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Cheating Husband Asks for 10,000 Facebook Likes to Win Wife's Forgiveness
By Spooky onSeptember 30th, 2013 Category: News
A thousand roses, boxes of chocolates, diamond necklaces, expensive shoes and cars. These are just some of the many ways men have tried to earn their spouses' forgiveness after having cheated on them. Meet Ivan Lewis, the cheater, and Sonya Gore, the mastermind behind her husband's unique and very public display of affection.
Lewis and Gore got married in 2010 but split after only 10 months because of Lewis' constant cheating. After some time apart, during which Lewis reflected on what he had done, the guy decided to put an end to his unfaithful ways and do everything in his power to get Gore to forgive him. On September 22, he proposed to her publicly on his Facebook wall. Although many people were touched by his gesture, Gore wasn't too impressed. He then posted a picture of himself holding a piece of paper which read "I cheated on my wife!!! (and she was ugly!!!)", stating that he needed 10,000 likes in order for Gore to take him back. His plea was generally well received but there was a good amount of criticism as well: "My man wouldn't have to show and prove it on fb! So, I'm probably one on the number who wouldn't care for that!!", Facebook user Latoya Holiday wrote. "Well if she was ugly why'd you do it? Men always think the grass is greener on the other side, this is a lesson learned if she takes you back and if she does this should never come up again because once you forgive someone you can't keep back tracking, move forward and keep God first, I hope yall make it work !" another user posted.
Feline Fashion Calendar Features Stylish Cats Wearing Runway-Ready Designer Clothes
By Spooky onSeptember 30th, 2013 Category: Animals
Do you wish that your cat was just as fashionable as you? Now you can both wear couture designs courtesy of United Bamboo's kitty clothing line. United Bamboo, a well-known fashion brand has been making calendars for three years now featuring cats dressed up in miniature versions of their most valued designs.
Wearing exact copies of runway clothing, the felines featured in the first issue belonged to friends and family. But soon the brand felt the need to start an Instagram campaign in order to find the most fashion forward cat lovers whose companions not only looked stylish in designer clothes but also looked good on camera. A number of kitties have been selected so far but the competition is tough and not all of them are going to make it in the 2014 issue. Some cats are already popular models such as Jasper, a part Maine coon, part domestic longhair cat who wears a red duffle parka on top of a striped shirt and is featured on the first month of the calendar. Another favorite, Huxtable, a hairless gentle-tomcat who loves "to hang out on people's shoulders and will walk on a leash!" is wearing a simple yet stylish blouse and a black wool jumper. There is also sociaholic Prince Snowflake dressed in the brand's colored binding coat, and toothpaste-phobic Gertrude wearing a sparkly dress. All the stars of the calendar are photographed by cat enthusiast Noah Sheldon, while the calendar itself is designed by Studio Lin.
Meet the Guy Who Makes a Living by Cuddling with Strangers
We are living in an era of technology when direct human interaction is becoming more and more infrequent. If it weren't for their jobs, many people wouldn't even interact with others every day, relying solely on social networks, email, and text messaging services. But human interaction is not only about communicating messages; it is also about exploring our emotional nature, the importance of which is often forgotten.
According to numerous studies, physical contact is crucial to promote attachment between mother and infant but also to ensure the baby's healthy physical, emotional and intellectual development. Adults also need physical contact to maintain their mental and emotional health which contribute to their overall happiness. It comes as no surprise that people like Jacqueline Samuel have found a way to service those in need of a cuddle or snuggle and make a living out of it. Travis Sigley is the father of professional cuddling. He studied psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and believes that through physical touch, people can learn to overcome the anxiety and fear that often accompanies social situations. Through cuddling, Sigley hopes to teach people to relax and gain trust in themselves as well as in others.
Chinese Car-Accident Victim Has New Nose Grown on His Forehead
Meet 22-year-old Xiaolian. He is not wearing some bizarre special effects makeup, that is actually a real nose growing on his forehead. As strange as it looks, this is apparently a pretty common nose reconstruction technique.
No too long ago, Xiaolian was involved in a car accident that damaged his nose. After he refused medical treatment, the wound became infected and in a few months time the bacteria had corroded the cartilage of the nose, making it impossible for doctors to save. But since we're living in an age where medical miracles are possible, they decided to remove the infected tissue and grow the young man a new nose. This was done by by placing a skin tissue expander onto Xiaolian's forehead, cutting it into the shape of a nose and planting a cartilage taken from his ribs. It's taken Chinese doctors in Fuzhou, Fujian province, nine months to grow the nose, but it was worth it, because the organ developed perfectly and it's almost ready to be shifted in it the place of Xiaolian's original nose. Read More »
More Mouthwatering Hyper-Realistic Food Paintings by Tom Martin
By Spooky onSeptember 27th, 2013 Category: Art
They may look like high-resolution photos of delicious foods, but these are actually incredibly detailed paintings by acclaimed hyper-realist artist Tom Martin. All of his pieces is a least one meter wide and can sell for up to £17,000 ($27,000).
We first discovered Tom Martin's amazing artworks back 2010, when we featured some of his most impressive food-related paintings. The 26-year-old artist has been keeping himself busy in these last few years, creating new stunning masterpieces guaranteed to make viewers drool over them. Most of his works focus on food, but you might notice there aren't any greasy burgers and pizzas displayed in his paintings. "I focus on food and its content because it plays a very big part in my life at the moment," the artist explains. "I am a keen fitness enthusiast and along with that comes a healthy diet and the science of learning how your body uses carbohydrates and proteins." You will however find bowls of delicious-looking fruit cereal, toast and marmalade, and even small guilty pleasures like waffles and ice-cream.
Guy Runs 26-Mile Marathon Backward While Juggling
By Spooky onSeptember 27th, 2013 Category: Events
Most people couldn't run a marathon if their life depended on it, but world-record juggler Joe Salter ran the whole 26.2-mile Quad-Cities Marathon backward, while doing what he does best, juggling.
32-year old Joe Salter can practice his juggling skills pretty much anywhere. In the past, he swam a half-mile in the Gulf of Mexico, doing the backstroke while juggling three balls, juggled for 16.2 miles on a bike and ran and juggled for four miles. He also holds the world records for the fastest time to run a mile backward while juggling (7 minutes, 32 seconds) and fastest juggling triathlon (1 hour, 57 minutes), but he was hungry for a Guinness World Record, so he challenged himself to run the entire Quad-Cities Marathon, in Illinois, backward, while juggling. Unfortunately, Guinness rules are very strict and for Joe's unique feat to qualify as a record, every second of the race had to be recorded, which was impossible as videotaping is prohibited along several miles of the course that run through the Rock Island Arsenal. Although slightly disappointed, Salter found an upside to the whole situation. "I actually feel better, not having the stress," he said before the race, and indeed the lack of added pressure helped him finish the entire 26.2-mile marathon in just 5 hours and 51 minutes.
Beijing's Haunted Mansion: Chinese Shun Expensive Beijing Property for Fear of Ghosts
By Spooky onSeptember 26th, 2013 Category: Travel
The beautiful three-story French Baroque-style house at Chaonei No. 81 is a well-known anomaly of Beijing. Small courtyard properties in this area of China's capital city sell for millions of dollars, and yet this once lavish mansion lies in a state of decay. The reason no one will go near it? Fear of ghosts and death.
Local legend has it this amazing mansion was built by the Qing imperial family as a church for British residents of Beijing. In 1949, when the Communists had just defeated the Nationalists and were making their way into the city, the high-ranking Kuomintang official living in the house at the time abandoned his wife, leaving her to face the Communists all by her safe. Devastated, she allegedly hung herself from the rafters of their impressive home. Many believe her troubled spirit has been haunting the place ever since, and few dare venture inside by themselves, especially during the night. The once luxurious mansion is now a dilapidated shadow of its former self, covered with graffiti warning daredevils to stay away and full of empty alcohol bottles and cigarette buts. Despite its location in the center of Beijing, where prices for small properties are in the millions, there are currently no plans to do anything with this particular building. Ghost stories keep potential tenants away, and the building is now on a historic preservation list so it can't be torn down, just renovated. So everyone seems to be waiting for it crumble on its own.
This Young Journalist Is Earning Her Engagement Ring by Making 300 Sandwiches for Her Boyfriend
New York Post journalist, Stephanie Smith, truly believes the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. After her boyfriend told her she is 300 sandwiches away from an engagement ring, Stephanie got cooking and started a blog to document her progress. She is currently at sandwich #176.
