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Climate Change
Learning Goals
Students should understand the complex natural and human processes involved in the earth's climate system. They should explore questions related to social and personal responsibility, impact of local and global actions, implications for ecological diversity, and potential effects of climate change and mitigation strategies on economic growth and sustainability for developing nations.
Context for Use
Description and Teaching Materials
Groups of students will be expected to learn about climate change from multiple perspectives, including from among the following:
- Ecologists
- Economic investors in industrialized and developing nations
- International policy makers, including representatives from governmental agencies and non governmental agencies
- Human rights groups, including representatives from health organizations and environmental protection groups
- Political action committees
- Elected officials
Student Guidelines
(1) The class will be divided into 4-6 groups. All students are to read from the listing of suggested online resources provided. In addition, each group will be given a specific perspective to become "experts" on for the International Council. Each group is expected to become expert representatives of their group's position, yet remain open-minded about the worth of what each other group has to contribute to the discussion. (worth 25 pts)
(2) Each group will prepare a detailed, yet concise written summary of their position [ecologists, economic investors in industrialized and developing nations, international policy makers, (including representatives from governmental agencies and NGOs), and human rights groups, (including representatives from health organizations and environmental protection groups)]. Your group's summary should be typed, 2 - 3 pages, and can be used during the International Council. (worth 20 pts)
(3) During the international meeting, each group will present, according to the protocol, their summary information, as well as prepared responses to Question Sets A & B. These prepared responses should be typed, and represent in-depth thinking of all group members. (worth 30 pts)
(4) Following the International Council, each student will be asked to respond to open-ended questions about the instructional value of the process of structured academic controversy, as well as a personal reflection on the broader issues.
Town Council agenda (Microsoft Word 26kB Nov3 08) with question sets
Teaching Notes and Tips
Also see: Communicating Global Climate Change: Using Debate to Engage Integrative Learning. This series of video clips from MERLOT/ELIXR demonstrates the use of debate as a strategy for engaging student with the issues surrounding climate change. Project materials, timelines and PowerPoint slides are also included.
Students are expected to prepare their comments ahead of time, so those can be assessed with criteria that would be used with an essay or research report. Student or team performances during the International Council can be assessed from the standpoint of effective communication, presentation style, respect and listening to other perspectives, or quality and organization of information. For help with developing rubrics, go to Rubistar.
1. What roles do natural processes have in producing climate change? What is the likelihood that climate change is more the result of natural cycles than of human activities?
2. What roles do humans and various types of human activity play in the processes of climate change?
3. What direct effects does climate change have on ecological diversity? What are the indirect effects on ecological diversity?
4. Should economic progress be restrained to minimize greenhouse gas emissions? What are the economic drawbacks of not requiring reduced global emissions?
5. Should economic or technological progress in developing nations be limited to minimize the emission of additional greenhouse gases? What responsibilities do industrialized nations have in making emissions cuts?
6. What is the trade-off between economic development and ecological stability? Can economic progress occur without adversely affecting natural environmental conditions?
More importantly, use of the structured academic controversy format can change student beliefs and attitudes.
Student beliefs and self-knowledge can be assessed through a short written response about the instructional value of the process of structured academic controversy, as well as a personal reflection on the broader issues. Student understanding of the complexity of climate change can be assessed through an essay exam in which students expand on one or more of the guiding questions used in the activity.


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While silently delighting in the sleazy nature of the Daily Mail, I found myself drawn to Corey Haim's tale of Posh Spice's lack of pulling prowess. He claims that when Mrs. Beckham kisses she "does this little grrhh thing. What did it feel like? Like a girl gnawing on your lip!" Oh yes, that feeling…?!
Esquire magazine's best dressed list
Esquire magazine's best dressed list has been gathering attention lately – mostly for not featuring David Beckham. Hopefully, other magazines will follow suit and realise that they're not contractually obliged to include Mr Beckham on the list. People who did make the list include Jeremy Paxman, Barack Obama, Lapo Elkann, Fabio Capello, Christian Bale and Lupe Fiasco.
Next fashion hook-up: P Diddy and David Beckham?
Are these two faces the next Dolce & Gabbana, Proenza Schouler or Olsen twins? If P. Diddy has his way (and does he ever not?!), the rapper and football star David Beckham will be the next designer duo to make waves in the fashion industry.
James Corden strips off Beckham-style for Heat magazine
James Corden, the star of the BBC3 hit sitcom Gavin and Stacey stripped off for a Heat magazine photoshoot parodying David Beckham's infamous Armani ads.
David Beckham dons slim fitting suit
David Beckham's outfit leaves a lot more to the imagination than his
recent underwear ad for Armani and I must say I quite like this look.
Daily Mail picks on Beckham
David Beckham made waves in the Daily Mail as they caught him wearing a Cincinnatti Reds baseball cap, a fashion faux pas which is apparently "equivalent to a Newcastle fan wearing a rugby shirt from London."
Beckham pipped to be sporting style leader
US men's fashion experts are hoping that David Beckham will inject a bit of style into the sporting world in America. "Hopefully it will inspire them to lift their game," said Adam Rapoport, style editor at men's fashion magazine GQ. "I think athletes respond to competition well. If someone's looking better than them they want to get on par with …
David Beckham strikes a pose for Adidas
Blaps! David Beckham's new pictures for a campaign for Adidas makes him look like a wannabe gangster rapper, but more Vanilla Ice than Eminem. Don't you think his leg looks really hairy? This is probably an attempt to rebrand him for the American market, ahead of his multi-million-dollar move to join 'soccer' team L.A. Galaxy this summer. Safe blud etc.
David Beckham to be face of L'Oreal haircare?
David Beckham has been reportedly offered a £10 million contract to be the face L'Oreal. Selling hair products will no doubt enhance his status in LA where he's playing in Los Angeles Galaxy. It won't be the first time David Beckham has lent his famous name to advertising, he has also been associated with Gillette and Brylcreem, and has appeared …
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Using Virtual Simulations for Evaluating Safe Practice for Tractor Certification
Sponsor: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)/Center for Disease Control (CDC)
In collaboration with the School of Public Health in the College of Medicine and the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Extension at The Ohio State University, researchers at OSC are involved in a project sponsored by NIOSH to evaluate Ohio's Tractor Certification Program. Through the use of virtual simulation, researchers will investigate the feasibility of employing virtual simulations of farm equipment operation as a method to assess effectiveness of youth-oriented agricultural safety programs such as the Ohio Tractor and Machinery Certification Program. The objectives for this aspect of the project are as follows: 1) specify system hardware components and software to create a cost-efficient pilot system to augment current teaching, learning, and assessment, 2) integrate and develop the system for use in field instruction; and 3) evaluate the efficacy of the system as an information delivery system, as a method that provides a valuable experience to the student, and as a tool for assessing user performance. Limitations of current practice preclude testing for proper safe attitudes in a quantifiable way. Not only must the user have adequate knowledge of vehicle components, but he or she must also be able to properly handle the vehicle, including the proper sequencing of operations in many different and possibly adverse conditions. In actual testing, it is impossible to subject the user to a dangerous situation for the purpose of conducting an evaluation. This is the key advantage of simulation technology. Through virtual simulation technology, the evaluator controls the environment to test how the users handle themselves in situations that might trigger potentially injury-producing events. This advantage will be exploited for this application.
We would like to thank the John Deere Tractor Company for providing the CAD information of a John Deere 8400, the John Deere Training Center in Plain City, Ohio for additional information regarding the tractors, and Dr. Judy M. Vance at Iowa State University for the CAD data used in the virtual environment.
Further Reading
Developing Virtual Simulation of Tractor Operation for Assessing Safe Behavior Among Youthful Operators. Stredney D, Sessanna D, Bryan J, Wilkins J, bean T, Abstract: Agricultural Safety & health in a New Century, April 28-30, 2000, Sponsored by CDCP, NIOSH. pg 30.
Employing Virtual Reality Simulations of Agricultural Tractor Operation for Accessing Safe Behavior Among Youth - A Feasibility Study, Stredney D, Sessanna D, Bryan J, Heany C, Bean T and JR Wilkins, Abstract in NOIRS 2000, National Occupational Injury Research Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, October 17-19, 2000. pg. 60.


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Halloween 2010 is upon us and here at the Hero Complex we're marking the weekend with a special three-part excerpt from the "The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!" which was edited by Jim Trombetta and features his commentary throughout (as well as an introduction by R.L. Stine). The 304-page book from Abrams ComicArts hits shelves Monday. There's a trailer for the book as well, below…
Horror comics offer a privileged glimpse into the Age of Nuclear Terror, from 1947 to 1955. The prominence of horror comics exactly parallels the emergence of the United States as a military and economic superpower nonpareil: The nation had defeated two evil empires, and its productive capacities were intact; it possessed not only ultimate weapons (for a while, exclusively) but also the moral high ground over its potential enemies.
