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I like the optimism in your post. Way to look at the bright side of the issue.
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In class we have been talking a lot about changes... in technology, in governments, in art. Everything about the past centuries seems to be in a constant flux. Revolutions come and go, scientific brea...
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World isn't about to end super soon. Life will continue to go on. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/2012.png
I know... but the way the news seems fixated on the troubles that we evil humans have been making on the world, they seem to think that we have single handedly destroyed all that is good in the world... The earth survived a lot more before we came here and it's going to survived a lot more before the end of things. Any of you see other examples of cataclysmic change bringing a good social or political evolution?
It just makes me think that people want us to live in fear. During our parents lives they lived in fear of a nuclear holocaust and were taught to hid under their desks. What type of things are we being told to do that is just hiding under our desks.
On the other hand, we can't just say "nature will fix everything" as an excuse for complacency. We are part of the system, and who is to say that we won't be the force to bring about the next massive change?
My largest complaint about how they are going about the change is that they keep doing things that are counter-intuitive to improving things. With the decrease of gas emissions they at the same time decreased gas mileage which in turn makes it so that we are using more gas which is another problem that they are worried about us running out of fossil fuels.
I am not someone who is against being more responsible but I can't stand the fact that the people who are making our laws very often don't know anything about what they are passing laws about. Especially when they are referring to agriculture related things.
Too true. We do have a responsibility to protect the environment because if we trust the earth too much we over fish and hurt the environment... but when we underestimate or misuse the Earth we get tree hungry people who want us to put up more trees when it would be more effective to throw more algae into the ocean.
But is massive change bad +David Perkins ? The black plague gave way to the financial backing of the renaissance... and that was a bad change that turned good.
But is massive change bad +David Perkins ? The black plague gave way to the financial backing of the renaissance... and that was a bad change that turned good.
I was not suggesting that massive change was bad; if you read over what I was saying, I suggesting that it might be necessary for us to cause it, as opposed to waiting for it to happen. On the other hand, I'm afraid I can see the logic behind arguing that the black plague brought about positive results; nevertheless, I can't bring myself to say it was good.
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The firm's seed deal with MD Sass and Macquarie recently expired.
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The activist hedge fund firm's seed deal ended on October 31 and Arcadia is in the process of returning funds—about half of its approximately $24 million, according to Rofé—to the MD Sass-Macquarie joint venture and Rofé, the sole investors. The fund is down 11.99% for the year through November 28, but Rofé says he is in


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We live in Florida. Dan, having lived in Spain for six years during his studies, is very fluent in Spanish. Jeannie not so much. We work with WEGO Ministries for mission work each year in Nicaragua.
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We have been enjoying the people of Nicaragua since 1998, coming on yearly mission trips. A few years ago, a friend who had been visiting all the new resorts in Nicaragua, told us we had to see this unbelievable jewel of a place called Redonda Bay on the Pacific. We went down the next day and were in love. The beauty truly was breathtaking. So we said 'Let's build a house here!' Just completed January 2010. Wait until you see it!
This home is unique to our community as it consists of a compound of buildings. The main building houses the kitchen, living room, dining room and has a patio and deck as well as an infinity pool. The upper building has four guest rooms each with it's own balcony to sit and view the ocean. The master bedroom is in front of the guest building and features a rounded porch with a panaromic view of the ocean.
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My family and I (there were 10 adults and 3 children) spent 7 great days at Jeannie Hammond's amazing home on Redondo Bay in Nicaragua. The home and accommodations were nothing short of perfect. The view in the morning is a million dollar view of the ocean and hillsides surrounding the bay. Jeannie's staff were really great and we became friends with them all........Francisco is the grounds keeper and kept everything in working condition and helped us with everything we needed. Celina our chef kept us well fed and her food was delicious. Our housekeeper kept us in clean sheets & towels and was very sweet. Jeannie suggested that we use Omar as our driver while in Nicaragua and we used him the entire time we were there, Omar and his staff were very helpful and looked after us wherever they took us. Jeannie is amazing and her house is only surpassed by her assistance in making sure you have a wonderful experience while visiting her home. We are so grateful to Jeannie and her wonderful staff who have become family to us all.
This was the most relaxing vacation we have had in years, the beaches are beautiful, the Nicaraguan people warm and all in all I would recommend this home to anyone wishing to have a great vacation. Thank you very much Jeannie!
We had a great time! No complaints.
The entry to this place is dramatic and the drama follows throughout the house; there is an ocean view from every room in this gorgeous house! I loved sitting poolside watching the most incredible sunsets. Saw howler monkeys, beautiful birds, moths and butterflies. My bed was super comfortable. Each morning, I would open wide my room's french doors then crawl back in bed to wake slowly while drinking in sights and sounds of the ocean. Everything is nice and clean. The kitchen is well stocked. The craftsmanship of the builder is amazing. Most, if not all, of the home's gorgeous furnishings were also crafted by the builder. It's a short (although steep) hike to a beautiful beach that has lawn chairs and hammocks for relaxing in the shade or sun and a beachside bar that sells lovely food and drink. While there, I enjoyed a wonderful massage at the nearby resort. Pick up groceries before your arrival because you will not want to leave this paradise. But if you do venture out, Nicaragua has plenty of beauty and adventure to offer every traveler.
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Wait, who is Alanthebox you ask? Well, if any of you traversed the popular flash animation and games site Newgrounds.com a few years ago (actually almost a decade ago - yikes!) you may have stumbled upon his brilliantly crude and exceptionally witty Black and White Drama Theatre series, or his hysterical take on the human apocalypse at the fins of Whale street gangs (or should that be pods) in How It Will End. A friend once described him to me as a real life Brendon Small (the cartoon character). Well, add a dash of Don Hertzfeldt, some of Michel Gondry's penchant for cardboard, and mixture of Pythonesque absurdism to that comparison and you're almost in the realm of wonderful weirdness of Alanthebox.
