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Cardiopulmonary Function Assessment and NO-Based Therapies for Patients With Hemolysis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension
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EPM Mining Ventures Inc. Provides Update on Preparation of Preliminary Feasibility Study
June 18, 2013 — TORONTO, ONTARIO (Source: Marketwired) — EPM Mining Ventures Inc. ("EPM" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:EPK)(OTCQX:EPKMF) today announced continuing progress on its Preliminary Feasibility Study ("PFS") by CH2M HILL Engineers, Inc. ("CH2"), Agapito Associates, Inc. ("AAI"), and Norwest Corporation ("Norwest") for the production of Sulfate of Potash ("SOP") from its Sevier Playa Project ("Project") in southwestern Utah. The estimated completion date of the PFS remains mid-2013 with a Definitive Feasibility Study ("DFS") expected by the end of the year.
Lance D'Ambrosio, Chief Executive Officer of EPM, said; "We have taken significant steps toward completion of our PFS and are very satisfied with what we are seeing so far. We look forward to releasing the economic results of our PFS next month with the technical report following shortly thereafter."
Norwest has completed a new resource estimate that will be included as part of the PFS. CH2 and its engineering support teams have made significant progress in design, engineering, and process work for the PFS in the following areas:
- The hydrology and hydrophysical field-testing that were being carried out by CH2 and Colog is now complete.
- Process works is advancing and a fully developed flow sheet is expected soon.
- Laboratory evaporation testing of the Project brine is nearing completion by Hazen Research, Inc.
- Production plant design, trans-load facility design, and site surveys are almost finalized with 3-D design also nearing completion.
- Development of a comprehensive financial model and detailed economic analysis showing anticipated capital and operating costs.
AAI continues work on the Sevier Playa system ("System") and is nearing completion of the following:
- Analysis of data from the hydrogeological and hydrophysical field-testing program.
- Preparation of hydrogeological models of the System.
- Finalizing the design and capital cost estimates for the ponds, well fields, and trenches; and
- Completing their Reserve model.
As part of its brine modeling efforts, the Company hired Dr. Woodruff Miller, PhD, professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Brigham Young University, to prepare a fresh water evaporation study of the Sevier Playa. Dr. Miller has produced a model that incorporates data from class-A pan evaporation studies; data from the various meteorological stations in the area; and data from the meteorological station being operated by EPM's indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Peak Minerals Inc., at the south end of the Sevier Playa. Dr. Miller will continue his work over the coming months by incorporating new class-A pan evaporation data and additional and on-going data from meteorological stations. His initial report has been filed with the Company, confirming estimates of water evaporation used previously in the pond-flow process model.
The Company continues to advance its environmental permitting efforts. The Mining Plan and Plan of Operations, historically two separate documents filed with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") and Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, respectively, are being consolidated into a single mine plan document (the "Mine Plan") agreed to by both agencies. The Company continues its progress with the Environmental Impact Statement and advanced efforts and initiatives targeting the 404 permit with the Army Corps of Engineers, the Air Approval Order with the Utah Division of Air Quality and water appropriation with the Utah State Engineer.
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EPM, through its wholly owned subsidiary Peak Minerals Inc., controls directly or through agreement, mineral leases on more than 124,000 acres on the Sevier Playa property in Millard County, Utah. EPM is targeting the future development and production of Sulfate of Potash (SOP), a premium priced fertilizer used with special crops and arid soils, using an industry proven, cost-effective solar evaporation process.
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It's just like green eggs and ham, said Sam I Am. He was a bit skeptical at first, but when he finally gave in it was heaven. I felt the same way. I always do when I'm trying something new. Success and failure never enter my mind while cooking. That is a minor consequence. I mainly think about the possibilities. Now, I will eat tagine in a house, I will eat tagine with a mouse; I will eat tagine with a fox, I will eat tagine in a box. Enough of that, Dr. Suess has left the building folks.
I feel that this is one dish where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The beauty of this dish comes from the simplicity. Simplicity is often one of my key goals. To do this, I always try to understand the basic ingredients, so that their flavours have a huge x-rated orgy and produce flavourful, robust dishes. Elegance is highly over-rated. Flavour orgies are in.
After doing a bit of research, Moroccan cuisine has four major spices (pepper, salt, ginger, and turmeric). Freshness and patience is the key. A bit of luck goes a long way as well. While hunting and foraging today, I found fresh green peppercorns, which added a beautifully robust flavour to the overall sensation of this dish. Seriously, when was the last time you saw fresh peppercorns?
I am a spice whore. I am a flavour monger. I am a heat trollop. But this dish, despite being mind-blowingly simple, exceeded all my expectations. I even resisted the urge to throw cayenne pepper in just to add a bit of heat ( this was really rare for me). Despite this, as I have said before, I enjoyed this dish immensely. Add the honey dates and almonds on top and you are entering a whole new realm of awesomeness.
1 kg Goat meat (can substitute lamb or beef)
2 medium Onions, minced
5 cloves Garlic, minced
1 Tomato, chopped (optional)
2 Carrots, chopped (optional)
2 sticks, Cinnamon
2 tbsp Ginger, minced
2 tbsp Green peppercorns, fresh
1 tsp Salt
2 tsp Turmeric
1/2 tsp White pepper (optional)
1/4 cup Canola oil
2 1/2 cups Water
1 hand full Cilantro sprigs, tied
2 cups Dates, pitted
3 tbsp Honey
3 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 cup Almonds, fried
- In large pot: brown goat meat with the onion, oil, and spices (crush half of the green peppercorns in a mortar and pestle to release their fragrance). Add water and cilantro and bring to a gentle boil over medium heat. Cover with a tight fitting lid and allow to cook for 1 hour.
- Remove 1/2 cup of the simmering liquid and set aside. Add more water if it appears that the simmering liquid is drying out. Cover and allow to cook for 1 hour longer. The meat should be "fall off the bone" tender when it is finished.
- In small sauce pan: add the 1/2 cup simmering liquid, dates, honey, and cinnamon and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Remove the lid from the tagine and simmer down the liquid until it is the desired consitency.
- Serve warm, and add dates and almonds as per individual taste.
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"How long is the wait for a shower?" she asked the young clerk as she signed the slip to pay for fuel.
"About an hour right now," he said apologetically. "We're remodeling down that hallway and half the showers are out of order right now."
She sighed. She was bone tired and just wanted to shower and get some rest. She'd been on the road for 3 days, stopping only for fuel and a quick snack, and she'd had to help unload at the last stop, so she'd gotten sweaty. But she didn't want to sit in the driver's lounge for an hour. The young clerk seemed to sense her dilemma.
