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The late Leo W. Jenkins, who led East Carolina University from 1960-1978, and Chapel Hill businessman and philanthropist Thomas S. Kenan III are the 2014 recipients of the University Award, the highest honor given by the Board of Governors of the 17-campus University of North Carolina.
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UNC President Tom Ross and Board of Governors Chairman Peter Hans presented the awards, which recognize illustrious service to higher education in North Carolina, during a banquet Thursday evening (April 10) on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Jenkins' youngest son, Superior Court Judge Jack Jenkins of Morehead City, accepted his father's award on behalf of the Jenkins family.
During the evening, tributes to Jenkins and Kenan were offered by ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard and UNC School of the Arts Interim Chancellor James Moeser.
A New Jersey native and decorated World War II veteran, Leo Jenkins was recruited to North Carolina in 1947 to serve as dean of instruction at East Carolina Teachers College, now known as East Carolina University.
Over the next three decades, Jenkins led ECU's transformation from a teacher's college to a university, strengthened every facet of its academic programs, enhanced its athletic programs, and presided over phenomenal growth in the size of the student body, faculty, facilities, and campus footprint.
During Jenkins' tenure, ECU's strong programs in education were joined by emerging programs in business, the fine arts, the sciences, and the health sciences. Graduate programs followed. Along the way, Jenkins firmly established ECU as the focal point for progress in the East and pushed relentlessly for more equitable distribution of state resources for the region. To that end, he spearheaded the long and sometimes contentious campaign to have a four-year medical school established at ECU. The advances in medical care his efforts made possible and the educational transformation he facilitated not only changed the face of the institution, but also altered the economic future of eastern North Carolina.
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Few families have been so intertwined with the long history of the University of North Carolina as the Kenans. In 1793, James Kenan became a founding trustee of university at Chapel Hill, and for more than two centuries, Kenan family members have continued to support faculty, programs, and facilities across the Chapel Hill campus and UNC system. Today, Tom Kenan is one of the University of North Carolina system's most generous and loyal supporters.
Kenan, who holds a degree in economics from UNC-Chapel Hill, is vice chairman and director of Flagler System, Inc. In addition to his extensive business operations, he serves as a trustee or officer for the Kenan Family Foundation; William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust; William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund for the Arts; William Kenan, Jr. Fund; William R. Kenan, Jr. Fund for Engineering, Technology and Science; William R. Kenan Fund for Ethics; Thomas S. Kenan Foundation; Randleigh Foundation Trusts; Mary Duke Biddle Foundation; Semans Art Fund; Duke Endowment; and ARTS North Carolina. He founded the Thomas S. Kenan III Foundation.
A tireless advocate for education, the arts, and history in North Carolina, Kenan has been a devoted volunteer and benefactor to many institutions of higher education in the state, including several UNC campuses.
At UNC-Chapel Hill, he has supported the Wilson Library and its Southern Historical Collection, the renovation and performance program endowment of Memorial Hall, as well as the Department of Music, where he established the Kenan Music Scholars Program. He has served on the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Visitors, the Kenan-Flagler Business School's Board of Visitors, the Arts and Sciences Foundation Board of Directors, the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and the Ackland Art Museum Visiting Committee.
In the 1960s, Kenan was a strong and convincing advocate for the creation of the North Carolina School of the Arts (now the UNC School of the Arts). He served on UNCSA's board of trustees from 1969-85 and continues to serve as an honorary trustee. A member of its Board of Visitors since 1985, he also is a member of UNCSA's Giannini Society and Founders Society and served for many years on the UNCSA Foundation board.
At North Carolina State University, Kenan has supported a wide range of academic and scholarship programs, including the William Rand Kenan Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine, William R. Kenan Jr. Memorial Scholarship in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Frank Hawkins Kenan Kenan Professorship of Chemical and Viomolecular Engineering, University Faculty Scholars Program, and William R. Kenan Jr. Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science. He has been particularly involved in the Institute's Kenan Fellows Program, a competitive scholarship and research fellowship open to K-12 public school teachers across disciplines.
In addition, UNC Wilmington's chancellor's residence, Kenan House, was recently restored under Kenan's guidance and support.
UNC-TV presents a video profile of the life of Leo Jenkins.


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We've suffered through two Garfields, three godawful Alvin & the Chipmunks flicks, Yogi Bear, and other horrible 3D CG movie remakes of classic cartoons. But the whole irritating phenomenon may be redeemed by this news that Disney is making a new Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers movie.
Most kids of the late '80s probably remember the show fondly, as part of a shockingly good block of Disney animation which also included DuckTales, TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck. Rescue Rangers had Chip and Dale — excuse me, Chip 'n Dale — running a detective agency for small animals, with help from their hotheaded Australian mouse adventurer Monterey Jack, and Gadget, the team's pilot, mechanic, inventor, and genius.
The Hollywood Reporter says that commercial director Robert Rugen is writing the script, which isn't exactly inspiring, but the movie will be produced by Mandeville Films, the company that also made the last Muppets movie for Disney, so here's hoping they can bring some of that magic to Rangers.
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OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The family of 13-year-old Jahi McMath hailed the release of the brain-dead teen's body from an Oakland, Calif., hospital as a victory, a relative said.
Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland officials said the hospital released Jahi's body Sunday to the Alameda County coroner's office, which turned the body over to the girl's mother "as per court order," the Los Angeles Times reported.
"Jahi is FREE!!! Bye Children's Hospital," her uncle, Omari Sealey, posted on Twitter Sunday evening.
Sealey, who participated in a news conference Sunday with family attorney Christopher Dolan, said the girl was "with her mother, where she should be."
"Today is a victory for Jahi," Dolan said.
Dolan did not indicate where Jahi would be taken, but said "there will be doctors involved." He said the family did not want Jahi's location disclosed because of "real concerns" about her safety, noting the family has received death threats.
The Alameda County coroner's office issued a death certificate Friday, stating Dec. 12 as the date of death, the San Francisco Chronicle said. Dolan said the family never got a copy of the death certificate and the cause of death was pending.
She left the hospital accompanied by a critical care team and attached to a ventilator, but no feeding tube was in place, CNN reported. The family raised more than $48,000 on GoFundMe.com to move Jahi.
Jahi suffered complications Dec. 12, three days after she underwent tonsil surgery. Two hospital physicians and many outside doctors sought by the family determined she was brain dead and the county coroner was notified, court records indicated.
Jahi's family protested the hospital's intention to remove her from a ventilator, saying she was not dead and her heart was still beating.


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In the final episode of "Seinfeld," the four self-obsessed main characters get carted off to prison for breaking a Good Samaritan law by not aiding a carjacking victim. They even mocked the poor guy as Kramer videotaped the incident.
It's funny, in a kind of perverse, Seinfeldian way, that the original cast is gearing up for a fictional reunion show on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" as more than 100 TV programs on the major networks and cable are promoting the value of helping others in storylines and public service announcements this week.
On "30 Rock," wide-eyed page Kenneth will go overboard in adopting stray dogs. The "Ghost Whisperer" will give blood. "The Biggest Loser" contestants will work at a food bank.
The iParticipate movement is being run by the Entertainment Industry Foundation, the folks who gave us last year's "Stand up to Cancer" telethon. Though President Obama has stressed the value of community service, foundation officials insist theirs is a bi-partisan effort, inspired by both Obama and Sen. John McCain's campaign trail calls for volunteerism.
"All of our political leaders have made national service a priority," the foundation's chief executive, Lisa Paulsen, told The Los Angeles Times.
The effort seems noble enough, even if there's as much opportunity for cleverly weaving in do-gooder subplots as there is a danger of coming across as preachy. Some viewers could be turned off – and tune out.
As pioneering movie mogul Sam Goldwyn famously put it, "Pictures are for entertainment. Messages should be delivered by Western Union."
Viewers are bombarded by enough messages these days, online and on TV, especially as product placement becomes more common and sneaky. But the iParticipate push has been upfront and heavily publicized. The foundation has a website giving those who choose to get up off the couch a way to find volunteering opportunities.
So will the week-long effort change lives or is it just a bunch of feel-good, Hollywood yadda-yadda-yadda that would make the cynical Seinfeld gang cringe?
It's too soon to tell. But like chicken soup – even the mulligatawny variety spooned out by the Soup Nazi – TV's volunteer week gimmick probably can't hurt.
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National Science Foundation report shows an increase of more than thirty percent over the previous year - biggest incease among top 100 institutionsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Federal expenditures on research at UH Manoa increased over thirty percent from one year to the next — to more than $187 million in fiscal year 2004 — according to figures compiled and reported by the National Science Foundation.
Among all public universities in the country, UH is ranked 25th for such expenditures, and is listed at 47th in the country — up from 54th — among all public and private universities in the federal survey.
"The data confirm the vitality of Manoa's research enterprise," said Vice Chancellor for Research Gary Ostrander. "The fact is that we had the largest rate of growth from one year to the next — more than 30 percent — of any of the top 100 research institutions in the U.S."
While the figures report information that is two years old, Manoa faculty researchers continue to compete successfully for significant amounts of extramural funding from multiple sources.
"We are committed to growing our research programs here," Ostrander added, "and an important result of that commitment is the ability to provide more opportunities for undergraduates to participate in scholarship and discovery in a broad range of disciplines."
The numbers and rankings are from NSF's annual "Survey of Research and Development Expenditures at Universities and Colleges," and are based on fiscal year 2004 reports — the most recent data available. As reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, this year's survey provides details of research spending in non-science fields, including education and business.
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People in Colorado tend to celebrate things a little differently.
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So on the day of the year where proud Americans honor the country's birthday, more than 1,000 Coloradans, and a few out-of-state visitors, did so with the Loveland Liberty 5K Run and Walk.
"It was cool to have such a great turn out for just its second year," top overall finisher Craig Depperschmidt said. "(Running on Independence Day) is awesome. It's a great tradition to have I think. It's an awesome turnout and it's good to see all these people come out on their holiday."
Depperschmidt is an avid racer at events in Loveland and Colorado, and has other first place finishes under his belt like the Loveland Sprint Triathlon in 2011. He finished with a strong time of 17:09, six seconds ahead of the next closest runner. Even more impressive was his pace of 5:32 per mile.
