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Anthony Lumadue, 920 S. Ninth Ave., has been charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor and corruption of minors, police said.
On June 23, Mr. Lumadue was watching television with the child in his bedroom when he asked her "if she wanted to do something fun," the criminal complaint said. After she said yes, he locked the bedroom door, removed her underwear and performed oral sex on her, police said.
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The next day, the girl - at the advice of a friend - notified an adult, who called police.
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I am currently 29 weeks pregnant with my third child and I have to say that this pregnancy has been completely different. With my two boys I experienced terrible morning sickness throughout my entire first trimester. After that, I really didn't have any symptoms of pregnancy. My skin, hair and nails were beautiful all throughout. This time around I had no mornning sickness at all however, my skin, hair and nails have been terrible. I have been experiencing dizziness and fainting, extreme emotions and terrible aches and pains. With all that being said, I am supposedly having another boy. It seems so strange that my first two pregnancies were almost identical and this one is completely opposite. Everyone keeps saying that if it wasn't confirmed on the ultrasound they would say that this one is a girl. Has anyone experienced anything similar?
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All three of my pregnancies have been very different as well. Though I never used ultrasounds as they've been linked to some of the childhood illnesses that have been popping up lately, and they're not always right anyway. I've got two girls and I had morning sickness with both of them, but this time is much much worse. I lost a lot of weight during the first trimester and have been having strong contractions all through the second. My skin and hair were much better with my other two as well. I'm breaking out a lot now and my hair is an unmanageable mess. It'll be interesting to see if it's a boy or not when it comes. =)posted 07/10/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
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May 10, 2012 08:54 PM by Shayla Perry
Tonight on MTV, original Punk'd cast member Dax Shepard returns to wreck havoc on a few celebs and to show all these youngin's how it's done. But by the end of the episode, one thing is pretty clear: Dax should totally be a permanent part of this reboot, because 1. He's far better than any of the other people on there now, and 2. After all these years and the many other shows and movies he's done, no one else seems to recognize him!
The first prank of the night is for actress Chloe Moretz. The girl is like 14 going on 40, and so far, hasn't been ruined by Hollywood, so how well will she handle getting caught in the middle of her limo driver's love triangle?
Poor Chloe thinks she's on her way to an event with her brother, when the driver gets "butt dialed" by his wife, who he overhears having a conversation about condoms with her luv-ah, played by Dax.
Wanting to confront her right away, the guy drives to his house with Chloe in tow and jumps out to yell at his wife and her "friend" (who Chloe doesn't recognize — poor Dax).
The best part may have been Dax telling the guy that his car battery died and asks if he can jump in the limo and get a ride home. Chloe immediately locks the doors and tells him that she's going to call the cops.
Not exactly the best prank ever, but we're liking that they did it old school, and kept it going a lot longer than they have for others this season.
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Ron Artest Metta World Peace, who's peaceful ways are put to the test when he's blocked in a parking garage.
Dax decides to come from behind-the-scenes and start asking
Ron Metta for an autograph and picture, too. And AGAIN no recognition! Seriously, Dax. Just come back.
On to MTV's own Lauren Conrad, who sees a woman fall into a dumpster which is emptied into a trash truck. LC and her friends try to convince the truck driver that someone's in there, but he doesn't believe them.
Finally, the woman is rescued and emerges from the back of the truck covered in pure nastiness with a great big hug for Lauren (in her bright, white tank top).
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I just saw the end and only caught Lauren's prank. That was the lamest thing I've ever seen. So fake, none of it made any sense, and it wasn't even really a prank.
I hope the other ones were better, because this one was disappointing!
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May 12th, 2012 at 8:46 am
The other ones were far better, but still not great. Lauren's could've (and probably should've) just been cut out of the episode. This new reboot is nowhere near as good as the old shows. Never thought I'd actually miss Ashton Kutcher! Lol


