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text: CCC Student Rights and Responsibilities Have a question about your rights and responsibilities at Clackamas Community College? CCC Student Consumer Information The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) requires that postsecondary institutions participating in federal student aid programs make certain disclosures to students. The following information is disclosed to you as a student at CCC in compliance with federal law. For additional information, including requesting a paper copy of any materials, please call the appropriate office or visit the indicated websites. Student Rights & ResponsibilitiesAcademic ProgramsInformation concerning CCC's current educational programs is available in the Programs &Certificates section of this site. The CCC catalog contains course descriptions, a listing of current faculty and physical facility information.Accreditation, Approval or LicensureClackamas Community College has been accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU). Courses are approved by the Oregon State Board of Education, and lower-division courses are approved for transfer to colleges and universities in the Oregon University System. To review CCC's accreditation status, contact the President's Office at 503-594-3002.Drug/Alcohol PolicyIn compliance with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-690, Title V, Subtitle D) and the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act Amendment of 1989 (Public Law 101-226), it shall be the policy of Clackamas Community College to maintain a drug-free campus for all employees and students. It is the responsibility of the College to notify students and staff of College polity. 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text: ITT Exelis ( NYSE: XLS) has received a $6.5 million award to supply a radar system to the U.S. Coast Guard. The radar will support the service's maritime reconnaissance mission. Integrated on the new HC-130J Super Hercules long-range surveillance aircraft, the AN/APY-11 multimode radar is designed to support the Coast Guard's changing missions, including long-range surveillance, drug interdiction and counterterrorism. First provided to the Coast Guard under a 2005 contract award, the AN/APY-11 multimode radar is produced by Exelis and partner ELTA Systems Ltd. "Our multimode radar system is the most effective maritime surveillance radar in its class," said Peter Martin, director of Programs, Defense Systems, for the Exelis Electronic Attack & Release Systems business. "As the Coast Guard's mission continues to grow, our radar will adapt to evolving operational requirements." The HC-130J aircraft performs maritime surveillance in areas that cannot be patrolled efficiently by medium-range surveillance aircraft or cutters. The aircraft also provides heavy air transport for maritime safety and security teams, port security units and National Strike Force personnel and equipment. About ITT Exelis Exelis is a diversified, top-tier global aerospace, defense, information and technical services company that leverages a 50-year legacy of deep customer knowledge and technical expertise to deliver affordable, mission-critical solutions for global customers. We are a leader in communications, sensing and surveillance, critical networks, electronic warfare, navigation, air traffic solutions and information systems with growing positions in C4ISR, composite aerostructures, logistics and technical services. Headquartered in McLean, Va., the company employs about 19,900 people and generated 2012 sales of $5.5 billion. For more information, visit our website at www.exelisinc.com or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.


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So much for Liverpool's American owners, George Gillett and Tim Hicks, being stingy with their money. They are about to give Manager Rafa Benitez what he wants: the money to buy striker Fernando Torres from Atletico Madrid.
A $54 million transfer deal -- $40 million plus Luis Garcia -- has been accepted in principle by Atletico and is now dependent on Torres declaring an
intent to leave his boyhood club when he returns from vacation on July 10. Liverpool had hoped to ship Djibril Cisse to Atletico, but the Frenchman nixed that deal and Luis Garcia was offered
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Bench refractometers or polarimeters
Benchtop centrifuges
Chemical absorption gas analyzers
Chemiluminescence or bioluminescence analyzers
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Conductivity meters
Core drills
Density gradient fractionators
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Dissolution or disintegration testers
Dissolved carbon dioxide analyzers
Dissolved oxygen meters
Electronic counters
Electronic measuring probes
Extracting equipment for laboratories
Filtering machinery
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Fluorescent microscopes
Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators
Freeze dryers or lyopholizers
Fume hoods or cupboards
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Gas detector tubes
Gas detectors
Gas gauges
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Laboratory microwave ovens
Liquid scintillation counters
Mass spectrometers
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Nitrogen or nitrate or nitrite analyzer
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Open stream current meters
Open stream water level recorders
Orbital shakers
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Ozone analyzers
Permeability testing apparatus
pH meters
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Programmable tube furnaces
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Shear strength testers
Soil core sampling apparatus
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Titration equipment
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Faux leather has many uses: furniture, seat covers, bags, belts, and shoes can be made from it. Some qualities are flame-retardant and well suited for public areas. It is also used in medical environments after an antimicrobial finish is added. Generally, imitation leather is easy-care, wear-resistant, and robust. It has a regular, even look and is a lot easier to work with than genuine leather. This makes it an inexpensive alternative. The material consists of a knitted or woven tissue or nonwovens plus a coating. The coating can be made from PVC, PUR (polyurethane) or polyester and creates the feel of the fabric. The fabric base - made from natural or synthetic fibres - affects the elasticity of the artificial leather, which is important when upholstering edges. Knitted fabrics are more stretchable than woven fabrics.
