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An old term for making out!
"Ooo I caught ya'll neckin in the back of the truck!"
Jake tarafından 18 Eylül 2003, Perşembe
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A person who feels the need to dick ride you when its possible. Someone who like the follow you when it comes to conversations. A person that's always the first to comment on another one's picture or conflict. Someone that tries to be your friend badly even when you don't want to be their friend. A person that wants to know everything your doing, and always buddin in your conversations when they clearly wasn't apart of it.
I'm tired of this guy neckin my conversations.
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a guy that loves to look at all of the girls. does not act on what he is looking at.
I was at the mall and all the dudes was neckin
JeanetteVA tarafından 4 Mayıs 2007, Cuma
is another word for fuckin also to shorten it..it can b used as neck= fuck
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Running is serious cardio exercise, so it's no wonder if you end up feeling less than motivated to head out and pound the pavement. Unfortunately, skipping a run means you also skip the benefits: increased aerobic capacity, muscle toning and all those feel-good endorphins you get as a "runner's high" at the end. By planning motivational strategies, you'll be more likely to stick to your running routine for better health and an even better payoff.
Running Partners
One of the best ways to ensure that you don't ditch your run is to enlist a running partner to be your accountability. It's harder to cancel a run when you have someone else counting on you, and it could be a way to sneak some social time into your workout. Additionally, having a running partner could push you to achieve better times and distances, as well as being a safer way to work out. Since there's safety in numbers, grabbing a running partner is smart and motivational.
Events and Races
If your regular training program has you feeling uninspired, try signing yourself up for a race. Training for a 5K, 10K, half marathon or even a full marathon puts a new spin and intensity on your regular runs. When you know that you have a race coming up, you can practice running long distances, time yourself and ensure that you have the stamina, fuel and motivation to get to the finish line.
Running Gear
Sometimes you just need something to get you excited about hitting the pavement again. If your running shoes have seen better days, go and get fitted for a better, more supportive pair. Or, pick up a new pair of running shorts or load a new playlist onto your MP3 player. New running gear might be the push that you need to get motivated all over again.
New Training
If your lack of motivation is the result of a stagnant running routine, shake it up a bit to rediscover your love of the sport. A website such as MapMyRun.com lets you see other routes in your area that runners love. Or, if you're typically a distance runner, swap out your regular training for shorter sprint runs for a week to see if you regain your interest. Changing your routine helps challenge your mind and body with something new, helping to jump start your motivation.
Tracking Progress
Seeing how well you've done and how much you've accomplished can be a huge boost when your motivation starts to fizzle. Tracking your progress is an excellent way to keep your spirits high and continue pushing to your next milestone. Whether you record your times in a ledger, track your distances, or even start a running blog to document your journey, you can also look back to the start to see your progress and get a new dose of motivation.
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text: Clearly, the pressure was on Eminem to deliver his first studio album since 2004's multiplatinum Encore. "Do you know how many people lost their jobs because of your f------ vacation?" asks a record exec on one skit. But Slim Shady hasn't been kicking back on a private island. He's been battling some serious demons, namely an addiction to prescription pills that he raps about throughout Relapse. "I fall in bed with a bottle of meds and a Heath Ledger bobble head," he rhymes on the witty, whimsical "My Mom." ("My mom loved valium and lots of drugs," the chorus goes.) Em takes a more sobering approach on the confessional "Déjà Vu," breaking down an overdose in gripping detail. Even more chilling are tales of serial killers ("3 a.m.") and child-molesting stepfathers ("Insane"), with Dr. Dre back supplying the menacing beats.


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Root systems, part 3: Give it up for the root (position pattern)s! - Melodic patterns based on root position voicings
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Pairings, part three - Hand-some conversation: Two-handed melodic conversations by J.S. Bach and Oscar Peterson
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Pairings, part one: left-hand walking bass and right hand lines in Dave McKenna, Bach and Handel
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Charlie Parker and Alan Turing: Anthropology is 'The Bombe'
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken: reflections and an exercise on the circle of descending fifths and the dominant cycle
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Six Degrees of Bud Powell
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'Oh, play that thing!' - the use of transcribed solos in the jazz tradition
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An exploration of multinational enterprise knowledge resources and foreign subsidiary performance
Successful international expansion requires that parent firms simultaneously transfer multiple MNE knowledge resources and their foreign subsidiaries effectively absorb and utilize the knowledge. In this study, we examine the relationships between multiple knowledge resources (technological and marketing knowledge), the relatedness between parents and foreign subsidiaries, and subsidiary performance. Relatedness is specifically linked to the type of knowledge being transferred from the parent (i.e., technological relatedness versus market relatedness). We hypothesize that subsidiary performance improves with (1) the integration of a parent firm's technological and marketing knowledge resources, (2) high technological (market) relatedness between a parent firm and subsidiaries for transfer of parent technological (market) knowledge and (3) the co-presence of high technological and market relatedness. We find general support in our analysis of pooled cross-sectional data on more than 4000 observations of foreign subsidiaries from 572 Japanese MNEs across 47 countries. Theoretical implications and future research are discussed.
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(cross talk) By now, you should be pretty aware that the big problem you're going to face in low light is simply blurry images. When the light gets low, your shutter speed slows down, and it becomes much harder to freeze motion, and you introduce the problem of camera shake. There are a lot of different things you can do to try and mitigate that. Steve, you're very excited about your VR lens. Steve: I am. You know, VR is a technology that really has enabled you to get sharp images, hand holding at slower shutter speeds. And even though we've upped our ISO, mine a little higher than yours, the shutter speed that I'm shooting at is still not one that I'm convinced movement will not be introduced by the camera. Obviously VR lenses that stabilize and allow you to shoot at slow shutter speeds by keeping the camera very safe with the VR mechanism, it won't freeze movement of your subjects, but it'll keep your camera shake from causing blur. And blur is often a dealbreaker in a photo.
Sometimes it can add to the atmosphere of the situation and it's okay. But often, it will take away. So you don't necessarily want it. So VR is just one other technological tool that we can use to make sure that we keep our images sharp. Ben: And I think in a situation like this, you can also even just start employing more brute-force techniques. These are all people I know. They know that I'm here. It's okay to get my elbows on the table and really stabilize the lens any way that I can. This is probably not the case where I want to start dragging out a tripod or something.