A few years ago he announced that Newgrounds would be producing a live-action/animated feature entitled Mostly It's About Death or Life (I Can't Really Tell) and after releasing the first few minutes of the film, which involved mexican wrestlers fighting off stick-figure birds and disgruntled cardboard drivers, Alan has been pretty silent. He had a website for awhile, but he apparently lost his way and he has yet to return.
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BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) is set to report FQ4 2014 earnings after the market closes on Thursday, March 27. BlackBerry was once a smartphone pioneer and giant but is now just a shadow of what it used to be. Shares once traded as high as $235 but now sell for less than $10 a pop. In November BlackBerry brought in John Chen as new CEO, tasked with the arduous assignment of turning the company around. Chen has stated that his turnaround strategy relies on the enterprise customer. But in April, he has something else up his sleeve. BlackBerry will be launching a low-cost phone in Indonesia, a critical emerging market. The Z3 will be priced under $200 and if it's successful in Indonesia it could be a critical part of BlackBerry's turnaround story over the next 2 quarters, in which the Estimize community believes BlackBerry will grow revenue faster than Wall Street thinks. Here's what investors are expecting from BlackBerry this quarter.
The information below is derived from data submitted to the Estimize.com platform by a set of Buy Side and Independent analyst contributors.
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The current Wall Street consensus expectation is for BlackBerry to report -56c EPS and $1.038B revenue, while the current Estimize.com consensus from 37 Buy Side and Independent contributing analysts is -57c EPS and $1.053B in revenue. This quarter the buy-side, as represented by the Estimize.com community, is expecting BlackBerry to miss the Wall Street consensus on EPS by 1c, while beating projections on revenue by $15 million.
By tapping into a wider range of contributors including hedge-fund analysts, asset managers, independent research shops, students, and non professional investors Estimize has created a data set that is more accurate than Wall Street up to 69.5% of the time, but more importantly it does a better job of representing the market's actual expectations. It has been confirmed by an independent academic study from Rice University that stock prices tend to react with a more strongly associated degree to the expectation benchmark from Estimize than from the Wall Street consensus.
The magnitude of the difference between the Wall Street and Estimize consensus numbers often identifies opportunities to take advantage of expectations that may not have been priced into the market. In this case there is a small difference between the 2 groups' expectations.
The distribution of estimates published by analysts on the Estimize.com platform range from -84c to -20c EPS and from $780.00M to $1.510B in revenues. This quarter we're seeing a wide distribution of estimates on BlackBerry.
The size of the distribution of estimates relative to previous quarters often signals whether or not the market is confident that it has priced in the expected earnings already. A wider distribution of estimates signaling less agreement in the market, which could mean greater volatility post earnings.
Over the past 4 months the Wall Street EPS consensus dropped from -35c to -56c, while the Estimize consensus fell from -36c to -57c. Meanwhile the Wall Street revenue forecast declined from $1.381B to $1.038B, while the Estimize forecast also sank from a high of $1.336B to $1.053B. Timeliness is correlated with accuracy and falling analyst revisions at the end of the quarter are often a bearish indicator, although in this case revisions were mostly flat going into the report.
The analyst with the highest estimate confidence rating this quarter is anmikyoso, who projects -52c EPS and $1.104B in revenue. In the Winter 2014 season anmikyoso is rated as the 38th best analyst and is ranked 31st overall among over 4,000 contributing analysts. All time anmikyoso has been more accurate than Wall Street in forecasting EPS and revenue 60% and 53% of the time respectively throughout 249 estimates. Estimate confidence ratings are calculated through algorithms developed by deep quantitative research which looks at correlations between analyst track records and tendencies as they relate to future accuracy. In this case, anmikyoso is making a bullish call, expecting BlackBerry to beat the Estimize community's expectations on both the top and bottom line.
CEO John Chen has his hands full with BlackBerry's turn around. The low cost Z3 phones have not yet been rolled out in Indonesia, but if successful Chen says he plans on spread the phone to neighboring countries in Southeast Asia. Until then BlackBerry will mostly have to rely on its enterprise sales, which favor the phone for its high security. BlackBerry handsets are still popular at financial firms, in politics and have one of the most important customers in the country, the President of the United States. This quarter contributing analysts on the Estimize.com platform are expecting BlackBerry to miss the Street's revenue expectation by 1c per share but beat expectations on revenue.
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Having worked more than 15 years in the telecommunications industry, it is still amazing to me that Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ:LVLT) remains a going concern after all the bankruptcies in the industry. The company did make a wise move to merge with Global Crossings back in October last year to hopefully realize some synergies and reduce competition.
The provider of global communications services to enterprises and carrier customers reported an unsurprising $0.29 loss for Q2 2012 compared to expectations of a loss of $0.27. Not exactly a major miss, but for a company with perpetual losses every penny helps. The stock was leveled 9.7% due to the larger losses.
The good news is that the company lost less money than it did in the previous quarter as that loss was $0.37. Some progress, at the very least, though the company appears to never miss an opportunity to lose money.
Even more amazing is that the company has a market cap of $4B and an enterprise value over $12B.
