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By now most of us would like to have a little talk with Mother Nature about the possibilities of an early spring. The enchantment of those first fluffy snowflakes has long worn off as we've shoveled, tried in vain to keep our cars salt-free, trudged through slush and exhibited some interesting flailing of arms and legs as we've hit an unseen patch of ice. While I can't do anything to make spring weather magically appear outdoors, the recipes below will help warm your insides and lift your spirits.
Quick Winter Herb Bread
1 1/4 c. unbleached flour
1 1/2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1/2 t. dried basil
1/4 t. dried marjoram
1/8 t. dried oregano
Pinch of dried thyme
1/2 c. raisins
1/2 c. chopped nuts
1 egg
2 T. honey
3/4 c. buttermilk
1/4 c. butter or margarine, melted and cooled
In a large bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Sprinkle in the basil, marjoram, oregano and thyme and toss together until evenly distributed. Mix in the raisins and nuts and toss again until evenly distributed. In another bowl, beat the egg until light and slightly thickened. Add the honey and beat to blend. Beat in the buttermilk and butter or margarine. Stir into the dry ingredients with just a few strokes. Turn the dough out onto a well-floured surface and, using a pastry scraper, reach under the dough and lift it up on top of itself. Do this several times, then pat the mixture together gently with floured hands. If it is very sticky, sprinkle on a bit more flour, but be stingy. When the dough just holds together but is still lumpy, put it into a buttered 9-inch round pan. With lightly floured hands, pat lightly to fill the pan. Bake in a preheated 400-degree oven for about 20 minutes, or until lightly browned and the middle feels springy when pressed. Do not overbake. Cut into wedges and serve warm. Serves 8 to 12.
Hearty Bean Soup
2/3 c. dried Great Northern beans
1 qt. water or chicken stock (approximately)
1/2 lb. chorizo sausage
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 t. salt
Ground black pepper
2 bay leaves
1 t. dried thyme
4 large potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
6 carrots, peeled and thickly sliced
1/2 c. uncooked brown rice
Rinse the beans and remove any stones. Put the beans into a soup kettle and cover with 3 times as much cold water. Soak overnight. (A quicker method is to place them in a pot, cover with water, bring to a boil and cook for 2 minutes. Remove the pot from the heat, cover and let sit for 1 hour. Then proceed with the recipe.) Drain the beans and add the water or stock. Bring to a boil and add the sausage, onions, garlic, salt, pepper, bay leaves and thyme. Cover, reduce the heat and simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally. Add the potatoes, carrots and rice (and more water or stock if needed) and simmer, covered, for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender. Remove the bay leaves before serving. Serves 6 to 8.
Apple-Stuffed Pork Chops
4-6 thick (about 1 1/2 inches) pork chops
1 T. oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 c. unseasoned dry bread crumbs
1 large tart apple, peeled, cored and shredded
1/4 c. raisins, plumped in hot water for 10 minutes and drained
1 T. minced fresh parsley
1/4 t. salt
1/4 t. dried sage
1/4 t. dried thyme
Salt and pepper
1 c. apple cider or apple juice, divided
2 T. red currant jelly
Trim the chops of excess fat and cut a pocket in the side of each. Brown in the oil in a large skillet. Remove from the skillet and sauté the onions in the drippings until tender. In a medium bowl, combine the onions with the breadcrumbs, apples, raisins, parsley, 1/4 t. salt, sage and thyme. Stuff each chop with the mixture and place them snugly together in a casserole. (This will prevent the stuffing from falling out as they bake.) Season with salt and pepper to taste, add 1/2 c. of the cider or juice to the casserole, cover and bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 30 minutes. Remove the cover and bake for 20 to 30 minutes more, or until the chops are well done. Remove to a serving platter, skim the excess fat from the casserole and add the remaining 1/2 c. cider or juice. Stir in the jelly and simmer until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Serve the sauce over the chops.
Turkey and Spinach Meatloaf
1 lb. ground turkey
1 (10-oz.) pkg. frozen chopped spinach, thawed and pressed to remove excess water
1 egg
3/4 c. dry breadcrumbs
1/2 c. chopped onions or 2 T. dried onion flakes
1 T. chopped fresh parsley
3 T. ketchup
2 t. lemon juice
1/2 t. salt or 1 t. soy sauce
1/4 t. ground black pepper
2 T. skim milk
In a large bowl, mix the turkey, spinach, egg, breadcrumbs, onions or onion flakes, parsley, ketchup, lemon juice, salt or soy sauce and pepper. Moisten with the skim milk. Put in a 9-x5-inch loaf pan and cover loosely with foil. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 30 minutes. Remove the foil and bake for 30 minutes more. Remove from the oven and cool for 5 to 10 minutes before slicing. Serves 4 to 6.
Pineapple Walnut Cake
2 c. unbleached flour
2 c. sugar
2 t. baking powder
2 eggs
1 (20-oz.) can crushed, unsweetened pineapple, with juice
1/2 to 1 c. chopped walnuts
2 c. sifted confectioners' sugar
3 T. butter or margarine, softened
3 T. milk
1/2 (3-oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1/4 t. salt
To make the cake: Combine the flour, sugar and baking powder in a medium bowl. Beat the eggs in a large bowl, and then add the pineapple and juice. Blend in the flour mixture. Add the walnuts and pour the mixture into an ungreased 9-x13-inch baking pan. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. To make the sauce: In a large bowl, beat the confectioners' sugar, butter or margarine, milk, cream cheese and salt until creamy. Serve on the side with the cake. Serves 12 to 14.

