text:
Introducing Your Next Generation of Energy Management Professionals
Accredited by the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL)
Energy Management is a relatively new program at Western Colorado University, initiating the curriculum in January 2008. It is housed in Western's business program, and is a multi-disciplinary emphasis that draws on some of the most interesting and challenging courses across several programs. The degree program was developed with direct cooperation of a variety of industry professionals with the shared goal of graduating the most prepared land professionals in the country.
Our added goal was that these students would be educated across the disciplines of oil, gas, and mining mineral management as well as, Native American, federal, state and privately owned real estate surface, water and environmental land management.
We believe with confidence this goal has been achieved, as evidenced by the caliber of students you will find highlighted in this site. You, too, will leave the program with a highly respected and sought after degree by industry.
Do You Have What It Takes?
Navigating the 21st century energy landscape with CHARACTER, EFFICIENCY and VERSATILITY
CHARACTER We educate pioneers who do not shy from a challenge. A career as a land professional is not for the entitled, timid or easily discouraged. Our students choose Western because they have a drive to push themselves and have forged resilience by climbing 14-ers, skiing, working two jobs while taking a full course-load in an unforgiving climate – and loving every minute of it.
EFFICIENCY The needs of the energy industry often shift as quickly as the weather in the Rockies. Western Energy Management students are agile and sure footed. Whether in the field or in the office, we measure our success is by how quickly we add value.
VERSATILITY We are diplomats and explorers; we seek out opportunity and adventure. Never limited by geography, and as resourceful as we are practical. In Denver or Dickinson, from the boardroom to the courthouse, Western Energy Management students deliver.
How To Apply
One of twelve programs in North America, Western's Energy Management program is the only one located in the Rocky Mountains. Energy Management at Western is an intense hands-on program. We expect nothing short of excellence from our students.
- Energy Management applications are accepted year round
- You may apply electronically, click here to apply to Energy Management.
- Once your application is submitted you will be asked to interview with Energy Management leadership.
- Upon acceptance into the Energy Management program, students may only begin the Energy Management Program FALL semester.
- The application to the Energy Management program IS NOT an application for admission to Western Colorado University. Applicants must be accepted to both the University and the program; for admission to Western click here.
- An overall GPA of 3.0 or higher is required for program admission. On a case by case basis, students who have a GPA of less than 3.0, may attain formal admittance through a probationary process by completing their first 12 credits of Energy Management emphasis area courses with an average GPA of 3.0 or higher.
- A grade of "C" or above must be attained in all Energy Management emphasis area courses to remain in the Program once admitted.
What Will You Learn? What Skills Will You Acquire?
The Energy Management program trains students to have successful careers in energy exploration and development. The industry includes oil and gas as well as mining and alternative energy sources such as wind and solar. In Western's Energy Management program, you will take a wide variety of classes including the core business classes covering accounting, economics, management, and marketing plus specialized classes in geographic information systems, law, water and environmental issues, natural resource economics, and petroleum geology. Graduates have a strong business administration education supplemented by specialized courses related to the land management field.
From your coursework, internships and professional networking, you will develop a broad array of skills including the ability to: identify map areas of interest, understand metes and bounds descriptions from the research of land titles, negotiate leases, prepare curative documents, resolve disputes, and make presentations to management and investors.
Beyond the Classroom?
All students in Western's program belong to the Western Association of Professional Landmen (WAPL) which offers professional activities. Many of the companies that contribute financial support to the program visit campus as speakers, presenting information sessions about their companies and topics of interest in the field. In addition the professional activities include interviewing students for summer internships and post-graduation employment.
- Western students have access to industry professionals and multiple opportunities to network allowing them to find the type of career that best suits their interests. Classes are small enough that students get to know their professors and each other while they develop skills and knowledge that will serve them throughout their careers.
- On campus interviews and social gatherings with professionals, already in the energy industry, looking to network with and hire Western students for summer internships and careers after graduation
- Field trips are a vital part of the program. Trips include visits to actual mining and oil and gas production sites and discussions with people working in the industry. Western Energy Management students also have the opportunity to attend industry conferences such as NAPE (formerly North American Prospect Expo) in Houston, and other conferences in Denver and Houston.
- Field Trips to operating wells and drill sites.
- WAPL Social events.
After Graduation
In the fall of 2013, 13 companies visited campus to recruit Western Energy Management students, reflecting the incredible employment opportunities for students in the program. Nationally, graduates are in high demand and average a starting salary in excess of $25/hour. Land management graduates work alongside geologists and geophysicists in an energy company.
Next Steps
If you're interested in Western's Energy Management Program, we invite you to take the next steps towards becoming a part of the Mountaineer family.
Share your interest with friends and family:
- Get more information about the program.
- Schedule a campus visit so you can meet professors, see the beautiful Gunnison Valley, and find out if Western is the perfect school for you.
- Start the online application process - apply online now.
- Find scholarships, grants, or financial aid that match your interests and situation.


text:
Vendor AR teams find it useful to understand the size and nature of an analyst firm's clients when they are trying to decide if that firm has direct influence on their sales. Analyst firms whose clients are primarily vendors have little direct impact on sales deals because they are not advising IT managers and other technology buyers. Those firms with a significant contract value with enterprises can have a dramatic impact on sales especially through ad hoc, phone-based inquiry (see Don't discount the business value of analysts' 350,000+ phone-based inquiries with end-user clients) and signature product or market research (e.g., Magic Quadrant and Wave).
In its SEC Form 10-Q, Forrester Research provided some details into its client base. While not perfectly transparent, it does provide interesting insights. The filing reports the revenue breakdown by the three Client Groups, which have their own dedicated sales and analyst teams. There is also an "Other" category which consists "primarily of sponsorships and event tickets." The "Other" category makes the percentages fluxuate quarter-to-quarter depending on the number of events that occur in the quarter.
As the table illustrates, roughly 40% of its revenues in the first three quarters came from its IT Client Group, which SageCircle interprets as "end users" at enterprises. This is a critical community for many technology and telecommunications vendors as these are often the primary buyers of Continue reading
Filed under: News | Tagged: 10-Q, analyst relations, AR, client breakdown, earnings, Forrester | Comments Off on Forrester 3Q 09 earnings part 2 – Client Group breakdown from 10-Q

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Your access level is too low
Frequency: Weekly
Login required
Subscribe to SugaronlineDiamond
for unlimited access to JOB Economia.
As a SugaronlineDiamond member, you will have access to all SugaronlineGold content as well as unlimited access to the following products:
- Live Prices – with comprehensive charting package*
- Daily reports from Brazil, USA and Russia (Exclusive)
- Michael Ellis Technical Commentary
- JOB Economia
- Cropcast Weather Daily and Weekly Reports
*Subject to exchange fees for live feed
Please click here for full details of all of our access levels.
If you have any questions please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Member Login
JOB Economia
Frequency: Weekly
Subscription Level: SugaronlineDiamond
Every Tuesday, find out exactly what's going on inside Brazil's sugar and ethanol markets with analysis, statistics and price charts as well as relevant trade news directly from Sao Paulo via the expert hands of Julio Borges.


text:
- This event has passed.
Weekly Observing at Leighton Observatory
November 15, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every week that begins at 7:00pm on Wednesday, repeating until March 7, 2018
Hosted by Liverpool Astronomical Society at their Leighton Observatory this weekly observing session is a great opportunity to have a look through their telescopes. All members of the public welcome.


text:
Andrew Sullivan reviews current data from Iraq, and concludes:
They're grim. 100,000 families have so far forced to flee their homes; U.S. fatalities were sharply up in April; 8,300 civilian Iraqis were murdered by terrorist insurgents in 2005. In terms of civilian deaths, adjusted for population size, Iraq endured something like twenty-five 9/11s last year. Let's put it another way: a territory controlled by U.S. forces accounted for 50 percent of deaths caused by terrorists on the planet last year. If that is a successful military occupation, then I'm not sure what failure would be. I guess I should ask Powerline.
In fact, though, the numbers cited by Andrew prove little about whether our effort in Iraq is a success or a failure. The spike in casualties in April was an interruption in a long-term trend of steadily declining American and Iraqi casualties. This is consistent with the terrorists' historical practice of ramping up violence whenever the Iraqis are about to take a new step toward democracy: electing a constitutional assembly, electing a legislative assembly, choosing a government. Once again, the terrorists' violence failed. Iraqi politicians have agreed on a new Prime Minister who is in the process of forming the first democratically elected government in the history of the Arab world.
The fact that half of all deaths caused by terrorists last year were in Iraq is consistent with what the terrorists themselves often tell us: Iraq is the central front in the global war against Islamic terrorism. The old Andrew Sullivan would have understood that this means we should fight to win in Iraq, not cut and run.
To the extent that people are being murdered by home-grown terrorists in Iraq, as opposed to Zarqawi, et al, the perpetrators are the very same Baathist thugs who, until we overthrew Saddam, controlled Iraq's government. For thirty years, they ruled Iraq through a ruthless campaign of violence that killed many thousands of Iraqis (300,000 is a number that is commonly cited) and terrorized the rest. It is obvious to the Iraqis themselves that it is a good thing that these people are now out of power rather than in power. Why isn't it obvious to Andrew?
Andrew seems to think that he needs to come to us for a definition of success in Iraq. I'm not sure why; the Bush administration has outlined its goals there countless times. If, a few years from now, Iraq has a functioning democracy that 1) does not threaten American interests, 2) does not threaten its neighbors, and 3) serves as an inspiration to pro-reform movements throughout the Muslim world (as has already happened), our effort in Iraq will have succeeded, and will have been well worth the sacrifices it entailed. It is not necessary that Iraq be crime-free or violence-free for our policy to be a success.
It is still possible that we could fail in Iraq, but we certainly haven't failed yet. The key moments will arrive on the first couple of occasions when that country makes a peaceful transition from one elected government to another. If the Iraqis make those transitions successfully, we will be able, I think, to label our policy in that country a success. Even if they don't, and an authoritarian regime ultimately controls the country, it could still be a vast improvement on the virulently anti-American and pro-terrorist Saddam Hussein.
So it will be a while before we can render a verdict on the policy President Bush set in motion in 2003. As I've said before, I think it is more likely than not that history will judge our effort a success. In the meantime, engaging in defeatist hysteria every time the terrorists pull off a successful bombing is neither helpful nor analytically accurate.


