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FLINT, MI -- More than 400 runners participated in the Team Challenge event this year for the HealthPlus Crim Festival of Races 10-mile race.
Teams of five to ten people were eligible to sign up for the challenge, and participants were rewarded with free beer and food from Temple Dining Room at the after party hosted by MLive-Flint Journal at its office on Saginaw Street in downtown Flint.
Like the Crim festival, the Team Challenge event was larger than last year. In all, the Crim festival drew more than 15,000 runners and an estimated 60,000 people downtown.
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Secondary Endosymbiosis
A process in eukaruotic evolution in which a heterotrophic eukaryotic cell engulfed a photosynthetic euk. cell, which survived in a symbiotic relationship inside the heterotrophic cell.
May have originated by sec. endosymbiosis; includes some of the most important photsynthetic organisms on earth.
Cite 4 examples of structural and functional diversity among protists.
-unicellular, colonial, or multicellular
-photoautotrophs, heterotrophs, and mixotrophs
-produce asexually, sexually, or both
-diverse physical forms and adaptations
Summarize the role of endosymbiosis in eukaryotic evolution
strong evidence shows that eukaryotes acquired mitochondria after an early eukaryote first engulfed and then formed an endosymbiotic association with an alpha proteobacterium. Sililarly, chloroplasts in red and green algae appear to have descended from a photsynthetic cyanobacterium that was engulfed by an ancient hetertrophic eukaryote. SEcondaru endosymbiosis also played an important role: Various protist lineages acquired plastids by engulfing unicellular red or green algae.
Why do some biologists describe the mitochondria of diplomonads and parabasalids as "highly reduced?"
Their mitochondria do not have an electron trasnport chain and so cannot funciton in aerobic respiration.
Protists that are surrounded by more than two membranes are evidence of:
a. evolution from mitochondria
b.fusion of plastids
c. origin of the plastids from archaea
d. secondary endosymbiosis
e. budding of the plastids from the nuclear envelope
d. secondary endosymbiosis
Biologists suspect that endosymbiosis gave rise to mitochondria before plastids because:
all eukaryotes have mitochondria (or their remnants) whereas many eularyotes do not have plastids
Which group is incorrectly paired with its description:
a. rhizarians- morphologically diverse group define by dna similarities
b. diatoms- important producers in aquatic communities
c. red algae- acquired plastids by secondary endosymbiosis
d. apicomplexans- parasites with intricate life cycles
e. diplomonads- protists with modified mitochondria
red algae did not acquire plastids by secondary endosymbiosis

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A policeman points at the crime scene following a bomb blast in Bangkok yesterday.
BANGKOK: A bomb killed two people and wounded at least 22 in a busy shopping district of the Thai capital yesterday, hours after supporters of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra promised to get tough with demonstrators paralysing parts of the city.
But it was not immediately clear who was responsible.
The bomb exploded near one of the few large protest sites remaining, leaving a trail of blood and sandals on the streets of the popular Rachaprasong shopping area, much of it in front of a store selling tee-shirts emblazoned "Land of Smile".
Three children suffered serious head injuries, Erawan Medical Centre, which monitors hospitals, said. One died.
"One boy who we understand was 12 years old has died from injuries sustained in the blast. Another child is undergoing an operation and a third child is still in the emergency room with us," a nurse at Ramathibodi Hospital in central Bangkok, who declined to be identified, told Reuters.
Erawan said a 40-year-old woman was also killed.
In a statement on Facebook, Yingluck, who has not been seen in public for days, branded the violence terrorism.
"I strongly condemn the use of violence in recent days ... since the lives of children were lost," she said. "The violent incidents are terrorist acts for political gains without regard for human life."
The crisis pits mostly middle-class anti-government protesters from Bangkok and the south against supporters of Yingluck from the rural north and northeast of the country.
Both sides have blamed the other for instigating violence. Armed provocateurs have a history of trying to stir tension in politically polarized Thailand and both protesters and the police have also blamed violence on shadowy third parties.
Leaders of the pro-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) had vowed to "deal with" anti-government leader Suthep Thaugsuban, setting the scene for possible confrontation between pro- and anti-government groups.
"This fight will be harder than any other ... You must think how we can deal with Suthep and those supporting him," Jatuporn Prompan, a UDD leader and senior member of the ruling Puea Thai Party, told thousands of cheering supporters in Nakhon Ratchasima, northeast of the capital.
It was unclear whether Jatuporn was calling for an armed struggle, but he was speaking just hours after gunmen shot at an anti-government protest stage and threw explosive devices in the Khao Saming district of the eastern province of Trat, killing a five-year-old girl and wounding 41 people.
Anti-government protesters have blocked main Bangkok intersections for weeks with tents, tyres and sandbags, seeking to unseat Yingluck and halt the influence of her billionaire brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, an ousted former premier regarded by many as the real power behind the government.
The protests are the biggest since deadly political unrest in 2010, when Thaksin's "red shirt" supporters paralysed Bangkok in an attempt to remove a government led by the Democrat Party, now the opposition.
More than 90 people were killed and 2,000 wounded when Suthep, at the time a deputy prime minister, sent in troops.
Presenting a further headache for Yingluck, Thailand's anti-corruption body filed charges against her last week over a rice subsidy scheme that has left hundreds of farmers, her natural backers, unpaid.
Yingluck is due to hear the charges on Thursday.
The UDD was formed in 2008 as a counter-force to the yellow-shirted anti-Thaksin People's Alliance for Democracy group.


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SALEM - Richard Oscar Clay, 83, of Perry Township, Salem, died Tuesday afternoon at his home.
