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For immediate release: November 18, 2010
Overhaul of the Red Line continues
Safety, customer service and infrastructure upgrades planned
Upgrading public address systems, closed circuit cameras and monitors, modernizing restrooms, replacing worn out flooring and installing new tunnel lighting are among the many enhancements that customers will see coming to Metro's Red Line.
The Metro Board of Directors today (Nov. 18) approved awarding three contract options for $37 million to continue the comprehensive infrastructure and rehabilitation work started last year. In total, more than $212 million worth of work is being done to the line over the next four years.
The rehabilitation program would encompass work throughout the Red Line from the Shady Grove to Glenmont Metrorail stations
"This substantial investment and the work taking place on the Red Line represents Metro's commitment to improve safety and service reliability for our customers who depend upon us every day," said Richard Sarles, Metro General Manager.
Currently under the Red Line contract, personnel are repairing the crumbling platforms at the Rockville Metrorail station and making station improvements between the Judiciary Square and Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood Metrorail stations, which includes rehabilitating 11 escalators at the Union Station and Judiciary Square Metrorail stations. At the end of the month, personnel will be preparing to enhance the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metrorail station entrance which will feature the installation of three new escalators, a staircase and a canopy over the station entrance.
Under the options approved today to the Red Line contract, Metro will make the following improvements:
Safety Enhancements
• Upgrade closed circuit cameras at the Dupont Circle, Farragut North, Metro Center, Gallery Place-Chinatown, Brookland-CUA, Fort Totten, Takoma and Silver Spring Metrorail stations to enhance safety.
• Replace 11,000 feet of tunnel safety lights to enhance customer and employee safety.
• Replace three tunnel ventilation and exhaust fans used in the event of a smoke incident in a rail station or tunnel.
• Replace 35,000 feet of fencing along Metro's tracks on the above-ground portion of the rail system.
• At 100 locations, upgrade emergency call boxes to enhance employee safety.
Customer Experience
• Replace leaking canopy roofs and skylights at four stations.
• Renovate eight station restrooms for customers and employees.
• Repair platform shelters at eight stations.
• Upgrade public address system at four stations.
• Convert the platform at the Dupont Circle Metrorail station to be ADA compliant by installing bumpy tiles at the platform edge to improve the transit experience for sight impaired riders.
Infrastructure Upgrades
• At 49 locations, upgrade automatic train control system and ventilation and air conditioning controls in the train control rooms.
• Repair 6,540 feet of tunnels including water leaks and cracks.
• Replace 41,000 feet of third rail expansion joints and power cables to ensure continued power of trains.
• Replace flooring where worn at select stations.
• Replace platform shelter glass at above-ground platforms.
News release issued at 3:31 pm, November 18, 2010.

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Events Navigation: AIRFest | Historic Lecture Series | Runway 5K & Funwalk | Big Band Dance & Concert
The 2016 Runway 5K and Funwalk – Saturday, June 4, 2016
Cape May County's Most Unique Event for 2016!
Runway 5K & Fun Walk
June 4, 2016 at 9:00 AM
With the cooperation of the Delaware River & Bay Authority (operators of the Cape May Airport), the airport will temporarily close to air traffic to allow runners and walkers this unique opportunity to compete on the runway! And, it's for a good cause. Proceeds will benefit restoration efforts of historic Hangar #1 which is listed on both the National and State of NJ register of Historic Places. Enjoy a CAPE MAY BREW, bagels, fruits and refreshments post race! Electronic timing and officiating by TNT Event Management. Race day registration begins at 7 am, race begins promptly at 9 am! Early registration is highly recommended. Come join us!
- Precisely measured 5K course layout
- High Quality Tech Shirts (short sleeve camo this year!) guaranteed for all early bird registrants
- Prize categories: Male & Female Overall, Top 3 finishers (men and women) in age categories:
14 & under | 15-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-59 | 60-69 | 70+
Click here for race rules & regulations
$35 for 5k adult participants
$20 Registration for 5k student participants, ages 17 & under
$15 Registration for all 1 mile fun walk participants
Online registration is preferred. To register/pay by check: mail completed form and payment to:
NASW Aviation Museum, ATTN 5K
500 Forrestal Road
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Notice to pilots: Air Traffic & Runways will be shut down on race day between 8 am – 11 am.
Become a Runway 5K Sponsor…. Call Bruce at 609.886.8787 for more information.
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Emily S. Steinbis, M.D. specializes in obstetric and gynecological care. She recently joined the KU Women's Health Specialty Centers in August 2010 as a Clinical Assistant Professor after moving from Texas with her husband and daughter. In addition to general obstetrics, her other interests include minimally invasive surgery, evaluation and management of abnormal pap smears, and medical and surgical management of various gynecologic conditions such as uterine fibroids, abnormal bleeding, infertility, and contraception. She enjoys taking care of women of all ages.
Dr. Steinbis completed her medical education and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. During her final year of residency, she served as Chief Resident. She received numerous awards during residency including: Resident of the Year - 2009, 2nd place in the Arthur Faris Resident Research Day - 2009, as well as being honored several times by her medical students as Outstanding Medical Student Educator - 2008 and 2009. Dr. Steinbis received her undergraduate degree from Rice University in Houston, TX with a B.S. in Bioengineering, focusing on Cellular and Molecular Engineering. During that time, she spent several years researching pharmacologic inhibitors of breast cancer and developing scaffolds for tissue engineering. She has since remained active in research, most recently evaluating ultrasound techniques to identify fetal obesity in utero.
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Many people have already compared Jon Jones to Anderson Silva, who is widely considered the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world today. Jones currently sits as champion of the light heavyweight division of the UFC with a 15-1 record.
Despite being only 24 years old, he has already accomplished more than many fighters can achieve during their entire careers.
Jones became the light heavyweight champion with a dominating win over Mauricio "Shogun" Rua. His first title defense came against the dangerous Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, where Jones systematically controlled the fight, eventually earning a stoppage by rear naked choke.
Then came Jones' second and most recent title defense against a fighter who many fans considered Jones' greatest threat in Lyoto "The Dragon" Machida.
While Jones seemed initially thrown by The Dragon's elusive style, the young champion was able to come back in the second round and open up the challenger with a vicious elbow and eventually put him to sleep via standing guillotine choke.
So the question remains: Who is left to face the champion at light heavyweight in the UFC?
The following is a list of fighters for Jon Jones to face. While they may not be the best in the division, they can still offer some level of competition to the champion. In turn, Jones will grow to the point where he may have to move up the heavyweight ranks.
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John McLaughlin Sits in on Jimmy Fallon Show on NBC
The legendary guitarist to perform with The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Guitarist John McLaughlin kicks off his tour of America, with a special appearance on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show on NBC tonight (Friday, November 5) at 12:35 am, EST. (Yes, we know that technically that's Saturday, November 6.) McLaughlin will sit in with the show's house band The Roots. As Miles Davis famously uttered during the Jack Johnson recording, "Go ahead, John."
Later this month, McLaughlin will perform and be the guest of honor at the New Universe Music Festival in Raleigh, NC on November 20 and 21. That festival, organized by Abstract Logix founder Souvik Datta, also includes performances by Lenny White, Jimmy Herring and other noted jazz/fusion players.
Here are the rest of McLaughlin's tour dates in North America:
Nov. 10 Quebec City, Palais Montcalm
Nov. 11 Toronto, ONT Koerner Hall
Nov. 12 Philadelphia, PA Keswick Theatre
Nov. 13 New York, NY Town Hall
Nov. 14 Alexandria, VA Birchmere
Nov. 16 Boston, MA House of Blues
Nov. 18 Milwaukee, WI Northern Lights Theatre
Nov. 19 St. Louis, MO Sheldon Concert Hall
Nov. 20 Atlanta, GA Rialto Center
Nov. 21 Raleigh, NC Lincoln Theater
Nov. 23 Austin, TX One World Theatre
Nov. 24 Austin, TX One World Theatre
Nov. 27 Mexico Riviera Maya Jazz Festival
Nov. 29 Dallas, TX Granada Theatre
Nov. 30 Santa Fe, NM Lensic Theatre
Dec. 1 Los Angeles, CA UCLA
Dec. 3 Tucson, AZ The Fox
Dec. 4 Boulder, CO Boulder Theatre
Dec. 5 Seattle, WA Jazz Alley
Dec. 7 Portland, OR True West Alladin Theatre
Dec. 10 Santa Cruz, CA Rio Theater
Dec. 11 Berkeley, CA Zellerbach Hall
McLaughlin will be performing with his Fourth Dimension band, including Gary Husband (keys & drums), Etienne Mbappé (bass) and Mark Mondésir (drums).