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If your mom has moved out of the house and taken all her personal items with her then she no longer has the right to enter as she pleases. She may have a financial interest in the house but she would no longer considered to be living there.
You or or father can call the police if he enters uninvited. Just because she still has a key means nothing. Of course you could always change the locks..
Good luck, I hope it all works out for you..
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Can't even begin to imagine what that's like, so I won't pretend to understand how you feel. All I can offer is the following: if I were in that kind of predicament, I would do my absolute best to find a job in the city where school is, find some room mates and get a place there so I never have to return to what you're dealing with.
Sounds toxic. If I were in that situation, I'd toss what would fit in my car and put some distance between us.
Sorry to hear that. Your Dad is severely depressed. Please see if you can convince him to get help.
I wouldn't say your parents are "getting divorced". Some people never manage to finish the paperwork/processes to get married.... some people never complete the processes to divorce ether. Your parents are separated.
I know we can all tend to be critical of family. But your family seems to have some minor mental health issues. It can make it difficult to understand what normal is... if you've never had an opportunity spend time with it... or at least visit normal. Your brother may be your best bet at normal. BTW... door stops are safety devices... like car bumpers and bicycle helmets. The are designed for protection during mishaps... they aren't designed to be "used". There are bunches of "proper ways" to use and treat household items. It is possible you've just never been taught those things.
I hope things work out for you. Maybe you can find some summer programs at school... or a decent part-time job.. or BOTH. Then create your own home. So going home will be a pleasant experience that you do everyday. Best of luck.
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Make your own life.
It's time to explore options so that you can get as far away from the family issues as possible until they normalize somewhat and you are truly able to help, but not own your parents issues, and are able to comfortably hold clear boundaries with your family. All the suggestions and comments already posted are good ones. Get a summer job, stay out of town. Slowly start helping your dad get back on his feet - he really has some issues and needs a professional supportive community. Don't try to do it yourself or own or enable his behaviors. Seriously.
Already posted, but your family and the situation is toxic in the worst way.
Dave Cutter made a good point about proper ways to treat household items, and there is a difference between obsessing over your home and respecting all the work to make and keep it nice. There are different living styles and your choice of making a new life / home are sharing a place with others to keep the costs down, or maybe working through a local church or community center that helps young adults like yourself integrate with a couple and learn what it's like to live in a clean, respectful household. That of course means living by their household rules which may not be a bad thing at all.
Bottom line though is get out of town and out of the fray for a couple years at least. You need time to heal and recover from this.
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Right now you are in the middle of this mess.
Grab your bags and move.
I agree with all of the responses about finding a job near your school. Your college might even have a job board for students looking for work. A lot of industries hire students for internships or entry-level work during the summer.
Do you have any friends at school you could be roommates with? Some of them might already have a place with a room for rent.
Call animal control for the dogs, call mental health on your Mom and the Health Department on Dad.
Stay at school year round, many schools hire students to do summer dorm maintenance and campus work during summer. Talk with a councilor at the school and explain your story at "home", I would think they would be sympathetic and help you arrange to be productive there during breaks. There are also many youth camps all over the country looking for students to work as staff and they will provide room and meals, these can be really rewarding and positive jobs. Lots of road work done over summer, these jobs pay well and are summer temp work, contact the County near your school.
You sound like a good kid, I do think that you need to take care of yourself now. Your parents will sink or swim, you have a full life ahead, make the most of it. Good luck.
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Man, that sounds rough. One more vote for get out, seek help for yourself first and then for them. I would agree that there is some sort of depression going on with your dad. Get him some help if you can but get out first. Check with you school, see if they can help with a job and a place to live.
Best of luck.
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I'm sorry, that's a rough situation. I agree that it would be in your best interest to clock out, but I understand that it's not that simple when it's your family, and you don't feel fully fledged as an adult yet, and somewhat dependent. Don't count on fixing anyone - if your parents were up for therapy, they probably wouldn't have gotten this far down in the first place. If you have to stay home, set boundaries, close your door against the pets and TV, and tolerate it for a few more months. It won't be long before you join the wide world.
Wow. Get out and stay out is the best advice for now, along with looking for a summer job at school. Things may be bad now, but they'll be worse if you don't get out.
Talk to the dean or someone at school. I can't imagine they would not try to help you out.
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Albert Einstein
Not to minimize the OP's problems but what is really sad is that the OPs problems are minor when you compare them to the issues of others. Children should have 2 loving parents at home (not to say one can't do a great job just two are better), both dedicated to the family. I am 55 years old and am lucky enough to have 2 parents in my life that could not be more dedicated to one another and their family. They have been that way all of my life.
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
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Smells like dysfunctional background, RUN, head for the hills and never look back!!
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OP, I can't even begin to tell you how sad your post makes me. My wife are in the process of getting divorced. For the sake of two of our adult children who are still living at home (the other two already have their own place) we have tried to keep it as civil as possible. There is no denying, however, the level of tension in the house and it is not comfortable when she is around.
if you can afford it, move out. You will be doing yourself a great deal of good.
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I can't even begin to relate to your life situation or offer advice etc.. but I'll keep you in my thoughts guy, and try to send you good vibes.
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Buddy of mine ran from a dangerously dysfunctional situation in Cincinnati all the way to Boston. College wasn't even his thing, just moved far to get away from the situation where he had some friends he could crash with while getting on his feet. Worked food service, and then as a bike messenger, started college along the way. Just graduated, too, all on his own efforts, while working and living on his own.
You can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends. If you have good friends elsewhere who wouldn't mind, lean on them for a bit if you need to get out immediately, and then set yourself up as you can.
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God's grace: that's the lesson inherent in many of the 200 letters received in response to "The tragedy of American college education" (Aug. 23/30). Amazingly, as sheep are about to eaten up by wolves in shepherd's clothing, the Good Shepherd calls them, and his sheep follow that strong voice. But does that mean we pay no attention to the wolves? Should we be sinfully complacent, so that grace might more abound? By no means.
How can students be better prepared? Frank Raymund suggested, "Don't send sheep, send bears." When he arrived at the University of Chicago during the 1980s, he already had been exposed to C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer and was able to debate atheistic students and professors. He also had stood up against peer group pressures in high school, "so I knew it doesn't kill you. Consequently, at college, no one could pressure me into drinking."
Chad Sobotka wrote that in high school his mind "was focused on getting to college and not what to do once I got there. I was a ship without a rudder." He entered a Christian college but found that "in my dorm drinking was prevalent, so I started. All of my friends drank; I hardly knew anyone who didn't. Many people I knew also used drugs. As a result my grades slipped."
God preserved Chad, however: The following year he "attended a local junior college. I went to college full time and worked full time. It was during this time that I started asking serious questions about my life. I didn't question my faith but rather questioned why I believe what I do. This is my greatest piece of advice for all high-schoolers: Study why you believe what you do.... I emerged with rock-solid faith."
Many correspondents stressed the importance of good Christian schools and homeschools, strong preaching and teaching in churches, family discussion over the years of issues likely to arise in college, and programs such as those offered by Summit Ministries (Manitou Springs, Colo.) and Dallas-based Probe Ministries. They also wrote about churches and campus groups in their college towns. University of Florida senior Nathan Shackles observed that "most of my 'higher' education takes place outside of academia in my community church, Reformed University Fellowship, [and] personal study."
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Being a new mum is both exhilarating and exhausting, so it's crucial to find a little balance.
Life with a baby is hectic, as any sleep-deprived mum knows, and it can be hard to juggle family life and take care of yourself at the same time. Self-care is vital however, because if Mum is healthy and happy, everyone else will be too. These tips will help you stay on top.
Plan a healthy diet
"A good diet is vital for new mums to keep their energy levels up," says food coach Judy Davie.
As a mum, you can't afford to get sick, but if you do, good nutrition will help you recover faster.
- Start your day with a nourishing breakfast, such as porridge with berries or muesli with yoghurt.
- Try to keep nutritious snacks on hand.
- Limit your intake of caffeine and sugar. Go for foods rich in vitamin C and eat lots of antioxidant-rich green leafy vegies instead.
- Stock up on foods rich in iron and zinc, such as lean red meat, oysters and mussels.
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- Sleep when the baby sleeps. Take your bub around the house with you while you do chores, then nap when they nap.
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- Build a community around you. "Help your friends so they help you out and delegate some housework to family members," Miller says.
Fit in some exercise
"Exercise keeps you sane, gives you routine, re-energises and restores life balance," says Lisa Rancan of Rancan Sisters Fitness.
- Start small. "Just go for a 10-minute walk with your baby or do pelvic lifts," Rancan says.
- Watch fitness DVDs so you can fit in a workout while the baby naps.
- Yoga and Pilates are both great for core strength, but be careful to pace yourself.
- Find a gym or pool with child-minding facilities so you can work out alone.
Three pick-me-ups
- Take five minutes to do yoga. Downward dog pose stretches your body from head to toe, while child's pose eases tension.
- If you're having a tough day, splash cold water on your face, brush your teeth and comb your hair. It will revive you.
- Put music on and dance with your bub – it will quickly lift your spirits.


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PANAMA CITY BEACH-- Beach Mosquito Control District uses a lot of tools to battle mosquitoes, but one of the best ways they can do that is with an aerial attack! That's right, this helicopter is on the front lines in the battle against the biters.
"We do use the aircraft both for larviciding and adultciding we have to change the systems out but we put two tanks, they look like hip tanks on the side and that's the one I do in the daytime when I am flying over the water sources," Brad Gunn, a helicopter pilot for BMCD said.
Is the material being sprayed safe for humans?
"There's about 45 varieties of mosquitoes on the beach, we're only after the ones that carry diseases and annoy people. One of the entomologists actually picked up a little vial of this material and drank it. Now it doesn't taste like a chocolate milkshake, I can attest that, but he was just trying to show this stuff is very, uh, it's not harmful to humans."
Entomologist Mike Riles' job is to monitor the mosquitoes for several species of virus like West Nile.
"Measuring the presence of this virus enable us to be able to control the transmission rates of the virus. Once we can detect the virus we can go out and spray and control those mosquito vectors that are able to transmit the virus," Riles said.
As you can see, we can all be a part of the battle against those pesky mosquitoes. Beach mosquito control district has their tools, and I have mine.
They recommend that you empty any standing water around the outside of your home once a week to prevent mosquitoes from laying eggs.


