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Dr. W.L.M. Alward has been recognized by the Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence for 2012. The Regents Award for Faculty Excellence is given by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa to honor faculty members for work representing a significant contribution to excellence in public education.
Dr. Alward is an international leader in glaucoma research and education. He has been at the center of several landmark genetic discoveries that have shaped the direction of new research and the development of new therapies. The core curriculum he developed for UI ophthalmology residents ensures that graduates receive superior training in glaucoma. He has personally trained more than 100 resident physicians and 30 fellow physicians in glaucoma surgery and advanced medical care. His impact on glaucoma education extends worldwide through the website he created, www.gonioscopy.org, which shares photographs and movies of hundreds of rare and common examination findings and is an invaluable resource for ophthalmologists around the world. Alward has served on many surgical teams that have traveled to developing countries and taught local surgeons the latest techniques for advanced patient care. He has served as a leader for the most prestigious associations in ophthalmology and currently serves as chair of the American Board of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Alward received his undergraduate degree at Kenyon College in Ohio and attended medical school at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He did a surgical internship at the University of Pittsburgh. Following his internship he spent six years in the United States Public Health Service in Alaska. Four of these years were with the Indian Health Service and two with the Centers for Disease Control at their Arctic Investigations Laboratory. Following his tour in the Public Health Service he did an ophthalmology residency at the University of Louisville followed by a glaucoma fellowship at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami.
Dr. Alward joined the faculty of the University of Iowa in 1987 and is now a Professor of Ophthalmology, the vice-chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and Director of the Iowa Glaucioma Center. He also holds the Frederick C. Blodi Chair in Ophthalmology. He chairs the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO) in 2012, He has served on the ABO board of directors since 2006 and was vice chair in 2011. His term on the board of directors expires in 2014.
Dr. Alward's areas of research interest include pigmentary glaucoma, combined glaucoma and cataract surgery, normal tension glaucoma, and gonioscopy. The major focus of his research over the last many years has been the molecular genetics of glaucoma. In collaboration with Edwin Stone and Val Sheffield, Dr. Alward was part of the team that described the first gene for primary open angle glaucoma. Other genes that have come from the University of Iowa are those for Rieger's syndrome, Rieger's anomaly, and anterior segment mesenchymal dysgenesis.
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Harem pants are one of those things that's great in theory, but can often have disastrous results. After all, if you don't know how to play with proportion you may end up resembling MC Hammer. The trick to getting the look just right is to include plenty of feminine accessories, including heels to make your gams look miles long. Here at GoJane we know a thing or two about rockin' these pants and below you'll find some different examples of show stopping outfits with some serious harem pant action.1. layered crochet tank 2. tribal printed pants 3. textured square shape bangle set 5. neon platform pump 1. mesh paillette tank 2. embellished stud trim clutch 3. metallic ankle strap platform 4. animal print slouchy pants 5. cropped blazer 6. abstract design choker 1. zipper lip tank 2. stripe ruched sleeve blazer 3. embellished heart necklace 4. rhinestone studded heels 5. button front slouchy pants
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Day Hike from Chelten
Patagonia Trip - March 2011
We trekked to the clearing point at the top of the forest and had another experience of Patagonia wind -- although David reminded us that on a truly windy day, we wouldn't be standing there!
It was a peaceful, shortened hike that offered one more day in the beautiful environment.
We returned in time for a late lunch at our new favorite Pizza spot and then spent an hour or so waiting for our driver to take us to the bus stop and the trip back to Calafate.
One minor travel *experience* as part of getting to the bus station. Our driver dropped us off at the bus station and to my surprise there are actually 3 or 4 bus companies that do trips to Calafate and we had no idea which company we were supposed to use. Quickly looking through our paper work, we identified the correct company based upon the departure time. My horrible Spanish skills once again caused a few moments of anxiety as the bus company indicated the bus was completely full. The man was asking for our vouchers and we didn't have any. Finally, I had him show the manifest and noticed that there were spots on the bus for Tom and Karen and then everything went smoothly.
It was roughly 2h commute and a driver meet us at the Calafate bus station and took us to our hotel.


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Since her public debut at eight, Ana Sorina Popa has performed on both the North American and European continents as a recitalist, chamber music collaborator and orchestra soloist. Her appearances in such distinguished halls as Jordan Hall in Boston, USA, Romanian Academy in Rome, Italy or the Dalles and Atheneum Halls in Bucharest, Romania have garnered wide spread audience accolades. Ms. Popa's first live recording for the Romanian National Radio at 16 was followed by several appearances on the Romanian National Television Stations as well as local TV stations in Massachussetts. Ms. Popa is a prize winner of several piano competitions that include the International Piano Competition for Young Pianists, Stresa, Italy and the International Piano Competition for Young Pianists in Rome, Italy. Following her winning of the Commencement Concerto Competition at the prestigious New England Conservatory in Boston, Ms. Popa made her soloist debut in 2001, with C. Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Egyptian' under conductor Richard Hoenich. Ms. Popa is also the recent recipient of the Chopin and Haydn 'Special Mentions' at the Ibla International Competition and Festival, Sicily, Italy.
In an effort to bring classical music to a wider audiences and connect young musicians with each other and the public she has established and is the Artistic Director of the Sunday at Three Concert Series in Dorchester, MA. The series provides free concerts to Dorchester residents in the relaxed and welcoming space generously provided by the First Parish Church, Unitarian Universalist.
Ms. Popa has received a Bachelor's of Music Degree with Academic Honors from the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, studying with Veronica Jochum; a Master of Music from Boston University, under Tong Il Han and is continuing her doctoral studies (ABD) at Boston University, working with Randall Hodgkinson as well as Burton Hatheway.
Her thesis is 'You Become What You Practice: Applications of Tai Chi Principles to Piano Playing.' This work explores the interface between Eastern philosophy, body mechanics, mental attitudes and breathing patterns found in the practice of Tai Chi Chuan and the Western approach to piano playing. Through a thorough process of integration, the application of the principles learned in the context of Tai Chi leads to an optimization of expression in piano playing and a clear path for rehabilitation from injury.
Ms. Popa is a faculty member of the Stonehill College and Rivers School Conservatory and former faculty of the Brookline Music School and Dana Hall School of Music (Wellesley, MA). When not practicing, concertizing or teaching, Ms. Popa enjoys doing Tai Chi and loves indulging in lemon squares.
- New England Conservatory of Music, Boston
- MFA, in Music, Boston University
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James "Wally" Brewster, U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, speaks to local media outlets during a visit to a Medical Readiness Training Exercise (MEDRETE) held at a hospital in the municipality of Paraiso on May 27. The MEDRETE is part of the humanitarian civic assistance mission, Beyond the Horizon 2014, in which members of Task Force Larimar and local volunteers are providing medical care to local citizens at no cost. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. True Thao, 364th Press Camp Headquarters, Task Force Larimar)
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Tue Jan 17 15:17:47 EST 2012, Sitka, AK
I did a presentation last week in Toronto at the Polish Canadian Yacht Club. I'm doing another in NYC tonight and on Saturday.
