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Why don't they? There are many reasons, but two stand out. So, if you (or someone you care about) have been meaning to add a meditative discipline to your regular routine, listen up.
The most frequently mentioned excuse, of course, is lack of time. Human beings have never had more freedom from toil, yet everyone feels that they have too much to do and too little time to do it. But there is always time for something you truly value. If not an hour, then half an hour; if not half an hour, then fifteen minutes. If you doubt that, keep a log of all the things you do and how much time you spend on them. You'll be surprised how much time is taken with superfluous activities. Chances are, a little spiritual time management can free up ample time to nurture your soul.
The real problem with people who say they don't have time for meditation—or prayer, contemplation, etc.—is that they have not come to see its practical value. Americans are pragmatic, bottom-line people. Unfortunately, our sense of pragmatism is a bit off kilter. We tend to be outwardly driven, deluded by the idea that fulfillment comes from what we do rather than what we are. Plus, we fail to appreciate the vital link between inner well-being and outer achievement. Meditation is not an escape from goal-oriented activities, it's a way to enhance them by reducing stress, quieting the mind and connecting you to the deepest part of yourself, where abundant energy and creativity reside.
Whenever people say they can't spare even 20 minutes a day, I quote Mahatma Gandhi, a rather busy fellow, who was trying to drive a colonial power out of his homeland and keep Hindus and Muslims from slaughtering one another. Gandhi once said, "I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one."
Meditate on that for a while.
The second reason people who want to meditate don't is simple: they don't know how. I can't count the number of times I've heard someone say, "I've tried to meditate but it doesn't work for me," or, "I'm not good at it." When I ask if they've ever been taught how to meditate, the answer is usually no. For some reason, people think they ought to be able to pick it up on their own. Well, you can pick up dancing or scuba diving on your own too, but if you want to do it well and get the most out of it, it's a good idea to get some instruction. Actually, some people who think they're not the meditating type have received guidance, but it's usually some haphazard directions they picked up from a magazine or something they vaguely remember from a guided meditation at a yoga class or stress management seminar. Such instructions are not always easy to take home and apply, and they certainly don't include follow-up.
The problem with such cavalier approaches is that meditation is likely to be unsatisfying. It might even be unpleasant. Why? Because, having heard that meditation silences the mind, people try too hard to achieve that result, and the combination of strenuous effort and unrealistic expectations leads to strain. Strain is not pleasant, and it is not conducive to the open awareness and inner peace that we associate with meditative states. The point is, meditation needs to be properly learned.
In looking for an appropriate mediation practice, don't be fooled by the notion that they're all the same and have equal value. The various forms may be similar in intent, but that does not make them identical in either use or impact. Look for one that suits your needs and circumstances; that can be practiced with ease on your own; that has an honorable history of proven use; and that produces both immediate results—calmness, clarity of mind, etc.—and long-term benefits, such as better health, greater ease and happiness, heightened awareness and a deeper connection to the sacred ground of being.
There are other reasons why people don't meditate. One is, "Life is good, so I don't need it." That's like neglecting diet or exercise because you're not sick at the moment. Then there's the opposite: "I'm under too much stress now," to which the best response is, "Duh! What better reason to do it?" But shortage of time and lack of proper instruction are the main obstacles to regular meditation, and they're both easy to overcome if, like Gandhi, you recognize its spiritual and practical value. And that recognition comes only with experience, so when you begin a meditation practice, make sure keep at it long enough to give peace a chance.


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BIG in 2011
Vets' perfect storm
The Warwick Vets wrestling program knew a while ago that 2011 would be its year.
And the 'Canes left no doubt.
Led by the seniors who sparked all the talk of big things, Vets rolled over the competition at the state tournament, winning the championship by 50 points. It was the first wrestling title for the school since 2001, and for this group, it was sweet.
Many of the team members wrestled together with the Warwick PAL program. They knew even then that, if they stuck together, they could do something big at the high-school level.
A lot of them did stick together, ending up at Vets and building up a sagging program back into a title contender. Mike Meyers led the charge, becoming one of the school's greatest athletes by going undefeated in Rhode Island and winning four state championships. He also won three New England championships.
In 2011, he and his teammates went out with a bang.
Hawks run wild
The Hendricken cross country team was young this season and knew it was going to have its hands full with Chariho, who had beaten the Hawks for the outdoor state championship in the spring.
Both those factors were in the mix all year – the Hawks had just one senior running in their top group and Chariho mounted a challenge with three stand-outs, including the eventual individual state champion.
But the Hawks were undeterred. With their depth carrying the day, the Hawks edged Chariho by eight points for the state championship – their fourth in a row – then out-did the region's best to win the New England title.
The Hawks were led by different runners seemingly every week, from senior Mark Vuono to junior Tyler Henseler, sophomore Colin Tierney and freshman Michael Potter.
Together, they gave the Hendricken cross country program another huge fall season.
Hawks over Rams, times two
It's not often an upset when a Hendricken team wins a state championship.
But no one can argue that these two would qualify.
In the spring, the Hendricken lacrosse team beat a heavily-favored La Salle squad for the state championship. Then in the fall, the Hendricken football team beat heavily-favored La Salle for the state championship.
Both were remarkable.
The Hawks went 5-5 during the lacrosse season. La Salle went 9-1. But on the biggest stage, the Hawks had a little more. Goalie Aaron Levy and the defense shined as the Hawks sprung the biggest upset in the short history of the lacrosse state championship.
The football team's win was just as surprising. La Salle dominated all year, going undefeated in league play. Hendricken lost to the Rams by 25 points in the regular season. But on the biggest stage, the Hawks got the best of the Rams again, pulling off arguably the biggest upset in the very long history of the football state championship.
Looking back, it's hard to say which upset was more amazing, but you don't really have to make that distinction.
Both were pretty unreal.
Pilgrim makes lacrosse debut
As soon as the program got its footing a few years back, girls' lacrosse exploded in popularity at Warwick Vets, becoming one of the school's biggest and most successful teams and sending several players on to the next level. The success validated all the positive claims that were used to get the program in gear.
Across town in 2011, Pilgrim started down the same path.
Charlie Benson and Tom Flanders, who started the Vets program before giving way to a new coaching staff in 2010, were tabbed as the leaders of the Pilgrim program when it got approval.
When spring came around, Pilgrim had lacrosse. The first year was a struggle as the Pats went 0-14, but without a single senior on the roster, there's plenty of optimism about the future.
Hawks carry the torch
Hendricken came into 2011 with some impressive state championship streaks on the line, and the Hawks found a way to extend them for at least one more year.
For the 21st consecutive year, Hendricken was able to capture the state swimming title, as it racked up 314 points to put it well ahead of second-place Barrington's 194.
On the same day, the indoor track team extended its streak of state titles to 17 by getting 74 points at the state meet to outpace La Salle, which finished with 51.
If that wasn't enough, though, Hendricken also captured its second volleyball title in a row, and its sixth in eight seasons.
All three teams were dominant in their own right.
The Hawks had more front-line swimmers than any other team in the state, and were led by seniors Jack Kilpatrick, David Evans and Ian Dinwoodie, as well as underclassmen Mike Fedorenko, Andrew Robinson and Alex Powers.
In track, Hendricken was led by its runners. Ryan Meehan and Andrew Andraka set the pace in the long distances, while Andy Sakovits and John Ferris were the keys in the middle distances.
Combined with other standouts – like thrower Mike Maloof – the Hawks managed to get it done.
The volleyball team was barely challenged throughout the regular season, finishing 16-0 while losing only a handful of games. In the playoffs, the Hawks mowed through La Salle in the semifinals before taking out No. 2 seeded South Kingstown in the finals for the title.
With players like setter J.J. Bessette and hitters Ted Seufert and John Kane, it seemed almost like a foregone conclusion that Hendricken would come out on top.
And for another year, all three teams – swimming, indoor track and volleyball – did just that.
Titans keep divisional streak alive
After not having lost a dual-meet since the 1997-98 season, the Toll Gate girls' indoor track team thought it might be in some trouble in 2011.
But, as it turns out, there was no reason to worry. The Titans got it done.
With the streak in tact until the last meet of the season, Toll Gate took on its toughest challenger in North Kingstown. Everyone knew the meet was close, but the final results weren't available immediately after the meet.
For a while, the Titans thought the streak might be over. Some of the team members even left the track that night thinking that it had finally happened.
Yet, when the results came out, Toll Gate got the good news it was hoping for – the streak was still alive. The Titans squeaked out a 55.5-53.5 victory.
The Titans got event victories from Jordan Gray, Jenna Moen and Amy St. Amand, as well as a first-place in the 4x400 relay to capture the win.
Toll Gate rode that momentum to some of its best performances in the postseason, where it won the Division I-Bayha meet, came in second in the Medium Schools class meet and grabbed fifth place at the state meet.
It was all a little more dramatic than perhaps Toll Gate would have liked, but at the end of the day it was another undefeated season.
Toll Gate lax makes a run
The Toll Gate boys' lacrosse team didn't end up with a state championship in hand, but it came closer than any team in school history.
The Titans rode the steady play of Zach Furtado up front and a stingy defense to earn a spot in the Division III finals, where they put up a valiant effort before falling 6-4 to undefeated and top-seeded Smithfield.
It was the closest anybody came to beating Smithfield all season long, and it showed just how far Toll Gate had progressed.
After making the playoffs and losing in the quarterfinals each of the last five seasons prior to 2011, the Titans finished 7-5 in the regular season and earned a first-round bye in the playoffs, vaulting them into the semifinals for the first time since the program's first season in 2005.
In that semifinal game, Toll Gate took on city-rival Warwick Vets, and pulled out an 11-8 victory to advance to its first-ever title game.
While the goal of a state championship came up just short, 2011 was a season unlike any other in Toll Gate lacrosse history.

