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O município de Elizabeth City (em inglês: Elizabeth City Township) é um localização localizado no  condado de Pasquotank no estado estadounidense da Carolina do Norte. No ano 2010 tinha uma população de 11.741 habitantes.

Geografia
O município de Elizabeth City encontra-se localizado nas coordenadas .

Municípios da Carolina do Norte
Localidades do condado de Pasquotank


JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS) is a global leader in the solar industry. JinkoSolar distributes its solar products and sells its solutions and services to a diversified international utility, commercial and residential customer base in China, the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Chile, South Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, and other countries and regions. JinkoSolar has built a vertically integrated solar product value chain, with an integrated annual capacity of 2.5 GW for silicon ingots and wafers, 2.0 GW for solar cells, and 3.2 GW for solar modules, as of December 31, 2014. JinkoSolar also sells electricity in China and has connected approximately 500 MW of solar power projects to the grid, as of December 31, 2014.
Walt Cheng, managing director, DuPont Electronics & Communications, Greater China (fifth from right) and Kangping Chen, chief executive officer, JinkoSolar (fourth from left), sign a strategic collaboration agreement. Signing witness are Tony Su, president, DuPont Greater China, Jim Guo, global business director, DuPont Microcircuit Materials, Tim Chang, Asia Pacific regional business director, DuPont Microcircuit Materials, Eric Wang, global sales director, DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions (fourth to first from right), Hao Jin, chief scientist, JinkoSolar, Allen Guo, general manager, JinkoSolar cell business, Dany Qian, vice president, JinkoSolar (third to first from left).


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A Ponte de Vilar de Mouros é uma ponte localizada na freguesia de Vilar de Mouros, no município de Caminha, distrito de Viana do Castelo, em Portugal.

Trata-se de ponte de construção medieval, seguindo o modelo criado pelo grande protótipo regional que foi a ponte de Ponte de Lima.

A Ponte de Vilar de Mouros está classificada como Monumento Nacional desde 1910.

História
A ponte românica de Vilar de Mouros encontra-se no município de Caminha, Portugal. Foi construída aproximadamente entre os séc. XIV-XV. Este monumento é uma referência para alguns historiadores, sendo classificada desde 1910 como um dos protótipos de pontes góticas nacionais. Continua a ser a única travessia existente rodoviária e pedonal que une a freguesia de Vilar de Mouros, separada pelas margens do rio que por ela passa (Rio Coura). Tem uma estrutura reforçada e limitadores de largura, com o objectivo de impedir a passagem a veículos com peso superior a 4 toneladas.

Construção
Enquadra-se num ambiente urbano, tendo algumas construções nas suas proximidades, sendo uma delas a capela de Nossa Senhora da Piedade. Esta ponte de granito, lançada sobre o rio, de tabuleiro formando um cavalete com rampas de acesso, assenta sobre três arcos quebrados, sendo o arco central o maior. O seu pavimento é calcetado com lajedo central, o que faz com que o tabuleiro desta ponte se divida em dois e crie duas faixas. Trata-se de uma arquitectura civil de equipamento, gótica. A ponte em questão segue o modelo criado para a ponte de Ponte de Lima (grande protótipo regional).

A ponte românica de Vilar de Mouros é construída utilizando dois componentes bases e arcos.

Nesta ponte os arcos são semicircunferências perfeitas, construídas por pedras de granito como era comum na altura. A estrutura em arco e suportada por um conjunto de forcas que se anulam através da colocação de um tabuleiro.

As sapatas são construídas através de um prima triangular e um prisma rectangular. O prisma triangular estando a aresta superior (vista em planta) do lado contra a corrente e do outro por prisma rectangular facilitando assim a passagem da água e diminuindo a forca que esta aplica sobre a pedra.

Nesta ponte a colocação e o tamanho da pedra, foram importantes para estabelecer equilibro especialmente porque serve para a passagem de transportes rodoviários. Nos arcos, as pedras são rectângulos curtos e longos distribuindo assim o peso do resto da ponte.   Para a colocação das pedras no sitio é necessário utilizar umas estruturas em madeira que mais tarde serão removidas pois só depois de ser colocada a ultima pedra é que a ponte vai estar em estado de equilíbrio perfeito.