Stephanie says her relationship to her boyfriend, "Alexander Skarsgård look-alike" Eric, has always been centered on food. They met at a restaurant, he cooked her dinner on their second date, and they've hosted numerous dinner-parties together, so she knew how important food was to him. And there was nothing he liked more than sandwiches. "To him, sandwiches are like kisses or hugs. Or sex," the young journalist says. The two New-Yorkers had been going steady for about a year and even moved into a cozy apartment together, but Stephanie was wondering what it would take for Eric to finally pop the big question. She found the answer one day, after she made him her her first a turkey on whole wheat bread, with mustard, lettuce and swiss cheese. "Honey, this is the best sandwich ever!" Eric told her in between bites. When he was done, he dropped the bomb on her: "You're, like, 300 sandwiches away from an engagement ring." That was it, the secret to the marriage proposal she had been dreaming of. Stephanie didn't really know hot to cook, but she was willing to learn and she wasn't one to back down from a challenge.
Man Spends $65,000 on Macabre World Tour of Celebrity Graves
For most people, an ideal holiday involves gorgeous natural surroundings, famous landmarks and fun activities, but for 38-year-old Mark Dabbs the perfect vacation is all about visiting celebrity graves. So far he has spent around £40,000 ($65,000) traveling across six continents and visiting the final resting places of over 200 famous people.
From the grave of kung-fu legend, Bruce Lee, in Seattle, to the glass coffin of communist leader Mao Tze-Tung, in Beijing, Mark Dabbs, a male nurse from England, has trekked every continent, except Antarctica, in search of famous tombs. He say it all began 20 years ago, when he visited the final resting place of American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in Virginia, USA. He just found it fascinating and since then he has traveled the world in search of more celebrity graves, dragging his siblings and sometimes even his girlfriends along with him. Mark admits most people don't share his passion for tracking down and visiting the macabre attractions, but says he can't think of a better way to spend his summer vacations. He considers each tomb a museum that tells the story of a person's life and he doesn't mind spending around £2,000 ($3,200) every year on at least 2 or 3 trips to satisfy his curiosity. Mark estimates he has spent at least £40,000 ($65,000) on his macabre hobby since he first started visiting graveyards.
Poland's Knight Fighting League Looks Like a Brutal Medieval Version of Fight Club
The awesome-looking Polish Knight Fighting League has medieval enthusiasts put on full body armor and do battle in one-one duels or team matches, using actual (although blunt) weapons like swords, axes and spears.
The Polish Knight Fighting League is no scripted medieval battle reenactment. It's more like a Dark-Ages-themed tournament for people who share a passion for shiny helmets and medieval martial arts. Participants put on full protective armor and try to land as many hits on their opponents as possible. They can strike with their metal weapons and shields, or simply use punches, kicks or headbutts. Matches are judged on points, like fencing, where the knight with he most connected hits wins the game, or by knockdown, where the first man to touch the ground with more than a third of their body loses. Would-be knights can participate in one-on-one duels, or team matches where the ultimate goal is to knock-down as many opponents as possible. The team with the most people left standing when time is called wins the day. Sounds like a fun time if you're into this sort of thing, but judging by the promo video below, it can get pretty brutal. Apart from hitting an unarmored opponent and landing hits to the spine, neck and back of the knees, everything else is apparently permitted.
Woman Cancels Wedding, Her Parents Decide to Hold It Anyway to Feed the Homeless
After their daughter cancelled her nuptials just 40 days before the big event, Carol and Willie Fowler decided not to let the upscale meal they had planned for her wedding go to waste, so they went ahead with it, albeit with a new list of guests. On September 15, two hundred of Atlanta's homeless were invited to enjoy a four-course meal at one of the city's upscale restaurants.
When the people at the Hosea Feed the Hungry charity in Atlanta got a call from someone offering to donate a lavish meal at the upmarket Villa Christina restaurant to the needy, they thought it was a prank. But Carol and Willie Fowler were dead serious. Their daughter Tamara had just cancelled her big weeding, but they weren't about to let all the food they had ordered for the big event go to waste. "It was my husband's idea," Mrs. Fowler told WBUR. "We prayed about it. And when he woke up the next morning, he said, 'We're going to call Hosea Feed the Hungry and ask if we can donate it to the needy." They set the whole thing up with the help Elisabeth Omilami, CEO of Hosea Feed the Hungry, and on September 15, 200 of Atlanta's less fortunate were treated to fine dishes and drinks in an event dubbed "The First Annual Fowler Family Celebration of Love". Talk about turning lemons into lemonade, right?
Real-Life Escape-the-Room Games Gaining Popularity in China
Have you ever fantasized about starring in a real-life Saw-like scenario where you're forced to look for clues in order to escape a locked windowless room before time runs out? Apparently many Chinese have, as more and more of them flock to various real-life room-escape game locations across the country.
Inspired by a computer game called "Takagism", in which players had to find a way out of virtual locked room by searching their surroundings and manipulate objects in search for clues, real-life escape-the-room games have rally taken off in China during the last few months. A team of players is locked in a maze of dark, eerie rooms and have to work together in order to find clues to help them escape before the allotted times runs out. They are not allowed to use smartphones or any kind of gadgets or books to solve the rooms' puzzles and must rely solely on their knowledge and skills to beat all challenges. Real Takagism club operators say teamwork, a good leader and the ability to keep calm and focused under pressure are key to escaping the locked rooms within the time limit, but the puzzles can be really tough and only the best succeed. For example, at Freeing Hong Kong, an escape game location in Hong Kong, only one in five teams make it out of the rooms before their time runs out.
Real-Life Hulk Has the Biggest Hands You've Ever Seen
By Spooky onSeptember 24th, 2013 Category: Pics
Denis Cyplenkov is a Ukrainian strongman and arm wrestling champion known not only for his incredible strength, but also for his unusually large palms. Let's just say fictional characters like the Hulk or Shrek would be jealous of this guy's hands.
31-year-old Denis Cyplenkov was born in Krivoy Rog, Ukraine, where he attended various sports clubs during his childhood and teenage years. He trained in kettlebell lifting for a few years and had great results in a number of competitive events, before becoming one of the world's best arm wrestlers. He won the Nemiroff World Cup in 2010 and 2011 and holds several Russian Arm Wrestling Champion titles. On his website, Cyplenkov claims he also holds records for the biggest biceps in Russia (64 cm in circumference) and the strongest man in Russia. At 186 cm in height and 140 kg of pure muscle, Denis Cyplenkov has quite an impressive physique, but his most incredible assets are his abnormally thick hands. As you can see in the photos below, his pinkie is easily twice as thick as most people's thumb, not to mention his other fingers. His wrists are also a whopping 24 cm in circumference, which partly explains his successful arm wrestling career. The guy must have some grip strength.
Man Swims over 2 Kilometers All Tied Up in a Bag
Jane Petkov, a 59-year-old Bulgarian man, tried to set a new Guinness record by swimming across a lake while wrapped in a bag with his arms and legs tied up. Known as "amphibian man" in his native country, Petkov says he relies on concentration and a special breathing technique to pull off the amazing feat.
The record-breaking attempt took place on September 10, on Lake Orhid, in Macedonia, and had Jane Petkov jumping out of a boat in the middle of the water trying to somehow make his way to shore. His arms and legs were tied once before putting on the thick bag, and again over the bag, to make sure he couldn't use them during his death-defying feat. What's even more astonishing is doctors who examined him before the challenge found he was severely anemic, which, given his age, made the task even more dangerous. Nevertheless, on the morning of September 10, the amphibian man jumped in the cold water of Lake Orhid and began to swim on his back like a dolphin.
Photo of Heavily Pregnant Woman Weightlifting Sparks Online Controversy
35-year-old Lea-Ann Ellison, from Los Angeles, has managed to start an online storm after a photo showing the eight-and-a-half-month pregnant woman lifting what seem like heavy weights was posted on Facebook.
Heavily pregnant Lea-Ann Ellison doesn't believe in taking it easy ahead of the big day. Instead she is following an intense fitness regime designed for professional athletes and members of the police and military. "I have been CrossFitting for 2½ years," the woman posted on Facebook. "and … strongly believe that pregnancy is not an illness, but a time to relish in your body's capabilities to kick ass." The photo of her preparing to lift a weight bar this far into her pregnancy prompted a series of comments, both positive and negative. Some Facebook users accused Lea-Ann of risking her baby's well-being just to stay in shape and described the photo as "shocking", while others showed their admiration for the weightlifter's decision, calling her "amazing" and "an inspiration". One person wrote: "I think that we should all be more concerned about a mom who eats McDonalds everyday of her pregnancy, and doesn't exercise one bit. This woman is not just concerned about herself, she is concerned about her child future and the example she sets for her other children about overcoming adversity."