At the same time, however, American citizens still carried scars from the Great Depression and World War II, which had gone nuclear. Pretty soon the threat of destruction hung over the entire planet like an eternal winter. Vast armies swept back and forth across Korea, waging tremendous technological and personal violence in what was then not even called a war but rather a "conflict" or a "police action." In that era, unlike in the current post-9/11 one, the concept of "terror" was not reiterated to the point of crying wolf; instead, the '50s establishment wanted to suppress terror, or at least control it. U.S. authorities tried to placate war-weary citizens by distributing the "sacrifice" and the draft unevenly and, in a vain hope of ending the fighting quickly, drew up plans that could have changed the shape of Asia.
That terror reasserted itself in the "junk" medium of the horror comic, giving it an especially uncanny quality all its own (a quality our current media, for all its liberties, has yet to rediscover). This quality had nothing to do with permissiveness and everything to do with repression. Outrageous as they were, horror comics were in no way progressive or, in our term, "correct."
They were oblique, symbolic and loaded with subconscious affect. As in Basil Wolverton's "Nightmare World" (Weird Tales of the Future No. 3, September 1952), they showed the inner self as the most dangerous place of all and reality becoming too responsive to dreams. These comics conveyed the unspeakable, and maybe even unthinkable, trauma of a whole society, but in a streetwise, urban-legend way. On one hand, they could be more reactionary, racist and brutal than the surrounding culture, as if to rub the reader's nose in a deliberate caricature. On the other hand, their radicalism could be startling. They kicked over the biggest triumph in history just to see what might crawl out.
As David Hajdu's "Ten-Cent Plague" demonstrates, the history of the comics medium is also the history of attempts to suppress it; these campaigns started when "funny pages" first appeared in newspapers in the early 20th century. However, it was not until the Age of Nuclear Terror that the conflict came to a head with a huge victory for censorship. Horror comics were so successful, and so troubling, that in April 1954 they became the only commercial artworks to be essentially banned across America through the influence of the Senate. Mere popularity — what today we would call the "verdict of the market" — couldn't save them. They became a lacuna in pop-culture history, a missing link in '50s nostalgia.
For a long time these comics were like certain gnostic theologies that are known only through the versions related by their opponents. Fossils of the banned comics — 10 pages of panels cherry-picked by Fredric Wertham — could be found in the picture section of "Seduction of the Innocent." However, these pages were often razored out of library copies of the book. What type of person had been wielding that razor? A comics fanatic? A serial killer? A librarian who was both?
— Jim Trombetta
'Walking Dead' star aims for Gary Cooper in zombie hell
Callies: 'We're closer to the apocalypse than we think'
Craven's retirement plan: 'Die in my 90s on the set'
Craven on joy of 3-D — and the pain of 'Elm Street' remakes?
Boris Karloff, a monster talent remembered
'Bride of Frankenstein,' an electric horror


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GST 100 The Globalizing World - 3 credits
What's different about the modern world system? How have modern institutions, cultures, and people changed since 1950? This course begins with a brief survey of the history of globalization and how the contemporary world is different from earlier times. The heart of the course is an examination of how the world has become inter-connected, along with an analysis of the agents involved in the process. This course is required for the major.
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September 24. 2013 4:37PM
Murality tale Nashua union painted into corner
For four years, Fidelity Investments has sent teams — nay, mobs — of cleverly disguised malefactors to "help" various public schools in Nashua. Defacing the school walls with fresh coats of new paint — including huge murals to encourage the unrestrained expression of school spirit — was chief among their horrifying acts of vandalism.
Parents, students and school board members remained blind to the wickedness of these despoilers until the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 365 had the courage to stand up to this villainy.
Someone had to protect the schools from further defacement by paintbrush-wielding office workers. Lo and behold, said AFSCME 365, doing that was in the union's contract!
As chronicled in The Telegraph, the custodians beseeched the school board with their grievance. Their contract clearly allowed them and only them to paint city schools, they said. By allowing these despoilers to roam the halls with their colorful brushy sticks, the district was in violation!
Alas, on Monday the school board voted 7-2 that there was no breach of contract. The volunteers may continue their rainbow of terror. This is what happens when school boards put taxpayers and students before custodians. Schools get brighter, more vibrant, more cheerful — for free. What kind of heartless monsters would ever allow that to happen?


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CAMP Facilities Used for Research Relating to the Properties of Gas / Oil Shales
Dr. Neal R. O'Brien, emeritus Distinguished Teaching Professor of SUNY Potsdam and member of the Clarkson Colloid and Surface Science group, receives CAMP support to investigate the microfabric of gas/oil shales.
Figure 3. Microfabric features in a gas/oil shale. Pores in clay floccules (arrows) and a microchannel migration (dots). This is a FESEM image.
He uses the Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) at CAMP to recognize hydrocarbon migration routes and pore spaces in hydrocarbon rich shales. Professor O'Brien is grateful for the assistance that Ted Champagne (CAMP's Instrumentation Technician) provides.
Figure 4. Pores in shale (arrows). This is a FESEM image.
FESEM analysis allows imaging of nano- to micrometer size pores and microfractures (Figures 3, 4, and 5) capable of hydrocarbon storage and migration. Dr. O'Brien, in association with Drs. Roger Slatt and Younane Abousleiman (College of Earth and Energy at the University of Oklahoma), is funded by various energy-related companies interested in potential gas/oil shale resources.
Figure 5. Nanometer pore in a fossil in shale. This is a FESEM image.


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Seed dealers are doing brisk corn business. "Some accounts we've gotten indicate that some dealers have doubled their corn seed sales from last year," says William Johnson, Pioneer field sales agronomist and former Arkansas Extension corn specialist.
This would surprise some people who thought the high cost of fertilizer might lead some farmers to shy away from the crop.
"A lot of long-time corn producers have learned to lock in their fertilizer prices. Many locked in nitrogen prices in December and will pay $175 to $185 per ton of urea.
If a farmer is paying $180 per ton of urea and is making 150-bushel corn (which typically requires 180 units of nitrogen), then he's staring at around $36 per acre for nitrogen," says Johnson.
If a farmer didn't get his urea booked (and is paying around $240 per ton), "he's looking at around $47 per acre for nitrogen. If urea prices spike to $300, the cost for nitrogen will run farmers over $59 per acre."
It's believed that the price of urea will stabilize around $240 because plants have started producing it again. Natural gas prices have topped and are easing down.
Johnson says 240 units of nitrogen are required to achieve 200 bushels per acre of corn. At $180 per ton of urea, the price for fertilizer is $48 per acre. At a cost of $240 per ton, an acre will run over $62. And if prices for urea climb to $300 per ton, an acre of fertilizer on a corn crop will cost a shade over $79.
"Even with a high nitrogen price, you're looking at around $10 to $12 more per acre to grow corn. That's equivalent to about 4 bushels of corn."
Marketers were expecting an 81 million acre corn crop. But with the high fertilizer prices, they're now saying up to 3 million acres may switch back to soybeans. "That would seem to firm up corn prices."
In Arkansas, Johnson isn't seeing many producers switching cotton ground to corn. "Guys doing that are typically in a cotton/corn rotation. The folks that are going big into corn are the rice farmers. Corn is replacing rice acres in a big way — even on the Grand Prairie to some degree. Corn is going into areas like Helena, Holly Grove, and Jonesboro to Walnut Ridge to the exclusion of rice. Rice is being left behind. The reason for the rice-to-corn switch is that since both crops requires nitrogen, why not just go with corn?"
Farmers on the Grand Prairie who have switched to corn from rice are also citing water usage as a reason. To produce a corn crop, water usage is about half that of rice.
Any fears of aflatoxin?
"In 1998, we had a couple of hybrids that were at least 60 percent of the corn planted in the state. Those hybrids were racehorses and didn't have very good heat tolerance. They developed a lot of aflatoxin.
"We want varieties that have excellent shuck cover — no cob should be exposed. If we can get that, along with having genetics that can handle heat and are fairly tough, aflatoxin isn't nearly as big a concern."
Arkansas is expected to plant 400,000 to 450,000 acres of corn — up around 100,000 from last year.
"I think if things keep going, we'll hit 1 million acres of corn in the state. I just hope it keeps climbing steadily instead of happening all at once," says Johnson.
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Agilent Technologies to Demonstrate Its Newest RF/Microwave Design and Test Products at International Microwave Symposium
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 4, 2012
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) will demonstrate its newest design and test products for advanced RF and microwave research, development and manufacturing at the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (Booth 1015), June 17-22, at the Palais des congrès de Montréal.
"We are really excited about our new tools for circuit-level modeling through system verification for general RF/uW, 4G communications, and aerospace/defense applications," said Barry Alcorn, Americas market segment manager in Agilent's Electronic Measurement Group. "Plus, we are pleased to present a range of premier solutions with our partners. You'll find these co-located on Agilent Avenue and around the IMS show floor."