"If you want to go lay down I can put you on the list and come tell you when it's close to your turn," he offered.
"Thank you. I need a couple of hours of sleep. Wait about an hour and put me on the list. Could you do that for me?" She smiled at him.
The young clerk saw a lot of lady truckers. Some of them could be considered attractive, but most really weren't. This one wasn't a beauty queen- probably in her early to mid-40's, a face that showed some years of hard living, a body with just a few extra pounds and sags, long dark hair flecked with gray, pulled back and tied at the nape of her neck. But when she smiled he actually thought of her as sexy. He'd always had a "thing" for older women, but to him women in their late 20's were older. He'd never really found himself attracted to a woman in her 40's, but suddenly he wanted to be nice to this woman, and he found himself looking forward to going to her truck to wake her later.
"Yes, ma'am, I'd be happy to do that for you," he smiled back. "That's right at the end of my shift, so I can come wake you on my way to my car."
"That would be great," she said. She gave him a description of her truck and turned to walk away.
"Oh, if you knock on the door and I don't answer, go ahead and open the door to wake me. I'll leave it unlocked. Sometimes I sleep pretty soundly."
"Ok, will do," he said as he turned to wait on the next customer.
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The two hours passed with agonizing slowness for young John Doan. He had watched Marie, the name she signed on the credit slip, walk out the door, and noticed that even though her jeans were a bit baggy, she had a nice body, and one of his favorite characteristics- a nice, big butt. He always noticed women's butts first, then their breasts. One thing he loved about working at the truck stop was that the lady truckers who came in usually had big butts. They did, after all, spend a lot of time sitting on them! He had been lucky in the two years since he graduated from high school in that he'd found several lady truckers who were willing to let him feel and even kiss their butts before they laid back to let him fuck them. John knew the ladies talked. One of them had told him. Some knew about his fondness for a woman's ass, and his willingness to lick them, before they pulled into the truck stop. One lady had even told him she'd driven 20 miles out of her way to buy fuel and take a break where he worked. John thought it was because he was such a great fuck. He didn't know it was his oral skills they really wanted. Well, to be truthful, most of them appreciated his youthful exuberance, and the fact that he could "re-charge" in a matter of minutes.
He thought about the sexy smile Marie had given him and how she'd managed to arrange for him to come to her truck and wondered if she knew about him. He'd soon find out. Finally it was time to go wake her!
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Marie did not know about John's fetish for her ass. As she stripped off her sweaty clothes and crawled into her sleeper she was thinking only of getting some rest. She would, she had decided, catch a nap, then a shower, get something to eat, then maybe walk to the little club she'd seen down the street from the truck stop and have a few drinks. She was scheduled to pick up another load tomorrow afternoon, so there was no rush. Within seconds after laying her head on her pillow she was quietly snoring.
She didn't hear the soft knock on the door two hours later. Of course, John didn't want her to hear it. He wanted an excuse to climb into her truck to wake her. In fact, he hoped she didn't wake up when he crawled in so he would have to actually reach into the sleeper to wake her. He was very quiet and careful as he opened the door and climbed into the cab of the big rig. He loved to look at them for a bit before he woke them. He found a sleeping woman to be a very erotic sight. This one didn't disappoint him.
He thought he heard a soft moan as he climbed into the cab. "Ma'am?" he called softly, just in case she was in the midst of doing something she didn't want him to see. He hoped she was in the midst of just that sort of thing, and that he would get a chance to see her. As he climbed into the driver's seat and looked back into the sleeper his jaw dropped open, and his cock began to stiffen immediately. She was masturbating, all right. But she was still sleeping! He'd heard of women doing that while having sexy dreams, but he'd never actually seen it.
She was on her back. The thin blanket covering her had slipped down enough to expose both of her big tits. They sagged to the side a bit, and were crowned by big, brown areola with the biggest nipples he'd ever seen. They weren't sagging very much at the moment, though, because both her hands were under the covers, from what he could tell between her legs, so her biceps were supporting her tits. He could tell her hands were moving, not frantically, but slowly, gently, and her hips were undulating ever so slightly. He knew he shouldn't, but as another soft moan escaped her lips he quietly unzipped his pants and reached in to touch his now fully hard cock.
He wanted to climb in the sleeper with her, to move her hands out of the way and put his tongue where here fingers were, to give her more pleasure than she was getting in her troubled, sexy sleep. And at the same time he didn't want to do that. He knew she hadn't yet showered. The smell of old sweat and old urine filled the cab. As much as he loved to lick the lady truckers who came in, he wanted them to shower first, so that when they bent over and let him spread their big, round ass cheeks and lick their tight puckered holes they smelled fresh and clean.
'She's really horny,' he thought to himself. 'Maybe if I wake her now before she cums I can offer to help her with that after her shower!'
But he never got a chance to do that. Suddenly her eyes opened, and she turned and looked at him, her eyes wide with surprise, catching him by surprise. She couldn't see that he now had his cock out of his pants, had been actively jacking it. She pulled her hands from her crotch and pulled the blanket up over her bare tits.
"Um, it's been two hours, ma'am," he stammered.
"How long have you been sitting there staring at me?" she asked. She could remember her dream vividly. In her dream she had gone to the club down the street. There she had met a man, a man with a familiar face. They had danced and had drinks and laughed, and then he had offered her a drink at his place, just a few blocks away, and they had gone there, and he had kissed her and slowly stripped her naked, and she had slowly stripped him naked, and he had licked every erotic inch of her body, and she had licked every erotic inch of his body, and then he had laid on top of her and entered her, and his cock was so big and hard and filled her, and as he stroked in and out of her his pubis had rubbed on her big, hard clit, and she had been so, so, so, so, close to the best orgasm of her life... and then in her dream they were back in the bar and people were watching them... she could feel their eyes on her... it was both embarrassing and erotic at the same time.. and then she opened her eyes and saw the young clerk from the truck stop staring at her, and slowly her world came back into focus and she realized that she had been dreaming, and playing with herself in her dream, and he had been watching her.
Damn! She was so horny! She hadn't had sex with another person since... when? Atlanta, four months ago, when she and another trucker, a male, had shared a 12-pack and a pizza in the sleeper of his truck. Damn he was good! He had made her cum hard and often. His was the familiar face in her dream. And now she looked up and saw this kid, young enough to be her son, staring at her, and knew he'd seen what she was doing.