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Records broken as snowstorm interrupts spring
May 2, 2013 By Matt Kelley
This snowplow got stuck. Photo courtesy of WHO-TV.
The spring snowstorm striking today is unusual even by Iowa standards.
Three cities have topped a 66-year-old record for the heaviest snowfall in the month of May. Kurt Kotenberg is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
"Britt and Forest City both reported 11 inches and Algona reported 10.5 inches of snow throughout the morning," Kotenberg said. "Those numbers could go up a bit once they get the snowfall totals for the rest of tonight."
The previous record of 10 inches occurred on May 28, 1947 in LeMars.
Many Iowans who were told they could expect a "dusting" are now putting away the lawn mower and breaking out the snow blower. "This was a tough system to judge in that there was such a tight gradient between the rain, freezing rain, and snow…it was just kind of a matter of where it all went," Kotenberg said.
"Then, this cold front really stalled out over central Iowa and it just kept snowing and snowing. It just didn't really stop in some places." A few more inches of snow are forecast overnight along a line from Creston to Des Moines to Waterloo, according to Kotenberg.
Warmer temperatures will arrive Friday with rain in the weekend forecast. "By Monday and Tuesday, we should be up into the 60s and 70s statewide," Kotenberg said. "So, a lot of the snow is going to be melting pretty quickly."
The combination of today's heavy snow and high winds have left thousands of Iowans without power. At 3 p.m., MidAmerican Energy reported nearly 1,300 customers were still without power in the Fort Dodge area. Justin Foss is a spokesperson for Alliant Energy.
"Right now, our biggest outages are in far northern Iowa and southern Minnesota, where about 2,000 people are affected," Foss said. "A lot of these outages are individual outages at one person's home." Foss notes Iowans who lose electricity should always call their utility provider.
"A lot of times when the power goes out, someone in the neighborhood will call, but in storms like this, your service wire may be out and if you don't call us, we'll never know that," Foss said. Iowa's electric cooperatives had more than 2,000 customers without power as of mid-afternoon.
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Home > Ohio > Columbus State Community College
Columbus State Community College
Also known as Columbus State
550 E Spring St, Columbus, OH
Columbus State Community College is a two-year community college located in Ohio that offers associate's degrees and professional/career certificates. Columbus State is committed to providing education to diverse learners, and offers a range of programs to meet the needs of the changing student body. The "Career & Tech" associate's degrees and certificates are offered in more than 120 areas of health, business and engineering technologies. There are also "transfer-friendly" programs in the Arts & Sciences that allow students to complete the first two years of a bachelor's degree, that they will complete at another institution.
Columbus State serves its local community through its Community Education and Workforce Development program, providing non-credit workplace and career-specific training to the local workforce. This includes language training to recent immigrants that helps students meet the requirements to earn a GED, and "transitional workforce" training. Columbus State also provides programs for high school students through its K-12 programs.
Columbus State Community College was founded in 1963 with 67 students enrolled.
The academic calendar for Columbus State Community College follows the quarter system, with four quarters that run 11 weeks each. Columbus State will switch to the semester system in the fall of 2012.
As a community college, Columbus State is not divided into colleges and schools, but rather many departments through which students can earn a degree or professional certificate in two primary areas: Arts and Sciences Degree Programs, and Career and Technology Degree & Certificate Programs.
The students of Columbus State can participate in 45 different student clubs, organizations and honor societies. These groups include choir, band, intramural sports, theatre, and the student newspaper.
There is also a Student Ambassadors program, which gives students the opportunity to participate in leadership activities such as:
Assisting with public relations at special events like job fairs, blood drives, etc.
Staffing new student orientation programs
Giving campus tours
Engaging in community outreach
Developing special projects in academics or student services
The Columbus State "Cougars" athletics teams compete in five intercollegiate sports. The school also has an award-winning cheerleading squad.
Satellite Campuses and Centers
There are two main campuses of Columbus State Community College: Columbus Campus and Delaware Campus. In addition, Columbus State has several conveniently located off-campus sites.
Columbus State Off-Campus Centers:
Southwest at Bolton Field
Tolles
A key part of the mission of Columbus State is to serve the Columbus-area community by providing educational opportunities to all. Various initiatives and programs provide basic skills training, college preparation, GED preparation, new career training, development of personal interests, and more.
Initiatives, programs and services provided to the community:
Educational Talent Search (a pre-collegiate program for students from grades 6-12)
ESL Afterschool Communities
Trade-Skill Training (Orientation to Trade and Apprenticeship Programs)
COWIC One-Stop Youth Services (assessment and career exploration for at-risk youth)
The average "out of pocket" cost of attendance, after any grants and scholarships are considered, is around $6,000. To calculate a more personalized cost visit the net price calculator. There is also a $50 application fee for students applying to the school. The figures listed below are for informational purposes only and do not represent current or future tuition, fees, and expenses.
Annual tuition estimates are:
Out-of-State: $8,400-$10,120
To help students and recent graduates, Columbus State Community College may provide services to students like those listed below:
Night and weekend classes available
Employing students to lower education costs
Community colleges offer a variety of career and transfer options for students. The following table shows the graduation and transfer-out rates for Columbus State, versus those community colleges in Ohio, which can be valuable information for determining which school to attend.
Columbus State
Graduation Rate 7.8% - 18.2%
Accredited by the American Dental Association, Commission on Dental Accreditation (since 1999)
Dietetic Technician Program
Accredited by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (since 1979)
Compare all associate's degree in nursing (ADN) programs in Ohio
Accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (since 1995)
Get more information about the programs offered by Columbus State Community College by clicking the request information to the right.
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Real Estate (A, C)
Sales (C)
Administrative Assistant (A, C)
Finance and Financial Management Services (A)
Logistics and Supply Chain Management (A, C)
Tourism and Travel Services Management (A)
Information Systems (A, C)
Entrepreneurship (A, C)
Insurance (C)
Accounting (C)
International Business (A, C)
Taxation (C)
Organizational and Nonprofit Management (C)
Human Resources (A)
Purchasing and Procurement (C)
Casino Management (C)
Business Operations Support and Secretarial Services
Business, Management, Marketing and Related Support Services
Graphic and Printing Equipment Operator Production (A, C)
Photographic and Film Technology (C)
Communications Technologies and Support Services (A)
Computer (A, C)
Web Design (C)
Information Science (A, C)
Computer Programming, Specific Applications (A)
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services (A)
Computer Information Technology Services Administration and Management
Plumber (C)
Property Management (A, C)
Carpentry (C)
Architectural Engineering (A, C)
Automotive Engineering (A, C)
Construction Engineering Technology (A, C)
Civil Drafting and Civil Engineering cad (C)
Electromechanical Engineering and Technology (A)
Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering (A)
Environmental Engineering Technology and Environmental Technology (A)
Industrial Production Technologies (C)
Instrumentation Technology (C)
Engineering Technologies (A, C)
Civil Engineering Technology (A)
Occupational Safety and Health Technology (C)
Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies (C)
Quality Control (A)
Survey Technology (A, C)
Recycling Technology
Child Care (A, C)
Human Development, Family Studies (A)
Developmental Services Worker (C)
Sign Language Interpretation and Translation (A, C)
Health Aide (C)
EMT & Paramedic (A, C)
Mental Health Technician (A)
Medical Records Administrator (A, C)
Environmental Health (C)
Radiology Technician (A)
Surgical Technologist (A, C)
Respiratory Therapy (A)
Clinical Laboratory Science and Allied Professions (A, C)
Medical Laboratory Assistance (C)
Electrocardiograph Technology (C)
Healthcare Administration (C)
Physical Therapist Assistant (C)
Health Information and Medical Records Technology (C)
Mental Health Counseling (C)
Paralegal (A, C)
General Studies (A)
Aircraft Mechanic (C)
Aircraft Powerplant Technology (C)
Heating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) (C)
Mechanic and Repair Technologies
Baking And Pastry (C)
Food Service and Dining Room Management
Boilermaking (C)
Sheet Metal Technology (A, C)
Kinesiology And Exercise Science (A)
Sports Management (A)
Sports Medicine (A)
Health and Physical Education, Fitness (A)
Biology Technician, Biotechnology Laboratory Technician (C)
Police Science (A, C)
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Firefighting (C)
Commercial Photography (A, C)
Design and Visual Communications (C)
Visual and Performing Arts (C)
Game Design (A, C)
Photography (C)
The list of nearby schools has been selected by researching which schools offer similar programs to Columbus State Community College.
Central Ohio Technical College in Newark, OH (30 miles away)
Marion Technical College in Marion, OH (43 miles away)
Clark State Community College in Springfield, OH (44 miles away)
Zane State College in Zanesville, OH (51 miles away)
Hocking College in Nelsonville, OH (54 miles away)
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CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Bean Commission is scheduled to meet via conference call on April 12 at 2 p.m.
During the meeting, the Wyoming Bean Commission will discuss crop insurance, general updates and cover any other business as needed. There will be an opportunity for public comment at the end of the meeting.
The members of the Wyoming Bean Commission are Beau Fulton (chairman, grower) of Park County, Jeffery Chapman (vice-chairman, handler) of Goshen County, Jerrod Lind (grower) of Platte County, Pascual Aguilar (grower) of Big Horn County, Wayne Hort (grower) of Goshen County, Lynn Preator (handler/bean dealer) of Big Horn County, and Hank Uhden (ex-officio member from the Wyoming Department of Agriculture).
The Bean Commission is comprised of six members initially appointed by the governor. Four members are growers, and two members are handlers with facilities located in Wyoming. One member must reside in Laramie, Platte or Goshen County, Wyoming. The Bean Commission is funded through assessments collected on dry bean sales and is housed within the Wyoming Department of Agriculture. The commission will meet no less than two times each year and will keep a permanent record of its proceedings and report its activities to the governor and joint agriculture, state and public lands, and water resources interim committee. Along with this, the commission may conduct or contract scientific research, disseminate information on dry edible beans based on research, study state and federal legislation with respect to matters concerning the dry edible bean industry, appoint advisory groups, make grants to research agencies for financing special or emergency studies and a variety of other activates.
For more information on the Wyoming Bean Council and the meeting, contact the Wyoming Department of Agriculture at (307) 777-7321.


