Madison FUMC Students seeks to come alongside students (6th – 12th Grade) through intentional relationship so that they may experience the love of Christ and learn to walk with Him and with others. Our hope is that as God's love through us draws students to Him, students allow His love to work through them to draw others to Him.
Because we believe that journeys are made of steps taken in a particular direction, our services and ministries are organized around four habits we desire each student develops on their faith journey: Spending Time with God, Spending Time with Others, Using Our gifts, and Sharing Our Story.
Each Sunday the Madison Student Ministry hosts a Sunday School Class for students from 6th—12th grade. Come for donuts, juice, a fierce game of ping-pong and a relevant, life-based teaching of Scripture.
Credo is MFUMC Confirmation Class which is a year of exploration at Madison First UMC. Students in the sixth grade will take a closer look at what it means to become an adult in faith, what it means to make a commitment to Jesus Christ, and what it means to share in faith with Christians around the world.
The experience includes weekly class sessions during the Credo hour, time with an adult mentor, a weekend retreat, 2 one-day retreat, and worship opportunities with other congregations. The class culminates with a Confirmation Worship Service.
TMD is short for our Tuesday Morning Devotions. This mid-week opportunity is student led and takes place every Tuesday morning at 7:00a.m. during the school year. Come fellowship, enjoy some breakfast, and hear how God is touching your classmates' lives.
Who Attends TMD: 6th-12th grade.
When Does TMD Meet: Tuesday Morning at 7:00 am. Throughout the school year. We will provide transportation to the school.
What is Sunday Nights: Madison Student Sunday evenings is where discipleship happens for our students at Madison FUMC. Students will hear topics discussed concerning wisdom, friendships, loving others, hurt, spiritual habits, doubt, family, justice, and more. Students will have the opportunity to participate in worship, and small group discussions. We like to have fun while we are engaged in teaching, discussion, and worship. Students will be able to participate in upfront and group games on Sunday evenings as well.
Who Attends Madison Students Sunday Nights: 7th-12th grade.
6:30-7:00- Small Group discussion by grade and male/female.


A memorial service will be at 2:00 p.m., Friday, April 5, 2019 in the chapel at Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Funeral Home, 6705 SE 14th Ave., Portland, OR 97202. Reta is survived by her sons Richard Davis and Greg Davis; grandchildren Brooks Davis and Amanda Davis and great-grandchildren Alexander and Gwendolyn. Donations should go to Albertina Kerr, 424 NE 22nd Ave, Portland, OR 97232.


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Friday afternoon Marquette University Student Government President Adam Kouhel sent an email to the entire undergraduate student body addressing the allegations of a motion to investigate for impeachment the Wire reported on Tuesday.
He said the Wire was correct that an email with charges was sent to the Judicial Administrator, but that does not mean a motion has been made or that an investigation has been launched into the accuracy or authenticity of the charges.
An MUSG senator submitted a formal request to Anne Sorensen, the Judicial Administrator, Feb. 20 in an email obtained by the Wire thus beginning the process to investigate Kouhel for impeachment.
This story was updated Saturday, March 4 at 4:20 p.m.


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"Everything you love from the pioneer of sound healing — and more! Three songs feature heartfelt melodies riding over seductive grooves that will live inside you long after the music is over."
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In 1975, Steven Halpern created a paradigm shift in sound healing when his first album demonstrated how to orchestrate relaxation more effectively, predictably and immediatelythan traditional classical music.
Thirty five years later, a new paradigm shift expands the parameters of healing music for body, mind and spirit by incorporating beautiful lyrical themes and an occasional taste of rhythm.
Joining him is Michael Manring, the virtuoso bassist well-known to millions of Windham Hill fans, who adds funky bass lines on "First Kiss" and "Now & Zen", as well as amazing melodic harmonic overtones.
This is an album you're sure to enjoy listening to, for its sheer beauty, as well as for where it will take you…into the 'inner peace zone.'
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The SC1000 offers elegance and simplicity. Machined metal parts provide beauty and durability. The microphone housing doubles as a handle to assist in putting the earpieces in the ear. The cable exits naturally above or below the ear. The amplifier hangs comfortably around the neck for easy access to controls. Look good, feel good and enjoy the music!
Recording engineers and artists spend a great deal of time dialing in the sound they want. Our goal was to deliver that sound to the listener. This means the headphones need to replicate the sound of the best studio monitors. We spent hours measuring, listening and comparing to monitors and high fidelity speakers to achieve this.
We use an in-ear style earpiece for the highest isolation and best acoustics. A single dynamic (moving coil) speaker provides an extremely wide, flat frequency response with very low distortion and great dynamics. Distortion problems with multiple driver systems and frequency response issues with balanced armature speakers were avoided.
The integrated power amplifier matches the speaker perfectly and isolates it from the poor amplifiers found in portable players. The result is the best sounding in-ear headphones ever produced!
We looked at three options here. Custom ear molds, deep insertion universal tips and shallow insertion universal tips. The shallow insertion tips were by far the most comfortable and when combined with the light pressure from the flexible stabilizer produced a great seal, incredible sound and extremely high isolation. The perfect balance of performance, ease of use and comfort!
Cone shaped ear tips can naturally work their way out of the ears and lose their seal. The flexible stabilizer pushes off of the back of the ear (under the antihelix) and holds light pressure on the tip keeping it in place.
Isolation from ambient noise is unsurpassed with in-ear headphones but sometimes you want to hear what's going on around you. Adjustable high-fidelity microphones mounted in each earpiece allow you to add ambient sound in a natural way. Talk to your friends or listen for announcements, all without removing your headphones!
The ambient listening microphones are designed to be as close as possible to your natural hearing. The microphone ports face inwards and incorporate acoustic screens to reduce wind noise.
With the siding volume control on the side of the amplifier the microphone signals can be adjusted from zero to slightly louder than normal hearing.
If a very loud sound occurs in your environment, a compressor in each microphone channel will instantly reduce the volume to keep the sound at a safe level.
Lightweight headphone cables frequently tangle and break. Some products use replaceable cables but the connectors often fail before the cable. Our goal was to find a cable that was slim, flexible and extremely strong. We found this cable at Mogami® Cable, one of the most respected cable manufacturers in the world. This cable is virtually unbreakable and eliminates the need for connectors. The sound quality is unsurpassed.
Using a AAA primary battery gave us a number of advantages: many weeks of use, no need for a charger and when the battery goes dead a just pop in a fresh one. Space is provided in the carrying case for a spare.
The SC1000 has an in-line amplifier that needs to be supported and positioned so the Ambient Sound Control can be accessed. Wearing the amplifier around the neck provides a number of advantages. The weight of the amplifier is easily supported and does not pull on the user's clothing. It can even be worn under the shirt if desired. The wires, whether they're worn over the ears or under, meet out of the way at the back of your neck. When the earpieces are removed they hang naturally on the left and right of the user's chest.
In certain cases, it may not be appropriate for the amplifier to be positioned in the center of the chest. For these situations we supply a uniquely designed clothing clip that allows for a number of alternate wearing options.


For wifi access in the GSA Library, students and staff must join A_GSA1_WIFI. When asked, please enter your GSA Username and Password. If you encounter any issues with connecting to A_GSA1_WIFI please contact the Student IT Helpdesk or the Staff IT Helpdesk, depending on what kind of user you are.
Visitors to the GSA Library can gain WiFi access via a different process – please consult the Connecting to WiFi as a visitor User Guide.