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Much like PSU banks struggling to arrest NPAs in times of slowdown, the Employees Provident Fund is on an over drive to speed up the recovery of dues from errant firms and reduce arrears that have mounted to Rs 4,157 crore so that it can build enough surplus and offer high interest to its subscribers.
The move comes after the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its performance audit slammed EPFO for slow recovery of dues despite court orders and delays in filing criminal cases against companies that dont deposit PF dues in time.
Falling returns from its bond portfolio and rising arrears have lowered the funds ability to pay higher interest to its subscribers last year. Due to paucity of funds in 2011-12, EPFO paid an 8.25% interest as against 9.5% in the previous year.
The increasing trend in arrears of provident fund allied dues has become a matter of concern. The CAG, which recently conducted performance audit of the organisation for the period from 2006-07 to 2010-11, observed that the contribution dues and arrears to be received fro the establishments has been mounting on one hand and recovery shows a downward trend on the other, additional PF commissioner PK Udgata said in an internal circular.
It is seen that there has not been effective review and monitoring of recovery of current and arrears demand in accordance with the instructions, he said adding the performance of recovery for 2012-13 was not very much encouraging.
EPFO head office has asked regional offices a series of steps to improve recovery including making efforts to vacate a stay where courts have granted stay, filing of claims when a company is going for liquidation and monitoring of receipts.
CAG has pointed out that field officers dont take prompt action in collecting fines awarded by courts. The CAG has also pointed out that there is considerable delay in filing criminal cases in instances where contributions deducted from wages of employees are not remitted to the statutory account by the employer. The CAG audit found that delays in initiating appropriate legal proceedings by EPFO impacts the timely collection of dues.
EPFO officials cited various reasons for the delays including shortage of manpower.
During 2010-11, EPFOs total arrears amounted to R 2,383.49 crore of which dues amounting to R 1,851.31 crore, or 77.67%, may not be immediately realisable and R 532.18 crore are realisable through recovery proceedings.


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This is not a list of players Arsenal should have bought in the last transfer window, it is a list of players I think the club should have bought BEFORE they became big-name stars:
Mesut Ozil
Weder Bremen to Real Madrid for €15 million
Ozil, in my opinion, is a great player. But with only 13 goals in 71 appearances for Weder Bremen from 2008-10, many would have overlooked his talent.
I believe the German would have fit in well next to Cesc Fabregas and could have easily settled in a 4-4-2 diamond formation. At only 24 (at the time of writing) he is arguably one of the best playmakers in world football.
In addition, Ozil was also on the 2011-12 shortlist for the FIFA Ballon d'Or award.
Sporting to Manchester United for £12.4 million
When you hear this name, some people think of the famous wink, some think of the fantastic free-kick against David James at Portsmouth, I think Arsenal could have signed him.
It was rumoured that Arsenal offered young Cristiano £90,000-a-week and were set to sign the tricky winger. However, Manchester United came along and offered him an extra 20k and the rest was history.
He is getting on a bit now at 28, yet he is still regarded as one of the best footballers ever to grace the game. With 183 goals (including the one against Manchester on Wednesday) and 180 games for Real Madrid, this man is certainly a machine that Arsenal could have done with. Ronaldo was the first player to win all four main PFA and FWA awards, doing so in 2007.
In 2008, Ronaldo won the Ballon d'Or. He became the runner up of the award in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012, second to Lionel Messi. He was awarded the European Golden Boot in both 2008 and 2011, and In 2008, he won three of the four main PFA and FWA trophies and was also named the FIFPro Player of the Year, World Soccer Player of the Year, Onze d'Or, and the FIFA World Player of the Year.
In 2007 and 2008, Ronaldo was named FWA Footballer of the Year. Ronaldo was the inaugural winner of the FIFA Puskás Award in 2009.
He would have been an absolute quality signing for us.
Van der Wiel has been terrible for a couple of years now. Would rather have Carl Jenkinson as backup rb than him. Darjo Srna or Yuto Nagatomo are the calibre of players that should be taking over from Sagna.
Scott Parker would have been an underwhelming signing. Like most English players, very overrated and not cut out for top level football.
Agree with the others, but not convinced we'd have seen the same Cristiano Ronaldo here. Skillful youngster, but would never have expected him to become the great player he is.
I should have listened at school and gone on to be a doctor or a rocket scientist.You cant expect Arsenal to buy every young player of promise.Instead of wondering about who might have been a great signing,why not just back the players we do have,especially as our season enters its defining phase
Ps szcezny will be harts equal once hes behind a defence thats as good as citys
You are shit as sczesney man look at Blackburn' game he was defended all game n they attackd just once n look it cost us the Fa
Who gives a rats ….. about this we just lost to Rovers for cying out loud ..CRRAAAPP what the f…..K where the hell is Silver coming from this yr. CL? fat chance!! WHy cant we put minnows to the sword the way HENRY AND CO. USED TO WHY? WHY? WHY? NOW MY WHOLE EVENING IS SCRWD.


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PLEASANT VIEW - Weber High School teacher Ashley Williams was teaching a method learned at a Current Technical Education Conference last summer when she instructed students to list slang terms for genitalia, according to a teachers union official.
The conference was paid for by Weber School District. Williams is currently on paid administrative leave while district officials investigate accusations of an inappropriate lesson taught in her "Adult Roles and Financial Literacy Class" on Friday. One parent, whose child is enrolled in the class, said parents signed a statement allowing their children to attend the class and acknowledging the subject matter. The parent, who asked not to be identified, supports Williams.
A student complained to the school's administration about the lesson and when administrators went to the classroom they found words describing private male and female parts written on a whiteboard. District spokesman Nate Taggart said that Williams was not suspended, but put on paid leave immediately on Friday after the incident was reported and discovered while the district investigates along with Utah Education Association representatives.
Matt Ogle, executive director of Ogden/Weber UniServ, said they will be representing Williams and that because of the investigation she cannot speak to media or it would jeopardize the investigation. Ogle thinks the investigation will be wrapped up quickly - in the next couple of days.
"We are hopeful she will be treated fairly by the process and with equity," Ogle said.
Williams has been teaching in the Weber School District for approximately eight years, starting at Roy Junior High School and is now at Weber High School.
"She has been an exemplary teacher and I have heard that the administration has thought of her as a good teacher," Ogle said.
Williams attended a CTE conference during the summer where a roundtable discussion was held between teachers where the idea for the lesson of describing the body parts was presented, Ogle said. Williams decided to try it in her classroom this year - but has never taught it in previous years.
The class is a concurrent enrollment class taught through Weber State University. Beth Rhoades, WSU Concurrent Enrollment Program administrator, said high school teachers such as Williams become adjunct professors when teaching concurrent enrollment courses. But Williams is still employed by the Weber School District, so any action taken will be taken by the district, not the university.
Rhoades did say that the course has the same curriculum as the university course and that instructors are strongly encouraged to teach correct terminology that is appropriate.
"They do have academic freedom to each as they see fit, but she probably should have chosen a different way," Rhoades said.
Rhoades said she and Child and Family Studies Department Chair Paul Schvaneveldt discussed the issue.
"They (teachers) have been advised to teach content with sensitivity for the cultural setting we are in," Rhoades said.
The concurrent enrollment teachers do go through training given by the university and are given all curriculum including tests. The method Williams was using was not part of that curriculum and the CTE conference was also not approved by the university, Rhoades said.
Ogle said it is not uncommon for districts to have teachers attend additional training where teachers can talk about teaching styles and techniques that have worked in their classrooms.
"They discuss best practices and she got it from them," Ogle said. He added that it is important to note that Williams is on paid leave, not suspended.
Taggart said the district has received a handful of calls on both sides of the issue today.