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L.A. Noire is a dark and violent detective thriller set against the backdrop of Los Angeles in the post-war years of the late 1940s and delivered with Rockstar's signature attention to atmosphere and detail.
L.A. Noire faithfully recreates every subtle nuance of an actor's performance, allowing players to use the classic interrogation technique of analyzing a subject's behaviour and facial expressions in order to get to the truth. This revolutionary marriage of gameplay and technology, combined with clue-finding, and classic elements like shootouts and chases, gives players the opportunity to truly explore what it means to be a detective in the most corrupt and violent period in L.A. History.
The foundation of L.A. Noire is a brand new technology called MotionScan that enables us to capture and scan every nuance of a real actor's facial performances and put them right into the game itself. It provides a level of realism, detail, performance and emotion never seen before in a videogame, and brings them to life in a totally new way. This goes beyond the limited grid of data points delivered by traditional motion capture – these are the actual performances themselves, scanned and placed onto our digital characters. This marriage of gameplay and technology allows players for the first time ever to truly feel like a detective, reading the emotional behavior of every character. Furthermore, MotionScan lends itself perfectly to this type of game: one that focuses on characters and performances where everyone has something to hide.
In 1947, Los Angeles was in the middle of a massive economic boom and the world was beginning to be seduced by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age. At the same time, traumatized GIs were returning from the Second World War and struggling to re-assimilate into a changed society. The result was that beneath L.A.'s glossy veneer, there was actually more corruption, deceit and murder at this time than any other period in the city's history.
L.A. Noire is the story of Cole Phelps, a war veteran who fought in the Battle of Okinawa, the last and bloodiest battle of World War II. Awarded the Silver Star for bravery, Phelps is shipped back to the states and uses his recovery time to re-evaluate his life and what he's achieved. He decides to join the LAPD, becoming a patrolman. Recognizing an opportunity, the department fast-tracks Phelps for success in part due to his investigative skills but mostly because of his war record – though Phelps is generally the first to admit he doesn't want any favors for his time in the War. Phelps' rise through the ranks of the LAPD forces him to confront the darker side of humanity, and puts him face-to-face with his own fears as a result.
The overarching story unfolds across a series of self-contained cases, each successfully solved case is a step up the ladder bringing Phelps greater success, but also bringing him closer to the true criminal underworld of L.A., until he is embroiled in events far beyond his control, revealing the truth about the dark heart of post-war Los Angeles.
Throughout L.A. Noire players work on different desks in the LAPD, and instead of conventional missions or levels, gamers play specific cases from each desk. At each desk, players will be assigned a different partner, who in addition to participating in the story as it unfolds, will also assist with suggestions as to how to pursue the clues in each case as needed.
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Chicken Tawook
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Many Mediterranean flavors are now mainstream, and diners are ready to branch out from Greek, Turkish, Spanish and coastal Italian to try something more exotic, like Lebanese. At Balade, which means "fresh" in Lebanese, the menu offers authentic fare in familiar formats, such as pizza and wraps. Chicken Tawook is marinated grilled chicken served as a "sandweechet" or sandwich with french fries or rice.
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tbsp. oregano
1/2 tsp. white pepper
1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
2 lb. skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
4 large pita breads or flatbreads
- Combine garlic, mayonnaise, heavy cream, lemon juice, oregano, pepper and cayenne in large bowl. Add chicken; mix well and refrigerate for about 8 hr.
- Grill chicken until thoroughly cooked. Dice and roll in pita breads.


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Art Wiederin spends his days sitting in the lobby of Fox Point Independent and Assisted Living in McHenry, talking to other residents, teasing staff, and watching various health professionals come and go.
At 82, Wiederin has a lot of experience with the health care system, but he hasn't noticed any changes over the past few years as the different provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – the federal health care reform that is sometimes fondly, and more often disparagingly, referred to as Obamacare – began to take effect.
"I'm going to say right up front that I don't understand it all," Wiederin said. "My whole feeling is that health care needs, from top to bottom, needs revamping. I think the system is in bad shape."
The 2010 law has three goals, said Ellen First, a senior consultant with Health Dimensions Group, which is a health care consulting firm working with Hearthstone Communities in Woodstock.
They are, she said, to improve the population's overall health, to encourage services to be provided in a efficient and cost-effective way, and to ensure good outcomes for patients.
But even professionals such as First are still trying to figure out how this all will work, especially because provisions such as state insurance exchanges haven't been created yet.
Insurance exchanges are designed to make the insurance market more competitive and transparent, according to a federal website dedicated to the law and health care more generally.
States don't have to have their exchanges up and running until 2014, and some states, Illinois included, plan on partnering with the federal government for their first year.
Illinois' General Assembly hasn't yet passed legislation setting up a financing mechanism or a governing board, said Mike Claffey, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
Several departments have been laying the groundwork, though, for more than two years, and the General Assembly created a 12-member legislative study committee to look at the issue.
But in the meantime, before the exchange is up and running and the best known and most controversial provision – a requirement that most people buy insurance or pay a penalty – kicks in, other portions of the law gradually are taking effect.
Hospitals, doctors and third-party providers have been preparing.
Hearthstone Communities has seen its focus shift from only long-term residential facilities to include more rehab or transitional services, said its chief financial officer, Ric Olson.
It's a trend that started before the implementation of the Affordable Care Act but has been accelerated because of it, First said. Hearthstone also has had to focus on reducing the number of people readmitted to the hospital, Olson said.
Under a provision that went into effect Oct. 1, Medicare payments are linked to hospital performance in an effort to encourage them to improve quality of care. A similar provision for doctors will go into effect in 2015.
"Research has shown that where our health care breaks down is in those transitions of care, transitions from the hospital to the post-acute provider, transitions from the post-acute provider to home care," First said. "There's been a lot of work, specifically in the last five to 10 years, in creating better lines of communication at those transitions of care."
Hospitals, such as those in Centegra Health System, also are putting more of an emphasis on these transition times and keeping people healthier in general, said Susan Milford, Centegra's senior vice president of strategy and development.
This year, Centegra implemented its WellBridge program, through which doctors can prescribe exercise to their patients.
Long before the law went into effect, Centegra opened two HealthBridge Fitness centers, one in Crystal Lake about 15 years ago and another in Huntley in 2008. Besides exercise programs, the centers also offer nutrition guidance.
The new program ties those centers with doctors' recommendations, Milford said.
"The whole idea is that you are returning these patients to a healthier and better quality of life," she said.
Like other health care providers, Centegra, guided by a new vice president of clinical effectiveness, is still researching the portions of the Affordable Care Act to come, including bundled payments for a type of care.
Under the bundled payments system, there would be, for example, one care path and price for a knee replacement instead of someone being charged for each particular test and visit.
In May, a new electronic medical records system was implemented to allow the different Centegra clinics and facilities to exchange records, Milford said.
"I think for all it is, it's a good direction for health care to be going because it's putting the patient at the center, just trying to keep them healthy and well, and when they do get sick, it's delineated, evidence-based, quality way where we're incentivized on outcome," she said.
What's new
Two provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, went into effect in October:
• A program that ties Medicare payments to hospital performance. Hospitals are required to track and report measures connected to heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, infections contracted in the hospital and patients' perception of care.
• Regulations that encourage hospitals to standardize billing and adopt electronic medical records.
What's coming
Some of the law's biggest provisions have yet to implemented, but 2013 is a relatively light year in terms of changes. The three parts that go into effect at the beginning of the year are:
• New federal funding to Medicaid programs that cover preventive services at little or no cost.
• Requirements that states pay doctors 100 percent of Medicare payment rates in 2013 and 2014 for primary care services. The increase will be paid for with federal funds.
• The creation of a pilot program to encourage "bundling." Under the proposed system, doctors, hospitals and other providers will be paid a flat rate for episode of care instead of for each individual test or visit.