Agilent will demonstrate the following solutions:
- The latest releases of ADS, EMPro, GoldenGate, SystemVue, Genesys and IC-CAP, addressing MMIC/RF Module, RFIC and system design challenges.
- Agilent's nonlinear vector network analyzer and X-parameters*, delivering fast, accurate, nonlinear behavioral models from measurements generated from a circuit-level design using Agilent's ADS.
- Agilent's PNA-X network analyzers, offering the simplest setup for conversion-gain and group-delay measurements of frequency converters by eliminating the need to find reference and calibration mixers that match the frequency-conversion plan of the device under test.
- Agilent's M9392A PXI vector signal analyzer and the M9202A PXI wideband IF digitizer, providing data streaming to make continuous wide-bandwidth RF and microwave measurements for extended periods, without signal loss. (Agilent is also introducing the PXI Wideband MIMO Signal Analysis for R&D and DVT solution, which enables users to quickly and accurately validate their MIMO 802.11ac design.)
- Agilent's M9703A AXIe digitizer with twice the channel density of comparable solutions, making it ideal for large-scale system configurations that require as many as 40 channels within a single 4U M9505A AXIe chassis or 80 channels within 8U of rack-mount space.
- Agilent's MXA X-Series signal analyzer, along with the new X-Series RF analog and vector signal generators, enabling the creation of real-time signals for testing LTE and GNSS, as well as waveform playback for testing cellular and wireless standards such as 802.11ac and LTE-Advanced.
- Agilent's PSG vector signal generator, the EXA and PXA X-Series signal analyzers, and the M1970V/W smart harmonic mixer, for generating and analyzing complex millimeter-wave signals.
- Agilent PNA network analyzer, extending electromagnetic material-properties measurements into the millimeter wave range with quasioptical table and materials measurement software.
- Agilent's 100- and 200-MHz oscilloscopes and handheld test tools, including; DMMs; 9- 20 GHz HSA spectrum analyzers; and 4- and 6-GHz FieldFox RF analyzers with new time-domain and channel power-meter options.
- Agilent's broad portfolio of EM, solid state, PXI and USB switching solutions, up to 67 GHz, ideal for radar and satellite test, wireless-HDMI, microwave backhaul radio and high-speed digital design applications.
Agilent's 25 demonstrations at IMS 2012 will be complemented with solutions from its business partners, bringing attendees the most innovative solutions in modeling and device characterization, semiconductor foundries, wafer and circuit board measurements, prototyping tools, antenna measurement, systems, test chambers and custom ATE. In addition, Agilent will present several technical programs and workshops.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and communications. The company's 18,700 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $6.6 billion in fiscal 2011. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.
*X-parameters is a trademark of Agilent Technologies. The X-parameter format and underlying equations are open and documented. For more information, visit www.agilent.com/find/eesof-x-parameters-info.
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Lifetime, We Have to Talk About That Saved By the Bell Movie
Last night, Lifetime aired what was supposed to be The Unauthorized Saved By the Bell Story filled with drugs, threesomes and terrible-but-real portrayals of America's sweethearts. What I watched was a bunch of teenaged spats, implied sex and Screech, the friend-starved child alcoholic. Lifetime, do better.


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Enlarged Spleen
My 14 year old son has an enlarged spleen due to his liver disease. He would love to play basketball. Through research I find he can play with a spleen protector. My question is how and/or where do I get a spleen protector to enable him to play? Thank you
Although some physicians recommend spleen guards for children/adolescents playing contact sports, there is little evidence that they are effective in reducing the risk of trauma and injury to the spleen. With that said, the need for restriction in participation in conntact sports depends upon how large the spleen is which would impact its likelihood of rupture with trauma to the abdomen. It would be helpful to find out from your physician how large the spleen is and how much impact its enlargement has on your child's blood count (hemoglobin level, white cell count and platelet count). If the spleen is only mildly increased in size with minimal effect on the blood count, then it is likely safe for him to play in contact sports.
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Franklin Gothic Hand Demi Shadow Font by Wiescher Design
Franklin Gothic Hand Demi Shadow is another one in my series of hand-drawn fonts from way back in time – before computers changed the way we worked in advertising.
This one was especially used for what we called "pork-belly-ads": ads for food-stores! I think it is very useful for all kinds of advertising that demands a lot of bang!
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A lot of organizations use custom service accounts, rather than Local System, Local Service, or Network Service. The main reason for doing this is that by configuring a custom service account, you can really ramp down the privileges needed by that service account, rather than using the more generic low level privileges assigned to one of the three standard service accounts.
A disadvantage of using custom service accounts is the amount of extra work they require in terms of maintenance. A specific gripe of a lot of administrators is ensuring that passwords are regularly kept rotated when your organization enforces strict password policies.
Managed Service Accounts are a feature new to Windows Server 2008 R2 that take the pain out of rotating passwords for custom service accounts. Managed Service Accounts automatically rotate passwords in a way that is very similar to how the passwords of computer accounts are automatically updated on a regular basis.
Managed Service Accounts can only be used on computers running Windows Server 2008 R2 or later or the Windows 7 client operating system or later. To use managed service accounts, you need to have extended your Active Directory Schema to Windows Server 2008 R2, though you should probably also be running your domain and forest at the 2008 R2 functional level. Managed Service accounts have the following limitations:
- A managed service account can be used for services on a single computer.
- Service accounts cannot be shared between multiple computers
- Managed service accounts cannot be used in clusters where a service replicates to multiple nodes.
You also cannot create a Managed Service Account using Active Directory Users and Computers. This is important, because when you right click on the Managed Service Account OU there is the is an option that looks like it allows you to create a managed service account, but this will not work as it will lack necessary AD attributes.
You create managed service accounts in PowerShell v2 with the New-ADServiceAccount cmdlet. You can only utilize the New-ADServiceAccount cmdlet if you have the Active Directory modules present in your PowerShell session. You get the Active Directory modules by using the Import-Module ActiveDirectory command.
When you create a managed service account, the account is placed by default in the Managed Service Account container in Active Directory.
To create an account called Exchange-Melb-HT, you would run the command
New-ADServiceAccount Exchange-Melb-HT
It is generally a good idea to have the Managed Service Account name reflect the name of the computer on which it will be used.
To install the managed Service account on the local computer, use the Install-ADServiceAccount cmdlet. For example
Install-ADServiceAccount Exchange-Melb-HT
This will allow you to configure services on the local computer to use this account.
Once this is done, you can use the services console to configure services to use the account. To do this view the properties of the service you want to configure, and on the Log On tab, enter the name of the managed service account as domainname\accountname$. For the account I created earlier in the Adatum domain, this would be Adatum\Exchange-Melb-HT$. The $ needs to be placed at the end of the account name.


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A few weeks ago, we celebrated the third anniversary of our public launch as a service (March 12, 2008 to be precise; the launch followed a four-month password-protected beta). It's not uncommon for companies to commemorate their anniversaries by sharing company outputs like revenue growth and the like. While the ramp of Hulu has exceeded all of our expectations, I believe it is more appropriate to commemorate our anniversary by focusing on the team and our culture.
Below are some favorite stories over the past three years from the Hulu team.
When I first read the below, I was struck by how much they reflect What Defines Hulu. ("What Defines Hulu" is a cultural essay we wrote in the very early days of our company; it has always served as the true north for our culture and team.)
I hope you enjoy reading these stories as much as we have enjoyed living them.
Jason Kilar
CEO, Hulu
PETE DISTAD, Business Development and Distribution: Every year, my team has punked me on April Fools' Day in ridiculous ways. The first time, I approached the office building and saw that the windows were lined with peanuts. When I walked to my desk, I found my office completely bombarded with balloons from top to bottom. The second year, I showed up to my office (completely forgetting about the year before), and found that the team had wrapped my entire office in tinfoil, including individual pens, tacks, my chair — everything. It must have taken them over six hours.
Last year, I was much smarter. The night before April Fools', I intentionally stayed and worked at the office late into the night so they wouldn't have time to do anything to my office. No one acted like anything was going on. I arrived in the next morning convinced that the team had no time to do anything to my office. Actual sod covered my desk and floor area, a lawn chair replaced my desk chair, cricket sounds were playing from my speakers, my monitor displayed pictures of grass, and there were lawn signs up. Apparently they went back into the office in the middle of the night to set up.
This year, the joke's on them.
JESSICA IVY, Creative Services: When I think of the early days of Hulu, I'm reminded of all the little things people did to make it fun. For example, I love Tokidoki, and have a bunch of figures on my desk. For the first few months at Hulu, I was convinced that they were ALIVE because every morning when I came in the office, they had moved from where I left them the night before. They were on the windowsill, under the desk, over the door ready to pounce — once they were even arranged on my desk in a Looney Tunes "Rabbit Season" scene. This is just the kind of goofy behavior that keeps a creative person like me inspired. I think our clients benefit from a spirit of fun in our collaboration and hope it keeps them coming back for years to come.
