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AkzoNobel is a leading global paints and coatings company and a major producer of specialty chemicals, with leading market positions and brands in countries around the world. We operate in a number of important market segments ranging from buildings and infrastructure to transport, industrial and consumer goods. We're also the sector leader in sustainability and are number one in the renowned Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In practical terms, that means our sustainable solutions are in your lives, and those of your friends and family, every day. We're the people that make it possible for you to do what you need to do.Responsibilities:
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NOTICE: The County of El Paso has issued their annual Bond program to help first time homebuyers with the purchase of a home. You can get a home loan for 6.75% AND a 3.5% (of the purchase price) as a grant to help you with your down payment and closing costs. You can use your VA benefits, obtain a FHA loan, or a conventional loan from any of three mortgage lenders in town: Countrywide Mortgage, Peoples Mortgage, and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. These are the ONLY lenders in El Paso County authorized to offer El Paso County Bond Program loans.
There are several rules and conditions to getting this money. One, that you are a first-time homebuyer. Two, that you earn LESS than $79,500. Three, that you buy a home less than $190,000. There are other conditions and you'll want to talk to one of these three lenders for specifics. Oh, yes, I'm one of the loan officers certified to help people with these loans. Give me or one of the other lenders a call today.
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CHFA has a special program for families receiving disability income which offers an extremely low interest rate (about 3%). In addition, CHFA offers a $10,000 2nd mortgage payable over 30 years at 1.5% (about $35 per month) to help with the down payment and closing costs. You will need at least $750 of your own money to buy a home using this loan program.
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage also has a special loan program called, "DCHAMP". This program allows you to purchase a home with higher than typical debt-to-income ratios (45%). Sellers are encouraged to help buyers with down payment and closing costs. Theoretically, you could buy a home with no money out of your pocket using this loan program.
Using the information you provided in your email, I have discovered the following options for you.
First, the CHFA Home Access Program. Assuming no monthly debt payments, you could get a home loan for $51,500. Your monthly payment (principal, interest, and FHA mortgage insurance) would be $244. If you decided to get that $10,000 2nd mortgage, you have two checks totaling $61,500 to buy a home. Taxes and property insurance or homeowner's association fees would affect the total amount of your loan.
Second, the Wells Fargo DCHAMP loan (with the same assumptions) would mean a loan amount of $58,000. Monthly principal and interest payment would equal $379.
Third, ordinarily you can't stack two programs together. However, using DCHAMP its possible to ask the Rocky Mountain Community Land Trust for additional assistance. So, you get a loan from Wells Fargo Home Mortgage for $58,000 and the land trust adds another $25,000 (under special circumstances, even up to $35,000). That means you'd be shopping for a home in the $74,000 to $76,000 price range. Again, you'll want to remember that taxes, insurance, and homeowner association fees will affect this amount.
As you can see, there is light at the end of the tunnel and its not always a train. You'll want to talk to an experienced loan officer who works for a company that is authorized to make CHFA and/or Rocky Mountain Community Land Trust loans.
Finally, if you've been able to save a little money, that'll help also.
Art Santellen is a licensed real estate professional with Intrepid Realty in Colorado Springs.
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We knew this was going to happen sooner or later, but I'm on my way to jail… Also to nobody's surprise, Kat Mykals is going there with me!
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Seven years after the Mohegan Tribe launched the state's gambling industry, it has cut the ribbon on a $50 million expansion that leaders hipe will position Pennsylvania's oldest casino for growth amid a maturing market.
A 238-room hotel and 20,000-square-foot convention center were debuted Thursday as the newest additions to the Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs casino complex in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Mohegan Sun debuted Nov. 14, 2006, when thousands of gamblers mobbed a temporary, no-frills facility overlooking an old harness-racing track. The tribe opened a $208 million permanent casino on the site in 2008 and introduced table games two years later.
Its expansion has tracked the rise of Pennsylvania's casino market, which has emerged as the nation's second largest after Nevada with more than $3 billion in annual revenue.


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It's also a movie in which Pamela Anderson, parading her cleavage in Cinerama and 24-track stereo, plays a pal of Jenny McCarthy's. (Related item:See a clip from the film)
And a movie in which Leslie Nielsen plays the president.
All this naturally leads to Scary Movie3, a sequel funnier than its predecessors because it has the director/co-writer the series should have employed all along. He's David Zucker, who's just coming off one of the year's worst debacles (My Boss's Daughter) but is born to this franchise. Zucker was, after all, a key player on 1980's Airplane!, which has led to 23 years of hit-and-miss comedies designed to cannibalize Hollywood hits and hoary clichés. This one is slightly more "hit."
