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Erie, Pa. - Four third-period goals led Mercyhurst to a 5-2 win against the Canisius College hockey team on Tuesday night. The Griffs fall to 9-12-5 on the season and 8-7-2 in Atlantic Hockey play, while the Lakers improve to 12-10-1 and 10-7-0 in league play.

"It was a good back-and-forth game for two periods," said Canisius head coach Dave Smith. "We were a little careless in the third and the Lakers, with their skill, capitalized. We need to use these games as motivation for next weekend and recognize that we are in the thick of the standings right now."

Junior Kyle Gibbons and freshman Ralph Cuddemi both scored for the Griffs.

Junior Tony Capobianco finished with 26 saves for Canisius.

After a scoreless opening frame, Gibbons gave the Griffs the lead with 11:37 remaining in the second. The junior ripped a shot in on the power play from the point for his team-best 11th tally of the season. Sophomore Mitch McCrank posted the assist for the 1-0 lead.

The Lakers answered back shortly before the second intermission. After the Griffs failed to clear their defensive zone, Daniel Bahntge put a loose puck into the net from the right face-off circle to knot the contest at one with 1:24 left in the period.

Canisius reclaimed its lead early in the third period when Cuddemi netted his second career goal in as many games. On a power play, senior Preston Shupe tried to stuff the puck in from close range only to be denied by the Mercyhurst goaltender. Cuddemi was there, however, to knock the rebound in for the 2-1 lead. Junior Ryan Bohrer also recorded an assist on the goal 3:35 into the third.

The Griffs lead, however, would be short-lived as the Lakers answered back just nine seconds later. Mercyhurst took advantage of another Canisius miscue in its own zone when Matthew Zay scored to knot the contest at two.

The Lakers then took their first lead of the day shortly after tying the contest. Paul Chiasson finished off a 3-on-2 rush for a 3-2 advantage with 14:07 left in regulation. Mercyhurst then sealed the victory when Chris Bodo scored on a 2-1 rush with 2:47 remaining. Daniel O'Donoghue added an empty-net goal for the 5-2 final.

The Griffs finished the contest with a 32-31 edge in shots. Canisius won the special teams battle on the night, going 2-for-3 with the extra-man advantage and killing the only two Mercyhurst power plays.

The Griffs return home next weekend with a two-game series against Holy Cross. The schools open the series on Saturday at 3:05 p.m.

Game Notes: Junior defender Ben Danford became the first player in the program's history to appear in 100-straight games to start his career ... Gibbons has netted eight of his team-leading 11 goals on the road this season ... His eight road goals are just one shy of the national leaders ... Gibbons 11 goals since Nov. 10 also rank third in the nation ... Gibbons extended his career-best points streak to eight games ... All four of Cuddemi's points during his rookie season have come on the power play (2g, 2a) ... The home team has won each of the last five meetings in the series.

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Part 1: The Resurrection of Old Tom Morris's Ghost Course

Thursday April 21st, 2011
PRIME LINKSLAND: In 1891, when Morris first walked this machair on the Atlantic side of the Hebridean island of South Uist, he needed only one word to describe it: "Staggering."
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More than two decades ago, the author rediscovered a long-abandoned gem designed by Old Tom Morris on a wild, remote Scottish island. Today, with an assist from American friends, Old Tom's Ghost Course is coming back to life. This is the first of a five-part series chronicling its resurrection.

The American smiles as he approaches the little yellow excavator, parked on the grass between the cattle guard and the 1st tee. The cab windows, streaked with raindrops, catch glimmers of silver from a sunset lurking behind offshore clouds.

"Is it bigger than you're used to?" asks the club captain, his eyes full of mischief.

"It's wee," says the American. "It's a wee digger."

Still smiling, he walks around the rented machine, inspecting the metal tracks and the reÂinforced bucket. Peering into the cab, the American lets his smile turn sardonic. He has two weeks to work his miracles, but two weeks with this machine might not be enough.

Then again, that could be the jet lag talking. In the 24 hours since his wife dropped him off at Denver International Airport, the American has changed planes in Newark, crossed the Atlantic under a crescent moon, cleared customs at Glasgow International, boarded a 34-seater for the one-hour flight to the Hebridean island of Benbecula, driven his rental car southward another 30 minutes on a single-lane road—threading through bogs and lochs and across a stone causeway onto a 22-mile-long island with a mountainous eastern coast and a sandy Atlantic shore, its boulder-strewn grasslands punctuated by whitewashed farm houses and grazing sheep—before turning in, finally, at the gabled Borrodale Hotel in the village of Daliburgh. Now, after a desperate nap and a hurried sandwich, he stands at the edge of a pasture that stretches a flat quarter-mile before rising 20 or 30 feet to meet the sky above a seaweed-mottled beach.

