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Chefs' Secrets: La Fiesta Patio Café's Whole Grain Brown Rice, Spanish Style
Updated 10:56 pm, Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Dear Pat: There is a recipe I am desperate to find. It's the brown rice at La Fiesta Patio Café in Universal City. I actually start to crave the item about two-three times a month. Your help with this would be very greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!
Dear Brandi: It's January, the time when we all vow to eat healthy, but who among us can forgo our beloved Tex-Mex? Luckily, there's no need for so rash a step. A trip to La Fiesta Patio Café allows us to enjoy our favorite Tex-Mex foods without the guilt. Owners Pat and Roger Diaz have been serving their unique and healthy versions of Tex-Mex cuisine since 1974, so you know the food has to be delicious as well as nutritious, since it's been satisfying San Antonian's discerning palates all these years.
The restaurant is vegetarian friendly, so in addition to meats and chicken, tofu is available as the protein for tacos, enchiladas and salads. They use whole grains, legumes and fresh vegetables, including garlic and peppers, and where needed, cook with pure peanut oil, not lard. Whole-wheat and unbleached flours, a moderate amount of sea salt, plus herbs and spices go into the preparation of their dishes, never artificial flavor enhancers or preservatives.
A dish as seemingly simple as their rice is a prime example of the care taken with both product and preparation. Whole-grain brown rice and exacting technique yield superb results. Subtly toasted, the separate grains take on the flavor of the onion, garlic, pepper and tomato, and the texture is almost meaty, not dry or mushy. Pat Diaz stresses that the method is actually more important than the exact amount of spices and vegetables, which you can adjust to taste. Diaz instructs us to have all the vegetables chopped and the spices measured before beginning cooking, so you can devote all your attention to properly stirring and browning the rice.
Aside from the typical Spanish flavorings, the technique of browning the rice is also "Spanish-style." The Spaniards brought rice to Mexico. (Before that, folks in Mexico relied almost exclusively on beans and corn.) The process of frying the rice in oil is said to have come from the Spaniards who, in turn, had learned it from the Arabs. It's this process that ensures that the grains remain separate.
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The brown rice is just the beginning, of course. La Fiesta Patio Café is known for its wonderful tortilla soup, puffy tacos, unique sauces, tacos, enchiladas, salads and much more. Visit them soon and enjoy your dinner with a clear conscience.
La Fiesta Patio Café is at 1421 Pat Booker Road off Kitty Hawk Road, in Universal City.
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Nevada Rushford could be principal violinist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra one day.
She's only seven, but the Grade 2 Elwick Community School student has been taking lessons from professional musicians for more than a year. By the time she graduates from high school, the pint-sized violinist will be better trained than the majority of North American student musicians.
Nevada, and more than a score of her Elwick classmates, are part of a musical and social movement that began in Venezuela as a way to bring music to street children and help them realize the possibilities of life.
Sistema is a serious commitment. Children agree to take music lessons five days a week for three hours at a time. In Winnipeg, they're taught by two dedicated teachers and a rotation of WSO musicians.
There's no cost to the students or their families. The Seven Oaks School division and the WSO shoulder the expenses, including paying for the instruments. The WSO accepts donations of string, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments for the program.
"It's changing their lives, one note at a time," says WSO executive director Trudy Schroeder. "I think it's the most important thing the WSO has ever done."
Some of Elwick's students come from financially challenged families.
Schroeder, WSO principal violist Dan Scholz, teachers and the Elwick choir and orchestra performed at Winnipeg Harvest Monday afternoon. One violinist, biting her lip with concentration, wore a pink plastic headband. Another had on his ball cap. They were in snowpants and frayed jeans and they were making music.
Scholz works with the kids once a week. He conducts the WSO youth orchestra and believes every child, no matter where they live, deserves the chance to study music.
"I don't think any child should be denied the opportunity to participate in any activity, whether it's sports or music. This gives children who might not have had the chance to come to the concert hall a great chance."
There are four Sistema programs in Canada. It began in New Brunswick and Ottawa before moving to Winnipeg. Elwick was the first local school to be involved. The inner city's King Edward School also participates.
Tanya Derksen, the WSO's director of education and outreach, says the program is expensive.
The cost per student is $3,000 and there are 50 children involved. Seven Oaks supplies the teachers, space and busing; the WSO musicians teach at a discounted rate. Volunteers serve snacks to the kids. Much of the funding comes from private donors.
Teacher Erin Risbey says Sistema and its influence on kids are "amazing."
"It's such a big commitment by the kids," she says, "but they really want to be there. I think the parents see the value in the program, too."
"It's amazing the see them performing Bach and Haydn."
Trudy Schroeder is evangelical as she talks about the student orchestra.
"For us, in this time, we realize as an orchestra we have to make a difference in our community," she says, "The symphony is not just for people who can buy tickets. This is for everyone."
She says the average middle-class student would never have the chance to train with musicians of this calibre, nor would they dedicate so many hours to their practice.
"They say you need 10,000 hours of practice to become great at something," says Schroeder. "If they stay with it through Grade 12, they'll have that."
The students have already had the chance to listen to the symphony live. This spring, they'll do that one better when they perform live with the orchestra at the concert hall.
Monday morning, the choir and orchestra whipped through Beethoven's Ode To Joy, voices clear, bows flying, ponytails bobbing. They'll perform the same song with the WSO and likely get the same reaction. Thunderous applause and a few quiet tears.
Nevada may not become a professional musician, but she already knows how to use her talents to stir a crowd.

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A man is dead and another in hospital following a crash on Highway 59, a little over three kilometres north of Scanterbury.
RCMP and EMS responded to the scene of the fatal crash on Highway 59 just before 5:30 p.m.
A photo of the scene shows a car, the front three quarters destroyed. The wreck of the car is unrecognizable, as it is flattened and twisted, and large parts of it are elsewhere on the road. Wreckage can be seen littering the highway for about 50 metres around the crash site.
RCMP said in a release the car was going southbound when it collided head-on with a north-bound lumber truck. The investigation indicated the driver of the car was attempting to pass on a solid line when the collision occurred. The 30-year-old driver of the car was pronounced dead on the scene, while the 39-year-old driver of the truck was brought to hospital in stable condition.
A witness said the car appears to have swerved and collided head-on with the truck.
Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the collision. The investigation is ongoing.
Scanterbury is about 70 kilometres north of Winnipeg.


