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In the first installment of this pre-PDC blog post series, I published the list of the sessions I'll likely attend and a list of sessions that would be cool to see, but that isn't really target material (for me).
Microsoft has now published the time & location of each session, and I must say that I'm (at least at the moment) quite disappointed that www.microsoftpdc.com lacks two important features:
- Export to Outlook / ICS. Both for single sessions and the possibility to link the whole My Sessions view into Outlook.
- An Outlook-ish calendar view, that visualize conflicting sessions (Just like my normal Outlook calendar – when my coworkers book me for three different meetings at the same time ;-) ).
That said, I hope Microsoft hasn't revealed all features of the PDC website yet.
Since I haven't found the floor map for LACC on www.microsoftpdc.com (yet), I've scanned the floor plans from PDC '08. Click the picture to bring up a larger version. Note that the layout of stands/booths in the Expo area are probably different from what it will be this year.
Since it's getting closer to my departure, I'll put up a list of stuff I'm bringing both for the trip and stay – hopefully, there may be a trick or two for a first-timer travelling to a large conference.
- Be sure to bring your passport if you're traveling in from another country. If you're a resident of a country in the European Union, or another country that is covered by the ESTA Visa waiver "program", you need to register yourself here before you travel.
- Business Cards – network, share and LinkedIn later.
- Money / credit cards – Mo' money, mo' problems? Tips: bring at least two major credit/debit cards (VISA, Eurocard, Amex) and leave one your hotel room's safe.
- Sun glasses / Hat / Sunscreen. Here in Norway it's mostly dark at this time of the year, but in LA, the sun is hot – protect yourself from those nasty UV rays.
- Pocket camera / phone: voice/txt/twitter et cetera.
- Computer(s): I'm bringing my Dell Precision M4400 and Latitude E4300. The latter is perfect to bring to the LACC at daytime – the first one is my portable workstation. I have a US power chord to my laptop's power supplies – it's always a hassle to bring an extra power converter to the conference center.
- Fiber, fiber, fiber. Well – how should I put it? The American (conference) diet SUCKS. No fiber – and a lot of sugar. I need my fiber, or I'll turn up constipated and grumpy.
- Omega-3, Ginseng, vitamins: when traveling, remember to super charge on extra vitamins etc. An exhaustive week with jet lag and activities from 6 in the morning to late night does something to your body.
- Sleeping aids; I've found some prescription-free sleeping aids that are available in the drug stores (in the US). Be sure to buy some before you leave.
- NoDoz caffeine pills. Generally, I don't like to pop these – but I bring them for emergency situations.
- A good carry-on laptop bag that you can't stuff more than a tiny computer in is at least vital to me. I'm not sure if it is to you – YMMV.
Warning: coming up is an ugly formatted HTML table with some pictures to give you a mental note if some of the items you shouldn't forget at home :-) Mouse-over will give you a description of each item.
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US military have been using music as a form of torture in Iraq. Psychological operations (or psyops) play Metallica's Enter Sandman or Eminem's White America at excruciating volumes as a way of 'breaking' Iraqi prisoners of war.
Both songs feature in a torture playlist compiled by American investigative magazine Mother Jones. Fuck Your God by death metal band Deicide tops the list while Bruce Springsteen's Born In The USA and Barney The Dinosaur's I Love You are also popular choices.
The fact that Fuck Your God is actually anti-Christian and Born In The USA and White America focus on anti-establishment doesn't seem to matter. I Love You, sung by a happy-go-lucky purple dinosaur, is known in the torture trade as futility music – chosen to "convince the prisoner of the futility of maintaining his position".
Perhaps surprisingly, many artists don't take offence at the military's appropriation of their work. Metallica frontman James Hetfield had this to say: "If the Iraqis aren't used to freedom, then I'm glad to be part of their exposure. We've been punishing our parents, our wives, our loved ones with this music for ever. Why should the Iraqis be any different?"
The Guardian reports that 'torture by music' is not a new concept. Similar techniques involving loud noise and strobe lights pumped into cells were adopted by the FBI during the '90s and by the IRA as far back as the '70s. Psyops call this method "torture lite", which is handy because "heavy" torture is banned.