The locals have a word for these low-lying fertile plains: machair (pronounced MOCK-er). Among the rarest landscapes in Europe, they are found in the north and west of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and nowhere more extensively than in the Western Isles of Scotland.

Golfers know them by another name: linksland.

Welcome to another season of This Old Course, the series that gives you a builder's-eye view of a complete golf course renovation. This year's project is Askernish Old, a 120-year-old links course on the isle of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. First imagined in 1891 by the pioneering course designer Old Tom Morris, Askernish Old is the home links of the 18-member Askernish Golf Club.

We'll meet the club's larger-than-life chairman in a later installment, but the men watching the American inspect the excavator are Askernish's captain, Donald MacInnes, and its greenkeeper, Allan MacDonald. It's January, so the clubmen have wool caps pulled down over their ears. MacInnes wears a hooded, fleece-lined jacket and jeans. MacDonald has on a quilted pullover and twill work pants. Golf garb.

The American sports a blue wool cap, a pale blue windbreaker with a pacific dunes logo, navy-colored rain pants and rubber shoes. His name is Eric Iverson, and he's a design associate for Renaissance Golf Design of Traverse City, Mich. He's the pro from Dover.

It's a role Iverson seems loath to play. Walking with the clubmen across the closely mowed pasture, he picks up threads of conversation from the previous March, when he had accompanied his boss, Tom Doak, on a tour of the property. To a question about the new tees he is to construct, he says, "We try to find places where the cut matches the fill and disturbs as little as possible." Quizzed about a schedule for top-dressing the greens with native sand, he glances over his shoulder at what passes for a maintenance shed—two padlocked shipping containers parked near the two-room clubhouse. "Do you have a little buggy of some sort to track some sand in?"

The clubmen snort. "We had a Cushman, but it died," says MacDonald. "Frost damage."

The fertilizer delivery system is more dependable, judging by the cows grazing on a dune above the 18th fairway, the sheep scattered across the holes on the sea meadow, and the ubiquitous rabbit dung. The greens are surrounded by white posts connected by a single strand of polywire attached to a nine-volt Paddock Master energizer; or, in the case of the 18th green, not attached. "They're not hooked up at the moment, but it doesn't matter," says MacInnes, stepping over a sagging strand. "The cows think they are!"

Scaling a trampled dune south of the 6th green, the three men step carefully around the cow pies and note the hoof damage. "More sheep, less cattle," Iverson says for the benefit of the clubmen. "Rabbit-eating sheep would be ideal."

But when they crest the tallest of the dunes, Iverson falls mute, taking in the southern view with a smile of recognition. Far below, running parallel to the sullen sea, a fairway squeezes through a grassy gorge and climbs up and up to a sheltered shelf in the high dunes, upon which a red flag is planted. Numbered 7 on the scorecard and nicknamed Cabinet Minister, it is the first hole of a 10-hole stretch as spectacular and challenging as any in the British Isles. Walking these dunes in 1891, Old Tom Morris had captured them in a single word: "Staggering."

Now it's Iverson. And it could be our imagination, but captain MacInnes and greenkeeper MacDonald seem the least bit edgy as they watch their visitor stare at the distant green. That's because in a couple of days, if things go as planned, their American friend will rumble onto the 7th green in his wee machine, lower the bucket, maneuver the joysticks... and dig.

Did we mention that this is not your typical renovation? The Morris course at Askernish Farm was abandoned in the 1920s, leaving only hints of its character in the rugged dunes. Several of Old Tom's holes were almost certainly lost to coastal erosion, brutal storms being a feature of the Hebridean winter. The physiognomy of the rest is a matter for speculation, because virtually no documentation survives. The current course, Askernish Old, is the pro bono work of Scottish links consultant Gordon Irvine and English golf architect Martin Ebert, who in 2007 produced a routing based on topographical clues and their knowledge of 19th-century greenkeeping practices.

Their course, while only an approximation of the original links, is "authentic" in that the holes remain as Irvine and Ebert found them. The tees, fairways and greens were simply mowed out by volunteers and have since been maintained without recourse to irrigation, artificial fertilizers or pesticides. Askernish bills itself as "the most natural golf course in the world."

"It kind of goes to the equipment thing," Iverson says over beers at the Borrodale Hotel. "Because while Old Tom's course would have been built largely by hand, he would have had dozens of laborers to carry out his instructions. Courses of this type were built by royalty or wealthy people. Resources were not an issue."