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The total number of matches played is 14 + 13 + 12 +...+1 = 105 matches. Two points are awarded for each match, so in the tournament the total number of points awarded is 2*105 = 210 points. If the last place team got 7 points, and no two teams got the same number of points, then the point totals for each team from lowest to highest must be:
7, 8, 9, 10, ..., 20, 21
This is the only set of results that works out properly. Since the wining team got 21 points, and the only way to get an odd number of points is to have an odd number of ties. So the winning team must have had at least 1 tie.


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As we celebrate Heroes Day today, Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) takes this opportunity to celebrate the lives of our colleagues who died or got maimed in the course of their work in the protected areas. Wildlife Management in Uganda is not a walk in the park; there are several challenges which staff face Over the past 10 years, Uganda Wildlife Authority has lost staff as a result of the
- Being shot by poachers
- Falling in traps set by poachers for wildlife
- Being shot by encroachers
- Being attacked by animals especially buffaloes
- Falling off cliffs
- Being attacked by snakes
- Car accidents to or from work
Why do we call them wildlife heroes?
The UWA staff who died while on duty contributed directly or indirectly to the improvements in protected area management in Uganda today. Some of them were butchered by encroachers especially in Mt. Elgon Conservation Area, while others were shot by cattle rustlers and poachers. Below is a list of UWA staff who lost their lives or got injured while on duty during the last 10 years:-
- Paul Ngoya died at Lomej on 31st March 2003 after being shot by cattle rustlers who were crossing Kidepo Valley National Park with their loot. The deceased had spent two years with the organization.
- Mark Atimu died in 2007 in Boma after being shot dead by a casual labourer while he guarded the Boma where the park keeps animals that have been translocated from other parks. The labourer took off with Atimu's money, radio and other property. Atimu worked with UWA for six years.
- Nelson Abwala died of a snake bite in 2006 as he performed his duty as a ranger guard at Nataba Gate in Kidepo Valley National Park.
- Abolungimoe Kalisto died in March 2013 after he fell while descending a steep slope during patrol and got pierced by his knife which he had tied around his waist. Kalisto died at Apuket in Kidepo Valley National Park and had spent 25 years with the organization.
- Mathia Oyo Odongo died near Kidepo River in 2012 after being shot by a Didingi poacher from Sudan. He had spent only one year with the organization.
- Leopold Kyarisima died near River Lokimait in Kidepo Valley National Park in 2011 after being shot by Didingi poachers from sudan. He spent one year with the organization.
- Joseph Lobolia died in September 2009 at Opotipot in Kidepo Valley National Park after being shot and injured by a fellow ranger while on duty. He had spent 16 years with the organization.
- Hillary Lotyang died at Lorukul in Kidepo Valley National Park in September 2011 during a problem animal control activity. He had also spent 16 years with the organization.
- Jackson Loruma was shot and injured at Nakudongolol in Kidepo Valley National Park in 2005 while to escort duty to Kotido. He eventually survived the injuries.
- Martine Oryem was shot at Lobel in Kidepo Valley National Park while on escort duty to Mbale.
- Joseph Olemutum was shot at Nakudongolol in Kidepo Valley National Park during escort duty to a bank in Kotido. This happened in February 2005.
- Paul Lokiru was shot at Nakudongolol in Kidepo Valley National Park during escort duty to a bank in Kotido. This happened in February 2005
- Richard Nyampamia was shot at Nakudongolol in Kidepo Valley National Park during escort duty to a bank in Kotido. This happened in February 2005
- John Barungi Lotyang suffered an accident while escorting communities back to Kaboong after a meeting with the management of Kidepo Valley National Park.
- Joseph Abolia died in a road accident while driving communities back to Kaboong after a meeting with the management of Kidepo Valley National Park. He had spent seven years with the organization. Mt. Elgon Conservation Area
- Mathew Kundu died after being kidnapped from Nataba outpost by thugs in July 2003. After kidnapping him, the thugs took him to the caldera at the tip of Mt. Elgon and murdered him. His body was discovered after a twoweeks' search.
- Apollo Makayi, died at Nataba Outpost on the same day as his colleague Mathew Kundu (above).
- Toskin Fred was ambushed while on patrol in Suam in Mt. Elgon National Park in August 2008. He was short dead and his riffle was taken by unknown assailants.
- Gaboi Achan was attacked by unknown people in June 2009 at Bumwalukane Outpost in Sironko district as he returned from a patrol with his colleagues. Gaboi was grabbed, moved up to the mountain top and killed. Two guns were taken but later recovered.
- Kilongi Leonard was accidentally shot dead in September 2007 by his colleague while on duty in Moroto.
- Michael Wamatele accidently shot himself dead at the Bumwalukane outpost. Murchison Falls Conservation Area
- Salim Ochaki drowned and was later found floating on River Nile.
- Justine Obita died in an accident after his motor cycle was hit by a vehicle as he rode to work in Karuma Wildlife Reserve
- Alfred Koluo died after drowning near the Top of the Falls in Murchison Falls National Park. He had just returned from a marine patrol with his colleagues and was in the process of docking the boat when a strong wind swept the boat away. He jumped in the river as he tried to save the boat and ended up drowning.
- Geoffrey Etot was killed in a motor accident at Kabwoya after he got crashed by a car as he was travelling from Kabwoya Wildlife Reserve to East Madi Wildlife Reserve.
- Patrick Ochola was killed after he fell from a vehicle in Hoima as he was travelling from Murchison Falls National Park to Kabwoya Wildlife Reserve
- Irene Tusiime died after being bitten by a snake while on duty in 2012.
- Paul Lokiro was shot in the arm and broke his arm in March 2013 during an extended patrol in Ayago in Murchison Falls National Park. Lake Mburo Conservation Area
- Begumisa Kussein was shot dead in August 2002 during an operation against in Rwempogo in the northern ranches neighbouring Lake Mburo National Park. He had spend four years with the organization by the time of his death.
- Robert Mbagay, an Assistant Warden Law Enforcement in Lake Mburo National Park lost his finger in 2003 while handling a problem chimpanzee in Entebbe. He has handled several crocodile capture assignments and plays a key role in dealing with problem animals in the protected areas.
- Katwaza Lauben was injured in 2007 while handling a problem leopard in Mbare Subcounty in Isingiro District. He has worked with UWA since 2000 to-date.
- Kameraho Azariah was injured by a buffalo while guiding visitors in 2009. He was able to protect the visitors from the buffalo, but the animal injured him in the stomach. He has worked with UWA since 2002 to-date
- Andrew Opeto was injured by a buffalo while guiding visitors in 2006. He has worked with UWA since 1998 todate.
- Kakama was shot and injured by a poacher while on patrol in 2005. He joined the organization in 1998 and left 2011.
Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Area
- Evaristo Behangana died in May 2009 in a road accident along the Ruhija-Kabale highway in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. He had spent six years with the organization.
- Emmanuel Bemazaki fell off a cliff at the Muremure Outpost in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in July 2012. He had spent seven years with the organization.
Kibale Conservation Area
- Kato Moses who is based in Semuliki National Park was injured by poachers. He survived and he is still performing his duties.
- Paul Naluma who was based in Toro Semliki Wildlife Reserve died after he was crushed by a trailer on the Fort Portal-Bundibugyo highway. He was going to check out reports that communities had encroached on the Wildlife Reserve.