He was born on July 31, 1929, in Green Township, Mahoning County, Ohio to the late Oscar and Dorothy (Schaal) Clay.
He was a brick mason with the Brick Layers Union # 8 and a member of the Corvette Club.
He is survived by his children, Susan Frederburg of Arlington, Va., Nancy (husband Donald) Chace of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Gerald (Wife Sandra) Clay of Homeworth; siblings, Roger (Wife Sharon) Clay of Salem and Karen Conrad of Alliance; the grandchildren, Laurie Paz, Sean and Lindsay Frederburg and Jessica Chace; the great-grandchildren, Ben, Ethan and Gracie Paz.
In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his wife, the former Mary Louise Meier, on July 30, 2009, a son Richard Clay, and a sister, Jean Taylor.
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Acer Aspire E1-472G-6844
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Source: Techradar
If you were considering the E1 for a budget buy, ask yourself: are these compromises that you can live with? Maybe you'll get used to the touchpad's quirks after a few weeks, and you don't care what Frankie Muniz's ugly face looks like on Netflix, as long as you can get online, write that report, and play some Hotline Miami. Then the Acer Aspire E1 might be for you. But with better-priced rivals out there, the competition is steep. Frankly, you might be better off finding a budget laptop on which it's easier to scroll up and down.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/15/2014
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Source: CNet
The Acer Aspire E1-472G is a laptop I'm sure I've seen before somewhere. The déjà vu occurred the moment I first snapped open its plastic lid. Acer's variation on the budget E1-472G Aspire laptop has good guts but an underwhelming exterior and design, and also lacks a touch screen. Nvidia graphics add a boost.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/28/2014
Rating: Total score: 69% performance: 80% mobility: 60%
Source: Digital Trends
The Acer Aspire E1 may have some of the latest hardware from Intel and Nvidia, but it remains a laptop that's rooted in the past. A lackluster display, poor battery life and a thick, bulky chassis make the E1 feel as if it was designed a few years ago. In today's era of sleek Ultrabooks, it feels positively archaic.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/28/2014
Rating: Total score: 50%
Source: PC Mag
At this price, the lack of a touch screen seems like an omission, and it combines with the spotty gesture support of the touchpad to make this a poor laptop for Windows 8.1, especially for anyone new to the operating system. The Editors' Choice Dell Inspiron 14R-5437$649.99 at Dell offers better performance, longer battery life, and a fuller feature set, for a similar price, remaining our top pick in the category. That said, if you are comfortable with the small sacrifices necessary for a budget-friendly system, the Aspire E1-472G-6844 does offer great graphics prowess in the same general price range, so it may be worth considering.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 03/26/2014
Rating: Total score: 60%
NVIDIA GeForce 820M:
Entry level 28nm Fermi GPU from the GeForce 800M series based on the GT 620M and 710M.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
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Haswell-based ULV dual-core processor clocked at 1.6 GHz with Turbo Boost support up to 2.6 GHz. Offers an integrated HD Graphics 4400 and a dual-channel DDR3 memory controller.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
Above all, this display size is used for subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles. For all three types, this size is quite large. The biggest variety of subnotebooks is represented with this size.
Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.1 kg:
Usually subnotebooks, ultrabooks and quite lightweight laptops with 12-16 inch display-diagonal weigh as much.
Acer: Acer Incorporated is a Taiwanese multinational electronics manufacturer. Its product lineup includes desktops and laptops, as well as personal digital assistants (PDAs), servers and storage, displays, peripherals, and e-business services for business, government, education, and home users. Acer is the third largest computer manufacturer in the world (by sales) after HP and Dell Inc (2007). The company owns the largest franchised computer retail chain in Taipei, Taiwan. Originally named Multitech, it was founded in 1976. Gateway and Packard Bell are economically connected with Acer. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %
57.25%: Such a bad rating is rare. There exist hardly any notebooks, which are rated worse.
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With a fireworks festival, parties and a trip to an onsen (hot spring) lined up for him to enjoy, Conor McDavid is sure hoping he can spend a week in Japan this summer.
After all, the Grade 12 Lindsay Thurber High School student has earned the perks he is in line to receive.
In April, McDavid competed in a high school speech competition, in Japanese, and ended up winning top prize among Alberta high schoolers.
It was not until a month later, though, that he was notified that he had been chosen as the top speech-giver in all of Canada and thus had earned the opportunity to rehash his speech in the Land of the Rising Sun itself.
The provincial competition was the first time he had given a Japanese speech in front of judges.
He said his teacher, Miriam Irons, has consistently pushed him to show off his language skills.
"It started with a song. I sang a Japanese song in front of the school at an assembly. I thought 'Wow, I like spreading my Japanese and bringing it out there,'" explained McDavid.
McDavid's long-held passion for Japanese anime helped inspire his speech, which looked at the interconnectivity and differences between Japan and Canada, particularly when it comes to video games.
He said the Japanese tend to enjoy well-developed stories in the games they play, because they are a largely homogeneous society.
"When they work on stuff they work hard and they work together. So if you go to a game company, you won't see it littered with Americans, it'll always be Japanese dedicated workers that are putting the story in, making it more enjoyable," stated McDavid.
To participate in the trip organized by a Japanese non-profit organization, though, McDavid now has to raise some funds to cover airfare costs. He said the organizers cover the participant costs while in Japan, but they want to see if the students are committed enough to get to that stage by having them seek sponsors to cover transportation costs.
Should he make it there, he will be representing Canada amongst a group of 16 international students at the 18th Annual Japanese Speech Competition in Tokyo.