Sun Jan 15 21:39:27 EST 2012, Sitka, AK
Fri Jan 13 21:55:29 EST 2012, Sitka, AK
Thu Jan 12 11:38:37 EST 2012, Sitka, AK
The anchor chain is quite visible on Nordic Lass's anchor winch. I'm sure there is wire cable on the drum under the chain.
Wed Jan 11 14:12:36 EST 2012, Sitka, AK
The fishing boats do have lead weights, though (for fishing with), and they can be slid down the wire cable to where the chain attaches, adding a lot of weight close to the anchor.
I can't say quite what depths or what scope is used, but Alaska is a deep-water place.
The cable is just galvanized steel wire, nothing special as far as I can tell.
A few weeks back we discussed the use of wire for anchor cable in more detail here, http://www.sailblogs.com/member/rhudson/?xjMsgID=203250 .
I'm quite interested in the use of wire/chain anchor rodes, but am not using them myself.
Terry, yes, wire is much cheaper than chain and rope. A drum winch that brings a long mixed (ie chain and wire, or chain and rope) anchor rode up without any messing about with stopping off one part while switching to a different type of winch drum has a lot of appeal.
Sun Jan 8 12:00:00 EST 2012, Sitka, AK
Sat Jan 7 12:20:38 EST 2012, Sitka, AK
Fri Jan 6 9:42:42 EST 2012, Sitka, AK
Thu Jan 5 12:43:48 EST 2012, Sitka, AK
This is the tachometer in the engine room of Adak.
As it is a big, slow-turning engine. the redline is about 350 rpm in either forward or reverse.
Wed Jan 4 12:52:02 EST 2012, Sitka, AK
The starboard side of the engine. As I understand it, this is both the intake and exhaust manifold.


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Is it possible that it could be twins?
I had my first vaginal ultrasound at 6w5d. I clearly had 2 sacs although one looked as if it were partially covered by the other. They looked and measured the same. Neither had a heartbeat at the time. I went back bc I was cramping at 8w1d.They found 1 heartbeat. I was diagnosed with an SCH. Where the second sac had been I now have this huge bleed about a half circle around the baby. I have felt like I might have twins since before I even knew I was pregnant. Is it possible that the bleed is covering a second baby? They say that I only have 1 in there now, they thought it could be twins at the first ultrasound. I'm just confused bc I was so sure even before that it was gonna be twins. Has anyone had a twin hidden by the other baby or an SCH? Has anyone else had an SCH that they thought was a twin? Any information would be appreciated.
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ThinkProgress has a leaked copy of a telcoms industry PowerPoint presentation laying out their plans to use astroturf to kill Network Neutrality. The industry is hiring the same turfers who work with the Tea Party movement to carry their message to the people.
What the telcos want to do is reduce your access to websites and services unless those services have paid a bribe for "premium carriage" to you. So Google buys its bandwidth from its ISP. You buy your bandwidth from your ISP. Then your ISP goes to Google and says, "If you want to send your bits to our customers when they ask for them, you'll have to pay us too." If Google doesn't pay, the ISP slows down its bits when you ask for them.
They call this "free and unregulated internet access for content flow and connectivity speed free and unregulated internet access for content flow and connectivity speed."
Here's how I see it: the telcos and cable operators got a huge public subsidy when we agreed to let them use our public sewers, tunnels and streets (not to mention our houses and basements) for their wires. We give them all this for free or far below the market costs. They put their wires in our dirt.
Now they're saying they don't want to give us the service we want. Literally. That's what fighting Net Neutrality is about: it's ISPs fighting for the right to slow down or discard the bits you, the customer, ask for.
I say, it's our dirt, so we make the rules. If they don't like those rules, let them get their goddamned wires out of our dirt, off our streets, out of our basements. Let's give them 60 days, and if they haven't pulled up their wires by then, we'll buy them for the scrappage price of the copper. Then we'll turn over those wires to companies that are willing to give us the bits we want in exchange for the billions (trillions?) worth of public subsidy these greedy corporate welfare bums are currently enjoying.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say, "Congress shall give away the public's priceless assets to companies and then sit around sucking its collective thumb while the companies screw the public." If AT&T and Comcast don't want to give us the service we want, let them buy every inch of conduit and right-of-way at market prices. Until then, they can STFU and give us the network we demand.
This morning, representatives from various front groups launched a new coordinated campaign to kill net neutrality. Speaking on Capitol Hill, these front groups took turns decrying the evils of the principle of a fair and unbiased Internet. LULAC, which is funded by AT&T, called Net Neutrality "Obamacare for the Internet." Americans for Prosperity — a corporate front group founded by oil billionaire David Koch but also funded by telecom interests — unveiled a new ad smearing net neutrality as a "government takeover" (the initial ad buy is $1.4 million dollars). And Grover Norquist, representing his "Americans for Tax Reform" corporate front group, said net neutrality is like what China does, "putting policemen on every corner, on the street or on the Internet."
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SNL Archives Moving Exclusively To Yahoo
By Jessica Rawden 3 years ago comments
Yahoo has spent some time putting together a lineup of original programming, and now the company has scored some pretty sweet supplementary footage. On Thursday, it was announced that Yahoo has partnered with Broadway Video and NBC Entertainment to become the exclusive provider of Saturday Night Live archives. The new partnership with Yahoo will be celebrated on April 29, making the company the most comprehensive digital home for SNL content.
This should be great news for fans who want access to some of SNLs harder to find, archived clips. Yahoo will soon be home to plenty of content, including exclusive clips from the 1975 through 2013 episodes of the hit late night program. So, if you want to catch clips from the "Schweddy Balls" segment to the "Samurai Delicatessen" bit, Yahoo will be the best source. Additionally, select musical performances will be available via Yahoo, as will some behind-the-scenes clips, and even some dress rehearsal clips, the latter of which sounds like they could be really fun to peruse through. It also sounds as if the Internet will be far more flush with SNL fodder, but well have to wait and see if that proves true.
While Yahoo will have the rights to recent clips, audiences who prefer Hulu and other resources for new clips do not need to despair. As part of the new deal, Yahoo will feature current season episodes and clips non-exclusively. All in all, this sounds like a great deal for both Yahoo and NBC, as well as fans. The partnership is only temporary--the digital hub will hold the rights for archived Saturday Night Live footage for only one year. However, if the partnership pans out, Yahoo will likely be able to re-up for much longer.
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Q&A With... Charles DivinsBy Posted: Jun 17, 2003
Soap Opera Digest: What are you doing when you're not at work?
Charles Divins: Besides sleeping? I bought a mountain bike a few months ago, so when I have free time, I'm out riding, exploring L.A. I've only been here eight months. And [I've been going to] a lot of barbecues this time of year; every weekend I've been doing some crazy barbecuing. I share in the duties of cooking.Digest: What's your favorite barbecue meal?
Divins: I like hot dogs and stuff. Stuff you would never eat on a normal day ... hot dogs and sausages.Digest: Where do you bike?
Divins: Mountains around Santa Monica. There are like 20 dirt trails that connect old Mulholland Drive. Digest: Do you miss Texas?
Divins: Texas is Texas. It was where I was born and raised. I miss New York more than Texas right now. Except I miss my mom, my family and friends in Texas.Digest: What do you miss about New York?
