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Research and Professional Development Grants
All full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, and administrators are eligible to participate. Full-time continuing faculty and academic administrators, however, will receive preference as these grants are intended to provide long-term benefit to the College's academic program. Proposals for the use of these funds may be submitted by individuals, academic or administrative units, or other groups such as committees, interrelated departments, or associations formed to design a particular project.
The Faculty Development Committee will review all proposals. This Committee includes: a representative of the Provost's Office, one faculty member elected from each division, and two faculty members elected at-large. Proposals may be submitted to the Office of the Provost at any time during the year. Proposals will be reviewed twice a year, once in each semester. Proposals must be submitted by the advertised deadline to be considered for funding. Applications made out-of-cycle will only be considered in situations for which the regular review cycle is not and could not have been a workable option.
Complete the fill-in proposal form (PDF). It will help you follow the guidelines. Use Adobe Acrobat to make and save changes to the form. All proposals should include the following in their consecutive order. Proposals that do not address these points will not be considered. If you have any questions, refer to the models provided:
1. A completed cover sheet.
Please make certain that the budget figures in item 7 of the cover sheet agree with the figures given in your detailed budget (see below).
2. A narrative describing the project. The narrative should address the following points a-f
Consecutively and as separate sections:
a) The project to be addressed, its goals, and its significance;
b) How you intend to reach your goals (e.g., the methods you will use);
c) How you will evaluate your project;
d) A time-table giving the expected dates of initiation and completion of the project and periods when the major part of the work will be undertaken;
e) Possible sources of external funding and attempts to secure external funds, including specific information about external grants sought and/or received for the current project and how the funds requested in this proposal would be used in conjunction with any external funds.
f) How the project will contribute to the development of the individual or group involved, including creating a more stimulating learning environment for our students and/or how the project fits into an individual's professional goals.
g) Your narrative should be addressed to members of the Committee and written in language which is accessible to them. It should not be written as if it is being submitted to a panel in your discipline. Although some detail is desirable, the narrative should not be more than three or four pages.
3. An itemized budget. The budget should be sufficiently detailed to make clear the precise use of funds, and should include a brief explanation about the connection between budget items and the proposed project as needed. When preparing your budget, keep in mind the following points:
a) Proposals should have a complete budget (showing what funding resources are necessary to successfully complete project). If not all funding comes from RPD, proposals should also clearly indicate what the RPD grant will cover/pay.
b) Student wages should be budgeted at $7.25 per hour (the new minimum wage effective in Summer 2009). Highly skilled student assistants – may be paid at a rate of $7.75 per hour. If you request that your student assistants be paid at the higher rate, you must include a justification for paying at this rate. If such a justification is not provided, or if the justification is not compelling, student assistants will be funded at minimum wage.
c) Requests for continuing education should be explicitly linked to professional or curricular development, not merely the completion of a degree.
d) Pricing for airfare, hotels, housing, etc. must be justified using quotes from Expedia.com or other external sources.
e) The following requests are not funded:
4. A Current Curriculum Vitae.
5. Department Chair/Program Coordinator/Supervising Administrator Commentary.
Download the Commentary (DOC). Chairs/Program Coordinators have a week beyond the R&PD deadline to write their letter. Input from Department Chairs, Program Coordinators, and Supervising Administrators helps verify that supporting funds are available for the project and can provide additional information about the work from a disciplinary perspective. In a competitive funding environment, the chair's or supervisor's comments can play a pivotal role in funding decisions. Although these comments need not be lengthy, they should include clear information about the merit of the project and the appropriateness of the budget. Applicants should submit proposals to chairs well in advance of the deadline so that chairs have adequate time to provide commentary.
At the conclusion of each project, the recipients of the grant must submit to the Associate Provost a short report of the use of the funds and a candid assessment of the results achieved. This report should include (a) the activities engaged in and the extent to which the goals were achieved, (b) how the funds were spent, (c) whether there are any funds to be returned, and (d) any tangible outcomes to date (e.g., conference presentation, course revision, publication). Subsequent proposals will not be considered until reports on all previous projects have been submitted. If you are applying for another Research and Professional Development Grant before a previous one has expired (in effect, a previous project is on-going), please provide an interim report on the use of outstanding grants to the Associate Provost. The report should include the following information: suggested date of completion, an account of the funds spent, and an estimate as to whether or not all the funds will be spent. If the project results in publication, the Committee requires that support from a Research and Professional Development Grant be acknowledged. The Committee also requests that the grantee deposit a copy of the work in the Gettysburg College Faculty Collection (Special Collections) of Musselman Library and submit an entry about the publication to the Faculty Notebook.
V. Funding Priorities
Note that these funding priorities are guidelines and not rules. Colleagues with questions about these guidelines should contact the Chair of FDC or the Provost's Representative to FDC
Some funding decisions for low priority items may be delayed to spring semester depending on availability of funds.
Identifying priority of budget items
High priority
Travel and associated expenses to work on scholarship – for example:
Lodging, travel visa, photocopies, books, binding documents, cell phone, etc.
More than one trip in a semester/year for data collection if well-justified
Expenses associated with excavation
Required subvention for book publication
Information on the press/publisher should be provided
Costs should be split equally among all editors
We should have a copy of contract/agreement before we fund: Out-of-cycle request will be
considered once publication costs have been determined.
Performance and recording of such performance (either DVD or CD)
Including rental of recital hall, paying for musicians/actors
Hotel for guest musicians/actors
Production costs up to 100 DVD's or CD's with 10 units donated to the College
Attendance and participation in art exhibits
Including travel, lodging, shipping costs
Packing materials, supplies for completion of work
Student assistance
In research (wet lab/field research; bibliographic research)
As administrative assistant – support for editorial assistance, for conference organization
The major question to be answered for student assistance: is this valuable experience for our students?
Training in new area of scholarship or to upgrade knowledge
Tuition for attending workshop or course and associated travel expenses
Attending artist residency/colony
Bringing consultant/expert to campus to train faculty and/or students
Curriculum Development/Instructional Improvement
Please note that FDC does not fund annual recurring costs for ongoing or long-term projects
Supplies to support particular project
Perishable (e.g., reagents, Petri dishes); art supplies
Subscription to databases to support particular project
Fees – to visit a lab, museums, library, etc.
Medium to high priority
Transcriptions services – translating text
Small equipment – e.g., digital camera – equipment belongs to department/college rather than faculty
Patent application
Legal consideration
Additional expenses associated with sabbatical
Language lessons
Low priority
Travel expenses to bring collaborator to campus
Request should explain why GC should fund request and not home institution/organization of collaborator
We would only cover travel costs with a cap ($500 domestic collaborator; $1000 international collaborator)
Travel and associated expenses to bring speaker to campus
Travel to attend national Board of Directors meetings or other professional activities not directly associated
with scholarship and beyond attendance at professional meetings. Capped at $500. Must explain how
department travel budget is used and why department travel budget is not used to cover this expense –
only one trip supported per academic year
Travel to attend a third conference or to cover expenses associated with international conferences beyond
Professional Paper Fund
Conference registration (Departmental funds or the Professional Paper Fund should cover this)
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Afternoon Classics: Earth Day
For Earth Day, we'll hear (among other things) selections from Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde," Darius Milhaud's "La Creation du Monde," and Schubert's "trout" Quintet.