While graduating from high school this year, McDavid will attend a Japanese high school for the next school year on a one-year exchange.
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Postcolonial Politics - A Symposium
November 27-29, 2006
Organised by the Postcolonial Studies Research Network
University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
Keynote Speakers
Dr Suvendrini Perera
Faculty of Media, Society and Culture
Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Dr Mark Devenney
Historical & Critical Studies
Brighton University, U.K.
Dr Anthony Burke
School of Politics and International Relations
University of New South Wales, Australia
What is a postcolonial politics? How might such a politics be constituted? What concerns animate contemporary postcolonial politics? Where are the spaces of politics? Where are the stakes? What are the terms of political contestation and transformation? How are the forms and concerns of postcolonial politics shifting?
Such questions are critical in the face of arguments that postcolonial criticism has become absorbed into institutions of power, as well as suggestions that the abstraction of the postcolonial as a methodology, and its appropriation for First World concerns, mean that the postcolonial has no political currency. Against this are arguments affirming the productive possibilities of articulating a politics of liberation through postcolonial critique. Questions about a postcolonial politics also emerge as crucial at a time when the rights of a variety of peoples (asylum-seekers, refuges, boat-people, exiles, diasporas, indigenous communities, migrants) animate the genealogy of our present.
We invite a wide range of scholars working out of different contexts, disciplines and interests to either reinterpret/revisit any of the major debates in these fields, or ask new questions that seem important. Postgraduate scholars and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute. We intend to publish a selection of papers from the symposium.
Papers from across the disciplines are invited to address any aspect of Postcolonial Politics, including:
We invite abstracts of 250-300 words to be sent to Dr Vijay Devadas (email@example.com) by 18 September 2006.
Keynote Speakers
Dr Anthony Burke
School of Politics and International Relations
University of New South Wales, Australia


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Market stats for Lilburn, GA, March, 2013, indicate that there were 188 properties on the market, up 5 from last month. Overall, there was about an 3.8 month supply of properties and 58 properties that closed (sold) in March. It was a slight increase from last year's sales (51) and from February (47 sales). The Absorption Rate notched down slightly. Lilburn had been among the weakest of Gwinnett County, GA, cities I track. But, at 3.76 months of inventory, it is strong now. Six months is considered balanced, lower is a seller's market and higher is a buyer's market.
In the sub-$200k arena, there were 123 listings, with about an 3.1 month supply with 44 sales. This represents most of the sales in the market area. Sales were up a little from last month (39), and from last year (41). While the Absorption Rate isn't as low as many other areas, sales are strong, and I'm think we are in a comeback for Lilburn. At 3.10 months of inventory, with a few months of stats getting better, we're there.
Between $200k and $400k, there are 53 listings for sale, and about 5.3 months of supply. This segment had been quite weak for months, and had stalled a little, but came back with a vengeance… only to stall a bit again. There were 14 sales compared to 7 last month and 9 last year. Lilburn has never been seen as a luxury market. The decrease in listings has really helped. I'm still not as confident about this portion of the Lilburn market coming back quite yet… It is strengthening, just not as consistently as I'd like. July month was quite strong. April was strong… We are slightly in Seller's Market territory.
From $400k to $600k, there are just 9 homes on the market. The absorption rate is 27 months. There were 0 sales in March. Poised for a comeback, but an increase in listings and weak sales don't give the right ingredients for that to happen. To start with, we can't have 7 month blank spots in sales (none from Aug11 through Feb12). If we can keep up a sale each month on average, this one will be back.
From $600k to $800k, $800k to $1M and Above $1M, there are 3 listings (combined), but too few sales to have any sort of reliable number of months of inventory. March posted the first sale since August, 2010. It was in the $600-$800k range. One of the listings is above $1M and one between $800k and $1M, and there is no market activity in the last 12 months for those ranges…
Lilburn is in Gwinnett County, GA, just outside of Atlanta. As of the 2000 Census, there were 11,307 people in Lilburn, but that is only including people in the city limits, and there has been a lot of growth since 2000 in Gwinnett County. It was incorporated in 1910. Lilburn is home to Parkview High School, and also has students in the Brookwood, Berkmar and Meadowcreek clusters. It is also home to Killian Hill Christian School, Providence Chrisian Academy, St. John Neumann Catholic School and Parkview Christian School. Possibly the most famous resident of Lilburn is General Beauregard Lee, a groundhog with a better winter prediction record that Puxatawnee Phil up in PA. Dominique Wilkins, formerly of the Atlanta Hawks also lives in Lilburn.
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At first reluctant to don the flowing frocks, four North Shore teenagers were soon parading around Takapuna in their fancy dress.
From left, 15-year-olds Toni Hadlee, Macayla Chapman, Sophie Mace and Nikki Gillies strut their stuff in 1991. The girls wore the gowns to be on a float for the eighth annual Jazz and Blues Festival parade.
Mace says the photo shoot on the beach was unsuccessful as none of the girls were models, making the posed shots look weird.
"When we were walking back to the Mon Desir Hotel with our skirts hitched up in an unladylike manner, the photographer just yelled out, and got his front page shot.
"I remember my mum being shocked I was wearing my Doc Martens with the gown. Toni rolled with bare feet, even better."
Hadlee's mother was involved with the North Shore City Council, so Mace says the girls were often roped into community work. "Silly me, I always said yes," she chuckles.
Chapman admits the four were not keen to dress up at first, but Hadlee pleaded with her best friends to join in. "Toni said to us, 'Come on, Mum really needs us to help'. We were like, 'Urgh, yeah, okay'.