"I, uh, not staring, ma'am. Honest. I just got in here. I didn't see anything," he said quickly.
"Yeah, right.. Stand up between the seats." Her voice was firm, even harsh. "Now."
John didn't know what to do. There was no way he could tuck his cock, which was still jutting straight out of his jeans, away without her knowing what he was doing. He didn't want her to see him this way. He knew she would know he had been looking at her, and even playing with himself while he looked. Maybe she would like his cock and want to touch it, suck it, fuck it. After her shower, he hoped. But then again, maybe she would be angry with him and say something to his boss.
"I said now," she said evenly. "You crawl over the seat and stand where I can see you or I go talk to your boss right now."
That left him no choice. If she was angry, she would talk to his boss. But if he didn't do as she asked, she would talk to his boss, anyway. Either way he was screwed. He slowly swung his legs over into the open area between the seats and stood where she could see him. Amazingly his young cock was still jutting straight out, even angling a bit towards the ceiling of the sleeper!
Closer to the sleeper the scent of her sweat was even stronger, and joined by the musk, old urine and lubricating juices of her very horny pussy. John, who liked to lick women fresh from the shower, women emanating the aroma of exotic flowers or Hollywood-star fragrances, felt the stiffness in his cock begin to wane just a bit... but not too much. She was still a sexy older woman. He didn't want to spend a lot of time licking her, especially her ass, but at that moment if she spread her legs and demanded that he fuck her, he would be up to the task.
"Why you little pervert," she said, her voice low and hard. "You not only watched me, you were playing with yourself. Step closer. Let me see what you've got." She held her hand out to him. Her other hand still clutched the thin blanket over her big, bare breasts. When he stepped closer to her outstretched hand she reached out to grip his now only semi-hard shaft. "Were you about to cum?" she asked, almost giggling, mocking him. "Were you about to make a mess watching me have a wet dream?"
"I'm sorry, ma'am," he said.
She squeezed his cock hard. "You didn't answer me. Tell me! Were you about to cum watching me?"
He looked up at the ceiling, gritting his teeth. "Yes, ma'am." And he wasn't lying. He had been very near shooting his cum all over her seat back when she opened her eyes.
She loosened her grip on his cock and started to slowly stroke it. "Do you want to cum in my big rig?" she asked him. He hoped when she said "big rig" she meant her pussy!
"Yes, ma'am," he answered truthfully. "Very much."
He'd met some lady truckers who liked to play the Domme role, who liked for him to act like a scared little boy who had been caught jacking off. He hoped Maria was one of those.
"And so you shall," she said, a smile forming on her face. She gave his cock another few strokes. "It's not much, but I can work with it. But me first. Strip."
She released her grip on his cock. John started to unbutton his jeans. He hoped he could push them and his underwear down at the same time so she wouldn't notice that he was wearing a pair of his older sister's silky panties. He often wore her panties under his jeans. They felt so much better than the white cotton ones his mother bought for him! He often wondered why they didn't make men's briefs in soft nylon like the panties. He quickly shoved the jeans and panties down past his knees and tried to step out of them and his shoes at the same time.
"Oh, my, a little panty pervert," Marie giggled softly. John's face burned. "Pull the panties back up, girlie-boy," she said. "I want you to show me how cute you are in them."
John slowly pulled the pink nylon panties back up his legs, then kicked his shoes and jeans off. He pulled his shirt over his head and stood, his face burning in embarrassment, in front of the smelly older woman with his youthful cock making a very noticeable bulge in the front of the dainty panties.
"I'll bet you'd like to rub your panties on mine, wouldn't you?" she asked, leering at him. "Tell me you want to rub panties with me." She flung the blanket to the side and turned to lean on the rear wall of the sleeper, and John got his first good look at her body. As he had expected, it was a nice one for a woman her age- a little flab, but not much, with big, saggy tits. She was still wearing her panties, white cotton ones, full briefs. John could see a noticeable wet spot in the crotch of her panties. What also shocked him was seeing thick dark curly hair visible all along the elastic leg openings of her panties, he realized she must have an incredibly hairy pussy and it made him shiver. He could also see tufts of dark hair in the crease where her arms met her shoulders, and long, dark hair on her white legs between her armpits and her pussy, John felt she was more hairy then most guys he knew.
With the blanket removed, her strong musky scent filled the cab, almost overriding the smell of sweat with the smell of pussy.
"Tell me!" she said again, her voice harsh as she noticed Johns attention wandering.
"Yes, ma'am, I'd like to rub panties with you," he said quietly, his eyes glued to her wet hairy crotch. 'But please, please don't make me lick that pussy,' he thought to himself.
She held her arms out, indicating she wanted him to join her. He stepped closer to her and she grabbed his hands and pulled him on top of her. She wrapped her hairy legs around him and pulled his crotch to hers as she raised her left arm over her head and pulled his head to her sagging left breast. Instinctively he started to hunch his hard, panty-clad cock against her pubis as he took her huge nipple into his mouth.
He tasted a salty taste, sweat, he knew, on her nipple, and the raw scent of her hairy underarm assaulted his nostrils, and his cock began to soften even more. Oh, how he wanted her to go shower and shave and then invite her back to service his needs. But she seemed intent on being serviced now, and somehow he knew she would never agree to shave. She was grinding her pussy up against him. He could feel the heat and wetness even through the two layers of panties separating them.
"Oh, yeah, that's right," she groaned. "Yeah, girlie-boy, act like you're fucking me. Oh, I'll bet that feels good in those panties, doesn't it?" She grabbed his hair and pulled his face away from her big tit, made him look at her. "Tell me how good those panties feel on your cock, panty-boy!"
"They feel good," he said softly, trying to breath as little as possible.
"Damn, you're not very good at talking sexy," she said. "Let's just get to the good stuff. I need a good fucking." She reached down and pulled his only slightly stiff cock out of the panties, then pulled her own panties to the side. "Fuck me," she hissed as she pulled his head back to her left tit.
John was surprised by the heat and wetness the head of his cock encountered when she again used her hairy legs to pull him to her. He was even more surprised that his cock began to react almost immediately, stiffening enough to slide into her. He was surprised by how tight her hole was. He had figured that a woman this openly sexual, this openly nasty about sex would be well used, stretched out. Suddenly he was concentrating on the glorious feeling of her hot, slick walls caressing his now fully hard shaft instead of the musky scent emanating from her hairy armpit. He didn't even mind when, as he was licking her nipple, their bucking motions bounced his head up so that he licked her sweaty armpit.