text:
The role of prominent GOP senators in promoting the immigration fiasco is mystifying. It requires a cynicism beyond my poor powers of imagination to understand it. Equally mystifying to me is the misdirection so many have fallen for regarding the issue of border security.
Border security recedes permanently into the distance while amnesty stays in the foreground, but look at the other hand! The news is in the new levels of legal immigration the legislation authorizes (thank you, John Hinderaker), along the same (misbegotten) lines as the 1965 act through which Teddy Kennedy sought to transform the United States.
For their last act, the GOP reprobates facilitating this travesty are performing "the Hoeven-Corker amendment." What do they have up their sleeve this time? Yuval Levin explains:
The Hoeven-Corker amendment to the Gang of Eight bill is essentially a new bill. It is almost 1,200 pages long. Some parts of it are identical to some of the provisions of the original Gang of Eight bill, some parts are very different, and some parts are slightly different in ways that could prove very important but difficult to understand in a hurry. But it has to be understood in a hurry. Given the length and complexity of this proposal, I think it is fair to say that not more than a handful of the senators voting on it on Monday—which is apparently when the vote is scheduled—will really understand it in any detail. There is almost no way any of the senators voting on it could have read it all, and it's unlikely even their staff members could do so in a thorough and responsible way in that time. Only the people who wrote it will know what it says, and I imagine it was written in parts by numerous people from several Senate offices. That means there is probably no one who really knows what it says. It also seems likely that, if the amendment is adopted on Monday, the vote on the final bill would come too soon thereafter to allow CBO to re-score the much-amended bill, and so to offer some sense of how things have changed in terms of costs, economic effects, future immigration flows (legal and illegal) and other key issues.
Is this any way to make such an important set of decisions about the country's future?
Levin leaves off with a rhetorical question. My question, slightly less rhetorical, is: What is going on here?
PAUL ADDS: The Hoeven-Corker routine represents another broken promise by Marco Rubio. He swore up and down that immigration reform would be considered the right way in the Senate. No more voting on a bill to find out what's in it, plenty of time for debate, etc.
Until recently, it looked like this promise would be kept, more or less. Hearings on the legislation were minimal, but at least the legislation was out there for everyone to analyze and there was ample time for such analysis.
But that's no longer the case. As Yuval Levin says in the quotation presented above by Scott, the backers of amnesty have essentially sprung a new bill at the last minute. Apparently, it will be voted on before anyone can perform a proper analysis.
The cynicism and dishonesty of Marco Rubio and company are staggering.


text:
Show 1 sample image
Share with your friends
Price: $4.00
Available for sale by
Sheet Music Plus
Sheet Music Plus
Show Store Details
Tweet about this sheet music
for a chance to get it for free!
orAdd to wish list to buy later
Canon by Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706). Arranged by Hal H. Hopson. For handbell choir (3-5 octaves). General, Sacred. Grade 2+. Handbell score. Published by Hope Publishing Company (HP.1152).
This sheet music has not received any reviews yet, you can be the first one to write one!
Sheet Music Plus
Sheet Music Plus offers one of the world's largest selection of sheet music. Their collection includes music books, music sheets, songbooks, music scores, choral sheet music in many genres.
This store has not received any reviews yet, you can be the first one to write one!


text:
|Episode Description
|Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 - 7:30 AM
"Mexico City and Ixtapa"
Mexico City, the world's largest metropolis, is modern, crowded, cosmopolitan, and steeped in tradition. Rudy begins with Mexico's ancient roots just outside the city at pre-Aztec Teotihuacan. The superb National Museum of Anthropology provides more insights into ancient Mexico. D
|More on PLUS (MT)
|No upcoming shows in database
|Previous on PLUS (MT)
|No Past shows in database


text:
Wolf Spiders of Australia
Last updated about 3 years ago
The Atlas of Living Australia is a five-year project funded under the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Its mission is to develop a biodiversity data management system which will link Australia's biological knowledge with its scientific and agricultural reference collections and other custodians of biological information. Last indexed September 17, 2015


text:
Judith Silverstein, MD will have a short bio with brief information on their background. Please check back soon or view the link below for more information.
For over 30 years, Atlanta Center for Dermatologic Diseases, PC has been providing exceptional dermatology health care to patients of all ages. In addition, we offer many options for cosmetic procedures, skin cancer treatment, acne, warts, rashes, wrinkles, and more.
Our well-credentialed physicians and physician assistants are dedicated to working as a caring dynamic team to help manage skin issues through education, diagnosis, and individualized treatment.
We invite you to get to know us. This web site provides you with an overview of our practice and the field of dermatology. As you navigate the site, you'll find information about our providers, office locations, insurance policies, and appointment scheduling procedures. You can also schedule a visit by clicking appointment request or contacting us by phone at one of our four convenient locations in Sandy Springs, Roswell, Alpharetta, and Cumming.
You'll find a lot of valuable information on the web site about skin problems, diagnoses and treatments. We believe informed patients are better prepared to make decisions about their health and well being. We look forward to seeing you!
For more information please click the AAD link below and follow the "For The Public" link
Questions or Comments?
We encourage you to contact us whenever you have an interest about our services.


text:
Police say Brookline burglary was phony
January 23. 2014 8:53PM
BROOKLINE — A local woman was arrested Thursday on charges she faked a burglary at her home last week, but police said she has yet to give them a reason why.
Police said they responded to the 11 Cranberry Lane home of Theresa Cantella, 25, on Jan. 15 and found her lying at the bottom of a flight of stairs. She said she suffered injuries after interrupting a burglary and was assaulted by an intruder.
Police said in a release that a subsequent investigation did not match evidence at the scene with Cantella's original statement.
During a follow up interview at the Brookline police station, "Cantella confessed she fabricated the story, caused injury to herself and staged the scene at her residence to make it appear as if she walked in on a burglary in progress," the release said.
She did not give a reason why she fabricated the story, police said.
She was charged with making a false report and is scheduled to appear Feb. 4 in Milford Circuit Court.


text:
Joshua Goodman and Ian Katz
Monday, 04 February 2013 11:01 AM
The International Monetary Fund's historic rebuke of Argentina is likely to cement its outcast status among global investors while failing to persuade the government to boost the credibility of its economic data.
Argentina on Feb. 1 became the first nation to be censured by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the Washington-based lender said that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's government isn't addressing concerns that it's underreporting inflation, which analysts forecast is more than double the 10.8 percent official rate.
While the move won't have an immediate effect, it takes the country a step closer to sanctions that include expulsion.
"This official action makes it quite apparent to those who may want to invest in Argentina that there's trouble," said Albert Fishlow, a former top U.S. diplomat to Latin America.
Still, Argentina's feuding with foreign investors dates back to its 2001 financial meltdown, which Fernandez blames on the fund, and she is unlikely to change the course of policy that is being shaped by other influences, such as the price of soybeans, he said.
Argentina is the world's third-largest exporter of the crop, which is the nation's biggest source of hard currency.
"It's a big drama and this isn't the final act," Fishlow said in a phone interview from New York.
Argentina has been locked in a battle with the IMF and investors since its 2001 default on $95 billion of debt.
The government hasn't allowed the fund to review its finances, as required of all members, since 2006, the same year it paid off its entire debt with the IMF to end what Fernandez's late husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, called the lender's "dictatorship."
Relations grew even more tense after Kirchner replaced senior staff at the Indec statistics institute.
Disputed Data
The shakeup led to widespread questioning of Argentina's inflation and gross domestic product data. While economists estimate that prices jumped 25.6 percent in 2012, Fernandez has stood by Indec's reporting.
Economy Minister Hernan Lorenzino called the IMF censure baseless. In a statement, he accused the fund of exercising a ``double standard'' by trying to make an example of Argentina while ignoring its own failure to detect data mistakes by rich nations that contributed to the global financial crisis.
``Why haven't we seen any IMF sanction against those who enriched themselves while bankrupting the world?,'' Fernandez wrote in a message posted on Twitter hours after the IMF's decision. ``Instead, the first measure it takes is against Argentina.''
Worst Currency
Lorenzino said that Argentina will start using a new CPI index by the fourth quarter of this year once a survey of changing consumer trends is completed.
Between soaring prices and the region's worst performing currency in 2012, bond investors demand the highest return among major emerging markets to own Argentine debt.
The country's notes yield 1,058 basis points more than U.S. Treasuries, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s EMBIG index.
The gap between the official and private inflation rates has enabled the country to save about $6.8 billion since 2007 on debt payments, according to Buenos Aires-based research firm ACM Consultores.
A drop off in growth and investment — the economy expanded an estimated 2.1 percent last year compared with an annual average 6.5 percent since Fernandez took office in 2007 — hasn't moderated the government's stance.
Capital Flight
Since being re-elected in October 2011, Fernandez has tightened currency controls to stem capital flight that intensified after she seized a majority stake in oil company YPF SA last year from Spain's Repsol SA.
She's also challenging a U.S. court order to pay $1.3 billion to defaulted bondholders who didn't partake in restructurings in 2005 and 2010.
The government, in a filing Feb. 1 to the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York, claimed the ruling illegally interferes with its immunity as a sovereign nation and improperly exerts authority over third parties including banks. The court will hear arguments in the case on Feb. 27.
The IMF censure "is a non-event," said Walter Molano, who has been advising investors on Argentina since the 1990s and is head of research for BCP Securities in Greenwich, Connecticut.
"With all the noise Argentina is going through now, with this lawsuit, this is just background noise," Molano said.
If anything, pressure by the IMF may help Fernandez "whip up enthusiasm" for her policies, dovetailing with the government's narrative that foreign investors are trying to "tarnish" the advances taking place in South America's second- biggest economy, said Fishlow.
The IMF in its censure gave Argentina a Sept. 29 deadline to take "remedial measures" to boost the accuracy of its data. If it fails to do so, the fund can apply additional sanctions, such as suspending its voting rights and barring the country from taking loans.
The final step is "compulsory withdrawal." The U.S. Treasury voiced support for the IMF censure.
"Clearly the IMF has altered its stance," Lawrence Goodman, president of the New York-based Center for Financial Stability and a former global head of emerging market strategy at Bank of America Corp., said in a phone interview. "But I'm surprised that the can was kicked as far down the road as September."
© Copyright 2018 Bloomberg News. All rights reserved.
Newsmax Comment Policy
Keep discussions on topic, avoid personal attacks and threats of any kind. Links will not be permitted.
Newsmax, Moneynews, Newsmax Health, and Independent. American. are registered trademarks of Newsmax Media, Inc. Newsmax TV, and Newsmax World are trademarks of Newsmax Media, Inc.


