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Discussion in 'General MMA discussion' started by smartigan, Dec 3, 2012.
I had Jon Jones, but I changed it to Erick Silva. Are they both wrong?
You got it with the edit.
My nickname is the name of an animal.
I am 1-1 in the UFC.
I have fought at both Welterweight and Middleweight.
I have a TKO win over someone who many people want to see in the UFC.
I went on a 12 fight win streak at the tail end of my career.
I lost my last 4 fights.
Rory McDonald on Saturday?lol
Nick "The Goat" Thompson
Would you like me to take your turn?
Nope, one second.
KO'd a fighter who would eventually capture a UFC title
Was featured on two different MMA reality shows
Won a championship for a promotion eventually taken over by Zuffa
Shidokan champion
Shonie Carter?
Shonie it is.
- I was born in Michigan
- I was a 2 time All-American wrestler at Arizona State
- My UFC record is 9-4
- I have faced 4 former UFC champions
Dan Severn.
Did you mean Ryan Bader? He is 7-3 in the UFC, 2-time All-American at ASU, and he faced Machida, Rampage, Ortiz, and Jones, three former champions and the current champion.
Oh yeah you are right
I'm from the "Land of the Rising Sun," and also undefeated against opponents who share my island nation of birth.
I'm 10-8-1, 1 NC against UFC veterans, though I have never fought for the organization myself.
I have competed for Pancrase, DEEP, Sengoku, Strikeforce, and Pride, where I still won a Grand Prix, even though I lost in the Semifinals.
kazuo misaki? dude isn't 10-8-1 though.
He is 10-8-1, 1 NC against UFC veterans.
i recently dropped down in weight
i have fought for the title.
i have only been KO'd or submitted once
i'm a Brazillian jiu-jitsu black belt
Demian Maia?
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Robert William Kennedy, 62, of Hackensack, Minn., passed away at home on Sunday, April 28, 2013.
Robert was born in Walker, Minn., and grew up next to the Walker School. He spent his summers working as a dock boy and fishing with his sisters.
Robert was a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Navy. He was stationed out of North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado, Calif. He traveled the world in his naval career from Singapore to Hong Kong, Philippines to Greece, and was a Vietnam veteran. When he retired in December 1989, he was an E8, Senior Chief Petty Officer for Helicopter Squadrons in Coronado. The Kennedy family was voted U.S. Navy Family of the Year in the late 1980s.
He was a Webelos den leader and active in Cub Scouts throughout Bill's scouting career. He was a baseball coach for several years for both Bill and Brandi.
When he retired in 1989, he moved his family back "home" to Walker. He returned to school and received his Associates Degree and worked a few different jobs in Walker and Hackensack before settling in as the pulltab/gambling manager for the Hackensack Legion Post 202 where he had been a member for many years.
In the last eight years, his extra hobby was the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) where he and Sherrie would dress in period cowboy/girl costumes and compete in single shotgun competitions. They traveled the southern to Midwest states and met many new friends along the way.
Out of the brainstorming of Robert and other Legion patrons came the idea for the Hackensack Children's Fishing Contest. He would work tireless hours throughout the year for the next 16 years to provide the most exceptional fishing experience for thousands of children and their families.
Robert is survived by his wife, Sherrie Kennedy; son, Bill (Shannon) Kennedy of Hackensack, Minn.; and daughter, Brandi (Kristopher) Bellmont of Rockville, Minn. He is also survived by his siblings, Shaleen (Denis) Black of Walker and Mary Jo (Doug) Wolter of Thief River Falls, Minn. He also leaves seven grandchildren and hundreds of kids and families from the Hackensack Children's Fishing Contest.
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This is an extremely handy product for those of us who love wine. An all in one device covering you from the opening to the closing. The only thing I noticed is when the cork moves up the screw the base separated from the handle. Not sure if i was supposed to but I was able to put it back on without a problem and used it again.4
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posted at 8:01 pm on March 10, 2013 by Allahpundit
President Barack Obama hopes to spark a pitchfork revolt against Republicans over sequester-induced budget cuts — but many Democrats fret that he's undermined that effort with an early strategy marred by hype, poor planning and muddled messaging…
"I think they probably went over the top in terms of saying that the consequences were going to be horrible, especially because it's happened and the lines in the airports aren't long, the world hasn't changed overnight," says former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, an on-again, off-again Obama critic who supports the broad outlines of Obama's $4 trillion "grand bargain" proposal…
One top Democratic Congressional aide offered this bit of advice to Obama: "Don't accentuate a fight you don't intend to wage [and] can't win. … They spent two weeks building up sequester as a horror show and then got fact-checked a dozen times and were forced to back off their own claims of it being a disaster once they were forced to acquiesce to the cuts happening."
For Republicans, the clearest indication that they had won this latest round in the ongoing budget fight was Obama's acknowledgment that he would sign a continuing resolution to fund the government (the current one expires at the end of March) that included the lower spending levels under sequestration, in addition to the spending caps already in place under the Budget Control Act of 2011. In other words, that he would not risk a government shutdown in an effort to undo the automatic cuts…
"The problem was, on day one when Obama started talking about how bad the sequester was, nobody was disagreeing with him," a senior House Republican aide says. "We always agreed that there would be programs that were unnecessarily going to be impacted by this. The only way for them to gain ground was to go over the top, and they just boxed themselves into a corner of hysterics, claiming the world was going to end, and then it didn't."…
"The White House has been badly served throughout the Obama administration by making assumptions about what Republicans want, rather than actually talking to Republicans and conservatives, and finding out what moves them," the House leadership aide says. "I don't know if it's because they watch too much MSNBC, or what, but they have a habit of telling us what they think we want, and have made some bad assumptions about the principles of conservatism."
