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Taking a research partnership with technology solutions provider Mission Solutions Engineering LLC a step further, Rowan University has launched its first off-site graduate degree program at the firm's Moorestown training center, to offer employees advanced computer science courses that will expand their technical knowledge and skill sets to help the company stay relevant in an ever-changing field.
"There's a natural need for the university to be able to work with companies like MSE to create opportunities for our students. But companies today are fast-changing entities, so we need to adapt our academic programs based on their needs to work with them," said Parviz Ansari, dean of Rowan's College of Science and Mathematics. "MSE is really embracing that idea by agreeing to do this program, and our hope is this program is a starting point for having more dialogue with companies in the area, so they know what we can offer and how we're willing to offer it to fit their needs."
MSE President Michael Knowles said the firm already had a tuition reimbursement program in place for employees to continue their education, but said the on-site master's program through Rowan offers staff more flexibility and convenience in obtaining advanced degrees.
"We still offer the option for employees to seek advanced degrees and training through other accredited programs ... (but) our employees work long hours, and by having the classroom here, they can avoid commutes and other non-classroom hours and focus on learning," Knowles said in an e-mail. "The short-term impact is that employees see we are an employer that values them. Long term, we and they benefit by keeping us relevant in the marketplace."
Knowles said in an e-mail the graduate degree program is "a natural extension of the relationship we had with Rowan," noting many of the firm's employees received their undergraduate degrees from the university before they were hired, and the company has maintained a contract with the school to provide a hands-on software engineering experience to students since January 2010.
For the first semester of the 30-credit degree program, Rowan professors will teach 25 employees one computer science course, though the covered material and pace of the classes will be determined by the needs of the firm and the students, Ansari said.
"This isn't like a traditional master's program model, because we're offering students the courses as they wish to take them," Ansari said. "The only concrete guideline is they have to complete 10 courses, but what those courses teach them and when they want to take them is up to them and the company."
Ansari said he is looking to extend the program to other local firms in the fields of science and biomedical technology, as the university is currently "introducing key programs that will resonate well with industries in the region as we seek potential partnerships," such as a graduate-level pharmaceutical sciences program that is pending state approval.
"We're very interested in creating employment opportunities for our students, and an industry-university partnership is one solution to the important issue of creating jobs for people who will be experts in advanced technology," Ansari said. "I would not be surprised if, through this partnership, we end up working with MSE on other things, or end up catching the attention of other companies — and that's one goal for us in this program."


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So the Fire's 2013 regular season schedule OFFICIALLY came out earlier today and while I'm crushed that the league didn't go for my MLS Cup re-match on October 25 idea, there are still some dates beyond the three we already knew about that I'm looking forward to.
As always, there are also some things I dislike about the schedule…
Four games I'm looking forward to…
April 14 at Houston – A rematch of the Fire's 2012 MLS Cup playoff defeat. Houston outplayed the Fire back on Halloween and though they were a #5 seed went all the way to the final. I'd hope that every player that went through that defeat has the game circled.
April 27 at Montreal – What can I say except that I'm a sucker for French Canada? The trip to Montreal to begin the 2012 season was one of my favorite Fire memories and now with the Impact back into Stade Saputo, I have something else to look forward to.
June 2 vs. D.C. United – Though I'd prefer this game to be played on October 25, the first game against United should be another one Fire players mark on their calendar after drawing with them 1-1 at home to end the 2012 season. Despite an onslaught at the end of the match, the team couldn't find a second goal to avoid the knockout playoff match. The addition of Maicon Santos also makes this one more interesting
- September 7 at Seattle – I put in my Fire New Year's Resolutions that whenever the team traveled to Qwest Field, the goal should be to come away with three points. Having gone 0-5-3 against the Sounders since 2009, its time to put that winless streak to bed.
Things I don't like…
I love Montreal so I don't like that though the Fire play the Impact three times this season, the only trip to Quebec will come on April 27. There's always 2014 I suppose…
Though a common occurrence in the old days of MLS when there were 10-12 teams, that odd back-to-back home and home series in mid-May with Philadelphia just feels strange…
The Fire only play Toronto FC twice and the away game is on a Wednesday, making away supporters travel difficult. The two teams met on the same Wednesday the year before and I believe the combination of TFC's poor form and the midweek match were at fault for really poor attendance.
For the second straight year, the Fire will have to venture to Houston in the dead heat of summer for their fixture on July 27… Is there any way BBVA Compass can build a dome for the summer months?
- Down the home stretch, only one of the team's last four matches is being played at Toyota Park (October 19 vs. Toronto FC). If the playoff race is as tight as it was last season, this could be difficult.

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10 Songs for Mountain Biking
Every life experience -- be it crying on the bathroom floor or jogging along the river during a multicolored sunset -- has a soundtrack. Mountain biking is no exception. Hauling yourself up a rocky incline requires a certain kind of music, and Sufjan Stevens simply doesn't cut it. The ideal mountain biking songs are fast and aggressive. A pummeling onslaught of anger and guitars can inspire riders to hammer on the pedals and charge over rocks and roots. With this, Diffuser.fm's first-ever Super Specific Weekly Playlist, we list 10 songs for biking up a mountain.
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'Wolf Like Me'TV on the Radio
Admittedly, the lyrics of this tune are tough to decipher over the deafening sound of your own grinding teeth, but there's no question that thinking of yourself as a wolf will give you a devilish boost. When you're ready to fall the f--- over with weariness, and your playlist turns over into the thumping drums of this intro, you'll stand up, sack up and maybe even let out a howl. The words of inspiration might not apply directly to your painful slog -- "when the moon is round and full gotta bust that box gotta gut that fish" -- but you will want to bust a gut and box that spit.
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You're focused. Your heart rate is cranking. You are shoving your way through the woods. S--- better get outta your way. So simple in just four short verses, this classic, twangy, raw number from the female quartet's 'Smell the Magic' record is superbly energizing. It doesn't matter that the content has nothing to do with two wheels or mountains ("some guy just pinched my ass / drunken bums ain't got no class"). It's full of feeling and adrenaline-laced rage. Better than a Cliff Bar any day.
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The intro of the first track off the Canadian rockers' 2005 release is nearly inaudible, given its sorrowful yet speedy guitar strains, and Emily Haines' sweet, melodic proclamation, "There was no way out / The only way out was to give in … how I love to give in," is the perfect set-up for the wall of noise that hits you when the song seriously starts attacking. You won't know entirely what she means by, "I'm so glad that I'm an island," but as you're cranking away and sweating, the sentiment seems spot on.
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'My Brain is Hanging Upside Down'The Ramones
Appearing on 1986's 'Animal Boy,' this track was originally entitled 'Bonzo Goes to Bitburg' and written to protest then-president Ronald Reagan's visit to Germany's Bitburg cemetery (housing the bodies of SS soldiers). Presumably, Reagan is Bonzo. But that means nothing at all when you're sucking wind. Right-side up as you may be (hopefully), the chorus, "My brain is hanging upside down / I need something to slow me down," will somehow, magically, make you pedal faster. Try it.
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'You Ain't Me'Frank Black
Who knows what this tune -- arguably Mr. Francis's most dynamic solo number from arguably his best solo record, 'The Cult of Ray' -- is really about? If your bike ride is full of brooding moments of clarity and a delirious sense of reverie, which you probably have endorphins to thank for, then filling your head with that delicious, highly distinctive intro guitar riff will have you singing along out loud, delighted that nobody is you.
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'Painted Bird'Siouxsie and the Banshees
One of the Banshees' most romping tunes, this is an unsung classic that you should really incorporate into your regular high-heart-rate pursuits. Maybe it's the anthemic lead guitar or all the mentions of dowdy flocks, whippoorwhills and "freak beak shrieks," but there's an unmistakable force in this 30-year-old song that will make you sprout wings.
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'Bruise Violet'Babes in Toyland
Have you ever played air drums on your handlebars? You will. Maybe you thought '90s screech rock was something to merely get you through your teenage rage, but no. The all-girl trio was famous for its fury-filled tunes, but this one is in a league all its own. It's true that anger is an energy, and when Kat Bjelland is bellowing about someone (Courtney Love, it was rumored, for stealing Bjelland's bleached baby-doll look) who has "glue instead of spine," the energy -- angry as it may be -- is contagious.
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This, people, is your mantra. Santi White presumably wrote this song -- from the genre-leaping artist's first studio album -- about trucking through the streets of New York. There is talk of pepper spray and getting tickets from "joker cops," but the only part you need to hone in on -- which will essentially transform you into a high-performance machine -- is "I've got to be unstoppable / I've got to be unstoppable."
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'Y Control'Yeah Yeah Yeahs
There's something about the mix of high treble-rich guitar notes and Karen O's resolute voice that simply makes this track feel big. Featured on the New York indie kids' full-length debut, 'Fever to Tell,' the song isn't exactly uplifting. In fact, it's about being controlled. ("I wish I could buy back the woman you stole.") But pump this in your ears, and you will be thrashing around in your saddle, recharged for those last steep climbs.