text:
Degree Program Plan Samples
SUNY Empire State College students work closely with their mentors to design their own degree programs.
See the Student Degree Planning Guide for detailed information about the degree planning process.
Interdisciplinary Studies
These sample degree program plans illustrate the degree program format and provide examples of some different types of individualized degree programs.


text:
Up to [cvs.NetBSD.org] / src / sys / netinet
Request diff between arbitrary revisions
Default branch: MAIN
Current tag: jmcneill-usbmp-base
Revision 1.112 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun Jul 17 20:54:53 2011 UTC (7 years, 3 months ago) by joerg
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: yamt-pagecache-base3, yamt-pagecache-base2, yamt-pagecache-base, jmcneill-usbmp-pre-base2, jmcneill-usbmp-base, jmcneill-audiomp3-base, jmcneill-audiomp3
Branch point for: yamt-pagecache, jmcneill-usbmp
Changes since 1.111: +2 -4 lines
Diff to previous 1.111 (colored)
Retire varargs.h support. Move machine/stdarg.h logic into MI sys/stdarg.h and expect compiler to provide proper builtins, defaulting to the GCC interface. lint still has a special fallback. Reduce abuse of _BSD_VA_LIST_ by defining __va_list by default and derive va_list as required by standards.
This form allows you to request diff's between any two revisions of a file. You may select a symbolic revision name using the selection box or you may type in a numeric name using the type-in text box.


text:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman accused of torturing and starving her teenage stepdaughter pleaded no contest to child abuse-related charges Monday just before her trial was set to begin.
The 43-year-old woman entered the plea to first-degree recklessly endangering safety and causing mental harm to a child. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing purposes.
Both charges are felonies that carry a combined maximum penalty of 25 years in prison and $50,000 in fines.
Prosecutors agreed to drop four other felony counts in exchange, including false imprisonment, child neglect, child abuse and failing to prevent the sexual assault of child.
The Associated Press isn't naming anyone in the family to avoid identifying the girl.
The stepmother would have faced up to 55½ years in prison and $105,000 in fines if she had been convicted of all six charges. The deal allows Dane County Circuit Judge Julie Genovese to weigh the allegations in the dismissed counts during the woman's sentencing.
The judge didn't set a sentencing date, saying she needed to consult her schedule and her regular clerk was out. The woman remains free on bond.
Genovese had scheduled a two-week trial to begin early Monday morning with jury selection. Before prospective jurors were allowed into the courtroom District Attorney Ismael Ozanne announced he had offered the woman's attorney, Thomas McClure, a deal.
The judge gave the attorneys time to confer outside the courtroom. When they returned McClure told the judge the woman had decided to agree to the plea deal. She broke down in tears and could barely choke out "yes" when Genovese asked her if she understood what was happening.
McClure told reporters later he believes the girl, now 16, made up most of her allegations. But he said his client was convinced she wouldn't get a fair trial because of what he called negative publicity about the case. He added the woman suffers from diabetes and the stress of the case has been hard on her.
"I don't disagree with her choice," he said. "The time has come to move on."
The girl told investigators she spent most of five years confined in the basement of her family's Madison home, where she said she was beaten, sexually assaulted and denied food despite begging to be allowed to eat.
She told investigators the abuse started the month she turned 10. She said her stepmother beat her and her stepbrother repeatedly forced her to perform oral sex on him.
The girl left the house on Feb. 6, 2012, barefoot and lightly dressed. A passing motorist found her wandering and called police.
A jury last month found the woman's husband, who is the girl's father, guilty of child neglect but deadlocked on several other charges, including intentional child abuse and false imprisonment. Ozanne told the judge Monday he planned to retry the man.
The girl's stepbrother is set to stand trial in June on two felony sexual assault charges and one child abuse count.
Ozanne declined to comment on the stepmother's plea deal because the father and stepbrother's case are still pending.


text:
Mike Shalin's Working Press: No Gronk, no win in MiamiBy MIKE SHALIN
December 13. 2017 12:10AM
Local fans had their clickers ready to keep an eye on first the Celtics and then the Patriots. Something to look forward to on a Monday night.
The anticipation rather quickly turned to dismay as the Celtics, playing without Kyrie Irving and Marcus Morris, laid an egg in Chicago. The Patriots, without Rob Gronkowski, were pretty much dreadful in Miami.
Obviously, the basketball loss is no big deal. This is December. It means nothing.
But we're here to tell you the Patriots' loss might not mean a whole lot, either.
Yes, your team went 0-for-11 on third down conversions, the first third down shutout since 1991. Jay Cutler helped put an end to an eight-game winning streak. It leaves a bad taste for the rest of the week. But don't forget one thing: This week is about the Steelers on Sunday. Win a win, the Pats would pull into a tie with the Houdini-like Steelers and own the tiebreaker.
You don't think the Pats are going to lose to the Bills or the Jets in the final games, both at home, on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, do you?
Now, while the blame seems to be spread around among Tom Brady, Josh McDaniels, the defense, etc., let's not lose sight that the No. 1 culprit in this game was Gronk. As we said here the other day, he and the Patriots are lucky the suspension wasn't for two games.
No Gronk meant a tougher time for the other receivers, even with Chris Hogan back. That offense without Gronk and Julian Edelman is just not the same and when you factor in Brady's problems at Miami — he's 7-9 there — and the possibility of looking ahead at the Steelers and you get what you saw.
Deflating feeling
Jarvis Landry scored two touchdowns in the game, and made like he was letting the air out of the ball after the second one.
"This song right here, 'Take the air out the ball, just so I can flex…'," Landry said in the locker room as the song "MotorSport" by Migos, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B played. "I am taking the air out of the ball. I am deflating it." ...
Wide receiver Kenny Britt is the latest Rutgers player being brought in by coach Bill Belichick as the Patriots continue to bring players in for this stretch run.
A couple of interesting numbers out of that game: the Pats are now 61-13 in December under Belichick, and the Dolphins are 23-of-24 on third down conversion defense in the last two games.
No show
Brian Scalabrine, asked by Mike Gorman after Monday night's game what he learned from the Celtics' worst game of the season, said, "Kyrie's the MVP of the league."
That's what these eyes took from that game. Remember when Gordon Hayward went down and all the gloom and doom following this team? Now you toss in Irving, and Morris, and there you go.
"It was a collective success for them," Celtics coach Brad Stevens said, "and a collective failure for us."
It was the second half of a back-to-back and now they're looking at making it five games in seven days against Denver tonight and Utah Friday and a game at Memphis Saturday night.
The Morris knee thing is troubling. They need this guy and now have to hope he's only out WEEKS.
Kyrie, talking about the win in Detroit Sunday, was asked what he wanted to do offensively, said, "Make a damn shot. I got in the paint as much as I would have liked and my left hand just wasn't doing it for me tonight."
Odds are …
Vegas has spoken after the season-ending injury to Carson Wentz.
NFL odds: Super Bowl: Patriots 9/4; Steelers 4/1; Vikings 8/1; Eagles 9/1
MVP: Brady 1/5; Russell Wilson 15/2; Drew Brees 20/1; Ben Roethlisberger 20/1.
After the Yankees got Giancarlo Stanton:
Odds to win the World Series: NYY 5/1; HOU, LAD 6/1; CLE 15/2; BOS, WSN, CHC 12/1; STL 18/1; ARZ 22/1
After Wentz became the latest star to go down for the year, former Patriot Chris Long said, "#11 is the man. Pure and simple. He will be missed and we will support our brother!! But I believe in Nick (Foles). Played with him in StL. Also saw him have an historic year in Philly. Everyone's just gotta take it up a notch!!!"
Slow meetings
As this was being written, the Red Sox were quiet on their trip to Florida — and the local fandom was getting antsy. The Yankees followed the Stanton trade by shedding $13 million more by sending Chase Headley back to the Padres.
On Monday, Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said, "It didn't, like, make my day that he went to the Yankees, by any means. He's a heck of a player."
He said he was involved in talks on Stanton but didn't like the "early asks." When the deals with the Giants and Cardinals were turned down by Stanton thanks to his no-trade clause, the Red Sox tried to get back in.
"When I reached out they were in the midst of dealing with the Yankees at that point," Dombrowski said.
Now what? I threw a Facebook post out there asking what you, as a Sox fan, would offer J.D. Martinez. One of the responses was "nothing."
But patience will be a virtue here. Chris Smith of MassLive tweeted Dombrowski saying, "I would anticipate this would be a late winter compared to a lot of years. It wouldn't surprise me if major moves were taking place in January."
Dombrowski on Hanley Ramirez: "I think he's a better player than he played last year from an offensive perspective. So we're looking for him to be better than that."
As of late Tuesday, the media was still looking for Derek Jeter, baseball writer Jon Heyman tweeting: "All time bad optic: Jeter taking in a Dolphins game in Miami on the day Giancarlo trade was announced 250 miles up Florida's turnpike in Orlando. Feels like there should be an in-person explanation for roster-destroying fire sale."
Looking around
From the Boston Globe's Peter Abraham, @peteabe: "In 93 career at-bats against pitchers on the #RedSox roster, Judge and Stanton have 1 home run. Cashman walked right into their trap. … Troubled Browns receiver Josh Gordon scored his first touchdown since 2013. … Saying "The league has never been healthier," NHL president Gary Bettman sees the salary cap going from $75 to between $78 and $82 million next year. … Tip of the cap to Jack Morris and Alan Trammell for the Hall of Fame nod and their numbers — 47 and 3 — will be retired by the Tigers next season. … Toronto ace Marcus Stroman, tweeting after the Stanton trade: "Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa. AL East heating up. I like that. Can't wait to face @Giancarlo818 in NY! @BlueJays" and: "March 29th, 2018. 3:37PM. Opening night against the @Yankees in Toronto. I'll be ready to rock on the mound. Who's coming!? @BlueJays" … Rajon Rondo, now with New Orleans, had a triple-double with his fourth team Monday night ... Finally, R.I.P. Perry Wallace, the first black basketball player in the SEC.
Mike Shalin covers Boston pro sports for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Patriots/NFL Red Sox/MLB Celtics/NBA Bruins/NHL Sports columns