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The LeBron-DeShawn Stevenson saga is like a Bizarro version of King James' public image. In 2008, Stevenson started a spat when called LeBron "overrated." Now it's all water under the bridge:
Stevenson said their past bad blood is no longer an issue. "It probably is with him," he said. "I don't know if he forgot about, but it's nothing personal. At the end of the day, we're in the Finals. That's what we're worried about: winning a championship."
Will LeBron be redeemed in the eyes of the public three years from now? It will all come down to tonight. Not really.
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Nobuko necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 46 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
I am a parent volunteer who spends way too much time counting coins during school chocolate bar fundraisers. Parents & their children no longer go door to door to sell items so in the end, parents are the ones who pay for a box of unwanted chocolates.
Instead, Lunch-a-porter is a fundraising website that will be selling 'waste-free lunch' products such as reusable containers, utensils, water bottles, etc. to schools and other groups interested in not just eco- friendly products but fundraisers that don't require many volunteers and man-hours.
Lunch-a-porter will display items, parents would buy items and automatically see how much of a profit is for the school. There would be a tally of how much the school is making. Deliveries would be made directly to the school or organization.
HOWEVER ... the site should be sporty, sexy not too eco and green.
Lunch a porter has two meanings: like pret a porter for designer clothes (designer lunch gear for the style conscious moms and kids) as well as 'bring your own lunch' gear for kids and adults.
Target market : schools at all levels, sports organizations, and all organizations in need of fundraising but in support of a good cause.
The cause here is being eco-friendly, cutting down on waste,
People who make the decision are mostly Parent organizations and governing boards of the organization.
HOWEVER, it is mostly the mothers who would buy these products. Half are looking for affordable but fun stuff to pack lunches and others are looking for the designer lunch gear because they want their kids to look cool.
the logo shouldn't be "eco" looking.
It is a website that sells 'waste-free' lunch items so yes, they are eco- friendly products, but also products with nice design and colors.
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the logo shouldn't be childlike, but nothing too elegant either.
we want to encourage parents to participate in the fundraiser by buying these products without the parents thinking they are overly priced.
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I'm late getting to this due to some client responsibilities last night but I did want to put down a few thoughts about the game on Tuesday.
- Welsh-Ryan Arena is wonderful and horrible at the same time. Wonderful: There is not a bad seat in the house. Horrible: The seats are mostly wooden bleachers and it looks like you push in the bleachers and serve cafeteria lunch to the student body during the day. It is easy to see why a school that is ostensibly the "Duke of the B1G" in terms of academics can't recruit. The gym holds 6000 on good day. I've never seen less traffic leaving a sporting event in my life.
- Terp fans were well represented. There were easily over 200 fans at the game in red. Gregg and I actually met at an off-campus bar with the Chicago Alumni Association and there were over 80 of us. We took over the place. It was amazing to see. I actually joked with Gregg that there were more Terp fans at this game than at the Georgia Southern game in Comcast.
- I give credit to the Northwestern students for their spirit although chanting "tall and awkward" at Alex Len after he just swatted the EFF out of an NU jump shot, ran the floor and dunked on your player while getting fouled is a bit of a reach.
- Dez Wells is everything the Nick Faust isn't. Dez is efficient, understands what the offense needs from him and he knows the difference between a good shot and a bad one. Faust is great going to the rack but there is way too much chucking in his game and he is just not a good shooter.
- Logan Aronhalt needs more playing time. He's clearly more developed than Jake Layman right now and frankly, he adds a dimension at the #2 spot that Faust can't. I'm not saying that he should start over Faust, but let's be honest: Faust and Wells have overlapping skill sets and no one for years has shot the three at Maryland like Aronhalt can. He makes Maryland extremely dangerous offensively. With our rebounding prowess, and Dez's driving ability; I'm interested in seeing Aronhalt get reps with the first team. His defense is borderline atrocious, but he is a difference maker and provides something that Faust can't.
- Cleare and Mitchell are beasts off the bench. They are better rebounders than the starters and I think that because of this, our second team is going to win us a lot of games in the ACC because no one else is this deep. This is part of the reason why we are such a good second half team. We just wear teams down.
- Alex Len is an athlete. I saw him do things in the air that you just don't see out of seven footers. During one sequence, he rebounded his own miss on the way down and put it back in the basket before landing. Will Bowers he ain't. We need to enjoy him this year because every 18 footer he hits from here on out might as well be worth one slot higher on the 2013 NBA Mock Draft board.
- Nothing has dissuaded me from my earlier prediction: the Terps will be 15-1 heading into the NC State game.
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Brenner Children's pediatric emergency department has moved back to its original location. Learn more
In order to help protect patients, family members and health care workers from the spread of COVID-19, no visitors are allowed at any of Wake Forest Baptist Health's outpatient or inpatient facilities, except in certain situations.Learn moreMore COVID-19 Updates
Jumper's knee — also known as patellar tendonitis or patellar tendinopathy — is an inflammation or injury of the patellar tendon, the cord-like tissue that joins the patella (kneecap) to the tibia (shin bone). Jumper's knee is an overuse injury (when repeated movements cause tissue damage or irritation to a particular area of the body).
Constant jumping, landing, and changing direction can cause strains, tears, and damage to the patellar tendon. So kids who regularly play sports that involve a lot of repetitive jumping — like track and field (particularly high-jumping), basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, running, and soccer — can put a lot of strain on their knees.
Jumper's knee can seem like a minor injury that isn't really that serious. Because of this, many athletes keep training and competing and tend to ignore the injury or attempt to treat it themselves. But it's important to know that jumper's knee is a serious condition that can get worse over time and ultimately require surgery. Early medical attention and treatment can help prevent continued damage to the knee.
To understand how jumper's knee happens, it helps to understand how the knee works. The knee, which is the largest joint in the body, provides stability to the leg and allows it to bend, swivel, and straighten. Several parts of the body interact to allow the knee to function properly:
By working together, bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments enable the knee to move, bend, straighten, provide strength to jump, and stabilize the leg for landing.
When the knee is extended, the quadriceps muscle pulls on the quadriceps tendon, which in turn pulls on the patella. Then, the patella pulls on the patellar tendon and the tibia and allows the knee to straighten. In contrast, when bending the knee, the hamstring muscle pulls on the tibia, which causes the knee to flex.
In jumper's knee, the patellar tendon is damaged. Since this tendon is crucial to straightening the knee, damage to it causes the patella to lose any support or anchoring. This causes pain and weakness in the knee, and leads to difficulty in straightening the leg.
Common symptoms of jumper's knee include:
Less common symptoms include:
Jumper's knee is first evaluated by a grading system that measures the extent of the injury (grades range from 1 to 5, with grade 1 being pain only after intense activity and grade 5 being daily constant pain and the inability to participate in any sporting activities).
While examining the knee, a doctor or medical professional will ask the patient to run, jump, kneel, or squat to determine the level of pain. In addition, an X-ray or MRI might be recommended. Depending on the grade of the injury, treatment can range from rest and icepacks to surgery.
For mild to moderate jumper's knee, treatment includes:
On rare occasions, such as when there's persistent pain or the patellar tendon is seriously damaged, jumper's knee requires surgery. Surgery includes removing the damaged portion of the patellar tendon, removing inflammatory tissue from the lower area (or bottom pole) of the patella, or making small cuts on the sides of the patellar tendon to relieve pressure from the middle area.
After surgery, a rehabilitation program involving strengthening exercises and massage is followed for several months to a year.
Recovering from jumper's knee can take a few weeks to several months. It's best to stay away from any sport or activity that can aggravate the knee and make conditions worse.
However, recovering from jumper's knee doesn't mean that someone can't participate in any sports or activities. Depending on the extent of the injury, low-impact sports or activities can be substituted (for instance, substituting swimming for running). Your doctor will let you know what sports and activities are off-limits during the healing process.
The most important factor in preventing jumper's knee is stretching. A good warm-up regimen that involves stretching the quadriceps, hamstring, and calf muscles can help prevent jumper's knee. It's always a good idea to stretch after exercising, too.
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Date reviewed: June 2013
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That's pretty smooth painting DR, nice work... I don't see much of any paint lines to hamper it at all. You covered the purple well in all areas and it seems like you even added a little detail to the shoulder ammo thingy (little metallic dabs there thatI don't see on the original).Nice work man... What prompted you to repaint the figure instead of waiting for Hasbro's? Or was it simply not liking purple versions of this figure?
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awilson820 brauchte ein neues T-Shirt Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 66 Designs von 24 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are putting together the first tech conference for Selenium, an open source testing tool used and loved by developers and testers from all over the world. We've sold out our 250 tickets and we need a badass t-shirt that represents how awesome this first conference will be.
The tech community is our target audience. We want folks to see Selenium Conference, and if they missed it, ask when the next one is. If you have any developer friends, you know they wear a lot of t-shirts. And many of them are from conferences. So this will no doubt get a lot of wear time after the fact.
We decided against just using the Selenium Logo on the t-shirt, so please get creative!
We do, however, want the logo to be used in some way, as well as the colors (green, gray, black, white), since they represent the Selenium Project.
We want this text to be displayed prominently in simple, clear, bold typeface:
SeleniumConf 2011
April 4-6, San Francisco
We *do not* want the design to take up the entire front of the shirt. I'm imagining some mixture of text, the logo, and a cool design that is centered around the chest area. The shirt will likely be gray or white.
No stock art or clip art in the design.
Please see the attached logo below for color references.
Please look at our conference website to get a feel for our event: http://www.seleniumconf.com/