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'Headlights Look Like Diamonds'Arcade Fire
You probably won't see many headlights at the top of the mountain, but the summit itself will take on an unmistakable glow if you're rocking out to this track. Frenzied and chaotic yet gorgeously focused, this one's off the Canadian ensemble's 2002 self-titled EP. After a twinkly start and spectacular build-up, it's Win Butler's stifled yells ("hah!") -- preceding Regine's lovely vocal harmonies and capped with the slam of a symbol -- that deliver 'Headlights' into your already-worked system like a thunderclap. Save it for the homestretch.


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We're very excited to announce the schedules and times for QuakeCon 2012's keynote and panels. As is tradition, the keynote will be given by id's co-founder and technical director, John Carmack!
Then on both Friday and Saturday, we've put together an entertaining slate of panels featuring folks from across the gaming industry. Details below…
Thursday, August 2nd
Welcome and Annual Keynote with John Carmack (2:00 PM)
Friday, August 3rd
The Game of Making Games (11:30 AM) – featuring Todd Howard (Bethesda Game Studios), Jens Matthies (MachineGames), Raphael Colantonio (Arkane Studios), and Ted Price (Insomniac Games). Moderated by Blair Herter (G4TV).
Capture the Fan: Making Multiplayer Games That Last (1:00 PM) – featuring Chet Faliszek (Valve), Marty Stratton (id Software), and Max Hoberman (Certain Affinity). Moderated by Kevin Kelly (Wizard World).
Looking Back at Looking Glass Studios (2:30 PM) – featuring Tom Leonard (Valve), Austin Grossman, and Emil Pagliarulo (Bethesda Game Studios). Moderated by Harvey Smith (Arkane Studios).
Talking Shop: Skyrim, Modding and Steam (4PM) – featuring Chet Faliszek (Valve), Matt Scott (Valve) and Joel Burgess (Bethesda Game Studios). Moderated by Nick Breckon (Bethesda Softworks).
Virtual Insanity (6:00 PM) – featuring John Carmack (id Software), Michael Abrash (Valve), and Palmer Luckey (Oculus). Moderated by Todd Hollenshead (id Software).
Saturday, August 4th
GameTrailers' Bonus Round (11 AM) – featuring industry veteran Adam Sessler, Harvey Smith (Arkane Studios), Michael Pachter (Wedbush Securities), and Raphael Colantonio (Arakne Studios). Moderated by Geoff Keighley (GameTrailers TV).Celebrating id Modding (12:30 PM) – featuring Brendon Chung (Blendo Games), Robert Duffy (id Software), amd JP LeBreton (Double Fine). Moderated by Justin Blankenship (Hit Detection).
Idle Thumbs Podcast: Arena (1:30 PM) – featuring Chris Remo (Double Fine), Jake Rodkin (Telltale Games), JP LeBreton (Double Fine), Nick Breckon (Bethesda Softworks), and Steve Gaynor (The Fullbright Company).
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elantra wrote:The bikes being pedaled by Mini Cooper Motors are a much more serious effort than most other motoring forays into the bike market.
They are already in the showrooms here (brisbane) and they are very nice bikes, in the retro groove.
They use Reynolds 520 or 531 frames.
Obviously this is more a marketing exercise than a serious push into the bike market, but I for one would not say no to one of these little beauties in my garage.
These Cooper Bikes are not in any way related to the MINI car brand.
Mike Cooper, the son of John Cooper of Mini Cooper fame, is behind the bikes.


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Saturday 26 Jul 2014, 7.45pmWorcester Cathedral, Worcester
Peter Nardone conductor
Geraint Bowen second conductor
Susan Gritton soprano
James Oxley tenor
David Wilson-Johnson baritone
Three Choirs Festival Chorus choir
Britten War Requiem
'My subject is war, and the pity of war.'
Three Choirs Festival 2014 marks the centenary of World War I with a performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.
Built around nine World War I poems by Wilfred Owen and extracts from the Latin Requiem Mass, Britten's War Requiem was commissioned to mark the 1962 re-consecration of Coventry Cathedral following its obliteration in World War II in 1940.
Britten wanted his work to be one of unity and so his Requiem was duly scheduled to be premièred by soloists from England, Russia and Germany. Britten's War Requiem juxtaposes traditional expressions of suffering against a personal plea for reconciliation, denouncing all war and uniting nations.
This concert is part of the Three Choirs Festival series


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Andrew Garfield to Play Peter Parker in Spider-Man Reboot
Actor Andrew Garfield, who is British, and 26, will play Peter Parker in director Marc Webb's "reboot" of the Spider-man franchise, ending comedian Donald Glover's dreams of playing the part. Want to see him act?
Here's a montage of Garfield in various movies. If you recognize him, good for you, because he's only been in flops—Lions for Lambs and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.
He was also in the British crime miniseries Red Riding, which was only okay, but seems to have fooled American critics because it was made in England. He'll play Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in the upcoming Facebook movie The Social Network.
He seems like a nice-enough guy, which is too bad, because the new Spider-Man is almost definitely going to suck.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- After lightning forced the cancellation of a doubleheader in Richmond last week, the Tennessee Tech softball team will play two against Eastern Kentucky at home on Thursday.
The first game at EKU was called just two outs into the first inning as Tech had runners at the corners. Instead of playing a single game in Cookeville, the teams will play a doubleheader at the Tech Softball Field starting at 2 p.m.
Eastern Kentucky enters the matchup coming off of a 7-2 win over conference-leading UT Martin. The Colonels are an even 5-5 on the road this season and have won three of their last eight away from Richmond.
The Golden Eagles have won three of their last five at home with wins over Murray State and Southeast Missouri. Tech is currently in sixth place in the Ohio Valley Conference standings with a 9-9 record, but would overtake Eastern Kentucky (8-7) for fifth place with a pair of wins.
Tech will then hit the road again to face Eastern Illinois in a three-game series starting Saturday.


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Head on over to Little Jacob's place, which is located on Dillon Street on the border of Downtown and Schottler. Once you're there, head to his front door and ring him up. The ever-stoned Jacob will stumble down the stairs to answer the door. You'll want to make sure to have subtitles on if you don't already, since understanding anything he says is a feat without them. Through all of the incomprehensible verbiage spewing from Jacob's mouth, you'll garner one important fact -- he wants you for a mission.
Jacob is too high to drive, so he asks you to do so. Jump into your whip and begin driving towards Willis. The GPS on your HUD will give you the best route there. As usual, Jacob will be talking incomprehensibly, so keep an eye on the subtitles to see all of the humorous things he's saying to you. When you finally arrive at your destination, you'll drop Jacob off and then be ordered to head into the nearby alleyway to cut off any possible escape from the guys he's dealing with. Pull into the alleyway (don't back in), and try to turn to the left as much as you can before hitting the event arrow there. This will give you great placement for what's to come.
It appears Jacob's paranoia wasn't completely weed-induced. The new guys he's dealing with did indeed try to take his money without handing over the goods, and Jacob calls you to let you know they're making a run for it out of the back alley. As you see them run out of the door and towards the far side of the alley, you'll realize why we told you to turn to the left. Begin driving towards them, using your car as your weapon to run the three foes down. Don't get out of your car, as these three guys are packing heat. The car will give ample (though not complete) protection from bullets. The red dots on the map represent their location (if they're close enough to each other, it'll be one red dot). Run them down, being absolutely sure they're dead, and then pick up Jacob when the game tells you to.
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Photo 107
(Caption on reverse): "This three panel 18 ft. long, 8 ft. high, 3 ft. wide exhibit emphasizes the fact that each community has welfare resources that must be prepared for any disaster, natural or nuclear. The basic theme is the welfare of people in disaster, and states that The basic mission of civil defense is to save lives in event of disaster.' Purpose of the exhibit is to encourage local governments to coordinate the welfare resources of each community in creating and maintaining five basic emergency welfare services: Social Services, Lodging, Feeding, Clothing, and Registration and Inquiry. An integral part of the exhibit is a 9-minute color movie of natural disaster phenomena and civil defense action." (Handwritten): "The exhibit represents a joint OCD-HEW effort."


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The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance has announced the launch of a new master's degree (MMus) for students of bass and other instruments. The course is designed to enable contemporary musicians who have excelled at undergraduate level (or who can show that they have attained this standard) to explore and develop their own creative voices.
The course will be delivered at the Institute's specialist facilities in London. There are a limited number of places available and demand for entrance to this course is expected to be high. Dr Gareth Dylan Smith, programme leader on the Institute's master's course, said: "We are delighted to be launching this new master's course for the contemporary musician, which we believe will quickly become recognised as one of the leading courses in its field. With a teaching faculty composed of such luminaries as Professor Richard Smith from the world-renowned Thornton School of Music, Audrey Riley, with 25 years of experience in the rock industry and Laurence Cottle, a world-renowned bassist, students on this course will have access to a unique range of knowledge, experience and talent."