I want to say moving. I want to stay flexible. I don't want to disrupt the dinner too much by dragging much gear around. So that's another case where VR or IS, if you're a cannon shooter, can be a really great way to take care of camera shake. But them there is motion blur. There is the fact that our shutter speeds are low enough that these people are moving around, and as the evening wears on, they're moving around more. What can we do to try and mitigate that problem? Steve: Well, if you're forced to use a shutter speed that maybe isn't as fast as you want, one of the things that I often do is I'll do a burst of images.
Because if I know I'm at, let's say, 60th, 30th of a second and I take a bunch of image in sequence, I will put my shooting mode into a continuous high, and often one of those frames is going to be best. One of them is going to be sharpest, and sometimes it takes shooting a little more, especially when you're forced to shoots in low-available-light situations, where something's are not as good as you want, in terms of fast shutter speeds that freeze the movement. Ben: I think another option is to intentionally underexpose.
If I meter the scene and it's coming out of the fiftieth of a second, I can dial in a -1 stop exposure compensation and probably both my shutter speed up a little bit. My image is going to be dark, but another advantage of these great low-light sensors is that I can go into my image editor and crank up the brightness and probably not suffer a terrible noise penalty, and that's going to get my shutter speed up a little bit. So these are all a few different techniques you can try to help deal with the fact that people in your scene are going to be moving around.
Ben also shows how to obtain accurate color balance in tungsten and fluorescent lighting situations, and how to postprocess the images in Photoshop to remove noise caused by higher ISO settings. He also demonstrates accessories that can greatly expand your low-light photography options.
- Understanding how low light affects exposure, shutter speed, color temperature, and more
- Preparing for a low-light shoot
- Shooting in dimly lit rooms
- Using the flash indoors
- Shooting in the shade
- Taking flash portraits at night
- Controlling flash color temperature
- Focusing in low light
- Light painting
- Manipulating long shutter speeds
- Correcting white balance
- Brightening shadows
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Veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom
Veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom is the performance of veterinary medicine by licensed professionals, and strictly regulated by statute law, notably the Veterinary Surgeons Act of 1966. Veterinary medicine is led by veterinary physicians, termed 'veterinary surgeons' (with a different meaning to how it is used in some other anglophone countries, where it denotes a surgical specialist), normally referred to as 'vets'.
Vets are often assisted by registered veterinary nurses, who are able to both assist the vet and to autonomously practice a range of skills of their own, including minor surgery under direction from a responsible vet.
Other professionals are also permitted to perform some animal treatment, through exemptions in the law, and these include manipulation techniques such as physiotherapy, chiropractic and osteopathy. Other alternative medicine therapies, such as homeopathy, acupuncture, phytotherapy and aromatherapy may only be performed by a licensed veterinary surgeon.
The practice of veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom is regulated by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), who licence both veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses.
Veterinary surgeons[edit]
Veterinary surgeons require both a degree in veterinary science or veterinary medicine, and must hold a current registration with the RCVS in order to practice. As of 5 March 2015, the RCVS has agreed that veterinary surgeons registered with the RCVS in the UK are entitled to use the courtesy title Doctor. This makes it the third clinical degree in the UK, after Medicine and Dentistry, to allow the use of the title Dr. The origins of veterinary surgeons parallel to human surgery are reflected in human medicine where qualified surgeons also drop their Dr designation and revert to their original title. The naming convention for veterinary surgeons has been debated, with some favouring the use of the Dr title for all vets.
Veterinary medicine degree courses are usually five years in length, although Cambridge University's degree takes six, and in some cases, a four-year accelerated course is available. There are a limited number of places on veterinary courses each year, with only eight British Universities offering the degree (Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Nottingham, the Royal Veterinary College, London, and Surrey).
Continuing professional development (CPD) is a mandatory and key part of career development. The RCVS recommends a minimum of 105 hours CPD over a three-year period. The RCVS Professional Development Phase (PDP) that was launched for new graduates in 2007 provides a structured approach to guide the new graduate towards the professional competences they need to develop in either small animal, equine or production animal practice.[1]
Vets may choose to specialise in any of a number of areas of veterinary medicine, through certificate qualifications, modular certificates or diplomas, with each speciality taking around two years to complete. Certificates cover a wide range of areas, including small animal medicine, small animal surgery, large animal medicine, welfare ethics and law, public health, cardiology and orthopaedics. A certificate is also available in advanced veterinary practice (Cert AVP).
It is important to note that there is a large and confusing array of post-nominal titles in the UK veterinary profession, which have varying levels of credibility. In particular, Certificate level qualification does not qualify a veterinary surgeon as a specialist. With further training, extensive professional experience and by publishing articles in a particular subject area, it is possible to gain Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Recognised Specialist Status. The RCVS is the regulatory body for veterinary surgeons in the UK. In 2012, the ruling council of the RCVS adopted a report from the Calman Committee into specialisation in the UK veterinary profession, accepting that only those veterinary surgeons recognised by the RCVS as specialists and placed on a register held by the RCVS could be truly held up as "Specialist". Members of the public looking for an appropriately accredited specialist veterinary surgeon in the UK should therefore primarily seek those that carry the post-nominal description of "RCVS Recognisd Specialist in..." after their name. No other accolade carries authority from the appropriate regulatory body.
Some vets also undertake the training to become Official Veterinarians, (OVs), which authorises them to carry out tasks on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, such as testing cattle for tuberculosis or issuing of documentation for the export of animals and animal products.
Most veterinary surgeons work in private practice, either in a general practice, or specialising in one type of animal (small animal, equine, zoo animal etc.). Newly qualified veterinary surgeons usually work as assistants for some time before being offered the opportunity to become a partner or a principal. Becoming a partner involves increased responsibility, the need for more business and management skills and a financial input into the practice.
Some vets are also employed by animal welfare charities who offer treatment to the public, such as Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) and The Blue Cross.
There are also opportunities to work for government services, including APHA (the Animal and Plant Health Agency) who are responsible for the control and eradication of major notifiable diseases, animal welfare, promotion of international trade and certain public health functions related to residues in meat and investigation of food safety incidents,and scanning surveillance, or the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) who licence veterinary medicines.
It is also possible to pursue a research and/or teaching career within universities or research bodies.