Here's Mother Jones' torture playlist in full:
1. Fuck Your God – Deicide
2. Die MF Die – Dope
3. Take Your Best Shot – Dope
4. White America – Eminem
5. Kim – Eminem
6. Barney Theme Song – Barney The Dinosaur
7. Bodies – Drowning Pool
8. Enter Sandman – Metallica
9. Meow Mix TV commercial
10. Sesame Street TV theme
11. Babylon – David Gray
12. Born In The USA – Bruce Springsteen
13. Shoot To Thrill – ACDC
14. Stayin' Alive – Bee Gees
15. All Eyes On Me – Tupac
16. Dirrty – Christina Aguilera
17. America – Neil Diamond
18. Bulls On Parade – Rage Against The Machine
19. American Pie – Don McLean
20. Click Click Boom – Saliva
21. Cold – Matchbox 20
22. Swan Dive – Hed P.E.
23. Raspberry Beret – Prince

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My wife and I do cook-offs with friends—they always foster jovial trash talking," says Sudhir Kandula, advisor & investor of technology and food startups in New York City and runner-up on America's Next Great Restaurant (NBC). "Happy adversaries are always good things for a dinner party, and having a group of artists cook against a group of bankers, or an American/Japanese couple cook against an Indian/Swedish husband-and-wife team, makes for a more fun and interesting party!
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"When arranging the seating, separate people who know each other (or are in a relationship) into different sections of the table," says Allegra LaViola, owner of Allegra LaViola Gallery in New York City. Want to be more adventurous? Switch seats after each course. "Moving around helps facilitate conversation and gets you to interact with people you might not have had a chance to speak to all night," says LaViola.
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Home List of Titles Theoretical and experimental evaluation of microstreaming created by a single microbubble: application to sonoporation
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/240028
- Title
- Theoretical and experimental evaluation of microstreaming created by a single microbubble: application to sonoporation
- Author(s)
- Novell, Anthony; Collis, James; Doinikov, Alexander A.; Ooi, Andrew; Manasseh, Richard; Bouakaz, Ayache
- Abstract
- It is hypothesized that microstreaming might play a role in the sonoporation process, inducing shear stresses which create tension and stretching over the cell membrane and thus lead to its transient permeabilization. In this study, the results of microscopic particle-image velocimetry (PIV) for large bubbles are presented and compared to those obtained using a numerical model. Air bubbles were created in a water solution and then attached to a wall. For each bubble, the microstreaming was measured over a plane located at a distance of 50 μm from the bubble wall. Bubbles were excited using a single element transducer at 28 kHz and 7 kPa. The acoustic microstreaming generated by the air bubble was calculated for the same excitation signal by using a theoretical model based on an analytical solution of the time-averaged Navier-Stokes equation. This approach was also applied to estimate the flow around an encapsulated contrast microbubble using an excitation signal centered at 2.87 MHz with a pressure amplitude of 50 kPa. PIV measurements show that a maximal average velocity of 0.25 mm/s occurs near the bubble resonant size (244 μm diameter bubble). For this bubble, the shear stress is also maximal. Theoretical data are in good qualitative agreement with PIV measurements. Using the contrast agent microbubble model, a maximal flow velocity and shear stress of 4 mm/s and 19 Pa respectively are obtained for a 2.5 μm diameter bubble. The shear stresses are much higher than those produced by normal blood flow (0.5 - 2 Pa). These results suggest that bubbles are capable of exerting significant shear stresses on the cell membrane, affecting likely the sonoporation process.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
- Source
- Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2011), Orlando, Florida, United States, 18-21 October 2011, pp. 1482-1485
- Publication year
- 2011
- Keyword(s)
- Bubbles; Microstreaming; Particle-image velocimetry; PIV; Shear stress; Sonoporation; Velocity
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- 1948-5719 (series ISSN)
- 9781457712531, 1457712539
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Skip to comments.One Small Example out of 40,000+ pages of Regulations on ACA
Posted on 10/31/2013 6:17:41 PM PDT by ToastedHead
"The Departments recognize that plans may utilize multiple service providers to help administer benefits (such as one third-party administrator for major medical coverage, a separate pharmacy benefit manager, and a separate managed behavioral health organization). Separate plan service providers may impose different levels of out-of-pocket limitations and may utilize different methods for crediting participants' expenses against any out-of-pocket maximums. These processes will need to be coordinated under section 1302(c)(1), which may require new regular communications between service providers."