"If we're going to solve these problems, it's going to have to be done on a bipartisan basis," said [Sen. Ron] Johnson on ABC's "This Week." "I think most Republicans are more than willing to work with this president."…
"I got a call from his chief of staff over the weekend to talk about, you know what we need to do in terms of developing the process," said Johnson. "So, you know we'll — I'll certainly give the president the benefit of the doubt."…
"If you're taking a look at, in an entitlement reform package… you know actually bringing in revenue for those entitlement reforms, I might look at that," he said. But Johnson cautioned that the high taxes were already battering the economy.
"This is the first time I've ever had a conversation with the president lasting more than, say, two minutes or televised exchanges," Mr. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the House Budget Committee, said on "Fox News Sunday." "So I've never really had a conversation with him on these issues before. I'm excited that we had this conversation — we had a very frank exchange. We come from different perspectives; I ran against him in the last election. So we exchanged very different frank, candid views with one another that were very different. But at least we had this conversation."…
"Will he resume the campaign mode, will he resume attacking Republicans and impugning our motives, will he resume what is long believed to be a plan to win the 2014 elections, or will he sincerely change and try and find common ground, try and work with Republicans to get something done?" Mr. Ryan said. "That's what we hope happens."
Senator No. 2: "At the end [of Obama's dinner with Republicans] I mentioned, 'Share [with us] how you see this going forward.' " Here the president "got hazy. . . . I told him this will never work without adult supervision from the White House. I don't think he comprehends that this is part of getting something done."…
When the senator had met with the president in the past, during debt talks, "it was a lecture, it was preachy." But at the dinner the president showed "reach out.
"There was nothing like it. There were at least three senators there who I could tell got a little emotional—there was something about the meeting where it was with such sincerity. Nobody held back."
Here's another possibility: The White House screwed up the sequester fight, the president's approval ratings are dropping, heretofore-friendly reporters are criticizing his failure to lead, and, while Obama remains relatively unconcerned about debt and deficits, he recognizes the political utility of reaching out to Republicans now in order to demonize them once again in the months leading up to the 2014 midterm elections. In short, it's a setup…
The White House recognizes that the fight over the sequester is about much more than the immediate reduction in the growth of federal spending. In some respects, it's about the central rationale of the Obama presidency—that government is a force for good in the lives of Americans, not just necessary but constructive and even benevolent. Think back to the Obama campaign's "Julia," a fictional single woman who was aided by a caring and compassionate government at every stage of her life. The president's argument over the past two months is that the government is so important it cannot be trimmed even a little. On the contrary, from universal pre-K to more green energy to new medical research, it ought to be doing things tomorrow that it's not doing today.
So it's fair to ask: Why should Republicans trust a man whose second Inaugural Address was a clarion call to greater government activism, whose State of the Union the New York Times described as a case for "closing out the politics of austerity," who has previously demonstrated bad faith by fighting even modest reductions in spending growth, and whose second-term strategy so far has depended on casting Republicans as villains?
"I think he gets it," Coburn said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I think he's genuinely reaching out."…
"But you've got a lot scabs and sores on people that's going to take a while for that to heal," Coburn told host David Gregory.
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Monogamy is extremely rare. Of the 4,000 or so mammalian species, only a few percent are monogamous. What makes this tiny minority stay attached to one mate? Investigators are coming closer to answering this question by studying voles, small rodents commonly known as field mice.
Although the various vole species look pretty much the same on the outside, their inner drives can be quite different. Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) are highly social and monogamous, whereas the closely related montane voles (M. montanus) are solitary and promiscuous. Monogamy is defined in the laboratory as the formation of a pair-bond, where the vole under study chooses to associate with a steady partner over a novel mate. Two similar hormones that influence neural activity appear to play a critical role in the formation of this pair-bond: vasopressin, which affects male reproductive and social behaviors (such as communication, aggression and sexuality) and its sister peptide oxytocin, which is involved in promoting maternal nurturing and sexual receptivity.
Almost a decade ago, Thomas Insel, Director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Emory University, and colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of Maryland implicated vasopressin and oxytocin in controlling the preference for particular partners in both male and female prairie voles. These investigators found that giving a male vasopressin causes it to stay with its mate, whereas blocking this hormone prevents a pair-bond from forming. The scientists saw similar effects in female prairie voles, with oxytocin determining the extent of pair-bonding. In contrast, the administration of these substances had no influence on social interactions in the promiscuous montane voles. Surprisingly, vasopressin and oxytocin are naturally found at similar levels in both prairie and montane voles.
Although the same molecular receptors bind these hormones in both monogamous and promiscuous voles, these specialized structures are dispersed differently in the brains of each species. The dissimilarity in receptor distribution has an enormous effect on social behavior and attachments. In monogamous voles these receptors are found in so-called reward regions of the brain where addictive drugs act. "When a monogamous vole mates, it is as if it got a hit of cocaine. The vole becomes addicted to whomever he was mating with," says Insel.
