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As a reminder of what the CPS say ...
CPS Guidance: Misconduct in Public Office
Like perverting the course of justice, misconduct in public office covers a wide range of conduct. It should always be remembered that it is a very serious, indictable only offence carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. A charge of misconduct in public office should be reserved for cases of serious misconduct or deliberate failure to perform a duty which is likely to injure the public interest.
... and then read the words of Judge Cottle.
Then remember that Peter Harry is a VICTIM of wilful misconduct and the criminal actions of someone paid from the public purse. This massive injustice will incense Britain's motorists.
Official forged parking documents
Published on Fri Feb 25
20:10:09 2011
Press Association
A motorist has spoken of his disbelief after an Exeter City Council official escaped with a slap on the wrist after admitting forging documents in a parking dispute.
Geoffrey Urwin, 43, who worked at Exeter City Council as a parking support team leader, doctored a map that was presented to a traffic penalty tribunal after motorist Peter Harry appealed against a ticket he had been given.
Urwin, of Oxford Road, St James, Exeter, pleaded guilty to a charge of wilful misconduct at Exeter Crown Court on Friday and was given an absolute discharge by Judge Graham Cottle, the Recorder of Exeter.
Exeter Crown Court heard the charge related to an incident in June 2009, when Mr Harry, 67, who is part of a group campaigning against illegal issuing of parking tickets, discovered that some of the parking restrictions in Exeter city centre were incorrectly marked and decided to test them.
He found that the parking bays on Southernhay East were marked with a double white transverse line - meaning motorists who did not buy a ticket could not be penalised for parking there. When the retired cheese wholesaler, from Dawlish, Devon, received a penalty notice for not purchasing a ticket, he appealed against the fine.
The court heard that Mr Harry found that the ticket he had been issued with stated that he was parked in Southernhay West, when in fact he had left his car in the adjacent Southernhay East. He also discovered that a map the council had submitted to the tribunal had been doctored and the word 'East' removed - making it look like he was parked in 'Southernhay', the court heard.
After Mr Harry complained to the police, it was discovered that Urwin had realised that the pensioner was right and so the defendant altered parking plans to put the city council in the clear, the court heard.
Before Urwin entered his plea, Judge Cottle spoke of his disbelief that the case had ever reached the crown court in the first place. "The CPS lawyer spent hours on this case? I wonder whether that was money well spent," the judge said.
Speaking outside court, Mr Harry spoke of his disbelief at the comments of the judge. "I cannot understand justice sometimes," he said. "I am absolutely astounded. I am just struck for words. How the judge can give an absolute discharge for a criminal offence, which he never heard anything about, is beyond me."
A spokesman for Exeter City Council said: "Geoff Urwin no longer works for the city council. We have no further comment to make."
Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2011, All Rights Reserved


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Daniel Craig shows off his 2(xist) underwear while picking up his daily reads in Toronto, Canada on Saturday morning (April 24).
The 42-year-old British actor was seen picking up two newspapers — The New York Times and UK's The Guardian.
Daniel is in town with Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz filming their new movie, Dream House. He plays a New York publishing executive who relocates his family to a quaint New England town, only to discover their perfect home was the murder scene of a mother and her two children.


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DUST - Dunsborough Ultimate Summer Tournament
Dunsborough Ultimate and Bunbury Ultimate Club are proud to be hosting a two day event this December! Head down south for a great social event to kick off your Christmas break.
When: 2nd - 3rd December 2017
Where: Dunsborough, WA
What: Saturday: Mixed Team Tournament, Kanjam and Social Event
Sunday: Ultimate skills workshop and a HAT tournament
Cost: $25.00 per player.
Lunch will be provided both days, music playing over the fields and a great vibe guaranteed!
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Day 1 Saturday 2nd December
Mixed Team Tournament, Registration is capped at 8 teams! so get in quick.
The first game will be at 9:00am.
At the end of the days play, enjoy the DUST Party and a Kanjam tournament at the field's clubrooms.
Day 2 Sunday 3rd December
9:00am - 10:00am Ultimate Skills Workshop. We are hoping to get the local kids and new players interested by offering this for free to the community!
Interested in helping us run the workshop? Let us know! We are looking for a few experienced players to help with this.
10:30am - 3:00pm HAT Tournament.
Upon registration, players are to nominate their experience and preferred playing position.
At the end of the day, enjoy a free sausage sizzle provided.
Or there is plenty of accommodation available if you want to organise your own.
What is a HAT tournament?
Hat tournaments are common on the Ultimate scene. They are tournaments where players join individually rather than as a team. The tournament organisers form teams by randomly taking the names of the participants from a "hat". Teams are pulled out of a 'hat' but are balanced so that there are a range of players from beginners just starting to play through to experienced Ultimate players. Hat tournaments have a strong emphasis on having fun and meeting other players. Players of all levels take part in such events from world-class players to complete beginners.
If you have any questions, please contact the tournament organisers of DUST.
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The Bisons held an 11-10 edge at the plate, but the Dolphins won the game 7-6.
Junior left-hander Rex Brothers gave up seven runs and seven hits in four innings. Six of the runs were earned. He also struck out seven and walked six.
Josh Cotham pitched four innings in relief for the Bisons, holding the Dolphins to three hits and no runs. He struck out one batter.
Brothers, 4-5, has been a hard luck pitcher this season in terms of this won-lost record. He leads the conference in earned run average and strikeouts. He is second in NCAA Division I in strikeouts as well.
But prior to starting Friday night the Bisons had only scored two runs in 24 innings in support of Brothers.
The series has been billed as the "Series of the Week" by the A-Sun. Baseball America called the match-up between Brothers and Jacksonville sophomore right-hander Matt Loosen as the "Marquee Match-up of the Week".
Jacksonville scored one run in the first inning, three in the second, two in the third and one in the fourth.
Loosen didn't fare much better. He gave up five hits and five runs, four earned, in 5.2 innings. He struck out six and walked five. Jacksonville would need three more pitchers to close out the game.
The Bisons scored one run in the fourth, four in the sixth and one in the eighth inning.
In the fourth Justin Sanders scored on a fielding error by Jacksonville's third baseman.
Sanders and Branden Cadavid walked to lead off the sixth inning. Andrew Nickerson singled to right center to score Sanders.
Tennyson Dodd and Logan Hostettler both struck out swinging. Antonio Butler followed with a single to right center to bring Cadavid home. M.L. Williams hit a single to center to drive in Nickerson. With the bases loaded Allen Bolden was hit by a pitch that forced Butler home.
In the eighth Bolden hit a sacrifice fly to left field that drove in M.L. Williams.
M.L. Williams led the Bisons with three hits. Nickerson and Butler each had two. Dodd hit a triple.
Many scouts are predicting that Brothers will be drafted in the first half of the first round of this year's Major League Draft.
The series continues Saturday at 11 a.m. at John Sessions Stadium. Junior right-hander Josh Smith (4-3, 3.41) will pitch for the Bisons. Sunday senior right-hander Brandon McClurg (3-3, 4.47) will start for the Bisons at noon.
The Bisons are 16-25, 10-9 in the conference. Jacksonville is 26-12, 15-7 in the A-Sun.


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A senior British judge says the country needs a new, independent media regulator to eliminate a subculture of unethical behavior that infected segments of the country's press.
LONDON - Britain needs a new independent media regulator to eliminate a subculture of unethical behavior that infected segments of the country's press, a senior judge said Thursday at the end of a yearlong inquiry into newspaper wrongdoing.
