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The Festival opens officially on Wednesday, June 10th.
The Athens Print Fest 09
/ First Edition is being organized by the Greek Printmakers Association and the Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Athens, from June 3rd to 28th, 2009, in various locations in the city of Athens.
The Festival opens officially on Wednesday, June 10th, at 20:00 at the Melina Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens.
The Greek Printmakers Association is participating in the Festival with a thematic exhibition entitled Difficult Nights taking place at the Melina Cultural Center from June 3rd to 28th. The exhibition comprises works designed to match the doubtful days we live in. The night is modern, the icon of our ignorance, of our limits, the core of our being. Plato thrust us into the dark of the cave, thus condemning the false, misleading quality of light. Tiresius the clairvoyant did not need eyes in order to see. The night requires us to conjure up a different kind of gaze. And it is up to each of us to find our own perspective; to each his own night. Artists Odysseas Annitsakis, Ilia Rena Anoussi, Susanna Aposporidou, Mihalis Arfaras, George Vlassopoulos, Manolis Yannadakis, Nikos Desekopoulos, Elisabeth Dionysopoulou, Christiana Iliopoulou, Eleni Kaprou, Aria Komianou, Yannis Kolios, Grigoris Kotsaris, Dimitra Koumantaki, Adriana Kotsi, Dina Kotsiou, Kati Mahrt, George Milios, Tonia Nikolaidi, Iris Xyla-Xanalatou, Eleni Ikonomidou, Pino Pantolfini, Katerina Papadimitropoulou, Apostolos Piroudinis, Dimitra Petropoulou Dimitraki, Irene Podimata Stefanaki, Dimitra Siaterli, Rania Stathopoulou, Nikos Stavrakantonakis, Yannis Stefanakis, Mary Schina, Vicky Tsalamata and Florence Christaki have been asked to give participating in a group exhibition comprising 100 works.
On their own exhibition premises, the Technohoros (Artspace), the Greek Printmakers Association also presents an exhibit of small prints, entitled Pocket Print, from June 3rd to 28th. The etchings on show will be contributed by members and associates of Technohoros. Etched and printed based on various techniques, they demonstrate the artists excellent knowledge of their craft as applied to small-sized works.
As part of the First Edition Prints Fest, the Hellenic American Union presents for the first time The Etchings of the Angelos and Leto Catacouzinos Foundation, from June 3rd to 30th. The collection includes works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Spyros Vassiliou, Yannis Tsarouchis, Giorgos Demos, and others. These etchings were gifts from the artists to the Catacouzinos couple, at a time when their home was an art salon of the 1930s generation. At the same time, they reflect the strong bonds created between significant intellectual personalities at that time.
With this exhibition, the Hellenic American Union wishes to honor Angelos Catacouzinos, who was not only a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist, but also a founding member and the president of the Hellenic American Union from 1967 until 1975. During this time, he helped make the Hellenic American Union a prestigious cultural organization and laid valuable groundwork for its future development and progress.
The exhibition also includes etchings by Nikolaos Hadjikyriakos Ghikas, who was a close friend of Angelos Catacouzinos. Hadjikyriakos Ghikas himself was also a founding member of the Hellenic American Union. The exhibition will be held at the Hellenic American Unions Gallery named after the renowned Greek artist.
From June 3rd to 30th, Alpha Bank, will be showing the educational exhibition What Is a Print? at the Hellenic American Unions Kennedy Gallery (Massalias 22, Athens). Alpha Bank has a considerable collection of etchings, in particular by Greek artists (woodcut and copperplate prints, lithographies, books containing original etchings). It is a collection spanning the entire history of printmaking in Greece from 1880 up to the present day and comprising works by all significant artists.
Printmaking techniques, i.e. the way in which an etching is created, are quite complex, and producing copies of each etching is based on a difficult procedure requiring a well-organized workshop and a great deal of specific knowledge and skills (making the initial sketch, etching the plaque, printing the etching, producing identical copies, etc.).
This exhibition chooses a straightforward approach to the creation of prints, and does so by showing what the inside of an etching and printmaking workshop looks like, by exhibiting tools, printmaking plaques and the works that result from them. In addition, thorough explanatory texts and photographs allow us to observe the various stages of printing an etching.
The Cervantes Institute will host a solo exhibition by the Spanish artist Ines Piqueras Garcia entitled Innermost Nature from June 3rd to 28th.
Ines Piqueras Garcia was born in 1977 in Valencia and graduated from the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in her hometown. She has received scholarships from the Spanish and Greek governments, since she lives and works in both countries. This is her sixth exhibition in Athens. Her work is always inspired and guided by the pulsing of nature in all of its forms and motives derived from this, and it answers to the absolute need for change, experimenting and exploring. She uses various printmaking techniques, traditional and contemporary alike, as well as a combination thereof. When the time comes to print, she prints, cuts, mounts, glues and sews, playing with all of the possibilities at her disposal and using a wide range of materials: hand-made paper, fabric, plastic, soft metal, etc.
From June 3rd to 27th, the French Institute will be hosting an exhibition on its own premises by the printmakers of the PAS GRAVE group (Dominique ALIADIERE, Hélène BELIN, Corie BIZOUARD, Devorah BOXER, Alain CAZALIS, Catherine GILLET, Elsa MARC, Dominique MOINDRAUT, Christiane VIELLE, Muriel RIGAL and Zanoarisoa RAJAONA).
PAS GRAVE was born from the desire of certain artists to work creatively alongside their usual network, a kind of slightly parenthetic activity in every possible sense of the term, meaning that they work openly, flexibly, with the goal of throwing light on the art of printmaking through a liberal and less conventional prism.
This initiative is based on the sheer desire to allow everybody to partake in the pleasure of viewing these pictures, by way of all conceivable techniques linked to printmaking, as well as providing artists and above all the public, which, especially in France, is not inclined to see printmaking in a new light, with the opportunity to meet on the occasion of exhibitions and events.
From June 3rd to 28th, the Ιtalian Institute is hosting a group exhibition of Contemporary Italian Etchings entitled The Dual Dream of Art in its premises (Patission 47). 34 works will be on show at this exhibition, all from the 2RC Atelier and curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, thus allowing the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens to present a unique panorama of Italian etchings from the 1970s to the present day. With works by Lucio Fontana, Burri, Afro, Giacomo Manzu and other artists, the show reflects the evolution of amorphous Italian printmaking in the most expressive of ways.
From June 18th to 28th, the Athens School of Fine Arts will be presenting in the group exhibition entitled Printmaking at the House of Cyprus in the premises of the House of Cyprus (Skoufa Str. and Heraklitou 10). It will cover a wide range of works by students of the Printmaking Department: Vassiliki Anastasiou, Kanuto Kalan, Panagiotis Ferentinos, Miltiadis Petalas, Lia Blioumi, Kleves Krisiko, Konstantinos Papamihalopoulos, Ilias Kotsiras, Andreas Kontonis, Anni Zavitsanou, Eleni Dervisoglou, Vassiliki Garavela, Leonidas Yannakopoulos and Matina Georga, as well as a selection of works by the well-known printmaker and professor of printmaking at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Michalis Arfaras. What is particularly interesting about this exhibition, is the quality of the images, and the perfection of the prints, made by these young artists and their professor alike, none of whom hesitate to avail themselves of the entire range of etching and printmaking techniques. The works on show reveal the artists thorough knowledge of art history and their profound practical and theoretical understanding of the aesthetic philosophy of the art of printmaking. The exhibition intends to provide art-lovers with a preview of the future of printmaking.