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St Fagans Lovespoon Collection - 10
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This stunning collection of Welsh Lovespoons have been hand carved by Sion Llewellyn. Each one is based on a Lovespoon from the collection at St Fagans: National History Museum.
A lovespoon maker of the highest calibre, Sion Llewellyn was born in Ogmore Vale, Bridgend and began carving lovespoons at the age of twelve. While virtually self-taught in spoon carving, he holds a City and Guilds qualification in cabinet making and in 1979 won the craft section at the National Eisteddfod in Caernarfon for designing and constructing his own harp. Sion set up his lovespoon-making company in 1997 and has always been passionate about employing traditional symbols and carving methods on his handcrafted artefacts, each one made from a single piece of wood. He is keen to stress the tradition's folk origins and prefers to distance himself from the blatant commercialism attached to the craft in recent years.
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Blue Honda Opening Night just around corner
Fans encouraged to arrive early!
The TORONTO BLUE JAYS will open their 37th season with a sold out Rogers Centre for Honda Opening Night on Tuesday, April 2nd against the Cleveland Indians at 7:07pm. Gates will open at 5:00pm and Blue Jays fans are strongly encouraged to arrive early and be part of the festive atmosphere at Rogers Centre.
Upon entering Rogers Centre, Blue Jays fans will receive a Honda Opening Night Rally Pom to wave during the game to support the home team. Courtesy of Honda Canada, three lucky baseball fans will be awarded one of three exciting prizes during the game, including a new 2013 Honda CR-V EX-L AWD, a 2013 Honda CBR500RA Sportbike and a Honda lawn care kit.
In addition, the winner of the Jays Care Foundation 50/50 draw, presented by Ericsson, has the potential to take home up to $30,000.
In 2012 the Toronto Blue Jays were recognized for their efforts in supporting youth across Canada via many initiatives, most notably through the "Blue Jays Baseball Academy". Prior to the first pitch the club will recognize the achievement of being selected by Major League Baseball and Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig as the 2012 recipient of the Commissioner's Award for Philanthropic Excellence.
Rush frontman Geddy Lee will be throwing out the Ceremonial First Pitch. The vocalist, bassist and keyboardist of the Toronto rock band has been a longtime Blue Jays season ticket holder and baseball fan. Lee and his Rush band mates Neil Peart & Alex Lifeson will be the first Canadian band to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Los Angeles on April 18th followed by their North American Clockwork Angels tour.
Performing both the Canadian and American national anthems will be Danielle Wade from La Salle, Ontario. She was Canada's choice in a nationally televised reality show, to star as 'Dorothy' in Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of The Wizard of Oz, which has been playing to enthusiastic audiences since December 2012. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will also be on hand to present the colours prior to the national anthems.
Following the game all fans will be presented a 2013 Toronto Blue Jays magnet schedule. Fans across the country can watch the game, including the pre-game ceremonies, live on Sportsnet. The Honda Opening Week continues against the Indians on Wednesday April 3rd and Thursday April 4th before the Boston Red Sox come to town for a weekend series from Friday April 5th through Sunday April 7th. Fans can purchase single game tickets at the following options: Internet (www.bluejays.com); Phone (416-341-1234 or 1-888-OK-GO-JAY); Blue Jays Box Office Rogers Plus stores; Jays Shop (Yonge and Dundas location) and all Ticketmaster retail locations.


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Tumble Dryers Oxfordshire
Choosing a tumble dryer can be confusing, but we have explained the different types of tumble dryers below. Spending a little more on you initial purchase will save you money in the long run. A tumble dryer with Heat Pump Technology could save you around £100 a year in running costs compared to a basic vented dryer, thats a huge saving over the life time of the dryer. You can see a wide selection of heat pump tumble dryers in our Oxford & Bicester stores.
1) Vented Dryers extract the moisture and expel it outside via the vent hose along with all that valuable heat. These dryers are the least energy efficient (C) or (D) and most expensive to run, but the cheapest to buy.
2) Condenser Dryers use a condenser to extract the water out of the exhaust air and store it in a container that has to be emptied every 2 or 3 cycles. Condenser dryer can be placed anywhere in your home, they do not cause condensation and are more efficient and cheaper to run than vented dryers. They are (B) or (C) rated.
3) Heat Pump Dryers work like a condenser dryer but they recycle the heat from the exhaust air using a compressor similar to a fridge but in reverse. These types of dryers are expensive to buy but very cheap to run and can reduce your drying bill by 70% so they will soon pay for themselves. They typically have (A+) or (A++) energy ratings.
If you need further advice call into one of our Oxfordshire stores in Oxford & Bicester where are knowledgeable staff will be happy to assist you. We offer FREE DELIVERY across Oxfordshire and North Buckinghamshire for all Tumble & Condenser Dryers. If you live in Buckingham, Brackley, Thame, Deddington or Witney check these pages for directions to your nearest shop
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Those Places Thursday
Inside Star Church
A while back I reported here, Those Places Thursday, on the rural Star Church of my youth. Today, I want to share three photos from inside the church during the early 1950s.
Here is a better look at the choir (note: not the same day as above!)
Family in the choir: second from left, Aunt Lillian (Kinnick) Ford; fourth and fifth from left, Nancy's Mom and my Mom; first man on left, in back, Lillian's husband, Delbert Ford; next man, after last lady, Nancy's Dad; tallest, my next younger brother, Jim; next to him, Nancy's brother, Al Bolger. The way it worked out in a small rural church.
Meetings were held in the basement, downstairs. Here is an adult Sunday School class holding a dinner-based social meeting, one evening.
Very typical events of our small church. Great memories.
Families are Forever! ;-)


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Episode 119 - Whats new in Windows Azure Service Bus
In this episode Nick Harris and Chris Risner are joined by Abhishek Lal, Senior Program Manager on the Windows Azure Service Bus team. In this episode Abhishek Lal details What's new for Service Bus in Windows Azure Service Bus 1.1 for Windows Server: •Symmetric features in Server and Service with Azure SDK 2.1 •Part of the Windows Azure Pack •AMQP 1.0 Support and what's new for service bus in Azure SDK 2.2 including: •Visual Studio 2013 support enhancements •Partitioned Queues and topics •AMQP client support for SAS Auth He closes with a demonstration of sending messages over service bus using a RaspberryPi.


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Our Community Pillars
Fraternity and sorority life at Fort Hays State University embrace five community pillars: Social, Academic, Empowerment, Leadership, and Service. These pillars guide our organizations to enhance our community, university, and members.
Fraternities and sororities foster lifelong friendships through social interactions, such as meetings, socials, mixers, and formals. Plus, members of fraternities and sororities are connected to the thousands of others across North America. Friendships created during your time at FHSU do not end upon graduation. Alumni take an active role in helping their chapters throughout the year, attending homecoming events, and conventions.
Academics are one of the most important aspects of your life at FHSU and being a member of a fraternity or sorority can help you achieve your goal of obtaining a degree. Each chapter has a study program which aids you in obtaining high scholastic achievement. In fact, the overall fraternity/sorority GPAs are usually higher than the all-women's or all-men's GPAs. Every year our chapters, recognize individual members for their academic excellence and many are eligible for scholarship money from chapters at both local and national levels.
College is an opportunity to become the best version of yourself. Fraternities and sororities will empower you to accept challenges, develop healthy habits, and succeed. Challenges appear in all aspects of our lives. Fraternity and sorority life will empower you to accept those challenges and give you the tools to solve them. Dealing with the stress of college can be difficult. Members are provided education on study techniques, time management, and proper alcohol consumption. Finally, we will empower you to succeed by helping you every step of the way. We are confident in your ability and when you succeed, we succeed.
Involvement provides many opportunities to hold leadership positions and gain valuable experiences within the campus and local communities. Each fraternity or sorority depends upon its members to accept leadership opportunities within committees, as a chairperson or as an executive officer. These opportunities are an excellent way to gain new skills like learning how to manage money, dealing with conflict, communicating effectively with others, all while building your self-confidence. Membership in a fraternity/sorority will provide you an experience which will benefit you for life.
Members of each fraternity/sorority at FHSU contribute to the campus, Hays, and global community through the giving of their own time and talents. As a member, you will assist in raising money for local and national philanthropic organizations. You will have the opportunity to give of your time through service to an individual, organization or the community; and you will have the opportunity partner with other FHSU student organizations or departments on a variety of volunteer activities and projects.
Greek Life is for You!
As a member of a fraternity or sorority, you will find your own way to contribute to a chapter whether it is excellence in academics, athletics, or campus activities. At FHSU we are positive that you have something to contribute and gain from Greek Life!


text: Election 2016 Young voters weigh whether to vote or not, after the final presidential debate October 21, 2016 The wildcard group in the 2016 election could be young voters. Millennials now have voting power that matches boomers and many were energized by the Bernie Sanders campaign. In the waning days of the campaign, many are deciding whether to vote or not.


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We seem to be living in a pivotal moment in history. Telecommunications has enabled us to connect with the world at a moment's notice, social media has changed the way we keep in touch with loved ones and friends, and images proliferate like never before. In fact, one could argue that the ways in which we communicate have been totally transformed over the past two decades. These changes have produced some fascinating results, such as , as the Occupy Wall Street movement, a leaderless, networked organization that seems to take the form of the dispersed telecommunication networks we use everyday.
Compendia is a book of interrelated things. It is a summary of ideas, insights, and events that shape my understanding of what communication is and what it can be in the 21st century. Compendia is not a prescription or a prediction; it is a thought process made tangible, a space where connections can be made and where ideas are born.