(This is found in the second paragraph of Question #2)
(Excerpt) Read more at dol.gov ...
A person has major surgery, and meets their out of pocket maximum while in the hospital. Upon discharge, they bring a prescription to the pharmacy for a continuation of care medication, say for example injectable Lovenox. This is often given after a stent is put in, for example, to prevent clotting, and is cash priced at over $1000 (even for the generic which is now available.)
In this case, the person should be able to get their prescription for the copay price.
However, because there exists no mechanism for the pharmacy benefits manager to "talk" to the medical claims administrator within the ACA, the copay given to the pharmacy when the claim is submitted will be the full cash price. There will be absolutely no way for the pharmacy to know the out of pocket maximum has been met.
Within this addendum to the 40,000+ pages of regulations, in this one small FAQ, the Dept of Labor/HHS/Treasury all admit "These processes will need to be coordinated under section 1302(c)(1)."
Obviously from watching the healthcare.gov website, the integration of legacy systems of data is a huge task. After they get that website working, how much will this one small process cost us, the taxpayer, to implement. Is it even possible?
***I've never posted before, and I can't tell if I am doing it right. Please edit as needed. I'm just throwing this out there because it will really affect me in my line of work. Thanks!***
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I think we knew from day one this was a "full employment" bill for attorneys. Even over and above the 15,000 lawyers and accountants hired by the IRS to administer/enforce Obamacare.
Toast.....They are trying to baffle us with bullshiie.
It was really painful to watch the Sebelius hearing. I realized how little they could possibly understand the enormity of the mess they've made.
I read that Landrieu and others are considering a piece of legislation called "The If You Like It, You Can Keep It Act." It's way too late for that. The insurance companies have already made their projections and adjustments for 2014. There's no going back, but there's also no going forward it seems.
I can't wait until the new premiums come out for January. Employer sponsored coverage is going to get killed, too. Is there anyone on the planet smart enough to fix this?
And doing a fabulous job! The regulations are written in such a way that they are just about impossible to make sense of. There is an exception to just about every exception.
I can't wait to vote on Tuesday!
Great post, you done good.......even though the info is disturbing :(
Thank you! (I was nervous:)
The PWS (performance work statement) intends to be clever with "will and shall".
The Obama Admin has now applied this to your life. This Obamacare is no different. Believe me, it will be a nightmare to get through this socialism of the highest order.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Give me your money that I may stay in control of your life
"and a separate managed behavioral health organization"
Probably off topic. But what the hell is that?
The contrast of then and now.
The phrase reads as if somebody is trying to regulate socialism in order to claim they are defending freedom in the marketplace. The only problem is that it creates more bureaucracy instead of promoting liberty.
"intends to be clever with "will and shall"
I hate will and shall, and may. Vague, open ended, and up for discussion. No work will get done while the "team" debates.
It sounds like the organization of "firearm allowance" to me.
I wasn't born in the USA to be a stinking slave.
I'll always be a free man 'til they put me in my grave.
Filling out your forms is just a giant hose!
I'll have to change my address and hide my assets I suppose.
Your Progressive commie paradise I'll have to leave behind,
and if you try to follow me I won't be very kind.
Loading my magazines. Loading my magazines
with 40,000 rounds to pass the time.
It sounds like "manageing my behavior" to me.
How can it be read any different?
"a separate managed behavioral health organization"
That part read to me like it was a byproduct of the "Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA)."
That entire section only seems to have come up for debate as a result of trying to reconcile this new law with that old law. Probably as a result of some special interest objection.
"Shall" is intended for the contractor, "will" is afforded to the fed.
They abuse the hell out of this. Hello Fed.
They "will"!!!!
"Separate plan service providers may impose different levels of out-of-pocket limitations"
That doesn't even make sense. The medical side has its own out of pocket, which has nothing to do with any level of anything on the pharmacy side. Is the policy out of pocket max determined individually per provider, or is it aggregate?
I'd like to see a Navigator Of Excellence prune through that fine print. Right after they put down the bong.
I used to have a post about those rules that I put up many times in 2009.
I found a few of those in your last rowboat tip over. Thanks :^)
Seems like they are writing the unwritten.