Ligações externas
 http://www.jorgefao.com.pt/index.php/requerimentos/53-ponte-romanica-de-vilar-de-mouros-concelho-de-caminha
 https://web.archive.org/web/20140110221057/http://www.cm-caminha.pt/ver.php?cod=0M0D0I
 http://vilapraiadeancora.blogs.sapo.pt/33854.html

Vilar de Mouros
Vilar Mouros
Pontes românicas em Portugal
Monumentos nacionais em Caminha
Pontes no distrito de Viana do Castelo

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Students select a theme upon application but have access to faculty and courses from across GBS and UAB, allowing for flexibility in both research and academics. During the first year students complete a series of core courses, theme-specific courses, and three lab rotations, which are designed to give a practical introduction to research and to help them choose a faculty mentor. Students can rotate in any faculty lab, regardless of theme.
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by Steven Austad
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What Biology Tells Us About Gender and Longevity
In the late fall of 1846, 87 California-bound pioneers found themselves stranded in the deepening snows of the Sierra Nevada mountains with little food and inept leadership, and with winter coming on fast. It would be months before rescue —if at all — was likely. This was the Donner Party, now infamous because they ultimately resorted to murder and cannibalism so that some of them could survive.
Although the psychological pressures that led to the cannibalism (even of children) are fascinating 173 years later, what interests me most about this well-documented catastrophe is who died and who survived. Of the 87 original members (89 if you count two native American men who joined them late and were eventually murdered), 47 members of the Donner Party survived. More than half of the men died of starvation or disease, but more than 70 percent of the women survived.
Last Year's Research on Aging Hints at What Lies Ahead
The year 2018 marked the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first gene in any animal that, when mutated, lengthened its life. In that case, the animal was a tiny worm; today, worms are the workhorses of aging research, but back then it was a novelty. The gene was called age-1, and it extended the worm's life by 50 percent. That event marked a convenient beginning for modern aging research, the pace of which seems to be accelerating each year.
In 2018, the field of aging research learned more about the science behind what you can do to keep yourself healthier, for longer, as you grow older. Likewise, investigators gained new insight into the biology of aging and age-related illnesses. To anticipate what lies ahead, let's look at what we learned in the past year.
Studies Show It's Never Too Late to Improve Your Health
Oct. 13, 2011, was a very good day for runner Fauja Singh. On that date, he set eight world records for his age group, spanning distances from 100 to 5,000 meters. Three days later, he added the record for the marathon. His age group? One hundred years and up.
Running a marathon at age 100 might not even be the most remarkable thing about Singh. Possibly even more remarkable: He didn't take up serious running until his mid-80s.
You've heard it again and again: "It's never too late." Well, it wasn't too late for Singh to begin training to be a world-class master athlete in his mid-80s, but what about the rest of us? We might not aspire to be world-class athletes, but many of us do want to enhance our health and extend our lives a bit. When is it too late to begin?
It's Not Just What You Eat — It's When You Eat
Eating less improves health. We have all heard this — and scientists have known this — for decades. From portion control to calorie counting, recommendations on nutrition and dietary choices often focus on limiting our intake of what we eat daily. But new research suggests that when it comes to healthy eating for healthy aging, it's not just what you eat or how much you eat, but when.
The first evidence of the impact of dietary timing has been seen in mice studies. Mice are the standard laboratory mammals from which we learn much of what we know about human biology.
The Low Cost, All-Natural Tool for Healthy Aging
Medications to help keep us healthy as we grow older are just around the corner.
This is not as outlandish as it might sound, considering that medications to keep our hearts and blood vessels younger and healthier have been around for some time. That is, it is well-known that blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering medication preserve cardiovascular health. In fact, the widespread use of these medications has led to a one-third reduction in age-adjusted deaths from heart disease and stroke just since the beginning of this century.
Scientists focusing on the biology of aging, supported by the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), have now identified a number of other medications that target processes of aging itself. These interventions have had impressive results in mouse studies, and the most promising of these will soon start human testing.
What can dogs teach us about aging well?
For the dog lovers among us, it is nothing short of tragic that the lives of our beloved pets are so short compared to ours.
My own first inkling of the ravages of aging, in fact, was observing the life trajectory of my childhood dog, a splotchy mutt who I creatively named Spot. As I entered my teens, Spot was a strong and sturdy adult. But when I went away to college and periodically returned home, I noticed that Spot was declining.
He gradually lost his eagerness to go for long walks. Then he could no longer jump up on his favorite couch. Eventually, he lost most of his hearing and control of his bladder. Before I graduated, he was gone.
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The family of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee who died after she tumbled from a moving truck in June has filed a lawsuit against the Addison bar she was at that day.
The lawsuit, filed Dec. 31 in state district court in Dallas County, says the Black Finn American Saloon was negligent in serving Amy Wheat alcohol after she was visibly intoxicated.
Wheat, 38, fell from a Veterans Affairs pickup and struck a light pole. The accident happened June 2 in the 4800 block of Belt Line Road, less than a quarter-mile from the bar. Wheat's blood alcohol content was 0.26 percent, more than three times the legal driving limit of 0.08 percent.
"Any bar that chooses to over-serve patrons puts everyone in Dallas in danger of something like this happening," attorney Keith Purdue said.
An attorney for the bar couldn't be reached for comment Thursday.
Witnesses reported seeing Wheat fall from the truck about 11 p.m. Two men picked her up, put her back in the truck and drove off, witnesses told police.
The men, also VA employees, called 911 about 10 minutes later, when they were on Inwood Road in North Dallas. They said they were trying to take Wheat to a hospital, according to police reports.
Wheat, a nurse recruiter from the G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., was dead when police arrived at Inwood.
Purdue said the bartenders should have recognized that Wheat was intoxicated and stopped serving her alcohol.
"This is a completely avoidable situation," he said. "Had proper steps and procedures taken place ... Amy Wheat would still be alive."