- Geoffrey Wabwire and Bosco Sanya died in motor accidents while on duty.
Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area
- Benson Bwambale was shot dead in 2012 at Kasenyi Gate in Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Kobusheshe Angel was shot dead in February 2013 at the Ishasha Gate in Queen Elizabeth National Park
UWA Headquarters
- Peter Ogwang lost a finger to a crocodile at Buwama in 2005 as he undertook a demonstration of crocodilecapture techniques for a group of visitors from North Korea.
Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) Conservation fees (tariff rates) will effective January 2014 be running on a two year calendar basis as opposed to the financial year.
According to management, this move is meant to improve customer service and ease bookings for tour operators who book permits in advance for their clients. This will reduce the uncertainty and speculation on possible changes in the middle of the calendar year.
Management of UWA has accordingly resolved that the current Conservation fees for July 2011-June 2013 will be valid until 31st December, 2013. More details can be accessed on our website and the conservation fees booklets available at the UWA headquarters, National parks and offices of the tour operators.
Uganda Wildlife Authority's Chief Conservation Area manager (CCAM) Mr. Charles Tumwesigye is the proud winner of the 2013 National Geographic Society/Buffet Award for Leadership in African Conservation.
Mr. Tumwesigye becomes the second UWA officer to win the prestigious award after his predecessor Mr. John Makombo who is currently the Director Conservation (DC)in 2010.
Seen in the photo extreme left is Dr. Seguya and extreme right is Prince William
The Executive Director of Uganda Wildlife Authority Dr. Andrew Seguya who is also a board member of the Uganda Tourism Board,on May 21st,2013, was among the Ugandan delegation that attended a meeting hosted by his Royal Higness the Prince of Wales
The meeting also attended by the commissioner for wildlife in the Ministry of Tourism Mr. James Lutalo sought to discuss action areas of potential collaboration and partnershipsto combat illegal wildlife tradeand related products.
The UWA boss also utilized his visit to hold meetings with the Ugandan embassy staff to discussissues pertaining to the promotion of Uganda Wildlife Authority and visit tourist sites and businessesin London.
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Murchison Falls National Park in My hosted a number of high profile visitors including the Sri Lankan President HE Mahinda Rajapaska.The Sri Lankan head had a boat ride to the bottom of the falls,the Delta where Victoria Nile joins Lake Albert,a game drive and also visited the top of the falls.
The discounted gorilla tracking permits promotion initiated by the management of Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) to enable East Africans and Foreign residents to enjoy the same gorilla tracking experience at reduced rates successfully ended on May 31, 2013.
The Minister of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities Hon. Maria Mutagamba on Friday March 15, briefed the media on Uganda's participation at the just conclude International Travel Berlin. Below is her statement.
For visitors wishing to visit the parks but don't have as much to spend, their worries have now been resolved by Uganda Wildlife Authority. In the last 3 months UWA has renovated some of its former staff houses into modern affordable accommodation where, one can stay and enjoy a tour around the parks, within their means.
The first set of 4 houses, neighboring the visitor centre and the Albertine Rift Hhostel, have been fully renovated and refurnished to offer affordable and comfortable stay for visitors to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Each of the bungalows contains 3 and 4 big bed rooms, a fully furnished kitchen, a sitting lounge and a dining area, which are carefully furnished with African style furniture. The facilities offers spacious environment for relaxation, meeting and work, if you may. And there can't be any, any better setting than the scenic view of the park from this location.
The Visitor information Centre is just a stone throw away, while the Parka Lodge, The boat launch and Albertine Rift Hostel are easily accessible from here.
It is ideal for families, corporate and even wedding delegations.
The 3 bedroom house costs sh. 250,000 per day while the 4 bedroom house goes for sh. 300,000.
In addition, UWA management has also commenced renovations of other staff houses popularly known as "Lower camp staff houses". The initial phase of 20 rooms is under renovation with over 10 rooms already available for use. These rooms are conveniently located near the Tembo canteen which will be reopened very soon. It is hoped that tourists staying in the lower camp houses can have their meals at Tembo canteen, which is located less than 100 meters away. In total, there are about 40 rooms that will be renovated and improved with inside toilets and showers.
Each bed costs costs about sh. 20,000 to sh. 30,000
The effort to improve and provide more accommodation in the parks, is part of Uganda Authority (UWA)'s strategy to increase domestic tourism, which is consistent with country's vision to transform the economy through optimal exploitation of its own resources.
You may recall that last year, The Chairman of Board of Trustees, Mr. Benjamin Otto, inaugurated this project, which is already bearing fruit.
The blocks which formerly housed the staff of the organization in the Mweya Peninsular which is the hub of the tourism activities in Queen Elizabeth National Park, were renovated and improved with internally generated revenue.
To book any of these accommodations, please call
- Reservations Office on 0414 355 000, 0312 355 000
- Queen Elizabeth National Park 0392 700694.
It is advisable to book in advance. And for more information about what you can do in the park, visit The Park microsite
UWA in partnership with Africa Wildlife Foundation will be implementing a project which is funded by USAID in LMNP, KVNP and MFNP. The project will be implementing conservation and tourism strategies as identified in the specific GMPs. The first stake holder's workshop was held in Chobe Lodge which involved different stakeholders to sensitise them on the project.
It was a lifetime experience for Uganda Wildlife Authority's twelve interpretive guides specializing in mountain gorilla and chimpanzee tracking, when they closely interacted with the playful chimpanzees in the undisturbed Budongo forest reserve.


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terminal changeOct 17, 20161I am looking to book flights from LHR London arriving at SFO at 17.10 with a 2hr 20 min stopover to change terminals to go to LAX departing at 19.30. Is this realistci given bags need to be collected and rechecked?EmmMon, Oct 17
Very short layoverSep 14, 20163I am flying from Vancouver to Las Vegas by way of SFO. I only have a 36 minute layover. I am an American citizen. Enough time to make it?JsTue, Sep 13You will pre-clear US Immigration and Customs in Vancouver. Assuming both of these flights are on United, you do have enough time if the first flight is on-time but it obviously leaves no time to spare.ZAPTue, Sep 13Thank you for the quick answer. The flights are both Air Canada, operated by United. It would be cutting it extremely close, wouldn't it... I have not booked yet. Do you think it is crazy to go for it? Thanks a lot :)JsTue, Sep 13
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Do you need to go through customs at (SF0) if you have another flightAug 15, 20163hi flying in to (SFO) 21st from UK, (Heathrow Airport) where i will take a flight from (SF0) to Palm Springs Airport. Do l need to go through customs at (SFO) or is that done at Palm Springs. I am concerned of the timing. l have two hours between flightskathleenMon, Aug 15In SFO you will go through US Immigration, claim your bags, go through US Customs, re-check your bags at the re-check desk, then go through security and to your departure gate. What airlines are you flying?ZAPMon, Aug 15Hi thank you for replying, l am only travelling with hand luggage, and the airline is British Airways, but united to Palm SpringskathleenMon, Aug 15
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Not since Justine Sacco, whose notorious tweet created a controversial firestorm, has a professional communicator's communications landed them in hot water — and the national spotlight. But this one will hit close to home if you're an employer, recruiter or staffing professional whose job entails interacting with job seekers in any capacity.
Kelly Blazek — the head of Cleveland Job Bank House and a 2013 International Association of Business Communicators 'Communicator of the Year' — is "a senior communications executive who enjoys helping others in the profession." She has described herself as a "frequent speaker on creating a gamechanger resume [and] professional presence."
According to a write-up in the International Association of Business Communicators, Blazek has said: "I've always been a passionate advocate for keeping talent in NE Ohio, and we have so much of it in the region. I want my subscribers to feel like everyone is my little sister or brother, and I'm looking out for them."
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You may be wondering why I'm prefacing what I'm about to say with her credentials and accolades — and it's for a good reason. If you've become known for helping job seekers and top talent locally, the last thing you probably want to do is write scathing notes to talent looking for local jobs, right?
