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Gas Clouds as Raining Star Stuff Onto Galaxy
This composite radio light image and rendition of our galaxy as seen in visible light shows enigmatic "high-velocity clouds" of gas high above the plane of the Milky Way which rain gas into the galaxy, seeding it with the stuff of stars.
The cloud outlined, and possibly others too, is now known to have low heavy element content and to be raining down onto the Milky Way disk, seeding it with material for star birth. Identifying this infalling gas helps in solving a long-standing mystery of galactic evolution by revealing a source of the low-metallicity gas required to explain the observed chemical composition of stars near the Sun.
In this all-sky projection, the edge-on plane of our galaxy appears as a white horizontal strip. The false-color orange-yellow "clouds" are regions containing neutral hydrogen, which glows in 21-centimeter radiation. Hubble Space Telescope's spectrograph was aimed at one of the clouds (encircled) to measure its detailed composition and velocity.
This discovery is based on a combination of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, three radio telescopes (at Effelsberg in Germany, and Dwingeloo and Westerbork in the Netherlands), the William Herschel Telescope on the island of La Palma and the Wisconsin H-alpha Mapper at NOAO's Kitt Peak Observatory.
Image composite by Ingrid Kallick of Possible Designs, Madison Wisconsin. The background Milky Way image is a drawing made at Lund Observatory. High-velocity clouds are from the survey done at Dwingeloo Observatory (Hulsbosch & Wakker, 1988).


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Hope College sophomore Maria Eguiluz of Redford has been chosen to participate in the national "Exceptional Research Opportunities Program" (EXROP) of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
EXROP provides outstanding summer research experiences to undergraduate students from disadvantaged backgrounds or from groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences to encourage them to pursue careers in academic science. Last year, 60 students nationwide participated in the highly selective program.
The participating students are matched with HHMI scientists around the country who have volunteered to provide mentored research experiences for 10 weeks during the summer. EXROP students also attend meetings at HHMI headquarters, where they present their research in a poster session, network with their peers and HHMI scientists, and hear from scientists from various backgrounds and in various stages of their careers. Selection includes a $4,500 award.
Eguiluz is a biology and computer science double-major. Through EXROP this summer, she will be conducting research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York with Dr. Gregory Hannon, whose lab works primarily on mechanisms and applications of RNA interference and is also interested in cancer biology, in particular in developing tools to understand cancer initiation and progression.
Eguiluz has been active in research at Hope since even before her freshman year began. As a high school student, she participated in the college's REACH (Research Experiences Across Cultures at Hope) program, which engages high school students in collaborative research at the college full-time for several weeks during the summer. Following her freshman year, during the summer of 2012, she conducted research full-time at Hope in the laboratory of biologist Dr. Aaron Best, in a collaborative project with computer scientist Dr. Matthew DeJongh.
During her first year at Hope, she was enrolled in the research-based, year-long "Phage Genomics Research Initiative," a freshman-level laboratory class established through an award to the college from HHMI. Also as a freshman last year, she participated in the college's FACES (Fostering A Community of Excellence in Science) peer-mentoring program for first-year students interested in careers in the natural and applied sciences who are from groups traditionally underrepresented nationally in such careers. This year, she is one of the upperclassmen mentoring one of the college's freshman students. Both REACH and FACES are initiatives in science education at Hope funded through grants to the college from HHMI.
Eguiluz's activities at the college also include the orchestra. She is a 2011 graduate of Zeeland East High School, and the daughter of Luis and Maria Eguiluz of Redford.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization that ranks as one of the nation's largest philanthropies. HHMI plays a prominent role in advancing biomedical research and science education in the United States.
Founded in 1953 by aviator and industrialist Howard R. Hughes, HHMI is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md., and employs more than 3,000 individuals across the U.S. HHMI has an endowment of $16.1 billion, of which the institute spent $800 million for research and distributed $119 million in grant support for science education in fiscal year 2012.

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PSU tackle Smith on preseason list
UNIVERSITY PARK – The Outland Trophy is awarded to the nation's top interior lineman, and Penn State junior left tackle Donovan Smith earned a spot on the award's 64-person preseason watch list entering the 2014 campaign.
Smith enters his junior campaign as one of the Nittany Lions' most talented and experienced players and is an All-Big Ten candidate. He started 11 games last year and has 20 career starts over the past two seasons, the team's third-highest total. The Owings Mills, Md., native was selected first-team preseason All-Big Ten by USA Today and Lindy's and second-team all-conference by Athlon Sports and Phil Steele's College Football Preview.
The Lions now have five players on four different preseason watch lists. The other four are Kyle Carter (Mackey Award), Christian Hackenberg (Maxwell Award), Jesse James (Mackey Award) and Jordan Lucas (Bednarik Award).
Red Flash honored
LORETTO – The Saint Francis swimming team won the College Swimming Coaches Association of America Team Scholar All America Award for the 16th consecutive semester, announced Thursday by the organization.
After posting a 3.35 GPA in the fall, the Red Flash followed up with a 3.30 in the spring semester. The SFU team has now won the award in each semester for eight straight years.
Juniata recognized
HUNTINGDON – For the second consecutive spring season, the Juniata College women's swimming team earned the College Swimming Coaches Association of America Team Scholar All-America award.
The honor is presented to teams that have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher during the semester coinciding with the championship season.
"The award shows the dedication that the team has in the classroom," coach Nathan Smith said. "To do that well, while having such a great swimming season at the same time, shows that they are really focused and ready to do work in all parts of their life."
Juniata finished the 2014 spring semester with a 3.31 team GPA while setting eight program records, two Landmark Conference records, claiming three league titles and amassing the teams' highest points total at the Landmark championship meet. Juniata is one of five Landmark schools to earn this award.