"I remember Nikki was quite stoked because she got the blue dress and her eyes were blue. I got the red, Sophie was in silver, and Toni was in gold."
And it was an intricate friendship circle, with links between the four established through school, the sea and the ski field.
"Sophie and I went to Diocesan together and met Toni through skiing at the club on the Whakapapa site on Mt Ruapehu," Chapman says. "Sophie left Dio in fifth form to go to Westlake Girls', where Toni and Nikki were really good friends. And then Nikki and I did surf lifesaving together, so we all just sort of hung out and were really good friends when we were young."
Chapman says over the years the friends lost contact, but she has seen a couple of them recently by chance.
"We always say we'll catch up but you just never get around to it. I'd love it if we all could at some stage though."


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July 5, 1999
The outstanding graduates for each department were presented with the honors Friday evening, June 11, followed by a champagne-dessert reception.
Heather graduated Magna Cum Laude, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration with a concentration in finance and a second major in German. She has also been inducted into the national honor societies of Beta Gamma Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, and Financial Management Association International, and is certified by the German American Chamber of Commerce in International Business German.
For the last three years while attending classes, she has been working in the Asia University American Program, Western's Japanese student study abroad program, and will continue until this fall.
Heather is the daughter of Doug and Jane Johnson of Woodinville.


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UNFCCC Publishes GEF's Progress Report on Poznan Programme on Technology Transfer
26 April 2013: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published the Global Environment Facility (GEF) report on progress made in carrying out the Poznan strategic programme on technology transfer (FCCC/SBI/2013/5).
The report includes information on the progress made under the different funding windows of the Poznan Programme, including on technology transfer pilot projects, technology needs assessments (TNA) performed in the context of the TNA project carried out in 36 countries, long-term implementation of the Poznan Strategic Programme, and dissemination of GEF experiences and successfully-demonstrated environmentally sound technologies.
In addition, the report contains an annex with specific information on implementation progress of technology transfer pilot projects under the Poznan strategic programme. The report is presented further to an invitation by the 34th session of the Subsidiary for Implementation (SBI 34) to the GEF to provide progress reports on the implementation of the activities receiving support under the Poznan strategic programme. [Publication: Report of the Global Environment Facility on the Progress Made in Carrying out the Poznan Strategic Programme on Technology Transfer]


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Events today honor Martin Luther King Jr.
Monday is the holiday honoring the late Martin Luther King Jr., but you can pay tribute to the celebrated activist at these events today:
- Fourth annual Martin Luther King Basketball Showcase. East High School will host today's games, starting with seventh- and eighth-grade games at 4 p.m. and high school games beginning at 6 p.m. Continues Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at East High School and 1 p.m. at McDowell High School, and Sunday at Gannon University's Hammermill Center beginning at 10 a.m. Free.
- Annual Martin Luther King Jr. tribute concert by Gannon University's Erie Chamber Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., at Central Career and Technical School, 3325 Cherry St. Performing with the orchestra are the Shiloh Baptist Choir and violinist Ad� Williams, winner of the junior division of the 2012 Sphinx Competition for Young Black and Latino String Players. Free. Call 871-7755.
- Youth dance, 8 to 11 p.m., in the Green Room of the Martin Luther King Center, 312 Chestnut St. All middle school-age students welcome. Free (please bring one canned food donation). Call 459-2761.


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NY Gets Mixed Marks on Smoking Policies (1/29/13)
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The report is based on a grading system that measures health policies in the U.S.
New York received two "A's," one for its abundance of smoke free air in public places and another for its tobacco tax. In fact, New York has the highest tax rate on cigarettes in the nation at over four dollars per pack, according to the report. Other states such as Massachusetts and Virginia are further ahead in tobacco control, the report shows.
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Space is tight enough in the shop that any clutter can quickly become overwhelming. This photo of the tool quality area where Jacob Clifton works illustrates the level of organization the shop has achieved....
Wireless DNC on the HMCs has eliminated the use of a PC on a cart to transfer programs. Going wireless in this way cost the shop just about as much as it would have spent to string cable to the machines. This approach also preserves the shop's freedom to keep relocating machines as its cellular strategy evolves.
QC manager Eric Godwin shows how setup and maintenance instructions with color photos have been attached directly to the machining center.
This cell is built around of two compact Brother machining centers—one seen here and one outside the photo. The two machines allow the shop's Ted Williams to run sequential operations on one part number or run two different part numbers at a time. Note the row of drill presses. When this photo was taken, two were in use, one for OD chamfering and one for ID chamfering.
Here is an example of a clean and space-efficient cell at Production Machine. The shop's Steven Goettl can easily reach either of the two CNC machines, as well as the deburring and inspection benches between them. The carts that serve this cell are also narrow.
Space is tight enough in the shop that any clutter can quickly become overwhelming. This photo of the tool quality area where Jacob Clifton works illustrates the level of organization the shop has achieved....
Toolboxes used to be a major impediment to orderliness and maneuverability throughout the shop. Here is the solution the shop found: A dedicated parking lot for toolboxes. Parking spaces are labeled by employee name.
For rapid setup on its horizontals, the shop has equipped all of its HMCs with "Ball Lock" fixturing from Jergens Inc. The Ball Lock tooling enables fixtures to lock into place both repeatably and securely, with very little setup time. Fixtures for repeating jobs are kept in place on nearby shelves.
To keep the shop orderly and keep pallets from intruding into the aisles, spaces are clearly marked for raw stock and finished work.