But here's a little snippet of how Blazek responded to an innocent job seeker asking how she can get plugged in to find a job: "[H]ow about starting with NOT presuming I would share my nearly 1,000 personally-known LinkedIn contacts with a TOTAL stranger? How bush league to pull that stunt. It's what kids do — ask senior executives to link in to them, so they can mine contacts for job leads. That's tacky, not to mention entitled — what in the world do I derive from accepting a stranger's connection request?"
Here's another sample from her treasure trove of professional communications.
"Your invite to connect is inappropriate, beneficial only to you and tacky. Wow, I cannot wait to let every 26-year-old job seeker mine my top-tier marketing connections to help then land a job. … I suggest you join the other Job Bank in town. Oh wait — there isn't one. You're welcome for your humility lesson for the year."
My first thought: Surely this MUST be a Jimmy Kimmel prank.
There's much more that you can check out here. But too bad if you want to try to get ahold of her — she has shut down both her LinkedIn and Twitter accounts as well as her blog. (Not that she would've allowed you to connect anyway.)
Hours after her email responses went viral, she issued an apology: "Hundreds of people contact me every month looking for help, and as the bottom fell out of the job market, their outreach and requests demanded more of my time. I became shortsighted and impatient, and that was wrong." Um, ya think?!
UPDATE: It appears she, or someone else on her behalf, is slowly getting back on social, as her Twitter account had tweeted an update about her apology Wednesday morning. Not to mention a Twitter account called "The Other NEO Job Bank" run by millennials has just popped up to serve job seekers in Cleveland.
You may also be interested in reading "Six Concepts Brands Should Understand About Social Media Etiquette."
Employer etiquette refreshers
In light of this debacle, we thought we'd offer up a 2-minute refresher in etiquette when it comes to communicating with job seekers. So, even if you're having a rough day or you're becoming impatient, hopefully you'll think twice before taking it out on an innocent party.
- Always Be Courteous — it's the ABC of communication. It neither takes more time nor effort to use a pleasant, positive, polite and professional tone when crafting any kind of communication — verbal or written — with job seekers, but it can make a world of a difference in their eyes.
- Put yourself in the job seeker's shoes. Being able to empathize with the candidates you're communicating with is the first step toward understanding how to effectively communicate with them and avoid needless miscommunication.
- Assume whatever you say or write is publicly available. I say this because we live in a digital era where thoughtless social media posts can make or break your company or public image. Just ask Kelly Blazek. Before you speak or write, stop and ask yourself if you'd be comfortable if someone leaked that quick message you're about to dash off to the public.
- Do what you say you're going to do. Talk, as they say, is cheap. And you don't want to give job seekers or the general public the impression that you don't make good on your promises. So if you tell candidates you'll get back to them in two weeks, get back to them in two weeks — even if it's to say you haven't made a decision yet or that you've decided to go with another candidate.
- Don't "school" job seekers, advise them. What I mean by that is that if there's a critique or constructive criticism you want to offer up to a job seeker — such as not to call five times a day to check in on the status of an application — advise them as you would your niece, neighbor or friend.
- Don't make vague — and condescending — generalities. Please don't say things like, "I love the sense of entitlement in your generation." It will not only make you sound ignorant, but it will also alienate other millennials.
- Don't chastise people with inquiries because YOU won't get anything out of it. For goodness' sake, not even on your worst day should you utter things like "What in the world do I derive from accepting a stranger's connection request?" or "Your invite to connect is inappropriate, beneficial only to you and tacky." (Isn't that Communication 101?) If a job seeker approaches you with an inquiry you think is self-serving, it's because for whatever reason they find it to be a legitimate question, so try to answer it to the best of your ability and move on.
Tell us in the comments below: What employer etiquette tips can you offer to your peers? Have you come across any communication faux pas that we can all learn from?


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Catcher Brian McCann has been the man calling the signs for the Atlanta Braves over the past eight seasons, but 2013 could mark the end of his tenure with the team.
Since 2005, the Atlanta Braves have enjoyed a brand of stability behind the plate that very few teams in baseball can boast. However, a shoulder injury will sideline McCann in the early going this season. That leaves the Braves in a somewhat unfamiliar place.
While Atlanta did exercise its team option on McCann over the winter, and remain in high hopes that he will return to action before April is out, there is some degree of uncertainty as to what to expect from the catcher's position this season.
Capable backup David Ross departed via free agency, leaving Atlanta to search for viable reinforcements. Veteran Gerald Laird was signed to fit that bill, but that is not all the Braves have in camp this year. Top prospects and non-roster invitees will all be trying to make their mark during spring training as well.
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A Penn research team, led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, reports in Nature Medicine that mice in which an enzyme called histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) was deleted had massively fatty livers, but lower blood sugar, and were thus protected from glucose intolerance and insulin resistance, the hallmark of diabetes.
Insulin resistance occurs when the body does a poor job of lowering blood sugars. Typically, patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes have fatty livers, and the dogma in the field, says Lazar, is that the fatty livers contribute to the insulin resistance and diabetes in a vicious cycle. These findings are "a clear counterexample to this thinking," he says.
The researchers observed that the extra fat in the liver did not cause insulin resistance because it was sequestered in tiny lipid droplets inside individual liver cells, coated by a specific protein. The metabolites that would otherwise be used by the body to make glucose were re-routed to make fat, leading to reduced glucose in the bloodstream. The advantage of the lower blood sugar is tempered by the excess liver fat, which can lead to problems of its own, including liver failure.
Cells of high-fat-diet-induced fatty livers in wild-type mice were characterized by larger lipid droplets, but liver-specific HDAC3 knockout mice on a high-fat diet were characterized by smaller lipid droplets, even though the total lipid content increased versus the wild-type mice.
Why would the body have this re-routing process in the first place? The team looked to the circadian rhythm of the nocturnal mice for answers. When inactive during the day, mouse HDAC3 migrates to genes to turn off fat synthesis. This allows metabolites to make glucose for fueling the sleeping body. When waking, during the night, the mouse body makes a metabolic switch, anticipating the intake of food, and turns on fat synthesis for energy storage. The on-and-off cycle of HDAC3 is directly regulated by the internal circadian clock, and the system falls apart when HDAC3 is deleted.
The findings suggest that the cordoning off of lipids of the liver in many, tiny coated droplets helps to manage insulin resistance in the body. And, the findings cement the fact that HDAC3 is pivotal in integrating signals from the internal body clock to coordinate metabolism, especially in the liver, notes the first author Zheng Sun, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the Lazar lab.
The findings demonstrate that fat itself is not necessarily all bad. "It matters a lot how fat is handled and stored," notes Lazar. "It also highlights the importance of complying with our internal circadian clock. For example, since our body does not anticipate food at night and is preparing to generate more glucose, night-time eating is likely to shoot up blood sugar and thus may contribute to diabetes."
The work was funded in part by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R37 DK43806; P01 DK49210; R01 DK40936; R01 DK075017); the Cox Institute of Medical Research; and the JPB Foundation.
In addition to Lazar and Sun, co-authors were Russell A Miller, Rajesh T Patel, Jie Chen, Ravindra Dhir, Michael J Bennett, Rexford S Ahima, and Morris J Birnbaum, all from Penn, as well as Hong Wang and Carole Sztalryd (University of Maryland); Dongyan Zhang, and Gerald I Shulman (Yale University School of Medicine); Terry G Unterman (University of Illinois at Chicago); and Mark J. Graham (Isis Pharmaceuticals).
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April 20, 2014, 12:25 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan Life Insurance Co. has agreed to extend the deadline for completing a deal in which CTBC Financial Holding Co. aims to acquire the mid-sized life insurer.
In a statement filed with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) late Friday evening, Taiwan Life said the company's board of directors agreed in a meeting held that day to extend the transaction deadline to June 30, from April 20.
The approved deadline extension reignited market hopes that CTBC Financial, one of Taiwan's leading financial holding companies, will take Taiwan Life fully into its corporate umbrella as part of its plans to broaden the financial holding firm's insurance operations.