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Afghanistan: Taliban leader killed in US drone strike
World, Asia - Pacific
Pakistani Taliban accuses Afghan intelligence service of providing information for this strike
By Shadi Khan Saif and Aamir Latif
KABUL, Afghanistan / KARACHI, Pakistan
A notorious leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Mullah Fazlullah, has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the Afghan province of Kunar, officials and local media confirmed on Friday.
Hailing from Pakistan's Swat district, the Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader is believed to have been operating from his hideouts in the forests of eastern Afghanistan since 2009.
Mohammad Radmanesh, deputy Defense Ministry spokesman in Kabul, told Anadolu Agency that Fazlullah -- wanted under the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice since this March -- was killed in a drone strike carried out two days ago.
In a statement released by the TTP, the group acknowledged its leader had been killed. The terrorist group accused Afghan intelligence service NDS – long suspected by Pakistan of harboring Fazlullah – of providing information for the U.S. hit.
Lt. Col. Martin O'Donnell, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan spokesman, also confirmed the strike, telling local TOLO news: "U.S. forces conducted a counterterrorism strike, June 13, in Kunar province, close to the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which targeted a senior leader of a designated terrorist organization."
The news follows a meeting between Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, Pakistan's powerful army chief, and Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday during a visit to Kabul amid renewed efforts for resuming the peace process. Leading a delegation, Bajwa landed in Kabul on the first day of a landmark cease-fire declared by the government against the Taliban.
Pakistani Taliban sources also confirmed Fazlullah's death, saying a detailed statement would be issued within hours.
Fazlullah was chosen TTP chief in 2013 following the death of his predecessor Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone strike in North Waziristan. Also known as Mullah Radio for his fiery broadcast speeches, Fazlullah fled to Afghanistan in 2010 after the Pakistani army launched a large-scale onslaught on his Tehrik Nizaf-e-Sharia'h Mohammadi (TNSM) or Movement for Enforcement of Sharia'h in the Swat valley.
Apart from numerous terrorist attacks on Pakistani forces and civilians, he is also considered the mastermind of the 2014 massacre of over 140 children at an army-run school in Peshawar.
Pakistani media called his death the "end of a terrorist era".
Trust-building measure
Pakistan termed the killing of Mullah Fazlullah a significant development in the war against terrorism saying "finally action has been taken against an enemy of the people and the state of Pakistan".
"This news has been received throughout Pakistan with relief as Pakistanis have borne the brunt of TTP's terrorist action," Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Nasir ul Mulk told Ghani who made telephonic contact with Pakistan's top civilian and military leadership to confirm the death of Mullah Fazlullah on late Friday evening, according to a statement from the prime minister's house.
Ghani also telephoned Pakistan's army chief, who termed the killing of the militant commander a "positive development" which "gives relief to scores of Pakistani families who fell victims to TTP terror including the massacre of army public school (Peshawar) school (in 2014)", according to statement from Pakistan Army.
Analysts see the killing of Pakistan's most wanted militant as a large confidence-building measure vis-a-vis Pakistan's otherwise sour relations with the U.S. and Afghanistan.
"This is not only a big development in terms of the war against terrorism but a huge confidence-building measure to bridge the trust deficit between Pakistan and the other two allies," retired Brig. Mahmood Shah, an Islamabad-based defense analyst, told Anadolu Agency.
Islamabad and Kabul have long accused each other of harboring terrorists. Washington, for its part, accuses Islamabad of providing safe havens to the powerful Haqqani network, a group involved in numerous brazen attacks on foreign forces in the war-ravaged country in recent years.
Pakistan, however, denies the charge, and itself accuses the U.S. of turning a blind eye to militants who attack Pakistani forces and civilians from Afghan soil.
"Pakistan has long been demanding action against him [Fazlullah], which finally has been taken. This, I reckon, shows a change in the U.S.' anti-Pakistan policy in the region, mainly in Afghanistan," Shah observed.
Also, he added, the development could also accelerate ongoing efforts to reduce diplomatic tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Wiązowna  is a village in Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Wiązowna. It lies approximately  north-east of Otwock and  east of Warsaw.