Larry Young, a collaborator of Insel's in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University, chose to examine the connection between high levels of vasopressin receptors in this area and monogamy. Specifically, he incorporated the gene for the vasopressin receptor into a virus, which was then injected into a reward region, selectively increasing the concentration of vasopressin receptors there. He, Insel and other colleagues from Emory University and the Harvard Institutes of Medicine reported their findings in the September 15, 2001 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.
Voles infected with the virus carrying the gene for the vasopressin receptor were more social and were able to pair bond even without mating. "Now it is love at first sight," says Young. "Normally," he explains, "they have to mate all night long for the pair-bond to form. By increasing the receptors, we were able to reduce the threshold of social stimuli needed to form that bond." Young and Insel are now manipulating the amount of oxytocin receptors in the brain of female prairie voles. These investigators expect that the females will respond in the same way as the males, forming a preference for one partner without the need for sex.
Israel Lederhendler, chief of the Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Program at the National Institute of Mental Health, believes that this research demonstrates that genetic tools can be employed to understand the mechanisms of complex social behaviors. And Lederhendler expects this approach will eventually yield big payoffs: "We are only beginning to scratch the surface."
Insel and Young's work highlights the fact that certain behaviors don't require much cognitive input. If the tendency to be monogamous is determined by the distribution of vasopressin receptors in voles, one wonders what could be accomplished in humans. Could Young's virus be used to turn a Hugh Heffner into Mr. Mom? Nobody knows. It's been established that vasopressin is released into the bloodstream during sexual arousal in men—but whether that corresponds with higher uptake in the brain is unclear. Although receptors for both vasopressin and oxytocin are found in the human brain, the distribution does not resemble that seen in either the monogamous prairie vole or the promiscuous montane vole. So Young is skeptical that an engineered virus could ever be used to make people fall—and stay—in love. "I do not foresee that we are ever going to try to control human behavior with fidelity drugs."
Young suggests that his work might, however, shed light on the biological basis of our inherent sociality. And a greater understanding of those tendencies might lead to treatments for mental and behavioral disorders that interfere with the capacity to form social bonds. Autism, for example, appears to be a genetic disorder that disrupts a person's ability or inclination to connect with others, and the same genes that control monogamy in voles could conceivably be involved.—Marla Vacek
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Saturday began a week-long celebration for the nation's largest youth-led organization. National FFA Week lasts through Saturday. The organization boasts a membership of over a half-million students in 7,429 chapters across the United States.
At the organization's 3rd National Convention, a creed written by E.M. Tiffany was adopted. An updated version was adopted at their 38th and 63rd convention. Some of you who participated in the organization's Creed Speaking competition may be able to recite the entire creed still today. For those of you who can't, we'd encourage you to read it below; it is inspiring how much of it still rings true today.
I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds - achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years.
I believe that to live and work on a good farm, or to be engaged in other agricultural pursuits, is pleasant as well as challenging; for I know the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and hold an inborn fondness for those associations which, even in hours of discouragement, I cannot deny.
I believe in leadership from ourselves and respect from others. I believe in my own ability to work efficiently and think clearly, with such knowledge and skill as I can secure, and in the ability of progressive agriculturists to serve our own and the public interest in producing and marketing the product of our toil.
I believe in less dependence on begging and more power in bargaining; in the life abundant and enough honest wealth to help make it so - for others, as well as myself; in less need for charity and more of it when needed; in being happy myself and playing square with those whose happiness depends upon me.
I believe that American agriculture can and will hold true to the best traditions of our national life and that I can exert an influence in my home and community which will stand solid for my part in that inspiring task.
After rough years like 2009 it is good to get a reminder that agriculture is challenging, but it is rewarding. E.M. Tiffany clearly knew the importance of being a skilled business man, the importance of perseverance, and our "inborn" passion for what we do. Happy National FFA Week to all 506,199 members- we are proud to call you our future.


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A woman who is highly attractive that one would desire to have sex with. In slang vernacular one would say "I'd hit that". Six five is a reference to a blackjack hand that adds up to eleven and would be advantageous to hit, as in the event of drawing a face card one could have blackjack.
That girl is a six five. I'd hit that.
by jagerman69 April 17, 2010
A 1965 Chevy Impala Convertible
Say you wanna ride in my six five
by Nick Schepis March 21, 2007


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RE: st: using different macros everytime
"Shehzad Ali" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
RE: st: using different macros everytime
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:20:49 +0100
Thanks, Nick. This works perfectly well.
I take your point that if I was just running a treatreg model then there
wasn't much point in doing it this way. But I am actually running a long
list of commands within the forval loop for each set of macros, i.e. I run
treatreg using one set of macros followed by equity analysis based on
predictions from treatreg (all within the same loop), and then I run the
same analysis using a different set of macros. I am not sure if you are
convinced that this is the best way of doing it. But your advice is always
very helpful and I would appreciate any suggestions to improve my Stata
Thank you again,
-----Original Message-----
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 16 June 2008 10:15
To: email@example.com
Subject: RE: st: using different macros everytime
Going back to your original example:
local xset `" "x1 x2" "x1 x2 x3" "'
local zset `" "x1 x2 v1" "x1 x2 x3 v1" "'
* start of stuff for program or do file only
local Tx : word count `xset'
local Tz : word count `zset'
if `Tx' != `Tz' {
di as err "no go; numbers of x sets and z sets do not match"
exit 498
* end of stuff for program or do file only
forval t = 1/`T' {
local x : word `t' of `xset'
local z : word `t' of `zset'
treatreg y1 `x', treat(y2 = `z')
I can't see much advantage in doing it this way unless the number of
sets is much larger than in the example.