Different medical insurance policies have different organizational structures coordinating between 7 to 20 entities, each with massive relational databases to operate in the industry. (e.g. within one regional healthcare system commonly accessed service providers in an outpatient surgical procedure might include: Patient, Dr., Dr's Group, Pharmacy, Lab, Admissions, Insurance Provider, Radiology, Anesthesia, Emergency Room/Trauma Center, Ambulance, Physical Therapy).
Different plans group those services in different fashions based upon local economies of service. Any two or more of those groups may also engage in "co-pay" systems.
The clause seems to be allowing all the different plans to implement their operations in their own fashion, but failing to recognize their 'granting' of that freedom, might be encroaching upon the contractual relationships between service providers within their systems.
I haven't seen a model showing the difference in ACA and the relationships in standard healthcare systems.
"The only problem is that it creates more bureaucracy instead of promoting liberty."
At some level this amount of bureaucracy has to implode on itself and suck the planet in with it. How many lifetimes could it ever take to sort out 40,000 pages of unreadable regulations? Not to mention that Dingle fossil needed an assistant to turn his mike on and off.
Learn from my mistake. Never carry more than 10,000 rounds in a row boat. They just ain't built for it. ;^)
The problem is that the Repubs want to save Obamacare instead of ridding the
monstrous catastrophe that's about to ruin our economy and jobs. Any delay will
also allow the full implementation of Zerocare and allow the Feds to save their
ass' after the titanic has sailed without a radio. In a year nobody will remember
the Titanic-care send off. They'll only know that the Repubs helped create the
failure and will be blamed for all of it. They must not touch one rivet!
"and that's the TEA Party"
It is my observation that anyone who calls themselves a Tea Party person has a very great sense of personal responsibility, and is a joy to work with.
"Never carry more than 10,000 rounds in a row boat. They just aint built for it. ;^)"
You might want to think about a diet. Row boats are constructed to carry a large person.
I'm just a rare exception! lol
"I havent seen a model showing the difference in ACA and the relationships in standard healthcare systems."
I think the biggest difference is that the usual models were designed by people driven by profit (good thing.)
These regulations are being written to shut people up, or make someone happy, or push a goal forward. The final cost is irrelevant. Other people's money, and all.
That's funny and a little ironic. If I wanted to do Halloween as a skeleton all I'd need to do is take my shirt off. ;-)
I appreciate your efforts but that's the first I've heard of that kinda bullshit. I knew it was coming but that is my first actual evidence I can point to in regards to my "head in the sand" family members.
And get this. I know you know but this is for anyone who doesn't.You think your excercise habits, what you drink, what you smoke, how far you drive to work, what your weight is, how much weight you've gained or lost, who you've screwed in the past, who you associate with, who those you associate with, how many stairs in your house, HOW YOU DISCIPLINE YOUR CHILDREN, who's staying in your house, etc. etc. etc......THEY WILL CONTROL EVERY FACET OF YOUR LIFE.
And get this. You lie. About anything. And guess what? That's Insurance Fraud AND YOU GO TO JAIL. Or re-education camps
"the Repubs want to save Obamacare"
Aren't there some business oriented Republicans up there who can see the obvious economic black hole this thing is? The website alone looks like it will top a billion dollars before it gets fired up.
In that case, you need to next consider buying a new row boat:)
Aren't you cold??
It can't be "fixed" -- not in the conventional meaning of the word. Obamacare is irrepairable; a total loss.
Consequently, the best fix would be to repeal it, in toto. Then,, start all over again.
There will be massive problems with this approach, too -- as you suggest. But every day of delay, part of the healthcare infrastructure erodes away -- and risks being lost forever.
Push the "re-set" button -- tomorrow, if possible -- and let the market figure out how to adapt and re-gain something like the status quo ante. Markets are really, really good at this -- and the less "guidance", the better.
They will never be able to reliably implement this. Literally dozens of private companies and government agencies trying to link all these legacy and proprietary systems will make the website launch look like a massive success.
I wish the whole thing would go away. You can accommodate for the relatively small number of people who have "enrolled" in an exchange. (Real enrollments or not, who knows.) They can invent a "Gold/Silver/Bronze Come All Ye Exchange People" plan to cover a couple thousand people.
It's the 10-15 million people left scrambling who have an immediate need for some way to protect themselves. There's not enough time left to put them somewhere. The day the insurers knew they'd lose that revenue and acquire all these new additional costs, affordable policies vanished.
