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Kingston State ParkApril 19. 2011 9:30PM
Canobie Lake Park, The Fox Run Mall, various antique shops, and fine restaurants. The park is 44 acres in size, and includes fireplaces and picnic areas, a playground, softball field, and three game areas for horseshoes and volleyball. Two bathhouses with dressing rooms and flush toilets are available for the 300 feet of swim area, with an extra 100 feet of tree line frontage.
Location: 124 Main Street, Kingston
Phone: 603-642-5471
Activities: Swimming, fishing, picnicking
Amenities: Bathhouse, playing fields, picnic tables, swings
Operation Schedule:
Weekends: Mid-May - Mid-June
Daily: Mid-June - Labor Day
Acreage: 44 acres
Waterfront: Great Pond
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It is so sad to see the lakers make a lateral movement with their coach.
Dantonie has many of the same problems Brown had.
Players do not respect him
Bad sub rotations
Inexplicable Rotations
In some areas, he is even worse
Leaving Howard in to miss free throw after Free throw was the final straw for me, and i believe, many other laker fans
Im not sure if any NBA team has ever fired 2 head coaches in one season...
But, this is the time to do it.
Bring in Phil
I have no faith in Dantonie
The fans have no faith in Dantonie
The assistant coaches have no faith in Dantonie
The players have no Faith in Dantonie.
Dantonie is a man alone on the lakers.
Great..Just Great.. why don't we just bring in a new HC every month..
Mods ....Please Lock This Thread...


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Unitil advises customers to keep electric meters, gas vents fee of accumulating snow
December 27. 2012 10:14AM
HAMPTON - Unitil Corporation, is advising customers to keep electric meters and gas vents free of accumulating snow and ice.
Heavy snow and icicles can have an impact on home meters, especially natural gas meters and vents. As snow accumulates, Unitil advises customers to take the following steps:
* Remove snow and ice carefully from a meter or outdoor appliance vent carefully with a broom. Do not use a shovel as it can damage the meter.
* Avoid shoveling or plowing snow up against or covering the meter or pipe.
* Remove icicles from overhead eaves and gutters to assure dripping water does not freeze the meter or vent pipe. Contact a qualified roofing vendor if you cannot reach icicles yourself.
* Do not kick your gas meter in an attempt to break ice off, as this too can cause damage.
Keeping vents and meters clear will allow for proper ventilation and can prevent carbon monoxide buildup within your home.
While there are no current plans to open the system-wide emergency operations center, Unitil staff will continue to closely monitor the forecast and will be prepared to escalate its response if warranted. Heavy snow, winds and freezing rain are expected to continue through the daylight hours today.
"We will restore power to customers and work closely with first responders to address wires down issues should they occur," Unitil Media Relations Manager Alec O'Meara said. "Crews continue to stand by as the peak hours of the storm pass over."
Unitil is providing real-time outage information online at www.unitil.com/map.
In the event of downed wires, assume all cables and wires that have fallen or dangling are energized and stay away. Be sure to avoid wet ground or puddles near a downed lined because water conducts electricity. In addition, keep away from all flooded and debris laden areas because they may be hiding downed lines. Stay in a safe place and avoid driving in damaged areas so you don't interfere with rescue and restoration efforts.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR MEDIA: Unitil asks that when reporting outage information, outlets time stamp the information. Outage numbers change hourly and we wish to make sure the information customers receive is consistent and understandable. Re-Tweets and re-posting of old information without referencing a time can create confusion.
Customers experiencing outages should call the following toll-free numbers:
- For the NH Seacoast Area: 1-800-582-7276
- For the NH Capital Area: 1-800-852-3339
- For Massachusetts: 1-888-301-7700
You can also report outages online at http://www.unitil.com/report-outage.


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JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, posted a record third-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as mortgage revenue soared 72 percent.
Net income rose 34 percent to $5.71 billion, or $1.40 a share, from $4.26 billion, or $1.02, a year earlier, the New York-based company said today in a statement. Earnings, which included a loss on accounting adjustments, beat the average estimate of $1.20 among 30 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
JPMorgan said losses on its remaining wrong-way bet on credit derivatives were "modest" in the third quarter after the bank lost $5.8 billion in the first half of 2012, prompting investigations from U.S. and international authorities. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 56, got help restoring investor confidence from historically low interest rates and government programs that fueled demand for home loans.
"The housing market has turned the corner," Dimon said in the statement. "We were encouraged that credit trends continued to modestly improve, and, as a result, the firm reduced the related loan-loss reserves by $900 million."
Shares of JPMorgan fell to $42.06 as of 8:17 a.m. in New York from $42.10 at the close yesterday. The stock was up 27 percent this year before today, while the KBW Index of the largest banks rose 30 percent.
Revenue Gains
Revenue climbed 6 percent to $25.9 billion from $24.4 billion during the third quarter of last year. At the investment-banking unit, it fell 1 percent to $6.28 billion from $6.37 billion.
Fixed-income and equity-markets revenue was virtually unchanged at $4.76 billion from $4.75 billion a year earlier and $4.98 billion in the second quarter, the company said. The investment bank's credit portfolio, which contains the remaining credit derivatives position, generated $90 million in revenue from $578 million in the third quarter of last year.
Trading and the investment bank's credit portfolio declined by $211 million because of a so-called debt-valuation adjustment in the third quarter as the price of the bank's debt rose.
Retail banking, which includes home loans and checking accounts, earned $1.41 billion, up 21 percent from $1.16 billion a year earlier. The net interest margin, which measures the profit margin on lending, narrowed to 2.43 percent from 2.66 percent a year earlier.


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Pinkerton administrator to head Manchester schoolBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
May 16. 2014 12:53AM
MANCHESTER — A 37-year-old administrator at Pinkerton Academy has been selected to be the new principal at Manchester Central, the city's largest and oldest high school.
The Board of School Committee on Monday approved the hiring of John Vaccarezza for the top job at the school. Vaccarezza is currently an associate dean of students at Pinkerton Academy. He will begin the job July 1, the start of the new fiscal year.
Superintendent Debra Livingston selected Vaccarezza over the other finalist for the job, Cheri Towle, the principal of a small high school in Maine.
In all, 33 people had applied for the position, with candidates being reviewed by a 12-member panel made up of students, teachers, parents and community members.
Vaccarezza will be paid $106,793 a year, the same as Christopher Motika, who was hired to be the principal at Manchester High School West last year.
Vaccarezza will take over from John Rist, who was tapped to serve as the interim principal following the abrupt retirement of Ronald Mailhot in February.
Livingston acknowledged Rist in a statement announcing the selection of Vaccarezza. "Mr. Rist has done a superb job in providing a sturdy bridge to the next leader's tenure. I'm confident that the vibrant learning community at Central will embrace Mr. Vaccarezza's arrival," she said.
Pinkerton Academy, Vaccarezza's current employer, has been central to the dispute with Hooksett, which sends a significant number of its high school students to Central. Upset over crowding and other issues in Manchester, the town's school board pushed to have Pinkerton Academy become its primary high school. The plan was rejected by voters, but both schools are still vying for the town's students.
The school board approved the hiring of Vaccarezza in a closed-door session Monday. Board members contacted Thursday said they felt he was a good pick.
"I have not met him, but I've heard very good things about him," Ward 1 school board member Sarah Ambrogi said. "I also feel the process the superintendent outlined, the many steps taken in terms due diligence — it sounds like he was thoroughly vetted."
Ambrogi said the fact that Vaccarezza was coming from Pinkerton was "an interesting coincidence."
"He's had experience at a very large high school. It will not be new to him to be at a large high school and understand the issues there," she said.
Prior to his start date, Vaccarezza will visit Central to meet with staff and students.
Vaccarezza has been a member of the Pinkerton Academy administration since 2010. Prior to becoming an administrator, Vaccarezza was a social studies teacher and coached freshman and junior varsity boys' soccer for 10 years. He earned his master's degree in education from Rivier University in Nashua and a B.A. in history from Elon University in North Carolina.