The village has a population of 980.

Climate
Wiązowna has a dry-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dsb).

External links
 Jewish Community in Wiązowna on Virtual Shtetl

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Villages in Otwock County
Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795)
Warsaw Governorate
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Signings, Trades & Transfers
Carson's Charleston Charge
Charleston Battery Trio Amongst Those Trialing In Houston
As the Dynamo kick off their offseason with a trial minicamp, three Charleston Battery stars are included on the list of players currently participating.
By Carson A Merk@CarsonAMerk Nov 7, 2015, 9:30am CST
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Ariel Martinez lines up a shot in the 2015 Gold Cup as a member of the Cuban National team.
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As the 2015 season ended in disappointment for the Houston Dynamo missing the playoffs, it's universally known that changes are needed this off season. A trial shortly after the season has the possibility of producing some new additions to the roster down the road. It appears during their one year affiliation with the USL's Charleston Battery, the Dynamo must have been impressed with some of the club's top players, enough to invite 3 of them to trial with the club this week and next, ending with a scrimmage against Houston's U-18 side. While the names of the other players in the pool are not known at this time, it's confirmed via a story on the Battery's official team website that the Battery's USL Defender of the Year finalist Shawn Ferguson, team captain Jarad van Schaik and late season addition, Cuban defector, Ariel Martinez are all in Houston currently. While this is far from a guaranteed roster spot for any of the auditioning players, these three could potentially be helpful to the Dynamo's 2016 campaign if they are offered a chance. And who better to explain their potential impact to you than a young, talented staff writer who not only covers Houston, but was also the Dynamo Theory writer assigned to covering the Battery this season.
Shawn Ferguson
Ferguson was on the USL's 1st team as a defender and was one of three finalists for the USL's Defender of the Year. Throughout the season, the 24 year old was tasked with defending the opposing club's top offensive threat. At 6-4 and 200 pounds, he is a very powerful, physical defender who also has enough pace to effectively deny the more athletic forwards good chances. As Dynamo fans know, defense has been an issue for Houston for years. The defensive unit has been consistently inconsistent. Ferguson is the type of young defender who can add a steady presence to an anything but steady backline.
Jarad van Schaik
The 2015 captain of the Charleston Battery, van Schaik is a great leader at the age of 26. He not only leads vocally, but also with his consistent play for Charleston over his 3 years with the club. He also comes into the trial with previous MLS experience, after training with Real Salt Lake who drafted him in 2011. His passing and strong defensive abilities in the midfield, coupled with his leadership are an intriguing idea for any club, especially one who may be losing a great passing midfielder with strong leadership and skill via trade.
Ariel Martinez
While Martinez's match time with the Battery on the pitch was very short, nobody doubts the amazing talent of the Cuban forward. Prior to his Gold Cup defection, Martinez was considered the top talent on the Cuban National team. Known for his incredible dribbling and offensive ability with the ball at his feet, it was known when he signed with the Battery late in the 2015 season that MLS teams would come calling. The fit with Houston might be a very good one, with the aforementioned potential loss of Brad Davis, the Dynamo could be looking for another veteran to step in and help create on the offensive end, especially one who can provide similar dazzling, diagonal runs opposite of Giles Barnes.
This trial in Houston also provided the Battery boys an opportunity to unite, for at least the time being, with the player loaned to the Battery from Houston for the season, Memo Rodriguez. I asked Ariel Martinez how it was to be able to be on trial with Houston alongside teammates van Schaik and Ferguson, he said " It's a great opportunity to be here with them, they are good friends and good people. He also had positive things to say about his interaction so far with Owen Coyle and the rest of the Dynamo staff, "Super good, super good, I've loved it." A strong showing from this trial could provide any of these three with a training camp invite with a chance to make the squad in 2016.
How do you feel about these potential newcomers to the Dynamo? What other young USL stars or seasoned veterans would you like to see brought in for a look? Let us know in the comments section below!


