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This is the second of a two-part series in which the Andover American has looked at the proposed 1 percent increase in the USD 385 Local Option Budget. Last week we looked at the facts and frequently asked questions. Today we will look at issues on both sides. By doing this, we hope readers are better informed when they go to the polls Aug. 7.
USD 385 Business Manager Jim Freeman reported July 25 there would be no net property tax increase to fund the proposed LOB increase. He attributed this to final numbers from the state that show a decrease in the bond and interest levy, and an increase in state aid and tax collection.
At a July 31 community forum, Freeman said if the issue passes the mill levy would increase by 0.033 mill, and property tax would increase by 38 cents per year on a $100,000 home. However, when all factors are considered, the total mill levy for the district would decrease by 2.506 mills.
Despite this change, voters must still approve the question in order for the district to be able to increased its LOB from 30 percent to 31 percent, which is the maximum allowed under Kansas law. The increase would generate more than $433,000 in revenue and provide for the restoration of more than 40 positions.
According to USD 385, here is how the ballot will read regarding the proposed increase:
"Shall the Board of Education of Unified School District No. 385, Butler County, State of Kansas, be authorized to increase its local option budget authority by an additional 1% of its state financial aid, with the authorization to be permanent."
To vote in favor, vote "YES" To vote against, vote "NO"
Voting "yes" will increase the LOB and allow the position restorations mentioned in last week's Andover American; voting "no" will not.
There is one organized group of parents, Vote Yes, that has made its presence known. I spoke with two members of this group July 23.
Craig Noah is the father of a junior-to-be at Andover Central High School. Steve Hardin has an incoming sophomore at Andover High School and a seventh-grader at Andover Middle School. They took the time to explain what their group is and what they hope to accomplish.
What it is
Vote Yes is a group of parents, primarily with children in the Andover school system, organized to educate voters about the proposed LOB increase. They are doing this with a three-step process:
Campaign yard signs asking people to "Vote Yes."
Calling people to make sure they are informed when they go to vote.
Districtwide mailer with the facts about what a yes vote will do, what the obligation is as well, and what the outcomes will be.
Page 2 of 4 - Cuts affect ratios
A lot of families move to Andover because of the quality of education. Hardin believes USD 385 can't keep pace with other districts when it comes to classroom ratios because of its previous position cuts.
Noah agrees, saying this needs to change.
"The Budget Advisory Committee has cut way past the fat, way past the meat and in some cases cut way past the bone to continue to provide the best possible education," he said. "We need to reverse that trend as a community … to make sure that the kids who need the help are getting it.
"And that's on both ends of the spectrum. The ones who need more challenge than the average student, as well as the ones who need more help."
Not just another tax
The proposed increase is a tax where voters can see directly what it's going to cost them and where the money will go.
"That will go to pay for reinstating a lot of these positions to where we are not just excelling in science and math tests, but in every area of a well-rounded student," Hardin said.
Outside the classroom
"Extracurricular activities keep kids focused and keep them out of trouble and keep them busy," Hardin said. "The less sponsors and the less coaches, then the less kids you can have involved in those kinds of activities."
Sports are an important part of a student's preparation for life as well.
"Sports develops a confidence you can't instill. They do things they didn't know they could do, and that gives them the confidence to try something new or try something else," Noah said. "I personally don't think you can replace the team aspect of sports with anything out there. It's relative to building trust with other people, with building accountability for your role. Those skills play directly to contributing to society."
Providing opportunities
Both Hardin and Noah view the proposed increase as a way to provide the best possible environment for students to achieve.
"When you're 10 through 18 years old, it shapes who you're going to be as a young adult," Noah said. "This (the increase) is about that period to make sure we have resources in place to develop them as young adults, both in the classroom as well as out of the classroom. It creates well-rounded citizens, well-informed citizens. I want to make sure they have the resources available to be the best they can be. "
"If your young child wants to be in drama and that's their passion, you want to have the best support mechanism in place for them to achieve whatever their goals are. … I, as a parent, want to set them up for as much success as I can in every area that they have a passion and in the classroom," Hardin said. "I don't want it to be me or something that I could have done to be the reason they can't achieve their goals."