Resources are an issue for a 21st-century, community-owned golf club. Askernish has an annual greenkeeping budget of between $55,000 and $70,000, most of which goes to MacDonald and his guitar-playing assistant, Donald (Nollie) MacKinnon. To transplant turf or fill in rabbit warrens, MacDonald can call on part-timers MacInnes and Derek Yates, who are paid with a grant from Bandon Dunes developer Mike Keiser. But to rebuild greens, he needs a lot more. He needs the kind of muscle that chugs and bucks and spews hydrocarbons from a tailpipe.

"It was never a conscious decision that we wouldn't ever use an excavator," MacDonald says, but his lowered voice suggests that some might disagree.

The bigger question is whether some greens need to be reshaped. The mini-contours, the subtle dips and knobs that make putting an adventure, are popular with visitors and club members alike, but the underlying slopes are so severe that whole sections of the "natural" greens aren't viable for pin placements. And it will only get worse, experts tell the clubmen, as the greens get firmer and faster over time.

Iverson, like a hospital resident reassuring the parents of an injured child, promises to leave no scars. "We take a great deal of pride in covering our tracks," he says, speaking for Renaissance Golf. "We try to make it look like we've never been there."

Liking the sound of that, the clubmen raise their beers to Iverson, who smiles and lifts his own for the traditional clinking of glasses.

"Cheers," says captain MacInnes.

"Cheers," says Iverson.

The work begins, then, on a bright, frosty morning. Fulfilling his promise to go slowly, Iverson maneuvers the rented excavator onto the brow of a dune overlooking the 7th and 16th greens, where a new 8th tee is supposed to go. Three men and two dogs watch from an even higher dune as he drops the bucket and takes his first bite of marram grass.

The gallery disperses after only a few minutes. With the dogs following, the three men walk to a four-wheeler and trailer parked on the leeward slope of the dune. They unload a machine resembling a lawnmower with handlebars and roll it uphill to an exposed spot at the edge of a cavernous pit. This is the location they have picked for a shared tee bigger than any they have ever built—a back tee for the par-4 8th and a members' tee for the par-3 17th.

The machine coughs to life and yields to the forceful push of greenkeeper MacDonald, who guides it along the ground to no clear effect—until captain MacInnes steps in and begins rolling up a foot-wide strip of turf, exposing a stretch of dark topsoil as straight and trim as a carpet runner. MacDonald, meanwhile, stops at a predetermined spot, makes a U-turn, and leans into his sputtering machine on a course parallel to the first path.

Only when you walk 100 yards or so along the high ground and look back can you fairly measure the scale of the Askernish renovation. The wee digger, with Iverson in the cab, looks no bigger than an insect against the blue backdrop of the Atlantic. The turf cutters, meanwhile, are far outnumbered by the sheep on the sea meadow.

It's doubtful that Old Tom is spinning in his grave.

In the next installment of This Old Course we'll meet chairman Ralph Thompson, the self-described 'liar-in-chief' of the Askernish Golf Club. We'll also watch with bated breath as Iverson lowers the boom on the 7th green.

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I was reminded recently of the prevailing ignorance of liturgical symbolism, and the relation of the liturgical rubrics to this symbolism, by an argument I had recently with a priest, who was defending the practice of those who receive communion coming up and taking the chalice from the altar, after having received the Sacred Body from the priest, as well as the practice of handing the chalice from one person to another.

Both of these practices are explicitly forbidden by the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, as well as by the document on practices and abuses in the Liturgy, Redemptionis Sacramentum.

“The faithful are not permitted to take the consecrated bread or the sacred chalice by themselves, and, still less, to hand them from one to another” (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, n. 160; Cf. Redemptionis Sacramentum, n. 94).

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The reason for the practice is a simple one. The priest represents Christ giving his Body and Blood to his Mystical Body, the Church, to the faithful who receive it. The faithful are in the position of recipients: they receive Christ’s Body and Blood from Christ, and this should be represented also in the form by which they receive.


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In its 1995 opinion, the Court of Appeals explained in some detail its idea of the sound basic education guaranteed by the state constitution. The Court issued a "template definition" that is more extensive than those used by most other state courts. Rather than simply making the Regents’ standards their sole criteria for adequacy, the Court declared that a sound basic education should consist of "the basic literacy, calculating, and verbal skills necessary to enable children to eventually function productively as civic participants capable of voting and serving on a jury."

This definition also included a list of essential educational resources that the state is obligated to provide, including adequate physical facilities, up-to-date textbooks and curricula, and a sufficient number of adequately trained teachers. In addition, the Court indicated that it expects the parties to further develop this definition when the case goes to trial. Taking into account the suggestions of its Board of Advisors, the input of participants in Public Engagement Process, and its own research, CFE developed a more comprehensive definition of the constitutional standard for a "sound basic education," which it used to develop its case at trial.

