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The title sponsor of the class is MUSTO
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from MUSTO since 2000. The class has also benefited
from sponsorship from other companies over the years
and the class is always mindful not to engage with any
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Rigging Guide (this
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Hull weight:
up weight:
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Master: 45 or over on 1/1/20YY
Grand Master: 55 or over on 1/1/20YY
Legend: 60 or over on 1/1/20YY
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course, the two MUSTO Skiffs were first
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2018 No survey
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Don Hammonds from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Saturn's purchase by Mr. Penske may be its best asset. "The Penske organization owning the distribution and name is a major, major plus. He has a golden touch with anything he's connected with," Detroit-based independent auto analyst Tom Libby said. The major challenge, he said, is giving a customer a compelling reason to buy a Saturn rather than another vehicle. "If the answer is superior customer experience, I'd respond by saying that it is not clear that message is strong enough to give them market share. It's not clear you can grow by more than 2% with that message." Much will also depend upon what products Mr. Penske chooses to bring in from overseas to replace the current lineup when the agreement with GM to produce Saturns expires in 2011.
Mr. Libby expects Mr. Penske to be very picky and exacting about products from Europe, Asia and elsewhere. "He's a shrewd businessman. He has to have his standards met with his products, or he will have issues," he added. One of the cars mentioned most often as a possible Saturn is the Renault Megane, and if that's true, it's a good move, Mr. Gluckman said. "I've driven the new Megane, which I hear they may bring over. It's a good car, and there's good potential with that," he added.


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Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, died on Monday. She was 90.
Hearst Corporation, which publishes Cosmopolitan, announced that Brown died after a brief hospitalization at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital.
Brown became the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan in 1965, three years after publishing her bestselling book Sex and the Single Girl. Under her guidance, Cosmo became the go-to magazine for single women, which helped to turn around the then-fledging magazine. Brown was replaced in 1997, but remained the editor on all 59 international editions until her death.
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"Helen Gurley Brown was an icon," said CEO of Hearst Corporation Frank A. Bennack, Jr. in a statement. "Her formula for honest and straightforward advice about relationships, career and beauty revolutionized the magazine industry. She lived every day of her life to the fullest and will always be remembered as the quintessential 'Cosmo girl.' She will be greatly missed."
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In the late 50s into the earlier 60s, there was a folk music revival in the United States. Part of this was a blues revival. Artists who had recorded in the 1930s, and then given up music and taken jobs that would pay the bills, were rediscovered, and did something they had never done before: they played for substantial white audiences. The music they played came from another world. In the thirties, Big Bill Broonzy, for one example, played acoustic guitar in a group that also included Memphis Slim on piano and Washboard Sam on washboard. Lightnin' Hopkins played a brand of blues that could not be confined to twelve bars. Banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and even fife and drums were blues instruments in the period prior to World War II. But this music was tamed during the revival years. The music was made to conform to the stricter forms that had evolved after the war. Some of the more exotic instruments disappeared from blues. I do not say that this process was forced on the musicians; they had bills to pay, and they had always wanted to please their audiences.
What, you may ask, does any of this have to do with Guy Davis? Davis knows all of this history. His knowledge is an integral part of his sound. When Davis plays blues mandolin and banjo on Sweetheart Like You, he is aware of the historical precedents, and he embraces them. Davis presents versions of pre-war blues tunes by Lead Belly and Son House. And his album notes make it clear that Davis sees himself as part of the continuum of blues music from then until now. And he has every right to see himself that way, as this album proves.
But Davis' music is not stuck in the past. From this pre-war blues era, Davis travels to post-war Chicago for a pair of tunes associated with Muddy Waters, and also the classic Baby Please Don't Go. He makes a brief stop in 1981, to cover Bob Dylan for the title track, and his interpretation makes an eloquent case for the notion of Dylan as a blues artist. And Davis seals the deal with his original songs here. Slow Motion Daddy, Bring Back Storyville, and Going Back to Silver Spring all sound like they could be vintage tunes. But the other four originals bring us to the present. Words to My Mama's Song, in particular, makes a most unexpected connection between blues and hip-hop.
Davis has a voice that usually sounds like gravel; that this is an artistic choice is clear, because he sings in a clear voice for The Angels Are Calling and Ain't Goin' Down, because that is what these songs need. But whichever voice he chooses, Davis never forgets to communicate the emotion of the song. You can hear the ache of a man who has fallen too deeply in love with another man's wife in Sweet Hannah. The wistfulness of Steamboat Captain comes through loud and clear.
But, perhaps the crowning achievement of this album is to take to songs that have been done to death, and make them fresh. Baby Please Don't Go is an opportunity for many a blues artist to deliver an overwrought vocal performance; Davis avoids this trap, and delivers a vocal with just the right amount of yearning. But the high point of the album, for me, is Hoochie Coochie Man; for his performance, Davis believes in all the different folk traditions that give the song's protagonist magical powers over the opposite sex. Because Davis believes it, we do too.