Soon to be sporting the reddest ears around is writer/director M. Night Shyamalan, whose The Sixth Sense and Signs come in for especially severe drubbing. We start with the fact that Charlie Sheen stands in for Signs' Mel Gibson. When the expected crop circles appear, Sheen's younger brother skedaddles from the farm in hopes of becoming the new Eminem. Later, in a flashback, Sheen's Mrs. (real-life wife Denise Richards) dishes him dirt even as she's dying from effects of automobile metal cutting her in half. And Jackson (or Edward Moss in dead-ringer Michael makeup) briefly shows up to enable Zucker & Co. to get in a good-and-grisly nose joke.
Meanwhile, Anderson and McCarthy have watched a supernatural VHS right out of The Ring, a mayhem-maker that gets blond TV reporter Anna Faris (reprising her Scary 1 and 2 Cindy Campbell brunette role) to investigate. Faris has some of the breathy/wispy quality Julie Hagerty brought to Airplane!, and she's a major asset here. Jeremy Piven, anchoring the news, may have the film's single funniest scene when a custodian wreaks havoc with the teleprompter.
Gags designed to be in the worst taste turn out to be the least funny — so when they bomb, they really leave a stench. Compensating is a funny bit with Eddie Griffin and Queen Latifah (Mrs. Psychic at Home) and 77-year-old Nielsen in the Oval Office.
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A 41-year-old man suffered multiple wounds when he was stabbed at flats in Ullswater Drive at 6.30am on Wednesday.
Daniel Herring, aged 27, of no fixed address, appeared at Bolton Magistrates' Court yesterday charged with entering as a trespasser with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm.
The victim was discharged from hospital on Wednesday night after having stitches.
It is understood he suffered wounds to his arm, head and back.
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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 2, No. 249. Thursday, 3 Oct 1991.
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 10:50
Subject: 2.0246 Lone Women
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The generously taxpayer funded live-in academy in Canberra caters for 1000 students and is the principal source of undergraduate training for would-be Defence Force officers.
Some Defence sources this week painted a picture of an institution in which gender imbalance and lack of diversity contribute to a culture in which women are marginalised and bastardisation, sexual harassment and alcohol and drug abuse persist despite efforts to stamp them out.
The 25-year-old institution is part of the University of NSW and costs more than $100 million a year to run.
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But the idea was rejected after a predictable outcry from retired officers and veterans groups.
The alternative plan floated in 2008 was for ADFA graduates to complete their studies at conventional universities after which they would then attend the individual military service training colleges, including the Army's Duntroon Royal Military College in Canberra, the Royal Australian Navy College, HMAS Creswell at Jervis Bay south of Sydney or RAAF Williams at Point Cook in Victoria.
The academy has been at the forefront of a series of scandals involving bastardisation, sexual abuse and inappropriate behaviour almost since its inception in the 1980s.
Now it's at the centre of a scandal in which it is alleged that an 18-year-old cadet was filmed while having consensual sex with a male cadet. The footage was allegedly broadcast without her consent via Skype to six other cadets in another room.
The matter is subject to investigation within the military and by the Australian Federal Police.
The commandant of the academy, Commodore Bruce Kafer, has stepped aside pending an inquiry after Smith criticised Kafer's handling of the issue.
Smith put defence leaders offside after he criticised Kafer for allowing a separate inquiry into another disciplinary matter involving the female cadet and alcohol misuse to proceed despite the Skype affair.
Some senior Defence leaders have expressed concern about the quality and suitability of some officer cadets who graduate from ADFA.
Former army chief Peter Leahy is one who believes the defence establishment would be better off without it.
"I do not see any detriment in students at all attending regular universities before they enter specialist military training including Duntroon,'' says Leahy, who headed the army for six years until 2008.
"If young people get their degrees at a general university and join the Defence Force at 20 or later they tend to be just that little bit more mature and there are a lot of advantages that flow from that,'' he says.
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He has described the male cadet central to the Skype incident as "a grub'' who should be kicked out of the institution.
ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre director and former Defence Department deputy secretary Professor Hugh White is another who has long been in favour of axing the academy.
"ADFA is neither a cost-effective or efficient way to train officer cadets,'' White says.
"These young people would be better off going to an ordinary university, where there is more diversity and a better gender balance among the students, ending up as ordinary undergraduates before they start their specialised military training,'' White tells The Australian Financial Review.
"It would not only provide the cadets with a cheaper education, but also result in them being better educated and socialised cadets then those educated in the hothouse of ADFA,'' White says.
Houston, however, defends the institution and the Defence establishment more broadly, suggesting the misogynistic behaviour is confined to "pockets within the ADF'' and not reflective of the culture generally.
He maintains that behaviour among students at ADFA is no worse than that among students at any other university campus.
While the Skype saga triggered tensions between Smith and the Defence leadership, both the minister and the defence force chief denied that Houston had threatened to resign over Smith's treatment of Kafer.
