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10 Hot Fields of Study
College majors (right here!) that do the best in the real world.
Christine H. O'Toole,
Illustrations by Michael Sloan
Think global. Study local. Higher education now covers the world, addressing massive challenges: sustainability, new energy solutions, digital media, information technology, international trade, medical breakthroughs and much more. Major corporations are moving onto campus, too, pulling students into new research and ventures.
Here are some CliffsNotes on how regional colleges are jumping in to prepare students for the most promising careers of the next decade.
Ni-how, China: Thick with the BRICs
Brazil, Russia, India and China, often called the BRIC nations, are the world's biggest emerging markets. They're stepping up to first-world trade status, followed closely by the Middle East and Africa. Local colleges offer immersion in the culture and business sectors of those nations.
But first, it helps to learn the language. The University of Pittsburgh offers courses in the world's major languages — and even a dozen that are less-commonly taught, like Swahili and Vietnamese. Pitt's International Business Center in the Katz School of Business, which launched a Global Management program in 2008, includes language studies as well as business topics. The center bolsters course work with 10-week summer internships in business centers. Preceded by two-week orientations on the business cultures of their destinations, the work assignments include varied levels of language training. This summer, 46 students took advantage of the for-credit experience.
"The program's been running for three years, beginning in Sao Paolo, Prague and Beijing," says J.P. Matychak, director of career services for Katz. "We've added Madrid, Milan, Berlin and Paris — and we're investigating India, South Korea and Japan."
Carnegie Mellon University offered its first section of elementary Chinese in 1992. Today, the Department of Modern Languages offers more than 20 each semester, as well as Mandarin for business managers within the Tepper School of Business. This year, 99 students will major or minor in Chinese studies.
There's a new demand on the horizon for individuals who can teach Chinese at the pre-college level, too. St. Vincent College recently became one of three colleges in the state to offer a certification program for elementary, middle- and high-school teachers. Students pursuing teacher certification must study abroad one semester or complete an immersion experience. The college arranges such opportunities through cooperative arrangements with Beijing Normal University, Fu Jen University or Wuhan University.
Mad Men: Marketing, Communications and Design
CMU's School of Design offers undergraduate degrees in communication and industrial design. Dan Boyarski, the design school's director of alumni relations, says more companies are hiring design professionals because they have a systematic way of creatively resolving problems; meanwhile, companies like Facebook, Twitter and Apple have been seeking these graduates because they're also users of their products and services. These tech giants are looking for new hires who can think of different ways to extend product lines or build new businesses, enhance the visual impact of their interfaces and improve the user experience.
In the North Hills, La Roche College's minor in Web design reaches outside the classroom, enabling students to create sites for real-life clients; students have interned in departments at Allegheny General Hospital and Pitt, among other businesses.
Mapping DNA: Biological Science
By Creating a map of our DNA, the human genome project produced an avalanche of data, causing a need for analysts who combine a background in biology with computational and statistical skills. That means you, if you're equally at home in front of a monitor and a microscope.
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including many local startups, seek to take advantage of the new data, and are hiring grads who can manage and interpret the information.
The bioinformatics program at St. Vincent provides students with the skills needed to enter the workforce for both companies. At Penn State, the university's department fuses the expertise of folks in the molecular biology and biochemistry fields.
Going Green: Sustainability Soars
The academic subject of sustainability is still being defined, but its quest to examine the economic, agricultural, health and energy decisions that will sustain human life on earth is rapidly drawing attention from idealistic students and big thinkers. On the rolling former pastureland of Eden Hall Farm, located on the northern edge of Allegheny County, Chatham University is building a brand-new, net-zero energy campus that will be a lab for its School of Sustainability and the Environment.
Chatham has emphasized its legacy in environmental studies since the founding of the Rachel Carson Institute, named in honor of its 1929 alumna, in 1989. The school launched a popular M.A. in food studies in 2010.
"This fall, we will have 70 graduate-level students across our three graduate programs in the School of Sustainability and the Environment," reports Michael May, director of graduate admission for the university. "That's an increase of 30 percent over the previous year."
In July, Duquesne University held the graduation ceremony for its MBAs in sustainability at an appropriately "green" location: Phipps Conservatory. The 5-year-old program has been ranked in the top 25 internationally by the Aspen Institute for integrating sustainability into a business MBA curriculum and is among the top 10 schools for its size.
At Penn State, a new intercollege sustainability leadership minor combines course work across a number of the university's colleges.
Engineering has also turned attention to renewable resources: Penn State's Altoona campus now offers a B.S. in environmental studies (housed within the Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences). At Pitt, the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, within its Swanson School of Engineering, builds on the school's pioneering work in green construction. Focusing on the design of sustainable neighborhoods, it's a resource for those earning engineering degrees. Micah Toll, named one of Entrepreneur magazine's top five college entrepreneurs of 2011, was a Pitt senior working with the center when he invented a sustainable electric bike; the resulting company, Pulse Motors, was his third startup.
Western Pennsylvania's reputation for brains has surpassed its reputation for brawn. That makes higher education an unusually vibrant scene. One-third of Pittsburgh residents above the age of 25 have a bachelor's degree, as opposed to the U.S. average of 27.5 percent. A 2010 study reported that one in five 25- to 34-year-old Pittsburghers hold graduate or professional degrees, a ranking that ties the city with Washington, D.C.
Mobile Us: Social & Online Communications
Andrew Stephen, who's teaching the popular new social- media course in Pitt's Katz School of Business, says social media is doing more than simply monetizing websites. "Our students are finding when they go to interviews — whether in finance, accounting, consulting or supply chain — that social media is coming up in every conversation," he says.
While the course, first offered this spring, will be a requirement within the school's digital marketing curriculum, Stephen stresses that social media "is not marketing-specific anymore. Social interactions can affect how companies deal with new products, and customer service, not just promotion. It runs the gamut."
CMU's Entertainment Technology Center creates interactive media — and much more. Students in the master's program are proudly cross-disciplinary, pooling their skills in computer science, engineering and artistry to create new games, new programming capabilities, animations and even theme park experiences.
Of the 15 startups currently in the Plug and Play Tech Center, a California incubator, four came from CMU. Strike Fortress, a breakthrough multiplayer video game created by Electronic Artists and Google, was based on work by a group of CMU students. With 3-D graphics, Strike Fortress is written in HTML; because it is accessed through a Web browser, the game can be played on smartphones, tablets or computers without a dedicated gaming device.
The commercial-music industry forecasts a 24-percent increase in tech jobs in the field in the next five years. California University of Pennsylvania's commercial-music technology major prepares students to work as recording and broadcast engineers, digital composers and arrangers, sound mixers, TV and audio producers, and video-game engineers — all aspects of a music industry estimated to contribute $10.4 billion to the U.S. economy annually. "Cal U is the only four-year college or university in Pennsylvania to offer Pro Tools certification," says Max Gonano, former chair of the music department. "This is definitely a career-builder for our students."
Mystery 101: Full of Forensics
As unique as fingerprints, retina scans, voice scans and other measurements are now used to verify identity in every location from an ATM to an international airport. Biometric applications are at the forefront of homeland security, crime-fighting and even laptop access.
West Virginia University offers a biometrics degree that mixes computer science and engineering with forensic sciences. WVU is the lead academic partner and liaison for the FBI's Biometric Center of Excellence in nearby Clarksburg, W.Va., where its Center for Identification Technology Research plays a key role.
"We've seen a steady increase in enrollment since starting the degree 10 years ago," says professor Bojan Cukic, director of WVU's Center for Identification Technology Research. "It's growing 10 to 20 percent per year."
To date, 120 students have chosen the major. Cukic says that most undergrads take on research internships with federal agencies or their corporate partners, such as defense contractors Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. With that experience, 80 percent land full-time jobs or graduate school opportunities after earning their B.S.
WVU's College of Business and Economics also offers a program in forensic accounting, as does Carlow University. Students in both programs trace white-collar crime with its forensic accounting major, while Cal U offers forensic anthropology. Students spend lab time analyzing one of the nation's best bone collections, and they learn how to use ground-penetrating radar and other tools to find critical evidence to help solve crimes.
Starting with an undergraduate program in biochemistry or biology, Duquesne students can continue in the nation's only master's program in forensic science and law, in an institute named after Allegheny County medical examiner Dr. Cyril H. Wecht.
Bit by Bit: Information Systems
We're bombarded with bits. It's now estimated that the amount of information available for human use doubles every three years. To grapple with that tsunami of data, expertise in information systems has become a skill set sought by organizations of every size.
From its 1901 founding as a training school for the Carnegie's children's librarians, Pitt's School of Information Sciences has grown to 10 undergraduate and graduate programs. Now known informally as the iSchool, it enrolls nearly 750 students, many of whom choose telecommunications and health sciences (a master's program and a subcategory of another master's program, respectively).
Enrollment trends at CMU confirm demand for IS training. Since last year, the university has seen a 31-percent jump in applications for its information systems major, where students design and implement solutions for organizational information. According to director of undergraduate admission Michael Steidel, technology and engineering programs continue to be popular. Applications for computer science and engineering slots at CMU have increased 22 and 11 percent respectively since the 2011-2012 academic year.
Health Care: Nursing a Nation
Booming as always, the health-care industry continues to influence undergraduate and graduate studies. At Indiana University of Pennsylvania, students enrolled in the nursing program go through community health training (including a clinical rotation). Geneva College has launched studies in cardiovascular technology.
Robert Morris University offers the area's only four-year nuclear medicine program; the school provides specific instruction in high-tech imaging, such as nuclear medicine technology and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
A new addition to the liberal-arts curriculum at Grove City College is the exercise-science major. Also available as a minor to students of all majors, the program trains students with career aspirations in commercial or community based health, fitness, coaching and athletics.
Compressing the time required to earn graduate degrees in medical professions is an imperative impelled by the booming regional health-care economy. The Duquesne University Physician Assistant Studies (PAS) Program was the first five-year, entry-level master's degree program in the nation. Seton Hill University also offers a five-year bachelor/master's pairing, streamlining a program that traditionally requires two or more years of post-graduate work. Other five-year programs are offered regionally at St. Francis and Seton Hill Universities. Duquesne also offers a six-year program culminating in a doctor's degree in physical therapy. At nearby Chatham, a two-and-one-half year doctor's program in PT is offered.
To ease the transition to medical school, Seton Hill has also launched a cooperative agreement with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, guaranteeing admission for undergrads who successfully compete the Seton Hill undergrad program (either the standard four years or a three-year accelerated curriculum).
Ideal Innovation: Entrepreneurs Step In
According to a 2010 study from the Kauffman Foundation, job growth in the nation is largely driven by startups. And in a city that's a hotbed of high-tech startups in everything from robotics to regenerative medicine, an idea for a new product isn't enough. Future entrepreneurs need to be able to turn their ideas into successful companies. Campus-wide programs at a handful of western Pennsylvania schools fit the bill.
To equip all students with an understanding of technological change, CMU offers a unique undergraduate minor in Innovation, Economic and Entrepreneurship Development. Known as "I Double E," it provides an intellectual framework with which to interpret the impact of technological change on their careers.
Pitt's highly-regarded Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, reaching out to small businesses in the region, also invites undergraduates to participate, offering an annual competition to win $75,000 in start-up funds. At Duquesne, undergraduates in the A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration's entrepreneurship program participate in a student-run consulting business, as long as they're members of Duquesne's Entrepreneurial Alliance. Seton Hill's E-Magnify program targets women business ownership and has been honored by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Penn State now offers an intercollege minor in entrepreneurship and innovation; Grove City College offers entrepreneurship as a major and minor for all enrolled students.
High-Powered: Fueling Jobs
As the impact of the Marcellus Shale natural gas play grows from a blip to a boom, jobs in every aspect of the region's newest industry are expanding. Innovation in sustainable approaches and smart grids extends the region's expertise across seven related industries: coal, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, distribution, and green building. Collectively, the sector represents 10 percent of the local economy, with 700 firms in the global energy supply chain. Pittsburgh is also a research powerhouse, attracting $1 billion a year in federal and corporate R&D.
With the worldwide activities of Westinghouse Electric, headquartered in Cranberry Township, Pitt's nuclear certification program graduates engineers who are "instantly hirable," says director Don Shields. Energy engineers may also earn certificates in energy resource utilization, supply chain management, mining engineering, international engineering studies, and sustainable engineering. Pitt's strengths complement the work of CMU's Engineering and Public Policy program, which addresses big-picture issues in technology and economic development.
At Penn State, the B.S. in Earth Science and Policy now offers an energy option. Indiana University of Pennsylvania's new track for Energy Resources within the department of Geoscience blends course work in environmental studies, geospatial mapping and geographic information systems, and safety science. The program, which was introduced last year, offers students a range of course work applicable to energy careers. Professor Steve Hovan, the department chair, adds that it's not just grads with geology and earth science degrees who are in demand; nearly 24 students have already chosen the new track, and Hovan says that overall enrollment in geology majors has nearly doubled in the past four years.
The relatively new field of mechatronics covers systems training in three areas: electrical, mechanical and electronic. Mechatronics is in demand within the Marcellus energy field — in fact, in any field that employs industrial robots and other computer-controlled devices.
"It's a hot topic because it includes programmable logic controls, or PLCs," explains Sylvia Elsayed, project manager for CCAC's program. "A background in mechatronics is helpful in the Marcellus Shale industry, particularly in midstream compression jobs (workers who operate compression stations once wells are operational). Companies are telling us that they need those skilled workers."
An added perk: thanks to a federal grant, CCAC tuition is free for qualified candidates enrolling for its associate degree program, whether they're recent high school graduates or workers looking for new skill certification. Cal U has approved a new four-year B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering Technology degree and hopes to enroll students in fall 2013.
Christine H. O'Toole is a frequent PM contributor who wrote our April cover story, "52 Weekend Getaways."
This article appears in the September 2012 issue of Pittsburgh Magazine.
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Last week, I sat glued to my Twitter stream watching the tweets from two separate events that had a strong diabetes consumer (or, if you prefer, patient) presence. Firstly, there was the Roche Diabetes Summit (#RDS12) which brought together 34 diabetes bloggers from across the USA. You can read some terrific reports about the summit here and here.
Immediately following the Roche Summit was the American Association of Diabetes Educators (#AADE12) Conference. Once again, the Twittersphere was full of commentary about the different sessions, blogs were written and Facebook pages provided reviews and photos from the conference. I learnt a lot about what was going on, what new things were catching the attention of members of the diabetes online community (DOC) and I noted things that I want to speak with my endo about next time we meet.
Coming up later this month is the Australia Diabetes Educators Association/Australian Diabetes Society conference. I'm going which is pleasing on a number of levels, not the least of which is that it is on the Gold Coast which will mean some slightly warmer weather. The main reason I'm excited though, is because I will be able to 'report back'.
How many consumer advocates will be attending the Australian conference next week? I'm guessing not too many.
You may ask why it's important to have people with diabetes at these events. It's a valid question. I mean, the events are for health professionals to do some professional development, some networking and find out the latest in the diabetes world. The sessions are not designed for consumers, really.
And that's all relevant and true. But how does the information presented at these conferences then get filtered through to people living with diabetes? How do we find out about the latest and greatest, the new research, the new studies? In all honesty, how many of us have health professionals who relay this information back to us?
My endo is one of the few that actually does. We speak about conferences she's attended and new things presented. In fact, part of my screening (read: interviewing) process when I look for health professionals is to ask what conferences they've attended recently and what they've found interesting. It gives me an idea of how up-to-date their knowledge base is. But more importantly, it gives great insight into how well they then pass on that information.
So, let me ask again: Why is it important to have people with diabetes at these events? It's critical, because it means that the information gets passed on to us – the people living with it. Which better informs us. Which helps us make decisions about our care to improve outcomes.
There needs to be a shift in Australia. People with diabetes need to be part of the planning of conferences. If we are (or diabetes is) 'the problem' then we need to be part of – actually, leading – the road to the solution. I wrote about this last year, but as each year passes, and as I see more and more evidence of consumer involvement in other countries, I wonder why we seem to be so behind the times.
We need to be there in numbers and we need to be recognised as a way to get messages out. It's a revolution in terms of the place of consumers. But our rightful place is front and centre at information sessions talking about the condition with which we live. And the time is now.
So, with this in mind and knowing that I'll be at the ADEA conference later in the month, what is it that you want me to report back? Have a read of the program and in the comments section below let me know if there is anything you want more information about. And I'll try to get to the sessions, tweet and blog about it.
Hey, good on you for attending, I wish I could go too! Any information you could get would be greatly appreciated, but in particular I would like to know more about food addiction in T1 diabetics (I saw this topic in the program). Thank you very much.
Well, Renza, I had a good read of the program and found that items either weren't relevant to me or it was all 'dutch'.
I am sure that you will be able to translate information into 'layman's terms.
You seem to be in the forefront of new 'gizmos' and information and do report of these in your blog. Thank you! I learn a lot from you.
I couldn't agree more Renza. The research, reports and presentations that come out of these conferences are important not just to health care professionals but also to those of us who live with this disease every day – people with diabetes, parents and carers. I am so grateful that you will be in attendance ADEA/ADS and I look forward to you tweets and blogs.
Thanks Renza for your passion to keep us informed…..complications; e-health; Martha Funnell – New directions in diabetes self-management education; and of course, I trust your judgement on anything else T1 related! I'm a new gizmo junkie, so anything you spot at the trade stands too.
Thanks again Renza! I couldn't agree more!