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Winners and finalists
Dr Graham Foster and Dr Gareth Stockman
Nominated for Innovation and Technology award
Marine Power Systems Ltd, based in Swansea, has been chosen as a Finalist for the St David Award for Innovation and Technology
Marine Power Systems Ltd. was co-founded by Swansea University graduates Dr Gareth Stockman and Dr Graham Foster in 2009 specifically to develop the WaveSub wave energy converter – a second generation device with many advantages that address the challenges of extracting wave energy.
WaveSub is said to solve the 4 main challenges involved in harnessing wave energy. These are: developing efficient energy capture in any sea conditions; securing the technology's long-term survivability in a harsh environment; ensuring the devices are easy to deploy, recover and service; and guaranteeing they are cost efficient to build in relation to the power they produce.
The WaveSub has undergone scaled sea trials and tank testing, and recently a detailed project to model the cost of energy was completed. The conclusion was that the WaveSub has the potential to compete favourably with other renewable technologies and ultimately be competitive with conventional energy generation.
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Rooks County Health Center invests in state-of-the-art equipment with highly trained technologists to serve your every need. RCH's digital scanning station coupled with tele-radiology allows for quick interpretations in urgent cases. Utilizing PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System), RCH radiologists view computer generated images rather than film allowing for greater detail and more accurate readings. These electronic records are more easily shared with additional medical providers as specified for the patient.
RCH's new MRI and Nuclear Medicine suite puts the patient in control. Patients, with their doctors, can now schedule an exam Monday through Friday for immediate access to the latest state-of-the-art imaging systems. RCH's MRI suite allows the patient to control their environment from the color of the room to watching the video of their choice while resting comfortably wearing noise reduction headphones. RCH's MRI is designed to eliminate as much stress as possible. The MRI, featuring the largest bore on the market, is the only one of its kind in Kansas or Missouri. If you need an MRI scan, have a conversation with your doctor to schedule your session with Rooks County Health Center.
Nuclear Medicine's imaging is unique because it provides information not only about the structure of the organ but also how well the organ is functioning. Nuclear imaging can identify abnormalities very early in the progress of disease long before medical problems become apparent. A tracer solution is administered to a patient either by mouth or intravenously which temporarily deposits in the organ, tissue or bones to be evaluated. A special camera detects the material in the organ, bone or tissue and forms images that provide data and information that can determine the presence of disease based on biological changes, rather than changes in anatomy. For added comfort during the exam, patients have the option of listening to their favorite music or watching a favorite television show. Ask your doctor to schedule your Nuclear Medicine session with Rooks County Health Center.
Save yourself from a stroke. 80% of strokes are preventable and Rooks County Health Center offers a painless, 10-minute stroke screening for $25.You can also be screened for an aortic aneurysm or hardening of the arteries in your legs. Three painless, live saving screenings for $25 each or $65 for all three. No appointment or doctor's order required. Immediate results, no waiting, offered daily Monday through Friday.
Painless 10 minute test to show any problems (plaque build-up) in the carotid arteries. These arteries, located in the neck, supply the brain with blood flow. Over time, build-up of plaque on the artery walls can begin to restrict this blood flow, possibly causing a stroke. This scan can also detect early signs of plaque buildup.
Painless test consists of a small Ultrasound probe moved across the abdomen to detect ballooning of the aorta, also known as an aneurysm.
PAD or hardening of the arteries is a condition that restricts the blood flow to the legs. A small Ultrasound device is used to measure blood pressure in the legs to check for poor circulation to the legs.
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If you are or were a smoker, you may qualify for free lung cancer screenings available only at Rooks County Health Center. This painless, 15-minute exam can lead to early lung cancer detection saving over 26,000 lives a year. Rooks County Health Center's certified lung cancer screening program may be 100% covered by your insurance or Medicare. Click here to learn more about Rooks County Health Center's certified lung cancer screening program.
Take a peek at what your baby looks like in utero by viewing a live 4D imaging stream. With clarity and resolution, Rooks County Health Center's experienced sonographer can capture facial features, movement and gender determination safely through advanced 4D ultrasound technology. A 4-D imaging session also makes a great gift for a baby shower. Click here to learn more.
RCH invites you to save 2nd base the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Enjoy food, fun and fast screenings to accommodate your busy schedule. Appointment required, limited space available. Call 688.4424 to schedule. If unable to attend the after-hours event, mammograms are offered daily, Monday through Friday 8 a.m to 4:30 p.m.
MRI of the brain, neck, spine, chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities and MRA.
For more information about the above procedures, please visit www.radiologyinfo.org.
*A staff member is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to manage emergency department.


