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The FY 2016-2017 Staff Compensation Program (SCP) has been announced. Employees represented by URA-AFT are eligible for the Staff Compensation Program (SCP). Information for deans, managers, and department heads is accessible via the UHR website. Click here for general SCP information for eligible staff employees. Additional information about the Staff Compensation Program is located under Article 41 of the URA-AFT agreement.
The FY 2016-2017 Pay-for-Performance Program (P4P) for Managerial, Professional, Supervisory, and Confidential (MPSC) non-aligned staff employees has not yet been announced. At this time, the P4P Performance Appraisal will follow the SCP calendar. P4P information and guidelines for deans, managers, and department heads is now available on the UHR website. Click here to access resources for staff employees eligible for P4P.

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Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid was one of four NFL coaches who traveled to Afghanistan last week as part of a USO trip.
He gave his thanks to the many servicemen and women he encountered. What did the Eagles fans among them say to him?
Why did you trade Donovan McNabb?
"The Eagles fans, they wanted know why Donovan is a Redskin," Reid told the AP.
The deal that sent McNabb from the Eagles to the NFC East rival Redskins was arguably the biggest of the offseason. And there doesn't seem to be anywhere Reid can go where he doesn't have to defend his decision to jettison the six-time Pro Bowler.
"I told them that's how the NFL works now," Reid said of his response to the troops.
"I also said that Donovan's a great person and I loved being with him."
-- Sean Leahy
Nate Davis is a reporter, blogger and editor who's been at USA TODAY since 2000. He has covered the NFL since 2005. No, he did not play quarterback for Ball State. Davis' succession of our esteemed colleague Sean Leahy at The Huddle is considered a Brady-for-Bledsoe swap by most "insiders."More about Nate


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The water district's progressive approach to working in and around creeks continues to reap benefits for the community and the natural environment.
In the first four years of this program, the water district has removed so much sediment, invasive vegetation, trash and debris and repaired so many eroded creek banks, that when record rainfall came a few years ago, our waterways were able to carry floodwaters safely. This same work has also created more natural conditions for fish, plants and wildlife.
The major types of routine stream maintenance activities are:
More minor maintenance activities include:
If you have observed a problem in any creek in our service area, you can report to our "Access Valley Water" online customer request and information system. This is the best way to alert our field crews of downed branches, eroding banks, trash, graffiti or overgrown vegetation.
The Stream Maintenance Program (SMP) is funded through the countywide, voter approved Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Program parcel tax and the water district's Watershed and Stream Stewardship Fund. Other partner agencies, such as the cities or county, sometimes contribute funds for specific SMP work in their communities.


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PlanningDidn't your mother ever tell you "fail to plan, plan to fail"?
Even while your itchy feet are tickling madly to just hit the road, it can help to ask yourself exactly what kind of travel experience you really want to have.
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When Iranian militants seize the American embassy in 1979, six Americans slip into the Canadian embassy for protection, prompting the CIA to concoct an elaborate plot to rescue them by pretending that they're filmmakers rather than diplomats.
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Movie Details
- Cast
- Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler, Chris Messina, Zeljko Ivanek, Titus Welliver, Keith Szarabajka, Bob Gunton, Richard Kind, Taylor Schilling, Adrienne Barbeau
- Director
- Ben Affleck
- This movie is
- Suspenseful
- Format
- DVD and Blu-ray
- Awards
- Best Film nominee
- Best Direction nominee: Ben Affleck
- Best Actor nominee: Ben Affleck
- Best Supporting Actor nominee: Alan Arkin
- 2013 Golden Globe Awards
- Best Motion Picture (Drama)
- Best Director (Motion Picture): Ben Affleck
- Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture nominee: Alan Arkin
- 2013 Academy Award®
- Best Picture
- Best Writing Adapted Screenplay
- Best Film Editing
- Best Supporting Actor nominee: Alan Arkin
- Best Sound nominee
- Best Sound Effects Editing nominee
- Best Music Score nominee
- Ratings
RLanguage and some violent images
16Common Sense rating OK for kids 16+
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English SDH, French, Spanish (Neutral)Closed captioned
NoLanguage and sound
English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, French: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoOther features
Color; interactive menus; scene access.
English SDH, Spanish (Neutral)Closed captioned
NoLanguage and sound
English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 5.1Other features
Color; interactive menus; scene access.
For Parents
Common Sense Note
Parents need to know that Argo is based on the true story of a daring covert rescue mission, carried out by CIA operative Tony Mendez (played by Ben Affleck, who also directs), during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. A few scenes feature unruly mobs and dead bodies, and there are some extremely tense sequences during the escape, but there's not much actual on-screen violence. Other issues include swearing (there's quite a bit, including "f--k" and "s--t") and several scenes that show people smoking and drinking during social occasions.
- Sexual Content
- Some scantily clad actresses in scenes involving sci-fi movie shoots. A married couple hugs.
- Violence
- An unruly mob overruns the U.S. embassy, waving guns and threatening people. Soldiers fire tear gas into a crowd. People are manhandled and shoved around. Later, militants threaten to shoot hostages, even setting up a firing squad. Other scenes show victims of the violence in Iran, including death by point-blank gunfire and hanging. Several scenes include tense stand-offs between soldiers and people trying to hide their identities, and though there's not much violence, the anxiety is palpable. Lots of guns.