Q2 2012 Earnings Highlights
- Total Revenue of $1.586 billion
- Core Network Services revenue increased 0.7 percent sequentially on a constant currency basis
- Adjusted EBITDA grew to $353 million, up 8 percent sequentially and 12 percent year over year
- Net loss of $0.29 per share for the second quarter of 2012, compared to a net loss of $0.37 per share for the first quarter of 2012, excluding losses on debt extinguishment in the first quarter 2012
- Company remains on track to achieve $300 million of projected total run-rate Adjusted EBITDA synergies and $40 million of capital expense synergies from the Global Crossing acquisition
- Company reaffirms 2012 Adjusted EBITDA growth rate of 20 to 25 percent
Free Cash Flow
This company probably reports more financial metrics to distract investors from the continual losses than any other public company. It used to be that EBITDA was the go to number as telecom companies wanted to point investors towards what the company could make if it didn't have depreciation costs or massive debt with outrageous interest payments. The focus has recently shifted to adjusted EBITDA to hide a few more charges.
Now the company throws out both Unlevered Cash Flow and Free Cash Flow. All fine metrics, but it probably shouldn't be focusing investors on all three numbers. After a decade of losses the company needs to focus on one number only and that's free cash flow. Of which, the company has lost $200M so far this year though the Q2 2012 number actually managed to be positive by $3M. Ironically this number was below the $9M reported in Q2 2011. Not exactly progress.
The main culprit of positive free cash flow remains the large amount of capital expenditures. The Q2 2012 number was $180M or basically equivalent to the $183M in operating cash flow.
The below chart highlights the problems with free cash flow going back 10 years. The company has a propensity to report a positive quarter once in a while, but the trailing 12 months always return to the negative territory rather quickly.
Chart - Level 3 Communications 10 Year Free Cash Flow
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Capital Spending
The plan has always been that the company and the sector would spend billions to build the next generation network and would recoup the costs over the next decade. Well only one major problem, a telecom network isn't like a railroad or pipeline. Once built it has to be constantly updated in order to stay competitive as opposed to just regular maintenance.
The key to a rebound in this sector will be when capital expenditures greatly undercut depreciation expenses signaling that competition is to the point that the company can maintain services and customers without massive capital expenditures.
For Q2 2012, the company had depreciation expenses of $191M and capital expenditures of $180M. Basically the company has to replace and upgrade networks that have become obsolete. Of course, the depreciated equipment may or may not still be generating revenue, but the ultimate key signal is that the operating cash flow matches the capital spending. The company just can't make enough margin to really justify the continued spending. That doesn't stop them though.
Interest Expenses
Other than capital expenditures, interest expenses are the other major expense category that telecom providers attempt to hide when using adjusted EBITDA. Not only are these expenses real, but they will ultimately crush companies.
With the recent capital markets transaction for $300M, the company now has net debt of $7.76B. The company does have $1B in cash to survive in the near term, though the 8.875% it has to pay on the recently issued Senior Notes will crush it at some point.
Level 3 expects GAAP interest expenses of $745M in 2012. That amounts to more than 10% of the expected $6B in revenue. This makes it almost impossible for a low margin business to become significantly profitable.
Officially analysts project that the company will make $0.47 in 2013. Even if the company makes what appears to be an impossible profit, the stock trades for 39x that estimate already.
With a lot of growth stocks trading at considerably lower earnings ratios, it doesn't make much sense to be invested in this stock.
Not sure what justification exists for owning a stock that continuously loses money. Not to mention that if a miracle happens and the company hits estimates for 2013 that the stock still trades at an extraordinarily high multiple.
The company is always worth watching as the merger with Global Crossing continues to help reduce competition in the sector. If it can ever increase free cash flow, investors might have a reason to invest. For now, the stock at the closing price of $18.44 on Wednesday is just untouchable unless you want to bet against it.
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The food is excellent, the staff is friendly and the atmosphere is relaxing.Everything is prepared fresh in house and the mustard sauce is like liquid gold. This restaurant is a must try as it will satisfy any palate.
Terrfic place for a fun entertainig meal...food very good and plentiful...certainly a wonderful place to go for a celebration...
Love the lunch menu. Nothing like it in Eau Claire makes it a neat place to go. All the food is fresh made only when you order. Their ginger salad dressing is the best I've ever had. Small, relaxing and good.
We've been here for dinner a few times and thought we would try the lunch menu. Instead of the teppanyaki style food cooked at your table, lunch is a less formal offering of more traditional Japanese foods. The menu is fairly limited but offers a good selection of appetizers and meals. A variety of beers (domestic, local craft, Japanese import)...
Teriyaki and hibachi restaurant. Food cooked in front of the guests. Food overall good, nice attendant, balanced portions (for american style)
This is one of my favorite places to go and eat in Eau Claire, whenever I save up a little extra money I'm able to splurge on an amazing meal.
Great service. Great drinks. Great food. Great atmosphere. Friendly people. Will definitely be back!family friendly.
Great soup, good Teriyaki food, I look forward to eating there when in the area. On occasion I have gone mid-afternoon and have found them closed, disappointed
Family favorite for many years!! Love the homemade salad dressing and dipping sauces that go along with your Hibachi dinner.
True Japanese atmosphere and cuisine. Very good value and far exceeds the Other Hibachi restaurant in town. Fresher and better food. Not covered in sugar sauce like so many of these places.
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Been here many times. For us it's not about the show as much as how the chef pays attention to cooking the food. Many times in my opinion the chef forgets what they are doing on the grill and overcooks the food. I like how Yoshi makes sure the food is cooked perfectly which is way more important than the chef flipping food in my lap or my mouth. Just my opinion.
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I'm using wifi file transfer pro, which worked fine with my S3 for throwing files on my SD card. There is no option to that now with the S5. So now I have to put the files on my internal storage and then copy them over with my phone, which is a PITA.
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Competitiveness and environmental policies in strategic environmental policy models
This paper discusses the issue of competitiveness and environmental regulation from the viewpoint of strategic environmental policy models. It demonstrates that the incentive for strategic policies is determined only by the reaction of the opponent. Furthermore, it shows that the conditions under which relatively strict environmental policies may lead to an increase in the profits of the domestic industry are rather artificial. The result depends in a rather complex way on the type of competition and several effects of research and development or environmental quality specification, and on the assumption that a unilateral policy is possible.