|La Creation Du Monde
|Composer: Darius Milhaud
|Ensemble: National Orchestra of France
|Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
|Record co./Cat #: Emi Great Recordings Of The Century 45809
|Suite Bergamasque
|Composer: Claude Debussy
|Soloists: Zoltan Kocsis, piano
|Record co./Cat #: Philips 412118
|Das Lied von der Erde: Selections ("The Song of the Earth")
|Composer: Gustav Mahler
|Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
|Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
|Soloists: Waltraud Meier, mezzo soprano ; Siegfried Jerusalem, tenor
|Record co./Cat #: Erato 45624
|An Outdoor Overture
|Composer: Aaron Copland
|Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
|Conductor: Aaron Copland
|Record co./Cat #: Sony 46559
|Concerto Grosso #7 in Bb, Op. 6
|Composer: George Friederich Handel
|Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
|Conductor: Iona Brown
|Record co./Cat #: Philips 410048
|Primavera Portena ("Spring in Buenos Aires")
|Composer: Astor Piazzolla
|Ensemble: Ahn Trio
|Record co./Cat #: EMI 57022
|Petite Symphonie in Bb
|Composer: Charles Gounod
|Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
|Conductor: Christopher Hogwood
|Record co./Cat #: London 430231
|Three Botticelli Pictures: La Primavera ("Spring")
|Composer: Ottorino Respighi
|Ensemble: Prague Chamber Orchestra
|Conductor: Peter Skvor
|Record co./Cat #: Supraphon 110683
|A Somerset Rhapsody
|Composer: Gustav Holst
|Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
|Conductor: Richard Hickox
|Record co./Cat #: Chandos 9420
|Symphony #3 "Rhenish" in Eb, Op. 97
|Composer: Robert Schumann
|Ensemble: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
|Conductor: David Zinman
|Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80182
|Violin Sonata in G, BWV 1021
|Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
|Soloists: John Holloway, violin ; Davitt Moroney, harpsichord
|Record co./Cat #: Virgin Classics 90741
|Piano Quintet "The Trout" in A, Op. 114, D 667
|Composer: Franz Schubert
|Ensemble: Takacs Quartet
|Soloists: Andreas Haefliger, piano
|Record co./Cat #: London 460034

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Caritas Kazakhstan
Caritas Kazakhstan was founded in 1997 in response to the rise in poverty and ill health after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Its initiatives include soup kitchens across the country serving 500 000 meals a year, orphanages and a centre for homeless people. It run computer courses and trains up to 220 people a year in new skills.
Working closely with Caritas Europa, Caritas Kazakhstan campaigns to combat the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. With the support of Caritas Italy, it has established 24 small pharmacies and health facilities for those unable to afford full health care in 4 regions of the country.
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UAE summons Qatar envoy to protest Islamist cleric
02/02/2014 10:45amThe United Arab Emirates summoned Qatar's ambassador to formally protest the comments of an outspoken pro-Muslim Brotherhood cleric who criticized the Gulf country's policies toward Islamist groups, the UAE's official news agency reported Sunday.
Palestinian bombers' bodies returned after decade
02/02/2014 11:02amWhen 18-year-old Ayat al-Akhras blew herself up outside a busy Jerusalem supermarket in 2002, killing two Israelis, her grieving parents were unable to bury her and say their final goodbyes because Israel refused to send her remains home.
Red Cross suspends work in Sudan
02/02/2014 11:05amA Red Cross official in Sudan says that the organization has suspended its work there after the Sudanese government said that the organization was not complying with national laws.
Yemen officials say German kidnapped in capital
02/02/2014 11:38amArmed Yemeni tribesmen have kidnapped a German citizen in the capital Sanaa, foreign ministry officials said Sunday.
Report: Moderate earthquake hits southern Iran
02/02/2014 1:54pmIranian state TV says a magnitude 5.5 earthquake has jolted a sparsely populated area in the country's south.
Al-Jazeera cameraman acquitted in Egypt
02/02/2014 2:27pmA Cairo court says it has acquitted a cameraman for the Qatar-based network Al-Jazeera, after he was held for months on charges of committing acts of violence.


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De Verborum Significatu
Sextus Pompeius Festus
Muries est, quemadmodum Veranius docet, ea quae fit ex sali sordido, in pila pisato, et in ollam fictilem coniecto, ibique operto gypsatoque et in furno percocto; cui Virgines Vestales serra ferrea secto, et in seriam coniecto, quae est intus in aede Vestae in penu exteriore, aquam iugem, vel quamlibet, praeterquam quae per fistulas venit, addunt, atque ea demum in sacrificiis utuntur.
There is the salt-cake, just as Veranius teaches, that which is made from unrefined salt, crushed in a mortar, and put in a jar made of clay, and there covered with gypsum and cooked thoroughly in an oven; to this, after it has been cut with an iron saw, and put into a cylindrical earthen vessel, which is within, in the temple of Vesta in the outer sanctuary, the Vestal Virgins add ever-flowing water, even as much as they want, except that which comes through pipes, and at last they use it in sacrifices.
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In classic Balenciaga biker fashion, the French luxury label presents a fresh iteration of the time-honored black motorcycle leather jacket. This panelled piece uses canvas and a silver-flecked cotton blend with black leather for a lightly quilted, asymmetrical appeal. The slim-fitting jacket oozing with city chic also offers a host of zipped pockets at the front, back and on the left sleeve, as well as zipped cuff accents. It is made in Italy and costs £1,592 GBP (approximately $2,492 USD).
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Chautauqua Playhouse opened the thriller "Rehearsal for Murder" by D. D. Brooke, adapted from the teleplay by Richard Levinson and William Link.
At its opening night, exactly a year ago and in this same theatre, the beautiful leading lady, who was also the playwright's fiancée, was murdered! As these people start with the new play, startling connections to the murder begin to unfold. The growing tension reaches the boiling point with surprising revelations, countered by others even more surprising. The dazzling, yet basically logical twists build to a climax and solution that are theatrically stunning.
Chautauqua's production of "Rehearsal for Murder" is directed by Jon Jackson and features a cast of 14 local actors. Set design is by Rodger Hoopman with costumes by Eileen Beaver and lighting design by Don Myers.
The show will run on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. through November 18. All performances will be held at the Chautauqua Playhouse, 5325 Engle Road in the La Sierra Community Center in Carmichael. Admission is $19 general and $17 students, seniors and SARTA members.
Information and tickets are available through the Chautauqua Playhouse website at cplayhouse.org or call the box office at (916) 489-7529 during business hours.


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Re: Problem with the zero-term of Fourier[]
Hans Steffani wrote:
> I placed my data, an a mathematica notebook at
> http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~hfst/mathprob/
> I tried to build an artificial example which is shorter but
> failed.
> Perhaps anyone can help me.
I can reproduce your problem in 3.0 but not in 4.0. The 4.0
Fourier documentation states that
For real input, Fourier uses a real transform method.
and this does appear to be the case.
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I saw a post recently where someone was asking how to separate out all indexes from the data into a separate NDF file. This was the same post that I wrote about recently with the thread myth.
The poster seemed confused on a couple points. The first was that he or she thought that they could separate out the clustered and non-clustered indexes from the data. That's alone makes me think that this user is not advanced enough to work with multiple filegroups if they don't understand the table v clustered index structure.
The second thing was thinking a separate file improves performance if the indexes are moved. This can improve performance, but a couple things need to take place.
The user admitted this was something they heard, and would likely not separate things out. I think that's a good move and should save them some headaches.


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Play set in the north's colonial sun wins Patrick White award
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Like many playwrights, Stephen Carleton has a hot, tempestuous muse. "I am a bit infatuated with the north of Australia. It's my muse at the moment," he says.
Carleton's northern fascination has earned him the $20,000 Patrick White Playwrights' Award for his play, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset. Set in a colonial town in far north Queensland, it follows a prim Englishwoman, Constance Drinkwater, and her daughters who give refuge to a shipwrecked anthropologist and a Chinese trader. When events take a supernatural turn, cracks appear in their little English outpost, prejudices are revealed and their world falls apart.
The Brisbane playwright says the far north is the perfect setting for his Australian gothic story.
"It's the stage on which we project a whole stack of our national anxieties and fantasies - anxieties about contamination, infiltration and invasion and fantasies about escape, re-invention, lawlessness. That friction makes the north especially ripe for drama."
Constance has a distaste for her Chinese guest and assumes he'll bring disease to her safe haven - an insecurity that might seem familiar to modern audiences.
"The characters say the borders are shrinking, Australia is getting smaller. That was a conscious filtering through of the Government's attempts to pull up the drawbridge and say 'We're full'," Carleton says.
The play is no bland lecture on right and wrong - the message is cushioned by rich characters and laughs. "I don't want to browbeat people. I want it to be humorous but still be explorative."
The colonial setting is a step sideways for Carleton, who wanted a break from contemporary urban stories "full of pithy, cynical dialogue and all of that stuff". History buffs beware - he wasted no energy on historical precision. "It's an amalgam of a number of different time periods. They are heading up to Federation which makes it almost 1900 but then Krakatoa goes off, so it's 1883. And Bowen is still the Governor so that makes it the 1870s," he says. "It's not very historically accurate."