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Long-term readers will remember well the case of the American college student who rattled her tin online to raise cash for a bigger pair of jubs. Successfully, as it turns out, and now a US couple has adopted the web begging process in an attempt to finance the construction of a real-life Hobbit Hole.
We'll cut to the chase on this one, since we don't reckon El Reg fans need an explanation as to what a modern-day Hobbit Hole might look like. Here are the pertinent bits of the website's Q&A section:
What is the point of this website?
We hope to build a Hobbit Hole. Yes, we mean a subterranean dwelling as described above. No, it will not be in Middle Earth, and no, we are not (completely) insane. We are actually quite serious about doing this.
How is this website supposed to accomplish that?
Partially by focusing our efforts, documenting our progress, and (hopefully) partially by accepting donations from others who would like to see this become a reality. If a girl was able to attract enough donations online to enhance her bustline, then hopefully enough people are also interested in seeing a Hobbit Hole become a reality.
So what inspired this project?
As you have probably detected by now, my wife and I are huge fans of the The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings series, and other books about the fantastic realm of Middle Earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien. We are approaching our six month anniversary and have lived thus far in an apartment. Our landlord is wonderful and must have come straight from Heaven, so no complaints there.
Then why do you want to move out?
Because our next-door neighbors on both sides came straight from Hell. They have this little girl that runs around incessantly, sounding like a 3 year old Goliath training for the Olympics. We are also quite familiar with their musical tastes, as we can hear each piece quite distinctly, especially in the early hours of each Saturday and Sunday morning. Even coffee begins to lose its flavor on five hours sleep after awhile. The silence, seclusion, and privacy of a Hobbit Hole would be a true dream come true.
Are you die-hard environmentalists?
No, not really. I mean we don't like polluting and we think recycling is a good idea, but those aren't the main reasons behind this project. We just want a unique home straight out one of our favorite fiction fantasy worlds, to be our retreat from the outside world. We're actually quite huge geeks and fans of technology. Between the two of us we have 2 Sony Clie PDA's, 2 Desktop computers, 3 Laptop computers, and about a dozen video game systems. Broadband Internet access will be a must, as will Digital Satellite HDTV, so we can continue to enjoy Buffy, Charmed, The Daily Show, and our DVD collection. If you want to know more about us, you can bore yourself with our livejournals, mine and my wife's.
And what will I get out of this?
The satisfaction of helping someone with a crazy dream? If you want something more tangible, then rest assured I'll definitely keep this site updated with news on our progress and eventual pictures. Maybe I'll even end up giving tours of the Hobbit Hole if several people's donations stand out above the rest. I can't give tours to thousands of people, but if you donate a grand as opposed to donating five bucks, such a request wouldn't be out of line.
Enough. Try this for size: I'm a forty-four year old journalist and my neighbours annoy me. I like buildings in the style of Catalan architect Gaudi so I'd like you to give me money to construct a scaled-down replica of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia cathedral. If you give me enough money, I might let you in for five minutes to grab a few pictures. If you donate just ten bucks, I'm afraid you'll just have to imagine what it's like to live in such a structure. But you will at least have the satisfaction of having allowed me to escape my nightmarish existence.
In summary, here's a bit of fundraising advice for our wannabe Hobbits: sell the Clies, the three laptops, one of the desktops and all of the video game systems. Then use the money raised to finance said Hobbit Hole. It's a start. Working will also help generate more funds. A mortgage will cover the rest. Happy Xmas.
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Jun 24, 2010
PIANY-recommended standard storm triggers pass in Assembly
ALBANY, N.Y. – The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. applauds legislation put forth to encompass provisions long-advocated by PIANY to protect coastal homeowners that recently passed in the New York state Assembly. As a result, New York state residents could soon see an end to the confusion surrounding windstorm triggers.
The windstorm deductible bill, A.4847-A, introduced by state Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg, D-20, recently was amended to add a directive to the New York State Insurance Department superintendent to establish reasonable, industrywide standards for hurricane windstorm deductible triggers, an idea long-supported by PIANY.
"It is estimated that some 95 percent of policyholders are unaware that different insurance companies have different windstorm triggers," said PIANY President Kevin M. Ryan, CIC. "The next coastal storm to hit New York will result in rightful outrage from consumers over this complicated puzzle of windstorm insurance deductibles and triggers."
During a roundtable discussion last month hosted by the Senate and Assembly Insurance Committees, PIANY Director Peter N. Resnick and PIANY past President Steve Ruchman noted that the recent spring storms that pounded Long Island and surrounding Downstate New York clearly demonstrate the importance of standardized triggers for windstorm coverage.
"Homeowners deserve certainty in the coverage provided by their insurance policies," said Resnick. "The storms we experienced in March demonstrated vast inconsistencies among carriers and policies with regard to the triggers and deductibles in claims related to storms."
"The challenges we faced are a wake-up call for lawmakers, insurance carriers and homeowners," Ruchman explained. "We hear so much about the 100-year hurricane that could hit our coast any time. By comparison, the March storms were nothing. We absolutely must address this issue before the public distress and outcry can occur, which will happen if that big one hits our coast."
The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state.


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Ian Martin is averaging four and a half stars on RateYourCurator.com
MONDAY Women architects. Glass ceiling. One day there'll be a really good joke made about this, we'll be able to move on, and neither 'architects' nor 'ceiling' will need to be qualified.
TUESDAY Well, that was the most embarrassing pitch for a city masterplanning gig ever.
The Kazhakstani clients were absolutely baffled by my performance, which included a slideshow of contemporary landmarks resembling human organs, followed by a rendition of Frank Ifield's I Remember You in a beanie hat.
Of course they didn't know what to make of it, but in my defence it WASN'T MY FAULT.
Here's a tip, Kazhakstani high-rollers. Next time you're looking for an 'accomplished designer of iconic landmarks and experienced urban modeller', make sure your stupid translator doesn't mis-type the last bit.That way, people won't turn up and do urban yodelling. A skill which is niche, but useless, you doughnuts.
WEDNESDAY To Scotland, where I'm designing an innovative 'green bridge' over a 'brown motorway'. The new road will run through Aberdeenshire, the whole of which has been designated a 'wildlife wethaven' to save messing about. What makes the 'MSquirty2' motorway so special? All six carriageways are simply mud.
As part of a calibrated humiliation, drivers will be invited to join the MSquirty2 via genuine 'slip-roads' of watery sludge and then to proceed with giggled-at caution. Conditions in winter are expected to be extremely hazardous. Ice, standing water, virtually no traction for wheels, most lanes already blocked by bogged-down vehicles.
My green bridge will be a pleasingly rickety affair. Its primary function is a viewing platform for jeering pedestrians and cyclists, who will be encouraged to bring along wildlife to watch too, just to rub it in.
THURSDAY The green bridge thing's just a swing-by really. I'm only here to check the local timber supplier's organic, and to be honest I could have done that by email.
I've brought a companion. Amy Blackwater the disabled balaclava'd ecomentalist, who needs to keep a low profile at the moment as she recently murdered three bedroom tax inspectors. Still, she has been useful. She helped choose the grasses, herbs and wildflowers for my latest Artist's Impression, and she always gets us served first at the bar.
We have to head back south tonight though - Amy has an appointment with an ATOS assessor and it takes her ages to get there in a wheelchair.
But there's still time to browse the Woodland Accessories Outlet Centre, where she buys a very rustic-looking axe and hammer combo, a heavy-duty wood saw, about a hundred metres of natural fibre twine and some sturdy garden rubble sacks.
FRIDAY Last major curatorial gig of the year coming up in the Middle East. It promises to be as stimulating and challenging as the 17 I've done since January.
Checklist: an illusion of directional consensus in global culture through the aggregation of vaguely similar artefacts; the controversial inclusion of at least one exhibit outraging public decency; the conflation of 'curate' and 'create' to suggest that a curated event is somehow producing new bits of culture, and a terrible pun in the title.
Yes, Kuwait: Curate To Create has all that and more. I have gone beyond mere event management to create something that curates curation itself, weaving all the thematic threads of the global curating industry together to form a sort of magic carpet of curatorial sponsorship.
My stock is high. I'm now averaging four and a half stars on RateYourCurator.com.
My self-congratulation is interrupted by Amy, who's calling to ask if I've sorted my one exhibit outraging public decency, 'only I've got several sacks of ATOS assessor with no real purpose at the moment. I thought you could stick them in a glass box or whatever like Damien Hirst does, otherwise I'll give the lot to Commie Mick for his allotment…'
I tell her I'm all right for decency outrage, thanks. I've included a short film of my own, Woman In A Balaclava. It's basically footage of Amy driving a car, smoking roll-ups and saying horrible things about Kuwaiti men. I might rename it The Architecture of Glass Ceilings, get someone from The Guardian to do a piece.
SATURDAY Five-a-zeitgeist theoretical football. Retrokinesis 2, Tempathy 2 after connection timeout.
SUNDAY Curate self in the recliner. Give self new twist. Fall to floor. Style out new, grounded self.
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Tomorrow may come or not
I am not at the liberty to know,
I will set my plans but,
To welcome the day anyhow!
Tomorrow may come or not
I can never think that it won't,
I will pray for a good day, and
To wake up with a smile!
Tomorrow may come or not
I can never give up hope, however
So I say thanks to the Almighty
For all the blessings in abundance!
And if tomorrow never comes
I shall not be disappointed,
So I do my best today,
Because who knows what tomorrow will bring!