Page 3 of 4 - Opponents
As of July 29, neither Superintendent Mark Evans nor Business Manager Jim Freeman was aware of any organized efforts against the proposed increase.
Only a few scattered comments against the measure have been heard at the district office or voiced at the community forums.
For the most part, individual comments against the issue and the district's responses have been as follows:
1. "The recommendation adds mostly support staff rather than teachers."
Parental input indicated they want more technological support.
High school staff needs the tech support to implement fully the curriculum.
2. "I would rather see technology added than 35 coaches
Most of these restorations are for junior varsity and assistant coaches.
Students can learn about life from coaches as well.
Adding 35 coaches accounts for 15 percent of the $433,000 increase.
3. "Will the increased funds improve students' scores?"
It is hoped these increases are about more than just scores.
This is about teaching students "soft skills" that won't show up in test scores.
4. "I'm tired of paying more taxes."
Under current state law, this would be a one-time increase.
Taxpayers would be able to see where their money is going.
Reader comments
The Andover American posted on its website July 20 a request for comments from voters regarding the proposed increase in the Local Option Budget. Only one comment was received as of July 29:
"Our schools have taken budget cuts several years running now. The likelihood of additional future cuts seems almost certain given the recent Kansas income tax cut. The small additional revenue from a 1% increase in the Local Option Budget will help to maintain the strong school system from which we all benefit. Our schools are the jewel in Andover's crown, drawing residents, increasing the value of our homes, and ensuring well-educated students.
"The state should be supporting all schools -- it's a constitutional mandate. But in the absence of state support, we should do what we can to keep our schools strong."
-- Nancy Lusk
Time for action
The time to decide whether or not to approve the district's requested increase is rapidly drawing near. If you have more questions, call either Freeman or Evans in the district office at 218-4660.
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San Luis Obispo High School students are remembering Alex Maier.
The 17 year old was involved in a car accident on Monday. He was pronounced dead Wednesday night.
The California Highway Patrol says Maier was driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck when it collided with another car at the Santa Rosa off-ramp southbound on Highway 101 Monday night. Emergency crews had to remove Maier from his vehicle. He was then rushed to the hospital where he later died.
San Luis Obispo High School students gathered Wednesday night to remember their friend.
"Alex would always walk pretty much right past us every morning and we would say hi," SLO High Principal Leslie O'Connor told KSBY. He said like so many other faculty and students on campus he is left trying to make sense of the tragedy.
O'Connor said this is, "A gut check in many ways, it's very somber. But at the same time we have to remember that Alex is a very wonderful young man and all the wonderful things that he does to bring joy to our campus."
The senior was one of the top scorers on the boys varsity soccer team. He wore number 23 for the Tigers.
Students showed their support for Alex and his family by flashing 23 in this picture on Tuesday. The entire student body posed for a picture Wednesday that will be given to the Maier family.
One student told KSBY, "At lunch we formed a 23 for his number just to tell him that we miss him and we're sad about this."
Friends said Alex had a great sense of humor, but an even greater smile.
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Jessie J's "Domino" was the sing-along song of last summer, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and becoming becoming her second UK number one. "Domino" was already a wild-night-out anthem, but Myon & Shane 54 elevated the dance floor hit by adding their progressive house twist, picking up the tempo and bringing Jessie's lyrics to their full potential.
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It's hard to talk about the queens of girl fire without mentioning mainstream's infamous female duo Rihanna and Nicki Minaj. The girls collaborated on Fly, which became an instant radio sensation in August of 2011. The song's lyrics are all about girl-power, but the underbelly beat slowed the song to a soulful ballad instead of the fast-paced movers we'd expect from the leading ladies. Liam Keegan transformed the song into a club banger by adding a booming bassline and catchy drum beats.
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Starshell put her modern twist on the classic "it's my birthday and I'll cry if I want to" jam that sang away our mothers' lonely high school nights. The new, and improved, lyrics have our generation of women partying all night - instead of crying if we want to, we're kissing who we want to. Danny Olson took the poppy hit and added in electro-basslines, turning this sassy single into a dance floor dime. Girls, don't be afraid to let loose to this one, and break out your wildly provocative dance moves that will make your mothers faint.