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ECE R90 оr Regulation 90 – Whаt'ѕ it all about?
Eurореаn legislation саmе into еffесt Sерtеmbеr 1999 titled ECE R90 that ѕtірulаtеѕ thаt аll brаkе раdѕ ѕоld for uѕе on vehicles mаnufасturеd аftеr thіѕ date muѕt bе tеѕtеd and соmрlу tо R90 ѕtаndаrdѕ.
Thіѕ tеѕt which involves tаkіng еасh hоmоlоgаtеd vеhісlе used on the public rоаdѕ within Europe and comparing thе front аnd rear brake performance with thе оrіgіnаl раrtѕ to thоѕе оf аftеrmаrkеt оffеrіngѕ has closed thе door tо сhеар and nasty imported brаkе раdѕ thrоughоut Eurоре.
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Thе brаkе раdѕ are thеn mаrkеd wіth аn R90 соdе numbеr аnd a country соdе іn a сіrсlе ѕuсh аѕ E1 for Germany or E11 for UK whісh signifies whеrе thе tеѕtіng hаѕ been dоnе.
EBC Brakes dоеѕ аll оf іtѕ tеѕtіng аt thе VCA (Vеhісlе Cеrtіfісаtіоn Agency) tеѕt fасіlіtіеѕ at MIRA іn Nunеаtоn, UK. MIRA ѕtаndѕ for thе Motor Industries Rеѕеаrсh Aѕѕосіаtіоn whо have a hіgh ѕрееd test trасk for соnduсtіng these tеѕtѕ which EBC Brаkеѕ uѕеѕ оn a regular bаѕіѕ.
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In whаt wауѕ are European раdѕ dіffеrеnt аnd whу does thіѕ affect mе?
Mоѕt Eurореаn vеhісlеѕ are built with single ріѕtоn caliper ѕуѕtеmѕ with "dеер" рrоfіlе pads whеrе the bаnd wіdth (hеіght оf thе раd frоm tор tо bоttоm) is much larger than іn brake ѕуѕtеmѕ uѕеd оn Asian саrѕ оr American buіlt cars.
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To uѕе thе lоwеr frісtіоn lеvеl раdѕ соmmоn in the Amеrісаn аnd Aѕіаn mаrkеtѕ іntеr-mіxеd wіth a hіghеr frісtіоn European ѕрес раd іѕ a rесіре fоr dіѕаѕtеr.
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Giant cave-in swallows cars in IHOP parking lot
A huge sinkhole has swallowed cars in an IHOP parking lot in Mississippi, according to local media.
Giant cave-in swallows cars in IHOP parking lot A huge sinkhole has swallowed cars in an IHOP parking lot in Mississippi, according to local media. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1NBofhZ
Matthew Diebel, USATODAY Published 3:20 a.m. ET Nov. 8, 2015 | Updated 8:22 a.m. ET Nov. 9, 2015
A cave-in of a restaurant parking lot in Mississippi swallowed 12 cars and now experts are expected to begin work Monday to determine the cause of the weekend collapse, authorities said. (Nov. 8) AP
More than a dozen cars were submerged after a giant sinkhole opened up in the parking lot of a Mississippi IHOP restaurant.(Photo: Bob Riha, Jr., USA TODAY)
A huge cave-in has swallowed more than a dozen cars in an IHOP parking lot in Meridian, Miss., according to local media.
Local TV station KSLA quoted witnesses as hearing a series of booms before power went out and the cave-in, which is about 50 feet wide and 600 feet long, opened up.
Another station, WTOK, said emergency responders were called out to the scene about 7:15 p.m. CT Saturday. Officials told the station that about 15 vehicles were submerged in mud and paving but that no one appeared to have been hurt.
Huge sinkhole swallows nearly 15 vehicles in Meridian https://t.co/boZ38K0DWkpic.twitter.com/EZKynHPfKH
— 16 WAPT News (@16WAPTNews) November 8, 2015
"We received a call earlier this evening of a sinkhole opening up at the new IHOP restaurant," Meridian Fire Department Chief Battalion Wayne Cook told the station. "Upon arrival, we found multiple vehicles in the ditch. At this time, we are trying to stabilize this and keep everyone away."
Meridian Public Safety Director Buck Roberts says the collapse was not technically a sinkhole, which is usually the result of an underground water aquifer that dries and leaves a void in the ground, according to The Meridian Star.
"You can call it what you want, a cave-in or whatever, but it is not a sinkhole," Roberts said.
Roberts said engineers and contractors would be on the scene Monday studying the site.
Sinkhole opens up in Florida, neighbors on edge
WTOK said that the city, which lies near the Alabama border and has a population of about 40,000, has received 3 inches of rain this weekend and nearly 10 in the last two weeks. The restaurant opened earlier this week.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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Michigan is one of those midwestern states that has a whole heck of a lot to offer. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, for me, takes this up a notch even more. It's a unique land mass surrounded on three sides by the Great Lakes and offers beautiful forests and nature areas that any outdoor lover is bound to enjoy.
While going to the Western United States can give you some unforgettable places to visit, you shouldn't overlook the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Here are some reasons why.
If you're a wildlife lover, then you should really get to the Upper Peninsula as soon as possible. The area is home to a wide variety of animals, including moose, black bears, cougars, gray and red foxes, bobcats, hundreds of bird species and much more.
Any of the state parks, waterfalls, and recreation areas in the Upper Peninsula will be great spots for wildlife sightings. Keep your eyes peeled while you're visiting and you're bound to see some amazing animals.
From beautiful sandy lake beaches to dense forests and even breathtaking waterfalls, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan has some of the most beautiful spots to see in the entire country. For some, it may even feel like you're in a completely different country altogether. Be sure to bring a camera or be ready to take plenty of snapshots with your phone.
Spots like Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Bond Falls, and the Black River Harbor Recreation Area all offer some unforgettable views and those are just three spots. There are many, many more to see. Stop in at any state park or nature preserve and you're bound to find something amazing.
RVers are welcome in the Upper Peninsula. No matter where you decide to be in this area of the state you're bound to find a wonderful place to park your rig and stay the night or longer. Campgrounds are plentiful and you should find other like-minded travelers, too.
Some places that come highly recommended include Aune-Osborn Campground, Loons Point RV Park and Campground, and Munising / Pictured Rocks KOA. However, there are many more should those not be what you're looking for.
Have you visited Michigan's Upper Peninsula? What reasons would you give for visiting the area in an RV? Leave a comment below!