The deburring bench, including a drill press with chamfer tool, has a plastic surface on the table top. Tables such as this were once covered in cardboard, but the cardboard quickly became unsightly and frequently had to be replaced.
The shop has struggled with how to manage hand tools. Shadowboards were not always successful, because tools belonging to a particular machine would often be borrowed for a different machine and misplaced. Chaining tools to particular machines was an even less workable approach. This is the solution that has seemed to work best: the Autocrib system for dispensing and automatically tracking supplies. Employees now come to this machine to obtain not just hand tools, but also gloves, abrasive pads, and cutting tools. The inventory is held through a consignment relationship, so the shop itself doesn't pay for any item until an employee actually removes it. Employees key in their individual IDs to retrieve the needed supplies. For night-shift staff, even the keys to the shop's main "cage" tool crib are dispensed in this way.
The inspection bench includes good lighting for clear measurement, as well as space underneath for the first article
Production Machine & Enterprises could never relocate to a bigger facility without compromising an important commercial advantage. That fact more than any other has defined this shop's approach to lean manufacturing.
The Madison, Wisconsin shop is a contract machining facility attached to a foundry. The marriage provides for efficient machining of castings because the work can be done without delay between the two processes. Cast parts are simply wheeled through the bay from one business into the other. The only drawback to this arrangement is that it keeps Production Machine pinned into the tight location where it was founded. The property offers no room to expand, so growing the business has forced the shop to become ever more discerning about the ways that it uses its space. One interesting consequence is that "lean" here did not begin with a typical initial step such as 5S. Rather, lean manufacturing at Production Machine began with the more sophisticated lean-manufacturing practice of arranging work into cells.
For this shop, cellular arrangements of machines simply provided the most space-efficient approach, says Tim Hameister, company president. The arrangement is also time- and effort-efficient, because an operator can easily pass work from one machine to the next. However, the shop committed to this mode of organization even before it fully committed to lean. Cells are not dedicated to part numbers, because the shop has no part numbers that repeat more than sporadically, but the shop does have steadily recurring part sizes—so machines were grouped by size ranges. When the shop did formally commit to lean, these cells served as the starting point.
Operations manager Chuck Pitzlin and QC manager Eric Godwin led the lean effort. Both had worked for other manufacturers with mature lean disciplines in place, and both won Mr. Hameister's support for trying to adopt some of these same disciplines at Production Machine.
Mr. Godwin explains that the waste that used to burden the shop largely fell into two broad, overlapping categories.
One was inventory. On multiple recurring part numbers, the shop kept 100 or more pieces in inventory just to respond to urgent orders. Was so much stock really needed?
The other category was clutter. Tools and resources were scattered throughout the shop. Toolboxes blocked the aisles. The mess was not only unsightly, but also forced the shop to both lose time and carry more inventory of various resources, because needed tools and gages could not be easily obtained.
One morning, Mr. Godwin went through the shop filling a cart with tools, refuse and other items that had been left where they didn't belong. This full cart was the beginning of the challenge to the teams that were ultimately tasked with the goal of realizing more order in the shop through 5S and other disciplines. The message of the cart was this: We can do much better.
And the shop has done much better. Like a submarine, Production Machine now has each necessary item stowed in its proper place—as the various photographs on the preceding pages illustrate. These snapshots from throughout the shop show various devices and strategies that the shop has used to run both leaner and cleaner.
The two go hand-in-hand. Running cleaner—addressing clutter—helped address operators' lost time. And addressing lost time has allowed the shop to reduce the inventory of finished parts it has to carry. Part numbers that once required 100 pieces in stock now require just two or three dozen.
The commitment to lean has even helped open up floor space. With the implementation of more efficient processes combined with newer and more productive machines, the shop has been able to meet even growing capacity demands using fewer machine tools—phasing out older machines to free up valuable space.
The result is something refreshing for this shop: more breathing room.
Plus, there is a renewed confidence that this long-established location for the shop can keep on meeting the needs of the business for a long time to come.


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Just as the football team regained its health, the Tulane Green Wave volleyball team was struck with what is believed to be the same illness: the flu caused by the H1N1 virus.
Four more volleyball players are out with symptoms of the virus, prompting the team to cancel its opening trip to the Blue Jay Classic in Omaha, Neb.
"I have not seen that," Tulane team physician Greg Stewart said. "This is my 23rd year (with Tulane), and I've never had an event canceled because of illness."
Two players were out sick last week and four more took ill Tuesday afternoon, vaulting the overall count of sick in the past eight days to 40 Tulane athletes. Thirty-one football players were out with flulike symptoms, and all but one are now healthy.
With half the team out, the volleyball team has a much higher percentage of athletes sick. Thirty percent of the football roster experienced symptoms in the past week or so. The football team did not cancel practices and went on with a scrimmage last week despite missing several players.
Stewart said he prepared all the athletes on campus on how to prevent the flu's spread, but sometimes all the prevention can't help.
"No one has immunity to it; you can still get it," Stewart said. "Even if you do everything right, even hold your tongue at the right angle and all the stars are in alignment, it still might happen."
"Swine flu" what-ifs
The strain of flu on campus has proved mild: most Tulane athletes who were infected were back after about 36 hours, but the illness has proved persistently contagious.
It all led to what-if talk that swirled around the Wilson Center last week when the football team fell ill. What if this was Tulsa week? What if it wasn't 31 players, what if it was 70?
Would the NCAA let Tulane reschedule its Sept. 4 football opener?
What if the virus hits a men's basketball program going into the NCAA championship? Would the sick team have to forfeit a national tournament game? Would the NCAA allow a reschedule?