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The food truck phenomenon was a bit late in arriving in Milwaukee, compared to some cities, but there is an apparent renaissance underway. Buying food from a vendor on the street here is about more than lukewarm hot dogs – it's gourmet cuisine, ranging from Asian, to pizza, to West African, to now – soup.
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Patients admitted to hospital with pneumonia and elevated blood glucose levels were more likely to die than those with normal glucose levels....
Of the 7,400 patients originally included in the cohort, 509 were excluded due to missing information on death. The remaining 6,891 patients from 12 clinical centers throughout Germany were analyzed (mean age, 59.8 years).
Within 28 days, 324 (4.7%) patients died, an additional 514 (7.5%) died within 90 days, and 648 (9.4%) patients died within 180 days.
"Patients with increased serum glucose levels on admission were more likely to die within the first 28 days after admission than those with normal serum glucose levels (adjusted P for trend <.001.)," researchers wrote.
Results indicated that patients with mild acute hyperglycemia had a heightened risk for death at 90 days when compared with those with normal glucose levels (HR=1.56; 95% CI, 1.22-2.01) -- a risk that increased significantly when serum glucose concentrations were 14 mmol/L or higher (HR=2.37; 95% CI, 1.62-3.46).
"In the past, stress hyperglycemia was often thought to be a useful adaptive response, glucose being a ready source of fuel for brain, skeletal muscle, heart and other organs at a time of increased metabolic demand," the researchers wrote. "Our results show that hyperglycemia on admission in patients with community-acquired pneumonia is associated with an adverse outcome and predicts mortality."
Additionally, overall mortality on days 28, 90 and 180 was significantly higher in patients with pre-existing diabetes compared with patients without diabetes (day 90: 14.5% vs. 6.1%; crude HR=2.47; 95% CI, 2.05-2.98). Patients without diabetes and low glucose levels were not associated with mortality.
However, there were several limitations within the study, including difficulty identifying patients with undiagnosed diabetes and those with stress-induced hyperglycemia.
"Oral glucose tolerance test and close glucose monitoring after discharge are necessary to diagnose overt diabetes and to prevent subacute or long-term complications," researchers concluded.
They said large-scale trials are needed to determine whether drug intervention is a suitable method in reducing mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
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It took me a while to get over it. For the longest time I just kept saying to myself that she left that detail out. My husband kept telling me, "Just trust Dorie. Just trust her." After about the fiftieth time of him saying that, I just accepted the fact and made it. I'm glad I did cause her recipe was wonderful! I added fresh raspberries that I picked minutes before adding! I even played around with whoppers and ghirardelli chocolate squares However, I did have to cook it for about 75 minutes and I will use my super fine sugar instead of brown sugar.
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now when WD or Samsung bring out there 2tb I'll bite never liked hitachi drives :/ always seemed to run hot and be a bit louder :/
Hitachis have always been reliable for me (I have two old 80GBs still running 24/7 flawlessly after about 6 years), and if you dig up google's showing off of their custom built servers, you see mostly hitachi drives also. Their weakness is speed, and likewise I don't expect this thing to break any records with 5 platters.
By golly I don't know why ANYONE would have that many pictures laugh: Hitachi drives are hit and miss with me. I've had bad ones and I've had good. Any word on price?
My DeathStar is one of the slowest 500GB HDDs on the planet. :shadedshu Guess I am supposed to love Hitachi. 2TB um this looks really hawt.
Porn? Me too - i've got the money to buy a large drive, and i have a hugeass lan next weekend... but of course, the only drives available in town are seagates with the bad firmwares, and WD greens
If Samsung release a 2TB F1 or F3 I'll buy that, they have nice drives and the best prices here. Don't think I'd buy a 1.5TB if they released one though, I just want the most out of 1 drive so 1x1TB > 2x500GB for me. Roll on 2TB Samsung
The WD 2.0 TB Green drive has a rotational speed of 5400rpm to 7200rpm based on load. I have no idea how they calculate that at all to decide on what gets what, but my 1.0TB Green drive on my computer is pretty damn fast! Id probably grab this if it is cheaper than the WD green, we know it is faster. What I really want is either Corsair's new SSD 256GB or the Patriot Torx 128GB SSD ($400) bucks for that one though :/
gah, you think greenpowers are fast? they're slow as crap compared to samsung and seagate - i've seen transfers as low as 40MB/s (worst for my samsung was 65MB/s)
Think Again after you see my DeathStar with 19.5ms seek time While the transfer rate can drop to 30ish MB/s and barely 70MB/s avg.