Shehzad Ali
Your solution makes good sense. With apologies, can I ask for a simple
clarification here? I didn't completely understand - forval - loop part
the solution. I understand that we define local T which captures no. of
and then forval loops each one of them one after another but I am not
how I use my treatreg commands (say for instance I only wanted to run a
simple treatreg command).
Nick Cox
On the major point, you can bind variable names into groups using double
quotes " ". This follows from the syntax that double quotes bind more
tightly than spaces separate.
Thus you could go
local xset `" "a b c" "d e f" "g h j" "'
local zset `" "A B C" "D E F" "G H J" "'
Note the use of compound double quotes in defining the whole. Then
local T : word count `xset'
forval t = 1/`T' {
[stuff referring to word `t' of `xset']
[stuff referring to word `t' of `zset']
I'm all for improving one's mastery of Stata technique, but sometimes
it's just quicker to crunch through the variations of commands using a
do file and a decent text editor -- especially if you may spend much
time later trying to work out what was that clever thing you did.
Incidentally, the approach here of replacing variables by their means
and then reinstating them is quite unnecessary and indeed I would
classify it as very bad style. Never touch originals you care about.
Rather -generate- new variables with the means concerned. Or, something
more like this:
gen work1 = .
gen work2 = .
within a loop {
su <something>, meanonly
replace work1 = r(mean)
su <otherthing>, meanonly
replace work2 = r(mean)
Shehzad Ali
Let me write down a few details about the analysis I am
trying to run. Please ignore if some of the details are irrelevant. I am
trying to run what they call 'standardisation' in literature. So here is
what I intend to do.
First loop:
1. run treatreg model: treatreg y1 x1 x2 x3 x4 x5, treat(y2=x1 x2 x3 x4
2. then set x1 x2 at their mean values (first generate copies of x1 x2,
x1_copy x2_copy, then summarize original x1 x2 and replace them with
mean values).
3.then predict yhat (so basically it uses coefficients from treatreg but
x2 are at their mean values and others at their actual values)
4. drop x1 x2 (which were set at their mean values) and then rename
and x2_copy as x1 x2 (so these variables are back as original)
Second loop:
4. Run the same as above but this time setting x2 x4 x5 at their mean
Going on further, I have a few more loops where the variables which are
to their mean values are different (no pattern of selection of
What I was thinking of doing was to define sets of macros, i.e. for
loop, define macro1 as variables to be set at their mean value and
macro2 as
variables to be left as original. For second loop, I do the same and it
on until I have run all the loops I wanted to run. What I needed help
is how to assign names to each macro and then I can run a foreach loop
that the macros are defined at the start and then treatreg and the rest
run as a loop several times.
Maarten buis
It is usually better practice to work with locals. Anyhow the answer to
your question depends on the kind of pattern you want those models to
follow. Do you want something like
x1 x2 x3
x1 x2 x4
x1 x2 x5
x1 x2 x3
x1 x2 x3 x4
x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
all combinations.
Moreover, do these variables have such systematic names, or do they
have more meaningful, but less systematic names?
Shehzad Ali
> Sorry, Martin, it was a mistake. I actually meant global. The models
> I am
> currently using are:
> * First model:
> global xvar "x1 x2"
> global zvar "x1 x2 v1"
> treatreg y1 $xvars, treat(y2=$zvars)
> * Second model:
> global xvar "x2 x3 x4"
> global zvar "x2 x3 x4 v1"
> treatreg y1 $xvars, treat(y2=$zvars)
> Note that I am not just adding one or two additional variables in the
> second
> model, but I am actually using a different set of variables the
> second time.
> Now I want to loop this somehow so that I just write the - treatreg -
> command line once and - foreach - can pick up different sets of
> macros each
> time the loop is run. Can you please suggest the best way to do it?
Martin Weiss
> Just a remark: are you sure you want to reference a -local- with the
> $
> sign? I do not think that this will actually work...
Shehzad Ali
> > I want to run a 2 separate treatreg models with the same y var but
> > different set of x vars. Here is what I am doing:
> >
> > * First model:
> >
> > local xvar "x1 x2" local zvar "x1 x2 v1"
> >
> > treatreg y1 $xvars, treat(y2=$zvars)
> >
> > * Second model:
> >
> > local xvar "x1 x2 x3" local zvar "x1 x2 x3 v1"
> >
> > treatreg y1 $xvars, treat(y2=$zvars)
> >
> > Now I want to loop this somehow so that I just write the - treatreg
> -
> > line once but - foreach - can pick up different sets of macros. Can
> you
> > suggest the best way to do it?
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Students planning to complete a pre-professional program and degree at California State University, Fresno must complete a major offered at this university. They should include their preprofessional area plus their university major on all registration forms; for example, premedical-chemistry, premedical-biology, prelaw-history, prelaw-political science. There are no preprofessional majors per se. Instead, preprofessional students work toward various university degrees and while doing so, incorporate into their college programs courses required for entry into professional schools.