JP COLACO, Advertising: I remember fondly three years ago when there were only about ten of us in the Santa Monica office. We all sat around and started nicknaming each other — there was Richard, who is half Chinese and half Columbian. He became "Richardo" and then just "Chardo," there was Kevin ("Special K"), Gavin ("Sitting Bull"), Rob Post ("Postman"), and Eric Feng ("Shui"). This was a very formative time in our cultural development as your nickname was perhaps more iconic than your given name.
BRENDAN HANEY, Ad Operations: In my first weeks at Hulu, there was a lot of work getting done. The development team was cranking away all day and all night. However, with all this work, the Ping-Pong table was significantly underused. I needed to spring into action. Dubbing myself "The Chancellor of Fun," I quickly organized a Hulu Ping-Pong tournament. I don't remember if we ever named a grand champion in that first tourney, but the passion for Ping-Pong stirred up at Hulu has been rampant ever since. The "Chancellor of Fun" organized a few other events and contests, but as business ramped up, he faded away. Turns out, he wasn't really needed since fun seemed to come more naturally to the Hulu crew in the days after launch.
RICHARD TOM, Platform Technology: During the early days of our on-campus recruiting efforts, we had to resort to bribery to convince students to stop by our booth. We'd stand out in front of our table with invitations to participate in our closed beta. The goal was to find the "Next Hulu Star Developer." Hardly anyone knew Hulu at that time and our invitations did little to drive interest. After an especially discouraging recruiting weekend, our Development Manager Kevin Seng and I beelined our way from the airport to a Girl Talk concert in full Hulu attire. While picking up a Blue Moon pint to wash down the rough week, a girl approached us asking where we got our Hulu hoodies. She gushed about the service and how much she appreciated being able to catch up on her show's on her own schedule. It might seem silly now, but it was the first time anyone had ever recognized our brand and it had us feeling like Hulu had arrived. Of course, it didn't hurt that we had Girl Talk spinning the soundtrack to that moment.
SARA MAILLOUX, Talent and Organization: A few days before Halloween 2008, Jason asked me if I was dressing up for Halloween. I told him I wasn't sure. On the day of Halloween, I walk in completely dressed up as our CEO, Jason Kilar. Jason was completely decked out as a colonel, in a full-out rented and legit costume — gloves and everything. Andy Forssell came in as a chicken with feathers. Then people began leaving work in the middle of the day to go home and put on their costumes and come back. That began Huluween and our annual costume contest.
JOHANNES LARCHER, International: I travel all over to world for business, and the kind of response I get from the public when I wear my Hulu gear never ceases to amaze me. However, there was one moment that really sticks out in my memory. I was on vacation in Botswana in southern Africa, in a hut on safari totally removed from Internet, cell phones, and certainly from TV. I happened to be wearing my Hulu shirt, and a fellow traveler rushed over to me and said, "I noticed your shirt. Do you work at Hulu? I love Hulu!" I knew then that we had built a brand that meant something to people.
REBECCA HARPER, Audience: As Hulu's editor, I've had the opportunity to talk to a number of notable names for our blog. One time I even got to interview Snoop Dogg. After his assistant got in touch with me, she handed the phone over to the D-O-Double-G and he picked up in mid-rap. My first instinct was to giggle: was Snoop Dogg really rapping to me? As we wrapped up the first few questions, Snoop politely asked if I could hold on a minute. "Sure, no problem," I said. A few minutes go by, and I could hear him talking to a familiar voice. But whose voice was it? It was driving me crazy — and then I realized: it was Jon Stewart. Snoop Dogg just happened to be in the green room at "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and the host had stopped by to say hi to his guest. Snoop and I continued our interview bit, and then I heard that now-unmistakable voice again: Jon was back, but this time, Snoop told him "Oh, I'll catch up with you later. I'm on the phone with Hulu." It was then — when Jon Stewart had to stand by for Hulu — that it dawned on me: Hulu had arrived.
EUGENE WEI, Audience: Jason's first project for me was to come up with a company name. At the time we were simply "Newsite", or, as the press had dubbed us, "Clown Co." Our preference was for a short URL, one that was easy to spell and remember and that had no established connotations or meanings. We didn't want a bland descriptor but we also didn't want something so abstract and bizarre that no one could remember how to spell it if they overheard it, like mxyzptlk.com (taken, by the way).
In an era where a ".com" URL for your company name is essentially your storefront and your address all in one, and in which domain name squatters have kidnapped every possible three, four, five, and six-letter URL permutation, it's a miracle that any new web companies come into being (by the way, if you want the URL newsite.com, I may be able to cut you a good deal).
One afternoon, Jason picked one name that he thought might work: Hoodoo. We thought it was obtainable at a reasonable price. But it turned out to be an actual English word with the definition of "voodoo" or "something that brings bad luck." Not the most auspicious of connotations. But that option jogged the memory of our CTO Eric Feng who recalled that he'd originally tried to name his startup in Beijing Hulu. Hulu can be pronounced multiple ways in Chinese, and one of the meanings was "magical recording" which would have been a useful reference for his startup that was focused on video annotations.
We all liked Hulu. It was short, fairly easy to pronounce and remember with its short, rhyming syllables, and it was largely devoid of meaning in English (an alternate pronunciation in Chinese was "gourd" and was a hollowed out fruit used to hold precious things, a meaning that seemed to carry less hoodoo than, um, hoodoo).
There were some hurdles to overcome in choosing this name. We had to purchase the URL "hulu.com" from a family that owned it, and avert a lawsuit around copyright infringement. We were successful in both regards, and the company became known as Hulu.
RICHARD TOM: I had already signed on to join Hulu, and was wrapping up my last week at Microsoft when I got a call from my friend, former Hulu CTO Eric Feng. He told me that he had great news: We were close to selecting the company name. "Hulu," he said. I remember thinking, "Hmm, I'm going to be working for a company named 'Hulu'? Um, not so sure how I feel about that." Once I heard the meaning behind it, I figured, "Well, it's definitely much better than "Clown Co." [Read more about our name here and here.]
SARA MAILLOUX: When I first walked through the door, I came on as a temp and didn't know anything about the company. A board member asked me if I wanted to work for this new company, so I said, "Sure." A couple of random people from FOX were sitting around. I told them that I was supposed to help out and they told me I would be an assistant to Jason Kilar, who would be here in an hour.
"What company is this?" I asked.
"We're an Internet company."
"Where's my computer?"
"We don't have any yet."
I went home and grabbed my personal computer and started ordering computers and printers. Then Jason walked in. After a short time working together, he asked if I wanted to stay. It takes someone crazy to say, "I'm in," but I did. Four years later, I'm still glad I stayed. Hulu is my home and Hulu is my second family.
RICHARD TOM: Prior to the public launch of Hulu.com, it was common for us to spend up to 20 hours a day in the office writing code for the service. We'd go home to shower and get a few hours of sleep. During this time, we also happened to be interviewing developers to join our team. As we went through the interview process, we noticed a pattern emerge from one of the interview rooms: Offers made in that room seemed to have a higher decline rate. We finally got insight into why via a candid exchange with a dev prospect who said, "Hey, I'd love to work at Hulu. I'm just not sure if I'm ready to work at a start-up with Aerobeds in the conference rooms." We realized that we had been interviewing candidates in our rejuvenation rooms — we kept air mattresses on hand for much needed naps. Suffice it to say we adjusted our recruiting strategy a bit.
SARA MAILLOUX: In the earliest days of Hulu, every Friday at around 5 p.m., the team would gather in a conference room, laugh, have a beer, talk about the week's results, and give props to team members that went above and beyond. Soon we outgrew the conference room and transitioned into the game room. Thus wind-downs were born. Over the years, we've upgraded the wind-down and even torn down walls to allow for a space where the growing team could gather. But it all started with just a few people hanging out and Jason saying, "Thanks everyone!"
RICHARD TOM: In the days when Hulu was not yet Hulu, but a series of discussions between NBCU and News Corporation, the financial model called for display advertising throughout the site. Think skyscrapers, punch the monkey, and Cash 4 Gold. The day came when we wired the display advertising service throughout the site to get a sense for what it would look like. I can only describe that moment as painful for the designers and devs — think, tear rolling down the cheek. Well, we knew this would be a conversation we'd have to have. Around that same time Jason walked by our desk and said "Oh, that isn't going to work." Beyond it being a moment of incredible relief, it was the moment that solidified our approach to balancing the user experience with the needs of our advertisers and content partners.
SARA MAILLOUX: The beta version of Hulu.com was written in 60 days. I told Jason that I thought the beta version looked boring, but he explained the goal was for it to be clean and easy to use. In order to put this to the test, approximately five of us, including Jason, sent the beta version to our moms to test its usability. We figured if our moms could navigate their way through it, then we had a very easy-to-use product. We got very useful feedback and critique from the mothers.