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Gun Smith School: Train to Be a Gunsmith
People who have a passion for guns often decide to learn how to be a gunsmith. This can be a hobby or a career for them. A gun smith school is the best place to acquire the skills of an expert gunsmith. At a technical school for gunsmiths, you will learn the basics of firearms and gun repair. You will also learn how to accurize and customize guns at a gun smith school.
Gunsmithing is a skill that requires a lot of training and practice. A gunsmith is someone who repairs and rebuilds firearms. Gunsmiths can also specialize in a particular gunsmithing skill. He can be a custom gun builder or stock maker. Gunsmiths can also specialize in certain types of firearms such as antique guns or rifles. Many of the gunsmith's basic skills and advanced techniques can be learned at a gun school.
It's important to keep in mind that gunsmiths usually work with top-of-the-line firearms or antique guns and rifles that their owners want customized or restored.
How to Train to be a Gunsmith
There are three types of schools that offer gunsmith training. It is possible to find a gun training program at a community college. However, not all community colleges offer gunsmithing courses. You can search online for gun smith schools at community colleges and find out what gunsmith training programs they offer.
There are also private colleges that offer specialized training in a number of careers including gunsmithing. The training programs in this type of gun smith school are often short but extremely focused. Oftentimes, the gunsmith program in a private college offers courses that will help students to become a master gunsmith. The NRA (National Rifle Association) is affiliated with several colleges that offer short term gunsmith school.
Online gun smith schools where you can learn to repair or custom-build guns can also be found. Penn Foster Career School and Ashworth College are both accredited for distance learning. Unlike other types of gunsmith school, online schools do not provide hands-on training. However, students enrolled in an online gun program have access to course materials. They are also mentored by an instructor via the internet.
The biggest disadvantage in an online gunsmith school is that there is no instructor around who can provide the guidance a student needs for hands-on training. Gunsmithing is a skill that requires learning the correct techniques in repairing, restoring or customizing a gun. A skilled instructor can demonstrate and teach the finer points of gunsmithing.
Enrolling in a gun school is the first step to becoming a gunsmith. Many gun smith schools offer a variety of courses and programs to choose from. The most important thing to keep in mind is that you have to hone your skills through constant practice. The school or program should be able to provide plenty of practice time for students at the school's workshop. If you are enrolled in an online gunsmith school, you may be able to work at a local gunsmith shop or perhaps in your own workshop.


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Some types of overcurrent protective devices may not prove suitable for all high-efficiency motor applications.
We received a series of questions related to instantaneous-trip circuit breakers (ITCB). The questioner noted that the high inrush characteristics of these motors has been covered in EC&M previously, and he was concerned about nuisance tripping, particularly in the case of instantaneous-trip circuit breakers. His application involved a listed combination controller that had coordinated overload, short-circuit and ground-fault protection for the circuit conductors. He wanted answers to the following questions:
1. Could the ITCB in question be used if its possible trip settings (as it came from the manufacturer) can be increased above the Code maximum of 1300% of the full-load motor current? He noted that several manufacturer's literature mention these higher settings.
2. Would the NEC allow higher settings (above 1300%) if there were an acceptable engineering evaluation of the particular application?
3. How were the maximum percentage allowances in the NEC determined, and does the 1300% parameter take premium efficiency motors into account?
4. If nuisance tripping at 1300% in fact occurs on one of these motors, how can the installation proceed or be corrected within the limits of the Code?
The EC&M panel's response
Motor circuits are unique in that they don't have overcurrent protection in the usual sense. These circuits usually divorce the protection against overloads from the protection against short circuits and ground faults. Overloads are long-time currents that are high enough to eventually cause damage but that don't need to be cleared immediately. Short circuits and ground faults must be cleared immediately, however, since these faults release enormous amounts of energy, easily enough to start a fire. Since overload protection and the short-circuit and ground-fault protection are provided by separate protective devices, there are different requirements for each.
The questions only relate to the short-circuit and ground-fault aspects of protection. Regardless of which device is chosen for this purpose, you still need to select the overload protection in accordance with Part C of Art. 430. Since those rules aren't in question here, we will focus on the basic principles of selecting appropriate short-circuit and ground-fault protective devices, as covered in Part D of the article.
The short-circuit and ground-fault protection must protect both the motor itself and the conductors and other elements of the motor circuit from the effects of these high-level faults. Therefore, the maximum safe ratings of these devices is related to the full-load current rating of the motor. Since there are definite rules that relate the allowable ampacity of the motor circuit conductors to the motor current, basing the protection on the motor also protects the conductors.
The first step is to realize that, unlike running overload protection that is customized to the actual motor, in these cases the motor currents listed in Tables 430-147 to 430-150 must form the basis for any calculations. That rule occurs in Sec. 430-6(a), which reads in part as follows:
(a) General Motor Applications. Other than as specified for torque motors in (b) below and for ac adjustable voltage motors in (c) below, where the current rating of a motor is used to determine the ampacity of conductors or ampere ratings of switches, branch-circuit short-circuit and ground-fault protection, etc., the values given in Tables 430-147, 430-148, 430-149, and 430-150, including notes, shall be used instead of the actual current rating marked on the motor nameplate. Separate motor overload protection shall be based on the motor nameplate current rating.
The next step is to multiply the motor current by the multipliers in Table 430-152. This result gives the maximum allowable settings. For an ITCB, this allows a typical maximum result equal to 700% of the motor current. In answer to the third question, these percentages are based motor performance characteristics, and they have stood the test of many years of enforcement. ITCBs, however, have some unique rules. The first is that they must only be used in listed combination controllers. The questioner is clearly aware of this requirement, which is in the first sentence of Sec. 450-52(a), 2nd paragraph:
An instantaneous trip circuit breaker shall be used only if adjustable, and if part of a listed combination controller having coordinated motor overload and short-circuit and ground-fault protection in each conductor, and if it will operate at not more than 1300 percent of full-load motor current.