Veterinary nurses[edit]
Veterinary Nurses are the primary paraveterinary workers in the United Kingdom and work alongside vets. Veterinary Nurses must be registered and follow a strict code of conduct. Veterinary Nurses have a scope of autonomous practice within which they can act for the animals they treat. Under schedule 3 if the Veterinary Surgeons act they can perform many complex procedures include minor surgery and monitoring anaesthesia.
All veterinary nurses must be registered with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS). Registered Veterinary Nurses have dispensations in law [the Veterinary Surgeons Act of 1966 amended in 2002)] to undertake certain procedures to include minor surgery and anaesthesia on animals under veterinary direction.[2] Registered Veterinary Nurses (RVNs) are bound by a code of professional conduct and are obliged to maintain their professional knowledge and skills through ongoing CPD. Those VN's listed after 2002 are automatically registered.[3][4]
RVNs train for the Register through either a two to three year further education diploma programme or via a qualifying foundation or honours degree which can be three to four years. All student nurses must complete a minimum of 2100 hours of work experience in general veterinary practice during their training.
RCVS badges are engraved with the nurse's personal badge number, however badges are a sign of having achieved a VN qualification and not of a person's current registered status.
UK Veterinary Nurses are represented by the British Veterinary Nursing Association (BVNA).[5] VN's can further their formal training and gain additional postnominal letters by completing one of many specialist certificates and/or by achieving the RCVS Diploma in Advanced Veterinary Nursing (DipAVN) by following a course of study in one or more of three pathways: Small animal nursing, Equine nursing, and Veterinary nursing education. The streamlined RCVS DipAVN replaced the DipAVN(Medical) and DipAVN(Surgical) formerly administered by the BVNA up until 2005. The DipAVN is offered through Myerscough College in Lancashire since 2007 and more recently through Harper Adams University, some modules are also available from the Royal Veterinary College in conjunction with the University of London.[6][7]
Animal nursing assistants[edit]
Lay staff, without formal qualification or status may be called animal nursing assistants (the BVNA approved term) or veterinary care assistants. These lay staff have usually undertaken some basic veterinary nurse training but are limited by law as to the procedures they may undertake on animals. They work alongside qualified vets and veterinary nurses to provide care and support to animal patients and their owners.
See also[edit]
- Cattle Health Initiative
- National Office for Animal Health
- Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- Pet insurance
- Veterinary medicine in the United States
- ^ "Professional Development Phase". Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
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But my favorite time always related to questions from the floor for the mayor and the city manager.
During this particular luncheon, a well-coifed, slender soccer-mom type stood and wondered aloud if the city could step in and restore the recently canceled Newhall Land and Farming Company-sponsored street art festival at the Westfield Valencia Town Center Mall.
I knew from reliable sources that Newhall Land subsidized the festival to the tune of about $750,000 per year. Attendance over the weekend event may have increased normal traffic at the mall by 20,000 people, meaning that Newhall Land paid nearly $40 for each incremental attendee - the price of a balcony seat to "Wicked" at the Pantages Theatre. (A nice event, but not "Wicked.")
This struck me then as it strikes me now: Just like the most hardcore welfare family, the well-heeled of suburbia sure do like to get free stuff, and they never really think of the cost, particularly when payment comes from someone else.
Fast forward to 2009 as College of the Canyons struggles to maintain its Performing Arts Center, and the recent dustup concerning the requesting of dissolution of the memorandum of understanding, or MOU, between COC and the city of Santa Clarita.
Just the latest in the saga of the Performing Arts Center from a dodgy "sponsorship" for naming rights to speakers' series that literally no one attended.
During the initial building of the Performing Arts Center, Santa Clarita contributed some $2.4 million, basically used to convert the center into a 886-seat venue from the original plans of approximately 700 seats, making it larger than the Hart High School auditorium, which seats some 700.
In exchange for this capital investment, the city executed an MOU requiring the college to "hold" one-third of weekend dates for community activities.
Now I sense some confusion in local blogs and the general public concerning the terms of this held use.
COC does not provide the venue to community groups for nothing; it just agrees to hold one-third of the dates for community groups. The groups still must pay the tariffed charge for usage.
Now let us examine some numbers (theoretical and not actual) to illustrate the point. Assume the maintenance, utilities and any other costs to carry of the PAC, run to $520,000 per year (this makes the arithmetic easy).
This means that while setting its budget, COC needs to collect about $10,000 per week in usage fees to break even and make the PAC self-sustaining.
COC must also generate nearly all the money from weekend engagements in this sleepy suburban enclave, since the Performing Arts Center stays dark for most of the week.
Now COC needs to set aside 17 weekends for community groups pursuant to the MOU. Let us say college officials decide to provide the community groups a discount equivalent to 20 percent, or a weekend usage rate of $8,000.
To break even, COC must now charge $11,000 to non-community groups and fill every weekend in the calendar.
But this did not occur. Chancellor Dianne Van Hook reported that one-third of the dates held for community groups went dark - the subsidized price tag still much higher than the comparable venues of the Hart auditorium and the Valencia High School theater.
These weekends of lost revenue run up quickly to a deficit of nearly $50,000, or 10 percent of our theoretical operating budget.
Remember, because the MOU provides for the freezing of these dates, COC must make up the deficit by either charging more to other users of the facility (difficult in this or frankly any other economy) or making up the shortfall out of its own funds.
The individual equivalent of this arrangement would look something like a dual employment situation - one that requires people to make themselves available for work four months out of the year, perhaps at a lower wage, and then additionally not actually providing employment because the employer deems the services unnecessary.
Now would that slender soccer mom, TimBen Boydston, Joan McGregor or any of the other cast at the City Council chambers screaming for the maintenance of the MOU tolerate that in their own personal lives?
I think not, but in suburbia no one feels shy about dipping their hands into someone else's pocket.
Tim Myers is a Valencia resident. His column represents his own views and not necessarily those of The Signal.


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The vice chairman of Egypt's top secular party in Egypt says the Holocaust never happened, called the diary of Anne Frank "fake," and said the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks were "made in America."
Ahmed Ezz el-Arab is a leading official in Egypt's al-Wafd party. He made the comments during an interview last week with The Washington Times while attending the conference Democracy and Human Rights in Hungary.
"The Holocaust is a lie" el-Arab told the newspaper during the interview. "The Jews under German occupation were 2.4 million. So if they were all exterminated, where does the remaining 3.6 million come from?"