Lord Justice Brian Leveson said a new regulatory body should be established in law to prevent more people being hurt by "press behavior that, at times, can only be described as outrageous."
He said "what is needed is a genuinely independent and effective system of self-regulation."
Leveson issued his 2,000-page report at the end of a media ethics inquiry that was triggered by revelations of tabloid phone hacking and expanded to engulf senior figures in politics, the police and Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
His proposals will likely be welcomed by victims of press intrusion and some politicians, who want to see the country's rambunctious press reined in. But some editors and lawmakers fear any new body could curtail freedom of the press.
Leveson insisted in his report that politicians and the government should play no role in regulating the press, which should be done by a new body with much stronger powers than the current Press Complaints Commission.
But Leveson said it was "essential that there should be legislation to underpin the independent self-regulatory system."
He said the new body should be composed of members of the public including former journalists and academics — but no serving editors or politicians. It should have the power to demand prominent corrections in newspapers and to levy fines of up to 1 million pounds ($1.6 million).
Prime Minister David Cameron set up the Leveson inquiry after revelations of illegal eavesdropping by Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid sparked a criminal investigation and a wave of public revulsion.
The furor erupted in 2011 when it was revealed that the News of the World had eavesdropped on the mobile phone voicemails of slain schoolgirl Milly Dowler while police were searching for the 13-year-old.
Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old newspaper in July 2011. His U.K. newspaper company, News International, has paid millions in damages to dozens of hacking victims, and faces lawsuits from dozens more, from celebrities, politicians, athletes and crime victims whose voicemails were hacked in the paper's quest for scoops.
Leveson heard evidence from hundreds of journalists, politicians, lawyers and victims of press intrusion during months of hearings that provided a dramatic, sometimes comic and often poignant window on the workings of the media. Witnesses ranged from celebrities such as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and Hugh Grant — who both complained of intrusive treatment — to the parents of Dowler, who described how learning that their daughter's voicemail had been accessed had given them false hope that she was alive.
Leveson said that the ongoing criminal investigation constrained him from accusing other newspapers of illegal behavior, but argued there was a subculture of unethical behavior "within some parts of some titles."
While many editors have denied knowing about phone hacking, Leveson said it "was far more than a covert, secret activity, known to nobody save one or two practitioners of the 'dark arts.'"
More broadly, he said newspapers had been guilty of "recklessness in prioritizing sensational stories almost irrespective of the harm the stories may cause."
"In each case, the impact has been real and, in some cases, devastating," the judge said.
The hacking scandal has rocked Britain's press, political and police establishments, who were revealed to enjoy an often cozy relationship in which drinks, dinners and sometimes money were traded for influence and information.
Leveson said over the past three decades, political parties "have had or developed too close a relationship with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest."
He acquitted senior politicians of wrongdoing, but recommended that political parties publish statements "setting out, for the public, an explanation of the approach they propose to take as a matter of party policy in conducting relationships with the press."
Parliament will have to approve the legal changes the report recommends, and Cameron is under intense pressure from both sides. He is also tainted by his own ties to prominent figures in the scandal.
Former Murdoch editors and journalists charged with phone hacking, police bribery or other wrongdoing include Cameron's former spokesman, Andy Coulson, and ex-News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, a friend of the prime minister.
Coulson and Brooks were appearing in court Thursday on charges of paying public officials for information.
Cameron, who received a copy of Leveson's report a day early, is due to make a statement about it in the House of Commons later Thursday.
He and other senior politicians insist they will not curb Britain's long tradition of free speech.
"Everybody wants two things: firstly, a strong, independent, raucous press who can hold people in positions of power to account, and secondly to protect ordinary people, the vulnerable, the innocent when the press overstep the mark," Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Thursday.
"That's the balance that we are trying to strike and I am sure we will."


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Graduate School
Degree Requirements | Academic Policies | Expenses | Financial Assistance
Clarkson offers programs of study during the regular academic year leading to the Master of Business Administration, Master of Engineering, Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Physical Therapy degrees. The M.S. is offered in the following fields: chemical engineering, chemistry, civil engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, information technology, engineering and global operations management, mathematics, environmental science and engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, and engineering science. Programs leading to the Ph.D. are offered in chemical, civil and environmental, electrical and computer, and mechanical engineering; engineering science; environmental science and engineering; chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics.
Graduate work during the entire year leading to the Master of Business Administration is available both on campus and online on a part-time basis for employed individuals.
Interdisciplinary programs leading to master of science degrees in Engineering and Global Operations Management (EGOM), Information Technology, and in Computer Science are offered. The MS in EGOM can be obtained through a hybrid format of accelerated residency sessions and interactive distance learning (see the interdisciplinary graduate programs page). The M.S. in Computer Science offers an academic year program that provides both computer science and computer engineering perspectives (see the interdisciplinary graduate programs page). Information Technology courses range from disciplines in math and computer science, electrical and computer science, technical communications, and management information technology (see the interdisciplinary graduate programs page). Clarkson also offers both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Science and Engineering (see the interdisciplinary graduate programs page).
Admission to graduate study is on a merit basis. The applicant must have received a bachelor's degree from a college accredited by its regional association and must have achieved a record distinctly above average. Nonengineering majors may do engineering graduate work, but the degree they receive may not make them eligible to sit for the professional engineering licensing examinations immediately upon graduation.
International Applicants: Language Verification Requirement
Clarkson University must verify all international students' English language proficiency when English is not a first language. This requirement, as part of the application process, must be completed prior to the issue of an I-20. Once the university has verified this requirement, and the applicant is accepted, the I-20 may be used to obtain a student visa.
Clarkson University requires one of the following language proficiency exams:
- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language: http://www.toefl.org )
- IELTS (International English Language Testing System: http://www.ielts.org )
In the School of Business, the minimum required TOEFL score is 600 (paper), (CBT - 250; IBT - 100). The minimum IELTS score is an overall band score of 7.0. If the applicant completes the paper or computer-based TOEFL, or the IELTS, then the student must complete a TSE (test of spoken English) by calling the Office of Graduate Business Programs for a brief telephone interview. If the applicant submits an iBT TOEFL score of over 100, the TSE requirement may be waived. In the Coulter School of Engineering, the minimum TOEFL score is 550 (CBT -213; IBT - 80) or minimum IELTS band score of 6.5.
The School of Arts and Science has no minimum requirement for TOEFL or IELTS exams, however a solid understanding of speaking/writing English is expected. A TOEFL/IELTS official score must be submitted as part of the application requirement.
Lastly, all matriculated international students for whom English is a second language are required to complete the ESL placement exam upon arrival to campus and complete any resulting requirements. Any language courses required as a result of the placement exam are not counted toward degree requirements.
Applicants for all graduate programs in science, engineering and interdisciplinary programs are required to take the Graduate Record Examinations, GMAT/GRE is not required for EGOM in lieu of professional experience.
All admission must be approved by the applicant's departmental graduate representative, by the director of the program and/or the dean of the appropriate school. While there is a rolling admission policy, the recommended application deadlines are January 31 for the fall semester and August 31 for the spring semester for applicants for students requesting financial aid. International applicants are encouraged to apply by April 15 for the fall semester and October 1 for the spring semester.
Superior Clarkson undergraduate students, with the permission of their department chair and the dean of the appropriate School, may enroll in engineering, science, and information technology graduate courses. When such courses are completed with a grade of C or better beyond the normal credit hour requirements for the bachelor's degree, credit may be applied toward a graduate degree. Graduate-level courses in the School of Business are restricted to matriculated graduate students.