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North Dakota Community Colleges Respond to Evolving Workforce Needs
Posted on 2/21/2011
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Feb. 21, 2011
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Phone: 701.328.2962
North Dakota Community Colleges Respond to Evolving Workforce Needs
BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota's community colleges are responding to changes in North Dakota's economy and evolving workforce needs in growth areas ranging from energy education to building trades to sustainable vegetable production.
The five public community colleges also are reaching out to high school students and adults seeking new careers by showcasing technical careers, many of which lead to high-paying jobs.
"North Dakota's career and technical programs are evolving with the times and with demand from business and industry in North Dakota," said Bill Goetz, chancellor of the North Dakota University System. "The colleges have many partnerships with businesses across the state. These relationships help provide community college graduates many options to stay and work in North Dakota."
Several of the colleges have targeted their outreach efforts in February as part of national Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month. According to the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) (
), nearly 16 million students are taking career and technical courses nationwide.
New and innovative programs and activities at North Dakota's five community colleges include:
Bismarck State College
With placement rates of 97 percent for students in technical programs, BSC is developing three new programs, two that will support the workforce needs of the oil and gas industry:
Petroleum Engineering Technology will provide students a broad background in geology, geophysics, drilling and related topics.
Petroleum Production Technology builds on the curriculum of BSC's Process Plant Technology program. It will be offered online and emphasizes production operations, safety and environmental aspects of the petroleum industry.
Sustainable Construction Technology will provide students with a broad background in the green construction industry. It will complement the Residential Carpentry and HVAC programs in place at BSC.
Dakota College at Bottineau
In response to the growing organic and specialty vegetable industry, DCB is launching a Sustainable Vegetable Production Program in January 2012. This program will extend the college's programming in the natural resources. An associate's degree and a one-year certificate will be offered; the program will prepare students for opportunities as either a business owner or professional in the industry.
DCB is reviewing its Natural Resource Management and Laboratory and Field Technology programs to make them a fit for the oil exploration and drilling anticipated in the Bottineau County region. The programs focus on field testing of water, soil and air to determine concentrations and sources of contaminants.
Lake Region College
Focused on outreach and community awareness, LRSC partnered with the Lake Area Career and Technology Center to showcase different technical programs at Devils Lake High School every day during the week of Feb. 7 - 11, 2011. Other high schools in the area were invited to attend the showcases as well. Each day offered a different focus for students: business, IT and marketing; culinary arts and child and family services; medical and electronics; and auto, construction and welding career options.
Devils Lake Mayor Dick Johnson declared February CTE Month in the city. Additional outreach events took place during the college-sponsored tailgate parties at the Lake Region Royals games on Feb. 23, 2011, and the Devils Lake High School Firebirds games on Feb. 18, 2011.
North Dakota State College of Science
Grants received from North Dakota Career and Technical Education and Southeast Career Resource Network allowed NDSCS to present the first Steer Your Career outreach effort at Oakes (N.D.) High School
A collaborative effort between secondary and post-secondary education, Steer Your Career addressed the need for skilled workers in high-demand technical careers. Students received a first-hand look at the type of education and training needed for specific professions.
The day portion of the event included hands-on demonstrations for Oakes students. In the evening, NDSCS academic departments conducted two interactive career sessions for students and parents from around the region. Area businesses were invited to discuss employment trends and industry needs.
Williston State College
With financial assistance from the WSC Foundation, WSC's Residential Carpentry Program purchased a run-down house in west Williston to use as a hands-on project for the class. The class will remodel the existing structure and build an addition, giving students experience in new construction. Work is scheduled to begin in June.
WSC's Diesel Technology program received ASE Master Certification from the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation, Inc., the highest level of achievement recognized by the National Institute for Automotive Excellence. WSC's program was evaluated according to strict standards set by the automotive industry. Many apply, but few programs receive the certification.
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Is an Accelerated BSN Program Right For You?
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Whether looking to add meaning to their workdays or find a new vocation after being laid off from a foundering industry, career-changing professionals are increasingly turning to accelerated bachelor's programs in nursing.
Accelerated BSN programs train folks with bachelor's degrees in other fields to be nurses in 12 to 18 months. The number of accelerated BSN programs has grown dramatically, from only 31 in 1990 to 197 by 2006. These programs are available in 43 states, the District of Columbia and Guam, according to a 2005-2006 study by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). And with the US nursing shortage raging on, accelerated degree programs continue to multiply. The AACN reports that 37 new accelerated baccalaureate programs are being planned.
Does such a radical and rapid career change make sense for you? See what's involved and decide for yourself.
Highly Selective
When Kent Senffner's employer was looking to cut staff a few years ago, the Portland, Oregon, marketer asked to be laid off. "I was so sick of business," Senffner says. "I was doing well, but the work was not rewarding."
Like many other professionals in the 2000s, Senffner changed course to nursing, enrolling in the accelerated BSN program at the Creighton University School of Nursing in Omaha in January 2004. Other typical entrants in accelerated BSN programs include stockbrokers, accountants, teachers and nutritionists.
The accelerated programs are selective. In 2003, there were 196 applicants for 40 places in the combined BSN/MS program at Pace University's Lienhard School of Nursing in New York City and Pleasantville, New York, according to Gerrie Colombraro, assistant dean of the nursing school.
Although most accelerated nursing programs accept candidates with a bachelor's degree in nearly any field, many students must complete science prerequisites before matriculating. These typically include anatomy, physiology, chemistry and microbiology. Candidates must also present a solid undergraduate GPA.


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Munster is Vice President and Manager of Dean Witter and Company, Columbus. He is a member of the Columbus Stock and Bond Club and ac- £v«t'' Sigmund J. Munster ; Israel Agree To Work rd'Strategic Cooperation3 Preparin R.E.W. Committee preparing for the 23rd annual R.E.W. program at Beth Jacob Congregation. Two outstanding lecturers, Dr. Isaac Swift of Englewood, N. J., and'Dr. Emanuel Schochet of Toronto, Canada will be the speak2... Members of the Religious Emphasis Week Committee are: (standing I. tor.) Joseph Strapp, Mrs. Jane Rosenblum, and Cantor Elwin Redfern. (Seated I. tor.) are: Rabbi David Stavsky, Mrs. Myrna Strapp, Arthur Rosenblum, and Mrs. Roberta Kohn. airmen Israel Bonds Mrs. David Paine (Miriam) and Mrs. Richard Kohn (Roberta) will serve as co-chairmen of the Women's Division for the Columbus Cpmmittee, State of Israel Bonds for the 1981-82 season* of activity, They will lead an WASHINGTON (JTA)- The United States and Israel have agreed to work more closely toward "strategic cooperation" against the threat of Soviet aggression in the Middle East as a result of Israeli Premier Menachem Begin's two days of talks with President Reagan, but no formal alliance was worked out. This emerged from statements by Reagan and Begin as the Premier left the White House and in remarks by Begin at a crowded press- conference at a Washington hotel later. Begin said the details of the cooperation will be worked out between Israeli- Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. ; Both leaders said they were pleased by their White House talks, which Reagan called "friendly and useful and productive" and Begin termed "very fruitful." Reagan said a "friendship and complete candor developed between us," while Begin said the talks were "candid in detail." The President added that the talks "created, new bonds of under standing between the U..S. and Israel and renewed and strengthened our very special relationship." Reagan declared that Israel and the U.S. have developed a "partnership" to oppose all forces that' threaten the Middle East. Begin was more specific in drawing a "clear distinction" between a mutual defense agreement and the idea of strategic cooperation. "The defense of Israel is our problem," he said. "We will never ask any nation to send .soldiers to defend us." Center Sports Hall Of Fame Set For Oct. 4 -., .jyiiriain Paine *,- five in many community organizations. He' is currently serving'as President of the Columbus Academy for Boys, and is a graduate of the Ohio State University. Munster will discuss current and changing philosophies of investment. Mrs. Marilyn Skilkin will be chairwoman of the session. Serving with Mrs. Skilken will be Eleanor Resler, Helen Nutis, Sylvia Schecter, Beverly Schotten-' stein, Ann Schmidt, Mickey Schoenbaum, Sara Schwartz, Phyllis Schwartz, and Helen Skilken. Any women interested in participating in Session III of the Women and Money Series should contact Debbie Caplin at 237-7686 for more information. Highest Percentage of Emigrants TEL AVIV (WNS)-Israel Radio's Vienna correspondent reported recently that 20 of the 29 emigrants from the Soviet Union who arrived here during a 3-day period of time will leave for new homes in Israel. This is the highest percentage of Soviet Jews to come to Israel in recent years and follows the new Jewish Agency arrangement whereby only 'emigrants with "first degree" family relationships in the U.S. will be helped by Hias and the Joint Distribution Committee to go to America. 