BRYON SCHAFER, Ad Sales Marketing and Research: About a week before I started at Hulu, I received an email from my new Hulu boss, JP Colaco, in my personal email account. He had taken the time to put together a "to-do list" for me. At the top of the list was "Advertising Effectiveness – does our advertising work?" and, "Make it easy for TV people to buy Hulu." The idea was intuitive: If we could provide a service that provided a strong and measureable advertising return on investment (ROI), and made it easy for buyers to buy us, we'd be off to a good start.
These are the things I knew was hired to help to work on, but I had never worked at a place so … new.
On my first day, I was shown to my desk, with a computer and a phone. "It's a startup," I was told. "So do whatever you want … Oh and, by the way, you have no staff and no budget." I looked at my to-do list and thought to myself, "Jesus. This is going to be pretty intense." Two and a half years later, the basics of the mission remain unchanged: How do we keep improving advertising effectiveness on the service? How do we make it even easier for TV people to buy Hulu?
At the time I didn't realize it, but the to-do list JP had written for me wasn't a list of finite tasks that I would simply cross off once I had completed them. They will never be "completed." That's the whole idea behind our mission and the relentless pursuit of better ways.
DAVID BARON, Content Partner Management: Distributing premium content in an on-demand environment, across multiple devices, un-tethered, with truly targeted advertising and within a user experience enhanced by intelligent services that actually helps the audience and the programming find each other — these have been the dreams and visions of futurists, pundits and technologists for decades. But to actually be a part of turning this into reality is something I have worked on my whole career and is a dream come true for me.


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FX must have decided that this new sploosh-tastic poster wasn't enough to properly promote the rapidly approaching fourth season of Archer, so they also decided to subject the rest of the cast of characters to the press rounds on media day in order to spread the word that the premiere is less than a week away. Before getting to the junket interviews, let's take a second to admire the aforementioned and very busy "Quantum of Mediocrity" one-sheet the network has created for the fourth season.
The poster does a good job of being inclusive, making sure not to leave any of the important characters out of the ad which also hints at a few of the upcoming story lines. Mallory is rocking the wedding dress, Ray's back in the wheelchair and Archer, Lana and Pam seem to be suggesting a mission under the sea. Last year ISIS went into Space, this year it's time to get wet. Gross. I also have no idea why Cheryl is riding an ostrich (maybe Babou needs a friend?) or what Krieger is up to in that ball of energy but I am excited to find out.
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The public-private economic development agency, the San Joaquin Partnership, last week circulated information from the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development that puts the lie to those who said businesses are fleeing the state and that California is an economic dead end.
The public-private economic development agency, the San Joaquin Partnership, last week circulated information from the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development that puts the lie to those who said businesses are fleeing the state and that California is an economic dead end.
According to GO-Biz, the state is the national leader in job creation with 295,300 new private sector jobs created in the 12 months ending in October and 574,900 new private sector jobs since the recovery began in February 2010.
And the report goes on:
� California created more private sector jobs in the last year than Texas, Oregon and West Virginia ... COMBINED!
� California's job growth rate of 2.1 percent is higher than the national average of 1.3 percent. So we are adding more jobs at a faster rate than the rest of the country.
� California has 274,000 fewer unemployed people from a year ago. The unemployment rate dropped 1.4 percent between October 2011 and October 2012, which is one of the top 10 biggest decreases in the nation.
� Because of California's diverse industry mix, we are able to add jobs in multiple high-paying sectors. Sectors like business and professions, health care, education, trade and transportation, information, and finance all posted significant increases over the last year.
� Information technology jobs have returned to their pre-recession levels.
� California healthcare jobs maintained consistent growth through recession, adding 27,500 jobs per year.
� California has the highest number of green jobs in the U.S. with more than 318,000 Californian's employed in high paying Green jobs, a work force second only to high tech.
� California's 2,324 biomedical companies employ 267,000 people. This industry accounts for $115 billion in annual revenues - which is more than the annual Gross State Product of 18 U.S. states.
� 3.5 million California small businesses account for 99 percent of the state's employers and employ 52 percent of the work force.
� California received 50 percent of all venture capital financing in the U.S in 2011.
� California is the No. 1 state for agriculture revenues, with $34.8 billion in revenue representing 12.3 percent of the U.S. total.
� And California is the No. 1 state for attracting foreign direct investment.
Area attorneys will hand out free legal advice during their Lawyers in the Library Legal Clinic on Wednesday.
Practicing attorneys from the San Joaquin County Bar Association hold the monthly clinics that are open to all regardless of income or residence.
The volunteer attorneys will be able to address subjects ranging from family law and bankruptcy, to Social Security and business law.
Among those again volunteering at the clinic is Stockton Councilman-elect Moses Zapien.
The clinic will be from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Law Library, 20 N. Sutter St., Stockton.
Information: (209) 948-0125 or www.sjcbar.org.
You can no longer prance around San Francisco in your birthday suit.
You wouldn't think you'd have to make such a rule, but county supervisors had to enact a nudity ban after they started getting complaints.
Nudists claim their right to free expression is being infringed and they filed a pre-emptive lawsuit in advance of the supervisors' vote.
Baghdad by the Bay, as the late San Francisco columnist Herb Cain used to call his beloved city, is well known for its liberal politics and tolerance of the wacky.
But eating alfresco next to a table with someone eating au naturale is more than even San Franciscans can take.
Some anyway.
Possibly the only thing stranger than needing such a law is the fact that the supervisors split 6-5 passing it.
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Notre Dame Bits: Charlie Weis on where Notre Dame stands, Jimmy Clausen's production, more
Some may feel that Notre Dame, at 4-1 after three straight heart-stopping finishes, remains a relatively unknown quantity. Are the Irish indeed that good, not just lucky? Or have they eked by against fair-to-middling competition and eventually will see the bottom fall out?
Charlie Weis, as you might expect, goes with the former.
"If you look at some of the other teams that are playing and look at how their games have gone, tell me where the difference is," the Irish coach said Sunday. "I can go right up to the top 10 and work right on down. You tell me what teams that are in there haven't had some trouble in their schedule. I mean, almost everybody has.
"So you go right down the list. We've had one loss by four points on the road with 11 seconds to go in the game. So the flipside of it, we're 11 seconds away from being undefeated right now. I think if you really study the polls, you really have to study which teams that are there and who they played and how they played. If you compare apples to apples, I think that we deserve to be there right with everybody else."
Notre Dame of course gets the chance to prove that when USC visits in a little less than two weeks. Here were more Weis words on pertinent topics Sunday...
On Jimmy Clausen's play so far: "When you have a quarterback like that, you've got a chance to win every time you play, and that really is the bottom line. The kid is playing at a very, very high level, and everyone knows who's on deck. We don't have to underestimate that we have a top opponent on deck, but the way this quarterback is playing and the way he's acting and the way he's leading the team, the confidence the team has in him, you've got a chance to win every time you play."
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"Shotgun Joe" Biden, the Vice President of the United States, says semi-automatic rifles are not necessary because firing warning shots from shotguns is better self-defense. Really.
This week, Biden shared advice he gave to his wife. "I said, 'Jill, if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here, walk out and put that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house. You don't need an AR-15 - it's harder to aim, it's harder to use, and in fact you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself. Buy a shotgun! Buy a shotgun!"
The man put in charge of the Obama administration's gun-control initiative recommends firing two warning blasts from a double-barreled shotgun. What if the intruder is not scared away? You'd better be quick at reloading. Also, how is public safety improved by encouraging people to fire shotguns off the balcony instead of taking aim (whether firing or not) directly at intruders?
The worst part of this advice, though, is that yet again the administration ignores the reason we have a Second Amendment. It is not for sport or self-defense. Those are excellent uses for weapons kept legally under the Second Amendment. But the amendment exists because weapons are "necessary to the security of a free state." Funny how the administration never brings that up.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Haitian government has welcomed home 41 engineers and technicians who underwent 10 months of military training in Ecuador.
The team is intended to be part of a soon-to-be-created quasi-military force that Haitian officials want to monitor the country's coasts and its border with the Dominican Republic, fight drug trafficking, raise environmental awareness and respond to disasters.
President Michel Martelly was eager two years ago to fulfill a campaign goal of reviving Haiti's national army, which was disbanded in 1995 because of its abusive past. But he backed off under pressure from the U.S. and other governments, and opted to create a smaller force with the help of Ecuador.
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Teeth Bonding
How safe is this procedure? All cosmetic dentists tout it, but is it safe? Thank you.
Bonding is safe, but it does involve the removal of some tooth structure. This is considered a conservative amount of tooth structure which is certainly less than a crown, but more than doing nothing. There are no materials in dentistry as good as natural tooth structure.