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Policy Brief - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Quarterly Journal: International Security
Nuclear Policy Gridlock in Japan
This policy brief is based on "Veto Players, Nuclear Energy, and Nonproliferation: Domestic Institutional Barriers to a Japanese Bomb," which appears in the fall 2011 issue of International Security.
- A Half Century of Nuclear Policy Continuity. Ever since the 1950s, Japan has consistently pursued a complete nuclear fuel cycle, but it has just as consistently abstained from building nuclear weapons.
- Japan's Large Number of Nuclear Veto Players. Japan's remarkable nuclear policy stability is in large measure the result of the de facto veto power that the top political leadership, major state bureaucracies, private companies, and prefectural governors all exercise over major policy shifts.
- An Extreme Case, but a Common Phenomenon. Many advanced industrialized democracies have numerous nuclear veto players. Therefore, major nuclear policy shifts in these countries are likely to be rare, gradual, and openly debated.
Prior to the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011, international observers frequently posed the question of whether Japan might convert its large stockpile of plutonium into nuclear weapons. Since March 11, their main question has shifted to whether Japan will decide to exit from the nuclear energy field altogether.
Top Japanese politicians have encouraged both lines of speculation. In the wake of North Korea's nuclear tests of 2006 and 2009, some high-ranking members of the then-ruling Liberal Democratic Party quietly argued for a Japanese nuclear arsenal to deter Pyongyang. By contrast, after months of attempting to contain the fallout from the damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear complex, Prime Minister Naoto Kan delivered a speech on July 14 declaring his intention to wean Japan off its dependence on nuclear energy. Japan's prime minister since September 2011, the Kan ally Yoshihiko Noda has gingerly backed away from his predecessor's position and seems instead to be embracing a policy of muddling through.
Even though the political winds in Japan have become quite changeable over the past decade, the country's traditional nuclear policy mix of "no to nuclear weapons, yes to nuclear energy" is likely to persist for many years to come. The principal reason why such a forecast can be made with confidence is that the Japanese nuclear policymaking arena is replete with veto players that are institutionally well positioned to block nuclear policy upheavals that they perceive as harmful to their self-interest. The existence of such a large number of veto players greatly reduces the chances for radical nuclear policy change, and it virtually eliminates the chances for any such change to occur secretly or suddenly.
Japan's stockpile of 30-plus tons of plutonium is therefore much less of a proliferation risk than many experts have claimed. Moreover, it is wrong to interpret Japan's nuclear policy as an implicit nuclear weapons "hedge." How technically "close" a country may be to having a bomb does not matter much if it is virtually institutionally incapable of mustering a political decision to cross that threshold.
Forecasts of a country's nuclear proliferation tendencies are often based on analyses of how its top political leadership perceives the international strategic situation. That is a good place to start, because the top political leadership's nuclear policy preferences will undoubtedly matter a great deal. The analysis should not stop there, however, especially in the case of Japan. The reason is that top Japanese politicians have significantly less personal authority over nuclear policy than, for instance, their counterparts in India.
In India, authority over nuclear policy has always been steeply pyramidal: essentially, what the prime minister says goes. In 1998 this pyramidal institutional setup allowed newly elected Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to make a secret, unilateral decision to reverse decades of settled policy by inducting nuclear weapons into India's arsenal.
In Japan, however, authority over nuclear policy is highly fractured. There are many veto players in the Japanese nuclear policymaking arena, any one of which can pose a giant obstacle to major policy changes. In addition to the prime minister, Japan's nuclear veto players include the following:
- The Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, an extraordinarily powerful state bureaucracy that sets Japan's overall energy strategy, controls the licensing process for nuclear plants, and has been on the front line for nuclear safety;
- The privately held electrical utilities, including the enormous Tokyo Electric Power Company, which not only own most of Japan's nuclear facilities and plutonium stockpile, but also have an institutionalized oversight role regarding Japan's state nuclear activities;
- The heavy equipment manufacturers, including too-big-to-fail Toshiba, Hitachi, and Mitsubishi, which have been responsible for virtually all nuclear construction in Japan, including the country's proliferation-sensitive fuel-cycle facilities, and have made big bets on the success of the incipient global nuclear energy renaissance;
- The Atomic Energy Commission, the institution with the statutory authority to set long-term Japanese nuclear policy, whose full-time members have an autonomous status akin to the governors of a central bank;
- Provincial ("prefectural") governors, who are in a position to pass judgment on proposals for construction, alteration, or operation of nuclear facilities in their domains independent of the national-level authorities.
It is a standard assumption in political science that veto players, once established, are almost impossible to sideline. Reflecting this, the number of Japanese nuclear veto players has continuously expanded over time. There were three veto players in the 1960s, four in the 1970s, five in the 1990s, and six in the 2000s. Moreover, in response to the Fukushima disaster, the government has made strides toward turning the nuclear safety bureaucracy into a truly independent actor by attaching it to the Ministry of the Environment—thus potentially producing yet another veto player in the Japanese nuclear policymaking arena.
This large number of veto players raises incredibly high hurdles for would-be Japanese nuclear policy reformers. Indeed, Japanese nuclear policy has not changed in its essentials since its initial development in the 1950s. The policy has persisted even in the face of major shocks, such as North Korea's nuclear tests and, so far at least, the Fukushima accident.
It is a mistake to attribute this amazing level of policy stability to the supposed single-minded unity of the Japanese "nuclear village" of politicians, bureaucrats, and corporate executives. In fact, over time, various institutional members of the nuclear village have expressed strong (if not always public) opposition to key pillars of the traditional policy. Yet they have found it difficult to make headway, given the objections of the others. Therefore, the traditional policy carries on not because the key actors all actually believe in it, but rather because they disagree over what to replace it with—and because they profoundly distrust one another.
The diffusion of power in Japan's nuclear policymaking arena was laid bare by the utter failure of the attempt by then–Prime Minister Kan to lead Japan out of the nuclear field. Despite wide public support, Kan's initiative was torpedoed within just a few hours of his dramatic July 14 speech, and he had to clarify that his words merely reflected his "personal opinion." There could hardly be a clearer demonstration of the limits of prime ministerial power.
The historical growth in the number and variety of Japanese nuclear veto players has made the country an extreme case of stasis in fundamental nuclear policies. Japan is not the only country to experience this phenomenon, however. In many advanced industrialized democracies, the old Manhattan Project model of top-down, centralized, and secretive nuclear institutions has gradually given way to more complex arrangements. And as a general rule, the more numerous the veto players, the harder the struggle to achieve major nuclear policy change.