Suck arse even for a bittorrent drive After I got my 7200.12s yesterday its Heaven and Hell difference
lol hardrivist. i think its 2 more months till WD black 2tb Black. They are already being produced. Until then the WD 1tb for 99 bucks is A+ just get 2 cause the 2tb black wont be cheap even after the price drop on green b4 launch.


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Every year, Junk Food Alley teaches Fort Wayne one powerful lesson: Anything can be fried.
Fort Wayne Newspapers Three Rivers Festival's annual Junk Food Alley sizzled with fried favorites and a new German Chocolate Funnel Cake on today at Headwaters Park.
As reporting interns with notebooks and empty stomachs, we braved the heat to taste the fairest festival foods and seek out the most refreshing delicacies to keep you cool.
We rated each dish on a scale of one to five forks, five being the best to satisfy your sweet tooth and your budget.
But don't take our word for it. Visit Junk Food Alley anytime from 11 a.m.-11 p.m., now through July 21, and see for yourself.
Vendor: Funnel Cakes
Cost: $7
Rating: 5 out of 5 forks
Like last year's Red Velvet Funnel Cake, the German Chocolate Funnel Cake is sure to be a hit. The new dish is a soft and gooey pile of chocolate funnel cake topped with powdered sugar, homemade coconut custard and crushed pecans.
Jane Harris of Pensacola, Fla., developed the dish from her own German chocolate cake recipe, and even those who don't like the traditional cake might find something to love about this tasty adaptation.
Harris tries to create new recipes for her Funnel Cakes vendor every year. Next year's creation will be a chocolaty, cost-effective treat more portable than a plate-sized funnel cake.
Vendor: Pence's
Cost: 5 for $1 or 30 for $4.50
Rating: 5 out of 5 forks
Pence's salt water taffy is everything you would expect from the gummy treat. The texture makes them easy to bite and chew, and the assorted packs of 30 are filled with fun flavors, such as banana, cinnamon, chocolate and vanilla. The taffy is individually wrapped, easy to share and easy to afford.
Vendor: Hot and Crispy Vegetables
Cost: $7 including ranch dipping sauce
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 forks
If you want a half healthy option, try the veggie combo. It's a mix of broccoli, cauliflower, cucumber and onion rings, all fried for your delight.
The vegetables balance the fried breading to make a crisp, crunchy snack that goes well with ranch dipping sauce. But the vegetables still taste like, well, vegetables.
Once you're past the fried breading, it tastes more like mom's steamed veggies than a fried indulgence.
Vendor: Arctic Ice
Cost: $3 small, $3.50 medium, $ 4 large
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 forks
Sno-balls are the classic shaved ice in a styrofoam cup. The vendors say blue raspberry is their most popular flavor.
Like most shaved ice treats, the sweet flavor falls to the bottom of the cup, so you don't taste much of it until you've eaten about half a cup of ice. But in the middle of a hot, dry summer, icy treats are simply refreshing.
Vendor: Papa George's Gyros
Cost: $8
Rating: 4 out of 5 forks
For a lighter meal, Papa George's doesn't disappoint. Their most popular, traditional Greek Gyro is taco-like concoction of onions, tomatoes, lamb and beef meat topped with a sweet tzatziki sauce. The tzatziki sauce has a cucumber base, so it's cool and refreshing with the gyro's surprisingly soft and fluffy bread.
This treat won't leave your stomach feeling heavy, but it might make your wallet lighter. It's a bit pricy for vendor food. But if you don't mind spending a little more, your stomach may feel a little happier.
Vendor: German Roasted Almonds
Cost: $4 small, $7 medium, $12 large
Rating: 3 out of 5 forks
If you're looking for a simple snack when walking around Headwaters Park, give the German Roasted Almonds stand a try. There are several options of nuts to choose from, but the German roasted almonds are why this vendor is here.