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- Ulph, A., 1994. "Strategic environmental policy and international trade: the role of market conduct," Discussion Paper Series In Economics And Econometrics 9415, Economics Division, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton.
- Ulph, Alistair Mitchell, 1994. "Strategic Environmental Policy and International Trade - The Role of Market Conduct," CEPR Discussion Papers 1065, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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"Optimal Trade and Industrial Policy Under Oligopoly,"
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- Jonathan Eaton & Gene M. Grossman, 1983. "Optimal Trade and Industrial Policy Under Oligopoly," NBER Working Papers 1236, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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"Competitiveness and environmental policies in a dynamic model,"
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- Simpson, R. David & Bradford, Robert III, 1996. "Taxing Variable Cost: Environmental Regulation as Industrial Policy," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 30(3), pages 282-300, May.
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"Export subsidies and international market share rivalry,"
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Click the images to view the VW Passat CC in hi-res
Volkswagen has long since emerged from its standing as a no-frills straightforward automaker with a handful of products to offer a full range of vehicles, including hatchbacks, sedans of all sizes, wagons, vans, convertibles, sport coupes, SUVs, a four-door coupe and even an upcoming pickup truck. The German automaker is banking on that diversity to reach an ambitious sales goal of 6.6 million units per annum within ten years from now.
The svelte new Passat CC unveiled in Detroit will form a big part of the company's push, targeted to sell some 300,000 units around the world over the next six years...pretty ambitious for a niche vehicle, to be sure. Although reports suggest that Volkswagen could be dropping the Passat name from this vehicle (at least in the U.S.) in favor of the "CC" moniker alone, the latest information from the automaker itself (it's a European press release) continues to employ the well-established name, which is the third most popular nameplate in Volkswagen's history behind the Golf and Beetle. (Not to mention that the term CC could be confused with the coupe-convertible lexicon used overseas, like Volkswagen's own Eos.) Whatever it will be called, the new four-door coupe will launch in the Fall in markets across Europe, the Far East and North America, and to soften the ground for its landing, VW has laid on us a whole mess of information and new pictures. We're particularly intrigued by the range-topping Passat CC V6 4Motion, packed with all-wheel-drive, DSG and adaptive chassis control. Phaeton who now?


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Betty Ferrell, Ph.D., has been in nursing for more than 37 years and has focused her clinical expertise and research in pain management, quality of life, and palliative care. Dr. Ferrell is the Director in the Division of Nursing Research and Education and a Professor in the Department of Population Sciences within Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope.
In 2013, Dr. Ferrell was named one of the 30 Visionaries in the field by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and she has over 350 publications in peer-reviewed journals and texts. She is Principal Investigator of a Program funded by the National Cancer Institute on "Palliative Care for Quality of Life and Symptom Concerns in Lung Cancer" and Principal Investigator of the "End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)" project.
She directs several other funded projects related to palliative care in cancer centers and QOL issues. Dr. Ferrell is a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Cancer Institute and was Chairperson of the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. Dr. Ferrell completed a Masters degree in Theology, Ethics and Culture from Claremont Graduate University in 2007. She has authored nine books including her latest book Communication in Palliative Nursing (Oxford University Press, 2013). Other titles include: Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing, 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015), Making Health Care Whole: Integrating Spirituality into Patient Care (Templeton Press, 2010), and The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing (Oxford University Press, 2008).
My research program includes areas of quality of life (QOL), pain management and palliative care. In the area of QOL, we are currently exploring QOL concerns in studies of Lung Cancer and in Ovarian Cancer. We are also evaluating QOL concerns in both patients and their family caregivers as they receive chemotherapy through clinical trails. This project Simultaneous Care evaluates needs during active treatment and ways to best offer support.
In 2005, we launched a new project funded by the National Cancer Institute on Barriers to Pain and Fatigue Management. In the area of palliative and end of life care, over the past 5 years we have trained more than 2,600 nurses through our End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project. This national project includes education in several targeted groups including pediatrics, nursing faculty in undergraduate and graduate programs, and oncology nursing.
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UAB Spring 2011 Admission
0 I'm a transfer student applying to UAB's nursing school for 2011. My GPA's about a 3.4 and I've taken all the required courses except psych101. I've got all A's and B's besides 1 C in A&PII and about 30 hours of volunteer experience. For those who know or have previous experience, what do you think my chances are of getting admitted to the program? I'm trying to decide whether I need another backup plan or not.Jul 19, '10 by YGPHNMIt's always good to have a back-up plan with nursing. I applied to UAB with a 3.4 and over 1500 hours of healthcare experience and wasn't accepted. I applied for the fall semester and some say the spring is easier. I'm definitely not saying you won't get in because there is a great possibility you will but I do think it's good to have another plan.Mar 27, '11 by erin801symphie- did you end up getting in? I would love to talk to you about the program if you have!Mar 27, '11 by erin801YGPHNM- Did you apply again for the program? Did they give you a reason for not being accepted? Do you have any info on the program? I am currently applying for Fall 2011 and am planning to take classes ahead this summer as a non-degree student.Mar 27, '11 by futurernjapI would suggest Jacksonville state or south Alabama or Samford if your going for BSN. If you dont mind doing ADN then going back for your bsn I would suggest bevill. I don't know how your other grades look so I can't tell you about other community college programs to apply to. Usually BSN programs go by GPA and ADN programs are point based. For example- most usually use A&P 1,A&P 2, and Micro. The point scheme are as such- a=30 b=20 c=10. Plus there's a TEAS score involved. I think it's similar to what four year school take called a hesi?? So let's say you had a A in ap1 and micro, and the C you stated above in ap2. You would have 70 points. Plus your teas test score would be a "make of break" type thing. If it was good you would have your pick of schools, if it is bad... Well, there's always a LPN TO RN bridge which isn't bad cause I thought of starting there myself.Apr 1, '11 by symphieerin801- I did get in. In fact, I'm about a month away from finishing up my first semester now. Message me on here and I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about it.Nov 30, '11 by tgc91Symphie,
I am a Pre-Nursing student at UAB; I will be applying in the spring for the Fall 2012 Nursing term. Would you mind if I ask you a few questions regarding admission?