In his ruling, Judge DeGrasse modified the Court of Appeals "template" definition in accordance with the evidence parties presented at trial. Judge DeGrasse held that a sound basic education "should consist of the foundational skills that students need to become productive citizens capable of civic engagement and sustaining competative employment." Judge DeGrasse also expanded the list of essential resources the state must provide all schools in order to adhere to the constitutional standard.

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Here's how to turn Mozilla Firefox into a social butterfly.

Move over, RockMelt. You don't need a dedicated social networking browser to stay überconnected. Here are 10 Firefox add-ons (all compatible with the latest version of Firefox) that will turn your browser into a social butterfly.

Facebook Toolbar

The world's largest social network wouldn't be complete without a direct-access toolbar. The Facebook Toolbar Firefox add-on features a Facebook search bar, a Quick Links menu (for directly accessing your Profile, Friends, Inbox, Photos, Notes, and the like), a link to Facebook's home page, a Share button, and a photo-upload button. The toolbar also notifies you of new pokes, messages, friend requests, and wall posts.

On the leftmost end of the Facebook Toolbar is a button for toggling the "Friends Sidebar" on and off. This sidebar shows a running list of your pals' latest status updates, so you can keep up-to-date as you browse other parts of the Web.

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Sometimes you just want to know what's going on with a particular person, or a particular hashtag, on Twitter. The Twitter Search Firefox add-on is a useful--yet practically invisible--tool for doing just that. Twitter Search lets you easily look up Twitter users and hashtags.

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Maybe you want to update your Twitter account, not just search for other people. In this case, the HootBar Firefox add-on is a convenient tool for tweeting via your browser's address bar.

HootBar adds two buttons to your browser: a little Twitter bird in the address bar, and a Hootlet button between the address bar and the search bar. To update your Twitter account, you just type your tweet into the address bar and click the Twitter bird button; the Hootlet button gives you more options. You can use multiple accounts with HootBar (just add --accountname after each tweet), schedule messages, and track stats. You will need a HootSuite account.

Google+ Manager

Google's up-and-coming social network doesn't yet have a dedicated Firefox toolbar, but the Google+ Manager Firefox add-on does bring some useful things to the table. The Google+ Manager adds a small button to Google pages. Clicking on that button produces a drop-down menu of links. You can then go directly to your Google+ profile, photos, albums, Circles, settings, and more; you can even shorten a URL.

Although Google+ Manager offers a lot of options for navigating directly to your Google+ account, remember that it works only on Google Web pages.

LinkedIn Companion

A dedicated LinkedIn toolbar can be useful if you're either looking for a job or seeking someone to hire. The LinkedIn Companion Firefox add-on adds a simple toolbar to your browser with two buttons: a 'Share on LinkedIn' button, and a regular LinkedIn button.

Clicking the latter yields a drop-down menu of options for connecting with the business-oriented social network. From that menu you can see your recent LinkedIn profiles and searches, find people or jobs, add contacts, and check out LinkedIn JobsInsider--basically, just about everything you'd normally do on LinkedIn. LinkedIn JobsInsider is a sidebar that shows your "inside connections" as you browse jobs (in other words, it shows whether you know a person who knows a person).

The Yoono Firefox add-on is a great tool for managing multiple social networks. Yoono adds a (hideable) sidebar to your browser, and it can multitask: It consolidates your various social networks' status updates into one stream, lets you update your status across all of your social networks at once, and even supports some chat applications.

Yoono currently supports AIM, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, FriendFeed, Google Talk, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Yahoo Messenger, and YouTube.

If you don't feel like installing a dedicated social networking toolbar such as Facebook's, but you still want to be able to share links with your assorted social networks, Shareaholic might be for you. The Shareaholic Firefox add-on adds a small, unassuming Shareaholic button in the top-left corner of your browser, beside the back/forward buttons.

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Lengthy links are annoying--especially if you're trying to share something within the strict 140-character constraints of Twitter. The TinyURL Generator Firefox add-on makes creating short links a breeze. This add-on adds a small link button to the lower-right corner of your browser.

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StumbleUpon is both a social network and an excellent way to find fodder to share with your other social networks. Unfamiliar with the service? It takes you to a "random" Web page (though "random" actually means customized according to your preferred categories) when you click a button. You can then tell StumbleUpon whether you "like" or "dislike" the page, and StumbleUpon's algorithm learns what types of "random" pages to show you, based on those preferences.

The StumbleUpon Firefox add-on not only lets you "stumble" and rate pages, but also gives you buttons for sharing pages with social networks (Facebook, Twitter) and by email, as well as buttons for interacting with the StumbleUpon community. In other words, this toolbar is perfect for content junkies who need fresh material.