Instrumentally, Davis and his cohorts are up to the task. The music is mostly acoustic. The electric guitar is used sparingly, and usually for countermelodies; They are no screaming guitar parts here. The rest of the instruments have the job of supporting Davis' acoustic guitar, bottleneck guitar, or banjo parts. Davis adds color on some tunes with harmonica parts. Can't Be Satisfied is arranged for just banjo, bass and voice, and it works beautifully.
So Davis considers the history of blues, and explores the possibilities this history presents. And the result is journey well worth taking at his side.
Guy Davis: Words to My Mama's Song
Guy Davis: Hoochie Coochie Man
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There is no greater hindrance to business success than complacency. One minute things are going well, the next you're facing a public crisis – just ask Brendan Eich.
It was today announced that the Mozilla chief executive would step down from his position after public outrage at his support of a California bill to ban gay marriage. In addition, he also resigned from his seat on the board of the non-profit foundation which owns the company.
Last week three members of the Mozilla board resigned after Mr Eich was promoted – it's safe to say he's had a nightmare fortnight.[ca href="https://thephagroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Mozilla.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Mozilla CEO stepped down due to views on gay marriage[/caption]
So how did Mr Eich get to this unenviable outcome? Simply due to the weight of public outrage at his personal views on whether people of the same sex should be allowed to marry.
With growing transparency amongst businesses, the people who run them, and the public, facilitated by an extraordinary rise in the popularity of social media, it has never been more important for companies to stand for something real – something people can get behind. Mozilla do this well and for many have been viewed as the good guys, waging war on the corporate behemoth that is Internet Explorer. A fun, inclusive company which champions service and enjoyment – and certainly not one at which a CEO would have prejudice views on who should and shouldn't be allowed to marry.
Modern business PR is all about delivering a clear, consistent and believable message so whilst a company can do one thing, if a senior employee does the opposite this disconnect is leapt upon in a second and in short you can be thrown to the wolves. In this case, Mr Eich's comments were the equivalent of a Greenpeace representative supporting a bill for lessened regulation on seal clubbing.
All companies, regardless of size need to continually reinforce the importance of a united front and message to all of their employees, particularly visible senior ones otherwise a brand image which has been carefully crafted over a number of years can come tumbling down in one speech, one tweet, five seconds.
The company did the right thing to distance itself from his stance, exposing it as a rogue view rather than a company one, however as they conceded, 'We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it's because we haven't stayed true to ourselves. We didn't move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We're sorry. We must do better.'
Politicians are regularly told to tow the party line and perhaps Mr Eich should've done the same at Mozilla rather than letting his personal views cost him his job and Mozilla some of their credibility.


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Sci-fi Survey Preliminary Results
I have preliminary results from the science fiction readership survey. Cheers to everyone who participated!
You should be able to see Google Form's summary by going to https://goo.gl/forms/kvzVgZ75h7ZIiUv03
For my fellow quant nerds, I started a repository with the raw data and my preliminary statistical analysis https://github.com/longhunt/sci_fi_survey
Over the next couple weeks I will be figuring out what it all means and writing a report, which I will also post. I did notice a couple of things right away, though:
1) More than half the respondents self identify as librarians. Apparently, librarians like to take surveys about libraries…
2) Series related factors are the most important to the majority of readers. People want to continue reading series they have started or start new series with lots of books available at the library.
3) The respondents cluster rather neatly into two groups, which we can call "Heavy Readers" and "Moderate Readers". The heavy readers seem to skew female and be more educated–though probably not as much as it seems from the raw data, since we have so many librarians responding (librarians also skew female, and most of them have masters degrees). This seems to agree with the academic literature, such as this article which I found after the survey had already started.
More to come. Thanks again!
Python Histograms from the Console
Lately, while working on my MBA thesis, there have been many times when I've been working in Python and wanted to plot a quick histogram of a distribution. The whole process has been far too time consuming. Either I need to remember how to write my list out as a CSV file so I can plot it in Excel/Tableau/SPSS (none of which, IMHO, has a particularly intuitive mechanism for drawing histograms) or I need to be able plot the histogram directly from Python. The later would be fine, except that I'm usually in an SSH shell and I always have trouble with X servers on my Windows 8 laptop.