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The Washington Redskins have a situation with their offensive line that to me raises an interesting question. The situation, probably not unique to the Redskins, is this: our starting right tackle, veteran Jon Jansen, is considered an excellent run-blocker but at this stage of his career a less than stellar pass blocker. His back-up Stephon Heyer is said to be signifcantly better than Jansen in pass protection but not as strong in the running game. Heyer started at right tackle last year when Jansen was injured, but lost the job this past autumn when he himself picked up an injury.
Both are healthy now, and Jansen continues to play every down because the Redskins have run the ball so effectively this year. Pass protection has been a problem, however.
I can't say whether the common perception of Jansen and Heyer is correct — to know how individual linemen are performing one would have to watch the game several times. But let's assume that their comparative strengths and weaknesses are as I have described them.
In these circumstances, shouldn't the Redskins pull Jansen in obvious passing situations? In such situations, the Redskins (like virtually all other teams) change personnel on defense, including on the defensive line. Similarly on offense, they bring in at least one extra wide-receiver. And many teams either pull their running back or bring in a different one (the Redskins tend to stay with star tailback Clinton Portis who catches the ball well and is a hellacious pass blocker). So why not bring in a different right tackle?
One answer, I suppose, is that offensive line play requires special cohesion. But, as noted, Heyer has extensive experience playing with this line. Surely he knows the schemes well enough to block the appropriate pass rusher or, if the Redskins change things up, to do his part on a screen pass or draw play.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, the Cleveland Browns used to rotate their guards on every play so that their innovative coach, Paul Brown, could send plays in from the sideline. The Browns offensive lines managed to perform quite cohesively. So I don't see why platooning offensive linemen based on their relative strengths and weaknesses in light of the game situation isn't a winning proposition.
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Hi folks,The further I get into this whole thing the more I get the feeling I need to use 810 Alpha. I have limited time, however and WAF to consider. So I can't spend hours (days) trying to get 810 working if there is nothing to show for it at the end.I know that using an Alpha version is going to be risky (even a beta version can have problems) but if 710 doesn't do the job, I have three choices:1) Stick with 710 and live without a lot of stuff I really want / need.2) Use 810 and live with any "idiosyncrasies".3) Wait until 810 is released.Obviously, 1 is the safe bet, but I'd like to make an informed decision. Where can I find a list of what is currently working in 810 and what is being worked on? If the core (for me) stuff is now finished and work has moved on elsewhere then 2 becomes an option. Also, (and I know people keep asking this) do we have ANY sort of timescale for 810 beta / release? Are we talking days? Weeks? Months? (Years? )I KNOW you guys doing the development are all voluntary and work very hard to produce this system. I'm not trying to rush you or put pressure on, just get a feel for where you are at so I can make an informed choice Thanks!
@PCBastard,Thanks, Man! It really helps to hear from people who have had good experiences.Any chance you could document your setup, either here or on the Wiki? Not just the hardware you used, but also the bits you have installed and use successfully?Cheers!
You like my little experiment with Facebook sigs?Anyway, what I want to find out is if I can get hold of the UNRAID driver and put it on Kubuntu and run it directly on my core. I'd rather not have two boxes running (core and NAS) if I can do it with one.Also, I have been offered some HP SAS drives (half a dozen 72Gb and about 4 146Gb. Has anyone got any experience of putting together a DIY disk pack with such drives? Is the interface standard? How do you mount them in an enclosure? Is it worth the effort?


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Hello evan! How are you?Originally Posted by E_van
>>> What is the last novel (that) you read?
The last book I read was Veronika Decides To Die, by Paulo Coelho (the author who wrote the global bestseller The Alchemist)
This is the story of a Slovenian young woman, who has everything she could wish for, yet can't see anything worth experiencing in her life. One winter's morning, she takes an overdose of sleeping spills...but instead of dying, she wakes up in a mental hospital, with only a few days to live....
I'm not going to ruin the end!!...I let you read this book, it's really quite a good one (and easy to read)


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Modeling of Materials in Wave Electromagnetics Problems
Walter Frei May 27, 2015
Whenever we are solving a wave electromagnetics problem in COMSOL Multiphysics, we build a model that is composed of domains and boundary conditions. Within the domains, we use various material models to represent a wide range of substances. However, from a mathematical point of view, all of these different materials end up being handled identically within the governing equation. Let's take a look at these various material models and discuss when to use them.Read More
Caty Fairclough May 26, 2015
Cars have to exist in a variety of environmental conditions. They need to handle environmental changes such as temperature fluctuations. Therefore, it is important to create parts that can handle these conditions. An investigation into the functionality of an inductive position sensor was presented during the COMSOL Conference 2014 in Cambridge.Read More
Brianne Costa May 25, 2015
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is popular in the semiconductor industry for its ability to produce high-quality, pure, and extremely strong materials. Ultrahigh vacuum CVD (UHV/CVD) requires complex equipment and very high temperatures. To increase efficiency and control costs, engineers can simulate this complex process. Here, we use the growth of silicon wafers as an example.Read More
Bridget Cunningham May 21, 2015
Truck-mounted cranes are designed to handle heavy loads. With this in mind, manufacturers and engineers look to optimize the machine's payload, or carrying, capacity. Simulation apps can help expedite the optimization process by extending simulation capabilities into the hands of those who are not experts in simulation through a customized and intuitive interface. Our Truck Mounted Crane Analyzer demo app shows the benefits of this approach.Read More
Alon Grinenko May 20, 2015
In an earlier blog post, we considered the computation of acoustic radiation force using a perturbation approach. This method has the advantage of being both robust and fast; however, it relies heavily on the theoretical evaluation of correct perturbation terms. The idea behind the method presented here is to solve the problem by deducing the radiation force from the solution of the full nonlinear set of Navier-Stokes equations, interacting with a solid, elastic microparticle.Read More
Mark Robins May 19, 2015
In the science and engineering community, models are vital to design and development. But can models be protected by copyright law? Establishing the level of creativity required for copyright protection is relatively easy in comparison to patent law, which requires inventions to be novel and non-obvious. Additionally, copyright law does not require the secrecy measures needed to qualify for trade secret protection. We explore the appeal of using copyright to protect models and the functionality built around them.Read More
Matt Pooley May 18, 2015
Thanks to the Semiconductor Module and the Application Builder, developing custom optoelectronic simulation apps has never been easier. In this blog post, we show you how to turn a model of an LED device into a user-friendly application that can be used to assess the impact of different designs on the LED's emission characteristics and performance. We also demonstrate the use of custom methods to manipulate the solution data, enabling the easy creation of bespoke analysis tools.Read More
Walter Frei May 14, 2015
Metals are materials that are highly conductive and reflect an incident electromagnetic wave — light, microwaves, and radio waves — very well. When using the RF Module or the Wave Optics Module to simulate electromagnetics problems in the frequency domain, there are several options for modeling metallic objects. Here, we will look at the Impedance and Transition boundary conditions as well as the Perfect Electric Conductor boundary condition, offering guidance on when to use each one.Read More
Brianne Costa May 13, 2015
Piezoelectric valves are opened and closed by stacked piezoelectric actuators that are positioned above a seal. By applying a voltage to the stacked piezoelectric actuator, it can be made to expand or contract and the resulting deformation is used to open and close the valve. In this blog post, we feature a tutorial model of a stacked piezoelectric actuator in a pneumatic valve, new with COMSOL Multiphysics version 5.1.Read More
Ed Fontes May 12, 2015
Biosensors are the workhorses of the analytical tools used for detailed mechanistic understanding at the molecular level of biological systems. The applications of these analysis tools are countless for the detection of biomolecules in the pharmaceutical, health care, and food industries; agriculture; environmental technologies; and in general for research of biological systems. The biosensor demo app is a good example of an application where non-experts can benefit from accurate multiphysics simulations.Read More
Brianne Costa May 11, 2015
Microfluidic biochips have a variety of applications and are valued for their low cost, fast response time, and high efficiency. In the paper "Design and Simulation of High-Throughput Microfluidic Droplet Dispenser for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications", which was presented at the COMSOL Conference 2014 Boston, researchers designed a microfluidic biochip with an analog-to-digital converter. They used COMSOL Multiphysics software to understand the mechanism of the device and verify its function.Read More


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Clarkson University Associate Professor of Organizational Studies Mary E. Graham was one of 100 "thought leaders," who play a critical role in shaping the future of business, attending the Leadership Summit for Inclusion and Diversity sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management earlier this month.
Graham met with distinguished global leaders from business, education, and government at the invitation-only event, designed to invoke expertise, ingenuity, and insight in exploring the field of diversity and inclusion in the 21st century.
Graham teaches human resource management, rewards management, and organizational change courses. She researches incentive programs, gender-related pay disparities, and corporate reputation, and has published articles in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Research Methods, Organization Science, and Eastern Economic Journal.
She is an associate editor of Human Resource Management journal and is on the editorial board of Human Resource Management Review. Graham is a member of the Academy of Management and the Society for Human Resource Management. She spent the spring 2007 semester researching employment discrimination at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in Washington, D.C.
Clarkson University crosses the boundaries of disciplines, nations and cultures in order for discovery, engineering innovation and enterprise to come together. As a result, faculty and graduates grasp the full impact of their calling, direct their research to the world's pressing issues and lead with confidence and distinction. One in seven alumni is already a CEO or other senior executive. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., just outside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Clarkson is home to 3,000 students preparing for rewarding careers through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, science, and health sciences, as well as unparalleled outdoor recreation and life experiences beyond the classroom.