Pearltrees is a different way to share content on the Web. It's a social network and sharing system in and of itself, though it also connects to Facebook and Twitter. Pearltrees lets you "curate" trees or webs of pearls. Those trees are dynamic connections, and you can add, remove, and reconnect pearls (links you find on the Web). Pearltrees are particularly cool as you curate more and more, because you end up with a web of intuitive connections.

The Pearltrees Firefox add-on makes curating Pearltrees a cinch. The add-on inserts three buttons to the left of your browser's address bar: a pearl button that lets you add the page you're browsing to your current tree; a button for choosing where to put your pearl; and a home button that takes you to your Pearltree account.

See? Social networking doesn't have to be a time-consuming chore. With these add-ons, keeping current on all the latest news should be a snap.

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Mr.Hardeep Singh Additional Director
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Dr.M G K Menon Director
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Mr.Hardeep Singh Director
Mr.G B Mathur Director
Mr.Nikhil Nanda Joint Managing Director
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Distance therapy, also known as phone therapy or Internet therapy, has evolved over the years as the therapeutic world has embraced the digital age. Some therapists offer different forms of distance therapy in an effort to reach a wider range of people in various locations and across distances. As the names imply, phone therapy and online therapy do not use in-person, face-to-face communication as the primary mode of therapy.

Why Choose Distance Therapy?

Internet and phone therapy can be employed as a part of a traditional therapeutic relationship. A therapist might, for example, conduct online or phone sessions with a patient during a time of crisis or when the patient is out of town. But online and phone therapy can also serve as stand-alone forms of therapy.

Distance therapists guide clients through challenges, detect distorted thinking, and provide assignments via voice or text over the phone and via chat, video, or email online. Some therapists offer distance therapy as the primary venue for the therapist and client to “meet,” and many people prefer phone or Internet therapy because it means that they can conduct therapy sessions with the therapist from the comfort of their own homes or even at times when they are traveling.

What Issues Are Addressed in Distance Therapy?

Any number of concerns, from anxiety to eating and food issues, may be addressed with distance therapy, although concerns of a particularly sensitive nature may be better suited to traditional talk therapy. In addition, there are many therapeutic modalities that are well suited to distance therapy and many that are not. Whatever modality is used, it will need to be able to be done without the “visual” feedback from a face-to-face session.

Distance therapy may be contraindicated for people who are working through very challenging and upsetting experiences or experiencing multiple crises. Suicidal clients, for example, may need more intensive interventions, but the inability to see body language on the phone or hear inflection online can make it challenging for a therapist to assess a client's mental state. Therapists may need to take additional measures to ensure they're accurately assessing their clients, meeting ethical requirements, and providing high-quality counseling. A distance therapist is wise to have specific plans in place in case of client emergencies.

Ethical Considerations for Distance Therapy

There are some concerns about distance therapy in the field of psychotherapy, not just because of potential dangers and misuse, but also about its efficacy. Some opponents of distance therapy believe that because humans are hurt in relationship to others, that one must heal in relationship, face-to-face. Distance therapy, they say, can skip over the most fundamental and important aspect of healing: the relationship. But generally proponents of distance therapy agree that the relationship is of primary importance and believe that they are indeed able to establish a trusting therapeutic relationship via phone, webcam, or email. Other distance therapy proponents ignore the issue altogether and focus on helping people with surface issues, essentially providing distance coaching or counseling.

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As with in-person therapy, only a licensed professional can administer distance therapy. Therapists traditionally have to be licensed in the state in which they practice, but distance therapy poses a challenge, as some states may require that therapists be licensed in the state in which the client is located, for example. So far, only a few states have passed laws specifically designed to regulate distance counseling.

In addition, some types of distance-based consultation are not therapy at all, but could easily be mistaken for it. For example, some suicide hotlines offer online and phone crisis counseling, and some life coaches offer phone and online consultations. These services, however, cannot market themselves as therapy or try to administer therapy.

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With all three major indices finishing Friday slightly lower, it rounded out a quiet week that was essentially flat. It was no surprise as there were just no big news items or earnings reports to send stocks up or down in any big way. This market is looking for a catalyst or two, but there were no major ones for this next-to-the-last week of August. Late summer is historically a quiet time for the stock market, since many institutional players and regular investors are on vacation, so the flat and quiet week we saw this past week was basically a “normal” week for late August.

The week began with hawkish comments from New York Federal Reserve President Bill Dudley hinting that a Fed rate hike was still on the table for its September meeting. Later in the week we saw the Fed’s minutes from its last meeting, and it showed a divided Fed that had some members promoting a rate hike while the majority of members sounded fairly dovish on a September rate hike. This mixed message helped keep buyers and sellers on hold, and it helped explain why we had such a calm, cool and flat week in the stock market.

