story of whether there should be a plastic or glass screen is legendary. Jobs believed that, in the end, customers don't know what they want, but "we do!"
•Apple Always Appoints a DRI. At every meeting where any project is discussed, Apple always identifies a Direct Responsibility Individual, the guy who is going to oversee getting it done.
•Apple Spends Whatever It Takes to Communicate Right. Lashinsky cited a 30-second wedding video clip that was going to be shown at Macworld. Jobs felt the video submitted was too serious, and he wanted a lighter feel that only Hawaii would bring. So Apple went to a talent agency and found a model who was actually getting married on a Hawaiian beach, sent a crew to shoot it, and he got the mood he wanted.
Many more interesting and relevant points were made. Admittedly, some contrarian principles may only work for Apple and not necessarily for everyone else, but they are worth examining. I urge you to read the book and discover more for yourself!


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KANSAS CITY - Frank Watson, 87, died Jan. 7, 2004.
Born May 4, 1916, in East Prairie, son of the late Charles F. and Ruth Barnhill Watson, he was a U.S. Army Air Force veteran of World War II. He was a mechanic for TWA Airlines in Kansas City for more than 30 years.
Survivors include: one brother and sister-in-law, Paul Davis and Virginia Watson of St. Louis; and three nephews, Paul Davis Watson Jr., Michael Kerner and David Chunn.
He was preceded in death by three sisters, Dorothea Kerner, Helen Chunn and Thelma Watson.
Graveside services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery with Berl Britt officiating.
Shelby Funeral Home of East Prairie is in charge of arrangements.


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A new wrinkle in criminal annuals, in which a burglar systematically kept books on what he stole and what he expected to steal, has been unearthed by the local police force in the capture of Frank Kelly, a young man of 23, who has resided some time on West Eleventh Street. Officers Mego and Cady nabbed the man as he was attempting to break into Scheiffelin's Grocery on Central Avenue.
Kelly, after his capture made a full confession and produced his "books." Here is a list of all he has stolen, together with the dates on which he broke into the places. Opposite the list is the price of each. At his home at 710 West Eleventh Street the officers found more than two wagonloads of loot.
Kelly's list of stolen articles is unique. It looks like a bill for groceries and is very complete. Here is a sample page:
"Bencom Co. Defunct"
"January 24, 1913: 1 pd. salmon, 15; 1 pd. mushrooms, 25; 1 pd. asparagus, 25; 1 can Postum, 10; 4 cans oysters, 60; 1 can shrimp, 15; 3 cans clams, 45; 6 tamales, 75; 3 cans chicken, 90; 2 cans caviar, 80; 5 boxes candy, $1; 1 bx Cubanala cigars, $2.
"Kidd's Shoe Store"
"January 28: 1 pr Eng Bal Hanan tan $5: 1 pr Wyenberg heavy, $3; 1 pr Ladies Cot hose, 25".
This is just a sample from his books. He has "accounts" with Werner Wortman & Gore, B&C Cash Store, the public library where he stole oil, Big Pines Lumber Company and a number of orchard companies in the valley. He also had a list of what he intended to steal.
Kelly states that he knows nothing of the robbery of the Smoke House the other night.
The young man has made a complete confession covering all his operations. He has not sold any of the supplies he secured.
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Indictment has Rick Perry reaching out to former adversaries – a trial lawyer and a Clinton advisor – for help
Now that he's been indicted, who's Rick Perry gonna call? Turns out, the kind of folks he's spent his political career demonIzing. For years, Perry has targeted trial lawyers and partisan Democrats of the Clinton-Gore ilk as favorite subjects of derision. Perry has been been a beneficiary of groups like Texans for Lawsuit Reform, which has waged war against personal-injury trial lawyers by curbing lawsuits against business. And Perry has emerged in the last decade as a reliable conservative critic of Democrats.
What a difference an indictment makes. Now that he's facing felony charges of abusing his power, Perry has hired one of the state's premier trial lawyers- Tony Buzbee of Houston — to head his legal team. Buzbee has made a fortune suing businsses, including a multimillion verdict representing oil rig workers against BP. Although a trial lawyer, Buzbee has been a Perry campaign contributor.
Now, Politico reports that Perry has added political strategist and lawyer Mark Fabiani to his legal effort. Fabiani is a communications expert known for his aggressive, rapid-response strategy representing President Bill Clinton from 1994-96. He also worked for Al Gore's 2000 campaign. When the going gets tough, you go where the talent is.
Here's what Politico reports today
L]ead attorney Tony Buzbee announced the addition of Mark Fabiani to Governor Rick Perry's legal team. Mark Fabiani joins Buzbee, Ben Ginsberg, Justice Tom Phillips, Bobby Burchfield and David Botsford. 'I'm proud to join Gov. Perry's outstanding team which has been assembled to fight back against this attack on the rule of law,' Mark Fabiani said.