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Since Terrence Malick makes films only slightly more often than God makes pronouncements, The Tree of Life - his fifth offering in 38 years - has excited much anticipation. Now the wait is over and, by all that's holy, the result actually plays like a divine pronouncement, cosmic in scope and oracular in tone, a cinematic sermon on the mount that shows its creator in exquisite form.
Exquisite but frustrating. As deities go, Malick is par for the course - he too can beguile us and irk us, he too commands our respect yet not always our love.
Indeed, love and cruelty are the double helix that weaves through every frame of the picture, starting with an opening quote from Job, whose patience is being tried by his unfathomable Maker. Ours will be tested also but, contrary to some early reports, this isn't an unfathomable or even unduly complex movie. Quite the contrary. From the title on down, the meaning is clear and the narrative is quite literal in its linearity. Malick takes us on a journey from the very birth of the universe to its current flawed state, with a stopover to a family in small-town Texas circa the 1950s. Sure, that's quite the excursion, yet you don't need a compass to chart the direction - it may not be simple but it's definitely straightforward.
The trip is prefaced by a claim delivered in voice-over (Malick's preferred mode of address) that there are only two routes through life: "the way of nature and the way of grace." Grace is abundant in the story's mother figure, the pious and loving Mrs. O'Brien (Jessica Chastain), wife of Mr. O'Brien (Brad Pitt), and a sufferer of that most awful of tragedies - the death of a child, her middle son in his late teens. How he died we never learn, but the rest of the film can be seen as a reaction to his cruelly shortened life and to the question it inevitably poses: Why? Why such a brief candle?
That's when Malick retreats from death to birth, all the way back to the origins of the cosmos, conveyed in a very long and visually stunning sequence that traces the "way of nature" - celestial stirrings, the big bang, galactic formations, starry constellations, planetary eruptions, a single-cell organism, a jelly fish, a predatory shark and, almost risibly, a small dinosaur getting stomped on by a large dinosaur, carving out its territorial imperative. With its requiem score, the sequence unfolds like a gorgeous episode of Nova, as beauty and violence perpetually co-mingle. It's sweeping enough to make that previous origins film, The New World, look stunted. It's also, at times, portentously tedious.
Then comes the Texas stopover, where the macro gives way to the micro, and to a further montage - the birth of Mrs. O'Brien's first son Jack, the baptism, baby's first steps, two other boys born, their seemingly idyllic childhood of mother's milk and the great outdoors and fresh breeze through gossamer curtains. However, the theme of a disappearing Eden permeates all of Malick's work, and this is no exception. Enter the serpent in the shape of the father, another creative lord and destructive master.
What follows is a gripping, evocative and searingly honest rendition of My Three Sons - Malick at his accessible best. Red-haired, patient, long-suffering and virtually silent, Chastain is the embodiment of absolute love, but it's Pitt who injects the picture with a much-needed infusion of danger, ambiguity and, yes, old-fashioned drama. With his hair cropped and his torso stuffed into a succession of short-sleeve dress shirts, Daddy is a man disappointed, a frustrated musician obliged to toil as a middle manager in the local refinery. To his children, this father too is simultaneously loving and cruel, issuing soft kisses and bullying commands, his bouts of tenderness alternating with explosions of temper - human nature's big bang.
Young Jack (Hunter McCracken) navigates between his parents and the "two ways" they obviously represent. He experiences a sexual awakening, flirts with an Oedipal complex and eventually, as an adult, can be found in a place that Malick has never visited in any of his earlier works: the present day. The director seems uncomfortable there and (portrayed in a cameo by Sean Penn) so does Jack. He's an architect now, still troubled by his brother's death and trapped in an urban prison of steel and glass. Escape beckons in the surreal guise of the film's climax, when what began as a cosmic bang ends with the human whimper of wishful thinking - a kind of Rapture scene where even the portal to heaven looks grey and sombre.
But maybe that's the point. Our conclusion, individually or as a species, is bound to be an anti-climax. With or without us, the journey continues and, ultimately, nothing will outlast that ever-hovering question. In The Tree of Life, only the "Why?" is eternal.
The Tree of Life
- Directed and written by Terrence Malick
- Starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken
- Classification: PG
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One of Hollywood's most surprising friendships might be the one that Tony Danza had with the late Tupac Shakur.
Tony stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Tuesday, where he chatted with Billy Bush and Kit Hoover about his book, "I'd Like To Apologize For Every Teacher I Ever Had," and also opened up about befriending the rapper while Tupac was in jail.
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"I was trying to make a point that since he had five bullets holes in him and he was in jail and he's the same guy that wrote 'Dear Mama' and did all those great acting roles, I said, 'Maybe there is a better way to do this. Maybe, I know you can't be a goodie two-shoes in your business, but maybe there is a way to inspire kids," Tony said, recalling his exchange with Tupac while he was behind bars in 1995.
"I said, 'Because you have such a great influence, responsibility comes with that," Tony continued. "He wrote me back [and said], 'Thanks for understanding me.'"