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100 Proof: Remixes To Drake's '0 To 100′ Ranked Worst To Best
True to his word, Drake came right this summer with the banger "0-100/The Catch Up."
OVO's capo laid down some quality lines as he reminded listeners exactly where he stands in the rap game. As with any "it" beat (Produced by Boi-1da, co-produced by 40 & Nineteen85); Drizzy's performance influenced a few other MCs to hop on the instrumental.
We gathered the notable offerings and ranked them, from struggle to stunning. Check out the list real quick to see who's really on that real s**t. —Tariq Rashad


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of Sand
seen the trailer for Coyote Ugly: Girls dancing on a bar.
Girls in tight leather pants stomping their cowboy boots in time
with INXS, sliding between each other's legs, dousing each other
with pitchers of ice water. Girls flinging their lusciously long
hair for a crowd of yee-hawing guys. It looks like some kind of fun,
the kind that would have been so transgressive and wild back in, oh,
say, 1956. These days, such imagery is more ridiculous than
rebellious, but still, the movie's promotional staff has been
working overtime to publicize its "do-me feminist" theme:
in the year 2000 -- when Stuff magazine and The Man Show
rule (dude!) -- girls are baring it all because they feel empowered
and emancipated when they do so. And if you need a clue, follow the
bouncing newbie, the perky small-town blonde who becomes a better
woman for surviving her trials and traumas in the big city.
all this sounds familiar, that's because it's the plot of countless
movies about girls growing up into stars of some kind, from Ruby
Keeler in Footlight Parade and Katharine Hepburn in Stage
Door, to any of the Star Is Borns, to Diane Keaton in Annie
Hall and Jennifer Beals in Flashdance. This last is an
especially resonant precursor, being the film that put producer
Jerry Bruckheimer on the blockbuster map, way back in 1983. Since
then, of course, Bruckheimer's action flicks (Top Gun, Beverly
Hills Cop, Bad Boys, Con Air, etc., many made with
his late partner Don Simpson) have reigned supreme at the box
office. And because his biggest successes are aggressively
guy-focused, the return here to a girl's story almost seems
nostalgic. What's more surprising, frankly, is that for the first
forty minutes or so, the girls and women in Coyote Ugly are
almost respectable, as characters. They're less reduced to T&A
(as you'd guess from the trailer) than they are passionately
independent, passably intelligent, and definitely not taking any
shit from their over-stimulated male bar patrons, whom one
"coyote" describes as having "little toddlers in
their pants." (Put another way, they are in much better shape
than any woman character in Paul Verhoeven's insipidly misogynistic
and mean-spirited Hollow Man, opening down the way from this
film at your multiplex.)
first scenes of the film take place far from its primary location,
the excessively stylized and very white East Village saloon, named
Coyote Ugly and based loosely on a "real" joint. At first,
pretty Violet (Piper Perabo) is working her last shift at a South
Amboy, New Jersey pizza parlor, where everyone knows her name, as
well as the fact that she's about to embark on a new life. Within
minutes, she's saying sad goodbyes to her tollbooth-clerking dad
(John Goodman) and her best chum since childhood, Gloria (Melanie
Lynskey), who has a broad NJ accent even though Violet has none
(Violet being the Perfectly Bland Neutrogena Model Girl). Gloria
drives Violet across the bridge forty-two miles to her new downtown
crib, which is seedy and small, decidedly less unbelievably grand
than Flashdance's loft, but still affording a rooftop where
Violet can play her keyboard and sing her heart out; or rather,
LeAnne Rimes sings Diane Warren pop-ballads, while Perabo
lip-synchs; or rather again, according to the press materials, Rimes
"embellishes" Perabo's vocals.
here's the sort-of twist: Violet wants to be a songwriter, not a
singer. Because she has terrible stage fright, she believes that her
talent is composition. Just her luck, in this day and age,
singer-songwriters are the thing, and so she must perform your work
to get noticed. Though her apartment is burgled one night to
illustrate how down on her luck she's feeling, Violet remains even
more resiliently naďve and sugary than Jennifer Love Hewitt in Time
of Your Life, determined to "leave a tape" and be
discovered (eventually, she learns that she needs to have a neato
carefully product-placed Mac and burn her songs onto CDs to get an
audition). One agency receptionist, played by Ellen Cleghorn (and
what is her career up to these days?) snaps Violet (and us)
to quick, hilarious attention with a monologue that's more in touch
with NYC reality than anything else in the movie. But this is a
momentary diversion, and soon enough, we're back on track, following
our girl through the standard melancholy montage-time: traipsing
from agency to agency, writing more goopy girl music on the roof,
and finally, drawing much-needed (as in, welcome to the twenty-first
century!) inspiration from a B-Boy practicing his moves in an
apartment across the way.
Violet meets the ideal boyfriend on her first day in town (a
charming Australian named Kevin, played by Adam Garcia), the film
banks on her sense of professional rejection and desperation, which
makes it okay for her to take a job at Coyote Ugly. She comes on the
idea when she sees three dancer-bartenders at a cafe after work,
flashing their cash and even executing a few moves for the
late-night diners. Don't look away during this scene, because it
comprises two of Tyra Banks' seven or so minutes on screen, as her
character -- Zoe -- is heading off to law school (don't even ask),
in order to open up a spot as a "coyote" at the
not-quite-legal establishment. The other girls are first-time
feature actors and buxom lasses, the kind Adam Corolla and company
calls "juggies": Izabella Miko plays the ever-so-nice
Cammie, Bridget Moynahan the hard-hearted Rachel (she of the
fire-breathing gimmick in the TV ads). These two opposites give
Violet a place to fit in between: self-confident but not too
belligerent about it. All the "Bar Belles," including
Maria Bello, who plays the bar's owner, named, of course, Lil, are
featured in this month's Maxim magazine, wearing various
black leather outfits. The accompanying text approximates actual
interviews (Perabo: "I'm not a tropical drink girl. A can of
Schaefer is fine"; Banks: "I can show me people that I
have a crazy side and that I'm not just a sex kitten"), but
it's clear enough what's important about these girls: they're ready
to party.
more intriguingly, they're long past Ally McBeal's
"post-feminist" yearning and uncertainty. They're
unapologetic, self-assertive, and full of sand. With such excellent
role models, can there be any doubt that Violet will become a star?
At work, she learns to toss bottles while pouring shots, dance on
the bar, and pacify drunken-asshole customers. Miraculously, during
a near-riot one night, she also learns that she can sing in front of
a live audience, even if only along with the (creaky) Coyote Ugly
jukebox faves, Don Henley, Def Leppard, Blondie, and the Stray Cats.
And wouldn't you know, with just the right amount of needling from
her coworkers, loving support from Kevin (oh yeah, him), and a mix
of guilt-tripping/conditional-loving from dad, Violet takes the
appropriate risks and learns some crucial lessons about herself.
After all the semi-outrageous bar-behavior, the film's speedy
descent into conventional melodrama and moral punch lines does seem
a bit silly. But it's also instructive. The coyotes are total
pop-packages, the Supreme Chicks, trashy and hip, but with a vague
air of autonomy, almost like they've thought up their dance-moves
and attitudes themselves.
Directed by:
David McNally
Piper Perabo
Adam Garcia
Maria Bello
Tyra Banks
Izabella Miko
Bridget Moynahan
John Goodman
Gina Wendkos
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Ramallah: Two Palestinian officials say workers with jackhammers are opening the concrete-encased grave of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his former compound in the West Bank.
The officials say the work started today and is to take up to two weeks. Arafat`s remains are to be exhumed by French, Swiss and Russian investigators to check for a radioactive substance, polonium-210.
The investigation came after a Swiss lab this year discovered traces of the deadly isotope on some of Arafat`s clothes, sparking new suspicions he was poisoned.
The Palestinian officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the work at the gravesite is shrouded in secrecy, amid cultural sensitivities over digging up the remains of a revered leader. Arafat died in November 2004, a month after suddenly becoming ill.