text:
Jon Dawson's weekly critique is on 13 Degrees of Reality and Live at The Brooklyn Academy of Music 1971
New album: 13 Degrees of Reality
Artist: The Heliocentrics
Label: Now-Again
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
The Heliocentrics are a British outfit that crafts stunning soundtracks to films that don�t exist. For a band that pulls on everything from Ethiopian jazz to psychedelic rock, it has a consistently cohesive sound.
Pianist Ollie Parfitt�s melodic chord work keeps The Heliocentrics tethered to the ground, while the electronic treatments of Tom Hodges give the songs a futuristic edge.
Since the band�s name is derived from a Sun Ra album, it�s not too much of a stretch to compare the otherworldly jazz leanings of �13 Degrees of Reality� to those of their namesake. Sun Ra probably believed he really was from outer space; The Heliocentrics seem content to just visit.
�Ethnicity� begins with a de-tuned stand-up bass riff straight out of a 1970s slasher movie soundtrack. After a few seconds of creepy sounds, drummer Malcom Catto of DJ Shadow fame lays into the song with a groove as funky as it is wide. �Ethnicity� lurches along while sounds of a mad scientist�s lab plop in and out of the track as if they were party music for the hippest club in Transylvania.
Another highlight � �Mr. Owusu, I Presume?� � sounds like a long lost jam session between David Gilmour and The Meters. Boasting a primal guitar riff from The Delta and trippy electronic flourishes, �Owusu� is the perfect concoction of old school Funkadelic and modern production methods.
�Calabash� and �Black Sky� feature Townshend-esque guitar ripping from Ade Owusu and inventive vibraphone work from Jake Ferguson.
�13 Stages of Reality� is an incredibly interesting and entertaining work. For more information on The Heliocentrics, visit nowagainrecords.com.
Classic album: Live at The Brooklyn Academy of Music 1971
Artist: The Band
Label: Capital/EMI
Rating: 5 stars out of 5
Taken from tapes that were originally edited down to the double �Rock of Ages� live album in 1972, �Live at The Brooklyn Academy of Music 1971� is now available as a 4-CD/1-DVD box set.
The initial complaint some will have with this new collection is that it�s too much of a good thing, which is sometimes a reliable clich�, but in this case is horribly incorrect.
With guitarist Robbie Robertson and keyboardist Garth Hudson being the only surviving members of The Band, any chance to hear this tragically gifted band at their peak is a blessing.
The Band�s live album/movie �The Last Waltz� is a classic rock staple, and for good reason � it�s great. Conversely, �Live at The Brooklyn Academy...� is equally vital because this is the band without a parking lot full of guest stars. If anyone is in the market for a perfect document of The Band on their own, this collection fits the bill.
Lots of The Band�s classic songs are here (�Up On Cripple Creek,� �The Weight, �The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,� �Chest Fever,� �King Harvest�). But even lesser known songs such as �Rockin� Chair� and �The Rumor� are nearly as transcendent. Robertson�s guitar work hits right in the gut, while Hudson�s keyboard work teeters between bizarre and genius.
The otherworldly vocal work of drummer Levon Helm, keyboardist Richard Emanuel and bassist Rick Danko is simply unsurpassed in rock, Americana or whatever they�re calling it this week.
Aside from unobtrusive assistance by Allen Toussaint�s horn section on a few tracks, the big guest at the New Year�s Eve portion of the show was Bob Dylan. Since The Band had been Dylan�s band several years before, the pairing made sense.
Duets of �When I Paint My Masterpiece� and �Don�t Ya Tell Henry� bring the proceedings to an end with a sense of play and finesse.
If your wallet can stand the dent, �Live at The Brooklyn Academy of Music 1971�' is a worthy addition to any music collection.
Jon Dawson�s album reviews appear every Thursday in The Free Press. Contact Jon at 252-559-1092 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Case dropped against SC woman jailed over video
February 21, 2014
PICKENS, S.C. (AP) — The owner of a now-closed video store in South Carolina has decided to drop charges against a woman accused of failing to return a movie nearly a decade ago.
Pickens County sheriff's deputies said the owner decided to not pursue the charge because of the media attention that 27-year-old Kayla Michelle Finley's arrest received.
Finley rented the movie "Monster-in-Law" from Dalton Videos in 2005. The owner took out a warrant against Finley, and she was arrested last week when she was at the sheriff's office for something else and the warrant was found. Finley spent the night in jail before she was released.
Working phone numbers for Finley and the defunct store's owner could not be found.


text:
Value Line is regarded as the best independent research available. More than just recommendations, Value Line provides the rationale behind its picks for greater understanding.
Mathematically speaking, free cash flow is net income plus depreciation minus the total of dividends, capital expenditures, required debt repayments, and any other scheduled cash outlays. It's basically a measure of how much hard cash a company generated in a given period after paying for its regular business expenses and growth initiatives. It is a good gauge of how well management is performing for its shareholders.
Some investors prefer free cash flow over earnings, in fact, because they believe that earnings, which are largely an accounting figure, can be manipulated more easily than hard cash. Also, in some cases, earnings get distorted unintentionally by accounting principles. Depreciation is an excellent example of the latter situation, as depreciation inherently represents money that has already been spent and has little to no impact on a company's cash flow, but often has a major impact on earnings.
Of course, free cash flow isn't the only metric one should consider when evaluating an investment opportunity, but it can quickly weed out companies that simply don't measure up. To help investors find companies that have a solid history of generating healthy amounts of free cash flow, Value Line produces a weekly screen that appears in the Index section of every issue of The Value Line Investment Survey that highlights this metric.
Labeled "Biggest 'Free Flow' Cash Generators", the screen lists the top 100 companies of the 1,700 The Value Line Investment Survey follows based on free cash flow generation over a trailing five-year period. The long time frame is used to ensure that companies with solid histories of creating cash flow are brought to the fore, weeding out companies that have temporary boosts to their cash flow generation because of short-term or one-time events.
A recent review of the screen brought out a few noteworthy companies, including Synaptics, Inc. (SYNA) and Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK)
Synaptics, Inc.
Synaptics is a leading developer and supplier of custom-designed human interface solutions that enable people to interact with a wide variety of mobile computing, communications, entertainment, and other electronic devices. The company's PC application unit (50% of revenues) dominates the notebook PC touchpad market with a near 70% market share. Thus, its performance generally mirrors that of the broader laptop market. The Digital Lifestyle unit provides touchscreen controllers to most major tablet and smartphone OEMs including Huawei, Nokia (NOK), LG, ZTE, Sony Mobile (SNE) and Samsung.
Synaptics reported in-line results for the March quarter as PC revenue was better than expected, but the opposite was true for the Mobile unit. Rapid share growth at manufacturers of lower-cost Chinese smartphones appears to be hurting the average selling price. We think fewer sales to Nokia is also to blame. We expect these trends to continue in the June period. Difficult compares in that quarter are also a cause for concern.
Meanwhile, SYNA boasts the first implementation of in-cell technology for a smartphone with the Sony Xperia P. In-cell technology eliminates the discrete touch sensor by integrating the touch element within the LCD display itself, resulting in thinner smartphones with improved display and lower power consumption. We believe Synaptics has a strong lead versus competitors in getting these products to market. Apple (AAPL) is rumored to be including in-cell in the upcoming iPhone 5. This would be significant for Synaptics as it would essentially make in-cell the industry standard. However, it will likely take some time to ramp up, since it involves changing how phones are designed and constructed, as well as the overall level of collaboration with LCD makers. A recent design win in the critically acclaimed HTC One X and a rumored deal for the Amazon (AMZN) Kindle Fire is also encouraging for SYNA's future market share growth. Overall, we expect the smartphone market to continue growing at a 30% pace in the year ahead.
On the PC side, Synaptics should see some benefit from new notebooks using Microsoft's (MSFT – Free Microsoft Stock Report) Windows 8 operating system. And, Intel's (INTC – Free Intel Stock Report) big push into Ultrabooks or very thin laptops should also spur gains.
Despite near-term headwinds in the mobile space, we think Synaptics is generally well positioned for strong free cash flow generation over the long-term. The complexity of designing custom solutions makes us doubt the theory that touch controllers will become commoditized. Also, SYNA's lead with in-cell technology reinforces our positive long-term outlook.
Autodesk, Inc.
Autodesk is a leading design software and services company. Its software enables customers to experience their ideas before they are real by allowing them to create and document their designs and to visualize, simulate, and analyze real-world performance early in the design process by creating digital prototypes. This allows customers to optimize and improve designs, save time and money, improve quality, and foster innovation. The four reportable operating segments and their contribution to fiscal 2011 revenues were as follows: Platform Solutions and Emerging Business (37% of 2011 revenue), Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (29%), Manufacturing (24%), and Media and Entertainment (10%).
A large part of Autodesk's investment case is in its Suite strategy. Customers have been taking advantage of the synergies gained by purchasing a basket of products that are typically sold at lower prices compared to stand-alone products. The Suites have higher maintenance costs which ought to support long-term cash flow. Still, it seems as though Autodesk is becoming more promotional on Suites, which may hurt near term profitability somewhat.
The company has a long track record of making small bolt-on acquisitions. With ample cash reserves, we think this will be a continued source of cash flow growth for the foreseeable future.
Customer demand for Autodesk's products appears to be holding up nicely, even in Europe where visibility is currently very low. Too, the company has exposure to the economically sensitive commercial construction and manufacturing markets, but demand from these sectors has remained healthy. We think the company has been able to gain market share of late even though competition remains intense. Overall, we think these shares will continue generating ample free cash flow over the coming three to five year period.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


text:
CARLINVILLE, Ill. – Greenville ace David Massengill dealt a four-hit, eight K shutout Friday afternoon to propel the Panthers to a 3-0 win over conference rival Blackburn College in the first match of a three-game set.
Massengill dished out a season high eight strikeouts while walking only one batter in the 31 he faced. The senior was relieved in the ninth by junior hurler Scotty Voyles who retired all three of his opponents to earn the save.
Massengill also contributed offensively, batting 1-for-4 with an RBI to help his cause on the mound. Freshman first baseman Ryan Smith also turned in an impressive 2-for-4 performance at the plate with two RBI coming on his team and SLIAC leading fourth homerun.
GC baseball now returns home to Robert E. Smith Field and will host Blackburn in Saturday's double header and conclude the three-game SLIAC set.