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Dear Subscriber,
Our story #1 is so spectacular that it is being submitted to New Scientist magazine in the hopes that it is sufficiently newsworthy to their readership as well. We had two breakthroughs presented at SPESIF 2012 which also directly relate to available IRI publications. The first was the presentation by Dr. Moddel proving zero-point energy emission from gases in Casimir cavities. (See related story #4 showing light emission from zero-point energy dynamic Casimir cavities from New Scientist). The second was the breakthrough announcement from Mike Gamble that Boeing has been using inertial propulsion for moving satellites for years, which confirms our long-term IRI advocacy (with multiple inertial propulsion reports) when no other school or institution in the country recognized its value!
It is a direct impact on the energy costs for space to have private industry find a less expensive fee for access to space low earth orbit (LEO). That is story #2 on SpaceX courtesy of Dr. Paul Werbos from NSF, who also graciously gave SPESIF 2012 a wonderful remote presentation through webcast (see www.futurenergy.org for online video).
IRI could not have written a better story #3 than to report a discovery of something exceeding 100% efficiency in energy. Thanks to a heads-up from one of our readers, this summary of a Physical Review Letters journal article is the real thing we hope for to signal a new energy source emergence. Though apologies are given in the article for the low level of light that seems to be related to the anomaly, still the nature of the energy source that provides the boost needs to be considered for such a 2X energy output vs. input. Of course, based on our concurrent stories (#1 and #4), it is likely that there is a quantum vacuum explanation.
With story #5 presenting the latest ARPA-E call for transformational energy technologies, it may be a good place for cavitation fusion or sonofusion inventors to seek funding. IRI attempted to arrange a second cavitation fusion presentation for next month but was cancelled by the scheduled presenter after all the arrangements were made. We hope our IRI members who responded are not too inconvenienced by the change of plans. Instead, you can see a short interview with our first cavitation fusion interview with one of the world's experts from SPESIF 2011, Dr. Max Formichev-Zamilov from Penn State University on the new IRI release DVD, "Breakthrough Developments in Energy and Propulsion" (see ad at bottom of FE eNews), along with four other amazing scientist interviews from the same SPESIF conference, thanks to reporter Matt Baird.
Thomas Valone, PhD,PE
www.IntegrityResearchInstitute.org
1) BREAKTHROUGH ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AT SPESIF 2012
2) AMERICAN INNOVATION: RACE TO SPACE
3) LED'S EXCEED 100% EFFICIENCY
4) HARNESSING QUANTUM POWER OF EMPTY SPACE
5) ARPA-E CALL FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL TECH
1) Breakthrough Energy Technologies Presented at SPESIF 2012
Integrity Research Institute, Press Release, March 26, 2012, www.futurenergy.org
The recent Space, Propulsion & Energy Sciences International Forum (SPESIF) held at the University of Maryland's Riggs Alumni Center on February 29 - March 2, 2012 had amazing breakthrough technologies presented.
The opening night featured two presentations on low energy nuclear reactions (LENR), including Dr. David Nagel from George Washington University on the science and business of LENR. The follow-up presentation remotely by Sterling Allan from New Energy Congress was proof that a breakthrough has occurred in this hotly contested field. Referring to his recent trip to Greece, Sterling reported on the Defkalion company's progress in producing a sustained heat output in the kilowatt range with a proprietary catalyst. The webcasted presentations are also online at www.futurenergy.org in an Adobe Connect format which launches automatically. There was some trouble with the March 1st presentations since a Mac was used for the first few of them but most of them over the three days include the PowerPoint slideshow and concurrent audio and video.
The best presentations of a true breakthrough the next day consisted of Dr. Garret Moddel from the University of Colorado and also Mike Gamble from Boeing. Garret discussed his experimental investigation into the zero-point energy emission from noble gases flowing through Casimir cavities, which is a test of his patent #7,379,286, coinvented with Dr. Bernard Haisch from Calphysics Institute. To their surprise, Helium had a more robust output of radiation in the microwatt range than the heavier Xenon, measured with a pyrometer. Their unusual theory of constricting a gas atom quantum mechanically and then looking for a release of energy actually worked, showing that zero-point energy can be utilized to produce energy!
Of course the reabsorption of the lost energy from the quantum vacuum completes the engine cycle according to the patent disclosure, which also resembles the Josef Papp engine (patent #4,428,193) in many ways. Our institute expects a resurgence in the orders for the next edition of our book, Zero Point Energy: the Fuel of the Future, as a result of Dr. Moddel's experimental confirmation of a zero-point energy emission from a Casimir cavity.
Boeing's Inertial Propulsion device used for years on their Satellites.
Mike Gamble's presentation was more tangible with an analysis of the Dean Drive style of inertial (mechanical) propulsion converted to electromagnetic equivalence. However, the breakthrough announcement came at the end as to the reason for his investigation: Boeing has been using a "scissoring gyroscope" style of inertial propulsion for satellite maneuvering for years! This confirmation of a controversial method of force production is a first for any major corporation. (IRI recommends our "Inertial Propulsion Patent Collection" and other related reports for those unacquainted with this simple but effective way to produce a unidirectional force.) Mike also mentioned that it was so old by now that Boeing didn't mind if he mentioned it to the public. He even let me photograph his pictures of the company's test model, which is quite large. It is now clear from Gamble's presentation that the physics and mechanical engineering textbooks need to be rewritten to include this amazing breakthrough, which has quietly ushered in an alternate method for force production, even in space, that can be solar-powered and electrically driven.
Several of the presentations included local talent as well: University of Maryland researchers Prof. Cui, Chiang, and Prof. Pomerantseva, a National Science Foundation senior scientist. Dr. Paul Werbos, a former FDA research scientist, Judy Kosovich, a US DOE senior scientist Dave Goodwin, who was also the recipient of the "2012 Integrity In Research Award" for his unique contributions to emerging energy science. The keynote address was by Dr. George Miley who has just completed his amazing autobiography which will be published by IRI in the fall. Outstanding presentations were also done by Osamu Ide, Don Reed, Charles Lundquist, Anthony Fresco, James Putnam, Clive Woods, Philip Bouchard, Hamilton Carter, and Robert DeBiase. All these presentations were recorded and webcasted and are available at futurenergy.org free of charge to all.
We want to again thank our sponsors for generously supporting our conference: Arcos Cielos Research Center, Global Gateway Foundation, Ivan Kruglak and Marc Plotkin. We also want to thank all our volunteers: Elaine Chen, Craig Fatzinger, Gerard VandenBerg and Hamilton Smith! Your help is invaluable to us. And last but not least, Thanks to all who attended and made this year SPESIF a great success!
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I highly recommend watching this relatively short 60 Minutes segment in full:
SpaceX: Entrepreneur's race to space
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50121782n&tag=contentBody%3bstoryMediaBox
The Administration deserves a lot of credit for a policy that is sparking this type of private sector innovation.
IRI President at SPACEX exhibit on the National Mall.
I have many friends who believe that SpaceX will reduce the cost of access to space down to the $400/kg-LEO point where it seems likely that we can get energy from space at about the same generating cost per kwh as we can get form wind and solar, if we do the best we can with all three. This is very important, since the electric power market (worth about $2 trillion per year, if we assume 10 cents per kwh) is made up of many market segments, some of which are best served by the steady 24-hour power we can get from space, some of which are best served by the reliable day-time power we can get from solar farms sited in areas of reliable sun.
Elon Musk, the guy behind SpaceX, is also behind Tesla, which has an interesting plan for an all-electric SUV at a price some might find interesting ($60,000 but saving about $2000 per year on fuel in the US compares not so badly with some other SUVs), and which mastered engines using zero rare earths before all its main competitors. So I hope they are right, but....
I agree strongly with the Administration policy to encourage COTS. The primary credit (but certainly not all the credit) should go to Lori Garver at NASA, and to the relationship between Lori and Obama (the details of which I certainly do not know about). Lori was once Executive Director of the National Space Society, and I had a little bit of contact (all pleasant) with her in those old days. NSS was one of the groups which played an important role in advancing COTS, but there are other groups like the Space Frontier Foundation which I think are far more focused advocates specifically for that issue.
As I happen to be on the governing board of NSS this year, having known some of the key people for many decades, I have looked into this issue in great detail. (By the way, when I worked in Specter's office, I took the initiative to get a SpaceX briefing in the Senator's main conference room.)
there are really intense debates at times between the "new space COTS" movement" and the big stakeholder
Boeing/ Lockheed/etc group. Even within NSS. In my view, it is a microcosm of US politics in general. One group in power represents a positive psychology, a big step upwards from the past... but just not quite good enough for us to survive at all, unless certain changes are made. (By the way, I mean "survival" literally here.) But the other group has often let itself be overwhelmed by negative and reactionary psychology, to the point where it can be even worse.
Having studied a bit of technical psychology (see my current paper in Neural Networks, a follow-on to my 2009 paper on the brain which won me the Hebb Award), I tend to think of this as kind of bipolar disorder, with one group suffering from too much traumatic negativity and another equally aberrated by euphoria and group spirit. But this year... I see some signs of some hope of mental recovery, as the new talking points of the Space Exploration Alliance (the big umbrealla group) seem more balanced and realistic than they were last year. But... it may or may not be good enough.
The fact is -- for all his positive spirit and enthusiasm and innovation... enthusiasm alone cannot keep a reusable rocket from melting as it comes back through the atmosphere.
SpaceX can beat today's Russian competition on price and quality when it comes to getting astronauts
to the International Space Station with expendable rockets. But to get to $400/kg-LEO, Musk knows one needs reusability. But right now, it looks a lot more likely that the Russians will get there than that we will.. ever. The problem is that we are at risk of losing crucial technology needed to get there, which is partly a matter of materials technology and partly a matter of hypersonics systems design technology. The issue of retirements in the aerospace industry (and of other critical engineering sectors) is far more serious than most people understand.
So if we have lots of enthusiasm but can't actually build anything... we end up dead.
I have learned a lot about the current status of all this. I recently found out that while NASA
was throwing away so much money on heavy lift vehicle development designed to NOT use or
upgrade the key structural technologies, and while the AF X37B activity got hijacked by stakeholder politics,
DARPA quietly planned a kind of $300 million 10,000 pound global reach vehicle which would have
really plugged the hole, stopped the bleeding and put us even ahead of the past. (Except for maybe a few systems aspects that would be far less expensive, probably easy to fit in if people wanted to.) But... I guess