Right now, the volleyball team is living that what-if scenario on a less prominent scale. Creighton simply canceled the Tulane volleyball games and reshuffled the tournament. The Green Wave did not forfeit their three games in the tournament, so in that way they are not hurt by not playing.
The team, however, did lose its ability to generate RPI points. Tulane was scheduled to open its season with No. 4 Illinois. It was to be a pivotal game for the re-tooled defending Conference USA champions who made their first post-season NCAA appearance last season.
"It would definitely benefit us to play Illinois," Coach Sinisa Momic said. "Even if you lose to them, that loss would mean a lot in terms of RPI because they are going to go on and win a lot of games. It was a great opportunity we don't have now."
Momic said the saving grace is that the illness struck now, not during conference play or heading into the postseason. H1N1, though, might not spare another team in that circumstance.
The Center for Disease Control's task force on the illness estimated through the end of June more than 1 million Americans have been inflected. In fact, Tulane's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine formed a Flu Emergency Task Force in response to H1N1 surge, according to its Web site.
It is unclear if the NCAA has a policy to deal with possible team outbreaks. The NCAA did not respond to a Thursday afternoon request for an interview, and Tulane officials said they were unaware of any C-USA or NCAA provisions regarding H1N1-related cancelations.
C-USA could treat any future situations that disrupt scheduled competitions like weather disasters and try to reschedule, but that has its problems as well.
"It would be next to impossible to reschedule," said C-USA assistant commissioner Russ Anderson about that scenario for football. "There is not much chance that the teams would common open dates."
Momic said his players are expected to be out about two days, pushing back his head coaching debut until Sept. 4, when the Green Wave plays in the Tiger Invitational against Louisiana-Lafayette in Baton Rouge.
Tulane hopes it is rid of the bug by then, but other programs might just be starting with it.
"It kind of just started and no one knows what to expect," Momic said. "I've already heard of other schools starting to deal with it."
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DESCRIPTION: A very old Chinese wooden muyu, or wooden fish drum. A muyu is a rounded, hollow woodblock percussion instrument with a large slit, carved in the shape of a mythical fish (or with fish-type scales) and struck with a wooden stick. It was made in various sizes and was often used by priests to beat a rhythm when chanting scriptures in the temple. In some Zen/Ch'an Buddhist traditions, the wooden fish serves as a signal to start and end a meditation session. This muyu is quite old, dating from the 1700s, and is well carved with two opposing dragon fish, their heads forming the handle which is held while the muyu is struck with the knobbed stick.
In Buddhism, the fish, which never sleeps, symbolizes wakefulness. Therefore, it is to remind the chanting monks to concentrate on their sutra. The round, bulbous wooden fish was used by Buddhist in China as well as in other Asian nations including Japan (where it is called a mokugyo), Korea (moktak), and Vietnam. The instrument, also referred to as a temple block, is hollowed out through a ventral and struck with a heavy stick. CONDITION: Obvious wear from use gives a deep, aged patina; the muyu is quite solid however. DIMENSIONS: 5 ¼ high (13.4 cm) x 4 ½ wide (11.5 cm) x 3 deep (7.6 cm).


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Source: Microsoft
quote: So Ballmer's reorg is going to kill all these ugly inefficiencies. Hopefully the new MS will focus on the ONE single pivotal product and try to make it as good as possible, instead of producing similar crap from multiple teams that does same things but only slightly differently.
quote: take anti-MS ramblings of Swash with a seriously big grain of salt, that is all
quote: I'm just suggesting you guys to take anti-MS ramblings of Swash with a seriously big grain of salt, that is all :) We all here know he has an agenda on this. So think for yourself, do not blindly trust the posts of anti-MS "analists" Swash is usually pushing here.
quote: I think the idea of "Functional" or "Divisional" organisation is misleading, whether it is one or the other is less important than whether Microsoft is adapting to the new technology so it is keeping up or staying ahead of the competition, which it isn't.
quote: But Jobs had unequalled authority in a battered and almost despairing Apple organisation,
quote: If another Steve Jobs turned up at Apple today would he be given the same opportunities as did Steve Jobs 1? No, almost certainly not, and that is the same problem facing Ballmer: he is trying to keep a profitable company profitable, he isn't trying to bring Microsoft back from the brink of collapse.
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If I say 'beach' and you say 'sandcastles!' then you probably need to investigate these tools by Kid O. Yes, they're for kids, but you can use them too. You and your little ones can shovel, sift, and rake using the Triplet Toy Shovel and Rake (pictured above/below), or dig and sift using the Scoppi Toy Shovel. There's also the Ballo Toy Water Bucket with a spherical shape for easier transport from sea to sandcastle.
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December 24 (11am - 5pm)
The Painters Group members' artwork in a variety of mediums presented in the most casual way. On display in the McMeen Gallery through December 30th, 2012.
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The Land Conservancy SLO is proud to present Laurel Sherrie's paintings, "Nature-Driven Art," highlights of the Central Coast to Jan. 31, 2013, including new work depicting the Open Spaces of San Luis Obispo. 547 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo 93401 (805) 544-9096 Hours : Mon-Fri: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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The Windows and Windows Live XDR UX Research group needs a lead to drive making Windows client and services world class user experiences. The mission for Windows & Windows Live XDR is to think end to end about the experience and both broad and deep. Giving users a Windows experience without problems isn't good enough; we want the experience to be an immersive pleasurable experience that is appropriate for each and every customer. To drive this requires us to take a holistic approach to the end to end experience - we need to know our users inside out, and understand their perceptions, desires, needs, frustrations, environments, and problems related to the PC experience and beyond.