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New German Chancellor Scholz makes European debut
In keeping with tradition, his first official trip will take him to France where he will meet President Emmanuel Macron.
By Deborah Cole
December 10, 2021 02:29 GMT
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday heads to Paris and EU and NATO headquarters, with Russia tensions and climate in the spotlight for his first foreign trip since he took office this week.
Germany's new leader has pledged continuity with his predecessor Angela Merkel, who stepped down Wednesday after 16 years in power.
Scholz took power with a disparate new coalition of ecologist Greens and business-friendly Free Democrats, which has agreed to strengthen Europe's "strategic sovereignty".
He will continue on to Brussels for meetings with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president Charles Michel ahead of a bloc summit next week.
The European response to the pandemic and the climate crisis, growing calls for a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics in China and the Russian troop build-up on Ukraine's border are set to dominate discussions.
Scholz on Thursday already warned Moscow of "consequences" for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a Russian project to deliver natural gas to Germany and a major source of friction with many partners.
As Western powers threaten punishing new sanctions against Moscow, the project could soon play a central role.
"With Nord Stream 2, Germany has the big geopolitical weapon in its hand without ever having sought it," said analyst Ulrich Speck of the German Marshall Fund.
Laying the groundwork for the visit, new Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock of the Greens said in Paris Thursday that Berlin would set its stance on Russia and China in close consultation with European allies.
She praised French plans to reform carbon taxation when Paris assumes the EU presidency in January, while hailing the 2015 Paris climate accord as a "stellar moment in international diplomacy".
In keeping with tradition, Scholz' first official trip will take him to France where he will meet President Emmanuel Macron Photo: POOL via AFP / Michael Kappeler
Baerbock stressed her ministry would now "help take the lead" for Berlin on future multilateral climate initiatives, as she underlined the centrality of the rule of law and human rights in the EU ahead of a stop in Poland Friday.
However, she acknowledged that Germany, which will close all of its atomic power plants by next year for safety reasons, did not see eye-to-eye with France in its bid to name nuclear as a suitable energy source to meet Europe's net-zero climate goal.
Scholz, a centrist Social Democrat, is a known entity, having served as Merkel's finance minister and vice chancellor.
Although he long backed Germany's trademark budget austerity goals, he threw his weight behind massive government spending to help Europe cope with the pandemic -- going further than Merkel.
"Europe senses that Scholz is more likely to continue the Merkel course on the European Stability and Growth Pact" and its strict debt rules, said Anne Gellinek of public broadcaster ZDF.
Scholz is expected to face renewed calls for Germany to match its economic weight with more responsibility in global security affairs.
The new coalition pact makes no mention of the pledge for all NATO member states to commit two percent of their GDP to defence by 2024.
Instead, it will commit "in the long run" three percent of spending to the military, diplomacy and development aid, a clause already attacked by Merkel's conservatives, now in opposition, as a "sham".
French Foreign Minister Yves Le Drian asked Thursday for stronger German support in foreign missions, including operations against jihadist groups in the Sahel region, saying Berlin had "an important role to play".
Political scientist Andrea Roemmele of the Hertie School of Governance expects closer cooperation with Paris on security policy under Scholz.
But with the French presidential elections looming next year, Berlin will likely "take a wait-and-see stance" on projects, particularly given the threat of a strong showing for the far right.
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Neal Bertram
Prof Emertius, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Magnetic recording physics, recording materials, magnetic media, and information storage.
Professor Bertram is a leading research scientist exploring the fundamental physics of magnetic recording processes and materials. His goal is to understand all the issues involved with the continued growth in magnetic storage density and data rate. He is an expert on the behavior of magnetic grains in thin-film storage media at the heart of storage devices such as disk and tape-drives. In such media, each data bit cell is composed of a small volume of about 200 magnetic grains, typically of Cobalt or Iron alloys. Higher densities require smaller grains, but smaller grains are more prone to switch polarity due to random (stochastic) thermal fluctuations. The 10-year data reliability standard sets a minimum grain size and hence a maximum system signal-to-noise ratio. Bertram also studies magnetic dynamic relaxation, which controls data rate (how rapidly magnetic grains can be reversed) and optimal medium design. A key issue is the grain anisotropy direction, which sets the magnetization orientation. Perpendicular recording (out-of-plane grain orientation) may provide better signal and thermal stability at higher densities than conventional longitudinal recording (in-plane orientation). A new hybrid medium design developed in Bertram's lab allows for ultra high areal densities (1-2 Terabits/in.sq.) about an order of magnitude greater than predicted even for perpendicular recording. Also newly created: large-scale numerical computer codes that simulate the entire dynamic recording process, including the transducers that write and read recorded data. This work involves supercomputers (SDSC-NPACI) and has recently led to novel transducer designs.
H. Neal Bertram came to UCSD in 1985 as the Endowed Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He leads CMRR's recording physics and micromagnetics research. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard in 1968, then worked for AMPEX Corporation. He is the author of the highly-regarded "Theory of Magnetic Recording" (Cambridge University Press, 1994). He was co-recipient in 2000 of the National Storage Industry Consortium's Technical Achievement Award for modeling and system simulations paving the way to a 100Gb/sq.in. hard disk drive system. An IEEE Fellow, he received the 2003 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award.
nbertram@ucsd.edu
Center for Memory and Recording Research
San Diego Supercomputer Center,California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology


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Peak Games, a leading online and mobile company, unites 30 million monthly unique players with free, culturally relevant, community-driven games. Serdar Sahin shares the company's journey evaluating MPP columnar databases against Hadoop to find the right data infrastructure to enable the company to handle the unpredictable popularity of newly launched games. Read more.
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'Mafia Cops' prosecutors drop two murders
Friends of ours: John Gotti, Bartolomeo "Bobby" Boriello, Luchese Crime Family, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, Gambino Crime Family
Friends of mine: Louis Eppolito, Stephen Caracappa
With less than a month before trial, Brooklyn federal prosecutors slimmed down the indictment against the "Mafia Cops" by dropping two murders that were part of the racketeering conspiracy charged against the ex-cops. A new indictment unsealed Thursday showed that prosecutors, seeking to simplify the trial, have decided to weed out the 1990 murder of union official James Bishop and the 1991 killing of one-time John Gotti crony Bartolomeo "Bobby" Boriello.
Former NYPD detectives Louis Eppolito, 57, and Stephen Caracappa, 64, have been charged with playing roles in as many as 10 homicides, including some while they were police officers, for members of the Luchese crime family. Some of the murders were believed to have been part of a scheme by former Luchese boss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso to avenge a foiled assassination plot against him.
Bishop, an official of Painters Union Local 37, was killed because he was believed by the mob to have been an informant, said prosecutors. Investigators said Boriello was killed after Eppolito and Caracappa provided information to Casso that the Gambino soldier had threatened him. Eppolito and Caracappa, who have denied the charges against them, are slated to go to trial Feb. 21 before Judge Jack B. Weinstein in Brooklyn federal district court.
The Bishop and Boriello homicides were dropped from the case to streamline the prosecution witness list. Last year Weinstein expressed doubts that he would allow prosecutors Mitra Hormozi and Robert Henoch to call as many as 100 witnesses.
As many as 10 potential witnesses now don't have to be called, said the source, who added that prosecutors will try to introduce evidence of the two killings as uncharged crimes if Weinstein allows it.
"Our defense is that Steve Caracappa is a hero, not a criminal," defense attorney Edward Hayes said Thursday. Bruce Cutler, who is defending Eppolito, couldn't be reached for comment.
Thanks to Anthony DeStefano
Related Headlines Anthony Casso, Bobby Boriello, Gambinos, John Gotti, Louis Eppolito, Luccheses, Mafia Cops, Stephen Caracappa