1 'intensive [effort by hidd-WHS*****'1-''1 'W of local women to help activities, Miriam enjoys strengthen the economy' of. . painting, needlepoint, golf, Israel through the purchase of Bonds at a time of renewed hope for a lasting peace in the Middle East. Miriam served as Chairman of the Women's Division in 1980 and Roberta served as Co-Chairman of the "Jerusalem of Gold" Brunch during this same year. Miriam, long active in communal activities, is the immediate past president of Heritage House Auxiliary bowling, bridge,- and of course,, cooking for her family. Roberta, a native of Brookline, Mass., is a member of Beth Jacob Sisterhood, Augdas Achim.Sisterhood, Columbus Torah Academy Parents, .ORT, Brandeis Women, Council of Jewish Women, and a life member of Hadassah. The mother of two teenage children, 'Bobbie' as she is affectionately called, has been an active member of Bonds for several years. Serving with Mrs. Paine (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) The Jewish Center's Third Annual Sports Hall of Fame ceremony and reception will be held on Sunday, Oct. 4 from "4:30 until 6 p.m. at the Center, 1125 College Ave. The event will be a nostalgic tribute to four outstanding Jewish athletes who, after distinguishing themselves in amateur and professional athletics, went onto donate their time and talent to help others in Center and other community programs. The 1981 inductees are Dr. Sol -Maggied, Moses Solomon, Leo Yassenoff and Joseph Zimmerman. Dr. Sol Maggied, an East High School and Ohio State University wrestling and football star, won many championships during his academic career. .He officiated high school football and basketball for many years and served as an O.S.U. team physician for 32 years. Moses. Solomon (1900-1966), an outstanding baseball and football player, was known as the "Rabbi of Swat" and the "Jewish Babe Ruth." In 1923, his 143 runs scored, 222 hits, 49 homeruns and .421 average in the Southwestern League was the best record in all of professional baseball that season. Leo Yassenoff (1893-1971) played football from 1913-15 for Ohio State University, where be also lettered in wrestling. During his lifetime Yassenoff received many honors and awards for his civic endeavors in Columbus. The generous contribution by the Leo Yassenoff Foundation to The New Jewish Center will result in the naming of the New Center in Yassenoff's memory. Joseph Zimmerman (1915-1980), a high school and college football and wrestling star, went on to play professional football with the Chicago Cardinals and the Columbus Bulls. Zimmerman was an avid handball and softball player and bowler at the Center and coached Little League and Pony League baseball. Hall of Fame Committee chairman, Irvin Flox has announced that Sid Gillman will be the guest speaker for the event. Gillman, a former O.S.U. football star and assistant coach, served for 1ft years as an outstanding coach for 'several N.F.L. teams. For the third consecutive year, the Center welcomes John Gordon as Master of Ceremonies. Working with Flox on the Hall of Fame Committee are Health and Physical Education Committee Chairman Harvey Handler, Lou Berliner, Dr. B. B. Caplan. Alex Clowson, David Dachner, Jack Gaiser. Dutch Geichmari. Ron Golden, Howard Schoenbaum and Mendy Snyder. Tickets for the Hall of Fame event, which includes a.reception, are $3. Call the Health'and Physical Education office at 231-2731 for more information. one To Be Presented With Leadership Award Annual Meeting, Sept. 20,7:30 p.m, F 55th Mrs. Richard Kohn and served as Recruiting Volunteer Chairman for Heritage House for several years. A graduate of Capital University with a Bachelor's Degree in Art-Education, she has taught art at Torah. Academy and has conducted art-instructions classes weekly for residents of Heritage House. She is a cliarter member of B'nai B'rith Women, a life member of Hadassah, and a member of Agudas Achim Sisterhood, ORT and National Council of Jewish Women. Along with her volunteer cpmmunal '"Bernard K. Yenkin, President of the Columbus Jewish Federation, recently announced that Ira O. Kane has been selected as the winner of the 1981 Therese Stern Kahn Young Leadership Award. The award will be presented by Federation past President Fred Yenkin, Chairman of the Selection Committee, at the 55th Annual'Meeting of the Federation .on Sunday, Sept. 20 at Beth Tikvah Congregation. Kane will receive an all- expense paid trip to the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federation which will be held on Nov. 11-15 in' St. Louis, Missouri. - Ira O. Kane The Young Leadership Award is endowed by William V. Kahn, past President of the Federation, in memory of his wife, Therese Stern Kahn: The Award presented annually recognizes outstanding young people who have shown strong interest in and devotion to the Federation and its member agencies. Kane has been actively involved in the Federated community for many years. He presently serves as Chairman of the Community Relations Committee as well as Chairman of the Board of Tri-State Anti-Defamation League. He has also participated in Community volunteer work as Chairman Of the Young Leadership Development Program: Chairman of the Young Men's Division Advanced Gifts Meeting, member of the Education and Culture Budget and Planning Committee, and Israel Department Committee: and he presently serves on the Board and Executive Committee -of the Columbus Jewish Federation. Kane and his wife Deborah have two children:" Lauren and Cynthia. The community is invited to attend the Federation An- ' nual Meeting featuring Mervin Verbit. prominent So- ' ciologist. as keynote speaker. Reservation in- 1 formation can be obtained from the Federation office 237-7686. \ . .\v.
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text: This month in Best of Forum we have a great lesson on how to plug a flat tire. This was assembled by Jim VonBaden, the member who puts out the DIY DVD's. This will take you through the steps from discovering the flat, to the repair, to inflation and back on the road. This should take most of the mystery out of the procedure for those that have not done it themselves, thanks Jim. Enjoy, Gary


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Event: Bollywood heart throb Salman Khan graced the grand finale of reality show / dance competition Nach Baliye 3
Guest List: Salman Khan, David Dhawan, Isha Koppikar, Rakhi Sawant, Kashmira Shah, Pooja Bedi, Aamir Ali, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Hussain Kuwajerwala, Tina Kuwajerwala, Krishna, Hanif
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
Bollywood producers-directors Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Ravi Bahl, Divya Khosla Kumar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Wardha Nadiadwala celebrate diwali with Bhushan Kumar
Bollywood celebs Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Sonali Bendre, Nimrat Kaur among others were snapped by paparazzi.Bebo looked super cool in a casual look. She wore a white t-shirt with yoga pants...
Bollywood actress Shama Sikander celebrated Diwali festival at her residence.
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Energy House Digital Launches iConsult
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LONDON, January 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Connecting GPs with Consultants
Leading full service web design company Energy House Digital has developed bright, easy-to-use website iConsult which aims to make referring patients easier for GPs and thus reduces the workload of busy hospital departments while providing communication channels between GPs and Specialist Consultants. Initially connecting with the Centre for Gastroenterology at the Royal Free Hospital, the new website and referral service is supported by the Royal Free Charity.
iConsult aims to make the referral of patients from the GP to the Specialist easy, quick and efficient. GPs can use iConsult to make direct contact with Specialist consultants at the Royal Free Hospital as well as a resource packed with management tips, frequently asked questions and common clinical queries. A tracked messaging system on iConsult forwards e-mails to the Specialists, while a booking system for video conference or phone calls is also provided.
Energy House Digital built iConsult on the basis of scalable web development platform Drupal. The secure code of open-source content management framework Drupal makes sure that sensitive patient information is safely stored and communicated only to authenticated users. Thanks to the multi-user capabilities of Drupal, iConsult provides safe content for registered users while giving access to open content for site visitors who are not logged in. Administrators working with iConsult can update and customize the site to the specific needs of their individual departments. While iConsult is presently launching as a pilot project in conjunction with the Centre for Gastroenterology, adaptation for other areas of medical expertise is under development and will be rolled out in the near future.
"The iConsult portal has been commissioned to help the Centre for Gastroenterology at The Royal Free Hospital, London, communicate with and support general practitioners and their patients", explains Tim Rayne, Project Lead iConsult, The Royal Free Charity. "iConsult is different to other websites of this nature as it offers a number of different channels of communication, which can be used incrementally from online common clinical queries, through to optimal referral advice, to e-mail support, and ultimately to telephone advice or a video call."
The site records time spent on the website by GPs and can be used as a resource for Continuing Professional Development by providing a printable log of site visits and use. Providing interaction channels, iConsult also works as a specialist support system with the intention of involving specialists in the early stages of patient care by supplying patient information. "We aim to improve patient experience by planning and knowing more about them before they attend hospital so that they can be offered the most convenient investigations with the fewest inconvenient journeys to hospital", adds Rayne. "Communication through iConsult is pivotal in allowing us to make this ideal a reality."
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Boy Scouts shouldn't be able to meet in Boulder's public schools at discounted rates because they openly discriminate against gays, according to the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Johanna Blumenthal, of the Boulder County ACLU, sent a letter Monday to officials with the Boulder Valley School District arguing that the Boy Scouts are a discriminatory group because they have openly defended the right to exclude homosexuals from membership.
