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The need for qualified microbiologists continues to grow, both for basic research and practical applications. Many microbes have yet to be discovered. In addition, microbiologists are still studying how the known microbes function. As a result, the field of microbiology has virtually unlimited potential. Microbiologists are needed across many industries, including in academic, technology, industrial and environmental organizations.
Several career paths exist for individuals interested in studying microbes, or using microbiology techniques in their daily job activities. Much depends upon the chosen career path, including the degree and training required, the positions available, salary and job outlook, and work environment. Those considering a career in a microbiology, or a related field, will benefit from investigating the options before committing to a specific degree program.
Microbiologists are scientists who study microbes, organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye. They also study how microbes interact with their environment. This includes examining how they cause disease and affect the health of plants, humans and other animals. Immunology — the study of how human health is affected by microbes — is an example of this type of specialization. Some microbiologists may focus on studying one specific type of microbe. For example, bacteriologists study bacteria, and virologists study viruses. Or they may study practical applications of microbiology, such as biotechnology, medical microbiology or industrial microbiology.
A degree in microbiology does not always mean that you have to work in a laboratory. Some microbiologists teach at universities and other schools. Those with an interest in journalism can obtain a job as a science writer. Microbiologists can also combine their education and experience with other degrees, such as law or business. They may find mostly office-based positions in legal, legislative or corporate environments.
Microbiology Job Activities
In spite of the broad range of specialities available in microbiology, many positions have similar job activities. Microbiologists, in general, examine microbes using a variety of tools, such as microscopes. They may use other equipment, including gas chromatographs, electrophoresis gels, fluorescent cell sorters and various incubators. Some laboratories may use toxic chemicals or dyes when working with microbes.
Microbiologists collect samples from the environment, including people, plants, animals and field locations. They also grow the microbes from the samples, and use standard laboratory techniques to isolate specific microbes. Microbiologists may also observe the effect of microbes on their environment or other organisms. This is especially true of medical microbiology, which examines the role of microbes in human health.
Microbiology Employers and Microbiology Work Environment
Microbiologists work for a variety of employers, including the federal government, state and county health departments, and academic institutions. They may also be employed by pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, food and beverage industries, and manufacturing companies. Many microbiologists conduct research in laboratories, as well as work in offices, where they write up the results of their experiments. Academic microbiologists often teach classes, in addition to conducting their own research.
Microbiologists, especially those who carry out research, collaborate with other scientists. They sometimes supervise more inexperienced scientists and students working in their laboratory. Environmental and medical microbiologists, as well as other kinds, may collect samples in the field. Because microbes are found throughout the world, this fieldwork can be carried out in challenging and remote locations. Microbiologists working in the field have to be able to survive with difficult living conditions.
Microbiology Education
The education required to work as a microbiologist depends upon the position. Degrees range from a high school education to a doctorate degree. Most microbiologists have at least a bachelor's degree in microbiology, or a related science. Some microbiology laboratory technician positions, especially in medical laboratories, are open to individuals with a high school diploma or an associate's degree. A higher degree, of course, will allow you to work in more challenging positions, with higher salaries.
Microbiologists who conduct independent research need to have at least a master's degree, and often a doctorate degree for academic positions. As part of the degree, these programs offer students the opportunity to take part in research, either as part of an existing project, or their own unique study. The coursework provides a broad overview of science and microbiology topics. Students may specialize in one or more areas, both in their courses and in their laboratory research experiences.
Microbiology Salary and Job Outlook
The job outlook and salary for microbiologists varies with the degree and industry. The average salary for microbiologists was $64,350 in 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Salaries ranged from $38,240 for those with bachelor's degrees to more than $111,300 for those doctorate degrees. The average salary of microbiologists working for the federal government was $97,264 in 2009.
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"If you feel drained after preparing for and competing in a big meet, consider adjusting your expectations for awhile. Your body and mind will tell you to take care of yourself to avoid burnout. Give yourself time to recover. You'll come back stronger."
Kate Ziegler's record-breaking ways earned her the title of 2006 Female High School Athlete of the Year by Swimming World Magazine. In a little more than 12 months, this phenom left three long-standing American distance swimming records in her wake:
- First, she first broke Sippy Woodhead's 25-year- old record in the 800m freestyle (scm) at the 2005 World Cup, which at the time was the oldest American record on the books
- Next, she took down two of Janet Evans's distance records in the 1000y freestyle and finished almost four seconds under Janet's 1988 time in the 500y freestyle
- Then, she smashed her own record in the 800m free (scm) at the 2006 World Cup
Then came 2007. As if she had more to prove, Kate continued her "broken record" theme. In June, she obliterated the longest-standing swimming world record when she shattered Janet Evans's 1500m freestyle world record in 15:32.90.
In 2008, Kate qualified for her first Olympic team by placing second in both the 400m freestyle and 800m freestyle at Trials. There's no stopping this one!
Read more about Kate in SPLASH magazine, courtesy of USA Swimming - November/December 2010 | November/December 2011
Watch Kate's aha moments:
- Birthday: June 27, 1988
- Hometown: Great Falls, Virginia
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2010 – Bronze, 800m freestyle (scm)
2007 – Gold, 1500m freestyle; Gold, 800m freestyle
2006 – Gold, 400m freestyle (scm); Silver, 800m freestyle (scm); Bronze, 800m freestyle relay (scm) (WR)
2005 – Gold, 1500m freestyle; Gold, 800m freestyle
2004 – Silver, 800m freestyle (scm)
- Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships
2010 – Gold, 800m freestyle; Silver, 1500 freestyle
2006 – Gold, 800m freestyle; Gold, 1500m freestyle
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2010 – Gold, 400m freestyle; Bronze, 200m freestyle
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5GB With Ezra Furman; Playing The Earl, August 22nd
Chicago-based, Ezra Furman's "brazenly rust-tinged croons, the band solders rollicking rockabilly rhythm and love-struck doo-wop sensibility with punk-rock ferocity and immediacy. In a musical alloy as unlikely as it is engaging, Furman finds release for bleeding-heart sensitivity and bloody-knuckled brawls of conscience as he "declares open warfare on jadedness, cynicism and irony." (Chicago Tribune). He is playing The Earl tomorrow night and joined us for our 5GB series.
What's the first gig you ever attended?
Barenaked Ladies at the Tweeter Center (now the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre) in Tinley Park, Illinois in summer 2000. I was 14. The Proclaimers opened and I was made aware of the pleasures of "500 Miles."
What is the best gig that you ever played/performed?
The hard part about choosing a "best gig" is that when you're on a good tour, you have many nights in a row that feel transcendent, transformative–you are awash in rock and roll magic nightly and incredible things happen often. It's too much for your brain to remember. The first time I played a really good show, I thought, "This is incredible; I will never forget this feeling." But I did forget it, because I've played better shows since then, nights that were even more alive and on fire.