To drive this work we partner with product teams, OEMs, IHVs, ISVs, and sales/marketing; essentially anyone who makes decisions about the user experience is our potential partner. We are looking for someone to join the team who has passion around making UX decision makers accountable to users. The candidate will excel at understanding the Windows business strategy and incorporating into the XDR strategy. The ideal candidate will be excited at the prospect of finding creative ways to evangelize the rich research data we have to both internal and external audiences and drive the results of those communications into the final PC experience.
The candidate must have exceptional communication skills both oral, and written. In addition the candidate should have at least 3 years experience managing people, comprehensive project management skills, and a strong appreciation for user research.
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The Bowie County Courthouse
Location in the U.S. state of Texas
Texas's location in the U.S.
|Named for
|James Bowie
|Boston (legal);
New Boston (courthouse)
|Largest city
|• Total
|923 sq mi (2,391 km2)
|• Land
|885 sq mi (2,292 km2)
|• Water
|38 sq mi (98 km2), 4.1%
|• (2010)
|• Density
|105/sq mi (41/km²)
|Congressional district
|Time zone
|Central: UTC-6/-5
Bowie County (/ˈbuːi/ BOO-ee[1]) is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 92,565.[2] Its legal county seat is Boston, though its courthouse is located in New Boston.[3] The county is named for James Bowie, the legendary knife fighter who died at the Battle of the Alamo.
Bowie County is part of the Texarkana, TX-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Bowie County is not one of the 7 prohibition or entirely dry counties in the state of Texas any longer. Both the city of Nash[4] and the city of Texarkana[5] (on November 6, 2013 and November 5, 2014, respectively) have since passed to sell beer and wine.
Native Americans[edit]
The farming Caddoan Mississippian culture dates as early as the Late Archaic Period 1500 BCE in Bowie County.[6] The Hernando de Soto expedition of 1541 resulted in violent encounters. Spanish and French missionaries brought a smallpox, measles malaria and influenza epidemics against which the Caddo had no immunity.[7] Eventually, these issues and problems with the Osage, forced the Caddo to abandon their reservations. Settlers had peaceful relations with the 19th Century Shawnee, Delaware, and Kickapoo in the area.
Explorations and county established[edit]
French explorer Jean Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe founded the military fort Le Poste des Cadodaquious[8] in 1719 . The fort remained in continuous use until 1770. The Red River Expedition[9] of 1806 which passed through Bowie County, headed by Thomas Freeman and Dr. Peter Custis, was of great diplomatic and economic importance to President Thomas Jefferson. Bowie County was established in December 1840 and named for James Bowie, reduced to its present size in 1846. DeKalb[10] was the temporary county seat, with Boston[11] becoming the permanent county seat in 1841.
Bowie County in the years leading up to the American Civil War was settled mostly by Southerners who brought their slave labor system to work the cotton fields. By 1860, slaves outnumbered whites 2,651 to 2,401. The county voted 208-15 in favor of secession[3] from the Union. While Bowie was never a battlefield in that war, it was nevertheless occupied during Reconstruction. Between 1860 and 1870 the population declined. The occupation, and the new legal equality of blacks, became a hostile situation that fostered Cullen Baker.
Cullen Montgomery Baker[12] (b. circa 1835 - d. 1869) was a twice-widowed mean-spirited drunk who killed his first man before he was 20. When Thomas Orr married Baker's late wife's sister, thereby denying Baker that opportunity, Baker attempted to hang Orr. Legends abound as to his activities in both Bowie and Cass counties, including a rumored tie to the Ku Klux Klan. His exploits turned him into a folk hero dubbed "The Swamp Fox of the Sulphur River".[13][14] He was a Confederate States Army veteran who joined two units, designated as a deserter from the first, and receiving a disability discharge from the second.[15] Reconstruction enabled him to focus his anger towards what many at the time believed was a Union intrusion into their lives. Baker and his gang conducted a vicious rampage against citizens he perceived as being on the wrong side of the black labor issue, at William G. Kirkman and the Freedman's Bureau in Bowie County, and at the soldiers of the Union occupation.[16] Kirkman unsuccessfully pursued Baker, killing one of Baker's men in the second attempt. Like Swamp Fox Francis Marion, Baker always managed to elude capture, often with the help of local citizens. Kirkland was murdered by "person or persons unknown",[3] but Baker boasted of having done the deed. In December 1869, Thomas Orr and a group of neighbors killed Baker.[15] A local legend has it that the deed was accomplished with strychnine-laced whiskey.
When the Texas and Pacific Railway[17] was constructed through the county, a new town named Texarkana[18] was founded.
Bowie was hit hard by the Great Depression like everywhere else. Measurable relief came late when the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant was established in 1942. The base was active until[19] 2009. The Red River Army Depot,[20] opened in 1941, remains active. The two installations occupied almost 40,000 acres (160 km2) and provided job opportunities for thousands.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 923 square miles (2,390 km2), of which 885 square miles (2,290 km2) is land and 38 square miles (98 km2) (4.1%) is water.[21]
Major highways[edit]
- Interstate 30
- Interstate 369 (Under Construction)
- U.S. Highway 59
- The future route of Interstate 49 is planned to enter Texas following US 59 from Arkansas just to the north of Texarkana and briefly travel through the far extreme northeastern portion of Bowie County before re-entering Arkansas along US 59.
- U.S. Highway 67
- U.S. Highway 71
- The future route of Interstate 49 is planned to enter Texas following US 71 from Arkansas just to the north of Texarkana and briefly travel through the far extreme northeastern portion of Bowie County before re-entering Arkansas along US 71.