"I'd always like to go a little faster, but I'm happy to finish strong and come out with a win," he said. "The course was nice and flat, and I think it's a cool, nice loop and a nice finish where you can sprint and really see the finish line."
All proceeds from the event, which started last year and hopes to continue every Independence Day, go to the Life for the Innocent charity, which helps children in India who fall victim to human trafficking.
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The opportunity in the LED retrofit market is enormous, and the missteps made in rushing other energy-efficient lighting to market (e.g., the compact fluorescent lamp) are less likely to slow market growth this time around. Experts say the science behind solid-state lighting, its quick return on investment, and ease of retrofit installation will result in a win for manufacturers, contractors, end-users and, ultimately, the environment.
The Department of Energy (DOE) predicts that LEDs will become the dominant light source in the United States by 2025. Rather than a market share based on dollars, the DOE calculates market share based on lumen hours, or demand for light over time. By that measure, the DOE predicts LEDs will have 59 percent of market share in a little more than a decade. That's a tall order, but should it happen, U.S. lighting energy consumption will be sliced by nearly one-half, according to the DOE.
The DOE's study didn't focus on LED lighting retrofit per se, but it is clear that a great deal of the low-hanging fruit lies in the replacement of fluorescent lamps in commercial and institutional settings. Regulations have eliminated a majority of magnetic T12 lamp ballasts as well as the majority of linear T12 lamps. But according to the DOE, at last count, more than 500 million T12 lamps were in operation, including approximately 400 million 4-foot lamps. Obviously, there are other fluorescent options ahead of the LED as replacements for those T12s—namely the T8 and T5—but LED manufacturers are slowly applying this technology to a range of traditional lighting sources.
"The growth market for replacement of ceiling troffers is humongous. There are 2 billion sockets waiting to be filled in commercial settings, including office buildings, universities and hospitals," said John Casadonte, marketing manager for lighting at Cree Inc., a company that manufactures lighting products and semiconductors for power and radio frequency (RF) applications.
Forget the T12 fluorescent. Casadonte said LEDs should leapfrog newer products like the T8.
"Some universities are just now considering replacing T12s with T8s. It's up to us to convince them that the newer technology is in their best interest," he said.
While the LED market, as a percentage of the installed base is still quite small, companies that manufacture retrofit LED systems are making big bets on the future of the LED. Rob Freitag is vice president of marketing at EYE Lighting International, a company that has traditionally focused on metal halide, high-pressure sodium, and mercury lamps for outdoor applications (including parking lots, loading docks, and sporting facilities) as well as for large interiors (such as warehouses or big-box retail stores).
There are tens of millions of lamps ripe for replacement by LEDs, Freitag said, adding that, "The LED is our greatest opportunity for growth in the coming years. They will become the majority of our lamp sales over the next decade."
Leviton has produced electrical devices of one form or another for more than a century. It was not until recent opportunity presented by LED technology, however, that the company decided to make a strong push into the lighting retrofit market.
"Our first venture into the LED market is a retrofit kit. The opportunity for growth in this market is substantial, or obviously we wouldn't have gone down this road," said Peter Kleinman, director of distribution marketing at Leviton.
While LED retrofit products may be new, they are not untested. Freitag said the industry "stubbed its toe on the CFL fluorescent. There was not much regulation by government or self-regulation by the industry. There were also many false claims made about the CFL and its performance. [The] industry recognized the misstep, and the approach to LEDs has been much more cautious. We now meet standards set by the EPA, the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), and the Northwest National Laboratories, among others. These standards have helped establish a recognized level of performance and comfort for the consumer."
The Lighting Facts Label, registered to the DOE and placed on LED lamps, looks similar to the nutrition facts label on packaged foods. It includes light output measured in lumens, watts, lumens per watt (efficacy), color accuracy, and light color or temperature. Most of the LED retrofit products now on the market claim 50,000 hours of lamp life. Lamp life for the LED is measured differently than traditional bulbs. LED luminaires and lamps do not "fail" like conventional sources. Their light generally decreases over time. Studies show that when the light is at 70 percent of its initial output, the human eye can detect it, and IES considers that to be end of useful life.
In addition to establishing the L70 life expectancy standard, IES publishes LM-79, which defines testing performance output of solid-state lighting products, and LM-80, which establishes uniform test methods that allow for reliable comparisons of test results among laboratories when measuring of lumen maintenance for LED light sources. Greg Gallucio, Leviton's director of lighting product management, said the better companies "easily meet the 50,000-hour standard."
"The technology is improving rapidly. We're in a better place than we were even a year ago. It's not uncommon to find five-year warranties on luminaire drivers, which typically replace fluorescent ballasts," he said. (Leviton warns consumers to steer clear of LED replacement tubes with drivers in them because of associated safety and performance issues.)
For every proposal that EYE Lighting makes, it first tests the luminaire in its own environment.
"Each luminaire poses its own challenge to thermal and optical performance. It is prudent to study the existing lighting infrastructure and design the system accordingly," Freitag said.
By adhering to both industry standards and the results of its own site testing, companies like EYE Lighting can raise the level of consumer confidence in LED illumination.