So, anyway, I wrote this little function and it works quite nice for plotting histograms in pure text mode. It should be fine with any terminal client of the last 50 years. It isn't particularly sophisticated, but it works for me and may work for you too.
def crappyhist(a, bins): '''Draws a crappy text-mode histogram of an array''' import numpy as np import string from math import log10 h,b = np.histogram(a, bins) for i in range (0, bins-1): print string.rjust(`b[i]`, 7)[:int(log10( np.amax(b)))+5], '| ', '#'*int(70*h[i-1]/np.amax(h)) print string.rjust(`b[bins]`, 7)[:int(log10(np.amax(b)))+5]


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text: LSE's motto is rerum cognoscere extent to which Sociology lies at the and also how causes which means 'to know the very core of the trio of business, they relate to their peers and subalcauses of things'. You should not be finance and management, reinforcing terns. This comes about through an content with simplistic explanations – my faith in my vocation. I started to excellent blend of theory and practical you should always look beneath the see how knowledge of Weber's applications that the Sociology course explanations for a deeper under- formulations on bureaucracy was offers. It also prompts the discovery of standing of the social world- that's invaluable to understand how alternative discourses in business and what the motto connotes. Sociology organisations operate; my familiarity management – for example 'green is one discipline that holds this motto with gender theory helped me make capitalism', 'industrial ecology' and the rather close to its heart. This brief sense of the persistence of the glass- 'cradle to cradle' concept. All of this note will try to tell you how. ceiling syndrome in organisations; stems from the primeval urge that Many are familiar with the popular my knowledge of globalisation theory Sociologists seem to possess- they health warning for students studying proved extremely useful to grasp the pride themselves on asking "unasked Sociology – if you take this subject organisational changes arising from questions". you will never see things in the same increased integration of the global Why are so few women in senior light again! This course module has economy. management positions? Why is been and continues to be one of the In a nutshell, sociological knowledge sexual harassment in the workplace most popular options in the BSc has been and will continue to be an often ignored or covered up? 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A term for the yard line past which a team needs to advance the ball in order to earn a new set of downs. For each new set of downs, the line to gain will be 10 yards from the line of scrimmage, and the team has four downs to advance at least that far. The location of the line to gain is indicated by a tall marker being held by an official, as well as a small orange rectangle that is placed at the base of the marker. On television, a projected line will show the line to gain across the field.
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What I don't quite get is the chorus ("Copper -- you'll never be gold"). To me, it seems like Albini is trying to say that while copper is an excellent conductor, it still will not be as widely valued as gold. Or, it could be that Albini is saying that copper will not be able to "fight him" as gold can. The latter does not seem as likely to me, since gold is the third most conductive element, but it is possible.
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+2Dhampir Boy, I quite like your write-up & explanation (on copper/silver/gold as varying conductives all with their own advantage vs. disadvantage). Being a geeky audio engineer, it all makes sense.
As for the chorus- maybe it's a metaphor for Steve's path in the recording industry up to the point of at least writing that song. This song came out in the mid-to-late '90s, yeah? Steve being an analog loylist... when now there are so many other methods & ways to record an album. Everyone will always question Albini for being loyal to analog, even in 20 yrs from now when technology has expanded even more. "Copper- you'll never be gold" could mean a lot of things, but from the perspective of this song (and after reading your writeup) I would guess it is biting frusteration about balancing your roots and ethics vs. trying to make a living in a skewed recording industry. Copper- you'll never be gold (gold record? audio engineer?... despite Albini's well-known and revolutionary style for production, countless of records by mainstream artists he has put out, and all of the rest i can't cram intothis box before i hit X amount of characters or had an add-moment, his mechanisms are still constantly brought into play... "never be gold")
what's interesting though. Compared to a lot of Shellac's music I've heard, this is one of the more straight-up gritty punk/rock & roll songs they ever put out. Sure it's noisy and has that albini sound still, but it is structured unlike most Shellac songs..Flag NickMSuckson March 29, 2010


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Over the years, Lee has had quite the variety of cars. Starting out with a turbo'ed '99 Civic Si, a '98 Nissan 240SX, and later a '04 Subaru WRX. One thing that comes into play when considering a fast and fun car, as you get older and start a family, is something that is fast but reliable. What we really need is a car that makes a substantial amount of horsepower but with a factory warranty. Why not a Camaro? You may say, "But importnut, isn't a Camaro a straight line boulevard bruiser?" For the standard issue SS, I would agree. However, the 1LE optioned SS is not a standard issue SS!
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Chilean tax reform detailsMay 9, 2014, by - LATIN LAWYER
Chile's education tax
Not long into her second term, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has announced a new tax reform aimed at funding an overhaul of the country's education system – but not without setting off alarm bells in the corporate sector. Carey partners Jaime Carey, Jessica Power and Alex Fischer lay out the all-important details
On 1 April 2014, only 20 days into her second term as the President of Chile, Ms Bachelet submitted to Congress a tax reform bill. The stated goals of the reform are to collect an additional US$8.2 billion of revenue to invest in education and to improve income distribution among Chileans.