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By Sruthi Ramakrishnan
(Reuters) - Scripps Networks Interactive Inc signed a content licensing agreement with Amazon.com Inc's subscription-based video streaming service, the U.S. broadcaster's first online-only subscription distribution deal.
Past seasons of popular shows such as "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations", "Cupcake Wars" and "House Hunters" from Scripps' channels such as HGTV, Food Network and Travel Channel will be available on Amazon's Instant video services from Thursday, Amazon said in a statement.
Scripps had said in its earnings conference call earlier this month that it was in talks with Amazon and Netflix Inc, and would have "some announcements coming in the next few months".
MKM Partners analyst Eric Handler termed the deal an "incremental positive" for Scripps. "Typically, content that's two seasons old will show up on its website and then it was looking for a window for something for the older content, and this fit in well with that."
Scripps is one of the last (networks) to offer its older television shows on a subscription service, Morningstar Inc analyst Michael Corty said.
"The risk Scripps wants to be careful about is to make sure that it (online subscription deal) doesn't take away viewers from its current shows. The advertising dollars are from its current programming on pay TV, that's the main source of their revenue," he said.
The company could be hoping to add incremental viewers to its current programs with the deal, he said.
Amazon has signed content licensing deals with CBS Corp, Sony Pictures Television. It also signed a deal earlier this month with PBS Distribution, a unit of The Public Broadcasting Service, for hit TV show "Downton Abbey".
Amazon is slugging it out with video streaming company Netflix Inc for new and exclusive content for its online streaming services.
Netflix signed licensing deals with Warner Bros Television (WBTVG) and Turner Broadcasting System Inc in January for previous seasons of shows from Cartoon Network, Warner Bros Animation, Warner Bros Television and Adult Swim for U.S. subscribers.
It also won a deal in December to stream movies from Walt Disney Co's live action and animation studios, including Pixar, Marvel, and the recently acquired Lucasfilms.
Shares of Amazon and Scripps Networks were largely flat in afternoon trading on Thursday. Netflix was up 3 percent at $190.55.
(Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)


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Nvidia has recently released its first 40nm GPUs with the entry level GeForce GT 220 & GeForce 210 graphics cards. These two new entries to the 200 series pack quite a punch when comparing the shaders. GT220 has around 50% more shaders than 9500GT, and 210 100% more than 8400GS, according to Nvidia. Generally, both GeForce GT 220 & GeForce 210 brings some extra graphics processing power for everyday applications at an affordable price.
Today we put side by side the Inno3D GT 210 and the Gainward GT220. Before running the benchmarks, let's see some extra information about these two solutions.
- Inno3D GT210
As one of Nvidia's partner, Inno3D has launched the Inno3D GeForce 210 . As we previously mentioned, the card offers enough graphics processing power to modern PCs to deliver beautiful graphics, video, responsive photo editing and a Premium Windows 7 Experience.
The new Inno3D GeForce G210 surpasses its' predecessor (GeForce 8400GS) with high 3DM Vantage benchmarks while achieving optimized performance with all the latest features in the market. Below are the product's features:
The Inno3D GT210 is a low profile card mostly aimed for the HTPC market. It comes with an 40nm GT218 chip, 16 processing cores, 8 groups of TFU, 8 groups of TAU, 4 groups of ROP and a 512MB SDDR3 memory (64bit). The core/memory/shaders clock are 598/1066/1402MHz respectively, with support for DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.0, PureVideo, PhysX, and especially CUDA, a feature Nvidia advertises a lot.
- The package
The Inno3D GT210 comes in a small box and retail for just ~€40, VAT included.
The package is fully decorated with numerous teasing logos and of course the sticker for the CUDA support, which accelerate many applications using the GPU and essentially reducing the load of the CPU.
Let's open the box. The graphics card is packaged into an anti-static bag. Other than the card itself, you will find just an installation kit and a CD-ROM with drivers and software. Don't expect to see any games or connectors - we have to do with a low-priced product here aimed at the entry market.
The card is really small compared to the currently sold Nvidia GTX2xx series. Powered by a 40nm GPU, the card does not need any additional external power besides the PCI E interface.
Removing the Inno3D cooler will unveil the Qimonda SDDR3 chipset and the Infineon mofsets.
The Inno3D GT210 offers VGA, HDMI and DVI-D outputs making it a truly universal product for most users.
We installed the graphics card and fired up GPU-Z utility. As you can see below, the GPU core runs
at 589MHz, the memory at 533MHz and the Shaders at 1402MHz.
For our tests we installed the Nvidia Ver. 195.39 of drivers.


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I have just started reading on securing my window XP professional... I am not to in to XP s vulnrability's because i normally use linux personally.
Well to start you should start by what programs you should have! ( just basic ones )
First off you have got to have an anti virus. I personally use Norton because i am not to fond of any others...
An Anti virus program will help by keeping your computer virus free. Also it will keep you from downloading anything with a virus if the program is updated and made to block that virus. It may not block everything. But if you did not have an anti virus you could not scan to get what it misses which is a very great feture of an anti virus program. This usually gets rid of all viruses that it misses during the time you are on your computer. This is why you should run a full system scan weekly.
And have an upto date anti virus program. Granite it does not stop everything... sometimes you have to go in and get dirty and get rid of them yourself. ( one time i had gotten blaster worm andfigured out how to get rid of it... it took me a few days research but once i new. I can now get rid of it in about 30 seconds tops ) That is pretty bad...lol
Also you should have a good upto date Adware program that is updateable. And also has a scanner. And quarentines and problems/adware.
The one i use in this case is Ad-Aware 6 by lavasoft programs. Personally it works very great and good at catching and detecting adware on your PC
Here is a link to download this. ( it is free ) PS you should get it... lol
You should also have a program that gets rid of spyware.
And for this i personally use spybot search and destroy. it works very well and has a one great feature that i like a lot besides the updates and imunizing and restore points... you can advance mode it... IF you are sure you want all spyware gone and no what they are.
But here is a link for this to download( it is also free )
Also if you search downloads.com it is also there.
This is what spyware may do to your PC woth out you even knowing... might i add.
it could Steal your information (Identity Theft
it could Flood your browser with Pop-ups
it could Spam your Inbox
it could Slow down your connection
it could Slow down or crash your computer
This could be very sevure if you do not scan you comp...With this S&D program!( i am serious)
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No it is very possible if you are on the internet a lot and doing a lot of thing on it... and sending important info... It could be stolen!!!
For XP it comes with an internet connection firewall... Which basiclly is a block from hackers, people stealing your info...etc
How to turn this on ( on XP ) is to go to your Internet connection in control pannel then you go to all network connections and you right click on Your ISP and go to properties and then click and the advanced tab. And there will be a check box where you can check and apply and that is all done.
I also recomend you download a free firewall!
Here is a great one right here.OUTPOST FIREWALL
Here is a link to download this.
There is also a thing called a port scanner. I recommend you getting one of these. and closeing all unneeded open ports. I do not no of a simple port scanner because i use NMAP which is complicated for most people who are just getting into computer secureity.
there is a link to a lot of good secureing tools such as ( port scanner )
Here is a link to get NMap by the way if you are interested. It is always great to push yourself and learn! Do not ever for get that.
Hopefully this will help you in securing your Windows. But i also hope it helps you in wanting to learn more in the security field of computers. And i hope you try to push yourself: Maby by getting linux and installing that and seciring it. What ever your interests are in s3curity. Follow them and do it. Start small but do not be scared to learn. Linux is great for learning. But may i suggest useing a simple more graphical linux. Such as Red Hat. You can also use peanut or Lindows. These are the easiest linux OS's that i have personally used.
Well hopefully i helped you in secureing your windows and maby sparking some interests or hopefully you decide to get linux and install that and play with it and learn it and have fun with it. If possible, secure it and write some TUT's on it.