For some reason, one night is coming to mind from this old place in Babensham, Germany in summer 2010, with the Harpoons. The building was built in the 12th century and it was packed with drunk college-aged kids. The stage was pretty much at floor-level and the lights were super intensely hot so most of us had our shirts off a couple songs in. And we were probably drunk too and there was a wildness to the place and to us, and everyone was hitting these peaks together, a whole room full of people. At one point I just walked out to the middle of the crowd and danced with everyone packed all around me. It was pure crazy joy and ferociousness. You just can't get that at any other kind of job.
What is the best gig you have ever seen?
That's a tough one but I know I will never forget seeing The Strokes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in October 2002. They were the coolest band in the world that year, and I was a completely rabid fan. They played for not much more than 30 minutes, but I didn't care. I brought so much excitement and love for them to that concert, and they expertly deployed ten perfect songs that set me and everyone else on fire. It was as much what I was bringing to the table as what they were: I was head over heels in love with that band, and I'll never forget that night.
What is the gig you would most like to play?
I want to go on Saturday Night Live and have the horn section at my command.
What would be the lineup for your dream gig?
A chronological history of punk songwriters: Lou Reed opens, followed by Iggy Pop, Jonathan Richman, Patti Smith, maybe Paul Westerberg, Frank Black, and then I close out the night. Actually you might want to reverse that lineup order.
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Borro, a company that makes short-term loans to wealthy Americans and Britons, on Thursday named Capital One Financial co-founder Nigel Morris as its chairman.
Morris co-founded Capital One (COF) in 1988 with its current chief executive, Richard Fairbank. Morris stepped aside as the McLean, Va.-based credit-card issuer's president in 2003 and is now the managing partner at QED Investors.
"Nigel Morris is a perfect choice," Paul Aitken, the CEO of borro, said in a news release. "He brings a wealth of experience from years at the helm of fast-growing online businesses in the financial services and online payments space."
Borro — which spells its name with a lower-case "b" — is at a critical stage as it accelerates its U.S. growth, Morris said in a news release. The company started in the United Kingdom five years ago and came to the United States last year.
Borro makes loans to high-net-worth individuals and small-business owners who are facing a liquidity crunch. The loans are collateralized by assets such as fine wine, art and luxury cars.
The venture capital-backed alternative lender raised $58 million in October 2012 to fund rapid growth on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, according to the company.


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I'd really rather be able to breastfeed from both sides! (if that makes any difference)
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Mommy to dd, Elliotte 5/17/06, ds1, Lane 3/7/08, ds2, Levi 6/16/10, and ds3, Lachlan 5/18/15
I have a double electric (not a very good one) TFY Soothie Pump...and I swear I can get more out using just my medela hand pump
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I only bf from one side too! I haven't met (or heard!) of anyone else who has done this. Which side is your good one? (We nicknamed mine Jan and Marsha...Marsha makes all the milk and Jan is envious of her! )
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Every spring, I like to go on walks at Dorris Ranch, my favorite park and living history farm. One clear March day I went with my children and our friends after school to gather nettles. We walked along the gravel roads winding through the filbert orchards and stopped at an old tractor for the kids to play while we picked at the base of an old tree.
As I was picking the nettles, I kept hearing a buzzing sound. I picked one nettle and found a honeybee clinging to the underside of the leaf. Then I noticed the bees flying in and out of the hole at the base of the tree right under my nose. It was a bee tree! We wasted no time moving on to another area.
When our baskets were filled with tasty nettles, we walked through the woods by the Willamette River. We found miner's lettuce, chives, chickweed and lemon balm scattered here and there. My basket became an abundant springtime cornucopia of wild foods!
Bright green buds were bursting open everywhere in the understory of the woods.
On our way back we stopped at the old tractor again and I caught a glimpse of something bright yellow through the filbert orchard at the edge of the woods. My friend and I went over to check it out, and found this beautiful old mossy oak tree with daffodils planted all around it like an altar to Spring.
If you haven't visited Dorris Ranch yet, or been there lately, now is the time to go! (Although I'm sure any time would be really nice to go there.) This 250 acre farm is Oregon's oldest filbert (hazelnut) orchard, started in 1892 when George and Lulu Dorris settled there. The farm still operates as a non-profit organization and a Willamalane Park. There are several miles of trails to hike on through the orchards, along the river, and through some beautiful forests with abundant wildlife. One trail passes by a meadow with a giant old oak tree with a cave in the trunk! There is also a replica settlers log cabin to see up past the old house to the East of the Parking lot. Their website is http://www.willamalane.org/pages/parks/dorris.shtml .
You can find Dorris Ranch two miles east of I-5 at the intersection of South 2nd and Dorris St. in Springfield. Take Pioneer Parkway West to Springfield. Turn right on South 2nd St (there will be a sign for Dorris Ranch). Keep going straight until you come to the gravel road and parking lot. Have fun!


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Lead Me On
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- Release Date 2014-09-01
- Labels Glasgow Underground
- Catalog GU2042
Support from: Sasha, Noir, Groove Armada, Eton Messy, Btraits, The Mekanism, Junior Sanchez, Bodden, Shir Khan, Panda, Vanilla Ace, Psychemagik, Carly Wilford (Rinse FM), TCTS, Jozif, Kiki, Marco Lys, Nhan Solo, Brett Gould, Solaris Heights, Illyus, Artifact, EZLV (100%% Silk), Claus Casper, Ray Foxx, Jamie Anderson, Justin Sloe (Culprit), Nacho Marco, DEVolution (Kiss FM), Sean Roman, Sonny Wharton, Alex Over (Let The Machines Do The Work), Lowboys, Anna Cavazos, Timo Garcia, Jack Swift, Ison/Actor One....
Those Beats have spent a wee bit of time following up their last record [the excellent Discontented EP from last year that got supprt from a wide range of DJs from Jimspter to Pete Tong].
Don't get me wrong, they've not been slacking, its just that for two people who spent so much time on the Sub Club dancefloor we felt that they had a big Subby tune in their heart and it just needed a wee bit of extra coaxing out of them.
And here it is. "Lead Me On" is the kind of kick-drum heavy, ass shaking piano anthem Bicep would have made if they'd eaten more square sausage, drank more Irn Bru or Buckfast and spent more time organising after parties on Jamaica Street at 3am on a Sunday morning. And if you're still not sure what I'm getting at then apologies for the heavy Glaswegian references - just think Seven Grand Housing Authority but with catchy-as-fuck vocals that go round and round in your brain for days.
Of course, once they made one, they couldn't stop themselves. It's down as the b-aide but "Tilt" is anything but. It's got the synths and mood of a great Tale of Us records but its beats and basslines were imagined sometime on a Glasgow dancefloor, no doubt to a Domenic Cappello soundtrack of Detroit moods and Chicago jack.


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Defenseman David Schlemko has been out of commission for the past three weeks with a shoulder injury, but he hasn't fallen off the team's radar as the Coyotes and Schlemko agreed to a two-year contract extension Monday.
The average annual value of the contract is $1.1875 million, according to TSN's Bob McKenzie.
"Obviously, it's flattering to know that they have confidence in me, that they want me here for two more years, and they're giving me that opportunity," Schlemko said.