If enacted, the tax reform would be the most substantive tax law change in the past 30 years in Chile. Overall, and sacrificing significant precision for the sake of clarity, the reform effectively moves the current 20 per cent corporate income tax to 35 per cent, and exempts dividend payments. It further creates a corporate tax rebate system for individual investors in a tax bracket lower than 35 per cent, such that the corporate tax is "attributed" to each investor and levelled to his or her marginal income tax rate. This is done through a collection of new record-keeping and filing obligations that will surely create lots of headaches and errors for the tax administration and taxpayers. The scope and depth of the reform ensure a steep learning curve.
This novel and unique "attribution" system is being highly criticised by the business and professional community for ridding the tax system of its savings and investment structural incentives. Currently, a relatively low tax burden (20 per cent) is assessed on corporate profits, and a supplement of up to 20 per cent (depending on the investor's marginal tax rate) penalises dividend distributions.
A description of the main effects of the tax reform follows.
Corporate income tax hike to 35 per cent
The corporate income tax rate will effectively increase to 35 per cent. This results from: (i) a direct increase of the corporate tax rate to 25 per cent over four years, starting in 2014 (21 per cent, 22.5 per cent, 24 per cent and 25 per cent); and (ii) an indirect increase in the form of a 10 per cent mandatory withholding of taxable income on account of shareholder taxes. These new rules will enter into effect in commercial year 2017.
As a consequence of the hike to 35 per cent of the corporate income tax, dividends paid to non-resident shareholders will be de facto exempt from withholding tax.
Personal income tax reduction
The proposed bill reduces the top marginal rate of the personal income tax (and payroll tax) for Chilean-resident individuals from 40 per cent to 35 per cent. The payroll tax rate reduction will be effective in the month following the publication of the law, while the reduction of the personal income tax will take effect in 2017.
The reform de facto exempts received dividends from the personal income tax, yet preserves a tax credit towards the personal income tax in the amount of the taxpayer's indirect share of corporate taxes borne by its shareholdings. This tax credit is better understood as a rebate to shareholders for corporate taxes paid by the entities in which they invest, in excess of their marginal personal income tax rate. It is an attempt to make the corporate tax burden progressive at the individual shareholder level.
The tax rate reduction of the personal income tax is counterbalanced by a major expansion of the tax basis: (i) the tax exemption on the disposition of real property is severely narrowed; (ii) the reduced rate on capital gains is eliminated; (iii) presumptive income regimes are abrogated or limited; and (iv) new income attribution rules potentially allocate a greater share of income to higher-earning taxpayers.
Capital gains tax hike
Capital gains realised by resident individuals or non-resident taxpayers on the disposition of shares in Chilean companies may presently qualify for a sole capital gains tax of 20 per cent. The proposed bill eliminates this reduced rate, and beginning in 2017, levies the capital gain with personal income taxes. In the case of resident individuals, the personal income tax rate would be equal to the taxpayer's average marginal rate over the investment holding period, and in the case of non-residents, a 35 per cent withholding tax.
Thin capitalisation rule
The tax reform severely restricts the ability to fund investments in Chile with shareholder-loan structures that currently qualify for a reduced 4 per cent (versus 35 per cent) withholding tax on interest payments:
The 3:1 debt-to-equity limit would be tested on the aggregate of related-party and third-party debt. Currently, only related-party debt is counted.
The 3:1 debt-to-equity limit would be tested annually, in lieu of the one-time test that is currently applied upon disbursement of each loan.
A second prong would be added to the thin capitalisation test that would disqualify interest paid in excess of 50 per cent of taxable income.
The 35 per cent surtax is levied, in addition to interest, on all charges and fees linked to excessive indebtedness.
Stamp tax revival
The maximum stamp tax rate, which had been gradually reduced on policy grounds since 2009, would increase from 0.4 per cent to 0.8 per cent, beginning in 2016. Stamp tax levies the principal amount of debt instruments or documents evidencing indebtedness for borrowed money.
Tax haven definition: lost paradise
Rather than a closed list of jurisdictions, the bill defines a tax haven as a jurisdiction that: (i) taxes foreign source income with less than 17.5 per cent; (ii) has not entered into an information exchange agreement with Chile; (iii) does not have relevant transfer pricing rules; (iv) is identified as a preferential tax regime by the OECD; or (v) only taxes local source income. These rules would be effective from 2017.
CFC rules
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The bill proposes an overreaching general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR). The tax administration would have the ability to re-characterise any transaction whose legal form or sequence is deemed abusive, artificial or inconsistent with its substance. Attorneys, accountants and other tax advisers may be penalised for participating in "elusive" tax planning. The penalty may be up to 100 per cent of the "eluded" taxes, capped at approximately US$100,000.