text:
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a convicted felon with murder in the disappearance and slaying of a federal criminal investigator in Northern California.
The Alameda County District Attorney's Office filed the charges against 56-year-old Randy Alana on Friday. Alana is accused of killing Sandra Coke and stealing her car and account information in August.
He is scheduled to be arraigned at 2 p.m.
Police have said the 50-year-old Coke and Alana dated briefly about 20 years ago. Coke was an investigator with the Sacramento branch of the Federal Public Defender's Office.
She vanished after leaving her Oakland home Aug. 4. Her body was found five days later.
Alana has denied harming Coke, and said the two planned to marry.
Alana has several prior convictions, including for robbery and involuntary manslaughter.


text:
About the Author:
As an original member of Jersey Boys' creative team, production supervisor Richard Hester has seen the show about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons go from dubious theatrical venture to international hit. Charged with keeping all productions of the Tony-winning musical running smoothly, Hester arranges the casting of new actors, scheduling rehearsals and launches international versions of the show. Below, Hester gives Broadway.com the inside story on the naysayers of the show while it was in development (he was one of them) and how he taught Frankie Vallis all over the world to "walk like a man."
When I was first approached to production stage manage the world premiere of Jersey Boys, my response was less than favorable. At the time when Jersey Boys was in development, a whole slew of so-called jukebox musicals had opened in New York and they were all terrible and had gone away very quickly. This just seemed like another one. At the time, there was no script and I dimly remembered some of the songs of the Four Seasons. However, I was told that Des McAnuff was directing it and he was someone I had always wanted to work with. The production was also to be mounted at the La Jolla Playhouse in California. The only reason I took Jersey Boys was because it was basically going to be a three-month vacation by the beach.
The first day of rehearsal, we were all given the script, which we had never seen. I think they finished Xeroxing it about 10 minutes before the read through started. From the second we began, we knew the show was special. Before that, anyone who claims to have thought it was a good idea is lying. Des, writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli all had a vision of what the show was going to be; none of the rest of us did. After that first read through, we lived, breathed and ate Jersey Boys and never faltered in believing in the show.
After Jersey Boys won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2006 and was a success on Broadway, mounting a national tour posed questions. Once you've seen the original cast do a show, it becomes very difficult to imagine anybody else playing those parts. While we were launching the tour with a new cast, we all were a little concerned that we wouldn't be able to replicate what we had on Broadway. We also had to make modifications to the set to allow it to be moved easily to different venues, and questioned if that would work. As we worked on the tour, we realized how strong of a show it really was. Having now done Jersey Boys all over the world, it really does reach everybody. What's fantastic is when you're sitting in the audience at Jersey Boys, you're going to have the same experience whether you're watching the show in Johannesburg, Boise, New York, or Las Vegas. The music is just so powerful.
Being involved with this show has been an embarrassment of riches. We've played in some of the most amazing venues all over the world from Syndey, to Las Vegas, to Singapore. One time when I was in London working on the show, it was 8 o'clock at night and I was walking across Waterloo Bridge over the Thames River. It was a perfect night—St. Paul's Cathedral was lit up on one side of me and the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye were on the other. As I was walking across the bridge, Frankie Valli called me. He had just seen one of the Frankie's performing in another production and he had an issue with the way that the actor was singing "Moody's Mood For Love." Frankie sang me "Moody's Mood" the way this actor was singing it, and then he sang me the entire song the way it should be sung. There I am walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, looking at this incredible view on this perfect night and Frankie Valli is singing to me on the phone. All I could think of was how on earth did my life turn out to be like this!
See Jersey Boys rock Indianapolis' Murat Theatre at Old National Centre through January 20.


text:
The Delaware State Police are out in full force patrolling the roadways this weekend to ensure everyone is driving with due care and offering assistance to motorists in need
The Delaware State Police are out in full force patrolling the roadways this weekend to ensure everyone is driving with due care and offering assistance to motorists in need. The Delaware State Police Mounted Patrol Unit will also be assisting the Dewey Beach Police Department with proactive patrols, and the Delaware State Police Maritime Unit's "Marine One" will be operating on Delaware's waterways to ensure boater safety and security.
Troopers intend to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries on our highways during this "official" start of the summer season. Troopers will be focusing on distracted driving, motorists not wearing seat belts, unrestrained children in vehicles, and any aggressive driving behaviors such as speeding, following too close, and especially, driving under the influence.
By following these easy steps, a driver can enjoy a safe holiday weekend travel without jeopardizing their life or the lives of others who may be on the road:
Ensure all occupants are properly restrained
Plan a safe way home before the festivities begin
Before drinking, please designate a sober driver and give that person your keys
If you're impaired, use a taxi, call a sober friend or family member, or use public transportation so you are sure to get home safely
If you see a drunk or aggressive driver on the road, immediately contact 911 as soon as safely possible.
If you know someone who is about to drive while impaired, take their keys and help them make other arrangements to get to where they are going safely.


text:
Handling Specialty custom engineered and manufactured six (6) pit mounted four post assembly stations for a major airplane engine manufacturer. The customer required that the lifts could not be visible above floor level at any time and had to provide smooth, synchronized, level lifting through the entire range of travel to prevent jarring of the engine.
The lift platform was designed to interface with the client's 36" high fixture plate. The height of the plate permits the lift platform to remain always below floor level and yet allows the engine to be lifted up to 36" above the floor. The plate also plays an important role in receiving and positioning the load on the lift.
The design had to provide both precise positioning of the lift at floor level and secure load holding at any position. To meet these objectives, ball screw actuation was selected to work in conjunction with guides on the lifting columns. The lift also features a minimal deflection rate since only a 1/8" gap was permitted between the lift and the surrounding floor.


text:
We hope it's a beautiful summer wherever you are. We have just celebrated the 4th of July so I thought I'd share a patriotic quilt today. This patten would also be lovely in another color scheme.
You can download the pattern here.
Happy quilting,
Oda May
Pre-cut Guru at Moda Fabrics/United Notions
The Moda Bake Shop is a division of Moda Fabrics that provides online recipes which you can use with the wide range of Moda Pre-cuts. All sizes and types of projects will be featured from various designers and shops. Tutorials for various Moda projects sheets will be illustrated with step by step pictures. Some techniques and products will also be featured throughout, so check back often for what is "baking" here at Moda Fabrics.
Latest posts by Oda May (see all)
- Building Blocks: 4-Patches - September 26, 2018
- National Sew a Jelly Roll Day - September 15, 2018
- How to Make: Continuous Bias Binding - September 2, 2018


text:
As Mayor Gray highlighted the importance of continuing to improve public education here in the nation's capital in his State of the District address, my thoughts turned to recent controversies surrounding our public schools.
First came proposals from D.C.'s Board of Education to increase the graduation requirements for high school students enrolled in public school. Then, a news story about how student suspensions and expulsions are handled by the city's chartered public schools, which are funded with local taxpayer dollars but are not part of the school system, and the traditional system, D.C. Public Schools.
Behind both there is a mistaken assumption: there is one solution that should be applied to all students. Acknowledging that students learn in different ways means that we have to think much harder about how we serve our students. If we fail to recognize this truth we will continue to fail our children—especially those who are least advantaged.
High-school graduation requirements are at the heart of how we prepare our students for jobs and careers. In the recent past, about half of D.C. public school students dropped out. Today, some 80 percent of District public charter high school students graduate within four years; 56 percent of those at DCPS high schools do.
Given the importance of obtaining a high school diploma, the D.C. State Board of Education's new proposed graduation requirements may hurt students who need the most help. Under the proposal, students will be forced to take additional P.E. and performing arts classes. These requirements divert resources that could be used [to] help those who have fallen behind.
Instead of more requirements,…the board should look at ways it can give charters more control. One way is to move away from the so-called Carnegie Unit, where students are required to meet a number of seat hours on coursework, to a standards-based system, which is based on students meeting competency levels. This allows students who have fallen behind to catch up and students who are advanced to continue to grow.
Like graduation requirements, student behavioral issues are not a problem that can be solved with a uniform approach. Charter schools are established to fulfill a mission. School culture, the vehicle to achieve that goal, is implemented with standards of behavior and accountability.
One solution that is being used in other states to spur academic success is blended learning programs, technology-based systems that combine traditional classroom methods with computer-run activities. Computer-based work gives teachers constant feedback on student performance. The data can be used to structure lessons that challenge students and allow them to advance at their own pace.
The city also needs to address problems such as gangs, guns, drugs and sex abuse of children. There is no city-wide plan and practice for ameliorating poverty and its pernicious effects.
Our public schools need to learn from the city's best practices in terms of graduating students, college and career preparation.
Dr. Ramona Edelin is the executive director of the D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools.


text:
The Ravens were back at work Thursday at the Under Armour Performance Center, continuing their X-and-O preparation for Sunday's playoff opener against the Indianapolis Colts. It'll be interesting to see just how focused they are when they take the field after Ray Lewis delivers his motivational speech and does what likely will be his final pre-game dance at M&T Bank Stadium.
I'm guessing that's why John Harbaugh had little time or patience for all the peripheral issues at play when he met with the media before Lewis made his surprising – and interestingly timed – retirement announcement. You can draw your own conclusions as to why neither Harbaugh nor owner Steve Bisciotti has yet made any public comment on the subject.
Everywhere but on the field, it's going to be all Ray all the time around here for the next three days, but the Ravens must find a way to put all the retirement hype aside and find a way to just think about perfecting their offensive execution and finding a way to harrass Colts rookie Andrew Luck.
It won't be easy, since the network types will be inflating the Lewis storyline on the Ravens side and Chuck Pagano's inspirational comeback with the Colts. Throw in the fact that former Colts coach Jim Caldwell will be calling plays against his old team, and you've got a perfect storm of human interest subplots.
There is an upside to all this. It's just possible that we might be able to get through an entire CBS pregame show without having to watch that grainy footage of the Mayflower moving vans pulling away from the old Owings Mills training facility.
So we've got that going for us, which is nice.