The recipe of cinnamon and vanilla roasted onto the almonds comes straight from Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. They are a bit pricey though, coming at $4 for a small bag.
Vendor: Chan's Famous Chicken-on-a-Stick
Cost: $7 Chicken-on-a-Stick, $9 with Fried Rice
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 forks
If you're looking for an escape from the endless fried food options, Chan's is a good place to start. Specializing in Chinese food, Chan's boasts the chicken-on-a-stick as one of its main items.
Two chicken breasts are grilled on a stick, which gives it a smoky flavor. The chicken is juicy and doesn't have a spicy flavor for those who stay away from such foods.
It can be tough to pull apart from the stick and can be ordered with a plate of fried rice. It's worth $9 if you're tired of eating fried food.
Vendor: Fruit Smoothies
Cost: $4 small, $7 large with alien water bottle
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
The name is as simple as the smoothie. The stand only has strawberry as a flavor to choose, but it's a strong tasting strawberry with real seeds. It's made fresh in a blender right in front of customers, and it tastes like a blended frozen fruit bar.
The smoothies should be popular on Junk Food Alley with the extreme heat the city has been having this summer, and it was a refreshing way to end our day.


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19th century Asian silk painting may fetch $250,000
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A silver plate showing an image of a bull's head by renowned artist Pablo Picasso may earn top lot honors at $50,000 during a March 2-3 multi-estate sale. Read More +
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A A+F Drug Safety: People smoke weed, a few do hallucinogens and you hear whispers anytime someone does cocaine or harder drugs, but in general people are very safe and smart about drug use. People on campus are driven academically and do not pressure others to join them. Security's priority is safety first.
A A+F Drug Safety: The drug scene at Bowdoin College is pretty benign, mainly consisting of pot. There's really not that many hard drugs on campus. I give Bowdoin an A because Security is very intelligent about how they deal with underage drinking on campus. They do not try and quash it, but they do their best to make sure that students are safe.
A A+F Drug Safety: Not Noticeable at All – The most popular drug is marijuana, but only a very, very small part of the college participates, and it is never a determiner of a social group. If you don't want to, no one will ever make you feel bad about it and will often not do it to make sure you don't feel left out.
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Although some hardcore drugs may be used on campus, it's definitely kept private and hidden from mainstream campus life. Smoking cigarettes is not very common, but many students seem to almost brag about their drinking ability. However, partying at Bowdoin is relatively calm because it is primarily limited to the weekends—the rigorous academic schedule does not really allow otherwise.
Most students feel little pressure to join in drinking or use drugs. Bowdoin students respect the wishes of others and will not put them in situations in which they are not comfortable. If you are looking for a night of heavy alcohol consumption, it will be available, at least on Fridays and Saturdays. But if you aren't interested in drinking, there are usually other events going such as performances in Pickard Theater, movies at Frontier Café, or various lectures from visiting professors. Students at Bowdoin would never think of making anyone get involved in something that is not their thing—they will just hope you are having a good time doing whatever you plan on doing.
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1/2 cup uncooked brown rice
1 cup water
1 head Belgian endive, chopped
1/8 red onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, or to taste
salt and ground black pepper to taste
Super easy and delicious! I substituted the red onion for green and halved the evoo and it turned out amazing. Great crunch factor and love the bite of the vinegar!
This was not bad. Aesthetically it's not too snazzy, but as a side it would be worth making.
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Delicious! Replaced the EVOO with about 2 tbsp pesto, and I added a chopped apple.
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Serving Size: 1/2 of a recipe Servings Per Recipe: 2 Amount Per Serving Calories: 250 Calories from Fat: 75
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Nina Easton, Fortune Magazine senior editor and Washington columnist, on skilled worker visas and the skills gap in the U.S.
Feb 5, 2013
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-- -- -- President Obama is working to provide citizenship for illegal immigrants the pop to citizenship the highly skilled workers may be getting much easy -- a new bipartisan senate bill would raise the cap on.
H one B visas for highly skilled workers in exchange for an additional charge to employ -- that will be spent some math and science education in the US.
And interest in joining us now -- is fortune magazine's senior editor and Fox News contributor Mena.
Easton Nina thank you so much for joining us what do you think of this idea and raising the cap to get more highly skilled workers into the country.