The reader may well wonder where the 700% indicated previously comes in, since the rule allows 1300%. The 1300% is unintended, and resulted from a panel error in the 1993 NEC. During the proposal period, the panel accepted a proposal to go to 1300% by right, bypassing any consideration of 700%. During the comment period, however, the panel decided to retain the prior 700% outer limit, and then modify the exception that follows the paragraph quoted above to allow higher settings if the motor were unable to start, or if an engineering evaluation showed a higher setting would be needed. The question on engineering evaluations is undoubtedly related to this change, which added the last two sentences to the exception:
Exception: Where the setting specified in Table 430-152 is not sufficient for the starting current of the motor, the setting of an instantaneous trip circuit breaker shall be permitted to be increased but shall in no case exceed 1300 percent of the motor full-load current. Trip settings above 700 percent shall be permitted where the need has been demonstrated by engineering evaluation. In such cases, it shall not be necessary to first apply an instantaneous trip circuit breaker at 700 percent.
The intent was simply make sure that no one was compelled to actually purchase a lower-rated ITCB, watch it fail to start the motor, and only then be able to use the proper size. Unfortunately, when the panel modified the exception, it forgot to go back to the main rule and remove the 1300% figure. This error will be corrected in the next Code. It certainly was never intended to allow an engineering evaluation to supersede the 1300% upper limit.
Protecting high-efficiency motors
The reason for the concern about routine uses of the 1300% factors has to do with high-efficiency motors, such as those described in the question. These motors achieve their efficiency by reducing resistive losses in the motor windings, which simply appear as waste heat during operation. If a motor has very low resistance, however, that means that at standstill the motor will draw a very high current. These currents may well be appreciably higher than even the 1300% parameter, and that is what motivates these questions.
We think that the parameters in the NEC must be observed. The fact that the Code recognizes these devices doesn't mean that if they don't work within Code limits, then those limits may be exceeded. The purpose of the Code is safety, not to protect the market share of any particular type of device. The fact that the product literature mentions higher settings doesn't mean those settings can be used. Furthermore, if those settings are simply expressed (or calculated) in amperes, the higher settings may be entirely appropriate for larger motors.
If the ITCB won't start the motor, then the type of short-circuit and ground-fault protective device needs to be reevaluated. The appropriate way to protect these motor circuits is to use a different type of device that won't nuisance trip, while staying within code rules.
An example
Suppose a 30 hp 460V motor were at issue. According to Table 430-150, this must be figured at 40A for calculation purposes. Suppose that even at the 1300% level (520A) this motor won't start reliably. The solution would be to use an inverse-time circuit breaker or a time delay fuse. Note that although Table 430-152 generally allows 250% or 175% respectively, Sec. 43052(a) Ex. 2 allows 400% or 225% respectively as the upper limit (cannot be rounded up) if the motor just won't start. In this case, that would be 150A or 90A. Taking a closer look at the time-delay fuse, by industry standards it must be able to hold five times its rating for at least 10 sec. In this case it would be able to hold 11 times the full-load current for a full 10 sec. The same fuse will hold eight times its rating (which would be 18 times the full load current) for 2.3 sec. We think that one of these other devices will surely be able to accelerate the motor as required.


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Captain James Cook 1728-1779
During the Eighteenth Century, the Admiralty engaged in a major programme of scientific surveying that greatly increased knowledge of the geography of the globe. Most renowned of the officers involved was Captain James Cook, born in lowly circumstances in Yorkshire in 1728. Cook first went to sea aged 18 as deckhand aboard a Whitby collier. He became an excellent mathematician and refused the command of a merchant ship to join the Royal Navy in 1755.
By 1758 Cook was master of HMS Pembroke, a 64 gun ship involved in siege of the Louisberg at the mouth of the St Lawrence river in Canada. His first survey was of Gaspé Bay in Nova Scotia during the same year and after establishing his reputation as a navigator and surveyor in the coastal waters off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the 1760s, Cook was given command of his first major voyage in 1768.
With the ships Endeavour and Resolution, Cook mapped out the whole coast of New Zealand proving it to be two separate islands and also charted the east coast of Australia. Another purpose of the expedition, to observe the movement of the planet Venus across the sun, an event which occurs twice every hundred years, was successfully accomplished at Tahiti on 3 June 1769. King George III received Cook on his return and was shown the charts from the voyage.
On his second voyage to the Pacific between 1772-1775, Cook conducted more detailed surveying around the coast of New Zealand and travelled into Antarctic seas south of Australia in a search for the supposed Great Southern Continent which was believed to stretch out of the ice. Cook's voyage proved decisively that it did not exist. In January 1773 he made the first recorded crossing of the Antarctic circle. An amazing aspect of this expedition was that only one man died during the three years; this was largely due to Cook's concern for a balanced diet.
Promoted to the rank of Captain in 1775, Cook departed on what turned out to be his last voyage in June 1776. Its main aim was to investigate the existence of the Northwest Passage, a route around the north of the American continent. Cook's first discovery was the islands of Hawaii, which he named the Sandwich Islands. In March 1778 Cook sailed aboard the Resolution up the coast of Canada, through the Bering Straits and eastward along the coast of Alaska. He was stopped by the thick ice confirming there was no northern route across America and returned to the Sandwich Islands. It was there on 14 February 1779 that Cook was killed by a riot among the natives after an argument over a stolen boat.
One of England's finest ever navigators and surveyors, Cook's discoveries greatly improved the knowledge about the southern hemisphere.