Divins: The energy, the people. Walking out your door and being overcome by people and the city and everything that has to do with it. Digest: How long did you live there?
Divins: Three years.Digest: Chad is a music producer; how into music are you?
Divins: Chad, that's his job, so he's pretty into it. I play around on the bass guitar, and I have an iPod and I download music and all that stuff. I listen to it, but I'm not technically advanced enough to create tracks and find singers and that kind of thing. Digest: Do you sing?
Divins: I only sing for myself in the shower, that's how bad I am.


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New Website : Whats Up New Jersey
Yeah, so I've been busy lately. Besides the full-time and the second job at home with the baby, freelance projects and developing this new website have preoccupied what little free time I have left over. Finally, i get a chance to share a bit of this on my own blog to show off the work I've done recently. Continue reading
Favicons and First Impressions
How important have favicons become in the launch and overall design of a website? A rhetorical question, of course, as they are the key to internet branding and increasing repeat visitors (or customers for retail shops). The favicon itself hasn't changed a tick since they started using them in IE5. Their proliferation in our every day browsing has made their importance grow over the years.
Mediocre Articles Prove What?
A lot of content is out there on the internet. Almost too much.
It gets to be an issue when you are looking for some new, insightful articles and end up finding garbage. I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds and a LinkedIn group for graphic designers. Graphic design articles are some of the most prevalent topics being written about on the internet. Tutorials, hints, tips and resources are very helpful to professionals and a great article is posted, reposted, tweeted and shared in every which way, generating tons of traffic, ad revenue or conversion clicks for the blogger. Some "professional" bloggers decide to share their knowledge on a topic, but all it represents is a thinly veiled attempt at trying to generate traffic to their website or shoe-horn as many SEO keywords as possible.
To Tweet or Not to Tweet
Whether 'tis nobler to Facebook or to simply subscribe to one's RSS feed? Yes, it's 3am on a Sunday morning and I'm writing a post about Twitter. Don't shake your head. People need to know about the tools that are out there on the web, no matter how enigmatic they may seem.
To properly explain Twitter, I think we Gen-Y'ers need to go back to the turn of the century when AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) was being religiously used to message friends on the internet. Two-words : Away Messages. Remember how creative we used to be with making our snappy, snarky, and suggestive Away Messages? You wanted your cyberspace friends to know that you were living your live as a free spirit, unchained from the computer desk. In college, as soon as we got back from class, AIM was launched and tens of minutes were spent rifling through every away message, searching for some nugget of wisdom or suggestion of boredom and procrastination. There is a need for our generation to know as much about others as possible without being as intrusive or expending the effort.
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Ripe PSD – E-mail Campaign for Facebook Fans
Just shot into the virtual mailboxes of thousands of customers, this campaign's objective is to get our customers who are active in social networking to "become a fan" or "follow us."
Since early this year, I have been working on developing the social aspect of our company, seeing early on that the way to differentiate our business from our competitors is to be in touch with our clients more often and show our (my) pen knowledge. We got to about 125 fans on Facebook and 180 followers on Twitter before this e-mail blast. Now, we have over 300 Facebook fans and 215 Tweeps following us.


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Liberal Arts- Building Your Future!
Students who pursue a degree in the departments represented in the College of Liberal Arts enhance themselves in a number of areas. Earning a BA in one of our majors takes dedication and focus. Concentrating on the material students see and hear in our courses helps them develop their abilities across a wide range of skills. Students build on their foundation to enhance their abilities to follow the life path of their choice! So ignore anyone who tells you a Liberal Arts degree is a waste of time and money.
The following are just a few benefits of a Liberal Arts degree:
The key is finding something you want to study! We've got a lot of major tracks spread across four main areas: Communication, Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Students who are interested in how people communicate with each other major in the departments of Communication or Modern Languages. The Department of Communication has programs ranging from Advertising to Communication Technology (internet related communication) to Radio and Television broadcasting. The Department of Modern Languages presents students with the opportunity to study French, German, Russian and Spanish in depth. Students will not only learn the language but also the culture and history of the people who speak these languages.
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The Fine Arts include Art, Music and Theatre. All of these areas explore the creative energy of people. Our departments are focused on helping students develop their creative abilities. Art students will produce Art. Music students will make music, and Theatre students will either perform on-stage or be a part of the back-stage production team
Students who are interested in what makes us "human" major in English, History or Philosophy. English students read the literary expression of individuals from different times, places and cultures. The English department also has programs in writing and creative writing. History majors study how people lived at different times and places. Historians look at documentary evidence such as diaries, wills, real estate records and letters to recreate what happened in the past, why it happened and what it led to. In addition to studying the logical and evidential methods supporting all areas of inquiry, Philosophers pose and attempt to answer the most fundamental questions about the nature of reality, knowledge, meaning, and value.
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After finishing my training in Boston, I moved to the seacoast and have enjoyed being an active member of the PRH community for the past 20 years. I delivered hundreds of babies during that time and then in 2010 I changed my focus to a gynecology only practice. I served on the board of the Foundation for Seacoast Health for 9 years and am now a member on the Board of Trustees for PRH. I volunteer in several local middle schools speaking with the students and parents about making healthy choices and avoiding high risk behaviors. I also speak about menopausal issues in the Women�s Lecture Series run by the hospital. I live in New Castle with my husband Bill and children Jill and Nick.
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Despite the shortage of skilled labor, Stallion Security, a South African-owned security services firm based in Johannesburg, is recruiting 15 to 20 managers and 150 non-managerial employees every month to meet client needs.
Five hundred of Stallion's 4,000 employees fall into skilled or managerial classifications, and the company places a particular emphasis on recruiting top talent for these positions.
"We concentrate on getting the right management in place for everything from recruiting to quality control," says Clive Zullberg, Stallion Security's managing director. "If we have effective managers, they can shape the rest of the workforce."
Two years ago, Stallion overhauled its recruiting process to deal more effectively with the extremely uneven labor markets that characterize the South African economy. Stallion's new approach includes tools designed to ensure that candidates fit the jobs, plus extensive training and promoting from within. To keep new hires on the job, the company has built a culture of loyalty underpinned by competitive compensation and a retention policy that bans re-employment for workers who leave the firm.
Stallion's new recruitment process has allowed the company to meet its hiring goals under difficult conditions. The company competes for talent against other local companies and the broad range of multinationals that are rapidly expanding their operations in South Africa.
"There is a feeding frenzy among companies looking for black managers, with extensive poaching, and the same employees poached again and again by other employers," Zullberg reports.
Foreign investment and domestic growth are rising in South Africa, and for the first time in a generation, the country is creating jobs faster than new entrants are joining the workforce. Unemployment stands at a whopping 25.8 percent, but the shortage of skilled workers and managers is acute. In a working-age population of 23 million, only 30 percent of those over age 25 have some secondary school education and only 6.5 percent have any tertiary education.
The recruiting difficulties generated by South Africa's uneven labor markets may be extreme, but they are only an exaggerated version of the same challenges that recruiters face in other countries where there is a large surplus of unskilled labor and a shortage of skilled and managerial talent. Employers like Stallion are responding with new recruiting and retention techniques to support growth until labor markets adjust.
Recruiting priorities
Although the labor markets in South Africa reflect a broader pattern, recruiting there is complicated by several unique factors.