Ms Bachelet's coalition has a majority in both chambers of Congress, and the reform is expected to be approved in a form which is substantially similar to the version submitted by her. Yet, in addition to the centre-right opposition, some governing coalition senators have begun to voice concern over the reform. Refreshingly, openness has been shown by the Ministry of Finance to engage in a substantive discussion.
The target approval date is currently set at September 2014. Most changes would be effective in 2015, yet the more structural changes would be delayed until 2017.


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The Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i (RCUH) intends to enter into an Agreement for Services with a Contractor to provide integrated Grant Evaluation Services for three related National Science Foundation Human Resources Division (HRD) grants to Kapi'olani Community College, University of Hawai'i system:
- Faculty Integration, Research, and Engagement in Urban Polynesia (I-Cubed) HRD-0833482
- Ecological Ahupuaa Monitoring in Urban Polynesia (TCUP) HRD-1023665
- Hawaii's Pre-engineering Education Collaborative (PEEC) HRD-1037827
The I-Cubed grant seeks to institutionalize and measure the STEM program at Kapi'olani Community College, develop innovative strategies for faculty to support Native Hawaiian and other underrepresented minority students to succeed as pre-STEM majors, and to find innovative solutions to the challenges of broadening the workforce in STEM.
The TCUP grant seeks to increase educational access and success for Native Hawaiian students in biological sciences. The TCUP project will support the transfer of well-trained Native Hawaiian students to the University of Hawai'i at Manoa where they, too, are underrepresented in the total graduate pool.
The PEEC grant, like the TCUP grant, seeks to increase education access and success for Native Hawaiian students, but in collaboration with five cooperating University of Hawai'i campuses in engineering fields. Hawaii's PEEC project will enable its community colleges to transfer more well-trained Native Hawaiian students to the University of Hawai'i at Manoa College of Engineering where they are significantly underrepresented in the total graduate pool.
The College STEM program, working with a single external evaluator, will benefit from the integrated efforts of the external evaluation of the three grants through an enhanced integrated communication network as well as from further intense work together. The three grants highlight the same overarching goal: applying best practices to support students from our College so that they succeed in STEM fields when they transfer.
To meet grant goals and outcomes, the projects require an external grant evaluator to review and assess how the I-Cubed, TCUP, and the PEEC collaborative are engaged in meeting the goals of the projects. The external evaluator will work in collaboration with the College's Office for Institutional Effectiveness and should have a demonstrated understanding of the objectives of the National Science Foundation's I-Cubed, TCUP, and PEEC grant initiatives.
The Contractor will serve as an external evaluator of the grants and will provide regular programmatic evaluation services and reports over the length of the grants based on the grant outcomes and evaluation activities as specified below.
To be eligible to apply, offerors shall have:
- A minimum of five years experience in federal grant project evaluation with large federal granting agencies such as the National Science Foundation educational grants.
- Expertise in using quantitative and qualitative methodologies in conducting evaluations.
- Experience in evaluating student and faculty progress and development.
The rationale for integration of the evaluation services for the three grants follows:
The I-Cubed grant, as part of its charge from NSF, seeks to integrate HRD grants and institutionalize processes and communication structures, so the integration of the three grants with one external evaluator would produce useful material and arguments for College adoption of successful treatments. Due to the parallel nature of TCUP and PEEC activities, such as parallel summer bridge treatments and cohort management, having an external evaluator apply the same evaluation methods to the TCUP and PEEC students would be efficient, interesting in a comparative sense, and would give the College STEM program more coherent material to use in its research and dissemination of the success of the TCUP and PEEC treatments.
The best practices and methodologies in student cohort management that are being implemented in the TCUP and PEEC grants are parallel:
- Cohorts of Native Hawaiian students will be supported and tracked over five summers and four intervening years in Biological Science (TCUP) and Physical Science (PEEC).
- Each summer experience will emphasize mathematics in the mornings via a math emporium model overseen by our mathematics instructors, and in the afternoons, research and introductions to the breadth and depth of Hawaiian science via biological and physical science faculty.
- During the intervening years, before transfer, students are supported by peer mentors, study groups, undergraduate research opportunities, team science competitions, and internships.
- As students transfer, they will continue to report in and be tracked in their transfer institutions, be invited back to mentor younger students at our College, and some will even be hired back as peer mentors, paving the way for students to transfer and at the same time, providing role models for the current College students.
The grant narratives list the following goals and outcomes of I-Cubed, TCUP and PEEC:
I-Cubed grant
Goal 1: Institute, build and sustain a formal STEM enterprise.
Goal 2: Increase the number of STEM faculty engaged in producing more Native Hawaiian and other STEM degree completers.