Well have a great day.


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Skip to comments.White House OKs Drone Strikes On American Suspects Abroad
Posted on 02/06/2013 5:08:21 PM PST by raptor22
Drone Wars: A government memo concludes the U.S. can order the killing of American citizens believed to be tied to al-Qaida, with the White House acting as judge, jury and executioner. Gee, what about due process?
Those of us who remember the condemnation and scorn heaped on President George W. Bush by liberals and civil libertarians for his post-9/11 security measures are bemused by the Obama administration's official declaration of the right to kill Americans abroad through the use of drone strikes.
And it's based on the idea that a single White House official can decide whether the individual in question is a threat.
"The condition that an operational leader present an 'imminent' threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future," says the confidential Justice Department "white paper" obtained by NBC News.
So who gets to make the call? The memo says, an "informed, high-level" official of the U.S. government may determine that the targeted American has been "recently" involved in "activities" posing a threat of a violent attack," but leaves undefined who that official might be and does not define "activities" or "recently."
This is an administration that condemned the use of enhanced interrogation techniques used on the likes of Khalid Sheik Muhammed, including water boarding, that were branded as "torture" even though they produced information that saved American lives and led to the killing of Osama bin Laden.
KSM at one point was to be given the benefit of an American jury trial in a civilian court. Indefinite detention without trial was to be ended and Guantanamo was to be closed.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
If Bush had done this, there would be massive protests in major cities around the world.
So if you're Obama, and you want as much power as you can get, I suppose prolonging all the wars you can could allow you to amass the ratcheted powers POTUS gets in wartime but for an extended period of time.
I wasn't a fan of the "War on Terror" and the Patriot Act to begin with. Definitely not a fan of Obama wiping his behind with the writ of habeas corpus.
If you're a Republican, re-consider traveling abroad for buz or pleasure.....
I'm just afraid the POS in the White House will find a way to define the target as anyone he considers an enemy, whether at home or abroad.
Double Oh 44 plots his next, uh, er, global improvement as his baby mama rehearses for her upcoming movie "Michelle bangs Reid."
These drones are capable of facial recognition and can tap cell phones of people walking down the street. And most, if not all, cops think this is wonderful.
I can't understand why there is not one politician who loves this country speaking out against this.
Maybe we ought to get a pool up on who will be the first Tea Party target .... Rush, Sarah, and Michele Bachmann are three good bets. Also Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal.
Get your money up, kids. Croupier Barack is about ready to start raking in the Right.
That's the dead weight of the Money Power and its toy, the Executive Branch.
Given the character of our dear leader, any political enemy of his is in danger.
Both obama and Hillary not only believe the saying,"Dead men tell no tales". That live by it.
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CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) — The aunt of the gunman suspected in the Connecticut school shooting says her nephew was raised by kind, nurturing parents who would not have hesitated to seek mental help for him if he needed it.
Marsha Lanza, of Crystal Lake, Ill., said she was close with Adam Lanza's mother, Nancy, and sent her a message on Facebook on Friday morning asking how she was doing. Nancy Lanza never responded.
Marsha Lanza described Nancy Lanza as a good mother and kind-hearted.
If her son had needed counseling, "Nancy wasn't one to deny reality," she told The Associated Press late Friday.
Marsha Lanza said her husband saw Adam as recently as June and recalled nothing out of the ordinary about him.


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Collapse (US - DVD R1)
Gabe finishes watching Chris Smith's doc, then burns the DVD for fuel...
Good news everyone! I just finished watching director Chris Smith's Collapse, and apparently the end of civilization is just around the corner. The story is divided into categories, and every category leads to catastrophic collapse. We are going to run out of fossil fuels. When we run out of fossil fuels the majority of our consumer products will be impossible to make, and our vehicles won't run. Other energy options are mostly unviable. Our food supplies are in ruin. We can't trust the government. The economy is beyond saving, and the current rate of inflation is insane. Oh, and there are way too damn many people in the world. There are some things we can do to save our skins, but they're going to be hard, so we should probably just forget about it.
Collapse is the best kind of modern documentary—an accidental one. Smith was not setting out to make a documentary about pertinent world politics, but his interview with Michael Ruppert proved so fascinating he switched gears entirely, much the same way director Andrew Jarecki's documentary on clowns quickly morphed into Capturing the Friedmans. Smith (not to be confused with British horror/comedy director Christopher Smith) is best known for Yes Men, but my interest in seeing Collapse rode entirely on my love of American Movie, the director's fascinating glance into the life of Midwestern independent horror filmmaker Mark Borchardt. American Movie, which may be my personal favourite documentary of all time, is an entirely original look at entirely original people, and like Capturing the Friedmans, was made out of Smith's willingness to allow the real life story to take him and his audience on an unpredictable ride. As a fan of American Movie I am (perhaps unfairly) disappointed with Collapse's single-minded focus, but impressed with Smith's willingness to let Ruppert take him and his audience on a ride, even if his actions are much more predictable than those of Borchardt, and his Wisconsinite friends and family.
Arguably the audience should already know most of the stuff Ruppert is revealing here, but if rampant ignorance wasn't a problem he probably wouldn't have anything to talk about. Personally I didn't get a whole lot from Ruppert I didn't already study or infer on my own (save specific facts and figures, like how long Alaska oil would last us), so I can't really compare the film to superior political documentaries like Why We Fight or Fog of War, but as a Cliff's Notes version of the sad truth Collapse is a solid piece of information, and Smith's direction proves quick and effective. Critics could also argue that Ruppert is the audience's only portal for facts, and I agree that his credentials are never appropriately established. Smith tries at one point, but Ruppert just throws a bunch of information at us, and later kind of blows up at the prospect of explaining himself further. It's still the word of one man, and one does get the feeling Smith himself isn't buying it all about half-way through the film. Similar documentaries are more successful in that they offer more than one experts opinion ( Fog of War notwithstanding). I'd argue that audiences don't necessarily need descending opinions (that's what other documentaries are for), but more than one expert's opinion usually works better to make a point. I find it very hard to argue with Ruppert, and I agree with just about everything he's saying, but I did have less appreciative audiences in the back of my head while watching the film, and I also find it hard to argue with my assumptive critical assessments.
Though clearly not interchangeable with a high definition transfer, director Chris Smith's visual style doesn't really lend itself too well to the format, and a Blu-ray release would probably be a waste of everyone's time. The video footage of Ruppert's interview could do with a bit of sharpening, or I could complain about the impurity of the man's skin tones, and I could say something about the minor blocking on the edges of graphs and titles, but the bulk of the other visual information is presented in a very stylistically rough manner. Smith is either literally re-filming his stock footage as it runs on a tube television set, or he's applying some kind of filter to the footage. The footage features magnified scan lines, lumpy blocks of digital compression, and generally low-resolution colour quality. Some of the footage is old enough to also feature film artefacts, such as blotchy grain and hairs in the gait. This is all clearly Smith's intended look, so these 'complaints' should only be taken as me taking to my job with an overblown sense of consistency.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is just as unimpressive as the video quality, but once again the statements in this column shouldn't really be taken as complaints. Ruppert's interview dialogue is consistent and centred throughout the entire film, whether he's on screen or not. There isn't a single point his vocals are muffled or hard to discern. Smith's occasional questions are apparently recorded at the same time with the same microphone, and are a little hard to understand. The stereo channels are utilized only during musical moments, as there's almost no additional audio or sound effects. The music is pretty softly represented, and does counteract the spoken word's tone at some points, but features some decent stereo effects and LFE support. I didn't notice anything particularly interesting going on in the rear channels throughout the entire film.