it was the outgoing director of DARPA... it sounded so threatening to some people, so was quietly
shifted to 100 pounds.
Nice and quiet, just like how we lost our most advanced missile interception technology just over the past few months.
March 5, 2012 by Lisa Zyga, PhysOrg.com
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-efficiency.html
An LED's power conversion (wall-plug) efficiency varies inversely with its optical output power. Wall-plug efficiency can exceed 100%, the unity efficiency, at low applied voltages and high temperatures. Image credit: Santhanam, et al. ©2012 American Physical Society.
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that an LED can emit more optical power than the electrical power it consumes. Although scientifically intriguing, the results won't immediately result in ultra-efficient commercial LEDs since the demonstration works only for LEDs with very low input power that produce very small amounts of light.The efficiency is around 230% according to calculations - Ed. Note
The researchers, Parthiban Santhanam and coauthors from MIT, have published their study in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters.
As the researchers explain in their study, the key to achieving a power conversionefficiency above 100%, i.e., "unity efficiency," is to greatly decrease the applied voltage. According to their calculations, as the voltage is halved, the input power is decreased by a factor of 4, while the emitted light power scales linearly with voltage so that it's also only halved. In other words, an LED's efficiency increases as its output power decreases. (The inverse of this relationship - that LED efficiency decreases as its output power increases - is one of the bigest hurdles in designing bright, efficient LED lights.)
In their experiments, the researchers reduced the LED's input power to just 30 picowatts and measured an output of 69 picowatts of light - an efficiency of 230%. The physical mechanisms worked the same as with any LED: when excited by the applied voltage, electrons and holes have a certain probability of generating photons. The researchers didn't try to increase this probability, as some previous research has focused on, but instead took advantage of small amounts of excess heat to emit more power than consumed. This heat arises from vibrations in the device's atomic lattice, which occur due to entropy.
This light-emitting process cools the LED slightly, making it operate similar to a thermoelectric cooler. Although the cooling is insufficient to provide practical cooling at room temperature, it could potentially be used for designing lights that don't generate heat. When used as a heat pump, the device might be useful for solid-state cooling applications or even power generation.
Theoretically, this low-voltage strategy allows for an arbitrarily efficient generation of photons at low voltages. For this reason, the researchers hope that the technique could offer a new way to test the limits of energy-efficiency electromagnetic communication.
More information: Parthiban Santhanam, et al. "Thermoelectrically Pumped Light-Emitting Diodes Operating above Unity Efficiency." Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 09740 (2012). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.097403
Physics Synopsis
http://inhabitat.com/mit-researchers-create-led-light-that-exceeds-100-percent-efficiency
http://gizmodo.com/5890719/scientists-create-230+percent-efficient-led-bulbs
http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v108/i9/e097403
4) Harnessing the Quantum Power of Empty Space
by David Harris, New Scientist, February 20, 2012 http://www.newscientist.com/artic
See introductory "What is Empty Space?" (3 minute video) http://bcove.me/d3c6fmrh
The elusive Casimir effect suggests we could use vacuum energy to move objects and make stuff - but can something really come from nothing?
NOTHING will come of nothing." Shakespeare's epithet seems the kind of self-evident statement that only poets and philosophers would argue over. And physicists like Chris Wilson.
Last year, Wilson and his team at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg,Sweden, provided what seems a particularly egregious case of something for nothing. They claimed to have conjured up light from nowhere simply by squeezing down empty space (New Scientist, 19 November 2011, p 16). That would be the latest manifestation of a quantum quirk known as the Casimir effect: the notion that a perfect vacuum, the very definition of nothingness in the physical world, contains a latent power that can be harnessed to move objects and make stuff.
Sightings of this vacuum action have been mounting over the past decade or so, leading some physicists to propose a new generation of nanoscale machines to take advantage of it, and others even to suggest a leading role for vacuum energy in determining the origin and fate of the cosmos. Others remain to be convinced. So what's the true story?
The idea that a vacuum is a seething sea of something can be traced back to the early decades of quantum physics. In the late 1920s, the German physicist Werner Heisenberg came up with his famous uncertainty principle, which says that some pairs of measurable quantities are intimately connected: the more you know about the one, the less you know about the other.
Energy and time are one such pair. That means you cannot measure the energy of a physical system with perfect precision unless time itself is completely imprecisely defined - that is, you take infinite time to perform your measurement. It follows that the zero-energy nothingness of the vacuum can never be pinned down precisely. According to quantum theory, even a perfect vacuum is filled with wave-like fields that fluctuate constantly, producing a legion of ephemeral particles that continually pop up out of nowhere only to disappear again, filling the vacuum with a distinct, non-zero "zero-point energy".
This recasting of the vacuum gave fresh impetus to the centuries-old debate about the nature of nothingness
(New Scientist, 19 November 2011, p 50). But evidence also began to accumulate that the newly lively vacuum had practical effects. Observe atoms carefully enough and you see a tiny effect known as the Lamb shift, in which vacuum fluctuations jostle an orbiting electron, subtly altering its energy. Something similar can be invoked to explain how electrons sometimes spontaneously jump between two atomic energy states, giving off photons of light.
But Hendrik Casimir's suggestion was the most eye-catching. In 1948, together with his colleague Dirk Polder, the Dutch physicist was trying to understand how colloids exist in a stable equilibrium. Colloids are mixtures in which one type of substance is dispersed through another, like fat globules in the watery solution of milk. Forces between the molecules in such a medium drop off more quickly with distance than basic calculations using the classical electromagnetic van der Waals force allow. It is as if something is pulling the constituent molecules closer together, giving the mixture extra stability.
Following a tip-off from the Danish quantum doyen Niels Bohr, Casimir calculated that this something could be vacuum action. Working out the effects of vacuum fluctuations in a colloid's complex molecular brew was impossibly involved. So Casimir considered a simple model system of two parallel metallic plates, and showed that the fluctuations could produce just the right enhanced attraction between them. His explanation was that the two plates limit the wavelength of vacuum fluctuations in the space between. Outside those confines, the fluctuations can have any wavelength they choose. With more waves outside than in, a pressure pushes inward on the plates (see diagram).
The effect is tiny: two plates 10 nanometres apart feel a force comparable to the gentle burden of the atmosphere on our heads. Such a minuscule contribution is easily washed out by a legion of other effects, such as residual electrostatic attractions between charges on the plates' surfaces. That makes confirming its existence extremely tough. "You need to know that you're really measuring the Casimir force," says experimentalist Hong Tang of YaleUniversity. What's more, it is not easy to align plates to be perfectly parallel, while calculating the expected effect for other, more complex geometries takes some sophisticated mathematics.
It was only in 1996 that Steven Lamoreaux, a physicist then at the University of Washingtonin Seattle, made a breakthrough. Taking elaborate precautions to exclude all other effects, he found a tiny residual force pulling a metal plate and a spherical lens together (Physical Review Letters, vol 78, p 5). The Casimir effect, it seemed, was not a theorist's pipe dream: vacuum action was a real effect.
Since then, a steady trickle of results has confirmed other long-standing theoretical predictions. Soviet physicist Evgeny Lifshitz proposed in 1955 that the size of vacuum fluctuations would grow with rising temperature, resulting in a force that is more potent over longer distances. In February 2011, Lamoreaux, now at Yale University, and his team confirmed that this is indeed the case (Nature Physics, vol 7, p 230)
Nanoscale kick
As for the work of Wilson's team, their results, published last November, support a four-decade-old prediction that turns the logic of the original Casimir effect on its head. Rather than using the vacuum's pop-up particles to shift their surroundings, if you move a vacuum's surroundings fast enough, you can make real photons of light. In some quarters, this idea is controversial - but it is the most dramatic putative demonstration of the vacuum's powers to date (see "Light from speeding mirrors")
As sightings of such effects have multiplied, so have thoughts that we might harness them for our own devices. A popular proposal is to use the vacuum's energy to give nanoscale machines an additional kick. That requires something a little different from the original Casimir force, whose attractive effects are more likely to gum up the components of any mini-machine - a phenomenon referred to as static friction or "stiction"
By tweaking the geometries or material properties of the structures used to confine the vacuum, however, it should be possible to reverse the direction of the Casimir effect, creating an outward pressure to push two objects apart. In 2008, Steven Johnson and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology calculated that by adding a series of interleaving metal brackets, zipper-style, to the faces of the two metal plates you could in theory make the net force between them repulsive. A more recent study by Stanislav Maslovski and Mário Silveirinha of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, has indicated a similar effect using nanoscale metallic rods to create areas of repulsive force that can levitate a nanoscale metal bar (Physical Review A, vol 83, p 022508).
These forces could help nanoscale components such as switches, gears, bearings or motor parts to operate without jamming. Putting such devices into practice might not be easy, though. For a start, it would require components with atomic-scale polishing: look on a small enough scale - a thousand atoms or so - and metal surfaces usually thought of as smooth have patchy, crystal-like structures that would confine vacuum fluctuations in different ways, affecting the size of the Casimir force. For moving objects, things become even trickier.
Such complications are surmountable: in 2009 Federico Capasso and group at Harvard University measured what appeared to be repulsive Casimir forces in a gold cantilever suspended in bromobenzene liquid above a silicon surface (Nature, vol 457, p 170). The forces generated were mere tens of piconewtons - but when you are trying to move nanoscale particles, a piconewton goes a long way. Nevertheless, there are still hurdles to be overcome before Casimir devices are everyday reality, says Johnson. "It is an experimental question - can we make devices this small and sensitive?" he says. "And it is also a theoretical question of whether we can design interesting uses for the Casimir force once the experimental capabilities arrive. There is a more fundamental objection, however. The litany of theoretical predictions gradually being turned into experimental reality invites a simple conclusion: vacuum fluctuations are real, and they are what is responsible for what we call Casimir effects. But not all physicists buy that.