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|Harlan Onsrud
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Professor Onsrud's research focuses on the analysis of legal, ethical, and institutional issues affecting the creation and use of digital databases and the assessment of the social impacts of spatial technologies. He is past president and current Executive Director of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), past-president of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), and past Chair of the U.S. National Committee (USNC) on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) of the National Research Council. He has participated in and chaired U.S. National Research Council studies addressing various spatial data and service issues and is a lifetime National Associate of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences. He is a former chair of the Socieconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Working Group, a Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) in the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) located at CIESIN, Columbia University. Current and past research projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museums and Libraries, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Federal Geographic Data Committee, and the U.S. Department of Education. He teaches courses in Information Systems Law, Information Ethics, Responsible Conduct of Research and has a teaching interest in Cadastral and Land Information Systems. He is listed by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for Fulbright Specialist teaching assignments in Law and has completed such assignments at the University of Melbourne and the University of Muenster. A unifying theme in much of his teaching and research involves the concept of "ethics driven design." He is graduate coordinator for the MS and PhD programs in Spatial Information Science and Engineering and the MS Information Systems program.
M.S. University of Wisconsin, College of Engineering
Publications (sampling)
Onsrud, H.J., 2010, Legal Interoperability in Support of Spatially Enabling Society. In Abbas Rajabifard, Abbas, Joep Crompvoets, Mohsen Kalantari, and Bas Kok, Spatially Enabling Society: Research, Emerging Trends and Critical Assessment, 163-172. Entire Book at http://memberservices.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=902
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May 29, 2016
Melvin "Butch" Hollowell says he's glad it's over.
A circuit court judge has thrown out a solicitation charge against the former Michigan Democratic Party chairman.
Judge Prentis Edwards ruled Wayne County deputies didn't have the authority to pull over Hollowell near his Detroit home in August.
The officers issued Hollowell a citation accusing him of soliciting a prostitute. They followed him after seeing him pick up a woman.
A district court judge initially rejected Hollowell's argument about the authority of the Wayne County sheriff. Hollowell then appealed to the Wayne County Circuit Court.
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Cedar Fair (NYSE:FUN), a limited partnership based in Sandusky, Ohio and owner of major amusement parks around the country, including Cedar Point, King's Island and Valley Fair in the Midwest, Worlds of Fun and Knott's Berry Farm in California, along with several other attractions, presents a quandary for investors. Despite recently improved earnings and a high dividend, Cedar Fair suffers from the negatives of high debt and faces a likely downturn in its business. So what should investors do, given these mixed signals?
The Financial Roller Coaster
Cedar Fair is known for its super roller coasters, especially at its home park, Cedar Point, in Ohio. From the American classic, Blue Streak, right on up to the recent Millennium Force, the company's performance has somewhat mirrored these rides in recent years. Despite the seasonality of the amusement park business, Cedar Fair has largely been able to remain profitable. However, the 2006 acquisition of Paramount Parks caused it to take on a huge debt load to finance the purchase, which threw the company into negative earnings territory. The company's debt has proved to be a pretty bumpy ride because much of it is still being carried, while the company tries to integrate the substantial number of parks it bought and now runs. (For more on acquisitions, read What Makes an M&A Deal Work?.)
A Smoother Ride
As recently as a couple of months ago, Cedar Fair announced positive earnings results from its main seasonal operations for the spring and summer of 2008. This is no small feat, given the difficult economy, that the company's financial coaster ride picked up some positive steam. Competitors Disney (NYSE:DIS) and Six Flags (NYSE:SIX), for example, did not fare so well. Disney, a long-distance travel destination that only can be enjoyed at higher customer costs, had trouble with the economy. And Six Flags had even greater stress, as speculation ,mounted about its survival as a company going forward. Given the economic context, Cedar Fair's results sparkle. As it pays a dividend that amounts to a pass-through of a yield of 13% to 14% recently, investors may think Cedar Fair's ride is routed directly towards the investing sky. (Read The Importance of Dividends to see why this lucrative distribution is good for investors.)
A Dip Along the Way
Not so fast! Along with the hefty payout, Cedar Fair still carries a hard-to-digest $1.7 billion in debt from the acquisition of Paramount, which it is still working to integrate. A recent note by Standard and Poor's downgraded the Cedar Fair debt, citing the difficult economic conditions it will face during the 2009 amusement park season. Looking at this projection more closely, the economic difficulties for the Cedar Fair family of parks will be greater than the appeal of amusement parks as a destination for entertainment and leisure - even during the recession. (To learn more about this hotly debated topic, be sure to read The Debt Ratings Debate.)
Why the Caution Light?
The cost for a family to enjoy a day out at an amusement park is not as cheap as it once was. At around $40 per person, the cost of getting through the gate adds up quickly for most families. With consumers watching their vacation, leisure and entertainment dollars more carefully, competitors become an increasingly greater threat. Now that Cedar Fair is nationwide, it is more directly affected more by this competition. Furthermore, Cedar Fair lacks the diversity of a company like Disney, which has vast entertainment holdings beyond its amusement parks. Disney's diversification across entertainment genres generates the financial resources it needs to weather the economic downturn. Meanwhile, Cedar Fair just has its only parks.
However, another factor may have a longer-term impact on the health or demise of Cedar Fair than even the ongoing recession. And that is the sea change in the rust belt economies. Cedar Point, the flagship park and core of Cedar Fair, draws much of its crowd from Michigan, which has been devastated by the severe problems in the auto industry. The rest of its visitors come from a mix of places outside of the region, but the immediate region of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania (all rust belt states) are heavily blanketed with embedded secondary auto industry businesses such as suppliers.
Watch the Wild Ride
Cedar Fair has been a resourceful, dynamic company in a difficult industry. Arguably, it is the pure leader in its field. But the sustained economic downturn, the company's heavy debt load resulting from the purchase of Paramount Parks and the slumping rust belt economy indicate that investors should proceed with caution.


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Most of the time, dogs are a man's best friend. Until, on those rare instances, they become a person's worst enemy. That's why an Illinois lawmaker wants to crack down on dog owners, whose unattended canines wreak havoc on innocent bystanders.
"We gotta throw the book at them, because these attacks have seemed to increase as the last few years have gone by," Illinois State Representative Mike Boland said.
The legislation would go after owners of vicious dogs that aren't fixed. It would mean heavier fines and even prison time.
"The responsibility is for the owner. Keep your animal confined and away from the public, and we'll make a big dent in the amount of animal bites and attacks that's occurring here in Winnebago County," Animal Services Director Gary Longanecker said.
However, Winnebago County Animal Services Director Gary Longanecker says Boland's legislation isn't tough enough. He says a broader dog owner bill - that has broader support - is already been discussed downstate.
However, Boland says more than 70 percent of dog bites come from un-neutered dogs. He believes his proposal has a better chance of getting passed in spring session than one that includes both altered and unaltered animals.
"That bill will probably not go anywhere, because of opposition from farmers, and from many dog owners," Boland said.
A proposed crackdown on irresponsible dog owners, whose rambunctious pets run the risk of serious injury, or even death.