For applications and other inquiries about the status of an application, contact the specific department of interest or see Clarkson's Web site at www.clarkson.edu/admission/graduate/ .
Accelerated Admission Graduate School Policy
This policy is intended to encourage early consideration and preparation for graduate work at Clarkson by highly qualified students. Such students would likely participate in undergraduate research experiences and would have identified a graduate advisor prior to baccalaureate graduation. These students may accelerate their undergraduate course of study to graduate early and begin their graduate work as soon as possible.
Any student who completes at least two years of residential study at the University and who has received a baccalaureate degree from Clarkson will automatically be accepted into any Clarkson graduate program for a master's degree, at minimum, if he or she meets the conditions below at the time of entry to Graduate School. Eligible students must have:
- graduated in good standing from Clarkson within the previous year and have taken any necessary prerequisite courses for entrance to the graduate program in question;
- exhibited the quality of character expected of an entering graduate student of Clarkson University, as indicated by a letter from their academic advisor, department chair, or the dean of the school in which their baccalaureate degree resides;
- maintained a minimum grade-point average of 3.50 in their major;
- achieved a School-defined minimum score on a designated national exam; the CUSB requires the GMAT exam and all others, with the exceptio of Clarkson students, require the GRE.
Applications for graduate admission from students receiving a Clarkson University baccalaureate degree who have not met all conditions specified above will still be considered, but admission will no longer be automatic.
Graduate Application Procedure
Application for admission is made on forms furnished by the University, obtained from the appropriate graduate studies office. Applicants to the Graduate School from within the U.S. and Canada are required to pay a $25 application fee. All other applicants are required to pay a $35 application fee. The fee will be waived for applicants from within the U.S. and Canada who apply for admission before December 31 for the following fall semester, or June 30 for the following January. The fee is waived for all Clarkson University undergraduates. Applications should be sent to the appropriate School office as indicated on the application. Information about the graduate program offerings, including application materials, is available at www.clarkson.edu/admission/graduate/index.html .
Fellowships and Instructional or Research Assistantships
Applicants who submit their applications by January 31 for entry the following August (fall semester) or by August 31 for entry the following January (spring semester) will receive priority for assistantships and other financial aid. Fellowships, instructional or research assistantships, and tuition scholarships are available in the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Physical Therapy, and Physics; and in interdisciplinary Engineering Science, Computer Science and Information Technology. Notices of appointment will generally be made on or before April 15. Merit-based scholarships and graduate assistant positions are available in the School of Business. All assistantships will be awarded on a merit basis (see Financial Assistance).
Requirements for the Master's Degree
The minimum graduation requirements for students in all Master of Science degree programs at Clarkson are listed below. Additional graduation requirements are set by each degree program. Consult the department Graduate Handbook for details.
- A minimum of 30 credit hours of graduate coursework, as follows.
a. At least 20 credit hours of course and seminar work. The balance of coursework must be consistent with the research or professional experience component.
b. Only courses numbered 500 and above are accepted for graduate credit.
c. 10 credit hours of transfer credit (B grade or better) may be accepted.
- Satisfactory completion of a research or comparable professional experience, as follows.
a. A written thesis based on independent research;
b. A comprehensive examination; or,
c. An appropriate, professionally oriented special project.
- At least one academic year of study beyond the B.S
- A cumulative GPA of 3.0 in courses used to meet graduation requirements
- All work must be completed in five calendar years
A thesis or project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science degree will be examined by a committee of at least three Clarkson faculty appointed by the student's department. After approval by the examining committee, the thesis requires signature approval by the dean of the Graduate School, and two copies of the thesis will be deposited in the University library.
The minimum graduation requirement for students in all Master of Engineering degree programs at Clarkson is 30 hours of graduate credit. Each semester, full-time M.E. students must register for 15 credits, possibly including required and elective coursework, a seminar, and project work. Each department has its own specific requirements, but the common element throughout is the practical orientation of the program.
To be eligible to receive a degree during Commencement exercises at the end of the spring semester, a student who has submitted a thesis acceptable to the advisor and committee must file the completed final copies with the appropriate School office no later than 10 working days before commencement to award degrees.
Students failing to perform satisfactorily will be separated from the University upon the request of the department chair and with the concurrence of the dean of the respective School.
Any changes in the student's degree program must be approved by the department chair and dean of the school.
Requirements for the Doctoral Degree
The minimum requirements for all students in Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree programs are described below. Please consult your departmental Graduate Handbook for additional requirements. Requirements for students enrolled in the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program vary from those outlined here and are described at General Requirements for DPT Curriculum .
- A minimum of 90 credit hours, as follows.
a. A minimum of 24 credit hours coursework.
b. A minimum of nine course credit hours taken in residence (includes distance learning courses offered by Clarkson University).
c. A minimum of six credit hours of seminar.
d. A maximum of 30 credits transferred from an M.S. degree towards Ph.D. degree requirements (B grade or better).
- A minimum of three academic years of full-time graduate study or the equivalent in part-time study. Two years of study must be in residence at Clarkson. Students matriculated in the off-campus Ph.D. program are exempt from this residency requirement (see below).
- Satisfactory completion of the Ph.D. candidacy procedure within two years of full-time study after admission to the Ph.D. program or, for part-time students, before completing 66 credits.
a. After completion of the candidacy procedure, the student will be identified as a "Ph.D. Candidate."
b. Students who fail the candidacy procedure may make a second attempt according to department guidelines.
c. A student who does not successfully complete the candidacy procedure within the time allowed may be dropped from the graduate program.
- A written dissertation must be submitted by each candidate and defended orally as part of the final examination (see below).
- All work must be completed within seven years after the student is identified as a Ph.D. candidate.
Any changes in the student's degree program must be approved by the Department Chair and Dean of the school.
Off-Campus Ph.D. Program Policy
The program has been designed to assist qualified non-resident candidates to matriculate at Clarkson University as doctoral degree candidates. It is conducted through direct contact and quality distance learning.
- The minimum-credit-hour requirement after the bachelor's degree is 90 hours (current requirements). The normal course requirements for the student's department and the University must be met. There is a maximum of 9 credits of coursework offered through distance learning. The remaining credits, up to 30 hours, can be transferred in accordance with the normal procedures or taken on campus. Students who enter the program with an M.S. degree may transfer up to 30 credits toward the Ph.D. from their master's program.
- The student must satisfy all the entrance requirements of the academic department. This is beyond the basic University requirements already in place for admission to the Ph.D. program. The experience and specialization of each candidate will be considered in the admission evaluation process.
- It is essential that the dissertation committee includes one qualified representative from the student's employer. The representative will act as a co-advisor within the organization. Each department will decide if the representative should be appointed as an external committee member of the student's Ph.D. Committee.
- The student must fulfill all degree requirements according to each department's policy. It is considered essential that each candidate be carefully examined for both the depth and breadth of his/her knowledge in the chosen field of study.
- The dissertation should be defended at Clarkson University in the normal manner and according to the University and department requirements and regulations. The candidate must demonstrate a sufficient fundamental knowledge in his/her field.
- The department will specify the period of time the student spends on campus (at the department) and the number of visits (each semester).
- The relationship between the student's employing organization and Clarkson University must conform to the Clarkson Conflict of Interest Policy.