Their unease lies in calculations done by Casimir and Polder even before they settled on vacuum fluctuations as the explanation for the weakened van der Waals force. These showed that much the same weakening could be achieved simply by taking into account the finite time the force takes to be transmitted over large enough distances, such as between two plates separated by tens or hundreds of nanometres. That idea was revived and bolstered by calculations in the 1970s by the Nobel-prizewinning physicist Julian Schwinger. He never believed in the reality of vacuum fluctuations and developed a version of quantum field theory, which he called source theory, to do away with them. In this picture, the Casimir effect pops out just by taking into account the quantum interaction of charged matter, with no vacuum action at all
Robert Jaffe, a particle theorist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, suggests the only reason the vacuum interpretation has gained such currency is because its mathematics happens to be a lot simpler. "There is a flippant way people refer to the Casimir effect as evidence for real vacuum fluctuations," he says. "But there is no evidence that the vacuum fluctuations exist in the absence of matter". Similarly, other effects invoked as proof of their reality - the Lamb shift and the spontaneous emission of photons from atoms - can be described purely as the result of charge interactions
If this is so, it could have repercussions for more than our attempts to fine-tune the workings of nanomachines. The realisation in the past couple of decades that the universe's expansion is accelerating - a phenomenon ascribed to a mysterious "dark energy" - has fuelled a new interest in the power of the vacuum. At the moment, our best calculations of the vacuum's hidden energy come up with a figure some 120 orders of magnitude larger than the amount needed to bring about the cosmic acceleration, a mismatch that counts perhaps as the worst-ever prediction in physics. Yet observations of the Casimir effect are still eagerly seen as evidence for a power that might determine our cosmic fate.
Schwinger's original calculations were part of a wider attempt, ultimately unsuccessful, to banish vacuum fluctuations from quantum field theory. The truth may well lie uncomfortably in the middle: we might never be able to convince ourselves of the reality of vacuum energy, because any attempt to do so brings some form of matter into the equation. As philosophers of science Svend Rugh and Henrik Zinkernagel wrote in 2001, "It seems impossible to decide whether the effects result from the vacuum 'in itself'... or are generated by the introduction of the measurement arrangement."
Wilson hopes that the photons emerging from his apparatus in Sweden, if confirmed by other groups, will provide the final illumination to prove the reality of vacuum fluctuations. Equally, as our ability to construct filigree nanomachines and so test the Casimir effect increases over the coming years, perhaps some deviation from the predictions will give us a definitive handle on where the effects come from. Can nothing truly come of nothing? We might still have cause to speak again.
Light from speeding MIRRORS
In 1970, American physicist Gerald Moore proposed reversing the logic of the Casimir effect. He envisaged rapidly accelerating mirrors that would squeeze the vacuum fluctuations in the space between them so violently that they would give up some of their energy in the form of photons (Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol 11, p 2679).
In practice it is not possible to accelerate even a small macroscopic mirror fast enough to produce this "dynamical" Casimir effect, so last year Chris Wilson and his team from the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, used rapidly varying electrical currents to simulate the effect of mirrors accelerating to something like a quarter of the speed of light. The result was the simultaneous production of pairs of photons from the vacuum, exactly as Moore had predicted (Nature, vol 479, p 376)
Wilson thinks there could be some exciting applications. During the era of inflation thought to have taken place right after the big bang, the boundary of the universe itself would have expanded at near the speed of light, leading to the creation of photons through the dynamical Casimir effect. "It is rather difficult to create your own big bang in the lab," says Wilson. "Our set-up or a similar one might be used to simulate these effects, essentially doing table-top cosmology.
Just as the original Casimir effect is disputed, however (see main story), not everyone is convinced that this interpretation of the experiment is right. One physicist, who preferred not to be named, says that as nothing in the experiment actually moves, it does not demonstrate the dynamical Casimir effect at all. Instead, it is just another "solid and interesting" example of a well-known effect in which some of a quantum circuit's electrical energy is emitted as light. The mathematical description of the two effects is very similar, he says, but "one should never mistake mathematics for reality".
Since the preliminary version of their paper was circulated, Wilson's team has carried out additional tests that Wilson thinks defuse such criticisms, although he acknowledges there are still dissenting voices.
"We did a number of sanity checks ruling out various spurious effects that could have masqueraded as the effect, including showing that we were starting from the vacuum state," he says. "But for some people, the dynamical Casimir effect will never be anything but a literal moving mirror."
David Harris is a writer based in Palo Alto, California
5) ARPA-E Issues Open Call for Transformational Technologies
US DOE Energy.gov Press Release, March 2, 2012 - 2:31pm http://energy.gov/articles/arpa-e-issues-open-call-transformational-energy-technologies
DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) issued a $150 million funding opportunity on March 2 that is open to all transformational energy technologies. This Open Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is a call to scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to propose early-stage research projects that would not otherwise be able to attract private investment. Such projects could lead to breakthrough energy technologies. This is the second Open FOA released under ARPA-E.
The open call includes electricity generation by renewable means; electricity transmission, storage, and distribution; energy efficiency for buildings, manufacturing and commerce, and personal use; and all aspects of transportation, including the production and distribution of renewable fuels, electrification, and energy efficiency in transportation. Individual awards under the Open FOA will range between $250,000 and $10 million. See the DOE press release (below) and the FOA announcement online.
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) issued a $150 million funding opportunity open to all transformational energy technologies to support the Obama Administration's all-of-the-above approach to solving our nation's most pressing energy challenges. This Open Funding Opportunity Announcement is a call to our country's brightest scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to propose early-stage research projects that would not otherwise be able to attract private investment, but could lead to breakthrough energy technologies. This is the second open funding opportunity released under ARPA-E. The first was in 2009.
"Today we are calling on our nation's best and brightest to catalyze energy breakthroughs in all areas imaginable through this Open Funding Opportunity Announcement, which illustrates the true purpose of ARPA-E," said Director Majumdar. "Innovation is our nation's sweet spot, and it is critically important that we look at every possible energy solution in order to ensure America's future prosperity and security."
This Open Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) joins ARPA-E's other recently issued FOA - Methane Opportunities for Vehicular Energy (MOVE) - which will make $30 million available to find ways to harness our abundant supplies of domestic natural gas for vehicles and was announced by President Obama last week at the University of Miami.
More details on all of ARPA-E's Funding Opportunities and Requests For Information are available HERE. Individual awards under the Open FOA will range between $250,000 and $10 million.
President Obama launched the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) in 2009 to seek out transformational, breakthrough technologies that are too risky for private sector investment but have the potential to translate science into quantum leaps in energy technology, form the foundation for entirely new industries, and in the future have large commercial impact.
Including its most recent round of selections, ARPA-E has funded a total of more than 180 projects, for $521.7 million in awards across 12 program areas. Demonstrating the success ARPA-E has already seen, the Agency announced last year that eleven of its projects that received $40 million from ARPA-E for innovative research, were able to use this funding to demonstrate results, which allowed these teams to secure more than $200 million in outside private capital investment.
ARPA-E's third annual Energy Innovation Summit featured 107 speakers, including: President Bill Clinton; Microsoft Founder and Chairman, Bill Gates; Xerox CEO, Ursula Burns; FedEx CEO, Fred Smith; BDT Capital Chairman, Lee Scott; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter; MIT President, Susan Hockfield; U.S. Energy Secretary, Steven Chu; and ARPA-E Director, Arun Majumdar. The Summit attracted 2,440 attendees from 49 states and 26 countries and featured a Technology Showcase displaying over 240 breakthrough energy developments from ARPA-E's awardees, finalists and other teams.
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Seyed Mosallaie, P., Khastou, M. (2017). Investigating the Social, Economic and Environmental Impacts of Constructing Urban Interchanges (Comparison of the Main Interchanges in the city of Qazvin). Space Ontology International Journal, 6(3), 37-57.
Pouria Seyed Mosallaie; Maryam Khastou. "Investigating the Social, Economic and Environmental Impacts of Constructing Urban Interchanges (Comparison of the Main Interchanges in the city of Qazvin)". Space Ontology International Journal, 6, 3, 2017, 37-57.
Seyed Mosallaie, P., Khastou, M. (2017). 'Investigating the Social, Economic and Environmental Impacts of Constructing Urban Interchanges (Comparison of the Main Interchanges in the city of Qazvin)', Space Ontology International Journal, 6(3), pp. 37-57.
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2Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.
Traffic problems are the most prominent urban dilemmas, especially during recent years, since the capacity of old traffic arteries don't meet the increasing volume of population and vehicles, therefore, adopting some measures in order to enhance the capacity of existing roads has been placed on the agenda of urban managers. Changing the existing intersections to over changes is one of these methods. It seems that these structures which facilitate traffic dimension in some cases and after a period of time since exploitation make considerable impacts on other dimensions especially in terms of economic and social perspectives on neighborhoods. This research is the result of investigating the impacts caused by construction of four unleveled crosses of Shahid Motahari, Kowsar (Shahid Rajaei), Sardaran, and Seyed Hasan Nasrallah (Nasr) on their surrounding neighborhoods in Qazvin city and during a 6-year period since 2011 to 2016. Extracting and investigating the existing documentary data from prior-to-construction to the end of research period besides obtaining the comments of citizens and managers and then, statistically analyzing the results of SPSS and how the impacts affect neighborhoods and desirability rate of crossroads in terms of being overpass or underpass were of the main goals of this research. Also, developing the SWOT charts and applying the AHP method and recommending the practical solutions on the basis of extracted results in order to enhance desirability and to reduce negative effects of these crosses were of other measures performed in this study.
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Gharib, F. (2012). Communication Network in Urban Design, Tehran University Publications. 8th Edition.
Iran National Construction Corporation, (2013).
Ministry of Housing and Urbanization, Urbanization and Architecture Secretary (1996). Regulations of Municipality Roads, Part 7 (intersections).
Pouratechi, M. (1993), Defenseless Spaces, Thesis in Urban Planning, Tehran University.
Shahi, J. (2016), Traffic Engineering, Publication of Science and Technology, University, Third edition. Tehran.