Nuclear policy gridlock is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it can impede potentially necessary changes of direction. On the other hand, it poses a serious obstacle to potentially disastrous political flights of fancy. Those who bemoan the "sclerosis" of nuclear policymaking in many advanced industrialized states should be careful what they wish for.
Miller, Steven E., and Scott D. Sagan. "Nuclear Power without Nuclear Proliferation?" Daedalus 138, no. 4 (Fall 2009): 7–18.
Nakayama, Shigeru, with Kunio Goto and Hitoshi Yoshioka, eds. A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan, 4 vols. Melbourne: Trans Pacific, 2001–2006.
Pickett, Susan E. "Japan's Nuclear Energy Policy: From Firm Commitment to Difficult Dilemma Addressing Growing Stocks of Plutonium, Program Delays, Domestic Opposition, and International Pressure," Energy Policy 30, no. 15 (December 2002): 1337–1355.
Potter, William C., and Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, eds. Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century, 2 vols. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Samuels, Richard J. The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Tsebelis, George. "Veto Players and Institutional Analysis," Governance 13, no. 4 (October 2000): 441–474.
Jacques E.C. Hymans is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is the author of The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Statements and views expressed in this policy brief are solely those of the author and do not imply endorsement by Harvard University, the Harvard Kennedy School, or the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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I have the same result everything installs and runs great but doesn't run at startup... I'm also on r2. another weird thing... when i go to rotate the cube, its only like flipping a page over instead of a 3d cube. I tried adding two more desktops for a total of four but no dice.
hi guys im having trouble running compiz when i click reload windows manager i get black screen in only mouse courser but its freez.
i've same problem...any ideas??
The "flipping page" is actually the cube! But its setup is made that way its a cueb with only one side - talking in compiz terms, u have only one workspace(not desktop).
And it doesnt run on startup? well, if u follow the guide link from dash1b it actually starts up, but u need the desktop environment to load prior to the compiz, thats why its foked up.
For the rest of you guys (the black screen) - do you have proper GPU drivers installed and tuned up? For example in many cases compiz doesnt work, or works that creepy way u see because of drivers (install newest GPU (ATI or nVidia) and lets see).
Look at this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=928668) for some howtos and guides.
Hi folks
I had already opened the thread after I found this here, sorry!
Thread: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...pup-bt-r2.html
I would like to add an information: the graphics card is Intel Graphics HD.
Strange that in Ubuntu the Compiz works here.
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow - Linus's Law
Work as a charm. Thanks sickness. bt4-rc2
thank you to sickness for writing the tutorial and jirtos and dash1b finally got it all set up and running smooth


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My husband turns 65 years tomorrow and we are very tempted to withdraw his supernnuation because of the refusal of Wayne Swan and other Labour MP's being interviewed on TV last week, who refused to answer questions about Labours proposed changes to Super.
I am suspicious and fear they will reintroduce a tax on withdrawals. Do you have any similar fears ? They are definitely up to something nasty.
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Goldschmidt, D-backs' bullpen aid Cahill's first win
PHOENIX -- The morning after J.J. Putz blew the save on Tuesday evening against the Giants, the D-backs closer received a message from his wife that initially caught him off-guard.
The first words Putz read were, "Great news," a seemingly odd choice for a subject line given that the 36-year-old had just blown his third save in only six chances this year.
What followed next, however, proved to be all the coaching Putz needed to snap out of his early-season struggles. The entire note read: "Great news. The sun came up today."
It was a simple message, but Putz took it to heart and just one day later, the right-hander was back on the mound in a save situation Thursday.
Armed with a renewed sense of confidence, Putz bounced back in a big way, shutting down the Rockies in the ninth to record his fourth save of the season and hand the D-backs a narrow 3-2 victory.
"That's it in a nutshell," Putz said of his wife's message to him. "It's all part of the game. I've been through rough spots before, I'm going to go through rough spots again, it's just a matter of getting through it and trusting yourself."
Unlike his previous few outings, the closer had his splitter working Thursday, especially in the final at-bat of the game in which he struck out Carlos Gonzalez with the sinking pitch.
"I felt pretty good, I was able to command the ball for the most part," Putz said. "The ball felt really good coming out of my hand, the splits were down and I got some chases."
For the bullpen as a whole, not just Putz, Thursday was an important game to get back on track.
Coming off a road trip in which it coughed up five leads, including consecutive blown saves in the club's last two games, the D-backs' bullpen tossed the final four innings of the game to secure the win, which moved the D-backs to within one game of the first-place Rockies.
While Putz turned in a scoreless ninth, Josh Collmenter threw three innings in relief of Trevor Cahill and allowed just one run on two hits.
"Colly was ready for us," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "When you have a guy like that, who can come in and throw strikes, that's what we need. It was a good win for us."
The bullpen needed to be strong because Cahill, who lost to Colorado in his last outing, only lasted five innings. The right-hander struggled with his command, walking four batters and hitting one, and subsequently left the game early with a high pitch count (105).
"It was a little bit all over the place but I was able to get through five and Collmenter was able to pick me up," Cahill said. "I was just falling behind, couldn't put guys away and wasn't getting early contact."
Despite all his struggles, Cahill managed to keep the Rockies at arm's length when they threatened, surrendering just one unearned run on four hits while striking out six. For his efforts, Cahill earned his first win of the season.
"When things aren't going your way, you realize how hard it is hard to win a Major League game," he said. "So I'll take it any way I can get it."
Offensively, Paul Goldschmidt provided the big hit for the D-backs against Rockies starter Jorge De La Rosa, who defeated Arizona his last time out, shutting them out over his six innings of work. Goldschmidt took a 1-2 fastball trailing inside and smacked it for a two-run homer that hit high off the left-field foul pole.
"I knew I hit it well, I was just hoping it would stay fair," Goldschmidt said. "I was watching it go down the line and it ended up hitting the screen on the pole. Obviously, I'll take it."
The D-backs' other run of the game came with a little help from a familiar face. Third baseman Ryan Wheeler, whom Arizona traded to Colorado in the offseason for Matt Reynolds, allowed Goldschmidt to reach base on a throwing error in the second inning. Later in the frame, Wil Nieves gave the D-backs an early lead with a RBI single to left field.
The unearned run snapped De La Rosa's career-high scoreless streak at 18 innings, dating back to April 8.