I wonder who gets sued on January 3rd when someone cannot afford their injectable clot busting drug, and then goes home and dies.
Will it be me? I'm the little guy on the totem pole in my faux scenario. CVS/Walgreens/Kroger/RiteAid won't protect me. If I tell someone "Nope, sorry, it's gonna be $1000" and they do not have $1000, am I the "licensed evil man" who gets the lawsuit?
My guess at this moment in time is yes, and that's why I've decided to not engage in "retail" again until at least mid 2015, when there is some semblence of law and order again. I carry my own malpractice insurance, but it's puny compared to the big guns. And I have to think of my kids.
Then there's a ultimate security threat of the world having every American's information
being sold to every thief in the world market. Maybe that's in the plan too, because it
absolutely will happen. Then the fix will be a national ID, accept for illegals.
Who writes all this crap?
Who takes the time?
We know why.
I guess that's what they breed the kids to do in college now. Write completely nonsensical (but intimidating) legislation, all in the name of marching towards a utopia where no one ever has to do anything. "Healthcare is a right!"
Any bill brought up by congress needs to be made available on the web for the people to read. Didn't Obummer say he was going to do just that? We should demand that of any candidate.
Would make for some interesting reading.
TostedHead noob poster. You did good.
If you pushed the button tomorrow -- and all those Obamacare coverage mandates vanished into thin air -- the insurers would be offering those 10-15 million people their old policy (or something akin to it) within hours.
They would jump thru hoops not to lose these customers.
Problem is, of course, nobody's going to push that button...tomorrow.
"TostedHead noob poster. You did good."
I appreciate you! I am starting to relax. Now I need to post something highly controversial and cause mayhem.
You're probably right about that. I got my first divorce letter from BCBS, dated Oct 2nd, telling me my policy would no longer exist after Dec 1, 2014. I got a second letter, dated Oct 22nd, reminding me they will have tons of other options and thanking me for my business. It had a feel to it of "we see we're gonna get screwed because no one we can make money of off is enrolling, so please keep us in mind."
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I'm a fan of Amar'e, but why is it he gets the last shot every time. Don't you think the other teams know this. Dantoni needs to mix things up. He also needs to pay attention to the real coaches in the league (Pop, Jackson, Rivers, Van Gundy etc) to see how they handle things
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After a recent rash of shark attacks, the state's stepping up its efforts to figure out why so many sharks are biting humans.
It's funding a study that begins in September to study the movement of Tiger Sharks around Maui.
The study was already planned, but the recent spike in attacks will shift the focus to areas where those bites have happened.
Carl Meyer and his team have captured and tagged tiger sharks throughout Hawaii. But Maui remains a mystery. There's not much info on what's happening beneath the surface there.
Soon, researchers will dive in.
"We'll be fishing for tiger sharks," said Carl Meyer of the UH Institute of Marine Biology. "When we catch one we bring it along side a small boat, turn it upside down, which induces a trance-like state, and then we're able to measure it and tag the animal before releasing it to go on its way as quickly as possible."
Two different transmitters, one attached the other implanted in the tiger, will transit data that will give them a better picture of where the tigers roam.
"If Carl's studies show there's issues and residency in some areas, we would apply some management tools then educate," said Director of the Department of Land and Natural Resources William Aila. "Maybe keep it off limits or some sort of separation of people and sharks that reside there."
The state has only done this in one area, Olowalu in West Maui
Based on attacks there, and native Hawaii tradition warning to be careful of sharks in the area, a sign went up in 2002 and remains in place.
Meyer says his research has shown Tigers are highly mobile.
"For any given location the average tiger shark would only be there for three minutes," added Meyer. "And won't come back again for at least two weeks."
Meyer says Tigers can travel 100 miles over a 24 hour period. Aila says one Tiger was tracked all the way to Mexico.
But he added that this study won't result in shark culling or shark hunts we saw in the 1970s and later again the 90's.
"To try to capture a shark after an incident would be a waste of time and money and not effective," added Aila.
State stepping up shark study following rash of attacks
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A heated discussion between Gov. Neil Abercrombie and some Maui nurses was caught on video.
It's now circulating on the Internet and the exchange has angered the head of the union representing the nurses.
The amateur video was taken Sunday during a public meeting with Abercrombie on Maui.