Bleaching may be tried if the goal of the bonding is to lighten teeth. If the goal is to change the alignment of teeth, Orthodontics may be done. If the goal is to change the shape and the shade, then bonding may be the best solution.
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It has all the trappings of the good life, neatly plotted on 10,000 manicured acres of dramatic maritime forest: world-class golf courses, great tennis, over-the-top homes, swanky accommodations and 10 miles of oceanfront property.
Kiawah Island also could boast, until last week, an understated and intangible attribute: an extraordinarily long run under mostly local ownership.
But nothing lasts forever, especially in the high-end real estate world. As part of a lawsuit settlement, the remaining core group of original investors announced last week they had sold the business to a North Carolina company.
The deal, estimated at $360 million, closes a chapter on one of the Charleston region's most remarkable business narratives, a saga that began with a headline-grabbing real estate deal 25 years ago this month.
Pat McKinney was among the original investors in Kiawah Resort Associates, or KRA, which ponied up $105 million to buy the largely unknown Sea Island on June 24, 1988.
He retired from his day-to-day duties in 2006, but kept skin in the game until the inevitable sale, as did his longtime business partners Buddy Darby and Leonard Long.
McKinney tried to sum up the past quarter-century. It wan't easy. "There were some great highs and a few serious, anxious moments," he said.
Just a fortunate few had ever stepped foot on Kiawah before the 1970s. The Vanderhorst family had held the seaside oasis for two centuries before selling it for $125,000 in 1951 to Aiken lumberman C.C. Royal. His heirs, in turn, sold it in 1974 to Kuwaiti investors, who paid $18.2 million in cash with the vision of developing a world-class resort.
Frank Brumley was hired to put Kuwaiti Investment Co.'s plan into action in 1974, but he left after four years. Now CEO of The Daniel Island Co., Brumley recalled that back in the day, he and his family had Kiawah's seemingly endless beach to themselves. He once likened it to a private national park.
The Kuwaitis' plans for Kiawah seemed doomed from the start, and by the mid-1980s, they had all but stopped throwing money at the investment. They exited the deal in 1988 by selling to KRA.
The group included a big investment firm and Beach Co. executive Charlie Way, along with Darby, Long, McKinney and Brumley. Involved as a limited partner was Hank Holliday, now the owner of The Planters Inn and other downtown hospitality businesses.
It was a bargain. Their $105 million, equal to $200 million today, didn't come close to covering what the sellers had invested in roads, utilities, golf courses and other amenities.
"They had more in it than we paid for it," said Brumley, who remained a Kiawah partner until 1997.
Holliday agreed, adding that the island "was literally unmatched in the United States."
"I think we all knew it was a remarkable buying opportunity and an unparalleled physical asset," he said, adding, "And the bonus is, you're less than an hour from Charleston."
Early on, McKinney said, KRA made a decision that would alter its financial fortunes. It immediately sold the resort the Kuwaitis had all but abandoned, cutting its debt by about a third. It then focused on the methodical residential development plan the previous owners had mapped out.
"It was pretty easy to pick that up, though there were some major changes our team made," McKinney said.
The first big setback for the new owners came ashore just 15 months into the deal. Hurricane Hugo battered the coastline in September 1989, effectively shutting down the island for two months.
Then, in an unexpected stroke of luck and good timing, Kiawah got the late nod to host the thrilling 1991 Ryder Cup, a globally televised spectacle that put the island on the map as a vacation home and golf destination.
"We went from almost total disaster in September of '89 to total exhilaration in September of '91," McKinney said. "It was something else."
It propelled the firm into uncharted territory. Wall Street powerhouse Morgan Stanley stepped in as a financial partner. Behind the gates, the firm was selling pricey home sites as quickly as it released them, while imposing strict standards on builders and buyers. It also added a couple of private golf courses and beach club along the way.
In another fortunate turn of events, billionaire Bill Goodwin bought the resort portion of the island in 1993 after the original owner went bankrupt. He, too, has taken the long view and has since poured tens of millions of dollars more into Kiawah, including the opening of the oceanfront Sanctuary hotel in 2004.
The combined efforts paid off last summer when Kiawah was the site of the PGA Championship. It was the first time one of pro golf's four annual "major" tournaments has been held in South Carolina.
By then, though, the remarkable run that started with KRA nearly 25 years ago had about run its course under the renamed Kiawah Partners.
"Things had begun to change," McKinney said.
An outsider might point to the stress of supporting costly, far-flung investments in Ireland and the Caribbean, or the flak the firm was catching from conservationists for its plan to build 50 homes on part of Captain Sam's Spit.
Then there was the prolonged real estate downturn that began in 2007. While Kiawah Partners survived it, a few of its more-leveraged peers, including Sea Island Co. in Georgia and The Cliffs Communities in the Upstate, were forced into bankruptcy.
"I wouldn't say we did great during the recession, but we made money and came out ... whole," McKinney said. "To me, that was a great accomplishment."
The breaking point was the simmering dispute between first cousins Long, who had retired as executive vice president but was still a partner, and Darby, the CEO and chairman.
It reached the boiling point last June, when a well-documented lawsuit demanded the sale of Kiawah Partners and its properties in South Carolina, Ireland and St. Kitts.
Long recruited Charlotte-based South Park Partners as the buyer in a deal backed by King Street Capital Management of New York. It was announced Monday.
McKinney thinks the time was right to turn over the reins.
"It wasn't fun getting there, but I think we'll look back and say, 'Yeah, we exited in a rising market ... and it turned out to be a good deal.' "
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Kanye West's image and reputation has long outgrown the music and fashion industries he is known for, and into a sociopolitical world that influences Black people in the U.S. and abroad. Now, as he strengthens his connection to President Donald Trump, Kanye may have a tangible impact on the Black community. Are these the machinations of a political or corporate strategist? Or is Kanye West simply trolling us all? Guest: Michael Pratt, TW: twitter.com/ProjectPratt11, IG: instagram.com/michaelpratt__ Melton, IG: instagram.com/notmarinkd Powered by Classic Material NY TW: twitter.com/fresthetic, IG: instagram.com/classicmaterialny Hosted & moderated by Saul Goodman TW: twitter.com/lionofbedstuy, IG: instagram.com/lionofbedstuy Co-hosted by The Cain Marko TW: twitter.com/thecainmarko, IG: instagram.com/thecainmarko, SC: soundcloud.com/thecainmarko Executive produced by Mika TW: twitter.com/BSideAnthems, IG: instagram.com/bside.anthems Visuals by Modern Marvel TW: twitter.com/SimplyDop3, IG: instagram.com/marvin_h, SC: soundcloud.com/modern_marvel
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Lifestyles Of The Lit & Shameless
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Sheck Wes
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Sen. Ayotte to host Guinta event at Manchester Radisson Oct. 8
September 23. 2013 6:22PM
MANCHESTER — It was not billed as a formal endorsement, but U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte will host a campaign fundraiser for former U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta in two weeks.
The Tuesday, Oct. 8, morning event at the Radisson Manchester hotel will feature U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee last year.
Guinta announced his candidacy for the 1st District House seat Monday in a website video.
Invitees will get a "private briefing" if they contribute or raise $5,200; a photo reception if they contribute or raise $1,000, limited to two people per photo. General reception tickets will go for $250 or $100.
Guinta is the first announced Republican for the seat he lost last year to Democrat Carol Shea-Porter. Outgoing University of New Hampshire business school dean Dan Innis of Portsmouth has indicated he may also run as a Republican.


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Surely the next Space Truck
should be called the 'Deep Purple'...
The European Space Agency's next Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) to roll off the production line will be called Albert Einstein. The Johannes Kepler docking with the ISS in February 2011. Pic: ESA Space trucks Jules Verne (ATV-1) and Johannes Kepler (ATV-2, pictured above) have already carried supplies to the International …
should be called the 'Deep Purple'...
Why on earth (or even why on the ISS) do they take 'air' up with them ... surely pure oxygen would be more efficient?
"and 100 kg of air (oxygen and nitrogen)."
They learned the hard way that a pure oxygen environment can be very bad. See "Apollo 1 disaster" for the reason why.
You can't breathe pure oxygen, it'll kill you. Nitrogen or other inert gas would be needed to dilute the oxygen to a breathable concentration.
So, given that you're going to need both in the air supply onboard, why send separate Nitrogen and Oxygen, thus creating a flammable payload (O2), only to recombine them in orbit?
Given that they condense at different temperatures (and therefore different pressures in a storage tank), perhaps its more efficient to keep them separate.
The issue I'd query is what is using up the nitrogen that is already on board the ISS, or is there normally a marginal air loss at an acceptable rate that exists, and this just replenishes the supply?
Oxygen is only a poison under pressure. (Ask any scuba diver.) if it was a poison at normal atmospheric pressure, then all those hospital patients would be toast! (ie brown bread)
Not true, on Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, they used a pure oxygen atmosphere in space, but at a partial pressure of 5lb/sq in (equivalent to the same density of Oxygen on earth).