"He pitched well again, but we were able to scrape across a few this time," Goldschmidt said. "He's a good pitcher, he throws hard, he works both sides of the plate and he has good off-speed pitches too. He's really good. We were lucky to get a few."
Before Goldschmidt put the D-backs ahead for good, the Rockies momentarily tied the game, 1-1, in the fourth with an unearned run of their own when Martin Prado failed to handle a softly hit grounder and Michael Cuddyer came around to score. The error was just the D-backs' sixth all season, which is tied for the fewest in the Majors alongside the Tigers.
The Rockies added another run in the seventh off a two-out RBI double from Troy Tulowitzki before the D-backs finally shut the door.
Tyler Emerick is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Jason Campbell will replace Jay Cutler as the Chicago Bears' starting quarterback for the team's Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers.
Cutler suffered a concussion Sunday not on an illegal hit from Houston's Tim Dobbins. Dobbins was fined $30,000 for the hit that knocked Cutler out for the second half of the game.
Campbell took over in the second half, and didn't really impress. He threw for 94 yards in the losing effort, but failed to put points on the board.
"It feels good to get back in there and play, but you never want to have the opportunity to play because of someone's injury. But we understand the position we play; those things occur sometimes," said Campbell, who said he was told he would start before Thursday's practice.
Monday will be his first start since Oct. 16, 2011, when he suffered a broken collarbone while playing for the Oakland Raiders. Right after that injury, the Raiders traded for Carson Palmer who has started every game since.
Last year, Cutler got hurt after the Bears began the year 7-3, and the team failed to make the playoffs after finishing the year 1-5. Caleb Hanie and Josh McCown didn't get the job done for Chicago, which is a big reason why Campbell was signed this offseason.
"If you look at what happened to the Bears last year, that's why he's here," Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall said. " He has a big arm, and he has a great feel for the game.
"Jason's played a lot of football, he's an established vet, he's the next guy up and more than capable. We're fortunate enough to have a starting quarterback as our backup. I'm excited and really at ease to have him in our huddle, because he makes it so much easier."
Marshall and Cutler have reestablished their chemistry from their days in Denver, and the combination is a big reason the team has jumped out to a 7-2 start.
Head coach Lovie Smith didn't say whether or not Cutler had been medically cleared to play or if he will travel with the team to San Francisco.
"He's not playing this week and that's about as much as I'm going to go into it," Smith said. "He's getting better and we're hopeful for next week. I think that should be enough for you all to go on right now."
Campbell has started 70 games with the Washington Redskins and the Raiders from 2006-11 after being Washington's first-round pick in the 2006 NFL Draft. His experience is why Chicago brought him in as the team's primary backup on a one-year deal.Tags: Brandon Marshall, Carson Palmer, Chicago, Chicago Bears, Football, Jason Campbell, Jay Cutler, Lovie Smith, NFL, Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers, Tim Dobbins, Washington Redskins


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*Writing Laboratory (WIM; choose one of the five options below)
*Writing Laboratory (WIM; choose one of the five options below)
EE108A and ENGR 102E ''or'' ME 203 and ENGR 102M ''or'' MATSCI 161 ''or'' MATSCI 164 ''or'' PHYSICS 107
*Quantum Mechanics: EE 222 and 223 or PHYSICS 130 and 131
*Quantum Mechanics: EE 222 and 223 or PHYSICS 130 and 131
Revision as of 11:40, 5 January 2012
The Engineering Physics program is designed for students who have an interest in and an aptitude for both engineering and physics. The program provides students with a firm foundation in physics and mathematics, together with engineering design and problem-solving skills. This background prepares students to tackle complex problems in multidisciplinary areas that are at the forefront of 21st-century technology, such as solid state devices, quantum optics and photonics, materials science, nanotechnology, electromechanical systems, energy systems, and any engineering field that requires a very solid background in physics. Because the program emphasizes science, mathematics and engineering, students are well prepared to pursue graduate work in either engineering or physics.
View the Engineering Physics Webpage for a list of faculty advisors and further information/links. The main contacts for the EPhys major are Prof Pat Burchat, Prof Mark Cappelli, or new student services administrator Darlene Lazar, located in 135 Huang.
EPIC: The Engineering Physics Student Society
Check out the the Engineering Physics Interdisciplinary Community (EPIC) webpage for current news, links, and answers to common questions.
EPHYS majors have the option to pursue an honors degree (ENGR-BSH, Engineering Physics). The deadline to submit a proposal for honors in 2011-12 was December 2, 2011 (it is normally in mid-October). For further details on EPHYS honors criteria and guidelines, see page 327 of the 2011-12 UGHB.
Summer Research
Engineering Physics majors may participate in on-campus summer research programs in engineering, physics, or applied physics. To conduct research with a faculty member in the School of Engineering, students apply to the summer research program for the department of the faculty mentor. To conduct research with a faculty member in the Physics or Applied Physics Departments or at SLAC, students apply through the Physics, Applied Physics and SLAC program at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/academics/summer/SummerResearch.htm
Math and Science Requirements: Includes the following required courses:
Math: MATH 51 and 52 or CME 100 and 104, MATH 53 or CME 102, MATH 131P (MATH 173 can be taken in place of MATH131P).
Science: PHYSICS (41, 42, 43, 44*, 45, 46, 70) or (61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67)
PHYSICS 42 or 62 Mechanics Lab: Required beginning in 2011/12.
*PHYSICS 67 recommended in place of 44 for students taking the PHYSICS 40 series.
Technology in Society: One 3-5 unit approved course required; see Figure 3-3 for SoE approved course list.
Engineering Fundamentals and Depth:
At least 45 of the units in Engineering Fundamentals, Required Depth Classes, Required Depth Electives, and other electives must be engineering units.
Engineering Fundamentals:
Three courses from ENGR Fundamentals approved list.
A course in computer science, such as CS106A, B, or X, is recommended.
Engineering Physics Depth - Core Courses Required in All Specialty Areas:
- Advanced Mathematics: One elective such as EE 261, PHYSICS 112, CS 109 or CME 106. Also qualified are EE 263, any Math or Statistics course numbered 100 or above, and any CME course numbered 200 or above, except CME 206.