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About six months ago, "Philomena" star Steve Coogan—the hilarious English actor perhaps best known in America for his roles in "Tropic Thunder" and "The Other Guys"—shot a pilot called "Doubt" in Chicago. He played a lawyer, mastered the Chicago accent and worked two weeks of 18-hour days. I tell him I'm sorry the show wasn't picked up.
"Yeah, I'm not," he says, laughing even though he's serious. "I didn't know how well 'Philomena' was going to do, and if ['Doubt'] had gotten picked up, I wouldn't have been able to promote this film. And this is better than the pilot."
Though no one's seen the show, the quality of "Philomena," opening Wednesday, speaks for itself. Co-written by Coogan, the film takes inspiration from the true story of the titular Irish woman (played by Judi Dench), who along with an English journalist (Coogan) searches for the son the church forced her to give up for adoption and whose existence Philomena kept secret for 50 years.
At the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Coogan, 48, talked about the film's accuracy and controversy, whether Dench really watches Martin Lawrence movies and what he learned from his victorious fight with the MPAA to get "Philomena" a PG-13 rating.
In adapting a true story, can you remember any ideas that came up in conversation that didn't feel right? Philomena becoming an all-star basketball champion maybe?
[Laughs] I would say [co-writer Jeff Pope] was happier to push it further, to invent things, and I was the one who would always say, "Well, let's see what happened. Let's find out what really happened in this situation because it might provide the answer. It might not, but frequently it will give us a kernel that we can grow something from." We wouldn't have anyone do anything bad that we couldn't back up. Withholding information, that's all real. We have anecdotal evidence about the burning of records. Some [people] deny that, but then they would, wouldn't they? The fact they didn't give the girls any medication, that's backed up by documentary evidence and anecdotal evidence from girls who went to those places. One of the most pathetic [items] in terms of the defense, in Ireland some members of the clergy have come out and said, "We never sold babies to America; we just asked for a large donation." What's the difference?! I just burst out laughing when I heard that. Really? That's your defense? Wow, you think people are really, really stupid.
"We just gave Americans dirty looks and gave them a large basket."
"And gave them a large bag and said you may want to fill that with notes."
"There's a dollar sign on the bag."
"You might want to fill that with large denomination notes. You might want to."
There's such authentic sentiment and subtlety in "Philomena," whereas if you look at an American movie like "Delivery Man," it's a train wreck of trying to be honest and emotional while really not telling a story. Why do you think there is that difference?
I think it's because an audience can smell sincerity and genuine sentiment because a person's doing it, believes it and feels it, rather than a marketing man who goes, "Hey, some audiences like sentiment; let's give 'em some of that." … It's that cynicism that I think audiences smell. They smell bull[bleep]. Most audiences I think are film literate. More literate than they ever have been before so they know these beats. They've seen it before. Also anything that's formulaic, what happens of course with studios, they have to balance their books because ultimately they're bottom-line people. They have to be; they're running these huge businesses, so they have to say, "Where does this fit in? How do we sell this?" I'm not saying they're terrible people for that, but that's just the system that they're part of. I have a career in comedy; I wanted to do something different. To me this is kind of an experiment. I wanted to do something that I want to do, no one's telling me to do, and see if anyone else likes it as well. I want to have those [sentimental] moments because I believe them and I want that authenticity, but as writers when we get to those beats [and] we go, "OK, how do we not make this schmaltzy? How do we avoid those kind of moments in films where you go, 'Oh, this is the beat where we're supposed to feel something.'"
Because I hate those movies too. I hate those moments, and when I see it I just go, "Oh, what, someone looks a bit sheepish?" And it makes you self-conscious. It makes you cynical, that kind of emotion. No wonder people don't want to make movies with sentiment. They think the only way to do good art is to make it spiky and edgy and cynical because when you see sentiment from some studio film it tends to be [bleep] because it's not real sentiment. It's not really about anything; it's the most bland thing you could possibly say because we don't want to upset any potential part of the audience, so let's say something really bland and emotional so that everyone can kind of feel sort of something. I don't think a studio would have gone near this because it's got religious content. They're scared [bleep]less of anything remotely contentious. I believe you can talk about things that are sometimes contentious, but you can do it in a very holistic way. You can do it where you go, "You know what? We don't have to lose our tempers; we don't have to get into a fight. We can have a grown-up discussion about this. And we can agree to differ."
Yet some people are a little bit upset about this. Is this the first time nuns have ever been upset with you?
[Laughs] I think it is, actually. I knew lots of nuns growing up and lots of clergy. I think if you're not upsetting anyone, then a studio would be really pleased with you. I think if you're doing good art then inevitably you're going to upset some people. I'd say it's a prerequisite--it's a measure actually that your'e doing something right. But it has to be a minority. If you upset lots of people, then that's bad.
"We made everyone angry. It's a success!"
[Laughs] That doesn't work that way. But you try and please all the people all the time, you end up with a soup of nothing. In Ireland for example, yes, some members of the clergy are upset. They tend to be the most vociferous ones. The ones who like the film, and there are many members—in fact, many religious people who love this film in Ireland. In fact this is a little debate raging in Ireland, that the people who came out, which is in a way it's almost true to form, instead of doing a mea culpa and going, "You know what? This film raises some good points. We shouldn't have done things like that. We've made some mistakes. We'd like to say sorry and move on." Which would be the smart thing to say--
How often do people do that?
They go, "This is not true! We didn't sell them! We just asked for a donation!" And what did they say about [Sister] Hildegarde? Someone said Hildegarde was unkindly treated in the film. She did some good things. The line I always say is, "Yeah, Hitler was nice to dogs." … The fact is this film, when they criticized Philomena, a bunch of people came out of the woodwork in Ireland and said, "No, no, no, no," who knew her and actually said, "No, they got it right, and actually this should be talked about." Some members of the clergy trying to pick a hole here and there because what they're really annoyed about isn't some things that they might think are unfair. What they're annoyed about is the fact that we put this on the agenda. They don't even want it on the agenda. They would have loved this film to have been a polemic attack on the church. It's not because actually people like Philomena who are religious have been dignifying this film, and that's what pisses them off because we're saying, "You guys are out of order, but those little guys down there, they're OK." And they don't like that. They want to try and characterize it as some sort of anti-[religion film], which of course most people know it's not.
In the movie, Philomena wants to watch "Big Momma's House." How often do you think Judi Dench watches that?
I don't think she does, but I know for a fact, because I read it in an interview, that one of her guilty pleasures is to watch "Dirty Dancing." She's seen that a lot.
But not as much of a Martin Lawrence fan.
I think Judi does like a bit of mainstream romance, but no, I don't think any Martin Lawrence film would be in her top ten.
I wonder if Martin Lawrence is a Judi Dench fan.
If I was a betting man, I'd say it's more likely to be that way around, than the other way around.
How is your ability to keep a secret?
It's good. If someone tells you a secret then you can't tell anyone. You just can't tell anyone. A good friend of mine had a child, and she didn't tell anyone who the father was. Including me, and I'm her best friend. I know it wasn't me, that's all. But you don't tell anyone. If you tell one person, you've lost control and she didn't tell anyone. She didn't even tell her mother. It was a real lesson. She kept the secret for like eight years. Nobody knew who the father was. I thought, "She's really smart." And also I didn't get pissed because she didn't tell me. I was like, "That's smart," and you talk about other stuff.
I'm sure people ask you for impressions a lot because you're so incredibly good at them. What's the strangest request you've ever had in that department?
When people ask me to do women. "Can you do Judi Dench?" "Of course I can't do Judi Dench. No." I quite like doing unusual ones. The ones that people don't do at parties basically. At parties there's always someone who thinks they can do Sean Connery. There's always someone who thinks they can do Michael Caine. You don't get that many people who think they can do Martin Sheen at a party. And I can do quite a good Martin Sheen for example.
I did think you were going to say Martin Lawrwence there.
No. I don't do Martin Lawrence.
Do you have any sense of if Michael Caine has a good impression of you?
I think he's probably only become aware of me maybe because I did "The Trip" with Rob Brydon where I did the impersonation of him. I think people like Michael Caine, [if people] do impressions of him [they] just humor it to appear gracious, but I think he probably thinks people who do impersonations of him, with some justification, are assholes. … [Rob Brydon] does an impersonation of me and someone said, "Do you do one of Rob?" I said, "No, it's never occurred to me to do one of him." Where it has occurred to him to do one of me. Sometimes it's like a status thing. I do that to diminish him for comic effect.
What did you learn from the whole MPAA kerfuffle, with the debate about how many F-bombs are in the film?
That Bert Fields is very like Henry Fonda in "12 Angry Men." That's the lawyer who I was with. That sometimes rules that they have are incredibly inconsistent. I first said why these profanities were in context and why there's this arbitrary number. In the rest of Europe, when they have ratings they just judge things on a case-by-case basic. And here they have these rules: You have more than one profanity, it's an R. And you go, "Well, why do you have that rule?" Because they say, "Well, middle American parents don't like profanities." "How do you know that?" "Well, we've done research." And you go, "Well, if the research is, 'How many times would you like to hear the word f*** in a film,?' they're not going to go 'Four, five, maybe.' They're going to say, 'No times.'" But the other thing about that is I said these examples of movies that have loads of [bleeps] in them and they've got PG-13. And the advocate for the MPAA said, "Well, that's because they're used within conversation, and when you use swear words it's very very significant. They're very pointed." And I said, "Surely it's better to point out a profanity and say, 'Look, this is a bad word, we're saying it out loud, than to use it casually in conversation. You could argue that that's worse because you're showing that you can use profanities whenever you like." She said, "Oh, yeah, that's a good point." OK, well, you just conceded a point and you're the advocate for the MPAA. It shows that when they try to assert something it's so arbitrary. They need to judge things on a case-by-case basis and not make these silly rules because you can always find an exception to the rule.
On the Chicago accent: "I think I did pretty good because there was a crew of 200 people and I was the only British person there and I'm playing the lead, and I'm doing a Chicago accent and the entire crew is from Chicago. I had a coach and I listened to it every night. I listened to people talking like (in Chicago accent), "That about the block. Open up the vowels." I enjoyed it; it was good. It was worth it for that alone. 'Cause a guy on the crew came up to me and said (in Chicago accent), "Man, when they hear your accent, they're going to flip out. [They won't] think you're from England." So it was good. I enjoyed it."
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Thief makes off with NH deputy's gun, uniformBy PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 19. 2012 12:54PM
MANCHESTER - Police are looking for a thief who stole a duffel bag containing a Hillsborough County deputy sheriff's uniform and service weapon.
Deputy Nina Camelio contacted police last Thursday about 6 p.m. after she came out of Gold's Gym, 89 Dow St., and discovered a passenger window on her personal car shattered and the black duffel bag and backpack missing.
Camelio's .40 caliber Sig Sauer 229 service weapon and uniform were in the bag, while the backpack contained personal items, police said.
The duffel bag was on the floor behind the driver's seat in the locked car, which was parked in the lot for about an hour while Camelio was at the gym.
Information concerning the theft was entered into NCIC (National Crime Information Center,) according to Manchester police Lt. Maureen Tessier.
Hillsborough County Sheriff James Hardy said they are doing all they can to assist in the investigation of the theft, and Camelio was reissued the equipment that was stolen.