Source: Forest Industries. November, 3 pp.
This article reviews the latest statistics pertaining to the export of hardwood lumber to the Pacific Rim; discusses possible reasons for the emergence and growth of this market; offers alternatives to rough hardwood lumber (two forms of value-added, hardwood blanks); and develops estimates of prices needed at the mill to earn a 30% return on investment from the manufacture of blanks from a new facility.
Hansen, Bruce G.; Araman, Philip A. 1985. Hardwood Blanks Expand Export Opportunities. Forest Industries. November, 3 pp.


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Toronto Sun-Ford warns of TTC fare hike
by Don Peat
Start hoarding your tokens, again.
Just 13 months after a massive 25-cent fare hike took effect, the TTC is proposing to hit Torontonians with a 10-cent hike starting Feb. 1, despite Mayor Rob Ford and TTC chairman Karen Stintz vowing to derail it.
Ford lamented the hike — estimated to raise $24 million for the transit service — while lauding the city staff for coming through with his property tax freeze.
TTC commissioners will meet Wednesday to discuss the proposed hike as well as reducing hours on 48 bus routes for $7-million saving.
"I did not want to agree to this," Ford told reporters Monday. "I am not happy about this. In fact, my staff has been working night and day, through the weekend to find another option."
The mayor also vowed he wants to see measurable improvement in the TTC's customer service by Sept. 1.
"No matter what happens, folks, I've made it quite clear, the TTC must improve station cleanliness and customer service," Ford said.
The cash fare would not change but tokens would cost $2.60 instead of $2.50. Weekly passes, Metropasses, day passes and post-secondary Metropasses would all see an increase. Child fares would remain the same.
TTC chairman Karen Stintz said she does not want a fare hike.
"I would go so far as to say that nobody in this city wants a 10-cent fare increase if we can find a way to avoid it," Stintz said. "That is our work over the next few days and I take that work very seriously."
Increased ridership were forcing costs up, she said. She stressed the TTC has already found some internal efficiencies.
"We were given a direction that the city subsidy would be stable and in light of that, and with growing ridership, we needed to find a way to close the gap," she said.
While hours will be adjusted on 48 "underperforming" routes that have no more than 12 passengers boarding in an hour, Stintz stressed "nobody will be losing a route."
Councillor Paula Fletcher said she never would have supported cutting the personal vehicle tax if she knew a fare hike was going to be proposed a month later.
"It's respect for taxpayers who own cars," she said. "Eliminating hours on 48 bus routes is actually a major service cut."
TTC chief general manager Gary Webster said it costs $3 to put each additional customer on the TTC.
"We only get through our average fares, less than $2," Webster said. "If our ridership was to go up 10 million rides year over year, the average impact on the TTC is going to be an increase in our costs of $10 million."
"As much as increased ridership is exactly what the city is challenged to do and challenged us to do to get people out of their cars because we're not building, according to the official plan, any more roads in the city, ridership growth is a good thing but it costs us money," he said.
Former budget chief Shelley Carroll said the last 25-cent fare hike led to the TTC's booming surplus and she's not willing to vote for another increase.
"I think they will find the community is loath to accept that they need another dime at this point in time," Carroll said.
Councillor Josh Matlow calculated the proposed $5 increase on the cost of a monthly Metropass works out to exactly $60 — the annual cost of the now scrapped car tax.
"How could we possibly withdraw a vehicle tax, which I never agreed with, but then put the onus of paying the city's finances on TTC riders?" Matlow said. "It's the wrong shift. That's just fundamentally wrong. It sends the wrong message to everybody in Toronto."
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Wang Bangxian lives in Tiantaishan village in Guizhou province, China. On a rainy day many years ago, she set off on the long and arduous journey home after fetching buckets of clean water from a mountain spring. When full, her buckets weighed as much as she did.
Wang Bangxian demonstrating how she used to fetch water with buckets. The buckets are now used to transport animal feed and fertiliser instead.
She had to make the trip twice a day, rain or shine, in order to fetch enough water for drinking, cooking and washing.
On that fateful day, the rain had made the precipitous, mud-strewn trails even more slippery and dangerous. In a hurry to get home to her infant son, Wang Bangxian tripped and fell, breaking her foot and spilling the water.
The mountain trails are often muddy and slippery after a heavy rain.
Wang Bangxian recalls being bedridden for weeks after her fall.
She eventually made it home, but for half a month afterwards, Wang Bangxian was bedridden. Her husband had to sacrifice farming time to fetch water for the family. As farmers who depend solely on their crops for income, their livelihood was threatened.
Wang Bangxian and her husband still farms potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are photographed above in their home.
Over time, she was able to get back to her normal routine but her foot still hurts to this day. Rolling up her pants, she showed me a visible raised bump on her foot about the size of a small grape.
The raised bump on Wang Bangxian's foot shows the site of her injury. With limited access to medical care back then, she used herbs to nurse her foot back to health.
Wang Bangxian was overjoyed when Village Water Management (VWM) programme brought access to clean piped water right to her home. These days, she no longer has to carry heavy loads of water along treacherous mountain roads, and has more time for farming and raising livestock.
This project in Tiantaishan village, Guizhou implemented under the Village Water Management (VWM) programme in China, is co-funded by CITIC Envirotech.
The Village Water Management (VWM) programme mentors a regionally or nationally available platform of grassroots leaders residing within the community, enabling them to implement clean water projects for the sustenance and development of their communities. The VWM programme is delivered in locations where available water sources are relatively clean but significantly distant from households.
Ran Fangqing, 46, lives in a small village deep in the mountains of Guizhou province, China. A fire during his childhood left him partially blind in one eye and half of his face covered in a complex network of scar tissue.
The fire, however, was just the beginning of a string of unfortunate events. Fangqing eventually got married, only to have his wife depart soon after the birth of his only son, leaving him to juggle the roles of both a father and a mother.
Beyond parenting duties, as the only abled-bodied person and sole bread-winner of the household, Fangqing also had to travel daily along treacherous mountain trails to fetch water, cook, wash, provide and care for his aging mother and infant son.
Life only got more difficult when his elderly mother became senile. She started to panic whenever Fangqing left the house, and refused to eat whenever he was not around.
As her conditions deteriorated, Fangqing was unable to even leave the house to fetch water. With few other alternative water sources, the family had to sometimes resort to drinking from muddy puddles and ditches.
When we visited, his mother was already incoherent in her speech. The elderly woman had lost all her teeth and her movements appeared to be laboured. She used a pair of bamboo sticks as makeshift crutches to move around the small house. The only coherent words that she uttered when we were there were strange and somewhat morbid – "I do not want to be buried in these clothes", she said.
For years, Fangqing struggled to fulfill the family's most basic needs – food and water. A heavy burden was lifted off his shoulders when Lien AID's Village Water Management programme brought clean water from a mountain spring directly to his home. On the day we visited, he was just about to cook lunch. He washed and prepared the food while keeping a close eye on his mother.
Fangqing washing vegetables using clean piped water right in his home.
Fangqing preparing a meal in the kitchen as his mother wanders about the house using her makeshift crutches.
Having clean water piped directly to his house has not only made life more convenient, but it has also improved the quality of life for Fangqing and his small family. Soon after he gained affordable and convenient access to clean piped water, Fangqing started raising chickens and fish to earn more income. He now maintains a small chicken coop as well as several fishponds in the vicinity of his home.
"In the past, we did not even have enough water to drink. Now, life has gotten better. I have enough water to rear chickens and fish." Almost all of the extra income that Fangqing earns now goes towards supporting his only son, who will soon graduate from high school in a nearby town.
Fangqing's home – the chicken coop is on the right while his fish pond is visible in the background.
The water storage tank, from which water is now directly piped to the village homes.
This project in Tiantaishan village, Guizhou province, implemented under the Village Water Management programme in China, was co-funded by CITIC Envirotech.
Thai Thorn was a special boy.
Despite being born in the floating village of Deyroneath with difficult living conditions, Thai Thorn was a happy child, who found delight in little things like his toy gun and car. Thai Thorn's mother described him as a bright child. He was adorable. He was playful. He was talkative.
He was also mature for a three-year old. At lunch time, he would scan the lake for his father. When he spotted his father's boat, he would call out to him to come home for lunch.
For generations, families in the floating village have been drinking from the lake that they defecate in. Thai Thorn, like most children in the village, suffered from poor health, typhoid and chronic diarrhoea.
When Thai Thorn was three, he had fever and diarrhoea again. Having experienced this situation countless times before, the family gave him the usual medication they used for their other children.
But this time round, the medication did not work and the fever persisted for four days. On the fifth day, they got hold of a nurse and the suspected diagnosis was dengue fever. Thai Thorn was given an injection and put on drip.
But it was too late. Two hours later, he stopped breathing.
Thai Thorn's mother, Pong, sits facing the corner where he took his last breath.
With no money and land nearby for a proper burial in the wet season, the family wrapped the boy's body in cloth and hung it on a tree. When the dry season came and parts of the lake dried up, they took the remains down and buried him.
Pong was devastated over losing her youngest child and cried for a month. It took her 3 years to get over his death.
"I always think about him when we sit down to eat together. Sometimes it still makes me cry. He would have been seven this year," she says softly.
While the exact cause of Thai Thorn's death may never be known, the lack of clean water had played a part in his frequent diarrhoea and poor health.
After his death, the family grew increasingly concerned over the health of their other children. It was unthinkable if the same tragedy happened to their youngest daughter, Thai Heav.
Thai Heav, 11, drinks clean water from the CWE treatment plant.
When Community Water Enterprise (CWE) came to the village, the family was finally able to afford clean drinking water. Today, the family also practices better hygiene habits, and monitor the health of their children more closely. Diarrhea and fever are no longer usual occurrences among Thai Thorn's siblings.
This project in Meteuk Commune implemented under the Community Water Enterprise programme in Cambodia, was supported with co-funding from Sabana REIT.
By the time our boat arrived at Kakayo village, located in the south part of the Ayeyarwady region in Myanmar, a small crowd had gathered at the wooden jetty. A tall, slender woman stood out from the crowd. Greeting me with a firm handshake, she introduced herself as Daw Mu Mu, a member of the village development committee.
Daw Mu Mu standing at the edge of the construction site for the new rainwater collection pond.
It soon became apparent that Daw Mu Mu was a well-respected figure in the village. Carrying with her an indefinable air of grace, she led the way with long strides as we surveyed the construction site for the new rainwater collection pond. Apart from sitting on the village development committee, the 51-year-old woman wears many other hats – she is also a mother, provision shop owner and farmer.
Unwilling to let her only daughter, Myint Zu Aung, accept the fate of an ordinary village girl, Daw Mu Mu's foresight led her to a neighboring village in 2008, where she worked hard to earn more income so that her daughter could attend school in nearby Labutta city. Her husband stayed behind, working as a fisherman like most of the other men in the village. The couple worked hard to support their child, in the hopes that she will eventually lead a better life than they did.