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This type of service will allow you to not worry about font-package types, as the service will often query the browser and deliver the appropriate type. Additionally, this means that you do not have to manage the fonts on your server space.

As with anything, a simple google search with a query like ["free web fonts"](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=free+web+fonts) should return many lists and resources.

A few specific locations though include;

- [Font Squirrel](https://www.fontsquirrel.com/)
    - This site has many GNU/MIT fonts, as well as "paid" fonts.
    - This site also links to other font sites.
- [Font Spring](https://www.fontspring.com/free)
    - This is trying to be a for-profit type site. However, there are many fonts which the site will give up for free, or release a few of the font-varieties from a larger family for free.
- [Google Fonts](https://fonts.google.com/)
    - Google runs everything. Of course they also have a font service.


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Exoplanet discoveries have surged beyond 1,000.
Alien Planet Count Passes a Thousand
Number of confirmed exoplanets soars past milestone.
By Andrew Fazekas, for National Geographic
The grand tally of planets we now know exist beyond our solar system—also known as exoplanets—has climbed past a thousand, according to the online Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia.
After just two decades of hunting, this symbolic milestone was surpassed with this week's announcement of the discovery of 11 new worlds by the British Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) detection program. (Related: "Bumper Crop of Habitable Worlds Discovered?")
While the total number of planets known to orbit distant stars has skyrocketed to an impressive 1,010, thousands of potential worlds are still on the waiting list to be confirmed, and billions more remain undetected across the Milky Way galaxy (map).
"One thousand confirmed exoplanets in 21 years is a small number considering conservative estimates on the expected number of exoplanets per star," said Abel Mendez, an astronomer at the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico.
"It is a great achievement of science and technology nonetheless, but just the tip of the galaxy."
The Road to a Thousand
In 1992, the presence of three planet-size masses—the first exoplanets discovered—was reported 2,000 light-years away around a dead star, pulsar PSR1257+12.
Three years later astronomers detected the first planet—a gas giant orbiting closerto its star than Mercury orbits our sun—around the sunlike star 51 Pegasi, 50 light-years from Earth. (Related: "Tons of Tatooines: Planets With Two Suns Common?")
The rate of discovery has rapidly climbed since, thanks to the development of indirect detection techniques that rely on measuring the effects orbiting planets have on their host star.
The two most successful hunting methods have been measuring a star's wobble—known as radial velocity—caused by the gravitational tug of orbiting planets, or measuring the tiny dips in starlight as planets pass in front of them, known as transit.
With the use of these techniques, in the last two decades the average rate of alien-world discoveries has shot up from about three per year to between 50 and 100 per year.
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope—which went offline this summer—has 156 confirmed planets to its credit and has close to 3,000 potential planetary candidates awaiting further analysis and confirmation.
"This is just the beginning of the era of exoplanet hunting," said Mendez. "In the coming years the number of exoplanet detections should continue to increase dramatically."
Past finds, many of which seem right out of science fiction, continue to surprise their discoverers. They include worlds with two suns, exoplanets orbiting a dead star, and even stellar systems with many rocky, terrestrial-type planets,said Mendez. (Related: "Newly Discovered Pink Exoplanet on the Lighter Side.")
Search for Earth 2.0
However, the hunt is still on for the holy grail of astronomy—a truly Earth-like world with the right size and temperature to support liquid water on its surface, and possibly to support life. (Related: "Most Earthlike Planets Found Yet: A 'Breakthrough.'")
Jaymie Matthews, an astronomer at the University of British Columbia in Canada, believes that elusive Earth-like worlds may very well be found in the existing Kepler data set.
"At this point we may be close to finding an Earth-like world, and it could just be a matter of trolling through the data sets and doing follow-up observations with ground-based observatories," he added.
According to the latest calculations based on Kepler surveys, astronomers believe that a hundred billion planets populate the Milky Way galaxy.
Of those, as many as 17 billion may be rocky, Earth-size planets with conditions suitable for liquid water on their surface. (Related: "MacArthur Genius Searching for Signs of Life on Exoplanets.")
The next step will be the use of improved monitoring technology to focus onworlds in habitable zones, said Matthews.
NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission, scheduled for launch in 2017, will most likely take over exoplanet-hunting duties from Kepler.
"This exoplanet mission, in combination with the James Webb Space Telescope, may help not only reveal ever smaller exoplanets, ones that orbit at larger distances from their parent star, but even gas giants and their moons," he explained.
By combining information obtained from radial velocity and transit measurements, astronomers will be able to determine the composition of atmospheres, including the presence of oxygen and methane. Those two gases are the telltale signs of alien life. (Related: "For First Time, Astronomers Read Exoplanet's Color.")
"Director James Cameron's vision of habitable moons like Pandora may very well move from Hollywood screens into reality," said Matthews.
Golden Age of Exoplanet Research?
For exoplanet researchers like William Welsh, the pace of discovery has been breathtaking and truly represents just the beginning of the golden age of exoplanet hunting.
"We've clearly only scratched the surface," said Welsh, a member of the Kepler science team and an astronomer at San Diego State University. "I'm sure we'll hit 10,000 planets in much less time than it took to find the first thousand."
The detection of Earth-like planets that can support life, along with exomoons in the habitable zone, will be historic, he said.
Measuring the atmospheric composition of such planets and moons would be a giant step closer to the ultimate dream of many exoplanet hunters, which, according to Welsh, is the detection of gases with bio-signatures indicating the presence of life.
"In some ways, [this week's] quiet benchmark is a milestone in the history of humankind," he said.
"In the great sea of space, we have found some islands. Most are too treacherous to harbor our ships, but we are on our way to finding worlds that beckon us to visit and stay."
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The new presidents of Boise State University and University of Idaho will earn more than their predecessors.
Marlene Tromp
Marlene Tromp, named Tuesday to head Boise State, has a three-year, $425,000-a-year contract. Bob Kustra made $411,000 in 2017-18, his final year as Boise State president. Martin Schimpf earned about $391,000 to lead the state's largest university on an interim basis this year.
New University of Idaho President C. Scott Green also has a three-year contract, worth $420,000 annually.
C. Scott Green
Green will earn more than outgoing U of I President Chuck Staben, who is receiving $385,000 in the final year of his contract.
University presidents traditionally rank among the state's highest paid employees. Schmipf is the third highest-paid employee in state government this year — surpassed only by Boise State football coach Bryan Harsin and Boise State men's basketball coach Leon Rice. (Coaches' salaries come largely from donors, not state dollars.)
A few other wrinkles in the new presidents' contracts, obtained by Idaho Education News Thursday:
A professor's position: If Tromp retires or resigns as president, she will still have the option of staying at Boise State, as a paid tenured faculty member.
"The salary received for service as a tenured faculty member shall be equal to that of the highest paid full professor at the institution," the contract reads.
Staben has exercised a similar option in his contract. He will return to the classroom as a biology professor in January, at a salary of about $160,000.
The State Board had planned to phase this wording out of presidents' contracts, but learned that this would be a potential dealbreaker for candidates with an academic background.
"We came to find out that it was basically an industry standard," board spokesman Mike Keckler said Thursday.
The language does not appear in Green's contract, Keckler said, because Green has never worked as a professor. He returns to the U of I campus from Hogan Lovells, an international law firm, where he worked as global chief operating and financial officer.
A larger housing allowance. Tromp will receive a $60,000-a-year allowance. Kustra had received $26,000 a year.
The increase reflects rising prices in the Treasure Valley housing market, Keckler said.
Boise State does not have a president's residence on or near campus. The U of I, Idaho State University and Lewis-Clark State College all have presidents' residences.
The presidents are expected to use their homes for work-related entertainment, and they can be reimbursed for the cost of hosting guests. That money comes from the institutions' public relations accounts.
Automobile allowance. Tromp and Green will receive a $9,200-a-year allowance. This is boilerplate language from previous contracts.
Vacation and sick leave. The presidents will get 24 days' vacation and 12 sick days, also boilerplate language.
Country club memberships. This is one perk that has gone by the boards.
Kustra and Staben and their wives received country club memberships — and Staben actually received two memberships, one in North Idaho and a second in Boise.
Since then, the State Board has phased out this clause. Tromp and Green will receive no membership perks.
Twenty-eight of the House's 56 Republicans want the new Boise State University president to reject a range of campus diversity programs. Legislative Democrats are coming to the programs' defense.
Twenty-eight House Republicans — including eight of the 15 members of the House Education Committee — co-signed the letter to the new Boise State president.
Without discussion, the State Board of Education redlined the rules — a small step in a larger process of reviewing more than 8,000 pages of regulations across state government.