Contract talks started once the lockout ended but became more serious in the past two weeks, Schlemko said. With 118 career games with the Coyotes, Schlemko was set to become a restricted free agent at season's end.
"He's a very underrated player because, as a defenseman, he moves the puck very well," coach Dave Tippett said. "He's a very smart player, so we just think he fits in a number of roles. He can play both sides of special teams. He can contribute in a lot of different ways. He's a player that continues to improve and continues to find his way in the NHL and earned a new contract."
Since signing as a free agent in 2007, Schlemko split time between the Coyotes and the American Hockey League until he became a regular on the blue line last season. He missed much of the second half of that season with a foot injury but started this season on the third defensive pairing.
Schlemko injured his shoulder Feb.4 against the Minnesota Wild and has been out of the lineup ever since. Before that, he played in nine games and still ranks second on the team with 26 blocked shots.
He has six goals and 33 points in his career.
"I think it's a good fit here," Schlemko said. "I like (associate coach) Jimmy Playfair. I think he's made me a lot better player, a lot more well-rounded player. I love this group of guys on and off the ice, so I'm glad to be a part of that. I think I do fit in here. It has been frustrating with two kinds of really freak injuries, but this one isn't so serious. I've already been back skating for a week and just kind of champing at the bit to get back in there."
Road finale
The Coyotes held an optional practice Monday in Vancouver and also met as a group to discuss the unusual ending to the first two games of this road trip.
The Coyotes saw third-period leads disappear against both the Oilers and Flames. They earned a point in a shootout loss in Edmonton but were dealt a regulation loss after the Flames scored twice in the final 1:23 to win 5-4.
"It was a situation where we got caught watching instead of doing our job a little bit," Tippett said. "We gave up the tying one, and then the last one we just gave up a chance in the middle of the ice that should never happen, so that's the way it goes. You've got to address it and hopefully correct it and move on."
Injury update
Morris and winger Radim Vrbata (lower body) practiced Monday. Center Martin Hanzal (upper body) was held off the ice. All three are listed as questionable for Tuesday night's game.
Canucks update
The Canucks lost 8-3 to the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday, and goalie Roberto Luongo was on the hook for all eight goals. He started with a 1.45 goals-against average and .941 save percentage but finished with a 2.11 goals-against average


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As predicted, a higher frequency of serious adverse events was seen with the CHOP and rituximab combination therapy, such as neutropenia (10.7 percent versus 46.5 percent) and leukocytopenia (12.1 percent versus 38.2 percent).
Hospira's version, known as Nivestim, was given the go-ahead to prevent febrile neutropenia and reduce neutropenia cause by chemotherapy.
A competitive pathway also converts 6-MP to its cytotoxic 6-thioguanine nucleotides (6-TGNs) that are associated with bone marrow suppression (leukopenia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia).
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The Chargers signed CB Chris Carr, his agent confirmed to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Carr worked out for the Chargers on Sept. 18 and adds depth to a position that has been without Shareece Wright, who suffered a high ankle sprain in Week One. Only three corners dressed for Sunday's win against the Chiefs and the Chargers next play the pass-happy Saints in Week Five.
Carr, 29, played in nine games with one start last year for the Ravens and had 19 tackles, one sack and three passes defensed. He did not miss a game from 2005-10, playing for the Raiders, Titans and Ravens. Carr has 24 career passes defensed and six interceptions.


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Sequential fractionation procedures that use an NaOH extraction for removal of P associated with iron and aluminum minerals, followed by an HCl extraction to dissolve P associated with calcium minerals, have been used extensively in investigating the chemical partitioning of phosphorus in soils. Due to the high pH conditions that occur during NaOH extraction, it is hypothesized that PO43− freed from association with Fe and Al minerals can resorb to, or precipitate as calcium minerals. This phosphate would subsequently be recovered in the acid extraction, resulting in overestimation of calcium bound P and underestimation of Fe and Al bound P. To test the hypothesis, Fe bound phosphate was subjected to sequential fractionation with and without CaCO3 present. Without CaCO3, 57% of the total recovered phosphorus was found in the 0.1N NaOH extraction, and 15% in the 0.5N HCl extraction. With CaCO3, 4% was found in the 0.1N NaOH extraction and 39% in the 0.5N HCl extraction. Fe-bound phosphate was added and then sequentially extracted from a typical Everglades Histosol soil. Mean recoveries of phosphate added as Fe-bound P (95% confidence intervals in parentheses) were estimated to be 33% (±2.4%) in HCl, 32% (±4.8%) as inorganic phosphate in NaOH, 24% (±13.6%) organic P in NaOH, 14% (±1.3%) in KCl, and 8% (±2.8%) in the residual fraction. These results show that the procedure underestimated the amount of iron- and aluminum-bound P and falsely attributed Fe-bound P to the Ca-bound P fraction.
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Something Stinkin' in the Land of Lincoln
by Craig Eley
I grew up in Illinois and on Inauguration Day this year, an old classmate of mine e-mailed that President Obama "will give people someone famous to associate with Illinois and Chicago instead of Al Capone."
I restrained myself from writing back to say that the last thing Illinois should worry about is the enduring image of Al Capone.
On the morning of Dec. 9, 2008, a month after the 2008 elections, the TV cameras captured Milorad Blagojevich, the Democratic Governor of Illinois, as he was arrested by the FBI in his pajamas. Blagojevich, known to his friends as "Rod," has been accused of trying to sell Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat. (At least Blagojevich was entrepreneurial. By comparison, Colorado's governor also recently had a senate seat to fill, but he just gave the thing away!)
Compared to a number of previous Illinois governors and other officeholders, Blagojevich's charges seem not only minor, but perhaps expected. Three fairly recent previous Illinois governors have found themselves wearing prison stripes after leaving office.
The Blagojevich scandal grabbed our attention because the former governor's brazen words were captured by government wiretap, and conveyed a huge ego and a sense of self-entitlement.
Most recent, Republican George Ryan (Blagojevich's immediate predecessor, 1999–2003) is currently federal inmate No. 16627-424 at a medium-security facility in Terre Haute, Indiana. Ryan was convicted of racketeering, tax fraud, bribery and lying to the FBI. As Secretary of State, Ryan's office sold licenses to bad drivers. A truck driver in possession of such a license caused a traffic accident that killed six children in one family. A multi-year investigation landed Ryan behind bars and resulted in the convictions of at least 73 others. At the trial, it was brought out that Ryan always had wads of cash on him, and was fond of booze, expensive restaurant meals and high-stakes poker games. Yet, he only visited his bank seven times in nine years, and withdrew $6,700. Where did he get his stash of cash? Maybe he was just good at poker.
Dan Walker, Illinois governor in the mid-1970s, didn't see jail time until a decade after he left that office. He got involved in some shady bank dealings. In 1987, he pled guilty to bank fraud and perjury and did 18 months in stir. Walker, a Democrat, sought a pardon from Bill Clinton, but was turned down.