On Thursday, shares of Taiwan Life plunged by the maximum daily decline of 7 percent, after Long Bon International Co., one of the life insurer's major shareholders, expressed opposition against the acquisition deal.
On Friday, shares of Taiwan Life fell by an additional 1.84 percent before the Taiwan Life board meeting began. The share price decline came amid fears that if the acquisition deal falls apart, the life insurer would not be able to take advantage of CTBC Financial's broad network to sell products.
Long Bon, which owns a 37 percent stake in Taiwan Life, said that it had decided not to extend the deadline for the transaction if the deal is not completed by April 20.
In late October 2013, CTBC Financial announced that it would acquire Taiwan Life through a stock swap. CTBC Financial had planned to use 1.44 common shares in exchange for one Taiwan Life share and to use one preferred share for one Taiwan Life preferred share to bring the life insurer under its corporate umbrella.
CTBC Financial said the benefits of Taiwan Life's customers and employees will be fully protected after the acquisition. The deal was valued at about NT$26.6 billion.
Long Bon filed a motion in Taiwan Life's board meeting Friday to discuss its opposition against the deadline extension. According to the local media, 10 directors on the board of Taiwan Life went through an intensive debate, which lasted for more than eight hours, before reaching an agreement on the extension.
Long Bon, which holds four of the seats on Taiwan Life's 10-seat board of directors, had previously wanted to use its weight in the board to sway other directors to support its decision.
However, government owned Bank of Taiwan, another major shareholder of Taiwan Life, which owns an approximately 18 percent stake in the life insurer and three seats of the board of directors, won support from three independent directors to approve the deadline extension.
CTBC Financial said in a statement filed to the TWSE that the company respects the decision of Taiwan Life's board.
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Local theaters overcome hardship to finish strong in 2010
By Jana J. Monji 08/26/2010
Economic hardship may be the big storyline for 2010, but the local fall theater season is opening with the promise of better days ahead.
While Glendale's A Noise Within Theatre breaks ground at its new Crown City location to prepare for its first Pasadena season next year, the Pasadena Playhouse recently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy to announce a partial lineup over the coming months"Dangerous Beauty," a play based on the 1998 film of the same name about a courtesan in 16th-century Venice, will open in January at the historic Playhouse, and in December the Intimate Opera Co. and Pasadena Dance Theater will stage productions there.
Pasadena Playhouse Artistic Director Sheldon Epps said the Playhouse would soon also announce a production that would open as early as mid-October.
Epps said the bankruptcy was a responsible choice for the theater because it has been carrying debt for over a dozen years, a scenario he likened to paying "alimony from a marriage that I was never in." No matter how well things went, they could never get ahead.
"Even with a great box office success, there was still a great black sucking hole of debt eating up any profit we were able to make," he said, until an anonymous entertainment industry donor who admired the theater's work made a large donation and challenged the community to match it.
Meanwhile, A Noise Within is wrapping up its final season in Glendale while completing construction on its new 300-seat, 33,000 square-foot venue at Foothill Boulevard and Sierra Madre Villa Avenue, near the Gold Line station.
ANW's current Brand Boulevard location seats 148, meaning the move to Pasadena will double audience capacity.
"We've had more demand [for seats] than we've been able to meet," explained Artistic Co-director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, who said ANW expects to open their first Pasadena production in fall 2011.
Before ending its run in Glendale, the theater will stage a retrospective event celebrating all of the different plays it has staged there.
"The move is such an important transition for the theater we felt there needed to be a way to mark that," Rodriguez-Elliott said.
The immediate fall lineup in Glendale, meanwhile, includes Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," a new adaptation of "Great Expectations" and "Blithe Spirit," Noel Coward's tale of ghostly love.
Damaso Rodriguez (no relation to Rodriguez-Elliott), who started his career as an intern with ANW, has directed shows at Boston Court and was involved in forming the Furious Theatre Co., will be directing "Blithe Spirit."
"Great Expectations" revisits a show ANW staged early in its history.
Other noteworthy revivals this fall include 2002's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Topdog/Underdog" at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena and Tennessee Williams' classic "The Glass Menagerie" at the Mark Taper Forum, but curtains are also opening this fall on many world premiere productions.
Jordan Harrison's "Futura," in which a professor attempts to change the world through the art of typography, opens Sept. 30 at the Theatre@Boston Court.
The musical "Leap of Faith," premiering at the Ahmanson, is based on the 1992 Steve Martin movie of the same name about a con man posing as a Christian faith healer to bilk money from small town folk in Kansas.
"Harps and Angels," a new musical by Randy Newman, premieres at the Mark Taper Forum with songs including "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," "Sail Away" and the anthemic "I Love L.A."
So, despite economic downturn, local theater is alive and thriving with new plays and old favorites, but the grandest revival of all may be the rebirth of the Pasadena Playhouse itself.
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With my duffel bag slung over my shoulder and my water bottle grasped tightly in my left hand, I looked like a professional soccer player as I raced across the parking lot towards the soccer field behind Rose Canyon High School. I was angry with myself for getting out of the house late, only because I had typing an email to my best friend, Allie.
I was never late. I loved the fact that I was always right on time, sometimes even earlier than I needed to be, just because it created an ever-lasting good impression on the people who were there to see me arrive. Allie and I contrasted perfectly – she was the klutz, I was the perfect geek and soccer maniac. I was excited that Allie and I would be starting high school together this year, especially since we would be sharing some classes together.
My soccer practice started at three o'clock. As I pulled out my cell phone to check what time it was, it started to ring. The caller identification note at the bottom of the screen read 'Al,' which meant Allie was calling. The phone rang twice before I finally managed to flip it open and bring it to my ear.
I could hear my quick breathing echo through the phone line. "Hey, Al, what's up?"
I was excited to hear Allie's voice. "Nothing really," she said. I wondered why she was calling, since I figured that she remembered I had soccer practice.
"That's cool. You do know I'm going to soccer, though, right?" I cleared my throat and felt myself blush. Allie would tease me for the rest of my life for being late. "I'm kind of late."
"Oh." Allie didn't seem to care. I bit the bottom of my lip as I crossed the road towards the soccer fields. It was getting hard to speak on my cell phone and hurry at the same time.
"Can we talk after?" I asked. "I'll call you when practice is –"
"No!" Allie said so suddenly that I felt a cold shiver run down my spine. Something had to be going wrong – either Allie's make-up, or hair, or just the general day. "I have to tell you something."
"So tell me. Come on, Al, this isn't like you." I didn't mean to sound annoyed, but the situation was slowly growing on my nerves.
"I have to go to writer's camp," Allie said so quietly, I could barely understand what she was speaking.
I froze in the middle of my wild chase across the soccer field. I could see my team on the other side, but Allie's words were just too much. "Allie!" I cried. "You're calling me now to tell me that?" Allie had told me she would probably be gone for a week or two during the summer and I didn't mind too much.
"Bryan, I'll be gone, starting tomorrow, until August."
I knew that was what she was going to say. I had been prepared, over and over about what to respond. Yet the pain in Allie's voice was real and I could barely choke out the lies that I had been taught to say.
"Oh. That long?"
"I'm sorry, Bryan. I know that you were looking forward to us hanging –"
"And you weren't looking forward to it, Allie? Why are you suddenly changing all of our plans?" The lies rolled off of my tongue and glided through the air, striking their target.
Allie started to cry. "My parents decided for me, Bryan. Do you realize how much I begged to be allowed to stay at home?" I did realize how much Allie had begged. I had been told of her begging and pleading.
"Apparently it wasn't enough," I told her. "You've always managed to persuade anyone to do anything."
"Yeah, well, apparently I'm not good enough." Allie's words stung me, as I had known they would. But I was prepared for pain and agony; I had known it would come.
First of all, forgive me. I'm not very good at telling my story, mostly because it's so complicated. I'm also a guy, so you can't blame me if sometimes I'm totally speechless. But, you know, telling a story isn't that bad. You just have to find the time and the inner strength to let everything out so that the people around you can understand.