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The design room walls were draped in colors upon textures of leather swatches. Lauren, a member of the design team was applying antiqued studs by hand to a leather piece at her desk. Photos were not allowed as the concepts being worked on in this room were in the very early stages for next Spring 2010, and many of the staff had not even been allowed in the design room yet! While some of the staff apologized for the messy state of the room, it actually had a gloriously creative, busy quality. (It was also much neater than my design studio ever is).
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The fall collection showed studded styles in rich, deep hues of forest green and eggplant. Abbe's favorite of this collection was the Alex bag in eggplant. For holiday, brighter colors of red, etc.
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Sea Bass with Popcorn Ponzu
Riffing on genmaicha, a green tea flavored with popped rice, Jean-Georges Vongerichten steams fish in a ponzu broth with popcorn and the Asian citrus yuzu (lime juice also works).
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- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons popping corn
- 1 quart water
- 2 tablespoons bonito flakes or 1 teaspoon Asian fish sauce
- 2 Thai green chiles, halved
- 2 rosemary sprigs
- 1 thyme sprig
- 1 teaspoon allspice berries, crushed
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon fresh yuzu juice
- 8 large shiitake, stems discarded and caps cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 medium shallots, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons julienned ginger
- Four 6-ounce skinless sea bass fillets
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
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In a medium saucepan, heat the vegetable oil. Add the corn, cover and shake over high heat until the kernels have popped. Add the the water, bonito flakes, chiles, rosemary, thyme and allspice and bring to a boil. Remove the saucepan from the heat, cover and let stand for 15 minutes. Strain the broth into a bowl and add the soy sauce and yuzu juice.
Light a grill. For each papillote, layer two 14-inch sheets of heavy-duty aluminum foil on a work surface. Fold up the sides of the foil to hold the broth. Divide the shiitake, shallots and ginger among the foil sheets. Season the fish with salt and pepper and set the fillets on the vegetables. Pour about 1 cup of popcorn broth over each fillet. Seal the packets, crimping tightly.
Grill the packets over high heat until the broth bubbles vigorously, about 10 minutes. Carefully open each packet. Transfer the fish to shallow bowls and drizzle with olive oil. Spoon the vegetables and broth over the fish and serve.
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Australian winemakers have made a specialty of Sémillon, a grape variety with a lemony intensity that will complement the ponzu broth in this dish.


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Baroness Hollis of Heigham: From the way that this discussion is going, I do not know whether praying in aid Higgs would help or hinder me. The noble Lord, Lord Lucas, said that this is not what Higgs says. My noble friend Lord Borrie said that this is not what Higgs says. And quite right, too, because that is not what Higgs refers to. I shall try another approach, which is to say that it is partly Higgs and it is a jolly
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good idea. Not for the first time, I think that I shall lose friends from all around the Committee. Perhaps I may set out our thinking.
First, we believe that it is a unitary board. I completely defer to the experience of the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, at the Bank of England. Needless to say, I have not shared that experience. I have no reason to think that she is not entirely accurate in her descriptions of some of the contrivances to avoid a structure that she believes is burdensome and an impediment to appropriate decision making.
The intent is that we are dealing with a unitary board where there is a strategic role that is properly exercised by the non-executive directors, not quite in a Chagall-like way floating above the top of the board, but which would none the less be able to sit as a non-executive committee to discuss the strategic development of the PPF. But the non-executives also have a separate role. That was a feature of the Higgs review, which stated that non-executives should meet separately and have a clear role in contributing to strategy and to monitoring performance.
Again, I cannot challenge the expertise of the noble Baroness, because it is not my expertise at all, but I am advised that ordinary companies are increasingly introducing opportunities for non-executive members of their boards to meet separately and to have a clearer, more independent rolealthough this may not be formally recognised in the same way as in the PPF.
We can argue about blue-sky stuff such as whether it is more like Europe, more like Britain, whether there should be unitary boards and so on, but ultimately I do not know how the PPF's ability to function appropriately is compromised by these proposals. I can think of many ways in which the role of the PPF will be strengthened by them. Would noble Lords opposite kindly say why in practice this would hamper the good governance of the PPF? I have not heard a single reason. I have heard blue-skies theory on structures and all the restthat is a changing field, but it is not mine. I have not heard any practical reason why this structure would hinder in any way.
There are many reasons why it would help, particularly given the political sensitivity of such a fund, where one is asking the non-executive members to have a non-commercial roleI am using small letters in that sense; I am not implying any criticism. There is a degree of sensitivity and therefore a degree of background that we would be seeking from the non-executive directors, which would be much greater in its headspace above the ranks of executive directors than is often the case.
In that sense, this separation of the non-executive directors into a non-executive committee, where appropriate, must surely be advisable. I have heard no reasons to persuade me that that is not the case, other than, "it isn't best practice".