Otto Kerner was Illinois governor from 1961 to 1968. Like Walker, it wasn't until after his gubernatorial service, — when he was a judge on the federal court of appeals — that Kerner was convicted of bribery and perjury and sent to federal prison. His improbable downfall reportedly came when Marjorie Everett, a racetrack owner, was asked by the IRS about some deductions she had made on her income tax returns. She replied that the deductions were for bribes, which she considered to be an ordinary expense of doing business in Illinois. Kerner was prosecuted by James Thompson, who himself later served several terms as governor of Illinois from 1977–1991.
Although Republican Thompson put Democrat Kerner behind bars in 1973, today Thompson is representing Republican George Ryan (who was Thompson's lieutenant governor) on a pro bono basis. It reportedly has cost his firm $10 million so far. Thompson's latest effort was to try to get Ryan out of the hoosegow by prying a pardon out of George Bush during his final days in office. This was unsuccessful, and now Thompson is plotting his next legal move. Ryan's hope is that his acquaintance with another Illinoisan, Barack Obama, may be his ticket out of Indiana.
Perhaps the most notorious, recent Illinois politician is Paul Powell. Though he wasn't ever governor, he died in 1970 of a heart attack while serving as Illinois secretary of state. Having no heirs, his residence was inventoried by associates, who found a closet containing $800,000 in cash, which was crammed into suitcases and shoeboxes. Also found in the closet were 49 cases of whiskey, 14 transistor radios and two cases of creamed corn. It looked as though Powell was preparing for something, but no one seems to know what, what with Y2K being three decades away.
It was surmised that Powell came by all this cash because many Illinois residents made out their vehicle registration checks each year payable to "Paul Powell." A career civil servant, Powell had never made more than $30,000 a year, yet he left an estate of about $4.6 million. He bequeathed $1.5 million to the Johnson County Historical Society Museum, a museum with two rooms of antique farm implements and a budget of $200 per year.
This panoply of miscreants also includes a slew of Chicago city council members, judges, state legislators, mayors, building inspectors, dogcatchers and even a couple of Illinois Supreme Court justices. Chicago Tribune writer John Kass once said that the state is "as corrupt as Louisiana, but without the food;" however, Illinois ranks only as the "Sixth Most Corrupt State" by the Corporate Crime Reporter, a national newsletter.
The Blagojevich scandal grabbed our attention because the former governor's brazen words were captured by government wiretap and conveyed a huge ego and a sense of self-entitlement. Blagojevich, who was said to have had presidential aspirations, was sent down the river by his own words alone.
A day before his arrest, even though he was aware that he had been under investigation for more than a year, Blagojevich said at a press conference, "If anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead!"
His bring-it-on attitude echoed one of Colorado's presidential aspirants, Gary Hart. The former senator 20 years ago challenged reporters to, "Follow me around. I don't care. I'm serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'll be very bored."
Well, they did and they weren't. They found the presidential front-runner cavorting on a yacht called "Monkey Business," and his alleged affair ended his run for the White House. The double-dog-dare-you challenge seems to have worked out even worse for Blagojevich than it did for Hart. At least Hart never faced an indictment.
Racketeering, tax fraud, perjury, theft, conspiracy, bribery and many other major crimes have been committed by Illinois officials. Alphonse Capone? A piker. He only got nailed for not paying income tax, an oversight that today wouldn't necessarily even prevent a politician from being named to the president's cabinet.


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Thursday June 18, 2015
Atomic Runs Afoul of UCI Fish Fairing Enforcement
On a recent Saturday morning club ride an Atomic rider was given a warning for illegal aerodynamic equipment by the UCI. The UCI has increased vigilance with regards to illegal performance enhancement of any manner. While their long standing enforcement of performance enhancing drug regulations is well know, and their recent inspection of road bikes for electric motors has made headlines, unbeknownst to the Atomic rider in question the UCI has recently begun enforcing its long standing ban on ichthyic fairings on road bicycles.
Atomic and the rider in question accept full responsibility for the regulation violation. As our contribution to full accountability and transparency on this serious matter the club is posting a picture of the rider in question with his bike and the fish fairing. The fairing was a Sockeye Salmon model and was purchased and fit to the bicycle at the Steveston wharf. Aerodynamic testing was underway on the East end of River Road, in the municipality of Richmond B.C., when the UCI swooped in to hand the rider the warning. The rider will face no further sanctions from the UCI if, in the words of the irate UCI official, "he just keeps the fish off the *#$% bike!"
The offending fish fairing and rider
Historical Note on Fishy Aerodynamics
Unlikely as this sounds, there has long been a history of trying to gain advantage by using ichthyic fairings and aerofoils. Salmon in particular are known to be extremely aerodynamic. UCI regulation #1453, section 5, sub-section 16A, explicitly forbids the use of fish shaped fairings in all cycling events – including training rides of affiliated teams. The ban came about as a result of early speed and hour record attempts in the 1970s.
Alfonso di Credenza during his 1973 world speed record attempt at the Bonneville salt flats. This attempt brought about the UCI regulations banning ichthyic fairings.
Monday February 23, 2015
Atomic Racing Club hired by American utility
Arco, Idaho — February 23, 2015
An Idaho state municipal electric authority has contracted Atomic Racing Club to provide human-powered electricity for the town of Arco, Idaho, beginning summer of 2015.
"We're tryin' to be green," explained Dwayne "Bubba" Danielson, Chief Civic Manager of Arco, population 995. "Last cuppla meetins here in Arco, we kindly reckoned we should have better ways ah generatin' our eelectricity, and one of the fellas on the committee mentioned usin' bicycle riders to make the big ol' turbines go round," said Danielson. "It made sense. They're good ol' riders, 'n' some of 'em are faster 'un a bucket ah hog livers."
The Butte County power authority confirmed Arco to be the site of the first station to be rolled out under the "Idaho Goes Green" state campaign. Under the terms of the agreement, Atomic Racing Club will be obligated to provide 8-10 cyclists a minimum of twelve hours per week, which Butte County estimates will generate enough electricity to power all 45 homes and businesses in the Arco area.
"It's a good fit for us, as it encapsulates well our club initiative to promote green technologies," explained Atomic Racing Club president James Ingham. Ingham was not able to provide information on the financial terms of the agreement, nor was he able to provide information concerning the logistics of transporting cyclists and riders to Idaho several times a week, but said the arrangement was a good one for his club.
"Indoor training is always good. If we have 8 members out there riding on the turbine for an hour or so, at a steady 500 watts, we can easily generate enough juice for their needs. A couple of us have our sights on the Hour Record anyway, so this is good training for that," Ingham said.
Thursday August 7, 2014
Cyclist lost then found!
News broke late last night of a harrowing rescue attempt to free a British cycling enthusiast from an undisclosed jungle location.
Canadian expat "Lucky" Joey Luyckx contacted authorities to report she'd found and rescued Briton Michael Odell from a multiyear absence, both parties apparently in good health. "It's amazing really," said Andrew Wilson, Director of Membership for Vancouver-based Atomic Racing Club. "Michael just sort of disappeared one day and no one knew where he'd gone. Eventually we started hearing reports that he'd gotten lost on his bike and ended up in some nasty jungle, eating grubs and roots and God knows what else," Wilson continued. "Even for cyclists who are used to suffering it must have been an horrible ordeal!"