Further reading:
- R. Morris "Endeavour, Discovery and Idealism'' in J.R. Hill (Ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy (Oxford, 1995).


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Just checking to see if those of you following the weight loss track managed to lose some weight!
For me...as of this morning, 3kg (about 6.6 pounds)! I'm happy with that, though I was sort of hoping for 10 lb. But slow and steady is good! And, I did do let's say quite a lot of extra sampling...(for recipe development and shooting purposes...the perils of running Just Bento. ^_^)
How about you?
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I lost approximately 6 to 8lbs over the 5 weeks of the challenge! I'm really happy with that and I'm continuing my bento lunches as I find they really fill me up and are healthier (not to mention cheaper) than buying lunch every day while at work.
The Boy swears that I have, but I only weighed myself at the end of the challenge, not the beginning and thus ruined the scientific process. My pants are now too big though. Bento is forcing me to shop.
As of yesterday morning it all added up to 2.7 kg. I seem to alternate weeks; losing heaps one week and none the next. Seeing as I only actually needed to lose 5.5 kg to get to my supposed ideal weight, I think that's pretty damned good.
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I did not have an operational scale at the start, so between that and really not wanting to know I also did not weigh myself before the challenge, but I know that I lost some weight. My pants and skirts were a bit snug after the holidays and some stressful events this past year and now they fit properly again plus I am back down to my low weight.
I lost 50 lb. about 2 years ago, so it has been good to be able to keep it off, and hopefully I will be able to lose the rest of what I need to with some help from bentos.
Wow - losing and (even better) keeping off 50 lbs is very impressive!! (bows head in awe)
I know I lost six by around week 3 or 4, but I haven't been weighed since. I'm eager to do so since I've been rowing every day for over a week now! I'll stop by doctor's office; they have a good scale (particularly compared to my non-existent one). I'm definitely getting a bit fitter and feeling better. Kudos to you all who are trying!
I've been losing a pound a week during the challenge, and I'm now two pounds away from my goal. I've lost a total of 28 pounds since last July, and bentos have definitely helped me with portion control.
Wow...28 lbs! Impressive also!
I'm so glad to see that bentos are working for a lot of people losing weight!
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Scientists have found abnormalities in the embryos of a small, abundant marsh fish exposed to sediments from oiled marshes along Louisiana's coast.
Scientists have found abnormalities in the embryos of a small, abundant marsh fish exposed to sediments from oiled marshes along Louisiana's coast.
Oil exposure caused serious effects including heart defects, delayed hatching, reduced overall hatching and general listlessness in killifish, according to new research from scientists at Louisiana State University, University of California, Davis and Clemson University.
The group's research has used this environmental indicator species to determine the extent of exposure of field-caught fish as a "canary in the coal mine," said Fernando Galvez, LSU associate biology professor and one of the principle investigators on the project.
"Although the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has passed the attention of most of the nation, our data warn of developmental abnormalities in coastal fish that should be further investigated," Galvez said.
This is the second study published on Gulf killifish by the scientists, who have tracked the 2010 spill's impact on the popular bait fish. In a 2011 LSU study, scientists found tissue damage and gene changes consistent with oil exposure that could cause developmental and reproductive problems in fish.
Galvez said scientists chose the killifish because they're abundant and important in the marsh food chain, providing a meal for many popular sport fish. The killifish also spend their lives in a confined area of marshes, unlike other species that divide their time between the Gulf and estuaries.
Impacts to developing killifish exposed to sediment from heavily oiled locations such as Grand Terre in Barataria Basin showed significant impacts consistent with oil exposure, Galvez said.
The fish had alterations in heart development, significantly reduced heart rates and delays in hatching. Some of the killifish wouldn't hatch at all. If scientists helped them, the newly hatched fish barely moved. They also saw increased hemorrhaging in the fish that survived and water around the heart.
"Adult fish collected from heavily oiled locations in Louisiana marshes showed evidence of exposure to crude oil long after the visible oil had disappeared from view, and when Gulf killifish embryos were exposed to sediments collected from the most oiled location, their overall hatching success was significantly reduced. There was a time delay in hatching, and this was associated with developmental heart defects in these fish," said Benjamin Dubansky, a recent LSU PhD graduate. He was first author on the manuscript. "The developmental deformities found are textbook effects that we see when fish are exposed to the toxicants in crude oil and indicate that the developmental success of these fish in the field may be compromised."
In oiled areas, it was difficult to catch killifish, and the ones researchers found were smaller than normal, Galvez said. Even in the lab, the fish never grew to expected sizes.
Andrew Whitehead, University of California, Davis assistant professor of environmental toxicology, co-principal investigator and co-author on the paper, said other important species such as redfish, speckled trout, flounder, blue crabs, shrimp and oysters are at risk of similar effects.
"What is currently unknown is the capacity of affected populations to buffer or absorb the impacts of these types of developmental effects," Whitehead said. "However, our research has linked exposure to oil to the molecular responses that initiate toxic effects and now to negative impacts on the well-being of an important ecological indicator species — our 'canary in the coal mine.' "
Galvez said scientists sampled a large ecosystem in Barataria Basin that suffered a variety of oil impacts.
The study raises questions about how these changes in biology caused by low-level exposure will affect the survivability and ability of species to deal with infections, parasites or other challenges.
Despite the impact oil had on the fish's development, Galvez said that doesn't mean that Louisiana's seafood is unsafe to eat. The animals are showing biological responses to oil exposure but aren't accumulating hydrocarbons in their meat, he said.
"We can argue that Louisiana's seafood is safe to eat, but the oil that was deposited is having a significant effect on our environment that we have to monitor and take into account," Galvez said.