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|THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION spent the winter of 1804-05 at Fort Mandan, in North Dakota. In the spring the captains sent a large shipment down the Missouri to St. Louis, addressed to President Thomas Jefferson in Washington. They enclosed journals, field notes, and maps; astronomical observations, ethnographic information, a "statement of rivers, creeks, and most remarkable places"; boxes containing animals' skins and bones; samples of minerals; and cages with four live magpies and a prairie dog. Box four contained over sixty plant specimens, including bur oak and coneflower.


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Leona "Elizabeth" Parsons Cooper, 95, a resident of the Holly Meadows community, Parsons, departed this life Thursday morning, March 1, 2012, in Davis Memorial Hospital at Elkins.
She was born Tuesday, Aug. 29, 1916, at Cass, a daughter of the late Norval Russell and Tacy Katherine Bennett Parsons.
On Aug. 30, 1933, at Oakland, Md., she was married to Byron Cooper, who preceded her in death March 19, 1986.
Surviving are one son, Robert "Bob" Cooper and wife, Suzie, of Holly Meadows; one daughter, Lois Ann Stiles and husband, Allen, of Elkins; five granddaughters, Karen, Joy, Sherry, Chelsa and Roberta; seven great-grandsons, Wesley, Travis, Byron, Jeremy, Jacob, Zachary and Aaron; and one great-great-grandson, Taliesin.
Preceding her in death were three brothers, Dyer Parsons, Charles Parsons and Eugene Parsons; and one sister, Irene Harman.
She attended the schools of Randolph and Tucker County. She was a member of the St. George United Methodist Church. She along with her husband owned and operated the Cooper Farm at Holly Meadows for more than 30 years. She enjoyed needlework and traveling. She was an avid cook and liked to make pies and spend time with her family and friends.
The family will receive friends at Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Parsons on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. Final rites will be conducted at the funeral home parlor on Sunday, March 4, at 1:30 p.m. The Rev. Neil Precht will officiate and interment will follow in Bethel Cemetery at Holly Meadows.
Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements for Leona "Elizabeth" Parsons Cooper. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.lohrbarbfuneralhome.com.


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Hornets break losing streak with win over Kings
Davis, Gordon lead Hornets past Kings 110-95
Anthony Davis had 20 points and eight rebounds, and Eric Gordon added 17 points and eight assists to lead the New Orleans Hornets to a 110-95 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Sunday.
Ryan Anderson scored 17 points, Roger Mason had 13, and Robin Lopez and Greivis Vasquez 12 apiece for New Orleans, which won its first game since an 0-3 start following the All-Star break. The Hornets also improved to 18-12 when holding opponents below 100 points.
John Salmons scored all 18 of his points in the second half for the Kings. Jason Thompson, DeMarcus Cousins and Isaiah Thomas each added 16 as Sacramento lost its fifth consecutive overall and eighth straight on the road.
Tyreke Evans and Marcus Thornton had 12 points each for Sacramento.
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A 2008 Transportation Bond ProjectThis transportation sidewalk project is being built as part of the City's Capital Investment Plan to improve the quality of life of its residents, visitors, and businesses. The project will consist of 6' sidewalk (7' back of curb), typical 8' planting strips, storm drainage, high visibility crosswalks, pedestrian refuge, pedestrian signals and landscaping (where applicable).
The project limits are along Providence Road from Mammoth Oaks Drive to East Barden Road as shown below.