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Catching a horse is designed to be hard to do…that's how horses have survived for millions of years.
Horses have the innate ability to out-think their predators on the ground. A human trying to catch a horse reads like a "predator" to them, so they use their best evasive maneuvers to avoid capture. When you're trying to catch your horse and they're avoiding you, they're not being difficult; they're just trying to survive! When a horse is hard to catch, people tend to gang up and surround the horse…just like wolves or other predators would do. They corner the horse, then lunge and grab at him. This scares the heck out of a horse. In response to any aggressive measures, horses will go into total panic mode. In an effort to survive, they'll fight, try to jump over tall walls or run blindly right over the top of you.
These behaviors sound extreme, but in order to understand what's going on in the horse's mind you need to understand that to the horse, the situation is extreme. Your horse isn't afraid of being caught when you are chasing it, he is afraid of being killed and eaten.
•	The Parelli Natural Horsemanship encourages you to think in terms of the relationship with your horse. If you couldn't catch your spouse, child, or friend, would you insist the problem was with the other person and that he or she is just "difficult" – or would you look at the dynamic of the relationship itself and wonder what the problem was? The natural horse training approach is that instead of employing strategies for catching a horse, you think about ways you might "attract" your horse, i.e. learn to develop a relationship that will make your horse want to be with you rather than run from you, which is what our Natural Attraction DVD is all about. It's not really horse training that's needed when a horse is hard to catch; it's relationship training. Learn to be really good at relationships and your horse will come running.
•	Instead of chasing a horse that is running away from you, try the opposite. Chasing the horse just adds fuel to the fire; backing off is the better way to go. When you walk away, you remove the pressure and defuse the chase. Sure, it's natural to want to run after the horse, but it just makes the predator/prey dynamic worse. If you back off, he'll come around.
•	Every time you go out with a halter and lead rope, your horse knows what's coming because you never do anything different. So try something new instead. Walk over to him with the halter, but just give him a scratch or a carrot or something. Don't try to catch him, just visit him. Just rub and scratch him with the halter–use it as a tool to "make nice" and that's it. Or walk out there with your equipment and just leave him alone; don't even try to approach. His conditioned responses and associations will change and so will his running away behavior. These are just a few natural horsemanship approaches to catching a horse. Notice that none are punishing or aggressive, and all are designed to break the predator/prey barrier in the human/horse interaction – the secret to the partnership relationship.


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The W.E. Cox Claims Group remains 100% family owned, and despite the growth since it's humble beginning, retains a small but strong Group Board; assisted by Directors of the individual Group companies:
Chairman W.E. Cox Claims Group
David joined the Group in March 1981 having previously worked in the Underwriting room at Lloyds' of London for 2 years working on Beckett's box, syndicate 483.
David has always worked in the recoveries division of the Group, negotiating claims with opponents both in "face to face" meetings and in correspondence using his knowledge and experience to try and secure the highest possible recovery from responsible third parties on behalf of cargo owners/insurers.
In addition to managing a full case load for the past 35 years, building on the solid foundations laid by his Father, W. E. Cox, the founder of the company, David has actively been involved in expanding and diversifying both the services offered by the Group, to provide knowledge, expertise and assistance in all matters relating to cargo/marine insurance and opening offices manned by their own expert staff in strategic parts of the world including, Hong Kong, Singapore, mainland Europe, Australia and the U.S.A.
David has been at the "helm" since his father's retirement in 1998 and thoroughly enjoys the challenge of jointly managing the business with his son Michael, maintaining a case load and continuing to travel around the world to maintain and establish new relationships with clients and opponents around the world.
Michael joined W.E. Cox & Co. (Recoveries) Ltd in 2003 and is now Director of W.E. Cox Claims Group Limited.
Michael has extensive knowledge of all cargo matters and the various national and international conventions covering movements by sea, air, road and rail, working on behalf of Insurers and brokers, as well as directly on behalf of large cargo owners. Michael is a confident negotiator and regularly attends settlement meetings with Carriers/P&I Clubs whilst also assisting clients with contract negotiations, loss control and data capture.
Michael travels extensively around world to meet the needs of international clients whilst maintaining a significant presence in the London Market.
Della Watts
Della joined the W.E. Cox Claims Group in 2015 having previously worked in the Accounts team of an International Training Company and has shown great ability and leadership of the Accounts and Administration team.
Della continues to study to develop her skills and is now in charge of the Accounts Team globally whilst also reporting directly to the Board of Directors in relation to high level and confidential information.
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The W.E. Cox Claims Group continues to be considered as one of the leading claims providers in the marine Insurance industry, resulting in continued growth.
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Hospital operators Ascension Health, whose hospitals include St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, and Providence St. Joseph Health are reportedly in talks about merging to create the largest US hospital chain. Now the largest USA hospital operator is the for-profit Hospital Corp. of America, based in Nashville, which posted about $41.5 billion in revenues previous year.
Close to 60% of the hospitals in the US are private nonprofits, which is a status exempting them from some taxes in exchange for them providing benefits to the community such as free care to patients with low-income.
The two have been in talks about a deal for months but have not reached an agreement, the Journal reported. The remaining 40% of hospitals in the US are for-profits or government-owned.
A merger remains consistent with the broader trend of mega-mergers in healthcare, although it has seen some problems along the way.
Last week, two massive mergers formed three days apart: UnitedHealth Group announced the acquisition of DaVita Medical Group, a physician and clinic network, for $4.9 billion on Wednesday.
On Thursday, another major hospital merger was announced between Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives, both also among the top ten hospital networks in the country. Larger scale also aids in hospital systems ability to negotiate better pricing with insurers.
Critics of such a deal say it could raise prices and limit patient choice. "That would dethrone the nation's largest pure hospital operator, HCA Healthcare Inc., which owns 177 hospitals and ended 2016 with $41.5 billion in revenue".
The Unitech scrip had jumped 20 per cent on December 8, the day the order was issued, as well. A bench headed by chief justice Dipak Misra said that the matter would be heard on Tuesday.
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Watford manager Javi Gracia believes Ben Foster is deserving of an England recall despite club chairman, Sir Elton John, wanting to replace the 35-year-old with Burnley's Tom Heaton.
Foster returned to Vicarage Road in the summer for his second spell at the club, having spent two years on loan at Watford from Manchester United between 2005-07, and has kept three clean sheets in ten Premier League appearances so far.
After Watford's 4-0 defeat to Bournemouth at the beginning of October however, Sir Elton John messaged executive chairman, Scott Duxbury, saying: "Tom Heaton. I'd still buy him. Foster's not consistent. Love, Elton."
Despite apparent concerns with Foster from those in the boardroom, Gracia has backed the experienced goalkeeper, believing his current form is enough to see him return to the national team.
As quoted by The Mirror, he said: "At the moment, Ben is playing at the top of his game and everyone can see, from the quality of his saves, that he kept us in the game against Huddersfield early in the match and then gave us the basis to protect our lead after we scored two goals ourselves.
"I'm not just pleased with how he is playing. I'm very happy because he has a very good attitude, helping all the players with his happiness around the place and setting an example with his experience and lifestyle.
"I don't know what Sir Elton said, and I respect all opinions, but my view is that Ben has been an important player and we are lucky to have him with us at Watford. All our players have performed to a high level and deserve to play with their national teams – including Ben."
Watford have made a decent start to this season, winning six of their opening ten Premier League game ahead of their next fixture, away at Newcastle.