Photographs of the encounter have begun to circulate in news wires around the world. In them a visibly relieved Odell wears an older Atomic Racing Club jersey and clings desperately to Luyckx, who appears to be tired, but happy. "You can see he's still wearing old Atomic kit," Wilson explained. "That shows you how long he's been missing." It is believed Luyckx wears a current uniform in the photograph.
Neither governments of Canada nor the UK have been able to verify the story. A Swiss café owner was reached, however, who appeared to be puzzled by the story. "Well, uh, I'm not sure. I mean, I saw those two people here in the café having a beer, or a coffee or something, but that's all. No one seemed to be in trouble or rescued or anything. But I don't' know…I mind my own business."
Luyckx and Odell couldn't be reached for comment.
Though Atomic Racing Club members are somewhat notorious for getting lost, this is the first report of a member actually having gone missing.
Atomic Racing Club president Keith Tolhurst could not be reached for comment.
Thursday May 29, 2014
Eurovision winner attends Atomic cycling camp
Penticton, B.C. – May 29
Recent Eurovision Song Contest winner Conchita Wurst surprised a recent sports training club meeting in a small Canadian town by arriving for dinner unexpectedly. "Oh yeah, for sure, we were all really surprised as hell," explained Andrew Wilson, Director of Membership for Vancouver-based Atomic Racing Club. "We were tired from a long day of riding our bikes, just relaxing outside when this Conchita person showed up and sat down for a beer."
Conchita Wurst is an Austrian drag queen singer who came to international attention when winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix".
"Why he was in Penticton is a mystery to us, and I don't know how he managed to find our party," Wilson continued. "Atomic Racing is a pretty happening club though, and it's not unusual for us to be approached by famous people, so I guess he just wanted to be close to the action."
Agents for Mr. Wurst could not be reached for comment.
Monday April 7, 2014
Canucks coach tipped for Atomic Racing gig
Vancouver, April 7 —- Rumors have been circulating over the weekend that Vancouver Canucks head coach John Tortorella has approached Atomic Racing Club to discuss a position on the coaching staff with the cycling club.
People familiar with the talks cite Tortorella's tenuous employment with the Canucks as reason for his reaching out to Atomic. "Frankly, he's not sure he's going to have his job with the Canucks next season and I suspect he's doing some looking around for another position," said a source that wished to remain anonymous. "He doesn't have specific experience in cycling – at least not at the level of a club like Atomic – but many of the coaching fundamentals cross over to other sports," the source continued.
Andrew Wilson is the current membership director at Atomic, as well as a past president of the team. "I can't confirm or deny that he's talking to us, no," Wilson said when reached by phone at Atomic Racing Club's offices. However, several Atomic team members who spoke on condition they not be identified confirmed they were aware of talks happening over the past several days between Tortorella and senior Atomic staff.
"It would be kind of cool," said one member; "We are a very offensive, attack-oriented club, and maybe a different system – something more defensive where we get involved in blocking other riders, or putting our star riders in the wind for more minutes of a race – might work."
Vancouver Canucks General Manager Mike Gills nor the Canucks press office were available for comment.
Thursday February 6, 2014
Atomic Racer finally found in Switzerland
Vancouver, February 6 – - The strange disappearance of Atomic Racing Club alumnus Joey "Lucky Joey" Luyckx today was solved when she turned up outside a coffee shop in Switzerland. "Oh man, that was some ride…," explained Luyckx after what turned into a multi-week odyssey. "I went out for a spin after work, went through Stanley Park and must have taken a wrong turn. When I started paying attention again I looked up and thought I was in the Fraser Valley; you know, it looks pretty similar here in Switzerland out in the country, so I just kept going. My Strava wasn't working though and it was weird. I guess I should have known something was wrong but it was a nice day for a spin anyhow."
Swiss police have confirmed Ms. Luyckx is now safely in a refugee detention centre near Zurich awaiting deportation. Officer Hans Schnittgenrouter of the Schaffhausen Canton police department indicated Ms. Luyckx was not in custody and would not be charged with a crime. "She's not done anything wrong, really, other than enter the country without going through proper passport control. We don't consider her to be a serious threat to the Swiss people at this time," he confirmed.
Atomic Racing Club membership director and past president Andrew Wilson didn't seem particularly surprised when reached in Vancouver for comment. "When she rode for us Joey was hard core, and she had a habit of putting her head down and gunning it. Guys were always yelling at her to slow down, or keep her head up. She's super strong and competitive, so when she gets to the front and sees open road she just goes. Switzerland is a long way I'll give you that, but Joey will be Joey," Wilson said.
Sunday January 5, 2014
Atomic Racing member fails to start Belgian cyclocross race
December, 2013 — Loenhout, Beligum
Atomic Racing member Hugo van Hoogstraten came up empty handed on the results page at the 2013 Azencross cyclocross championships in Loenhout, Belgium. The confused rider arrived at the race location on time but failed to start when the gun went off. "I was too drunk," explained van Hoogstraten when reached by telephone from the Netherlands. "I was early for the race and had my bike all ready to go so decided I'd have a quick snack of frites and a Leffe. One lead to another and pretty soon I was hammered and missed the whole thing."
Dutchwoman Marianne Vos again showed her dominance by winning the women's race, and local favorite Sven Nys captured the men's crown for the umpteenth time in his career.
In a time-honored Atomic Racing Club effort to make a bad situation better, van Hoogstraten instead spent his time cheering, eating more frites, frikadel, kroket and downing more Leffe.
"Beer and frites is always the answer…," he said, followed by a hearty burp.
Wednesday December 25, 2013
Queen Elizabeth gives nod to Atomic Racing Club in Christmas message.
London, December 25 — 87-year-old Queen Elizabeth gave her annual Christmas video message this morning aired worldwide on TV and radio and available online through the Royal Family's YouTube channel. The Queen talked about family values and the importance of setting aside time for personal reflection, but also pointed out the strong showing cycling has had in the past year across the Commonwealth countries.
"From our very own showing at international cycling events, to the Olympics and to the colonies, cycling and cyclists continue to show the Empire proud," the Queen said in her address. "From Team Sky to Atomic Racing Club in Vancouver, our global wheel-men continue to shine."
"Well, I was surprised, I have to admit it," said Atomic Racing Club director of membership Andrew Wilson when reached by phone for comment. "It's not a surprise that the cycling community over there in the UK knows who were are; I mean, hell, we have half of them over here already in the club, but it's a bit unusual to have the Queen call us out by name. I guess that sort of recognition is something we just have to get used to," Wilson said.
Buckingham Palace could not be reached for comment.