However, a sex scandal involving a group of sailors aboard the supply ship the HMAS Success has once again highlighted that the negative attitudes towards women, who make up just 14 per cent of the Defence Force, persist.
Smith will have his work cut out bringing about cultural change where other ministers have failed.
While Houston and senior Defence leaders have worked hard to improve conditions in the Defence Force for women, there are still blokes who don't get it, as evidenced by the vicious smear campaign waged by some to discredit the victim in the Skype affair.
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The Dhoom actor was severely injured while shooting for Vipul Shah's next movie "Force" as he was attempting to jump from a moving goods train to another for an action sequence.
According to those present on the spot the stunt required him to land on his feet after jumping but instead he lost his balance and fell on a heap of stones which were lying in the compartment. John was seriously injured as he received more than forty injury marks along with several scratched on his back. Both Vipul Shah and director Nishikanth Kamath had their heart in their mouth when they saw the actor fall as they feared that his spinal cord may have been damaged but luckily the injuries were minor.
The actor's save from major injuries was attributed to his fitness and well toned body which shielded his internal organs from major impact when he hit the stones.
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Welcome to USA TODAY's coverage of Game 5 of the National League Championship Series.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-1 in Game 5 to take a 3-2 lead in the NLCS. The bullpen once again shut down the Brewers in the late innings. Here's a recap of Game 5:
SUMMARY: Cardinals 7, Brewers 1 (Cards lead 3-2)
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11:15: Easy ninth for Motte. Cardinals win 7-1 to take a three-games-to-two lead to Milwaukee Sunday. Dotel gets the win, Greinke the loss, Motte his second save of the series.
11:08: Holliday laces a double into left field corner, scoring Jay and Chambers (who ran for Berkman after he walked). It's now a rout, 7-1.
11:03: Estrada's errant pickoff throw of Jay gets by Fielder. Error No. 4 for Brewers tonight.
11:01: Pujols strikes out with one on. Relatively quiet night for Albert, but he was still on base three times: walk, RBI single and reached on an error.
10:58: Heading into the ninth, the Cardinals bullpen has posted a 1.74 earned run average in 20 2/3 innings in this series. Motte can knock it down to 1.66 with a scoreless ninth.
10:53: Motte gets Weeks to ground out to third, ending the Brewers threat and keeping the Cards lead at 5-1. Estrada in to pitch eighth for Brewers.
10:50: Rzepczynski does his job, fans Fielder. Here comes Motte, trying for the last four outs.
10:46: Lynn gives up a single and walk, then induces Braun to ground into a force out. Rzepczynski coming in to face Fielder with two on, so we'll see four St. Louis relievers for the fifth consecutive game.
10:38: This could be the first game of the series the Cardinals use fewer than four relievers. Lynn, the second reliever, is out for his second inning in the 8th.
10:33: Lance Lynn, who didn't pitch in Game 4, hits for himself after Nick Punto walks to put two men on with two out in the bottom of the seventh. So Lynn wil start the eighth on the mound.
10:26: Kameron Loe in to pitch for the Brewers in the seventh and promptly gives up a Matt Holliday single on his first pitch. Cards lead 5-1.
10:23: You don't need an announcer to know Nyjer Morgan is pinch-hitting for Narveson. The boos of the crowd tewll you. And huge cheers as he grounds into a double play.
10:15: Nice play by Hairston on a slow roller as Chris Narveson gets Berkman to end the inning. Greinke gave up five runs, only two earned, on seven hits. Didn't strike out a batter.
10:11: Not surprisingly, Pujols makes the Brewers pay for Betancourt's error. He rips a hanging slider to left field for an RBI single and it's now 5-1 Cardinals. That's it for Greinke, who didn't pitch great but deserved better.
10:07: Brewers' defense having a bad night. A second error by Betancourt, third for team, puts men at first and third for Pujols in the sixth.
10:02 p.m.: Dotel retires the Brewers in order in the sixth. Greinke is back out for the sixth, having thrown just 77 pitches through five innings.
9:55: Greinke works out of a bases-loaded jam by getting Yadier Molina to fly out to center to end the 5th.
9:44 p.m.: Weeks, playing on the third-base side of second in the Pujols overshift, backhands Albert's grounder but throws it in the dirt for a two-base error.
9:41 p.m.: Through five games of the NLCS, the Cardinals have not had a starter pitch into the sixth inning. Carpenter's five-inning outing in Game 3 is the longest. Garcia's line tonight: 4 2/3, 1 run on seven hits, 0 walks, 5 strikeouts. He threw 68 pitches, 51 strikes.
9:38: Octavio Dotel strikes out Ryan Braun to end the inning.
9:34: Adios, Jaime Garcia. Tony La Russa doesn't want him facing Ryan Braun, so the hook comes. Even Cards fans (below press box) are surprised by the quick hook. Garcia lost it in a hurry in Game 1 and La Russa isn't taking the chance again, pulling him after three singles in the fifth. Octavio Dotel is the new pitcher.