"Oh, yeah, that's right, fuck that cum-bucket," she moaned as they rocked together. That was the term her ex-husband had used for her- cum-bucket. He used to laughingly refer to her as his little cum-bucket when he shared her with his friends. He would "force" her to strip for them, act sexy for them, and then beg them to fill her cum-bucket.
The first time he had done it she had been humiliated. But she had done it because she knew he was drinking and could be very mean, even abusive, if she didn't comply. As time passed, so did the humiliation. Most of the men complimented her on her hard, sexy body and her hot, tight pussy. They made her feel pretty and sexy while he degraded her. In time she came to look forward to the nights when he would invite his friends over to "fuck his cum-bucket", as he would tell them on the phone. "Come on over tonight," he'd tell them. "The cum-bucket is being a little bitchy. I think she needs a good fucking to calm her down." And they would come over, and she would entertain them with a sexy strip, sometimes even lay in the floor and play with herself for a while, and then they would take turns fucking her pussy, her mouth, sometimes even her tight asshole. The only thing she really didn't like was when they would want to fuck her mouth after they fucked her ass, but she got used to even that. She got used to being a slut, and then began to enjoy being a slut. She was almost glad when her husband ran off with his secretary and she could be a slut on her own terms.
The sexy talk was more than young John could take. The combination of her hot, wet pussy, so tight that he could actually feel her inner muscles gripping him when he pulled back and her hot talk sent him over the top.
"No, no, no, not yet!" she cried out when she felt him tense. "I need more! Don't you dare cum in me yet!" But it was too late. She felt his shaft throb and knew he was emptying his balls deep in her still wanting pussy. She flexed her inner muscles, an act she had worked on, perfected, for the men who made her feel special and sexy, an act she was very proud of. She would show this little girly-boy! She literally milked his cock with her hairy cunt, wanting to make sure he left all his cum there. Then she would flex again and force it back out into his mouth as he licked her to the orgasm she so badly needed.
"Ah, damn, I'm sorry, ma'am," he moaned. "It just feels too good!"
She cradled his head on her bosom and let him relax for a moment, her legs still wrapped around his panty-clad ass. "That's okay, panty-boy," she said softly. "You can still take care of me. You can still give me what I need." And that's when she unwrapped her legs from his ass and pushed down on his shoulders.
John froze. Surely she didn't expect him to go down there and lick her! Not now, right after he had dumped such a big load in her cum-bucket! But her insistent pushing on his shoulders told him she did, in face, expect just that!
"No, please," he stammered.
"Do it," she said firmly. "Or not only will your boss know about you spying on me earlier, he will also know that you're a panty-wearing girly-boy!"
John stared up at her; afraid he was going to cry. He had gotten used to the strong scent of her sweaty armpit, but he couldn't bear to think about what her greasy hairy pussy would smell like, especially now that he'd fucked it. And his cum was in there! What if some of it got in his mouth? Only queers and sluts wanted to taste cum, and he was neither.


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In this paper, a NNI (Neural Network Identifier) is presented to learn model for an articulated multiple DOF (Degrees of Freedom) pneumatic robot position system. It can adjust the weights and biases of NNC (Neural Network Controller) on line. This controller can effectively solve the difficult problems of single rod cylinders, which are mainly caused by asymmetric structures and different friction characteristics in two directions. On these bases an articulated four DOF pneumatic robot is designed and its work space is analyzed. Experimental results prove that, the dynamic performance of the system can be much improved. The system using NN (Neural Network) has strong self-adaptability and robustness. It obtains desired percentage overshoot and repeatability in steady-state responses.
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11:17am PT by Kate Stanhope
Amazon's Head of Comedy Talks "Experimentation" With Release Schedule
To binge or not to binge?
That's the question every streaming company faces in the current era of #PeakTV. While Netflix has turned 'binging' into an event thanks to the all-at-once release model with series like House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black, Hulu has gone the opposite course, releasing new episodes of original series like The Mindy Project at one episode a week.
However, Amazon is aiming for somewhere in the middle.
"I think we're always going to be open to experimentation," Joe Lewis, the company's head of comedy, said Monday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. "I think the idea that the second release pattern after weekly being binge is the final word on it — I'm just not sure that that's the case."
The company has so far released seasons of its original series all at once, such as with Transparent and Bosch, among others. However, The New Yorker Presents will debut on Feb. 16 with three new episodes. Two new episodes at a time will be released every week thereafter.
"I think for every show, same way we think about every creator, we think about how we should release it," Lewis said. "I'm really excited to try something different and put this out this way."
From Going Clear filmmaker Alex Gibey, The New Yorker Presents is a half-hour docuseries centering on the award-winning magazine. The series will include poems, documentaries, interviews and other materials from the magazine.
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The end of the year is approaching fast! And if I look back at this blog, for this year it was pretty dead...so one of my resolutions is to make it more active, and report often on the developments here, which are slow, but plentiful.
So I will start by a project which I developed and build early in the year, and never used it, as it was a very impractical solution for the problem it meant to solve.
So, in my quest to measure things around here, and as you might remember from here, I was always curious about how much garbage we make. We separate organic garbage, glass, paper and normal garbage. And since January we have been separating plastics as well.
We then decided that we should aim at bringing the least amount of bags home, by reusing the bags we are given. But as we all know, what we can not measure we can not control, and as such I needed a way to measure how many bags we bring home.
Paper and pencil by the door would probably have done it (and resulted in a more usable solution) but I saw an opportunity to apply some electronics and build a button box, where one could press a button to indicate that a bag was brought home.
I expanded the system to be able to log all kinds of garbage, organic, paper, glass bottles, plastic garbage, bags and all other garbage.
I made use of a JeeNode, of course, and used a pen box to make an enclosure. The result was pretty good I think:
(A few days later I went to California, and found a much nicer knob at a Radio Shack...no pictures though...)
Here is a picture of the guts of the machine:
I made a small board to connect everything to the JeeNode, and managed to scavenge enough pins from the JeeNode for all the necessary connections.
So here is a hint, if you need more than 8 I/O pins with your Jeenode you can use:
The IRQ pin in every port is connected to the IRQ 1 of the Arduino, which is in fact pin 3
Pins 1 and 2 of the SPI connector - connected to Arduino pins 8 and 9 (as in the JeeNode datasheet)
RX/TX in the FTDI connector - connected to pins 0 and 1 of the Arduino
SDA/SCL on the TWI connector - connected to Analog 4 and 5 of the Arduino (I think...I don't remember anymore)
and I bet you can also scavenge a few from the ISP connector. of course, by doing this you are once more away from the encapsulation that the JeeNode libraries aim to achieve...but it is always worth considering for those projects that need a lot of input/output.