Well it's certainly solves the problem of a number of country company's high tech companies in particular.
That have these jobs that go baking these very high tech jobs that are very well paying by the way pay over a 100000 dollars a year would for just a bachelors degree.
Microsoft alone has 6000 job openings that they can't bill.
-- very much helps those high tech companies that need the talent.
That claim that they're gonna go someplace like Canada to get them -- to get immigrants -- they can't get them here.
What it doesn't do what I'm concerned about.
Is that it really doesn't address the question of why don't we have American workers who are skilled -- educated who are out there and available for these jobs you know the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- -- statistics says there's three million jobs.
A month ago on felt a lot of -- -- these high tech jobs and it just requires a bachelor's degree.
In for example computer science to get one of these jobs are our education system is desperately -- -- And this -- that they set up is part in this immigration reform as part -- I'm just not sure it's it's goes far enough.
Well it's interesting is -- so clearly heard that the kids in this country.
I'm not being told the skills.
Where the jobs army is very simple really why -- they've been so slow to recognize this fact of why other countries.
Really left the US behind.
It's really a crime if you look at we got about 42000.
American high schools.
And only about a thousand or so actually offer and advanced computer science program.
And in fact you can even take computer science and -- that count towards your core.
Curriculum when you need to graduate so it starts at high school our Community Colleges are disaster it's just people go there they don't graduate they don't get guidance on the kinds of jobs and and training that they need.
To get those jobs there's something like one that counselor for -- 700 students and Community Colleges.
We've got to take a real serious look at this frankly its leadership that should start at the top with a president who cared.
About getting a workforce ready for -- the 21 century we've got seven point 9% unemployment as you just saw the CBO -- that's gonna go out to 8% likely.
I mean let's start -- to -- saying this job problem.
Our young people and getting them trained to it for the jobs are already -- let along the ones that are coming online.
So in order to make this shift -- -- talking a bit about a big expensive is it gonna cost a lot of money to change the curriculum.
You know it it.
A lot of it is priority I mean you don't eat it's a lot of it doesn't cost money it requires schools to change the priority from the that kinds of math and science that they require.
And the kinds of -- big.
Requirements that they have -- to to really focus on these these kinds of job.
Skills so it really doesn't mean.
It requires some money but it does require.
You know it's not gonna break the bank.
It's not Nina Easton Nina thank you so much for joining us think we have appreciated the -- -- it.
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Application Note: Some Potential
To find success in much of the MEMS world, it is necessary to control the motion of small amounts of liquid in micron scale geometry. Thermo-capillarity is one mechanism explored in another article in this Newsletter. Here we consider a potential mechanism called dielectrophoresis, or motion caused by dielectric phenomena.
In the presence of an electric potential the molecules in a dielectric material can be polarized to form a distribution of electrical dipoles. Wherever the electric field is non-uniform its interaction with the dipoles will induce a small body force on the material. Although this is usually an exceedingly small force, on the MEMS scale any force is potentially significant.
One possible application of dielectrophoresis is moving small liquid drops along a channel. If a pair of charged electrodes are placed in the channel near a droplet, it will be induced to move toward the electrode where the electric field has the greatest variation. Thus, by arranging a series of electrodes in the channel and progressively charging and discharging them, one or more droplets may be transported along the channel.
The accompanying figure illustrates a FLOW-3D simulation of the push given an up-and-coming droplet of dielectric liquid by an up-standing electrode exhibiting significant potential. Color in the figure indicates electric potential. The distortion of the leading edge of the droplet signals instability caused by the proximity of the next electrode. Even simple simulations like this one can uncover valuable information.
Charge up FLOW-3D and let it carry you to new levels of understanding. Don't resist. Its capacity for MEMS applications is truly electrifying.


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NewsNovember 28 2012
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Hometown Holiday Open House to be held Thursday
Pull on your most Christmassy sweater and join in the fun Thursday night at the annual Presho Area Chamber's annual Hometown Holiday Open House as local businesses kick off the holiday season with Christmas shopping specials and a customer appreciation from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm.