Then Cyclone Nargis struck. Having never experienced a natural disaster of this scale, Daw Mu Mu rushed back to the village not knowing what to expect. Nothing could have prepared her for the extent of the damage that was done. The cyclone had wiped out most of the village population, leaving behind it a trail of wrecked homes, uprooted trees, dead animals and disfigured human corpses.
Myint Zu Aung, Daw Mu Mu's daughter. She is now 20 years old.
Though shackled by grief, Daw Mu Mu did not have the luxury of mourning for her lost loved ones for long. She went back to work and started to rebuilt the village with others, working twice as hard as before, this time singlehandedly supporting her daughter's school fees. Miraculously, her husband returned unharmed after being missing for 2 years and 4 months. It turns out that his fishing boat got carried away by the current and ended up on the Indian shores.
Myint Zu Aung's English exercise book.
But the problems kept coming. The village's only source of relatively clean water was two village ponds, with water levels often dropping dangerously low during the dry season. In 2016, the ponds dried up, and the children in the village started drinking dirty water when their parents were away fishing or farming.
Women collecting water at the existing pond with buckets.
It was not long before the village was hit by a diarrhoea epidemic. Many of those affected were young children. Daw Mu Mu and the other villagers converted the village school into a makeshift health centre to quarantine and care for the patients. Tragically, they could not save a two-year-old boy in time and he passed away.
Daw Mu Mu was devastated and could not bear the thought of losing more family and friends. She was determined to improve living conditions in the village, starting from better access to clean water. Early this year, construction began on the new fenced pond and hand pumps in the village. When completed, the new rainwater collection pond will provide an additional source of clean water for the villagers during the driest months.
The construction site for the new rainwater collection pond.
Daw Mu Mu hopes that villagers will enjoy better health after the new pond and hand pumps have been completed. Like many of the other villagers, her daughter regard her as a role model. When I commented on her strength and resilience, what she said stuck with me throughout the rest of my journey in Myanmar.
This project in Kakayo village, Labutta Township co-funded by Lien AID, is implemented under our pilot clean water projects in the Ayeyarwady region in Myanmar, and expected to be completed in 2017.
Extract: This story was told by Sou and Tab, villagers in the floating village of Deyroneath. They tell of the tragic loss of their first son, and how life has gotten better since CWE enabled villagers to gain sustainable access to clean water.
The Tonle Sap lake has long been revered for being one of the world's most varied and productive ecosystems. As the largest freshwater lake in Asia, it is also home to the floating communities of Cambodia. These floating communities clean, bathe and defecate in the lake that they live on. Most of them are fishermen and depend on the contaminated water for their livelihood.
Left: A typical houseboat; right: a lady selling drinks and snacks in the floating village.
Tab Savoeuon, 39, lived with her husband and their 7-month-old on in the floating village. Tired from a long day of work, Tab stopped to take a rest on the hammock as her son played inside the dark and narrow houseboat. Her husband was out on a fishing boat.
When Tab opened her eyes again, her son was missing. Frantic, she and the other villagers searched for him in the murky water.
Finally, at 5am, they found him. His tiny body was motionless, face down on a bed of water hyacinth.
Nobody knows for sure how the baby had ended up there. We could only guess that when his mother closed her eyes for just a minute, the baby must have crawled to the edge of the boat. Maybe he was looking at fish and fell into the water. Maybe he too, fell asleep and rolled off the edge of the boat. But it does not matter because he was gone.
Tab's husband earned a meagre income from fishing, and the family did not even have money for a burial or a proper funeral. They placed their son's body in an empty barrel, which drifted down the lake with the current. Villagers gathered to send the boy on his last journey down the water.
Tab and her husband, Sou Sok, were devastated after the death of their first son but life moves on. Years later, they went on to have five more children. Life only got more difficult. Sou was out on a fishing boat all day and Tab had to cook, wash, clean and take care of her young children alone in the day. She could barely rest for fear that another one of her young children would fall into the water and drown.
With no affordable clean water source, the family of seven used the contaminated surface water for cooking and drinking. The children fell ill often with diarrhoea and fever.
When her children fell sick, Tab could only sleep 1-2 hours a night. She stayed up to put ice on her children's swollen stomachs to ease their pain.
Things finally took a turn for the better when Sou Sok, Tab's husband, became a water entrepreneur. He was determined to make life better for his family and fellow villagers.
Sou Sok now earns enough income from being a water entrepreneur, and does not have to go out on the fishing boat anymore. The family moved their houseboat right next to the water treatment plant. Sou Sok can now help to look after his children, so the tragedy that happened 20 years ago will not repeat.
After gaining access to clean water, Sou and Tab's children have not had serious diarrhoea for the past year. With better health, they do not miss school as frequently as before.
The tragic loss of their first child remains a thorn in their heart, but Sou and Tab are glad that they have more time to look after their children after he became a water entrepreneur.
Since discussion began at the United Nations (UN) on the post-2015 Development Agenda, Singapore has championed a standalone UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on water, sanitation and hygiene, as sustainable water supply is critical to development. The handover ceremony at Kdul Village marks the commencement of the Ta An and Msar Krang Community Water Enterprises (CWE) in Cambodia. The CWEs have been established by Lien AID with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Singapore. These enterprises utilise a market based approach to provide affordable treated drinking water on a sustainable basis. The communes will own, operate and manage the water treatment and bottling plant through a water entrepreneur and a Water Management Committee (WMC) selected from the local communities. Since 2011, Cambodia has seen more than 370,000 rural poor Cambodians benefit from the creation of 65 CWEs across 11 provinces.
Singapore Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Mr. Michael Tan, with Lien AID Chairman Mr. Michael Sim and Lien AID staff in front of the water treatment plant.
Singapore Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Mr. Michael Tan speaks with Lien AID Chairman, Mr. Michael Sim and Cambodia Minister of Rural Development, His Excellency Dr. Ouk Rabun inside the CWE water treatment plant.
This project is implemented under the Singapore's Sustainable Development Programme, to support the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular our continued commitment to SDG 6 on clean water and sanitation for all.
Villagers buying clean bottled water at the CWE handover ceremony.
Clean water is essential to health and to the overall development of a community and country. Yet, more than 200 million in rural Asia still have no access to clean water. Established in 2006, Lien AID remains committed to exploring sustainable solutions and collaborative efforts with actors from governments, civil society organisations and the private sector, to enable clean water and sanitation access for rural poor Asians.
When villagers in Puban are asked about Zhangli, they invariably refer to her as the "Prettiest Student Villager Officer (最美丽的村官)". Zhangli was a fresh graduate and young mother of a little girl when she decided to apply to work in a rural village as a Student Village Officer (大学生村官). Driven by her passion for helping others, she applied to and passed the Chongqing Municipal Committee's selection exams with flying colours, and was subsequently assigned to Puban village in Gangkou town, Wulong county. As a Student Village Officer, she would take up residence at Puban village, supporting and implementing the Chinese government's poverty alleviation policies at the grassroots level, and work to improve the well-being of the villagers.
Shortly after she arrived at Puban village in 2010, she was approached by a villager who was in dire straits from the death of more than 200 mountain goats that his entire household had depended upon for their livelihood. Together with some of the village leaders, they investigated the case and found that the goats had died due to the spread of disease in the dirty pens, which could not be cleaned regularly due to the lack of clean water. Subsequent visits, interviews and chats with other households in the village also unearthed similar issues. The root cause of their struggles with improving their means of livelihood was invariably linked to the lack of clean water.
Thus when Zhangli found out about Lien AID's Village Water Management programme, she submitted a project proposal for Puban village. However, as a certain amount of co-funding from local governments and villagers was required, Zhangli initially faced a shortfall of funds for the project. She refused to give up however, as she knew that a piped water system would enable the villagers to have a better quality of life. Whenever Zhangli talked to the "left-behind" children in the village, she would be reminded of her daughter, whom she had left behind to take up the post at Puban village. She was determined to make the project a success so that they would have a better life with clean tap water.
With the support of Lien AID, the local governments, and the villagers, she worked tirelessly to raise the necessary funds and made sure the project stayed on tract, and was able to successfully coordinate and supervise the construction of the rural piped water system in Puban village. Although she often had no time during the weekends to visit her daughter and husband, who were living in another town, she found satisfaction in the fact that the villagers and the children no longer had to fetch water or depend on unreliable water sources.
In 2013, after the completion of the project, she was feted as one of the inspiring figures of Wulong county in the television programme "Ten Figures Inspiring Wulong" (感动武隆十大人物). Even though she is no longer working as a Student Village Officer at Puban village, she continues to serve the rural communities through her capacity as the chairwoman of the Women's Federation of Gangkou town in Wulong county. And the villagers still remember her as the "Prettiest Student Villager Officer (最美丽的村官)".
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The name of Lower Dibang Valley district is derived from the mighty river Dibang that flows through the heart of district and finally ends into the Brahmaputra. Prior to 1914, the district was a part of Lakhimpur district. By 1914 the North East Frontier Tract was constituted with three political charges and the area covered by this district became a part of the Eastern Section. In the year 1919, the Central and Eastern Section was renamed as the Sadiya Frontier Tract.
In 1943, some area from both the Sadiya Frontier Tract and the Lakhimpur Frontier Tract were carved out and Tirap Frontier Tract was formed. In 1948, under the North East Frontier Tracts (Internal Administration) Regulation, 1948, the remaining portion on the Sadiya Frontier Tract was divided into two separate administrative charges, namely the Abor Hills District and the Mishmi Hills District each in the charge of a Political Officer with headquarters at Pasighat and Sadiya respectively. In 1951, the plains portion of the Mishmi Hills District was transferred to administrative jurisdiction of the Government of Assam. In 1952, the headquarters of the Mishmi Hills District was shifted from Sadiya to Tezu.
According to the North East Frontier, areas (Administration) Regulation 1954, the North-East Frontier Tract came to be known as North-East Frontier Agency and the Mishmi Hills District was renamed as the Lohit Frontier Division. In 1956, the Dibang Valley was constituted as a separate administrative unit within the division and placed under the charge of Additional Political Officer with his headquarters at Roing which was subsequently shifted to Anini. In 1965, under the North-East Frontier Agency (Administration) Regulation, 1956 the Lohit Frontier Division came to be known by its present name the Lohit District and the Political Officer and Additional Political Officer were re-designated as the Deputy Commissioner and Additional Deputy Commissioner respectively. In June, 1980 under the Arunachal Pradesh (Re-organization of district), Act 1980 the Lohit District was bifurcated into two independent district namely Lohit District and Dibang Valley District, it's headquarters at Tezu and Anini respectively.
The Lower Dibang Valley district was carved out of the un-divided Dibang Valley district at its headquarter at Roing as per the Amendment of Re-organization of the District Act of 1980 with effect from 16th December 2001.