Thank you!Dec 7, '11 by danceluveri am also applying for fall 2012---started a thread separately but no one else has responded that they are applying there as well, good to know there are others! Symphie i did message you with a few questions, thanks for helping out!
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It's been more than four years and 100 lawsuits since the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services first proposed requiring religious institutions to include "free" contraception and early abortifacients in their health insurance coverage.
Only God (and the Government Accountability Office) know how much this administration has spent on this crusade. Almost certainly more than it would take to provide contraception to every woman and girl affected by its mandate.
Because it appears that the Supreme Court is about to write the concluding chapter to this story, it's a good time to reflect upon the controversy and distinguish between what is at stake legally and what is at stake culturally. The latter is rarely considered.
If you read the briefs and opinions thus far produced in the lawsuits you will see two prominent legal questions. First, whether it is a "substantial burden" on religion—sufficient to trigger the Religious Freedom Restoration Act—to require religious institutions to communicate to their insurance providers that they must attach free contraceptives and early abortifacients to their health insurance plans. The government contends that the state gets to decide what does and does not burden religion; religions counter that the substance of religious conscientious objection is a theological matter outside governmental competence.
Second, if a court finds that the mandate burdens religion, RFRA requires it to decide whether the government can demonstrate a "compelling interest" in forcing these employers to insure for these drugs and devices. On the evidence, the government should fail this test. In its hundreds of briefs, it has never been able to show that the middle-class women and girls affected by the mandate (remember that poor women already get billions in free contraception) need free contraception for their health. I have read and analyzed every study the government has cited and relevant studies they have omitted. The former are either completely inapposite, incomplete or unwilling to draw the conclusions the government cites them for. The latter indicate that the government's case is fatally flawed. Furthermore, not only do women fail to rank free contraception on their lists of "top 10 things women want," but they can regularly be found complaining about the side effects of hormonal contraceptives, suing manufacturers or lamenting the government's mistaking sex-divorced-from-kids for a women's agenda.
Obviously, the legal effects of the mandate cases are important for the future of religious freedom. What is too little considered, however, is their cultural significance. In its briefs, and even more in its public messaging, the state continually claims that free contraception is synonymous with women's freedom. Perhaps the low points were presidential campaign postcards urging women to "Vote like your lady parts depend on it! Because they kinda do!" and Colorado's health exchange ads featuring a young woman saying: "OMG He's Hot! Hope he's as easy to get as this birth control." And who can forget the federal government's histrionic "war on women" rhetoric?
Religious employers are insisting only that the state allow the survival of competing visions of what promotes women's well-being in the realm of sexuality. Could it possibly be the case—as the government claims—that it is better for every woman in America that there be no institutions left standing who hold that sex has weight largely because it is the place where every human being begins? And that the place where every human being begins—his or her family structure—is so very, very determinative of the chances in life a person will have?
At a time when The Washington Post editorial section is worried that women are suffering because of a lost understanding of what sex even means, when Vanity Fair asks whether we have begun the Dating Apocalypse (instant sex but no relationship), when the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve can write that contraception changes the mating market to women's disadvantage—how could it possibly be true that the government should forbid other voices considering the welfare of women and children?
Whether or not you like the Catholic Church's position on contraception doesn't matter. The question is whether the state will leave standing any voice but its own on the question whether divorcing sex even from the thought of children is good for sex, good for women or good for children.
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The key point in "The Federal Mystique" is whether the "State" is moving toward absolute control of the lives of individuals. Dem Dem's, the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton, are all for "free contraception and early abortifacients" in universal health insurance. "The Federal Mystique" also gave us several unjust and wasteful wars, Vietnam, Iraq I & II. Objection to the "draft" is what brought the Vietnam War to a close. For the next election I'm thinking of setting up a stand outside of the polling station where I can sell old fashioned clothes pins. You can put one on your nose prior to entering the voting booth.
We seem to have become afflicted by a cultural Alzheimer's or collective amnesia, that this country was founded with a very strong sense that the government, whether monarchic or 'res public', should have its powers enumerated, proscribed, and limited, in order to create a balance between order on the one hand, and liberty on the other. Do they teach the Declaration / War of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Federalist / anti-Federalist papers, the U. S. Constitution anymore in schools. In my opinion, the federal overreach into our personal lives is even greater than Machiavelli and Hobbes had imagined: prescribing the size of fountain sodas, mandating contraception, mandating herpes injections, etc.. With supercomputers beginning to store our choices at supermarkets, department stores, etcetera we will be told how "healthy" we are, and whether we are mentally "competent" soon. It is ridiculous. Thank you, Mrs. Alvare, for your call to the sanity of a "feminine", familial mystique.
Humanae Vitae is actually very nuanced, and not divisive at all, no matter how many deplore it. In rejecting artificial contraception as contrary to human dignity, it points out that it is an artifice, as in "a scheme or artifice to defraud" making what appears to be a total offering of self anything but. Nothing good can come from fraud or deception.