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Andrew Maxwell will get the first chance to drive Michigan State's offense this season, with three other quarterbacks waiting for their chance behind the wheel.
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) ? Andrew Maxwell will get the first chance to drive Michigan State's offense this season, with three other quarterbacks waiting for their chance behind the wheel.
"I'm comfortable we have a No. 1 quarterback," Spartans coach Mark Dantonio said Tuesday of Maxwell, a fifth-year senior. "He was the No. 1 quarterback last year. And he gained some experience with that. He had some balls dropped, and we've got to protect him, run the football and do the things that surround him as well.
"But he has great knowledge of our system. I think he's competitive. He has great leadership skill. And like I told him today, 'Here's the keys. Bring it back full.' I think he'll do that."
Dantonio praised all four candidates for the job, including three more mobile alternatives: sophomore Connor Cook and freshmen Tyler O'Connor and Damion Terry. All are listed as first-team quarterbacks, with their names separated by "or" on the depth chart for Friday night's opener against Western Michigan.
Maxwell started all 13 games as a junior and completed 234 of 446 passes, 52.5 percent accuracy, for 2,606 yards and 13 touchdowns. He threw nine interceptions but just six in the last 25 halves of a disappointing 7-6 season.
Cook appeared in three games and was 9-for-17 for 94 yards with one TD and one interception. But he took over for a struggling Maxwell and led a drive for a game-winning field goal against TCU in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl.
O'Connor impressed the coaches last season on the scout team and made a serious challenge this year, while Terry dazzled in the team's last full preseason scrimmage. He had 280 yards of total offense, including drives against what is again expected to be one of the nation's top defenses.
"One thing I think people do need to recognize and all Spartans need to recognize is, as we go forward, it's important that we all go forward together," Dantonio said of often-debated subject over spicing up the offense. "I guess I'm speaking to the masses out there, because things can be slanted one way or the other."
Dantonio said Maxwell showed the consistency and decision-making that every No. 1 quarterback needs. The big concern was playmaking ability and explosiveness, an attribute that others offered as higher-risk options.
"When I look at our four quarterbacks, they possess big-time ability," Dantonio said of the deepest team he has had entering his seventh season with the Spartans. "They have great arm strength. They can make all the throws. But it's the consistency you're looking for."
Speedy junior Jeremy Langford showed enough consistency and big-play potential and to earn the start at running back, though he will share the job with redshirt freshman Riley Bullough, a converted linebacker, and perhaps junior Nick Hill or freshman Delton Williams.
Fifth-year senior Kevin Muma earned the first opportunity to be Michigan State's placekicker, edging heralded recruit Michael Geiger. The Spartans missed nine field goals last season and lost five Big Ten games by 13 points.


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As Johnny Cash sang in his immortal song: "there's nothing short a' dying that's half as lonesome as the sound of the sleeping city sidewalk and Sunday morning coming down."
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Ex-Goldman Trader Calls $8.25 Million Bonus Unfair, Told Mom He'd Get More
By Michael J. Moore Jun 19, 2014 1:28 PM PT 16 Comments Email Print
June 19 (Bloomberg) –- Bloomberg's Michael Moore discusses Deeb Salem, a former Goldman Sachs trader who said his bonus was unfairly docked because of a written warning he received about his 2007 self-evaluation. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers." (Source: Bloomberg)
Ex-Goldman Trader: Bonus Unfairly Cut to $8.25M
Deeb Salem, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) trader who said he helped the bank earn more than $7 billion, wants to be paid the almost $5 million difference between his 2010 bonus and what he told his mother to expect.
Salem said in an arbitration hearing that he was led to believe that his 2010 bonus would be $13 million, down from a $15 million award for 2009 when he was paid more than Chief Executive Officer Lloyd C. Blankfein. Instead, Salem said his bonus was unfairly docked because of a written warning he received about his 2007 self-evaluation.
Salem, 35, said the $8.25 million bonus for 2010 didn't reflect his contributions, while Goldman Sachs argued he was aware that the firm could pay him whatever it wished and that the company considered his conduct in determining compensation. Salem said promises from executives kept him around for another year before a $3 million bonus led him to jump to a hedge fund.
"Let's be very clear: I was one of the most sought-after investment professionals in the mortgage industry," Salem said during the Feb. 25 hearing. "I had the opportunity throughout the course of my career and throughout -- from that day, from almost every month that I was at Goldman, to leave for other opportunities."
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Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trader Deeb Salem.
'Utterly Ridiculous'
A transcript of Salem's arbitration hearing before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority was included as an exhibit to his petition filed last week in New York State Supreme Court. Today, Justice Eileen Bransten ordered the documents sealed pending a hearing in September on Goldman Sachs's request to keep them confidential. A copy of the transcript was provided by Salem's lawyer earlier this week.
"These claims are utterly ridiculous, which is why they were rejected by a Finra panel, and unworthy of any further response," said Tiffany Galvin, a spokeswoman for New York-based Goldman Sachs.
Salem asked the court to throw out the arbitrators' ruling against him in part because he said they showed bias, with one member of the panel calling his case "bulls---" during the hearing.
While Wall Street banks tout the flexibility that year-end bonuses gives to their expense line, employees often expect pay to closely track what they produce. Blankfein has said he would make discretionary bonuses 100 percent of compensation if he could.
Christmas Fire
Salem sought a total of more than $16 million in additional pay from Goldman Sachs in arbitration. That included almost $7 million in deferred stock that Salem said he was led to believe he would get as long as his exit from the company wasn't akin to the departure of Greg Smith, who announced it in a New York Times op-ed that criticized how the firm treated clients.