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Sony α77 II (Sony ILCA-77M2 или Sony SLT-A77M2) — цифровой зеркальный фотоаппарат компании Sony формата APS-C с полупрозрачным (Translucent) зеркалом и байонетом A. Позиционируется как аппарат для профессионалов и продвинутых любителей. Пришёл на замену Sony SLT-A77.

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Ввиду высокого спроса и популярности первой 77-ой и большого количества владельцев камер Sony Alpha с байонетом A, компанией было принято решение о выпуске обновленной модели под индексом Alpha 77 Mark 2. В мае 2014 Sony представила второе поколение популярной SLT-A77 а также младшей модели SLT-A68. Новая камера получила улучшенную матрицу, новую систему автофокуса с 79-ю точками фокусировки и современные беспроводные интерфейсы Wi-Fi и NFC. В A77M2 используется новейший процессор Bionz X. Как и предшественница, А77М2 получила прочный корпус из магниевого сплава с пыле-влагозащитой и те же, впечатляющие, 12 кадров в секунду.

Из существенных изменений также стоит отметить переход к стандартному «горячему башмаку» для фотовспышки (в предыдущих моделях использовался фирменный башмак "Minolta") что существенно расширило гамму совместимых с фотоаппаратом аксессуаров, но создало проблему владельцам вспышек  Sony и Minolta, для которых выпущен переходник на новый башмак фотоаппарата.

Автофокус камеры совершил прорыв в линейке, и если раньше Sony, по автофокусу, могла серьёзно уступать конкурентам, то в этой модели превзошла.
От младших моделей A77-II отличается, в частности, в плане видеосъёмки: она позволяет использовать диафрагму более открытую чем 1/3,5 и ISO выше 1600.

A77-II принадлежит последнему поколению цифровых зеркальных камер Sony, после которого компания полностью перешла на  выпуск беззеркальных фотоаппаратов.

Комплект поставки
Sony A77M2 поставляется в 3-х вариантах:

 Body — только фотоаппарат (ILCA-77M2)
 c объективом Sony DT 16-50mm F2.8 SSM (ILCA-77M2Q)
 с объективом Sony DT 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 SAM (ILCA-77M2M

Ссылки
  DP Review
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APS-C фотоаппараты
Цифрозеркальные фотоаппараты Sony

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Welcome to our Church Community. We trust that our web site will give you some insights into who we are and the hope that is within us. Hopefully our website will begin to make you feel welcome and at home in our community of faith. We aspire to be one of the most welcoming and hospitable communities of faith that you will encounter. All are welcome! We would be delighted if you join us for worship.
The Church of the Resurrection is a relatively new Church being consecrated on the 25th of October 1981. Its name speaks of our faith in the resurrection and it also alludes to the upheaval that came from watching the Church of St Paul at Aspley demolished to make way for the expansion of the Highway on Gympie Road. The new Church brought together the congregation from Albany Creek with the Aspley Congregation. We have a great book with the history of the Church if you would like to know more.
Our vision, our vocation is to be "Building a Christian Community". We understand that to include: Loving God; Practicing Compassion; Encouraging Faith; Pursuing Justice and Embracing the Earth. We recognise that we do some of these things well but we have growth areas as well. Being a community of any kind is messy, as a Christian Community we set ourselves a high bar. All of these various threads are drawn together in our worship week by week and our daily prayer life.
We encourage members of the Church to participate in small groups for prayer, meditation, study, for craft, to sing together or simple to share good food and have fun. We see this as an important way of building genuine Christian Community.
Come join us for worship or feel free to get involved with one of our groups first if that is easier for you.