9:31: Brewers get on the board with Corey Hart's line single scoring Jonathan Lucroy, who singled and was sacrificed to second. Very nice nine-pitch at-bat by Hart, and Jerry Hairston follows with a single to left. Two on for Ryan Braun.
9:19: Carlos Gomez makes a fine diving catch of Rafael Furcal's liner to end fourth. St. Louis leads 4-0.
9:16: After Nick Punto's sacrifice bunt, Jaime Garcia brings home the Cardinals' fourth run with a slow grounder to short. Yuniesky Betancourt thought about coming home but elected to get the sure out at first.
9:14: David Freese lines a single to right and Yadier Molina bloops a hit to center over Rickie Weeks' glove to put two Cards on with no out in fourth.
9:08: Nice, easy 1-2-3 inning for Garcia in fourth.
9:03: Albert Pujols, who walked, was the man on first on that fielders' choice. Lance Berkman steals second when Zack Greinke ignores him, but Matt Holliday bounces out to end the inning. After 3, it's 3-0 St. Louis.
9:01: 6-5 force out at second as Lance Berkman grounds to shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt in the overshift and he flips to third baseman Jerry Hairston covering second. Hairston's relay to first is not in time for a double play.
8:58: Brewers shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt does his Albert Pujols imitation, making over-the-shoulder catch of John Jay's bloop in short left for first out of the third.
8:54: After Jerry Hairston strikes out, Albert Pujols makes a nice over-the-head catch of Ryan Braun's foul pop to end the threat.
8:50: Corey Hart's broken bat single with one out sends Zack Greinke, who singled to left, to third. Jerry Hairston Jr. up.
8:42: One pitch later, Jerry Hairston Jr. lets Jaime Garcia's grounder go right through his legs. Two runs score on the error. Rafael Furcal bounces out to end inning, but Cardinals lead 3-0.
8:41: Jerry Hairston Jr., playing in at third base, spears Nick Punto's liner to save a run. Two out, Garcia at plate.
8:38: Yadier Molina doubles off the wall in right, just over Corey Hart's jump, to score Lance Berkman and send David Freese to third. 1-0 Cards.
8:36: Lance Berkman lines a single to center and, with one out, David Freese is hit on left elbow by a Zack Greinke fastball. Yadier Molina up with two on.
8:30: Brewer Carlos Gomez is picked off first after his two-out bloop single. Zack Greinke, after a 1-2-3 first, is out to face Lance Berkman, Matt Holliday and David Freese in Cards' second.
8:16: And they have a rally squirrel image on the scoreboard, telling fans to "Go Nuts." Fans mostly ignore it. Not quite the Rally Monkey of the 2002 Angels, but it's only the LCS.
8:12: Ryan Braun's two-out double down the left-field line is his third double of the NLCS, seventh of the postseason. Now 17-for-35 in playoffs. But Garcia strikes out Prince Fielder to end the first inning.
8:08: A cool night in St. Louis, 63 degrees at first pitch with the expectation it'll be in the 50s before the game is over. More seasonal than the weather for Games 3-4. Breezy, too, blowing out to right field.
8:01: The Cardinals got the night kicked off properly -- the great Chuck Berry sang the National Anthem, wearing a Cards' jersey with the number 84. He'll need a new one next week -- turns 85 on Tuesday.
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She then pretended to talk to her and told her to have the police ready when she got home.
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An important step towards understanding the working principles of the mammalian hearing sensor is the concept of an active cochlear amplifier. Theoretical arguments and physiological measurements suggest that the active cochlear amplifiers originate from systems close to a Hopf bifurcation. Efforts to model the mammalian hearing sensor on these grounds have, however, either had problems in reproducing sufficiently close essential aspects of the biological example (Magnasco, M.O.