Whether you like the Catholic Church's position on contraception matters because the church is less able to influence the culture of those who don't agree with it.
Whether or not you like the Catholic Church's position on contraception matters greatly for two reasons. The first is that "Humanae Vitae" has been divisive and is largely ignored by Catholics. The second is that by flatly condemning contraception, the church has forfeited its opportunity to make statements more nuanced and truthful.
Using contraception has physical, emotional and social costs. Not using contraception also has physical, emotional and social costs. Moral consequences are a given with any matter as important as sexuality. Church teaching focuses on the costs and disadvantages of contraception without talking about the costs and disadvantages of not using contraception: this is dishonest. Failing to discuss the issue of power in the matter of contraception is also dishonest. Dishonesty destroys one's credibility whether a person or an institution is speaking.
The legal issues are about religious freedom and are important for that reason. The Catholic Church should be able to address the cultural issues but it is handicapped by a narrow teaching that most couples do not support and a discussion so limited that it is dishonest. An opportunity to do good is being lost.
It is really dishonest to exclude basic medical sciences (e.g. biochemistry, physiology, embryology) in your push for the contraception dialogue (depriving a fertilized ovum to be implanted on the endometrium and thereby killing it).
Science has something to say on this matter and only the ignorant and/or proud would opt to turn a blind / dumb view to the scientifc data.. Its not all about womyns rights.
Likewise, whether or not you like the Catholic Church's position on the male-only priesthood doesn't matter. The question is whether the Vatican will leave standing any voice but its own (including Christ's!) on the question whether divorcing Holy Orders even from the thought of women priests is good for the hierarchy, good for the Church, or good for the people of God.
Luis...we both know they call it "Tradition," based on "The apostles were all men" (we don't know that for a historical fact, by the way) and "We have always done it this way." My thinking on this issue is that the clerics do not know what to do about the real-world situations that a developing, changing world has presented to them. Why does the church say there were only 12 of them? There is magic in combinations of 3s. For instance, the mea culpas, the Trinity, three days in the tomb, 3+4 = a week, 3x4 = number of months and apostles, and on and on. Religion contains a lot of magic!


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How to Write and Use ActiveX Controls for Microsoft Windows CE 3.0
Microsoft Corporation
June 2000
Summary: This paper introduces ActiveX controls, discusses how to build and distribute ActiveX controls for Windows CE, and describes how to use ActiveX controls in Windows CE-based applications. (8 printed pages)
Introducing ActiveX Controls
Building ActiveX Controls for Windows CE–Based Devices
Using MFC
Using ATL
Creating a Design Mode Control
Distributing ActiveX Controls
Using ActiveX Controls in Applications for Windows CE–Based Devices
Using ActiveX Controls in eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0
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The Microsoft® Windows CE operating system is designed to be compact, powerful, and fast. It is used in embedded systems and devices such as the Pocket PC and Handheld PC. Software written for these systems and devices must also be compact and responsive.
Microsoft ActiveX® is a set of technologies that enables software components to interact with one another in a networked environment, regardless of the language in which the components were created. An ActiveX control is a user interface element created using ActiveX technology. ActiveX controls are small, fast, and powerful, and make it easy to integrate and reuse software components. This paper introduces ActiveX controls, discusses how to build and distribute ActiveX controls for Windows CE, and describes how to use ActiveX controls in Windows CE-based applications.
Introducing ActiveX Controls
Reuse is a central goal in software design. Reusing instead of rewriting code saves development effort. ActiveX controls are reusable software components that can quickly add specialized functionality to Web sites, desktop applications, and development tools. ActiveX controls have become the primary architecture for developing programmable software components for use in a variety of different containers, ranging from software development tools to user productivity tools.
ActiveX controls are a COM technology. COM is a software architecture that allows applications to be built from binary software components. COM is the underlying architecture that forms the foundation for higher-level software services, such as those provided by OLE, a technology for transferring and sharing information among applications.
Although OLE was originally based on dynamic data exchange (DDE), it was redesigned shortly after the initial release of OLE and based on COM. This new release of OLE gave developers the ability to add new interfaces to an OLE component without needing to recompile the component's clients. If a component was replaced by a newer version, new clients could take advantage of new interfaces, but existing clients could continue to use the old interfaces.
At the same time as the redesign of OLE, the Microsoft Visual Basic® version 2.0 development system introduced Visual Basic custom controls (VBX) to the development community. VBXs were self-contained code modules, written in C or C++, which could be embedded in any Visual Basic–based application by dragging and dropping them onto a form.
The next advance leading toward ActiveX controls was the proliferation of 32-bit technology. VBX could only be compiled for 16-bit applications. Because COM was 32-bit compatible, it was the ideal basis for a new control technology. Furthermore, controls developed using COM could be written in any language and hosted in applications developed in any language. OLE custom controls (OCX) were introduced and replaced VBX technology. The original OLE control specification required each component to implement a minimum of nine specified interfaces, with a total of 60 methods and seven optional interfaces. This detailed specification of well-defined interfaces made OLE controls easy to use but tiresome for control developers to create.
The final incident motivating the development of ActiveX controls was the arrival of the Internet, particularly the popularity of the Web. Initially, the size of the control was not a concern because RAM and hard disk space were becoming less expensive each year, but the prospect of downloading controls over a slow connection made size a concern. If users became frustrated because a page with a large component was taking too long to download, they could find Web content elsewhere. The ActiveX control specification was created as an answer to this problem.
ActiveX controls are required to support only one interface, IUnknown, and two API functions, DllRegisterServer and DllUnregisterServer. These two functions ensure that ActiveX controls are self–registering; that is, they can add and remove the necessary information for their use in the target system's registry.