El-Arab said he accepted that the Germans had killed "hundreds of thousands" of Jews, "but gas chambers and skinning them alive and all this? Fanciful stories."
El-Arab then dismissed "The Diary of Anne Frank," which he said he studied as a doctoral student in Sweden, as a forgery.
"I could swear to God it's a fake," he said. "The girl was there but the memoirs are a fake."
The vice chairman also questioned the account of the 9/11 attacks.
Osama bin Laden "could not have the know-how or the ability to do it," he said, calling the al-Qaeda leader "an American agent."
"If he had the ability, one plane only landing on the Knesset would give more effect," he said, naming the Mossad, CIA, and America's "military-industrial complex" as the actual perpetrators of the terrorist attacks.
Israel's ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren on Wednesday expressed concern about developments in Egypt.
Ambassador Oren said Israel sees "risks as well as opportunities" in the so-called Arab Spring of popular uprisings against authoritarian regimes, such as the Egyptian revolution that ousted long-time President Hosni Mubarak in February.
"Nobody knows what's going to happen in Egypt.It appears very chaotic there," Oren said during a conference call with reporters organized by the Israel Project.
El-Arab's party has formed a coalition with the radical Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
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HUNTINGDON - Andrew J. Maul of Portage, a senior studying biology at Juniata College, was recently awarded the National Institutes of Health's Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award, a yearlong opportunity that will allow Maul to work in an NIH research lab.
Maul will be working at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Md. He will start his research in June in the laboratory of Pamela Robey, chief of the agency's skeletal biology section and co-coordinator of the NIH Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Transplantation Center.
Last summer, Maul worked in the lab of Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientist Jenna Galloway. He spent 10 weeks working on a stem cell research project at the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital after receiving the Exceptional Research Opportunities Program Award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Maul, the son of Jeff and Karen Maul of Portage, is a 2010 graduate of Portage Area High School. He has been involved in undergraduate research at Juniata since fall semester 2012.
He works with Regina Lamandella, assistant professor of biology, on a project Lamandella started at Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, Calif., that examines insulin-resistant individuals and whether a resistant starch diet (foods that are more difficult to digest) will change how the bacteria in the gut may function.
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PHILADELPHIA - Two teams of Penn State architectural engineering students won seven awards at the 2014 Charles Pankow Foundation Annual Architectural Engineering Student Design Competition on March 29.
The competition, organized by the Architectural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers and hosted by Drexel University, challenged students to address the design, integration and construction for a new high-profile, 30-story office building in San Francisco.
Teams were asked to integrate engineered systems for a high performance building with an eye toward sustainable design.
Students were judged in five primary categories including structural, mechanical and electrical engineering, as well as construction management and integration.
Penn State won first place in four of the five primary categories and was runner-up in three categories.
Team AVANT from Penn State won the electrical, mechanical and structural categories and was the runner-up in the construction category. The group included Robert Fazio, Tyler Dietz, Christopher Coakley, Katharine Gausseres, Rebecca Slocum, Nicholas Rekstad, Jordan Miller and Eric Ripkin.
Team AEVITAS from Penn State won the construction category and was the runner-up in the structural and integration categories.
The group included Lara Kaiserian, Kristin Sliwinski, Alex van Eeden, Abigail Kreider, Kieran Carlisle, Drew Canfield, Jonathan Sharp and Robert Livorio.
M. Kevin Parfitt, associate professor of architectural engineering and one of the teams' lead faculty advisers, said the four first-place awards matched last year's tally and noted that it was only Penn State's second year of participation in the contest.
He added, "There were numerous comments and feedback from the jury attesting to the technical strength and depth of analysis demonstrated by the Penn State architectural engineering student teams."
In addition to Parfitt, Charles Cox, instructor of architectural engineering, and Ryan Solnosky, research associate in architectural engineering, served as lead faculty advisers.
The team's technical advisers were John Messner, professor of architectural engineering; Richard Mistrick, associate professor of architectural engineering; and Moses Ling, associate professor of architectural engineering; and Solnosky.
A total of 10 teams from seven architectural engineering programs submitted projects for the competition.
The 2015 competition will be held during the AEI's sixth Biennial Professional Conference from March 24 to 27 in Milwaukee and hosted by the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
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READING - Graduating seniors at Alvernia University received awards during the annual Honors Convocation on April 13.
David Michael Sloan of Huntingdon earned the Academic Excellence Award from the Allied Health & Human Services Department.
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Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton (October 5, 1946 -- March 16, 2009) was an Appalachian maker of moonshine originally from Maggie Valley, North Carolina. Sutton considered moonshine production a legitimate part of his heritage, being as he was Scots-Irish and descended from a long line of moonshiners. In January 2009, Sutton was sentenced to eighteen months in a federal prison for illegally brewing spirits and possession of a firearm as a felon. Sutton, 62 and recently diagnosed with cancer, pleaded with the judge to let him serve his sentence under house arrest. Several petitions were made in attempts to reduce or commute Sutton's sentence, to no avail. Sutton committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning on March 16, 2009, apparently to avoid a federal prison term due to begin a few days later. On October 24, 2009, Sutton's body was relocated from his original grave site in Mt. Sterling, NC, to his home in Parrotsville, TN, providing an opportunity for the first public memorial service to be held. Sutton's memorial grew in spectacle as country music singer Hank Williams, Jr. flew in to pay his respects. In the 1960s or 70s, Sutton was given the nickname of "Popcorn" Sutton after damaging a bar's faulty popcorn vending machine with a pool cue.
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Niagara Falls was our first big thing. It was awesome. I purchased a souvenir; it is a picture of the Niagara Falls at night and it came with a pencil and some notes. We took the Maid of the Mist boat and we got to get up close to the falls. We saw the Canadian border; it looked like they went behind the waterfall. We also went on a trolley and rode around the state park here. They had a big dam on the Canadian side to control the water levels.
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We went to Letchworth and met new friends at the campground. The let us stay at their house the next night. We enjoyed making more new friends. We went to Corning Glass Museum by their house. We got to see some demonstrations and we got to volunteer for one. We got to break some glass. My brother was trying to break a sphere (egg-shaped) made out of glass and he couldn't do it and he only got a chip off. Then she flipped the egg over and she put in a needle and I picked up the needle and I dropped it and the egg shattered into pieces. My brother was mad because he tried so hard to break it but all the stress was on the other side of the egg and the needle went right through it. We received glass figurines since we volunteered.