I-Cubed key outcomes will be:
- Establishment of a formal STEM enterprise which offers participants a coherent and integrated program of study;
- Increase in the quantity, quality and diversity of College STEM faculty who are engaged and prepared to instruct and mentor an increasingly more diverse student body;
- Building of the STEM pipeline for students in Hawaii, resulting in an increase of the numbers of Native Hawaiian and other STEM degree completers;
- Stimulation of changes in institutional policies and practices that will support and sustain the STEM program.
TCUP grant
Goal 1: A STEM Learning Continuum. To implement a new STEM Learning Continuum that advances NH students progressively from routine methodological expertise to more adaptive, hypothesis-driven expertise. This continuum will focus on biology, ecology, biotechnology, eco-engineering, and technology.
Goal 2: A STEM Community of Practice in the Life Sciences. To implement a NH Community of Practice that connects Native Hawaiian students, mentors and undergraduate researchers with faculty, researchers, and community partners, through funded positions for students, increased interaction in the STEM Learning Center and ahupuaa settings, and virtual communication strategies.
TCUP Outcomes based on key strategies
- A comprehensive and sustainable participant support system including SEEK and SURE summer bridges for 175 NH students, and funded positions as service coordinators (40), undergraduate researchers (125), peer mentors (75), returning peer mentors (40), and research interns (50) is developed.
- 140 NH students complete the ASNS degree in Life Sciences and/or transfer to biological science fields at UH Manoa or UH Hilo (80% completion rate).
- 100 NH students complete STEM baccalaureate degrees at UHM or UHH within the lifetime of the grant.
- New NH community partnerships, opportunities in competitive research in the life sciences, and private sector and state government investment provide a strong foundation for future sustainability and growth of the KCC Life and Physical Sciences program.
PEEC Grant
Goal 1: A Quality Pre-Engineering Core Curriculum: that prepares Native Hawaiian students for success in progressively higher level courses in their Engineering education, effectively integrating Calculus, and that is available online in every semester during the project and beyond.
Goal 2: A Community of Practice in Engineering: connecting NH students, mentors, and undergraduate researchers with nurturing advising, structured cohort experiences, quality curriculum, faculty/researchers, and community partners, through funded positions for students, increased engagement with engineering issues and industries, and online communication strategies.
PEEC Outcomes based on key strategies:
- 170 NH students complete 6 week Summer Engineering Experiences at KCC, UH MC, and UHMCOE.
- 50 students complete the ASNS degree in Physical Sciences at KCC.
- 155 students complete all of a shared 39-credit pre-engineering core curriculum and transfer.
- 124 NH students complete UHMCOE Bachelor of Science degree (80% completion rate).
- Improved Pre-engineering core curriculum available online to all ten UH campuses and beyond.
- Hawaii's PEEC curriculum, support and engagement strategies disseminated statewide and nationally.
- Hawaii's PEEC partnerships for sustainability established, and the program expanded to all ten UH campuses.
The proposed scope of services for the integrated grants evaluation of I-Cubed, TCUP, and PEEC, includes a combination of, though need not be limited to, the following tasks:
- Design and Development of an Evaluation Plan: The Evaluation Plan should include data identification, collection, analysis, and evaluation and interpretation of data protocols as required by the grant, including a detailed statement of the activities required to implement the various evaluations, the evaluation schedule, and the evaluator's requirements to complete the evaluation. In addition, the evaluation plan should identify any critical activities that could be implemented for a faculty development program.
- Gather from three grants the summaries of project activities, results of recruitment and support activities, faculty development approaches, and copies of all deliverables.
- Provide formative and summative evaluation and analysis of program management and progress from the original grant narratives.
- Provide an assessment of program areas requiring improvement and to support beneficial program modifications.
- Evaluate and analyze professional development activities based on a framework that uses best practices research in effective STEM education.
- Prepare project deliverables including Semi-Annual, Annual and Final reports.
- Prepare reports that clearly evaluate the three grants both as individual grants and as integrated around the same over-arching purpose.
PROPOSAL FORMS for Request for Proposal (RFP) No. 0057002, to provide Grant Evaluation Services for the three grants are available from:
Dr. Robert Franco
Office for Institutional Effectiveness
Kapi'olani Community College
4303 Diamond Head Road, Ilima 203
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96816-4421
Offerors may request an official copy of the RFP and accompanying materials, including grant narratives, be sent to them by e-mail by providing the offeror's name, address, contact person, telephone number, and e-mail address. Requests may be made via email to Robert Franco at email@example.com.