- Intermediate Mechanics: ENGR 15 or PHYSICS 110
- Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism: EE (141 and 242) or PHYSICS (120 and 121)
- Numerical Methods: AP 215 or CME 108 or CME 206/ME 300C or PHYSICS 113
- Electronics Laboratory: ENGR 40 or EE 101B or EE 122A or PHYSICS 105 or APPPHYS 207
- Writing Laboratory (WIM; choose one of the five options below)
EE108A and ENGR 102E or ME 203 and ENGR 102M or MATSCI 161 or MATSCI 164 or PHYSICS 107
- Quantum Mechanics: EE 222 and 223 or PHYSICS 130 and 131
- Thermodynamics, Kinetics, & Statistical Mech: PHYSICS 170 and 171, or ME 346A.
- Design Course: At least one of the following design-project courses must be included in each program:
CS 108, EE 133, ME 203*, ME 210 or EE 118, PHYSICS 108
*If ME 203 is used to satisfy both the Writing Laboratory and the Design Course requirements, then the combination of ME 203, ME 103D and ENGR 102M should be taken.
- Three Courses from one of the following Specialty Areas:
1. In the Solid State Physics specialty, students have the opportunity to learn about the macroscopic physical properties of solids, including electrical, magnetic and optical properties, superconductivity, and heat transfer in solids. Students learn how these properties can be manipulated and applied in electronic devices. Choose from APPPHYS 272/PHYSICS 172, APPHYS 273, EE 116, EE 216, MATSCI 199.
2. The Photonics specialty provides the opportunity for students to learn about the emission, transmission, amplification, detection, modulation and switching of optical and infrared light. Students can apply this knowledge to optoelectronic devices such as lasers, photodetectors, waveguides and photonic crystals, or to quantum information science, with applications in quantum communication and quantum computing. Choose from EE 216, EE 231, EE 232, EE 234, EE 243, EE 268, MATSCI 199. PHYSICS 107 recommended as WIM course.
3. In the Materials Science specialty, students learn how to design and synthesize materials with particular structures at the nanometer and micrometer scale that provide special electrical, optical, magnetic or mechanical properties. Students can learn how to use these materials to make integrated circuits, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, fuel cells, microelectromechanical systems and other advanced devices. Choose three from any MATSCI courses numbered 151 to 199 (except 159Q) or APPPHYS 272/PHYSICS 172. In addition, ENGR 31 or CHEM 31 highly recommended.
4. The Electromechanical System Design specialty provides the opportunity for students to explore the process of design, analysis, and realization of modern electromechanical systems including "smart products" with embedded sensing and actuation. Take ME 80, ME 112, and ME 210 or EE 118. Take ME 203 and ENGR 102M as WIM Course. ME 101 and ME 103D also recommended.
5. The Energy Systems specialty provides the opportunity for students to explore how energy is manipulated in both device applications and for modern energy conversion systems including electrical power, transportation, and propulsion. Take: ME 131A, ME 131B, ME 140. Take ME 203 and ENGR 102M as WIM and/or Design Course. ME 103D and ME 70 also recommended.
6. In the Renewable Energy specialty, students explore energy conversion and storage technologies that are relevant in renewable energy systems, such as solar cells, wind turbines, batteries, fuel cells, and hydrogen production and storage. Choose from EE 237, EE 293A, EE 293B, MATSCI 156, MATSCI 302, MATSCI 316, ME 260.
7. Individually Designed specialty: With approval of advisor and by petition, a set of three courses in one area of concentration (e.g., astrophysics and astronautics; quantum information; biophysics).


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Good one. The only suggestion that I have that might go with it for gifts, is instead of giving them concert tickets or something like that I would suggest doing something for them. Cook a meal, clear their sidewalk of snow, or anything other chores that might be difficult for them to do. Gift certificates for groceries, pharmacy or something like that work too.
I am always reluctant to have someone whose immune system is not so good due to chemo go to places where there are crowds of people. Really increases the risk for infection especially this time of year where colds and flus are rampant.
Of course a gift that they can use when they are done is great too. I had one family that all went in and did a trip to Hawaii for their parents when dad's chemo was done. That was great for all of them.
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A HISTORIC church has been targeted by "despicable chancers" who stole lead worth thousands of pounds from its roof.
The roof over the vestry at St John the Baptist Church in Blake Place, Bridgwater, is now leaking in several places thanks to scrap metal thieves.
Builders brought a skylift to enable them to carry out repairs to the church and the Rev Geraldine Kirk, vicar of St John's Church, went up to get a better view of the full extent of the damage.
She said: "They are just despicable chancers. They just want to make easy money. I don't think people care if it's from a hotel or a church. They just want easy money."
This isn't the first time St John's Church has been targeted by scrap metal thieves. Lead has been stolen from the roof before and even stolen from inside the church itself.
Built originally in 1846, St John's Church was one of the first churches built under the Oxford movement, a 19th century movement which sought to re-introduce a greater Catholic influence into the Anglican Church.
The church is a Grade II Listed building so if the congregation wants to replace the lead with something else that wouldn't be targeted, she would need to get permission to do so first.
The Rev Kirk said: "We are thinking of a non-lead based solution in the future because it drives me up the wall trying to keep this place safe."
PC Ed Woolmington, investigating officer, said: "This theft has left the church facing thousands of pounds of repairs.
"We are carrying out a number of enquiries and are appealing for anyone with information on this theft to come forward. We have a zero tolerance approach to scrap metal theft and are working hard to target offenders.
"Recent legislation has constricted the market for thieves, making it harder for them to sell stolen metal and easier for us to trace."
If you can help this investigation, please call PC Ed Woolmington via the 24-hour Police Enquiry Centre on 101.


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RED HOUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- Human remains found in a western New York park are those of a 92-year-old retired pastor who disappeared while hiking with his daughter in 2010, authorities said Thursday.
State park police said the Rev. Thomas Hamilton's walking stick and watch were found near other personal items Tuesday in Allegany State Park. A skull and bone fragments also were discovered.
They said the identification was then confirmed through dental records.
Hamilton, of nearby Great Valley, and his daughter wandered off a path in the dark and got lost while hiking in November 2010. Rebecca Huffman of Dayton, Ohio, made it out the next day and alerted police that her father had been too weak to make it to their car. She estimated walking four hours before finding her way out. Despite an eight-day search, Hamilton wasn't found.
A hiker discovered his remains about 500 feet from a trail in the rugged 66,000-acre park in Cattaraugus County, on the Pennsylvania border 50 miles south of Buffalo.
Park police Capt. Daniel Richter told local media that Hamilton's remains were in a spot that wasn't close to where 31 agencies concentrated their search in the week after he was reported missing.