"South African labor laws are among the toughest in the world, from recruiting to dismissal," Zullberg notes.
In the World Bank's difficulty of hiring index, which ranks countries on the rigidity of regulations pertaining to the hiring process, South Africa scores a 44, compared with 0 for the U.S., one of the least regulated countries.
"In addition, Black Economic Empowerment regulations pertain to everything from black ownership to employees and suppliers," Zullberg reports. "We must submit detailed current statistics on the racial makeup of our workforce to maintain our status under BEE."
Also, under the BEE program, many companies must significantly increase the number of black managers.
"If you are a black manager in South Africa, you can write your own salary check," Zullberg says. "Part of the problem stems from the brain drain that South Africa has suffered over the past five to eight years because of high levels of crime. Many skilled workers, who find it easy to locate positions abroad, have emigrated."
Recruiting at Stallion is also complicated by the fact that while the rise in crime in South Africa, including white-collar crime, has created more business for the security industry, it has also generated higher risks in hiring. Because of the nature of Stallion's work with clients, targeted recruitment and careful screening and training are essential.
In 2004, Stallion executives attended a conference and realized that the company's HR function was archaic in many of its practices and inadequate given the organization's rapid growth.
"We decided that we would create the best recruiting process in the South African security industry," Zullberg recalls.
Stallion brought in consultants to develop a new recruitment plan that covered everything from basic policies to technological support.
It also adopted the Predictive Index, a behavioral assessment process produced by PI Worldwide of Wellesley, Massachusetts, that is used at more than 6,000 companies in 138 countries. Stallion uses the Predictive Index in conjunction with PI's PRO (Performance Requirements Options), a worksheet that defines the specific behaviors that lead to effective performance in a specific job.
Under the new recruiting process, the company's HR department develops the job specifications and PRO and posts the position internally and externally through recruiting agencies, which are briefed on the specifications and PRO. The agencies provide weekly feedback to HR.
The vast majority of Stallion's skilled candidates come in through the recruiting agencies.
"It took us a long time to find the right agencies," Zullberg says. "Most of them just want to pump out CVs to you and don't want to work with companies that use behavioral assessments or other complex tools for evaluating candidates."
Stallion now does most of its recruiting through three carefully chosen agencies.
Closer match
The agencies forward suitable CVs to Stallion's HR department and skilled candidates are called in for the Predictive Index survey and a PRO evaluation. On the basis of those results and other factors, the company evaluates the candidate's qualifications and determines if there is a match to the position. Stallion does not use the Predictive Index for unskilled positions, but plans to eventually push it down further in the organization to include all employees.
"We use the Predictive Index as a point of reference," Zullberg says. "Once you understand the Predictive Index, you understand the nature of the candidate. Then you know what to push in the interview to become more familiar with the candidate's strengths and weaknesses."
Zullberg believes that the Predictive Index is a reliable indicator of workplace behavior.
"We looked at the Predictive Index survey and found it was an exact fit for our needs," Zullberg says. "It provides not only specific reports, but also an understanding of what those reports mean, which is crucial. Through the use of the Predictive Index, we have been able to align personnel with available positions, which ensures that our recruitment process is streamlined and contributes to a reduced rate of employee turnover."
The company also uses Predictive Index results to make better-informed coaching, performance management and leadership decisions.
"The Predictive Index has helped our managers understand how to communicate with employees," Zullberg says.
"If a problem arises with an employee, we check the worker's Predictive Index report before we approach the employee to ensure that management understands the employee in question before the actual intervention occurs. The Predictive Index also helps identify which employees have specific abilities, such as the ability to close deals, and which managers belong at headquarters."
For unskilled positions, Stallion uses a mix of in-house recruiting staff and recruiting agencies. To address the shortage of candidates with suitable education and experience, Stallion puts new hires through an extensive training at the company's learning academy. Induction training goes well beyond the industry's regulatory requirements and works as a competitive advantage. The company continues training employees with on-site training for new clients and ongoing quality assurance training.
"Not just in South Africa but elsewhere, in the security industry all you have to sell to both clients and employees is your culture," Zullberg says. "We sell our discipline and training to clients, and for employees, we sell our pay and benefits package and our promise of training and advancement."
Because of the difficulties in recruiting and replacing managers, Stallion focuses heavily on promotions and retention.
"We try to address this by promoting a culture of loyalty," Zullberg reports. "We have a very strong policy of promoting from within. We have employees who were hired on as security officers and are now senior managers, and we hold them out as examples for other employees to let them know that if they stay on and perform well, they can move higher and higher in the organization."
In stark contrast to many U.S. firms that maintain extensive alumni networks and actively recruit former employees, Stallion has a policy of no re-employment, which it views as part of its retention policy.
"If you leave the organization, you cannot come back," Zullberg says. "This policy is not common in South Africa, but we found that re-employment has failed for us. We enforce no re-employment as a hard policy with few exceptions—perhaps 15 in 15 years. Our managers know that if they leave to test the market outside, they cannot return."
For Stallion and other South African employers, labor market shifts will relieve some of the pressure on recruiting, but the process will be slow. The South African government is pouring money into education and training programs, but rapid economic growth and rising foreign investment continue to ratchet up demand for skilled labor. Employers in South Africa and other uneven markets might have to look to Stallion's approach of careful selection, training and promotion to weather the skills shortage.


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Dal Khalsa has written to US Ambassador Ms. Nancy Powell acknowledging the massive positive response of American society to the killing of 6 innocent Sikhs at the hands of a maverick who acted Satan in Oak Creek, Milwaukee.
Recognizing US diplomat's personal intervention at Gurdwara Bangla Sahib in less than 24 hours of the ghastly crime, party's spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh in a communiqué faxed to US Embassy in New Delhi said as their community worldwide showed solidarity in sorrow, "your government and President Barack Obama has demonstrated unique wisdom in putting together a response and by ordering the US flag to fly half mast till 10 August".
Looking for more drastic measures to stop recurrence of such incidentsin future, he said the Sikh community hopes and prays that this will be a one off incident, even though it is taking stock of hundreds of others that happened since 9/11. "We however, believe that this incident, particularly now after FBI statement that the killer actually killed himself, is symptomatic of a much deeper insanity that is lurking on US soil".
The letter reads, "we have no doubts that the sentiments and emotions of these vendors of hate is not commonplace, but we do believe that while US tackles anti-humanitarian forces worldwide, it is time to look within also, recognise such elements and neutralise them, before they spread their tentacles of hate beyond the shores of the US.
Dal Khalsa letter has also asked the US diplomat to ignore the photogenic protests in an unhealthy manner by a handful of Sikhs in Delhi, as they are in no way representatives of the community, but belong to groups who are assigned these tasks by the powers that be.


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If I want to see the stab trim move (i.e. with binoculars as a spotter) when will it occur on say a 747/777/757?
Before pushback?
After hydraulics are on following after engine startup?
On taxy, as the Before t/o checklist is completed?
Thanks, cos I've never seen them move when I'm spotting planes taxying for t/o with binoculars at Heathrow.
However, when I was a passenger on an L10-11, seated at the back on final approach I saw the tailplane move as the pilot trimmed - and boy did it move - fast and pretty substantial movement!