- U.S. Highway 82
- U.S. Highway 259
- State Highway 8
- State Highway 93
- State Highway 98
- Farm to Market Road 44
- Farm to Market Road 114
- Farm to Market Road 989
- Farm to Market Road 1397
- Farm to Market Road 3527
Adjacent counties[edit]
- McCurtain County, Oklahoma (northwest)
- Little River County, Arkansas (north)
- Miller County, Arkansas (east)
- Cass County (south)
- Morris County (southwest)
- Red River County (west)
|Historical population
|Est. 2015
|U.S. Decennial Census[23]
1850–2010[24] 2010–2014[2]
As of the census[25] of 2000, there were 89,306 people, 33,058 households, and 23,438 families residing in the county. The population density was 101 inhabitants per square mile (39/km2). There were 36,463 housing units at an average density of 41 per square mile (16/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 73.26% White, 23.42% Black or African American, 0.58% Native American, 0.43% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.12% from other races, and 1.15% from two or more races. 4.47% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 33,058 households out of which 33.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.00% were married couples living together, 15.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.10% were non-families. 26.00% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.00.
In the county, the population was spread out with 24.80% under the age of 18, 9.40% from 18 to 24, 29.60% from 25 to 44, 22.40% from 45 to 64, and 13.80% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 101.80 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.00 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $33,001, and the median income for a family was $41,108. Males had a median income of $31,883 versus $21,439 for females. The per capita income for the county was $17,357. About 13.80% of families and 17.70% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25.00% of those under age 18 and 12.40% of those age 65 or over.
Government and infrastructure[edit]
Barry Telford Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men, is in an unincorporated area of the county, near New Boston.[26] Federal Correctional Institution, Texarkana is a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility in unincorporated Bowie County, near Texarkana, Texas.[27][28]
The following school districts serve Bowie County:
- De Kalb
- Hooks
- Leary
- Maud
- Nash
- New Boston (courthouse in city)
- Red Lick
- Redwater
- Texarkana (largest city)
- Wake Village
Unincorporated communities[edit]
- Beaver Dam
- Boston (county seat)
- Dalby Springs
- Eylau
- Hartman
- Hoot
- Hubbard
- Malta
- Oak Grove
- Old Boston
- Simms
- Spring Hill
- Sulphur
- Wamba
Ghost towns[edit]
See also[edit]
- Dry counties
- Le Poste des Cadodaquious, a French fort established in Bowie County in 1719
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Bowie County, Texas
- ^ http://www.texastripper.com/pronounce/locations-b.html
- ^ a b "State & County QuickFacts". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved December 8, 2013.
- ^ a b c Harper Jr., Cecil: Bowie County from the Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 14 May 2010. Texas State Historical Association
- ^ http://www.arklatexhomepage.com/story/nash-texas-legalizes-alcohol-sales/d/story/iWtv0YAAKU6UY3gTFmCbOw
- ^ http://txktoday.com/news/texarkana-texas-voters-approve-beer-wine-sales/
- ^ "Caddo Timeline". Texas Beyond History. Retrieved 14 May 2010. UT Texas at Austin
- ^ "Caddo". Oklahoma Historical Society. Retrieved 14 May 2010. Oklahoma Historical Society
- ^ Britton, Morris L: Le Poste des Cadodaquious from the Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 14 May 2010. Texas State Historical Association
- ^ Flores, Dan L.: Red River Expedition from the Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 14 May 2010. Texas State Historical Association
- ^ "DeKalb, Texas". Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC. Retrieved 14 May 2010. Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC.
- ^ "Boston, Texas". Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC. Retrieved 14 May 2010. Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC.
- ^ Anderson, Dale; Yadon, Laurence (2009). Ten Deadly Texans. Pelican Publishing. pp. 29–51. ISBN 978-1-58980-599-6.
- ^ Sulphur River, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 14 May 2010. Texas State Historical Association
- ^ Crouch, Barry A; Brice, Donaly E (1997). Cullen Montgomery Baker, Reconstruction Desperado. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-2140-5.
- ^ a b Crouch, Barry A: Cullen Montgomery Baker from the Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 14 May 2010. Texas State Historical Association
- ^ "Oakwood Cemetery, Grave of Cullen Montgomery Baker". Find A Grave. Retrieved 14 May 2010.
- ^ "Texas and Pacific Railway". Texas and Pacific Railway. Retrieved 14 May 2010.
- ^ "Texarkana, Texas". Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC. Retrieved 14 May 2010. Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC.
- ^ Montgomery, Rebecca J. "Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant Deactivates". United States Army. Retrieved 14 May 2010. =United States Army
- ^ "Defense Distribution Depot Red RiverRed River Army Depot (RRAD)". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 14 May 2010. GlobalSecurity.org
- ^ "2010 Census Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. August 22, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- ^ "County Totals Dataset: Population, Population Change and Estimated Components of Population Change: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015". Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ^ "U.S. Decennial Census". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- ^ "Texas Almanac: Population History of Counties from 1850–2010" (PDF). Texas Almanac. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
- ^ "Telford TO", Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Accessed 2014-01-08
- ^ "FCI Texarkana Contact Information". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved June 2, 2010.
- ^ "Ward Map". City of Texarkana, Texas. Retrieved July 2, 2010.
External links[edit]
- Bowie County government
- Bowie County from the Handbook of Texas Online
- Bowie County from the Texas Almanac
- Bowie County from the TXGenWeb Project
|McCurtain County, Oklahoma
|Little River County, Arkansas
|Red River County
|Morris County
|Cass County
|Miller County, Arkansas