We have the Presidential Election taking place in early November, and the Federal Reserve has only two chances to raise rates ahead of that election. The first is in late-September and the second would be in early November just before the election. The Fed does not like to be a “king” or “queen” maker, so the consensus is that a rate hike in either of those two meetings seems very unlikely. The 10% selloff that we saw in the S&P 500 in January and February comes to mind, and with a contentious election in play, the Fed would probably prefer to lay low.

A big selloff in stocks would likely spook voters, which would benefit an outsider like Trump. Keeping stocks steady and calm near all-time highs would likely benefit Clinton and the current “status quo,” since a stock market at all-time highs “feels” steady to many voters. The Fed would likely not want to be blamed for any non-prudent moves, so most strategists and Fed watchers are siding with the “no action” mantra right now. A strong jobs number at the beginning of September COULD give the Fed a “green light” for a rate hike, but the consensus is leaning toward no hikes at least until December.

This current picture is in stark contrast to eight years ago when we had markets melt down following the Lehman Brothers collapse in October of 2008. The Fed reacted back then with rate cuts and the TARP bailout, and that could have helped Obama amidst all of the market turmoil. Voters and investors (and Wall Street) were scared pretty badly, and the vote for “change” in November of 2008 took hold. We do not have any major crises in the making right now, and the Fed certainly does not want to create a ruckus ahead of the 2016 election.

All eyes will be on Jackson Hole, Wyoming next week when the Fed heads and various banker-types meet regarding the economy and economic policy. So the spotlight will be on that beautiful mountain region. Janet Yellen is scheduled to speak on Friday, and it will be a closely-watched speech. She has a chance to send a clear message on the Fed’s intentions for the rest of the year, but again, she will likely have neutral comments that will not affect global financial markets. The spotlight will be on her, but in reality, she likely will keep her comments calm, cool and collected.

Whichever party wins in November, it looks as though the broader financial markets will take the whole process in stride. Neither party is likely to introduce any radical changes, and that is exactly what investment markets like to see. If anything, the stock market seems to work well when Washington is divided and confused. That said, it was a calm but productive week for the stock market even though it finished flat. The Gorilla wishes each and all a relaxing August weekend. Enjoy the calm right now because the run toward the end of the year promises to be challenging and interesting to say the least. Again, have a great weekend!

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LINCOLN—During the second half of April, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service will conduct its biannual Agricultural Labor Survey.

The survey will collect information about agricultural labor on Nebraska’s farms and ranches.

“The beginning of the growing season is usually the perfect time to look at farm labor,” said Dean Groskurth, director of the NASS Nebraska Field Office. “The data that farm operators provide through NASS’s Agricultural Labor Survey allow Nebraska and federal policy-makers to establish labor policies based on accurate information and help ensure farmers can get sufficient hired labor for their operations.”

USDA and the Department of Labor will use statistics gathered in the Agricultural Labor Survey to help establish minimum wage rates for agricultural workers, administer farm labor recruitment and placement service programs, and assist legislators in determining labor policies.

In the survey, NASS asks participants to answer a variety of questions about hired farm labor on their operations, including total number of hired farm workers, hours worked, and wage rates paid for the weeks of Jan. 6-12 and April 7-13. For their convenience, survey participants have the option to respond online.

“Due to season variations, despite collecting farm labor data twice a year, we provide all data on a quarterly basis,” said Groskurth. “This approach helps us ensure that anyone using our data can perform more accurate analyses.”

NASS will compile, analyze and publish survey results in the Farm Labor report, to be released on May 21. For more information on NASS surveys and reports, call the NASS Nebraska Field Office at 1-800-582-6443.

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FERC lifts price cap for grid operators in Midwest, Mid-Atlantic

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today approved a request from grid operators in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic to temporarily let their generators exceed a long-standing $1,000-per-megawatt-hour price limit for electricity sold into the market.

FERC granted the waiver for PJM Interconnection, which oversees the grid in 13 states and the District of Columbia, through the end of March.

Grid operators had argued the step was needed to address record-setting costs that electricity generators are incurring as a result of spiking natural gas prices during this winter’s deep freeze across the eastern United States.

PJM has said it’s focused on protecting generators from substantial financial losses.

Spot prices for natural gas in the Mid-Atlantic on Jan. 22 surged almost 340 percent to $45 per million British thermal units, and gas prices in New York City rose more than 780 percent. As a result of the high fuel costs, the price of electricity in the region shot up to $857 per MWh.

Parties like the Maryland Public Service Commission and NextEra Energy Power Marketing LLC had argued against waiving the cap, warning of financial consequences (EnergyWire, Feb. 7).