Wednesday October 30, 2013
Michael Rasmussen points finger at Atomic
Vancouver, B.C. – Danish ex-professional cyclist Michael Rasmussen has come out with a string of doping allegations on Wednesday following the publication of his biography, Yellow Fever. In the book Rasmussen names names, claiming he witnessed a number of current and past professional riders taking banned substances. Rasmussen also points to what was at the time a growing list of amateur riders dabbling in performance enhancing substances, including past Atomic Racing president Andrew Wilson.
"Well, it's the first I've heard of it," said a source close to the Vancouver-based club who wished to remain anonymous. "I've never seen Wilson take drugs, and to be honest I've never heard anyone else raise the suspicion; but based on the way the guy's ridden, the strength and his power and his unmatched endurance, it wouldn't come as a complete surprise. The guy was an animal for a number of years, so EPO and blood doping? Sure, why not?"
Other Atomic Racing members are alluded to in Rasmussen's book, though no others by name.
Calls to Mr. Wilson and Atomic Racing executive have not been returned.
Tuesday September 17, 2013
Atomic Racing to send Iranian into space
Vancouver, B.C, September 17 — Vancouver bicycle group Atomic Racing Club today announced plans to send an Iranian cyclist into space. Membership director Andrew Wilson explained that the club's new program should be seen as a gesture of friendship and solidarity with Iran.
"Everything is changing in Iran these days. They have their new president, Rouhani or whatever his name is, and they're making noises about forming better international relationships, and sending this cat into space and all, so we want to get in on the action too," said Wilson. "This cat thing has touched us all deeply, and we want to be part of the healing."
Wilson was referring to a recent announcement from the Iranian Aerospace Agency outlining the country's plans to launch a Persian cat out of earth's atmosphere and return it safely to earth. Earlier this year, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he wanted to be Iran's first astronaut, but news agency IRNA is reporting the cat will be the first into space.
Wilson continued: "We have two Persian riders in the club as you know, and both have backgrounds in physics so it's a no-brainer for us. If Iran can send a cat, we can send a cyclist.
We'll try to tie-up with Cycling BC or possibly even the UCI and maybe make the space capsule partly fueled by pedal power, thus supporting both the cycling community and satisfying a green initiative. It takes Atomic Racing Club to the next level. Clubs like Escape Velocity and TNA might win the race to the finish line, but we can win the race to the stars."
None of the clubs or organizations mentioned in this article could be reached for comment. Calls to the Iranian Space Agency have not been returned.
Monday July 29, 2013
Atomic Racing Club lays down smack in Aldergrove
by Dominic Walsh
Vancouver, B.C. — Fans were once again treated to a strong showing of Atomic Racing dominance at the weekend's Aldergrove Road Race, with the Canadian-Anglo squad turning in (almost) winning performances yet again.
Craig "I-can-almost-work-out-what-he's-saying" Holden, the lone Atomic "B" entry came in 2nd on a long sprint in spite of attacking hard on the last lap. His points earned Atomic first place in the team competition. Meanwhile in the "C' group Atomic provided a very visible presence with a full patch of members Dave Gilmour, Ben Ford, Hugo van Hoogstraten and born-again geriatric racer Dominic Walsh. The group was joined by Ian Hendry, currently an Atomic Racing Club stagiaire and team hopeful. The group stayed together despite some early attacks and were strong throughout, with the exception of Walsh who really wanted his mommy on lap 4.
The pack splintered in two on the final hill, as Peter Fung from local club Escape Velocity inexplicably sprinted into the back of a race participant. The rest of the Atomic group rode away with the screams of crazed fans ringing in their ears. Ford led out a vicious uphill sprint from the final corner with 500 meters to go but had to settle for 6th place. Red hot and newly married Gilmour gunned to his 2nd third placing of the week, with Walsh and Dutch wonderkind van Hoogstraten rounding out the pack.
In post podium interviews Holden, Gilmour and Ford all cited the recent Royal birth and the previous evening's One Direction concert as inspiring them to glory. "It's not every year you get a Royal birth and a top-notch act like OD happening at the same time," explained the trio. "We [British] did it for Queen and country really."
Well done Atomic!
Wednesday July 17, 2013
Veteran Atomic riders dust off shoes for crit race
July 17 — Vancouver, B.C. — Atomic Racing Club fielded four riders for the World Tuesday Night Championship criterium race that took place on dry local roads Tuesday night. Race regulars Dave Gilmour and Cameron Adam had trouble assembling a large enough team for the event and had to recruit a few of the veteran geriatric racers to round out the showing. Past president Dominic Walsh and current Social Director Paul Klimczak put aside their walkers for the 40 lap race and managed to finish safely in the pack.
"A number of our usual members were racing elsewhere in Europe [no Atomic riders were racing in the Tour de France – ed.] so we had a little trouble finding enough guys," explained Gilmour. "We full well expected this particular race to be, well, kind of slow and we didn't think any of our older…err, experienced members would have much trouble, so we asked them to come along. We enjoyed having them there, it was sort of heart-warming."
Walsh and Klimczak have strong racing palmares and have both contested the Tuesday Nighter crits in the past, though typically a younger team contingent is selected for current races.
"It was a lot harder in our day," Walsh explained, "we used to do crits that only went uphill, and we had to ride 35km in the snow each way just to get there."
"He's right," Klimczak confirmed. "Young kids don't know how easy they have it these days."
Neither Gilmour nor Adam could be reached for comment.
Results Archive
Atomic has been organising races almost since it's inception as a club. Results since 1999 are posted below.
- AtomiCX 2011 (BC Champs)
- AtomiCX 2010
- Harris Roubaix 2008
- Future Heroes Crit. #2 2007
- Future Heroes Crit. #1 2007
- Atomic Road Race 2007
- Harris Roubaix 2007
- Future Heroes Crit. 2006
- Atomic Road Race 2006
- Atomic Road Race 2005
- Atomic Road Race 2004
- Atomic Road Race 2003
- Atomic Road Race 2002
- Atomic Road Race 2001
- Atomic Crit. 2000
- Atomic Road Race 2000
- Atomic Crit. 1999


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One of the areas I've been focusing on lately is the so called "Semantic Web", in particular Open Data as a way to make governments more transparent and provide data to citizens. From a technical point of view, these data are redistributed using the RDF/LD format. I'm particularly excited of having worked on the release of what I think is a very important data set that helps understand how decisions are taken in the Council of European Union. The Council of European Union published how member states have voted in since 2010 In April 2015, the Council...
After quite a lot of time of writing applications without direct interaction with Databases, lately I've been working on a pretty simple ASP.NET Web API project that needs to save data on a database. Despite the simplicity of the application, I faced some interesting problems, which I'm going to write about in a few blog posts over the next weeks. The first of the problems, which I'm going to write about in this post, is how to configure an ASP.NET Web API application to run within Owin, have its dependencies resolved with Unity, and have Entity Framework DbContext injected...
Last Friday Ugo and me were in Paris for the NCrafts Conference organized by the ALT.NET France and our friend Rui Carvalho.
We talked about "Owin and Katana": at the beginning I saw many question marks on the head of people, but while going through the talk I saw those question marks becoming light bulbs, and at the end of the talk a very vibrant questions and answers session happened, something that I hoped, but frankly didn't expect.