- Language
- Frequent swearing includes "f--k" (and many variations thereof, including a running joke involving the movie's title and word "f--k"), "s--t," "prick," "a--hole," "d--k," "hell," "goddamn," "Jesus Christ" (as an exclamation), and more.
- Social Behavior
- The CIA goes to extreme lengths -- and one agent risks his life -- to save six people who need to get out of Iran before they're captured by revolutionaries. It's a patriotic story, based on a real mission, that highlights the agency's sense of duty during very difficult times.
- Consumerism
- One character drinks Miller beer and eats at McDonald's. A wealthy movie executive drives a Rolls Royce.
- Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol
- Several scenes show people drinking wine and cocktails at meals. A man drinks liquor alone in a hotel room, straight from the bottle, after getting bad news; it's also implied that he drinks wine "for courage" in another tense situation. Pretty frequent smoking (accurate for the era).
- Age appropriate
- Not an issue
- Depends on your kid and your family
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NORTH ANDOVER, MA - The Merrimack men's tennis team improved to 2-0 on the season with their second 9-0 victory of the season as they downed Le Moyne.
With the win over Le Moyne on Saturday, the Warriors finish off their fall season with a 2-0 overall record and also played good tennis in two division I Invitationals.
In singles action, Chris Barnhart (Longmeadow, Mass.), Matt Lipinski (Arlington, Mass.) and Petar Golijanin (Navi Sad, Serbia) all won their matches by identical 6-0, 6-0 scores. The freshman duo of Miguel Belfort (Caracas, Venezuela) and Matt Pronesti (Mission Viejo, Calif.) each won their matches handily by the score of 6-0, 6-1 and 6-1, 6-3 respectively. Vince Bellino (Amesbury, Mass.) finished off singles action with a 8-1 victory against his opponent from Le Moyne.
The duo of Golijanin and Belfort continued their hot play as they downed their opponent by the score of 8-0 while Lipinski and Pronesti continued their domination by the score of 8-1. Barnhart and Bellino also picked up a doubles point as they won 8-2.
The victory over Le Moyne on Saturday concludes the Warriors fall season as they will return to action on February 9 as they will travel to take on Bryant for a 7 p.m. match.
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Article KB310997 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base recommends that you don't nest organizational units (OUs) more deeply than 15 levels. This particular article applies to Active Directory environments that use Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003. But what about Windows Server 2008? Does Windows Server 2008's Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS—the new name for Active Directory) support more than 15 levels of OUs?
I don't have any info on this, but I do take issue with the KB article referenced above. For while Active Directory may support 15 (or more) levels of OUs in a domain, this doesn't mean it's a good idea to create such a structure.
Think about it—let's say that you create 15 levels of OUs to mirror some (freakish) aspect of the organizational structure of your company. Now imagine what the distinguished name (DN) for one of your users might look like:
CN=Gordon G. Gekko Jr.,OU=Interns,OU=Not Permanent,OU=Asset-Backed Commercial Paper,OU=Subprime Mortgages,OU=Western Trading Desk,OU=Institutional Investing Department,OU=Financial Operations,OU=Investment Banking Division,OU=Room 14,OU=North Wing,OU=Floor 12,OU=Building 14,OU=Western Campus,OU=Seattle Users,OU=Seattle,DC=Contoso,DC=COM
What's the problem here? First, some Active Directory tools may have difficulty parsing a DN as large as this. Second, you're more likely to hit the limit for AD attribute length when your DNs are this long. These are both technical issues that can cause real problems for managing your AD environment. And of course there's the obvious issue of having to manage a deep and complex hierarchy of OUs.
Moral of the story? Go shallow in your OU hierarchy.
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Venice pilot issues apology, explanation on deadly beach crash
SARASOTA COUNTY, FL (WFLA) - An apology and explanation came from the pilot of a plane that crashed on Caspersen Beach over the weekend, killing a father and his 9-year-old daughter.
Karl Kokomoor issued a statement through pastor Victor Willis of the United Methodist Church of Englewood.
In part, the statement said Kokomoor is deeply, deeply sorry and that he will keep the Irizarry family in his prayers for as long as he lives. While Willis read the statement, Kokomoor's wife Susan and daughter Erin Clemens stood in silence.
The statement started with an apology.
"Words cannot express the sorrow I feel over the loss of Ommy Irizarry this father, and soldier and his beautiful daughter Oceana. I send my heartfelt apologies to the Irizarry family for my role in this tragic accident," Willis said as he read from Kokomoor's statement.
Kokomoor's plane struck 36-year-old Sgt. Ommy Irizarry and his daughter Oceanna. They both died from their injuries.
In the statement, Kokomoor explained he and friend David Theen were on a short sightseeing trip when the plane lost power.
"I along with David tried to fix the situation and restart the engine, but my efforts in the cockpit did not work," the statement said.
According to the statement the plane descended quickly. Kokomoor contends he spotted an area on the shore where he did not see anyone and landed the plane.
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Lloyds Banking Group's unexpected - and positive - trading update has lifted the banking sector, and indeed the whole market, with the FTSE 100 building on its 21-month high.
Lloyds is top of the tree, up 4.28p to 59.83p, after it predicted a return to profit this year. Royal Bank of Scotland, the other taxpayer controlled bank, is up 2.33p at 44.33p while Barclays is 6.4p better at 359.3p. HSBC is 2.7p higher at 683.7p and Standard Chartered has climbed 4p to 1775.5p.