Understanding hearing in general and more specifically the mammalian hearing organ, the cochlea, is a long-standing human endeavour. The first basic step was taken by H.L.F. Helmholtz, who proposed in 1863 [
Physiological measurements have shown that among mammals, the hearing characteristics vary little [
In the cochlea, pressure variations generated by incoming sounds are transformed into incompressible and inviscid hydrodynamic waves. As these waves move down the cochlea, they cause small BM displacements [
The characteristics of the active contribution
For stationary inputs simulations of the differential
In addition to providing suboptimal results, for transient signals our simulations were confronted with excessive computational demand. This was our main motivation to resort to an electronic implementation that, while being a simplification of the software model, should take care to preserve the insights gained. For the design, we decomposed the cochlea into
In order to build a generic section, it was sufficient to specify the detuning between the passive frequency
For the realization of the cochlea reported below, we chose, for simplicity, the two parameters independent from the section, as Ψ(
In what follows we report on a realization using design parameters
From the constructed electronic device, we measured the amplitude
Moreover, in experiments with stimulations by more than one tone, two-tone suppression and combination-tone generation, as the salient nonlinear phenomena of mammalian hearing [
The response to transient, broadband stimulation is of similar quality. In
Another transient signal of interest are low-frequency amplitude modulated sounds. That is because such signals play a significant role in clinical procedures for the differential diagnosis of sensory hearing loss. Moreover, such signals may play a major role in speech intelligibility. Also in this case, the correspondence between the physiological observations and the corresponding response generated by our electronic device is extremely close, see
The least perfect correspondence between the signals delivered by our device and the physiological example is found in
By closely following the biological example in our design, it is in the nature of the design of our cochlea that such a dynamical adaption of
We have demonstrated that the Hopf cochlear amplifier concept together with the cochlear biophysics thus provides the design of an extremely sensitive and robust hearing sensor, where salient nonlinear signal processing characteristics (compressive nonlinearity, high sensitivity, two-tone suppression, combination-tone generation) are naturally implemented. The device has all ingredients to serve as a perfect hearing replacement device (cochlear implant), once we succeed in similarly improving the stimulation electrodes needed for implants in a qualitatively comparable manner. Currently, such an electrode is being developed in collaboration with EMPA.
This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNF (grant 205321-108427 to R.S.).
Section diagram, consisting of a Hopf amplifier and two 6th-order Butterworth filters. To form the cochlea, the sections are connected in series.
Output modification by the cochlear cascade: Measurements taken after (from left to right) one, two, ten, twenty sections.
a), b) Steady-state response (upper panels) and gain (lower panels) for Hopf parameters
Salient nonlinear phenomena of hearing: a) Combination-tone, b) two-tone suppression. Left: electronic cochlea (
Response to broadband transient stimulation (clicks): a) hardware (
Instantaneous frequency response to click stimulation at different stimulus levels (
Response phases for different stimulus levels (
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A series of issues involving spoiled food at Michigan prisons were reported in July. Last week, Gov. Rick Snyder issued a $200,000 fine against Amarark Correctional Services in response, though the contract remains in place.
MDOC in a statement Thursday said the company wasn't responsible for inmate illnesses and reports of maggots in prison food.
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Math 111 Course Home Page
Fall Term 2009
Laurie Burton's Home Page
Course Materials
Texts: Algebra and Trigonometry with Modeling & Visualization , 4e. Text packaged with MyMathLab access. ISBN 0321568014
Calculator:A scientific calculator with at least the capabilities of a T. I. – 83 is required for this course. A T. I. – 83 or 84 is highly
|Course Links
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|Course Compass
|Student Resources
|Office Hours
|Math 111 Tutors
|Ideas for Math 111 Success
|Correlation Coefficients
|WOU Resources
|WOU Policy on Academic Dishonesty
|H1N1 & Attendance
If you have mild flu symptoms, the CDC and campus health officials urge you to stay home (or in your residence hall room) to avoid making others sick. You should remain at home or in your residence hall room, except to get medical care or for other necessities, until your fever has been gone for at least 24 hours. Please see the WOU home page for links to more information. Please email your instructors as soon as you can to obtain assignments and missed class work.
In the case of any (H1N1) campus closures, the class web pages and email lists will be used to continue to communicate with all students. If campus closes, be sure to check your email account and the Math 494.594 webpage for posted class assignments.
Tutoring for Math 111 students
Setting the Correlation Coefficient on your TI 83 or 84 calculatorI typed in TI 84 correlation coefficient at Google and found this page: TI 83-84 Troubleshooting This is the information from that page:
For some reason, your TI-83/84 comes from the factory configured not to display correlation coefficients. You need to make a one-time mode setting so that these are displayed in future regressions:
You don't need to re-enter your regression command. Just press [2nd] [ENTER] and [2nd] [ENTER] again to recall it, then [ENTER] to execute it.
Ideas for Math 111 Success
Before you do your homework
1. Carefully read your textbook, there is a lot of valuable information in your book. Skim read the current section before class and read the current section thoroughly after class.
2. Get out pencil and paper and work out the example problems given in the text sections. Follow along with their presentations; make sure you understand each step and for all calculator steps, make sure you are getting the same thing on your personal calculator.
Doing your homework
3. Start by re-reading the text section, looking over your notes on text examples and by looking over your class notes. Are there steps that don't make sense to you? Cross reference between the text and your class notes; can you figure these steps out? If not, do you have a study partner that you can ask?
4. Carefully do all of the odd homework questions in the homework assignment. Follow along with the examples in the book and in your class notes. Don't try to recreate the wheel and figure out everything yourself. Don't try to just "remember" all of the details. Use your resources!