That didn't matter to the judges, who chose Constance Drinkwater over 195 other entries. Tom Wright, the Sydney Theatre Company's artistic associate, said the judges' decision was more or less unanimous. "I read plays for a living," says Wright. "This stuff never crosses your desk. What you tend to get is a couch on a stage and whatever's in the op-ed pages of the Herald replicated in the form of dialogue." Wright says the Patrick White Playwrights' Award brings fresh talent to the theatre scene. "I don't know Stephen from a bar of soap ... But here is a theatrical mind at work and that's so rare in Australia." The Patrick White Playwrights' Award, jointly hosted by the Sydney Theatre Company and The Sydney Morning Herald, was launched in 2000 to celebrate new writing for Australian theatre. It is open to writers over 19.
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Ton up for Smooth Satin
Rejuvenated champion pacer Smooth Satin will rack up his 100th career start on Friday night at Harold Park when he contests the Presidents' Night Cup.
Trainer-driver Steve Turnbull, who has brought the star back from retirement to be a top-line performer again, elected to start Smooth Satin at the scene of his greatest triumphs for his milestone run, following his track-record win in the Harold Park Country Cup at Dubbo last Sunday.
"I've had plenty of horses that have had 100 starts or more, but Smooth Satin's achievement will be much more special," Turnbull said on Thursday. "He has been a great horse to me, he is a champion."
Smooth Satin has won a Miracle Mile, InterDominion, Ben Hur and Chariots Of Fire - all group 1s - at Harold Park.
"He just loves Harold Park, runs all his best races there," Turnbull said.
Just two starts ago, Smooth Satin broke the standing-start record for 2160 metres at the track when scoring in the Sydney Cup.
Grand Circuit performer Hexus, which beat Smooth Satin in the Harold Park Country Cup at Tamworth recently, will start from barrier one to give him the edge over the champ in Friday night's race, with Smooth Satin to start from gate nine.
From his 99 starts, Smooth Satin has won 42 times and been placed a further 33, amassing $1,366,558 in prizemoney.
Vinnie on course for Melbourne
Vinnie Roe, last year's gallant Melbourne Cup runner-up, has kicked off his final campaign in the best way by winning the Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown.
Despite lumping a hefty 64.5 kilograms, the Dermot Weld-trained seven-year-old stallion won the 2800m listed race by 1½ lengths from stablemate Mutakarrim on a firm surface.
The four-time Irish St Leger winner, on target for a fifth consecutive win in that race this year, may be taken to York to contest the Ascot Gold Cup as his next assignment.
"We would have liked some rain beforehand and we made a hard call, but I needed to get a run in before the Gold Cup," Weld told the Racing Post. "He's about six kilos heavier than at this stage last year, but he had been working really, really well. This season is his grand finale, and if there's a little ease at York, he'll represent us very well."
Vinnie Roe, fourth behind stablemate Media Puzzle in the 2002 Melbourne Cup, firmed in early betting markets for this year's cup after his Leopardstown win and is now second pick behind Victoria Derby winner Plastered.
Lost for words
Classy mare Only Words has been retired after a below-par last in the Doomben 10,000 last Saturday.
The John Hawkes-trained mare, which won six of her 13 starts and $586,625 in stakes, succumbed to a tendon injury which ruled her out of racing for more than 40 weeks after she took all before her during the autumn last year.
Regular rider Rod Quinn, who rode Only Words in the Doomben 10,000 after missing the mount when she also performed poorly in the BTC Cup, said she was a light of other days.
"She's done a great job in her career," Quinn said. "She beat horses like Ike's Dream and Shamekha when she was a three-year-old and even this autumn, despite not being at her top, she ran a couple of group 1 placings. She'll be a valuable broodmare."
Only Words is owned by Canning Downs Stud in Queensland.
Doomben test for Markwell duo
The Stradbroke Handicap credentials of the Gwenda Markwell-trained Bold Matador and Osca Warrior will be put to the test when the pair line up in the BTC Sprint at Doomben on Saturday.
Bold Matador is qualified for the Stradbroke after a last-start dead-heat win in the Dr John Power Handicap at Eagle Farm, Markwell saying the winner of seven of 11 could confirm a start in the group 1 with a forward showing on Saturday.
"He's been going along good, working good," Markwell said. "If he runs well on Saturday, then the Stradbroke is the aim.
"He only has 50kg in the race but could get a penalty, and we're hoping Larry Cassidy can stick with him."
As for Osca Warrior, which will be ridden by Darren Beadman, Markwell said he "pulled up good" after his 12th in the Doomben 10,000 when beaten by just 3.9 lengths. "He'll be better suited this Saturday," she added.
At Rosehill, Markwell will be represented by The Man in the Pages Event Equipment Handicap, stable apprentice Kathy O'Hara taking the ride.
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i am a man who is living on myself in Alkmaar after being born and raised in Amsterdam.
I have been living here for about 3 years now and i'm loving it, i have good friends and i enjoy everyday here.
I like the movies MacGruber and The Samourai of Ayothaya.
I mostly listen to 2Pac, Vybz Kartel and Kanye West, but besides
Rap and Dancehall, i also enjoy, R&B, Rock, Trance, well actually anything you can listen and/ or dance too and occasionally i make rapmusic by myself.
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Check out the March 2012 edition of Listened & Liked i.e. music that i have come across and liked on Youtube during the month gone by. The playlist does include some music that has not been posted here as yet. Watch it below as one continuous mix or screen the playlist and listen to individual songs here.
Check out the Feb 2012 edition here.


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Portland sick leave ordinance starting soon
In 2013, the Portland City Council voted unanimously to adopt a sick time ordinance to enable people to earn time off from work to care for their own and their family's health.
The City of Portland has built a website to answer questions of employers and employees. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.
The Portland Sick Leave Ordinance applies to all employees who work within the geographic boundaries of the city of Portland for 240 hours or more in a calendar year. Some workers will earn paid sick time, others will earn unpaid sick time, depending on the number of employees where you work.
The ordinance is effectiveJanuary 1, 2014.
Full- and part-time employees will accrue one hour of job-protected sick time for every 30 hours worked, up to a maximum of 40 hours per calendar year.
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Last week was the restart of the IPO market. But of the five deals that came out, only two were able to muster strong gains. Trulia (NYSE:TRLA) returned 36% and Susser Petroleum Partners (NYSE:SUSP) was up 13%.
As for the coming week, it looks like the activity will remain flat. Four deals are expected to hit the market, yet only one is likely to get much attention: Grupo Financiero Santander Mexico.
The firm, which is the second-largest bank in Mexico, plans to issue 235.1 million shares at a range of $10.99 to $12.70. The underwriters include Santander, UBS Investment Bank (NYSE:UBS), Deutsche Bank Securities (NYSE:DB) and BofA Merril Lynch (NYSE:BAC). The company plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol BSMX.
The prospects for Santander Mexico look promising. Mexico has seen solid growth over the years, with increases in GDP of 5.5% and 3.9% in 2010 and 2011, respectively. The country also remains fairly unbanked.
Santander Mexico has assets of $62.4 billion and shareholder's equity of about $7.3 billion. For the first half of 2012, the firm reported net income of roughly $700 million, which was a 19.9% return on average shareholder's equity.
As for this week's three other deals, here's a rundown:
GlobeImmune: This biotech company was supposed to trade last week but was delayed. The company develops treatments for cancer and a variety of infectious diseases. But its drugs are all currently in clinical trials.
GlobalImmune plans to sell 5 million shares at a range of $11 to $13. The lead underwriters include Wells Fargo Securities (NYSE:WFC) and Piper Jaffray
Summit Midstream Partners LP: This is a master limited partnership, which allows for tax-free cash distributions for shareholders. These types of deals have been popular lately because of the general interest in high-dividend paying stocks.
Summit Midstream provides gas gathering and compression services for the Piceance Basin in Colorado and the Forth Worth Basin, which includes the Barnett Shale formation. The infrastructure includes 385 miles of pipeline and 147,600 horsepower of compression.
For the past six months, Summit Midstream generated $75.9 million in revenue and $51.5 million in adjusted EBITDA. The firm has contracts with companies like Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) and EOG Resources (NYSE:EOG).
Summit Midstream plans to issue 12.5 million units at a range of $19 to $21. The lead underwriters include Barclays (NYSE:BCS), BofA Merrill Lynch (NYSE:BAC), Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS).
Qualys: The company develops cloud-based security and compliance solutions. It has over 5,800 customers across more than 100 countries.
From 2009 to 2011, revenues increased from $57.4 million to $76.2 million. As for the first half of 2012, the revenues came to $43.4 million, with a net loss of $600,000.