The ACLU raised the same concern in 2001 but is now backing its argument with a recent Supreme Court ruling. The ACLU is asking the district to change its policies so that groups using school buildings at discounted rates must comply with district policies.
One of those rules prohibits interfering with a student's opportunities or benefits on the basis of the individual's "race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, age, disability or religion."
The district's current policy does not require the Boy Scouts, or other groups using school buildings, to comply with the district's policies to receive reduced rental rates. The school district, though, "reserves the right" to deny use of a building for any activity that violates its rules.
"We again pose the question to the BVSD Board of Education: Is it the policy of the District to subsidize a youth organization that openly discriminates based on sexual orientation?," the letter from Blumenthal says.
She said in an interview that she believes the Boy Scouts should be able to meet in school buildings like any other group -- but shouldn't receive perks such as discounted rates.
District spokeswoman Maela Moore said Boy Scouts often hold meetings in Boulder Valley schools.
"We have scouts meeting at many of our elementary schools," she said.
The Boy Scouts pay the standard $14 an hour to rent spaces such as school cafeterias for their large monthly meetings. But for smaller, weekly meetings the scouts get a reduced rate -- paying $40 a year.
The ACLU is citing the Supreme Court's ruling in a case involving the Christian Legal Society.
Hastings College of Law denied official recognition of the CLS because it violated the school's nondiscrimination policy by not allowing anyone who engages in "unrepented homosexual conduct" to join the student group. The Christian Legal Society filed a lawsuit, claiming its First Amendment rights had been violated.
The Supreme Court disagreed in its June 28 decision. The court found that while all organizations may be granted access and discriminate in membership, it's within the legal parameters of the school to deny official recognition to organizations that don't follow school policies.
Nicole Cosme, marketing director for the Boy Scouts of America Denver Area Council, provided the following written statement to the ACLU's letter: "The BSA will continue to strengthen common interests, while respecting differences, and will focus on its mission and on reaching as many youth as possible in order to help them grow into good, strong citizens."
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Driscoll Children's Hospital is a 189-bed pediatric tertiary care center with more than 30 medical and surgical specialties offering care throughout South Texas, including Corpus Christi, the Rio Grande Valley, Victoria, and Laredo. Through the vision and generosity of its founder, Clara Driscoll, Driscoll Children's Hospital opened in 1953, becoming the first, and remains the only, free-standing children's hospital in South Texas. In 2017, Driscoll had over 180,000 patient visits, including over 43,000 patients seen at South Texas' first emergency room created exclusively for children.
Other Facts About Driscoll Children's Hospital:
- Serving 31 counties and 33,000 square miles of South Texas
- 250 doctors on Medical Staff in more than 30 specialties
- Approximately 1,800 employees and 300 volunteers
- 9th largest employer in Corpus Christi
- 18-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- 51-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- 8 surgical suites
- Comprehensive Surgical Services including general surgery, cardiovascular, orthopaedic and neuro
- Pediatric subspecialty centers located in Harlingen, Laredo, McAllen, Brownsville and Victoria
- Pediatric Cardiology clinics
- Child Abuse Resource and Evaluation Team
- More than 40 pediatric residents
- One of more than 200 pediatric residency programs in the United States
- Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi and Del Mar College Affiliations (Affiliated with 25 colleges & universities across Texas and the United States)
- Accredited with the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
- More than 4,200 children admitted into hospital in 2014


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PlayStation Blog: "What? Me again? Wasn't I just here to let you know thatPlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale had gone gold?
Have you ever wondered what dev teams do after a game goes gold? If all is going well, often times they get down to business with DLC. And in fact that's exactly what we have begun. I'm here today to announce the first DLC characters that will be joining the All-Stars roster: Kat from Gravity Rush, and Starhawk's Emmett Graves!"
Amazing. Thank you so much SuperBot, cant wait as I love Gravity Rush and Starhawk!
This is how you treat gamers!
This is awesome. I'm amazed it's free. Really pleased. Pre-ordering this game today.
Played the beta and knew it was gonna be a great game, couldn't stop playing it.
Even more hyped for the release now! This news has made my day :P
Well this is a pleasant surprised. Already preordered it, but good to see the FREE part.
This is good news for all the doubters about whether or not Sony would add more characters. Its refreshing to hear.
Wow, SuperBot giving out free DLC for a fighting game?
I hope this continues for all DLC for Battle Royale where the DLC is free for the first 2 weeks after they are available to download like this one.
Are those two rivals? Someone asked on the Playstation Blog. I think that is a very good question. Those two are total opposite and from 2 different platforms. Then again they are the last two to join the ranks of Sony's mascots.
They almost definitely are since they're being released at the same time, and since all the other characters already have rivals. I like Emmet Graves, but my vote goes to Kat!
I wonder if characters come with more.
I think a DLC pack should be the character, their alternative costumes, a level based on their universe, and 1-2 items from their games.
This would please me.
Would love:
Abe from Oddworld
Alternative (Bighead)
1. Turn into scrab or paramite and attack forward. 2. Sends out
3. Turn into Skrukyll and wreak havoc
Item: SoulStorm juice that gets you bouncing.
Already finished arcade with kratos this game is fucki*g awesome
Slovakia ftw got my copy yesterday Finished arcade and character training with kratos and sir daniel fortesq he is kinda weaksauce sackboy is overpowered as fuark
Games drops on 11.20.12. IDK what game these guys are referring to.
Absolutely. SuperBot is showing devs how to treat gamers. The beta is/was awesome for this game. And I can't wait to have it in my hands!
Now, where's crash bandicoot and spyro...
Free Character DLC's for the first two weeks. Other fighters should take note. Superbot is doing it right.
I thought Kat will come but not so soon. Emmett will also be very interesting as well. I'm guessing his level 3 will be him in a Starhawk
Yeah, while they do have paid DLC, Sony first-party games have been pretty good with providing good quality free DLC too.
Can't wait to see them in action.
Free first 2 weeks after release early next year.
glad they've taken ques from gaming master Katsuhiro Harada, of tekken fame bringing free characters to the mix for FREE!!!!
So snake??????
I don`t think kojima would want Snake in this game.
Been saying for months that Kat is perfect for this game, and now it's finally happening. And it's free! Best birthday ever.
Wait... is today your birthday or is the day the game comes out your birthday?
Well, just in case... Happy Birthday!*
*This may be a pre-birthday message. The receiver of this message may obtain all good sentiments from said message only upon the day of his or her birth.
still no solid snake still no buy
Your loss. I mean, if the only thing keeping you from buying the game is a missing character, that must mean otherwise you would buy and enjoy the game for what it is.
Or, did you intend to say "Perhaps if Solid Snake was coming out as a character I would consider buying it because I'm that huge of a fan of just that one character but will forgive what I consider to be a game I otherwise wouldn't touch with a 20-foot pole (yes, 10-foot poles are too short now)."?
cgoodno is on a roll today it seems. Have a bubble for funny since you don't seem to have that many.
Jesus. Did you not grow up with any of the other characters?
writing off the game based on ONE missing snake is ridiculous.
When I think of playstation I think mgs and solid snake it is an out right slap to the face to put raiden in over solid snake or for that matter not include crash or cloud or spyro but and new no names to the mix Kat? Really she's deff an Allstar with her one game and tht other guy from star hawk (notice how I didn't mention his name cuz no one cares about him enough to care what his name is) if your gonna name you goddamn game PLAYSTATION ALL STARS give us the goddamn all stars then not some 3rd party bull shit disagree all you want you know it's the truth
I think he's misinformed as to how SuperBot acquires these characters for the game.
Now THIS is how DLC should be. FREE!!! Thank you Sony!
Kat's rival shouldve been Toro :3 ...
They might be each others' rival for simplicity :/ Would be cool though.
This cake, is overflowing with frosting!
Luckily I got enough dough to purchase this masterpiece.
Fat Princess is drooling now for a piece of that cake!
i dont have enough time to play videogames..casual gamer seems to be hard specially if you are balancing work and play..
better take note to act fast on downloading those two, it's free for only two weeks.. hopefully the other dlc are free as well and (crossing finger) for crash, sora and cloud to be included.
you think we need the game to download them?
im not sure if i have it at release day..
I don't think so, I've downloaded free DLC before I actually got the game itself. I always do that, so it appears on my download history for later use.
You shouldn't need the game to download. I've done this before with free DLC. Downloaded and even installed it before I owned the game.
superbot said if crash will ever appear he will be free
I guess i can now scratch those two of my infamous list. Now all there is left are...
Dart felt
Minamoto yoshitsune
Jennifer tate
Lil and laarg
Leonard (from white knight chronicle)
Gabe logan
Rudy roughnight
Toan- dark cloud
And we are golden for sure.
I support this message, and I'd like to add Raziel, Kain, Vamp, FF crowd, Solid Snake, Ezio, and maybe Lloyd.
Thank you. Now i get why some wont agree with my list i mean everyone is entitled to express their opinion and all, but i made this list because not only are these first party characters which ofcourse represent Sony in so many ways, but are also easier and likely to make the cut.