From June 11th to 28th, the Piraeus Municipal Gallery will be presenting a group exhibition of Greek etchings entitled Impressions on Paper the Evolution of Greek Printmaking from 1860 up to the Present Day. This is a unique undertaking in the field of visual arts, curated by Emmanuel Mavromatis (Honorary Professor of Art History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), who specializes in the study of printmaking and has endeavored to trace its development from the 19th century until the present day, based on authentic etchings by 126 artists and a total of approximately 300 works on show at the exhibition.
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Thanks to Eric Shane for the following WWE SmackDown spoilers from tonight's tapings in Bakersfield, California:
* Lilian Garcia kicks things off and gets a nice reaction from the crowd.
* Teddy Long is the announcer with Michael Cole since Josh Mathews is out this week.
* Randy Orton opens SmackDown and talks about what happened on RAW. Orton wants a shot at the World Heavyweight Title and issues a challenge if anyone has a problem with that. Sheamus comes out to a big pop. Sheamus agrees that Orton should get a title shot. This brings Alberto Del Rio out, who also wants a title shot. Booker T appears and books Orton vs. Del Rio with the winner facing Sheamus.
* Ryback vs. Jinder Mahal is up next. Ryback cuts a promo on Mahal before the match. Ryback gets the win.
* Layla beat Alicia Fox with Kaitlyn on commentary. Good back and forth match for the Divas. Kaitlyn and Layla came face to face in the middle of the ring after the match but shook hands. Eve Torres ran down and raised both of their hands for some reason.
* Backstage segment with Dolph Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero arguing with Sheamus, who dares Ziggler to cash in tonight.
* Sheamus beat Dolph Ziggler by DQ after getting hit with the briefcase. Ziggler continues the attack and goes to cash in his title shot but Sheamus gets back up and Dolph leaves.
* Santino Marella comes out and talks about his reign as United States Champion but is interrupted by new champion Antonio Cesaro and Aksana. Santino attacks Cesaro but Aksana distracts the Cobra. Cesaro ends it by laying Santino out.
* Backstage segment with Del Rio yelling at Ricardo.
* Kofi Kingston and R-Truth defeat Epico and Primo.
* Matt Striker is backstage with Kofi and Truth. Titus O'Neil and Darren Young show up as do The Usos and Primo and Epico to start a big brawl.
* Booker and Teddy are backstage talking about the tag title scene when Eve comes in. She has done research on the next contenders and has everything organized. Booker is impressed.
* A Wade Barrett video airs.
* Alberto Del Rio defeated Randy Orton clean via submission with the cross arm breaker. Sheamus was on commentary. After the match, there was a big brawl with Ziggler joining in. Sheamus and Orton chase off Ziggler and Del Rio to end the show.
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Report: 90,000 residential customers have left PSNHBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
July 17. 2013 10:25PM
CONCORD — The latest report filed with the state Public Utilities Commission shows that nearly 90,000 residential electricity customers have left Public Service of New Hampshire for a competitive service provider as of June 30, continuing a trend that has put the utility at odds with regulators over the fate of its coal-fired power plants.
PSNH is required by the Public Utilities Commission to submit quarterly reports on how many customers have switched to unregulated competitors for the energy supply portion of their bill, even though PSNH continues to deliver the electricity.
The switch to competitive suppliers began as a trickle in 2012 and turned into a flood in 2013, as more competitors entered the market and began to advertise aggressively.
Nearly a quarter of all PSNH customers now get their energy service from a third party, according to numbers provided by the utility on July 15.
PSNH recently lowered its energy supply rate, but the regulated rate is still higher than rates offered by many competitors. The cost of maintaining PSNH power plants is being borne by a shrinking customer base, which puts even more pressure on rates.
The PUC staff issued a report in June that suggested PSNH get rid of the coal-fired plants in Bow and Portsmouth because they are creating a cost structure that the regulated utility cannot sustain in the wake of low natural gas prices.
PSNH challenged the report, but it was accepted by the PUC on July 15.
"By accepting the report, we do not adopt all of its assumptions or conclude that the information contained therein is necessarily proven as fact," the commissioners wrote in their order. "We do, however, find that the report demonstrates a credible risk of harm to PSNH and its customers if circumstances were to continue unchecked. We find it necessary to further analyze the economic and regulatory pressures facing PSNH."
The commission ordered its staff to contract with a valuation expert "to determine the value of PSNH's generation assets and entitlements" as the next step in the process.
Meanwhile, PSNH scheduled a tour of the Bow Station coal-fired plant for the media on Wednesday to make the case for diversity in the region's energy supply, with coal as a necessary hedge to the volatile natural gas market.
The regulated utility argues that revenue from the coal-fired plants helped keep energy supply prices below market in New Hampshire in the past, and will do so again if natural gas prices go back up. The coal-fired plants have been called on to feed energy into the New England grid during recent days of high demand, due to the extreme heat.


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In between having several books on the go, over the last year I've managed to finish watching and re-watching some TV shows that are favourites of mine. Most of these appear in my two "My Best TV shows of all time" pieces I've written. Since I like to judge and rank things, I thought I'd evaluate the endings of these shows and which are the "best" to me; that being the ones I found the most emotional, either depressing, upsetting, uplifting, inspiring, or all of the above. Also factors are how the episode actually did bring the story to a conclusion, and the methods used.
Of course, there are thousands of TV shows out there with possibly greater endings than I've ever seen. I know there are all-time classics that I've been told about, such as Black Adder etc. But I can only write about what I know and what has meaning for me. No doubt I'll do an updated version of this list in the future. As can be expected most of these shows also appear on my "favourite shows of all time" list, for obvious reasons.
* SPOILER ALERT – I've tried to keep my comments as ambiguous as possible, but if you're watching or planning to watch any of these shows, best to not read this. *
First time I saw the end of Prison Break, I was really moved. I thought it was touching, even if I knew what was coming well before Sarah said "let's go and see Michael" to their son. Yeah, I knew what was coming, and it still moved me. I'm not saying that Prison Break was brilliant in its last two seasons. It had its faults. I think there are only so many realistic twists and turns and last minute surprises you can spring on the audience and still maintain credibility.
The fact the show really struggled to keep its own contrived and arguably daft plot-twists going is the reason is ranked below all the others. But it's a sad ending; quite depressing actually and possibly uncalled for. But moving? No doubt.
I could've chosen other Star Treks, (the Original never had a proper series finale) but Voyager's was rushed and unsatisfying, and DS9's felt hollow somehow. The ridiculous Vic Fontaine program (inexplicably introduced) was hit on our heads repeatedly throughout season 7 and I can't help but feel it was someone's hobbie smuggled lamely into the story. I chose TNG because its ending is the best of all the Treks. Makes you wonder why more of the last two seasons couldn't have been written this way.
It was a fun ending to a TV show that, taken overall, was above average. You can't deny it was a solid consistent series with some fantastic episodes. But you can't deny the crap ones either, and there were quite a lot of them. If we're taking a show at its best then we should discard the 1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th seasons, but then we'd have to throw away Scrubs seasons 5-8, Prison Break's 3rd and 4th, Friends' 5th to 10th, and so on. But this isn't about TV shows it's about finales.
The TNG finale was a great episode to wrap it up; in typical Star Trek fashion we bounce around from time to time, bringing our heroes together for a grand cause. And the lesson from Q is something the Exec Producers and writers of Trek didn't actually take home: life isn't about charting stars and mapping nebula (or treknobabble and warp core breaches), but discovering the unknown possibilities of existence. And that, my friends, is what Star Trek was originally all about. But like All Good Things…
I can look back with hindsight and spot the many flaws with this show, but it's hard to deny that for my generation, FRIENDS was a hugely popular show, and its humour, in-jokes and story have become pop culture icons in their own right. Could I be any more over the top? That is so not what I meant. You know what I mean: "we were on a break!!"