Qualys plans to issue 7.6 million shares at a range of $11 to $13. The lead underwriters include J.P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM) and Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS)
Tom Taulli runs the InvestorPlace blog IPOPlaybook, a site dedicated to the hottest news and rumors about initial public offerings. He also is the author of "All About Short Selling" and "All About Commodities." Follow him on Twitter at @ttaulli. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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Bolts Beat By Bruins In Shootout
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In the final meeting between the Bruins and the Lightning, Tampa Bay could not avoid a season sweep from their Atantic Division rivals, falling to Boston 4-3 in a shootout Saturday night at the Tampa Bay Times Forum.
The Lightning started the contest with a high level of intensity, keeping the puck in the Bruins zone and jumping out to a 7-0 lead in shots on goal. It took nearly 14:00 for Boston to get their first attempt of the night, then quickly had a change in momentum gaining five unanswered SOG in the final 6:04 of the frame, including a laser by Torey Krug that hit the goalpost as time expired to end a scoreless first period.
With six seconds remaining on a carried-over penalty for the Bruins to start the second, Tyler Johnson was knocked down and hustled back up to chase the puck, drawing Tuuka Rask out of the net and allowing Ondrej Palat to sneak in a shorthanded goal.
Less than four minutes later, Mark Barberio took a slapshot from the point, that managed to find the net with Nate Thompson causing problems for Rask's vision in front of the crease. The goal was initially under review to make certain the puck didn't go in off Thompson's skate, but the replay showed he clearly lifted his right skate and the puck slid in underneath. Ryan Callahan, traded to the Lightning Wednesday for longtime Bolt Martin St. Louis picked up his first point in a Tampa Bay uniform with a secondary assist on Barberio's goal.
Boston cut the Lightning lead in half after Daniel Paille's backhanded effort inched past Ben Bishop at the 6:58 mark of the second to make the score 2-1. 1:31 later, Carl Soderberg caught the Lightning on a bad line change and beat Bishop one-on-one to level the score 2-2.
Vatteri Filppula gave Tampa Bay the lead back 62 seconds later after taking a pass from Palat and sending it high past Rask. Palat was given credit with the assist, his second point of the night.
The second period came to an end with the Lightning leading 3-2, after a nine-minute bevy of goals and an intense push from both teams. However, after Tampa Bay defenseman Matt Carle was caught in a shift that lasted over 2:00, the Lightning made a surge in energy and finished out the period with some of the strongest hockey since coming back from the Olympic break.
The Bruins would tie it eight minutes into the third period off a Johnny Boychuk slapshot from the blue line which would eventually be the final goal of regulation, sending the game into overtime.
After five scoreless minutes of four-on-four hockey, the two clubs headed into a shootout, with Reilly Smith getting the game-winner for Boston in the seventh round of the shootout.
Scoring Summary:
First Period - NONE
Second Period -
1. TB - Palat (Johnson, Brewer) :27
2. TB - Barberio (Panik, Callahan) 4:13
3. BOS - Paille (Campbell, Boychuk) 6:58
4. BOS - Soderberg (Kelly) 8:29
5. TB - Filppula (Palat) 9:31
Third Period -
1. BOS - Boychuk (Soderberg, Eriksson) 8:11
Shootout Tally: TBA
Shots On Goal:
BOS - (1) Thornton - Fighting (5:00), Chara - Roughing; (2) NONE; (3)
TB - (1) Hedman - Tripping, Aulie - Fightning (5:00), Barberio - Slashing; (2) NONE; (3) Purcell - Hooking
Next up for the Bolts: The Lightning will host the Phoenix Coyotes, currently sitting in fourth place in the Pacific Division, Monday, March 10th at 7:30pm. You can catch all of the action on sister station 970 WFLA with Hall of Famer Phil Esposito and Dave Mishkin giving the call with coverage beginning at 7:00pm.


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Italy to soften self-defence laws
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Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing Government in Italy is to change the law to allow people to kill intruders without fear of imprisonment.
Justice Minister Roberto Castelli suggested at the weekend that, in addition, the benefit of the doubt should be given to shopkeepers who shot fleeing robbers in the back.
Mr Castelli, a member of the Northern League, was speaking after an incident last week in Milan after which a jeweller and his son face murder charges after shooting and killing a robber, 21.
The risks facing shopkeepers were highlighted at the weekend when a Roman tobacconist was shot dead during an attempted robbery.
A committee headed by a leading prosecutor is proposing a wide-ranging reform of the penal code. Addressing an electoral meeting, Mr Castelli said: "In the new penal code, we shall be changing the concept of legitimate defence, which today is too far unbalanced in favour of the criminal, to the detriment of honest people." One of the changes would include "the principle that anyone who is at home should be considered a priori under attack (from a burglar) and may legitimately regard himself to be in danger of his life". In these instances, "any action must be considered legitimate defence".
Mr Castelli also intended to change the law so that it took account of the "state of mind of the victim" of a robbery. He gave as an example a shopkeeper who had just been robbed and did not have the presence of mind to work out if the thief was leaving his shop or had other intentions.
"The legitimate use of firearms will be better disciplined without turning the country into the Wild West and without turning members of the public into sheriffs," Mr Castelli said.
The reform would "allow people to defend themselves in cases of unjust aggression, if necessary with gunfire".
Mr Castelli said his views were shared by the chairman of the legal reform committee. Parliament is discussing a private member's bill tabled by a senator from Mr Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, which would give a broader dispensation to victims of burglaries, though not quite as broad as that suggested by Mr Castelli.
His bill would allow householders to "use any means to defend themselves or their families". However, if the risk were merely to property, the victims of the robbery would only be within their rights "to brandish weapons without an intention to kill".
At present, the law on self-defence in Italy is similar to that in Britain. A killing is not considered an offence if the killer has been "obliged by necessity" to end the life of another person. However, the use of force must be proportionate to the threat. The victim may only do what is indispensable for his or her protection.
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During his storied career spanning more than five decades, Joseph R. Cerrell played key roles in the presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lloyd Bentsen, John Glenn and Al Gore. As the founder of Los Angeles-based Cerrell Associates Inc., he built a public affairs firm known for not only expert political campaign management, but also for its public relations and public affairs services to corporate and nonprofit clients.
Cerrell's political career began in the 1950s at the University of Southern California (USC), where he started the Trojan Democratic Club on a campus known at the time for its Republican activism. His political savvy soon caught the eye of Jesse M. Unruh, leading to a position on his State Assembly campaign and later on the staff of Attorney General Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, running for his first term as California Governor in 1958.
After Brown won, Cerrell was approached again by Unruh, who had become Speaker of the California Assembly, to run the California Democratic Party. At just 24, Cerrell was the youngest person ever to do so. That experience led Cerrell to the Kennedy presidential campaign, where he became California campaign manager, directing all operations in the Golden State. Interviews with Cerrell are part of the Oral History Project at the Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum in Boston.
It was on the Brown campaign where Cerrell met the striking blonde campaign worker Lee Bullock, who would become his wife in 1963. At the time, the Cerrells postponed their ceremony by a week at the request Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, so they could oversee a Los Angeles event for President Kennedy.
Joe and Lee Cerrell celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary on Nov. 17.
"Joe Cerrell helped to create modern political consulting," said Professor Ann N. Crigler, chair of the Department of Political Science at USC. "He was an early full-service political consultant who successfully navigated the transition to today's more specialized consulting practices. He shared his expertise and enthusiasm with hundreds of students over the years and inspired them to get involved in politics at many levels. This gift was institutionalized with his instrumental role in bringing the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics to USC."
In 1966, Cerrell formed Golden State Consulting with colleagues Don Simonian and Chuck Winner. While their venture was short-lived, the trio would go on to achieve individual successes in political consulting. In 1967, Joe and Lee founded Cerrell Associates. Early clients included Pacific Southwest Airlines and Pacific Telephone, as well as countless political candidates.
Together with political consultant Ben Palumbo, Cerrell opened Palumbo & Cerrell in Washington, DC in 1983 giving him an East Coast branch and the ability to serve clients in the nation's capital.
Over the years, Cerrell and his firm advised high-profile dignitaries on their visits to Southern California, including the 2000 visit of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and two local tours for Armenian Pontiffs—the 1987 visit of His Holiness Catholicos Vazken I and the 1996 visit of His Holiness Catholicos Karekin I—the latter earning Cerrell Associates a PRism Award for Best Special Event from the Public Relations Society of America-Los Angeles (PRSA-LA).