My name is Bryan Conhociolli. I am fifteen years old, starting high school this very year – in two months, three weeks, four days, ten hours, fifty-eight minutes and seven seconds, to be exact. I come from a full-blooded Italian family. On the other hand, our American roots go back to the late forties.
My mother, Isabelle, and my father, Adrian, moved here to the United States only because they were assigned to a mission of incredible importance; they had to find the remaining seventeen Mafia members that had escaped from Italy. The mission was never completed because my mother became pregnant and the UAB – Undercover Agent Bureau – strictly forbids a woman to participate in missions while in any state that may harm her health.
If I haven't mentioned already, my mother and father used to work very tightly together. They were not married when leaving Italy and I was also conceived before their marriage. After five years of intense work together, they decided to marry. My mother was twenty-two years old, my father a year older.
Unfortunately, my parents have divorced. I don't actually remember the time, because it was only a year and a half into their marriage, right after my second birthday. My mother doesn't like to talk about those years in her lifetime because, at that one point in time, she reached the lowest point in her life. We've had problems along the way, of course, with money and life together, but it's not that bad.
My story is a story that is one-of-a-kind, I think. Although at first I may not have thought so, my journey took place over a seven-week period of time and allowed me to venture into the depth of the human mind and heart. I never before thought that humans could make so many sacrifices for each other
I've mentioned the UAB. My mother and I both work for the Agency as field agents. We train as police officers, but also learn skills of the soldier, runner, lawyer, and street gangster. It's a rather endless list of skills and rulebooks and studies. In the end, though, it allows us to do our job – scouting the United States for enemies, and then catching them.
It probably doesn't seem like anything. I mean, how many police officers catch a bad guy each day? I'd say a lot. But our job isn't of a police officer, even though we participate in their training. Like I said, we're agents. We look for the enemies of the country, those who are terrorizing our people with threats of nuclear weapons, bombs, kidnappings and other circumspect stuff.
Agents work undercover. They dress in black and carry guns, paralyzing darts, and small machines called NETs, or National Enemy Trackers, which allow them to track enemies, record evidence, call Headquarters, communicate with other Agents in the area – all from one spot. It's rather amazing.
My story has a lot to do with the UAB, although it is a mission that history has created for me. If I had not been born to Isabelle and Adrian Conhociolli, I would not have been faced with my challenge. Today it is difficult for me to look back upon past events. They evolved so quickly, so incredibly fast; I barely had time then to comprehend how my world was changing. I didn't understand why at that point, and I also didn't really want to be faced with the challenge. My mind, those days, was always on my best friend, Allison, who was embarking on a long journey of her own.
The television flickered in colors before me, shadowing the darkened walls of my bedroom with pale colors of green, red, white and black. The cartoon was old, probably from the early nineties, and told a story about a boy who called wolf. No, it's not the traditional story we know by heart. It was some weird remake of tradition. I hated the fact that the artist was so willing to add irony to the story, so children would laugh.
It was Sunday. According to my alarm clock, it was ten thirty-four in the evening. I sighed as I leaned back and placed my head on the wall. My mother wasn't home and I was starting to get seriously worried. Working for the UAB had done a lot of things to me – I was extremely cautious of external conflicts, but also of the ones that seem to engulf humans every day.
I pulled out my NAT and entered the security code for my mother's machine; if she were in a secure location, the NAT would reveal it to me. If she was in the middle of a mission, the NAT would reveal only the general location – not the city name, not the population, but what her surroundings looked like. Nothing more, nothing less.
3996745axopo9975. Beep, beep. Beep. Beep. Beep, beep. "Error. Security number not found," the voice read. My heart seemed to stop, the beating slowing down to an unheard thump.
"An error?" I whispered. "What?"
This had never happened before, mind you. It was the first time that the NAT did not recognize my mother's security code, which meant that her code had been switched for security purposes, or the system had been breached. The possibility of that was almost impossible, because the NAT system had been created by a large group of professionally trained programmers and mathematicians over the course of a decade.
I tried for a second time, clearing the error message from the screen. 3996745axopo9975. "Come on, work, you stupid thing." For a second, the machine was silent. Then, as soon as it had started, it ended.
The screen read: "3996745axopo9975. Security Log Deleted. Agent not found. Error. Security number blocked from system."
I stifled a yelp by biting my lip. This was my first encounter with such an error message and I was worried. Is the system having technical difficulties? I wondered. At first, as I sat on the bed with my head leaned against the wall, I began to panic. Panicking was something that the Agency did not recommend. As an agent, you completely lost control over your senses if you began to panic.
"Bryan, do something," I told myself. "Just do something."
My first impulse was to call my mother, but then I knew that I would not be able to reach her. Without hesitation, I quickly entered the phone number to the UAB Security Board and placed the call from my NAT.
The first ring was answered with silence, but finally I heard the voice of Mike, a man in his late sixties who worked for the Security Department. "Hello?"
"Mike, that you?" I asked, just to be sure. I would not have been able to tell if this particular Mike was a fake and that the entire Agency was under attack, but I decided to take the chance.
"Yeah, son. How can I help you?" I was relieved that Mike recognized me.
"Well, there's some major screw-up with my NAT. I tried to finger in my mom's security code but came with an error message."
"Really?" Mike asked. "You remember what it was?"
"Yeah. It read, uh, 'Security Log Deleted. Agent not found. Error. Security number blocked from system.' I don't get it, though, Mike. Can you help?" I asked.
I did not receive a reply to my question. Instead, I heard Mike panic for the first time since I met him, six long years before that horrifying Sunday. "Oh, shit! You kiddin' me, boy? No, you can't be kidding me. That's the error message for security breaching." I could hear him murmuring to someone else. "Bryan, you get down here right now!"
I hate silence. I hate the power that silence has over the human body and its senses. Even if you are trained to ignore silence, there are times when shock overwhelms you completely. You lose control and begin a fight that ends up resulting in pure fear. I felt fear crawl up my arms as I clung to hope that nothing serious had happened. But Mike's words echoed in my mind: That's the error for security breaching.
Within a minute, I was dressed in my black shorts and a black T-shirt that read "UAB: United American Board." It was not sold in stores, but reserved specifically for UAB agents undercover. I raced through the house and picked up my keys and identification card from the top kitchen cabinet, which I hung around my neck.
Every UAB member learns to drive a car when they turn fourteen years old. They have to endure two hundred hours of training, which may last more than one year, sometimes more than two, depending on how busy the agent is with other cases. I slid into the driver's seat of the jeep and pulled out from the garage.
My navigator system flashed on and I checked the traffic message. I was informed that the County Road I usually took to the UAB Headquarters in Orlando, Florida, was highly condensed and that I needed to take some of the side streets.
If the situation had not been so stressful, this would have been exciting news. Driving on Orlando's side streets was extremely fun, especially since the roads were used for street racing by many groups of gangsters. Today, though, I had to race on the side streets like a professional – heading towards the Headquarters, not the prize money.
If you have never seen Orlando, you would not know that it is not as Floridian as you would expect. It is a stereotype that the southern coast of the United States is filled with beach houses built from bamboo, while it is not. The southern coast enjoys a large amount of storms and must be properly protected from tornadoes and hurricanes.
The UAB Headquarters were located on the northern side of the city, a large luxurious office building that was used specifically for the United American Board; in other words, the Bureau used that excuse to direct the media and others elsewhere.
I parked my car in a reserved spot on the third level of the parking garage and slipped from the driver's seat, pocketing my large bundle of keys in my jeans pocket. I walked around the car to the trunk and pulled out my gun and a duffel bag that carried the rest of the equipment I needed for training.
The third floor of the garage was empty, except for Mike's car, which was parked in the furthest corner of the parking garage, away from speculation. It was an old Buick, repainted to a fiery red color, Mike's favorite. He enjoyed working with cars, although found very time to do so because so much of his day was spent at the agency.