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In January 2011, Salem told his mother, who was staying with him because her house had burned down on Christmas, that he expected at least $13 million for 2010, according to the transcript. That was based on the fact that his mortgage-trading desk generated about the same amount of revenue in 2010 as it did the previous year and that Justin Gmelich, a credit trading executive, told him at a cocktail hour that he was a "steal" at $15 million, Salem said.
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Salem received an $8.25 million bonus after getting the warning for "extremely poor judgment" in discussing a short squeeze in his self-evaluation. Goldman Sachs executives told him the firm would make it up to him and encouraged him to stay, he said. That came after President Gary Cohn persuaded him to remain in 2008 rather than leave with colleague Josh Birnbaum to start a hedge fund, Salem said.
No promises were made, Andrew Frackman, a lawyer at O'Melveny & Myers LLP who represented Goldman Sachs, said at the hearing. The company's policy clearly states that all bonuses are discretionary and Salem acknowledged as much when he signed the firm's employment offer, Frackman said.
Salem was highly paid even by Wall Street standards, as the average managing director in the areas of mortgage-backed securities, structured credit and proprietary trading received a 2009 bonus of $750,000 to $1.1 million, according to an Options Group report at the time. Still, banks are competing for top talent with hedge funds that more often pay a direct percentage of what the trader generates.
The median household income in New York City from 2008 to 2012 was $51,865, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Salem said his group put on a large short bet against the housing market, reaping billions of dollars for Goldman Sachs and helping it weather the financial crisis better than peers. He said Blankfein told the desk to cover its bet in early 2007, forcing the group to sell almost $5 billion of positions to Harbinger Capital Partners LLC, the hedge-fund firm run by Phil Falcone that made billions betting against subprime mortgages.
While the move cost the group profits, it once again went short in the middle of 2007, generating gains of $2 billion to $3 billion, Salem said. The group made almost $2 billion in 2008 and then changed its view of the market to positive in 2009 and 2010, reaping more than $1 billion in each of those years, he said.
Salem said he and other traders in his group didn't mind getting paid a lower percentage of their produced revenue than other parts of the firm. Salem said he did find it "a little bit insulting" that Jeff Verschleiser, a trading executive who was hired from Bear Stearns Cos. in 2008, kept a box of toaster ovens at his desk that he would award to employees who made notable trades.
Verschleiser and Gmelich didn't respond to phone messages seeking comment.
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Frackman said that while "there is no dispute that he is very good at trading," Salem was paid better than peers. He was awarded more than $35 million of compensation over six years and was the second-best-paid managing director in the mortgage department in 2009 and 2010, and third-best in 2011, Frackman said.
"He made a ton of money," Frackman said at the hearing. "He's not entitled to more simply because he would like to have been paid more. If that were the case, you'd have traders and bankers in here every day of the week."
In 2011, the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said Salem and other Goldman Sachs traders tried to manipulate prices of derivatives linked to subprime home loans in 2007 for their own benefit. The subcommittee's assertions were based in part on Salem's self-evaluation, in which he wrote "we began to encourage the squeeze with plans of getting very short again after the short squeeze caused capitulation of these shorts."
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"The translation of that sentence is, you know -- is very different than it was, at times, made out to be," Salem said at the hearing. "There's no wrongdoing in that sentence."
Goldman Sachs denied any attempted manipulation. Traders "shorting" the mortgage market were betting that securities tied to homeowners' ability to repay loans would decline. A "squeeze" describes efforts to move the price against short investors, driving them out of their positions.
Salem said the bank raised no objection to his discussion of trading at the time of his self-evaluation. He said he was told to be "a little bit more professional" in future evaluations after writing, "I am as competitive as Michael Jordan. I don't just want to win; I want to win every time and I want to steamroll the opposition."
Trader Scapegoated
Salem's lawyer, Jonathan Sack of Sack & Sack, said in an interview that his client was scapegoated as other executives who were criticized by the Senate went unpunished. Salem joined Goldman Sachs after attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and Princeton University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
While Salem's claim originally sought more than $20 million of unpaid compensation, Sack said in the hearing his client was now seeking $9.5 million plus 41,000 shares of deferred compensation, worth about $7 million at yesterday's closing price. Frackman said the numbers were "pulled out of a hat."
Salem left for hedge-fund firm GoldenTree Asset Management LP in 2012 after his 2011 bonus fell to $3 million. His group made $260 million in a difficult market that year, he said.
"Everyone at Goldman took a beating in 2011 because it was a terrible year for the firm," Frackman said.
Salem said he expected to receive unvested shares from previous years' bonuses after a conversation he had with Michael Swenson, a senior trader whom Salem described as a father figure. According to Salem's account, Swenson told him that if he left the firm, there would be at least one positive consequence from Smith's public resignation: "You are guaranteed, basically, to get your deferred compensation."
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Yonz was the top individual for Georgia College at the NCAA South/Southeast Super Regional, taking 14th at one of the toughest region tournament fields in the country. The junior owns a 3.95 GPA in chemistry at Georgia College, the top GPA of any Bobcat student-athlete.
The junior finished the season with a 73.9 stroke average, adding a pair of top-20 finishes in his five starts. Yonz was one of 10 selections to the second team.
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The 2010 PBC Champions, Georgia College golf is one of the more decorated programs in school history, having another outstanding season in 2009-10. The team picked up the conference title among three tournament wins, added four all-conference golfers and the PBC Golfer of the Year, as well as the four PING All-Region selections.
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The category of modeling tools, design products, and requirements management all fit into a pre-code step that many software developers looks upon askance. They're often associated with a bureaucratic approach to project management that flies in the face of Agile. In fact, Agile's ungainly dance with design in general is still an ongoing effort, of which more needs to be written and understood. On large projects, it can be difficult to state requirements, do the design work, and still maintain Agile's orientation towards accepting even welcoming new changes from users.