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August 05, 2013 12:36 PM by Lisa Princ
Teresa Giudice and her husband Joe were recently charged with fraud and tax evasion, which could land the couple behind bars. However, despite the situation, Teresa does not seem to be the least bit bothered by any of it, claiming they are innocent. However, rumor has it that the Real Housewives star is simply in denial!
Teresa Giudice has got to understand how serious her situation is right now. I mean, how can she not with 39 charges against her and her husband, Joe? Last week, Teresa's attorney said she was remaining calm about the situation, but perhaps there is another reason? One insider told the New York Daily News recently that Teresa's calm appearance is nothing more than denial. "Teresa thinks people are coming after her because she is famous. She honestly thinks she has done nothing wrong," the source said. Wow, she's in for a rude awakening, huh?
Meanwhile, her husband Joe Giudice seems to be angry about the situation. According to the paper, Joe and his parents engaged in childish behavior before and after he and Teresa's visit to the courthouse in New Jersey. Sources say that Joe slapped a news camera out of the way, while his parents swore at the reporters. But the most immature act was when Joe's father, Frank, decided to moon the cameras. Wow, and we wonder how their son ended up like he did?
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2 Responses to "Teresa Giudice In Denial About Her Serious Charges"
Susan K. Says:
August 5th, 2013 at 3:31 pm
Jail will snap them out of denial.
ann Says:
August 6th, 2013 at 5:19 am
This woman is a moron…When she goes to jail,she won't be smiling.


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Home sweet Hope
National | From Bill Clinton's report card to the Excelsior Hotel, Arkansas boasts ample reminders-some more subtle than others-that the president slept here
in Hope, Ark. - It's hard to drive through Arkansas and not be reminded that President Bill Clinton calls this state home. The people of Arkansas seem to be proud of the connection. They proclaim it when motorists cross the bridge over the Mississippi River at Memphis: "Arkansas the Natural State, Home of President Bill Clinton." They proclaim it again at Little Rock: "Welcome to Little Rock: The First Capital President Clinton Called Home." And again near Hot Springs: "President Bill Clinton's Hometown." And yet again at Hope: "Birthplace of President Bill Clinton." But not all the reminders are deliberate. A motorist crossing the Arkansas River on I-30 into Little Rock will catch a glimpse of the infamous Excelsior Hotel on the right. That's the place where the president allegedly propositioned Paula Jones. A few blocks south is the Rose Law Firm, housed in a nondescript building with a sign announcing that it's the oldest law firm west of the Mississippi. The informal tour of Clinton sites goes from the Old State House, where Clinton staged election victory celebrations, to the federal courthouse where the Whitewater grand jury did business for so many years. But even after all the scandal, diehard Clinton fans still stand proud. In the Andina Café and Coffee Roastery, owner Eduardo Gomez displays a framed copy of a clipping from the local paper describing his own tribute to President Clinton: Mr. Gomez named a coffee he serves "Bill's Decaf Blend." In a 1997 letter to the Clintons Mr. Gomez described the president's namesake blend as "well-balanced, refined, familiar. Powerful but gentle. Ideal for those who have little rest." And for the first lady, he whipped up a Hillary blend that he calls "elegant, bright, strong." South of Little Rock toward the Texas border are Mr. Clinton's two hometowns, Hot Springs and Hope. Hope was memorialized in the video shown at the 1992 Democratic convention-a video still shown at the town's visitors center. Hope didn't have a visitors center before Mr. Clinton became president. That's because the town was not a huge tourist destination, except on one weekend when it hosted an annual watermelon festival. But President Clinton's election in 1992 changed that. In 1994 Union Pacific donated its 1892-built, red brick train station to the city, which received $700,000 in federal and local money to turn the building into a museum and visitor center. The museum has exhibits on local history and railroads, but Bill Clinton is the main attraction. His glowing first-grade report card includes this comment from the teacher: "Incredibly intelligent for a child of his age." Photographs of Uncle Buddy, for whom the presidential dog is named, and other mementos connect the president with long-time residents of Hope. For those interested in political irony, a display case is devoted to Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee, who assumed the office when Clinton friend and successor Jim Guy Tucker went to jail for Whitewater-related crimes. Gov. Huckabee and his wife are Hope natives and graduates of the local high school. But some of the town's Clinton boosting actually brings discredit on the town. The Hope Tourism Commission website includes this statement: "Friends, family, churches, schools and the all-American lifestyle found in Hope are credited with first planting the traditions, values, and ideals that shaped a President." Really? A "presidential driving tour" directs people from the visitors center to several sites associated with the president, including his birthplace home, an attractive two-and-a-half-story house that was actually the home of his grandparents and is now owned by the Clinton Birthplace Foundation, Inc. The foundation has raised a million dollars to renovate the house and build a visitors center and memorial garden in honor of the president's mother. At the Presidential Shoppe on the birthplace grounds, tourists can buy assorted Clinton mugs, T-shirts, key chains, and other doodads. Pride in their native son did not keep the state legislature, controlled by Democrats, from embarrassing the president on his visit last March to Hope for the dedication of the memorial garden. Days earlier the Arkansas House of Representatives failed to approve a half million dollars of state funding for the birthplace foundation. The $500,000 would have funded a 40-seat theater and computer room in addition to other improvements. Its sponsor hoped to give the president a copy of the bill at the garden dedication. Instead, for at least a moment, Arkansas withdrew the welcome mat.


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To much fanfare, women's accessories and handbag purveyor Vera Bradley (Nasdaq:VRA) first went public at the end of 2010. The stock opened at around $27 per share and quickly rose to $50 per share, but has recently fallen close to the IPO price of $20 per share. Fashion is fickle, as are underlying customers, but at the current price investors are arguably overly bearish on Vera Bradley's future prospects.
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Recent Developments
Vera recently announced first quarter results and sales growth of 15.6% to $117.2 million. Sales at its own stores jumped 34.2% to $59.2 million, or just over half of total sales. Comparable store sales advanced a very healthy 4.3% and also benefited from the opening of 19 new stores. Vera also sells its purses and related accessories to outside retailers, which it refers to as indirect sales. These include Macy's (NYSE:M), Dillard's (NYSE:DDS) and Sears (Nasdaq:SHLD), as well as Overstock.com (Nasdaq:OSTK) through online sales channels.
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Operating income increased a much more modest 9.2% to $20.8 million. Sales costs rose in sympathy with the top line, but SG&A expenses jumped 18.1% to $47.2 million to offset much of the sales upside. Lower interest expense helped net income grow 12.5% to $12.6 million, or 31 cents per diluted share. This represented a very healthy net margin of 10.8% of sales.
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Outlook and Valuation
Analysts project 17% sales growth for 2012 and total sales of $539.1 million. They expect another solid year of 14.5% top-line growth in 2013 and total sales of $617 million. Earnings projections currently stand at $1.70 per share and $2 per share in each of the next two years. At the current share price of $20.30, the forward earnings multiples stand at 12 and 10.2, respectively.