Careful program planning is important in order to select proper classes and complete requirements in a timely way. Regular advising is essential since professional schools change their requirements occasionally. Preprofessional students should contact their respective major and preprofessional advisers before enrolling in classes each semester to stay abreast of changes.
Students considering a preprofessional program and degree in a major within the College of Science and Mathematics may contact the Science and Health Careers Information Center at 559.278.4150, Science I, Room 136, www.fresnostate.edu/shcic, for more information.
A current list of preprofessional advisers is available in the Office of Advising Services, Joyal Administration Building, Room 224. For more information, call Advising Services, 559.278.1787 or fax 559.278.1895.
Pre-clinical laboratory sciences. Students interested in a medical career in clinical laboratory science (CLS) can satisfy their pre-CLS requirements at California State University, Fresno. Successful completion of the following is required: CHEM 1A/1AL-B/1BL, CHEM 105, CHEM 128A-B, CHEM 129A, CHEM 150, BIOL 1A, 1B/1BL, BIOL 120, BIOL 121, BIOL 157 and 157L, BIOL 164, and PHYS 2A-B. Several other upper-level BIOL and CHEM courses are highly recommended; for details, consult a pre-CLS adviser and consult education coordinators at hospitals with one-year CLS training programs.
Dr. Fred Schreiber
Biology Department
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Predental. The minimum training for dentistry is a seven-year course - the first three years (90 units) of predental training in a college or university and the remaining four years (dental training) at a school of dentistry.
However, most students are not accepted by dental schools until four years of college are completed. Due to the large number of applicants, students who do not have better than a 3.5 GPA should earn a bachelor's degree before applying to a dental school. Majors that are most compatible with required classes are in the sciences, particularly biology and chemistry. However, as long as the required preprofessional courses are completed, any major is acceptable.
The minimum predental program required by accredited dental schools is one year each of English, general chemistry, physics, and biology, plus one semester (and often one year) of organic chemistry. Check with each dental school for specific additional requirements like psychology. The Dental Admission Test (DAT) is required. Many dental schools also require a personal interview; some schools administer additional tests. For other information, contact a predental adviser and consult dental school catalogs or the American Dental Education Association at www.adea.org.
Dr. Fred Schreiber
Biology Department
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Dr. Saeed Attar
Chemistry Department
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Dr. Laurent Dejean
Chemistry Department
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Prehealth careers. Advisement is available for students interested in preparing for health careers in occupational therapy, chiropractic medicine, radiological technology, related areas, or as a physician's assistant. While these programs are not offered at California State University, Fresno, most, if not all, prerequisites are. Students should seek academic and career advisement early in their academic programs.
For preoccupational therapy and other prehealth careers, see the Interdisciplinary Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (IHRS) major, under the Physical Therapy Department, or contact the IHRS undergraduate adviser, Dr. Cheryl Hickey, 559.278.3030. Students seeking information on other undergraduate and graduate allied health programs not offered at this campus may contact the College of Health and Human Services:
Penny Lacy, Academic Adviser
College of Health and Human Services
McLane Hall, Room 194
Prelegal. Most fully accredited law schools require a bachelor's degree for admission. Since a prelegal program providing a broad cultural background is recommended by the law schools, any baccalaureate major, depending on the student's interest, may be chosen from the university offerings. (See Degrees and Programs. ) Law schools suggest courses, but not necessarily a major, in the following: written and oral English, American and English constitutional history, world history, accounting, business administration, elementary logic, mathematics, statistics, economics, political science, philosophy, science and foreign language. A score on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is required before students can be accepted into law school. It is recommended that the LSAT be taken no later than December of the student's senior year. In addition, most law schools require a personal statement and letters of recommendation that address academic skills and preparation for the study of law. For further information consult a prelaw adviser and law school catalogs.
For a list of prelaw advisers, contact the Office of Advising Services in Joyal Administration,
Room 224.
Prelibrarianship. Librarianship offers many career opportunities to people of different academic backgrounds, interests, and talents. Librarianship is the profession that collects, organizes, and preserves the records of society and provides access to them. Librarians work with a wide variety of people and materials (books, music, media, databases, maps, archives and more). Professional opportunities include service in academic, public, and school libraries as well as libraries and information centers in corporations, medical/research centers, law firms, and museums. Librarians also work in Web development, information systems, knowledge management, and publishing. Constantly changing technologies offer new opportunities such as the recent applications of digital media to archives and preservation. Education for entry level positions in library and information studies is the master's degree. Entrance requirements for these programs vary, but usually require an understanding of computers and technology.
For additional information about library schools, their requirements and programs, and library career opportunities, contact the prelibrarianship adviser.