Baroness Noakes: I do not wish to delay the Committee too much, as I am sure that we shall return to this matter again at Report. The problem is that the
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list of non-executive functions starts with strategy. That is quintessentially a function of the whole unitary board. Nothing in Higgs or the combined code says that non-executives go away separately to talk about strategy. They go away separately to talk about the way in which the chairman worksthat is specified in the combined codeand, usually with the chairman, to talk about the performance of the chief executive. No one needs to set up in statute or write in the combined code that they should do those things, and no one says that they should have a separate committee for it.
If the intention is, as we understand it, to have a unitary board, why do we have this artificial structure involving the non-executive committee? I tried to explain to the Minister that in the only example with which I have been familiar there has been a series of legal devices to operate as a unitary board but stay within the letter of the Bank of England Act. So if she says, "Is there any harm", I shall say, "No, the PPF will get around it", because it will organise the way that it carries on business as if this is not driving the way they have carried out their day-to-day business. I have not heard from the Minister why this structure helps the governance or the unitary structure to work. All that I can see is that it potentially harms the unitary structure unless the members of the PPF or the board work their way around it. That is not a sound basis for legislation.
Lord Higgins: The Minister said that there will be a remuneration committee and an audit committee, in which case I am not clear whether, if we are specifying a non-executive committee, we are not also specifying them. Provided that there is a proper remuneration committee and a proper audit committee, I wonder increasingly whether we need Clause 106 at all. For the reasons given by my noble friend, it is arguable that we do not.
Baroness Hollis of Heigham: I do not think that I can help very much more. We think that such a committee will ensure a degree of independence and oversee the governance and strategy of the organisation, providing an independent review of the executive function of the board. As a result, we will get a wide of range skills and experience brought to the organisation.
There is probably a degree of a difference of philosophy here. I am not sure that I shall be able to say very much that will change the minds of Members of the Committee. Obviously, as always, I shall read Hansard, but I have not heard anything gritty that I can get into: it has all been at a blue-sky level. I do not mean to be critical because my language, too, has been at a blue-sky level. Apart from the fact that at the Bank of England there was a need to get around it in some way, I have not heard anything to suggest that this provision is a bad thing. I have been given quite a lot of advice to suggest that there are many positive advantages.
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If noble Lords wish to write to me with further details about why this provision might be an impediment to the effective and appropriate running of this organisation, I am very happy to take that on board. But I have not had that grittiness today.
Baroness Noakes: Perhaps the noble Baroness can tell us the positive advantages. We did not hear those.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: On listening to the debate, I do not think that it is right for the Minister to invite Peers who are probing to write to her. It is for the Minister to explainthis is blue-sky either wayto explain grittily why the provision is a good thing. The more I listen, the more I think that there is not much point for it.
Baroness Hollis of Heigham: I have tried to set out that what we seek to do is to establish a non-executive committee within, if one likes, the unitary structure to overview the strategic functioning and working of the board. Given the nature of its sensitivities and so forth, there is an additional dimension that one might not normally expect of many commercial companies. It would be sensible and is congruent with the advice coming from Higgs et al. I am assured that this is increasingly the way in which many companies are going, and it seems a good way to proceed. But if it is not, it is for Members of the Committee who are saying that we should do something different to explain to me, if they would be so kind, why doing it differently would be better.
Lord Lea of Crondall: This is an unnecessary philosophical discussion that has arisenas if this must, on a priori grounds, be exactly like a Companies Act company. That is the sort of picture that is coming out. This is sui generis. All the reasons for this provision being set out as it is are based on the particular factors that have led to the whole board structure being created in the first place. The critics have not really taken the point that this is a rather special animal that must have rather special features. I think that time will demonstrate that is the case.
Baroness Noakes: Perhaps I may say to the noble Lord that this is a fairly ordinary NDPB. There is nothing very special about it in public sector organisational terms.
Lord Lucas: Can the noble Baroness ask her officials to talk to their colleagues associated with the Bank of England board to find out their experience of this particular structure? It is an unusual structure in NDPBs. Perhaps we could have some feedback on whether they feel that the structure has been good.
The crucial element is subsection (4), which one could not have in a public company and is not present in most NDPBs. One can have everything else, but subsection (4) kills it. What advantages or disadvantages does the Bank of England see to having that part of the structure? The rest seems to me to say, "Well, if they want to do it that way or not, fine". We take the view of the noble Lord, Lord Borrie, that this is a public board and it can
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do things its own way. But we are introducing a set of tensions into this board through subsection (4). I do not see how those tensions are constructive.
There is an example in the Bank of England where those tensions exist, at least in potential. Can we have some feedback as to why they are a good idea?
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The madness surrounding next week's Upfronts has officially begun, claiming its first victim in NBC's Deception, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The network has opted not to renew the low-rated drama, because it isn't in the business of handouts. Unless J.J. Abrams' or Ryan Murphy's name is attached.