The courses for this program will be delivered using a video conference/classroom facility or through the Internet. Graduate classes that include off-campus students are scheduled at a video conference facility at Clarkson. An appropriate faculty member is assigned to oversee the courses, coordinate the examinations and evaluation of the student's performance. Courses may also be given through other means of delivery, provided they meet the University and department requirements. These courses shall meet the matriculation requirements set forth in the University catalog.
Comprehensive Examination for Admission to Candidacy
A comprehensive examination based on general preparation in the major field must be taken within two years after admission to the Ph.D. program. If the student fails, studies cannot proceed until approval is obtained from the department chair and from the Dean of the respective School and arrangements are made to repeat the comprehensive examination in the major field. If the comprehensive examination is failed twice, the student will be dropped.
Tine Limit
After the comprehensive examination is passed, all work done specifically for the doctorate is to be completed within a period of seven calendar years.
Final Examination
A final examination must be passed. This examination will include, as a minimum, an oral examination based on the dissertation. For the final oral examination, a committee will be selected by the faculty advisor and approved by the department chair and dean of the respective school. The committee will consist of a minimum of five members. The members should include at least four Clarkson faculty of assistant professor rank or higher and possessing an earned doctoral degree. At least one of the members must be from a department other than the candidate's major department. With the approval of the Provost, an external examiner with appropriate credentials from another University or industry may also be appointed to serve as one of the five committee members. This committee will judge the technical competence of the dissertation and the oral presentation. Final copies of accepted dissertations must be received in the student's School office no later than 10 working days before commencement to confer degrees to qualify a student to receive a degree at the end of the spring semester. Before final submission of the Ph.D. thesis, each student must pay a fee, subject to change,* to cover the cost of microfiche and binding the dissertation.
*For the current price, contact the Graduate Coordinator in your school's office.
Grading System
The grades A, B+, B, C+, C, and P are acceptable for credit toward the degree. For graduation an average of B or better must be earned in nondissertation courses and seminar work. The grade of P will not affect the average.
Students failing to perform satisfactorily will be separated from the University upon the request of the department chair and with the concurrence of the dean of their School.
Graduate grades at Clarkson are defined as follows:
|passed with 4.0 quality points per credit hour
|passed with 3.5 quality points per credit hour
|passed with 3.0 quality points per credit hour
|passed with 2.5 quality points per credit hour
|passed with 2.0 quality points per credit hour
|passing: this grade may be employed for seminar courses and special projects, and under limited circumstances for MS thesis credits. Approval for a "P" grade for project or thesis credit requires the approval of the department chair, (or comparable administrative unit), Dean of the school, and the Dean of the Graduate School/Provost.
|Satisfactory progress towards the completion of on-going project thesis, or dissertation work for the semester. The S grade is removed and replaced with a "P" grade when the final report, thesis or dissertation is accepted by the Graduate School.
|Current Unsatisfactory progress towards the completion of on-going project, thesis, or dissertation work for the semester. The U grade is removed and replaced with a "P" grade when the final report, thesis or dissertation is accepted by the Graduate School.
|incomplete grade given only in cases described in the paragraph below. An I grade must be replaced by one of the above letter grades as required by the rules in the paragraph below.
Incomplete Grades
- a. A student who is unable to complete the requirements of a course because of extenuating circumstances may seek an Incomplete grade (I) for the course. Whether or not an "I" grade is given is entirely at the discretion of the faculty member for the course, although the faculty member may ask the Dean of Students' Office if it has relevant information regarding students' requests. The conferring of an "I" grade carries the presumption that it is possible for the course to be completed with a passing grade; in cases where the missing work is such that it cannot be completed after the end of the semester, or where completion of the missing work could not possibly result in a passing grade for the course, an "I" grade should not be given.
- b. Requests for an "I" grade shall be made on a form available from Student Administrative Services. Faculty members indicate on the form whether they approve or disapprove the "I" grade request for their course(s) and return the completed form to Student Administrative Services. If the faculty member approves the request, he or she lists on the form the work that must be completed to remove the "I" grade and the due date for this work and submits an "I" for the student on the course grade roster. If the faculty member disapproves the request, he or she submits a letter grade for the student on the course grade sheet. Unless otherwise stated on the form, or if no form is received, the work required to remove an "I" grade must be completed no later than the end of the 7th week of classes of the next semester in which the student registers at the University, otherwise a grade of "F" is recorded. All requests for "I" grades by a student in the same semester shall be made on a single form, and students seeking more than two "I" grades in the same semester must consult with the Dean of Students prior to seeking faculty approval for their requests.
- c. To remove an "I" grade, the instructor shall submit a completed Change of Grade form to the instructor's department chair (or comparable administrative officer), and upon approval, it is sent to Student Administrative Services. Then the specified grade shall replace the "I" grade in the semester(s) in which the student registered for the course.
In order for a graduate student to receive a diploma at the May Commencement ceremony:
- All coursework and seminar credits must be completed as specified by the degree requirements.
- Master's theses or Doctoral dissertations must be approved by the student's research committee, department, school, and dean of the Graduate School. All associated final and signed copies and paperwork must be submitted to the appropriate school office by the published deadline. This deadline is generally 10 working days before commencement to confer degrees.
- Projects for non-thesis Master's students must be approved by the advisor and department. All associated paperwork must be submitted to the appropriate school office by the published deadline. This deadline is generally 2 working days before the faculty vote to confer degrees. Students who do not meet these requirements and deadlines may be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies in the following cases.
A student may receive a diploma "on condition" at the May commencement if:
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Aug. 23, 2005) - ETSU head baseball coach Tony Skole announced on Tuesday the addition of Clay Greene as the team's new assistant coach.
Greene comes to ETSU after having spent the last three years at the
"I am extremely excited to add such a quality person to our staff," Skole said. "Coach Greene is highly regarded and recognized as one of the top young coaches in the Southeast. He has experience at the highest levels of baseball and he has a very innovative and creative mind when it comes to teaching baseball.
"He brings a lot of positives to our program and will be a great asset to State Baseball. Our entire coaching staff now has ties with the NCAA Tournament and College World Series. We hope this experience will help take our program to another level."
Greene, who was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in 1997, played four seasons in the minor leagues. He began his career with Salem-Keizer in the short-season Northwest League before spending three seasons with the San Jose Giants in the Class A Advanced California League from 1998-2000. He also spent two years coaching at the
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Skole said Greene's addition only adds to the excitement already surrounding ETSU baseball.
"Our coaching staff is energized about the upcoming season and we are looking forward to our first season in the Atlantic Sun Conference," Skole said. "This year's recruiting class is very solid and we are excited to have these twelve young men on campus this week. We have a strong foundation of returning players and I am eager for fall practice to begin."


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Playoff matchups announced for area football teams
MICHIGAN — The Michigan High School Athletic Association announced the first round football playoff pairings Sunday, Oct. 21.
All games will be held Friday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. Playoff pairings are listed below:
Whittemore-Prescott (6-3) @ Mancelona (9-0)
Cheboygan (6-3) @ Ogemaw Heights (6-3)
Standish-Sterling (6-3) @ Gladwin (7-2)
Au Gres-Sims (6-3) @ Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart (8-1) This game will be played at Central Michigan University
Mio (6-3) @ Beal City (9-0)
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Canucks insider Kevin Vanstone breaks down the Game 77 matchup between the Colorado Avalanche vs. Vancouver Canucks. David Booth continues to grow in his role as a pesky power forward and demonstrated a new aspect of his game on Wednesday, beating down BC boy Mark Oliver. Maxim Lapierre attempted to intervene. By the way Happy Birthday Maxim.