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NEW YORK— Sound Lounge, New York's leading independent provider of sound services for advertising, television and feature films, has promoted Becca Falborn to Executive Producer. In her new role, Falborn will manage the studio's busy advertising division and supervise its team of producers. She will also lead client relations and sales. Additionally, she will manage Sound Lounge Everywhere, the company's remote sound services offering, which currently operates in Boston and Boulder.
"Becca is a smart, savvy and passionate producer, qualities that are critical to success in her new role," said Sound Lounge COO and partner Marshall Grupp. "She has developed an excellent rapport with our team of mixers and clients and has consistently delivered projects on time and on budget, even under the most challenging circumstances."
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Sound Lounge partner and mixer Tom Jucarone calls Falborn a charismatic leader. "She is the natural choice to guide our team forward," he observes. "She has a firm understanding of our clients' needs and expectations and how to ensure we meet them."
Falborn joined Sound Lounge in 2017 as a Producer and was elevated to Senior Producer last year. She has produced voice over recordings, sound design, and mixing for many advertising projects, including seven out of the nine spots produced by Sound Lounge that debuted during this year's Super Bowl telecast. A graduate of Manhattan College, Falborn has a background in business affairs, client services and marketing, including past positions with the post house Nice Shoes and the marketing agency Hogarth Worldwide.
"Sound Lounge has enjoyed incredible success over the past 20 years, and I will work to ensure it continues its reign," Falborn said. "As the industry evolves, we want to keep assimilating and adapting to changes in media and the needs of our clients. We're moving forward with the times and are committed to being at the forefront of everything premium for sound."
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Q: vkcube black display I'm trying to get started doing some vulkan programming and am having difficulties with the development environment.  While trying to troubleshoot I encountered some issues that might illuminate my configuration issues.  How do I correct these development environment issues to make vkcube work?
vkcube
MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0