The governor was responding to a question posed by a Maui Memorial Medical Center nurse about his support for fair wages compared to nurses in the private hospitals.
"Hey, I didn't say that. If you want to take that attitude towards me you can. But I can tell you this. No body is working harder to see that more money comes in for public employees than I am," Abercrombie is seen saying on the video.
Abercrombie got riled explaining how without the Legislature's approval of his budget package, there is no money for public sector nurses, who last month rejected a proposed labor contract that included a 5 percent pay cut.
"I asked the nurses. I asked all the public employees. Where's your leadership? I asked all your leadership to come and testify," Abercrombie is recorded saying on the video.
"The problem is the governor is continuing to lobby for a revenue package that apparently didn't get broad support because it didn't pas the legislature," said Randy Perreira, Hawaii Government Employees Association executive director.
Perreira said he doesn't blame nurses for feeling they're being treated unfairly when their wages are about 30 percent lower than those in the private sector.
"The truth is the hospital corporation revenue doesn't have anything to do with the general fund, and I think the governor is mixing apples and oranges in trying to suggest to these employees that their actions could have changed the course of outcome," said Perreira.
But the Governor, who had not viewed the video, said he was only trying to get his point across to the nurses about everyone having to make a sacrifice.
"I tried to point out to them that I wasn't elected to try and make a special deal for them and hurt other workers; rather, we're all in this together," said Abercrombie.
Abercrombie said he took offense to the nurses comparing their jobs to other state workers.
A nurse is heard on the video saying, "That cone dropper comes into my ER and I'm going to save their life for 34 percent less than what's out there."
"This is a question of what's an injury to one, is an injury to all and we should all stick together and work together. But their view was the other workers really weren't as good as they were. I took exception to that," said Abercrombie.
Perreira said the HGEA is still waiting for a response from the state and Hawaii Health Systems Corp. for further negotiation meetings.
The 1,561 members of Unit 9 were the only bargaining unit out of seven to reject the proposed contract.
The governor had said the contract would save the state about $124 million over the next two fiscal years.
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Whether it was winning the Homecoming float competition with his fraternity Sigma Chi or rounding up fellow students for an impromptu road trip to cheer on the Cougar football team, Phil Swanson (B.S.M.E. '86) has fond memories of his time at the University of Houston. A proud Cougar supporter, his gratitude for everything that UH enabled him to accomplish motivated his first gifts to the university. "My career and where I am in my career is totally dependent on the education I received from UH," Swanson says. "I have a lot to thank UH for and this is a way of giving back."
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TCW, the fund manager acquired by private equity giant Carlyle in August, has lost a mandate worth more than $70m in part due to the departures of two of its senior portfolio managers.
The City of Fresno Retirement Systems terminated a mandate with TCW last month, citing the departures of two senior portfolio managers who had both worked at the fund manager for more than 15 years.
The scheme, which manages $2bn on behalf of the Californian city's employees' retirement system and the fire and police retirement system, said in its meeting documents that TCW had notified it in early November that Husam Nazer and Brendt Stallings, managers of small and mid-cap growth equity strategies, had not signed new employment contracts and would be leaving the firm when their current contracts expired at the end of the year.
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In a report to the Fresno scheme's board on November 21, which detailed the transition of the mandate to small-cap growth manager Eagle Asset Management, CFRS's retirement administrator also said poor investment performance played a part in the decision. The administrator said the relationship with TCW had been terminated "due to the imminent departures of the senior portfolio management along with poor investment performance over the past two years".
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WASHINGTON The last whimpers of the gun control debate in the Senate played out in anticlimactic fashion Thursday as lawmakers began the process of formally moving on.
All that remained of a broad package of measures representing the most serious changes to the nations gun laws in 20 years were two amendments: one that would address mental health care, and another that would penalize states that divulge information about gun owners except under very specific circumstances like a criminal investigation.
Both passed overwhelmingly, the only two gun-related measures to clear the Senates 60-vote threshold for passage. The vote on the amendments has no practical effect, since the underlying legislation has no immediate prospect of passing.
Despite the push from proponents of stricter gun regulations, the amendments that received the most support in two days of voting were not the ones that tightened restrictions on weapons purchases, but the ones that loosened them.