Sony doesnt have to pay a dime to anyone but themselves to market their own franchises in this game. Its like with the whole crash and spyro fiasco, if Sony still had full ownership of those franchises, i believe they would have been in this game a while ago.
I know that Sony isnt willing to touch Blasto mainly due to its voice actor passing away some time ago, but at the end of the day it wouldnt hurt to put him in the game which can serve as both a tribute and a public service. Who can play Blasto? Ive thought of this and after playing through many of Sony's franchises ive come to the conclusion that Captain qwark's(from ratchet and clank) voice actor could fill that role nicely.
As for tomba, Sony could essentially rebuy all of its rights if it wanted to or simply pay a small amount of royalties to its new owners. I say that because this isnt Activision they would have to deal with, but someone more open to the idea.
And the reason for characters like Iota and lil and laarg being on my list is simple, these are new mascots and Vitas own stand outs next to Kat. If Sony is to use this game as a marketing tool, then it would make a lot more sense to me for them to promote their own ips instead, who knows what could come of this.
Ff characters dlc please! Cloud or squall and this game will b perfect
Yeah it better be free, especialy characters like Kat and Emmett who should already be in the game
Actually hang on a tick, how is Kat not finished....early next year? I don't understand we knew she was coming, hell there was all that leaked screenshots of her. How does it take so long to create one character, I mean there saying because it's went Gold there moving onto making new characters but if we saw her BEFORE the game went gold then why didn't they just put her in the game.
I think they're holding these guys off, making them free to gain some respect after the disapointing third party character line up and then after 2 weeks when the free deal expires they'll earn some cash....very smart Superbot, very smart.
***Yeah it better be free, especialy characters like Kat and Emmett who should already be in the game ***
Don't act entitled. Accept the good news and be happy about it.
It's not called being entitled, it's about first party characters who Sony could of easily gotten for the game with owning them being in this massive fighting game which is about FIRST party characters beating the crap out of one another.
It's common logic for these to have been in from the start. If it was someone like Lara Croft and Issac Clarke for example then fair enough since they're third party characters.
Being "entitled" is expecting (FOR EXAMPLE) DLC for Halo 4s Wargames to be free since they were for Limited Edition owners or wanting much more from the ME3 ending even though they've already fixed it and your just beating a dead horse by wanting more from it.
You're assuming way too much. For starters, these characters were probably planned early on (supported by Superbot saying it would be a 20+ character cast), but weren't completed in time. Finishing them in time might have caused a delay or Sony finalized everything early to get things into motion (supported by the random tweet that we already had the final roster and Superbot saying TGS would have new characters announced if I recall correctly). We most likely saw early screenshots of the characters since they planned on revealing them earlier, but it ended up never happening and resulted in information getting leaked (though I only saw Kat get leaked...).
Furthermore, we don't deserve any DLC for free and thats why Cgoodno is calling you entitled. They SHOULD be free, but what should be isn't always what happens. You're also mistaken about First Party characters being "easy". Superbot isn't allowed to just pick any Sony character they want and make a game with them, they need approval (much like Capcom said with cross over fighters). They could have maybe wanted SOMEONE from Resistance (I think we all agree the lack of is... odd), but they could have been told no or they couldn't see the fighter working or perhaps they wanted someone they couldn't have. Whatever the truth is, FP titles are just easier to get than third, but in no way are a simple matter of just picking people they want.
With this being said, this is an interesting move for Sony. I assume the characters are being delayed to balance out the current roster, so that implies they're going to try. I do hope we see other characters for free, though I am more interested in how much these characters are going to cost. Finally I am also sad to see these characters (or perhaps any character) will be receiving trophies, since I doubt they will be free with trophy support.
Well said.someone with sense.one more thing people forget it's that the game has already been delayed once.they not gonna miss the Christmas rush because 2 characters are not fully read.this is the care me as a gamer likes to see in developers.this is why I'm getting this day one. Even if the game will not be perfect on launch I have no doubt these guys will cease supporting it.
I don't think it's that straight forward.
The guys in Team ICO said they didn't want any of there characters in the game but they're first party.
Likewise with Capcom, the Monster Hunter team didn't want anything in MH to be in Marvel vs Capcom 3 but they're all Capcom.
Also Kat and Emmett are pretty new charactesr so the call to greenlight them for the game probably came a lot later than the original cast. Remember the game has been in development for 3 years and even once a character has been created they still need a lot of testing and balancing which is probably why they are coming as free dlc early next year.
You're nitpicking the game all day today,what's the problem here !? 2 new characters for FREE ! I don't even understand how that can be a horrible thing to whine about ..!
You might not like the characters,others actually do ! and there are more characters to come,saying things like "Yeah it better be free" and "making them free to gain some respect after the disapointing third party character line up and then after 2 weeks when the free deal expires they'll earn some cash" is really SHAMEFUL and DISRESPECTFUL ..!
Superbot treating their fans good,I applaud them for listening,I wish for more and hopefully they will deliver the goods :D !
Nobody said this game is about first party characters. It's celebrating Playstation, not Sony. Just because a picture or two of Kat have been leaked does not mean she's anywhere near finished. How do you know they worked on her at all?
PS: Off topic, but the Mass Effect 3 ending still sucks. It's not feeling entitled to expect closure from arguably one of the greatest trilogies of all time.
You know it is really lame that after they are giving us two more characters for DLC for free that people can STILL find problems with it.I mean how can you be such a killjoy? Just because the third party was disappointing to you don't put us all in the same group as you. How do you know that they would have been in the game before it went gold. They don't belong directly to them. Unlike Nintendo they have to negotiate and talk to every developer that own the character to get them and not everyone is going to follow Superbot's schedule. They can't just go and demand Kat and Emmet and they just hand them over. They have to negotiate and talk about how the character will be portrayed and what they want them to do with them.This is not like Capcom and Nintendo who own every character they use. They belong to other people who may not be as eager as you are to give them to us.And it makes it worse that they have no obligation to give any of them to Superbot.
Hoo-rah free characters! Too bad they won't be out for a while
Emmit is the man. Now we need
Ayala Brea (Parasite Eve)
Gabe Logan (Syphon Filter)
CJ (San Andreas)
Prince of Persia (Warrior Within version)
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A botanical product sold as help for osteoarthritis may carry risk of liver injury, researchers found.
In a prospective study, flavocoxid (Limbrel) was associated with four cases of liver injury that halted once the agent was discontinued, Naga Chalasani, MD, of Indiana University in Indianapolis, and colleagues reported in the June 19 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Flavocoxid is a blend of two flavonoids, baicalin and catechins, which are derived from the botanicals Scute-Ilaria baicalensis and Acacia catechu. It is available only by prescription as 250- or 500-mg tablets to treat osteoarthritis.
To assess whether it was associated with adverse liver effects, the researchers looked at data from 877 patients enrolled in the Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network Prospective Study since 2004. They found that four patients had liver injury that was suspected to have been caused by flavocoxid.
All cases occurred in women ranging in age from 57 to 68 years, and all developed symptoms and signs of liver injury within one to three months after starting on flavocoxid. Symptoms included jaundice, pruritus, abdominal pain, fever, and rash, the researchers said.
All of the patients had marked elevations in alanine aminotransferase (mean peak 1,268 U/L), alkaline phosphatase (mean peak 510 U/L), and serum bilirubin (mean peak 160.7 mcmol/L).
All of these values fell back into the normal range within 3 to 12 weeks of stopping the product, and all patients recovered without having acute liver failure or chronic liver injury, Chalasani and colleagues noted.
Causality was called very likely due to flavocoxid in three patients and possibly due to the agent in one patient, as that case was complicated by exposure to several other agents that may have caused the injury, including pregabalin (Lyrica), duloxetine (Cymbalta), and tizanidine (Zanaflex).
The researchers noted that post-marketing studies by drugmaker Primus Pharmaceuticals showed 31 hepatic adverse events among 284,399 users, suggesting a possible incidence of about 0.011% of flavocoxid-induced liver injury.
That included 22 instances of elevated liver enzyme levels, six instances of jaundice, and three cases of hepatitis.
Chalasani and colleagues concluded that the report "provides convincing evidence that flavocoxid is capable of causing clinically apparent, acute liver injury," noting that the clinical signature appears to be a "mild-to-moderate, mixed hepatocellular-cholestatic hepatitis that arises 2 to 12 weeks after starting the medication and resolves rapidly once it is stopped."
They also suspected that hypersensitivity may play a role, because immunoallergic features occurred in some patients, and because flavocoxid is also associated with hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
The study was limited because the frequency, risk factors, and mechanism of liver injury couldn't be assessed.
In an accompanying editorial, Stephan Reichenbach, MD, and Peter Juni, MD, of the University of Bern in Switzerland, wrote that exact estimates on the frequency of serious adverse events among patients on herbal products are usually underreported because patients don't consider them as toxic and rarely report their use.