In 2001, Cerrell was singled out by PRSA-LA for a PRism Award as "Outstanding PR Professional." That same year, the Los Angeles Business Journal named Cerrell's firm "Small Family-Owned Business of the Year."
Today, Cerrell Associates is the 43rd-largest independently owned PR firm in the United States and the 4th-largest independently owned PR firm in Los Angeles, according to O'Dwyer's 2010 Directory of Public Relations Firms. Additionally, it is a member firm of the Worldcom Public Relations Group, the world's largest consortium of independently owned public relations counseling firms.
In recent years, Cerrell was perhaps best known as "the judge maker" for his successful record in running campaigns for hundreds of California judges. In reporting this success rate, the Los Angeles legal newspaper the Metropolitan News-Enterprise, which awarded Cerrell its "Person of the Year Award" in 2007, wrote that same year: "Cerrell's reputation among, and rapport with, the bench officers was such that several municipal court judges who hired him to help them move up to the Superior Court found themselves unopposed."
In 2006, Cerrell led a restructuring effort that transferred majority ownership of Cerrell Associates into the hands of its seven senior principals. He took on the title Chairman Emeritus, but remained current with the firm's business and continued to track local, state and national politics.
Born Joseph Cerrella in Queens on June 19, 1935—the son of Sal, a New York City fireman, and Marion, a campaign worker who would later work for Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh in Sacramento—Cerrell reveled in his New York roots. He often insisted that Frank Sinatra's hit "New York, New York" be played at family and company events. He passionately followed his beloved Yankees and was in the stands at both Dodger and Yankee stadiums during the 1977 and 1978 World Series.
In 1941, Cerrell's parents dropped the "a" off Cerrella so their son could escape anti-Italian discrimination during World War II. Later in life, he started to actively research his family's ancestry and in 1987 made what family members called a life-changing journey to Calabria, Italy to find and meet long-lost relatives. In his lifetime, he made more than two dozen trips to Italy, often combining work with pleasure. He became extremely proud of his Italian-American heritage, energetically promoting the contributions of Italian-Americans in Los Angeles and around the world. He served as vice-chair and president of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF); vice-chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, and was appointed to the California Italian-American Task Force by Gov. Pete Wilson.
Additionally, he was chairman of the board of the Italy America Chamber of Commerce West and served as regional vice president of the American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit. He was also a member of the Sons of Italy, UNICO, and the Federated Italo-Americans of Southern California. On his relentless quest to raise funds for these organizations, Cerrell once said, "I don't miss an opportunity. If I spot someone with a vowel at the end of their name, I try to get some money or a meeting."
In 2002, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and, in 2007, the Italian-American Lawyers Association named Cerrell to its Hall of Fame. The Italian government bestowed several awards on Cerrell, including its highest honor, the "Commendatore al Merito Della Republica Italiana" (Knight Commander) decoration.
Cerrell was a proud alumnus of both Los Angeles High School and USC, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1957. He would return to his alma mater in 1979 to become one of USC's most popular adjunct professors, teaching for 15 years in conjunction with the university's prestigious Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, which he co-founded with longtime friend and fellow Unruh aide, Larry L Berg.
More recently, he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Political Science at Pepperdine University in Malibu from 1996 to 2004. Over the decades, many of Cerrell's students interned at Cerrell Associates, with several coming to work for him full-time—a track record that was a source of pride.
In addition to teaching, Cerrell worked with political science professors from local universities to establish the Annual Sacramento Seminar, which has since brought thousands of college students to the state capital. He was also a passionate fan of USC football and for decades rarely missed a home game.
Cerrell served on the boards of the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) and the International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC). In 2004, Cerrell received a Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to campaign consulting from American University's Campaign Management Institute and, in 2007, the AAPC inducted Cerrell into its Hall of Fame, calling him a "pioneer and an innovator in our industry." The AAPC honor is recognized as the highest honor that working members of the profession can bestow upon a colleague.
A sought-after lecturer and political pundit, Cerrell was well known for his appearances on numerous news and public affairs programs, where he was recognized as a political legend, considering his half-century of work in, and observation of, the local, state and national political scenes. National and local journalists knew Cerrell offered insightful political commentary and a unique perspective on California and US politics. Cerrell was frequently quoted in newspapers and magazines, particularly during election cycles.
Cerrell was a product of a different age of politics, with less divisiveness and more mutual respect. He knew and was admired by people across the political spectrum. Once, at a moment's notice, he and Republican Lyn Nofziger conducted a master class on elections at the National Press Foundation in Washington.
Despite his New York upbringing, Cerrell loved Los Angeles, where he married, raised his family, ran his successful business, and built an unparalleled reputation for giving back to the community. A resident of Hancock Park for more than 50 years, Cerrell was proud to relocate his firm to nearby Larchmont Boulevard in 1980. That same year, PRSA-LA presented him with the Joe Roos Distinguished Award for Community Service, recognizing his contributions to the city.
Cerrell was particularly proud of his work with the California Museum of Science and Industry (now the California Science Center), where he was responsible for getting the IMAX theatre built in time for the 1984 Olympic Games. He also worked with attorney and real estate magnate Donald T. Sterling to help bring the Clippers to Los Angeles in 1984 and was also part of the team that brought the Oakland Raiders to the Coliseum.
A former president of the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission, Cerrell later helped organize the rededication of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum after renovations to repair damage from the Northridge earthquake. The effort earned Cerrell a 1995 PRo Award from the Publicity Club of Los Angeles.
In 2008, the Central City Association named Cerrell a "Treasure of Los Angeles" for his many decades of service to the city. An example of this service was Cerrell's longtime leadership and volunteerism with Wilshire YMCA (now the Hollywood-Wilshire YMCA), where he, along with Los Angeles City Council President John Ferraro, helped institute its annual Booster's Dinner, establishing it as one of the YMCA's largest single fundraising events in the United States.
A well-known "foodie," Cerrell loved frequenting Los Angeles' best restaurants—especially Melrose Avenue's Marino Ristorante, where he dined regularly for more than 25 years. An avid user of local restaurant guides, Cerrell was an attributed contributor to "Paul Wallach's Guide to the Restaurants of Los Angeles." His love of fine food even inspired a short-lived stint as a restaurateur, when he bought a continental brasserie called La Place, in Century City in 1975. He sold it four years later. He was also an investor in the El Cholo restaurants in Los Angeles and Santa Monica.


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A late-night argument outside an inner-Brisbane kebab shop has resulted in a man facing court for assault.
Queensland police will allege that two men were involved in a verbal argument outside a kebab shop on George Street, between Elizabeth Street and the Queen Street Mall, about 2.40am on Monday.
A 28-year-old man was pushed to the ground and hit multiple times in the face and head, police allege.
Paramedics treated the injured man for a cut to his head and a nose injury before he was taken to hospital.
A 23-year-old Spring Hill man has been charged with one count each of assault occasioning bodily harm and obstruct police. He is due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on April 12.
He also received a banning notice for the Brisbane Safe Night Precinct - one of 15 precincts across the state.
Queensland police have the power to ban a person from a Safe Night Precinct if the individual has behaved "in a disorderly, offensive, threatening or violent way" even if the person has not been charged with an offence.


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SPORTS>> Jacksonville gets back on track with sweep of SH
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Gwatney A team continued their winning ways Sunday afternoon, defeating Sylvan Hills 10-3. Sylvan Hills made the first strike by getting a walk, an error by Jacksonville, and a double to score one.
The Chevy boys came back in the second inning with two hits and two stolen bases, tying the score 1-1. Sylvan Hills responded by two singles, a walk, and a stolen base to go up 2-1 in the second inning. A single and a Sylvan Hills error tied the score in the third 2-2. The fifth inning blossoms for Jacksonville with a walk, a single, two doubles and a Sylvan Hills error to make it 7-2.
Sylvan Hills scored one in the fifth with a walk and a single. An error and two stolen bases to make it 7-3.
Jacksonville put the icing on the cake in the sixth with two walks, two hits and a stolen base by Zach Thomas to up the score 10-3. Devin Cole went the distance for the Gwatney win. The Chevy boys finished with nine hits and one error. Sylvan Hills had five hits and three errors. Head Coach Hickingbotham said again Sunday, This club just gets better and better every game.
Eleven hits by Gwatney and six by Sylvan Hills told the story in a 9-6 Jacksonville win Sunday afternoon.