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We all agree, it is important to get behind constructive legislation that positively impacts our country. To learn more about legislation being considered by Congress go to: www.Congress.gov and type in either the name of the bill, type of legislation, or the bill number.
One has to wonder – Are our elected leaders doing everything they can to protect our freedom, health, security, prosperity, and happiness? Or, are they leaving much of the heavy lifting and many of the tough issues up to the Supreme Court? http://www.supremecourt.gov/
In the last ten years, two Supreme Court decisions have effected us more than any legislation that was signed into law. These two court cases are:
Both decisions had to do with the state of Connecticut.
Is the Supreme Court becoming the "Default-Federal Government-Decision-Maker"?
As a third branch of government why is that important in a US Senate race?
Because, as you know, the US Senate has to give its consent for a person to be appointed to SCOTUS.
To achieve E Pluribus Enum we have to fully debate issues in Congress and reach a consensus and sign into law good legislation rather than just "Drop-Kick" issues such as "The Right To Privacy" and "Property Rights" to our judicial system. Otherwise, we may ultimately be giving away our rights to individuals with Life-Time Appointments.
Remember learning about the Dred Scott Decision?
What type of Judges will your US Senate Candidate appoint to the bench?
I believe the role of Our Congress is to discuss and pass legislation (Even On Controversial Issues) and Our Judicial System was designed only to Interpret ambiguity in legislation that was passed – Not to legislate from the bench. Consequently, I will only appoint Judges that are Strict Constructionists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_constructionism


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Being Social #49 - Being authentic
Entrepreneur magazine asks, "how do you find your authentic voice on social media?" This is an especially tricky question if you are in marketing and your job is to use social media to market your company. According to Ross McCammon, the key is to "write like you talk." How would you say it to someone standing next to you? What would you say at a group get-together? Say it that way. Don't sound stilted or forced. Sound like you!
The other key thing to remember is that people have to care about what you say. If you're saying something that just sounds like noise, then no one is going to listen.
For more from McCammon and Entrepreneur, read the entire of the article.
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Case Studies
Finance, Security, Insurance
Global Technology company needs to ensure all locations have access to critical network and applications
Visual Performance Manager Gives Regional Banking and Financial Services Company Complete Visibility Into Application and Connection Performance
Large Regional Credit Union uses Fluke Networks' Visual TruView to Identify Root Cause on Network and Application Issues within 30 Seconds
Services Company needs to be aware of when there is a problem anywhere in their network, even with hosted applications
Fluke Networks' Visual Performance Manager™ Ensures Network and Application Performance of Packaging Systems for Large Manufacturer
Information Services
By leveraging Versiv™ DSX-5000, CertiFiber® and LinkWare™ Live, PowerCom has significantly reduced the time and effort needed to test the systems and provide results to their customers.
Key Information Systems Adds Customer Value with Packet-Level Analysis from Visual TruView
IT Provider for the City of Brussels Uses Fluke Networks' Visual TruView to Monitor Network and Application Performance Across the City
Fluke Networks' Network Time Machine Cuts Troubleshooting Time in Half for Voice and Data Telecom Company
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Mitel Leverages the OptiView® XG Network Analysis Tablet to Pinpoint the Root Cause of Network Issues with Certainty.
Redstone upgraded its entire testing fleet to the new Versiv platform, including 40 DSX-5000 CableAnalyzer units, many equipped with CertiFiber Pro Optical Loss Test Set (OLTS) modules and Fiber Inspection Cameras. The company also purchased 20 OneTouch™ AT Network Assistant units.
Fluke Networks' Visual TruView™ Provides Unprecedented Visibility into Customer Networks for Dallas-Based Network Consulting Company
Migrating from the Fluke Networks DTX-1800 CableAnalyzer to the new Versiv DSX-5000 product line was caused less by a challenge and more by an opportunity to adopt a next-generation technology that leveled the playing field against shrinking budgets and project schedules.
AirMagnet Spectrum ES™ Eliminates Inefficient Tiered Technical Support for a Major Wireless Network Infrastructure Provider
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer Provides Troubleshooting Solution, Accurate Reporting and Increased Clients for Network Consulting Firm
Fluke Networks is pleased to announce that ECR Informatique, a leading company in the cable installation market, acquired the new Versiv platform, now with a fleet of 7 cable certifiers with DSX-5000 replacing DTX-1800 in order to consolidate its position and deployment in structured cabling solutions systems at both DataCenters and horizontal cabling levels.
The Miami Dade Public Library System Takes Charge of its Network with Visual TruView™ and OptiView® XG
Think Trunk Cables Don't Need Testing? MultiFiber Pro Shows One Installation Contractor They Certainly Do
Health Care
Leading Healthcare Provider, Memorial Hermann Health System, Remotely Diagnoses and Troubleshoots Wireless Network Problems With AirMagnet Enterprise
While Center IT does not spend a lot of time on wireless issues, it does field user complaints, handle configurations for new users and guests, and as the organization grows, addresses infrastructure issues.
Public Administration
Dubai World Trade Centre Ensures Wi-Fi Performance for Exhibitors by Hunting Rogue APs with Fluke Networks' AirCheck Wi-Fi Tester
Optiview XG Network Analysis Tablet Gives Lowndes County, GA the Power to Quickly Diagnose, Repair and Even Design Networks
Fluke Networks' Visual TruView Helps Ensure Network and Application Performance Across County Tipperary in Ireland
OptiView XG Network Analysis Tablet Keeps Systems Running to Save Time and Money for City of High Point
Utilities (including mining, quarrying & oil/gas extraction)
National Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Company Uses Fluke Networks' Visual TruView™ and OptiView® XG to Manage Nationwide Network Needs
Retail Trade
FloraHolland Trusts Visual TruView™ to Monitor the Network and Applications Responsible for Auctioning 12.5 Billion Plants and Flowers Each Year.
Bealls Department Stores Uses Fluke Networks' Visual TruView For Complete Application Performance Visibility
Major Department Store Chain Uses AirMagnet Enterprise to Find Wi-Fi Threats "Hiding in Plain Sight"
Educational Services
School District needs fast performance from SaaS learning applications to keep students engaged
The Miami Dade Public Library System Takes Charge of its Network with Visual TruView™ and OptiView® XG
The University of Nottingham Expands Fluke Networks Use to Baseline and Solve Complex Issues Faster
Fluke Networks' OptiView® XG Helps Carrollton City Schools Identify and Understand How To Fix Network and Application Issues
OCPS Keeps School District IT Systems Humming with Visual TruView.
LinkSprinter Aces Every Test at Valparaiso University
Jordan School District, located in West Jordan, Utah, serves more than 50,000 students across 33 elementary schools, nine middle schools, eight high and technical schools and three specialty schools. The district employs more than 4,500 faculty and staff across its 55 locations.
Transportation and Warehousing
Southeastern Freight Lines installed a Visual TruView™ 4800 at its Columbia, S.C., data center facility to provide 24/7 monitoring for application performance and end-user experience issues.
Management of Companies and Enterprise
Arts Entertainment and Recreation
Fluke Networks' OptiView® XG Helps Chester Zoo IT Staff Ferret Out Network and Application Issues Fast