The exercise illustrates the use of residual income (also known as abnormal gain) valuation method. Students must submit an evaluation of the Coca-Cola Company with the valuation method of residual income and how it correlates with discounted cash flows.... Crisis management in Belgium: the case of Coca-Cola Victoria Johnson and Spero C. Peppas Introduction First it was mad cow disease, then it was tainted animal feed.
Contents Strategic Report 1 2015 Highlights 2 Coca-Cola HBC at a glance 3 Our investment case 4 Chairman's Statement 6 Market review 8 Business model... Case analysis of the Coca-Cola India Crisis 1. What are the key problems that Gupta should focus on in the short term and in the long term? In looking at the situation, hindsight is always 20/20.
Coca – India Case study Lakeesha Customer Inserts His/her Name Customer Inserts Grade Course Customer Inserts Tutor's Name April 11, 2013. Introduction Coca-Cola is the leading brand of the world in soft drink category. It was founded by a pharmacist … robert half salary guide 2013 pdf Definition: The systematic gathering, recording, and analyzing of data to provide information useful in marketing decision making. Application: Coca-Cola should have researched the area to see if there was an abundant amount of resources to manufacture their products.
Case against Coca-Cola Kerala State: India In a number of districts of India, Coca Cola and its subsidiaries are accused of creating severe water shortages for the community by extracting large quantities of water for their factories, affecting both the quantity and quality of water.
Coca-Cola India. On August 20, 2003 Sanjiv Gupta, President and CEO of Coca-Cola India, sat in his office contemplating the events of the last two weeks and debating his next move.


Implemented between 2010 and 2016, the World Bank-supported Ningbo New Countryside Development Project has provided wastewater services to 45,500 households in 144 rural villages, and improved water supply, wastewater services and road access for 76,500 residents in Chunhu Town, ensuring a cleaner environment and a better life for the people in Ningbo Municipality, East China.
In 2010, 55% of China's population lived in rural areas. Life for rural residents has improved markedly since the beginning of economic reforms in 1978. However, the countryside still lags far behind cities in terms of basic infrastructure such as roads, wastewater services, water supply and sanitation.
In 2005, the Government of China launched a new countryside development program to reduce the increasing disparity between cities and the countryside. The program tried to balance social and economic development, promote modernized agriculture, sustainably increased rural incomes, improved basic infrastructure, kept village administration democratic, and raised living standards.
Ningbo Municipality is a major city in Zhejiang Province on the Southeastern coast of China. Despite rapid economic growth, rural villages in Ningbo still lack wastewater collection and treatment facilities, and contend with poor sanitation. Many of these villages do not have adequate financial resources to improve their wastewater management by themselves. Lack of wastewater treatment facilities not only affects the rural population but can harm drinking water, posing a public health threat to the entire local population.
The Ningbo New Countryside Development Project set out to improve rural wastewater management in selected villages and enhance infrastructure and township management in a small town, in support of the New Countryside Development Program in Ningbo Municipality.
The project applied both international and local best practices in rural sanitation improvement –implementing appropriate and sustainable technology for rural wastewater management, using participatory approaches to expand coverage of rural sanitation, encourage cost-sharing by beneficiaries, and to transfer assets operation and maintenance responsibility to communities; and in basic infrastructure development and management for small towns, to support small town development through sound planning, institutional reforms and basic infrastructure improvements with phased service cost-recovery consistent with affordability and economic growth.
For the rural wastewater component, a participatory approach was adopted. At least 80% of all households in a village had to agree to participate in the rural wastewater program. Villagers selected the technical options through a consultation process. The Village Committee also had to agree to take over ownership and maintenance responsibilities.
" Now wastewater all goes into the treatment system through the pipes. Our life has improved a lot. There are far fewer flies and mosquitos, and no more bad smell. "
Provide 45,500 households in 144 rural villages that previously had no access to rural wastewater services with such services, with the total number of beneficiaries in excess of 150,000. As 54 of the 144 villages are near drinking water sources, improved wastewater management has reduced water pollution and public health risks.
Build a new access road between Fenghua City and Chunhu Town that has reduced travel distance by 10 kilometers and travel time by 30 minutes with a traffic volume exceeding 13,000 cars in 2016.
Serve 76,500 residents in Chunhu Town with reliable and high quality water supply, thanks to the construction of water transmission mains from Fenghua to Chunhu and renovation and expansion of the Chunhu water distribution network.
The wastewater treatment rate in Chunhu Town go from zero in 2009 to 84% in 2016, thanks to new trunk and collection sewers and a wastewater treatment plant.
The World Bank provided an IBRD loan of $50 million to complement the government's investment of more than $120 million in this project with total financing of more than $170 million. The World Bank also brought its extensive global experience and demonstrated ways to improve the efficiency, cost-effectiveness and sustainability of rural sanitation, basic urban infrastructure and small town management.
Government at different levels in Ningbo Municipality showed strong commitment and support for the project. A project leading group was set up at the municipal level headed by a vice mayor to provide policy direction and guidance. A full-time and well-staffed project management office was responsible for the daily operation and implementation of the project.
The project developed China's first rural wastewater discharge standards and made Ningbo Municipality the first place to have rural wastewater discharge standards in the country. Based on these standards, Zhejiang Province developed the provincial rural wastewater discharge standards and became the first province with such standards in the country.
The project's participatory rural wastewater management approach has been replicated by other non-project counties in Ningbo Municipality and then scaled up to the rest of Zhejiang Province.
"Now wastewater all goes into the treatment system through the pipes. Our life has improved a lot. There are far fewer flies and mosquitos, and no more bad smell." – Li Xiyi, villager, Hepoling Village, Ningbo.
in 144 rural villages have benefited from rural wastewater management.


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CIRCUIT THEORY: CONTINUOUS AND DISCRETE-TIME SYSTEMS, ELEMENTS OF NETWORK SYNTHESIS - ABOUT AUTHOR(S)
KURIAKOSE C.P.
C.P. KURIAKOSE, MA, Ph.D., former Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of Engineering Faculty, Cochin University of Science and Technology, has taught Electric circuit theory, Field theory and other Electrical Engineering subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Indian, and Foreign Universities for several years. A life fellow member of the Institution of Engineers (India), he has served as the Hon. Director of the Engineering study circle at Cochin for a long time. He has been a member of ISTE and senior member IEEE for a number of years. Dr. Kuriakose is a consultant to the OEN Group of companies, Director of Guardian Controls Ltd., Cochin and a Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering, Govt. Model Engineering College, Cochin. His areas of interest include Electromagnetics, Engineering mathematics, and Circuit theory.


We love discovering flea markets and little surprises in unexpected places. Brittany is full of them. A pot bellied pig hanging out at the market... A mass of stripes at every turn and world renowned oysters sold at low prices with big smiles. Here is a flea market and a farmer's market on the shores of Brittany in Erquy.
Oysters, Oysters, Oysters... ahhhh! Eyes for Oysters in Brittany. Such goodness!
Cannot visit France without purchasing an Opinel knife. Seriously.
Our friend took us on a little day trip to various views and villages... this one was one of the most charming. Dinan.
The very charming and picturesque village of Dinan. We recommend stopping for lunch and a walk around here.
A mysterious traditional Breton cake called Tourteau fromage à l'ancienne ( Tourteaux Jahan is a respected producer of these magical cheese cakes). Neither sweet nor savory but curiously delicious with a hint of char.
A mysterious and abandoned house that we couldnt resist exploring after driving past it many times. I dream of doing a photo shoot here.
La Ribote , a sweet little restaurant that serves fresh and tasty local cuisine in a casual setting. Just the way we like it.


It turns out they weren't a gift at all, but Mom Trish had been saving packing space on her trip back from Illinois and stuffed them into the box containing the mug.Now we've claimed the socks for ourselves and are waiting for them to be stuffed full of nip.
But we did ask Äiti to wash them first, hehehehe!
Our Mommy is SUCH a numbskull!!! Enjoy the "toys"!
MOL! What a funny human mistake!
Too funny about the socks! Glad you have more toys to play with though!
Certainly looks as if you kitties are enjoying them a whole lot better than that crazy pants lady!
MOL! That was a funny thing to happen.


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Deze lijst van militairen van de Prinses Irene Brigade is niet volledig. Ongeveer 1200 militairen waren bij de Prinses Irene Brigade, die bestaan heeft van 11 januari 1941 tot 13 juli 1945. Op 6 augustus 1944 werd de Brigade vanuit Engeland overgebracht naar Arromanches, inclusief 102 mariniers die in de Verenigde Staten waren opgeleid.