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Topic: Interview with an Oncologist re: chemo therapy
My question:
Why are positive responses to chemo therapy so varied?
His answer:
They know that in many other diseases somebody with another cancer would potentially benefit from chemotherapy.
They don't know that in CC partly, because it has not been adequately studied, partly because bile duct cancers are really very much less responsive to chemotherapy - they tend to be inherently sort of resistant to chemotherapy -.
Different organs in the body have different functions, and the bile duct sort of transports all the toxic garbage out of the liver and into the stool, and so you would expect those cells to be pretty resistant to toxins, because if they weren't, everyone else would have a screwed up bile duct.
That resistance to toxins I think, simplistically at least, makes therapy really largely ineffective.
The same mechanism that makes the cells resistant to the toxins makes them resistant to chemotherapy.
This physician did however, encourage the use of chemo therapy, although with guarded expectations. Based on his experience, many patients have had favorable results.


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HOUSTON - A former payroll manager at the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center has admitted to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the nonprofit organization, according to the Harris County court records.
Angela McCracken, 43, has been charged with theft from a nonprofit, a felony.
In probable cause court Wednesday, prosecutors alleged, "(McCracken) admitted to taking checks that were to be void, forging the endorsement and cashing them for her own personal benefit totaling $43,356."
The indictment alleges the theft occurred from Oct. 12, 2007 to Aug. 12, 2009.
McCracken began working at the nonprofit in 2007 and was fired as soon as allegations of theft surfaced in 2009, said Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center Chief Financial Officer Melissa Fisher.
"It is disconcerting, but, again, we have reacted promptly," Fisher said. "Thankfully, it did not impact our ability to meet our mission, which is to serve the patients of the Gulf Coast region with their blood needs. These were not directly related to monetary donations or blood donations. Anyone who wants to make a donation to the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center should be assured that it's being handled correctly and our focus again is to meet the needs of the patients in the Gulf Coast Region."
McCracken has posted $10,000 bond and is next scheduled to appear in court Dec. 3.
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Ever notice that, just when you're getting your baby latched on, his hands always seem to get in the way? They seem to be magically drawn to your nipple, or end up in your baby's mouth. The traditional advice has … Continue reading
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The following commentary is written by James Colby, Senior Municipal Strategist for Van Eck's non-taxable exchange-traded funds, and provided courtesy of Van Eck
Let's give credit where credit is due. Recently, Forbes published an article that to some might seem like the kind of article that sits on the shelf until there is a slow news day and the editor is looking for a filler piece. In fact, this article raises a number of important points that, in my opinion, all touch upon the national economic recovery and just may be the locus of the revival of small business and wealth creation.
Why is this important to MUNI NATION? My concern is for the economic health — no, survival — of state and local governments that issue tax-exempt debt securities in order to meet the public needs of their inhabitants. The Forbes article points to migratory population shifts (measured in part by statistics from moving companies) that I believe will have very real consequences for certain states. As there is net "out migration," there may typically be loss of tax revenues, user fees and consumption at the local level. Naturally, that may result in further belt-tightening for budgeting and, as we saw during the recession, jobs were cut and/or taxes were raised to meet those obligations already etched in stone. For some of the affected areas in the Rust Belt, I believe the consequences of the high cost of living and already high taxes will create painful decisions.
The article highlights the following, which might not come as a surprise, except that I believe it reflects the perpetuation of a disturbing long-term trend lawmakers should soon address.
Out Migration Rate*
New Jersey
New York
By contrast, the following states have the highest ratio of people migrating in: North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina and Nevada. Surprisingly, Washington, D.C., reports Forbes, currently is the most popular destination for relocation. The area attracts highly educated professionals to high-tech and government-sponsored jobs.
All of the above makes, in my view, the case for investing in highly diversified products, such as low-cost ETFs, where any price adjustments resulting from the impact of migratory patterns should be de minimis, potentially avoiding over concentrations to those states where the impact might be the greatest.
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Omarion and Girlfriend Expecting First Child [VIDEO]
Congratulations are in order for Omarion and his girlfriend, Apryl Jones. The couple will be new parents soon. They announced the good news on their respective Instagram pages on Valentine's Day (Feb. 14). Awww, isn't that sweet?
The couple posted the video of the ultrasound (above) of the embryo moving vigorously inside mommy's belly. Omarion was more than happy to share the moment with his followers on Twitter.
Say hi #comingsoon #thelegacybegins @aprylsjones is my heart, what a great gift! #ecstatic http://t.co/dHESLg08f8
— OMARION (@1Omarion) February 14, 2014
I really appreciate all this love! At some point in time in your life you will create something that is a direct reflection U I'am so happy!
— OMARION (@1Omarion) February 14, 2014
This will be Omarion and Jones' first child together.
Along with the baby, the MMG crooner just released a new single called 'You Like It.' The track will appear on his upcoming album, 'Sex Playlist,' which is due out this summer.
Fans sent congratulatory messages to Omarion via Twitter. Read the positive support the singer is receiving below.
OMG congrats to my boo @APRYLSJONES & Omarion on their bundle of joy!!!! So excited for you mama!!!!
— Connor (@MixedMorgan) February 14, 2014
Since i love me some omarion , its right I say Congrats @1Omarion on your baby !! Blessings
— J0YMARiE (@GAWGOUSSMILE) February 14, 2014
Aww Omarion gone be a daddy!!
— La Mariposa Suave!! (@kimberly62295) February 14, 2014
Omarion can be my daddy
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The 21-year-old, of Dunlop, was arrested on Saturday night after the incident in Holt, in Canberra's north-west.
ACT Policing says the paramedics were on their way to attend a medical emergency when the man ran onto the road in front of the ambulance about 6.35pm.
The driver was forced to evade him and stopped the vehicle.
The alleged offender then began attacking the ambulance, breaking off a wing mirror and damaging a side panel.
He was then joined by two other men.
The paramedics left their vehicle and called for help from police in Belconnen.
A patrol arrived quickly and identified the 21-year-old, but the police officers said he failed to comply with their directions.
The man then allegedy assaulted the officers, who took him into custody.
An ACT Policing spokesman said on Sunday the alleged offender was unarmed, and neither ambulance nor police staff were injured during the attacks.
The Dunlop man has been charged with two counts of common assault, four counts of obstructing an official and a separate charge of property damage.
He will face the ACT Magistrates Court on Friday.