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Kevin McCarthy, who starred in the science-fiction movie classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," has died at age 96.
McCarthy died Saturday, said Cape Cod Hospital spokesman Dave Riley. He did not reveal the cause of death.
In the classic 1950s film, McCarthy played a doctor trying to save his townfrom evil aliens who were stealing people's personalities. His frantic shouting of "You're next!" to motorists was perhaps his most famous scene.
McCarthy's other films included "A Gathering of Eagles," "The Best Man," "Mirage," "Hotel," "The Howling," "Twilight Zone- The Movie," "Inner Space," "Dark Tower," "Just Cause," "The Distinguished Gentleman" and "Steal Big, Steal Little."
He also appeared in one other classic film, although in a much smaller role. He was Marilyn Monroe's estranged husband in her last movie, 1961's "The Misfits."
In 1978, he began touring in the one-man show "Give 'em Hell, Harry," playing the Harry Truman role created by James Whitmore. Over the years he appeared as Truman in 350 venues.
McCarthy was born in Seattle on Feb. 15, 1914. He, his sister, author Mary McCarthy, and their two brothers were orphaned when their parents died in the 1918 influenza epidemic, and they were raised by relatives.
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Liev Schreiber: Sabretooth's Claws Revealed!
Here are the first pictures of the bulked up Liev Schreiber in Sydney, Australia and his new Sabretooth claws/nails for the latest X-Men spin-off film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Liev was seen having his fingertips touched up by the prosthetics department.
Hugh Jackman, who reprises his role as Wolverine, was also seen looking like his jolly self on set.
Both Hugh, 39, and Liev, 40, were seen eating apples from craft services. An apple a day keeps the beast away!
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As we posted back in September, Thonet Bentwood chairs are a design classic. What could be better than these classic chairs? Bentwood bar stools! As seen here in Mark's Delightful (and Delicious!) West Village Home, these bar stools set a classic tone when pulled up to a kitchen island.
• Era Barstool by Michael Thonet from Design Within Reach The authentic version. $210 - $240
• Vienna Black Counter Stool from Crate & Barrel A slightly more affordable version.$179
• Vendome Bentwood Bar Stool Collection from Sofa & Home From the UK. £129
• Bentwood Series T20 Bar Stool from Stack Chair Depot A backless option. $119
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The Career mode is new, which essentially combines Be A Pro and Manager (and Player Manager) to a fifteen-year career for your chosen path. Playing as a pro is as you expect, lots of game playing, though the option to switch between controlling the entire team and one player is a nice one to have. The manager options are quite extensive as you attempt to build your club into one to be feared. While the sheer amount of options and depth are to be commended, a novice or casual fan of the sport could easily feel its too much to process and get scared away. Im a sucker for soccer management simulations, thanks to my local BBS with the demo to 1994s One-Nil soccer sim, and I like the ability to get down and dirty with building my club for the future; I just fear that most casuals will be turned off by the complexity.
Keeping the energy flowing is a fantastic soundtrack with over thirty quality tracks of artists you may know and ones youll be glad youve discovered. Lincoln Park, We Are Scientists, and Scissor Sisters are just a sample of the variety available. But should you find nothing to your liking, you are in luck, as you can import any song youd like, provided you digitally have a copy of it, into the game to be used. Its things like these that makes me think that the addition of hard drives to this generations consoles was certainly worth it.
Online play, after inputting the code to access EAs controversial Online Pass system, of course, is nearly identical to last year, which is a good thing. Provided your internet connection is fast enough, you will receive little to no lag while getting your game on. The biggest change is that with the inclusion of the goalie as a playable position, you can now experience eleven-on-eleven gameplay online against your friends provided you have twenty-one other friends that is, otherwise against friends and strangers. Just to be clear.
All told, EAs newest entry into the FIFA series is another slam dunk. It may not have reinvented the wheel quite like FIFA 10 did, but it adds considerable and quality enhancements. FIFA 11 is more than a roster update or quick grab at money. That EA has brought even more authenticity to the gameplay, whether it from Personality Plus or the enhanced physicality, while adding in the goalkeeper play as well, makes this a game worth checking out. Its realistic depiction of the game of soccer may detract from the more casual fans experience, but FIFA 11 is so good it will just be a matter of time until that casual is won over anyway.
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U.S. Stocks Reach New Heights
U.S. stock indexes climbed to record highs as investors piled into health-care stocks and Cyprus got an extra year's reprieve on its debts. Steven Russolillo reports.
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Italy boss Cesare Prandelli has acknowledged the contribution of Torino winger Alessio Cerci this season.
The 55-year-old watched on from the stands as Cerci opened the scoring in the Granata's 2-1 win over Atalanta on Sunday.
And the former Fiorentina coach singled out the 25-year-old for special praise.
"Cerci is having a great season," he told Tuttosport. "Against Atalanta, I really enjoyed not only his goal, but also his movement off the ball."
And the former Roma youth claimed to have noticed the presence of Prandelli, and has admitted to feeling the pressure of performing in front of the coach of the Italian national team.
"I saw Prandelli in the stands, who I hope came especially for me. It felt like he looked at me with a magnifying glass, yet Angelo Ogbonna wasn't bad either," he told reporters.
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Suburbia: Tales of Affliction
Chapter VIII
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
[Previous chapters here: as noted before, these are non-sequential chapters which will tie together eventually with a story line. I'm sure a lot of you recognize some of these stories. I guess I'm fictionalizing parts of my glory days for the book.]
It's 1978, beginning of junior year. That's when we start to feel frisky. We're not seniors, but we're not "the kids" either. Seniors treat us a different attitude. Instead of making us their slaves or ridiculing our fashion sense, they take us under their wings. It gives us all a sense of power, a feeling of righteous smugness, like the world is ours and all we have to do is make a grab for it. Very often, our idea of "grabbing for it" consists of hanging out. That's it. Just...hanging out. The school lawn. The abandoned house next to the school. The sump. The park. The mall. Oh yes, there is nothing that smacks of suburbia as much as hanging out at the mall does. Roaming the aisles in packs, we have no money to spend and no specific place to be. We are the mall security's worst nightmare; kids pumped up on a combination of sugared cereal, 7-11 coffee and Saturday afternoon adrenaline. The rent-a-cops keep a close eye on us as we parade up and down the promenade, giggling in front of Frederick's of Hollywood, drooling in front of Record World. The security guys react to us like we're there to wreck the place. We're teenagers, not marauding zombies. But you would never know it from the look of those chubby men in uniform. I think they're scared of us. The funny thing is, we never caused any trouble. No fights, no shoplifting, no vandalism. We just...hang.
Today, there's me, Kevin, Paul and Tim, as always. We go nowhere without each other, we make no convoluted plots to take over the world without all of us present. We move like stealth bombers in the night, all army jackets and dirty jeans and Genesis t shirts. We are the cutting edge of a white-bred community, which really isn't saying much, but we think we are the coolest people on the face of the earth. We listen to prog rock and punk rock and never pop rock or disco or, rock gods forbid, Journey or Bruce Springsteen. We think guitar solos are passe but drum solos rock the house. We think Peter Gabriel is a genius and bands like Styx and Fleetwood Mac need to be silenced. We secretly listen to Van Halen but no one tells the other until years later, when we can admire David Lee Roth from the safe distance of many years.