All this has helped lift the FTSE 100 by 20.10 points to 5662. 72, ahead of the options expiry later this morning which could cause some volatility. Positive overnight performances from Wall Street and Asian markets have also helped sentiment. Joshua Raymond, market strategist at City Index said:
The markets recovered yesterday's losses to push higher on Friday on Quadruple Witching Day, led chiefly by gains in the banking sector after a bullish trading update by Lloyds Banking Group. With a distinct lack of economic data today, investors are likely to focus on the Lloyds news and contracts expiry.
The markets tend to be a bit jump on Witching Days, when a combination of futures and options expire and we have already seen elements of this in the morning's session.
With the majority of European contracts expiring before lunch time, and without any significant economic data due out either, we may see the markets drift in the afternoon towards the close.
Utilities were under pressure as risk appetite among investors rose. So Scottish and Southern Energy slipped 10p to £11.07 while Centrica is down 2.6p at 295.4p and Severn Trent slid 9p to £12.06.
But Tullow Oil has added 8p to £12.80 after a positive note from its house broker RBS. Analyst Phil Corbett said:
We believe the market is happy to price Tullow at a premium to the base case, but, in our view, does not fully understand what this premium represents. We use a four-stage approach to quantify this premium, which results in a 572p uplift to our base case and rounded target price of 1,500p. The story remains catalyst-rich – the Uganda farm-out announcement should be positive for sentiment while drilling news flow is plentiful over the remainder of 2010.
Among the second liners Booker, the cash and carry wholesaler, has bounced 1.72p to 43.76p after an upgrade from Evolution Securities. The broker raised its price target from 44p to 50p and said:
Booker is funding growth from cash flow – unusual for a food retailer – and should be debt–free by 2012. Value-added, bolt-on acquisitions look likely and, along with the low-risk venture into India, signal excellent growth potential. As Booker grows, the company will come to be more widely covered and its long-term potential better understood – leading to a deserved rerating for the shares.


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photographs and poems
de Dan Tubbs, Jr.
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This is a collection of poems written by the author along with photographs he has taken over the years. They range from the dramatic to the sublime and are all thought provoking.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Poesía
Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
80 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación jun. 05, 2008
- Idioma English
- Etiquetas gift, colorful, thoughtful, poems, Photographs, coffee table
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My wife Martha and I live on the north coast of California near the Redwoods. She works closely with me on my books and co-authored our latest work, "The Bear Family at Christmas." I enjoy reading, photography, hiking and watching classic films. We have just finished restoring our 1899 Victornian home and are looking forward to traveling around the country.
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The CBS crew is split on how the New England-Baltimore game will play out. Here are some of the opinions:
From Boomer Esiason: "Tom Brady is playing at a different level." Boomer says the big factor has been overhauling New England's offensive line, and passing more to the tight ends. He picks New England, 27-24.
From Bill Cowher: "I think it comes down to finishing drives," and in that regard he says the Patriots' top-rated offense will run into problems against the Baltimore defense that has been solid in the red zone. He picks Baltimore, 24-20.
From Shannon Sharpe: He says the New England defense that Baltimore will go up against Sunday "is not nearly as good as what they saw from Houston last week." Accordingly, he looks for a better performance from Joe Flacco and picks Baltimore, 27-23.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.


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Doing the Waterfront Right
"Mission Bay is easily one of the best new waterfront neighborhoods in America, with 2,700 new condos already built. Yet a mere 10 years ago, the place didn't exist. It was 300 acres of raw brownfields, populated by a few hardened pioneers living on houseboats in Mission Creek.
Clearly, San Francisco didn't get its waterfront to this point by following the SugarHouse model.
The Nutter administration took some heat last week for signing off on the gaming operator's plan to build a suburban-style box surrounded by acres of asphalt parking just south of Penn Treaty Park. Public anger would be more fairly directed at Gov. Rendell, who prefers easy money to real development, and who imposed this crummy slots barn on the Delaware waterfront.
But even a master plan doesn't guarantee that Philadelphia will produce its version of Mission Bay. San Francisco's plan was in place for years before development took off.
How did San Francisco do it? Obviously, the explosive growth in nearby Silicon Valley and the city's famously tight housing market helped make Mission Bay attractive to developers. In 2000, the opening of the Giants' AT&T Park, set firmly within the city grid, helped focus attention on the neighborhood. So did the extension of an urbane light-rail line."


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Wagner goes the distance to shutout Clinton 5-0 in game one
Rattlers run win streak to six games behind 10Ks by starting pitcher
By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers | May 8, 2013 4:11 PM ET
GRAND CHUTE, WI - Tyler Wagner kept the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers on a roll. The former closer for the University of Utah struck out a career high ten batters as he twirled a complete game shutout in a 5-0 win over the Clinton LumberKings in game one of a doubleheader at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium.
Wisconsin showed no ill effects from the off day on Tuesday. The Timber Rattlers grabbed the early lead with four runs in the bottom of the first inning. Mitch Haniger drove in Tyrone Taylor with a single. Victor Roache's fly ball to center was dropped to allow him to reach base on a sacrifice fly that scored Michael Reed from third base. Later in the inning Chris McFarland drove in both Haniger and Roache with a single.