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1783 – Montgolfier Brothers construct the first lighter-than-air vehicle (a balloon)
1900 – Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's airship flies
1902 – Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. is born on Feb. 4
1903 – Orville and Wilbur Wright fly first successful self-propelled airplane
1906 – Anne Morrow born June 20
1909 – Louis Bleriot crosses English Channel in a monoplane
1909 – Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first licensed female pilot
1913 – Salim Ilkucan crosses Sea of Marmara by achieving the longest over-sea flight in a doubleplane
1918 – United States Post Office establishes airmail service
1920 – Lindbergh enrolls in the University of Wisconsin as an engineering student
1922 – Bessie Coleman becomes the first licensed African-American aviator in the world
1922 – Lindbergh leaves college in February to become flying student at Nebraska Standard Aircraft Corporation; makes first flight, Apr. 9
1923 – Lindbergh buys first plane, a war-surplus Curtiss Jenny; goes barnstorming
1924 – Lindbergh enlists as a U.S. Army Flying cadet
1924 – First flight around the world
1926 – Lindbergh makes his first Chicago-to-St. Louis airmail flight
1926 – Air Commerce Act marks first federal attempt to set safety regulations for civil aeronautics and requires the registration and licensing of pilots and planes
1927 – Charles Lindbergh makes first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight
1928 – Anne Spencer Morrow graduates from Smith College
1929 – Charles Lindbergh and Anne Spencer Morrow marry
1930 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States
1931 – Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh survey potential commercial air routes from the U.S. to the Orient via Canada, Alaska and Russia
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean
1933 – Boeing 247 is built
1933 – Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh survey North and South Atlantic air routes
1934 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh is awarded Hubbard Gold Medal for accomplishments in 40,000 miles of exploratory flying
1937 – Zeppelin Hindenburg burns
1942 – Tuskegee Airmen all-Black 99th Fighter Squadron forms
1946 – Radar bounces off the moon for the first time
1947 – The sound barrier is broken by Chuck Yeager
1950s – Technologies such as long-range missiles, computer systems, electronic controls, combustion chemistry, and new composite structures made possible by the aerospace industry
1953 – Jacquelin Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier
1954 – Lindbergh is appointed to rank of brigadier general; awarded Pulitzer Prize for The Spirit of St. Louis
1955 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book, Gift from the Sea, is published
1958 – The first American satellite to be placed in orbit around the Earth, "Explorer 1", is launched
1959 – NASA selects its first seven astronauts
1961 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
1966-72 – Charles Lindbergh serves on World Wildlife Fund Board of Trustees
1969 – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first persons to walk on the moon
1971 – NASA's Mariner 9 orbits Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet
1971 – The first time a golf ball is hit on the moon
1971 – Boeing 747 makes its first commercial flight from New York to London
1972 – NASA announces the shuttle program
1974 – Charles Lindbergh dies in Maui, Hawaii, on August 26, buried at Kipahulu
1976 – Concorde flies
1977 – The Charles A. Lindbergh Fund is created
1978 – NASA selects its first group of women astronauts
1981 – First Space Shuttle flight
1983 – Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, becomes the first U.S. woman to go up in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger
1986 – Challenger Space Shuttle explodes shortly after takeoff, all seven crew members die
1994 – The Charles A. Lindbergh Fund becomes The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
1996 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh is inducted into The National Women's Hall of Fame
2001 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh dies in Vermont, on February 7
2002 – The Charles A. and. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation celebrates its 25th Anniversary; 75th Anniversary Celebrations of the "Spirit of St. Louis" flight are planned around the country
2003 – Aviation celebrates its first century
2004 – Oct. 4, Burt Ruan and the SpaceShipOne team capture the $10 million X Prize for the first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within a 14 day period. The prize was modeled after the Orteig Prize.
2010 – July 7-8, Bertrand Piccard and his Solar Impulse team make aviation history by flying more than 24 consecutive hours non-stop in a solar airplane.??
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American educators across the country are encouraged to apply now for 2009 summer study opportunities in the humanities. Each summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports rigorous national, residential seminars, institutes, and workshops located in the United States and abroad. Program participants receive stipends to help defray travel and living expenses.
For the 2009 Summer Seminars and Institutes, interested teachers must apply for the respective seminars and institutes, 19 for college and university teachers and 31 for school teachers, by March 2, 2009. School teachers can apply to no more than one program, and college and university teachers can apply to no more than two programs. Seminars and Institutes are 2-6 week programs that take place in the United States and abroad. Summer Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers provide K-12 educators with a means to deepen their understanding of important subjects in the humanities. Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers allow faculty members to gain a deeper knowledge of current scholarship in key fields of the humanities and advance their own teaching and research.
For the 2009 Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops, interested teachers must apply for the respective workshops, 6 for community college faculty and 20 for school teachers, by March 16, 2009. Educators may apply to and participate in no more than two workshops. The Landmarks workshops are 1‑week workshops that take place at sites of historical or cultural significance across the nation and provide educators with the opportunity to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics in American history and culture.
For more information, including eligibility and application information and details about each of the seminars, institutes, and workshops offered, please visit 2009 Summer Programs in the Humanities for Teachers.


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Bible: Matt. 6:21 "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
"Science of Mind" textbook, page 118, The late Dr. Holmes said, "Limitation is not in Principle nor in Law, but only in the individual use we make of Principle."
Wouldn't it be wonderful if life was a jigsaw puzzle and we could find the pieces and the places for them, and we could come up with a picture identical to the one on the box or in our mind? Well, life is much like that. Once we know how we want to live our life, we'll find the pieces that fit in that life picture. Although that sounds easy, we often wind up without accomplishing our goals.
There are six big mistakes we often make as stated by Cicero, the Roman philosopher more than 2,000 years ago. 1. The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others. 2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. 3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it. 4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences. 5. Neglecting the development of the mind. 6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
Let's see how we can best put the pieces together for the life we really want. If you want more prosperity, love, happiness, peace of mind and better health, it's worth being serious about this game of life. If we were to start on a journey and hope to arrive, we must first have a destination. That is a principle. So it is with life. We must decide what we want to experience in this life. Life is like a huge smorgasbord and we are here in the choosing line.
We are not limited in our desires, but we often cancel out what we say we want by declaring limitations, negative thinking and believing in separation from God. Let's be careful about the decisions and choices we follow as suggested by others. The masterpieces in this game of life is just that, decisions and choices. We have in this moment the choice, the right and the privilege either to maintain and support any pattern of thought we may have previously established, or to establish an entirely new pattern of action. We must decide, either to be as we have been, or to start to be what we desire to be.
We were created to express life by life Itself. That Life is called by many names: God, Holy Spirit, Mind, Higher Power, Intelligence and many more. No matter what name we use, we understand that It is love and the creative energy of the universe. Out of It, we are here and we are the substance of it, because there is only One of this Intelligence and we are One with It as a grain of sand on the sandy beach. The divinity of God is in us, through us and is us. Our worthiness was created and formed by a perfect design of God.
When you know and know that you know that you are a part of this divine plan, the decisions and choices makes the pieces fit into the puzzle easily. Once you have decided how you want your life to be lived and once you understand that the Holy Spirit and you are one in this creative process, the urge to be more and to do more springs alive.
As we follow the path of making the pieces fit, we should be making the right decisions and choices for our better life. Recognize your oneness with that which is good and began to change your thinking, the Universe has no other choice than to fit the pieces into place for you.
And so it is.
By Revs. Geri & Bill Parish, Co-pastors of the Oroville Center for Spiritual Living, 3135 Oro Dam Blvd., East, Oroville.