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The Bottom Line
Vera Bradley's stated long-term goals are to grow its revenue in the "mid-high teens" and net income in the high teens annually. To reach these lofty goals, it plans to open between 14 and 20 of its own stores each year and attain annual comps in the mid to high single digits. It also sees cost cutting moves to improve operating margins by roughly 30 basis points a year. If it achieves these goals over the next 3-5 years, investors have a good chance to earn big gains on the stock. At the current valuation, investors are valuing the stock as if Vera is a mature retailer with minimal growth prospects.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, August 13. ALLIE Szekely set a new meet record and gave Amanda Beard's 13-14 National Age Group Record in the 200m breast a scare tonight, while Gillian Ryan and Jordan Wilimovsky also set meet records during the first night of competition at the Speedo Junior National Championships.
Tualatin Hills' Michelle Cefal brought home the first individual event title of the meet, capturing the women's 200m fly in 2:10.35, a time that would've placed sixth at Trials in June. Madison Wright of Kingfish Aquatics came in second in 2:11.28, while Mission Viejo's Kathryn McLaughlin rounded out the top three in 2:12.92.
Denver Swim Academy's Clark Smith lowered his personal best in the 200m fly by more than half a second to claim victory in 1:58.64. He entered the meet with a 1:59.33. James Yoder of the Stingrays nearly broke the 2-minute mark for the first time but came up just short, touching second in 2:00.41. Blue Devil Swim Club's Matthew Conway, the top seed coming into finals, wound up third tonight in 2:00.58.
Fourteen-year-old Allie Szekely of the Central Bucks Swim Team crushed the field in the women's 200m breast on her way to a new meet record of 2:26.35, lowering Emma Schoettmer's record of 2:27.99 from last summer. Had she swam that time at Trials, she would've placed fifth, just in front of 2004 Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. Szekely needs a 2:25.75 to break Beard's 13-14 National Age Group Record in the event, which she posted at the 1996 Olympics. Second place finisher Bethany Leap of the Sarasota YMCA Sharks was way behind in second in 2:33.78, while Lakeland Hills' Abigail Fisher rounded out the top three in 2:34.55.
Top-qualifier Steven Stumph of Orinda Aquatics solidified his top ranking in the men's 200m breast by collecting the title with a 2:15.24. Gage Crosby of Razorback Aquatics, the fifth place qualifier this morning, surged into second with a 2:17.17. Nicolas Hatanaka of Loveland Swim Club rounded out the top three finishers in 2:17.89.
North Baltimore's Gillian Ryan, last summer's national champion in the women's 800m free, had no trouble dispatching the competition tonight, winning by 14 seconds in 8:30.84. That lowered Lauren Driscoll's 2010 meet record of 8:35.43 by almost five seconds. Ryan's winning time last summer was an 8:27.64. Brooke Lorentzen of Mission Viejo recorded a new personal best to finish second in 8:43.92. Allison Brown of the Pleasanton Seahawks also lowered her seed time with an 8:47.31 for third.
Team Santa Monica's Jordan Wilimovsky continued the meet record-breaking trend in the men's 1500m free, posting a 15:23.01 to slice two seconds off Will Freeman's 2009 record of 15:25.44. Mission Viejo's David Heron dropped seven seconds to take second in 15:28.50, while Clifford Goertemiller of the Dayton Raiders cut 14 seconds off his personal best to take third in 15:30.39.
Mission Viejo leads the combined team standings after day one with 79 points. The Sarasota YMCA Sharks are second with 66 points, while the Dayton Raiders sit third with 43 points.
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As well as being the name of a small village near Lucca and Pistoia, Collodi is also the nom de plume adopted by the Italian writer Carlo Lorenzini (1826-90), who created the storybook character of Pinocchio, the string puppet carved by the old carpenter Gepetto. Although much of the town of Collodi now seems to be dedicated to the famous wooden puppet, it is also worth visiting the town for the delightful Villa Garzoni gardens.


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Latin America as a region has avoided the worst of the financial crisis. Combing strong international reserves, manageable debt and a financial system that was not exposed to toxic assets or reliant on foreign funding to the extent of some other nations, the region has steered its ship past the major icebergs. Its economies, which once were fraught with periods of strife, hyperinflation and meltdowns, have become one of the major catalysts for future global growth.
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Through the latter part of 2009, investors returned to the risk trade, looking for quickly growing assets, including Latin American securities. Now, analysts are warning that many asset classes have reached their highs. The iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index (NYSE:ILF) was up approximately 100% in 2009. Investors have shifted their focus to manage risk and return to dividend and value oriented investing. Investors shouldn't give up on emerging markets just yet. While volatile, these markets can help power a portfolio past the ugly hand off inflation and produce great gains. Ignoring them for long-term portfolios just isn't an option. However, there are ways to play them that help reduce risk, while still playing the powerful consumer driving thesis.
Flipping a Switch, Turning a Tap
Traditionally a boring sector, utilities provide all the necessities required for modern life; electricity, water, gas, phones etc. The overall sector represents stable cash flows and recession resistance. For emerging markets, utilities provide access to a growing business environment, which will cause growing incomes and demand for their services. They often pay outsized dividends which can help cushion the volatile nature of their home markets or provide a nice paycheck for those seeking to replace lost income.
Adding the Service Providers
While there are a few exchange traded funds that track foreign utilities such as the SPDR S&P International Utilities Sector (NYSE:IPU), there are no emerging market utilities based funds, yet. We'll likely see one, eventually. However, due to their capital intensive nature, many strong foreign utilities have IPO'ed on U.S. exchanges and trade as ADRs. Investors have a wide range of choices for choosing Latin American stocks within the sector. Here are a few top picks.
CPFL Energia S.A. (NYSE: CPL) is one of the top yielding electric companies, foreign or domestic, currently paying a healthy 6.9% dividend. With a market cap of nearly $10 billion and controlling 13% of the Brazilian power market, CPFL reported earnings growth of 66%. Analysts predict earnings growth in the 55-57% range for the current quarter.
Just as important as current yield, how a company grows that distribution over time is the hallmark of good income investment. Having a dividend growth rate over the past few years of 54%, Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais (NYSE:CIG) or CEMIG has one of the fastest dividend growers in the sector. Earnings grew at an incredible 140% over the last quarter and the shares yield 4.7%.
Companhia de Saneamento Basico (NYSE:SBS) is Brazil's largest water utility with nearly 197 water treatment facilities and 438 sewage treatment facilities. The company pays a 2.92% dividend, but the real kicker is that shares of the water utility trade for a P/E of 17, and are well below its book value of $53.
Companhia Paranaense de Energia (NYSE:ELP) is an electricity generator and distributor in Brazil's Parana state. The company also functions as telecommunication and I.T. provider through various partnerships it has developed. COPEL has a strong balance sheet with net cash of R$23 million ($13.1 million in U.S. Dollars), and pays a small dividend. Shares trade at cheap P/E of 7.82.
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Latin America is one better positioned region in the emerging market space for continued portfolio growth. Adding a touch of utilities allows investors to stay invested in the nations and the growing consumer story, while managing risk. The previous picks along with Centrais Electricas Brasileiras (NYSE:EBR) are excellent ways to play that sector. (This asset class has left much of its unstable past behind. Find out how to invest in it. Read Investing In Emerging Market Debt.)