text:
- Ph.D., West Virginia University, 1976
Teaching Philosophy
Students should understand current paradigms in biology, know the historical roots of those paradigms, and recognize their potential impact. Because experimentation and publication in the primary literature are the origins of paradigm shifts, both inside and outside of the traditional classroom, students should participate in research. Fundamentally, all students should know what scientists do, why they do it, how they do it, and how scientists serve society. It is the job of the science educator to forge the programs and foster the cultures required to achieve those goals.
Research Interests
Dr. Tallman is a plant molecular cell biologist. He studies the signal transduction mechanisms underlying plant thermotolerance and stomatal movements.
Advised Student Research
- The effect of high temperature on auxin promoter activation during the development of thermotolerance and thermoinhibition in Nicotiana glauca (yellow tree tobacco) guard cell protoplasts. By Malia A. Dong
- The effect of cytochrome p-450 mono-oxygenase inhibitors on stomatal opening induced by reduced CO2 concentrations under red light in Vicia faba L. leaf epidermis. By Andrea L. Coutner
- Involvement of photosystems I and II in the CO2 response of stomata during opening under red light in Vicia faba L. By Kathy Falkenhagen
* Indicates student co-author.
- *Dong, M.A., *J.L. Bufford, Y. Oono, *K. Church, *M.Q. Dau, *M. Haughton, *K. Michels, and G. Tallman 2007. Heat suppresses activation of an auxin-responsive promoter in cultured guard cell protoplasts of tree tobacco. Plant Physiology 145: 367-377.
- Tallman, G. 2005. Guard cell protoplasts: Isolation, culture, and regeneration of plants. In F. Vázquez-Flota and V.M. Loyola-Vargas, eds., Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 318, Plant Cell Culture Protocols, 2nd ed. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, USA, pp. 233-252.
- Tallman, G. 2004. Are diurnal patterns of stomatal movement the result of alternating metabolism of endogenous guard cell ABA and accumulation of ABA delivered to the apoplast around guard cells by transpiration? Journal of Experimental Botany 55: 1963-1976.
- *Gushwa, N., *D. Hayashi, D., A. Kemper, B. Abram, J.E. Taylor, *J. Upton, C.F. Tay, *S. Fiedler, * S. Pullen, *L. Miller and G. Tallman 2003. Thermotolerant guard cell protoplasts of Nicotiana glauca (Graham), tree tobacco, do not require exogenous hormones to survive in culture and are blocked from re-entering the cell cycle at the G1/S transition. Plant Physiology 132: 1925-1940.
- *Olsen, R.L., *R.B. Pratt, *P. Gump, A. Kemper, and G. Tallman 2002. Red light activates a chloroplast-dependent ion uptake mechanism for stomatal opening under reduced CO2concentrations in Vicia spp. New Phytologist 153: 497-508.
- Kwak, J.M., Y. Murata, V.M. Baizabal-Aguirre, J. Merrill, M. Wang, A. Kemper, S.D. Hawke, G. Tallman, and J.I. Schroeder 2001. Dominant negative guard cell K+ mutants reduce inward-rectifying K+ currents and light-induced stomatal opening in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 127: 473-485.
- *Merritt, F., A. Kemper, and G. Tallman 2001. Inhibitors of ethylene synthesis inhibit auxin-induced stomatal opening in epidermis detached from leaves of Vicia faba L. Plant and Cell Physiology 42(2): 223-230.
- Allen, G.J., S.P. Chu, K. Schumacher, C.T. Shimazaki, D. Vafeados, A. Kemper, S.D. Hawke, G. Tallman, R.Y. Tsien, J.F. Harper, J. Chory, and J.I. Schroeder 2000. Alteration of stimulus-specific guard cell calcium oscillations and stomatal closing in Arabidopsis det3 mutant. Science 289: 2338-2342.
- Boorse, G. and G. Tallman 1999. Guard cell protoplasts: Isolation, culture, and regeneration of plants. In R.D. Hall, ed., Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 111, Plant Cell Culture Protocols. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, USA, pp. 243-257.
- Taylor, J.E., B. Abram, G. Boorse, and G. Tallman 1998. Approaches to evaluating the extent to which guard cell protoplasts of Nicotiana glauca (tree tobacco) retain their characteristics when cultured under conditions that affect their survival, growth, and differentiation. Journal of Experimental Botany 49 (Special Issue): 377-386.
- Tallman, G., J. Zhu, B.T. Mawson, G. Amodeo, *Z. Nouhi, *K. Levy, and E. Zeiger 1997. Induction of CAM in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum abolishes the stomatal response to blue light and light-dependent zeaxanthin formation in guard cell chloroplasts. Plant and Cell Physiology 38(3): 236-242.


text:
#RSL Tweets of the Day (@RealSaltLake)
AUDIO from Earlier, #RSL GM Garth Lagerwey w/ @espn700bill & @espn700hans talking preseason :: http://espn.kall700sports.com/garth-lagerwey-rsl-gm-2-12-14/ …
Video: Get on the field with #RSL's @javi_mo11, @al_saborio, @TiaN_Futbol, @bommadog and Cole Grossman //www.realsaltlake.com/video/2014/02/11/field-real-salt-lake …
Lagerwey says on @ESPN700 RSL is looking at eight or nine guys that played in MLS Cup on Dec. 7 that should be available vs. LA on March 8.
Luke Mulholland @LukeMulholland8
First and hopefully last trip to the hospital this season. #20stitcheslater http://instagram.com/p/kVVMlgmEpF/
#RSL Open House Sat 1-4p at #RioT / @espn700 #OnFrame 12-2p LIVE w/ @OriginalWinger & @jeffcassar @natborchers ... http://bit.ly/LVmoY1
ESPN 700: Garth Lagerwey on The Bill & Hans Show
MLSsoccer.com: Real Salt Lake, Portland Timbers players train while wearing GoPro cameras
March to the Match: Test Of The West
Real Salt Lake News & Notes
RealSaltLake.com: Real Salt Lake announces 2014 ticketing opportunities
For the Fans, By the Fans
RSL Perspective: Nielsen sheds some light on MLS and sports in general
RSL Soapbox: 2013 Player Profiles recap: Veterans top the list
Real Nation: Season Preview: Portland Timbers
MLS, Other News & Notes
MLssoccer.com: Kick Off: World Cup veteran Hendry Thomas moves from Colorado Rapids to FC Dallas
MLSsoccer.com: MLS Preseason Tracker: Quebec native Patrice Bernier named Montreal Impact captain (February 13)
MLSsoccer.com: Continuity pays off for New York Red Bulls in preseason win: "It's a much better way to do things"
MLSsoccer.com: Powers? Jose Mari? Sturgis? Colorado Rapids mull replacements for midfield "bulldog" Hendry Thomas
MLSsoccer.com: Vincent Nogueira pulls the attacking strings ahead of Maurice Edu in Philadelphia Union debut
MLSsoccer.com: Chicago Fire's Benji Joya credits US U-20 coach Tab Ramos for teaching him crucial soccer lesson
MLSsoccer.com: Shake it up: Seattle Sounders midfielder Brad Evans optimistic roster overhaul will improve team in 2014
MLSsoccer.com: Draft pick Thomas McNamara hopes to make impact in problem position for Chivas USA
MLSsoccer.com: What, me worry? Seattle Sounders not troubled by Clint Dempsey's struggles at Fulham
MLSsoccer.com: After ups and downs in 2013, Claudio Bieler "happy to be back" for second season with Sporting KC
MLSsoccer.com: Under pressure? Raised expectations welcomed in rebuilt Toronto FC locker room
MLSsoccer.com: Colorado Rapids deal Hendry Thomas to FC Dallas in exchange for allocation money
MLSsoccer.com: World Cup: Toronto FC's Bright Dike hoping for "breakout year," wants to go to Brazil with Nigeria
MLSsoccer.com: American Exports: Stuart Holden to rejoin full training at Bolton, could play in reserve games next month
ESPN FC: Figuring out the curious case of Eddie Johnson
ESPN FC: Diego Forlan wouldn't rule out MLS
Fox Soccer: Colorado, FC Dallas benefit from Hendry Thomas' move to Frisco
Pro Soccer Talk: Clint Dempsey's failed loan won't affect his chances of success in Seattle, Brazil


text:
Chief of Naval Research updated on science, technology programs
The chief of Naval Research and director, Innovation, Technology Requirements, and Test and Evaluation, visited the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) Jan. 29.
Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder was at the command to learn and receive updates about the range of science and technology programs that are taking place at SSC Pacific.
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs), biofuel, machine learning, and control of unmanned systems using widgets were some of the topics covered during Klunder's visit.
MFCs harvest energy from the marine environment by capturing electrons transferred from bacteria in anaerobic sediment. Many bacteria can convert chemical energy to electrical energy; they do this by oxidizing diverse organic substrates, transferring electrons to anodic electrodes which then generate electricity in the MFCs.
SSC Pacific's MFC team has focused their work on field functionality: increasing power production, deploying without assistance, building low power electronic sensor packages, developing of small unmanned underwater vehicles powered by MFCs, and determining if MFCs can succeed in specific areas of strategic interest to the Navy.
Klunder was familiar with the MFC project and encouraged the team to continue moving forward with their efforts.
Another presentation of interest to Klunder was the environmental fate and effects of new generation biofuels.
The Navy is committed to demonstrating a "Green Strike Group" composed of aircraft and ships powered by biofuels in 2016.
The Navy must select biofuels that are environmentally relevant to air emissions and that comply with regulations for water quality associated with fuel storage, spills and transport.
SSC Pacific has chemistry, bioassay, and modeling capabilities to generate the required environmental data for candidate biofuels, and is positioned to add a critical element to the Navy's alternative fuel certification program.
Cross collaborative projects were highlighted during Klunder's visit. The cross competency teams of within the Command and Control, Communications and Networks, Information Assurance, and Research and Applied Sciences departments developed a project that incorporates unmanned systems, widgets, and the Cloud.
The focus of this project is to develop technology that would demonstrate the ability to tactically control unmanned systems using a web browser from the ozone widget framework by breaking up large unmanned vehicle control applications into smaller components displayed by widgets. Conceptually, an operator, located anywhere in the world, can access and control the unmanned system from the widgets.
The movements and views of the unmanned system are captured and stored within the Cloud, to be retrieved and visualized by local and remote operators. Having the imagery stored within the Cloud allows personnel to access the data from unmanned systems easily.
Klunder said he was pleased with the group's results, and supportive of the next program highlighted during his visit, which focused on machine learning in deception detection, information extraction, and multi-modal detection.
A science, mathematics and research for transformation (SMART) scholar pursuing his doctoral degree in computer science briefed the admiral on this focus area.
Recognizing the Center as a sponsoring facility for the SMART program, Klunder especially appreciated the collaboration that takes place with academia at SSC Pacific, noting that several of the projects that he saw during his visit had ties to local colleges and universities.
Other sites that Klunder viewed included SSC Pacific's Atmospheric Propagation Lab, Unmanned Systems Facility, Cryogenic Lab, and Photonics Lab.