Extras begin with a series of deleted scenes (15:20), including personal discussions of fate, being a detective, lies, the expendability of the human race, the idiocy of Las Vegas, balance, the final outcome, some of the things he was wrong about over the years, legalizing pot, and the one millionth telling of the parable of the scorpion and the turtle (or frog, as most people tell it). 'Collapse Update' (13:20) is a brief, more recent interview with Ruppert, who updates us on what's happened since the film's theatrical release. Ruppert is also given a chance to advertise his book and band. The only other extra is a trailer.
Did I learn a whole lot from Collapse? Not really. Does director Chris Smith transcend interview subject Michael Ruppert's bummer tone with genuinely entertaining filmmaking? Not really. Does the film work perfectly for its entire eighty-two minute runtime? Not really. Do any of these problems keep the film from making important points, and generally being a good learning tool? Not at all. I have some major problems with Ruppert's final assessments (Can you eat gold? Can you put it in your gas tank?), but this is a good place to start. It's also entirely possible to read the film as an exploration of Ruppert himself, rather than a soap box for his beliefs, which is a saving grace when the last twenty minutes come around. The extras work to fill in some of the blanks and update us on what has happened since the film was released.
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The trailer for this looked interesting enough, but I am happy you watched this Gabe so that I didn't have to. All civilizations fail, it's the cycle of humanity. Besides theirs enough negativity going on the world that this is a definite skip.
I was interested in seeing the film, but I may wait until I can rent it from the local library.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 15th June 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Deleted Scenes, Collapse Update, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Chris Smith
Cast: Michael Ruppert
Genre: Documentary
Length: 80 minutes
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First Evelyn, who got engaged to NFL player Chad last November, discusses the drama from the finale episode when she caught Chad having lunch with another woman. "We resolved it and we moved on," Evelyn reveals to the Hollywood Life. "I don't know if he sees my point, but there's always that man-woman conflict."
And what about those trips to the fertility clinic so that she and Chad would have twins right away? Well it appears the baby plans are on hold for now. "That's the good thing with fertility, you can pick and choose when you want to have babies," explains Evelyn. "We want to have the babies after the wedding."
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We all must face the inevitability of death and the economic hardship that others might face when we die. Buying life insurance is one way to ease the burden of that economic risk. We can protect surviving family members by paying a relatively small amount, called the premium, to an insurance company. Then, the insurance company will pay a relatively large sum of money to the beneficiaries of the policy when the insured person dies.
In other words, the risk of a large financial loss that may result from the death of an individual can be transferred to the insuring organization — the insurance company. Life insurance is a means of providing an instant estate for the survivors at the death of an insured person. While the basic concept of insurance is quite simple, many of the details of life insurance can seem complex.
Because families depend on cash for day-to-day survival, there is a real need for protection from financial disaster if the source of cash is removed. Life insurance is one way to provide security if part or all of the family's income is cut off because of death. It can also provide funds to replace the services that a member of the family provides — child care, for example.
The major purpose of life insurance is protection — the instant estate to meet survivor needs. Some policies include a savings feature, but there are many other ways to save money and make investments. When buying life insurance, your primary concern should be providing adequate protection; the possible savings feature is a secondary consideration.
Even when protection needs have been met, it is a good practice to consider other forms of saving and investment plans for a family. Whether to save or invest through life insurance or other saving or investment media is a family choice, based on needs, preferences, and ability to manage finances. It is a saving/investment decision, not an insurance decision.
You may get a better return on your money through other saving or investment vehicles. In addition, a variety of saving and investment opportunities are available that do not require paying any commission, or require a commission that is lower than that for saving through life insurance.
Earnings on the saving or investment element of life insurance are tax-deferred; but there are a variety of other saving/investment media that also provide deferral of taxes on earnings. However, earnings in a life insurance policy that are part of the proceeds paid to a beneficiary after the death of the insured are not subject to income tax at all.
Families should consider total financial needs and other resources available when determining their need for life insurance. Needs depend upon:
The financial needs of surviving family members may include:
Term insurance is a type of life insurance that provides pure protection only. It insures an individual against the risk of financial loss in case of death. It does not include a savings plan; it is strictly an insurance protection contract, similar to auto, home, or health insurance. The owner buys a certain amount of coverage and pays an annual premium based on the insured's age. As the name suggests, this policy covers the insured for a certain term or period of time. At the end of the term, the coverage stops, unless the policy is renewed. The simplest form of life insurance protection is annually renewable term insurance. The owner of a term life insurance policy can continue protection for additional terms, but as he or she grows older, the premium per unit ($1,000) of coverage will increase for each new term.
Some term policies are for five, ten or twenty years. The annual premium remains the same over the term. It is also possible to buy a term policy that will cover the insured for the same annual premium from the time of the purchase to age 65. The actual cost of protection increases each year, but this cost is averaged out to provide a level premium during the term of the policy. This is known as level premium term insurance.
Another form of term insurance is decreasing term. In this form, the amount of protection declines as the insured grows older, so the annual premium can stay level.
Because term insurance provides pure protection, it provides the most coverage for the premium dollar spent.
Cash value life insurance policies consist of two elements — a decreasing amount of actual insurance protection over time, combined with a savings component that increases over time — which is funded by premium payments and earnings on the saving element in the policy (Figures 1 and 2).
There are two basic types of cash value life insurance policies. They are designed to provide coverage throughout life (whole life policies) — straight life and limited payment.
Figure 1Straight life policy.
Figure 2Limited payment policy.
This policy provides a certain amount of coverage throughout life. It combines a decreasing amount of protection with an increasing amount of savings. But the total coverage provided by the policy (the face value of the policy) — including both the protection and the savings elements — remains the same.
Because the owner is building up savings as well as buying protection through this plan, the premium is higher than the premium for term insurance. As with all life insurance policies, the premium is based on the age of the insured when the policy is purchased. The premium for straight life insurance then remains the same through the life of the policy. This is because the policyholder is paying more than the cost of pure protection during the early years of the policy. The excess portion of the premiums, above the cost of pure protection, is what builds up the savings element of the policy. Because the protection element decreases over time as the savings element increases, the level premium continues to be adequate to cover the cost of the policy as the insured grows older.
The face value is the amount payable at the death of the insured. It includes both the protection and the savings value of the policy, if there is any. The cash surrender value is the amount of savings that has built up within the policy. This amount increases during the time the policy is in force. The insured may redeem the policy for its cash value at any time, but this terminates the policy. Or, the insured may borrow the cash value from the company; however, this reduces the total coverage until the policy loan is repaid. Interest is charged on the loan until it is repaid.
If the insured continues premium payments to age 100, he or she has made sufficient premium payments to build up the cash value to make it equal to face value at that point. Therefore, as of that date, the policy consists entirely of the savings element, and there is no actual insurance protection component remaining. As with a savings account in a bank or elsewhere, the insured can at that point collect the face value of the policy while he/she is alive, because the entire policy value now consists of his/her savings element.
This policy is similar to the straight life policy, except that the policyholder pays the total premiums on the policy in a limited number of years, usually 20 to 30, or by age 65. After that, the policy remains in force for the rest of the insured's life unless the cash value is withdrawn, at which time coverage stops.
The premium on limited payment life insurance is higher than for a straight life policy because you pay all the premiums into the policy in a given number of years. This means the policyholder is actually building up saving (cash value) within the policy at a considerably faster rate than would be true with the straight life insurance policy, and thus reducing the protection element in the policy faster.
This policy has limited use except for families that have very high incomes in their early years (for example, a professional athlete whose income may be decreased in later years). The typical family has more stress on its budget in the early years and, because of the higher premiums, will probably find it impossible to afford sufficient coverage with limited payment life insurance. And having enough protection to provide for determined needs in event of death of the insured is the most important consideration in buying life insurance.
The price per $1,000 of actual life insurance protection rises as the insured gets older, in a cash value type policy as in a term policy. In a cash value policy, the increasing cost of protection is not obvious, because as the savings component created by the higher premium increases, the amount of the actual insurance protection component decreases.