Deception starred Meagan Good as a detective who went undercover in a wealthy family to investigate the murder of her best friend. It started out decent, but quickly settled into a 1.2 rating average among adults and a just over 3 million viewers. Those kind of numbers just aren't going to cut it, even for NBC.
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Today, we launch our Safe Bet campaign - aimed at encouraging the betting shop industry to improve conditions for its workers and ensure the death of worker Andrew Iacovou is not in vain.
A jury took just 49 minutes to convict Shafique Ahmad Aarij of the brutal murder of Andrew Iacovou, from Cheam, at the Morden betting shop he managed.
The homeless 21-year-old knew father-of-three Mr Iacovou would be working alone when he went to Ladbrokes in Aberconway Road armed with a hammer and a knife with the intention of robbing the bookmaker shortly before 8.30am on Saturday, May 25.
Shafique Aarij left the betting shop covered in blood
Regular gambler Aarij was already under observation at a Tooting bookmaker because of unusual bets and used a routine he practised the previous day to get Mr Iacovou, of Church Hill Road, Cheam.
He opened the door to the secure area behind the counter before bursting in and hitting him over the head up to 10 times with the hammer.
Aarij planned his robbery knowing that Mr Iacovou would be alone and if he told him there was a problem at the front of the shop he would have to come out from the cash office.
It is a routine used in robberies all over the country.
To prevent further tragedies we are calling on the betting industry to stop the practice of 'single-manning' shops and have a minimum of two workers on site at all times.
Sutton and Cheam MP Paul Burstow has already agreed to raise the issue in Parliament and frightened betting shop workers say it would make their jobs safer.
Mr Burstow said: "I think this is a very good issue to try to get some change on. I think it really is very bad that betting companies are prepared to put their staff at risk in this way.
"I'd be more than happy to raise this issue in Parliament. It is certainly worth it to shine a light on this important issue."
Betting shop workers have also backed the campaign.
One Ladbrokes worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said: "Ladbrokes have his blood on their hands. Single-manning is immoral - a money-pinching, anti-employee mess."
Despite Mr Iacovou's death, Ladbrokes said it has no plans to stop single manning.
A Ladbrokes spokesman said: "Betting shops throughout Britain have been opened and staffed by individuals in the morning for decades without any incidents.
"We only allow lone working in shops where staff are fully trained and where the shop is risk assessed.
"We will look into all aspects of the incident and what lessons may be learned but it would be inappropriate to comment on our security procedures in detail."
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REDLANDS >> During a marijuana convention in San Bernardino last month, a Redlands couple reportedly distributed cannabis-laced candy to undercover sheriff's deputies while advertising their business, Mema's Delectable Medibles.
On Thursday, deputies from the Sheriff's Marijuana Enforcement Team, "purchased a substantial quantity of edible marijuana products from the Vickerys at their residence," according to a sheriff's department press release. "The Vickerys made no effort to confirm if the investigators were medical marijuana patients or if they had any lawful justification to purchase and distribute marijuana."
Later Thursday deputies served a search warrant at the couple's home in the 200 block of North Lincoln Street, according to the department.
George and Betty Vickery, 45 and 47, were arrested on suspicion of cultivating and selling marijuana. Both have been released on bail, online booking records indicate.
During the search, the press release said, deputies noticed the home was littered with animal feces, marijuana and pot products.
The couple's two children — a girl, 15, and a boy, 13, — who were living at the home, were taken from the residence by Child Protective Services, according to the sheriff's department.
The Vickerys fell under the department's suspicion during Hempcon, which took place April 18 to 20 at the National Orange Show Event Center, near downtown San Bernardino.
An area at the convention — advertised to be restricted to those with medical marijuana recommendations — allowed businesses to provide samples of pot and pot products.
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Washington, D.C.–Nevada Senator Harry Reid made the following remarks today on repealing wasteful subsidies for big oil companies. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery:
"Saving money requires a lot of difficult choices. Which programs do we cut in tough times? Which priorities are more important than others? As we've seen here in the Senate and across the country over the last few months, a lot of people have a lot of different answers to those questions.
"Then there are the choices that aren't so tough at all. There's clear waste in the federal budget and the tax code. And then there's Big Oil. We're giving billions and billions of dollars every year – $4 billion to be exact – every cent of it taxpayer money – to oil companies that already are more than successful.
"These oil companies made $36 billion in profits during the first quarter of this year alone. Exxon made 70 percent more this year than last year.
"The industry's $36 billion in quarterly profits means it's making $12 billion a month. That's $4 billion a week. And yet the U.S. government is giving these companies $4 billion a year in corporate welfare?
"Why are taxpayers on the hook for oil companies that are doing just fine on their own?
"If we're serious about reducing the deficit, this is an easy place to start. It's a no-brainer. Let's use the savings from these taxpayer giveaways to drive down the deficit, not drive up oil company profits.
"Let's make one thing clear: wasteful subsidies have nothing to do with gas prices. These oil handouts have existed for decades. Prices have continued to rise. Oil executives' paychecks have gone up too. The $4 billion a gallon Americans are paying at the pump are not related to these subsidies – but those profits are proof enough that they don't need them.