In the first inning Sylvan Hills scored three unearned runs on Gwatneys three errors. Jacksonville came alive in the second inning with four hits along with a Sylvan Hills error to take a 4-3 lead. Gwatney got two hits in the third only to leave three stranded.
A single, and a double by Sylvan Hills gave them two more runs to make it 5-4 in the third.
In the fourth inning, a single and a double by Gwatney evened the score 5-5. But Sylvan Hills rallied with a walk and a double to make it 5-6. The Chevy boys erupted in the sixth inning with three singles, an error on Sylvan Hills and a suicide squeeze play to make it 9-6. Sylvan Hills started a come back in the seventh inning with two hits only to be stranded, ending the game.
Gwatneys Seth Boatman came in as relief pitcher to take the win. Jeremy Williams, Tyler Uptegrove and Tim Payne each had two hits. Randy Peeples was 2 for 5 for the game. Hickingbotham said, the relief pitching staff of Matt Crane and Seth Boatman did a great job finishing up the game.
Saturdays slugfest between Gwatneys A team and Maumelles A team produced 14 hits for Gwatney and eight for Maumelle. Nine innings of play used up three of Gwatneys pitchers with Jordan Payer taking the 7-6 win.
Maumelle came back and made it interesting in the seventh by tying the score 6-6. Gwatney finally broke the stalemate in the ninth with two hits and a double to win 7-6. Zach James was 4 for 5 and Tyler Upptegrove was 3 for 5.
The AAA club didnt fare as well, losing a close game to the Maumelle squad.
Three errors in the infield and three missed balls by the catcher gave the Maumelle AAA club two unearned runs which was enough to win 2-0 over Gwatney.
Brad Green of Gwatney pitched a magnificent game, giving up just two hits and striking out six.
Maumelles pitcher gave up four hits and struck out seven of the Jacksonville batters.
A single in the first inning, a walk and three passed balls was enough for Maumelle to score its first run. In the second inning, Gwatney came back with two hits only to be stranded.
The second inning started with an error by Gwatneys first baseman Brandon Clements. A single put a Maumelle runner on first and second.
But a base running error put an end to Maumelles rally and got Jacksonville out of a jam.
Gwatneys Kyle Clark led off with a single in the fifth but was left stranded. Two walks by Gwatney and two errors by Seth Boatman at shortstop gave Maumelle its second run to finish the fifth inning.
The sixth inning also left Gwatney stranded with Walter Winer singling to first base. The Chevy Boys held Maumelle to no runs in the sixth. Gwatneys final attempt at a comeback failed in the seventh, ending with a line drive to the first baseman doubling up the Gwatney runner on first.
Walter Winner was 2 of 3 for the game.
We didnt get the hits when we needed them, Hickingbotham said.


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New York – Edward H. Finkelstein, former chairman and CEO of the company now known as Macy's Inc., died of natural causes at his home in Thousand Oaks, California, on May 31. He was 89.
Finkelstein led Macy's in the 1970s and 1980s and launched concepts including the Aeropostale apparel chain, which was later sold off, as well as several private brands. Finkelstein left the company in 1992 after 44 years, following a bankruptcy filing.
"Ed Finkelstein was an innovator who shall be remembered for his many important contributions in building the Macy's brand over the decades," said Terry Lundgren, Chairman and CEO of Macy's Inc., in a statement. "His career was remarkable. The Macy's Inc. team extends our heartfelt sympathies to the Finkelstein family."


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In a previous article, I told you about the free, fun online photo editing app called BeFunky. It's also available for iPhone and Android, but it this article I'm going to discuss how to use the online version of the app with your PC. The mobile app is similar, but there will be some differences. If you aren't familiar with BeFunky, read my introductory article to get familiar with the navigation of BeFunky.
Today, we're going to look at how to use the Touch Up tools to jazz up your portraits. Start out by choosing Touch Up at the left and opening up the photo you wish to edit.
We'll open a photo of adorable baby Fiona who has a bad case of red eye.
Select Fix Red Eye from the menu. You can then adjust the size of the brush to match the area you wish to work with. Place the circle over the red part of eye and click to start removing the red.
To zoom in on a photo, click the magnifying glass at the top of your workspace and use the slider bar to zoom in or out.
A few clicks can remove most of the red, but not always all of it. And it also takes the rest of the color with it.
But we can correct that by using the Eye Color tool to put some color back into the eye.
I'll look for a color that matches little Fiona's natural eye color and add it to her eyes. Just select a brush size and place the circle where you need the color and click.
When I'm happy with the results I can apply the changes.
Touch up can also be used for sprucing up portraits. I'm starting off here with a picture of a pretty 21-year-old girl who doesn't really need much in the way of help. But since she likes to play with makeup, I thought she'd be a great example.
There's no red eye here, but I thought we'd have a little fun with the eye color. I could go two ways here. I can use the eye color tool to enhance her natural blue eyes or have some fun and change them to green. Or I could apply the David Bowie treatment and give her different colors for each eye.
Up next, there's lipstick available in any color you can imagine. You can adjust brush size and the strength of the application by moving slider bars. When you're satisfied with the look, choose apply.
You can add a bit of tan with the Bronzer tool or apply rosy cheeks with the Blush tool.
There's an option for smoothing out wrinkles, which I don't need for someone this age and for removing a flash spot if it's washed out an area of the face. The teeth whitening option is a great one for smokers and coffee drinkers and way cheaper than going the dentist. Now she doesn't really need it here. She's got pretty pearly whites, but my photo is a bit dark, so I've applied the whitening effect.
Blemish fix will allow you to remove blemishes or freckles. And the clone tool allow you to copy parts of the image and paste it somewhere else on the photo.
Here's a before and after look.
One last tool to look at is the Smooth tool.
It's not going to improve this young lady much, but if you've got some wrinkles or you'd just like a softer look, it can give you a dreamy soft look.
If you want portraits to still look realistic, you'll want to use a light hand with these effects. Or maybe you'd like them to surreal. In that case, go wild. The more you practice, the better you'll get. Have fun!
~ Cynthia


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The Patron Saint of Interfaith
For the past several centuries, Christians have not had to pay much attention to dialogue with other religions on their own soil. Historically, the only minorities they were likely to come into contact with were Jews, and we know how disastrously that encounter would become.
Suddenly though, the growth of Muslim numbers in the West makes it essential to establish lines of communication. But where do we start? Other than vague calls for peace and tolerance, is it feasible that somewhere, some day, Christian and Muslim leaders could sit down for a searching debate over each other's faith claims, and even end the discussion on friendly terms? Not, surely, this side of the Day of Judgment.
Actually, we find excellent models for this process in the much-maligned Middle Ages, when millions of Eastern Christians lived under the power of the newly established Caliphate. At that stage, Muslims were still genuinely curious about how to draw the lines between themselves and the other monotheists who made up the bulk of their subjects. Christians, meanwhile, found the Islamic regime a huge improvement on the oppressive power of the Christian Roman Empire. Of course, this rosy situation changed grievously over time, but for some glorious centuries, the two faiths held serious debates that really do offer lessons for today. Even the central issues of debate then and now remain largely unchanged.
We need to get medieval on our past.
One precious document records a two day debate that occurred in Baghdad in the 780s between the Caliph, al-Mahdi, and the Katholikos Timothy, head of the Church of the East that claimed followers across the Middle East, and deep into Eastern and Southern Asia.
For a modern audience, the most striking point about the debate is how much the two sides shared, going far beyond the existence of God and the authority of the Biblical prophets. The Caliph has no problem about acknowledging Christ as a very special prophet, born of the Virgin, and he can cite a good deal of Christian scripture. Timothy, on the other hand, knows the Qur'an, especially its portions relating to Jesus, and is well used to handling the standard controversial points that Muslims drew from these texts. He can even draw Christian conclusions from the mysterious groups of characters that litter the Qur'anic text, letters that still baffle modern commentators.
Much of the discussion consists of the Caliph's attempts to clarify Christian doctrine, and to press Timothy on charges that are made against his faith. How could someone as learned as Timothy, he asks, possibly accept that God married a woman and begot a son? If Jesus worships God and prays to him, if he talks about going to the Father, doesn't that prove that he is separate from God? How can the two be one? Aren't you arguing for two different Christs, one divine and one human? Do you seriously believe that God the Creator literally died on the cross? And most scandalously, aren't you Christians really tritheists? All those charges still stand front and center in Muslim controversial works today.