The consumer will also like the return on investment they receive for the LED retrofit. Payback of the original investment is usually less than five years, often much less. LEDs produce dramatic energy savings, starting immediately. They reduce maintenance costs significantly, particularly in outdoor applications. Freitag said sending a bucket truck and crew out to replace failed lamps can cost $200 to $400 per luminaire.
Return on investment can be improved if the customer takes advantage of various rebates and other incentives offered by local and state utilities, state energy-efficiency programs, EPAct tax incentives, and federal stimulus money devoted to energy efficiency. For electrical contractors and other interested parties, Leviton features an easy search of such incentives by locality or ZIP code on www.leviton.com/dsire. Energy.gov also offers a search for incentives and rebates.
One more test that LED retrofit must pass is ease of installation. LED manufacturers have gone to great lengths to make the process quick and seamless.
"The Cree UR Series LED Upgrade Kit, designed to fit into existing T8/T12 linear fluorescent fixtures includes magnetic mounting clips on the light bars that are 'hands-free' and hold the fixture in place until it can be secured with metal screws," Casadonte said.
He said an experienced electrician could install a retrofit luminaire in 10 minutes or less.
Leviton said that replacement of its Zipline LED retrofit product, which requires almost no wiring, also takes 10 minutes or less to replace.
"EYE Lighting's LEDioc system matches light center length with those of the incumbent systems it's intended to replace, ensuring optical photometric performance," Freitag said. "Prior to making a proposal, we look at each luminaire, then design a mechanical solution that will give the customer the best optical and thermal performance. We test the electrical system for driver and surge protection. Then we demonstrate the test results to the customer."
"We've been very successful with our customer-centric sales technique," he said. "It may take more time up front, but it pays off in the end." He suggested that contractors, partnering with manufacturers or working solo, could benefit from such an approach.
"They can either contact existing customers or new prospects and ask to speak with them about their current lighting system and a possible retrofit to LED technology. After making a site visit to evaluate the situation, they can sit down with the client to discuss energy efficiency, return on investment and environmental payoff. Many companies, in addition to seeking ways to reduce costs, are serious about contributing to a greener world," he said.
Casadonte said that electrical contractors share a common enemy with manufacturers: fear and trepidation toward change.
"It exists throughout the supply chain, right down to the consumer. It's up to all of us to remove that fear by demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of retrofitting, while emphasizing performance of our products, which come with long-term warranties," he said.
Some contractors, said Leviton's Kleinman, are "simply looking for the lowest cost, rather than trying to convince the end-user of the product's high performance and long life. Customers should be presented with the differences between a $79 fixture and a $129 fixture, both in terms of performance and longevity. Then, let them make the decision."
It shouldn't be that difficult of a sell, but contractors must take pains to know the product they are selling. Many manufacturers offer such training. So do organizations like the LED Lighting Association, the DesignLights Consortium, and government agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program. Contractors should familiarize themselves with local rebate and incentive programs that can help lower installation costs. Some of the major manufacturers offer free online energy calculators that can be used to determine return on investment for their products.
Once a contractor has a few retrofit jobs in the rearview mirror, the company can start to position itself as a green energy company, thus attracting attention from players throughout the supply chain, including, of course, the end-user. Partnering not only with manufacturers, but architects, lighting designers, building managers, and others could trigger geometric growth in business and a nice niche in the LED revolution.


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PRETORIA, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius is "numb with shock as well as grief" after the shooting death of his model girlfriend at his home in South Africa, the runner's uncle said Saturday, as his family strongly denied prosecutors' claims he murdered her.
Arnold Pistorius spoke with the Associated Press and two other South African journalists about his nephew's arrest in the killing of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot four times on the morning of Valentine's Day. Arnold Pistorius spoke to reporters from the garden of his three-story home in the eastern suburbs of South Africa's capital, Pretoria.
The statement, the first on camera and directly made in person by Pistorius' family, also came out strongly against prosecutors seeking to upgrade the charge against Pistorius to one of premeditated murder, which carries a sentence of life in prison.
"After consulting with legal representatives, we deeply regret the allegation of premeditated murder," Arnold Pistorius said. "We have no doubt there is no substance to the allegation, and that the state's own case, including its own forensic evidence, strongly refutes any possibility of a premeditated murder or murder as such."
He said the family was "battling to come to terms with Oscar being charged with murder."
The track star's arrest in the killing of 29-year-old Steenkamp shocked South Africa, where Pistorius was a national hero and icon dubbed the Blade Runner for his high-tech carbon-fiber running blades and revered for overcoming his disability to compete at the London Olympics. She was discovered in a pool of blood before dawn Thursday by police called to Pistorius' upscale home in a gated community. Authorities said she had been shot four times, and a 9 mm pistol was recovered at the home.
Pistorius remains held at a police station pending a bail hearing Tuesday. Police already have said they'll oppose Pistorius being released before trial. A premeditated murder charge also makes it more difficult for his defense team to get bail.
On Saturday afternoon, Pistorius' lawyers visited the Brooklyn police station in Pretoria, where the athlete is being held. His younger sister, Aimee, who stood alongside Arnold Pistorius when he made his statement, also was at the police station later.