Tyler Wagner took that lead and ran with it. The Wisconsin starting pitcher worked around an error and a walk in the second inning. In the fourth, a close 3-2 pitch with two outs was called a ball to allow the inning to continue. Tyler Marlette got jammed on an 0-2 pitch and sent a weak grounder halfway up the third base line for the first Clinton hit of the game. Wagner got the final out of the inning to keep the LumberKings off the scoreboard.
Clinton (13-16) threatened in the top of the sixth. Guillermo Pimentel reached on an infield single with one out and Patrick Kivlehan dumped in a single into center to put a pair of runners. But, Wagner stopped the LumberKings cold by getting Dario Pizzano to ground into an inning ending 6-4-3 double play.
Jose Sermo singled in a run in the bottom of the sixth to give the Rattlers a 5-0 lead.
Wagner set down the LumberKings in order in the top of the seventh to finish off his gem. Wagner struck out a pair in the seventh to give him a total of ten in the game. He walked two and picked up his third win of the season.
The win was the sixth straight for the Timber Rattlers and moved them to 14-14 on the season.
WP: Tyler Wagner (3-1)
LP: Tyler Pike (1-3)
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Teen to be sentenced for extremely violent robbery
The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named because he is a minor, was remanded on continuing bail by Judge John O'Connor at the Dublin Children's Court to allow a pre-sentence probation report to be completed.
The boy, who is in care, pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted robbery of the man at Citywest Campus Luas Stop, Citywest, Dublin on the night of July 25 last.
Garda Adrian O'Sullivan obtained CCTV evidence and played the footage in court. Judge O'Connor has said it was "not easy to watch". The video showed a young man, aged 20, walking and then the teen and his co-defendant began following him.
He was pushed off a path on to a grass verge where he was knocked down. Gda O'Sullivan said it was an unprovoked attack.
During the approximately five-minute incident he was beaten and the pair repeatedly stamped on his body. The man rolled in a ball to protect himself as the teens rained kicks and punches to his head an body.
At one stage during the beating, the defendant could be seen leaping in the air and landing with both feet on the body of the young man.
Judge O'Connor also noted that at point the teenager "had to be restrained" by his accomplice.
The muggers then stopped and briefly walked away but came back to pick the man up off the ground, before they resumed attacking him. He continued to sustain blows and was knocked back on to the ground and stamped on again. The teens fled when a security guard saw what was happening.
A medical report was not available but Gda O'Sullivan has furnished the court with pictures of the man's facial injuries. The court has heard he made a recovery. However, he remained shaken up as a result of the incident which has been described by the judge as barbaric.
Defence solicitor John Quinn has asked the court to note the youth made admissions, co-operated with gardai and was anxious to plead guilty to the offence.
A care worker has told the court that the boy is "not a bad kid" but can be difficult at times. He had a place in college but did not go.
He already has three prior convictions including assault causing harm which resulted in him receiving a suspended sentence in 2013. His other offences were failing to turn up to court and criminal damage which result in him being placed on probation.
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RODGER Tett was "bang out on the floor" when he was stamped on by Stephen Gibbs before his death, a court heard today.
The 42-year-old Bournemouth man reacted with anger after seeing murder accused Gibbs snorting a line of cocaine off a table in his home, the defendant's mother Annette said today.
She told the jury at Winchester Crown Court that Mr Tett punched her son twice in the chest and face on September 7 last year before Gibbs lashed out.
The two men had spent the afternoon together at Mr Tett's home in Luckham Road, Bournemouth, before the alleged row took place during the afternoon.
Mrs Gibbs, who wept in the court and ran rosary beads through her fingers before starting to give her evidence, said tension had brewed that day as Mr Tett's fiancée, Kim Trevillion, had been "acting flirtatiously" with her son.
"It was making Rodger angry," she said.
"He had been angry all day [before he punched Gibbs]."
Mrs Gibbs said she was sitting in her wheelchair when she saw her son punching Mr Tett to the ear and eye.
The court heard that Mr Tett fell to the floor before Gibbs "stamped on his head".
"Stephen gave him [Mr Tett] two smacks [stamps] to the head," she said.
"Rodger was just lying there. His ear was bloody and his eye was really bad."
She said Gibbs then pulled the door against Mr Tett's head, but added: "I think he was just trying to get out of the house".
Mr Tett died on September 9 of severe head injuries at hospital in Southampton.
Mrs Gibbs told police officers during an interview that her son had "behaved like an animal", but said today: "It was self-defence, honest to God".
However, Michael Vere-Hodge QC, defending Gibbs, suggested that his mother's testimony was confused.
"Mr Tett was both bigger and around two stone heavier than the defendant," he said.
"You say now that you were affected by drink and medication that you were taking. The overall effect is that, although there may be parts of the day that are clear, overall it isn't so clear."
In a 999 call played to the court, Mrs Gibbs told a call handler for the ambulance service that two men had attacked her son.
She told the court she wasn't sure why she had said that.
Gibbs, 33, denies a single count of murder.
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jasimar on Feb 25, 2007:
Totally agree with Keter on this one. Clean that piece pristine before attempting to paint if you don't want to sand. Sanding would probably be best, but I've managed to cover stained wood well enough with latex and a roller. It's chipping now 7 years later, but it's kind of fun. A new game. Peel the purple off of the dresser! Yay.
ajftuba on Feb 25, 2007:
The one thing that I would say is make sure to sand between every coat if you want a nice glossy look. I just did some bookshelves and the more patience I had and the more time I took to sand, the better they looked. Keter's post on making it look more antique sounds lovely but I still think the first key is to sand the bejeezes out of it so it doesn't look like cheap painted pine. As my bookshelves still sadly do (but only if you look really close).