Given the widespread use and potential harm of medical food and food supplements, they wrote, the lack of a requirement of FDA approval for these agents should be reconsidered.
The study was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Neither the researchers nor the editorialists reported any conflicts of interest.
- Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
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Annals of Internal MedicineSource Reference: Chalasani N, et al "Acute liver injury due to flavocoxid (Limbrel), a medical food for osteoarthritis" Ann Intern Med 2012; 156: 857-860.
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Annals of Internal MedicineSource Reference: Reichenbach S, Juni P "Medical food and food supplements: Not always as safe as generally assumed" Ann Intern Med 2012; 156: 894-895.


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Guardian.co.uk Switching from Java to Scala
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The team behind guardian.co.uk which, according to its editor, has the second highest readership of any on-line news site after the New York Times, is gradually switching from Java to Scala, starting with the Content API, which provides a mechanism for selecting and collecting Guardian content.
The guardian.co.uk website comprises about 100,000 lines of code. It uses a fairly typical open-source Java stack of Spring, Apache Velocity and Hibernate with Oracle providing the database. Like the website, the Content API was initially being developed in Java, but the team decided to switch to another JVM-based language, Scala, in its place. Web Platform Development Team Lead Graham Tackley told us
We've been a primarily Java development shop for a number of years now, and this has largely served us well. However, as a news website we want to be able to respond to events very quickly. The core Java platform that delivers www.guardian.co.uk has a full release every two weeks. Compared with many enterprise Java applications, this is excellent. Compared with other websites, it's very poor.
So we've been looking for a while at tools, approaches and languages that enable us to deliver functionality faster. This includes using lighter weight Java frameworks like Google Guice, radically different approaches to Java development like the Play framework, and using other platforms such as Python with Django. As part of this exercise we'd been playing with Scala for a while, but unlike the others we hadn't yet used it for any production code.
We were very keen that the first non-beta release of the Content API (API, Open Platform) should be the first iteration of an ongoing evolving API, which could quickly evolve as we discovered all the interesting use cases that we hadn't initially thought of. To do this safely without breaking API clients, we needed a comprehensive set of integration tests. After some experimentation of writing these in Java, we decided instead to write just the integration tests in Scala, for three main reasons:
- The flexibility of the testing DSL provided by ScalaTest.
- We wanted to be excited about writing the integration tests, rather than them being a chore.
- Using Scala just for the tests meant we got to use it in anger without impacting production code directly.
After about four weeks of writing just the tests in Scala, we got fed up of having to write the main code in Java, and decided to convert the whole lot to Scala.
InfoQ: In general terms, how did you go about the migration? Did you re-write all the Java code in Scala for instance, or did you combine the two for a while?
The beta version of the Content API was based on a proprietary search engine. The current API uses the excellent Apache Solr (a talk on guardian.co.uk's use of Solr can be found here), and is also quite different in style to the beta one - the beta did a great job of showing us what we didn't want the API to look like. Therefore, before Scala came into the picture, we'd decided to re-implement the API rather than reuse the beta codebase.
We'd spent around six weeks with three people implementing in Java before we introduced Scala, so there wasn't a massive codebase to migrate. However, we weren't prepared to stop the project for a couple of weeks while we converted to Scala, so we migrated the existing integration tests gradually. As we'd used Maven as a build tool, introducing Scala was a matter of following the instructions to use the maven-scala-plugin to build mixed Java/Scala projects. This allows Java and Scala code to co-exist in the same project, and bi-directionally depend on each other. So we could convert on a class-by-class basis from Java to Scala, which worked far better than we ever imagined: it really did just work.
We took the same approach when converting the main code: over a number of weeks, as we touched a bit of code, we converted it. We then had a couple of days mop up at the end.
InfoQ: What are the libraries/frameworks that you have used for development?
Since we were using a language new to us all, we decided to limit the amount of new stuff that we needed to learn. We chose to stick with plain servlets wired with Google Guice, which is how we build our Java apps now. We use SolrJ, the Java Solr library, to talk to Apache Solr, Joda-Time for date time manipulation and Mockito for unit test mocking (this worked fine with Scala code too).
Sometimes we consciously chose to stick with what we knew to ensure timely delivery: the XML formatted endpoints are generated not using Scala's excellent XML support, but using javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter just as we would in Java code. We'd already written this before moving to Scala; it worked, it was readable, so we left it. However, we did switch to use the excellent JSON library from Lift - lift-json - to generate the JSON formatted endpoints as the code was far clearer than with the Java JSON library we were using.
InfoQ: What IDEs do you use for development? What is Scala IDE support like?
We use Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA 10, some of us use the community edition and some use the ultimate edition. The Scala plugin is pretty good but not perfect. Code completion, find usages, and similar navigation nearly always works just fine. It's not as good as Java at red highlighting code that isn't valid, and we had some problems with it finding ScalaTest test methods, but other than that we were in our familiar environment working as we always had, just in a much more powerful language.
InfoQ: I'm assuming the majority of the developers on the project were Java programmers? How easy did the developers on the project find learning Scala?
Yes, all of us were quite experienced Java programmers. The initial team of four had huge fun learning Scala: often one of us would come in raving about this new Scala feature we'd discovered and sharing it with the rest of the team. We had a buzz that had long been missing in our Java development. Because we were all learning together, this worked really well. In the first couple of weeks, though, there were occasions when we'd be battling to implement something in a good Scala way and couldn't figure it out. Knowing you could just churn out the Java code made this particularly frustrating. There were a few days where we went home in frustration saying, "We're going back to Java tomorrow". Each time, a fresh look in the morning was all it needed to move on.
Since then, we've had around ten other Java devs move to pick up Scala. As always, people learn at different speeds and in different ways, but all have come through that and nearly all now get frustrated when they have to write Java code.
One of the things we compare learning Scala against is moving to a different platform like Python/Django or Ruby on Rails. With Scala, at least 75% of what you're working with is the same as in Java. You can use the same libraries and IDE, the way you package jars and wars is the same, your runtime environment and runtime characteristics are the same. A good Java developer can learn to write Java-style code in Scala in a day, then they learn the power of closures and implicit conversions and very soon they're more productive than they were in Java.
InfoQ: One of the common criticisms of Scala as a language boils down to it being too complex. A lot of the time I think this is really about readability - the idea being that it is easier to pick up someone else's code if it is written in a more rigid language like Java. Do you think the criticism is fair? How do you counter it?
I agree, readability is by far the most important characteristic of a codebase. I don't care whether code is imperative or functional, or is idiomatic Scala or Java-without-semicolons, I only care whether it's readable. When we were learning new Scala features, we chose whether to use them based on whether the intent of the resulting code was more obvious. In one example, we tried using the Scala Either class to eliminate a few If statements: the team collectively concluded that the If statements were more readable, so we dropped the use of Either in that case.
It's true that due to the rigidity of Java individual lines of code are always easily understood. But that's rarely the problem in understanding any non-trivial codebase: I don't want to understand the detail, I want to understand the intent. Good class design and OO techniques help address this in Java, but I still often find when reading Java code that I cannot see the wood for the trees. In Scala I have the power to express the intent in a way I rarely can in Java.
For example, the Content API needs to decide whether to return results in XML, JSON or redirect to the HTML explorer. We support a format=query string, adding a .xml or .json extension, and specification in an http Accept header. Here's the code that does that, which I think is a good example of how Scala's power aids expression of intent (it's just chaining calls to Scala's Option class):
def negotiateFormatParameter =getParam("format").
There's also a good case that readability is at least partially a function of how much code you have to read. My Java code tends to end up with lots of lines of code unrelated to the problem I am trying to solve, whether this be null checks, getters & setters, constructors for dependency injection or manipulating collections. All of these problems have much more concise expressions in Scala. Of course, much of this can be autogenerated by your IDE, but when reading your codebase I still have to read your constructor and your getters and setters to see if you've customised them.
A classic example is to compare a simple class in Java and Scala:
public class WelcomeClass {
private String name;
public WelcomeClass(String name) {
this.name = name;
public String sayHello() {
return "Hello " + name;
and in Scala:
class WelcomeClass(name: String) {
def sayHello = "Hello " + name
The Java version has to tell me that name is a String three times and it mentions "name" five times. The Scala version mentions "name" only twice, and only says it's a string once. Of course this is a trivial example, but it's symptomatic of what we've found in Scala: less boilerplate code and less needless repetition means fewer trees and more wood, i.e. it's easier to see the intent, not just the detail.
I tend to find that when reading an individual line of code in Scala it sometimes takes a little longer to understand how it's working, but this is more than made up for by the drastic reduction in the number of lines of code.
InfoQ: Sticking with complexity for a moment, do certain aspects of the language - I'm thinking here mainly about things like symbolic names and implicits - cause problems in real-world usage?