After you have made every attempt to solve an odd question, look at the solution in the Student Solution Manual. Did you get the correct solution? Are there techniques in the SSM solution that you didn't use that could be helpful? Is your solution as complete as the SSM solution? Go back and fix your solutions to be as complete and correct as possible.
5. Do the even homework questions. Carefully read the question and refer to the odd problems you just did. Once your understand what you are supposed to do, solve the question. When you are finished, make sure you have a complete answer, reread the question. Did you answer all that was asked?
Getting help
6. Study Groups: Working in a study group is an ideal way to get and give help with Math 111. Often you will find you need help with one question, but are able to share ideas and help about another question. When you work in a study group, you should attempt to work all of the problems out on your own before discussing the ideas with your group. Don't copy down ideas that others share-discuss, understand and create your own learning.
7. After you have completed your general homework assignment, complete your Mastery homework question. Be very careful in your presentation as well as with your solution. Refer to your general Mastery homework question directions to make sure you are correctly presenting the solution to the question.
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Study of the declining supply of rural physicians
The purpose of this project is to examine the availability and practice characteristics of physicians working in severely medically underserved areas, and to identify related implications for access to basic health care. It is expected that this study will spotlight growing problems of access in rural areas, and will help to identify means of improving access in these areas. The study will be conducted in two phases: (1) analyses of existing national data will be used to classify rural areas according to their degree of underservice; and (2) a survey of physicians from the various types of underserved areas will be conducted, and a small comparison sample on non-underserved areas will be included. Physicians from the most underserved areas and younger physicians will be over-sampled. The survey will be conducted through a mail questionnaire with telephone follow-up, and physician responses will be linked with data from the federal Medicare program. Both the typology of underserved areas and analytic findings will be published in the health policy literature. Findings will also be made available to grantees under the Foundation's State Primary Care Provider Initiative.
Grant Details
Amount Awarded $319,093.00
Awarded on: 4/16/1992
Time frame: 6/1/1992 - 12/31/1995
Grant Number: 20001
Project Hope - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
255 Carter Hall Lane
P.O. Box 250
Millwood, 22646-0255
Curt D. Mueller
Project Director


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NBC Adds Three Dramas, Three Comedies to Fall Lineup
Comcast Corp. (CMCSA)'s NBC is going back to the future to refresh its Thursday night lineup, anchored by a new comedy starring Michael J. Fox.
"The Michael J. Fox Show" will debut at 9:30 p.m. New York time on Thursdays when the season begins in September, NBC said yesterday in a statement. The family comedy stars Fox as a former New York news anchor who returns to work after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
NBC is trying to tap into its former Thursday "Must See TV" glory by building a new comedy lineup after this year's series finales of "30 Rock" and "The Office." Leaning on Fox's popularity should give NBC a head start, although keeping audiences interested isn't a guarantee, Gavin Polone, a film and television producer, said in an interview.
"The first episode is going to draw a huge audience," said Polone, executive producer of "Twisted," which debuts on Walt Disney Co.'s ABC Family next month. "How many people come back for the second or third episode will be key."
Fox, who starred on NBC in the 1980s as Alex P. Keaton in "Family Ties" and in the 1985 time-travel film "Back to the Future," hasn't been a TV regular since leaving ABC's "Spin City" in 2001.
NBC, based in New York, is adding two other comedies in September, "Welcome to the Family" and "Sean Saves the World," which features another returning actor from NBC's glory days -- Sean P. Hayes, who played bawdy Jack McFarland on "Will & Grace." NBC's midseason comedy additions will be "The Family Guide" and "About a Boy."
Identity Crisis
New dramas include "The Blacklist," "Ironside" and "Dracula" in September, with "Believe," "Crisis" and "Crossbones" coming later in the season. The network announced last month it renewed dramas "Revolution," "Chicago Fire," "Parenthood," "Grimm," and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" for 22-episode seasons. It canceled newsmagazine "Rock Center" and comedy "Go On," starring Matthew Perry.
NBC is still trying to establish an identity, years after its "Must See TV" shows including "Seinfeld," "Friends" and "ER" have gone off the air, Polone said.
"I'm still not sure what defines an NBC show," Polone said. "'Smash' and 'Revolution' are so different,'' he said, referring to the musical drama and the science-fiction program. "Smash" wasn't renewed.
Younger Viewers
NBC is the last-place network of the four largest broadcasters this season among all audiences and is in third place behind CBS and Fox among 18-to-49 year olds, according to Nielsen Holdings NV (NLSN) data from May 5.
NBC's average prime-time audience has fallen 6.1 percent from a year ago to 6.98 million. Among viewers 18 to 49, it is down 6.6 percent to 2.99 million.
The network is also making changes in its late-night lineup to lure younger viewers. Seth Meyers will host a show at the 12:35 a.m. slot currently occupied by Jimmy Fallon, said Rich Licata, a NBC spokesman. Fallon is scheduled to become the new host of "The Tonight Show" next year as Jay Leno steps aside.