Cash value policies are frequently marketed as a tax sheltered form of saving. While this is a consideration, the advantages of the tax shelter are frequently overstated. The shelter of a cash value policy is that the interest earned on the cash value (savings portion) is tax-deferred as long as the policy is in force. If the policy is surrendered to obtain the cash value, income tax is paid only on the portion of the cash value that exceeds the total premiums paid on that policy. And, as noted above, if the face value of the policy is paid to a beneficiary at death of the insured, the earnings on the savings element are not taxed at all.
The tax treatment, however, is a minor factor to consider when determining the type of insurance to purchase. It is a far less important consideration than the protection provided by the policy (the instant estate created at death of the insured).
Cash value life insurance is often promoted as an avenue for saving because the premium payments include a saving element. However, there are several factors and hazards that must be taken into account when considering cash value policies. The first, and most important, is that families sometimes purchase higher-premium policies with a savings element and provide inadequate protection to meet their needs. So if the insured dies, they have spent their premium dollars on too little protection and their financial needs are not adequately covered. A second factor is that when families commit to high-premium policies, if they face increased living expenses or a financial emergency, the insurance premiums may put too much stress on their income, and they drop the pollicy — thus leaving them without life insurance. In this case, they are not only without protection, but have a further loss because of the higher commissions paid to acquire this type of policy. Finally, if the family considers a cash value life insurance policy as a saving medium, it should compare the rate of return earned on the saving element, the commission to acquire the policy, and other factors, with alternative avenues for saving and investing.
It is important to keep in mind that there are a variety of media for saving, but the protection feature of life insurance is the only medium for creating an instant estate at the death of the insured. If a man age 25 saves $150 one day and dies the next, that $150 will be part of his estate. But if he is in good health, for that $150 he can purchase a one-year renewable term life insurance policy that will provide about $100,000 to his beneficiaries or estate if he dies the next day. This illustrates the instant estate concept, and the difference between a savings plan, in which the principal is yours whether you live or die, and an insurance protection plan, in which you are paying a modest-size premium to provide a large dollar amount of protection which will be paid only in event of your death. The protection concept is similar to the insurance you buy for a defined time period to cover your home or automobile.
Life insurance provides financial protection for survivors of the insured, and may meet other financial objectives, as well (a gift to charity, for example). Families should review their life insurance program and policies regularly and make adjustments to meet changes in circumstances and needs.
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The Internet Society has launched a site intended to be a one-stop resource for information on implementing DNSSEC and the next generation of Internet Protocols, IPv6.
The site, Deploy360, is a portal with information for network operators, developers, content providers, equipment manufacturers and enterprises on these two transformative technologies that are being implemented globally on the Internet.
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DNSSEC is a cryptographic scheme to ensure the validity of answers returned in response to Domain Name Service queries on the Internet.
DNS, which resolves easy-to-remember site names to numerical IP addresses, underlies almost all online activities. The addition of digital signatures on query responses will help to avoid spoofing of addresses and malicious redirection of traffic.
IPv6 is a new set of protocols that will replace the current set, IPv4, as the pool of IPv4 addresses is used up. As IPv6 addresses are assigned to users, networks and content providers will have to be able to accommodate this new type of traffic.
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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM AND CAMBRIDGE, UK – Feb. 14, 2005 – NDS Group plc (Nasdaq/Euronext Brussels:NNDS), a leading supplier of conditional access systems and mobile Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions, and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)], today announced at the 3GSM World Congress, Cannes, the availability of the industry's first Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) v2 compliant DRM solution based on the ARM® TrustZone™ software API. The TrustZone software API provides a common framework for secure application developers, reducing porting costs and enabling greater compatibility across multiple platforms.
By integrating the NDS mVideoGuard™ mobile DRM technology, mobile operators, service and content providers can protect their content property rights while ensuring high quality downloaded content continues to drive revenue and profits. The ARM TrustZone technology, which includes software co-developed with Trusted Logic, is specifically targeted at securing consumer products such as mobile phones, PDAs, set-top boxes and other systems running open Operating Systems (OS), such as Symbian OS, Linux and Windows CE. It ensures reliable implementation of security critical applications and services such as network virus protection, VPNs and DRM. The TrustZone software API provides application developers, OEMs and service providers a robust and open security framework based on ARM TrustZone technology that facilitates interoperability and enables them to leverage their software investment in multiple market areas.
"Strong content protection technology enables high-quality content rights to be secured and ensure that the use of such content will drive new revenues and profits," said Joseph Deutsch, director of business development, NDS. "By building our mobile DRM solution on ARM TrustZone technology, we can decrease porting costs and time-to-market, thus, enabling operators to offer the rich mobile media content that consumers are demanding now."
"DRM was the hot application that we had in mind when Trusted Logic and ARM took the decision to develop the software security framework on top of the TrustZone hardware platform," said Dominique Bolignano, CEO, Trusted Logic. "By successfully using the TrustZone software API to implement a DRM solution, NDS has demonstrated that TrustZone technology meets ISV and user expectations."
"The combination of ARM TrustZone technology-enabled processors and TrustZone software provides the basis for a highly robust security system, with minimal impact to the core power consumption, performance or area. Together with NDS, by using the TrustZone API we can help deliver highly secure and successful digital products based on ARM TrustZone technology-enabled processors," said Lance Howarth, director, Embedded Software, ARM. "ARM invests 35 per cent of revenue in R&D and this is reflected in the innovative digital solutions we enable organizations to deliver to market."
The TrustZone software will be available for licensing from ARM in Q2 2005. The TrustZone software implements the TrustZone software API which has been defined together with leading security stakeholders. Partners are invited to join in the further development of the API under the TrustZone software API Specification Participation Agreement. The Specification will be available as a free, public and open standard for the promotion of interoperable security standards.
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NDS Group plc (Nasdaq/Euronext Brussels: NNDS) is a leading supplier of open end-to-end digital pay TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and IP devices. See www.nds.com for more information about NDS.
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pate writes: "Thanks to more hard work by Paul Poulain and his band of french hackers (and thanks to the support of the Nelsonville Public Library), Koha is continuing to improve. The big step this time is the release of Koha 1.3.3, a development release of the branch destined to become Koha 2.0. This release features many bug fixes, improvements to MARC handling, and French, Spanish, and Polish translations (not yet complete but hey, this *is* a development release.) This will be the last 1.3.X release. The next schedule release will be 1.9.0 marking feature completion for the 2.0.0 release."
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Jon writes: "Loughborough University Library has released version 3 of our Reading List system. This can be picked up from our software distribution page. The Reading List system was developed at Loughborough to fill a perceived gap in the available commercial systems and also to allow us to customise the system to our needs. It is written in Perl, runs under Linux and makes use of a MySQL database and the Net::Z3950 and MARC Perl modules to provide Z39.50 links into existing library systems. It has been in production use at Loughborough for well over 2 years now and earlier versions have been taken by other local Universities for their own reading list systems. This is the first major public distribution of this system to a wider general audience."
Ed writes: "MARC::Charset 0.4 now supports MARC-8 character translations to Unicode (UTF-8) for the East Asian character sets. More information is available at MARC/Perl. Now that there is good support for MARC-8 character conversions to Unicode it is possible to update MARC::XML to do a good solid job of converting to LC's MARC schema."
Paul writes: "We've just released Koha 1.3.2, the next alpha version of the forthcoming 2.0 series. This release features many improvments in MARC management from 1.3.1; acquisition.simple now works; you can upload marc files in a breeding farm; for ISBN/ISSN search in the acquisition screen, with the "New biblio" option and the biblio is in the breeding farm, it's automatically retrieved and can be modified; installer now install marc21 in english or unimarc in french datas; marc parameters complete documentation.
If the 2.0 release sounds exciting to you and you've got some MARC, Perl, or HTML background, please consider jumping in and helping with 2.0 development. There are opportunities for people of all skill levels."
from the Eprints site: "This version adds support for subject editors (who many only approve and edit items which match a certain subject or type), support for the XML::GDOME module (which makes it faster). There is also a number of small configuration options people have asked for, and bugfixes."