But FERC today said PJM had made its case for the limited relief. “PJM’s request is limited in scope in that it is limited to the period from the date of this order through March 31, 2014 and limits what types of resources can bid and how,” FERC said in the order.

Last month, FERC granted a separate PJM waiver that allowed the grid operator to temporarily “make whole” generators that provided their resources above a $1,000-per-MWh price cap because of unprecedented gas price spikes (Greenwire, Jan. 27).


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This week, Tammy Flanagan, the regular writer of this column, appeared at the Excellence in Government conference (co-sponsored by Government Executive) for a lively, informative session on the subject of "Retirement: Are You Ready?" She and Raymond Kirk, manager of the Benefits Officers Training and Development Group at the Office of Personnel Management, addressed a standing-room-only crowd of folks who clearly had the idea of preparing for life after government on their minds.

Kirk noted that there are now four recognized career stages: school/training; job; a high-activity life after retiring from a primary career; and full retirement. OPM surveys show that 60 percent of state, federal and local government employees work after initial retirement, he said.

Under orders from Congress to improve retirement financial literacy, OPM is pushing a three-part model involving wealth planning, networking and social engagement (that is, what you're going to do with your life after retirement), and overall health. Kirk handed out print copies of OPM's Retirement Readiness Questionnaire, which he said would be available in online form starting late this fall.

In her segment, Flanagan focused on three tips for federal employees in communicating with their agencies about retirement issues:

  • Ask specific questions. "What do I need to do to retire?" is not as useful as a detailed query about your work history, benefits choices and retirement options.
  • Understand the limits of your agency's role in your retirement.Yes, the agency maintains your records, provides annuity estimates, transfers your health and life insurance benefits and issues a lump-sum payment for unused annual leave. No, the agency does not provide financial or tax planning services, or process TSP withdrawals or Social Security applications.
  • Select the best retirement date. This is the one that everybody wants to know about. For full details, see Flanagan's Feb. 3 column.
Next week, Flanagan will be back with a new column focusing on the issues that single people face in planning for retirement.

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who's story is being told in the " Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao"?

Since the narrator is telling a lot of story in the text.So it kind makes people think that the story is about multiple things and many themes,But i know that it is about someone or something specific.So i'd like to have an essay answer to that or a detailed analysis.

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Oscar Wao has many narrators. He called himself "your Watcher," revealed at the last few pages of the book, which is the main voice throughout the story. But Chapter two Wildwood is obviously Lola, Oscar's sister. Yunior, Lola's girlfriend, (who, I heard, is also the narrator in Drown) is speaking in Chapter four Sentimental Education. We're back to Lola in Part II, but then shift abruptly to "your Watcher" in Chapter 5 (I guess). There was also a humorous turn where the author jumps out in Chapter six Land of the Lost in the section A NOTE FROM YOUR AUTHOR.


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The husband of the narrator, John is a practical physician who believes that his wife is suffering from nothing more than a “slight hysterical tendency.” He prescribes the “rest cure,” confining the narrator to the nursery and forbidding her to exercise her creative imagination in any way. His antagonism toward her imagination stems from his own rationality and personal anxiety about creativity; he scoffs openly at the narrator’s fancies and is incapable of understanding her true nature. Throughout the story, he treats her in an infantile manner, referring to her as his “blessed little goose” and “little girl.” Moreover, when the narrator attempts to discuss her unhappiness with the situation in a mature manner, he refuses to accept her as an equal and simply carries her back up to the nursery for more bed rest. He is fixed in his authoritative position as husband and doctor and cannot adapt his strategy to account for her opinion on the matter. He believes in a strict, paternalistic divide between men and women; men work outside of the home, as he does, while women like Jennie, his sister, and Mary, the nanny, tend to the house.

Although John is set up as the villain of the story, he can also be seen as a more sympathetic character. He clearly loves his wife and relies on her for his own happiness. Yet he is unable to reconcile her creative desires with his own rationality or the chauvinistic expectations of the time period. His wife is unable or unwilling to adhere to the ideal model of domesticity expressed by the 19th-century society, and John is at a loss as to what to do. His solution is to use Weir Mitchell’s rest cure to “fix” his wife, and he does not realize that his own actions push her over the edge of insanity.


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Researchers directly visualize formation and disappearance of Li-O2 reaction products; insights to support development of rechargeable lithium-air batteries

8 October 2012

Schematic summarizing the reaction mechanism. During discharge and charge in UHV, Li ions reversibly intercalate/de-intercalate into/from the LixV2O5 electrode. During discharge, Li ions meet with reduced oxygen on the surface of the LixV2O5 electrode forming Li2O2, which is decomposed upon recharge. Lu et al. Click to enlarge.