Hard to grow up with a show like that, with characters you get to know that well, to care for – and not feel something when it ended. It was a good wrap to a comedy that went on longer than it should have. (A lot longer). But it's hard to keep quality of earlier seasons up; look at Scrubs. But it ended well; everyone got paired off; they went their own ways. In a sense, they (finally) grew up.
Totally different to the Buffy ending. Totally different to almost any TV ending you'll ever see in fact! No smiles, no wrap-ups, no happy conclusions, in fact – no conclusions? Angel and his (surviving) allies stand alone in a dark alley pouring with rain, having knowingly set in motion a series of events that will strike a massive blow to the forces of evil – and almost certainly spell their own death. After five seasons of a show with many ups and downs, with some great stories and some weaker moments, the hoards of Wolfram and Hart descend on our heroes and we're left with a dramatic and spine-tingling cut to black after Angel simply declares "I want the dragon!"
What a way to end a series!
(No good video clip available. (God damn fan art.))
Yup, gonna moan about this one too. From seasons 1 – 4, the best sitcom I've seen, and I'd still give it that accolade. Pretentious and obvious with its "moral of the episode"? Perhaps, but what is good storytelling unless you take yourself seriously? Scrubs was so incredibly well-written in its early days that it deserved a quality ending. It got one: a beautiful montage of flashforwards to stunning music; our characters happy and living the lives they've deserved. The end of the show nicely brings everything together, ties up the loose ends, and gives a satisfying happy-sad sense of closure. It's happy, but we're sad it's over.
Now, I had my gripes with this show too, partly because I totally loved it and think it lost its way somewhat. The return and then switch, double-switch, and switch-back from Tony was…urm…slightly forced in my opinion. And seriously, is anyone else amazed that at least three people that knew Jack were still alive by the end?? Writing tip: when you keep killing off people the audience cares about, the audience stops caring, thereby rendering the story device useless.
But hey, Jack in full body armour – taking out the bad guys and exposing another nasty secret, getting the US President to stop menstruating for one minute and realise she'd made a boo-boo: epic stuff. Grand and sweeping, and in typical Jack fashion he disappears once last time. This ending might have had more emotional resonance if Jack hadn't already played scapegoat and run off into hiding no fewer than 421 times previously in the series. But maybe I'm being harsh and that was simply "foreshadowing", as Jack can never seem to find happiness.
He thanks Chloe one last time, the clock for the only occasion in the entire show counts us up from three to zero, and that was that.
What would an ending to the best show of all time be without the best ending of all times? Well, I wouldn't go that far. It's a bit rushed; there's too much to get through and a lot to cram in. I would've liked to savour more of the victory but that's TV.
But after seven grand and epic seasons, after battling friends and foes – to face off against the power of the Biggest Baddest Bad of them all, and to win in such heroic manner and stand victorious – with everything wrapped up and all stories concluded in a meaningful and satisfying matter, the smile – the starting of a smile – of "what now?" is just class. An epic battle with fantastic music; the elevation of Willow to goddesshood; the elevation of Potentials everywhere to Actuals; the courage and gift of the newly-ensouled Spike; the end of Sunnydale.
Yeah, we lost a lot of people along the way. It was difficult and often painful – but you can't help feeling that it all meant something. And hey, the good guys won the day – which is the entire point of Buffy. A great way to go out.
Oh, Battlestar. What a sweet show you starting out as, and indeed finished as. Shame about all that Balter-Six crap in between. We get it, God exists and has a purpose! Where is Kirk when you need him…
"Urm, I just like to ask a question? What does God need with a starship? And incidentally, why does God care so much about saving 50,000 humans to restart a new race, instead of…urm, I don't know… preventing the frakking nuclear annihilation of them in the first place??"
And then Kirk realises we're talking about the god of the bible, and it all makes sense.
A great show, if taxing in some places – but a bittersweet ending. Slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the face of perfection – a perfect face, perfect lace. Find the perfect world for the end of Kara Thrace. End of line.
A courageous and suicidal assault on Cylon HQ itself gives us superb battles in space and on the ground. A last ditch breathless escape gives us our second (and our characters' first) shot of the beautiful world we call home. Galactica sails off into the sun…literally. The human race begins, again. An Angel ascends, the President leaves us, Adama starts a lonely new existence, the war is over. The writers gave themselves a hell of a big job bringing all this together but you have to say they pulled it off, eventually. But all of this has happened before, and will happen again. Cracking stuff.
Counterpoint: read this for a superb deconstruction of BSG and why the ending was poor. And this.
No doubt in my mind before I started writing this which was gonna be number 1. B5 is a grand story of our heroes, and on either side lies a million years of history. We witness a small slice of the temporal cosmic pie, and in the last episode jump forward 20 years to see how it ends. In a way, I think this episode is moving not because we don't know what's coming, but because we do. We knew what was going to happen, just like you might know that a loved one is destined to die soon from an illness, but that doesn't make it any easier when it comes – and of course that analogy wasn't chosen lightly.
It ends with a love story. I always find goodbyes hard, and Sleeping in Light is full of them. Our characters say goodbye to others and we say goodbye to the station. The hardest of all is Sheridan's and Delenn's – you can see the pain in their faces, almost horror – as the emotion finally pours out.
J. Michael Straczynski said that the episode "put him away" for a good hour, and kept doing so every time he watched it. I have to confess to the same thing: no matter how many times I watch it, and it's not often, I find it really hard to get through. It's a raw and primal feeling: seeing these characters older, the story over, their age past, and time to go; it does feel like coming in when the last battle really is over and many have died and been lost, and it's quiet and still and there isn't much left to say; a cloud hangs over the episode, very much like a funeral. Perhaps its tough because there are a lot of unnaturally early goodbyes, which are the worst kind. (Let's also remember that Andreas Katsulas and the much younger Richard Biggs are no longer alive – the latter dying so shortly after JMS recorded his commentary for this very episode.)
Is it Christopher Franke's heart-breaking music, majestic and harrowing – yet inspiring? It is Ivanova's voice-over at the end, "even for people like us"? Is it the sight of the station slowly dying? Is it the sense of emptiness, of leaving things behind? Is it two lovers ripped apart before their time? Is it the sense of hope that somehow we're left with? It must be all of this.
If the purpose of drama and story is to move the audience – then B5 must get the "best ever ending" accolade from me. Such a sense of finality and dramatic conclusion. It's the hardest last episode I've had to sit through. And I think that says it all.


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A Conway man was charged with driving while intoxicated after crashing his SUV Friday night, Madison Police Officer Jill Barbour said.
Christopher Henley, 22, was heading south on Conway Road in a 2002 GMC Envoy about 8:20 p.m. Friday when the accident happened, Barbour said. He was taken to Memorial Hospital in North Conway for treatment.


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Junior Terrance Shannon scored a career-high 16 points off the bench Saturday to help Florida State beat Tulsa 82-63 in the Orange Bowl Basketball Classic.
SUNRISE — For a holiday vacation this year, Florida State junior Terrance Shannon gave himself a workout.
Feeling fitter, Shannon scored a career-high 16 points off the bench Saturday to help beat Tulsa 82-63 in the Orange Bowl Basketball Classic.
"When I went home over the break, I spent more time running and getting in better condition," the Georgia native said. "In the second half of the season, we have to step it up, and I want to be that driving force."
Florida State (8-4) extended its winning streak to four in a row and remained unbeaten in four games against Tulsa (7-6).
"We're trying to finish strong in our non-conference schedule and get some momentum going into ACC play," Shannon said. "These games are helping us know where we need to build."
Michael Snaer scored 19 points and was chosen the game's most valuable player, but it was Shannon who kept the Seminoles in the game early.