The IUnknown interface exposes three methods: QueryInterface, AddRef, and Release. A client calls QueryInterface to find out if an object supports a particular interface, and to obtain a reference to it. AddRef and Release are used for memory management. Each instance of an ActiveX control has a reference count. Whenever a method, such as QueryInterface, returns an interface pointer to a client, the method must first call AddRef on the specified interface, which increments the reference count of the instance. Whenever a client is finished using an interface, the client is responsible for calling Release on it, which decrements the reference count. When the reference count reaches zero, the instance is deleted and its memory is freed.
Because an ActiveX control does not have to support the standard set of interfaces required for an OLE control, a container application must have specific knowledge about the interface for an ActiveX control in order to use it. However, ActiveX controls are small, fast, lightweight, and resource efficient, making them ideal for use on Windows CE–based devices.
ActiveX controls for Windows CE also support the following features that may be enabled to increase a control's efficiency and effectiveness in certain applications:
- Just-in-time activation. An ActiveX control can be visible, but not activated. Activation is deferred until the user interacts with the control. The control does not create its window until it is activated, so this option saves time and resources if the control is never activated.
- Mouse interaction while inactive. When a control is visible, but not activated, it can still process mouse messages delegated to it by the container. Once the control is activated, it processes messages in the usual manner.
- Flicker-free activation. If an ActiveX control draws itself the same way in both its active and inactive states, flicker-free activation can reduce screen flicker. This option prevents the control from being redrawn when it makes the transition from the inactive to the active state.
- Windowless activation. A windowless ActiveX control does not have its own window. The container is responsible for routing user-input messages to the control. Windowless controls load faster, do not have to be rectangular, and can have transparent backgrounds.
- Unclipped device context. An ActiveX control can speed up its drawing operations by using this option if it never draws outside its client rectangle. This option has no effect on windowless controls.
- Optimized drawing. When a container draws several controls into the same device context, each control selects its required graphics device interface (GDI) objects. If each control does not have to restore the previously selected objects, it can save time. The container can restore the original objects after all the controls have been drawn.
Building ActiveX Controls for Windows CE–Based Devices
The following software is required to develop and use ActiveX controls for Windows CE–based devices:
- Microsoft Visual C++® Enterprise Edition 6.0, or Professional Edition 6.0
- Microsoft eMbedded Visual Tools 3.0
- Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0
- Microsoft Windows CE Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) for the device you are using
- Microsoft Windows CE Services version 2.2 or later
Currently, ActiveX controls for Windows CE can be developed using the Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0. The eMbedded Visual C++ development system offers three approaches to building an ActiveX control for a Windows CE–based device:
- The least automated approach is to write the control without using a programming framework and instead use the standard Windows CE OLE application programming interfaces (APIs).
- Using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) for Windows CE.
- Using the Active Template Library (ATL) for Windows CE, which is highly recommended because it creates smaller and faster controls.
When building an ActiveX control for a Windows CE–based device, know the requirements of the device. For example, some devices may or may not support printing, some devices have a vertical screen orientation as opposed to a traditional horizontal screen orientation, and some devices limit the user's access to their file system. It is important to take into account the specific requirements of the device on which the ActiveX control will be used.
Using MFC
MFC for Windows CE is a powerful C++ class library that can be used to create either container applications for ActiveX controls or the controls themselves. It is especially useful when creating ActiveX controls with a user interface. The MFC ActiveX ControlWizard leads you through a series of dialog boxes in which you choose options for the features and functions of your program. For more information on how to use the MFC ActiveX ControlWizard, see the Creating ActiveX Controls using MFC topic in eMbedded Visual C++ Help.
After using the MFC ActiveX ControlWizard to create an ActiveX control project, you get a working starter program with the functionality you asked for when completing the steps in the ControlWizard. This starter program includes all the files necessary to build the control, including source (.cpp), header (.h), and resource files (.rc), a module-definition file (.def), a project file (.vcp), a project workspace (.vcw), and an object description language file (.odl).
Using ATL
ATL for Windows CE is a C++ template library designed and optimized to create the most efficient ActiveX controls possible. You can use the Windows CE ATL COM AppWizard to create ActiveX controls. To start the wizard, from the Projects menu, click New, and then click WCE ATL COM AppWizard.
After the AppWizard completes the starter program you can add controls using the ATL Object Wizard. To start the ATL Object Wizard, from the menu bar, click Insert, and then click New ATL Object.... Categories of objects are displayed on the left and the icons of the objects in each category are displayed on the right. When you choose a category, the wizard displays the icons of the objects in that category. You then double-click the control you want to insert, and the ATL Object Wizard displays a dialog box showing options that apply to the specified control. In the dialog box, edit the names, properties, and attributes of the new Windows CE–based ActiveX control.
Creating a Design Mode Control
Using an ActiveX control in a container application on a Windows CE–based device requires that a corresponding design mode control be created for use on the desktop development system. This process is not automated, so it is the developer's responsibility to use a separate Microsoft Win32®-based project to create a corresponding Win32-based control for each Windows CE–based control.
The primary concern when creating a design mode control to correspond with a Windows CE–based control is the proper identification of the design mode control. Each ActiveX control has a unique class identifier (CLSID) and each interface has a unique interface identifier (IID). Each identifier is a unique 128-bit code called a universally unique identifier (UUID). The eMbedded Visual C++ development system automatically generates such codes when controls and interfaces are added to a project. To allow correlation between the two controls, the design mode control must have the same UUIDs as the Windows CE–based run-time control. This may seem contradictory to the use of the word "unique" in the name UUID; however, the apparent contradiction is resolved if the design mode control is perceived to be the same control as the Windows CE–based run-time control. The design mode control is simply compiled for use on a different platform.