In the above project, I used 6 lines to drive the LCD (in 4 bit mode), one for the switch and 2 for the knob, which uses interrupts.
The rotary encoder changes occur during the action, so I needed an interrupt to detect the action in there. More on that on a later post.
So when the power switch is turned on (no low power states) one can choose the type of garbage by turning the knob.
Upon pressing the button, it enters a "add garbage" state, where the user can add (or subtract) garbage in increments of 50 gram again by turning the knob. When a certain time elapses with no changes that amount is added to the running total and the system goes back to the choose garbage mode.
One of the options in the root menu is to send the stuff, which sends the data via wireless to the server.
The data is kept internally in the EPROM and sent over in units of 50 gram (to simplify and use integers only instead of floats), and is converted for display only.
For plastic bags and bottles the user adds units and not weight.
After all this story, I stopped using the machine after one week, after having spent hours weighing all the garbage as it went out - it is a lot of work - and my wife convinced me that I must find a better solution, or just admit that we make as much garbage as everybody else.
One simmering in the back of my head is to connect a scale directly to the system, and maybe use RFID tags to detect which garbage it is...but that is a project for the next 5 years...
I am now considering using this machine to implement my opentherm thermostat, as it has pretty much all I need, apart from the special circuitry for the physical layer.
Next post will be about the JeeNode controlled RFID lock, which, is ready, and if it wasn't for the cold outside I would have installed already!
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District 202 middle and high school parents and students are encouraged to attend and take part in a panel discussion about the dangers facing students today tied to illegal drugs, vaping and mental health issues.
"Help Lead Our Kids Down the Right Path" will be held from 6-8 p.m., Monday, April 30, 2018 at Plainfield East High School, 12005 S. Naperville Road, Plainfield.
Panelists will include: District 202 administration; Will County State's Attorney James W. Glasgow; Kathleen Burke, director of Substance Use Initiatives from Will County Executive Larry Walsh's office; and representatives of the H.E.R.O Organization, local law enforcement and the Linden Oaks Behavioral Health facility.
Parents will also be able to visit a "mock teenager's bedroom" to learn how to look for things that appear harmless, but may actually be warning signs of potentially dangerous behaviors or choices. The display, presented by H.E.R.O., is called Hidden In Plain Sight and will be open from 5-8 p.m.
In addition, a Will County Drug Court program participant will talk frankly with students and parents about his struggle to recover from his addiction to heroin.
District 202 school social workers and guidance counselors present several programs each year focusing on student health and safety.
However, the recent rise in opioid use and related deaths made this program especially timely, said PEHS Catalyst Coordinator and Homeless Liaison Julie Adelmann.
"We know that many of our families and the community in general have questions and serious concerns about this topic," Adelmann said.
"We are grateful to Mr. Glasgow and all of our panelists for sharing their time, experiences and information about this important topic," she said.
State's Attorney Glasgow's office has worked with H.E.R.O and Will County H.E.L.P.S. (Heroin Education Leads to Preventative Solutions) to educate students and parents about the potentially deadly dangers of using heroin and other opioids.
"This is a public health epidemic that has claimed many lives," Glasgow said. "We are committed to having frank dialogues about this crisis in our community, and we thank Plainfield School District officials for inviting us to meet with their students and parents."


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November 7th, received a bill from Comcast for service, contacted once again and discussed situation with another rep, in review he saw that the account was supposed to be cancelled, according to him, on the 24th. I argued and stated I had called on the 22nd but after a minute conceded the two days wasn%u2019t worth arguing any further. The agent agreed to backdate the cancellation to the 24th and refund the unused portion of my services
November 16th, opened a bill from Comcast showing an outstanding charge of $67. Contacted Comcast immediately and after 2 reps found out this was a $90 charge for non-return equipment. I stated we had never been told we needed to return the equipment and that we would do so immediately. Equipment was returned on Nov 17th to a Comcast brick and mortar facility and a receipt showing the return was obtained.
Early December, contacted Comcast again to complete closing out the account. Agent stated it was in process but didn%u2019t see the returned equipment
December 29th, contacted Comcast yet again as I had not received the outstanding credit. Spoke to an agent who informed me that I had not received any credit because I was being charged for services from the backdated cancellation of Sept 24th through to November 17th when I returned my device. I disputed stating I had done what was required and it was Comcast%u2019s issue if they couldn%u2019t disconnect service after it was requested. I was told a research ticket was filed for their back office team to investigate internet usage to determine if they could complete the credit. I was told if there was no usage that the credit would be applied. I was told a supervisor would contact me within 2 weeks with the results %u2013 no contact ever
January 15th Contacted Comcast, was routed through 4 agents, finally to a retention agent. After providing a detailed update of what has occurred provided a $60 credit and stated the Supervisor would have to provide the remaining amount but he/she was not in and would not be back in the office until that Thursday but when they arrive back they would process the remaining credit to 0 out the account and contact me. %u2013 no contact ever
I contacted Comcast on January 22nd, finally reaching an agent after working my way through the sales department. I again explained my situation to a Billing rep who stated he couldn%u2019t help. I asked for a supervisor and was promptly disconnected.
Second call January 22nd, again routed through sales got ahold of an agent named Mike, he reviewed my account and was working on making the credit to the account when, surprise, promptly disconnected.
It has been 4 months since cancelling my services. I am due approximately $23 in refund, yet Comcast has charged me $90 for equipment that I returned and haven%u2019t been credited, in fact they have refused to provide a credit for the equipment yet they are in possession of it. I still don%u2019t have my refund, I have been put into collections and threatened to report the past due amount to the credit bureaus. I have performed my duties in this relationship while Comcast has continually failed to follow up on their commitments.
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Prophet Cain lies broken and defeated on the floor of his cell. A cell he has been thrown into by the one person who was supposed to stand by his side until the end. His flesh and blood, his only companion. His beloved twin brother.
Cain has sacrificed everything for his people. He left the safety and security of his life of study to infiltrate the infamous Hades Hangmen. He lived with them, rode with them, and then betrayed them. All in the name of a faith he can now feel slipping away from him. Like everything else he once held dear…
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The highly anticipated book of the the Prophet Cain has finally come and let me tell you the wait was totally worth it. I'm going to try and keep my review spoiler free because trust me it's better to go in blind.