I strode across the garage towards the double glass doors. They looked like normal exit doors but no one could walk through them unless they had a special identification card that had to be scanned. I pulled out my card and smiled. The I.D. suited me well – it was a small black card that read, "Mr. Bryan Conhociolli, UAB Certification. Driver's License provided. Permission to transport Alcoholic Beverages, Drugs/Other Substances, and Explosives."
The picture of me was very well done and made me look much older than my fifteen years of age. I was dressed in a suit and posed in front of the Headquarters building, but in a spot that would not offer any evidence of the location to enemies who might come upon the identification card.
The identification card slipped slowly through the scanner, but for security purposes. After my picture flashed on the screen, I placed my right hand on the screen and braced myself for the DNA test. A small, almost invisible needle slipped through my skin into my blood and took a blood sample, which it tested within ten seconds.
I was in. Security inside the actual Headquarters was much tighter, but we had excellent camera-coverage of the garages and would not have any problems with the discovery that there was something not right. After the doors closed behind me, I turned down the left hallway and hurried towards the elevator.
After the metal doors opened and I walked in, I pressed the button for the eleventh floor. Then, I slipped my gun holder around my belt and pulled on my jacket. If Mike was going to have an assignment for me to do, I had to be ready. It was an agent's job to be on call at all times. The only problem was that agents usually had to come into Orlando itself to be briefed for the cases. This took a lot of time, usually giving the enemies an advantage through their head start.
The elevator made no sound as it traveled upwards. There was no rumbling, as there usually is from a regular elevator. The numbers flashed quickly as the floors disappeared below me. Mike's office was located on the twelfth floor, but I had to stop by my office and leave my duffel bag behind. It would only get in the way in the future.
The eleventh floor consists mostly of junior agents' offices. They are spread out across the entire floor; in total, there are about thirty-five offices and eighty cubbies, depending on how much work an agent puts in. Most agents only do paperwork and cases that are strictly limited to Florida. They do not need the space or technology that is required for working on inner-state cases.
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Walsh faces 101 charges and his 19-year-old son, Jonathan, faces 40, including racketeering, home improvement fraud and theft. Five other employees also face charges.
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Updated 2:01 pm, Thursday, December 1, 2016
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland task force on the state's juvenile justice system is struggling to resolve conflicting concerns over rehabilitating youths and staff safety on policies relating to strip searches and restraints.
The task force spent nearly three hours Thursday discussing and voting on recommendations on strip searches.
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Intel 9-Series Chipsets to Support SATA Express Interface
by Anton Shilov
Intel Corp.'s 9-series chipsets, which will emerge in the year 2014, will natively support Serial ATA Express interface for storage devices that is based on PCI Express protocol. The new interconnection addresses high-speed solid-state drives and will be able to offer a significant performance boost for SSDs thanks to significantly increased maximum throughput compared to conventional Serial ATA-6Gb/s interface.
Although Intel yet has to release its 8-series code-named Lynx Point chipsets this summer along with its code-named Haswell microprocessors for desktops, notebooks and servers, the company has already began to promote its future-generation 9-series chipsets among mainboard developers. Chinese VR-Zone web-site, which has published a photo from a presentation of the new chipsets, claims that the forthcoming platform from the chip giant will feature a number of important innovations.
Intel 9-series chipsets, which will include such core-logic sets as Z97 and H97 as well as derivatives, will support SATA Express interface for high-speed storage devices, which will bolster performance of high-end SSDs that are currently limited by SATA-6Gb/s. In addition, the core-logic series will support all-new Intel device protection technology with boot guard, which will enhance platform security against low-level malware attacks.
The SATA Express technology will provide a cost-effective means to increase device interface speeds to 8Gb/s and 16Gb/s. The specification will define new device and motherboard connectors that will support both new SATA Express and current SATA devices. The SATA Express connectors will maintain backwards compatibility with current SATA cables and will allow plugging both existing hard drives as well as future SATA Express PCIe-based devices.
The 9-series chipsets from Intel will support the company's next-generation code-named Broadwell microprocessors that will be made using 14nm manufacturing technology starting late-2013. In theory, Intel could release both Core i-series 5000-family "Broadwell" central processing units along with 9-series chipsets already in Q1 2014, but keeping in mind Intel's strategy to make new launches towards the middle of the year, it is more likely to expect the chip giant to unleash its new family of chips in Q2 – Q3 2014.
Even more exciting than Broadwell is "Skylake", the Successor to Broadwell, due out in 2015 ( major performance improvements to cpu ), but lets not get too far ahead of ourselves... just fyi where the new standards are headed:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardwar ... e-way.html
Okay, so we all know what "SATA Express" means, a PCI Express based Storage Controller capable of 8 to 16 Gb/s, which is impressive in itself...
So what does this new "PCIe NVME protocol" for "SATA Express" mean for SSD storage devices?? Samsung leads the way here:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/16 ... e-protocol
Samsung debuts monster 1.6TB SSD with new, high-speed PCIe NVMe protocol
By Joel Hruska on July 19, 2013
Samsung unveiled its new XS175 line of SSDs today, with capacities of up to 1.6TB and a brand-new storage interface. The new drive uses the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) standard, which is meant to boost SSD performance by transitioning to using PCI Express for transfers rather than conventional SATA.
The Serial ATA standard has been extended multiple times since it first debuted in 2003, but it was fundamentally designed for spinning disks. Many of the features that the SATA/AHCI interface enables, like NCQ (Native Command Queuing) were designed to address problems with that type of media — not for modern SSD architectures. (See: Crucial M500: The first 1TB SSD, priced at just $0.60/gig.)
Normally, enterprise products aren't of much interest to the consumer market, but NVMe is a feature that's headed for the consumer space before too long. The performance benefits over AHCI are significant — NVMe is designed to allow a drive to create multiple queues, using a model that more closely maps to the multiple NAND channels in an SSD rather than relying on spinning media to access data sequentially. It supports up to 64K submission and completion queues, with each queue holding up to 64K of entries. Queues can be prioritized or weighted differently to speed system accesses.
Samsung is the first company to implement NVMe, and it claims the standard will offer significant performance advantages. While plenty of other SSDs have used the PCIe bus before now, the benefit of NVMe is that it's a standardized interface that won't require specific manufacturer drivers in the future. Once widely adopted, you'll need just a standard driver that can easily be bundled with the operating system.
Those of you who follow the storage market may be aware that the next generation of SATA controllers, dubbed SATA Express, are adopting PCI Express as their interface. SATA Express and NVMe are complementary, not competing technologies. Specifically, SATA Express specifies the design of the physical connectors and hardware, while NVMe provides the driver and interface. According to the consortium that's in charge of SATA Express, the decision to move to NVMe was made because it offers increased performance and significantly improved power management without requiring a full doubling of bandwidth.
The current SATA transfer rate tops out at 6Gbps, while SATA Express bumps this to 8Gbps. That might not sound like much, but the SATA-IO working group believes that the benefits of NVMe, combined with the modest bump in raw bandwidth, will deliver a satisfying performance kick.
The first SATA Express chipsets are expected in 2014, with Intel's Broadwell. SATA Express is backwards compatible with AHCI as well as supporting NVMe — there's no reason to worry about drives becoming incompatible due to the shift.
Wicked!! SATA Express = physical connectors and hw, while NVMe provides the drivers/interface [ protocol ].
This is very exciting news for the SSD industry, and we will get our first taste of it with Intel's Broadwell platform in early 2014... This will become a very popular interface protocol over time, high bandwidth, low power ( excellent power management ), plus increased queue depths ( more important for server-type workloads, but still... ), improved efficiency, and most importantly there will be NATIVE DRIVERS FOR IT IN THE OS!! Beautiful, no more customized drivers required in the future, just a standard driver builtin to the OS ( or available as Windows Update etc. ) for whatever OS you choose...they will all get a standard NVMe driver in the future... plus SATA Express is backwards compatible with AHCI so no compatibility issues should arise... SATA 3.0 is nice but too rooted in the past ( optimized for mechanical disk hard drives, not SSD flash drives ), this is a proper performance protocol designed for SSD drives from the get-go...