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The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API provides universal data access from the Java programming language. Using the JDBC 3.0 API, you can access virtually any data source, from relational databases to spreadsheets and flat files. JDBC technology also provides a common base on which tools and alternate interfaces can be built.
- JDBC Fast Connection Failover with Oracle RAC
by Michael Pilone
Configuring and testing with Tomcat and the Spring framework
- JDBC Drivers and Web Security
by Mukul Sood
Although security is not officially part of the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) specification, JDBC driver vendors are beginning to offer security features such as encryption and authentication.
- A JDBC Wrapper -- In Python!
by C.K. Tan
Database access via JDBC can be less than straightforward. To simplify the process, C.K. presents a Python-based framework that wraps around JDBC.
- How Can I Speed Up My JDBC-Based Programs?
by Tim Kientzle
Tim examines techniques for optimizing the performance of Java-baseddatabase-centric applications.
- Developing JDBC Applications
by Andrew Wilson
Client-side applet browsing of JDBC applets can be a problem -- unless you use the client/server development techniques Andy shares here.
- Examining JDBC Drivers
by Mukul Sood
JDBC, short for "Java Database Connectivity," provides a programming-level interface for communicating with databases in a uniform way. Mukul discusses the different categories of JDBC drivers, then compares them in terms of performance.


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Why is it that in 2012, we still need a Women's Impact list? Women were given the right to vote in 1920 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed gender discrimination in the workplace. Surely by now we've managed to assimilate ourselves in the once male-dominant culture.
But while equality theoretically happened decades ago, there are still countless examples of gender bias. It took until August of this year for famed golf club Augusta National to invite two women into their membership ranks. In Hollywood, some areas are still woefully underrepresented (the cinematographers' guild has only 3.4% female membership, for example, vs. the costume designers guild with 83% women members).
Let's hope the day will come soon that there is true equality for men and women in all walks of life, but, frankly, it hasn't happened yet. So we at Variety are taking this annual opportunity, as we have since 1998, to highlight the women who continue to influence Hollywood and the world.
For the first time ever, the issue has been conceived, edited, written, designed, photographed, illustrated, promoted and sold predominantly by the women of Variety . To paraphrase the old advertising slogan, the newsrooms of America have come a long way, baby.
In 1992, when we both started at Daily Variety , there were no female editors in our L.A. newsroom, and one female exec on the sales side. Today, 20 years later, four women sit atop the masthead on the editorial side — including Paula Taylor, who designed this issue — and six on the business side. Of the 19 names on the Variety masthead, 10 are women.
The femmes atop the Variety masthead, standing from left, Natalie Longman (production director), Paula Taylor (creative director), Donna Pennestri (sales director), Cynthia Littleton (deputy editor), Carole Horst (deputy editor), Kirstin Wilder (VP, managing editor). Seated from left, Dawn Allen (sales director), Michelle Sobrino-Stearns (VP, associate publisher), Linda Buckley-Bruno (publishing director) and Kimberley Hume (marketing director). Not pictured is Millie Chiavelli (managing director, East Coast).
Showbiz tells a similar tale of working to find a balance and you can read about the challenges women faced back in the 1970s and '80s in Paula Bernstein's piece.
Some fields — animation and TV showrunners — are hitting the mark with women rising through the ranks and taking on the top leadership roles. Cynthia Littleton and Karen Idelson, respectively, write about those career tracks.
Our Impact List highlights women who have had a particularly game-changing year in their spheres including a Pulitzer Prize winner, ground-breaking TV executives, marketing gurus and one helmer who has literally redefined what it means to be a woman in the 21st century, Lana Wachowski ("Cloud Atlas").
Our list is merely a snapshot of some of the amazing women working in the entertainment industry today, we aimed to include femmes from different disciplines and while there were dozens more more we could have included, we chose to focus this year on those who influenced the industry by thinking outside of the box. The question we asked for every honoree was, "was this person just doing their job?" or "did she do something extraordinary outside of her normal responsibilities?"
We invite both men and women to sit back, pour a glass of champers and enjoy our 2012 Women's Impact Report.


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[黄昆论坛]第327期:Double-Resonant Raman Processes in Single Layer Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes and Twisted Bilayer Graphene
报告题目:Double-Resonant Raman Processes in Single Layer Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes and Twisted Bilayer Graphene
报告人:Prof. Pedro Venezuela (Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil)
报告时间:2018年9月3日 下午2:00
Abstract: Lowest-order Raman processes, for instance the G band in graphene, correspond to the scattering with a zero-momentum phonon (q = 0). Graphene and graphitic materials present other lines, due to higher-order processes, which are usually interpreted in terms of the so-called double-resonance (DR) mechanism. The DR mechanism is used to interpret RamanD band and 2D band in graphene. We have developed a methodology, based on Density Functional theory, to simulate the DR processes in graphene[1].
Here we show that the Raman bands related to DR processes are a powerful tool to probe the structural, electronic and vibrational properties of graphitic materials. We will focus in three different systems: monolayer graphene, carbon nanotubes and twisted bilayer graphene.In monolayer graphene, the observed 2D line width contains valuable information on strain variations in graphene on length scales far below the laser spot size, that is, on the nanometer-scale[2], which is a good and easily accessible quantity for classifying the crystalline quality, nanometer-scale flatness as well as local electronic properties of graphene.Concerning carbon nanotubes, we have studied the D and 2D Raman bands of chirality enriched samples[3]. We show that each single-chirality nanotube exhibits a series of non-dispersive D and 2D Raman peaks, which are not necessarily enhanced by resonances with optical transitions between van Hove singularities. Our results provide a complete explanation of the DR Raman spectrum, including the D and 2D bands, at the specificity level of a single-chirality nanotube, and allow the correct interpretation of the DR spectra of carbon nanotubes in samples containing a distribution of different (n, m) nanotube species.Finally, for twisted bilayer graphene[4], we discuss the possibility of distinguishing intralayer and interlayer electron-phonon (el-ph) interactions and of probing the intralayer process in graphene/h-BN. In the intralayer process, the el-ph scattering occurs in a single graphene layer and the other layer (graphene or h-BN) imposes a periodic potential that back scatters the excited electron, whereas for the interlayer process the el-ph scattering occurs between states in the Dirac cones of adjacent graphene layers. Our methodology of using Raman spectroscopy to probe different types of el-ph interactions can be extended to study any kind of graphene-based heterostructure.
[1] Venezuela P, Lazzeri M and Mauri F, Phys. Rev. B 2011; 84: 035433.
[2] Neumann C, Reichardt S, Venezuela P, Dr?geler M, Banszerus L, Schmitz M, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Mauri F, Beschoten B, Rotkin SV and Stampfer C, Nat. Comm. 2015; 6: 8429.
[3] Moura LG, Moutinho MVO, Venezuela P, Mauri F, Righi A, Strano MS, Fantini C, Pimenta MA, Carbon 2017; 111: 41.
[4] Eliel GSN, Moutinho MVO, Gadelha AC, Righi A, Campos L, Ribeiro HB, Chiu P-W , Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Puech P, Paillet M, Michel T, Venezuela P, and Pimenta MA, Nat. Comm. 2018; 9: 1221.
Acknowledgments:PV acknowledges the support of the brazilian agencies: CNPq, Capes and Faperj.
Biography: PV earned his PhD at Universidade de S?o Paulo in Brazil in 1996. After that he was a pos-doc at IBM research center in Yorktown Heights, USA. Since 2002 he is a faculty at Universidade Federal Fluminense, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has worked with electronic structure of materials and recently specially with 2D materials. In 2009/2010 he spent a sabatical year at Université Pierre at Marie Curie in Paris, where he started studying Raman spectroscopy in 2D materials in a theoretical point of view.