When we're not marauding through the mall like zombies, we hang out in Kevin's room with the black lights and Emerson Lake & Palmer posters, or we hang out in Paul's garage, with the drum set and the Ramones "Road to Ruin" playing over and over. But every Saturday, we get on a bus to the mall. We are drawn there, because Record World owns us. It is the only reason to get on public transportation. It is the only reason to beg someone's older brother for a ride: to buy records and look through the stacks of vinyl and pray that you will find some obscure punk rock album in the cut-out bin for 99 cents, and all you can find is Heart and Blue Oyster Cult, and a 45 of Nazareth's "Love Hurts" that you play 50 times in the next three days.
We decide to that today we'll pool our money together to buy an album, and we'll still have enough left over to ask Kevin's brother to buy us quarts of beer when we get home. Perfect day.
We get to the mall and the first thing we notice is there's more security guards than usual. This is suburbia. There's not much trouble at the mall. We figure there's some kind of protest going on. You know how those college kids are, always protesting the fur or the man or whatever gets them out of the dorms. So we make our way through the mall, wanting to just get to the record store and get the hell out of there without encountering any cheerleaders or football players or the giddy junior high girls that always flirt with Tim. We're about two feet from Record World when we're stopped by a short, fat security guard and a velvet rope going across the length of the mall.
"You cannot get through this way. You must go around the other entrance to the mall and wait on line." The guard stands with his hand in his pocket, as if he is believing his own lie that he's a real cop and there's a gun hidden away there.
"Wait for what?" I ask him. "What's the line for?" He rolls his eyes at me.
"The show. The concert." I can almost here the "Duh!" coming out of his mouth.
We look beyond the velvet ropes, past the throng of the most hideous group of middle-aged women and giggling teenagers forming what looked like a huge conga line of patheticness. There's an amplifier set up on each corner of the square the ropes have formed. There's a makeshift stage in the middle, really just a few planks of wood. A concert. A show.
"So, who's playing?" Kevin asks the guard. Chubby man rolls his eyes again.
"Only Leo Sayer!" He says this with pride and arrogance. As if we should have known that the most untalented white boy to ever grace pop music was playing in our very mall today.
"Leo Sayer," I say.
"Leo Sayer," The other three say.
We look at each other in the way that only friends who have performed sinister acts of rebellion together in the past do. The look. The glance. The unspoken words that pass between us. The guard senses something going on. He looks us up and down, sees the clothes and the hair and the patches on the jackets and you can just about see the light bulb go on over his head.
"Hey! You're not here to see Leo!"
"Duh," I say. "We're here to buy some records. Can we go in?"
"No. Come back tomorrow. And don't make any trouble. I know your kind."
"Sure," Tim says. "Sure. We'll be on our way now. You take care, ok?" His words are the equivalent of patting the guy on the head.
We walk around the other side of the mall. We stake the place out, eyeing the set up of the amps and the positioning of the security guards. We synchronize our watches and hatch our plan and wait. We wait patiently. Fifteen minutes until Leo Sayer bounces on to the stage, white boy afro and squeaky voice, ready to rock the world with "You Make me Feel Like Dancing." Wanna dance the night away? Nope. Not with you, Leo.
We must do this. In the name of good music. In the name of Robert Plant and Joey Ramone.
Five minutes til Leo.
Finally, we hear a squeal rise out from the crowd. The sound of 200 or more tone-deaf women swooning at the site of a guy who looks like the poster child for geeks. We assume our positions. We wish each other luck in our mission. It's time.
Leo is escorted on to the wooden plank stage by his manager and two mall security guards. The women swoon. The music cues, ready for Leo's lyp-synching machinations. We run in four opposite directions. Within thirty seconds we have done it. We have unplugged all of Leo's speakers. The music stops. Leo is just about to "sing" the first words into the mic and everything goes dead. He's mouthing words to dead air. Silence.
The security guard who spoke to us earlier spies me as I am swiftly walking away from the northeast amp. "IT"S THEM!," he shouts, pointing in my direction, and then swings around to see Kevin running the other way. He points at him, at me, yelling at the other security guards, his face red and sweaty and alarmed. I'm having fits of laughter while I'm running, thinking that the guard is acting as if we just killed the president. I keep thinking about book depositories and grassy knolls and this too fat mall cop running after me because some disco pop boy had his amp unplugged.
The four of us meet outside, at the bus shelter and we decide it's too risky to wait another ten minutes for the bus to come so we start the long walk home, stopping every once in a while to roll around on the sidewalks in fits of laughter.
We get home, tell Kevin's brother about our exploits and he buys us beer and let's us drink it in his room. This is the big time. The older brother's secret sanctuary. He holds up his quart of piss warm Miller and toasts to us. "To rock and roll!"


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Volvo V60 2.0 D4 Momentum Automatic (Winter Pk, Rear Tints, Smartphone, Demonstrator Car)
- Registration: YW18AVO
- Body Type: Estate
- Doors: 5
- Gearbox: Automatic
- Registered: 2018
- Fuel Type: Diesel
- Mileage: 2501 miles
- Engine Size: 1969 cc
- Colour: 614 Ice White
- Price: £25,990
Vehicle Description
Current Riverside Demonstrator please call for full details. Volvo Selekt - Checked and Prepared to Volvo Standards by Volvo trained technicians - Only genuine Volvo parts used when replacement required - Software Upgrade - Volvo Selekt Warranty - MOT Test Cover - Volvo Assistance - 30 day/1500 mile Exchange Guarantee - 7 day Drive Away Insurance available 'Welcome to Riverside Motor Group. Established in 1982 and now with 5 locations across Yorkshire, we are a privately-owned and run business with an absolute focus and enviable track record for outstanding customer service. For more than thirty years, our team has worked hard to service our customers through sales and aftersales care and we are exceptionally proud of the high percentage of repeat business and recommendations we enjoy each year. We have excellent relations with our vehicle manufacturer partners who recognise our high standards in customer care. Riverside is registered with the Motor Industry Code of Practice and we are a member of the South Yorkshire Trading Standards Motor Trade Partnership. We look forward to welcoming you.'
Volvo V60 2.0 D4 Momentum Automatic (Winter Pk, Rear Tints, Smartphone, Demonstrator Car)
- Body Type: Estate
- Gearbox: Automatic
- Registered: 2018
- Fuel Type: Diesel
- Mileage: 2501
- Engine Size: 1969
- Finished in: 614 Ice White
Vehicle Specification
- Heated Front Seats
- Heated Washer Nozzles
- Headlight Cleaning System
- Heated Steering Wheel
- Heated Front Windscreen
- Dark Tinted Windows - Rear Side Windows and Cargo Area
- Silver Roof Rails
- Chrome Window Surround
- Smartphone Integration (includes Apple Car Play and Android Auto) with 2 x USB
- 17 5-V Spoke (Diamond Cut/Black) with 225/50 Tyres


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huntpat needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
We are developing an online medical journal (Online Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Journal), and we need a logo and uncoded design template. We are interested in a clean, professional look. Please read the complete brief!
Online Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Journal – http://www.emultrasoundjournal.com and/or http://www.emusjournal.com
Desired Color Scheme:
No particular requirements.
Desired Style:
We want the site to have a clean, professional feel. It needs to be very easy to navigate and to find information. The logo should be simple and professional, just like the site design. We are not looking for something extravagant.
Accepted File Formats:
Original, layered PSD. Font files for non-standard fonts. Original stock photography if used.