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What this shows is that tools that can capture requirements, help illustrate and validate design, and plan the implementation are still very much needed. More to the point, though, the products must be less heavy than in years past and more easily configured to fit the needs of the organization, rather than implementing a specific methodology to which the organization must migrate its orientation, if not its processes.
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As usual with the tools categories, we award three prizes: the Jolt Award for the top product, and two Productivity Awards for the runners up. These three products were chosen from an original field of 10 finalists and were tested by each of the Jolt judges, who include David Dossot, Gary Evans, Jon Kurz, Larry O'Brien, Gary Pollice, Mike Riley, Roland Racko, Steven Weiss, and Peter Westerman. As before, we thank Rackspace for kindly providing virtual machines for us to use to test products in the Jolt judging process.
The Jolt Award competition for coding tools is now underway. To see the Jolt schedule for the remaining categories, to nominate a product, go to our Jolt information page. To inquire about being a Jolt judge, please contact me diretly at [email protected]
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The Emerald Coast Concert Association brings �Broadway�s Music of the Night,� starring pianist Linda Gentille, to the Fort Walton Beach Municipal Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
FORT WALTON BEACH � The Emerald Coast Concert Association brings �Broadway�s Music of the Night,� starring pianist Linda Gentille, to the Fort Walton Beach Municipal Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The world-renowned entertainer has performed for the concert association in the past to sold-out audiences.
Pianist, entertainer and producer of the show, Gentille is one of the East Coast�s most famous entertainers. She is the conductor and founder of the Jersey Shore Pops, one of the most popular new pop big band orchestra�s in New Jersey.
Gentille is also a top entertainer on Princess and Oceania Cruise Lines and is known as �The Female Liberace� for her showmanship and comedic personality on stage. She holds the world record for performing more concerts in China than any other concert artist.
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Music has been in Gentille�s family for generations. Her great grandmother, Anna Louise Deal, was one of America�s first female published ragtime composers. She wrote numerous ragtime compositions including �Come to Chicago� for the World Fair in 1933.
Gentille began her studies with �Mr. Piano� himself, Roger Williams, in her hometown of Pacific Palisades, Calif. Her immediate grasp of complex and advanced music, her inherent technique, and her incredible ability to quickly and accurately memorize lengthy musical scores, soon endeared Gentille to even her most senior instructors.
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�Broadway�s Music of the Night� will feature music from Andrew Lloyd Weber�s many musicals including �Phantom of the Opera,� �Chicago,� �Sound of Music,� �Cats,� �Les Miserables,� �Evita,� �Jesus Christ Superstar� and �Music of the Night.�
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How are you all? Hope you've had a lovely holiday! Well 2013 has been a tiring year, the most stressful year yet and I'm sure 2014 won't get any lighter. As always the year goes past so quickly, it's scary. I'm probably going to have suicidal thoughts when it's the exam season in 5 months time.
Anyway, I have gone for another all black outfit, as you may have guessed from the title of "Direwolves", I am a fan of Game of Thrones (although I have yet to read the books). So when I saw this printed sweater online I immediately claimed it as mine. The sweater is so soft and lovely, the fleece material on the inside along with the thickness of the fabric make this the most perfect sweater this winter!
I originally tucked the sweater into the skirt but it made me look bulkier than I already look in this sweater. So I decided to go for the 'sweater over skirt' look for the first time, it feels so comfortable I must admit.
Also, I have actually done something with my hair other than to let it sit there boringly. I love the way the blonde and black creates sections with this fishtail plait, definitely will be sporting this hairstyle more often next year!
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Science Fairs provide an opportunity for students to display the results of their work in science and technology. This opportunity is open to elementary, middle, and high school students. Science Fairs and other student science competitions are open to ALL students, and we encourage your participation.
What is a Science and Engineering Fair?
Science fairs are an exhibition of scientific projects prepared and presented by students under the guidance of their teachers and with the help of other persons interested in the science topic being presented.
History of Science Fairs in North Carolina
During the 1950s, state and national interest in science resulted in the initiation of science fairs. At that time, several high schools required projects of students and held local science fairs. Winners of local fairs participated in district level competition, and those winners competed in a state science fair. In addition, the top state science fair entries (two students and their teachers/advisors) attended the national competition which was held annually in one of the large cities of the country.
During the 1960s and 1970s, interest in science fairs decreased and many local and district science fairs were discontinued. Beginning in the 1980s, the participation in these events have shown increased interest in science-related activities, resulting in competition at the local, regional, and beginning again at the state level in 1987.
Why Have a Science Fair?
The total scientific process should be involved in the development of a scientific project that results in a science fair exhibition. The students should learn to recognize problems, plan an experiment, gather and analyze data, and draw conclusions. In doing this, he or she will develop self-confidence and gain respect of his or her peers. Often a science project or science fair can revitalize a science program and spark interest in a student untouched by routine class activities. In addition, the cooperative efforts of teachers, students, parents, local experts, and judges can strengthen the links between schools and community resources.
What is a Science Project?
A science project is based on observation, investigation, and scientific thinking. The best project is one which interests the investigator (student). A true science project is an investigation of a question involving research, planning, and application of scientific methods to seek an answer to the question.


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If you go to an art museum, you're bound to see naked people. That's okay! That's art. And when you are talking about artists (well, we are), everyone can agree that Michelangelo is one of the artistiest artists there ever was. His naked people are fine, because they are art.
Apparently China's governmental TV missed the memo! When CCTV showed Michelangelo's David-Apollo sculpture, which is part of an exhibition of Italian Renaissance art, it blurred out David's little Apollo. Hello 21st century fig leaves!
Online in China, people seemed irked by the censorship. It even became a meme or sorts (via Tea Leaf of Nation), with people putting clothes on a wide array of art.