"Even Big Oil CEOs like the head of Shell, and Republicans in Congress including the Speaker of the House, have admitted that these subsidies aren't necessary.
"Some of our conservative colleagues have a hard time stomaching giving a hand to those who need it the most. We should all agree – in the interest of fairness, common sense, and saving taxpayer money – that we can cut out corporate welfare to those Big Oil firms who need it the least."


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The picture you're using as an example is a composite photo of multiple images stacked to create the single final image. Temper expectations, but you can get some decent pictures with the kit lens with the right technique. One of the biggest factors in beginning astrophotography is taking the time to get away from light pollution. What you can see in the sky 30 miles away from the nearest city is vastly different than what you'll see from your porch.
As for setting focus probably the best way is to going manual focus and then use a flashlight,laser or car headlamps to light something up at the lens hyperfocal distance set the focus and then not touch it.
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Viewing of TransGeneration, discussion and Q&A with documentary participant, T.J. Jourian
TransGeneration is a television documentary mini-series produced by the Sundance Channel and won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2006. This captivating documentary takes an inside look into the lives of four college students who are undergoing a gender transition and the perils they face.
The Fluidity of My Journey with Gender and Privilege
Opening Keynote Address - T.J. Jourian, Vanderbilt University
Finding the Connection between the Head, the Heart, and the Body
Presenter: Meg Evans, CMU coordinator of LGBTQ programs
This interactive workshop will focus on the intersection between gender and sexual orientation. Using examples from popular media, we hope to gain an understanding of gender non-conformity and gender fluidity while interweaving issues sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. We will dissect the meaning of "transgender" and explore a number of different relationships through our current understanding of gendered relationship roles.
Combating Street Harassment and Gender Violence Using Social Media and Mobile Technology
Presenter: Jessica Dickinson Goodman, CMU student/activist
From downtown Pittsburgh to downtown Cairo, women and LGBTQ souls are targeted for public sexual harassment. Many women are raised to believe that the kind of comments and behaviors which would be illegal inside the workplace or the home are part of the price of being a woman. Using apps like iHollaBack and websites like HarassMap, we can combat this public form of gender violence. In this session, we will hear from working activists inside and outside the United States who are combating harassment in their neighborhoods. We will discuss restarting HollaBackPGH and how student activists can work to fight street harassment in their own lives and communities. This session will be enraging, interesting, and empowering.
From Mad Men to Funny People: New Archetype, Same Old Issues of White Masculinity
Presenter: Lucas Christain, CMU, Associate Director of Student Life
In this session we will utilize two modern pop culture icons to discuss historical challenges in socially constructed masculine identities. Don Draper from AMC's Mad Men and Seth Rogan's characters from The Forty Year Old Virgin, Pine Apple Express, and Funny People are used to highlight how the images of white masculinity have changed in the last 50-60 years. We'll then discuss the ways in which some modern movements are working to deconstruct the often negative and harmful definitions and stereotypes of masculinity.
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Social Privilege and Stereotype Threat: Group Membership Really Does Matter
Presenter: Chante Cox Boyd, Associate Teaching Professor, CMU
The social groups to which one belongs play an important role in determining one's outcomes in a given society. The opportunities available to an individual as well as the manner in which the person is treated are often determined by society's views of the person's social group. This talk will address the impact of social grouping and highlight the privileges bestowed upon those who are members of the dominate group. Also discussed will be the impact of negative stereotypes of those who happen to belong to less favorable group and how these stereotypes impede the progress of group members.
Thank God, for Gender
Presenter: Jeannine Heynes, CMU Coordinator of Gender Programs
In this session we will explore how the gendering of God can impact our sense of self. In most major religions God is understood to be male, or is, at least, consistently referred to as "He". What kind of impact has the masculinization of God had on gender roles within America, and why do so many people struggle with the idea of God as "She"? Come explore how your concepts of God can influence your perceptions of gender.
Exploring Gender Roles Identities through Dance Movement Therapy
Closing Keynote Address, Angela Tatum Fairfax, CEO Good Fruit Expressive Arts
"Who am I?" This simple question with a complex answer has been the topic of discussion, debate, and confusion for millions of people throughout the years. While sex refers to our biological assignment of male or female, gender has something to do with self-identity, social behavior, and personal characteristics. Howard and Hollander (2000) wrote, "Children learn at a very young age to adopt gender as a basic organizing principle for themselves and social worlds they are learning about" (p.13). However, race, age, class, culture, and sexual orientation also play a role in a person's concept of gender. The manner in which we move, posture, and express ourselves to others provides an indication of how we choose to express gender. This workshop will specifically address gender movement qualities, preferences and expression from a dance/movement therapy perspective.