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I would have to go by Lowes to see what they have but think you can figure this out for yourself...
1. Degrease and sand the whole piece to encourage good paint adhesion.
2. Paint the whole thing with a great rust colored spray primer like Rustoleum.
3. Overpaint with your choice of black enamels.
4.Lightly scuff the paint with fine sandpaper or steel wool to reveal hints of the color beneath.
5.Use a mixture of Rub-n-Buff antique gold or copper and boiled linseed oil on a rag and rub over the whole
piece, depositing more color in any recessed area and in the scratches left by the sandpaper.
6.Let dry several days and clearcoat with high gloss acrylic spray.
You'll wind up with classic 1950's "Japanese antique."
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He had been in failing health for several years.
During World War II, he served in the Royal Artillery, landing on Gold Beach during the Normandy invasion.
At Du Pont, Jefferson's legacy will be his belief that life sciences were the future for the then-mature chemical giant, colleagues say.
"He set the DuPont Co. on the track to be a major player in life sciences," said David Weir, director of Delaware Biotechnology Institute and a former Du Pont executive. "He came back from Europe in the late 1970s with the tremendous conviction that life sciences was the next major wave that DuPont could ride."
"Ed Jefferson exemplified the importance our company places on science," Charles Holliday, DuPont's chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement. "His leadership and insights throughout his career at DuPont helped shape the direction our company is taking today."
Jefferson succeeded Irving Shapiro as chairman and chief executive officer in 1981. In his first year, Jefferson presided over the company's $8 billion purchase of Conoco, then the nation's ninth-largest oil company.
Jefferson increased DuPont's spending on research and development, including an expansion of the company's Experimental Station research facility. He oversaw creation of DuPont Pharmaceuticals in 1982.
In 1985, Jefferson also oversaw a retirement incentive plan that cut the company's U.S. workforce 10%.
Jefferson retired as chairman in 1986, when he reached the company's mandatory retirement age of 65.
He was succeeded by Richard E. Heckert. Jefferson continued to serve on the company's board until 1992.
Jefferson was born in London in 1921 into an upper-class English family.
During World War II, he was among the troops that liberated concentration camps in Germany, said his wife, Naomi Love Jefferson. After the war, he returned to England and finished his education at King's College at the University of London. He received his doctorate there.
Jefferson took a job as a research chemist at the company's West Virginia plant in 1951.
At a time when corporations still kept regular hours, Jefferson worked 12-hour days. His office was as meticulously kept as his personal attire.
"He loved working at DuPont," his wife said. "He felt like he was making a contribution.
Jefferson and his wife were married in 1953. The couple had four sons. One son, Peter Love Jefferson, died in the early 1970s in a motorcycle accident. Another son, Edward G. Jefferson Jr., died in the late 1980s.
The Unidel Foundation endowed a chair in Jefferson's name at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute at the University of Delaware. Jefferson also served as a trustee of the university and as chairman of the board of Winterthur Museum and Gardens.
"To my mind, he was a giant," said Weir, who knew Jefferson from their days at DuPont. "He was an unusual combination, a businessman who could run a large corporation, but had an acute understanding and interest in science and technology."
Weir remembers Jefferson speaking at a dinner in the early 1980s, organized at Jefferson's request, to recognize Francis Crick and James Watson, the discoverers of DNA.
The two men were among a half dozen Nobel Prize winners present when Jefferson, who firmly believed life sciences should be DuPont's next great initiative, gave his address.
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Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said Jefferson was an accomplished pianist who enjoyed playing in public.
"There was an entertainer in him that was always eager to get out," Carper said. "There was a human side to him that I found endearing, and that made him a joy to be around."
Jefferson is survived by his wife of 53 years, Naomi Love Jefferson, sons Charles D. Jefferson of Charlottesville, Va., and Andrew McKinley Jefferson and his wife, Heather, of Wilmington; and grandsons Peter M. Jefferson, Charles D. Jefferson Jr. and Marshall Edward Jefferson.
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Around this time of the year, it's common to review the major surprises of the past 12 months and look ahead to what's expected and what may surprise in the year ahead. It's often painful to review past expectations, as they can be so terribly wrong. But, as they say, those who don't learn from history are often doomed to repeat it.
On interest rates, it's worth noting that the financial futures market got the call on the Reserve Bank of Australia largely right last year. At the start of the year, the market was pricing a cut in the official cash rate from 4.25 per cent to 3.25 per cent – with a near certain expectation that rates would be cut at the February 2012 policy meeting.
The market's expectation was based on declining export commodity prices and fears over Europe. Indeed, economists were generally dismissive of the market's aggressive interest rate cut expectations – judging it to reflect a small risk of a major European financial crisis, which would demand very deep interest rate cuts.
Of course, Europe failed to implode – helped later in the year by a "whatever it takes" bond buying promise from the European Central Bank.
Yet economically, the region still sank into recession. And Australian official interest rates were eventually cut to 3 per cent, due to the progressive decline in coal and iron ore prices, China's weakening economy, a stubbornly high Australian dollar and stubbornly weak local business and consumer confidence.