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This is another poster I created for an event on campus.
This was a flyer that I created for Anelise. Her client was needing a flyer for a showing of Miss Representation - which is awesome. They wanted something minimal, with emotional colors that would still pop - so here is what I came up with!


Always travel with fishing gear: The proof is in the.... meat bags.
The proof is in the.... meat bags.
I guess all posts can't be about fishing. Some just have to be for a good outdoors chuckle.
My 2015 hunting season wrapped up with one final adventure and a decent whitetail buck. It was a beautiful, cold, fabulously mountainous Montana day. Half a foot of frozen snow was on the ground. The predawn zero-degree landscape was fully moonlit. My hunting bud and I saw six different moose that day and the deer kept the binos busy.
Hey, Bryan, glad you had a successful hunt! How did your partner do?
As always, great pics. How did you pull off the scope pic?
The partner with me that day did well - he was tagged out already with both elk and deer and just along for the comradarie.
I take my scope pics just by holding my camera at proper eye relief and acquiring the sight picture, then snapping away and tossing the bad ones. Definitely hard to get it all lined up and keep it that way.


On your graduation day, you will be required to wear USQ academic dress as per the Award Eligibility and Graduation Policy (Academic Dress Schedule).
We encourage you to wear smart attire rather than casual clothing or casual footwear (thongs or sneakers). Academic dress can be quite warm, so keep this in mind when selecting your clothing for the day.
items of academic dress not returned, or returned in a significantly damaged condition that cannot be repaired, will incur a fee for the full replacement value for the gown, hood/stole and headwear.
The colours featured on the academic dress represents different qualifications and disciplines and corresponds to colours and numbers from the British Colour Council Dictionary of Colours Standards.
While the University does not sell academic dress, you may wish to purchase your own from P.Blashki and Sons Pty Ltd.
Please note: supplying your own gowning for your graduation ceremony does not alter the Ceremony Fee AUD150.
Professional stylist Alex Paterson is here to solve your style dilemma, from colours, to the type of clothing item, with simple tips for a practical and polished graduation look.
Bow tie or no tie? Jeans or dress pants? Button-up long sleeve or t-shirt? There are lots of things to consider, from shirt to shoe colour, but Alex has you covered.