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micseydel wrote:Do you know Python? Do you know a GUI framework? Do you have any existing programs you'd like to mimic the behavior of then expand on?
Marbelous wrote:Are you trying to learn Python or do you just need a MindMap tool?
A GUI Framework is the Graphical User Interface that most programs use instead of just typing text into a command line. A MindMap tool WILL require you to create one. Tkinter is the GUI package that comes built in to python. It's very easy to use but has limitations compared to something like PyQT (which Leo uses). You will also need to be adept at OOP (Object Oriented Programming) since all the items (lines, arrows, pictures, text boxes, etc.) in your programs will be easier to work with if they're classes with attributes and methods. You should download and look at the code for Leo from SourceForge. You will see it is not a trivial task for beginners to coding although a simple version would be a good project once you're an intermediate Pythoner.
Of course you can always just buy a whiteboard and a pack of dry-erase markers...
Of course you can always just buy a whiteboard and a pack of dry-erase markers...
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An acronym is an abbreviation formed from the initial components in a phrase or a word. These components may be individual letters (as in CEO) or parts of words (as in Benelux and Ameslan). There is no universal agreement on the precise definition of various names for such abbreviations (see nomenclature) nor on written usage (see orthographic styling). In English and most other languages, such abbreviations historically had limited use, but their coinage and use became much more common in the 20th century. Acronyms are a type of word formation process, and they are viewed as a subtype of blending.
The term acronym is the name for a word from the first letters of each word in a series of words (such as sonar, created from sound navigation and ranging).[1] Attestations for "Akronym" in German are known from 1921, and for "acronym" in English from 1940.[2] While the word abbreviation refers to any shortened form of a word or a phrase, some have used initialism or alphabetism to refer to an abbreviation formed simply from, and used simply as, a string of initials.[citation needed]
Although the term acronym is widely used to describe any abbreviation formed from initial letters,[3] some dictionaries define acronym to mean "a word" in its original sense,[4][5][6] while some others include additional senses attributing to acronym the same meaning as that of initialism.[7][8][9] The distinction, when made, hinges on whether the abbreviation is pronounced as a word, or as a string of letters. In such cases, examples found in dictionaries include NATO (/ˈneɪtoʊ/), scuba (/ˈskuːbə/), and radar (/ˈreɪdɑr/) for acronyms, and FBI (/ˌɛfˌbiːˈaɪ/) and HTML (/ˌeɪtʃˌtiːˌɛmˈɛl/) for initialism.[4][8][10] In the rest of this Wikipedia article, this distinction is not made.
There is no agreement on what to call abbreviations whose pronunciation involves the combination of letter names and words, such as JPEG (/ˈdʒeɪpɛɡ/) and MS-DOS (/ˌɛmɛsˈdɒs/).
There is also some disagreement as to what to call abbreviations that some speakers pronounce as letters and others pronounce as a word. For example, the terms URL and IRA can be pronounced as individual letters: /ˌjuːˌɑrˈɛl/ and /ˌaɪˌɑrˈeɪ/, respectively; or as a single word: /ˈɜrl/ and /ˈaɪərə/, respectively. Such constructions, however—regardless of how they are pronounced—if formed from initials, may be identified as initialisms without controversy.
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The spelled-out form of an acronym or initialism (that is, what it stands for) is called its expansion.
Comparing a few examples of each typeEdit
- Pronounced as a word, containing only initial letters
- Pronounced as a word, containing non-initial letters
- Amphetamine: alpha-methyl-phenethylamine
- Gestapo: Geheime Staatspolizei (secret state police)
- Interpol: International Criminal Police Organization
- Nabisco: National Biscuit Company
- Pronounced as a word, containing a mixture of initial and non-initial letters
- Pronounced as a word or spelled out, depending on speaker or context
- FAQ: ([fæk] or ef-a-cue) frequently asked question
- IRA: When used for Individual Retirement Account, can be pronounced as letters (i-ar-a) or as a word [ˈaɪrə].
- SAT(s): ([sæt] or ess-a-tee) (previously) Scholastic Achievement (or Aptitude) Test(s)(US) or Standard Assessment Test(s) (UK), now claimed not to stand for anything.[11]
- SQL: ([siːkwəl] or ess-cue-el) Structured Query Language.
- Pronounced as a combination of spelling out and a word
- Spelled out only
- Spelled out, but with a shortcut
- IEEE: (I triple E) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- NAACP: (N double A C P) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- NCAA: (N C double A or N C two A or N C A A) National Collegiate Athletic Association
- Shortcut incorporated into name
- 3M: (three M) originally Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
- E3: (E three) Electronic Entertainment Exposition
- W3C: (W three C) World Wide Web Consortium
- C4ISTAR: (C four I star) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance[12]
- Multi-layered acronyms
- NAC Breda: (Dutch football club) NOAD ADVENDO Combinatie ("NOAD ADVENDO Combination"), formed by the 1912 merger of two clubs, NOAD (Nooit Opgeven Altijd Doorgaan "Never give up, always persevere") and ADVENDO (Aangenaam Door Vermaak En Nuttig Door Ontspanning "Pleasant by entertainment and useful by relaxation") from Breda[13][14]
- GAIM: GTK+ AOL Instant Messenger
- GIMP: GNU Image Manipulation Program
- VHDL: VHSIC hardware description language, where VHSIC stands for very-high-speed integrated circuit.
- Recursive acronyms, in which the abbreviation refers to itself
- GNU: GNU's not Unix!
- WINE: WINE Is Not an Emulator (originally, WINdows Emulator)
- PHP: PHP hypertext pre-processor (formerly personal home page)
- These may go through multiple layers before the self-reference is found:
- HURD: HIRD of Unix-replacing daemons, where "HIRD" stands for "HURD of interfaces representing depth"
- Pseudo-acronyms, which consist of a sequence of characters that, when pronounced as intended, invoke other, longer words with less typing (see also Internet slang)
- Acronyms whose last abbreviated word is often redundantly included anyway
Historical and current useEdit
Acronymy, like retronymy, is a linguistic process that has existed throughout history but for which there was little to no naming, conscious attention, or systematic analysis until relatively recent times. Like retronymy, it became much more common in the 20th century than it had formerly been.