Deadline for submitting written questions to Dr. Franco October 6, 2011, 4:00 p.m. HST
Deadline to receive responses written questions from Dr. Franco October 13, 2011, 4:00 p.m. HST
Closing Date for receipt of proposal October 27, 2011, 4:00 p.m. HST


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Home of W. A. Hawks and site of first Williamsburg, Mass. library
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- Title:
- Home of W. A. Hawks and site of first Williamsburg, Mass. library
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This photographic post card shows the North Main Street, Williamsburg home of William Avery Hawks. Advocates for culture and refinement, Mr. Hawks and his second wife Annie Juliet (Jones) founded the Williamsburg Library Association, which purchased a collection of books that were housed in the Hawks home and lent to members of the Association. The picture, mounted as you see it here, and the accompanying typescript and signed note were given to the Meekins Library by Clara Bodman Hawks, youngest of the Hawks children, who was born in Williamsburg, graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1909, and taught school in Palmer, Mass., Rockville, Conn., and Springfield, Mass. for many years. It is unknown who subsequently crossed out several words of her message or who added the note about the house's later ownership. The post card is 3.25 x 5.5 inches and the page is 8.5 x 11 inches.
- Name on Item:
Clara Bodman Hawks
- Date:
[ca. 1855–1986]
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- Location:
- Meekins Library
- Collection (local):
Meekins Library, Williamsburg, Mass., Local History, Historic Photographs Collection
- Subjects:
Williamsburg (Mass.)
Hawks, William Avery, 1834-1892
Jones, Annie Juliet, 1851-1921
Hawks, Clara Bodman, 1888-1975
Meekins, Stephen, 1812-1894
- Places:
MassachusettsHampshire (county)Williamsburg
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- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/fb494v66r
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Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the Meekins Library by writing to email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. Meekins Library, Williamsburg, Mass. must be credited as the original source of the item for all use.
Contact host institution for more information.
- Notes:
Part of the Meekins Library, Williamsburg, Mass., Local History, Historic Photographs Collection. http://www.meekins-library.org/
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Meekins Library--Local History--Historic Photographs Collection--Hawks (W. A.) house


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Snapchat's latest addition is an augmented reality ( AR) weather effect for your photos. This addition has quickly followed it's introduction of 3D emojis, also an AR feature.
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Having fun couldn't be easier. Simply take a photo with a part of the sky in it. Once this is done, Sky Filters will detect the sky and load the the AR weather effects.
Don't be scared with the 'load' word: it does it in nanoseconds. Once you take a picture that captures some part of the sky. The Sky Filter option will show up on the right part of your screen.
Swipe your device screen to the left and Snapchat's Sky Filters will change the look of the sky on the snapchat photo. Keep swiping for more options till you find the one that suits you. Select it, use it for stories and share with friends.
Sky filters follows the launch of the 3D emoji – another AR feature by Snapchat. This doesn't change seasons. It's a feature that let's you play with emojis as you watch them come to life.
Once you activate the 3D emoji feature, put your phone or device's camera at a background that suits you and let your 'living' emoji show it's skills. Once you are done, share your story and send it to friend.
Let's look at the really cloudy part of things with Sky Filters. Sharing photos will be much more fun but we may have more lies to deal with when asking weather related questions on Snapchat.
Sky Filters is available for Snapchat users on Android and iOS. This feature just started. If it's not yet on your app, try an update.
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RAF Cardington Camp
The image below was kindly sent in by Simon Clegg who originally bought it in Barras Market in Glasgow. It is a fabulous historical record as it also lists the names of the individuals shown. Although it is not dated it is known that Wing Commander Bellhouse was in Cardington in 1942 - perhaps someone will come forward with more information about these men and their specifc role in the war.
The names of the men shown are listed below - again if you recognise anyone please get in touch.
Back row: LACs H Collins, G Donovan, R Abbott, L Wilkinson, W Elsdon, L Norton, J Hannant, V Coles
3rd back row standing: LAC's T Areless, W Wilson, G Dow, W Wilson, G Eade, L Harris, R Keats, G Chandler, L White, P Hill.
2nd back row standing: LAC's O Jones, C Welton, F Bauwens, R Edney, E Allard, J Downes, H Berry, E Haywood, J Tallentire, A Whellams, F Carter.
1st row standing: LAC G Darbyshire Cpls J England, L Cooper, J Swain, R Edwards, E Fearnsides, R Way, A Alexander, J Crowley, H Murray, L Lilly.
Front row seated: Sgt R Pitchfork, F/Sgt A Winfield, P/O G Williams, F /Lt F Dixon, F/Lt L Chappell, W/Cdr M Bellhouse, W/Cdr R Risk, S/L C Green, F/Lt J Evason, F/Lt Whitmore, W/O C Broughton, Sgt E Keen.
Many thanks Simon for this very interesting photograph.
This 1938 listing shows the officers serving at the Balloon Development Establishment.