We published the slides on Slideshare:
Owin and Katana from Ugo Lattanzi and Simone Chiaretta
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Yesterday I updated my Ghost installation on Azure Websites and my test blog stopped working: I enabled error logging and the error I got was: [31m
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As you may or may not have heard, yesterday WCF Web API preview 6 has been released. If you never heard about it I recommend you read the quick introduction on CodePlex, but basically it is a facility that helps you expose your services over the web, taking advantage of the richness of the HTTP protocol, in a RESTful way (vs using SOAP or other abstraction layers). Getting started resources on Web API To quickly get started with it you can download the code and samples, and download the compiled CHM for a more conceptual and step...
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Everyday there are services that are shut down, like it happened with Geocities and is probably going to happen with Google Wave, but when it happens with popular services the disappointment is even higher.
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Alan Dean published a flow diagram of the process of an HTTP request inside a webserver, and all the possible status code outcomes.
Down here is a sample of the diagram, the part that shows how the If-Match header works.
The diagram is available in different graphic formats (gif, jpg, png, svg) and is available in the original Visio format as well.
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What are they going to announce at MIX?
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Expression Blend Express, Zune phone, Office and Visual Studio will be in .NET
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Imagine you developed an ASP.NET WebService, but the client that needs to use it wants to call it using HTTP POST instead of SOAP.
As default, when accessed from the localhost, all webservices listen both to SOAP and HTTP POST calls, but if accessed from another host they listen only to SOAP.
My friend Google found a page on the MSDN site that explains how to change the protocols accepted by the ASP.NET runtime to listen to web services calls.
As all configuration settings it can be changed both at machine level (machine.config) and per single application inside the web.config.
Just released ATLAS ASP.NET AJAX RC. This brings all the ASP.NET development community One Step Closer to the official release.
Since I just quit my job, and I'll be flying to Wellington on Jan 2nd, I could have some spare time next week to download it and make some experiments.
And, maybe, we can even start thinking about migrating the ajax stuff inside Subtext from Magic Ajax to ASP.NET Ajax.
Probably you never had that need, but just in case you want to change the text encoding for a web service response, the one that is inside the XML declaration at the top, from UTF-8 to anything else... well... you cannot do it: that string is hard coded inside the web service runtime.
This post, "Encoding limitations in ASMX", has a comment written by a member of the MS team that worked on that feature:
We decided not to do this feature for 3 reasons:
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1.0 Abstract
CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) technologies are tools that provide the assistance to the developer in the development of software. Main purpose of the CASE tools is to decrease the development time and increase the quality of software. Even the presence of these qualities CASE tools are not being used most often or freely. These tools are not used freely as they should be; there are some points that need improvement, so that the use of CASE tools can be increased. No a days most of the software houses dont bother to use the CASE tools in their development process. And finally the hurdles in the promotion of the CASE tools as a standard.
2.0 Introduction
CASE tools reduce the time and cast of software development and ensure the quality of software. The objective of introducing Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools was the reduction of the time, cost of software development and for the enhancement of the quality of the systems developed (Diane Lending et al. 1998).
CASE technologies are tools that provide automated assistance for software development to the developers. The goal of introducing CASE tools is to reduce the time of development, reduce the cost of software, and the enhancement of the quality of the software. Upper CASE tools are used to capture, analyze and organize the models of system. These models help designers to focus on the systems linear behaviour. Lower CASE tools are used for development and software maintenance phases. Using these tools developers classify the scope and boundaries, describe current system, model requirements, prototyping, prepare design, etc. Integrated CASE tools provide support for Upper CASE and Lower CASE tool activities. Integrated CASE tools helps specifically in Analysis & Design, Maintenance and system planning. Integrated CASE tools provide the support throughout whole development lifecycle.
This paper is almost about, what we already know about the use of CASE tools. First of all we see if get similar results to previous studies on the use of CASE tools. Then we will look in more depth and try to find more about the use of CASE tools and their developments. First of all we will look in the companies which are using CASE tools, what feature they are using of CASE tools? Secondly does CASE tools change or help the software developer in any way or not if yes then how and if not then why? Thirdly we look at the antecedents of intentions use a computer tool, and explore how motivated systems developers are to actually use CASE tools. This study will add depth to what already know about the usage of CASE tools, what are the factors that dont let CASE tools to penetrate in society, why CASE tools are not helpful for labour in saving time and try to discuss the other question like these? This report discuss the CASE tools introduction, history and growth of CASE tools and their use in past ten years, and especially the usage of CASE tools increase or decrease, if decrease what are the factor that can be improved and how these factor can be improved. Why the most of the big software houses dont bother to use the CASE tools in their development process. And finally the hurdles in the promotion of the CASE tools as a standard.
2.1 History of CASE Tools
Right from the beginning of software development, software engineer have been in search of such tools that will prove helpful for them in the modeling of system, understanding of system in easy way and in many other ways to provide ease to the people related to computer science. From 1968 to 1971 they are a lot of improvement done in this regard like the top-down structure design, benefit of modularity and step by step code refinement were admitted, up to 1975 quality, and reliability of software were the big issues and testing procedures were adopt for software reliance.
The main start of CASE tools start in 1980s, when documentation, diagrams and design tools were introduce in this field. In same decade automated analysis design check, automated code generation and linking design utilities were introduce. In same decade importance of CASE tools was considered for the large scale system and CASE establish as an industry. Now a dyas there are lot of CASE tools even more than one CASE toils for same problem. Now tools are available that help developers to analyze, design and for the documentation of the software. Even CASE tools are available for deployment and maintenance of the software. Tools like Erwin, Rational Rose has create there importance in the market due to their qualities and reliability. In last ten years CASE tools has emerged as an interactive technology and has gained good position in the software development fields. They are still in the process of improvement like the other fields of the world, because every human created thing in this world has always room for improvement.
3.0 Need of CASE
Software developers always looking for such CASE tools that help them in many different ways during the different development stages of software, so that they can understand the software and prepare a good end product that efficiently fulfill the user requirements. CASE tools provide the ways that can fulfill this requirement of software developers. These tools provide computerized setting to software developers to analyze a problem and then design its system model.
3.1 Good Points of CASE Tools
1. They provides better perceptive of system.
2. Facilitates communication among team members.
3. Tools are more effective for large scale systems and immense projects.
4. CASE tools provide visibility of processes and logic.
5. CASE tools improve quality and productivity of software.
6. CASE tools reduce the time for error correction and maintenance.
7. CASE tools provide clear readability and maintainability of the system.
CASE tools facing many troubles in creating a suitable place in market e.g.
1. Even after the completion of the design it is not necessary that it will fulfill the requirements.
2. Though CASE tools are helpful for the developer but do not assure that the design is according to the requirements.
3. Good quality CASE tools are very expensive and prove costly for the development.
4. CASE tools also required training for the user that increase the overall cast of development.
5. Almost every tool has its limitation that decreases its use and popularity.
6. Some tools may have very limited functionality and may not address all possible domain activities.
7. Every tool has a specific methodology for designing and modeling of the system. Due to this youre bound to follow them that decrease the flexibility which decrease the use of CASE tools.