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Q: Spotify application - maintaing state between pages Firend i am developing spotify application & according to their developers site i come to understand that i can use only HTML/HTML5 , javascript, css for development
Now i am having some question regarding development:
I am having multiple pages & for each page i am having certain input parameters & i want to track these parameter throughtout application
such as user name taken as input from user.
How can i do that ,
is there any kind of session management tool or something like that?
How can i process mydata from different page to show desired result.

A: As per the API Guidelines, you are able to take advantage of the HTML localStorage API:

Your application will be able to use the local storage HTML5 API which as a limited amount of space available to your application (5 MB). Please be aware that any state you save here will be local, and hence you won't be able to restore from it if the user logs into Spotify on another computer and browses to your application.
  To restore state regardless of which computer a user is currently using, please use your own backend.

Comprehensive documentation on how you can interact with localStorage can be found on MDC.
It boils down to using window.localStorage.setItem(key, value) and window.localStorage.getItem(key) to set and retrieve data.

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Beneath (2007)
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A young woman (Nora Zehetner of HEROES) haunted by the horrific death of her older sister (Carly Pope) in a car fire returns to her hometown to attend the funeral of her sister's father-in-law, who had taken her in after her sister died. In a flashback we're shown how the sister was burned while her younger, fourteen-year-old sister was driving, and how she went through physical therapy and eventually died. Or did she?
She starts investigating the circumstances of her older sister's death but all of the documentation is vague. It's also suspicious that the doctor who signed the death certificate was her own husband. And she was never embalmed.
There are some gruesome burn makeup effects, as nasty as those in the Masters of Horror installment RIGHT TO DIE. And Zehetner is an interesting actress to look at. She kind of reminds me of a Persian cat.
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This traditional, Spanish style bungalow is located in the popular urbanisation of Blue Lagoon. The property comprises of a good size lounge with American-style fitted kitchen, two bedrooms, the master having its own terrace area and a family bathroom. Externally, there are two terraces on the ground level and a rooftop solarium, from where there are wonderful views of the salt lakes and the sea. Situated within walking distance of amenities and a short drive to the three golf courses of the region, Villamartin, Campoamor and Las Ramblas, this property would make an ideal holiday or permanent residence.
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Ground Report | New Delhi: Goa sex scandal; Hours after a Bihar woman was allegedly victimized by the Congress over the alleged and direct involvement of Urban Development Minister Milind Naik in an all-out political war in a ghastly sex scandal, the minister resigned from the Goa cabinet. His resignation was immediately accepted and sent to the Governor for final formalities.
Minister resign
Naik is the first minister during the entire term of this government, expiring in two months, to be forced to resign on moral grounds over an alleged act of felony criminal misconduct.
The Chief Minister's Office (CMO) issued a statement late Wednesday night saying that Naik has tendered his resignation to ensure a "free and fair investigation". He said Naik will present his side and "fight" at an individual level. "The allegations against him are personal and what he will do about it will be a matter of his personal decision," Sawant said.
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Sawant said that whatever investigation is required at the government level, it will be done 100 percent. He said the ministerial post held by Naik earlier would remain vacant.
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Goa Pradesh Congress President Girish Chodankar on Wednesday named Naik as the minister involved in the "sex scandal". Chodankar alleged that he misused his office and sexually assaulted a woman from Bihar.
Goa sex scandal
On December 10, a woman in Bihar filed a complaint against Congress leader Sankalp Amonkar and other party workers from South Goa alleging extortion, sexual harassment, and criminal conspiracy.
According to the complaint lodged in Bihar, the accused allegedly made his video and audio viral on social media. She also accused them of extortion and sexual harassment and offenses under the Information Technology Act. While zero FIR was registered on Friday, the matter was transferred to Goa Police on Tuesday.
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On 30 November, Chodankar alleged that a minister in the Sawant-led government was involved in a "sex scandal" and said he would give the BJP government 15 days to act against the minister. At the end of the fortnight, Chodankar had said, if the government did not remove the minister from the cabinet, it would be forced to take his name.
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After Naik named Chodankar, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee vice-president Sankalp Amonkar also lodged a police complaint against the minister. In a press conference, Amonkar also released a purported audio conversation between the victim and the minister.
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Montana's economy slowed significantly in 2016 after a strong 2015, and University of Montana economists are projecting continued slow growth this year.
The UM Bureau of Business and Economic Research discussed state and local economic trends in Great Falls on Wednesday in a half-day session at the Hilton Garden Inn attended by about 125 people.
Director Patrick Barkey says wage growth in Montana dropped by about 2.5 percent between 2015 and the first half of last year under the most recent data available. Barkey expects similar slow wage growth this year.
Wages are being dragged down by a continued slump in prices for oil, natural gas and coal. Other commodities, Barkey says, are a mixed bag.
The bright spot in Montana's economy last year was consumer spending, driven mostly by people willing to take on more debt after shying away from borrowing money during and immediately after the 2008 recession, he said.
Great Falls and Cascade County had big gains in manufacturing in 2015, which helped push its wages up, Barkey said, but the city, like the rest of Montana, had more restrained growth in 2016. Manufacturing growth, including steel fabricator ADF International, pipeline producer Loenbro and Montana Calumet Refining, remain strong, but other industries weren't as dynamic, except health care, which remained steady, he said.
As an agricultural trade center, Great Falls businesses also could face challenges because of continuing low grain and cattle prices, he said.
Barkey is forecasting a 2.1 percent-a-year growth in non-farm earnings for Great Falls over the next four years, better than Butte, 0.4 percent a year; and Helena, 1.8 percent; but less than Flathead County, 3.3 percent a year; Missoula, 3.2 percent; and Billings, 2.7 percent. Bozeman and Gallatin County are expected to enjoy earnings gains of 5.8 percent a year during the next four years.
The business people and public officials attending the bureau's Great Falls session were a little more bullish about the local economy.
In a smartphone survey toward the end of the five-hour session, 27 percent said they are "very optimistic" about how the Great Falls economy will fare this year and 36 percent were "somewhat optimistic." Only 18 percent were "somewhat pessimistic," while 18 percent were neutral.
In a panel discussion, Great Falls Development Authority Vice President Jolene Schalper said Great Falls made its manufacturing industry gains through prolonged, strategic recruiting and help from a team of residents who stepped to help, including providing job training and tax breaks.
First Interstate Bank President Kyle Herda said Great Falls has "the biggest growth potential in 15 years," but some businesses could struggle because of low agricultural commodity prices and an unfavorable exchange rate for Canadian visitors.
Contractor and developer Brad Talcott attributed the city's economic gains to persistent efforts to build a new industrial plant and recruit ag processing plants, retain military bases and strengthen medical facilities. Great Falls has dynamic civic leaders and is thinking more positively about itself, including easily approving a $100 bond issue to make public school improvements, he said.
•Montana State University agricultural economist George Haynes said Montana grain farmers and cattle producers are facing highly challenging times after booming and avoiding the recession from 2006 to 2014. But cattle herds grew too much internationally and there has been a glut of grain produced in the last two years, causing a 50 percent drop in calf prices and a 35 percent decrease in wheat prices. Both are below cost of production, which could cause less efficient producers to shut down operations.
But Montana production of pulse crops such as lentils and peas has greatly increased, producing cash receipts of $350 million to $400 million for crops grown on land formerly rotated as fallow and adding nitrogen to the soil that benefits subsequent grain plantings, he said.
•Bureau staff member Terry Johnson said revenue from oil, natural gas and coal production has fallen from about $367 million in 2008 to $137 million last year, creating budgeting problems for state and local governments. Oil prices are starting to climb again, but probably won't result in more production in Montana yet, he said, but the state could experience more natural gas production, since it's being used more to run power generators. Coal production has dropped dramatically because of concern about air pollution, but its fairly cheap price could lead to increased sales, Johnson said.


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