Timothy lucidly explains the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the Incarnation, and he uses telling analogies. Even so, most modern Christians who are not themselves academic theologians are likely to share some of the Caliph's doubts and confusions, while they struggle heroically to grasp the subtleties of Timothy's defense.
The debate moved on to very dangerous ground when the Caliph began asking why Christians did not accept Muhammad, who was so clearly foretold in the Christian gospels? We are still at a stage in Islamic history when Muslims were at least seeking authority from the New Testament. They found it in Jesus's promise that they would receive the Paraclete, the Comforter, whom Muslims then and since identified with Muhammad. Just as the Jews rejected Jesus, who was their prophesied messiah, so Christians rejected Muhammad. However free the discussion, Timothy simply could not simply denounce Muhammad as a fraud, so he steps around the argument by pointing out that Muhammad clearly could not be the Holy Spirit, who was invisible and lacked a body.
The Caliph sounds very modern when he accuses the church of having corrupted or censored their gospels to remove obvious prophecies of Muhammad, an indictment that echoes in many parts of the Muslim world today. Throughout that Islamic world, in fact, modern apologists proudly circulate a Gospel of Barnabas in which Jesus explicitly points to Muhammad as his successor, and cite this as the true lost gospel from which the inferior Christian texts stem. Timothy defends his own scriptures, and also, bravely, downplays the claims of the Qur'an. If it is equal to the Bible, he asks, why has it not been proved by signs and miracles?
As the debate drew to its conclusion, Timothy drew an analogy that still impresses. Imagine, he said, that we are all in a dark house at night-time, when someone throws a precious pearl in the midst of a pile of ordinary stones. Everyone scrambles for the pearl, and some think they've found it, but nobody can be sure until day breaks. In the same way, he said, the pearl of true faith and wisdom had fallen into the darkness of this transitory world; each faith believed that it alone had found the pearl. Yet all he could claim -- and all the caliph could say in response -- was that some faiths thought they had enough evidence to prove that they were indeed holding the real pearl, but the final truth would not be known in this world.
For Timothy, the Christian claim to have the pearl was confirmed above all by miracles, by signs and wonders, although the Caliph retorted that evil men and magicians were also good at miracles. Many modern Christians too might not be too comfortable staking their faith on the evidence of miracles.
At the end of the day, neither side had converted the other, perhaps neither man convinced the other, but each learned a great deal, and Timothy went home in peace. Might he become the patron saint of interfaith dialogue?


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The National Security Agency (NSA) is tracking the phone calls for millions of Verizon Wireless customers.
According to a new report, the NSA is using Patriot Act, 50 USC section 1861 to monitor "business records."
Opponents of the Patriot act have long argued that section 1861 allows for the unlimited collection and storage of "metadata" in direct violation of privacy rights. The records collected allow the US government to track the identity of every person a Verizon customer contacts.
The NSA collects Verizon Wireless metadata in order to discover an individual's network of associations and communication patterns.
The NSA uses the massive amount of information collected to datamine for terrorist and other illegal associations. The program was started under the Bush administration and has continued to grow in strength under President Obama. The NSA started the collection of data program on October 4, 2001 after President Bush issued a secret authorization for data collection.
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The NSA was started to track foreign intelligence; however, in recent years, the company has become ever increasingly focused on domestic communication. In fact, it was that shift in focus that caused 30-year NSA veteran William Binney to leave the agency as it shifted from foreign targets to a focus on US citizens.
Before his death Democratic senator Frank Church warned of the shift in focus in terms of spying on the American people.
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Riding the Tectonic Plates 2: Disruptive Effects
Report from the Third Semantico Online Publishing Symposium
Technology is driving disruptive change in scholarly publishing – as well as altered expectations and behaviours among scholars, researchers, students, librarians and those who set institutional and governmental policy. This symposium was held recently in London to discuss how publishers can survive and thrive within this fast-changing landscape.
An invited audience of publishing industry leaders debated the issues under Chatham House rules. Delegates were from organisations including Beilstein-Institut, BioScientifica, CABI, Cross Ref, eLife, Mendeley, Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Sage, SIPX and Springer.
The discussion was in three parts, covering the following themes:
- The changing user
- Changing business models
- Future tech trends
This post covers the disruptive effects of changing business models: what are the important new business models to focus on and what implications do they have for the future of publishing?
Part 2. Changing business models
In Part 1 of this series we looked mainly at the disruptive effects of Open Access (OA) on publishers, particularly on the production side, but these are relatively minor headaches compared to the effects it is having in the institutions.
OA is a different business model under which the money that currently goes to pay for library subscriptions will go in future to fund the authors of research papers in publishing their results. Under this new, author-pays model, funding is transferred from readers to authors in the form of APC (article processing charge) revenues. But who is going to be in charge of the pot: who will administer these APCs?
There is a widespread assumption that the job will ultimately fall to librarians, and in certain institutions, this is what they are being told. Some are trying to 'retool' themselves to become that and when people talk about what the librarian of the future is going to be, the conversation quite often goes in that direction.
It is acknowledged that this is quite a radical step for them, however there is a fear that if librarians don't get that block grant, then what else will they have to do? With all of its resources online, will the library become just somewhere that students go for coffee?
Where's the money?
The introduction of the new model is also causing a confusion and a degree of consternation among academics.
One publisher delegate gave an example to illustrate this bafflement. An author from a famous old UK university emailed her to say he was going to withdraw his article from her journal because he was being asked for an APC charge, and there wasn't any money within his institution for APCs until April 2013 when block grants were to be given. In actual fact, a seven-figure sum had been allocated by RCUK for just this purpose, but it proved impossible to track down exactly who had the money. The academic was at a loss even to know who to ask.
Not only is there no process in place in many cases, but there is no existing context for this type of funding, which makes matters harder when the change is progressing at such speed. Open access is moving faster than the culture of academia can currently accommodate.
OA in the sciences and the humanities
OA began in the sciences, and the humanities have been slower to come to terms with it. 'Implementing Finch', a two-day workshop organised by the Academy of Social Sciences that took place in the week before our symposium, was felt by more than one one of our delegates to mark the moment when HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) woke up to the implications of OA. Essentially it had been 'asleep at the switch' till then. This has proved a rude awakening for some – witness the outrage vented in letter columns and elsewhere in the media since our Symposium. 'Pay-to-say', as it has been dubbed, is attacked as a threat to academic freedom, to academic control of research outputs, to author copyrights, to equality between and within institutions, and to research funding in general. This resistance has not been confined to HSS either.
In some cases resistance will be slightly after the fact, since RCUK (88% of whose disbursements are to STEM) has largely set its direction on OA, but HEFCE has yet to complete a process of consultation over the Research Excellence Framework in 2014, the results of which will be eagerly anticipated.
From impact factor to impact cases
Accompanying the move to Open Access is a change in the way research grants are allocated. This change addresses a different, but linked part of the process of scholarly publishing, the criteria by which research applications are judged.
Up until now, 'impact factor' has ruled in helping to decide which institutions are producing quality research, based on the quality of the journals in which research results are accepted for publications.
What we are beginning to see is a shift towards 'impact cases', where researchers submitting grant applications are called on to make a case for the likely impact of the proposed research on the wider world. The difference is that academics get to argue their own case, with no reference to journals or impact factor. In the UK, academics at Nottingham University, for example, are already being asked to submit impact cases for every piece of research they publish.
The eLife scientific
If there were any doubt at all that OA is a contentious area in scholarly publishing right now, one would only have to look at some of the attacks levelled at the OA journal eLife since it began publishing last year.
In our symposium, whose delegates covered a spread of opinions, e-life's representative also came in for a degree of good-natured sniping from some long-established publishing brands. However, most of the questioning of their business model was motivated by a desire to understand how it will work.
Delegates were particularly interested in the question of selectivity. E-life aspires to be a journal where researchers will want to publish, and the normal means of accomplishing that end under the old model would be to operate with a high rejection rate, in order to build a prestige brand. E-life aims to be selective, but how does that square with the open access model?
Comparisons are inevitable with PLoS, which launched in 2003 but was notably less selective; however in those 10 years the context has changed beyond recognition. eLife will start with a high rejection rate, but is concerned to stress that its real concern is the quality of the science it is publishing.
The reason why it is being funded (by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust) arises from a perception that the way journals work now is sub-optimal for scholarship and for science. The point is therefore not to create an OA version of what we have now, but to build something new – not to replicate the existing model but to change it.