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Guy Fieri Is Having a Huge Super Bowl Party
Just remember: No autograph requests will be honored.
The bad news is that it's sold out, but you never know: Someone might cancel at the last minute, and then you'll be right there with the food TV personality himself at the intimate pre-game party he's hosting for 175 people in the private dining room at Guy's American Kitchen on Saturday night. If you do happen to score a ticket, you and your frightening "Next Stop Flavortown" T-shirt will first have to go through metal detection and/or submit to a bag search, and while you may have plenty of chances to get your photo taken with Guy Fieri, "autograph requests will not be honored." [Inside Access via Ryan Sutton/Twitter]


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Just to add to the debate of which of the 4 will win....
MCN this week has an article from Neil Spalding, where he says that Yamaha have a new gearbox in their factory bikes to counteract the HRC seamless 'box & their previous advantage out of turns & initial acceleration. Its on Page 78 if you have access to this publication.
It'll be interesting to see the relative performance in this critical area at COTA - have Yam closed the gap with a better gearbox? If so, by how much? The HRC's were ascendant in the test, but that doesn't guarantee that the race weekend will go the same way. It'll be educational finding out!


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July 24, 2013 1:00 PM
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Tulane University alumna Cecile Monteyne, right, goes over her part during a table reading of the script of Love, Loss and What I Wore as Janet Shea and fellow Tulane alumnae Cassie Worley and Nell Nolan follow along. The group convened in the Theater Lab of McWilliams Hall in preparation for this weekend's performance at Le Petit Theatre. Worley is executive director of Le Petit, while Monteyne, Shea and Nolan are among a rotating cast of characters in the play. Click here for more information.
Tulane faculty member Carl Walker is directing Love, Loss and What I Wore, a collection of stories adapted into a play by Nora and Delia Ephron. Other members of the Tulane community involved in the production are faculty members Martin Sachs, who is designing the lighting, and Clare Moncrief, who is a cast member. Also in the cast is alumna Leslie Castay. Alumna Shelia Bosworth, who is a novelist, is the production's dramaturg and has worked with director Walker in adapting the script to a New Orleans setting.
Nell Nolan flips a page of the script; Leslie Castay is amused.
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New Co-Op Espresso Blend for Clintonville Community Market
Sometimes our customers request a coffee that's exclusively theirs. And that's what we've created for Clintonville Community Market, a unique member-owned grocery store providing a full selection of organic, local and natural products. Made with fair trade organic coffee beans, … Read More
How to Calculate Coffee Shop Startup Costs
In his recent "Start-up Strategies" column for CoffeeTalk magazine, Greg addressed one of the first questions potential business owners ask: "How much will it cost to open my coffee shop?" He goes on to write, "Because every specialty coffee business … Read More
Ride Home Cyclery & Coffee Bar Opens in Worthington, Ohio
A big Crimson Cup welcome to Ride Home! This bike-and-coffee-shop combo recently opened at 650 High Street in Worthington, Ohio. Ride Home is the brainchild of the Kris and Heidi Anderson, who run the shop with their children Justin, Ryan, … Read More
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Congratulations to The Hills Market Downtown on celebrating their first anniversary at 95 N. Grant Avenue in the Downtown Columbus Discovery District. We're excited to announce the debut of our new Crimson Cup Coffee Bar as part of The Hills … Read More
Greg Shares Startup Strategies in Coffeetalk Magazine
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Who Got Voted Off Dancing With the Stars Tonight? May 21, 2013
After tears, cheers, and an unusual number of injuries, four stars and their pro partners have made it to the Dancing With the Stars Season 16 finals. On tonight's DWTS Finale event (May 21, 2013), the top four dancers will be whittled down to one Mirror Ball champion.
Who will take the top prize? Jacoby Jones, Aly Raisman, Kellie Pickler, and Zendaya Coleman are all fierce competitions, but there can be only one winner. Here's where they stand on the leaderboard going into the night:
Zendaya & Val — 30 + 5 + 30 = 65
Kellie & Derek — 30 + 4 + 30 = 64
Aly & Mark — 28 + 3 + 30 = 61
Jacoby & Karina — 27 + 2 + 27 = 56
And, of course, there's still the 24-hour challenge, which will add more points into the mix. And that's just 50 percent of the score — fan vote will be a huge factor.
So, who's eliminated, and in what order? Check back with this post throughout the night; we'll keep you updated on who has been kicked off as the show goes on.
The first pair eliminated was Aly and Mark, which means they came in fourth. Whoa! We can't say we're entirely shocked, but that does confirm that Jacoby had some major fan votes behind him. Never underestimate the football players!
Jacoby and Karina were the next pair voted off, making them third. That means Zendaya and Kellie, the frontrunners since Week 1, are numbers one and two. No surprise there. But who took it all?
Kellie Pickler won, putting Zendaya in second. Wow!
What order would you have ranked the final four? Sound off in the comments below.
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The DC Genome Project is a joint project between Microsoft Research (MSR) and Microsoft Global Foundation Services (GFS). The goal of the project is to use data-driven and feedback control approaches to monitor, analyze, and improve data center operation efficiencies, to maximize data center capacity utilization, and to minimize their environmental impacts.
Genomotes are customized wireless sensor nodes for data center environmental sensing. They use IEEE 802.15.4 wireless radio for communication. For ease of deployment and reduction of the number of contending wireless nodes, we take a master-slave chained design. The master node is a wireless node, which also has a serial interface to communicate with the slave nodes. A slave node has two serial interfaces, one up chain and one down chain.
RACNet is the network among the wireless Genomotes for data collection. Wireless sensor networking faces significant challenges in a data center environment. The number of nodes in the communication neighborhood can be very large. In our experience, between 50% to 80% nodes can hear (interfere) each other. RACNet used multiple communication channels and a token passing mechanism to avoid congestion in the network. We achieve more than 99.5% data yield in production deployments.
Cypress Data Management
One direct consequence of taking a data-driven approach for data center management is to deal with the massive amount of data generated from sensors (including soft sensors such as application performance counters) and other information sources. Cypress is a compressive data management framework for time series streams. It decomposes time series into multiple compressed feature streams (called trickles). Trickles can be further grouped together to take advantage of spatial correlation for more compression. Common queries such as select, trend, histogram, and correlations can be answered directly from compressed trickles rather than from reconstructing the raw data.
Server Provisioning
Using the data collected from servers and their environments, we are looking at improving data center operation efficiency through static and dynamic server provisioning. RackPacker is a data-driven static provisioning approach by taking advantage of stationary and statistical variations of workload to improve provisioned power utilization. AutoShift is a dynamic provisioning approach to migrate workload to a minimum number of servers and turn off unnecessary servers. We use a seasonal time series regression technique for load prediction and dynamically skew the load to active servers (c.f. NSDI08 publication).
Joint Resource Control
The computing (cyber-) systems and the physical systems in a data center have their own distinct dynamics. A user request must be servers in milliseconds, while some facility components have a life time of over 15 years. How to organize across the nine-orders of magnitude is a great challenge for resource control purpose. We envision a holistic control framework where information and constraints are shared across the physical and computing boundaries to maximize energy saving potentials. For example, load balancers can be designed to give more load to the servers that can be easily cooled. Workload (and thus power) spikes can be clipped to protect UPS in an oversubscription environment. A critical component in this vision is the joint modeling of various dynamics (continuous time, discrete events, queueing, etc.) and a framework to analyze their interaction.
- Microsoft Global Foundation Services: Mike Manos, Daniel Costello, Amaya Souarez, Patrick Yantz, Jeff O'Reilly, Kelly Roark, Sean James, Christian Belady, Phil Suver, Charl Kunzmann
- Johns Hopkins University: Andreas Terzis
- Harbin Institute of Technology (China): Qiang Wang
- Intern Students: Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Mike Liang, Lakshmi Ganesh, Galen Reeves, Sorabh Gandhi
- Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Kaifei Chen, Nissanka Bodhi Priyantha, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, RushNet: Practical Traffic Prioritization for Saturated Wireless Sensor Networks, in SenSys (Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, November 2014.
- Li Zhao, Jacob Brouwer, Jie Liu, Sean James, John Siegler, Aman Kansal, and Eric Peterson, Fuel Cells for Data Centers: Power Generation Inches From the Server, no. MSR-TR-2014-37, March 2014.
- Ana Carolina Riekstin, Sean James, Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, and Eric Peterson, No More Electrical Infrastructure: Towards Fuel Cell Powered Data Centers, in 2013 Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems , ACM, November 2013.
- Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Kaifei Chen, Jie Liu, Nissanka Bodhi Priyantha, and Feng Zhao, Poster Abstract: Shipping Data from Heterogeneous Protocols on Packet Train, in IPSN (International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, April 2012.
- Jie Liu and Andreas Terzis, Sensing Data Centers for Energy Efficiency, in Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A. January 13, 2012 370 1958 136-157, , 13 January 2012.
- Lei Li, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Andreas Terzis, and Christos Faloutsos, ThermoCast: A Cyber-Physical Forecasting Model for Data Centers, in KDD (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, August 2011.
- Jie Liu, Michel Goraczko, Sean James, Christian Belady, Jiakang Lu, and Kamin Whitehouse, The Data Furnace: Heating Up with Cloud Computing, in 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, USENIX, June 2011.
- Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Nissanka Bodhi Priyantha, Jie Liu, and Andreas Terzis, Surviving Wi-Fi Interference in Low Power ZigBee Networks, in SenSys (ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2 November 2010.
- Jie Liu, Automatic Server to Circuit Mapping with The Red Pills, in 2010 Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower '10), USENIX, 3 October 2010.
- Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Jie Liu, Liqian Luo, Andreas Terzis, and Feng Zhao, RACNet: A High-Fidelity Data Center Sensing Network, in SenSys (ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, November 2009.
News Coverage
- MIT Technology Review: Saving Energy in Data Centers
- Popular science (Posci.com): Microsoft Practices Sensor-ship
- KOMO4 News: Microsoft Research: From cells to solar system
- IDG News (appeared on PC World, Computer World, etc.): Microsoft shows off Data-center Monitoring System
- New Scientist: Delaying data could cut net's carbon footprint.