There were several economic surprises last year. Persistent weakness in the European and United States economies were not too much of a surprise but China's economy arguably slowed for longer than many Western analysts anticipated.
This seemed to reflect in part Chinese leaders being distracted by a major year-end power transition but also the fact that officials were less fearful over the slowdown than were many analysts, and wary not simply to pump up China's property bubble again.
As it turns out, China's economy ended 2012 with the growth deceleration seemingly at an end, helped in part by a new round of infrastructure programs.
Iron ore prices have bounced back strongly in recent months and, while China's centrally directed investment-intensive growth model is increasingly under question, optimism on the economy appears to have returned of late.
Other surprises were the fact the Australian dollar remained relatively high last year despite the earlier decline in commodity prices.
In this regard, some credit should go to former Treasury secretary Ken Henry, who back in May suggested the currency might start to become a "safe haven" for foreign investors. While I dismissed the suggestion at the time, his views were more widely accepted by year end as evidence mounted of significant foreign buying of the Australian dollar, especially by central banks.
The failure of the non-mining parts of the economy to respond to the progressive decline in interest rates has also surprised.
With RBA interest rate cuts in November and December 2011, there was an expectation the housing sector and consumer spending would start to respond by early 2012. As it turned out, the housing response was quite muted and consumer confidence remained at below average levels.
Due to already high household debt levels and the lingering shock of the global financial crisis, consumer spending and home buying is not responding to lower interest rates with as much gusto as in the past.
That's led to some speculation from the Reserve Bank that the "neutral" level of interest rates could be lower than the experience of the past two decades suggests.
That said, reported economic growth was very strong in the March quarter – due to unusually strong consumer spending – only slowing to below-trend growth in the June and September quarters.
Strong but lumpy mining investment added to the volatility in economic growth over the past year, while consumer spending was supported earlier in the year by carbon-tax related compensation from the Gillard government.
While mining investment was strong, as expected, weakness in commodity prices led to a major downgrade to investment expectations in the final months of the year, such that the peak in investment looks to be much closer than previously thought.
One benefit of slowing economic growth is that it helped curb inflation – confirmation of which was often important for the RBA before it could decide to cut interest rates further.
Note the RBA waited until after the March quarter consumer price index report before its first interest rate cut in May last year – although it made up for the delay with a larger than usual cut of half a percentage point.
However, the RBA did not cut interest rates after benign June quarter CPI, due to a mini boom in consumer spending thanks to the Gillard government's household payments.
And while the RBA cut interest rates in October, higher than expected September quarter CPI published later that month was enough to make it hold off on cutting interest rates again in November – choosing to cut in December instead.
All up, by year end Australia's mining investment boom looked close to peaking while the non-mining sector was still struggling to gain traction. Economic growth in the December quarter also appears to have been relatively muted.
Given the emerging weakness in the economy and growing leakages in our major income and consumer tax bases, it's no surprise federal budget revenues were revised down and the Gillard government has finally conceded it won't be able to achieve an underlying budget surplus this financial year.
With iron ore prices firming up more recently, however, a key question for the early months of this year is the extent to which mining investment plans might be upgraded – or at least hold up at reasonably high levels next financial year. In this regard, the next official survey of business investment plans on February 28 will contain the first peek at projected spending in 2013-14.
The challenge for the economy, however, is that the best we might expect from mining investment is zero contribution to economic growth in the coming year or so – as investment is already at very high levels. Export commodity prices are also still at relatively high levels historically– and a return to previous peaks is unlikely. That implies a sharp deceleration in national income growth even if commodity prices at worst level out.
Flat commodity prices and mining investment means the non-mining sectors will have to work a lot harder to keep the economy afloat – an even greater challenge due to the high Australian dollar and fully leveraged household sector.
Barring a sudden slump in the dollar, interest rates will need to do most of the work in helping to rebalance the economy.
Interestingly, financial markets retain reasonably aggressive interest rate expectations, with a half a percentage point decline in official rates expected in the coming year. At this stage, however, markets attach only a 50 per cent chance to a cut of quarter of a percentage point at the RBA's February policy meeting.
Notwithstanding a firmer Chinese economy – and possible upside surprise for the US economy this year – I suspect financial markets could be right again.
My base case is still for a half a percentage point cut in official interest rates by midyear. While interest rates are low, what's important is the effect – if any – they are having on the economy. And given uncertainty over the "neutral" level of interest rates in a post-GFC world, the RBA will need to remain quite data dependent.
But due to firmer iron ore prices of late and the importance of the next official reading on investment expectations due on February 28, I suspect the RBA will pass on cutting interest rates next month.
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The legend of Nibiru, or Planet X (above and below, the hourglass of physical reality), is a myth brought forth to awaken human consciousness in end times.
Nibiru, in Babylonian Astronomy translates to "Planet of Crossing" or "Point of Transition", especially of rivers, i.e. river crossings or ferry-boats, a term of the highest point of the ecliptic, i.e. the point of summer solstice, and its associated constellation. The establishment of the Nibiru point is described in tablet 5 of the Enuma Elish. Its cuneiform sign was often a cross, or various winged disc. The Sumerian culture was located in the fertile lands between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, at the southern part of today's Iraq.
As the highest point in the paths of the planets, Nibiru was considered the seat of the summus deus who pastures the stars like sheep, in Babylon identified with Marduk. This interpretation of Marduk as the ruler of the cosmos was identified as an early monotheist tendency in Babylonian religion by Alfred Jeremias.