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A theological conversion
Young blogging theologian Chris Tilling describes his "conversion experience" from hardcore fundamentalist after listening to Walter Brueggemann:
As many of my readers know, I used to be a screaming conservative street preaching 'it's not religion it's a relationship' ethical black and white liberal = evil Catholic bashing Christian pop music listening shine-Jesus-shine singing puritan paperbacks reading borderline-Fundie. While there is much about that background for which I am grateful, I'll never forget the day I was sitting in a bus (prayerfully) listening to a Brueggemann lecture on the OT portrayal of God.
What a shock it was for my theological world. At that stage I didn't know too much about Brueggemann expect that he wasn't on my usual 'safe' list. But his dismantling of my assumption that exegesis and systematic theology exist in a straightforward relationship was a world shaking moment from which I never recovered. The Old Testament, I learned, was not a book of settled theology; it was doing theology and generating a variety of testimonies concerning God. Perhaps von Rad had the same effect for an earlier generation, but having listened to Brueggemann I left the bus literally feeling sick; sick, but forever delivered from naive assumptions that had crippled my engagement with the bible and theology. I struggled with what he said, but later I came to very much appreciate the door he opened into a new theological world. So thanks, Walter.
Read it all here. The Episcopal Church is filled with people with similar "conversion" stories. What's yours?
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While I'm a cradle Episcopalian, I was peer-pressured into joining "Young Life" in high school.
At a YL Bible Study, we were reading some eschatological passage (probably Revelation). The group leader asked us what we thought of it: the world's future. One member answered "I don't think it'll last 10 years."
Honestly surprised at this interpretation (guesstimate!), I responded "Gee, that's awfully pessimistic."
AS ONE, the group turned on me: "Pessimistic?!" "How can you say that: Jesus will come back!" "Yeah, we WANT the world to end, because Jesus will come in glory!" "This world is going to hell already anyway!"
Etc, etc, ad nauseum.
Needless to say, I KNEW at that moment, I was really an Episcopalian. I was in the WRONG group, and I never went back.
Oh, that was the late 1970s: so much for their end-of-the-world timeline, eh? :-/
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Strategic Oil Reserve or Short-Term Political Maneuver?: Viewby
Releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve makes sense in time of emergency, natural disaster or a major disruption in supplies. None of those events have occurred, which makes the yesterday by President Barack Obama to tap the reserve puzzling.
Obama, in concert with the International Energy Agency, plans to draw 2 million barrel a day during the next month from U.S. and international reserves. Oil prices plunged.
Perhaps that was the desired effect. The argument offered by Obama and IEA officials was that the released oil would offset the reduced supply of crude from Libya. The release also coincides, the Department of Energy said, with the onset of the peak U.S. summer driving season.
But amid a run of gloomy economic news, it's hard not to imagine that other motives were at work. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered its growth forecast for the year. Unemployment is heading in the wrong direction. The U.S. housing market still is in decline.
This is only the fourth time since the petroleum reserve was established after the mid-1970s oil crisis that a U.S. president has tapped it. The others were in 1991 during the first Gulf War; in 1996-97 to help reduce the federal deficit; and in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina knocked out drilling rigs across the Gulf of Mexico.
Over the years Congress has adopted rules making it easier for the president to release oil at times of high prices. But with crude at about $95 a barrel before the announcement -- well below the record of $147 in 2008 -- that hardly seemed to be the case.
What's confounding about the reserve release is that it doesn't seem to meet the president's professed standards. "The reserve should only be used in the event of an emergency," Obama said in 2005. Unless the administration can make a persuasive case that disaster lurks, we will be compelled to face a situation more corrosive than rising gas prices or the lack of a comprehensive energy policy -- the sense that our leaders are making short-sighted decisions for political gain.
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About Sierra SunTower
eSolar heralds a new era of solar energy with the unveiling of Sierra SunTower. Challenges that once thwarted widespread solar thermal power generation — including cost, speed of deployment, and environmental sustainability — have now been met. eSolar delivers a new blueprint for solar energy in California and beyond.
Sierra SunTower supplies 5 MW of clean, renewable energy to the grid. The full-scale power plant, the first commercial CSP tower in the United States, supplies electricity to Southern California Edison (SCE) and will power up to 4,000 homes.
- Southern California Homes – Sierra SunTower will produce 5 MW of electricity powering up to 4,000 homes.
- Job Creation – The project created over 250 construction jobs and 6 permanent jobs.
- Local Community – Sierra SunTower provides a new local tax base, as well as direct and indirect economic benefits during development, construction and operation.
- Greenhouse Gases – 5 MW of clean solar power generation will offset more than 7,000 tons of CO2 each year.
- Clean and Reliable – Efficient and clean solar power is reliably available during peak demand.