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Feb 11 2013
Future engineers are expected to appreciate, more than before, the human dimensions of technology. They need to understand the nuances of working in a culturally diverse space
Engineers work under various constraints: nature, cost, safety, environment, ergonomics, reliability, manufacturability and maintainability, among others. They need revitalisation from time to time. The industry wants real-world engineers equipped to deal with the complex interactions, across many disciplines. The public expects confident engineers — those who can handle unknown and unexpected problems. Future engineers are expected to appreciate, more than before, the human dimensions of technology. They are expected to have a grasp on global issues. They need to understand the nuances of working in a culturally diverse space. According to some experts, the merger of creative disciplines (art, music, architecture) with engineering activities (design and innovation) will add value to the engineering profession. Good engineering design should not be deprived of the benefits of a broad spectrum of life experiences as adequate familiarisation with societal demands is essential for practical technological literacy.
From the age of "speed and power" in the 20th century, we have entered the age of biology and information. In the 20th century, it was physics, electronics, high-speed communications and high-speed long-distance transportation. The 21st century belongs to biotechnology and nanotechnology, and also to macro issues like energy, water and sustainability. "An emerging element of this evolving engineering context is "open innovation", writes Charles Vest. Open innovation organisations don't confine themselves to inner means for solving problems. They go out, wherever they have to, to find solutions. Once they know where the solutions are available, it doesn't matter if they are available with a competitor; they make all efforts to obtain it, not necessarily by adopting buying strategies. As Vest writes, in the knowledge age, both the 'tiny systems' and 'macro systems' are going to play central role. The future engineers, thus, need to be better equipped to deal with people of diverse background, such as social science, management, and communications. "Much of what will be exciting and valuable in the 21st century will be the work of engineers who will move tiny systems technology into macro systems applications," says Vest.
What are engineers? Creators, innovators or problem solvers. What are the grand challenges the future engineers face? Should they remain 'behind the scene' as they have traditionally remained? Whenever we think of social issues, do we ever think of the engineers? Shouldn't they be involved more in setting the public policy where they matter? They are known more for the failures than for successes. This is not the right perception. They need to change their public image of engineering.
Some of the grand challenges, from an engineer's point of view, are environment protection, hunger, energy and spread of diseases. Another challenge is "How to make engineering attractive for the youth?" There is a need for developers of responsible technologies and products. We do need managers to manage things, but we also need adequate number of things to manage. But, often it seems that we have more managers than the things to manage. We need more engineering icons and role models. Engineers can't afford to be bystanders. They need to understand that humanity requires engineering solutions. We need more engineers in hardcore engineering sectors. There is a need to build faith in the public that engineers are sensitive to their concerns. As Cherry A Murray says, engineers of the future are like "T-shaped" thinkers, deep in one field, but able to work across all fields and communicate well.
In this changing scenario, we need different kinds of engineering educators. Engineering educators need to recognise the importance of life-long learning. Some of us may disagree, but many of our engineering educators are not practising engineers. For future engineers, write Robin Adams and Richard Felder, it is imperative to shift the focus of engineering curricula from transmission of content to development of skills that support engineering thinking and professional judgment. Along with this, we need to change the learning environment. Formal classrooms are not enough. Social learning is crucial for the successful implementation of engineering solutions. The system of engineering education has various components. It includes engineering profession, the society it serves, educational institutions, educators, and students. All these components need to be weaved into a whole. That is the challenge of future engineering education.
(The writer is a biotechnologist and ED, Birla Institute of
Scientific Research, Jaipur)