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OTTAWA - The Harper government will have to scale potentially hundreds of procedural hurdles — erected by three different opposition parties — in order to secure passage of its massive budget implementation bill.
The Conservatives' majority ensures the 400-plus-page bill will eventually win parliamentary approval.
But procedural ploys promised by the NDP, Liberals and lone Green MP Elizabeth May mean it could take days — or even weeks — longer than the government had hoped.
"Our objective is to show the government that what they are doing is profoundly anti-democratic," said Liberal House leader Marc Garneau.
The huge, complex bill is stuffed with a host of non-budgetary matters, including controversial changes to environmental regulations, immigration law, fisheries management and Employment Insurance.
Opposition parties are hoping they can delay passage of the bill long enough that the government will eventually bow to their demands to split it up into manageable chunks that can be scrutinized more closely.
While their goal is the same, the three opposition parties are not working in concert. Indeed, they appear to be competing over which party can mount the most effective opposition to the controversial budget bill.
The NDP began Wednesday with a series of procedural tricks that prevented debate on the budget bill. The aim, the party said, was to ultimately delay a second-reading vote on the bill planned for Monday.
On Thursday, debate on the bill resumed and the government remained on track for Monday's vote. But NDP House leader Nathan Cullen told reporters to "stay tuned" for other manoeuvres to delay the vote.
Meanwhile, Cullen announced a new tactic: New Democrat MPs will propose motions at 20 Commons committees, asking that each committee undertake studies of various chunks of the budget bill, pertinent to each committee's area of expertise.
The Liberals accused the NDP of turning clumsy, inexperienced "procedural cartwheels" that will do nothing to stop or even delay the bill while robbing MPs of the little time allocated for debate on it.
Garneau said the Liberals will keep their powder dry until what's known as report stage, when the bill returns to the House of Commons after examination by the finance committee. At that point, he said the party will move amendments to delete specific clauses in the bill.
He wouldn't say how many amendments the party is planning but added: "Let's just say there are over 700 clauses."
May, the Green leader and the party's lone MP, similarly vowed to propose numerous amendments at report stage. Because she is not eligible for membership on Commons committees, she can go further than the Liberals and actually propose substantive amendments to alter the bill.
An environmental lawyer and longtime activist, May said the bill will gut 30 years of environmental regulations.
"However many amendments the Speaker rules are in order, as long as I can find parliamentary support to make sure my amendments are seconded, I will not back down and we will not be there until four in the morning; we could be there for days," she told a news conference.
May will have no trouble finding the support she needs from other opposition parties. Garneau said the Liberals have been talking to her for weeks and called the Liberal and Green tactics "complimentary."
Cullen said the NDP will also propose amendments at report stage but isn't willing to wait until then to start procedural machinations.
"That's more than a month away," he noted, adding that the NDP's objective is to "bring the light of day to what's actually going on."
"There was no mandate given to this government to do the things that it's doing and by cramming it into a Trojan Horse bill, it is ignoring the will of Parliament and the accountability that Parliament demands."
Peter Van Loan, the government House leader, refused to speculate on whether there's any way to avoid the amendment marathon being promised by the opposition parties. But he suggested such ploys will backfire, angering Canadians who want to see action to bolster the fragile economy.
"I hope the Liberals and ... Elizabeth May won't engage in the same kind of delay and obstruction tactics the NDP have. I think the NDP have discredited themselves by not really focusing on the substance of job creation and economic growth but instead focusing on delay tactics," Van Loan said.
"Our (economic) environment is still very fragile and that's why we have to continue to stay focused on that economy and make decisions."
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40 Armed Gun Advocates Intimidate Mothers Against Gun Violence In A Restaurant Parking Lot
On Saturday, nearly 40 armed men, women, and children waited outside a Dallas, Texas area restaurant to protest a membership meeting for the state chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a gun safety advocacy group formed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
According to a spokeswoman for Moms Demand Action (MDA), the moms were inside the Blue Mesa Grill when members of Open Carry Texas (OCT) — an open carry advocacy group — "pull[ed] up in the parking lot and start[ed] getting guns out of their trunks." The group then waited in the parking lot for the four MDA members to come out. The spokeswoman said that the restaurant manager did not want to call 911, for fear of "inciting a riot" and waited for the gun advocates to leave. The group moved to a nearby Hooters after approximately two hours.
MDA later released a statement calling OCT "gun bullies" who "disagree[d] with our goal of changing America's gun laws and policies to protect our children and families." The statement added that the members and restaurant customers were "terrified by what appeared to be an armed ambush." A member of OCT responded by tweeting, "I guess I'm a #gunbullies #Comeandtakeit."
This is not the first time that gun advocates have rallied at MDA events. In March, a group of armed men crashed a MDA gun-control rally in Indianapolis. Other gun advocate groups will hold rallies this upcoming December 14th, the anniversary date of the Sandy Hook shooting.
Licensed gun owners are allowed to carry concealed weapons, but Texas is one of six states that prohibits open carry of firearms. Attorney General Greg Abbott, a likely Republican successor for Gov. Rick Perry (R), has vowed to permit concealed handgun owners to display their firearms in public. Four GOP contenders for lieutenant governor similarly hope to put in place open carry laws if elected.