There will be a variety of hearings before Pistorius, 26, could go on trial. In South Africa, there are no juries, so a judge ultimately would decide Pistorius' guilt or innocence, sometimes with the help of two advisers. At an initial hearing Friday, Pistorius sobbed and held his head in his hands at times. He has yet to enter a plea in the case.
The family denial Pistorius committed murder doesn't necessarily mean they say he didn't shoot her, as murder is a legal term.
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Several months ago, I wrote a stock quote lens using Michael Hall's Singlet. After installing Quantal in September, I started playing with the preview feature in lenses and I really liked it, so I got motivated to add it to my lens. Turns out, it's super easy. During the process, I also added real charts for the preview icons and fixed a bug when displaying news stories (they were missing the publication date).
First a quick look at the new graphs and previews, then I'll go over the code.
The preview mode offers two buttons for stock quotes, the first one "More Info" takes you to the standard stock quote page. The second one, Interactive Chart, takes you to a large interactive stock chart, both at Yahoo Finance.
If you want to install the new version with quotes, you need version 0.6 or later. You can get them from the Scopes Packagers PPA, I've uploaded versions for Precise, Quantal, and Raring.
Now, let's look at the code, you can find it here, or just branch it with: bzr branch lp:~mfisch/onehundredscopes/unity-stock-ticker-lens. The relevant changes are in revision 11, look at the preview function in the scope code (yahoostock-scope). I've simplified what's in my code some to make it easier to follow:
def preview(self, result_item, result_model): preview = Unity.GenericPreview.new(result_item['title'], result_item['description'], None) preview.props.image_source_uri = 'http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/t?s=%s&lang=en-US®ion=US&width=380&height=380' % result_item['title'] open_chart = Unity.PreviewAction.new("open_chart", "Interactive Chart", None) open_chart.connect('activated', self.open_chart) preview.add_action(open_chart) return preview
The first two lines setup the preview, the first one sets the large font title and the smaller font text. The second line sets the large preview image. The open_chart lines define an action, which becomes a button in the UI. The button text is "Interactive Chart" and the button action is a function called open_chart. The open_chart function (not listed, but available in the bzr branch munges the inbound URL some and then opens a webbrowser to the Yahoo interactive chart page.
And that's it! Very simple! I had this up and running in about 30 minutes, while watching The Pacific on TV,
You can read more about previews in Singlet 0.3 in Michael Hall's blog post about it. Special thanks to Chris Wayne for his git hub lens which was inspiration for these changes. You can look at Chris's code for some other examples, his may be easier to follow than mine.


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Now that the jobs picture is starting to look more encouraging for households trying to make ends meet, you'd think analysts would be joyful about more people having more money in their pockets to spend. But that's not the universal reaction.
As the unemployment rate has been shrinking to June's 6.1 percent rate, some analysts have been wringing their hands about the potential negative implications for stocks and the economy.
They know that a lot of the record profits companies have enjoyed since the recession have resulted from slashing costs and keeping staffing levels and pay low. Now some analysts envision that trend changing.
With fewer people looking for work than any time since the recession, the concern is that companies will be forced to pay more to hire new workers and to hold on to existing employees tempted by greener pastures.
Ultimately, the argument is that the tighter labor market could pose two threats: inflation if companies widely raise prices on their products so they can pay their employees more, or disappointment over stocks if companies don't raise prices enough to offset the higher costs related to paying employees more.
Many economists still see the opposite problem: deflation, rather than inflation, as millions of workers around the world continue to struggle to get jobs in a slow-growing economy.
"Today's recovery remains deflationary thanks to low wage growth across the world, and a major technological disruption that threatens to keep wage growth low for many years to come," said Bank of America Merrill Lynch strategist Michael Hartnett. Merrill economists are forecasting benign consumer price index inflation of 2.1 percent for 2014, 2 percent for 2015 and 2.2 percent in 2016.
Further, Citigroup economist Tobias Levkovich takes issue with the entire premise that more hiring and higher pay could be a disadvantage for companies and the economy.
"More jobs are misperceived as being the antithesis to profit growth," he said. The argument lacks any perspective that if hiring improves and pay increases, "the economic pie can grow, which would benefit both" companies and employees.
The expectation holds that if people have plumper paychecks, they will be able to buy more. On the other hand, analysts who fear inflation note that higher pay won't do much for consumers if prices of the things they buy also shoot up. They also point out the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates sooner than expected late in 2015 if inflation becomes more evident. That could slow the economy and spook stock and bond investors.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen does not see an inflation threat and has insisted she's still concerned that the economy is not creating enough jobs for more than 12 million unemployed or underemployed Americans. She argues that the lackluster 2 percent wage growth is a symptom of a still troubled labor market. When there is a glut of potential workers, companies don't have to raise pay.
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A survey of small businesses by the National Federation of Independent Business showed a surge in hiring plans, difficulty finding employees that fit the job openings and 21 percent of respondents raising pay. Fifty-three percent said they had hired people in the past three months, while 26 percent said they couldn't fill openings and 43 percent complained of few applicants. About 21 percent said they planned to raise prices.
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Mine: "Frankenstorm" hasn't even reached Ohio yet, but here in my Eastern suburb of Cleveland (Euclid, OH) 50 and 60 mph winds are howling in off Lake Erie. It's dark now, but the last time I looked before dark huge waves were breaking out on the lake as far as the horizon. No, not "whitecaps," breaking waves.