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KIRKLAND, Wash. — Northwest University made a short-handed Southern Oregon volleyball team work Friday, but Paulla Pinheiro put down 19 kills to make sure the Raiders escaped with a four-set Cascade Conference win.
Playing without injured middles Emma Gasman and Sam Boehnke, Pinheiro picked up the slack by attacking at a .357 clip and Mona Goudarzian piled up 13 kills and 17 digs in the 25-23, 25-13, 21-25, 25-13 decision.
The Raiders (14-7, 10-3 CCC) have won six straight overall and 21 in a row against Northwest (7-16, 3-10).
SOU had to hold off the Eagles in the first set when they tied the score at 21-all with six straight points, but three NU errors and Pinheiro's kill put the Raiders in the driver's seat for good. After the Raiders' third-set loss, they took 21 of the first 28 points in the fourth.
Nikki Keller led SOU in the middle with nine kills on 18 swings. She and Abbie Hanser both assisted five blocks to help limit NU to .068 hitting. Gasman, the most efficient hitter in the league, was injured in practice before the Raiders departed for Washington on Thursday and Boehnke went down a week earlier.
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BEAVER CLASSIC — At Corvallis, Eric Avila won his second straight race for second-ranked Southern Oregon.
Avila, a junior from Chula Vista, Calif., clocked his best time of the season by hitting the finish line of the 8,000-meter race in 24 minutes, 15 seconds. His performance came on the heels of a 30-second win last week at the Lewis & Clark Invitational.
The Raider men finished second as a team to University of Portland's B squad, 38-34. Northwest Christian won the women's race and 22nd-ranked SOU was fourth.
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|George Sand; George Sand; George Sand; George Sand
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Elizabeth Harlan
|0300104170 9780300104172
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|xx, 376 pages ; 24 cm
|Foundations and fault lines --
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Marriage, motherhood, and misgivings --The daughter's demise --
War and peace.
|Elizabeth Harlan.
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An engrossing biography that unravels the mystery of nineteenth-century France's most prominent woman. George Sand was the most famous -and most scandalous- woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific-she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such figures as Musset and Chopin. Her affair with Chopin is the most notorious: their nine-year relationship ended in 1847 when Sand began to suspect that the composer had fallen in love with her daughter, Solange. Drawing on archival sources -much of it neglected by Sand's previous biographers- Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity and identity that haunt Sand's writing and defined her life. Why was Sand's relationship with her daughter so fraught? Why was a woman so famous for her personal and literary audacity ultimately so conflicted about women's liberation? In an effort to solve the riddle of Sand's identity, Harlan examines a latticework of lives that include Solange, Sand's mother and grandmother, and Sand's own protagonists, whose stories amplify her own.
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New Outreach Program: Reflect on This
Before we get to our latest program, thank you to all who attended the third session of the Summer Teacher Workshops, our largest group yet. We hope everyone has had a terrific start to the school year!
Thanks to the continued funding of the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation, we are pleased to announce our newest outreach program, Reflect on This, which starts in October 2012, exclusively for northern lower-peninsula Michigan middle school students. For information about Reflect on This or to register to have us come out to your school, please visit our Programs page.
We look forward to visiting or hearing from you soon!
Art and Science Summer Teacher Workshops: Sessions 1 and 2
Thank you so much to all the teachers who attended sessions 1 and 2 of our first ever Cranbrook Art and Science on the Go Summer Teacher Workshops 2012! This free educators' program, which was funded by the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation played host to K-12 teachers from the northern half of the lower peninsula of Michigan. We are currently receiving feedback from these sessions and overall everything has been very positive! All teachers who attended gave us the highest rating of "very good" for their overall experience and also all said that they would be "very likely" to recommend the workshops to a colleague. (We're glad everyone had a good time with us!) Here are some of the comments we're received so far from educators who attended…
This has been the BEST professional development I have ever been to! (12 years) I have so many new ideas and I LOVE that you put it all on a jump drive for us when we have forgotten details!
I think a great job was done by all! I appreciated the way we were treated as professionals, the acceptance of our opinions + suggestions, the mix of hands on and differentiated instruction and the lengths the instructors went to in explaining all of the possible connections. All of the instructors were extremely knowledgeable and it was great having some of the sessions taught by the directors. Their involvement showed the sincerity of the mission of this workshop.
It was very well executed. The facilitators and all instructors were kind, knowledgeable and enthusiastic about their subject area. It was a bit intense in the time/info area, but I understand you were making the most of every moment! It was awesome. I hope you continue this conference. Thank you.
We look forward to meeting and working with all the teachers that will be attending our completely filled 3rd session in August!
Updates and workshops
After 4 months of travel throughout northern Michigan, Cu in Michigan comes to close. We were able to travel to 14 schools, reached 2754 students, and traveled almost 5500 miles! Thank you to all the principals, teachers and students for letting us visit and for all your wonderfully positive feedback!
We are currently working on ASoG's next program on light and color which will be available September 2012. Watch your email, snail mail, and our website for more information and to find out how to reserve your spot this fall!
In the meanwhile, ASoG is keeping busy with our Summer Teacher Workshops. We're inviting northern Michigan K-12 teachers to join us this summer on Cranbrook's campus in Bloomfield Hills for a free four-day teacher workshop. Through a generous grant from The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation, housing, meals and materials will be provided. Currently there are two sessions open; the first running from June 11 to 14 and the second running from June 18 to 21.
To find more information and to register, visit the ASoG Teacher Workshop page at http://science.cranbrook.edu/for-teachers/asog/workshops.
Welcome to Cranbrook Art and Science on the Go!
After three weeks of travel across northern Michigan, we are glad to have a chance provide an update on Cranbrook Art and Science on the Go. So far, we have traveled to six schools, reached 813 students, and traveled nearly 2000 miles. Response from teachers and students to our first program, Cu in Michigan, has been overwhelmigly positive. We look forward to visiting the next round of schools!
We are currently finalizing a schedule for the Summer Teacher Workshops, preparing materials for the current program, and starting to think about the fall program. Teachers have given us many ideas, but we are leaning towards Light and Color as the next topic for investigation. What do you think?
Many thanks to Mike Narlock for setting up this website!