Ad spending on network television is projected to decline 2 percent this year to $16.9 billion, and total TV advertising, including cable networks, will increase 2.8 percent to $63.9 billion, slowing from 7.1 percent in 2012, according to ZenithOptimedia, Publicis Groupe SA (PUB)'s research division.
News Corp. (NWSA)'s Fox will present its TV lineup today at 4 p.m. in New York. ABC and CBS Corp. (CBS) unveil their schedules later this week.
*T NBC FALL 2013 SCHEDULE (New programs in UPPER CASE; all times New York time)
MONDAY 8-10 p.m. - "The Voice" 10-11 p.m. - "THE BLACKLIST"
TUESDAY 8-9 p.m. - "The Biggest Loser" 9-10 p.m. - "The Voice" 10-11 p.m. - "Chicago Fire"
WEDNESDAY 8-9 p.m. - "Revolution" 9-10 p.m. - "Law & Order: SVU" 10-11 p.m. - "IRONSIDE"
THURSDAY 8-8:30 p.m. - "Parks and Recreation" 8:30-9 p.m. - "WELCOME TO THE FAMILY" 9-9:30 p.m. - "SEAN SAVES THE WORLD" 9:30-10 p.m. - "THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW" 10-11 p.m. - "Parenthood"
FRIDAY 8-9 p.m. - "Dateline NBC" 9-10 p.m. - "Grimm" 10-11 p.m. - "DRACULA"
SATURDAY Encore programming
SUNDAY 7-8:15 p.m. - "Football Night in America" 8:15-11:30 p.m. - "NBC Sunday Night Football"
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From: Shane <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Recent Ethnic Origins Database vs. Haplogroup Database
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:48:03 -0600
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On 11/26/03 12:30 PM, "David Faux" <> wrote:
> Shane: It is only the "Recent Ethnic Origins" database of FTDNA that is
> "contaminated" with the results of mega surname studies
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CADDIS Volume 2: Sources, Stressors & Responses
Metals: Detailed Conceptual Diagram
Diagram Options
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Diagram narrative
Certain regions of the earth have naturally high concentrations of metals, and land disturbance in these areas can increase erosion and mobilize these metals into surface waters; human activities also can redistribute and concentrate metals in areas that are not naturally metals-enriched. When these metals are released into air, water, and soil, they can reach surface waters, and ultimately contribute to biological impairment of aquatic communities if they are biologically available at toxic concentrations. The following conceptual diagram describes the pathways by which point and non-point sources may contribute metals to surface waters, how water chemistry influences bioavailability, and how biologically available metals may impair aquatic life. It illustrates linkages between metals-related stressors (middle of diagram), the human activities and sources that can increase those stressors (top of diagram), and the biological responses that can result (bottom of diagram). In some cases, additional steps leading from sources to stressors, modes of action leading from stressors to responses, and other modifying factors also are shown. This narrative generally follows the diagram top to bottom, left to right.
Linking sources to proximate stressors
Metals enter surface waters by means of point and non-point sources (in tan octagons). A point source is a direct release to water from a discrete source, usually an outfall discharging effluent to surface water. Non-point sources include atmospheric emissions and land uses which contaminate soil with metals. Naturally metals-enriched regions such as the Colorado Mineral Belt become non-point sources when land cover alterations (e.g., devegetation due to agricultural or mining practices) expose rock and soil, which erode into surface waters. These pathways also apply to areas with legacy contamination, such as soil contamination from arsenical pesticide residues or long term industrial or urban land use. Reduced water transpiration due to devegetation and reduced infiltration due to the increased impervious surface cover (compacted soil, roofs, parking lots, and roads) increases the volume and velocity of stormwater runoff entering surface waters. Accelerated flow can incise channels, reducing bank stability and increasing bank and channel erosion. Bank and channel erosion also may be increased by livestock grazing and trampling. Stormwater turbulence or intentional dredging can re-suspend sediments, which may allow sediment-associated metals to partition into the water column, or transport contaminated sediment into previously uncontaminated areas.
Metals entering the atmosphere from tailpipe and stack emissions are precipitated onto land or directly onto water. Episodic, pulsed exposures occur when metals precipitated onto land are washed into surface waters during storms. Smaller runoff events may result from activities such as washing cars or watering lawns and landscaping. The severity of episodic exposures is related to the amount of dry deposition built up in the period between events, saturation levels of non-impervious areas, and the volume of water discharged. The highest levels occur early in the runoff period, or in the "first flush." Metal mobility can be increased by acid rain or soils with acid-forming parent material, fertilizers, tailings or other amendments. More gradual releases occur over periods of snowmelt which can contribute metals to both soil moisture and direct runoff. More detailed information on metals sources and factors conveying metals to surface waters can be found in Marsalek et al. (2006).