When doing a plugs out test on Apollo 1, the capsule had to be positively pressurised, therefore the pressure of the oxygen was greater than atmospheric. Under those conditions, some otherwise benign substances will burn fiercely, although the crew were in their space suits and on a different breathing loop.
Yes you can breath pure oxygen, but you need to lower the pressure. This was why they were doing it on Apollo 1. (It's obviously nice to be able to lower the pressure in your spaceship - you don't have to make it so strong).
They use pure O2 for spacewalks as a sufficient pressure of "air" would turn the fabric suit into the michelin man and the astronaut wouldn't be able to move. That's why some people want to move to hard suits.
(Flame icon used in memory of Apollo 1, not anger).
I stand corrected. That's what I like about El Reg: the comments are (mostly) written by people who know stuff.
Einstein wasn't born in Germany, but in the Kingdom of Württemberg. That's the nationality he renounced in favour of becoming Swiss, to avoid military service.
If they remove the CO2 and replenish the O2 then they can retain the N2 they already have.
Sort of like a scuba rebreather - just automagically remix the gases to keep the proportions correct.
Yes, you'll lose some to space, but it's only really the oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen we're worried about, and they'll make their own CO2.
Still, if I can come up with that idea it 10 seconds, I'm sure other clever people have already considered it and ruled it out. Anyway, I have my own job to be getting on with!
if the article should have been called:
Worlds biggest tumble dryer to be called the Albert Einstein.
This is Albert freakin' Einstein we are talking about here. The man who gave us more physics in a few years than we could have hoped to have invented in the next 50.
And the BEST we can do is name a TRUCK after him? OK, I admit it beats a crater, or an asteroid...but seriously, don't we have to put his name on something a little bit more exotic than a space truck...at least a nuclear powered deep space probe, or the first ion-engined ship to Mars?
I'd rather they'd named them Truck 1, Truck 2 and so on rather than give them the names of great scientists. It's not a very impressive memento to be filled with odds and sods, emptied, loaded up with sewage and then crashed into the ocean.
I expect Einstein would be more impressed with his element (99) than this thing.
they can re-use the name, once the previous massively expensive nameplate holder has ceased usage. This one will last only a few months, like its predecessors, going out like a star when discarded.
I'm not sure what they do when they have to open an airlock; I don't know if they have turbo pumps to evacuuate the airlock before opening the outer door. It may be easier to just vent the air to space, and then replace the air later?
On the subject of just removing the CO2, I think there are scrubbers to do that, but maybe you get all sorts of things in the air and it might be a good thing to vent some of it occasionally.
Imagine if you lived in a completely sealed house with plants to convert the CO2 to O2. What about the other stuff? You know the gasses you get depending on what you eat, and the poisonous fumes given off by all that Ikea furniture as the glues and other things used to make it slowly evaporate from it?
A lot of time is spent ensuring that things on board do not release nasty gases. Astronauts will unfortunately produce some smelly, but non-lethal varieties, but you've got a limited supply of oxygen, so you can't just go venting it into space just because someone has been on the sprouts!
Given that washing facilities are also rather basic, I think it's pretty certain that a space station does get pretty smelly.
on the right side of the picture of the trucks in space? Just above the one solar panel(?). Doesn't look like the moon, or anything else I recognise...
Anyone else noticed it?
Actually, it is, as far as I can see
Aha ... that sounds like the piece of information I was missing ... thanks :D
what, that the ISS is an Ikea flatpack, I know things are well hidden in their stores - I must search harder next time - my son would love it as his bedroom!
'Lemon Entry my dear Watson'
Perhaps the "Ellen B. RIpley"?


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NHIAA Roundup: Shorthanded Memorial overcomes Exeter
January 19. 2013 11:36PM
Exeter goaltender Colin Seeley played the best game of his young varsity career Saturday, but it wasn't enough to derail the Manchester Memorial boys' hockey team.
Memorial, which was without four players due to illness or injury, put 37 shots on Seeley and skated to a 3-1 victory at The Rinks and Exeter.
"Their goalie played outstanding," Memorial coach Mark Putney said. "We're still without some people, so we've been calling upon some other guys who have to step up - and they have been."
Junior forward Kyle Chalifoux, senior forward Kyle Broussard and senior forward Ethan Pollock scored for the Crusaders, who led 1-0 after the first period and 3-1 entering the third.
Memorial stretched its winning streak to six games, and improved its Division I record to 8-1-0. The Crusaders are in sole possession of first place.
The loss dropped Exeter's record to 2-6-0.
Memorial jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but Exeter made things interesting when Michael Cashman scored a breakaway goal with 3:42 remaining in the second period. Memorial regained a two-goal lead when Pollock capped the scoring with 2:39 left in the second.
Memorial received 17 saves from Josh Jacob.
Chalifoux opened the scoring with 9:01 left in the opening period, and Broussard made it a 2-0 game 2:14 into the second.
Seeley, a freshman, made 17 of his 34 saves in the third period. It was Seeley's third start in goal this season.
Pinkerton 3, St. Thomas 2: In Hooksett, the Astros rebounded from a quick goal by the Saints and picked up their second win in a row for the first time this season.
Pinkerton (5-4) score three unanswered goals after Joe Richard of St. Thomas Aquinas of Dover (5-3-1) netted one 12 seconds into the game to give his team a 1-0 lead. Giovanni Corsetto tied things up 1-1 in the first period, Jake Veilleux gave his team a 2-1 lead in the second and Connor Brady scored in the third to put the Astros up 3-1.
TJ Boulanger had the other goal for St. Thomas. The goal came with 27 seconds to play.
It was the second win in a row for Pinkerton, which beat Bishop Guertin of Nashua on Jan. 12.
Nate Mitchell made 32 saves in the winning effort.
Central 3, Nashua North 2: In Manchester, Andrew Kehas, playing in his first game since suffering an injury before the Christmas break, scored the game-winning goal for Central, which improved to 6-2 in Division I.
Austin Sprague scored the two other goals for Central, which got 28 saves from Ian Beliveau to snap a two-game losing skid. Jake Lathan and Adam Murphy each scored a goal for Nashua North (1-8).
Kennett 13, West 2: In Conway, Connor Todd recorded his 100th career point as the Eagles (6-3) downed the Blue Knights (2-8) in Division III action. Danny Deblois had a goal and an assist for West.
Souhegan 6, Laconia/Winnisquam 1: At Laconia, Mike Hayden scored three goals and Ryan Peterson stopped 19 shots to propel the Sabers to this Division III victory.
Alex Maresco, Mike Belanger and Joe Nutting added goals for Souhegan, which scored four times in the third period.
Berlin 8, John Stark/Hopkinton 2: At Berlin, Justin Vien collected three goals and an assist as Berlin raised its Division III record to 9-0.
Connor Jewett added two goals and four assists. Berlin received 27 saves from Shane Mailhot. The loss dropped John Stark/Hopkinton's record to 8-1-1.
Salem 8, Bishop Brady 0: At Concord, Matt Survilas and Cody Soucy each scored two goals, and Kyle Svenson, Jake Pappalardo, Paul Antkowiak and Jake Ring tallied once helping the Blue Devils improved to 8-1-1 in Division I. Green Giants keeper Andrew Yvars made 33 saves as his club dropped to 1-8. Nick Phair made 14 stops in the shutout.
Bedford 6, Alvirne 2: At Tyngsborough, Mass., Bedford scored two goals in each period and raised its Division II record to 7-1-1. Kurt Mitchell scored twice for the Bulldogs, who received 17 saves from Steve Tempesta. The loss dropped Alvirne's record to 1-7-0.
Trinity 3, Londonderry 1: At Salem, Kyle Valliere, Justin Sirois and Mitch Meyers provided the Pioneers' offense, rallying their team from a 1-0 first period deficit at the Salem Icenter. Trinity goalie Ryan Slatky finished with 28 saves, surrendering a single goal to the Lancers Ryan Griffin. Joe McGrath made 20 stops for Londonderry. Trinity is 5-3-1 and Londonderry is 6-2-1.
Pembroke/Campbell 3, Dover 2 (OT): At Dover, Pembroke/Campbell goaltender Nick Berube saved a career-high 53 shots as his club improved to 4-4-1 with the win. John Donaghey scored the game-winner, his second of the game and 14th of the season, in the second minute of overtime. Anthony Nicolella and Riley Gowen scored for Dover (6-2-1).
Merrimack 5, Keene 1: At Keene, Mark Feeney and Dom Valluzzi each scored twice to help Merrimack raise its Division II record to 9-0-0. Connor Powell added a goal and two assists for the Tomahawks, who received 16 saves from Brett Glendye.