vulkaninfo | head -n 0
ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libvulkan_intel.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libvulkan_radeon.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libvulkan_lvp.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0
WARNING: lavapipe is not a conformant vulkan implementation, testing use only.

uname -a
Linux ndconv 5.11.0-37-generic #41~20.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 24 09:06:38 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI 460.91.03    Driver Version: 460.91.03    CUDA Version: 11.2

inxi -Gx
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia
           v: 460.91.03 bus ID: 01:00.0
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa
           tty: N/A
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.91.03
           direct render: Yes

VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json
cat $VK_ICD_FILENAMES | grep "        "
        "library_path": "libGLX_nvidia.so.0",
        "api_version" : "1.2.155"

hwinfo --gfxcard
  ...
  Device: pci 0x1c20 "GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile]"
  ...
    Driver Status: nvidiafb is not active
    Driver Status: nouveau is not active
    Driver Status: nvidia_drm is active
    Driver Status: nvidia is active

Apparently the 32 bit errors for vulkaninfo are just vulkan trying all of the available drivers.  See: Vulkaninfo output errors on Nvidia
Trying the command in the warning doesn't help (as suggested by : https://www.reddit.com/r/wine_gaming/comments/m7ircp/mesaintel_warning_performance_support_disabled/ ).
Tried https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan as a sanity test to see if maybe vulkan worked but vkcube didn't.  Still a black screen.  Likely a driver configuration error.
Very minimal change, tried downloading the newest vulkan version.
https://vulkan.lunarg.com/doc/sdk/1.2.189.0/linux/getting_started.html
Download, extract
source ~/vulkan/1.x.yy.z/setup-env.sh
vkcube works

I downloaded it to the applications folder and extracted it there.  I then added the following lines to the end of my ~/.bashrc.
export VULKAN_SDK=~/applications/1.2.189.0/x86_64
export PATH=$VULKAN_SDK/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VULKAN_SDK/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export VK_LAYER_PATH=$VULKAN_SDK/etc/vulkan/explicit_layer.d

I was at this point still getting errors (or a blank screen) when trying to run the examples from...
git clone https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan.git
cd Vulkan
python download_assets.py
cmake CMakeLists.txt
make
cd bin
./triangle

Everything worked after purging the mesa-vulkan-drivers.
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove mesa-vulkan-drivers
restart, and try ./triangle again (worked)

As a sanity check,I commented out the ~/.bashrc lines I added previously, then repeated the prior clone steps and everything worked.

A: Not useful for OP but for other nvidia systems try export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json
This comes from a lunarg forum post.