Prophet Cain has been switched if you read the previous book to this series which was Souls Unfractured which was Flame's and Maddie's story. The book pick off where is left off we see some changes in him through the book some good and some just down right low. He goes through a lot in that hands of his so called twin brother Judah. As, you all know her was very sheltered in his youth and turned to infiltrate the Hangmen MC for information. He wasn't made fully aware of what was going on in the compound of New Zion.
What was shocking to me who the heroine was I was dumfounded literally had to pick up my jaw from the floor. We meet her and don't get to know much about her until the about half way of the story. I loved her character she was selfless for what she was doing. She had went through so much but she didn't let that bad things weigh her down. I think she makes a nice addition to the ladies cast in this series.
Beware this is a book that contains dark topics in that light prepare yourself. It's dark and twisted yet their are glimpse of romance an somewhat funny parts. I think I can say that the member of the MC do make an appearance. I had to hold me breathe on that part talk about tense. I think that might have been more then I had expected the storyline alone is out of this world. I can't wait to see AK's story another brother from the psycho trio get their book. I will be patiently be waiting for the details in the near future hopefully. Again Tillie Cole I see why you are one of my favorite author of all time. She writes with such range and comes up with the most unique storylines. She hits you in the feels with most of her books.
ARC was provided by the author in exchange for a honest review :)
Tillie Cole hails from a small town in the North-East of England. She grew up on a farm with her English mother, Scottish father and older sister and a multitude of rescue animals. As soon as she could, Tillie left her rural roots for the bright lights of the big city.
After graduating from Newcastle University with a BA Hons in Religious Studies, Tillie followed her Professional Rugby player husband around the world for a decade, becoming a teacher in between and thoroughly enjoyed teaching High School students Social Studies before putting pen to paper, and finishing her first novel.
Tillie has now settled in Austin, Texas, where she is finally able to sit down and write, throwing herself into fantasy worlds and the fabulous minds of her characters.
Tillie is both an independent and traditionally published author, and writes many genres including: Contemporary Romance, Dark Romance, Young Adult and New Adult novels.
When she is not writing, Tillie enjoys nothing more than curling up on her couch watching movies, drinking far too much coffee, while convincing herself that she really doesn't need that extra square of chocolate.


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Janet Van Pelt, dressed in black slacks and a brown sweater, holding a Diet Pepsi in one hand and cradling her Hewlett-Packard laptop in the other, slides into a seat at the head of a conference room table in a Reston office building.
The 49-year-old entrepreneur wants $1 million.
Waiting for her at the table are the guys with the money. The VCs: venture capitalists.
The VCs are John Backus and Thanasis Delistathis, seasoned investors and co-founders of Reston-based New Atlantic Ventures. The fund's other two co-founders, Todd Hixon and Scott Johnson, are also present via a two-way video screen, following from NAV's Boston office.
This is what is known in the VC world as a "pitch meeting."
A pitch meeting works like this: You — the entrepreneur — have an idea. The VCs have the money. If they like the idea, they give you money in return for a share in the company. They might insist on a seat on the board. They help you run it. Then together, you all build the company up so it can be sold or taken public, and everyone gets rich.
That's the plan, anyway.
VCs are often made out to be money-hungry sharks, trying to horn in and take over someone else's great idea. But they serve a crucial function in the capitalist system: They raise money from pension funds, foundations, universities and wealthy individuals and try to put it to optimal use by turning a big idea into a real business.
The thing to know about venture capital is it's an educated crapshoot.
These NAV guys are smart. They ask good questions. Their résumés are stocked with A-list universities, top business schools and prestigious consulting firms. Each of them is probably a millionaire many times over.
But the vast majority of companies that VCs invest in fail. Some investments are singles and doubles, earning the VC and his investors an okay return. But one of out 10, maybe one in 100, is the big home run, making up for all the money lost.
The pitch meeting is where the Facebooks, PayPals, Twitters, Microsofts, Groupons, Googles and Instagrams are born. If you go way back, it's where the Alcoas and U.S. Steels of the world began, as well.
What everyone is here to find out, 10 floors above the Reston Town Center, is whether Van Pelt has brought them a home run.
NAV hears 150 to 200 live pitches a year from the 500 to 1,000 business plans that they read every year. About five or six businesses a year receive NAV investments.
She is pitching Course Maven, which she started with $300,000 of her own money (a good thing, as it shows she believes in her product). Her start-up is located in nearby Leesburg, has five employees and not much revenue. She needs $1 million to hire salespeople and grow the business.
This is Van Pelt's second meeting with NAV. Backus invited her to present after meeting her at a venture capital meeting in March. She came in about a month or so ago with her initial pitch. NAV invited her back to learn more.
Course Maven is in the education space, which NAV likes and where it has had previous success.
The business idea is this: Colleges and universities use Course Maven software to create an online marketplace where students can shop for courses at different schools. The students can take those courses and credit them toward their degree.
The second part of the business is this: Colleges will use the Course Maven software to help them decide whether to give credit for courses taken at other colleges.
Van Pelt knows her way around the technology sector, having worked on successful businesses up and down the East Coast. She has walked away with some nice paydays after those companies were sold.
She is smart, calm, direct, methodical. She appears authentic. She tells me later, after the pitch, that she approaches pitch meetings as conversations more than sales meetings.
"I don't view it as a hard sell," she said. "I wouldn't wear the traditional battle gear . . . IBM blue suit, white shirt, red tie.
"I am very direct," she continues. "I don't dance that well. I am what I am, and you get what you get."
She walks through her presentation with the help of charts and slides that are projected on a flat screen at one end of the room.
This isn't sexy stuff, but I bet neither was the first pitch meeting for Google or Yahoo.
As she moves through her presentation, Backus and Delistathis, in the VC uniform of slacks and open-collared Oxford shirts, take notes. One uses an iPad, while the other writes into a leather-bound binder.
The VCs interrupt occasionally with questions. Who did you work with at [a company called] Webs? If I called so-and-so, will he acknowledge your contribution? How do you grow the college base?
Van Pelt, who learned patience raising three children and running companies, fields the VCs' questions with aplomb. Most of the inquiries usually get back to the same point: Will this work as a big business? If so, how big?
It's 3:15, and she has been talking and answering questions for more than an hour.
When she finishes, she asks politely: Did I complete the assignment?
"It's less confusing to me," says the noncommittal Backus.
After Van Pelt leaves, the after-action debriefing begins. The VCs talk about some holes in the presentation.