Girls' hockey
Berlin/Gorham 2, Bishop Brady/Trinity 1: At Concord, Jenna Arguin scored twice in the first period and the defense held the lead as Berlin/Gorham improved to 6-3. A second-period goal from Arianna Harris cut the lead in half and Brady/Trinity (4-6) outshot Berlin/Gorham in the third period, but Chelsey Caron (16 saves) turned every shot away.
Girls' basketball
Nashua North 62, Winnacunnet 53: At Nashua, sophomore guard Taylor Choate scored 13 of her career-high 27 points in the fourth quarter to help the Titans remain unbeaten after nine Division I games. Choate made six 3-pointers in the victory. It was the first time North has ever beaten Winnacunnet.


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text: Adventure: HowTo HowTo Posted 07-19-2013 Tick-bite Prevention Tips Photo Courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation By: Jim Low From Missouri Department of Conservation JEFFERSON CITY– While preparing for fun in the sun this summer, take time to brush up on tick-bite prevention. A few simple actions to discourage ticks from attaching to you will help you avoid contracting a potentially devastating tick-borne disease. Ticks in Missouri can carry several diseases, including ehrlichiosis, tularemia, anaplasmosis, southern tick-associated rash illness, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Lyme or Lyme-like disease. Left untreated, these diseases can be fatal. Even with timely medical treatment, they can cause long-term problems that include persistent pain, fatigue, impaired mental function, and unexplained numbness. Protective clothing is the first line of defense against ticks. When outdoors, wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants, and boots with pants tucked into socks or boots. Rubber bands, blousing bands or tape can be used to secure the cuffs of your pants. Once indoors, conduct a thorough tick check and shower as soon as possible to remove any unattached ticks. Tumble clothes in a dryer on high heat for an hour to kill remaining ticks before washing your clothing. Insect repellents also reduce tick exposure. Products containing DEET are most effective. Apply DEET-based repellent on exposed skin and clothing. Use a product with at least a 20 percent concentration. Lower concentrations do not work. Essential oils and natural products are not registered by the EPA for tick repellency. Be sure to follow label instructions to ensure safety and best results. Products containing permethrin can be applied to clothing and equipment and allowed to dry thoroughly. These products kill ticks rather than merely repelling them. They should never be applied directly to skin. Again, be sure to follow label directions. Most tick-transmitted diseases are not transferred to the host until the tick has been feeding for some time and is full. The earlier the tick is located and removed, the lower the chance of being infected with a tick-borne disease. When you are active outdoors, never allow more than a few hours to pass without a thorough tick inspection. Remove any attached ticks immediately. Proper removal is important, since attached ticks can transmit infection in a matter of hours. Follow these four steps to remove a tick that is already attached. Use fine-tipped tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin's surface as possible. If you use your fingers, cover them with tissue or rubber gloves. Use only as much pressure as necessary. Remove the tick with a firm outward movement. Never jerk or twist the tick when removing it. After removing the tick, thoroughly clean the bite area and your hands with rubbing alcohol, an iodine scrub, or soap and water. Watch for symptoms of tick-borne disease in the days and weeks following a tick bite. These include any unusual rash and unexplained flu-like symptoms, including fever, severe headaches, body aches, and dizziness. Symptoms of tick-borne diseases often are mild, but they should not be ignored. If you know you've been bitten by a tick and any of the above symptoms appear, consult a doctor and mention the recent tick bite. Prompt treatment with antibiotics can prevent serious illness or even death. Share This Story Next From HowTo How to Identify Dangerous Plants Related Hunting : Posted 04-10-2013 Avoid Stick of the Tick View Hunting : Posted 09-12-2011 Hunters Beware: Tick Diseases on the Rise View Hunting : Posted 10-28-2009 Take measures to protect against ticks in the wild View Comments Categories News Stories Recipes Tips Gear Videos Photo Galleries Viewer Photo Galleries Features Behind the Badge with Carlos Gomez Adventure Check Out All The Photos Explore the United States. Find information about and activities within your state. Get Started


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David J. Malcolm Collection
From 1919 to 1923 David J. Malcolm served both as the Superintendent of Schools in Hinsdale, Massachusetts and as the local Hinsdale correspondent for one of the two Springfield newspapers. At the urging of his editor, Malcolm increased the length of his submissions by reporting on the day-to-day activities of the townspeople. Based on the success of his reports, the paper offered him a Sunday column called "Hinsdale Observations." Returning to Hinsdale after three years in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Malcolm resumed his weekly reports for the Springfield Sunday Republican, this time naming the column "Our Hilltown Neighbors." For the next thirty-two years Malcolm wrote columns on topics ranging from crop production to weather and from elections to good neighbors.
Microfilm rolls and microfiche cards containing every column published from 1926-1958.
- Subjects
- Hinsdale (Mass.)--Social life and customs
- Massachusetts--History
- Massachusetts--Social life and customs--20th century
- Contributors
- Malcolm, David Johnston


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Psychology is a good major if you're fascinated by human behavior. You'll study normal and abnormal behavior, learning, development and cognition, as well as how to conduct research in psychology. As a psychology major at Thomas More College, you will attend small classes, usually with less than 25 students, and become acquainted with both applied and scientific aspects of the field. You'll have the opportunity to intern at a hospital or in industry, to conduct and present research at an undergraduate conference and to engage in service projects related to your major. Such experiences contribute to your success in entering graduate school or the workforce.
Program Highlights
Thomas More College Sponsors Psychology Research Conference
Thomas More College is a co-sponsor of the Annual Mid-America Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference (MAUPRC). Each year at this conference Psychology majors from throughout the Midwest present research papers and poster sessions during a day long meeting of research and guest speakers.
Psychology Curriculum
The psychology curriculum at Thomas More College provides a thorough grounding in the discipline of Psychology, from both scientific and clinical/applied aspects. The curriculum meets all ten goals identified by the Task Force on Undergraduate Psychology Major Competencies (2002) of the American Psychology Association. Students are able to complete a clinical concentration as part of the major.
Faculty Attention
The majority of psychology courses are taught by full-time doctoral faculty who are also the academic advisors for all Psychology majors.
Internships and Research Experiences
Each year psychology majors have the opportunity to do internships at local hospitals, businesses, and research facilities. The psychology internship program has had successful intern placements at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati Works, Inc., Community Mental Health of Lawrenceburg, East Indiana Treatment Center, Riverside Correctional Facility, St. Elizabeth Healthcare, NorthKey Community Care, and The Brighton Center, among others. Internships provide both clinical and research experience. Students who plan to attend graduate school are strongly encouraged to engage in independent research. The department has a strong commitment to undergraduate research, as evidenced by co-sponsorship of MAUPRC and student participation at undergraduate conferences.
Psi Chi International Honor Society and the Psychology Club
These two groups work together to co-host a number of events. In the past the groups sponsored or co-sponsored:
- A fall picnic to introduce first-year majors to faculty and upperclassmen.
- Dr, Charles Behling of the University of Michigan. He spoke about his award-winning diversity program in a college-wide forum
- Mr. Kyle Behymer, TMC Psychology alum. He spoke of his work in Human Factors Psychology with the design of human-computer interfaces in an engineering setting.
- Judge Karen Thomas, Chief Regional District Judge of Campbell County Kentucky. She spoke about the importance, locally and nationally, for mental health courts that address the special needs of the mentally ill who are in the justice system.
- Dr. Scott Powers of Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati Ohio. Dr Powers spoke about pediatric migraine and its impact on the quality of life.
- Dr Michael Bennett, a TMC Psychology/Biology graduate and neuroscientist at Children's Hospital Medical Center. Dr Bennett was the keynote speaker at the annual Psi Chi induction ceremony and spoke about the graduate school experience and entering into the workforce as a young professional.
Kentucky Psychological Association (KPA) Academic Conference & Psychology Bowl
The KPA Academic Conference is one of the largest state association-sponsored student psychological conferences in the country. The KPA Academic Conference provides students an opportunity to present their research, learn about career paths, and participate in Psych Bowl. Psych Bowl is a Jeopardy-style contest in which students from Kentucky colleges and universities compete to answer questions from all areas of psychology. Coached by Dr. Kathie Langen, Thomas More Psychology Bowl team members have won the competition three times and regularly place second in the state.
Community Service Projects and Service Learning
Psychology majors are active in a variety of community service projects. Examples include:
- A Habitat for Humanity project on the Gulf Coast during Spring Break
- A tutor/mentor program with elementary students in an inner city school
- A trip to Booneville, KY with food and clothing for an outreach program.
- A teen mentor program with local churches and parishes
- An annual college trip to an adopted orphanage in Jamaica
- Volunteer work at a geriatrics unit at a local hospital
- A variety of charitable fund-raising events
Prospective students are encouraged to visit the Psychology Department, attend a class, have lunch with current Psychology majors and get to know more about the program.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Kathie Langen
Department of Psychology
Thomas More College