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An emotional Anne Hathaway, at times struggling to hold back tears, said playing the doomed Fantine, a victim of tragic circumstances if ever there was one, has made her a better person.
"I think this film made me more compassionate and more aware," she said backstage, holding her Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
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If you've been reading recently you know I've been on a hormone kick recently. That sexy looking molecule to the right and the hormone du jour: testosterone. Testosterone is the principal anabolic and sex hormone in humans, responsible for sexual desire and function, muscular hypertrophy, densification of bones, and hair growth. Compared to females, males famously produce about ten times the amount of testosterone, but females are far more sensitive to its effects. Though testosterone is largely responsible for those traits and characteristics that are considered "masculine" – physical strength, body hair, dominance, and virility – both sexes require it for proper sexual and physical development. In mammals, males secrete it primarily from the testicles (about 95% of the total amount, in fact) and women secrete it from the ovaries. A modicum is produced in the adrenal glands in both sexes.
Testosterone plays an important role throughout every stage of a person's life:
Prenatally, testosterone – along with dihydrotestosterone, a more potent anabolic hormone – is partly responsible for the formation of the male genitalia. It helps determine gender identity (with society bringing up the rear later in life, of course) and it spurs development of the prostate and seminal vesicles.
In early infancy, boys' testosterone levels rise, almost to puberty levels, only to plummet at 4-6 months. We're still not entirely sure what the rise means and what all that testosterone is doing, but it's definitely doing something. One theory is that the brain is being "masculinized."
Immediately prior to puberty, testosterone begins to rise in both boys and girls. Childhood is departing, replaced by budding pubic hair, the beginnings of body odor, growth spurts, oily hair and skin, and that ridiculous peach fuzz above the lips that every eleven year-old male tries to cultivate and claim as facial hair. Bones mature and the arm pits grow hair.
During puberty, testosterone enjoys a massive increase. Most of you reading this probably recall those awkward, exciting change-filled times: new odors, inconvenient fluctuations in the functionality and appearance of certain organs, strange new outlooks on the opposite sex. Good times. Thanks, testosterone!
In adults, testosterone's effects on growth and development have largely manifested and maintenance becomes its province. Libido is preserved for both men and women and erection strength and frequency are regulated by testosterone. Muscles resist wasting thanks to T (and even grow larger).
I would be remiss if I failed to mention testosterone's chief antagonist: cortisol [1]. Cortisol, as you know, is one of the stress, fight-or-flight hormones. It kept us alive and our wits about us under short-term life-or-death situations for much of our evolution. Unfortunately, when cortisol is constantly elevated – as it often is in the sleep-deprived and chronically-stressed – testosterone is muted. Cortisol is catabolic [2] (breaks tissue down), while testosterone is anabolic [3]. Excessive levels of cortisol produce insulin resistance, fat gain, and muscle wasting, while testosterone promotes muscular hypertrophy and lean mass gains. Cortisol contributes to metabolic syndrome, while testosterone helps alleviate it.
Ironically, serum testosterone status seems to predict the cortisol response [4] of people faced with victory or defeat. High T men and women who "lost" released more cortisol, the stress hormone; when they "won," less cortisol was released. Low T folks' cortisol changes did not depend on winning or losing. I guess that's a downside to high T levels, technically, but it's to be expected. I'm reminded of the Jimmy Cliff classic [5], "The bigger they come, the harder they fall".
Low serum concentrations of testosterone are also independently associated with higher mortality rates in men [6], even when you consider other risk factors and preexisting health conditions.
Testosterone is important in the formation of bones, as I mentioned earlier, but it's also crucial for the maintenance of bone density, especially in the elderly [7].
Testosterone aids in protein synthesis, effectively helping rebuild muscle fibers with amino acids. It can preserve existing mass or build upon it, creating more.
So, testosterone is important, and even vital, if you want to build (and keep) strong bones and muscles, maintain a healthy, active sex life, and live long and well into old age – but how do we make sure we're making enough?
In 1889, a Harvard University professor by the name of Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard injected himself with a "rejuvenating elixir" containing the extract of dog and guinea pig testicle, reporting increased vigor and feelings of well-being. Traditional Chinese herbalists would often prescribe dried tiger's penis for impotence, and ancient Greek Olympians feasted on goat and lamb testicles to boost stamina and athletic performance. Clearly, even before testosterone was specifically identified, the ancients (and not-so-ancients) knew that the loins were involved in vigor, strength, and stamina.
Their (our) fixation on consumption of genitalia and genitalia extractions to correct deficiencies in strength, vigor, sexual stamina, and general "well-being" sounds intuitive, in a folksy, endearing sort of way. Does it make sense to eat bull testicles to restore one's manhood and increase available testosterone?
Not really. Testosterone doesn't pool up in one's testicles. It's not a static reservoir waiting in reserve to be disseminated throughout the body. It's a hormone that the testicles (in men) and ovaries (in women) produce. That mouthful of fluid you got when biting into a roasted sheep's testicle on your Greek vacation wasn't pure, liquid testosterone – sorry. In order to get testosterone, you have to produce it (or inject it, but that's an entirely different post) endogenously. And if you want to manipulate the amount of testosterone you have available, you can do it the same way you manipulate other hormones, like insulin [8], leptin [9], growth hormone [10], and cortisol [11]. You tinker with your diet, your exercise, and your basic daily lifestyle.
Lift Heavy Things
Resistance training is a potent stimulant of testosterone production, so be sure to lift heavy things every now and again. If you want to tinker even further, messing around with rest intervals between sets can stimulate different hormonal responses. In one study [12], resting 90 seconds between squat and bench press sets boosted post-workout T levels the most, followed by rest periods of 120 seconds. Resting 60 seconds increased growth hormone the most and T the least.
In young men, a short six-second bout of sprinting increased serum total testosterone levels [13]. Levels remained elevated during recovery. Interestingly, testosterone was also correlated with lactate levels in the blood. It would be even more interesting to know if any training that causes lactate levels to rise would also increase testosterone.
Avoid Excessive Cortisol
Since cortisol antagonizes and reduces free testosterone levels, and stress promotes the release of cortisol, avoiding stress becomes crucial for maintaining or boosting T levels. Make sure you get a good night's sleep, every night (which in and of itself increases testosterone levels [14]). Avoid overtraining [15], especially in the Chronic Cardio [16] arena, which may affect T levels and reproductive function [17]. And be sure to take time to chill out and relax (read a book, go for a walk, play [18]).
Get Sun, or Take Vitamin D Supplements
Vitamin D [19], already associated with bone and muscular strength, also positively correlates with testosterone levels in men [20]. Back in February, the vitamin D/T link got a decent amount of media attention [21].
Eat Clean, Pastured Animal Products
Toxic substances called dioxins have been shown to interfere with the male reproductive system [22], including production of testosterone. While concentrated sources of dioxins include Agent Orange (which I'm sure you're already avoiding), we obtain most of our dietary dioxins through conventionally-raised animal products [23], especially animal fats [24] and dairy [25] (dioxins accumulate in fat). If you're going to be eating fatty cuts of meat or using dairy, try to go for pastured, grass-fed [26] animals to reduce your exposure and lessen the negative impact on your testosterone levels.
Eat Saturated and Monounsaturated Fat
A low-fat, high-fiber diet reduced serum and free testosterone levels [27] in middle-aged men. T usage wasn't affected, but T production was reduced. Another look at male athletes found that both saturated fat [28], monounsaturated fat [29], and cholesterol [30] intakes were positively correlated with resting testosterone levels [31]. PUFA [32] intake was barely associated with increased levels.
Avoid Foods that Regularly Spike Your Blood Glucose Levels
Researchers found [33] that 75 grams of pure glucose – and the resultant spike in blood sugar – was enough to drop testosterone levels by as much as 25% in a random grouping of healthy, prediabetic, and diabetic men. Now keep in mind how rapidly many SAD carb choices (pasta, cereal, bread, etc) convert to glucose upon digestion…
Get Adequate Zinc Intake
A zinc deficiency predicts lowered testosterone in men [34] (eat your shellfish), but heroic supplementary doses of the mineral don't boost T levels beyond normal [35] in men with adequate dietary intake.
All in all, testosterone is an incredibly important hormone for health, longevity, and vitality – in both men and women. Leading a Primal life, free of excessive stress and peppered with smart, intense workouts, full of healthy animal fats and plenty of vitamin D, should be enough to promote adequate amounts of testosterone coursing through your veins. It may sound a bit redundant at times (advice: live Primal!), but what can you do when a common, uniting thread seems to run through almost every aspect of human health. It almost writes itself.


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"In the Preface to his lovely book "The Island Within", about a wilderness island near his home on the coast of Alaska, Rick Nelson writes; "I have recorded my experiences, not as a teacher, certainly not as a thinker, but as a learner who loves his subject as deeply as he loves life itself."
I spent most of my adult life as a "teacher," and I suppose I've done my share of "thinking," but I'd like to think that those activities were means to an end: learning. Certainly, now in retirement I don't consider myself a teacher, and I'd rather ponder someone else's thoughts than my own. These daily postings, which you are kind enough to read, are little lessons, not for you, but for myself.
It may seem strange that learning should now take preference over teaching and thinking. After all, hasn't it always been the role of elders in traditional cultures to be the repositories of wisdom. Learning is for the young. Teaching and thinking for the grey-haired set. But no. I have less confidence in the primacy of my thoughts than I did in mid-life, and no desire to proselytize. But I am curious. Curious to absorb a bit more of the wonder of the world, read one more poem, watch one more flower unfold on the sill. These daily postings are the diary of a learner.
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The fifth solo exhibition by Associate Professor Robert Bordo at the Chelsea Gallery Alexander and Bonin has received attention from local and national media. "Three Point Turn," on view until April 27, presents recent paintings that "intrigue and satisfy," according to the New Yorker. The review goes on: "Simple but sneakily potent images emerge, as if by happy accident, from nonchalant-looking slathers in resonant dark hues. … The longer you look, the better the work gets, and it may keep growing on you later, in piqued memory." Roberta Smith, reviewing the exhibition in the April 19 edition of the New York Times, calls the show "outstanding," and concludes, "With meaning suspended between painterly fact and pictorial ambiguity, his expanded repertory points to a very interesting future." Peter Plagens reviewed the exhibition in the March 29 edition of the Wall Street Journal (available by subscription only), calling it "witty" and "downright likable." The New York Observer also covered the show on April 4.
In tandem with the exhibition a number of interviews with Professor Bordo have appeared, including one in the Brooklyn Rail. Just prior to the opening, in March, Artforum.com's 500 Words featured Professor Bordo. In it, he discusses some of the driving related imagery of the show, including smeared windshields and rear-view mirrors: "I keep coming back to this idea of reenactment, digging around in the material of painting to unearth an existential landscape made of dirt, hills, and roads, perhaps even a rear-view mirror, so space and time can go forward and backward, creating a kind of twilight-zone hysteria and an escape narrative."


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Sources close to Cowell indicated the relationship was at an end in the wake of Clifford's conviction on eight counts of indecent assault earlier today.
Cowell first engaged Clifford in 2001 when the media spotlight fell on him as a judge in the 'Pop Idol' TV series.
A spokesman for Syco, his joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment, declined to comment on the claims.
Cowell did not appear at Clifford's trial or provide a character witness statement.
A spokesman for Clifford also declined to comment, citing his lawyers' advice not to speak. However, in an interview with PRWeek conducted earlier this month during the case he all but conceded that a conviction would threaten what he said was a 12-year relationship with the music industry boss.
"At least a couple of clients will no longer be clients because [they are assisted] by me hands-on," he told PRWeek. While he declined to comment on whether this group included Cowell, he claimed he was involved in "everything to do with Simon's personal publicity" and this was entirely handled by him rather than his agency staff.
Clifford also said his PR agency, Max Clifford Associates, was "self-contained" enough to continue without him as another four or five clients are handled by his staff with only a small contribution from him.
These include Boux Avenue, the lingerie brand owned by Dragons' Den businessman Theo Paphitis, the Miss World Organisation and Dave Fishwick, around whom Channel 4's 'Bank of Dave' show is built.