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Is 61 cygni the one on the bottom? it looked little larger and brighter I wasn't sure or maybe it was cause it was closer?
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Posted 31 July 2013 - 12:26 AM
Is 61 cygni the one on the bottom? it looked little larger and brighter I wasn't sure or maybe it was cause it was closer?
Posted 31 July 2013 - 08:29 AM
Excellent photo, by the way. Would you share your technical info, please? Scope, focal length, etc....
Posted 31 July 2013 - 09:52 AM
Ijust use a Celestron 6se I bought in febuary, the2x barlow that came in the case and the camera is an Orion StarShoot Deep Space Video Camera II this maba jamba right here http://www.telescope...s/Orion-Star...
I use the default settings generally, I'ld have look at the fine details, but once you get the hang of the electronic shutter, the gain, and other settings, they comeout pretty decent. I spent alot of nights scratching my head and trying different things. to get it right, sometimes I'm a winner and sometimes all I hear is that sound it makes on the price is right when the contestant looses.
For processing I put it in registax6, (no more than 75 secs of recording) and I get a pretty decent result. its a matter of going each frame and finding the top frames. Pick teh best of the best as the set point use the worst of the best as my limit and the first pass is pretty decent. The biggest thing that has helped is the RGB alignment. I use Photo shop to clean up the back ground. (I get a bit of video noise and I darken it up, grabbing teh stars I just adjust the levels and curves, so it brings the dark up and the light down, aand enhances contrast. That's about it. one could adjust the color if they wanted to, but I'm slight OCD so I can't do it and not feel like its not cheeting, the true colors are what is important. You can tell if its been altered becuase the stars have a look, its bright white at points I look at directly in the photo, much as the star itself, but it seems the points right outside direct view have the color tint to it. A photoshop of the object looks too opaque and looses this effect. I am certain if you were relally good with it you could reproduce that affect. . but I am no where near that skill level, and it wouldn't feel right, like cheating.
COlor wise is this on or off? I recall seeing it yellow like this, but when I read up on it it claims orange. o.O
Another hting that helps is the skies I have are generally pretty awesome, my town has this weird thing, I'm not sure if it is the muntains or not, but a storm will occur in Reno itself, but as it comes out our way it goes around my town I see about 6 rains a year. its better after a rain too knocks what dust is in the air down. and we don't seem to like street lights in town. See?
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They were definitely orange in my refractor.
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is it more of a yellow orange or redder orange or just orange? I hope that makes sence.
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Ed no its a Celestron 6se, 2x barlow and an orion deep space video imager II. about 30-45 sec record with it stacked in regixtax6. Use photoshop to adjust levels to bring the noise out of the back adn add contrast to the colors. about 30 min aof work there from registax to levels.
Posted 01 August 2013 - 12:25 AM
The bluest stars have a B-V index of -0.34, meaning the blue magnitude is brighter than the visual magnitude by 0.34 magnitude.
White stars (which nonetheless appear bluish to our Sun-adapted eyes) like Vega have B-V = 0.
Going to ever yellower and redder stars, B-V is increasingly positive (visual magnitude being brighter than blue). Our yellowish G-type Sun is 0.62, K and M stars are from near 1 to 1.5 or so, and Carbon stars can be about 2 to 5 (very red!).
Where known--more often for (non-faint) primaries only when separation is small--the B-V color index is a very valuable observational datum for double star observers. Actually, for observers of stars in general!
An interesting aspect of the B-V color is that it can allow to estimate the amount of interstellar extinction due to dust in space. For example, if we observe an A-type star whose intrinsic color should be, say, 0.1, but see that the actually measured B-V = 0.8, we know the color excess is 0.7. Assuming a typical visual extinction to color excess ratio of 3.1, the total visual extinction is 0.7 * 3.1 = 2.2, meaning the star is dimmed by 2.2 magnitudes, or a factor of 7.4.
Not that this last is at all needed to know for the observer.
Posted 01 August 2013 - 05:07 AM
Spectral types are given as K5V and K7V - main sequence (MK class V) orange stars (type K). B-V colour indexes listed as +1.139 and +1.320. A nice fit for the colour most of us see in this double and for Glenn's notes on B-V figures as perceived colour.
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It is one of doubles included in my JDSO paper found here:
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Posted 02 August 2013 - 03:49 PM
fred can you help me out with that? I'ld ask questions but I have no idea what to ask. is it a color thing?
One could say it's a temperature thing. Just as a piece of iron, as it's increasingly heated, goes from a dull red, to orange, yellow and white, so too do the gases at the surface of a star. And the temperature of a star's surface has a profound effect on the state of ionization of the gases making up its atmosphere, which impacts the presence and intensity of spectral obsorption lines, which in turn determines the spectral classification.
And so there is a pretty good correlation between temperature, color and spectral class. But far fewer stars have been classified than there are stars having a known color index (even if crude for the fainter ones.) In lieu of a spectral type, a B-V color allows to make a fairly good guess at the spectral class, e.g., B8, F5, etc.
But as I hinted at earlier, such a guess must consider the possibility of interstellar extinction and reddening. If the data suggests great distance, and the direction is toward the band of the milky way (where dust clouds are more concentrated), there is an increased likelihood of some amount of anomalous reddening, making the star appear redder than it really is. In the main, a probably small fraction of known binaries are so affected, for it requires distances generally more than about 1,000 light-years in most directions (varying from as near as 350 to several thousand, due to the patchiness of the clouds) for extinction to amount to anything at all notable.
In the case of doubles, and more so the closer they are, visual impressions of color can be significantly altered, due to color contrast effects. Where known, the B--V index is a much more reliable indicator of true color.
This is because stars are essentially black body emitters, and in the visual spectral regime are basically white with varying tints of blue or red. Hence the great utility of the B-V color index. A black body emitter that is visible to the eye has an emission intensity with wavelength curve that does not admit the possibility of such colors as purple, lilac, green, mauve, etc. for instance, to be green, the black body curve would have to be inordinately weaker in both the blue and red than it can be. Yet a star having the required B-V color (near zero, or bluish-white late B to early A) can *appear* greenish when in close proximity to an orange K-type star having B-V of about 1.2-1.5. The contrast of the complimentary colors, contributed to by the eye's own bias in sensitivity in the green, is what does this. But such a star in isolation is perceived as bluish-white.
And the 'purple' type colors are impossible for two reasons: the black body curve cannot have *both* the red and blue stronger than the green (and even spectral line blanketing cannot achieve this); and the eye's own response is biased toward the green portion of the spectrum, ensuring that red *and* blue cannot both be dominant. Yet visual impressions abound where such is suggested.
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Nice image though.
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on my 4" refractor.
Castle Rock, CO
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Very very nice image.


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VMware View, formerly known as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), gives IT managers an easier way to manage desktops while also providing end users more flexible access to personalized desktops from pretty much any thin client or PC, says Raj Mallempati, a VMware product marketing manager. VMware View is being bundled with ThinApp application virtualization software, simplifying the deployment of applications to virtual desktops.
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Basic packages cost $150 per concurrent user, while premium packages including ThinApp and all new features cost $250 per concurrent user.