Waste from residential and commercial areas may be directed to septic systems, landfills or wastewater treatment plants. Septic systems and landfills can contribute to metals contamination via leachate entering subsurface waters (e.g., groundwater) and eventually surface waters. Wastewater treatment plants, on the other hand, discharge metals-contaminated effluent directly into surface waters. Industrial activities contributing metals to the environment include the storage, refinement, and combustion of fossil fuels and the manufacture of a variety of goods. Waste from industrial facilities may be treated on-site and discharged, stored on-site, or directed to off-site landfills or wastewater treatment plants. Leachate and surface runoff from on-site or off-site storage and disposal areas may transport metals to surface waters. Mining also may involve on-site storage and disposal of wastes, which may contribute metals to surface waters via similar pathways.
Linking proximate stressors to biological impairment
Once in water, the bioavailability and toxicity of a metal is determined by its partitioning and speciation, which are determined by several environmental parameters (e.g., pH, temperature, redox potential, ionic strength, presence of methylating microbes, and the availability of binding sites). Based on these parameters, free metal ions may precipitate, form complexes with ligands (i.e., biotic or abiotic binding sites), become transformed to organometallic compounds (e.g., methylation in mercury), or sorb to solid particles. For more details on metals speciation, see Langmuir et al. (2004).
The metal species of primary toxicological concern are free ions. For many metals, acute toxicity results from binding of free metal ions to chloride cells of the gill epithelium, disrupting osmoregulation and leading to mortality (DiToro et al. 2001). Certain metal forms may diffuse into the gill epithelium, but these absorption routes are considered minor relative to free ion binding. Toxicity associated with dietary bioaccumulation of metals and, for some metals, biomagnification within food webs can occur when there are sustained exposures in habitats with persistent contamination; in addition, food source and feeding mode are key factors determining whether dietary bioaccumulation occurs. Acid mine drainage can present a physical cause of impairment when drainage water mixes with the higher pH water of a receiving stream and metal hydroxides precipitate. The flocculate that results can coat the streambed and smother benthic habitats and organisms.
Interactions with gill membranes can damage tissue and impair the ionoregulatory processes of chloride cells. Once within the organism, metal toxicity may occur by the substitution of nutrients with toxic analogs (e.g., Pb ↔ Ca), improper insertion into enzyme active sites (e.g., Se ↔ S), oxidative injury via free radical cycling, and nonspecific binding to nucleic acids and proteins. Analog substitution and nonspecific binding impair proper function of biomolecules, which in turn influences the physiological health of the organism. Impairment of proteins associated with organelle and cellular membranes affect membrane integrity, leading to breaches and impaired function. At the gill, impairment of chloride cells on the gill affects ion regulation. Internally, impairment of mitochondrial membranes cause leakage of oxyradicals generated via the electron transport pathway. Oxyradicals in turn can cause oxidative damage leading possibly to cell death.
The physiological mechanisms of metal toxicity may translate into a broad spectrum of organism-level effects, ranging from altered behavior (avoidance of contaminated areas, increased susceptibility to predation or reduced success of predators) to outright lethality. Responses detectable in biosurveys often are limited to increases in the relative abundance of metal-tolerant species, decreases in metal-sensitive species, and certain physical anomalies observed in fish (e.g., selenium-associated spinal deformities, blackened tails due to collapse of chromophores, excess mucous production due to gill irritation, and impaired ionoregulation). Examples of species often considered metal-tolerant include chironomids, caddisflies, small-bodied stoneflies, yellow perch and central stonerollers; examples of metal-sensitive species include bivalves, mayflies, and salmonids. However, it should be kept in mind that biotic responses are both taxa- and metal-specific. For more details on the ecological effects of metals, see Kapustka et al. (2004).


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The Brazilian has spent five years playing under the legendary Scottish tactician and is worried the club will struggle to replicate their high-standards when he quits the club
Anderson moved to Old Trafford in a big-money transfer from Porto back in 2007, and has revealed his current manager is a father figure to the players and is worried about the affect his departure will have on the club.
"Manchester United is Alex Ferguson. When he leaves, the club will lose 30-40%, so much depends on him," he told Grande Area television in Portugal.
"He is a father to all the players, a very respected person and when he retires the football world will really feel his loss.
"He always helped me and I have a great affection for him. He lives for training and always wants to know how his players and their families are."
The 24-year-old Brazilian has struggled with injuries in recently - making just 10 Premier League appearances in the 2011-11 campaign and two so far this season.
Ferguson, 70, took over the managerial reigns at Old Trafford on November 6 1986, and has led the club to host of trophies including 12 Premier League titles, five FA Cups, four League Cups and two Champions League crowns.


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