There are various ways to share the necessary UUIDs between the two versions of the control. For example, separate projects with discrete source files can be used and the UUIDs in the appropriate files altered to match. A more efficient approach is to share the source files between the projects for the design mode control and the Windows CE–based run-time control, with preprocessor directives defining sections to omit or include based on the target platform.
To create a design mode control to correspond with an existing Windows CE–based run-time control
- Write down the names of the source code files in the original projects. These files should have the following extensions: .cpp, .h, .odl, .idl, .rc, and .def.
- Create a Win32 version of the control project with the same name as the original control. For MFC controls, use the MFC ActiveX ControlWizard. For ATL controls, use the ATL COM AppWizard.
- Except for stdafx.cpp, delete all source files, headers, and dependencies from the project and close the project workspace.
- Because the new .dsp and .dsw files must go into the same directory as the original control project, rename the .dsp and .dsw files. For example, if the original project name is Grid, then rename your files to Grid_win32.dsp and Grid_win32.dsw.
- With a text editor, open the .dsw file in Visual C++ and edit the file to reflect the new project name. Close the .dsw file when you are finished.
- Copy the .dsp and .dsw files to the original project directory. This directory contains the original .dsp and .dsw files, plus the source files.
- Open the new .dsw file in Visual C++ as a workspace and add the files from step 1 to this project.
- Verify that the output control name is the same name as the original project name, such as Grid.ocx rather than Grid_win32.ocx. This control name is specified in Project, Settings, Link, and Output file names.
- Make any necessary changes to the project source code to account for differences between the Windows CE operating system and Windows desktop operating systems.
A corresponding design mode control can implement all of the functionality of a Windows CE–based run-time control or can just define empty methods to serve as placeholders on the desktop system. Obviously, the second of the two approaches is faster to implement. However, if the behavior of the control would be useful for desktop applications, it may be worthwhile to fully define the behavior of the control.
Distributing ActiveX Controls
After the ActiveX controls for Windows CE are built, they can be used in-house or distributed for third-party use.
To use an ActiveX control in-house, copy the control to where it will run and then call the regsrvce.exe tool to register the ActiveX control on a Windows CE–based device. If you are using the Visual Basic development system, use the Control Manager to designate the platforms for which the ActiveX control is applicable.
ActiveX controls that will be used by third parties require a setup program. The setup program must register the control. The regsrvce.exe tool can be used to register an ActiveX control on a Windows CE–based device, and the regsvr32.exe tool can be used to register an ActiveX control on the desktop system. Another option is to write your setup program to register the control directly.
The setup program you provide with your ActiveX controls must install the control's .ocx or .dll files and the necessary redistributable DLL files in the Windows system directory. If any of the DLLs are already present on a user's machine, the setup program must compare those versions with the versions it is installing. Reinstall a file only if its version number is higher than the file already installed. Because ActiveX controls can be used only in OLE container applications, there is no need to distribute the full set of OLE DLLs with your control.
Using ActiveX Controls in Applications for Windows CE–Based Devices
Using an ActiveX control in an application for a Windows CE–based device is similar to using ActiveX controls in desktop applications. The primary difference is the use of design mode and run-time controls. To use an ActiveX control in an application being developed, the design mode control must be registered on the desktop system and the run-time control must be registered on the Windows CE–based device. Controls with a setup program are registered when they are installed. If there is no setup program, the controls must be registered manually. The regsrvce.exe tool registers an ActiveX control on a Windows CE–based device, and the regsvr32.exe tool registers an ActiveX control on the desktop system.
Using ActiveX Controls in eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0
In eMbedded Visual C++, the Components and Controls Gallery stores the links to all the ActiveX controls registered on a computer in its Registered ActiveX Controls folder. To add a third-party ActiveX control to the Gallery, run the setup program supplied with the control. This registers the ActiveX control with the system, adding a shortcut to the control in the default Registered ActiveX controls folder.
Without a valid setup program, you cannot add a third-party ActiveX control to the Gallery. To register these ActiveX controls, use the regsrvce.exe tool on a Windows CE–based device or the regsvr32.exe tool on the desktop system.
To add a registered ActiveX control to a project
- Open the project workspace to which you want to add a control.
- If you have more than one project loaded in the workspace, select the appropriate project: on the Project menu, click Set Active Project, and then click the project name.
- On the Project menu, click Add To Project, and then click Components and Controls.
- In the Components and Controls Gallery dialog box, open the Registered ActiveX Controls folder, click the ActiveX control you want to add to your project, and then click Insert.
You can use the shortcut menu to quickly add registered ActiveX controls to a dialog box, and you can use the Components and Controls Gallery to add an ActiveX control to the Controls toolbar of the active project.
An ActiveX control container is a parent program that supplies the environment for an ActiveX control to run. You can create an application capable of containing ActiveX controls with or without MFC, but it is much easier to do so with MFC.
Creating an MFC container program using the MFC AppWizard allows you to access the many features of ActiveX controls and Automation that are implemented by the MFC and ActiveX classes. These features include visual editing, Automation, Windows CE Sockets, creating compound files, and support for controls. The WCE MFC AppWizard also offers a choice to build either a DLL or EXE. The WCE MFC AppWizard has visual editing options that your parent program will support, including creating a container, a miniserver, a full-server, and a program that is both a container and a server.
ActiveX controls are small, fast, powerful, and reusable software components, making them ideal for use in Windows CE–based applications. These controls can be created using Microsoft eMbedded Visual Tools 3.0 and then distributed for use in Windows CE–based applications created in eMbedded Visual C++.
For More Information
For the latest information about Windows CE and embedded development tools, see the Microsoft Windows CE Web site.
For information about ActiveX controls, see the Microsoft COM Technologies Web site.