A
 Josephus Adriaansen
 Raymond Arnoti (gem. Wamel, 7-10-1944)
 Victor Asselberghs
 Pierre Louis d'Aulnis de Bourouill

B

D
 Theo Daalhuysen
 Cees Droogleever Fortuyn

G
 Jack van Gorkom
 Bram Grisnigt
 Jacobus Groenewoud
 Pico Groeninx van Zoelen

H
 Dirk Hagemeijer
 Rudi Hemmes
 Ton Herbrink (Waalre, 28-5-2016)
 W. Homeijer (Duiven, 9-3-2001)

J
 Ernst de Jonge
 Marien de Jonge

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 Guup Kraijenhoff, † 2011
 Johannes Kroese Meijer
 Marius Kroon (gem. Wamel, 7-10-1944) H

L
 Ton Loontjens

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 Lt Masthoff, 2de peloton

O
 John Osten

P

 Majoor A.A. Paessens (Den Haag, 30-1-1994)
 Charles Pahud de Mortanges
 Huib du Pon

R
 Willem de Roos (1906-1986)

V
 Henry Lucien de Vries

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Bijna vijftig Irenemannen zijn gesneuveld of overleden ten gevolge van de oorlog:

 Lijst van fuseliers van de Prinses Irene Brigade


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Dublin – City of Superlatives
Everything in Dublin was simply the best, and I know this, because all the signs in Dublin told me so. There was the best Irish dancing at the best dinner show. The best deals on souvenirs, the best pub in which to drink Guinness, the best breakfast in all Ireland. There was the best walking tour and the best little shop for all your cake decorating needs. There was even the best poem about a cat in the best book written by monks in the early 9th century: "I and Pangur Bán my cat / 'Tis a like task we are at…"
Though beset by a bad case of the bests, Dublin is a sweet little city – a street-smart ruffian with a heart of gold, all dressed up in a bright new suit. I imagine him as an impish fellow: a pint in one hand and a ready joke in the other. He reads poetry on the sly, but always has a dirty tale to tell his mates hanging around a table in the back corner of a smoky pub.
The city has a good energy, when you get away from the places where the tourists cluster like flocks of drunk ducks. (We paid Temple Bar homage, reluctantly, and briefly, and never again.) On Friday night, we joined an after work crowd at John Kehoe's. Early in the evening, the pub was already packed with people sitting around tables and crowding into nooks to chat. The weather was holding steady, and the sidewalks were full of overflow from inside. As dusk dimmed into night, the conversations flowed, washed down with pints of dark and creamy Guinness and Smithwick's Pale Ale. And the atmosphere stayed convivial.
Of course we made the round of pubs. We spent our last evening at The Brazen Head, Ireland's oldest pub (another of those superlatives), built in 1198, but burned down and built up again who knows how many times. Though we didn't last until the live music, and admittedly, not a single person who passed through while we were there was Irish, it was a charming place of many small rooms with people coming and going and the pleasant clang of silverware and conversation. We ordered burgers made with generous patties of good Irish beef, thick fried chips, and Guinness, of course.
It was a pleasant mirror to our first night at The Ginger Man, where we met a friend of Elli's who fed us sneaks of manchego sandwiches and lovely orange pound cake from Food Fiesta, the café she and her husband run, in between sips of Guinness… of course.
Pub culture feels different from bar culture. Bar culture can be showy – it's about dressing up and chatting up, and it often comes with a side of leering as salty and stale as the peanuts on the bar. Pub culture is more casual. It's like meeting your friends in a very big living room where other groups of friends also just happen to be meeting. It's both intimate and open, and in Ireland at least, the people were friendly – offering to share tables with extra seats, making jokes at the bar – in a non-prowling way. Then again, we weren't there for more than a weekend, so my assessment might not hold water. Or a pint, for that matter.
The days in Dublin were drizzly with a smattering of sun. Enough to give us surprising sunburns on our faces as we walked around the cliffs of Howth, a small coastal suburb.
At the information booth, we picked up a map outlining different trails to take. After our escapades up steep mountain trails in Norway, we figured "hard" in Ireland would be a piece of cake. We chose a route cutting inland across the Bog of the Frog and finishing along the water.
When we asked the woman in the booth where the trailhead started, she pointed to the waterfront. "We'd like to go the other direction," we said, showing her our proposed inland route. "Can you show us where that trail starts?" "No," she said, "It's best if you walk along the water." Never ones to pass up a good superlative, we set off in the direction she'd sent us, and soon decided we didn't regret the decision.
The trail climbed over cliffs gently rising from the ocean, a pale slate blue. The grass, where there were fields, was softly peaty, and everywhere were massive clusters of yellow flowers. They clambered over the hillsides and down the cliffs, bursting over the path and all around us until we felt like Dorothy in her field of poppies. Gulls squawked overhead, and the cool May breeze was a welcome balm against the sun.
We ate lunch at a fish restaurant on the pier – mussels in garlic and white wine for me and a fish burger with chips for Elli. We sat on the patio out back, our wind-chapped faces soaking up even more sun, watching the tide go out.
What else did we eat in Dublin? I discovered Ballymaloe relish our first breakfast out – similar to ketchup, it's a chutney-like tomato-based sauce stewed with raisins and other spices like ginger, allspice, and nutmeg, with a strong vinegar bite. It was fantastic on sourdough toast with butter and fried eggs. We had another memorable breakfast at Hatch & Sons: twice-baked eggs with sausage, bacon, and roast tomatoes served with brown Irish soda bread.
It was sustenance enough for a long day's walk in the drizzle plus a thought-provoking peek at the Book of Kells. As flimsy paperbacks and floppy disks give way to USBs and the data-crush of clouds in a dizzying dance of informational obsolescence, is anything we create today built to last longer than our own lifetimes?
Certainly a rocky road donut from The Woollen Mills isn't built to last – it's built to be devoured, crumbled as it is with bits of pretzel and macaron, white chocolate buttons, marshmallows, Oreo chunks, and fresh raspberries.
All trips end, as they must, and so our little weekend jaunt to Dublin ended early in the pre-dawn morning, when the last of the Temple Bar carousers were shuffling through the streets now littered with fast food wrappers and crushed cans of beer. Through the eyes of the just awakened, the bleary all-night city is garish in its cups.
Maybe Dublin is best in the day, when its many small, thriving bookshops open their doors. Or maybe it's best in the early evening, when work is done and the pubs are full of locals laughing with a pint. Maybe it's best along the coast or best along the Liffey at sunset. But maybe Dublin is just best in the moments you live it with an open mind and an open heart… and an open Guinness, of course.
Tags: dublin, guinness, ireland, pub culture
Categories: Europe, Travel
Such an enticing window into Dublin, Lyz! When I went there a couple of summers ago, my main reaction was surprise at all the fashionably-dressed young women teetering around in high heels as if it was Manhattan on cobblestones.
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I noticed that! I was completely content in my comfy walking shoes.
I love this post. It's such a wonderful summary of our long weekend. Where to next? ;)
Obviously, we thrive in drizzly conditions with water and rocky coastlines :)
I loved reading this travelogue, Lyz! You guys really made the most of your time here! It was a pleasure to meet and chat over drinks. I only wish I could have strolled the streets along with you some more. Maybe next time ;)
It was lovely to meet you as well, Vanessa! I hope both events went well, in spite of the rain :) Until next time!
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This new clip from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 offers some insight into the tragedy of our key villain, Electro. Spider-Man tries to reason with the human live wire, but things aren't looking good for Electro.
Spider-Man has already briefly met the pre-electrified Max Dillon, but this is his first encounter with Max after his transformation into Electro. Spidey tries to, ahem, defuse the situation with his words, but he can't control the dangerous fear around him—fear both from and of Electro.


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public class MapTile {

    /**
     * Describe all kind of tile we can encounter in the dungeon
     */
    public enum Type {
        /** Walkable tile for hero, NPC and enemies */
        NORMAL,
        /** Can be opened when walking on it, but does not let the light pass through when closed */
        DOOR,
        /** Uncrossable tile for all characters */
        WALL,
        /** Trigger an event when walking on it (i.e traps, stairs, hole ... */
        SPECIAL
    }

    private Type mType;

    public MapTile(Type type) {
        mType = type;
    }

    public String toString() {
        switch(mType) {
            case NORMAL:
                return "-";
            case DOOR:
                return "D";
            case WALL:
                return "#";
            case SPECIAL:
                return "S";
            default:
                return "";
        }
    }

    public Type getType() {
        return mType;
    }
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DALLAS – April 22, 2016 – Pizza Patrón, widely known for its PIZZA POR PESOS® program, announced today that it is looking to partner with franchisees to develop secondary and tertiary Texas Markets.
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Q: why is only left recursion eliminated in top down parsing? I recently came across parsers in the systems software course. I read that, to make the top down parsing using backtracking efficient, it is needed to eliminate the left recursion in the production rules (for eliminating the infinite looping). For eliminating the left recursion we replace the production rule with left recursion with a pair of production rules using another non-terminal, this way:
if the existing rule is:
A -> Aa|b

then it is replace with:
 A -> bR
 R -> aR | epsilon

Wouldn't such a rule cause right recursion? which in turn can cause infinite looping? Can anyone tell me why this is done?