Environmental Facts
The 5 MW output of Sierra SunTower will reduce CO2 emissions by 7,000 tons per year. For perspective, Sierra SunTower's annual impact is equivalent to:
- Planting 5,265 acres of trees
- Removing 1,368 automobiles from the road
- Saving 650,000 gallons of gasoline
The Construction and History of Sierra
With the learning from Littlerock, it was time for eSolar to test our ideas of large scale mass-manufacturing and modular field design in a commercial project which gave rise to the Sierra SunTower project starting in 2009. eSolar worked with manufacturing partners to develop an automated assembly line used to create over 24,000 heliostats. eSolar designed every part for easy manufacturing, shipping and installation.
eSolar developed this project from start to finish, covering all aspects of the project lifecycle, even designing the first generation Solar Receiver System (SRS) used on this site. Sierra Sun Tower demonstrated eSolar's goals of commercial viability and rapid deployment by going from initial ground-breaking to supplying electricity to the grid in less than twelve months.
Sierra Sun Tower's commissioning marked very important firsts:
- The first time Spectra, eSolar's control software, integrated with a real power plant's Distributed Control System (DCS)
- The first time we used mass-produced wind turbine industry monopoles to hold our solar receivers
- The first time we were able to convert our steam into electricity
eSolar has collected much more than just solar thermal energy at Sierra, we have collected an immense amount of data, knowledge and experience. Since the completion of Sierra, we have improved and tested new ideas at the site including:
- Partnering with B&W to test eSolar's Solar Collector System (SCS) on a different solar receiver
- Upgrading one of its fields with all new electronics
- Implementing a new generation Spectra, including large improvements in our throttle control, aim-point management, and calibration process
The process of upgrading a field, rolling out new software and firmware and designing against a new solar receiver provided even more lessons and experience for the eSolar team.


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First it was the Tax Office advertising for fund members who had lost track of their super. Now the prudential regulator, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, as part of its super tracking strategy, is threatening to dissolve 500 uncontactable super funds for failing to lodge annual regulatory returns.
Today APRA is advertising a list of 500 funds which have never lodged a return. The full-page press ads ask fund trustees and members to contact APRA if their fund is on the list.
A further 300 unnamed funds face prosecution for failing to lodge annual returns on time.
Trustees of the "uncontactable" funds face disqualification for failing to attend to the required paperwork, whereupon a new trustee would be appointed.
That new trustee would make funds available to members who come forward to collect their lost super.
APRA does not know how much is invested in the funds because it has no financial records for them.
The regulator's deputy chairman, Ross Jones, said delayed or non-lodgement of returns compromised APRA's ability to identify possible financial and compliance problems within the industry, and ultimately its ability to protect the interests of fund members.
The regulator has already identified about 500 small mum-and-dad self-managed funds which report to the Tax Office.
It found another 550 that were set up but never operated, while the remaining 500 are still a mystery.
"Our staff in the past year have sent out more than 7000 letters and made over 15,000 phone calls to try and track down these funds," Mr Jones said.
"The crucial thing is that if there is any money in these funds, the money is not lost.
"We are giving them 40 days in the first instance and then ultimately we will go through the process of removing the trustees, appointing a new acting trustee and winding the fund up.
"It is in our interests to be out there to try and protect whatever funds there are and if we can't find these funds this is the mechanism we will have to adopt."
Until relatively recently APRA was not liable if super funds failed to lodge a return.
That liability emerged 18 months ago, along with stronger powers to force compliance.
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World War I: the war that inspired innovative art
08/09/2014 3:00amIn the summer of 1914, with the war in Europe just two weeks old, Henry James knew that something had been lost forever.
Veteran Israeli filmmaker Menahem Golan dies at 85
08/09/2014 5:40amMenahem Golan, a veteran Israeli filmmaker who built an empire on the back of brawny men beating others senseless across a host of 1980s action films, has died in Tel Aviv. He was 85.
Radcliffe now into indies, but 'Potter' trails
08/09/2014 8:31amJ.K. Rowling published a new Harry Potter short story last month. And Daniel Radcliffe braced himself once again.
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Imamura said that as a part of his TV unit's new strategy, it will adopt Google's (GOOGL) new Android TV software for its Bravia TVs to be launched in the fiscal year starting April 2015.
The connected Sony TVs would allow users to access features such as Netflix (NFLX), as well as music from Pandora (P) and games. The new TVs will compete directly against TV systems offered by Apple (APPL), Roku and Amazon (AMZN).
Sony is making a strong push to return its TV unit to profitability, but it looks like the only way to reverse the prevailing trend in declining sales is to think outside the box.
Let's hear from TheStreet Ratings on Sony:
TheStreet Ratings team rates SONY CORP as a Hold with a ratings score of C. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate SONY CORP (SNE) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed ? some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself."
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:
- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 17.4%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 41.3%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.
- The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.57, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels. Despite the fact that SNE's debt-to-equity ratio is low, the quick ratio, which is currently 0.61, displays a potential problem in covering short-term cash needs.
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Household Durables industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 228.4% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $1,044.22 million to -$1,340.40 million.
- Current return on equity is lower than its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a clear sign of weakness within the company. Compared to other companies in the Household Durables industry and the overall market, SONY CORP's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- You can view the full analysis from the report here: SNE Ratings Report
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