Fifty-seven senators voted on Wednesday to essentially nullify state laws that prohibit carrying concealed weapons. Fifty-six senators voted to restore gun ownership rights to veterans who have had them taken away.
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While supporters of plans to strengthen the regulation of gun purchases, including Sen. Harry Reid, the majority leader, vowed to keep the issue alive, the growing consensus on Capitol Hill was that any effort to resuscitate the legislation was far away.
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This program offers Evergreen students the opportunity to co-learn with individuals incarcerated in a maximum-security institution for juvenile males. It is high stakes work that demands consistent engagement—approximately 10-12 hours a week in class and 4-6 hours a week at the institution (including travel time). The learning of students enrolled in this program fuels and is fueled by the learning of the incarcerated students.
A fundamental principle of the Gateways program is that every person has talents given to them at birth and valuable experiences that can contribute to our shared learning. It is our job as human creatures to encourage each other to seek out and develop our passions and gifts. These values are manifested in the practices of popular education, which will serve as both the process and the content of our work. Our goal is to create an environment in which each person becomes empowered to share their knowledge, creativity, values and goals by connecting respectfully with people from other cultural and class backgrounds. All students will wrestle with topics in diversity and social justice alongside other subjects chosen by the incarcerated students—the main feature of popular education is that it empowers those seeking education to be the local experts in shaping their own course of study.
Popular education works through conscientization, the ongoing process of joining with others to give a name to socioeconomic conditions, to reflect critically on those conditions, and thereby to imagine new possibilities for living. In order to do this work successfully, students will practice learning how to meet other learners "where they are at" (literally, in order to better understand the conditions that put some of us in prisons and others in colleges). Students will also develop or hone their skills in contextualizing and analyzing socioeconomic phenomena. Most importantly, students will learn that solidarity does not mean "saving" other people or solving their problems—it means creating conditions that allow them to articulate those problems through genuine dialogue and supporting them as they work toward their own solutions.
Program participants will have the opportunity to reflect on how different individuals access and manifest their learning as they gain experience in facilitating discussions and workshops. In the process of collectively shaping the Gateways seminar, they will also learn how to organize productive meetings and work through conflict. Each quarter, students will take increasing responsibility for designing, implementing and assessing the program workshops and seminars. Throughout the year we will seek to expand our collective knowledge about various kinds of relative advantage or privilege while continually working to create a space that is welcoming and generative for all learners.
High stakes community-based work requires trust, and trust requires sustained commitment. This program requires that all participants be ready to commit themselves to the program for the entire academic year.
Program Details
Fields of Study
Preparatory for studies or careers in
Location and Schedule
Campus location
Offered during: Day
Online Learning
Required Fees
|December 1st, 2014
|Winter and spring fees have increased (from $100 to $150).
|February 5th, 2014
|New opportunity added.


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The deep appreciation and knowledge farmers have for their crops, the use of different kinds of plants around the world that were cited in the memoirs and novels he remembers reading as a youngster ŌĆö all of them helped form his wellspring of curiosity that has grown over the years.
ŌĆ£It was always just kind of a really mystical understanding to me,ŌĆØ said Brown, a sophomore at Western Carolina University, where he is pursuing a bachelorŌĆÖs degree in biology.
It is an intrigue that has led him to spend the past year or so envisioning a plan to capture part of the botanical essence of this region. It would come in the form of an alcoholic concoction, one consisting of herbs and other plants whose taste ŌĆ£would pull you back to a sensory experience,ŌĆØ he said.
ŌĆ£It would definitely be the Smokies,ŌĆØ Brown said of the taste of such a drink.
And it is why he is one of two students at Western who was selected by faculty there to bring their ideas to a state entrepreneurship forum at North Carolina A&T University, in Greensboro in February. That is where droves of undergraduate students from schools across the UNC system are expected to outline their visionary business plans, with the hope of attracting funding to help start a venture.
His idea was among a handful floated at a forum organized by the university last November, the first of its kind. The forum is similar to a program run by N.C. State UniversityŌĆÖs Institute for Emerging Issues, a research group aiming to encourage creativity among young people as a way to turn communities big and small into incubators for innovation.
The WCU forum, which is scheduled for next year and open to the public, is meant to spur ideas that would have a local impact.