text:
Barrel: 2 17/32" or 2.53
Handle: 15/16" or .96
Large barrel with a medium handle. This bat is one of the most popular bats we make for pro players.
Dinger buys only the highest grades of wood available on the market and strives to provide the best product to our customers through our S3 Assurance.
Pro Series: Hand selected out of every pallet of #1 grade stock that meets all professional specs including slope of grain specifications.
M-Series: Our premium selection that is taken from all the stock and is graded as the best of the best.


text:
1. How yummy does this tart look? I love sour cream! 2. I swoon for beautiful bookshops 3. Such a gorgeous photoshoot 4. A really good read on taking your own outfit photos. So many great hints and tips 5. Ulyana Sergeenko's most recent collection is just as stunning as I'd hoped. 6. I know you're a font snob too! Download some gorgeous ones here for free.
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Lazy Sunday Links
Labels: lazy sunday, links
5 comments:
- Intrinsically Florrie said...
I hadn't come across Ulyana Sergeenko's work before this new collection, but oh I am in love- it's so stunning!
Florrie x
- 11 March 2012 at 11:59
- Teacup Kitty said...
I want to go to all of those bookshops now x
- 11 March 2012 at 12:22
- LUCYBOOTS said...
i love that font site! definitely a font snob right here!
- 11 March 2012 at 12:55
- Winnie said...
That book shop is icredible! I would spend all day there if I could...
- 11 March 2012 at 13:13
- Sherin said...
The bookshop pictures are amazing!!!
- 12 March 2012 at 09:37
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
The Pittsburgh Whiskey and Fine Spirits Festival - 11/13/09
The Pittsburgh Whiskey and Fine Spirits Festival was one entertaining happy hour of drink tasting and enlightenment on spirit appreciation. More than 1,000 guests spent the night sampling scotch — including Johnie Walker Black, Green, Gold, and Blue — single-malt, bourbon, whiskey, gin, vodka, tequila, and rum from around the world, along with specialty cocktails. Attendees learned about analyzing aroma, consistency, color, taste, and finish on each drink from some knowledgeable spirit specialists, such as "master mixologist" Bobby "G" Gleason and whiskey professors Bernie Lubbers, Steve Cole, and David Mays. The event, which was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, benefited the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Photography by Rachel StadelmeierRead More
25 / 29


text:
Watch the 'Vampire Diaries,' Season Three Blooper Reel!
In the brand-new, hilarious season three of TVD blooper reel, fans see Ian Somerhalder forgetting his lines (you mean he's not absolutely, wonderfully perfect?!), Claire Holt eat a dirty, grassy marshmallow from the ground, Nina Dobrev getting sexy in the kitchen, a very shirtless Michael Trevino and more! So whether you're a Vampire Diaries fan or just love to laugh, you have to check out the video above.


text:
|"Pure fun, pure intrigue.
The action never stops till a fascinating climax."
Clive Cussler
|"You like golf, you like murder mysteries - -
then Sudden Death is your book!"
James Patterson
|"Listen up, sports and mystery fans! Buy Michael Balkind's Dead
Ball right now. Remember "Bo Knows Sports"? They should
update it to "Balkind knows sports (and mysteries too)."
John Lescroart
|"DEAD BALL is a refreshing new thriller, blending murder,
mystery, intrigue and suspense. There is something for everyone!"
Jeannine J.R. Reardon
|Novels endorsed by NY Times bestselling authors:
James Patterson, Clive Cussler, John Feinstein
Wendy Corsi Staub, Tim Green, John Lescroart, & Andrew Gross
Ages 8-15
|Co-Authored by NBC
Sports / Golf Channel,
& 2104 Winter Olympics
Host, Ryan Burr.


text:
Select the details below that best describe this video. We appreciate your assistance and will use this information to improve our service to you.
Recognize a pornstar in this video? Help make pornstars easier to find on YouPorn by telling us who is in this video.
Help Us: Do these Pornstars appear in this video?
Your pussy is so butiful
I'm a big fan, and I know it's scripted, but I try to forget and enjoy the fantasy. It's just hard to forget it's scripted when EVERY girl say's he's so big. I'm larger, and I think only one girl I've been with said that on our first encounter. Also, when it does come up they tend to say something like it's just right, or I'm glad it's not too big, or if it was any bigger it would hurt. If you're going to make scripted porn, it's the little details that matter. that said... I love his work
Such a kind fucker but I still want to fuck her
all these wannabes on here. get real guys.
Oh Hell Yes! I'd hire her. Lynn is'nt used to have big boobs yet. She can't take a big dick(?), I doent mind. I'l suck on, lick on, and love on all day.
these are scripted the girls on these videos also appear in other porns. such as summer aka Kaycee Brook from amateur allure and several other sites
Her name is Chantelle Skye
Chantele Skye;
im nat alone
guys u have no idea who this guy is..he is the best..smart and he knows his game so well. these girls are not paid..i have been following this guy since 2000, every other similar sites copied his way but none could reach his art of convincing...he was off the scene for a while and now back it seems.
haha this guy is a legend i saw him in another video with a stunning chick sucking his dick it really doesn't seem scripted this guys funny aswell this is how we shoot calenders around here! while the girls sucking his dick haha
"nice rosaline'
hes not even that big
Her real name is Tatum guyer and she is from Longview texas
i like this kind of girls
Seriously... "...it's too big..." cmon Obviously coached with bonus $$ if she says,"it's too big." Get real. I've had bitches like that with my cock...and if anything they adjust their bodies for my girth and depth. Obvious coaching here.... and guys, u gotta know know that if u got a truly big cock. Credit to netvideo for hot chicks. Otherwise, be advised (that is NOT a big cock).
Love her
She is totally Awesome...
What's her name please
Fuck YouPorn for not letting me post my comment. I will go watch your competitor.
Lynn was a wonderful specimen of absolute beauty, I hope that you become much more comfortable with those 6K$$ implants, since they are wonderful to look at. Just wondering guys, when are you going to stuff the back doors of these naughty girls??
2000 dollar implants later and ur still uncomfortable with yourself? LOL
If that's too big, she can't fuck a black cock then...
fuck yes!!!!
I really don t care if it s scripted or not,i just want her name and more movies from this girl! Anywan ?
If this dude aint fake, he is definitely a sociopath
Freaking legendary movie. Youporn should have a wall of fame!
I don't think it's that good, the dude isn't really smooth and doesn't comfort the girl. Backroom casting couch is much better.
obviously scripted --how does he know she's wearing a striped shirt before she even comes through the door?
i love her huge boobs.. wow so nice
Well, a peek at her titties would have been nice...
Why is she fucking with her bra on? :( other than that, very nice
Is there 2nd break?
cakep gan ceweknya
they are scripted he pays them
so hot!!! :P .....her name please??? ;)
every girl says hes to big hes not even that big
are these videos real? or is it scripted
i agree that this dude is a genius. the casting call vids were good, but the girls rarely were into it. these girls get turned on and just like this one, they end up taking the next step. love the ones he does with his female assistant as well. genius.
she has massive breast's would love to suck on them
shes so sexy just blew everywhere
This guy's a fuckin' genius!
am i the 1st?? :D
Amazing. She seemed a little too cool with it too quickly... almost acted.
Honestly, these vids are some of the best on all of YouPorn. I don't care that the guys voice is creepy and could have come out of Scream 4. The girls are hot as hell and the way he makes them slowly take off their jeans and show their lingerie is going to make me cum every time. Too many pornos make girls take off bra and panties too fast
nice jugs
she's late
Some errors occurred, please try again later
Sign up for a free account and make YouPorn yours!
Subscribe to your favorite pornstars, channels, and collections