The 6-foot-8, 240-pound Shannon was active inside. He led both teams with 10 rebounds and shot 6 for 11 in 26 minutes.
"I feel the more energy I come out with, the better the team is as a whole," he said. "I just have to be more aggressive and energized on the court."
Tulsa's Scott Haralson scored 17 points, all in the second half. Junior teammate Pat Swilling Jr. had a career-high 19 points and five assists, but he scored only two points in the second half.
"They were giving Pat jump shots, and Pat is a good shooter," Hurricane coach Danny Manning said. "He catches the ball in rhythm. He was knocking them down in the first half. Scottie got it going in the second half."
But the Hurricane's leading scorer this season, James Woodard, went 2 for 10 and scored only eight points.
Tulsa couldn't avert a blowout despite shooting 11 for 24 from 3-point range. The Hurricane made only 11 of 32 two-pointers (34 percent), committed 17 turnovers and were outrebounded 44-32.
Florida State missed shots on its first six possessions. The Seminoles began getting to the rim consistently in the second half, when they shot 57 percent, and they finished at 47 percent.
"We were just playing aggressive defensive and getting layups and dunks," Snaer said. "We were just executing our stuff and reversed the ball a little bit more. We did a great job on that."
An 18-5 spurt put Florida State ahead 64-49 midway through the second half. Tulsa rushed several shots during the run and scored twice in 13 possessions.
"I thought we were extremely impatient in the first part of the game," Seminoles coach Leonard Hamilton said. "We took our shots too quick. We didn't give ourselves a chance to get the best shot. In the second we were a bit more patient. We got some stops and easy baskets."
The Seminoles trailed by as much as five points in the first half, but Shannon helped them overcome the slow start and had nine points by halftime.
The Hurricane committed turnovers on five of their first six possessions. Swilling sank a 3-pointer to get them on the scoreboard, and he made a pair of 3s during an 11-2 run that gave Tulsa a 21-16 lead.
Devon Bookert's buzzer-beater put the Seminoles ahead at halftime, 36-33. Haralson hit consecutive 3-pointers early in the second half to give the Hurricanes their final lead, 41-40, before the Seminoles' defense clamped down.
"They did a better job of jumping to the ball," Swilling said. "In the first half we were getting to the lane, penetrating and kicking. That gave us a lot of open shots. But they tightened up."
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Can a man with sickle cell anemia have children without passing it on to them?
Yes. If his partner does not have the sickle cell trait, then all of his children will only have sickle trait. If his partner has the sickle trait, then there is a 50% chance of sickle disease and a 50% of sickle trait. If his partner also has sickle disease, then all of the children will also have sickle disease. This is because everyone has 2 copies of every gene including the gene that causes sickle cell. With one abnormal gene, the person has sickle trait and with 2 abnormal genes, the person has sickle cell disease. It is therefore important to know if your partner has sickle trait or not. Sickle trait does not cause any problems, so a simple blood test must be done to know for sure.
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An ex-soldier with a ten bags a day heroin habit tried to hide drugs in his mouth, a court heard.
Police stopped Lee Barton for a drugs search at 11.20pm on December 17, prosecutor Jennifer Fitzgerald said.
He attempted to run off but after a short chase was detained and taken to Buxton police station, High Peak Magistrates' Court heard.
But on the way there, an officer noticed he was trying to put items in his mouth, later discovered to be 35 small plastic bags of brown powder.
The powder was found to be diamorphine, which had a total weight of 6.08 grams.
Barton was also found to be in possession of a syringe which contained traces of amphetamine.
In interview, he said he had found someone's stash of drugs so had taken it.
He told police that the drugs would last him between three and five days and that he used ten bags of heroin a day.
Barton, 40, of Darley Grove, Buxton, admitted two charges of possessing a class A drug and failing to surrender after arriving at court late.
Karina Lyon, defending, said: "The defendant entered a guilty plea at the earliest opportunity and I'd ask for credit for that.
"In addition, when interviewed, he made full and frank admissions.
"The reason for this offence is a long-standing drug habit.
"He served in the army but left in 1997.
"After leaving the army he received no type of counselling whatsoever and as a result he came under the influence of drugs to escape from the horrors he had seen.
"He does appear to be addressing this issue."
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As an IT decision maker, you probably know that a converged infrastructure clearly calls for a data center transformation, which is no simple task. Implementing a converged data infrastructure, like any IT initiative, requires a strategy up front. But before you create a strategy, you first need to figure out what exactly your data center needs. Then, you'll need to get buy-in from various stakeholders. Talk to your IT peers—not just at your company, but IT decision makers at other companies. Most likely you will hear about similar needs and goals, most of which are some of the top data center initiatives for 2015, as indicated by TechTarget's recent Purchasing Intentions Survey of IT decision makers:
Updating data center infrastructure. The recent TechTarget survey revealed that at least 40% of businesses will be deploying a data center infrastructure update during 2015. That's a big initiative, but what does it really entail? And where do you begin? It's not as if you can easily migrate legacy systems and sensitive data with a wave of a wand, not to mention the budget constraints. A new data center infrastructure must be scalable, flexible and well managed. And in the meantime, you have to do your regular job with its own demands. It starts with a data center strategy including goals, technology needs, business needs, sustainability, budgets and a deployment plan. And that's only the beginning.
Migrating to Windows Server 2012. An important aspect of the data center infrastructure is updated servers. A server refresh with Windows Server 2012 allows not only better performance and processing, but also full support when necessary for parts and services. Migrating to Windows Server 2012 also enables IT to support modern computing: big data, mobility, social media, social computing and collaboration initiatives. Once again, better consolidation and improved performance allow for better TCO.
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Creating a private cloud. A converged infrastructure allows secure management and sharing of computing resources in the cloud, including networks, server platforms and storage. It helps simplify cloud deployments, improve flexibility and agility and reduce costs. It also enables you to use existing server and network platforms while allowing expansion and future investments. IDC projects that the market for private cloud infrastructure will grow from about $12.3 billion in 2012 to more than $22.2 billion by 2017. Plus, a converged infrastructure in a private cloud enables more flexibility and choices.
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The U.S. Senate passed a Federal transportation bill but the House of Representatives remains divided on its own version of the legislation. The bill calls for the reauthorization of funding for state projects.
The Senate's two-year reauthorization bill for $109 billion, known as H.R. 7, was passed on March 14th. The House of Representatives is now debating a five-year $260 billion bill but House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is reportedly considering opting for the Senate's version instead.
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) can last a lifetime, but they don't have to. Early exposure to family violence, abusive treatment, neglect, alcohol and drug abuse, or separated/divorced parents can lead to health and social problems, risk-taking behaviors and a shortened lifespan. Safe, stable and nurturing relationships and communities can break the cycle of abuse and maltreatment.
The ACE Study is an ongoing collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente. Led by Co-principal Investigators Robert F. Anda, MD, MS, and Vincent J. Felitti, MD, the ACE Study is perhaps the largest scientific research study of its kind, analyzing the relationship between multiple categories of childhood trauma (ACEs), and health and behavioral outcomes later in life.
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Growing up experiencing any of the following conditions in the household prior to age 18:
The ACE Study used a simple scoring method to determine the extent of each study participant's exposure to childhood trauma. Exposure to one category (not incident) of ACE, qualifies as one point. When the points are added up, the ACE Score is achieved. An ACE Score of 0 (zero) would mean that the person reported no exposure to any of the categories of trauma listed as ACEs above. An ACE Score of 9 would mean that the person reported exposure to all of the categories of trauma listed above. The ACE Score is referred to throughout all of the peer-reviewed publications about the ACE Study findings.