Kimberley Robles Smith
Henry Madden Library
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Premedical. Requirements for admission to medical school vary somewhat from one medical school to another and change from time to time, but a well-balanced liberal education is usually specified. Any major will do; choose a major according to your interests. Some aptitude and university training in science and English are essential in medicine. The minimum requirements in these subjects specified by most medical schools can be satisfied by specific courses in biology (BIOL 1A-1B/1BL), chemistry (CHEM 1A/1AL-1B/1BL, 128A-B, 129A and often 129B), physics (PHYS 2A-B), and two semesters of English. A course in biochemistry is often required or strongly recommended. Courses in physiology, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, and cell biology may be helpful in preparation for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). Also, some facility with mathematical concepts is usually expected; one semester of calculus and one semester of statistics will meet the requirements for most medical schools. Because of competition for admission to medical schools, a grade point average of about 3.6 is highly desirable. The MCAT is required before students can be accepted into medical school. It is recommended that the MCAT be taken and application for medical school be made at least one year before anticipated matriculation into medical school.
Students considering a career in medicine should review the information at www.fresnostate.edu/premed. For consultation on a course of study and on becoming a competitive medical school applicant, contact a premedical adviser.
Dr. David Frank
Chemistry Department
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Dr. Amir Huda
Physics Department
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Preoptometry. California State University, Fresno provides courses for the completion of preprofessional requirements of an optometry program. Most professional schools require junior standing and coursework which includes two years of biology and chemistry as well as one year of mathematics, physics and English, and one semester of psychology and statistics with above-average scholarship. The Optometry Admission Testing Program (OAT) exam is required before application can be made to optometry school. Application should be made one year in advance of anticipated enrollment.
For further information, see optometry school catalogs and consult the preoptometry adviser.
Dr. Daqing Zhang
Physics Department
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Prepharmacy. California State University, Fresno provides prepharmacy coursework to prepare a student for admission into a four-year pharmacy program. All new and transfer students should indicate an interest in pre-pharmacy on application, admittance, and registration papers. Admission to most pharmacy schools now requires a B+ average or better in a minimum of 60 semester units, including one year each of general chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, calculus, biology, and English composition. Certain schools may have additional specified requirements. Although some students gain admission to pharmacy school after two or three years of undergraduate study, most students are not accepted until they have completed four years of college. Students, especially those without a high cumulative grade point average, should plan to graduate with a bachelor's degree before entering a pharmacy program. Majors that are most compatible with required classes are in the sciences, particularly biology and chemistry. However, as long as the required preprofessional courses are completed, any major is acceptable. For further information, see a prepharmacy adviser and consult pharmacy school Web sites (www.aacp.org).
Dr. Paul Crosbie
Biology Department
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Dr. Shirley Kovacs
Biology Department
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Dr. Joy Goto, Chemistry Department
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Dr. Santanu Maitra, Chemistry Department
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Dr. Prudence Lowe
Computer Science Department
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Preveterinary. Students preparing for the veterinary profession can satisfy their preveterinary curriculum requirements at California State University, Fresno. A minimum of 60 semester units of required courses must be taken prior to acceptance into a veterinary school program. Most students combine the required science courses with General Education and major requirements as they work toward a bachelor's degree in either animal sciences or biology. In addition to performance in required classes, prospective veterinary students are evaluated by their performance on the general portion of the Graduate Records Examination which is to be taken within five years of veterinary school application.
All students interested in veterinary medicine are encouraged to take ASCI 68, Preveterinary Orientation (taught each fall in the Department of Animal Sciences and Agricultural Education), for updated information regarding admission requirements and policies. Courses recommended by the Department of Animal Sciences and Agricultural Education for its majors preparing for veterinary school include ASCI 135, 155, 165; BIOL 1A, 1B, 1BL, 20, 102, 104, 162 and 162L; CHEM 1A, 1AL, 1B, 1BL, 128A-B, 129A, 150; and PHYS 2A, 2B. Preveterinary students completing a degree in biology should take the following courses recommended by the Department of Biology: BIOL 1A, 1B, 1BL; CHEM 1A, 1AL, 1B, 1BL; PHYS 2A, 2B; CHEM 128A-B, CHEM 129A-B; CHEM 150; BIOL 102, 104; and BIOL 162 and 162L, or BIOL 163. In addition, a statistics class, two writing classes, and a speech class are required by most veterinary schools.
The Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology is equipped to provide valuable experience with large animals through the labs and projects at the university farm laboratory. Admission to veterinary school in California requires a minimum of about 4.5 week equivalents (180 hours) of relevant veterinary experience in activities that specifically give the applicant an appreciation and understanding of the profession of veterinary medicine. For further information, contact the chair of the Animal Sciences Department, the campus veterinarian, and/or the adviser in the Biology Department.
Dr. Paul R. Crosbie
Biology Department
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The niners loss in 03 was by far the worst loss I had to watch. I'm still made at Jason Seahorn for getting absolutely embarrassed by Owens and I still got a little anger towards strahan for egging Owens on by pointing to the damn score board.
Jason Sehorn was never the same after his knee injury against NY jets in pre season. Although he rehabbed well and was always in phenomenal shape, he lost just a little bit on his explosive quickness and that cost him a lot. It is unfortunate because I think that if Jason Sehorn didn't get hurt like he did that he would have had a great career.
The Niner playoff game was the worst from 10 years a go.


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New UTSA travel system tested in some offices
(Feb. 4, 2005)--UTSA is beginning the implementation of a new electronic travel-approval process for faculty and staff. The new system will reduce delays in obtaining travel authorization and reimbursement for expenses, reduce process costs and include built-in electronic audits.
Currently, faculty and staff members must submit a paper request for travel authorization (RTA) for in-state, out-of-state and international travel related to UTSA projects or business. The current process may require multiple signatures before processing can begin.