We are in need of a logo and a website (template only, no code) for a new online journal.
The name of the website will be Online Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Journal, and the URL will be http://www.emultrasoundjournal.com or http://www.emusjournal.com.
Basically, this will be an online medical journal on the topic of use of applications of ultrasound in any emergency setting.
The site will feature articles and multimedia (photos and videos).
New issues of the journal will be published to the site probably on a quarterly basis.
We want the site to have a clean, professional feel. It needs to be very easy to navigate and to find information.
The logo should be simple and professional, just like the site design. We are not looking for something extravagant.
The layout of the site should make it easy for users to access the content. Articles for the current issue of the journal should be prominent. A simple search feature should be accessible on the page, along with a link to an advanced search page. Some examples of links that will probably need to be present include: table of contents, letters to the editor, editorial staff and boards, education, liason reports, search, past issues, journal watch, community practice, member login, etc.
We would like to see both a home page design and a content page design (an article page).
Listed below are a few links to other online journal website so that you can get a feel for the typical content of an online journal. Our site will probably be simpler content-wise (but hopefully much better looking) than most of the examples, but they should at least give you an idea of the basic content that will probably be on the site.
- http://nursingworld.org/MainMenuCat…/OJIN.aspx
- http://www.springerlink.com/content/1346-4523
- http://www.priory.com/med.htm
- http://content.nejm.org/
- http://www.jevt.org/
- http://jmg.bmj.com/Â
Legal Requirements: All submissions must be 100% your own original work. The winning submission includes transfer of ownership for work submittals and all design materials. We check submitted material for copyright violations. The design can be used in your portfolio. We reserve the right to end the contest without a winner if no winning entry can be decided upon.
Thanks in advance for your work on this contest. We're looking forward to seeing all the entries!
Desired Style:
Simple, classy, clean design with a professional feel. After we get a few initial entries, we will be able to provide feedback that will help you better understand what we are looking for.


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Although I have been a lazy blogger lately we haven't been lazy working on our remaining tasks at all. So, unsurprisingly, since my previous post we have reached and passed a few nice milestones. The latest one is that we're finally able to build the gcc2/gcc4 hybrid Haiku images again, including all the software needed for the official release.
While that in itself isn't a particularly impressive feat - after all we were already able to build the complete gcc 2 part before - the interesting aspect is how we are doing it.
Interesting progress for Haiku.
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:) I really think Haiku development will explode when package management is done / refined. Users and developers will finally be able to update the OS to the latest nightly build and install packages with just a few quick clicks.
Next big hurdle: Should the backend of the native API be replaced with Qt? (For those not following, yes, that is a serious consideration!)
Sounds like a neat plan. Although I cannot exactly imagine how this will materialize. How will this differ from running QT apps in a QT runtime? Or will Haiku be the QT runtime itself?
Does a QT application have access to Haiku specific API's like messaging/translators/etc? If so, you loose the benefit somewhat, since an application is not cross platform anymore and QT Haiku development still needs customization.
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I had a string of poor luck with meal choices on my East Coast vacation, and I must say that 3 days of vegan meals in Seattle kinda kicked the butt of my week of vegan consumption in Boston and NYC. With some exceptions, of course. I really do believe that food tastes better in the Pacific Northwest.
For one thing, the coffee is fantastic.
Soy Latte from Herkimer, University District
I spent a lot of time working in a couple coffeeshops. Unlike Portland, I was stunned to easily find a seat at shops. This simply means Portland needs more coffeeshops, gosh.
Soy Latte from Trabant, University District (49th Parallel beans). Just….right.
Vanilla Vegan Chai from Trabant
If I had more time…I would have hit the Korean Tofu House for dinner. One day! They open at 7pm, and I simply didn't have enough um, dinner openings.
Sorry Mike, Sorry Vijjy! I just peered, like a tofu stalker, during the day…
Oh, and look, another Tofu House! This one was pretty much beef with tofu, beef with tofu, beef with tofu on the menu, though. Tofu stalker will investigate further…
Angel Curry with Soft Tofu from In the Bowl Vegetarian Noodle Bistro. My first time there, my first meal of the trip, my favorite meal of the trip! Review coming to Stumptown Vegans.
Wayward Vegan Cafe. This popular cafe recently moved to a new location on University Street in Seattle's slowly expanding V-District, and overall, bestowed the second of the top two meals of my visit. Thank you, vegan omelet!
Sham and Cheddar Vegan Omelet with roasted potatoes – hello, vegan diner food.
Giant side of Garlic Steamed Greens with a little visit from the nutritional yeast shaker and hot sauce.
The line to order. It was almost out the door at times!
More to come.
Flowers Restaurant for the Vegan Lunch Buffet
My dear friend Michelle has been recommended Flowers several times over the past three years, and I note it on my sporadic northern trips. I finally put aside the call of vegan chinese (I had my full on the East Coast) and hit up Flowers last week. Finally!
My plate from the Flowers buffet.
My favorite parts were the chilled roasted broccoli and creamy, tahini-like pasta salad. Personal preference – I wish some of the cold items were hot. I really dug the large variety and wish I had more room to try more! There were numerous stewed dishes, roasted vegetables, baba ganouj, fries, and more, that I would like to try another time. With my friend Michelle, ideally!
The large buffet lays beyond these windows. Every now and then I'm too shy to take all the photos I'd like.
Stumbling upon the University Farmers Market = heck, yeah!
Intriguing fruit vinegars and sauces and whatnot.
Just builds the anticipation for the Portland Farmers Market opening next weekend!
It wasn't me.
Spotted downtown: kale
New experience: Vegan coconut based ice cream at Full Tilt Ice Cream Parlor, below the popular Cedars Restaurant.
Okay, there was a large piece of hair on top of the flavor I was leaning towards, Toasted Coconut, so I went with the enjoyably rich Almond Joy with bits of chocolate and almond. It happens.
My only disappointment was on a second visit to Georgetown Liquor Co. My first experience was superb. This time, I still enjoyed my microbrew and Nintendo, but apparently if you don't state vegan!!!!!!!! at this vegetarian restaurant, even when your sandwich isn't listed with cheese, it comes with cheese, as does your side salad. As the Vegan Shiz would say, sad face. It's been so long since this has happened to me! There is a note on the menu stating vegan cheese can be subbed for any vegetarian cheese, and a few items are marked NV, but this wasn't one, nor did this list cheese. Now I know.
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Tagan Icy Box IB-3218 Series Review
Everyone needs more and more storage, and as files get larger, our smaller drives get less effective. After all, who wants to install a drive that can only store several movies or a vacation's worth of photos? On the other hand, something that is becoming very handy is the ability to take hard drives with you to work, a friend's house, or on vacation. This portability allows many forms of media to be shared, company secrets to be encrypted and sent long distances, and games and applications to be run on computers other than your own - without losing your settings.
The Tagan Icy Box is a device that will allow you to knock down both of those birds with one stone. It is an external hard drive enclosure that uses a JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) setup. This allows you to connect 2 drives, no matter what capacity, and they will show up in your OS as one physical volume. Not only is it portable, but it is also a nice way to combine multiple smaller capacity drives into one larger drive. Let's take a close look at it and see how it performs.
Closer Look:
The package that the Tagan Icy Box comes in is a cardboard box with a plastic handle. The sides of the box provide a wealth of information in a variety of different languages. The packaging looks nice, and the handle makes it very easy to carry around - but is not of much use if it is shipped to your house.