We did a lot of fun stuff in New York by the Finger Lakes and met a ton on new kids. We also went to Lake Placid and rode a train and went on an Olympic ski jump. We also went to the capital.
We went to NYC after we went to toured New England. We went to Ellis Island and received Junior Ranger pins. We went up the Statue of Liberty and toured the pedestal. We headed to the city via a ferry. We walked around the city and got their famous pizza and toured the city. So far, I would not call that the best pizza. Back in Ohio, we went to Yolie's Pizza which was the best!
We also went up the Empire State Building; my mom was too scared to go up. When we were at the top with my dad and I saw the Statue of Liberty, it looked really tiny compared to it. Literally, it looked like a speck.
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The global meeting of the Indigenous Peoples' Forum at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will convene prior to the 38th session of IFAD's Governing Council. The meeting will focus on indigenous food systems and sustainable development. The Forum, which institutionalizes IFAD's consultation and dialogue with indigenous peoples' representatives at the national, regional and international levels, held its first global meeting in 2013. In preparation for the second Forum, regional workshops took place in late 2014 in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America.


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First of all, each of the families were so welcoming, warm and hospitable. I was welcomed into each home with open arms and I'm truly grateful for that.
One thing I'd like to point out – it seemed as if this go-around I wasn't met with any skepticism. During my last experience on The Bachelor, I felt like I had to convince some of the family members that it was a very real experience and that love is possible, even in such a unique situation. This time, all of the families seemed to accept that and not question it at all. In fact, I even received unsolicited blessings from some of the fathers (which I greatly appreciated).
I absolutely loved seeing each of the women light up when they got around their families. We had been traveling a lot by this pointand I could tell the women were becoming homesick. I was so happy to see them back home, genuinely smiling and happy.
Shawntel N.'s hometown had to be the most unique because she showed me her place of work first. Laying down on the embalming table is something I won't quickly forget. I hope it made her realize I was willing to do literally anything to show her I admire and respect her career!
I played a short game of football with Chantal O.'s family (her father just happens to be an ex-pro football player) and performed terribly. I dropped quite a few passes in front of the man. I think guys can empathize with me here – I was completely and utterly mortified and embarrassed.
Ashley's family was a riot! They were so much fun and outgoing. You didn't see me facing a few tough (but appropriate) questions from Ashley's sister and I'd like to think I passed the test!
Last but definitely not least, I was humbled and honored to get the chance to meet Emily's daughter, Little Ricki. It took a while to get her to open up to me but once she did, my heart melted by just being around that little girl.
Every single visit with each of the families was perfect in its own, unique way. I can't explain to all of you how important getting to meet the families is during this experience. It gives the person a true perspective on how everyday life will be with the "chosen one" – a much-needed perspective in a sometimes-cloudy experience.
One last thing ... I want to explain why I didn't kiss Emily while sitting on her couch. It's no secret that I'm brand new to a lot of this. I've never dated a woman with a daughter before so I don't know proper etiquette in that situation. All I know is this, I wanted to kiss Emily every second I was around her, but my very first concern was showing her daughter respect (as well as Emily). I realize it makes me look like a weird and awkward guy around Emily, but that's anything but the case. Again, my first concern was her daughter.
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The company, which filed the suit in Delaware, said it believes the Dish Network deal violates Delaware law and the rights of Sprint and Clearwire investors. Sprint also wants the court to rescind other parts of the Dish Network offer and order compensatory relief.
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At 5-8, 165 pounds, he's a bit small. There's also the ball security issues and the presence of starter Jawan Jamison and backup Savon Huggins.
But true freshman running back Desmond Peoples has the makings of a dynamic, change-of-pace runner who can turn the corner and go the distance in an instance.
"I feel like I bring shiftiness and quickness and just the ability to break tackles,'' Peoples said. "Sometimes people think I'm down and I'm not. I'm so low to the ground.
"To be honest, people really can't see me. And once they do, I'm gone.''
Peoples, a Cheltenham, Pa., native, is one of nearly a dozen true freshmen expected to have an impact next season. He's slated to be redshirted barring injury.
Rated as a consensus three-star recruit, Peoples rushed for 1,241 yards and 23 touchdowns as a senior at Archbishop Wood, one of the premier prep programs in Pennsylvania.
Peoples had a solid preseason camp and was dazzling during the bye week, with freshmen and younger players getting a lengthy look during a portion of practice devoted to them. He displayed game-breaking speed and the uncanny ability to get out of tackles.
But fumbles have dogged him, earning him the wrath of offensive coordinator Dave Brock, and it appears coach Kyle Flood doesn't quite trust him quite enough to put him in game situations.
"I'm not hesitant to play him,'' Flood insists. "It's a matter of how the depth chart lines up. I think Desmond is a good football player. He's going to play a lot of football for us.''
Moving forward, Peoples says he wants to put on 10 pounds of muscle for next season and get more acclimated to the speed of the college game. He said his ability to avoid direct hits keeps him on the field.
Jamison appears to be holding up well despite 74 carries in the past two games, but Peoples says he'll be ready if needed. He has traveled to all three road games this season.
"It could come down to one injury and I'll be in there,'' he said. "I just have to be ready. I feel like I've made great improvement (since the summer). I feel like I've become a better football player. I'm just going to keep working my way up.''
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Bitdefender launches anti-theft mobile security for Android devices
Software allows users to lock, locate or wipe device via SMS
ROMANIAN SECURITY FIRM Bitdefender has launched a stand-alone anti-theft software product for mobile devices running the Android operating system (OS).
Intended to track the whereabouts of lost or stolen Android devices, the product not only allows users to connect remotely and use a variety of controls such as "lock", "locate" or "wipe" from a web profile via the internet, but enables users to activate those commands with text messages.
Speaking at a conference in Bucharest, Bitdefender senior product manager Alex Balan told The INQUIRER of the importance of the software's text message capability due to the increasing skill of thieves that are now more aware of mobile security software.
"Traditionally anti-theft systems have a web console which allows you to do several things with it such as lock [the device], track it, and so on," Balan said.
"We have discovered that this particular approach gets results but isn't necessarily fool-proof. Thieves will disconnect the phone from the internet, remove the SIM card, and try to uninstall the solution if they see it is there."
"This is why we have implemented a new component that also allows it to remotely control your device via text message as well as GPS and WiFi."