Some authors believe that the observations of ancient astronomers provide proof that Nibiru is an actual planet or brown dwarf in our solar system. These claims are for the most part dismissed as pseudoscience by the mainstream scientific communities of archaeology and astronomy.
The work of Zecharia Sitchin has garnered much attention among ufologists, ancient astronaut theorists and conspiracy theorists. He claims to have uncovered, through his retranslations of Sumerian texts, evidence that the human race was visited by a group of extraterrestrials from a distant planet in our own Solar System.
Part of his theory lies in an astronomical interpretation of the Babylonian creation myth, the Enuma Elish, in which he replaces the names of gods with hypothetical planets. However, since the principal evidence for Sitchin's claims lies in his own personally derived etymologies and not on any scholarly agreed interpretations, his theories remain at most pseudoscience to the majority of academics.
Sitchin's theory proposes the planets Tiamat and Nibiru. Tiamat supposedly existed between Mars and Jupiter. He postulated that it was a thriving world in a much differently shaped solar system, with jungles and oceans, whose orbit was disrupted by the arrival of a large planet or very small star (less than twenty times the size of Jupiter) which passed through the solar system between 65 million and four billion years ago. The new orbits caused Tiamat to collide with one of the moons of this object, which is known as Nibiru. The debris from this collision are thought by the theory's proponents to have variously formed the asteroid belt, the Moon, and the current inclination of the planet Earth.
To the Babylonians, Nibiru was the celestial body or region sometimes associated with the god Marduk. The word is Akkadian and the meaning is uncertain. Because of this, the planet Nibiru is sometimes also referred to as Marduk. Sitchin hypothesizes it as a planet in a highly elliptic orbit around the Sun, with a perihelion passage some 3,600 years ago and assumed orbital period of about 3,750 years; he also claims it was the home of a technologically advanced human-like alien race, the Anunnaki, who allegedly visited Earth in search of gold. These beings eventually created humanity by genetically crossing themselves with extant primates, and thus became the first gods.
I thought we were through with doomsday predictions and into following science to gauge end times and scenarios Well guess what? Rumors of Nibiru's return are circulating again linked to a doomsday scenario. Nibiru is a myth but the article sent me on a journey to find my Nibiru file and remember the story about the Anunnaki as told to me by Zechariah Sitchin replete with artifacts. The article takes us to a place of remembering we are biogenetic experiment that is about to end or evolve no matter how you see.
Will the world end in October? Conspiracy theorist claims mysterious planet Nibiru will smash into Earth Daily Mail - January 3, 2017
The world could be set to end in October this year, when a giant mysterious planet collides with our own - according to a conspiracy theorist. David Meade, author of the book 'Planet X - The 2017 Arrival', believes a star, which he calls 'a binary twin of our sun', is coming 'at us towards the south pole'. He says the star will bring with it 'seven orbiting bodies', including Nibiru, a large, blue planet that he also refers to as Planet X hurtling towards our planet.
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There's no evidence for the existence of Planet X, despite a NASA space telescope's best efforts to track it down. The hypothetical world that may or may not be orbiting the sun beyond the orbit of Pluto has inspired many a doomsday theory. In the run-up to the much anticipated Mayan Doomsday Prophecy of Dec. 21, 2012, the marauding Planet X was scheduled to make a inner-solar system dash, sparking gravitational mayhem, triggering civilization-ending solar flares. Some doomsayers held onto the crackpot notion that Planet X could be the fictional planet Nibiru that is inhabited by the Anunnaki, an alien race hellbent on re-claiming Earth as their own. 15 months later, we all know how that alien invasion went - apparently we won.


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University Academic Grievance Policy
Students who challenge an academic grade evaluation of their work in a course or seminar, or in research or another required educational activity or who challenge an unfavorable academic standing or status assigned to them because of inadequate grades or other evaluations of their performance may request a review of the evaluation or the academic status, or both.
Each school and college has established committees and procedures for considering such requests. Except for cases involving termination of study, students who wish to request a review of an academic grievance should submit such a request in writing to the official or committee responsible. The nature of such grievances may vary considerably. Some should be directed initially to the department concerned and others to the student's school or college. Where the school is not departmentalized, such requests should be presented directly to the school official or committee responsible.
If the issue is not resolved by the departmental and school officials or committees responsible, students may then address a petition to the Graduate Academic Council for a review of their case and of departmental and/or school decisions on it. The council refers such petitions to its Committee on Admissions and Academic Standing. The action of this committee, upon acceptance by the council, is final.
Students whose authorization to continue in study has been terminated officially by the Dean of Graduate Studies who challenge that status may address a petition to the Graduate Academic Council for a review of their standing and for reinstatement. The council refers such petitions to its Committee on Admissions and Academic Standing. The action of this committee, upon acceptance by the council, is final.
In reviewing a petition for redress of an academic grievance, the committee utilizes a variety of procedures. It may hold a formal hearing with all parties and their representatives present or it may decide to meet separately with the parties and representatives involved. The nature and number of the representatives attending in all instances are at the discretion of the committee. The procedures adopted are those which the committee believes will provide the parties involved with an opportunity to present their sides of the issues to the committee and for the committee to gather the information and evidence it deems necessary to make its decision.