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Wake Forest volleyball coach Murczek resigns
Wake Forest volleyball coach Ken Murczek has resigned. Wake Forest Athletic Director Ron Wellman made the announcement Friday afternoon."I accepted Coach Murczek's resignation earlier today," said Wellman. "Our goal will be to build a winning program and one that can consistently compete for the Atlantic Coast Conference championship.""I am grateful for the opportunity I was given to be the head volleyball coach at Wake Forest University," said Murczek. "I feel the program has a solid foundation for future success. I love coaching. I care deeply about the student-athletes currently in the gym. They have worked incredibly hard and I believe they will be rewarded in the fall."My family and I wish to thank all of the members of the Wake Forest and Winston-Salem community who have supported us during our time here," added Murczek.Murczek had been investigated during his time at Wake Forest but cleared a Title IX investigation more than a year ago after reports of alleged verbal abuse.Assistant coach Lindsay Allman will serve as the interim head coach.The search for a new volleyball coach will begin immediately, the school said.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —
Wake Forest volleyball coach Ken Murczek has resigned. Wake Forest Athletic Director Ron Wellman made the announcement Friday afternoon.
"I accepted Coach Murczek's resignation earlier today," said Wellman. "Our goal will be to build a winning program and one that can consistently compete for the Atlantic Coast Conference championship."
"I am grateful for the opportunity I was given to be the head volleyball coach at Wake Forest University," said Murczek. "I feel the program has a solid foundation for future success. I love coaching. I care deeply about the student-athletes currently in the gym. They have worked incredibly hard and I believe they will be rewarded in the fall.
"My family and I wish to thank all of the members of the Wake Forest and Winston-Salem community who have supported us during our time here," added Murczek.
Murczek had been investigated during his time at Wake Forest but cleared a Title IX investigation more than a year ago after reports of alleged verbal abuse.
Assistant coach Lindsay Allman will serve as the interim head coach.
The search for a new volleyball coach will begin immediately, the school said.


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In Bandon, Oregon, an Irishman's attempt to bring a bit of home with him proved deadly
Irish place names in the US: Bandon, Oregon.
Frances Mulraney
@FrancesMulraney
A view of South Jetty Park in Bandon, Oregon Visitor7/Creative Commons
Bandon (or Bandon-on-the-Sea) is a seacoast town located on the South Oregon Coast, 90 miles north of the California border and named after Bandon, Co. Cork.
The area of Bandon was originally inhabited by the Coquille (Ko-quell Indian Tribe). The first settlers established the present site of the town in 1853 following the discovery of gold nearby in 1851. The town's name was officially changed to Bandon (from Averill) in 1874.
Bandon was established by historian George Bennett in 1874, when he happened upon an area known as "The Ferry." George Bennett was born in 1827 in Bandon, County Cork. A graduate of law in Trinity College, he traveled to the U.S. in May 1873 accompanied by his sons Joseph W. and and George A., and a friend named George Sealy. His wife and daughter remained in Cork never to join the rest of the family in Oregon.
Bennett was not the first Irishman to set foot in this area of Coos County. Henry Baldwin, also a Cork native and a friend of Bennett's, was shipwrecked in the Coos Bay area in 1852.
Upon first reaching this small section of the Coos region, Bennett believed that the area held great prospects for economic development. The town is located where the Coquille River meets the Pacific Ocean. It was close to timber and the dense vegetation at the time meant that the area had rich agriculturally appropriate soil.
With what he considered prime factors for a new town already in place, Bennett acquired Thompson Lowe's donation land, as well as acquiring property to the north and south of this and on the beach. Bennett himself stated that it was only a matter of time before there was a thriving town in such a prime location.
In attempting to bring a taste of his hometown to the newly established Bandon, Bennett introduced the shrub Gorse (also known as Irish furze and Irish hedge), a move that would result in the near destruction of the town 63 years later. The ornamental shrub thrived in the same rich soil that caused Bennett to choose Bandon as a settlement area and soon came to displace native plants.
Gorse, however, could be described as a "phoenix plant," a plant that likes to encourage fires through secreting oils so as to burn an area of land clean and grow back again as the predominant plant. On September 26, 1936, a small forest fire resulted in the deaths of 10 people and the destruction of all but 16 of Bandon's 500 homes when a change in wind direction moved the fire in the direction of the gorse hedges which were by then, in places, four feet high. Although the majority of the town's 1,800 people reached safety, the fire destroyed the Bandon's business district resulting in a loss at the time of $3 million.
Bandon succeeded in rebuilding itself to the quaint seaside town it is today, although there are now strict regulations on gorse. Bennett is still known as the person to introduce gorse to the U.S. eco-system.
Bandon maintains a twin city agreement with its Cork namesake, where the site house of Bennett's birth can still be seen alongside the Irishtown Bridge. Both towns are located beside rivers and close to the ocean although Bandon, Cork, is the larger town with a population of 6,640 compared to 3,066 on Bandon, OR.
*Originally published in 2015
Related: Irish Placenames in America


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12 Sep, 2019 23:02
Trump doesn't believe Israel spied on him but adds 'anything's possible'
US President Donald Trump said he finds it hard to believe Israel may have spied on the White House using cell-phone eavesdropping devices, after everything he's done for them – but left open the possibility the charges are true.
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"I don't think the Israelis are spying on us. I really would find that hard to believe," Trump told reporters outside the White House on Thursday, adding, "My relationship with Israel has been great."
As an illustration, the US president brought up his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, as well as the claim to the Golan Heights (taken from Syria in 1967), and exiting the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, so opposed by PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Anything is possible, but I don't believe it," Trump said.
Also on rt.com 'Complete fabrication!' Has Israel been caught spying on the White House AGAIN?
Speculations that Israel might be snooping on high-ranking officials in the White House have been rekindled by a recent Politico report, which claimed that Israeli spies might have rigged "sensitive locations" around Washington, DC with devices known as 'StingRays.' The devices can not only track cell phone signals, but also eavesdrop on the content of conversations.
Politico alleged that US officials first discovered the devices in 2018, but chose to keep the find under wraps. Tel Aviv is believed to have a long history of spying on the US government, including listening in on sensitive diplomatic talks. Israel has vehemently denied all the allegations, however.
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Never Ask Me
By: Jeff Abbott
Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Will Collyer, Peter Giles, and others
Each of us has a question we dread. When the simple community of Lakehaven is shaken by a violent crime, doubts begin to arise among the locals about whom they can trust.
Wow What a Roller Coaster!
By DM Salazar on 07-17-20
Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Will Collyer, Peter Giles, Christine Lakin, Tracey Leigh, Tessa Netting, Rena-Marie Villano
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising
By: Raymond A. Villareal
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen, Christine Lakin, Robert Petkoff, and others
This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. Soon, the US government - and eventually biomedical researchers, disgruntled lawmakers, and even an insurgent faction of the Catholic Church - must come to terms with what they're too late to stop: an epidemic of vampirism that will sweep first the United States, and then the world. With heightened strength and beauty and a steady diet of fresh blood, these changed people, or "Gloamings", rapidly rise to prominence in all aspects of modern society.
Wanted another oral history book after FantasticLand…
By SeanXavier on 07-01-21
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen, Christine Lakin, Robert Petkoff, Rena-Marie Villano, full cast
The Time of Our Lives
By: Peggy Noonan
Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman, Rena-Marie Villano, Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan is one of the most brilliant and influential political thinkers and writers of our time. The author of five best-selling books ( What I Saw at the Revolution is now a classic), her column in The Wall Street Journal is a must-read for millions of Americans. Witty, incisive, and always original, Peggy Noonan is a conservative intellectual with wide-reaching appeal across the political spectrum. Now, for the first time, the best of Noonan's writing will be collected in one indispensable volume.
Great pieces by Peggy Noonan but the narration is terrible!