To give thanks and show appreciation to those who shop the local businesses and chamber members, the Presho Area Chamber will sponsor a Shopping Receipt Rewards Program and give away $500 in Presho Chamber Bucks between November 29th and December 21st. As a reward for shopping locally, people who make a purchase – at a participating Chamber member business – of at least $5 may sign the back of their cash register receipt and place it in a special drawing bag for the opportunity to win the dollar value back (up to $50.00 maximum). Receipts totaling close to $100 per week will be drawn every Friday with the winner announced in the next issue of the Lyman County Herald newspaper and the Lyman County Herald website. Two hundred dollars in Chamber Bucks will be given away during the last drawing Friday, Dec. 21.
Pictured: John Uthe hangs a Christmas tree decoration from the light pole along Presho's Main Street last Wednesday morning. Uthe and Forest Hupp took advantage of the unseasonable warm temperatures (78 degrees on Nov. 21) to hang Christmas lights throughout town.
- Wrapping up Christmas shopping
- A colorful mountain of milo greets travelers
- Raiders win Class B Consolation trophy
- Raiders to play for 5th place
- Raiders return to state
- Lyman Raiders earn a return trip to STATE!
- Veterans Day Program
- Veterans day events
- New tower to start broadcast KPLO signal
- Volleyball District Play starts Tuesday at Kadoka
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ãThey are, but itãs not what you think,ã I replied.
ãIãm a dog! I donãt think. I guard, I feel, I bark, I sleep, I eat. But I do not think. I am a life-support system for biscuits and my water bowl. Everything after that is gravy.ã
ãOnce again, you Big Red Lug, you are mixing your metaphors something awful, but thatãs perfectly OK during the Dog Days of August.ã
ãHey hey hey hey!ã Fido yelped. ãWhat will we do to celebrate?ã
I wandered through the labyrinth of trees at Sam's Woodsite last weekend to the beat of the music.
Itãs hard to imagine anything can beat a four-day, blues-and-beer combination beneath the pines at high altitude in August.
But add some thunderous applause from Mother Nature herself, and thunderbolts thrown by Zeus from the mountaintops, what concertgoers had was an unmatched set list that literally shook concertgoers right out of Samãs Woodsite last weekend.
The whole thing was delightful, of course, with veteran Blooza attendees saying it was Joyce and Sean Turnerãs best production yet.
We all had a great time at last weekend's Beer Festival & Bluesapalooza, some more than others. The great R&B singer Bettye Lavette got through her first song, a cover of the George Jones tearjerker, "Choices," reached for her water glass, then asked the crowd, "How long do you actually have to be here to be able to BREATHE?" …
As part of a National and State parks tour from California to Colorado, Rangeelay Theatre ensemble presents INãTents at 11 a.m. at Mono Lake Scenic Area Visitor Center and 4:30 p.m. Friday (tonight) at the Mammoth Lakes Welcome Center, in the Forest Service Amphitheather.
INãTents is a fun and educational family show. Through hilarious misadventures, park ranger Patricia Pinky and first time camper Chipotle learn how to camp, preserve, and enjoy their natural spaces.
The show is full of Chaplin-esque physical comedy.
Playhouse 395 Community Theater will hold auditions for their youth production, Seussical the Musical, a musical production written by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens.
Individual auditions will be scheduled throughout the morning of Aug. 25. Rehearsals will begin Aug. 27 and run through the performances scheduled for two weekends, Nov. 2 through Nov. 10.
All students in grades 6 through 12 with an interest in musical theatre are encouraged to try out. The Playhouse 395 workshop, auditions and the production of Seussical the Musical will be held at the Bishop High School Auditiorium.
It would be natural to think Bogidar Avramov might feel a poignant tinge of melancholy this weekend.
Not so.
The creator and artistic director of the Sierra Summer Festival Orchestra, who will leave his post this season, bounced into the Mammoth Times offices the other day with his wife, Ilka, and their little poodle, Piccolo, showing nothing less than joy.
ãMammoth has been a part of our lives for over 40 years,ã he said in his charming Austrian accent.
ãWe have seen it in its heyday and in its economic woes, but we believe in its future and we want to participate in it.
The Oolation! singers, a group of unique and powerful young singers from across the country who live in the mountains above the Mono Basin for two intense weeks of singing, percussion, and performance, bring their show to the Mono Basin Scenic Area Visitor Center this Sunday evening (Aug. 5).