Eric wrote to oss4lib-discuss: "This release of MyLibrary is incremental, but there still a number of noteworthy additions to the distribution: the software now encrypts users' cookies as they are sent from the server to the browser; Impersonate patron is fixed; there are statistical reports against the underlying database summarizing usage; the scripts distribution now includes a set of PHP scripts demonstrating how MyLibrary can participate in OAI (Open Archives Initiative) for sharing metadata. Similarly, the distribution also includes a Perl script for writing RDF files from the underlying database."
Pate writes: "Koha 1.3.0 has been released. This release marks the beginning of public development and testing of the MARC compliant Koha we've been Looking forward to. As the 1.3 releases stabilize and reach feature completion, they will become Koha 1.4. This is an alpha quality release only. If you are want to use Koha in a production setting, please stick with the stable 1.2 release until the 1.3 series stabilizes enough for us to create Koha 1.4.0. Significant new features in this release include: data is stored natively in a MARC based format; multiple flavors of MARC are supported; enhanced API supports both the new MARC format and the older Koha specific format. From a users perspective, this release should look just like a 1.2 series release. All of the work so far has been in redesigning the data format and extending the API. User visible changes will be included once the infrastructure has stabilized."
A Fistful of Koha
Pat writes: "The Nelsonville Public Library, which serves 36,000 active borrowers from seven branches, is migrating to Koha. Their one year migration plan includes an investment in Koha development. More information can be found at www.linuxpr.com/releases/5053.html.
Because of growing efforts with Koha in France, a french language koha mailing list has been started. You can subscribe at email@example.com.
A similar level of interest has developed in Germany, and a german language mailing list has also been created. Again, to subscribe send mail to email@example.com.
For more information about Koha, please see the Koha homepage."
pate writes: "Koha 1.2.2 has been released. Special thanks (again) to Steve Tonnesen, who drove this release to completion. 1.2.2 is a significant bug squashing release. Many people have combined in testing this release, and we expect it to be the best Koha yet! you'll like what you see. We plan on continuing to improve Koha, and would love to have you come along on this exciting journey. As always, downloads and more information are available from: sf.net/projects/koha/." Fixes include improved checkvalidisbn() routine and marc upload, several installer/upgrade improvements, and more.


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We will proudly cater your next event.
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May 2009
Welcome to the May 2009 edition of Connect to Veterinary Medicine, the latest news and information from the College of Veterinary Medicine at The Ohio State University.
News at the College
What's New at the Veterinary Hospital
Each bi-monthly issue of the OVMA newsletter contains a special insert from the Ohio State Veterinary Hospital.
2009 Oath and Hooding Ceremony
The 2009 College of Veterinary Medicine Awards will be presented at the Oath and Hooding Ceremony on Saturday, June 13 at 8 p.m. in Mershon Auditorium. Congratulations to the outstanding faculty members who will be receiving these honors: Dr. Edward Cooper (Zoetis (formally Pfizer) Distinguished Teaching Award), Dr. Jim Belknap (Zoetis (formally Pfizer Animal Health) Award for Research Excellence), Dr. Armando Hoet (Charles C. Capen Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Education), Dr. Maxey Wellman (Dean's Award for Creativity in Teaching) and Dr. Kathy Boris-Lawrie (David White Research Award).
Distinguished Alumni Awards will be presented to:
- Charles C. Capen, DVM, PhD, professor emeritus and former chair
- Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University
- Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University
- Brian W. Forsgren, DVM, animal welfare advocate
- Owner, Gateway Animal Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
- Ann L. Johnson, DVM, MS, professor emeritus
- Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Illinois
- Bruce W. Keene, DVM, MS, professor
- Department of Clinical Sciences, North Carolina State University
- Charles A. Neer, DVM, MS, clinical associate veterinarian, retired
- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University
- Bonnie R. Rush, DVM, MS, professor and head
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Kansas State University
Safe Summer Program Returns
The Safe Summer Program will run through June 19, 2009. The Shelter Medicine Club at the college developed this program to offer solutions to Ohio State students who are not able to take their pets with them when they leave campus. In the past, many pets have been abandoned in empty apartments or left on the street. DVM student volunteers work with students to find alternatives for their pet(s). Last spring, 100 percent of the animals taken in by the program found new homes.
More information on the Safe Summer program.
Annual Golf Outing
Despite cool temperatures and rain, the annual golf outing was a well-attended success that raised $8,000 for the Alumni Veterinary Student Scholarship fund.
Pink Week
The College of Veterinary Medicine's Pink Week Committee, the college's Komen Race for the Cure Team and SCAVMA hosted talks, bake sales, contests and auctions at the college to increase awareness about breast cancer and raise money for research. The highlight of the week was a talk by Dr. Rebekah Gee, physician and women's health advocate (and daughter of The Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee and Dr. Elizabeth Gee who passed away from breast cancer). Dr. Gee shared personal stories of her experiences during her mother's illness. The events held at the College of Veterinary Medicine raised $803 for Komen Columbus and $1,000 for the Elizabeth Gee Fund for Cancer Survivorship at The Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. (More than 46,000 people participated in this year's Komen Columbus Race for the Cure and raised $2 million to fund breast cancer education, research, and treatment.)
View photos from the talk and race
Visit the Komen Columbus website for more information on the Race for a Cure.
Students Learn Shelter Medicine at the Capital Area Humane Society
Last year Ohio State established a surgical partnership with the highly respected Capital Area Humane Society in Columbus. The partnership is overseen by Dr. Larry Hill, assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. This unique partnership, which is the only clinically based program of its kind, allows students to gain a variety of skills that will benefit them in their future careers, including performing surgeries, learning about pediatric spays and neuters and observing non-traditional techniques for pets such as rabbits. Students also travel into the community with Humane Officers who investigate potential neglect and abuse cases, which allows the students to learn about the sociological side of the humane society's work and allows them to help educate the public about important issues surrounding pet care.
More information on the partnership with Capital Area Humane Society
Vet Med in the news
H1N1 outbreak puts college experts in the news
The outbreak of the so-called Swine Flu that started in Mexico and continues to spread offered the College of Veterinary Medicine the opportunity to showcase our research and experts. Dr. Mo Saif, professor in the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, and program head of the Food Animal Health Research Program at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center at Wooster, and Dr. Richard Slemons, professor in the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, were featured by radio, television, newspapers and even COSI.
Vet Student Featured on Big 10 Network
Kristin Couts, a fourth-year student in the College of Veterinary Medicine will be featured on an episode of 24OSU, which will air Tuesday, June 23 at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, June 25 at 5 p.m. and Friday, June 26 at 8:30 a.m. on the Big 10 Network. Couts, along with four other Ohio State students, will give viewers an around-the-clock look at a day in their lives.
Remember to check our web site for news!
Upcoming events
Inaugural Companion Animal Remembrance Ceremony
Please join us as we celebrate the lives of the beloved companion animals that are no longer with us on Saturday, June 20 at noon. If you are interested in attending, we encourage you to reply to Joelle Nielsen at: email@example.com or (614) 247-8607 so that we may plan more effectively.
Alumni Reunion Weekend highlights
Alumni Reunion Weekend is scheduled for September 11-13, 2009.
Registration information will be sent in mid-July. If you are eligible for the football ticket lottery, you will receive an application for tickets in early July.
View the schedule of events for the College of Veterinary Medicine Alumni weekend.
*Donate items to the auctions!
The money raised during the silent and live auctions held annually during Alumni Reunion Weekend allows us to give back to the college. We count on dedicated alumni such as you to contribute items for the auctions. These can vary from an iPod to a weekend getaway, from a stethoscope to unique artwork, and of course Buckeye-themed merchandise is always popular.
Donation form for auction items
We thank you in advance for your support of Alumni Reunion Weekend and the College of Veterinary Medicine.