Think about the moment when your bartender twists that narrow strip of lemon or orange peel to garnish your cocktail.
A tiny spritz of citrus oil bursts into the air, releasing the fruit's aroma and brightening your mood. You're experiencing not only the anticipation of the drink but also the effect of terpenes.
Terpenes are the essential oils of plants, responsible for their unique aromas and flavors. Just as basil, citrus and lavender get their distinctive qualities from these organic compounds, so does cannabis. Lemon Haze smells citrusy because it contains the terpene limonene, which is also found in lemons, and other citrus fruits.
Terpenes contain no THC, but they still can affect your state of mind—much like using essential oils in aromatherapy, Korkidis says. Limonene is a mood booster, for example, and linalool (also found in lavender) promotes relaxation.
"We've had terpene cocktails on our menu since day one," says Dave Whitton, a self-professed terpene devotee and owner of Prank in Los Angeles. The excitement of using terpenes to create fun flavor profiles is heightened by his belief that they also offer health benefits. "Terpenes are where the majority of the health benefits lie." Some, like pinene, are considered anti-inflammatory, while caryophyllene is said to reduce anxiety.
Whitton and Korkidis use cannabis-derived terpenes as well as steam-distilled ones from other plants, which are easier to find, less expensive (starting at around $14 per ounce) and have the same aroma and flavor profiles. Whitton works with a laboratory to create proprietary distillates, but similar, federally legal products are available online from companies such as True Terpenes and Terpene Botanicals.
One of Prank's latest seasonal cocktails, the Lazy Daisy, combines pink grapefruit, herbal gin, chamomile syrup and humulene, which has a hoppy profile. The terpene adds body to the drink, Whitton says, while softening the citrus.
Korkidis is partial to limonene and linalool, especially for cocktails involving orange and lemon. With lime juice and tequila, "you could use these to do a great version of a paloma," he says.
For a Meyer lemon cocktail, he recommends combining limonene with a light agave sweetener and a complex botanical gin. Blood orange is another great citrus option, paired with an herbaceous terpene such as pinene.
Korkidis recommends using less than 0.25 ml for a single drink. "Since terpene concentrations and ratios can vary by supplier, it's always advised to follow the manufacturer's instructions explicitly," he says.
Whitton typically dilutes terpenes 3-to-1 or 4-to-1 with water or tea (the terpene is the lesser part of the ratio), depending on the cocktail he's making.
Caryophyllene: With notes of black pepper and baking spices, this is found in Rockstar and Skywalker OG cannabis strains. It has a calming effect; used to combat anxiety, pain and inflammation.
Humulene: Common in White Widow and Girl Scout Cookies strains, hoppy humulene has earthy, woody aromas and herbal notes. It's known for its anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory qualities.
Limonene: With a citrus profile, limonene is found in Lemon Haze, OG Kush and Tangle. It's used to lift mood and relieve stress.
Linalool: Found in the Lavender OG and LA Confidential strains, this terpene has floral aromas and promotes relaxation.
Pinene: With notes of pine needles and herbs, pinene is found in Bubba Kush, Jack Herer and Trainwreck strains. It's said to promote alertness and reduce inflammation.
Myrcene: Earthy and sometimes skunky, myrcene is found in the Kosher Kush and White Widow strains. It's used as a sedative, anti-depressant and sleep aid.
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"Insulinoma in Chronic Renal Failure" by Shamsuddin Shaik MD, Anjana Harnoor MD et al.
Shaik, S. Harnoor, A. Drake, A. (2017, May). Insulinoma in Chronic Renal Failure. Poster Presented at: The GME Research Day, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.


A. Everything is related in some way.
B. All relationships are purposeful.
C. Relationships change over time.
A. Exploration requires recognizing purpose and responding to it.
A. Force attracts, holds and repels.
B. Force influences or changes.
C. Force may be countered with equal or greater force.
A. Conflict is composed of opposing forces.
B. Conflict may be natural or human-made.
C. Conflict may be intentional or unintentional.
D. Conflict may allow for change.
A. Patterns have segments that are repeated.
B. Patterns allow for prediction.
C. Patterns have an intentional order.
A. Systems have parts that complete a task.
B. Systems are composed of sub-systems.
E. Parts of systems are interdependent upon one another.
A. Power is the ability to influence.
B. Power may be used or abused.
A. Structures have parts that are interrelated.
B. Parts of structures support and are supported by other parts.
C. Smaller structures may be combined to form larger structures.
D. A structure is no stronger than its weakest component part.
A. Change generates more change.
B. Change can be either positive or negative.
C. Change is unavoidable or inevitable.
D. Change is necessary for growth.
A. Order may be natural or constructed.
B. Order is a form of communication.
C. Order leads to chaos and chaos leads to order.


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by Zero Ted
© Copyright - Maywood Records / Maywood Records (634479007361)
Pop-jazz-rock
Genre: Jazz: Jazz Vocals
Share Time Download
1. Poor Boy
Beth Fitchet Wood
2. Someday You'll Be Sorry
Daniel May
3. That's How You Break A Heart
4. Nancy
5. Why Didn't You Stay
6. Icarus
7. How Can I Tell You?
8. Take Me Away From Here
9. Don't Go Today
10. Julie
11. Words
"Zero Ted" consists of three singer-songwriters: Steve Wood, Beth Fitchet Wood and Daniel May, all of whom have many musical credits to their names. They adopted this bandname, which originated in South Dakota and has gone through many incarnations. Rumor has it that "Zero Ted" was the name of the Zeroth cat of someone's girlfriend.
Steve Wood (keyboards, vocals, harmonica, etc.) started the famous Southern California surf band "Honk" in the early seventies, who recorded music for the surf film "Five Summer Stories".
He has continued to make music for the producer of that film, Greg Macgillivray, throughout the years, and has at least 20 IMAX film scores to his credit, including "Everest" and "The Living Sea".
Steve was musical director for Kenny Loggins throughout the eighties, and produced many CD's of all kinds of music for artists all over the world.
Recently, he completed a CD for the great Greek tenor, Mario Frangoulis, and produced another CD for Sony Classical with Duetto.
Beth Fitchet Wood (vocals and guitar) was in the Honk band with her husband Steve, before settling down in the 80's to raise her two boys. Then she recorded two childrens albums (CDBaby release "Autumn To May"), recorded one CD with her group "The Girls" entitled "That's What Dreams Are For", and two solo efforts, "Silos" and "Angel On My Shoulder".
Daniel May (piano, vocals) is the educated guy in the group. He has a doctorate in composition and orchestration, employing those skills with Steve on the IMAX films.
He is one of the best jazz pianists ever, and proof can be heard on innumerable jazz CD's, with Barbara Morrison, Kate McGarry, etc.
His compositions appear in "Memento", "Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town", "Pizza Man", and the whole Medieval Times show.
"Sacred Cow" gives these musicians a welcome opportunity to produce their own music in their own way, - a joy to make and a joy to listen to.
Ed Goodstein
Excellent mix of sounds & voices
I was happy to stumble across Beth Fitchit-Wood's web site after following up awhile back on a reissue of Honk. Very pleased too with this album. It's I think 'fusion' done right. Aspects here of pop, folk, jazz,singer/songwriter vibe like the best of James Taylor (or the best stuff of Michael Mcdonald), and some nice 'harmonic' soul akin to Stevie Wonder. And the singing is very good too. Steve Wood impresses as arranger and player; Daniel May too. Beth has even gotten better I think since the '70s-- her voice like a 'prettier' Carly Simon or slightly less ethereal Shelby Flint. There's much intelligent ensemble work, and good songwriting. Beth's recent solos are also
very good; this one shows more a group side that differs from the 'country/folk/surf' Honk sound, but just as appealing. Cool, intelligent stuff that's also accessible and melodic.


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James Van Der Beek and wife Kimberly welcome son after two miscarriages
Mon, November 22, 2021 by ABC News
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HomeEntertainmentJames Van Der Beek and wife Kimberly welcome son after two miscarriages
James Van Der Beek and his wife, Kimberly, have a long-awaited new baby to add to their family. They now have five children.
The pair has been very open with their fertility struggles, including the losses of two pregnancies at 17 weeks, and so they're celebrating the birth of their new son, little Jeremiah Van Der Beek, with their fans as well.
In a darling Instagram post, which includes a video clip of his daughter Annabelle cradling the baby — who his parents call "Remi" and who she calls "dinosaur" — Van Der Beek says, "After experience late-term pregnancy loss twice in a row…we kept this one quiet."
He continues, "But we found a doctor here in Texas who diagnosed the last two as having been caused by an: 'incompetent cervix' (I asked him what kind of misogynistic old dude invented that term and he laughed — which made me like him even more)," the Dawson's Creek veteran joked, noting thatthe condition is now known as a "weakened cervix."
James then notes, "A simple surgical cerclage was done, removed at full-term, @vanderkimberly gave birth naturally on the ranch… and here we are."
The actor wanted to "spread the word" about the procedure to spare other prospective parents of the heartbreak of losing a child in utero.
"Each child brings their own energy, their own manifestation of consciousness, their own lessons," he says. "The ones we lost each gifted us with different pieces of the puzzle…leaving us that much more grateful for the ongoing master class we get to enjoy with this sweet, wise little one."
In the past, Kimberly told her followers that her fall 2019 and June 2020 miscarriages were "so tough," and "one of them almost killed me."
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'Late Late Show' host James Corden tests positive for COVID-19, cancels episodes for "the next few days"
Nicolas Cage expecting first baby with fifth wife, Riko Shibata
Opening today: Sam Worthington, Heather Graham, and Machine Gun Kelly in the Western 'The Last Son'
'Breaking Bad' Emmy winner Aaron Paul expecting second child with wife Lauren: "We love you so much already"
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London Metropolitan Police backs off over Muslim protests
Gallery scraps art, fearing Muslim rage -curator
PARIS (Reuters)
A London gallery has decided not to show some works of art because it fears they would upset Muslims, a curator said on Friday, a week after a German opera house canned a Mozart production for the same reason.
The director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery decided to remove works by surrealist artist Hans Bellmer from an exhibition the day before it was due to open, one of the museum's curators, Agnes de la Beaumelle, told Reuters
."The motive was simply to not shock the population of the Whitechapel neighbourhood, which is partly Muslim," she said. The Whitechapel area in east London is home to many ethnic minorities including a large Bangladeshi community.
The gallery issued a statement saying that some works were not included in the exhibition because of space constraints but declined to comment specifically on what Beaumelle said.
Last week, Berlin's Deutsche Oper reignited a heated debate in Europe over free speech and had to fend off charges of cowardice after it cancelled performances of Mozart's "Idomeno", fearing they could enrage Muslims and pose a security risk.
Beaumelle said the exhibition had already been to Paris and Munich without provoking any protests and Bellmer, who died in 1975, is well-known in the art world, which made the decision by gallery director Iwona Blazwick all the more surprising to her. Bellmer's work includes dolls of naked young girls.
"It surprised me because Bellmer's work is very well known. She already knew it well and by committing to take our exhibition she must have known what would be on the walls," Beaumelle said