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My post yesterday about liberals and racism, and the way the Left attacks any mention of "states' rights" as code for racist oppression, brought a note from Prof. Jack Pitney at Claremont McKenna College (not to worry Jack—you'll make the Power Line 100 roster, though maybe as a group entry since your whole department makes the cut) about how contemporary liberals have suddenly rediscovered the virtue of states' rights in connection with . . . gay marriage.
Pitney and textbook co-author Joe Bessette note that Sen. Dianne Feinstein argued against a federal gay marriage ban in grounds of—you guessed it—states' rights. Such a ban she said, would "strike at the heart of states' rights in the area of family law."
Or how about this statement: "I believe in states' rights." Says who? Says New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Hadn't realized that he is a racist, too.
Or how about the guy who said that a congressional ban on abortion funding for the District of Columbia (not a state) "undermines the principle of states' rights." Or that the Defense of Marriage Act "interferes with states' rights."
Turns out that person is . . . President Obama. I'll leave it to Glenn Beck to take the heat for drawing the conclusion of consequent (liberal) logic here
Meanwhile, if you don't think liberals don't suffer from racism OCD, check out the story out of Oregon where a school official wants to scrub any mention of peanut, butter, and jelly sandwiches from scholl curricula because P,B & Js are . . . racist:
PORTLAND, Ore. – Dr. Verenice Gutierrez, a principal with Oregon's Portland Public Schools, has become convinced that America's "white culture" negatively influences educators' world view and the manner in which they teach their students.
For instance, last year a teacher in the district presented a lesson that included a reference to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Gutierrez says that by using sandwiches as an illustration, the teacher was engaged in a very subtle form of racism.
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University of California, Berkeley
C. Bradley Moore (NAS) is a professor emeritus in the University of California, Berkeley, department of chemistry. Dr. Moore had direct management responsibility for Berkeley???s nuclear chemistry program, as chemistry department chair, as dean, and as director of the chemistry division (including chemistry of the actinides) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From 1988-2000, he served on advisory committees at Los Alamos that reviewed nuclear chemistry programs. Dr. Moore has also served as vice president for research at Ohio State and Northwestern Universities during most of this past decade. He was also a member of the governing board of both Argonne and Fermi National Labs and was instrumental in creating the current arrangement for a shared management of those labs that includes Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois. Dr. Moore was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986.
Mr. Ronald A. Chrzanowski
Exelon Nuclear
Ronald A. Chrzanowski is the corporate chemistry manager with Exelon Nuclear. He has 30 years experience in nuclear power plants including chemistry, engineering, nuclear oversight, operations, regulatory assurance, licensing, and security. He is currently the Exelon Chemistry Corporate Functional Area Manager, where he is responsible for supervising four experienced corporate chemists, leading the chemistry peer group, and chemistry governance and oversight functional area for 17 nuclear units at 10 stations. Mr. Chrzanowski previously held the postion of chemistry manager at Exelon???s LaSalle Station, where for 5 years he was responsible for managing the chemistry department of 26 employees including 13 represented employees and budget responsibility for $10M/yr. His prior experience includes obtaining a senior reactor operator???s license at the Byron Nuclear Generating Station as well as manager positions in many other departments over the years. Mr. Chrzanowski received a BS in electrical engineering from Marquette University. His industry leadership service includes EPRI Chemistry, RP, LLW TAC (Technical Advisory Committee) member for 2.5 years, Regulatory Ground Water Protection Program Working Group 2008 ??? 09, and Radiation Sourcebook Committee 2010. Previously he was the EPRI ORSERG (Operational Reactor Safety Engineering Review Group) Chairman, 2001 ??? 2002, and currently he is the EPRI Chemistry, LLW, RP TAC Vice Chairman.
Dr. Howard L. Hall
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Dr. Howard L. Hall is the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor???s Chair in Nuclear Security, in the department of nuclear engineering at UT. He also serves as director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy???s Global Security Policy Program. Hall received his Ph.D. in chemistry (focused on nuclear and radiochemistry) from the University of California in 1989, and his BS in chemistry from the College of Charleston in 1985. Prior to joining UT, he spent 20 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California, where he led major scientific and operational missions in nuclear and homeland security. Hall is a member of the ANS, the APS, the ACS, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists. His research interests include nuclear security applications, including proliferation detection, counter-proliferation, detection of and response to radiological or nuclear threats, radiochemistry, nuclear forensics, and applications of nuclear-based methods to other security needs (such as explosives detection). His work with the Baker Center focuses on the intersection of science, security, and public policy.
Dr. Patricia Ann Baisden
E.O. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Trish Baisden is the associate director of the National Ignition Campaign (NIC), a national, multi-laboratory effort lead by the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and Photon Science Directorate at the E. O. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). NIC is the scientific and technology development program on NIF focused on using inertial confinement fusion to achieve ignition and thermonuclear burn in the laboratory. Dr. Baisden is a nuclear chemist and during her 30 year career at LLNL she has held a number of technical management positions including division leader for analytical sciences, deputy director of the Seaborg Institute, materials program leader for NIF, chief scientist and deputy associate director for the Chemistry and Material Sciences Directorate. Professionally she has served on numerous study panels and review committees, as an editor of the journal Radiochimica Acta, and chairperson of the American Chemical Society???s Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology. Dr. Baisden???s research interests include nuclear fusion, lasers and optical materials, heavy ion reactions, heavy element fission properties, the chemistry of 4 and 5f elements, and nuclear power and advanced fuel cycles. Dr. Baisden earned a B.S. in 1971 and Ph.D. in 1975 in chemistry from Florida State University and then held a two year postdoctoral appointment with Prof. Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, before joining the staff at LLNL.
Dr. Michael E. Phelps
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine
Michael E. Phelps, the Norton Simon Professor and chair of the University of California, Los Angeles department of molecular and medical pharmacology, has been on the faculty of the University of California since 1976. He is actively engaged in medical research, educational programs, and multimedia technologies at UCLA. Dr. Phelps uniquely holds six academic positions at UCLA. In addition to serving as the departmental chairman and holding an endowed professorship, he is also the director of the Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, professor of biomathematics, the director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine and the chief of nuclear medicine. He has published over 520 scientific papers and books. Dr. Phelps has received numerous awards, among them, the 1992 Pasarow Foundation Award, the 1987 Rosenthal Foundation Award of the American College of Physicians, the George Von Hevesy Prize (won twice) from the Von Hevesy Foundation in Zurich (Von Hevesy won the Nobel Prize in chemistry), the 1984 Sarah L. Poiley Memorial Award from the New York Academy of Sciences, the 1984 Ernest O. Lawrence Presidential Award, the 1983 Paul Aebersold Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine, chaired the 1983 Nobel Symposium, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1985, Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, 1998, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999. Dr. Phelps is the original inventor of PET (Positron Emission Tomography). PET is a molecular imaging technique that provides in vivo images of biological processes, blood flow, metabolism, cell communication systems, drug interactions and gene expression. PET is used in research to study the biological basis of normal organ function and the biological basis of disease. It is also routinely used as a clinical service in the early detection, characterization and evaluation of the therapeutic responses in cancer, neurological disorders and cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Roy A. Lacey
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Dr. Roy A. Lacey is a professor in the department of chemistry at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He previously served as the associate dean of the college of arts & sciences at Stony Brook. Dr. Lacey is also currently a summer school instructor in nuclear chemistry at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is a member of the DOE Committee of Visitors, and in 2008 was selected as program chair of the ACS Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology. He has an educational research interest in removing instructional bottlenecks in the classroom. His basic research interest is in relativistic heavy ion reactions with particular emphasis on the nuclear equation of state, phase transitions and the transport properties of high energy-density, strongly interacting matter. Dr. Lacey has authored more than 220 refereed publications.