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GRENOBLE, France, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Two months after a devastating skiing accident, hopes are fading for recovery of Grand Prix racing driver Michael Schumacher, the New York Times said Thursday.
Schumacher, 45, remains at University Hospital Center in Grenoble, France, not far from the Meribel ski resort where he suffered a concussion in December. After initial reports that his condition had slightly improved his doctors and family ended regular updates.
Schumacher underwent two operations to remove blood clots from his brain but more inoperable clots were imaged deeper in his brain threatening his survival, the Times said. He has been in a medically induced coma since late December.
Medical updates since his surgeries have only characterized his condition as "unchanged."
Anesthesiologist Gary Hartstein, an American based in Belgium who headed Formula One's medical unit until 2012, told the newspaper: "If they're not releasing good news because there is none, then that's very bad news indeed. After eight weeks, if there's no sign of waking, what most people would do is unplug."
Schumacher was skiing with his 14-year-old son on a moderately difficult run when he fell and hit his head on a rock, splitting his helmet.


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Track teams run, jump, celebrate at D-III championships in Naperville
Collegiate track athletes from across the nation invaded downtown Naperville during the NCAA Division III Indoor Track Championships, bringing with them their bright running shoes, matching team warm-ups and a desire to win.
The combination of about 470 athletes participating in 15 events over two days and 2,000 cheering fans created an intense environment for the meet, held March 8 and 9 at North Central College's Al B. Carius Track.
North Central Sports Information Director Clark Teuscher described the vibe at the Residence Hall/Recreation Center that houses the track as "a pretty spirited atmosphere."
Track stars competing in running, throwing and jumping events said there's nothing like the feel of a championship event, with its big stage, high stakes and call for team togetherness.
Hosting it all were the North Central Cardinals -- both indoor team members competing over the weekend and outdoor team members about to begin their season. The Cardinals men's team entered the meet ranked fourth and finished in eighth, behind several Wisconsin colleges that dominated the event.
Check out these images from the weekend as indoor track athletes sprint, jump, throw and celebrate while Division III schools competed for the championship.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 111 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
@homes realty
I'm a new Real Estate company in Huntsville, AL. 80% of my business comes from my web site...internet leads. My firm will be a small boutique realty firm located in a Neo Traditional work/live area. Very cool!
My office is chic, with a funky spin. (Neo traditional I suppose).
I will have a 3 dimensional @Homes sign in silver on the wall in the office...you won't see ANY gold real estate jackets or big red and blue balloons here, lol.
I want the home buying experience to be one my clients will never forget, from the moment they walk in the door, til the moment I send them a thank you note on my killer stationary! I want an upscale feel, funky, and sleek.
Huntsville has a very large population of engineers and loads of graphics people as well. When I hand someone my business card, I want them to think "wow"..those are some GREAT business cards! Let's blow their socks off :)
Home buyers and sellers. I don't target any specific price range. Love working with first time buyers as well as upper end. Just wanting to leave a lasting impression from the moment we meet!
http://www.athomeshuntsville.com is the web site. I do want @homes on the card. Maybe slap a roof on the @sign? Funky please, not boring.
I do NOT want a standard business card. Either a fold over, of a card that has one side that folds over the center of the card for the logo, open that side up and there is my photo, etc.
Requirement for the cards: Company name: @homes
My name: Elizabeth Ramsey Golden
My cell number
My office number
My fax number
Company address
Web site: http://www.athomeshuntsville.com
Blog: http://www.wherenerdsrule.com
My photo will be in black and white.
On the back: I want "google me" and will also have my twitter name and facebook name.
Colors: Blue ...sleek and clean look.
I deleted the attachment for the logo. I just really don't care for it. Looking forward to seeing what new logo for the card you can come up with. @sign with roof in the @ or on top of.
Here is a link to the location of my office...neo traditional. : http://www.villageofprovidence.com/…p?mainID=6
White inside? Card can open like a book, or from top to bottom. I'm open :)
Looking forward to seeing what transpires here!
I want to invoke trust and give people the warm fuzzies, so if I can keep the card "warm and inviting" if possible..(does that make sense?)
Here is a fold over business card:


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Digital Benefit Advisors said today it has begun enrolling New Jersey businesses in its online private insurance exchange, a system it says will benefit small to midsize employers by enabling companies to provide coverage on fixed budgets with fewer administrative burdens.
Digital Benefit Advisors, a division of Digital Insurance, an Atlanta-based employee benefits only agency, says it is bringing New Jersey companies and employees a consumer-friendly approach to choosing benefits through the technology it has been developing over the past decade.
"The software has caught up to the marketplace enough that you can create online stores and allow people to choose for themselves solutions customized to their needs," Digital Insurance Chief Marketing Officer Mike Sullivan said.
Private exchanges differ from traditional benefits, where employees choose a health insurance carrier and pay a portion of the premium. Private exchanges allow the employer to specify the amount they want to pay toward benefits per employee. Decision making then shifts to the employee, who selects plans and coverage.
"What that means is a broader choice at the individual and family level," Sullivan said. "Instead of employers trying to make a generic choice for 500 or 5,000 employees, this provides a customized approach directed at the individual."
Private exchanges also differ from public exchanges operated by the government, such as those created by the Affordable Care Act, that apply to health insurance only. Private exchanges also include life insurance, disability, dental, vision and other benefits.
Sullivan said the private sector is applying the idea of public insurance exchanges, pushed by government, to a broader scope. Public exchanges are appropriate for employees eligible for government subsidies, Sullivan said, but Digital Insurance otherwise believes people will gravitate toward privately run systems.
"If we can't compete with what is effectively the DMV of health care, then shame on us," Sullivan said, referring to widespread glitches that have overwhelmed healthcare.gov.
"We are going to create a framework that gives employers greater flexibility and choice."
Long-term, the company says employers will benefits from more predictable budgets, less administrative costs, and customer service provided by Digital Insurance's call centers.
Sullivan said New Jersey was an attractive choice because Digital Benefits Advisors has about 500 employer clients in the state, which it serves from a Philadelphia office, and plans to expand presence.
"It's a prelude to an acquisition strategy," he said. "It's a very competitive marketplace."
Sullivan said the company enrolled about 100 small to midsize employers in New Jersey to its private insurance exchange, called Digital Exchange Marketplace. The parent company operates in about 45 states, he said.
For more information, employers can visit digitalbenefitsmarketplace.com.


text: Unhinged begins tomorrow, a Gacha festival benefiting Eku Zhong. Her story is a very touching one and can be read here. 75% of the Gacha proceeds will be donated to Eku to hopefully help with some of the cost of a much needed surgery. Not only will there be plenty of Gachas but there's going to be an assortment of talented DJs to entertain you for the duration of this event. Now I'm gonna tell ya about a few of my faves. Hanaya has made these fun wearable, accessory pants in 14 different versions! All are intricately detailed, filling these pants with just about anything! Second, I'm in love with this very pale beauty from YS&YS. Jane comes in 3 makeups with several options including 3 brow colors, cleavage, freckles and hairbases. I adore these little freckles! Make sure you keep reading for more info and photos. A landmark to Unhinged soon to come!