And this is before the hurricane winds even get here!
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My story is that this is all ridiculous. The storm will reach me tonight and may result in some power outages. I set aside some bottles of water, have a camp stove and a bag of rice, and plan to continue business as usual. There will be those who are particularly vulnerable to power outages - like people relying on home dialysis machines who neither have generators nor have made other arrangements - who will die, but this is a big story about nothing when an ignorant, pretentious bigot is on his way to the White House. C'est tout.
Okay, I know you're in Quebec Province. But people, please tell us where you are to add some dimension to your story.
Well, it's dark, it has been raining off and on, humidity is at 90%, the wind is blowing at about 9mph, it's about 60 degrees, everyone is conducting life as usual.... It's hard to have an exciting "Frankenstorm" story when you're in Oregon. Lol.... but really I hope for the best for everyone in hurricane Sandy's path.
@ Heather... I was about to assume that you meant Romney in your last sentence then I decided it'd be true either way. Bah!
And you are where?
Oregon... like it says in the post.
Not much to report from here. Thus far, it's been raining to varying degrees throughout the day. The wind has been picking up the last few hours, but the trees and power are holding just fine thus far. It's supposed to be worst at around 2am though.
Where are you?
Hagerstown, MD. The worst of our 'damage' was that our (wood) bench blew over, and a rose bush blew loose from the ground stake it was tied to. My parents (just over the mountain and a short drive a way) got 13" of rain, water seeping into the basement and are still don't have power. The mountain certainly helped shield us some, but our part of Maryland does seem to be one of the least affected areas by this storm. I'm sure those up NY and NJ way will have the 'best' stories to share.
Then they'll have a good story to tell once they are back online.
It was slightly windy, it rained for two days and didn't see a single lightning bolt.
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WASHINGTON—To honor the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and the twentieth anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI has announced a Year of Faith, starting October 11 and ending November 24, 2013, meant to strengthen the faith of Catholics and draw the world to faith by their example. Pope Benedict has encouraged Catholics to study the lives of the saints as part of the Year of Faith in order to follow their example.
Jeannine Marino, program specialist for the Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) offers "10 American Saints for the Year of Faith" to help Catholics learn about the lives of the saints and to appreciate the history of the Catholic faith in America. Marino is a canon lawyer who has served as a postulator and advisor to several canonization causes. A postulator conducts research into the life of a proposed saint.
Two saint from the list, Marianne Cope, OSF and Kateri Tekakwitha, will be canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 21. Here is the full list:
1. St. Isaac Jogues, SJ, a missionary and one of the North American martyrs, traveled from France to the new world shortly after his ordination. In 1641, he and his companions were captured by the Iroquois, who tortured and killed most of them. He was killed with a tomahawk in 1646 and canonized in 1930.
2. St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, MSC, the first U.S. citizen to be canonized, came to the United States as a missionary from Italy. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and, over 35 years, started six institutions for the poor, the abandoned, the uneducated and the sick. She died in 1917 and is the patron saint of immigrants.
3. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, SC, the first native-born U.S. citizen to be canonized, was left poor and widowed with five children. She converted to Catholicism and founded the first order of religious women in America, the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph. She was cofounder of the first free Catholic school in America and is considered the founder of the Catholic school system in the United States. She died in 1821.
4. St. John Neumann, CSsR, a Redemptorist priest, was the fourth bishop of Philadelphia from 1852 till his death in 1860. A native of Bohemia, he followed his vocation to New York City and, at the time of his ordination, was one of only 36 priests serving 200,000 Catholics. He founded the first diocesan Catholic school system in the United States, growing the number of schools in his diocese from two to 100.
5. St. Katharine Drexel, SBS, a wealthy, educated young woman from Philadelphia with a deep sympathy for the poor, gave up everything to become a missionary to the Indians and African Americans. She founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and started numerous schools and missions for Native and African Americans. She died at the age of 96 in 1955 and was canonized in 2000.
6. St. Mother Théodore Guérin, SP, founder of the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, was asked to leave France and lead a small band of missionary sisters to Indiana. When the sisters arrived, there was only a log cabin with a porch that served as a chapel. By the time she died in 1856, she and her community had opened schools in Illinois and throughout Indiana. She was canonized in 2006.
7. St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, RSCJ, a missionary to Native Americans, traveled to the Louisiana Territory from France in 1818, where she and other members of the Society of the Sacred Heart carried out their missionary work. She opened the first free school for girls west of the Mississippi River, as well as the first Catholic school for Native Americans. She was known among the Pottowami Indians as the "Woman Who Prays Always."
8. St. Damien de Veuster of Molokai, SSCC, missionary to the lepers of Molokai, Hawaii, was born in Belgium in 1840 to a poor farmer and his wife. At 19, he entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. His older brother, also a priest in the congregation, had offered to minister to the lepers on the island of Molokai but fell ill and couldn't go. Damien volunteered to take his place and offered to stay in the leper colony permanently, building schools, churches, hospitals and coffins. He contracted leprosy himself but continued to serve the mission until his death in 1889.