text:
Bikini Bottom to adjust and tie Diva PAIN DE SUCRE Black Uni Life Pain De Sucre Discount Order ycYIQo
Copy and paste to share this video
Copy and paste to embed this video
In his first response to a searing charge at the Democratic National Convention from Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq, that he "sacrificed nothing" for his country,
Jogger pants navy 04651/ Cheap Shop For Outlet Locations Cheap Online Popular Cheap Price rGqJxL
claimed that he sacrificed by employing "thousands and thousands of people." Also, he suggested that Khan's wife, Ghazala Khan, didn't speak at the convention because she was forbidden to as a Muslim and questioned whether Khan's words were his own.
"Who wrote that? Did Hillary's scriptwriters write it?" Trump said in an interview with ABC News'
Graphique Militar printed jumpsuit Pink amp; Purple Osklen Free Shipping Nicekicks WoXHG8L7
. "I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard."
On the last night of the
Outlet Fast Delivery DENIM Denim capris Sjyp New 5HH1C7lF
on Thursday, Gold Star father Khizr Khan, with his wife by his side, recounted to the crowd how their son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed in 2004 by a car bomb in .
Khizr Khan chastised Trump for seeking to bar foreign Muslims from entering the country, saying their son would not have been able to serve under a Trump presidency.
"Go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending the United States of America," Khizr Khan said, addressing Trump. "You will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no one."
Trump appeared to try to brush the speech aside, saying that Khizr Khan "was, you know, very emotional and probably looked like a nice guy to me."
Trump also said, "If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably — maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me."
This appears to be Trump tipping his hat to some far-right-wing and nationalist Twitter users who have suggested that Ghazala Khan was silent during her husband's speech because they are Muslim and he prohibits her from speaking.
In an interview with ABC today, Ghazala Khan said she did not speak because she was "in pain."
"Please. I am very upset when I heard when he said that I didn't say anything. I was in pain. If you were in pain, you fight or you don't say anything. I'm not a fighter. I can't fight. So the best thing I do was quiet," she said.
Khizr Khan said he asked his wife of 42 years to speak but she declined, knowing she would be too emotional.
"I invited her, 'Would you like to say something on the stage?' when the invitation came, and she said, 'You know how it is with me, how upset I get,'" he said.
Pressed by Stephanopoulos to identify the sacrifices he made for his country, Trump said, "I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I've had tremendous success. I think I've done a lot."
Trump also cited his work on behalf of veterans, including helping build a
Cupro Skirt Flower of Roatan by VIDA VIDA Cheap Shopping Online 2018 Unisex For Sale Clearance Comfortable Cheap Price Top Quality aKXZZem
memorial in Manhattan and raising "millions of dollars" for vets.
Paul Rieckoff, the founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a nonpartisan group with close to 200,000 members, said, "For anyone to compare their 'sacrifice' to a Gold Star family member is insulting, foolish and ignorant. Especially someone who has never served himself and has no children serving. Our country has been at war for a decade and a half, and the truth is most Americans have sacrificed nothing. Most of them are smart and grounded enough to admit it."
Figure 2. Increased susceptibility of EDA mice to collagen-epinephrine induced pulmonary thromboembolism. Data represent percentage (%) of mortality after the injection of a mixture of collagen and epinephrine through the tail vein. The mortality was twice as high in EDA compared with EDA or EDA mice. n=39 to 42 mice per genotype.
Because the EDA
mice were more sensitive in the pulmonary thromboembolism model, we hypothesized that EDA
FN might be prothrombotic, playing a special role in promoting thrombus growth. We performed in vitro flow chamber studies with whole blood from EDA
, and EDA
mice at venous and arterial shear rates in a parallel plate chamber at 37°C over glass coverslips coated with fibrillar collagen type I (
High Quality For Sale Initial shirt Yellow amp; Orange Our Legacy Best For Sale Genuine Online RfiT8
). To determine the size of thrombi, the surface area covered by the mepacrine-labeled fluorescent platelets was quantified. The mean ±95% confidence intervals of 6 different optical fields in 3 separate experiments is plotted in Fuchsia jumpsuit with palazzo pants Red Valentino Clearance Purchase Free Shipping New Arrival Sale Looking For Where To Buy Cheap Real Discount Newest q9IlDG5s8
B. We found that EDA +/+ blood formed significantly bigger thrombi covering a larger area than EDA −/− or EDA WT/WT samples when perfused over collagen for 1 minute at shear rate of 1500 s −1 (mean±SEM, 15.5±2.4%, 30.5±5.2%, and 18.7±2.7% for EDA WT/WT , EDA +/+ , and EDA −/− , respectively; ANOVA Test, P ≤0.0001, Bonferroni correction EDA WT/WT versus EDA +/+ , P ≤0.001, EDA +/+ versus EDA −/− , P ≤0.01) suggesting a role of EDA + FN in augmenting thrombus growth. However, at venous shear rate of 250 s −1 the percentage surface area covered were similar among EDA WT/WT , EDA +/+ , and EDA −/− mice (mean±SEM, 7.0±0.9%, 9.2±2.6%, and 10.1±2.2% for EDA WT/WT , EDA +/+ , and EDA −/− , respectively; Cheap Choice Cheap 100% Guaranteed Bikini Top Triangle DCup Multicolored Suelly EncenadaLIVIA Livia MonteCarlo Free Shipping Cheap Cheap Sale Countdown Package ogOOntFO
). These studies suggest that the EDA + FN plays a prominent role only at arterial shear rates.
Figure 3. EDA mice form larger thrombi at arterial shear rate in a flow chamber. Whole blood was perfused in a parallel plate chamber coated with type I collagen. A, Representative single-frame images at venous and arterial shear rates. B, Quantification of the surface area covered by platelets after perfusion.
After finding that the EDA + FN promotes thrombus growth in vitro we asked whether the presence of EDA + FN in platelets and plasma would also accelerate thrombosis in vivo. We first evaluated whether EDA containing FN could enhance platelet adhesion at an early time point after ferric chloride-induced endothelial injury. The number of single platelets adhering within 2 to 3 minutes after injury was not significantly different in EDA +/+ mice when compared with EDA WT/WT or EDA −/− mice (EDA WT/WT =328±54, EDA +/+ =299±33, EDA −/− =317±31) suggesting that the EDA + FN does not promote early platelet interaction with the subendothelium.
Mid Wash Front Pocket Denim Pinafore Dress Pretty Little Thing Free Shipping In China ecH6sAMu6
The Forum on Education Abroad is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as the Standards Development Organization for Education Abroad. The Forum on Education Abroad is hosted on Dickinson College's campus.
© 2017 The Forum on Education Abroad | Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013 | Phone: (717) 245-1031 | Fax: (717) 245-1677 |
SHIRTS Shirts Valentino Free Shipping Low Cost Affordable Sale Online Buy Cheap Recommend Cheap Sale Buy YZ5s1DaM


text:
Nelson Mandela admitted to hospital for tests, South African president says
JOHANNESBURG – South African President Jacob Zuma says that former President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital in Pretoria to undergo tests.
Zuma issued a statement Saturday saying that Mandela is "doing well and there is no cause for alarm."
Mandela, 94, is frail health and has not made public appearances for a few years. The anti-apartheid icon was moved from his rural home to South Africa's administrative capital, Pretoria.
The news of Mandela's hospitalization comes just days after the crash of a military aircraft flying on an unknown mission near Mandela's rural home in which all 11 people onboard were killed.
The plane was flying to a military air base in Mthatha, which is about 30 kilometers (17 miles) north of Qunu, the village where Mandela now lives after retiring from public life. South Africa's military remains largely responsible for the former president's medical care. However, military officials declined to say whether those on board had any part in caring for Mandela.
Mandela, 94, was imprisoned for nearly three decades for his fight against apartheid before becoming the nation's president in the country's first fully democratic vote in 1994.


text:
- visit a college
- Community Colleges
- Corporate College
- students
- employees
- about us
- search
Maricopa BreatheEasy is a healthy-living initiative sponsored by the Maricopa Community Colleges. Its goal is to provide information and support to Maricopa students, faculty members and staff in support of the elimination of tobacco products from all District property. Effective July 1, 2012, all District property will be smoke- and tobacco-free, extending the smoke-free environment of our buildings to the boundaries of District property. We recognize that this change will require behavior change on the part of some students, faculty members and staff. The District is prepared to help those who are affected through a variety of means, including classes and smoking cessation programs.
On July 1, 2012, the Maricopa Community Colleges went 100% tobacco-free. Public Safety is responsible for enforcement on campus. Repeat and/or egregious violations will be reported to student affairs for students and supervisors for employees. By way of this document, we want to clearly communicate the expected role of "people leaders" in enforcing this important policy with employees who report to them.
Supervisors are responsible for ensuring that their directly reporting employees are aware of Maricopa's tobacco-free policy and, as with any other policy violations, are responsible for taking appropriate action to correct noncompliance. The preferred method for initial contact is to meet with all direct reports, hand out the policy, discuss it and give an opportunity for questions.
The issue is not about whether an employee chooses to use tobacco; it is about where the employee uses tobacco. The policy does not mandate individuals quit smoking or using tobacco products; they must not do so on our properties.
We recommend that managers/supervisors inform all employees of this policy and ask for voluntary cooperation. Supervisors are expected to inform all employees about available quit tobacco assistance opportunities; information is available online at http://wellness.maricopa.edu/breatheasy/resources. If you would like any assistance in preparing to have this discussion, or follow up questions after, please contact your designated HR Business Partner:
Alyssa Brown (480) 731-8961 – Chandler-Gilbert, Estrella Mountain, Glendale, Phoenix College, and District IT
Margie Mesanko (480) 731-8471 – Paradise Valley, Rio Salado, South Mountain, and District Office Academic & Student Affairs, and Human Resources
Kathie Bennett (480) 731-8447 – GateWay, Mesa, Scottsdale, and District Office Business Services, Foundation, Legal, Community and Public Affairs
Employees who smoke may use their allotted work breaks to travel off-campus to smoke. However, supervisors must be clear that employees who choose to smoke on their breaks will not be given additional break time. Supervisors are responsible for maintaining department integrity and for treating all employees equitably.
For information on how to approach employees who repeatedly violate this policy, please contact:
Carol Garcia (480) 731-8710 (Estrella Mountain/Southwest Skill Center, Glendale, South Mountain)
Sheri Klein (480) 731-8466 (District Office, Rio Salado, Scottsdale, Phoenix College)
Chrissy Springfield (480) 731-8752 (Chandler-Gilbert, GateWay/Maricopa Skill Center, Mesa, Paradise Valley)
Prohibiting smoking on campus preserves everyone's right to breathe clean, smoke-free air. This decision supports the rights and privileges of both smokers and non-smokers alike.
There is no "right to smoke" under either state or federal law.
The Maricopa County Community College District is dedicated to providing a healthy, comfortable, and educationally productive environment for students, employees, and visitors. In order to promote a healthy learning and work environment, the Chancellor has directed that the Maricopa County Community College District serve as a total smoke free and tobacco free environment, effective July 1, 2012. Smoking (including the use of "e-cigs") and all uses of tobacco shall be prohibited from all District owned and leased property and facilities, including but not limited to parking lots, rooftops, courtyards, plazas, entrance and exit ways, vehicles, sidewalks, common areas, grounds, athletic facilities, and libraries.
Support signage prohibiting the use of smoking instruments and tobacco shall be placed throughout all college and District locations.
Continued violations by an employee or student shall be handled through the respective conduct procedures established for employees and students.
…."For employees, subsequent violations by the same offender will result in a referral of the employee to the Vice President of Administrative Services or designee. This referral will be made via a Public Safety Incident Report outlining the circumstance of the violation, including the date, time and location of the initial warning. All Smoke Free/Tobacco Free violations should be treated in the same manner as any other Human Resource policy or regulation violation."….
4.21 Breathe Easy Tobacco Free | Smoke Free The Maricopa County Community College District has made the commitment toward a healthier environment for employees, students and guests. On July 1, 2012, all district colleges and district-owned facilities will become tobacco-free. Although the district has undertaken an expansive educational campaign, including a broad cessation component, we (more…)