Within five-minute window, students are expected to pitch their ideas to a panel of university faculty members in what probably feels like a ŌĆ£shark-tank kind of experience,ŌĆØ said Brian Railsback, the dean of Western CarolinaŌĆÖs Honors College.
But for Nick Heim, the other Western Carolina student whose idea also landed him a scheduled appearance at the state forum, it was just another glimpse into the kinds of scenarios in which he might find himself after graduation.
ŌĆ£I plan to end up in the business world either way,ŌĆØ said Heim, a junior who is pursuing a bachelorŌĆÖs degree in entrepreneurship.
His idea involved developing a mobile app that would track the stops of the university shuttle bus with a GPS device. He calls it Cat Catch.
It is meant to address what he said is an issue many students there face: timing, or missing, its stops. Of the some 700 students he surveyed last semester, more than 90 percent of respondents said they would use the shuttle more often if they had a way to better determine whether it was running on time.
ŌĆ£Transportation is a real issue at Western,ŌĆØ Brown said. ŌĆ£We need a way to make it better.ŌĆØ
Such ideas have emerged against the backdrop of a fledgling undergraduate research movement at Western, where about a dozen students who are part of the Honors College have gathered over the past year to exchange ideas in an effort to strengthen undergraduate research.
The group, called WheeSearch, emphasizes interdisciplinary thought. It could emerge as the first of its kind in the country, Railsback said. He acknowledged that while such groups are common, their focus rarely strays from a specific discipline.
It is expected to take shape by the fall of 2016 as it seeks funding and a formal involvement from faculty members.
ŌĆ£If you get a lot of people together from different majors, youŌĆÖre going to hear things from a lot of different perspectives,ŌĆØ he said, adding that the group already has led to what he described as ŌĆ£raging discussionsŌĆØ among members.
That is particularly true about the botanical drink idea floated by Brown, the sophomore. He attributed discussions with members to the evolution of his idea over the past year, from an aspiration to open a Jackson County distillery whose recipes would involve native plants to concocting a drink made with only invasive ones whose culinary and medicinal uses are less recognized. (The name of the idea has changed, too, now dubbed ŌĆ£The Kudzu Cocktail,ŌĆØ after an invasive vine from Japan that has spread across the Southeast).
ŌĆ£Plants are a gold mine,ŌĆØ he said, noting that he also has had discussions with a friend who is studying flavor chemistry at another university. ŌĆ£Some of them are just forgotten.ŌĆØ
His ambition to create what he called a ŌĆ£drink of conservationŌĆØ stems from his tasting of liquor in the French Alps this past year. The potent herb-flavored drink, he noted, was distinctly European.
Asked whether he believes there is a market here for such a concoction, he acknowledged the vibrant craft beer scene in Western North Carolina.
ŌĆ£This is one of the most biodiverse places in the world,ŌĆØ said Brown, who plans to spend next semester studying at a French winery as part of an internship, ŌĆ£Why canŌĆÖt I do what theyŌĆÖre doing, here?ŌĆØ


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There's no reason Lin can't become a solid point guard in this league.
Yes, he's not going to be the next Tony Parker, but we don't need that. All we need is someone who can facilitate ball movement - in case you weren't watching the playoffs, our ball movement was DEAD against Miami. I don't know if Lin would've helped us beat them, but we looked SLUGGISH that series for a reason - no PG.
Why do we have to build around someone to win? That's just asking for trouble. This is a team sports. This is a business. You don't build a business around one employee, do you? We build on and around everyone, all of them. Use all of their strengths as one. This is the problem when we just cater to one or two players and neglect everyone else on the court and wonder why we lost. smh.
There is a reason why there are 5 players on the court. It can't be that only 1 or 2 players are shooting (or trying to shoot for that matter) and the rest are just running up and down the court. They are not being paid to just run, they are paid to contribute. Let them contribute. They will not be motivated to do more if they are not given that chance. Don't treat other players like they are just fillers, just to show that you have 5 on the court.
No, you don't build a business around one employee but the CEO is the guy that will take charge in growing the business. Can't have a successful business without a business savy CEO.
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-steve novaks twitterI can't thank Jeffrey Kessler and @TheNBPA enough for all the work they have put into this Birds Rights case. A decision in about 2 weeks.
Looks like we won't be hearing about it for a little while more
Novak clearly wants to be a Knick... but he needs dough..
****in stern.. we need to win this.