Johnson speaks first on the flat screen from Boston.
"Well, she's done a lot with 300k," he says. "It's amazing how well you can do when it's . . . your own money."
Delistathis, who with his colleagues thinks higher education is ripe for new business models, likes the idea but is cautious.
"It sounds like it's still a work in progress. One thing we have to figure out is where the product is. Get some feedback. . . . That's part of the next-step diligence."
Hixon questions whether the colleges will be financially motivated to sign on.
Backus said using software to ease the cumbersome process of transferring college credits "sounds like she's solving a real problem for someone. Whether it's a real big problem or not, is an unknown."
"For sure it's going to happen," Delistathis said, but "is it five years out? Is it 10 years out? And how big is it?
"I don't have a picture yet in my mind of how this company can get to a couple hundred million in revenue."
And that's the real question here. Should NAV invest $1 million and untold hours of its partners' time helping guide and grow a business that might get to $5 million or 10 million in revenue? They need a business that is going to get to $200 million — or $1 billion to make it worthwhile.
"Investors are funny," Van Pelt said to me in a follow-up phone call. "On the one hand, they want something that has the potential to be a billion dollars and change the world. On the other hand, they are reasonably risk-averse. There's a natural tension."
But she is confident that some VC will bite. She is talking to several others.
"I have a business I believe in and think is going to be interesting and do some transformative things in higher education," Van Pelt says. "Not everybody is going to have that same vision."
But maybe NAV does. They are inviting her back for another round of questions.


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The Law Society helps their Members to understand Online Marketing
On Wednesday of this week we gave a presentation to 35 members of the Law Society in their plush offices in Belfast.
The session evaluations were extremely positive with attendees taking away a number of practical online marketing tips and tricks.
The session was designed to show "non-Internet-experts" how to promote their business using the web. Almost 10,000 people search for "solicitors in Belfast" via Google?, which means that no solicitor can afford to ignore the Internet as a source of new business.
Its focus was on taking practical steps to increase interest in your business, leading to new sales leads.
The session was presented using non-technical language to be understood by any level of Internet user.
The session covered the following topics:
- Why use the Internet to promote your business?
- A beginners guide to Internet jargon
- The basics of setting up and managing a website
- How can Google help me reach more customers?
- Is Facebook just for my kids?
- Using e-Mail as a marketing tool
- Measuring the outcomes
A big thanks to the Law Society to inviting Stuart McLean to present at the event!


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It's a not so fond farewell to Wall Street's yellow brick road.
Today the New York Times reported that small investors pulled the plug on Wall Street. (In Striking Move, Small Investors Flee Stock Market)
Individual investors sold an amazing $33 billion dollars in equity invested U.S. mutual funds in just the past seven months.
Credit Suisse said small investors are losing their appetite for risk. Nice spin.
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But how can that be? Corporate profits are through the roof.
I said the market will have a serious fall once the Fed jerks the interest rates up.
Richard C. Cook, a writer for Global Research with 20 years of experience at U.S. Department of Treasury, took me to task for this statement. He reminded me that the Fed is committed to not raise interest rates for the foreseeable future. True enough.
So, the cheap money has and will continue to flow. The logic is infallible. If money costs little to nothing, why not invest it in equities of cash rich corporations with a fantastic up side when the economy recovers?
Is the small investor so dumb he and she doesn't get this?
No, it's not that individual investors are risk adverse. There's something else. What could it be?
The curtain that hid the Wall Street fraud has fallen with a $33 billion thud.
Those of us trying to save for college or retirement are afraid of theft. Past stealing, present stealing and future stealing.
Small investors have finally woken up and smelled the putrid coffee that's been simmering for decades. Long term investing fail to yield anything but loses. But we've been told over and over again that you cannot time the market.


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Imagine a more benign Brave New World yoked with a short love story from a New Yorker back issue.
Originally published as a digital novel, this collaboration of novelist Adrian (The Great Night, 2011, etc.) and former McSweeney's publisher Horowitz is an unwieldy hybrid of domestic romance and science fiction speculating on the prospect of immortality through decapitation. (And no, you didn't misread that.) Jane Cotton, a pediatric surgeon at a New York hospital, is having enough trouble coping with the death of her husband, Jim, a chaplain working at the same hospital. What makes matters worse is finding out that his corpse is missing its head, which has been cryogenically preserved by an enigmatic corporation called Polaris. Through an appropriately icy company spokesman named Brian, who apologizes to Jane for her "perceived loss," Jane finds out that Jim's frozen cranium is being preserved and stored for reattachment and restoration at some undetermined date in the distant future. The chapters concerning Jane's frantic quest for more information, legal redress, and (she hopes) Jim's head alternate for the most part with chapters that seem to be set in that aforementioned future in which Jim is in a painful struggle of his own as he adjusts to a new physical form while trying to retain whatever memories he has of his previous life. A disembodied voice named Alice tries to get Jim 2.0 to adjust to a world where money, among other things, "hasn't existed for a while." It's possible to interpret Adrian and Horowitz's gimmick as a scenario for a hypothetical breakthrough in biotechnology, along with its potential ramifications. It's also possible to interpret this new world as an old-school metaphor for reincarnation and its own hypothetical discontents. But until the book's latter two sections, which seem to move backward instead of forward in time, you don't care enough about any of the novel's characters to even begin considering its ideas.
People do a lot of weeping in this book. Maybe that's meant to compensate for its lack of emotional depth.


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The Vineyard Financial Calculator is an educational tool that is useful for comparing the financial performance of different vineyard operational scenarios. This tool's intended user is an individual or organization exploring the financial requirements of vineyard establishment and operation in Virginia. The tool was designed to forecast the approximate pretax annual cash inflows and outflows of a vineyard − information required to build a business prospectus. Users can modify certain input variables, such as vineyard size and labor costs, as well as outputs, such as crop level, to tailor the projections to personal expectations. The VFC is only a predictive tool; actual results could vary from those predicted due to site conditions, variances in costs, or unanticipated gains or losses.
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North American grapevine yellows (NAGY) is a lethal, insect-transmitted disease of grapevines caused by phytoplasmas (cell wall-less bacteria). North American grapevine yellows occurs throughout the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S., but it is particularly prevalent in the Blue Ridge and Piedmont regions of Virginia, where it causes significant vine loss in susceptible Vitis vinifera varieties. This publication reviews what is known about NAGY, provides management options based on our current knowledge, and describes ongoing research needed to better understand this complex disease.