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Supporting Corporate College Funding
The trend toward corporate sponsorship of education is growing and is becoming an attractive way of recruiting employees. Today's generation will have difficulty paying their student loans without the help of the companies that employ them. Providing tuition reimbursement and direct scholarship helps to achieve a higher skilled employee.
Companies pay for training and find the rewards when motivated employees capitalize on that training to take on greater levels of responsibility. Funding higher education works in the same way except the return on the tail is longer. Some ideas learned in college can be applied right away while others might take some more time to be practical.
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Most of this education can be frequented at the community college level or at online universities that offer greater flexibility in scheduling. Beyond the positive public image and recruitment/retention advantage there is greater corporate give back that helps to lessen gaps between rich and poor. It is likely that corporate funding for higher education will continue to grow as a necessary outcome of rising costs.
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I have lived in a lot of different cities, and in those different cities I have had a lot of roommates, I counted it up and in total I have had a whopping 18 roommates. That is a lot of people I have lived with that aren't family.
So I am going to give Roomie Awards to the people I currently live with! I live in a house with Joe and three other people, so I sat them down and had them nominate each other for things, and when we all agreed, here is what we came up with:
The winner of the BIG CHEESE/CHIEF AWARD is… Justin.
It tends to be that whenever we are sitting around with nothing much to do, Justin comes up with stuff. He also is the main person of the house. He tends to also be like the big brother of the house and is always there to lend a hand when needed or just help out.
The winner of the SMEAGLE AWARD is…Ponee (a.k.a. Josh).
Josh is a little strange, a little weird, and sometimes really annoying, but he knows this and owns it. Josh can also be really helpful and a good guy when the time calls for it. He also takes the guys harassment on a daily basis, and doesn't really care that much about it.
The winner of the HYPERACTIVE AWARD is…Hanna.
It has been said that if we got a hamster wheel big enough, we could run the house off her energy. She is an awesome girl, an amazing friend, and just a little *cough* a lot *cough* crazy energetic! She is an overall amazing person, and a real best friend.
The winner of the SPEDCIAL AWARD is…Joe.
I did not nominate Joe for this one, and yes the 'D' is really supposed to be there. Joe has the uncanny ability to get himself into the weirdest of situations, which makes sense as he did ask me to marry him!
The winner of the FUZZY/DINGO AWARD is…Cleo!
Cleo is the house puppy. She is adorable and crazy and is always up for snuggles.
The winner of the JELLY BEAN/BUG-EYED AWARD is…me.
This one was a weird description, but I am going along with it. Hanna said that I should get the Jelly Bean award because I am so colourful and random. Justin says that I get the Bug-Eyed award because I always have an interest, I am always doing something, and it is never the same thing. Ever.
I have had so many experiences living with people of all walks of life, and this one is just a new adventure. With all new good people…even if they all are slightly crazy.
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Serial.println( (String) "DATA,DATE,TIME," + voltage + "," + degreesC + "," + degreesF );
But there is something I don't know, how to modify the com port in mac office 2016, there is no com port number, in Mac the port only show "/dev/cu.usbmodem1421".
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@adwsystems: you are right, there is only that one option to send data from PLX DAQ to Arduino. I haven't had any other use case ; yet. Attached you can find a special version of 2.11 with a new text field to send data to Arduino (please expand DirectDebugWindow to fully see the field + button + label). It only works while being connected (obviously ). Give it a try and I might add the same (in beautiful) to the next release. I might add two or three text fields at the same time thus one can post different pre-defined commands more rapidly.
String inputstring = ""; String sensorstring = ""; boolean input_string_complete = false; boolean sensor_string_complete = false; float sensortring; int LABEL = 1;void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); Serial3.begin(9600); Serial.println("CLEARDATA"); Serial.println("LABEL,pH,TIMER"); inputstring.reserve(10); sensorstring.reserve(30); }void serialEvent() { inputstring = Serial.readStringUntil(13); input_string_complete = true; }void serialEvent3() { sensorstring = Serial3.readStringUntil(13); sensor_string_complete = true; }void loop() { if (sensor_string_complete == true) { Serial.println(sensorstring); Serial.println((String)"DATA,,TIME"); delay(100); } sensorstring = ""; sensor_string_complete = false; }
if (sensor_string_complete == true) { Serial.println((String)"DATA," + sensorstring + ",TIME"); delay(100); }
Hi miniunder,Nearly perfect, but you placed the variables in the wrong order for printing. Also you didn't do it in 1 command but in 2.Correct world be:Code: [Select]if (sensor_string_complete == true) { Serial.println((String)"DATA," + sensorstring + ",TIME"); delay(100); }Notice how the sensorstring now is part of the single serial.println command and how all three commands (data / sensorstring / time) are divided by a comma.I'm not at my computer thus I wasn't able to test the code, but I think it should work. In case not just post a reply.Greetings