More new features include Unified Desktop Access, a single interface to connect to multiple types of desktop sessions (i.e. VMware, Windows Terminal Server or physical PCs); Virtual Printing, the ability to print to any local or network printer without installing specific printer drivers; and Multimedia Redirection, a new way of redirecting multimedia processing tasks from the server to end user device in order to improve user experience.
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Recent high winds and heavy snow loads have delayed the formation of solid ice in many locations. Thin ice and open water are present on many water bodies across the state, Morrocco said on the department's website.
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An Introduction to ANYDATASubmitted by Kevin Meade on Fri, 2007-05-25 15:55
My newest project needed to create a record keeping component that would keep track of balancing results over time. Sounded good, meant my customers could look back over time to see how things went, and it provided persistent evidence of good results. I figured on adding two routines (save/get) to a logging package already in existence to save balancing data via an autonomous transaction and retrieve it when needed. But in writing these routines it dawned on me that they would destroy the reusable nature of the logging package. Finally, a real life use for ANYDATA.
SQL Tuning made easy in Oracle 10gSubmitted by KrishnaBoppana on Mon, 2007-04-16 13:35
"Find out how to use DBMS_SQLTUNE package to tune SQL Statements in Oracle 10g"
Have you ever been frustrated with SQL Tuning?
Did you get lost in the maze of /+ HINTS +/ and analysis paralysis?
Pre-10g you have to be either a SQL tuning expert or should have a license to expensive tuning tools available in the market to effectively tune SQL Statements. Not the case anymore.
In 10g you can use DBMS_SQLTUNE package to get tuning recommendations for SQL Statements.
Tuning of SQL Statements using DBMS_SQLTUNE involves following 4 steps:
Dynamic creation of procedures in PL/SQLSubmitted by golak.sarangi on Sun, 2007-04-15 03:46
Every PL/SQl devloper must have tried their hands with dynamic SQl. Its an indelible part of oracle.But its generally used when we dont know at compile time about the object on which we are to perform the task. Suppose we want to insert data into a table but we get the name of the table during the execution of the procedure, in those cases we would use dynamic SQl with the table name passed as bind variable. Dynamic Sql is even used to execute DDl commands inside a PL/SQl block.
Point in Time (Nearest Neighbor Algorithms for SQL)Submitted by Kevin Meade on Mon, 2007-04-09 16:07
Been doing a lot with Historical Perspective lately. This has caused me to think a bit about the different variations of lookup that can be called a Point In Time query. My customers have found this discussion useful in understanding the details of how their report programs find specific rows in time. It is helpful to them because it provides an understanding as to why a specific row shows up on a report, and thus allows them to create more exacting definitions of what they want. Plus I find it is a good primer for newbies on staff to read so they don't make the same mistakes we made when we first started doing PIT queries. Maybe you can use it too.
Difference between two rowsSubmitted by Kevin Meade on Wed, 2007-03-28 16:15
One of my recent clients had a real data twisting process to validate. It didn't help much that their source had been corrected by many "ONE-SHOTS" over the years to deal with bugs, and accounting methods mandated by Act of Congress. What we needed was a way to see changes in a stream of related rows. In the end I created for them, a solution that allowed developers to pick two rows from a table at random and compare them in SQL with a result set returned showing only differences. Its a simple thing, but kind of neat, and very useful. So I'd like to share it with you.
Tuning "BETWEEN" QueriesSubmitted by rleishman on Thu, 2007-03-08 23:58
A common sight in databases is a table that contains the start and end values of a range - usually dates. One or both of the dates are typically part of the primary key; sometimes they are the entire key. Some examples:
- History tables
History tables record the changes made to a row over time. Instead of updating a row and losing the prior values of each non-key attribute, a new row in inserted. Each row is differentiated by two columns that record the date the row was created (
START_DATE) and the date it was superceded (
A PL/SQL program to convert numbers into wordsSubmitted by bhupinderbs on Tue, 2007-03-06 04:40
Here is a Function that convert NUMBERS into WORDS:
[code]CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f_words (p_amount IN Number) RETURN Varchar2 IS
--Author : Bhupinder Singh
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World's Fastest Scalable JoinSubmitted by rleishman on Fri, 2007-03-02 18:25
One glance at my golf clubs would be enough to determine that I'm a terrible golfer. The pitching wedge is dirty. Nine-iron: dirty. Same with the eight, seven and six irons. Five, four and three irons are fairly clean. Woods: pristine. I play percentage golf (actually 110%, if you count penalties); I figure a 5-iron 150 meters down the fairway is a better bet than a 3-wood 200 meters into the trees.
So I've got a golf bag with 2 clubs that I paid for but never use. Madness? Well no, not really; but then I'm not paid to play golf. Can you imagine a professional golfer never using the driver? It wouldn't happen.
Can you picture an Oracle programmer never using the most powerful join method available? No? Get a mirror.
Understanding Explain PlanSubmitted by rleishman on Sun, 2007-02-18 03:31
Never complain and never explain.
Disraeli was a lot of things, but Oracle Programmer was not amongst them. To be fair, perhaps he wasn't talking about Explain Plan?
SQL is a goal-oriented language. Unlike procedural languages, we tell the database what we want rather than how to get it. Oracle's Cost Based Optimizer comes up with an execution plan that is hopefully the most efficient way to resolve the query, but for many reasons it will often choose a sub-optimal plan.
Timing an ALL_ROWS querySubmitted by rleishman on Thu, 2007-02-08 23:48
The Problem
A common complaint in SQL is that "it runs in 5 seconds in SQL*Plus, but takes hours in Production. Why?"
The reason is because SQL*Plus and most GUI SQL tools display rows as soon as they are fetched. In this way, you can
SELECT * FROM big_big_table and it will display the first 20 or so rows in the table in a fraction of a second, then go back for more. The SQL is not really finishing in seconds; if you timed how long it took to retrieve every row, you'd see that it takes just as long as in Production.


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Today, roll-out begins for a slew of new Facebook features, all of which revolve around the security of users' accounts.
Remote logouts. It's nothing new - Google and others have had it for a while - but Facebook has now empowered forgetful users with the ability to logout of their accounts remotely.
Activity monitoring. Again, nothing groundbreaking, but useful nonetheless. Facebook now lets you track your recent login and logout activity (including location information) in your Account Settings page. It also identifies the device uses to access the account.
One-use passwords. If you text "otp" to FBOOK (32665), you will receive a one-time password. With 20-minutes to use it for a login, this disposable password lets you access Facebook from a public computer and not worry about anyone hacking you from it later. It's neat, but I wouldn't quite call it "genius," "brilliant," and "very, very smart" as TechCrunch has.


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A female Lance Corporal of Police is presently in hot water following the disappearance of a quantity of cash from the force's 'A' Division Registry. The money represents the proceeds from the sale of firearm licences.
Police in a statement yesterday said that "The Audit and Inspection Unit of the Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) in conjunction with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is conducting investigations into financial irregularity that has been uncovered in the Police 'A' Division Registry Section. The fraud involves the sale of Firearm Licences and a female Lance Corporal has been placed under open arrest as the investigations continue."
Kaieteur News understands that the female rank was previously transferred from the Police Finance Office where she and others were implicated in another massive fraud, for which no one has been prosecuted.
In fact, the rank was recently promoted at the last police promotions announced on January 1.
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