However in getting such a start-up going, within an existing market context, means that it is necessary to build an attractive brand and – in some ways – play essentially the same game as the established players.
The starting point with eLife is to attract the right kind of science and refine and streamline the process by which articles are accepted and peer reviewed; something which is of great interest to academics.
The journal is run by academics and a lot of effort goes into thinking about how content is presented from the point of view of the user.
The long-term challenge, however, is that eLife should undermine its own existence, in that what it is trying to get away from is the idea that researchers are judged on the basis of where they publish. Right now, eLife is playing the same game, on the basis that it isn't currently possible to do things any other way.
Mendeley's firehose
Another disruptive start-up was represented at our table, and again the questioning about business model was intense, and took us into areas of altmetrics and Big Data.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that helps users organize research, collaborate and discover the latest research online.
However, all free-to-user platforms have to be paid for somehow, and what particularly interested our delegates was how Mendeley is monetizing the valuable data its platform generates. It was assumed that this could be extremely attractive to large companies in scholarly publishing.
(It should be mentioned that since the Symposium, Mendeley has gone into advanced talks with Reed Elsevier.)
While maintaining standards of privacy, Mendeley aggregates some information anonymously, and has recently started monetizing parts of its data and sending it to libraries. This is called Mendeley Institutional Edition.
Here's a brief example of how the company's data can be useful to a university.
Say Mendeley has 7,000 users on an institution's campus. The institution can see which of the journals it subscribes to are used most by that population, and what sort of usage they are getting. In addition, they can see which journals are getting usage that the institution doesn't subscribe to. It is estimated that something like 30-50% of articles you might need as a scholar can't be accessed through your institution's subscription, so this is useful information to drive acquisition policy.
This is just a simple example, and represents a drive to monetize the data that is in its beginnings. Mendeley has information on demographics, academic status, institutional affiliation, and the whole clickstream of use. Only readership data is given out through the API at the moment, but the rest is possible.
To see where this process of monetizing user data might be headed, it is interesting to look at the general consumer market.
Facebook, which IPO'ed last year so spectacularly, makes an average annual earning per user of less than $5, but aspires to increase that metric twentyfold (Google, apparently, wants $20 per user).
To give a comparison, that $80+ dollars Facebook aspires to is the sort of spend that would put them in cable subscription territory. Can this be achieved, purely through monetizing big data, without some massive invasion of privacy? Selling user information in this way is something the publishing industry has always been careful about doing. With Mendeley you get a very interesting insight into what scholars are actually doing in the process of scholarly thinking, but the question for the company one delegate posed was: how much like Facebook are you planning on being?
On a more positive note perhaps, it's interesting to see how Twitter is faring with the business of monetization. This other social media behemoth hasn't got into the messy business of monetizing its data piece by piece itself, but instead licenses it to third parties who do the job of managing that complexity.
One of these, a data company, has made a business out building filters for a further tier of third-party developers, allowing them to tap into the 'firehose' and extract targeted subsets of the data. If, for instance, you wanted to monitor tweets posted in a specific timeframe, from branches of a well-known coffee shop chain, containing specific keywords and with certain user demographics, there is a company that can provide that for you.
Mendeley's future could lay with building a similar type of ecosystem relevant to scholarly publishing.
Reputation management
At the root of many anxieties about OA is a concern that something extremely valuable isn't lost in the change of model – a concern over the means of establishing and recognizing academic reputation.
There are not that many mechanisms for achieving a reputation in academe at the moment: it's largely about where you publish your work. That's the way the system works now, but it is changing.
Altmetrics proposes a richer mix than the system of citations we currently have as the mechanism for quantifying academic reputation; an extended dataset. The change from journal-level metrics to article-level metrics is a symptom of this move to greater granularity. However the worry is that something is lost along the way.
It is argued that we need to maintain a clear distinction between the concept of popularity and the concept of authority in order to understand how authority is gained in different sectors.
In the consumer domain you can build a brand through sheer popularity. The music industry has been undermined because ways have been found to harness the wisdom of crowds and enable breakthrough voices that doesn't necessarily require having prestige conferred on them by some intermediary – a music publisher, a critic or a record label.
But in academic publishing you need a mechanism to get sustainable authoritative voice – which is a different thing from popularity. Your route to prestige is not quite the same as what altmetrics can tell you – assuming that to be information such as how widely discussed you are in the twittersphere, or how many downloads you have achieved.
Scientists, when they publish their results, are not trying to impress the world at large, they are trying to maintain or grow their credibility within a tightly limited group of their peers. If the Dunbar number is taken as an accurate measure this could be as few as 100-150 people.
In music, an album might need millions of sales to become a best-seller. The audience for academic research within a particular discipline is far smaller.
The best-read article on Nature is about mutant butterflies in Japan, but that isn't necessarily the best piece of science talked about in that famous publication, by any means. Huge popularity is not an indicator of authority in scholarly publishing. The biggest number is not the best.
A shout-out for the citation
There is still considerable support for the citation as a key metric of reputation – but there are also those who would like to see it become more meaningful and more meaning-rich – i.e. not just the numerical count of how often a paper is quoted.
Not recorded under the present system is what the person doing the citing actually said about a particular piece of research in the sentence in which it was cited. The reference could be positive or negative, but that wouldn't make any difference. It is still a citation. Semantics and data mining could lead to an enrichment of citation to give a clearer picture of true impact, but that is a technical problem yet to be cracked.
At the moment it faces a number of obstacles. Who will do the tagging, for a start (if tagging is needed). Authors would probably find it too complicated.
Then there is the complexity of the cultures and conventions of academic discourse within different disciplines, described as 'a weird sort of theatre where you write the paper to accrue reputation without explicitly saying what it is you're actually saying'.
In some areas this can manifest itself as appearing to disagree with someone but actually agreeing with them; a violent objection that actually turns out to be a veiled compliment.
Will any semantic engine we can currently imagine be sophisticated enough to parse that level of meaning?
Alternatively, would it require a change in the way people write papers to improve citations, and would there be strong enough incentives for authors to comply?
It is always the case that more questions are raised than answered at these symposiums, so this post has to end here, at the frontiers of what we can presently say with any certainty.


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September 5, 2013
Geotours will be held this weekend as part of the Tahoe Expo.
The expo aims to help people embrace stewardship with fun, interactive, low carbon geotourism activities and adventures that enrich connections to the region while improving the water's clarity, according to a press release.
Thirteen geotours will be held Saturday, some of which will be launch from the expo center stage venue at Lakeview Commons in South Lake Tahoe. The event will feature indigenous ceremonies, interactive demonstrations, Earthgym, entertainment, food and beverages, the release stated.
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It has been a tough spring here in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. Spring was a complete dud in terms of moisture and delivered little from the skies except numerous big dust storms. The dust made the already dwindling snowpack melt even faster leaving us with conditions that more resemble late July than early June. What can you do but make the best of a bad hand? This past weekend I loaded up the trusty Subaru Outback for a drive up to Clear Lake above Silverton. Numerous long couloirs lead to aprons that end at the lakes edge making for some of the most scenic runs in the regions.
We packed up our gear, including crampons and ice axes, to make morning skiing some of the half-dozen north facing couloirs above the lake. The climbing was perfect with clear, sunny skies and a light breeze keeping the morning snow firm for the climb up. A few remaining pieces of ice floated lazily across the lake in the warming June sunlight.
At the top of the first couloir I looked down into Ice Lakes Basin just south of my vantage point. The ice was already melted off and the snowpack, shrinking by the day. This is quite possibly one of the most scenic areas in the entire state.
I ditched my spikes and axe in my pack and clipped into my sticks. It had been a few weeks since I was last on skis and the first few turns of this line were the real deal. The consequences of a mistake were big, so I took a moment to check everything over to make sure that I was good to go. I pushed off and linked a couple turns. The corn sprayed a glaze of white across the dark rock walls as I linked turns down a narrow couloir. As I dropped onto the apron, the turns got bigger and the breathing easier. I made my way to the lakes edge and looked at my reflection as I dropped the pack and retooled for another climb — I chuckled as I saw my childlike grin. The snow is going quick and it isn't epic, but it's June and I'm skiing in one of America's great playgrounds while most skiers are sitting back in town dreaming of another winter still 6 solid months away. I'm pretty grateful for what I've got.