Actually implicit conversions really helped us. As I mentioned, we use the SolrJ Java library to talk to Solr, which is an excellent library but, as a Java library, it loves returning nulls. To avoid null checks littering our codebase, we implicitly convert key classes to ones which have more Scala-like methods. So far from causing problems in real-world usage, it actively solves them. In addition, the IntelliJ Scala plugin now understands implicits in nearly all cases, so if you're not sure what's happening control+click will take you to what's actually being called.
We've tended to steer clear of heavily symbolic libraries and using symbols for method names, but I think this is an important feature of the language, which like any feature is possible to over-use. Sometimes it makes sense: our method to extract query strings from the http request is called "?", which reads really well in the code. Much more than in Java, the great power of Scala brings great responsibility to focus on whether you're making the intent of your code easier to read. Just because that power can be misused doesn't mean I don't want the power.
InfoQ: Another concern for using Scala in enterprise applications is that each new version seems to break backwards compatibility - so programs compiled against Scala 2.8 are not compatible with binaries compiled earlier and so on. How significant do you think this is? How do you manage incompatibilities within Scala projects?
We started off writing to Scala 2.7.7, and migrated to both 2.8.0 and 2.8.1 soon after they were released. It was pretty painless; the 2.8.0 migration took less than a day (and that was only because I wanted to eliminate the deprecation warnings) and 2.8.1 was drop in. All of the libraries we were using already published versions for multiple Scala versions so that all just worked.
The only time it was painful was when, on my personal projects, I was using 2.8 pre-releases. But then, it was my choice to use clearly labeled pre-release code.
We tend now to use simple-build-tool for Scala projects instead of Maven, which makes it easy to release internal libraries for multiple Scala versions.
I'd much rather face some incompatibility when I choose to upgrade than face the situation in Java where some things are never changed and can never be changed. The commonly used HttpServletRequest.getHeaders still returns a java.util.Enumeration, which was effectively deprecated in Java 1.2.
InfoQ: What is the situation with regards finding programmers to continue supporting the Scala code - are good Scala programmers as easy to find as good Java programmers for instance?
We primarily recruit good software developers, rather than looking specifically for Scala developers. We tend to find that good web software developers are polyglot in outlook and have often at least played with Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Ruby or Python. Such people have usually relished the opportunity to work with Scala.
InfoQ: About how much Scala production code is guardian.co.uk running today?
The core codebase behind guardian.co.uk - the one on a two week release cycle - as of two weeks ago has one single Scala class within it. We've maintained a self-imposed no-Scala rule on that codebase until recently, just to be sure we're fully ready as a team to embrace Scala (and to stop me rewriting it).
However, many different parts of the site are now driven by Scala microapps including Search (which is written in Scala with Lift), Most Viewed, Punctuated Equilibrium Mystery Bird and the related content component on every article page.
Furthermore, our new identity platform, under development but with its first iteration in production, is written in Scala.
InfoQ: Will you be using more Scala code in the future?
We've found that Scala has enabled us to deliver things faster with less code. It's reinvigorated the team. We'll continue to use the right tool for the job whether that be Scala, Python, .NET, PHP or Bash.
In the last six months, all of the new JVM-based projects have used Scala and none have selected Java. I can't see us starting any new project in Java now, especially given the disappointing feature set and timeframe of Java 7.
For developers interesting in learning the language Tackley recommended "Programming in Scala" by Martin Odersky et al. The 2nd edition covers Scala 2.8. He also told us
We found using the Scala REPL (command line) was a good way to experiment with writing Scala code. And, despite what others may say, don't fear just using Scala as a better Java-without-semicolons in the first few days, weeks or months. You'll be missing out if you end your journey here, but it's not a bad phase to go through. Keep learning and embrace features of the language incrementally. The ability to do this is what I think makes Scala unique as a next step for Java developers.
Besides the technical aspects, guardian.co.uk's Content API, and the broader Open Platform suite of services of which it forms a part, is interesting from a business point of view, since it represents a very different approach from that favoured by a growing number of quality newspapers in the UK and elsewhere, ie to place their content behind paywalls. To date The Financial Times, and News International's Times and The Sunday Times have all decided to go down this path, and more recently The New York Times has started to roll-out a paid content model. Veteran BBC journalist John Humphrys argued in The Sun, a tabloid News International paper, that "Good journalism has to be paid for, just as we have to pay for the plumber who fixes a leak, or it will not survive". Tackley however, takes a different view
We firmly believe that the future of digital publishing is to engage and integrate with the rest of the web, not to retreat from it.
The Content API is able to extend the reach and brand of the Guardian into significant areas that we would otherwise not be able to reach. This is helped by third parties and partners who use the API, as they can invest in an area and use the relevant Guardian content.
We have a number of different tiers of access to the Content API: without registration, you can access content metadata but not the actual content, with a limited QPS (queries per second) rate. After registration, you can access the article bodies, which include embedded adverts, again with a limited QPS. At the top tier, you become a partner of the Guardian and we agree an appropriate commercial agreement.
A good example partner is WhatCouldICook.com, built by a small independent developer. This site is a good example of tight integration with Guardian content: it uses the API to extract and parse all the recipes we publish and present them in a great way for people wanting to cook. Furthermore, our readers benefit because we include functionality from whatcouldicook.com on our site, see for example the recipe search on the right hand side of the Guardian website.
Our wordpress plugin, built on top of the API, enables any wordpress user to include related Guardian content on their blog.
This level of innovation in specific areas is something that simply would not happen without the Content API. Furthermore, we extensively use the Content API for Guardian-driven projects to aid our rate of innovation: site features like search and zeitgeist, our mobile site and our iPhone app are all driven by the Content API.
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Java is on the way out
Garry T
Re: Java is on the way out
Neil Bartlett
>Java developers are a dime a dozen where I live.
At the very least this is a non sequitur, and at worst two directly contradictory statements...
Re: Java is on the way out
Travis Calder
This is my previous feed item before this article.
Sake .
Re: Java is on the way out
Mark N
Having used things in the past that resemble things like Scala (etc), I just don't see them as useful for the mainstream developer. You need a good team of highly responsible developers. And talented ones too (at least enough to help the not so talented ones). Most developers are not this. Sure, you can teach them to code in [Scala|Groovy|etc], but can you teach them to build maintainable solutions? My experience says no. Sadly.
I don't see many postings for Scala, Groovy, JRuby, etc. So I doubt Java is on its way out. I am not saying they are bad. I am not saying no one is using them.
Re: Java is on the way out
Dan Tines
Having used things in the past that resemble things like Scala (etc), I just don't see them as useful for the mainstream developer. You need a good team of highly responsible developers. And talented ones too (at least enough to help the not so talented ones). Most developers are not this. Sure, you can teach them to code in [Scala|Groovy|etc], but can you teach them to build maintainable solutions? My experience says no. Sadly.
Well, then why did Java become mainstream when there are much simpler languages out there to be had? C# and VB.NET have turned out to be more complex languages than Java, but I really don't see this attitude that I constantly see in the Java community.
Anyway, I don't agree with your premise, which seems to be that Scala is too complex for your average developer. But maybe the perception makes it a reality.
Re: Java is on the way out
Sasha O
>>> Java developers are a dime a dozen where I live. <<<
where is it? I want to know where to turn when I need Java engineers next time.
Re: Java is on the way out
Chris Webster
Scala is compelling and will win significant share over time
Faisal Waris
It takes a good few months of substantial coding to grok the programming idioms of a significantly different language. Not everyone has time/patience to see it through. Initially, one has to undertake the effort almost on faith.
Having recently learnt F# (roughly a Scala-equivalent on .Net) I can say that it was a significant investment but well worth it in the end. Compared to C# (say), the amount of code I write is much less; certain programming tasks such as asynchronous programming, language oriented programming, etc. are significantly easier; and it is easier to see the design intent in code.
Re: Java is on the way out
Garry T
Re: Java is on the way out
Garry T
yes, Java is out
Hao Deng
Most of the Java positions are offered by startup companies.


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Follow me on Instagram (jrdemboski) and Twitter (@jrdemboski).
I regularly post images and content about what's going on behind the scenes in the Zoology vertebrate collections and in my scientific world.
I have an article in Catalyst this month about my trip to Churchill, Manitoba to see polar bears and the neat renovations we are undertaking in our Bears and Sea Mammals diorama hall. Check it out here
Off to the Snake River Plain in southern Idaho
next week to collect specimens of Tamias amoenus
cratericus for genetic work. This is a subspecies of
yellow-pine chipmunk that is found in and around Craters of the Moon
National Monument. Over the last decade, we've discovered
that its genetics and morphology appear distinct relative to the
other two chipmunks found in the region, Tamias minimus
and Tamias amoenus amoenus.
One interesting find is that the baculum, the male genital bone,
in T. a. cratericus is distinct. Since there is
strong interspecific differentiation among bacula in the 23
species of western chipmunks, distinctive bacular morphology
has been suggested to be a hallmark of reproductive isolation.
Check them out above, the scale is in mm.
We'll see.
Supported by the National Science Foundation.