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Sweet! An iPod Touch, loaded with music, games and all sorts of apps! I'm a winner!
But then I noticed something else; it also had access to the Gmail account of the owner, so I had his email address. And there were pictures of his recent vacation to Costa Rica. And of his kids. It was obvious that this is something he would like to have back.
So I emailed him twice with no response, which was interesting since I could SEE the emails getting to his Gmail account and see that they were unread. I don't think he uses Gmail for much so it was starting to look like "Hey, I did my part and now I have a new iPod Touch!".
But no. I didn't feel good about that. As someone who loves to research things and find answers, I KNEW I could track this guy down somehow and give him a nice Christmas gift.
So after some further legwork, I found a reference to where he seemed to work. I looked up that place (in Washington DC), called the organization and asked for him and was informed that he had left for the day. I mentioned to his secretary that I may have found his iPod and that he could call me so we could arrange it getting back to him.
He called in about two minutes, and in fact while I was on the phone with him another of his colleagues called me to tell me that he was going to call.
Obviously he was REALLY excited to get this back.
It felt right. I wish during these crazy holidays when everyone is so stressed about the economy, finding the perfect gifts, dealing with crazy family and all that we could remember that we are all just trying to get by in this world, and that doing the smallest thing for someone else can have an effect far beyond your own effort. And the more goodwill circling in the world, the better chance there is that some will come back to you.
And even if it doesn't, it still feels good to do the right thing.
The limited magazine choices in rural New England.
Lets just say I was unable to find The Atlantic or Scientific American, but if wrestling, guns or cars were my thing I would be set for life.


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Q: MATLAB textfiles change several entries(numbers) between two strings I have several GPS files and I want to merge them into a single file. Therefore I need to change one entry, since the all start with trace #1 again.
Here is an example of the text file:

Trace #1 at position 0.000000
  $GPGGA,092105.95,4635.2492567,N,00823.5402932,E,1,13,0.8,2355.019,M,,,,*00
Trace #2 at position 1.000000
  $GPLLQ,092106.10,042916,,,,,0,13,5.522,,*5D
  $GPGGA,092106.20,4635.2492568,N,00823.5402891,E,1,13,0.8,2355.020,M,,,,*00
Trace #1 at position 6.000000
  $GPGGA,092106.70,4635.2492591,N,00823.5402862,E,1,13,0.8,2355.034,M,,,,*0A
Trace #2 at position 7.000000
  $GPGGA,092106.70,4635.2492591,N,00823.5402862,E,1,13,0.8,2355.034,M,,,,*0A
Trace #3 at position 8.000000
  $GPGGA,092106.70,4635.2492591,N,00823.5402862,E,1,13,0.8,2355.034,M,,,,*0A

My desired output should have every Trace # changed to be incremental (Trace #1 to Trace #5). The position doesn't has to be changed since it is not used for further processing.
In total I have around 18000 traces.

A: While in principle it would be possible to correct the counters while merging all the files, I think for your case it's easier to use some post-processing after the final merge. I.e., first merge all files, and then correct the final file.
Below is my post-processing solution. In words:

*

*read all text into memory

*search for lines to be corrected

*split those lines up into parts to keep and parts to correct

*do corrections on the relevant parts

*write everything to file.

Note that regexp is slower and a bit harder to use than strfind, but it allows you to be much more flexible with formatting. Silly things like accidental leading spaces, different number of spaces, etc. between different output files don't affect the processing at all. Also, regexp allows you to do steps 2 and 3 in one call, altogether making it a lot faster and simpler than strfind.
Anyway, here goes:
% Read the file into memory
fid = fopen('GPS_data.txt', 'r');
    txt = textscan(fid, '%s', 'delimiter','\n');
    txt = txt{1};
fclose(fid);

% Find relevant lines and separate into tokens
tok = regexp(txt, ...
             '^(\s*Trace\s*#\s*)(\d*)(.*)$',...
             'tokens');

% Do the replacements
matches = ~cellfun('isempty', tok);
txt(matches) = cellfun(@(x,y)[x{1}{1}  int2str(y)  x{1}{3}], ...
                       tok(matches),...
                       num2cell(1:nnz(matches))',...
                       'UniformOutput', false);

% Write results to file
fid = fopen('GPS_data_corrected.txt', 'w');
    fprintf(fid, '%s\n', txt{:});
fclose(fid);

Using arrayfun or plain loop allows you to get rid of the num2cell, but oh well.

A: You can combine fileread and strfind as shown below. In my experience, strfind is easier to use than regexp.
%% Read file:
file_string = fileread('C:\Users\rfpe\Documents\MATLAB\GPS_data.txt');

%% Find indices where the word "Trace" starts
idx = [strfind(file_string, 'Trace'), numel(file_string)];

%% Find the indices where the phrase " at" starts
idx_2 = strfind(file_string, ' at');

%% Loop through the lines of the text, and add each line to
%% separate cells in new_txt
for n = 1:numel(idx)-1;
    new_txt{n} = sprintf('%s%i%s', file_string(idx(n):idx(n)+6), ...
    n, file_string((idx_2(n)):idx(n+1)-1));
end

%% Open new txt file, with writing rights
fileID = fopen('GPS_data_new.txt','w');

%% Print each cell element into the new text file using fprintf
fprintf(fileID,'%s', new_txt{:});

%% Close the open file:
fclose(fileID);

It outputs the following, for a file with 11 Traces:
Trace #1 at position 0.000000
$GPGGA,092105.95,4635.2492567,N,00823.5402932,E,1,13,0.8,2355.019,M,,,,*00

Trace #2 at position 1.000000 $GPLLQ,092106.10,042916,,,,,0,13,5.522,,*5D
$GPGGA,092106.20,4635.2492568,N,00823.5402891,E,1,13,0.8,2355.020,M,,,,*00

Trace #3 at position 6.000000
$GPGGA,092106.70,4635.2492591,N,00823.5402862,E,1,13,0.8,2355.034,M,,,,*0A

Trace #4 at position 7.000000
$GPGGA,092106.70,4635.2492591,N,00823.5402862,E,1,13,0.8,2355.034,M,,,,*0A

Trace #5 at position 8.000000
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Trace #6 at position 0.000000
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Maritza Pérez Cárdenas (* 22. März 1967) ist eine ehemalige kubanische Judoka. Sie war 1989 und 1991 Weltmeisterschaftsdritte im Halbleichtgewicht und gewann 1991 bei den Panamerikanischen Spielen.

Sportliche Karriere
Maritza Pérez Cárdenas gewann von 1986 bis 1991 sechs kubanische Meistertitel im Halbleichtgewicht, der Gewichtsklasse bis 52 Kilogramm.

Bereits 1985 war sie Dritte der Panamerikanischen Meisterschaften in der Gewichtsklasse bis 48 Kilogramm. 1986 erreichte sie das Finale in der Klasse bis 52 Kilogramm und unterlag der Brasilianerin Solange de Almeida Pessoa. 1987 gewann sie eine Bronzemedaille bei den Panamerikanischen Spielen in Indianapolis. Im gleichen Jahr nahm sie an den Weltmeisterschaften in Essen teil, dort schied sie im Viertelfinale gegen die Französin Dominique Brun aus.

1988 siegte Pérez Cárdenas bei den Panamerikanischen Meisterschaften. 1989 erreichte sie das Finale beim Tournoi de Paris und unterlag dann der Japanerin Noriko Mizoguchi. Eine Woche darauf siegte sie beim Weltcup-Turnier in Sofia. Im Oktober 1989 unterlag sie im Viertelfinale der Weltmeisterschaften in Belgrad der Britin Sharon Rendle. Mit zwei Siegen in der Hoffnungsrunde erreichte Pérez Cárdenas den Kampf um Bronze, den sie gegen die Chinesin Chang Pengna gewann. 1990 gewann sie bei den Panamerikanischen Meisterschaften. Bei den Weltmeisterschaften 1991 in Barcelona unterlag sie im Halbfinale Sharon Rendle. Den Kampf um Bronze gewann sie gegen die Niederländerin Jessica Gal. Zwei Wochen später siegte Maritza Pérez Cárdenas bei den Panamerikanischen Spielen in Havanna, wobei sie im Finale die Brasilianerin Patricia Belivacqua bezwang.

Weblinks
 Turnierergebnisse bei judoinside.com

Fußnoten

Judoka (Kuba)
Panamerikaspielesieger (Judo)
Kubanischer Meister (Judo)
Teilnehmer an den Panamerikanischen Spielen (Kuba)
Kubaner
Geboren 1967
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