9. St. Marianne Cope, OSF, another missionary to the lepers of Molokai, joined the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis in her teens and served in leadership roles including novice mistress of her congregation and superior of St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse. She became a leader in the field of health care, often caring for those considered outcasts, which led her to volunteer in Hawaii. In Hawaii she cared for women and girls suffering from leprosy, providing them with an education. She died in 1918.
10. St. Kateri Tekakwitha, also known as the Lily of the Mohawks, converted at the age of 19, heedless of the anger of her relatives. Because she refused to work on Sundays, she was denied meals that day in the Mohawk village. Finally, a missionary encouraged her to run away to Montreal, where she practiced her faith freely and lived a life of extreme prayer and penance, taking a vow of virginity. She died in 1680.
More information on American saints and holy men and women for the Year of Faith is available online: www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/new-evangelization/year-of-faith/saints-for-the-year-of-faith.cfm
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Brigades across the Army are beginning to cancel trips to top training grounds -- a prospect that could leave the majority of the troops who are not already overseas unprepared to deploy, the Army's top enlisted soldier said Thursday.
Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Chandler discussed the cuts while in town for the Warrior Games. Chandler spent much of Thursday visiting units across Fort Carson, while also hosting a town hall meeting for more than 300 soldiers.
"Right now, between now and September, and possibly into '14 (2014), if we don't get a budget, we're going to have a very low level of readiness," said Chandler after the town hall.
"And by low, I mean individual squad and platoon level is about the highest we're going to be able train for about 80 percent of the Army that's not deployed."
But the 4th Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team appears on track to buck the automatic budget cuts that have forced the cancellation of training exercises at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., Army officials said Thursday.
The 2nd Brigade's top leaders completed a weeklong exercise last week at Fort Irwin in anticipation of the unit's upcoming monthlong training exercise the center, which sits deep in the Mojave Desert, said Maj. Chris Maestas, a brigade spokesman.
The entire 3,500-soldier unit is expected to leave for center in June. The Pentagon has not announced where the unit could deploy after that.
The automatic budget cuts, often known as sequestration, have caused cutbacks across the military, including furloughs for civilian employees and reduced in maintenance at installations.
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Top 10 Controls in the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit
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By default the .NET framework comes with basic Ajax controls like
UpdateProgress, etc. If you want to make the existing asp.net applications to be ajaxified then the simple and efficient way would be to make use of the extender controls which form the AJAX control toolkit. This doesn't come by default but you can download the binary from here, add it to your Microsoft Visual Studio toolbox and utilize them in you ASP.NET applications. Only thing is it requires a
ToolkitScriptManager (it is again a part of the toolkit) control on the web page which is also applicable for the basic Ajax controls.
The Ajax control kit which I am taking into consideration is targeted at ASP.NET framework 3.5 and not the 4.0.
AutoComplete Extender
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It comes in very handy in a situation where the user has to enter a search text. It provides a way for the user to select a text displayed in the drop list or to enter a text which is altogether a new one. You shouldn't be confusing it with the dropdown list where you will not be able to type into the control.
The displayed items in the drop list should be provided through an exposed
webmethod of a web service.
Animation ExtenderIf you really want to make a jazzy web site using ASP.NET Ajax then you won't want to forget to make use of the animation control. This simplifies a lot of time spent by the developers creating animations. It can act as an extender to any ASP.NET control.
You can bring in fading, moving, resizing, coloring and many more effects easily using the animation extender. These animations can be invoked when any of the below events of the target control gets fired off.
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Fig 2.0 shows a sample animation effect in a DIV tag when the target button control is clicked.
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Colorpicker Extender
This can act as an extender control for a textbox control. On the click of the textbox the color pallet is popped out in a window which the user can make use of in order to choose a color as shown in Fig 3.0.
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Without using this extender control I don't think that creating such a control would be an easy task. This is my reasoning when I included this control in this top 10 list. I should also accept the fact that requirement to use this control in a asp.net application would be very less.


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This is the official thread for NashiCon, the annual mini-convention held in Columbia, SC by the University of South Carolina's anime club, NASHI. This year, we're continuing to grow with an expanded con space and an extra day! We have all sorts of fun things planned, such as the return of the (much larger) Maid Cafe, a Quick Draw tournament, lots of video game tournaments, and much more! So come join us for two days of ridiculous amounts of fun!
Dates: April 17-18, 2010
Times: Saturday - 10 a.m. to 12 a.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: USC's Russell House Student Union building
Cost: $10 for Saturday (with Sunday admission included for free!), $5 for Sunday; $9 pre-reg
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The Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is a jewel in the crown of Shropshire's lovely countryside, and here traditional market towns sit comfortably among its rolling hills and valleys.
With an abundance of real food and real ales, entertaining festivals, independent shops and eateries and plenty of great walks, the Shropshire Hills are justifiably earning a growing reputation.
For the uninitiated it can be a case of 'where to start'? If food is your thing then Ludlow won't disappoint; as Shropshire's gastronomic capital the restaurants with Michelin Star are supported by the numerous delis, restaurants, cafes and food markets, all serving quality local food and not forgetting the famous Ludlow Food Festival.