Action taken on student grievances by the committee is reported to the Graduate Academic Council, and after acceptance by the council the action is final and is not subject to further formal review within the University.
Department of Reading Grievance Policy
In the first instance, the grievance should be discussed with the faculty member involved, and with the student's advisor. If this does not resolve the dispute, the grievance should be referred to the Department Chair, in writing (email is acceptable). If the dispute cannot be resolved by the Chair, it is referred to the Department faculty for a ruling, which will be communicated in writing to all affected parties.
The Department's ruling can be appealed to the School of Education Academic Standing Committee, and ultimately to the Graduate Academic Council.


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:: Introduction fo the Hospitality Industry
Fall 2012
@Kauai CC
|Credit Hours:
C Tabuchi
|Instructional Mode:
|08/20/2012 - 12/14/2012
|Course Restrictions:
|Course Description:
|Students examine the historical development, organization structure, career preparation, future trends, human relations and other auxiliary departments of the lodging and food and beverage segments of the hospitality industry, at the regional, national and international levels. The class surveys the travel, tour, retail, and recreational segments to ensure global perspective. Students also explore the implications of culture, service, and the Aloha Spirit in the creation and delivery of hospitality.
|exploring the hospitality industry, Walker, John R.
Books may be purchased at the Kauai CC bookstore or ordered online at http://www.bookstore.hawaii.edu/kauai/home.aspx. If you do not have access to the Internet or unable to travel to the bookstore, you may also order by phone at 1-800-UHBOOKS
|Technical Requirements:
|The Internet allows students to take a course at home using a personal computer. Familiarity with using a computer and basic Internet skills (browsing, sending e-mail, saving/sending files) is required. Students must have a computer with Internet access. Depending on the online course, students may be required to log in at a specific day and time or at anytime. Students taking an online course should always contact their instructor after registration or prior to the first day of class to get detailed information regarding the course.
Minimum Computer Hardware/Software Requirements:
It is also required that you obtain a UH Email account. Please go to the following URL for more information: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/563
Computer with Internet access and word processing software (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works, WordPerfect, and OpenOffice are
acceptable). Students should be able to view and listen to multimedia via Quicktime, Java applications, Windows MediaPlayer, and Macromedia Flash.
|Additional Notes:
|Open to all students in the UH system.
|Wednesday, March 14, 2012 15:46:25


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Siblings: Same Family, Different Origins - Spence-Chapin Services
Hours: 6:30pm
Ages: AD
Price: $40
410 E. 92nd St. - 212-369-0300
Upper East Side, NY 10128
Description: When siblings have different origins (one child is adopted and the other is not or one child is adopted domestically, the other internationally), parents can be confused about how to talk about it. In this workshop, you will learn how to address your children's questions and concerns about differing origins and how to stave off common problems stemming from them. Presenters: Beth Friedberg, LCSW, Associate Director of Adoption Counseling Team, has years of experience working with families providing adoption education and support.


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Terminal Velocity
Posted By Alex Belth On April 2, 2013 @ 7:53 am In 1: Featured,Baseball Musings,Yankees | Comments Disabled
Sounds goo, right? A totally in-my-face shoot 'em up. CC Sabathia's heater wasn't that fast yesterday. Chad Jennings has the report [2].
I also nabbed this AP photo from Jennings' great Yankee site [3]. Okay, so there's no game today, I got that wrong. But it is a new day.
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URL to article: http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2013/04/02/terminal-velocity/
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[1] Image: http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nassdfd.jpg
[2] Chad Jennings has the report: http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2013/04/01/postgame-notes-20/
[3] great Yankee site: http://yankees.lhblogs.com/
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MinGW, the minimalist GNU for Windows
I am used to VC6++, but I thought I want to try MinGW, and I have to say, it works very well.
MinGW is the minimalist GNU For Windows and is a collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU toolsets that allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on any 3rd-party DLLs.
Probably, the only thing that one needs to know to compile and link windows c programs with MinGW is the -mwindows flag. That is, when a windows program is linked, it needs this flag, because otherwise, it gives a undiefed reference to ... linker error.
Here is a minimal windows prgramm that can be used as a starting point for a windows application.
Here is a sample program to embed a database in a c program that I compiled with MinGW. The database is SQLite.


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Sometimes I wonder why so many people (but especially the media!) are fascinated, even obsessed, with the end of the world. Today, of course, is December 21--the date supposedly identified by an ancient Maya calendar as the end of the world. The build up to it has been years long. Some people have traveled the world to be in just the right place either to greet the world's end or survive it. (What would it mean to "survive" the end of the world?)I have to admit, I haven't paid much attention … [Read more...]
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text: After crossing into Pennsylvania, the Confederates got into the habit of marching up to the farmhouses and townhouses and asking, with rifles in hand but politely enough, for something to eat. One of Harry Hay's Louisiana Tigers discovered a particular source of their fright. As a housewife was preparing him a meal, she asked him is regiment. "Seventh Louisiana", he replied, at which she collapsed in a faint. It seemed that the raucous 35th Virginia Cavalry battlion, known as the Comanches, had earlier ridden through the town exclaiming that, " the Louisiana Tigers would kill, burn and destroy everything and everybody in the country". This was an extreme example of a wide spread impression. Taken from Sears, Gettysburg. pg 109 Can anyone find any more examples that explain the wild reputation that the Tigers had? Nancy Householder