BIG, colorful hats! Derby fashion parade.
Colonel Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr., the founder of the Kentucky Derby — click to read my post on Austen Authors for more on thoroughbred horse racing — modeled the race after European-style racing events like the Royal Ascot and Derby at Epsom Downs. In the past, and still to this day, the English races mandated formal dress for men and women, including hats. When the Kentucky Derby began in 1875, American women, like their cousins across the pond, wore their finest garments to the races. Of course, dressing properly in the latest fashion was typical in those days, especially for the upper classes who attended the exclusive thoroughbred races. And, until very recent decades, hats were an accoutrement as required as a pair of shoes!
Fashion in America has changed, with headwear practically unheard of in a casual setting and rare for formal attire. Women wearing hats is slightly more common in the more traditional South, and no where is this carryover as prevalent than at the Kentucky Derby!
Derby goers take the custom to an entirely new level. The majority are ornate, colorful, exquisitely crafted, classy if ostentatious, and very BIG. Some are moderately sized and decorated, but whatever the size, typically wearers choose a hat to compliment their garments and with beauty in mind. Not all, however! There are an increasing number of Derby attendees who swing toward the ridiculous or bizarre.
On Google and Pinterest there are hundreds of examples of Derby hats. Limiting myself was very difficult! Enjoy the collage below, and vote on your favorite "beautiful Derby hat" and the "most ridiculous" sample.
4 Comments for BIG, colorful hats! Derby fashion parade.
Love hats. Interesting article. Wouldn't mind owning a couple of these beauties myself.
I love hats also! I collect vintage hats and wear them to church every Sunday. I have a friend at church and we see who can wear the best hat. As far as favorites in the pictures, I like the pink one with the roses and for ridiculous, the drink one. I've been to the Derby twice and the best part about going is definitely wearing the hat!
Also wanted to add that the butterfly one that one of the princesses is wearing in the photos at the top of the page is incredible to look at! I saw a photo of it another time and it's just incredibly well done if a little much.


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Mr. Charles Snyder
Charles (Charlie) Snyder is a 1959 graduate of Lake High School. He was raised in Uniontown where he attended Uniontown Schools. When the schools were consolidated, Charlie attended the newly formed Lake High School until his graduation in 1959. Following high school, Charlie attended Wittenburg College. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1963. While at Wittenburg, Charlie met Jan who became his wife.
Charlie returned to Uniontown after college and he began working in the family's insurance company, Snyder Agency Inc., which his father started in 1938. After nearly 42 years, Charlie has remained with Snyder Agency Inc., located on Cleveland Ave. in Uniontown. Professionally Charlie has won numerous awards and earned his Charter Life Underwriters in 1972.
While living and working in the Lake community, Charlie has been active in many organizations. Currently he serves the Lake Senior Center board of directors, Lake Rotary (in which he was a president and a treasurer) and the Hattie Larlham board of directors.
He is the past chairman of the Lake YMCA board. In 1989-1990, Charlie was the Volunteer of the Year for the North Canton YMCA. He has served on the board of directors of the Lake Chamber of Commerce and was the 1999 recipient of the Outstanding Small Business Award. He is also active in the Uniontown Business Association (UBA) in which he has served as treasurer and president. Charlie has served on a selection committee at Lake Local that honored outstanding Lake educators, too.
These are just a few of the activities with which Charlie has been involved. There are many small activities that Charlie works on for the benefit of the community. He is always involved, always behind the scenes, and never seeking the limelight.
Charlie and Jan have been married more than 40 years. They had three children— daughters Jennifer and Kristin and a son, Johnny, who died at the age of three. Both daughters graduated from Lake High School.
Dr. Robert Wilson Jones
Dr. Robert Wilson Jones is a 1949 graduate of Uniontown High School. He joined the Navy that same year. In the Navy, he was trained as an electronic technician. He spent time in Japan and the Marshall Islands.
After four years, Bob returned from the Navy and worked at Goodyear Aircraft for a time before putting himself through four years at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. He became a minister and then attended Tennessee Temple at which he received a Master's Degree in Theology.
Baptist MidMission in Cleveland sponsored Bob in 1960 as a missionary to Brazil. He was a church-builder—he would spend four years to build up a church, provide a minister, and see it up and running, then come home to the States for a year. Then he would return to Brazil to build another church in another four years. He did this for almost 40 years. More than six churches that were started are still going strong. In addition, he helped with a number of other churches.
Bob was presented with an honorary doctor's degree in 1995. He served with Pressboard, publishing books for churches. He serves on the board of a national Bible college, Pioneer Bible College and supports a college in Brazil for ministers there.
He explored while in Brazil and the surrounding area. He loves Iguaszu Falls—which is larger than Niagara Falls—and the Brazilian people. He and his wife, Corrine, raised four children who grew up in Brazil. His daughter, Darcy, who also graduated from Bob Jones University and taught there, married a minister. She and her husband, Chris Vergeils, have five children and are currently serving in Brazil as missionaries. Corrine died in March 1995.
Bob married Helen Hall in 1999. They currently reside in Maranatha Village Retirement Center, outside Sebring, Florida.


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