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This is the question I'm most frequently asked (at least at work). Does it have an answer? Not really. No organisms need a 'point' (there are no entrance exams in evolution), but wasps do impact on our lives in useful and surprising ways.
Read on to discover why wasps matter and find out more about some of the most wonderful species.
1) They are beautiful.
Camouflage, communication - especially communicating the fact that they might sting you - and being conspicuous in dark undergrowth are all reasons why so many wasps have striking colour patterns. Iridescent, metallic-looking colours have evolved many times. Black and yellow stripes are classic warnings to birds and mammals that they can sting, so best left alone.
Ormyrus nitidulus - a common British parasitoid of gall wasps.
Ophion obscuratus - nocturnal ichneumonid, common and widespread.
Nest of Charterginus fulvus, a South American paper wasp.
2) They are useful.
Wasps are not just here to provide entertainment at picnics. They help us to control pests that would otherwise damage our gardens and food crops.
Vespids are a large family of wasps that include familiar nest-building species you might see flying around your garden. Wasp larvae are fed on flesh, usually of other insects, such as caterpillars and aphids. So, wasps can be useful around the garden by eating pests (the adults just need sugar, they become annoying when they're out for themselves, as the colony collapses late in the summer). But these predatory wasps, though they are the most familiar to us, are just the tip of the wasp iceberg. Together with ants, bees, sawflies and many families of parasitoid wasps, they comprise the order Hymenoptera.
Vespula vulgaris - the vespid that everyone is most familiar with
There are hundreds of thousands of parasitoid species out there: these lay their eggs in or on other insects, which their larvae then eat alive. These parasitoid wasps are responsible for the deaths of huge numbers of insects, regulating populations, partly shaping the world around us by limiting numbers of vegetation-crunching caterpillars and the like. We harness this ability to find and parasitise particular insects by releasing some wasp species to control numbers of pest insects on crops: biological control. This saves us huge amounts of money.
3) They are interesting.
All wasps do something interesting. They attack other insects in sophisticated and often surprising ways. Every creature is, of course, potentially interesting (even beetles) but the intricate interactions of parasitoid wasps and their hosts is, you must admit, fascinating.
Cotesia glomerata larvae emerging from a large white (Pieris brassicae) caterpillar.
We know very little about the biology of the majority of parasitoid wasps, even in countries such as Britain, with a long and proud history of under-employed clergymen and country squires peering into bushes and sifting through soil for caterpillars. Here are two species from my garden, to illustrate the point.
Helorus rufipes, a wasp quietly going about its business in British woodlands and gardens.
The first wasp is Helorus rufipes. You don't get much more obscure than this. It's one of three British species of the family Heloridae, a family found over much of the globe but not one of the hymenopteran success stories, with only a small number of species. They're not very big and they are not very flashy but they do live in British woodlands and gardens and are quietly going about their business, laying eggs in lacewing larvae and eating them from the inside. This specimen was on the wall by my back door as I left for work one morning. But you won't find Helorus in many field guides or many online illustrations. Just one of many obscure families of Hymenoptera that fill our landscape.
What appears to be a new species of Netelia, an ichneumon wasp, found in my garden.
The second wasp is a species of Netelia, of the ridiculously successful family, Ichneumonidae. Ichneumonids abound, with over 2,300 species in Britain alone. Netelia is one of the more successful genera with a great many species found all over the world, including 25 species in Britain. This specimen was caught in the light trap that I use for catching moths in my garden, which is also a productive way of sampling nocturnal wasps.
For a while, I thought that this species was Netelia testacea, which is a name that you will often see online and in the literature, sometimes illustrated in field guides as one of the few ichneumonids apparently common and well known enough to be worth illustrating. There are many, many papers that reference the biology and distribution of Netelia testacea. Except that these are almost all wrong, and I was wrong.
I've checked out the identity of Netelia testacea and it's not what we thought. The well-known species usually illustrated as Netelia testacea is usually Netelia melanura and this species in the photograph, that I frequently catch in my garden, turns out not to have a name. So I need to describe a new species for one of the most common ichneumonids in my light trap, which is one reason these things are so interesting.
Further information
- There are, sadly, few online resources that provide a good introduction to the vast insect order, Hymenoptera. The Amateur Entomolgists' Society is useful.
- There are over 7,700 species of Hymenoptera in Britain; my introduction to the new checklist includes a table of species per family.