Care was taken in the design of the packaging for the Icy Box, as a plastic bag and two foam sheets protect the enclosure during its shipment to your house. I have seen almost the exact same packaging on other external enclosures I have reviewed, and it makes me happy to see that as much care is put into the safety of the Tagan as other companies put into their own products.
The Icy Box also comes with cables, a user manual, and a driver CD in case your OS needs additional drivers to run the device, though most modern operating systems (XP, Vista, and OSX) should be able to run it out of the box.


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Surviving AIDS and Stigma by Following The Denver Principles
Every morning, I make an important contribution toward fighting AIDS when I wake up and take my cocktail. Becoming a long-term HIV survivor began on the day I was infected in 1985 when we had no treatments, and my commitment to staying alive as long as possible started when the doctor informed me of my AIDS diagnosis.
As someone who is part of the ACT UP generation, and attended (and sometimes disrupted) scientific conferences and hundreds of activist meetings plotting demonstrations to get our demands on the news or to capture a politician's attention, I more than deserve the pills I take. I directly helped get the AIDS drugs developed and into bodies, including my own.
Over the years, surviving (and most days thriving) with AIDS has evolved. A few things have remained constant.
I do everything within my power to not get sick or have an infection flare-up. Some examples of what that means: I get a flu vaccination in August, the start of the flu season and build up immunity to the flu. I eat a healthy and balanced diet of mostly plant-based foods and grains, and keep meat off my plate. And I get daily exercise and hit the YMCA two to three times weekly.
At the first signs of a health challenge, I make notes of what's going wrong and if a problem persists, I don't wait to reach out to a healthcare professional or head to the emergency room. I am privileged to have Medicare and Medi-Cal, public health insurance that allows me to take advantage of not only in-person appointments with doctors, but also to get advice over the phone or via email.
And yet despite all these benefits I have living in San Francisco -- one of the most enlightened cities when it comes to supporting people with AIDS -- I still must contend with stigma.
For instance, because of California's strict HIV confidentiality laws, I cannot access my HIV viral load results after a blood draw. All other medical information about my care through various UCSF programs, related to being poz or other medical conditions, I can access with a few clicks through the university's secure electronic communication system.
However, I must specially request my viral load numbers before they are shared with me. There is no other health issue that requires special steps before a patient can get their numbers. Such HIV exceptionalism is a form of stigma. I should be able to access all of my medical info without placing additional burdens on me.
I recently had to challenge the American Foundation for AIDS Research, amfAR, over their lack of a publicly-identified person living with HIV on their panels for their annual HIV Cure Summit, which is held on a UCSF campus.
How did we get to the point, in San Francisco of all cities, where two major institutions collaborate on an important annual gathering about the cure for AIDS, an issue of mighty concern to poz folks, and no openly HIV-positive person is a featured participant?
After expressing my concerns to amfAR, their vice president for communications, AnnMari Shannahan, checked with the community member on the panel, Jeff Taylor, and he agreed to be identified as poz. Turns out there were two other summit speakers, Loren Jones and Rob Newells, who are living with HIV and their identification in publicity materials was changed to reflect this.
A total of three poz folks, and not one of them thought it vital that they come out of the HIV closet for the summit's publicity. What's up with that?
The self-empowerment Denver Principles of 1983 made the following recommendation for people with AIDS: "Be included in all AIDS forums with equal credibility as other participants, to share their own experiences and knowledge."
The amfAR and UCSF organizers and the poz participants should have incorporated this crucial recommendation from the beginning of planning the summit. It should not take me publicly scolding the organizers on social media to include poz folks and to clearly inform readers of our participation.
It was mildly depressing having to advocate for inclusion of poz voices. The invisibility reinforced shame and stigma, two things harmful to my wellness.
Even more outrageous, considering the topic of the meeting, was this talk across the country last year, held at the City University of New York's Center for LGBTQ Studies. A panel was convened titled "Shifting the Stigma of HIV/AIDS" and here is the list of speakers and their identifications and affiliations:
"Steven Thrasher (Writer-at-Large for Guardian US and Henry M. MacCracken doctoral fellow in the department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University), Linda Villarosa (Author, Former Editor at the New York Times and Director of the Journalism Program at The City College of New York), Viviane Namaste (Concordia University Research Chair in HIV/AIDS) and Ian Bradley Perrin (HIV/AIDS Activist, Advocate, and Policy Analyst) discuss the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS in a panel moderated by Sarah Schulman (Author, HIV/AIDS Historian)."
If there was a poz member on the panel, the publicity failed to mention it. The Denver Principles are as crucial today as when they were first adopted at the start of the AIDS epidemic. CUNY could have minimized stigma by simply following those principles.
As I age, surviving AIDS and stigma requires a cocktail of strategies -- from adherence to drug regimens, a healthy diet and regular exercise, access to health care -- to challenging policies and institutions.
On World AIDS Day 2017, I recommit myself to my survival. The best way I know how to fight AIDS!
Michael Petrelis is a writer and community organizer based in San Francisco, and is the life-mate of Michael E. Merrigan. He was a co-founder of ACT UP in 1987.


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The following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC interview with Sumner Redstone, Chairman of Viacom and CBS, on CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo" today at 4:30PM ET. All references must be sourced to CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo."
MARIA BARTIROMO, host: Sumner, nice to have you with us. Thanks for joining us.
Mr. SUMNER REDSTONE: Nice to be with you.
BARTIROMO: Let's talk about sort of a status check, if you will. You split the company...
Mr. REDSTONE: Yes.
BARTIROMO: ...18 months ago. Would you do it again and are shareholders better off today than 18 months ago?
Mr. REDSTONE: I would do it again and over and over again and shareholders are definitely better. Let me tell you about it. I had thought about this for about a year without discussing it with anybody. Then I presented it to the board. The board thought about it for months with advisers, decided I was right. What do we have? Today, we have two nimble, focused companies, each concerned with their own challenges, with their own opportunities, and not distracted by the challenges and the opportunities of the other. Two companies led by fantastic managements, Les Moonves, CBS, great executive, Philippe and Tom, great at Viacom. Stocks doing great, stocks making a run a little late now. We have a down market but basically making new highs within the last week of it and going further. Operations are great, moving fast into the digital world. What more could I ask?
BARTIROMO: Yeah, but some might say it hasn't worked. I mean, when you look at the stock prices and you put the companies together, and then you divide it two by one, it's the same price where it was eight months ago.
Mr. REDSTONE: No. But you have to consider this.
BARTIROMO: And you added debt.
Mr. REDSTONE: No! And you have to consider this, so think, Maria. The stock was down 20 percent under prior management. I won't mention names. The stock of Viacom is up 25 to 28 percent in nine months since I put Philippe and Tom in charge. So you have to look at the fore and after. Meanwhile, both stocks in the last week have made new highs. I can't project stock price, you know, that's not allowed. I would hopefully expect they'll go higher.
BARTIROMO: You're always watching the stock price.
Mr. REDSTONE: Right.
BARTIROMO: You like watching the stock price.
Mr. REDSTONE: Well, because the stock price is, in a way, a report card. It's not always accurate but it is a record card on your operation. The operations of both companies are terrific, the stock is terrific and the management is terrific. What more do you want?


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Welcome to the technology resources page for the Institutional Development and Undergraduate Education Service (IDUES). This technology page is an ongoing project to provide institutions of higher education with access to Web-based resources relating to information technology (IT).
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