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Similarly, travel reimbursement requests require a variety of signatures before a reimbursement check can be cut. The new electronic system for RTAs eliminates passing paper from office to office. Electronic payment documents will streamline the payment process resulting in fewer signatures and expediting payment.
The first steps in developing the electronic travel process include updating the command authorizations in the Define information system, reviewing and updating routing and signature authorization based on recommendations of executive officers, preparation of training materials and coordination of training classes. These steps will be completed by mid-February.
Training for the testing of the electronic travel process will begin immediately in selected offices from every vice president's area. Testing is planned for two months and will be followed in mid-April with training and implementation for the remainder of the UTSA Tri-Campus community.
For more information on the new electronic travel process, contact the travel office at (210) 458-4833.


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The plastic bag, usually from a local grocery mart, that is used to carry you beers around in. This is usually due to the fact that you ahve placed all of your beers into your refridgertor, and have thrown away the box. When it comes time to take the beers with you to a party you put them into a Puerto Rican Briefcase.
Wow, you have four different kinds of beer in your Puerto Rican Briefcase. Cleaned out the fridge tonight eh?
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It comes in a little silver or multi-colored packet, sold as incense, and clearly marked "not for consumption." But enterprising folks are consuming the contents: usually an herbal concoction combined with synthetic chemical JWH-018, or, as it's known on the street, Spice or K2. The result is a dark-brown powder that's best smoked in a one-hitter. Word on the street is it provides a cannabis-like high. And it's legal in Massachusetts.
However, a recent wave of fear has washed over the US, and eight states — Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Dakota, and Tennessee — have outlawed the substance since January of this year.
Now here's the weird part: the DEA, emergency-room doctors, and even marijuana advocates agree that you really shouldn't be smoking it.
"I would never try [K2]," says Mike Cann, president of MassCann/NORML. "We have a plant [marijuana] that is non-toxic, and people are replacing it with something that has had no real research, and they don't know what it does to them. But because it's still legal here in Massachusetts, this is a chance to study it."
K2 "hasn't been studied," Rick Doblin, executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) tells the Phoenix by phone. "The data's not there. At times of hysteria, situations are often hyped. From what we know, it's probably no more dangerous than marijuana, unless someone doses it improperly or it's used in combination with other drugs."
K2 is being described by the mainstream media as "synthetic pot." But why would anyone in Massachusetts bother with fake weed, when the penalties for smoking the real thing are so slim? According to Doblin and others interviewed for this article, it's this: "It doesn't show up on drug tests."
And that attribute, discrete from its legal status, may explain why K2 is catching on here, and nationwide. Since, obviously, not showing up on drug tests makes this over-the-counter incense extremely attractive to people in the military, athletes, and others who are drug tested regularly for their work — or because they are on probation or parole.
"This shows once again why drug testing doesn't stop drugs," Cann tells the Phoenix. "Drug testing pushes people away from less harmful drugs. It moves people to use drugs like alcohol, cocaine, and K2. Cannabis is a safer alternative to all three of those substances."
Incense or incendiary?Rusty Payne, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), agrees that K2 research must be done. "The medical and scientific community have to do their analysis," he tells the Phoenix from DEA headquarters in Washington, DC. "You have to determine the harm to the user and the potential of addiction. You need cases. You need samples — a lot of them. We're starting to get a lot, but we need to continue to look into this in order to make a sound decision, and that takes time. And there's no real timetable on that."
"We would classify K2 as a drug of concern," he continues. "People have no idea what they're putting in their bodies. There's a lot of mislabeling going on and there're a lot of unknown factors."
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This homey pasta dish uses pancetta (Italian bacon) in the tomato sauce, but for vegetarians it can be easily omitted. The collards and Parmesan elevate the calcium count to rival a cup of milk.
Nutrition Profile:
Diabetes Appropriate
Healthy Weight
Heart Healthy
High Calcium
High Fiber
High Potassium
Low Calorie
Low Cholesterol
Low Sat Fat
Serves 4
Prep Time 30 min
Total Time 50 min.
Step 1
Bring 2 cups lightly salted water to a boil in a large wide pan. Add collards and cook until tender, 10 to 12 minutes. Drain, rinse with cold water and press out excess moisture. Set aside.
Step 2
Put a large pot of lightly salted water on to boil for cooking pasta.
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Cook pancetta (or bacon) in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat, stirring often, until golden, 5 minutes. Drain; discard fat.
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Add oil to the pan and heat over medium heat. Add onion and cook, stirring often, until softened, 3 to 5 minutes. Add garlic and crushed red pepper; cook, stirring, for 30 to 60 seconds. Add the pancetta (or bacon), tomatoes and water; bring to a simmer, mashing the tomatoes with a potato masher or the side of a wooden spoon. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, until thickened, about 20 minutes.
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About 10 minutes before the sauce is ready, cook pasta in the boiling water, stirring often, until just tender, 8 to 10 minutes. Reserve 1/4 cup of the cooking water and drain the pasta.
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Add the pasta, collards and reserved pasta-cooking water to the tomato sauce. Heat, stirring, until the pasta has absorbed some of the flavors, about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon into pasta bowls, sprinkle with cheese and serve.