Dr. Georgine M. Pion
Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
Georgine M. Pion is a research associate professor in the Quantitative Methods Program within the department of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Pion???s research has focused on career development and research policy, particularly as it pertains to determining the effectiveness of training programs of scientists in the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences. She conducted a large-scale evaluation of predoctoral research training programs in the biomedical and behavioral sciences for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as evaluations of peer review in the neurosciences, clinical, and behavioral sciences for the NIH???s Center of Scientific Review. Additionally, her work has involved evaluations of other research training initiatives, including the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences and the American Association of Gynecology and Obstetrics Foundation Scholars program. She has served as chair of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Survey of Earned Doctorates and as member of several NRC and IOM committees involved in research and clinical training, including the Panel on the Career Outcomes of Men and Women Scientists and Engineers, Evaluation of the Lucille S. Markey Charitable Foundation, the Committee on Bridges to Independence, the Committee on Biomedical and Behavioral Personnel, and the Committee on Training Needs of Health Professionals in Domestic Violence. Dr. Pion received a Merit Award from the NIH in 1999 for her survey and evaluation work and is an Associate Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Pion obtained her PhD from Claremont University in 1980 and completed a National Research Service Award (NRSA) postdoctoral traineeship in Northwestern University???s Evaluation and Research Methodology program.
Dr. John F. Wacker
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
John F. Wacker is a laboratory fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington. Dr. Wacker currently works on nuclear forensic analysis and related fields, as well as working on projects that improve and utilize various ultratrace analytical techniques. He supports both the US and international Technical Nuclear Forensics communities as a lead technical expert on the laboratory analysis of nuclear and radiological materials and on nuclear materials production and usage. From May 2007 to May 2010, Dr. Wacker was detailed to the US Department of Energy (DOE) in Washington, DC where he served as the chief scientist on the Nuclear Materials Information Program. In his role he advised the DOE and other US Government agencies and departments on issues relating to nuclear materials and nuclear forensics. Since returning to PNNL in May 2010, he has continued advising the DOE on issues that include nuclear material analysis, sample archives and data libraries, as well as assisting at the interagency level in the development of policy-level requirements for nuclear forensics. Prior to May 2007, Dr. Wacker managed research and development programs at PNNL that developed and applied nuclear detection and analysis techniques for the DOE and other US government departments and agencies. From 1993 to 2004, Dr. Wacker managed an analytical laboratory at PNNL that performs nuclear material analyses in support of environmental analysis, treaty verification, and other nuclear safeguards activities. Dr. Wacker earned a PhD in planetary sciences from the University of Arizona and a SB in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Richard B. Freeman
Harvard University
Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as faculty co-director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He directs the National Bureau of Economic Research / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Projects, and is senior research fellow in labour markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. Dr. Freeman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is currently serving as a member of the AAAS Initiative for Science and Technology. Dr. Freeman served on the study on Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States. He also served on five panels of the National Research Council, including the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists. He received the Mincer Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Society of Labor Economics in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics. His recent publications include: Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization (2004), Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the 21st Century (2005), America Works: The Exceptional Labor Market (2007), What Workers Want (2007 2nd edition), What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo American World (2007), International Differences in the Business Practices & Productivity of Firms (2009), Science and Engineering Careers in the United States (2009), Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden (2010), and Shared Capitalism at Work: Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options (2010). His forthcoming IZA Prize book is Making Europe Work: IZA Labor Economics Series (2010). Dr. Freeman has also received an NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Award # 0915670 "DAT: Scientists and Engineers as Agents of Technological Progress: Measuring the Returns to R&D and the Economic Impact of Science & Engineering Workers".
Dr. Lester R. Morss
University of Maryland, College Park
Lester R. Morss began his scientific career in inorganic chemistry and radiochemistry by carrying out research on the actinide elements uranium through californium under Professor Burris B. Cunningham, achieving a PhD at University of California, Berkeley in 1969. After postdoctoral study with James W. Cobble at Purdue University, he reached the rank of full professor of chemistry at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, doing research in synthetic inorganic chemistry and thermochemistry of transition elements. He joined the chemistry division of Argonne National Laboratory in 1980, where he resumed his primary research focus of solid-state and thermochemistry of the transuranium elements. After reaching the rank of senior chemist at Argonne, he was elected a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science and spent six months as an Alexander von Humboldt senior research scientist at the University of Hannover, Germany in 1992. He retired from Argonne in 2002 and then served until 2010 as program manager for heavy element chemistry in the Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the US Department of Energy. He resides in Columbia, Maryland, where he is now an adjunct professor of chemistry at University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Sue B. Clark
Washington State University
Sue B. Clark is an expert in environmental chemistry of plutonium and other actinides, chemistry of high-level radioactive waste systems, and chemistry of actinide-bearing solid phases in natural environments. She is a professor of chemistry and the Westinghouse Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Washington State University in Pullman, and interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at Washington State University, Tri-Cities. Previously, she was an assistant research ecologist at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and senior scientist at Westinghouse Savannah River Company's Savannah River Technology Center. She currently is a member of the U.S. Department of Energy???s Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee. Dr. Clark has served as a consultant to the Nuclear Energy Agency of France, the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute, and the Battelle Memorial Institute. She has received several awards, including the Westinghouse Professorship (2000 to present), Ford Lecturer at Minnesota State University (2003), the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Chemistry (1998 to 2000), and the Young Faculty Achievement Award (1998 to 1999) in the College of Sciences at Washington State University. She is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. Dr. Clark received her Ph.D. degree in inorganic and radiochemistry from Florida State University. She has served on several National Research Council committees, and she currently serves on its Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board.
Dr. Carol J. Burns
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Carol J. Burns is the deputy division director of the chemistry division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and serves as the group leader for nuclear and radiochemistry in the chemistry division. She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987. She came to LANL as a J. Robert Oppenheimer Postdoctoral Fellow, and has been employed at LANL since that time, serving in a variety of line and program management positions. She served as a senior policy advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2003-4. She provided technical and policy assistance on national and homeland security science and technology issues involving defense infrastructure (including workforce issues) and threat preparedness, as well as coordination of science and technology policies within the national security and intelligence communities. She continues to support LANL in the coordination of activities in nuclear forensics, including working with the interagency on workforce pipeline and educational program development. She established the first summer undergraduate school in nuclear forensics, funded by the Department of Homeland Security. She was awarded the LANL Fellows Publication Prize in 2002, and was named a Laboratory Fellow in 2003. She was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009. She is a recognized expert in actinide and radionuclide chemistry, with more than 95 peer-reviewed publications and invited book chapters, and has served on a number of editorial boards, review boards, and advisory panels.
Dr. Carolyn J. Anderson
Washington University School of Medicine
Carolyn J. Anderson, Ph.D. is a professor of radiology, biochemistry, and molecular biophysics and chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Anderson received her B.S. in chemistry in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry in 1990 from Florida State University, where she carried out her dissertation research with Prof. Gregory R. Choppin in the area of actinide chemistry. After obtaining her Ph.D., she took a position as a research associate in the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri in Prof. Michael J. Welch's group. In 1993 she was promoted to assistant professor of radiology, and currently holds the position of professor in the departments of radiology, biochemistry & molecular biophysics, and chemistry. Dr. Anderson???s research interests include the development and evaluation of novel radiometal-based radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic imaging and targeted radiotherapy of cancer and cardiovascular disease. She pioneered the development of copper-64-based radiopharmaceuticals, and her research group carries out research on the interface of chemistry and biology. She has had NIH funding since 1994 and has over 125 peer-reviewed and invited publications, mostly in the area of developing radiopharmaceuticals for oncological imaging and targeted radiotherapy. Dr. Anderson has also been actively involved in the education and training of graduate and undergraduate students in the areas of nuclear and radiochemistry, imaging sciences, and nanotechnology. She recently accepted the position of director of the molecular imaging laboratory in the department of radiology at the University of Pittsburgh, and will be moving there in May, 2011.