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The Players Club of Swarthmore closes its 2016-17 season with the raucous, blue collar, musical comedy THE FULL MONTY April 21-May 6, for ten performances at 614 Fairview Ave. in Swarthmore. The Americanized musical stage version of the 1997 British film, THE FULL MONTY is a wild send-up of gender stereotypes that moves to the beat of David Yazbek's audacious score and supremely smart lyrics, and features a solid book by Terrence McNally. When it shimmied its way onto Broadway in 2000, The Full Monty garnered nine Tony nominations, including Best Musical. Buy tickets online at www.pcstheater.org
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Pets In Need's tenure in Palo Alto has been extended for another six months.
New Year, a dog up for adoption at Pets in Need in Palo Alto, howls to fellow dogs in the dog kennel area of the shelter on March 7, 2019. Photo by Veronica Weber.
Pets In Need has notified Palo Alto that it will delay the anticipated termination of its contract with the city for animal services by six months, in a symbol of reconciliation following last year's dramatic rupture.
Last year, the organization, which has been providing animal services to the city under a contract since 2019, was slammed after seven puppies died in its custody while being transferred from the Central Valley in August 2021. The Redwood City-based nonprofit has also been in a disagreement with Palo Alto for more than a year over the city's failure to meet a major contract obligation of building new kennels.
While the question of new kennels remains unsolved, the two sides agreed last month to start talks on a new agreement that would maintain Pets In Need in Palo Alto through its scheduled end date of November 15. At the Feb. 14 meeting, Mayor Pat Burt also requested that the nonprofit postpone its withdrawal by six months to allow for more time for negotiations.
According to a statement signed by Valerie McCarthy, who took over as interim executive director of Pets In Need following the abrupt resignation of previous Executive Director Al Mollica in November, the board of directors of Pets In Need voted to approve the six-month extension on March 9. The deadline for the extension has been pushed back to May 15, 2023.
According to McCarthy's letter, "this updated termination letter comes after PIN personnel and city staff met and agreed to use the additional time to explore whether the city and PIN will stay under contract beyond May 15, 2023.However, nothing in this updated termination letter commits either PIN or the city to any specific procedure or outcome about whether PIN and the city will continue to be under contract after May 15, 2023.
The extension of the agreement is anticipated to be approved by the City Council on Monday.
According to McCarthy, the board's decision was unanimous, and everyone feels that keeping Pets In Need in Palo Alto is compatible with the organization's purpose of finding loving homes for all animals. Her recent encounters with city employees, including City Manager Ed Shikada, Community Services Director Kristen O'Kane, and the city's animal control officers, have also given her hope, she added. She stated that everyone has been responsive and willing to collaborate.
Valerie McCarthy, an animal welfare expert and a member of the Pets in Need board of directors, is the nonprofit's interim executive director. Pets in Need of Courtesy
McCarthy informed this news source, We have commercial conditions to work through, which is a difficulty with any town and organization, but the elements are in place to make it happen.
Pets In Need has recently alerted the city that it wants more freedom with the database it uses to track animals at the shelter, as well as a reconsideration of the city's policy on feral cats, which now prohibits Pets In Need from releasing caught cats on public territory. The group has advocated for a "catch, neuter, and release approach, and the council indicated on Feb. 14 that it is open to making this adjustment if the ordinance contains restrictions on releasing feral cats in environmentally vulnerable areas.
However, repairing the East Bayshore Road shelter remains the first priority. The city has invested around $1.8 million since Pets In Need took over to establish a medical suite and install modular office space that can be used as a classroom. The city, on the other hand, has not rebuilt the shelter's 50-year-old kennels, which McCarthy claims lack sound management or "disease control" methods to separate animals in need of tests and immunizations from those ready for adoption.
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At the Feb. 14 meeting, McCarthy emphasized the need of the city considering establishing a new kennel facility rather than making incremental improvements to the present one.
McCarthy told the council, "Putting a Band-Aid on it would be a short-term remedy, but it's not a long-term solution for the shelter."
Construction of a kennel facility and a rebuilt animal area for cats and small animals is "a key priority to be able to move forward with the agreement," according to a new report from the Community Services Department. Meanwhile, the city wants "assurances that the shelter and medical clinic will be accessible and available to the public at agreed-upon times, and that animal care and welfare will be of the greatest quality."
'Putting a Band-Aid on it is a quick cure, but it isn't a long-term solution for the shelter.'
-Valerie McCarthy, temporary executive director of Pets In Need, on the Palo Alto Animal Shelter's needs.
The finance for the new kennels is the most contentious issue in the negotiations. The facilities modifications are expected to cost between $3 million and $4 million more, according to the staff. Last month, the council showed little interest in sanctioning the additional costs, with council member Alison Cormack stating that she would like to limit capital investment to monies currently identified, which is insufficient to build the new kennels. The council eventually directed staff to collaborate with Pets In Need to develop a fundraising effort to raise the cash required.
Pets In Need, on the other hand, has little motivation to invest millions of dollars in a facility it does not own unless it has a long-term agreement for animal care. According to McCarthy, the nonprofit's commitment to a fundraising program will be contingent on the city and Pets In Need's ability to commit to a long-term cooperation. However, the group understands that the kennels are inadequate and requests that the necessary improvements be made.
We have no stock in the investment, McCarthy explained, but we are devoted to this purpose of delivering best-in-class animal care and placing animals in loving homes. Nothing, in our opinion, is more vital than the human-animal link.
In the aftermath of the August 2021 event, the organization has been analyzing and altering its safety standards, as well as rewriting its agreements with its partners. The seven puppies died along with 21 other dogs while being carried from the Central Valley on a sweltering day with temperatures in the 90s. According to necrology findings, the puppies died from heat stroke and/or asphyxiation.
That was a horrible occurrence. It had been a difficult day for the group McCarthy stated his opinion.
McCarthy said the group had taken safety precautions such as improving the air-conditioning systems in its transport van, which she noted had air conditioning at the time of the event, and supplementing the existing weather gauge with extra heat-display measures.
While McCarthy has met with municipal employees multiple times since taking over in November, a new report from the Community Services Department implies that once the updated contract is in place, negotiations between city staff and Pets In Need will pick up speed.
Staff and PIN will immediately begin negotiating new agreement terms if the Council approves the updated notice, the report adds.
Despite the uncertainty surrounding funding, some council members indicated last month that they might be willing to commit more city dollars to new kennels. At the Feb. 14 meeting, council member Eric Filseth stated that if the city wants to preserve a functional shelter, it must invest in it whether or not Pets In Need is the operator.
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Since the Paths' Time Rifts powered up for the first time on the Day of Reminiscence, masses of people across New Earth have been seeing visions of a fifth Time Rift hovering over the eerie Ground Zero of the impact, waiting to be discovered. These visions also invoked an increasing sense of empathy and fellowship between these people — a bond much stronger than their Path affiliation. A mass exodus from the Path capitals took place over the course of the first Era, and the first pioneers discovered that the Time Rift in their visions not only exists, but it holds the foundations of a new civilization, one that may eventually set all people of New Earth down a new path - the Path of Unity.
Explorers from the Path of Unity soon discovered a secluded mountain valley where the enigmatic flora not only survived the impact, but it mutated and evolved by the asteroid's toxic Neutronium dust. The resulting flower-like crystal formations synthesize a substance called Flux, which is collected and studied by the Harvesters, the valley's mysterious inhabitants. The Harvesters are willing to share the secrets of the Flux technology with the Paths, but remain silent about its side effects, which only they are immune to...
In the alternate storyline of Fractures of Time, Anachrony's first major expansion, the four original Paths and the newly formed, sanguine Path of Unity have gained access to a powerful new technology called Flux. Flux Cores can be acquired in the Amethynia Valley, the expansion's new main zone. By using the Flux Cores to power up their Fracture device, players may move ("Blink") one of their already placed Exosuits to a new action space instead of placing a new one, or immediately retrieve some of their Workers or Free Action markers. This can result in never-before-seen action efficiency, but just like the Time Rifts, the Flux technology is a double-edged sword. Without a sufficiently advanced Fracture device, overusing it can cause Temporal Glitches; hectic negative effects such as shutting down the Exosuit bay slots, temporarily disabling buildings, or making players more prone to Anomalies.
The Valley holds other secrets as well. The Operators' advanced technology allows players to remove the Temporal Glitches, upgrade their classic Path tech with new quirks, and even enlist the Harvesters themselves as a powerful new class of Workers, who are immune to the Flux's side effects.


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Sandia's impact on the state's economy put on display at summit
BY CHRIS BURROUGHS
More than 200 business, education, and civic leaders learned firsthand Jan. 22 about Sandia's impact on the state of New Mexico's economy during the Labs' first-ever Economic Impact Summit held at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
"The purpose of the summit was to make the greater Albuquerque business and civic communities aware of the economic impact Sandia has on the state, which is believed to be about three times the total amount it spends on purchases and salaries," says Don Devoti, manager of Sandia's Small Business Utilization Dept. 10222. "Most people attending the event already knew that Sandia plays a key role in New Mexico's economy. They just didn't know the extent."
At the event Labs officials — including Matt O'Brien, chief financial officer and VP of Business Operations Div. 10000, and Carol Yarnall, Supply Chain Management Center 10200 director — rolled out the new Sandia Economic Impact brochure, which outlined the full scope of the Labs' impact on the state's economy last year.
Carol informed the gathering of the importance of New Mexico community and business groups to Sandia's future.
"Sandia's suppliers are considered strategic partners, and this is the first of many venues the supply chain center will be sponsoring," she said.
Also on hand to provide insight to Sandia's economic effects on the community, all outlined in the brochure, were Karen Gillings, acting director of Human Resources Center 3500; Jackie Kerby Moore, manager of Sandia's Technology & Economic Development Dept. 1033; George Friberg, senior director of Technology Ventures Corp. (TVC); and Bruce McClure, manager of Sandia's Community Involvement Dept. 3652.
Among the information discussed at the summit and in the brochure are:
Last fiscal year Sandia employed 9,137 regular and temporary employees including 8,158 at the New Mexico site.
Sandia maintains a diverse workforce. At the New Mexico site, the FY08 workforce comprised 68 percent men, 32 percent women, and 30 percent minorities.
Last year Sandia spent nearly $1.02 billion on labor and noncontract-related payments, nearly $71 million on procurement card purchases, more than $54 million on the New Mexico corporate tax, and nearly $987 million on contract-related payments. New Mexico businesses received 35 percent of Sandia's contract-related payments.
Last year 57 percent of Sandia's payments on contracts went to small businesses, significantly exceeding Sandia's negotiated goal with NNSA of 48 percent. Here is a breakdown of Sandia's FY08 contract-related payments made to specific socioeconomic business categories in New Mexico: – $59.7 million to women-owned small businesses – $32.2 million to small disadvantaged businesses – $12.1 million to veteran-owned small businesses – $2.2 million to service disabled veteran-owned small businesses
As of Oct.1, 28 organizations made the Sandia Science & Technology Park their home, employing 2,284 people in direct jobs. Total investment in the park exceeds $306 million. The average wage in the park is $70,400, compared to the Albuquerque metropolitan area average of $37,300 for a full-time job.
In 2007 there were 315 small businesses participating in the New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program (NMSBA). The NMSBA program helps small businesses throughout the state. All participants receive technical support from Sandia.
Sandia is the largest corporate contributor to the United Way of Central New Mexico, contributing more than $3.7 million in 2008. Also, Lockheed Martin, on behalf of Sandia, donated more than $1 million to nonprofit organizations in the community during FY08.
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