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text: Who's got the OnStar app loaded into their smartphone? GM just announced the OnStar app has been downloaded by over 1.3 million people in the last few months and they expect even more as they just relased a new version that will cover more models for 2010. I guess that's pretty cool they can go backwards in model years and add more vehicles to the list that can get the app. I figured that would be the case. The people that drive the Chevy Silverado often are on the cutting edge and want to be technologically saavy and up-to-date. Plus, it's pretty freaking cool to be able to do all this stuff on your smart phone. I'm not sure what it's called on iPhone, but for the Android it's called OnStar Mylink from OnStar, LLC. ---------- Post added at 11:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:59 AM ---------- Like I said, I'm driving a 2011 Chevy Traverse right now and I just got the app loaded and it's AWESOME. Very cool to see this stuff. I think I'm going to shoot a video and get this up online today or tomorrow. Right now I am looking at: HOME This is pretty cool, it's got three left-right scroll screens, I've broken then down into each "page" here. HOME 1 Tank Level: 34% Fuel Left: 7 Gals (how cool is that??? Ever wondered "How many galons left?") Fuel Range: XX (maybe I have to run it some more to calculate - I just reset this I think) Remaining Oil Life: 88% Lifetime stats (at bottom) MPG: xx (probably has to calibrate) Miles: 583 HOME 2 Tire Pressure: (all four tires with an image) FRONT Driver/Pass: 34 psi / 36 psi REAR Driver/Pass: 34 psi / 35 psi HOME 3 Onstar Hands-Free Calling Phone Number: (inbound number I guess?) 817-xxx-xxxx Minutes Left: 1 Expiration: 4/30/11 REMOTE The second icon to select is the "remote options" and they're pretty much what you would expect. Lock / Unlock icons: Does just what it says. You can be anywhere though and hit the remote lock/unlock, so if your wife locks her keys in the car, she can get ahold of you and you can remote unlock the car from your phone. Remote Start / Cancel Start: This is great because you can be ANYWHERE, not just in range from your remote itself. I can be in the office in the heat of summer and have the car start and be cooled down by the time I get out to it. haha. ASSIST This area gives the phone numbers to connect into the advisors, roadside assistance and more. STATUS This just gives the status of your currest vehicle options. Update to come later.


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Hey all- Here is the glassed armor. What a pain! anyhow, it has turned out pretty well (w/ some help) however, its a bit snugg thru the chest which was a result of my "not so good" manaquin. I am thinking of just using this as a cast and maybe sculpting some sintra over it? What are some thoughts? Maybe cardboard and spakle?
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Just knowing all the contracts that will need to be handled in the near future makes me think we can't really give him what he's going to demand. I expect him to be gone in 2014 but we'll see what happens with Nicks and Randle next year.
In the ever pressing race to be the first to report, media outlets like Bleacher Report would rather have to back track than get beaten out as "the first to report." More often than not, in BR's case, they fail which is why they are just not credible.
I'd be willing to bet they half read the Daily News piece and took it and ran.
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
I really really hope we dont give him a ridiculously high contract just to keep him.
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Getting fucked maliciously and needlessly often by somebody far too incompetant to understand how bad they've fucked you.
The worst maloofing of my life was when that bitch fired me for putting money in the register. I was a cashier.
by Polly Grip March 23, 2010
Maloofing is the Internet discussion board version of tattling. Normally done by sending an e-mail, or private message, or by clicking on some sort of alert button.
person 1: holy crap did you see that fat cows pics she posted in the adult forum
person 2: thats it i'm Maloofing you
person 2: thats it i'm Maloofing you
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You can now smell via Google, and if you choose to sample Wanganui's waste-water treatment pond you will soon encounter the sweet aroma of toilet deodorisers.
And YouTube is to shut down for a decade while its staff choose the best video - but instead of wasting time watching clips, why not search for hidden treasure on Google Maps?
These announcements were just some of the April Fools' Day pranks that did the rounds yesterday.
The Green Party announced a paper calling for at least eight more statutory holidays to be introduced.
Auckland councillor and long-time National Party member Cameron Brewer said he was giving up his centre-right credentials to join the centre-left's efforts to have Mayor Len Brown re-elected.
"As they say, 'If you can't beat them, join them'," he said. "It's hard work fighting for ratepayers and exposing the excesses of council, so I'm going to throw my weight behind Len and just relax and enjoy the ratepayer-funded ride.
"Hopefully by supporting the mayor, there's also some free overseas travel in it for me," Mr Brewer said in a statement.
The Wanganui Chronicle reported that huge toilet deodorisers had been introduced to the area's wastewater treatment ponds in a frantic bid to cap the stench coming from them.
A Mini ad in the Herald offered readers the chance to "build your own Mini Countryman" in a 29,762 part series. The first part was a 95c screw.
Overseas, the pranks escalated in scale. YouTube released an elaborate video that revealed the site was merely an eight-year contest to find the best video. The website said it would close at midnight to review all the video submissions it had received over the years, and would announce the best one in 2023.
Google also got in on the prank action by releasing Treasure Maps and Google Nose Beta which "allows" users to smell success, airport terminals, geniuses and Abraham Lincoln, among other aromas.
Google Nose also featured StreetSense, which allows users to smell addresses from the comfort of their armchair, and Android Ambient Odour Detection, which lets smartphone users collect smells with their device.