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Skip to comments.Friends complicate (Crystal) Mangum case (DukeLax)
Posted on 11/28/2010 4:48:59 AM PST by abb
They've run off one public defender, been chastised by a new defense attorney and faced a threat of jail time by a judge.
But the Friends of Crystal Mangum insist they're on her side, trying to protect her from a corrupt judicial system that they say aims to punish her for accusing three Duke lacrosse players of rape four years ago. Attorney General Roy Cooper concluded there was no rape, and former District Attorney Mike Nifong lost his law license over it, but the Friends believe Mangum's story.
Now facing multiple felony charges related to a domestic violence call Feb. 17, Mangum is free on $100,000 bail. Her trial is scheduled to begin as early as Monday.
Police say Mangum scratched and punched her boyfriend, Milton Walker, and damaged his car. She also took Walker's clothes, placed them in a bathtub and lit them on fire - with him, her three children and two police officers still in the home, according to arrest warrants. Mangum declined to comment for this story but has denied the charges.
Ed Clark, Mangum's publicist, said she had complained about Walker's behavior earlier in the day and that Walker was the aggressor. Clark said that when officers realized she was the Duke lacrosse accuser, they focused on her. "She did go kind of bananas when the cops were taking her away, but I would have, too, if a man was attacking me and I'm the one that's going to jail," he said.
Citizens and lawyers
Initially, police charged her with attempted murder, and a judge set bail at $1 million. Now facing lesser charges, Mangum eventually lost the right to have contact with her children because of pre-trial release violations.
"It's almost like a form of lynching, what's happened to her," said Myra Kinderknecht of Fayetteville, a Friends member. "Everything that has happened to her screams white power, black oppression."
Mangum's own defense lawyers say such strident claims only complicate her criminal case. Steven Kohn, a leading expert on political prisoners, said the U.S. Constitution invites citizen activism, but the pretrial publicity it generates often hurts a defendant.
"The law has very constrained procedures that the general public or citizen activist groups won't understand or won't respect," he said. "The citizens are frustrated that the lawyer is being a lawyer and not an activist, and the lawyer is frustrated that the citizens don't understand the law."
Friends members carried out similar advocacy for murder convicts Michael Peterson in Durham and James Johnson in Wilson. Kohn said citizens defense committees have a long history in the United States, from the American Civil Liberties Union, which formed to protect conscientious objectors during World War I, to the citizens who supported O.J. Simpson's defense in Los Angeles.
The Friends of Crystal Mangum is an offshoot of another group, the Committee on Justice for Mike Nifong, the district attorney who prosecuted the Duke lacrosse players. Friends founder Douglas Register said authorities are persecuting Mangum to further discredit her and help their defense in a civil lawsuit brought by all 38 lacrosse players against Duke and the city of Durham..
"[Her conviction] might possibly allow the city to settle for a lower amount," he said. "The families might be appeased. It might close the door."
The Friends accuse Mangum's attorneys of pressuring her to plead guilty. Clayton Jones, her former lawyer, said that's not true.
Attorney Mani Dexter, appointed by the public defender's office because of Mangum's indigence, declined to comment.
Mangum has gone before judges several times this year, adjusting the conditions of her pre-trial release. Each time, members of the Friends or the associated Committee on Justice for Mike Nifong have been there, often addressing the judges directly, much to the chagrin of Mangum's lawyers.
"No one in the Committee on Justice for Mike Nifong has ever even been to a day of law school," said Jones, an assistant public defender. "They've watched a lot of TV - Law & Order, CSI - and think that that's how we practice law in the state of North Carolina."
'Out of order'
During a break in a hearing in late August, when Superior Court Judge Milton Fitch was preparing to deal with an unrelated case, Friends member and Nifong supporter Victoria Peterson tried to speak to him across the waist-high wall that divides the courtroom.
"No, ma'am," Fitch said sternly. "You're out of order right now. That matter is not before me."
When Fitch asked how long it would take a witness to retrieve a file from his office across the street from the courthouse, Peterson spoke up.
"He's talking to you," Peterson told the man, who had not immediately answered the judge.
"Ma'am, you are not a lawyer, and you are not a party to this case," Fitch said. "If I hear one more outburst out of you, I'm going to send you to the Durham County jail."
Since then, the Friends have put forth a hand-written confession from Walker saying he set his own clothes on fire, and filed a complaint with Durham County Department Social Services for telling a pre-trial release officer that Mangum's children had been living with her against a judge's order.
"You have no idea what impact these things will have on Crystal's case," Dexter chided the Friends in an e-mail. "When you take the consideration ... out of the equation, you make a mess."
One lawyer down
Conflict with the Friends drove assistant public defender Clayton Jones off the case in July.
Jones said his first interactions with the Friends were positive. But eventually he told them to stop calling after they started demanding evidence from Mangum's case file.
"They wanted information that they were not privileged to," Jones said. "We would discuss pertinent matters with her case, and she would literally walk right out the door ... and give them her whole discovery."
This past summer, after the Friends held a press conference at Mangum's house, Jones told Mangum that if she didn't like his advice, she should find a new lawyer. The next week, she asked a judge to appoint a new one.
Jones said the Friends are taking advantage of Mangum.
"They are in my opinion using Crystal Mangum's name and all the things associated with her to promote their own agenda," he said.
No single ideology unites the Friends, so it's unclear exactly why they've coalesced around Mangum or why they don't trust her lawyers. The Duke lacrosse case is the latest in a long line of causes taken up by members of the Nifong committee and the Friends.
Victoria Peterson is a failed candidate for public office. She has protested abortion clinics, and railed against causes ranging from urban chickens to homosexuality. She is best known as an advocate for jobs and work skills for inner-city men.
Register said he got involved in the lacrosse case because he has suffered from mental illness and felt the players' defense lawyers had exploited Mangum's illness in attacking her story. He also felt critics had slandered N.C. Central University, an alma mater he and Mangum share. Register has fought publicly against Jewish menorahs on city property and a Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit because it might support "Palestinian oppression."
"Any high-profile case attracts people to that case who might have other agendas. That is a fact," Register said. "[The Friends] are community activists. They believe that there is an inequity, that there is an unevenness in justice."
Milo Pyne, who knows Friends member Steven Matherly through their work together with the progressive Durham People's Alliance, called the Mangum advocacy "quixotic."
"Even though I have sympathy for Ms. Mangum and Mr. Nifong," Pyne said, "I don't know how getting involved in that issue at this late date would help me or the cause of progressive politics in Durham."
But Michael Page, who as Durham County Commissioners chair has often encountered Peterson and Register, doesn't fault the Friends for trying to help Mangum.
"The lady has gone through a whole lot in the past few years," he said. "It's a humanitarian evidently stepping out to make sure she gets treated fairly. I don't think anybody's trying to hurt anybody in this process, but I think they're just trying to make sure that she gets justice." email@example.com or 919-932-8760
Friends founder a 'provocative social activist'
Peterson 'reaches out to people'
Matherly sees brushes with law as 'badge of honor'
Pavlov's dogs have been officially replaced as symbols of conditioned responses.
The new symbol will be anyone - white or black - who cannot operate a desk calculator or a steam iron but can trot out terms such as lynching, white power, black oppression at a moment's notice.
Here's Myra's glamour shot:
Her profile lists her as USAF retired. Sadly, her military service did not include any training in common sense.
Her tagline? "Intense about Truth and Facts, humanity, justice." There is plenty of truth and there are plenty of facts in this case but people like Myra refuse to countenance them.
Crystal and her supporters. It's more like a bunch of dung beetles fighting over a huge turd.
Maybe it was the fuel fumes that killed a few billion of her most critical brain cells.
From the article: "They are in my opinion using Crystal Mangum's name and all the things associated with her to promote their own agenda," he said."
I followed the Lax case closely because I saw the diversity race and sex hate moving to real world persecution of the Lax players. The Duke faculity is pure KKKish poison and many should have been fired after this incident.
Oh gee...now she has but a small taste of what the Duke players went through when she falsely accused them. No sympathy whatsoever.
Oh gee...now she has but a small taste of what the Duke players went through when she falsely accused them. No sympathy whatsoever.
Oh gee...now she has but a small taste of what the Duke players went through when she falsely accused them. No sympathy whatsoever.
Truth & Facts? DNA is pretty factual, yet she still believes Ms. Mangum.
Justice? Nifong withheld, (and conspired to withhold?) exculpatory evidence, yet she still believes Ms. Mangum.
I haven't really been keeping up on the case since Nifong got nailed, and Duke lost an (alleged) obscenely large amount of Samolians.
So, have the "Just Us" brothers forsaken Crystal? Or is the ROI negative or non-existent?
Or maybe she's next in line to take over the Client#9-Parker spot on CNN.
Or at least Parker's spot.
Flies on crap...
Why don't they pass the hat among themselves and come up with about $25,000 to hire a lawyer for her if they don't like the ones that the taxpayers are funding?
No comment needed.
OK, I had to explain to my wife why I was laughing, which is always difficult, as there's generally a fair amount of background required, and this case is no exception.
Regarding the faculty, at minimum, the 80 or so who signed the letter that was put in the paper should have been formally reprimanded, and Broadhead should have resigned / been replaced by the board.
Update ping.
Published Tue, Nov 30, 2010 05:58 PM
Modified Tue, Nov 30, 2010 06:12 PM
Crystal Mangum's attorney seeks to suppress evidence
DURHAM DURHAM — Crystal Mangums attorney is trying to suppress all evidence against her, saying police illegally entered her duplex home during a February domestic disturbance call.
Officers testified Tuesday they initially thought Mangum was the victim when they found her and her three children in the home at 2220 Lincoln St. just before midnight on Feb. 17.
But when her then-boyfriend Milton Walker returned to the home shirtless, shoeless and shivering, with scratches on his arms and saying he had been waiting in the bushes for police to arrive, officers didnt know what to believe.
Durham, NC
January 02, 2011
Durham County Social Services
Attn: John Margolis, Supervisor
220 East Main Street
Durham, NC 27701
Re: Defense Witness List / Injury to Personal Property Fails Upon Owner Consent
Dear Mr. Margolis
The Metamorphosis Club is a psycho-social mental health self-help group located in Durham. We are aligned with MindFreedom International, Inc., an international psychiatric patient human rights organization. Our concern was raised recently about the physical and emotional well-being of a Mr. Milton Walker, a known psychiatrically disabled adult Durham citizen, through news reports and by the reported rejection of a signed and video-taped confession offered in the concluded criminal case State v. Crystal Mangum. The Friends of Crystal Mangum, a governmental anti-corruption organization, additionally brought this exploitation concern to us.
The Durham County District Attorneys Office apparently felt that Mr. Milton Walkers confession was an act of exploitation.
We ask therefore for your department to initiate the protective investigation required pursuant to the North Carolina Protection of the Abused, Neglected, or Exploited Disabled Adult Act (§108-99, et seq.) and other governing laws concerning this individual.
Because this individual appeared on the witness list submitted by attorney Mani Dexter in the above cited criminal trial that in and of itself reflects ongoing exploitation of this adult and therefore possible continuing abuse and neglect.
We look earnestly forward to receiving whatever information from your investigation that you are lawfully allowed to disclose. Thank you.
Douglas J. Register
Metamorphosis Club
Friends of Crystal Mangum
Cc Gerri Robinson, Director
Lawrence Campbell
And by call to (919) 560-8600
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Join us Monday mornings for art and a fun time to socialize with other painters. Dawn Scaltreto will give you tips for your art work and will discuss different aspects of painting. Seniors should bring their own supplies.
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Each year, Mercer Consultingassembles its ranking of the most expensive places to live to help multinational corporations determine compensation allowances for expatriate employees, using New York as the base reference city.
Mercer compiles information from 214 cities worldwide, comparing the cost of more than 200 items in each location, including housing, transportation, food, entertainment, and more.
"The world witnessed an incredible number of natural disasters and political upheavals that have all affected the lives of expatriate employees to some extent. Currency fluctuations and the impact of inflation on goods and services–petroleum in particular–have led to some reorganization of the ranking," says Nathalie Constantin-Metral, the senior researcher at Mercer who compiled the study. "In North America, increasing petroleum prices continue to contribute to rising consumer prices, but many of its cities dropped in the rankings as price increases in other regions have been more severe, pushing U.S. cities down the list," she says.
In North America, the most expensive city is New York (32), while Toronto (59), Vancouver (65), Los Angeles (77), and Montreal (79) round out the most expensive cities on the continent. In these areas, as well in other regions around the world, accommodation prices continue to be the biggest drivers in cost of living, with rental demand and prices rising in the U.S., according to Mercer.
So, which cities are the world's most expensive cities to live in? Click ahead to find out!
By Paul Toscano
Posted 12 July 2011
Note: In the slides that follow, gasoline prices are listed in gallons. The original Mercer report lists these prices in liters and CNBC has calculated this conversion.


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Give Flyers chairman Ed Snider credit. His youth hockey foundation has reconstructed four city rinks and given kids a place to play hockey.
On Tuesday, Snider attended a walk-through of Tarken Ice Rink in Northeast Philly. It is the last of four city rinks that have been redone and fully enclosed, making them operational during the entire year.
The Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation contributed $6.5 million to match a grant from the Commonwealth's Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. The public/private partnership resulted in a $13 million restoration project that saved the rinks.
Here's hoping Snider, the Flyers' founder, is just as successful in helping NHL commissioner Gary Bettman put an end to the league's labor dispute.
Wednesday is the 25th day of the lockout, and it's time we heard some of the NHL owners' voices.
There are rumblings that some owners aren't on board with all of the decisions that are being made. If so, we need to hear from them because they might just lead to some common ground between the league and the players' union.
Oh, almost forgot: The league says it will fine management up to $1 million if anyone speaks up. Comments are only allowed to come from Bettman or his sidekick, Bill Daly.
Earth to the NHL: That plan hasn't worked too well.
As Flyers center Danny Briere recently pointed out, the NHL owners are highly successful in the business world and they got there by voicing their opinions.
Bettman needs to eliminate the gag order. Maybe it wouldn't trigger a quick resolution. But maybe, just maybe, it would get both sides (finally) talking about meaningful issues at the bargaining table.
That would be a start.
Follow Sam Carchidi on Twitter @BroadStBull.