text: My original plan was to train through Diamond in the Rough to see how my training has been progressing this summer. I decided to run the Columbia course last Wednesday and I didn�t make it far before my IT band started bothering me, and ended up walking the last bit around the lake to my car. I know I am prone to IT band problems because my ankle was not set straight after I broke it years ago.I left a little before 5 to get up there, and arrived shortly before the park opened. I saw Sadj talking to some other cars as we were all parked waiting to get in. I had plenty of time to set up my transition area and prepare for the race. I had some swimming goals, and biking goals still, but my running goal was just to finish the run without hurting myself farther.Swim 21:12I was hoping to drop below 21 minutes in the swim. I was a past swimmer for 10 years before taking 5 years off in college, so I am slowly getting my swimming ability back. Sadj liked the new stairs but little did she know as they asked my wave to get into the water, the stairs collapsed and the two people on the end basically fell into the water as the rest of us quickly jumped in before they all fell off. That was interesting. The river had a 3-4 knot current in it, so staying right at the starting line was hard, I think I was 10 feet in front of it due to the current. After seeing my time, I feel as if I reached my goal of breaking the 21 minute mark for 1500m when you factor in the run to my bike was all included into the swim time and the current definitely slowed everyone down compared to a lake swim like at Columbia. Next year they need a few spotting buoys in between the turn buoys, because having a few orange caps in front of you looks like an orange turn buoy a long ways away, but did not pose to be too much of a problem, but could be if it were choppy.T1 1:00Smooth transition, no problems.Bike 1:17:31I definitely need to work on my bike split some more, but my bike spent two and a half weeks needing repair while I got a new shifter. At my last Tri at the beginning of June, one of the other racers before the race decided he wanted his bike where mine was on the rack, moved my bike bending and breaking the ratchet in my left shifter. The bike course is really nice, and I enjoyed riding it, I like the hills, it adds a bit of a technical challenge to the race. I played leap frog with about three others for the first 10 miles before I let them go so I did not wear myself out too much.T2 0:40Real quick switch of the shoes and I will see how far I get before my IT band starts bothering me.Run 41:13Well I made it out of the transition before it started bothering me, but not very far after that. What got me was everyone running by saying �looking good� and all I could think about was my knee hurting. My original goal was to run under a 7 minute pace since I ran a 7:03 at hilly Columbia this May, but I knew that would never happen if my knee bothered me for 5 miles. I ended up running an 8:15 pace which was better than what I ever expected, so I was pleased.Now I plan to let my knee rest a bit before I injure it any farther.I saw Sadj and Dawn on the run as well as a few others that I recognized, everyone looked good, congrats to all on a good race. That concludes my racing season in MD for this year as I head off to start Graduate School (jumping ship from Penn State to Purdue) at the beginning of August. I plan to be back in time for Columbia next May!


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Former Anchorage Corrections Officer Sentenced to Jail Time
Helped Bring Contraband, Including Heroin, into the Anchorage Jail
|U.S. Attorney's Office September 28, 2012
ANCHORAGE—U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler announced that former Anchorage Corrections Officer Patrick Sherman, 48, was sentenced to one year and one day imprisonment, followed by three years' supervised release. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess imposed the sentence upon Sherman.
In his guilty plea, Sherman admitted that in 2008, an accomplice was incarcerated at the Anchorage Correctional Complex (ACC). During this incarceration, the accomplice and Brandi Barnes distributed controlled substances, along with syringes, within ACC. Sherman, also known as "2.5," was a corrections officer at ACC. On numerous occasions, Sherman received pre-packaged controlled substances from Brandi Barnes and others and delivered the narcotics to an accomplice for re-sale within the jail to inmates. Sherman admitted that he was paid by Barnes for each delivery the he made to the unindicted co-conspirator. Brandi Barnes was sentenced to 60 months' imprisonment earlier this year for her roles in this and a larger drug trafficking conspiracy.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Russo, who represented the United States at sentencing, requested a sentence of one year, which was above the applicable United States Sentencing Guidelines. Sherman, citing his status as a former corrections officer, requested a sentence that included no jail time. Judge Burgess agreed with the government's request, citing the seriousness of Sherman's conduct and the need to treat all equally under the law, regardless of one's status as a former law enforcement officer. Judge Burgess also stressed the need to deter other corrections officers from engaging in similar conduct.
The case was the result of an investigation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration-Anchorage District Office and the Alaska State Troopers, Mat-Su Narcotics Unit; the investigation was supported by numerous agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Anchorage Police Department; Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and the Anchorage Airport Police.


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In May, thousands of Arizona high-school seniors turned their tassels, threw their caps in the air and embarked on an exciting new chapter of their lives.
So what now?
As parents, we all want our children to have the best opportunities possible. As a state legislator and Arizonan, I value the fact that how we educate the workforce of tomorrow will determine the future of our state, especially as the nature of the global economy demands that a higher proportion of the state's population be college educated.
That is why despite the difficult budgetary issues our universities and community colleges are facing during this economic slowdown, leaders are also taking steps to ensure that a college education remains accessible and affordable to our Arizona students.
It is true that university tuition has escalated in recent years. There's no doubt about that. However, Arizona's universities still represent a tremendous bang for your buck. We have world-class programs for our students, and our tuition remains in the bottom third nationally, while the universities themselves have been providing financial aid to defray their "sticker price."
Moreover, our schools are taking additional steps - some at the direction of state lawmakers and Gov. Jan Brewer - to reduce other costs that students have traditionally faced.
A major saving for families and students has been the universities' pledge programs, where students are guaranteed the same tuition for four years, allowing financial stability and planning.
Instead of forcing students to purchase textbooks, Arizona State University now offers students the ability to rent them simply for as long as they are needed - greatly reducing one of the greatest costs students face at our universities.
Access also means having seats for all the qualified students who want a college degree. Both Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona have expanded their enrollments in recent years, and ASU has added a staggering 20,000 additional qualified students in the last decade.
This focus on access and degree completion is also evident in the collaboration between community colleges and universities. For example, today a student can enroll at Yavapai College and is automatically dually enrolled at NAU.
Similar venues are happening across the state, changing the higher-education model and making an advanced degree available to more and more students.
ASU offers several programs of this kind, including a Pathways Program with Maricopa Community Colleges. In total, NAU has seven joint-admission agreements with seven different community-college districts.
Beyond this, you will now find online classes at ASU for students who don't fit into the traditional university model. Again, more accessibility.
We are beginning to see a small but significant economic recovery. My hope is that many of the sacrifices our K-12 and university system have had to endure are behind us now.
And this past legislative session, Gov. Brewer and the Legislature instructed the Arizona Board of Regents to look at ways of looking at affordability and funding parity at our universities.
Our goal is to create a university-funding model that is student- and results-focused, so that dollars between our three major universities in the state are appropriated evenly and fairly based on their needs and outcomes. We're anxious to see the regents move in this direction.
I know Arizona families are struggling through this economy. And I know that means college affordability is as imperative as ever.
In conjunction with our universities, we are doing our best to make sure that during these challenging times the young men and women of today have as much, if not more, access to earn an education as those who came before them.
Bob Robson, a Chandler Republican, is an Arizona state representative from District 20.
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