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A program is a structured set of courses that leads to a credential, such as a certificate, diploma, or degree.Some programs include a practical component as well as theory courses. The UFV Calendar contains program information such as entrance requirements, course prerequisites, and program requirements.
These are credentials you can earn when you complete a program. Diplomas and Associate degrees are generally two years in length and Bachelor's degrees are usually four years, based on full-time study. Most programs can also be completed on a part-time basis over a longer period of time. Certificate programs vary in length, and are generally completed in one year or less. UFV offers credit certificate programs (about 1,000 hours of training) as well as non-credit certificate programs (about 200–300 hours of training).
Qualifying Studies is for students who need to upgrade their education to gain admission to UFV certificate, diploma, or degree programs; are undecided about their post-secondary goals; have missed a university program admission deadline; or have failed to meet the continuance requirements of a UFV program. Students admitted to Qualifying Studies may begin taking courses in their preferred area, provided they meet course and program prerequisites and seats are available.
Admission to Qualifying Studies allows you to:
Studying for General Interest is an admissions category for students who wish to take a course or two, with no intention of completing a UFV credential. Students admitted to Studying for General Interest may register for course(s) provided they meet course prerequisites and seats are available.
If you begin in a certificate, diploma, or associate degree, you may be able to "ladder" into another program, building on previously earned credentials. For example, credits earned in a diploma or associate degree could be used as credit toward a four-year degree in the same area. Check the current UFV calendar for additional details.
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There are two types of courses offered at UFV: credit courses, and non-credit courses. Credit courses may satisfy certificate, diploma, and degree requirements or may be taken for general interest. They have a credit value and are generally assigned a letter grade. Information about credit courses and programs can be found in the current UFV Calendar.Non-credit courses are usually offered through Continuing Studies (CE) and can be taken for general interest, upgrading skills, employment, and/or professional development. ufv.ca/cs
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You will be required to apply for re-admission if:
Some programs require re-admission if attendance is not continuous, e.g., Health Studies programs, Applied and Technical Studies, Aviation, etc. Check individual program listings in the UFV calendar for more information.An application (apply online) and a re-application fee are required to be considered for re-admission.
Applications are not transferable from one program to another. If you wish to apply to a different program, submit an application. If you are a new applicant to UFV, and decide to pursue a different program for your initial admission to UFV, you must submit another application and pay a re-application fee.
Students may be required to take tests which will help to determine skill levels and aid in selection of courses appropriate to their educational backgrounds and abilities. Placement tests may also be used to meet some entrance requirements and course prerequisites.Take placement tests early — allow at least one month to receive your results from UFV.Dates, times, locations, costs, minimum scores, and detailed handouts on UFV placement tests, are on the Assessment Services website or at the Assessment Services offices located in Building G (Abbotsford campus) and Room D117 (Chilliwack campus). Contact the Abbotsford office at 604-557-4006, or the Chilliwack office at 604-792-0025, local 2460.Register for placement tests at any UFV Office of the Registrar.
At UFV, students of Aboriginal ancestry can choose to self-identify so that they may benefit from supportive programs and services. By doing so, students also enable UFV to identify, review, and analyze data that will contribute to improved programs and services for Aboriginal learners. More info...
Any person who does not meet stated admission requirements may petition our Academic Standards committee for special consideration. Download a Request for Special Admission (pdf) form or pick one up at the Office of the Registrar. Requests for Special Admission, with supporting documents, should be forwarded to the Admissions Coordinator in the Office of the Registrar. The request must be accompanied by an (pdf) form, the application fee, a letter from a UFV advisor or counsellor, a rationale from the applicant, and a copy of a recent high school transcript.
Special admission applicants may also be required to undertake testing, write provincial examinations, attend an interview, and/or write an essay in order to assess academic level. Applicants are advised to apply for special admission by April 30 for fall entry, October 31 for winter, or February 28 for summer semester. If you are a home school applicant, please contact UFV Admissions at the Office of the Registrar for further information.
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You may request to defer your offer of admission for up to one year by submitting a Request for Deferred Admission. Submission of this form is not a guarantee that your request will be approved.
Submit the completed form to the Office of the Registrar at any UFV campus or by email to email@example.com. Once your request has been reviewed and a decision has been made, correspondence will be emailed to your myUFV account.
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Visual artists Kirsten Kindler and Dusty Mitchell will each give a talk at the University of Central Arkansas's Baum Gallery in February.
Virginia-based artist Kindler will give an informal gallery talk on her work in the Baum Gallery on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 1:30 p.m. Kindler's exhibition, Paper Construction, will be on view until Feb. 20.
Arkansas artist Dusty Mitchell, from Bravo's reality TV show Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, will give a lecture about his work in the art lecture hall adjoining the Baum Gallery, McCastlain 143, on Monday, Feb. 24, at 5:30 p.m.
Both talks are free and open to the public.
Kindler's exhibit features hand-cut, large-scale collages on Mylar, made from multiple layers of magazine images, carefully pieced together to create complex sculptural structures. Kindler's work is time intensive, fragile and revered for its intricacy. Her compositions consist of ceiling and wall-hung installations.
"She'll be talking about her work, her process, how that work evolved and some about how she actually puts that work together," said Barclay McConnell, director of the Baum Gallery. "A lot of people have questions about her process because the work is on Mylar and it's an intricate process. She is painstakingly cutting out magazine images and then collaging them together with plastic but there's much more to it than that."
Kindler sees her work as "found objects." She finds her objects, the discarded magazine images, and uses these materials to create new art forms.
"Inspired by recycling and pre-fabricated structures, my recent work is as much about excavation and the mining of subject matter as it is the desire to transform the ordinary object," Kindler writes in her artist's statement.
"By using miniature pictures of actual materials I am able to play with shifting scales and build improbable infrastructures."
McConnell said gallery visitors have been eager to learn more about Kindler's process and experience.
"She's very personable and is highly intelligent, so anything that she has to say and share will be interesting to me," McConnell said.
McConnell said images from the current exhibits are on the Baum Gallery's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/baumgallery and Kindler's work can be viewed there.
Mitchell, the Bravo reality show star, is originally from Arkansas. He is a working professional artist based in Mountain View.
"Mitchell got on Next Great Artist and did really well," McConnell said. "He got very far in the competition. He's smart and interesting and he's coming to judge the Annual Student Competitive, which is our next exhibition."
Mitchell will serve as the juror for UCA's Annual Student Competitive opening on March 2 at the Baum Gallery. The opening reception for that exhibition will be Sunday, March 2, from 5-7 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
In his public talk, Mitchell will discuss his experience on Bravo, his artwork and his artistic process in general.
More information about Mitchell and his work is available at www.mustyditchell.com.
For more information visit uca.edu/art/baum or contact McConnell at (501) 450-5793 or email@example.com.
Baum Gallery exhibitions and events are always free and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with extended hours until 7 p.m. Thursdays. The gallery is also open from 1-5 p.m. on Sundays. For directions and a campus map, visit www.uca.edu/art/baum. Visitor parking is available near McCastlain Hall.
The UCA College of Fine Arts and Communication includes the Departments of Art, Communication, Mass Communication and Theatre, Music and Writing. The college's primary mission is the preparation of the next generation of artists, educators and communicators. For more information about CFAC, visitwww.uca.edu/cfac or call (501) 450-3293.