In Memoriam
Charles B. Dibbell (DVM 1938)
Dr. Charles B. Dibbell of South Pasadena, Florida died April 17, 2009. Dr. Dibbell was born in Garnett, Kansas. He attended Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, and received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus. Dr. Dibbell pursued post-graduate training in canine surgery at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He served as 1st Lieutenant, World War II. He moved to St. Petersburg from Baltimore in 1946, when he established the West Coast Animal Hospital, which he directed until his retirement in 1981. He had been a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Animal Hospital Association, the Florida Veterinary Medical Association, past president of the Pinellas County Veterinary Medical Society, and was a member of Lakewood Country Club, now known as St. Petersburg Country Club. He was a former member of the St. Petersburg Lions Club.
Elden C. Krantz (DVM 1943)
Dr. Elden C. Krantz, age 90, of West Palm Beach, Florida passed away April 12, 2009. He was born in Dover, Ohio, the son of George Grover Krantz and Barbara Becker Krantz, and graduated from Dover High School. A 1943 graduate of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Krantz built a veterinary hospital at 856 Boulevard, Dover in 1950 and practiced until his retirement in 1977. Dr. Krantz continued practicing veterinary medicine as a relief doctor for veterinarians in Palm Beach, Broward, Dade Counties and Miami until 2003 when he fully retired. Dr. Krantz is survived by his wife, Corrine, two sons, Thomas L. (Rosemary) of Enterprise, Alabama and Ronald E. (Pamela J. Grant) of Holly, Michigan, grandson, Phillip Grant Krantz of Pontiac, Michigan.
Howard J. Barth (DVM 1946)
Dr. Howard J. Barth was born July 12, 1921, in Litchfield Township, Ohio. Dr. Barth was a veterinarian in Litchfield for 35 years. He was a member of Litchfield United Church of Christ Congregational. Dr. Barth was an avid fisherman and bridge player. He served on the Buckeye school board, the Medina County Board of Health, the Medina County Fair Board for 14 years, and the Litchfield Masonic Lodge. He served in the Army during World War II in special training. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Evelyn "Peg" (nee Holmes) Barth of Medina, son, Gary (Liz) Barth of Medina, daughter, Beatrice Uhl of Westerville, grandsons, Scott Barth and Bryon (Angie) Barth, granddaughters, Stephanie Uhl and Jennifer (Thomas) Kirk, great-granddaughter, Genevieve Barth, and brother, Stanley Barth of Litchfield. He was preceded in death by his sister-in-law, Marjorie Barth.
Orville C. Thompson (DVM 1950)
Dr. Orville C. Thompson, 82, Findlay, Ohio, died Dec. 21, 2008. A poultry health consultant, he was president of Orville Thompson & Associates. Following graduation, Dr. Thompson joined Leipsic Veterinary Service in Leipsic, Ohio, where he practiced until 1965. He then began his consulting career in poultry practice. Dr. Thompson was an Air Force veteran of World War II. His wife, Evelyn, four daughters, and a son survive him.
Buell L. Bassette (DVM 1961)
Dr. Buell L. Bassette, 78, Sun City Center, Florida died Dec. 28, 2008. From 1962 until retirement in 1994, he owned the Boxford Animal Clinic in Boxford, Mass. Dr. Bassette is survived by his wife, Beverly, a son, and a daughter.
Jack Ervin Shanks (DVM 1964)
Dr. Jack Ervin Shanks, 75, of Hickory, North Carolina died Wednesday, May 20, 2009, at Frye Regional Medical Center from cancer. Dr. Shanks was born Jan. 27, 1934, in Wilmington, Ohio, a son of the late Carl Harmon and Edith Brown Shanks. Dr. Shanks was a veterinarian and also served in the Korean War. He worked on a cattle ranch in Vermont, where he met and married Nancy Moore of Springfield, Vt., on Sept. 20, 1958. They moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he attended The Ohio State University. He graduated from the College of Veterinary Medicine in 1964. He moved to Damascus, Md., and was a resident veterinarian for Col. E. Brooke Lee. He went into private practice years later and had a small animal hospital. He also had a large animal practice, which included the U.S. Naval Academy's Cattle Farm in Annapolis, Md. Dr. Shanks moved to Mocksville in 1978 and had a Hereford cattle ranch as well as practicing a large animal veterinary business. He moved to Hickory in the early 1980s, where he practiced large animal veterinary work and ran a cattle farm on C.B. Farm Road. He was a lifetime member of Montgomery County Fair, past president of Damascus Lions Club, member of Davie County Ruritan Club, past president of Maryland Veterinary Medical Association, board of director of American Bovine Association, a present member of North Carolina Veterinary Medical Association, Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association and Virginia Veterinary Medical Association. He was a past member of Maryland and North Carolina Polled Hereford Association, having served as president of both associations. He also was a member of Catawba County Cattlemen's Association. He was active in working with youth in Ohio, Maryland and North Carolina. Dr. Shanks is survived by his wife, Nancy Moore Shanks, son, J.D. Shanks and his wife, Sarah Shanks, of Etters, Pa., daughter, Kimberly Herman and her husband, Todd Herman, of Skiatook, Okla., four grandchildren, David Shanks, Kasey Herman, Rob Shanks and Katie Shanks, brothers, Dr. Carl H. Shanks and his wife, Isabelle Shanks, of Newburg, Ore., and Jerry Shanks and his wife, Susan Shanks, of New Market, Md., sister-in-law, Dorothy Donnelly of Springfield, Vt., niece, Cynthia Robinson of Washington, and nephews, David Shanks of Vancouver, Wash., Bill Shanks of Friday Harbor, Wash., Mark Shanks of Maryland and Brian Donnelly of Lawton, Okla.
Lynn Stone McGrew (DVM 1969)
Dr. Lynn Stone McGrew of Norwich, Vermont died on March 31, 2009 from complications arising from colorectal cancer. He retired in 1999 after having first, a mixed practice, then after 1986 large animal, primarily bovine. After retirement he hiked the Alps, volunteered with USAID, and served Norwich, Vermont on various committees. He was a member of the town select board at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, Susan.
Richard H. Bottger (DVM 1971)
Dr. Richard H. Bottger, died December 29, 2008. Richard was born July 25, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Marian and Edward Bottger. He was raised on a small farm and considered himself blessed to be raised by absolutely the best parents in the world! Animals were always a big part of his life, and after high school he attended The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine where he received his veterinary degree in 1971. He moved to Michigan to practice veterinary medicine, and spent his entire career in the Flint area. He loved his family, woodworking and trout fishing. On May 18, 1996 he married the love of his life, Kathryn Kaza, at St. Paul's Church. He considered himself blessed to have her as his wife. He is survived by his wife Kathryn, brothers Jim (Marilyn) and Bill (Kathie) of Newbury, Ohio, and many nieces and nephews. Rich enjoyed many wonderful friends and always looked forward to being with the gang on "Holy Tuesday." He was very proud of Ron (Angie) Dodge, Bill (Kim) Creed, and Bud Creed, who have been an important part of his life through the Whaley's Children Center and the Big Brother's Program. He also had a soft spot in his heart for his furry family, Frieda, Sophie and Tasha. He was preceded in death by his parents and grandparents. Richard asked that in lieu of flowers memorial contributions be made to the Genesee County Humane Society or the Big Brothers Program or the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan.
Nicholas J. Neutzling (DVM 1974)
Dr. Nicholas J. Neutzling, 60, Sarasota, Florida died Nov. 13, 2008. He owned the Animal Medical Clinic of Gulf Gate in Sarasota, practicing there for more than 30 years. Early in his career, Dr. Neutzling practiced briefly in Athens, Ohio. His son survives him.
Around Campus
Spring graduation ceremony
The Ohio State University spring graduation ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 14 in Ohio Stadium. Astronaut and former Senator John Glenn will be the commencement speaker.