The SMS service works the same way as a web console, in that it allows the user to control the stolen device and see where it is located - but does so via a 'trusted number' nominated by the user when the software is installed.
One of the first steps the user will do during the initial software installation is input a telephone number of a trusted friend or relative. This will ensure that the stolen device can be controlled or located via SMS from the trusted user's phone if no internet connections can be established.
Bitdefender also said that its product has the ability to read new SIM card information and send this on to the trusted number, so a thief's contact details will be revealed upon entry of the newly inserted SIM. This could allow the user to call the crook, get angry at them, and probably still be a without their phone as a result. But at least it might make them feel better.
With another feature dubbed "scream", the trusted number can also send an SMS to set off an alarm on the phone, showing the thief up good and proper, and locking them out of the device.
When installed, Balan said that the anti-theft software is well hidden from 'installed programs' lists and requires a PIN code to access, thus preventing uninstallation by pesky pickpockets. It also includes protection from phishing, viruses and Trojans.
The software is an updated version of the product that was originally bundled with earlier editions of the firm's mobile security software. Bitdefender highlighted that its stand-alone debut is due to the increase in security threats and the increase in thefts of mobile devices.
Pricing for Bitdefender's Anti-theft product will be $24.99 for the full product or $4.99 for the strictly Android version. µ
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James Williams
James' Story
For James Williams, things in 1999 were, as he puts it, "Going great." His daughter was a cheerleader in high school. His son was living in his first apartment. He and wife JoAnn were looking forward to (and planning) his retirement, which was just a few short years away. And other than a sore shoulder from an old baseball injury, James thought he was in good health.
It was in the grocery store where James first thought there may be something wrong. He decided to stick his arm in a blood pressure machine. When he read how high the number was, he knew it had to be a mistake. "I thought, 'Well, this machine is off,' " James says.
The Diagnosis
The next day, James went to the doctor. X-rays were taken. James says, "He put it on the wall and lit it up, and there it was – the size of a softball. Then I asked him, 'What am I going to do now?' "
James saw a series of doctors locally. "At first, they told us they could handle it and take care of it here," JoAnn says. "But after they saw the location of the tumor, they told us he only had six to 18 months." JoAnn wasn't going to accept that. And on the advice of several friends, she told James they should try MD Anderson.
Treatment from MD Anderson
"The location of James' lung cancer was very uncommon. And it's an especially difficult area because of the surrounding vertebrae and the nerves and arteries," explains James' doctor, Stephen Swisher. "He came to us for a second opinion, and we felt that with our expertise and because of our collaboration with neurosurgery that the tumor could be removed."
James waited until his grandson, Coltin Williams, was born and then had the surgery. "It was an 8 1/2-hour surgery. And every two hours, a nurse would come talk to me about how he was doing," JoAnn says. "They even asked how I was doing."
"They saved him," JoAnn says. "The people at MD Anderson, they are basically … amazing," says James, who has been cancer-free almost 10 years now.
Life Now
Today, life is going great again. James is volunteering at his local hospital and loves to play baseball with Coltin Williams, who is now 9. And although he hasn't retired yet, James and JoAnn always find plenty of time to travel. "We just got back from Cozumel, and also recently traveled to New York," James says. "We're enjoying life. And we owe it all to MD Anderson."
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Mike Duroe named head wrestling coach at Cornell CollegeMOUNT VERNON - Mike Duroe, head coach of the 2005 U.S. Freestyle World Team and head coach of the University of Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling Club since 2003, has been named interim head wrestling coach at Cornell College.
"We're pleased to have someone of Mike's caliber available and able to join us on this interim basis," Cornell athletics director Tina Hill said. "We have an exciting group of wrestlers anxious to get the season started and we're very happy to have Mike's skills and qualifications leading our program."
Duroe replaces Drew Pariano, who resigned in September to become an assistant coach at Northwestern University.
Duroe, a native of Charles City, has been head coach at Northern Michigan University, an assistant at the University of Pennsylvania and head coach of the Northwestern University Wildcat Wrestling Club. He was a member of the coaching staff for the Pan American Games (2003) and the Olympic Games (2004).
At Northern Michigan from 1980-84, Duroe compiled a record of 82-27 with 23 All-Americans and two NCAA champions. For two years he was in charge of the Northwestern Wildcat Wrestling Club before leading New Trier (Ill.) High School from 1986-98. He was named Illinois High School Athletic Association regional coach of the year four times.
From 1998-2001 Duroe worked for USA Wrestling as its freestyle developmental coach and freestyle resident coach. He was the head assistant coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 2001-03 before joining the Hawkeye Wrestling Club in 2003.
"I have extremely high expectations for this program," Duroe said. "My goals are always to win, and I'll work tirelessly to make this program better. I'm fired up about these kids, and my job will be to instill in them that they can achieve greater things."
Cornell has won 43 conference championships with 57 NCAA All-Americans, eight individual national champions, seven Olympians and one NCAA national team championship. The Rams are in a rebuilding phase going 6-12 last season. Their last winning season (10-5) was in 1995-96 when they won the Midwest Conference championship.
Cornell's 2005-06 preseason roster includes two seniors, 10 sophomores and 14 freshmen.


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(May 15, 2014) The Nantucket Council on Aging has named Emma Rusch and Michael Varbalow its 2014 Senior Citizens of the Year for their positive impact on the island's elderly community and uplifting presence on a yearly basis.
The annual award, which was first presented in 1988, honors one male and one female citizen from Nantucket who is involved in the community, is a role model for his or her peers and exemplifies the "spirit of positive aging."
Varbalow, 75, grew up in the small town of Merchantville, N.J. and was raised by parents who were heavily involved in the community. He attributes his love for small towns and community service to them.
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In every aspect of campus life, Franklin College provides its students with various tools and services to assist them in making college a smooth transition, thus helping them to succeed socially and academically.
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LANSING, MI -- Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero took to the local radio airwaves Thursday evening, defending his decision to veto nearly all the Lansing City Council's changes to his budget.
Appearing on the Michael Cohen show on 1320 WILS, Bernero also defended his decision to reinstate funding for two programs deemed "non-essential" by the council.
In addition to reinstating more than $40,000 in funding for the Lansing Regional Sister Cities Commission, Bernero refused to defund the Office of Community and Faith-based Initiatives.