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The ongoing drought and famine afflicting Somalia and other East African nations is "a humanitarian crisis that cries out for help to Christians throughout the world," said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairman of the board of Catholic Relief Services in a joint statement. "CRS can use all the help we can offer in this current tragic situation," wrote Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, USCCB president, and Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., CRS board chairman. "Through CRS our generosity could literally feed thousands and provide them clean water, shelter and other life-saving goods." CRS, the U.S. bishops' overseas aid and development agency, estimates that more than 12 million people are in urgent need of aid in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. The drought has resulted in failed crops, deaths of livestock and critical shortages of food and water. In Ethiopia, CRS officials said the agency is expanding its food distribution program to 1.1 million people and is working with local partners to provide livelihood support, water and sanitation. In Somalia, CRS is supporting local partners to assist highly vulnerable, displaced families with basic necessities, such as food packages, support to clinics, therapeutic feeding and shelter. In Kenya, CRS is working both to assist newly arrived refugees with hygiene, sanitation promotion and protection, and also to provide water, sanitation and supplemental feeding to drought-affected Kenyan communities. The U.S. government announced Aug. 8 it will give an additional $105 million in humanitarian assistance to nations in the Horn of Africa region, bringing its total commitment for this fiscal year to $564.5 million to help those in need. The money is being used for health, nutrition, agriculture and food security, economic recovery, humanitarian coordination, community-based education and anti-malnutrition measures, and water, sanitation and hygiene initiatives in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya.
The following international aid agencies are working with partner agencies and local religious leaders in eastern Africa and are accepting donations for refugees affected by the region's drought and famine.
-- Catholic Relief Services is accepting donations by phone at (800) 736-3467; online at http://crs.org; or by mail to CRS, P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore, MD 21203-7090.
-- Caritas Internationalis is accepting donations at www.caritas.org.
-- Jesuit Refugee Service is accepting donations by phone at (202) 629-5948; online at www.jrsusa.org; or by mail to JRS, 1016 16th St. N.W., Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036.
-- The Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States has established a special program named A Call for Solidarity with the Church in East Africa. Contributions may be directed to: Pontifical Mission Societies, East Africa Program, 70 W. 36th St., New York, NY 10018. Credit card donations can be made at www.onefamilyinmission.org.
-- Doctors Without Borders is accepting donations by phone at (888) 392-0392; online at www.doctorswithoutborders.org; or by mail to Doctors Without Borders USA, P.O. Box 5030, Hagerstown, MD 21741.
-- International Committee of the Red Cross is accepting donations online at www.icrc.org/eng/.
-- Oxfam International is accepting donations online at www.oxfam.org/.
-- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is accepting donations online at www.unhcr.org.


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Today's Meditation
Read Psalm 139:13-18
[O LORD], I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
-Psalm 139:14 (NRSV)
I had a new hairstyle and was feeling a bit uncomfortable. I thought that I looked as if I had plopped a furry animal on my head. When I woke up the next morning, I felt even worse. I wished I could stay indoors the whole day. But a church celebration had been scheduled for that day. Whether I liked it or not, I had to go out.
My mood hadn't changed by the time I headed to church. But on my way I started thinking that my hairdo wasn't the only thing that made me feel that I looked awful; a lack of self-confidence was another. As I walked along toward the church, I saw a young girl heading toward me. When she got close, she said, "Excuse me, but you are beautiful." Surprised, I said, "Thank you" and continued walking.
Later I thought about how God speaks to us in many different ways and how God used that little girl to lift my spirits. God sees me as beautiful. No matter how I feel, I am still created in God's image -- and God's image is wonderful. That image includes you and me!
Khanyisile Ngwenya
(Soweto, South Africa)
Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank you for your Holy Spirit who comforts us. Help us always to know who we are because of your love for us. In Jesus' mighty name. Amen.
Thought for the Day: Each one of us is beautiful because each one of us is God's child.
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What Makes a Good SketchUp Model? Components
How productive would you be in the shop if you tried to build furniture from blocks of Silly Putty coated with Crazy Glue? Imagine the mess if one board stuck to another automatically and both parts stretched and distorted if you tried to move one. This is exactly what happens if you try to make a SketchUp model, and don't combine parts into components. That's the nature of things in SketchUp when you first create them, everything sticks to everything else, and edges and faces that touch each other stretch. But if you can avoid thinking that you're drawing and pretend you're out in the shop, you can avoid all of that. Here's my rule; as soon as something looks like a hunk of wood, make it a component.
When objects are made into components, they are still sticky and stretchy within the component, but the component itself is considered one object, and that won't stick to other stuff in the model. It's like creating a wrapper, or putting a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a zip-lock bag. The wrapper keeps other geometry from messing with the component, and it also keeps the geometry of the component from messing with other things in the model. If you want to change something about the component, you can but you first have to open the wrapper, or in SketchUp terms open the component for editing.
The first step is to select all of the lines and faces that you want to combine. You can do this by drawing a box with the selection arrow, moving from left to right to include everything inside the selection box. Or you can click the left mouse button three times on any part. When all the parts are highlighted as seen in these images, right-click with the cursor over the selected objects. Select "Make Component" from the menu, and when the box appears give it a name and click the button that says "Create".
Now you're in control of the parts of your model and you can increase the speed at which you model as well as make life easier for your computer's processor and video memory. Instead of having to keep track of six faces and a dozen lines that make up a hunk of wood, you and your machine only need to keep your eye on one. One click with the selection arrow grabs the entire component if you want to move it or copy it, and an unlimited amount of copies are in the Components window where you can drag them into your current model, or save them to use in a different model.
Treating a bunch of lines and edges as a single object moves modeling closer to reality, but there is a feature to components that is better than reality. Components are essentially clones of each other as long as they share the same name. If you change one of them, they all change. In the shop you'd have to make eight cuts on the band saw and eight passes over the joiner to taper four legs of a table the same way. To put mortises in those legs, you'd need to make eight cuts at the hollow-chisel mortiser, eight passes with the plunge router, or chop by hand until your arm feels like it's about to fall off. In SketchUp, make those changes to one leg, and if it's a component all the other instances of that component will change along with it.
Opening a component is easy, right-click with the cursor above the component and select "Edit Component" from the menu, or double-click on the component. Everything else in your model will dim, and the component will be surrounded by a box of dashed lines. When a component is open, it is the only thing in your model that can be changed so you don't have to worry about breaking something else. When you're done editing, click the selection arrow out in empty space to close.
Four resources for learning SketchUp:
Learning SketchUp Posts on the Popular Woodworking Editor's Blog
SketchUp Videos in our store
Bob Lang's digital book with embedded video, "Woodworker's Guide to SketchUp"
Bob Lang will be teaching a SketchUp class in August 2012 at Marc Adams School of Woodworking


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2012: Opens her second season with the Green and White ... has quality potential which she could truly begin to realize this season ... very consistent player on the baseline ... makes opponents play numerous balls to win a single point ... hard worker who should continue to develop her game.
2011: Put together an 8-10 singles record during her rookie campaign ... went 6-7 in the fifth spot and 2-3 at #4 ... did go 4-2 in Capital Athletic Conference play ... combined with various Spartan teammates throughout the season to record an overall doubles mark of 5-7 ... registering a 4-3 doubles record with Joelle Stasak a third doubles.
Personal: Is a nursing major ... is the daughter of Michael and Georgia Vlanos ... born on February 8, 1992 ... names her mom as the person she most admires ... hobbies include reading and baking ... chose York because "I loved the school and the great nursing program" ... most significant athletic achievement as winning her first-ever collegiate tennis match ... her most memorable athletic moment while at York is "spending time as a team at Hilton Head, [S.C.]" ... after graduation her plans include returning to school for a master's degreee.