The rechargeable Li−air (Li-O2) battery represents a conceptually attractive energy storage device for electric vehicle applications due to its high theoretical energy storage capacity (earlier post); however, among the obstacles to commercialization is a lack of fundamental understanding of the reactions involved.

Researchers from MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory now have developed a new technique to observe in situ the oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions in Li-O2 batteries. Utilizing a special all solid-state cell design and ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS), they directly visualized the formation and disappearance of Li-O2 reaction products (namely Li2O2) on an LixV2O5 surface as a function of applied battery potential.

In a paper published in Scientific Reports (an online, open access primary research publication from the publishers of Nature), they describe the redox of oxygen on the surface of a mixed electronic and Li+ ionic conductor, LixV2O5, using a specially designed, all solid-state Li-ion battery to eliminate parasitic reactions between oxygen reduction/evolution reaction intermediates and aprotic electrolytes used in conventional Li-O2 batteries reported to date.

Under ultra-high vacuum (UHV), they found that lithium intercalated into LixV2O5 while molecular oxygen was reduced to form lithium peroxide on LixV2O5 in the presence of oxygen upon discharge.

Interestingly, the oxidation of Li2O2 began at much lower overpotentials (~240 mV) than the charge overpotentials of conventional Li-O2 cells with aprotic electrolytes (~1000 mV). Our study provides the first evidence of reversible lithium peroxide formation and decomposition in situ on an oxide surface using a solid-state cell, and new insights into the reaction mechanism of Li-O2 chemistry.

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Further studies will be needed to elucidate the physical origin to low overpotentials of Li2O2 electrochemical oxidation, the researchers noted. They noted three differences between Li2O2 formed in their study and those formed in Li-O2 batteries with aprotic electrolytes.

  • Li2O2 particles formed on the surface of LixV2O5 are extremely thin. The average thickness of maximum Li2O2 coverage on the LixV2O5 surface was estimated to be ~0.7 nm. This is in contrast to Li2O2 particles having sizes in the range of 100 to 1000 nm formed in Li-O2 batteries with aprotic electrolytes.

  • The surfaces of Li2O2 are free of carbonate species formed on the surface of the LLTO/LiPON/LixV2O5 cell, which is in contrast to the coverage of Li2CO3-like species on Li2O2 particles even with ether-based electrolytes.

  • Very thin Li2O2 particles may have stoichiometry and electronic properties considerably different from Li2O2 particles.

This study showed that using metal oxides as the oxygen electrode could potentially enable a lithium-air battery to maintain its performance over many cycles of operation. Although the device used in the study was designed purely for research, not as a practical battery design in itself; if replicated in a real cell such designs could improve the longevity of lithium-air batteries, the authors suggested.

The observational method this team developed could have implications for studying reactions far beyond lithium-air batteries, Yang Shao-Horn, the Gail E. Kendall Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT and the senior author of the paper, says. This research, she says, “points to a new paradigm of studying reaction mechanisms for electrochemical energy storage. We can use this technique to study a large number of reactions,” she says. “It allows us to look at a large number of different electrochemical energy-related processes.

The work was partly funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy.

  • Yi-Chun Lu, Ethan J. Crumlin, Gabriel M. Veith, Jonathon R. Harding, Eva Mutoro, Loïc Baggetto, Nancy J. Dudney, Zhi Liu & Yang Shao-Horn (2012) In Situ Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Lithium-Oxygen Redox Reactions. Scientific Reports 2, Article number: 715 doi: 10.1038/srep00715

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Very interesting. This could lead to a new Solid States generation of e-energy storage units.

Hope that the information gathered is made available to Toyota and others actively working on next generation batteries.

Printed solid states future batteries could be much cheaper (1/3 to 1/5) and have much higher performances (3X to 5+X) than current Li-On units?

'Seeing is believing' and "a new technique to observe in situ the oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions in Li-O2 batteries.a new technique to observe in situ the oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions in Li-O2 batteries." seems key.

Maybe some of the chemistry guru commenters could explain this.

Ten years ago we heard all about the fantastic data for the batteries that we have today. By the end of the day, it was not so fantastic after all.

Peter...Tesla S 2012 Model with about 300 miles per charge is doing rather well on the way to the fantastic world. The 2015/2016 Model will probably do close to 500 miles per charge and that would be FANTASTIC by the end of any day?

A much lighter EV made with composites, re-enforced plastics and aluminum alloys could do close to 500 miles with the same battery pack today. That would also be rated as very FANTASTIC?

By 2020 or so, lighter EVs with 100 KWh quick charge batteries and 500 miles between charges will be common place.

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