NVM Express, NVMe, or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCI), is a specification for accessing solid-state disks (SSDs) on a PCI Express bus. NVM is an acronym for non-volatile memory, as used in SSDs. Version 1.0 of the specification was released on March 1, 2011.[1]
SSDs have been made using the PCI Express bus before, but using non-standard specification interfaces. By standardizing the interface of the SSDs, operating systems only need one driver to work with all SSDs adhering to the specification. It also means that each SSD manufacturer doesn't have to use resources to design specific interface drivers. This is similar to how hard disks are built to follow the SATA specification and work with all computers, with no per-hard disk driver needed.[2]
Historically, most SSDs have used busses such as SATA, SAS or Fibre Channel. SATA has been the most typical way to connect SSDs in the personal computer, but SATA was designed for mechanical hard disk drives, and has become increasingly inadequate as SSDs have improved.[3] For example, unlike hard disk drives, some SSD are limited by the maximum throughput of SATA.
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The "NVMe Windows Working Group" is an initiative from the OpenFabrics Alliance to maintain a new software stack for Windows for use with PCI Express Solid State Devices. The baseline Windows driver being contributed to the open-source initiative was developed by several of the Promoter companies in the NVM Express (NVMe) Workgroup, specifically IDT, Intel, and LSI. This work is hosted here .
Intel has published an NVM Express driver for Linux.[4] It has been merged into the Linux kernel for version 3.3.[5]
The Intel NVM Express driver has been imported to FreeBSD's head and stable/9 branches.[6][7]
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HEREFORD — The Clovis High Lady Wildcats claimed five first-place performances and finished second to host Hereford in the two-day Hereford Invitational track meet.
The Lady Whitefaces took the team title with 114 points to 104 for Clovis. Amarillo Palo Duro was third in the 11-school competition with 90 points.
Clovis' boys, meantime, came in fifth out of nine teams, scoring 67 points. Hereford also won that division with 172 points.
Senior Kim Perkins took the 100 and 300 hurdles races for the girls in times of 15.57 and a season-best 47.29, respectively. She also anchored the Lady Cats to victory in the 1,600 relay.
Other wins for the Lady Cats, both on Saturday, were by Brittany Blackmon in high jump, with a state-qualifying mark of 5-2, and by Lorena Garza in discus at 115-5.
The Lady Cats competed a bit shorthanded during the meet due to illness and injury, but coach Darrel Ray said the effort was good.
"Considering it's the front end of spring break and we're coming off about as bad a week as we could have had, the kids performed real well," Ray said. "We had several kids who didn't score that were just off of state qualifying (performances)."
Sophomore Manuel Robles, who had a state-qualifying effort of 21 feet, 8 inches in placing second in long jump on Friday, posted his second qualifying mark on Saturday by winning triple jump at 43-7 1/2. Robles is the defending 5A state champion in the event.
CHS boys coach Darren Kelley said his team competed well. He added that the Cats have a couple of tough meets coming up the next couple of weekends in the Amarillo Relays and the Plainview Invitational.
"These guys competed; they worked their butts off," Kelley said. "We're going to get better. We've just got to survive these next couple of weeks."
On the track on Saturday, junior Brian Mead placed second in the 110 hurdles and fourth, just behind teammate Diondre Hunter, in the 300 hurdles. Also, both ran on the Cats' second-place 800 relay team.


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It's a 15-by-15 foot room in the back of the Portales Public Library with lists of names that may unlock the past.
With city directories, phone books, census results and other resources, the library's Genealogy Room brings family histories to light.
"What people can learn is where their families lived, what jobs they did, family relationships, military history," said Jenny Hamblin, circulation supervisor at the library.
While the room has its assortment of books that may be considered oddball or obscure — Burke's Landed Gentry of 1952 or the History of Nacogdoches (1773 to 1849) — fans of genealogy are always glad for whatever resource is available.
"I think the people who go back there get the biggest thrill — it's like a mystery to solve," said Danielle Swopes, a librarian for 12 years in Portales. "We have people who will go back there and use it daily. It's very easy to spark a conversation with them about genealogy."
One of the most popular resources are the U.S. Census results, which are only made available after a 72-year wait. So, last year, results from the 1930 census were published.
At the Portales library, a user can get a smattering of census results from other parts of the country, too. As for New Mexico, however, the data is fairly complete.
Hamblin breaks down the kinds of users of the room into two categories:
• locals who have the time to come in and learn more about their past;
• visitors from out-of-town who have planned in advance to do some research at the library — because some of their own family history is known to have taken place in or around Portales.
The Roosevelt County Searchers, a local genealogical group, keeps a record of the visitors. Travelers from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Alabama and Kentucky are some of those who have used the room in the last year.
"They usually make a pointed effort to stop here and at the courthouse to look for records of their family members. Most of them, it's not 'Let's take a family vacation to Portales to find an ancestor,'" Hamblin says. "Maybe they've got family in the region or they're on their way to some place like the Grand Canyon, who knows?
"But a lot of people are making a special trip while they're out," Hamblin adds.
Some get library employees to do the searching for them.
Hamblin said one woman from Europe, a woman who said she born out of wedlock during World War II, has been investigating her family roots from her father's side.
The woman knew one thing about the man she has been told is her father — he was from Portales.
"She wanted to know about her family history. Her mother had told her a couple names, so she called here and I told her if she wanted to send us the information and a self-addressed stamped envelope, we'd be glad to print out an obituary," Hamblin said.


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An Imperfect Art
As a nephew of Ralph, Greg Lauren grew up with precise notions of what a man should wear. And as an artist, he explored them: For his 2009 show, "Alteration," he painstakingly created traditional pieces of clothing out of delicate Japanese paper. Now Lauren, who has often said that he was taught to dress like Cary Grant but felt more like Oliver Twist, has produced a men's and women's collection that is wearable but still subverts the classics. Among the mostly one-of-a-kind items are a military coat made from old army duffel bags, and a tailored tuxedo jacket cut from washed silk faille. Each piece comes with a signed label, as if it were one of his paintings. "I don't consider myself a designer," Lauren says. "I'm more an artist exploring a new medium" (at Barneys New York; from $1,200 to $2,500).
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Nikolai Brashman
|Nikolai Brashman
Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman
June 14, 1796
Neu-Raußnitz, Austrian Empire
|May 25, 1866
(aged 69)
Moscow, Russian Empire
|Kazan University
St Petersburg University
|Alma mater
|University of Vienna
Vienna Polytechnic Institute
Moscow University
|Doctoral advisor
|Joseph von Littrow
|Other academic advisors
|Nikolai Lobachevsky
|Notable students
|Pafnuty Chebyshev
Osip Somov
|Known for
|Contributions to mechanics and analytical geometry
|Notable awards
|Demidov Prize (1836)
Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman (Russian: Николáй Дми́триевич Брáшман; German: Nikolaus Braschmann; June 14, 1796 – 25 May [O.S. 13 May] 1866) was a Russian mathematician of Austrian origin.[1] He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev and August Davidov.[2]
He was born in Neu-Raußnitz (today Rousínov in Czech Republic, then in Austrian Empire) and studied at the University of Vienna and Vienna Polytechnic Institute. In 1824 he moved to St Petersburg and then accepted a position at the Kazan University. In 1834 he became a professor of applied mathematics at the Moscow University. There he is best remembered as a founder of the Moscow Mathematical Society and its journal Matematicheskii Sbornik.[3]
For his mechanics textbook, in 1836 Brashman was awarded the Demidov Prize by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The academy elected him a corresponding member in 1855. He died in Moscow in 1866.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Nikolai Brashman", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- ^ Nikolai Brashman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Steffens, Karl-Georg (2007), The History of Approximation Theory: From Euler to Bernstein, Springer, p. 22, ISBN 9780817644758.
- 1796 births
- 1866 deaths
- People from Rousínov
- 19th-century mathematicians
- Czech mathematicians
- 19th-century Russian mathematicians
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- Corresponding Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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