Lansing City Councilwoman A'Lynne Robinson said the programs the office assists with are largely duplicated by the city's Department of Human Resources and Community Services.
She also said council received no information about the activities of the office and its director, Bishop David Maxwell.
"I won't apologize one bit for a penny of David Maxwell's salary...we get that back ten-fold," Bernero said on WILS. "He has won tens of thousands of dollars, if not millions, in terms of grants that have come because of his work."
Bernero also cited Maxwell's office as working on mobile food clinics.
The city does sponsor mobile food banks through the Department of Human Resources and Community Services.
Advertisements for the events make no mention of Maxwell's office.
Multiple requests for information about the activities of Maxwell's office have not been answered.
In 2010, Maxwell told the Lansing City Pulse he was paid about $25,000 annually to act as a liaison between the mayor's office and church leaders.


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Did you know that 76 million Americans suffer from food poisoning each year? Obviously, home food preparation contributes to this number. So as you take out the silver and china for that special celebration put these four tips at the top of your holiday "to do" list.
1. Wash hands often.
Wash hands in warm, soapy water before, during and after meal preparation. Remember too many well-intended chefs in the kitchen can increase the risk of food-borne illness.
2. Keep raw meats separate from ready-to-eat foods.
When the juice from raw meats accidentally touches cooked or ready-to-eat foods (fruits, salads, etc.), cross contamination can occur. So designate one cutting board strictly for raw meats and the other for ready-to-eat foods.
3. Cook to proper temperatures.
Eliminate the guesswork by using a meat thermometer. This is the only reliable way to check for doneness of cooked meat. By using a meat thermometer and cooking to a proper temperature, harmful bacteria is destroyed. Make sure to use your meat thermometer correctly:
red meats, roasts, chops and poultry pieces: insert in center of thickest part (away from bone, fat and gristle)
poultry (whole bird): insert in inner thigh area near the breast, but not touching bone
egg dishes and casseroles: insert in center or thickest area of dish
Food Item - Internal Temperature (degrees F)
Beef, Lamb, Veal:
medium-rare - 145
medium - 160
well-done - 170
whole chicken, turkey - 180
boneless turkey roasts - 170
poultry breasts and roasts - 170
poultry thighs, wings, drumsticks - 180
duck, goose - 180
stuffing (cooked alone or in bird) - 165
Pork (all cuts):
medium - 160
well-done - 170
Fresh, raw ham - 160
4. Keep foods out of the "danger zone" (40-140 degrees F)
Leftovers need to be refrigerated within two hours after being served. Make sure your refrigerator is set appropriately at 40 degrees F or below.
Holiday meals bring leftovers. Here are some tips to assure you don't get sick the second time around.
separate leftovers into shallow containers (2 inches or less)
refrigerate/freeze leftovers within two hours of cooking the food
remove turkey from the bone and store it separately from the stuffing and gravy; slice breast meat; legs and wings may be left whole. Use turkey and stuffing within three to four days, gravy within one or two days.
reheat leftovers to 165 degrees F
When in doubt, throw it out!
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Factors that improve upstream productivity in mammalian cell culture-based manufacturing are many and varied. Michael Betenbaugh, Ph.D., professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University, says that the elucidation of the Chinese hamster genome will create opportunities for approaches based on proteomics, metabolomics, and glycomics, as well as genomics, for characterizing and adapting CHO cells.
He describes one approach, using microRNA, on CHO cell apoptosis. Cell viability is a huge factor in the success of CHO cultures. Dr. Betenbaugh induced apoptosis in cells by exposing them to nutrient-depleted media and found upregulation of endogenous microRNAs associated with cell death.
One upregulated gene out of 38 proposed microRNAs, mmu-miR-466h, inhibits anti-apoptosis genes. As predicted, knockdown of this gene reduced apoptosis.
"We were able to change the trajectory of viability for these cells," says Dr. Betenbaugh. In addition to studying regulatory microRNAs, he is using a proteomics approach to determine which proteins may be involved in apoptosis and other cell activities related to cell culture productivity.
The value of omics analysis in CHO cell-line optimization is the ability to compare, through several (and sometimes orthogonal) approaches, high-producing or more viable cells from undesirable cells without directly quantifying either viability or product proteins.
MicroRNA has two limitations. Of minor importance is that microRNA gene inactivation tends to be transient. More useful knockdowns would persist for the life of the culture. More significant are a cell's ability to work around artificial states such as gene knockdowns, and the presence of multiple regulatory genes.
"You can inhibit one anti-apoptosis gene but it won't completely block cell death," explains Dr. Betenbaugh."Other studies have dispelled the idea of a magic bullet."
Several talks at Select Biosciences' "Cell Culture" conference will shed light on current modes of thinking among upstream specialists.
Matthew Croughan, Ph.D., professor at the Keck Graduate Institute, will focus on new methods to control cell metabolism and advanced mass transfer strategies to achieve high titers and cell densities.
The need to control metabolism arises from the successes of modern mammalian cell culture: As cell densities increase, so do concentrations of waste products like lactic acid and ammonia. Dr. Croughan is looking at four techniques to reduce the waste burden in fed-batch cultures.
The first, reducing lactic acid production through feedback control of glucose, is based upon careful monitoring of "pH trajectories." This approach, developed at Pfizer and known as HIPDOG (high-end pH-controlled delivery of glucose), is based on the fact that cells consume lactic acid when glucose levels fall below about 1 mM.
As acid levels fall, pH rises. Researchers devised a feeding method that delivers concentrated glucose solution, in response to rising pH, which reduces lactate accumulation during the cells' growth phase.
The next technique, a patent-pending method invented by Dr. Croughan and Nate Freund, a former student, reduces lactic acid and ammonia production by adapting cells to high (40 mM) lactate.
"The high lactate concentration pushes the equilibrium toward pyruvate, away from lactate production," he says. "In fact, if lactic acid concentration is high enough the cells will consume it."
The other approaches involve reducing lactic acid production by transfecting cells with anti-apoptosis genes and controlling cell metabolism through "advanced flux modeling" and medium optimization. The material in this article related to Dr. Betenbaugh describes the anti-apoptosis approach.
The last technique was developed by Bernard Palsson, Ph.D., professor at the University of California, San Diego, and commercialized by GT Life Sciences, a division of Intrexon.
All well and good, but can these techniques be used together to create super-cells and super-cultures? Dr. Croughan is cautiously optimistic.