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Walkers will find that Church Stretton and Craven Arms provide a genuine welcome and an equally great springboard into the Shropshire Hills. Then there is Clun, immortalised by A.E. Housman in his Shropshire Lad and Cleobury Mortimer with its amazing twisted spire.
Visit Much Wenlock and the museum to learn about the town's history and sporting heritage, particularly the Olympic Games.
An explore through this website will give you the very best south Shropshire accommodation, hotels, self catering cottages, B&Bs and guest houses, events and festivals and plenty of entertaining things to do and see.
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Flaw in RPC Endpoint Mapper Could Allow Denial of Service Attacks (331953)
Who should read this bulletin: Customers using Microsoft® Windows® NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
Impact of vulnerability: Denial of Service
Maximum Severity Rating: Important
Recommendation: Customers should install the patch at the earliest opportunity
Affected Software:
* Microsoft Windows NT 4
* Microsoft Windows 2000
* Microsoft Windows XPTechnical description:
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a protocol used by the Windows operating system. RPC provides an inter-process communication mechanism that allows a program running on one computer to seamlessly execute code on a remote system. The protocol itself is derived from the OSF (Open Software Foundation) RPC protocol, but with the addition of some Microsoft specific extensions.
There is a vulnerability in the part of RPC that deals with message exchange over TCP/IP. The failure results because of incorrect handling of malformed messages. This particular vulnerabilty affects the RPC Endpoint Mapper process, which listens on TCP/IP port 135. The RPC endpoint mapper allows RPC clients to determine the port number currently assigned to a particular RPC service.
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to establish a TCP/IP connection to the Endpoint Mapper process on a remote machine. Once the connection was established, the attacker would begin the RPC connection negotiation before transmitting a malformed message. At this point, the process on the remote machine would fail. The RPC Endpoint Mapper process is responsible for maintaining the connection information for all of the processes on that machine using RPC. Because the Endpoint Mapper runs within the RPC service itself, exploiting this vulnerability would cause the RPC service to fail, with the attendant loss of any RPC-based services the server offers, as well as potential loss of some COM functions.
Microsoft has provided patches with this bulletin to correct this vulnerability for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Although Windows NT 4.0 is affected by this vulnerability, Microsoft is unable to provide a patch for this vulnerability for Windows NT 4.0. The architectural limitations of Windows NT 4.0 do not support the changes that would be required to remove this vulnerability. Windows NT 4.0 users are strongly encouraged to employ the workaround discussed in the FAQ below, which is to protect the NT 4.0 system with a firewall that blocks Port 135.
Mitigating factors:
* To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker would require the ability to connect to the Endpoint Mapper running on the target machine. For intranet environments, the Endpoint Mapper would normally be accessible, but for Internet connected machines, the port used by the Endpoint Mapper would normally be blocked by a firewall. In the case where this port is not blocked, or in an intranet configuration, the attacker would not require any additional privileges.
* Best practices recommend blocking all TCP/IP ports that are not actually being used. For this reason, most machines attached to the Internet should have port 135 blocked. RPC over TCP is not intended to be used in hostile environments such as the internet. More robust protocols such as RPC over HTTP are provided for hostile environments. To learn more about securing RPC for client and server please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...or_server.asp. To learn more about the ports used by RPC, please refer to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...t4/tcpappc.asp
* This vulnerability only permits a denial of service attack and does not provide an attacker with the ability to modify or retrieve data on the remote machine.Windows 2000 PatchWorkarounds
* Block Port 135 at your firewall. Port 135 is used to initiate an RPC connection with the RPC Endpoint Mapper service. Blocking Port 135 at the firewall will prevent systems behind that firewall from being attacked by attempts to exploit this vulnerability. However to ensure that those systems cannot be attacked by systems behind the firewall, you should still consider applying the patch.
* Internet Connection Firewall. If you are using the Internet Connection Firewall in Windows XP to protect your Internet connection, it will by default block inbound RPC traffic.
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The chipboard I have used in this piece is shown and listed below along with a link to the Imagine If website.
I took an old book that I brought at a garage sale for .50 cents and covered it with white gesso.
Once the first coat of gesso had dried I used gesso through two of the Imagine If stencils, the bubbles stencil and the chevron stencil to give the cover more texture. I also added in some pieces of book pages.
I gave the cover another light coat of gesso and then I painted all of the chipboard pieces with white gesso and glued them on the cover adding a few paper flowers here and there for interest.
Once the gesso had dried I went to town with the sprays. I used Adirondack sprays and homemade shimmer sprays in tones of pink and purple.
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Here is a Kabuto 6'6" 3wt. 3pc. that I am just finishing building. I still need to sand the wraps and apply one more coat of finish. I usually use epoxy, but I tried spar varnish on this one. I also went with 100wt. YLI thread instead of the 50wt. YLI thread that I typically work with. Here are the other components:
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I took this one out on the water to do some test casting a few days ago. I was using a Rio LT dt 3wt. line. It is slower than the 7033 but still a bit on the fast side for a 3wt. in my opinion. Casting under 15' was poor, especially as compared to my 5'9" McFarland 3wt. However, the taper started to come alive around 20' out to 40' and further. Loops were tight and accuracy was spot on. Shooting line was no problem. It is a sweet rod excepting the really close stuff.
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