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Grape acreage and production have been steadily increasing in the US. In 2010 there were approximately 23,000 farms with a total of 944,800 acres producing grapes. Ninety percent of these farms are smaller than 100 acres and about 16,000 of these were vineyards. California accounts for about 90% of the total production in the US. The next two largest grape producing states are Washington and New York and they produce approximately 6% and 2% respectively (NASS-USDA, 2014)
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|Wine Making for the Home Gardener
Wine making has increased in popularity as a hobby for home gardeners who have taken the science and craft beyond the grape vineyard to the bramble patch, vegetable garden, and flower garden. The American Homebrewers Association estimates that more than one million Americans brew beer or make wine at home at least once a year.
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While dairy ingredients can play a big part in enhancing a dip's flavor and textures, Dipnotics is out to prove that vegan dips can be just as satisfying and even more nutritious when plant-based ingredients are used.
The brand produces two base dip types, including one from edamame and a 'NOT-YO-CHEESE' dip made from a base of cashews. These bases are built upon with a range of flavors, including garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, cilantro, peppers and sesame.
Dipnotics uses bold colors, humor and quirky phrases to differentiate itself as an alternative dip maker on the market. For instance, as it states on the side of its product package sleeves, the brand promises that all of its vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free products are designed to "blow your mouth's mind."
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Ebony Spikes, an Honors Student in Biochemistry at Louisiana State University aspires to play a major role in the health policies of the nation. Having conducted research "equal to that of a graduate student", she has been invited to conduct research at some of the nation's leading institutions - Harvard, John Hopkins, Yale, Columbia, etc, and has also been named a 2001 Barry M Goldwater Scholar. Additionally, Ebony shows an extreme dedication, stemming from strong religious convictions, to assisting those with serious medical and emotional needs from all socioeconomic classes. Her first hand interaction with mindsets that lead to other adverse health problems has made her increasingly concerned with understanding the connection between the mind and body. To gain a better understanding of this issue, she will read for a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology-Philosophy-Physiology.
Yong is a 20-year-old college graduate and winner of more than 20 merit scholarships including the National Merit Scholarship, Goldwater Scholarship, and MSTP Scholarship (MD/PhD). He is currently researching the genetics of Type II diabetes in the lab of Dr Francis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project at NIH. In his free time Yong enjoys sailing, tennis, skiing and fishing, he also holds a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Yong's Marshall award will take him to the University of Oxford where he will study for a MSc by research in Pharmacology (specifically neuropharmacology).
Jack Tannous, from Houston, attends the University of Texas at Austin where he majors in Philosophy, Arabic, Middle Eastern Studies, and History. Fascinated with languages and cultures, he is fluent in Spanish and Arabic and has studied French, Tajiki and Hebrew. He is especially enthralled with the Middle East and spent time in Turkey and Egypt last summer. He hopes to read for an MPhil in Eastern Christian Studies at Oxford and then pursue a PhD in history, focusing on the fate of Middle Eastern Christian communities under Islamic rule.
As a year-long exchange student in Germany, Carrie became interested in issues concerning thought and language. At the University of Pittsburgh, she pursues these interests from the different perspectives of four full majors in Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy and German. Carrie plans on a PhD in Cognitive Science and will attend the University of Edinburgh to study one more component of that: Artificial Intelligence.
Charles is from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is currently in his final year as a cadet at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, where he majors in Aeronautical Engineering. He is an Instructor Pilot and is ranked first in overall merit order for the Class of 2002, based on academic, military and athletic performance. Upon graduation he will become a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force and plans to continue his pilot training after studying Aerospace Dynamics at Cranfield University in England. On his return, he will fly high performance aircraft for the US Air Force. Charles is a member of Tau Beta Pi (the second oldest Honor Society and the only engineering society to represent the entire profession) and Sigma Gamma Tau, the National Aerospace Honor Society.
Marisa Van Saanen is interested in the causes and character of economic poverty in the developing world and in rich, industrial countries, and the various mechanisms in place for alleviating that poverty. Through work as a researcher and professor and then a policy maker in the US federal government, Marisa plans to promote and participate in the eradication of economic poverty within our lifetimes through coalition building amongst governments, non-governmental organisations and advocacy groups, and the private sector. Marisa graduated from Wellesley College with a double major in Peace and Justice Studies and Political Science. She was President of College Government and is now the youngest member of the College's Board of Trustees. She is a Truman Scholar and is currently researching the efficacy of faith-based social movements in addressing poverty in India and Sri Lanka.
A native of Goffstown, New Hampshire, Claudia Veritas attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy and matriculated at Saint Anselm College. She transferred to Wellesley College where she majors in Political Science. She is Captain of the Varsity Lacrosse team and was named Conference Player of the Year two years in a row. After completing her studies at Oxford Claudia plans to become a Child Advocate and is "devoted to improving children's lives on a global scale".
In four years at Yale, Krishanti Vignarajah completed a Masters degree in Political Science and a BS in Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Born in Sri Lanka, Krishanti is especially interested in development policy and international affairs, and created a health volunteer organization-Yale HOPES (Healthcare Opportunities Providing Experience and Service)-connecting undergraduates with service opportunities in New Haven. As captain of Yale's junior varsity tennis team, she also helped found First Serve, a free tennis clinic for inner city youth. Krishanti was vice-president of the Yale Debate and Mock Trial Associations and executive editor of the Yale Journal of Ethics. During her summers, she volunteered and conducted research in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Mexico-and is currently working with an NGO in rural India.
Kenneth Wainwright, Jr, attends USMA West Point and has won a number of awards for academic excellence. His hometown is Burbank, CA. He wants to do an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, and foresees a military career specialising in the Middle East and including eventually teaching at West Point. With proven leadership experience at West Point, where he ranked in the top five of the Academy's more then 1,000 cadets in 2002, he is a versatile person whose interests include music, learning Arabic and mentoring disadvantaged boy scouts. His GPA of 4.05 is described by the Dean of the Academic Board at West Point as "near-perfect". In summer 2001, he travelled to Uganda to help build a medical clinic, and, on his return, spearheaded a drive to collect textbooks to send there.


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This is my first time ever writing a blog post, so don't judge this! Hopefully, I'll get better in time. I'd really like this blog to be about fashion, but I may possibly get sidetracked and write about something that is totally irrelevant towards fashion, but is also very interesting.:) Hmm, this whole thing is just a way for me to see whether or not I want to write things like this when I'm older, or just something I do to keep me busy. Haha, let's how long this lasts. :)
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