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Leah Rowena Miller scrapbook, 1924-1931 | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
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Scope and Contents: The Leah Rowena Miller scrapbook (1924-1931; 0.4 cubic feet) documents the student life of Leah Rowena Miller. It includes her time as a student at Purdue as well as her travels after graduation. The scrapbook focuses heavily on Rowena's social life with her family and friends. This scrapbook would be a valuable asset for any individual researching the history of Purdue and student life. It would also be valuable for an individual researching the time period of the 1920s. Within the scrapbook are mementos, black and white photographs, programs, holiday cards, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes. You will also find within the scrapbook is a list of all of Rowena's friends and their hometowns, two tables of sports scores for both the football and basketball teams for the 1924-1925 seasons, and a list of productions and social functions that Rowena attended during her time at Purdue.


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How would your life change if, all of a sudden, you no longer had to re-pay your student loan debt? What would you do with that extra $250-$1,000 of your paycheck every single month? If Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-MI) has his way, this question might not be rhetorical anymore. Student loan debt forgiveness could be the stimulus measure that breaks us free of this long recession.
Millennials are being strangled by record high student loan payments, more than any previous generation due to the skyrocketing costs of higher education, high unemployment, and stagnant wages. A whole generation is seeing their plans and ambitions shackled by the extra weight of their student loan payments. These young people are unable to buy a home, start a family, or do the socially important but underpaid jobs in the social services sector where many recent grads cut their teeth.
Congressman's Clarke resolution, H.R. 365, aims to redirect the attention of government officials from reducing the federal deficit to addressing the real crisis facing millions of Americans and perpetuating this recession: the unrelenting financial drain on the economy caused by record levels of household debt. H.R. 365 also deals with home mortgage and personal debt, but as a Millennial the part I am most interested in is his proposal to forgive student loans.
Acting on this resolution would provide a trillion dollar stimulus to the demographic most sought after by advertisers and by realtors: college educated young people. These are the people that have the potential to revitalize the housing market and local economies. Best of all, this wouldn't just be a short-term money injection; this resolution would result in millions of people being able to keep more than 13% of their paycheck every month for 30+ years (assuming Stafford loan interest rates and using average millennial debt and wage).
Now, any measure that specifically targets student loans, mortgage rates, and other forms of personal debt carries some inherent social justice issues. This measure would do little to directly help the poor.
On the other hand, eliminating student loan debt and helping people lower their home mortgages are investments that revitalize the middle class. This country used to take immense pride in its strong middle class, but it hasn't promoted its growth for the past thirty years. When the American Dream was still achievable, a poor household could aim to achieve middle class status, but recent trends are showing just the opposite. Regardless of work ethic, more and more middle class families are slipping into poverty, in part because of the heavy debt burden of house ownership and of pursuing a higher education degree. For the first time since the Great Depression, today's Americans are not likely to have a better standard of living than their parents.
Another criticism rests on the assumption that if current debt is forgiven, it would discourage future borrowers from paying theirs back. This argument points at the real crisis in higher education. The problem isn't simply that people have too much debt, but that by choosing to enroll in an institution of higher learning to hone their skills and become a more productive member of society, they are essentially forced to. This is a financial burden that used to be largely taken on by the government (and still is in most other modern democracies) because it was recognized that the road to social and economic growth was rooted in an educated citizenry. Thus, while this criticism has some validity, it simply stands to underscore the need to reform our systems of financing public higher education altogether so people no longer have to take on such high debt burdens.
By injecting a trillion dollars directly in the bank accounts of college graduates, forgiving student loan debt will enable them to finally put their education to a good use and get their adult lives off the ground. Will this measure alone be enough to revitalize our ailing economy? Perhaps not, but I still haven't found a valid argument as to why it should not be a major component of a recovery package.
3p is proud to parter with the Presidio Graduate School's Macroeconomics course on a blogging series about "the economics of sustainability." This post is part of that series. To follow along, please click here.


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Book Review: Gleaned from letters, essays, and articles, "Pete Seeger: In His Own Words" reveals how the celebrated folk singer has considered, at every turn, what it means to sing out in a world where the din of injustice is deafening.
In Review: Books, Music, and Film
Film Review: Whether you think the cyberactivists of Anonymous are hooligans or heroes, "We Are Legion" is required viewing.
From Activist to Zapatista, this "children's book for the 99 percent" infuses the alphabet with the energy and consciousness of Occupy Wall Street.
Native American poet Joy Harjo declares, "I was not brave." But her memoir is a gift that urges us to enlist our own crazy bravery to step through the doorways in our lives.
Anna Ternheim, Jerry Jeff Walker, and other inspiration while putting together the Winter 2013 issue.
Inside the wealth gap that's wrecking the world—and what we can do about it.
Musical inspiration while putting out the Fall 2012 issue.
Last year, climate activist Tim DeChristopher went to jail for bidding $1.7 million (that he didn't have) to save 22,000 acres of public land from corporate extraction.
Film Review: The Big Fix exposes BP's efforts to minimize awareness of North America's biggest oil spill.
In "Religion Gone Astray," three leaders—and friends—from different religions take on violence, exclusivity, gender inequality, and homophobia in some of their scriptures' most controversial verses. What they discovered surprised them.
Book Review: "Prophetic Encounters" reminds us that we are part of a long and rich tradition that is more than a series of isolated movements for social change.
Book Review: "Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power" profiles the radical, working-class movements of the '60s and '70s—a guide for transformation today.
Musical inspiration while putting together the Summer 2012 issue.
Diane Wilson's new book asks, how do you raise beloved children and break the cycle of self-destruction in native communities?
Book Review: At 96, Grace Boggs gives us a new handbook for transformation—from victims to empowered citizens.


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Pilgrims, Indians, and Thanksgiving Hotness
Let's make this short and sweet: After completely stuffing your face with turkey, potatoes, green bean casserole, and pumpkin pie, you really have little desire to do anything physical, including thinking. So, why not sit back and ogle some Holiday Hotness in the forms of Pilgrims, Indians, and Chicks Barely Dressed for Thanksgiving? No complaints, I trust? Enjoy the eye candy, folks!


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Physician Assistant, M.S.P.A.S.
Physician Assistants (PAs) are valuable members of a multidisciplinary healthcare team. The profession was established in 1965 to help physicians provide healthcare services to underserved and rural populations. While the profession remains committed to its historical mission, PAs are now employed in almost all medical and surgical specialties.
PAs are healthcare professionals licensed to practice medicine under the supervision of a physician. The physician assistant, functioning under the direction of the physician, will be expected to perform appropriately delegated tasks autonomously with the full confidence of the physician. Physician assistants will always have the benefit of the physician's guidance and counsel. Individual state practice laws and hospital bylaws define the scope of practice and prescribing authority of physician assistants. Most states authorize PAs to prescribe non-controlled substances and perform any task delegated by a supervising physician.
To be eligible for licensure, PAs must graduate from an accredited physician assistant program and pass the Physician Assistant National Certification Examination (PANCE). To maintain licensure, PAs must complete 100 hours of continuing medical education credits every two years and pass the Physician Assistant National Recertification Examination (PANRE) every six years. PAs may obtain additional training through postgraduate residency programs in subspecialty areas, but these programs are not required for licensure or practice in subspecialty areas.
U.S. News and World Report has ranked the UAB Surgical Physician Assistant Program among the top Physician Assistant programs in its annual "Best Graduate Schools" edition. Physician Assistants are also ranked in the top 10 best health careers by U.S. News and World Report.
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Broadcasting and Media Production
Unsure what you want your major to be?
Broadcasting and Media Production
Our exceptional, and we mean exceptional, liberal arts faculty is dedicated to making these four years meaningful, memorable and life changing. They are eager to meet you and believe in teaching you how to learn.
Pano Constantine,
Major: Sociology
Minor: Psychology
Career Goal: Social Worker
"The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know anything, and that's a good thing."