It's one of those can't-miss shows, unique to the mountains, and it's free.
The show begins at 7 p.m. on the patio, and organizers say it would be a good idea to bring a seat or arrive early to get one.
This weekendãs Bluesapalooza is so full of top-drawer talent that it is hard to just pull a single thing out of the hat and call it THE highlight.
But concertgoers at Samãs Woodsite on Sunday would not be far off if they gave the nod to Joe Louis Walker.
Walker, now 62, is a journeymanãs journeyman in the blues world, but he shows no sign of slowing down.
Touring in support of his new record, ãHellfire,ã Walker brings an eclectic mix of musical influences to the stage, from Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones on the rock ãnã roll end of the spectrum to hard-core blues on the other.
ãIãm all itchy and scratchy,ã Fido said. He sat on his haunches, bent down a bit and scratched behind his ear.
ãWow, thatãs a lot of fur that just flew off your neck, Old Boy,ã I said. ãLemme take a look.ã
There wasnãt anything that I could spot that was out of the ordinary.
ãFido, itãs shedding season, and I can make a lot of jokes out of that.ã
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Fido made a little noise that sounded very much like a chuckle.
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When Vineet Nayar became president of HCL Technologies, a global IT services business, in April 2005, he knew the company needed drastic change. Since its founding as a hardware company in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7 billion in revenues and a market capitalization of $5.1 billion. The company had 41,000 employees in 11 countries, but it was ill-prepared for the increasingly competitive market. With the shift from hardware to software and services, HCL had slipped behind its Indian competitors and multinational companies. Details the first phase of the transformation Nayar led in hopes of rejuvenating the industry pioneer. The tagline for this phase was "Employee First, Customer Second."
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Last week marked a significant reaffirmation for international drug control policy as 1,200 delegates, representing 120 countries and over 50 civil society organizations, convened in Vienna, Austria, for the 55th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). I had the honor to serve as part of the U.S. delegation led by Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and Brian Nichols, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
Over the course of the week, the U.S. delegation played a leading role in the unanimous adoption of 12 resolutions on issues ranging from preventing overdose deaths to addressing specific regional challenges to facilitating alternatives to imprisonment. We held more than 20 bilateral and multilateral meetings with other countries, led a panel discussion on drugged driving, and joined a panel on meeting the specific needs of drug-addicted women. The latter panel allowed us to highlight the first-ever U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security, as well as our ongoing support for domestic and international programs addressing women's needs and promoting gender equality.
Established in 1946 as a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the CND reviews and analyzes the global drug control situation, considering the interrelated issues of drug abuse prevention, the rehabilitation of drug users, and preventing the supply and trafficking of illicit drugs. The CND is also responsible for supervising the application of international drug control treaties and advising ECOSOC on matters pertaining to the control of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their precursors. Resolutions negotiated at the annual sessions of the CND shape global drug control policy and direct the work of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on these matters and related initiatives.
The 1912 Opium Convention was one of the first international treaties specifically aimed against a global threat. To recognize that historic event, and all the subsequent global cooperation strengthening international drug controls, the United States sponsored a resolution commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Convention. This resolution gained a record number of co-sponsors from around the globe, from Russia and China to European and Latin American countries, and recommitted all of us to continue fighting against illicit opiates; reducing drug production, trafficking, and use; and ensuring the availability of controlled drugs for medical and scientific purposes.
Additional CND resolutions further reinforced and expanded existing drug controls. For example, the CND adopted a novel resolution on gender-specific treatment and rehabilitation needs. Other resolutions included an electronic import/export authorization system to facilitate legal trade of controlled substances; reintegrating persons released from prison after they've renounced drug abuse; and international cooperation in responding to new psychoactive substances. The United States also co-sponsored a resolution put forth by Russia and France to address opiate trafficking in Afghanistan and its surrounding region.
We're already beginning to see operational results from the CND. One country noted that, in response to a resolution, it plans to look into using a life-saving drug that can help prevent deaths from overdose. For its part, the United States looks forward to working with other states, as well as UNODC, in various joint projects and regional counter-narcotics initiatives addressed in the resolutions.


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