Current useEdit
Acronyms are used most often to abbreviate names of organizations and long or frequently referenced terms. The armed forces and government agencies frequently employ acronyms; some well-known examples from the United States are among the "alphabet agencies" (also jokingly referred to as "alphabet soup") created by Franklin D. Roosevelt under the New Deal. Business and industry also are prolific coiners of acronyms. The rapid advance of science and technology in recent centuries seems to be an underlying force driving the usage, as new inventions and concepts with multiword names create a demand for shorter, more manageable names. One representative example, from the U.S. Navy, is COMCRUDESPAC, which stands for commander, cruisers destroyers Pacific; it's also seen as "ComCruDesPac". "YABA-compatible" (where YABA stands for "yet another bloody acronym") is used to mean that a term's acronym can be pronounced but is not an offensive word (e.g., "When choosing a new name, be sure it is "YABA-compatible").[15]
The use of acronyms has been further popularized with the emergence of Short Message Systems (SMS). To fit messages into the 160-character limit of SMS, acronyms such as "GF" (girl friend), "LOL" (laughing out loud), and "DL" (download or down low) have been popularized into the mainstream.[16] Although prescriptivist disdain for such neologism is fashionable, and can be useful when the goal is protecting message receivers from crypticness, it is scientifically groundless when couched as preserving the "purity" or "legitimacy" of language; this neologism is merely the latest instance of a perennial linguistic principle—the same one that in the 19th century prompted the aforementioned abbreviation of corporation names in places where space for writing was limited (e.g., ticker tape, newspaper column inches).
Aids to learning the expansion without leaving a documentEdit
The expansion is typically given at the first occurrence of the acronym within a given text, for the benefit of those readers who do not know what it stands for. The capitalization of the original term is independent of it being acronymized, being lowercase for a term such as frequently asked questions (FAQ) but uppercase for a proper name such as the United Nations (UN).
In addition to expansion at first use, some publications also have a key listing all acronyms used therein and what their expansions are. This is a convenience to readers for two reasons. The first is that if they are not reading the entire publication sequentially (which is a common mode of reading), then they may encounter an acronym without having seen its expansion. Having a key at the start or end of the publication obviates skimming over the text searching for an earlier use to find the expansion. (This is especially important in the print medium, where no search utility is available.) The second reason for the key feature is its pedagogical value in educational works such as textbooks. It gives students a way to review the meanings of the acronyms introduced in a chapter after they have done the line-by-line reading, and also a way to quiz themselves on the meanings (by covering up the expansion column and recalling the expansions from memory, then checking their answers by uncovering.) In addition, this feature enables readers possessing knowledge of the abbreviations to not have to encounter expansions (redundant to such readers).
Expansion at first use and the abbreviation-key feature are aids to the reader that originated in the print era, and they are equally useful in print and online. In addition, the online medium offers yet more aids, such as tooltips, hyperlinks, and rapid search via search engine technology.
Acronyms often occur in jargon. An acronym may have different meanings in different areas of industry, writing, and scholarship. The general reason for this is convenience and succinctness for specialists, although it has led some to obfuscate the meaning either intentionally, to deter those without such domain-specific knowledge, or unintentionally, by creating an acronym that already existed.
The medical literature has been struggling to control the proliferation of acronyms as their use has evolved from aiding communication to hindering it. This has become such a problem that it is even evaluated at the level of medical academies such as the American Academy of Dermatology. [17]
As mnemonicsEdit
Acronyms are often taught as mnemonic devices, for example in physics the colors of the visible spectrum are ROY G. BIV (red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet). They are also used as mental checklists, for example in aviation: GUMPS, which is Gas-Undercarriage-Mixture-Propeller-Seatbelts. Other examples of mnemonic acronyms include CAN SLIM, and PAVPANIC.
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Topic: Wall Stent Question
I am hoping that some of you can shed some light on my question....my dad was diagnosed with bile duct cancer 2 months ago. He has a fairly large mass that is wrapped around his portal vein, blood vessels and arteries. Currently he has 2 drain tubes and a plastic stent in the bile duct. He is being treated with his first infection and is continuing to run a low-grade fever off and on. He will undergo a procedure early next week to remove the plastic stent and then the plan was to have a 2nd procedure to insert a metal wall stent. I should mention that dad has decided not to undergo chemo treatments. Yesterday he was asked if he was sure he didn't want to do chemo because once they inserted the metal wall stent that chemo would not be an option. He was also told the metal stent could not be removed and that eventually the mass would more than like grow over the stent and in the end his liver would stop functioning. He was told that the average stent would last 6-12 months. Up until now, dad has not wanted to know how much time he has...but with this news yesterday he feels like he was quietly given one. The Dr. Also shared that they only install the wall stent for his type of cancer when the patient decides they are basically done fighting ( done with chemo, decides against chemo or not going the holistic route). This is very confusing to all of us!!!
Can anyone share anything on this? I know from reading other posts that many have metal stents and that many have lasted much longer. Was dad given this news because of the nature and location of his tumor? I know that I have also read that masses wrapped around the portal vein will eventually squeeze the vein closed and the blood will no longer flow through.
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Phil Jackson recently purchased the NBA League Pass at the insistence of fiance Jeanie Buss.
Jackson has been asked by a few teams to take notes on what he sees and was recently asked by Jack McCallum what he sees when he currently watches the Los Angeles Lakers.
"They just don't put the ball in the post," said Jackson. "They'll use a screen-roll to get the guy in the post. But there's no consistent plan to do it. Yes, Kobe will go in there. But Dwight [Howard] just doesn't get any touches. They've basically eliminated his assets."
Jackson believes Howard could be similar to Shaquille O'Neal in his ability to draw double teams and find open shooters.
"I think he can be. But he is not where he needs to be physically because of the back surgery. He needs a year to recover from something like that. He's starting to come around, but he has a massive upper body to carry around. He's a terrific athlete, but he still has to get all that back. He's looking better all the time, but his problem right now is turnovers. He's got to have a little better recognition, and that will help him gain the confidence of his teammates and coach, which he does not have now."
Jackson concedes that he sees the Lakers improving.
"Yes, I think they are finding a way to play. And that's nice to see. Steve (Nash) has had to sacrifice because Kobe (Bryant) is dominating the ball, but Kobe is showing he can be both playmaker and scorer. Now it's about defense. And I think that's coming around. They make the playoffs, I think they've shown they're going to be in it with every team."


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The PhD program is designed to train academic research investigators of the future who will carry out independent, high quality research in oral biology. The foundations of oral biology are in numerous oral health-related biomedical sciences, such as cell, developmental, and molecular biology; biochemistry; biomaterials; biophysics; and the physical sciences.
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