8. Frequent users get used to it and afterward developers try to use the same approach and tool for other projects whether the tool addresses the target projects problems or not.
4.0 Use of CASE Tools
The purpose of CASE is to reduce the cost and time required for the system development and the focus is on the quality of the end product. CASE is not being used as it was being expected. Most of the companies are reluctant to adopt the CASE tools. It is observed that CASE is being used but not in many companies. The reasons for abandonment included cost, lack of measurable returns, and unrealistic expectations. Organizations that used CASE tools and found that large numbers of their systems developers were not using CASE tools. He reported that in 57% of the organizations surveyed that were using CASE tools, less than 25% of the systems developers used the tools (Diane Lending 1998). And in those companies where CASE is adopted only few people are using CASE tools. In a survey of 67 companies it has been observed that 69% companies had never used CASE tools. And those people who are using CASE tools admitted that the use of CASE tools improved the standard of documentation and in result the system was easier to test and maintain. But people who used CASE tools also admitted that using CASE tools requires more time and effort and also adds in overall development time.
Less then 30% of the potential users and developers use the CASE and those who use it, uses the simplest and basic functionality of the CASE tools. This shows that even after getting so much popular CASE tools are not adopted and used so much in the software development industry as they expected or as they should be used. Just after one year of introduction 70% of CASE tools are never used, 20 are used by one group and 5 % of CASE tools are used in general[Juhani Iivar,1996].
It has been observed that CASE Tools are not being used from the time CASE got recognition. CASE is being approached experimentarily and involves a very long learning curve.
5.0 Implications in CASE Tools
Need for comprehensive CASE plan framework that considers estimated requirements for people, time, and money in the course of CASE adoption (awareness, commitment selection, and implementation) [ Ronald J. Norman,1991].
CASE is not being used as it was expected; there are many factors that affect the use of CASE tools.
5.1 Cost
Many tools are costly and most companies are unwilling to implement these CASE tools by the fact that it increases the overall cost of the project. And second thing if a company does not get any extra by using CASE tools then why should they use CASE tools, which are expensive for it in the end.
5.2 Time Limitation
There is always a time limit for every software project for development. Most of developers do not adopt CASE because it requires a lot of time to train developers and perform all CASE activities and there are always deadlines to complete the project. You have too meet deadlines of the company but if you use CASE tools you cannot finish your project on time, which is also a factor in less use of CASE tools.
5.3 Training
Training is a big concern while any company going to use a new tool, which is quite costly procedure. They have to train there developer for the efficient use of that particular tool. Most of the companies avoid using CASE tools because of this fact that they would have to train a large number of staff and it is expensive and as well as time consuming.
5.4 Lack of Concern
Most of the developers who use CASE tools are not fully satisfied from the CASE tools, which are why they are quite neutral about the usefulness of the CASE tools. The developer does not fully enjoy using CASE tools and if some of them do so, they use only limited functionality of the CASE tool. Many developers use CASE tools as a requirement of organization only. Developers do not seem motivated to use CASE tools and this lack of interest is on of the big factor in less use of CASE tools.
5.5 Technical Limitations
Every CASE tool follows a methodology for the model the system. People who use any specific CASE tool for a longer period of time get used with the methodology of that tool and they try to apply the same methodology for other projects.
Most of the tools have their hardware and software requirements. These requirements should meet to use that tool. This is another hurdle in CASE tool adoption for those companies who does not meet hardware or software requirements to use CASE tools. Tool should not be plate form dependent either of software or hardware.
5.6 Technology Transfer and Insertion
One of the main challenges in CASE adoption is technology change. CASE depends on planning, managing and early experiences and it can not be guaranteed even by experienced people that CASE can easily be incorporated.
5.7 Environment
Environment is another factor that plays important role in the failure of CASE tools. Is there any practice exists in the organization to adopt new technology and effectively learn it, opposition is always there for the new emerging technology and public dont like to change the existing technology, because they have to learn it before using it. Behavior of people towards change in organization is also very important, if developers and other related people in an organization are willing to implement and adopt new technology, then there are fewer problems.
5.8 Selection of CASE Tool
It is also a big concern that an organization must choose a appropriate CASE tool that suite there organization, but unfortunality most of the time developer are not consulted and management use to select the CASE tool that is a big hurdle in the way of CASE tool penetration. Before selecting any new technology, people who uses them must be consulted because they can better argue that how they can effectively use the CASE tool. As there are many tools for same problem in the market tool selection is a big concern as well.
6.0 Recommendations
Tool must not be selected due to its advance features, because most of the advance feature may concern organization dont use in their project. And organizations pay more money for what they dont have to use in the end. There are a lot of tools available in market so you should be careful and try to choose an appropriate tool.
We have seen that CASE tools plays an important role in Software Development and getting its appreciation in software development industry slowly but surly. But CASE is still in growth and there are different perceptions about CASE.CASE tools are not being used as they are expected to. Though, there are many new CASE tools available in the market and integrated CASE tools provides significant help and support for developers and programmers throughout SDLC in design and development activities but CASE tools have never been first choice for the majority of developers. Research about CASE usage in different organizations has shown that CASE is not always welcomed by developers and programmers and has never been as a tool of choice in organizations. And where CASE is used, the developers are using only minimal required functionality.


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Paris, TN – In a 9 to 6 vote this week, The Henry County, TN Commission opted to purchase the Weston Hall Building from the county Board of Education. This move clears the way for renovations to the Grove School campus. The Paris Post-Intelligencer reports the city plans to use the Weston Hall building to house the county's genealogy room and archives. The school board will use the money obtained from the sale toward the 3.7 million dollars needed to fund the renovation project. The overhaul includes the addition of an auxiliary gymnasium, an agriculture shop and additional classrooms. The board will acquire the remainder of funds needed through a loan that will add one year to the school system's current debt, which is now scheduled to be paid off in 2026.


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It has been a while since I posted a summary for malware removal.
Here are some steps in general you can take if you suspect there is malware on your computer:
1.) Download Malwarebyte's Antimalware and run the free version to scan for general malware.
Remove anything you find. You can remove/uninstall the program when it's finished.
2.) If you are paying for antivirus software on your home PCs, stop. Microsoft Security Essentials offers good protection, and is free–even in a commercial use environment on up to 10 computers.
Make sure you're running scans regularly, and paying attention to any alerts that pop up.
3.) If you still have a problem, download and run the TDSS removal tool from Kaspersky labs.
If the tool either fails to download or run, you have a rather nasty rootkit–you'll need to call someone for help.
4.) A word about Windows 8–it has free antivirus/spyware built in (Security Essentials is integrated). If you're paying for it, you really shouldn't be–even in a commercial environment.
I hope this helps. Malwarebyte's Antimalware takes care of most threats that have made it past your antivirus scanner. Prevention is better than cure. I've written about proactive methods to avoid infection here.