According to a producer for Nanjing television, the government TV probably thought the imagery "would hurt public morals or would have a serious negative effect upon audiences".
The public outcry must've been heard, because in the CCTV broadcast three hours later, the statue appeared uncensored. CCTV has not given an official response as to why it censored the work of art in the first place.
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STMicroelectronics Announces its 28nm FD-SOI Technology is Ready for Manufacturing in its Leading-Edge Crolles Fab
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STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, announced today another step towards the availability of its 28nm FD-SOI Technology Platform, now open for pre-production from its Crolles (France) 300mm manufacturing facility. The announcement confirms ST's ability to provide its planar fully-depleted technology from the 28nm technology node, essential in quenching the market's appetite for embedded processors in multimedia and portable applications that can meet the industry's highest performance and lowest power demands vital to deliver all the stunning graphics, multimedia and high-speed broadband connectivity without sacrificing battery life.
The announcement coincides with a workshop on fully-depleted-silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technologies held by the FD-SOI Consortium in San Francisco.
The FD-SOI Technology Platform encompasses the availability of a feature-complete and silicon-verified Design Platform, including the full set of foundation libraries (std-cells, memory generators, I/Os), AMS IPs and high speed interfaces), and a design flow ideally suited for developing high-speed and energy-efficient devices.
ST's FD-SOI technology has already been selected by ST-Ericsson for use in its future mobile platforms, which will enable enhanced performance with significantly lower power consumption than conventional technologies.
"ST has a long history in pioneering new solutions in both product and technology. By bringing FD-SOI technology to manufacturing readiness, ST is again positioning itself as an innovator and leader in semiconductor technology development and manufacturing," said Jean-Marc Chery, Executive Vice President, General Manager Digital Sector, and Chief Technology and Manufacturing Officer of STMicroelectronics. "Post-processing wafer testing has allowed us to prove the significant performance and power advantages of FD-SOI over conventional technologies, building a cost-effective industrial solution that is available from the 28nm node. Measurements on a multi-core subsystem in an ST-Ericsson NovaThor Press release ModAp platform, with a maximum frequency exceeding 2.5Ghz and delivering 800 MHz at 0.6V, are confirming expectations and demonstrating the great flexibility of the technology and the extended voltage range exploitable through DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling)," concluded Chery.
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State Attorneys General have been involved in the issue of smoking in the movies since before the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement, which they negotiated with domestic tobacco companies to end tobacco promotion aimed at young people, including product placement in movies and TV shows.
Attorneys General from dozens of states have now asked the US film industry to eliminate smoking from youth-rated films. When the MPAA failed to substantiate claims about its ratings of films with tobacco imagery, the AGs began communicating with the film studios and their parent companies directly.
Attorneys general for states highlighted in blue signed the 2012 letter to America's largest media companies. Also signing: AGs for American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Washington, DC.
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First...Given the scientific evidence...the industry cannot justify failing to eliminate smoking from youth-rated movies. Whether this is accomplished through meaningful, consistently enforced policies adopted by each studio across the industry, or through a chnage in the way movies are rated, or both, the bottom line is that action needs to be taken, now.
Second...[Each company] should include effective anti-tobacco spots in all future DVDs and Blu-ray videos of its films that depict smoking, regardless of MPAA rating, and stipulate that such spots also appear before broadcast, cable and satellite showings, on-demand viewings, and Internet streams and downloads...and encourage theatrical exhibitors to run effective anti-smoking spots before all feature films with smoking.
Third...[Each company] should certify in the closing credits of all of its future motion picture releases with tobacco imagery that 'No person or entity associated with this film received payment or anything of value, or entered into any agreement in connection with the depiction of tobacco products'.
Fourth...[Each company] should keep all, of its future movies free of tobacco brand display, both packaging and promotional collateral. Read the letter
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With so much tech being built into the even the most mundane of motors, writing round-ups of car gadgets isn't as easy as it used to be. For this list, the brief was even more exacting: only include kit that if you were given one for Christmas it wouldn't be on eBay come Boxing Day.
There's a lot here to do with attaching gadgets to dashboards and windscreens, and getting sound from and power to them - which is perhaps not surprising with smartphones and tablets now infesting every corner of modern life.
It all makes me hanker for the days when a feature like this would include nothing more exotic than the most comfy string-backed driving gloves or the best cigar lighter to use in an Austin-Healey with the roof down.
Bracketron Nav-Mat II
If you're worried about tell-tale screen rings attracting the attention of your local felonious yoof, the Nav-Mat II may be the answer. The 190 x 140 x 5mm black pad drapes itself over your dashboard and by the miracle of the maker's TemperBond Technology just sort of stays there. On the middle is a stiff plastic circle that you can stick your regular screen mount to. Rather surprisingly, it works very well. I've yet to find a dashboard that I couldn't get a secure fix to no matter what the contour or finish, and repeated removal and replacing seems to have no ill-effect either. It's so unobtrusive I can imagine most folk simply leaving it in situ and prolonged exposure to sunlight seems to do it no harm. From personal experience, I can tell you it works perfectly with the Exomount.
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Contigo Autoseal Travel Mug
There are some things I don't mind having in my lap as I drive along including the missus'… [Steady on - Ed.] but hot coffee and cold lemonade are most definitely not on the list. For on-the-go mid-journey sipping, the best bet is the Contigo Autoseal. The mug has a clever nay cunning sealing mechanism that you can operate with one hand to drink but that instantly seals up when you take your finger away. This makes spilling your libation as near impossible as makes no difference. The Contigo has a thirst-quenching 83 per cent of a pint capacity, is made from stainless steel and is vacuum-insulated to keep the hot hot and the cold cold.
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