"They possess common components, but some overlap. It may be possible to combine flux modeling with anti-apoptosis strategies, lactate supplementation and adaptation, or HIPDOG."
Interestingly, some of these techniques are being applied to transiently transfected cells, which currently produce at much lower levels than stably transfected lines. Transient transfections are normally conducted at research or investigational scale, but the extra productivity cannot hurt.
Tiffany Rau, Ph.D., process engineer at Pall, is delivering a presentation at the San Diego conference on design of experiment (DOE), quality by design, and scaleup/scale-down tools. Dr. Rau observes that DOE is about empowering scientists early on to design processes that are robust and get you into the manufacturing suite quickly. "We all have very short timelines. Patients are waiting, and stockholders are too."
Engaging in DOE is critical for situations where selected cell lines do not scale to larger bioreactors. The idea is to get cells into controlled reactors early, to avoid pursuing cells that are "winners" in shake flasks but bomb in bioreactors at 3 or 20 liter scales.
Simple DOE experiments might employ five bioreactors if run in single mode, or multiples of five when done in replicate. "That's a lot of reactors and a lot of work," says Dr. Rau. "It's hard for smaller, resource-limited companies to perform such extensive studies."
Microbioreactors, which have become popular tools for DOE in cell culture, reproduce the critical parameters affecting productivity at large scale. Several companies sell these systems in various reactor sizes, and with varying levels of control.
TAP Biosystems' ambr™ cell culture workstation holds up to 48 bioreactors, of up to 15 mL each of working volume; the Biolector from Dasgip, a company just acquired by Eppendorf, monitors cell growth and output in 96 wells at up to 1.5 mL per reactor; Seahorse Bioscience weighs in with 0.7 mL SimCell™ system with up to 1,200 individual reactor wells.
About one year ago Pall entered the microbioreactor marketplace by acquiring MicroReactor Technologies. Microreactor's Micro-24 Microreactor System was originally distributed by Applikon, but Pall has begun selling it directly to customers.
DOE provides opportunities to gain deep insight into processes at the potential cost of data overload. DOE's major limitation is getting carried away—over-designing an experiment to the degree that it eats up time and resources. Process developers must keep the distinction between high-throughput screening-type operations and experimental design.
Biological systems are complex, and many factors affect productivity of cell culture processes. One cannot test for all possible properties. "You don't want to do 500 experiments," cautions Dr. Lau. Instead developers should keep the design space as simple as possible. This requires a high level of confidence in picking critical parameters and guiding the course of the experiment, as well as statistical savvy.
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It's a little early by some standards but today, I am waxing grateful.
It seems the whole of November is now set aside as a time to give thanks, as opposed to just that fourth Thursday in the 11th month - the annual date typically reserved for that purpose, of course.
Over in Facebook-land, folks have been posting daily blurbs about the things for which they are appreciative since the beginning of the month.
And while I don't think I need to state the obvious that we are all eternally relieved that campaign season is over, it certainly does make this year's list. As do the veterans of all branches of the U.S. military whom we honor officially tomorrow. That latter one does bear repeating daily, in fact.
Thank you to every man and woman who has ever donned a military uniform in the name of America and all for which she stands. Gratitude does not begin to cover what I feel in my heart for our soldiers past and present, near and far, young and old. Please know that so many of us pray for you every day of our lives because we know how fortunate we are to live in a free country. And we know it's only because of you and by the grace of God that we do.
I'd also like to thank the two people who started it all - for me, at least - my parents. You know, as I sat in their kitchen the other evening, having whimsically stopped by to visit them and my brother on my way home from work, it hit me: I like these people.
Do I love them? Unconditionally. Would I do anything in the world for them, especially given all they have sacrificed to give to me and my siblings the most wonderful life possible? Indeed.
But beyond that, I genuinely enjoy spending time talking to them, gleaning as much of their wisdom as my feeble mind can grasp. And I am so grateful to have them as my mom and dad.
Speaking of Mom, when I asked her what's making her heart sing with gratitude these days she didn't skip a beat citing her family, faith and friends. Mom is especially thankful for the joy brought upon by her wonderful grandchildren. And she's even grateful for her "grandpuppies."
As for her eldest child, my sister Gina, she's grateful for the good health of her family and friends. Nice one, Jean - very selfless. "Oh, and for having Black Friday off," she added, natch.
My other sister Kim - the one I gained when I married Kerry - is grateful for "my husband Bob who is my true soul mate and my amazing family that has now grown since my marriage this past September! I am truly blessed and forever thankful!" Aw, so sweet, Kimberly Dawn. We love you, too.
Then there's my soul sister Christine Ruggieri of Warren who, like Kim, is feeling fortunate. "I am thankful to have parents who are the ultimate role models. At 80+ they laugh rather than complain, still volunteer and are a joy to be around. I am incredibly blessed." And so is everyone who knows Chris and her parents; I ought to know.
As for my hubby, when asked why his heart is smiling this November he said simply, "Kyle, you and Monnie." Good answer, Kimerer. And in the right order, BTW.
Correspondingly, my son, husband and beloved boxer are truly my life; I thank God for them more than once a day, to be sure.
And my friend Bill James of Boardman put it succinctly and quite well, I might add, when he said: "I am thankful for my incredible family, great friends, enjoyable job, and the small things that the Good Lord has given me. Life is wonderful when the people you love surround you all of the time."
Amen, William; every day is - or should be - Thanksgiving.
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The Olympic gold medalist, 51, is "resting comfortably in the hospital" with his wife, Tracie, by his side. "The priority is for him to rest and recover so he can get home to his boys," Aidan and Maxx, his rep tells PEOPLE.
Hamilton had the surgery in Boston on Wednesday and will remain in the ICU for a few days before he is expected to return home next week.
The figure skater, who underwent chemotherapy for testicular cancer in 1997, discovered the benign tumor in 2004. Called craniopharyngioma, the tumor could have caused blindness if left untreated.
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A GATEWAY bus travels down Berkeley Boulevard. Ridership on the city's urban bus system has seen a dramatic decrease, and at least one member of the City Council says spending $3.8 million on a new bus transfer station is a waste.
Goldsboro City Councilman Gene Aycock is not convinced. He is not convinced that Goldsboro needs a new $3.8 million transfer station for its urban bus system. He is not convinced that if his fellow council members determine that one...
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