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One Book 4 Colorado is a statewide effort to provide every 4-year-old in Colorado with the same book, helping to instill a love of reading in Colorado youngsters.
One Book 4 Colorado is a statewide effort to provide every 4-year-old in Colorado with the same book, helping to instill a love of reading in Colorado youngsters.
Books will be distributed to children across the state at local public library events and at Reach Out and Read clinics and local doctors' offices May 6-20. Books will be available in both English and Spanish, and will be accessible to children with special needs.
One Book 4 Colorado is the result of collaboration between Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia's office, Serve Colorado, Reach Out and Read Colorado, Colorado State Library, Denver Preschool Program, public libraries, the private sector, and the foundation community. It is modeled after the successful Preschool One Book, One Denver program originated by the Denver Preschool Program. Both programs are premised on the idea that providing young children with access to quality books promotes early literacy and helps families serve as their children's first and most important teachers.
To ensure school readiness, it is critical that 4-year-olds have frequent and routine access to books and that they be read to consistently. The vocabulary level of preschoolers is predictive of their third grade reading proficiency. For low-income families, access to quality books and early literacy efforts are doubly important as research shows that low-income children have few to no books in their homes and are exposed to 30 million fewer words before the age of 4 than their higher-income peers. As just one part of Colorado Reads — The Early Literacy Initiative — One Book 4 Colorado aims to close this vocabulary gap by getting a book into the home of every 4-year-old in Colorado and fostering a culture of reading.
Woodruff Memorial Library will distribute "Duck on a Bike" through their Programming & Outreach Coordinator, Kimberly Gallegos between May 6 and May 20. She will be visiting her regular outreach sites which are CDS, First Impressions, Robin's Daycare, and Alicia Haldeman's Daycare. If your 4-year-old child is not at one of these locations, you may bring your child to the library to pick up his/her book during regular business hours. For more information about the library visit http://lajunta.colibraries.org or call 384-4612.


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Congress to hold hearings into OKC bombing
Examining foreign connection to plot, including Arab terrorists
In what some on Capitol Hill are calling a surprising decision, Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., has given the nod for hearings into the long-debated question of whether those responsible for the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building had help from any foreign source.
Spurred to action by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Hyde has given Rohrabacher's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee the wide-ranging authority to conduct interviews and subpoena documents related to the April 19, 1995, terrorist attack that left 168 dead, 19 of them children.
Interviewed Wednesday, Rohrabacher confirmed that his nearly two-year-long personal investigation into the Oklahoma City tragedy had finally received the necessary support for an official congressional investigation.
"Congressman Hyde has approved my request for hearings into the OKC bombing. The congressional investigation will be limited to our area of focus, which is whether there was a foreign connection to the conspiracy," Rohrabacher explained.
"I think we know what we're looking for and I expect complete cooperation from the witnesses we call and the agencies we look to for documents."
Rohrabacher then emphasized his office would keep the public informed about the level of cooperation his subcommittee receives during the official phase of the investigation.
"I must be able to assure the families of the victims of this horrible crime that their government cooperated with our investigation," the congressman said. "That is very important to our oversight responsibilities."
Arab terrorist link?
Forecasting the areas of particular interest the congressional investigation could take, Rohrabacher promised to look carefully for any evidence linking the cabal to Arab terrorists and or to a German national in this country illegally in 1995, Andreas Carl Strassmeir.
In his letter seeking authority for hearings, Rohrabacher wrote: "It is highly likely that the Arab connection and/or the Strassmeir connection played a significant role in the planning and execution of the murderous bombing of the OKC federal building. In both possible scenarios, the official investigation fell short and further investigation has been discouraged ever since."
Specifically, Rohrabacher said that Terry Nichols' trips to the Philippines would be examined for links to a theory that he was actually meeting with Middle East radicals who were providing him with support.
"I also will call witnesses who say they saw (convicted conspirator Timothy) McVeigh with Arabs in Oklahoma City," he told this newspaper.
Elohim City connection
Rohrabacher also noted that much of the investigation would focus on a spate of documents recently unearthed during a Freedom of Information lawsuit in Salt Lake City, Utah.
While attempting to piece together evidence in the mysterious death of his inmate-brother in August of 1995 at the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center, attorney Jesse Trentadue has sued the Oklahoma City FBI office for documents that might shed light on the inmate's bizarre demise while locked up in a suicide-proof cell.
While the documents obtained in the suit have been heavily redacted, they do appear to link Strassmeir to a foiled "sting operation" involving the federal government, McVeigh, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy.
In possession of those documents as well, Rohrabacher said he and his staff are convinced there are important facts about the bombing hidden under by the FBI's redactions and he wants un-redacted copies for his staff to examine.
Among the witnesses the committee intends to call is Danny Coulson.
Coulson was one of five FBI commanders assigned the original investigation into the bombing. Only a few weeks into the case, though, all five suddenly were removed to make room for Danny Defenbaugh.
Still harboring doubts about the FBI's official version of the bombing case, that only McVeigh and Nichols were largely responsible for the crime, Coulson said today, "I'm very much in favor of this investigation by Congress. We need to look very closely at why the five FBI commanders originally assigned the case were pulled off."
"The FBI needs to answer to the Congress why they shut down their own investigation into Strassmeir and Elohim City. Why did their total investigation into Strasssmeir consist of two ASUSAs (assistant United States Attorneys) calling Strassmeir's flat in Berlin a couple of times? He never should have been allowed to leave here without a more thorough series of interviews, face-to-face, by FBI agents trained in those skills."
Long a subject of interest by this paper, Strassmeir's name only began to circulate in the media months after the bombing, when this newspaper discovered that he was the person McVeigh was calling at a terrorist training camp in eastern Oklahoma, called Elohim City.
Months later, the newspaper reported the former German military officer was being closely monitored by the Tulsa office of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Only weeks before the bombing, the BATF had learned Strassmeir was working with others on a plot to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City. However, the FBI stepped in to thwart his arrest when the BATF sought an arrest warrant from the Tulsa U.S. attorney's office.
Several months ago a judge in Salt Lake City ordered the FBI to turn over to Trentadue documents indicating there were informants at Elohim City at the time of the bombing that worked for a private charity – the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC.
According to those teletypes, SPLC informants were present at Elohim City April 17 when McVeigh contacted the compound, looking for additional help in the bomb plot.
However, the FBI blacked out much of the person's name with whom then-FBI Director Louis Freeh said McVeigh was closely associated. In the past, the FBI vehemently has denied McVeigh had any close associates at the camp.
Strassmeir was the compound's paramilitary instructor from 1993 until August of 1995.
Since the bombing, over a half-dozen of Strassmeir's associates at Elohim City have gone to prison for bank robbery, conspiracy to overthrow the government and murder. None, however, were ever charged in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
Strassmeir left the United States in early 1996. In one of the teletypes issued by Freeh, the director appeared to know where Strassmeir was staying in the U.S. and of plans Strassmeir was making to return to Germany through Mexico.
Days after Freeh's memo was issued, Strassmeir did indeed cross the Mexican border and make his way to Berlin with the assistance of former CIA pilot Dave Holloway.
Neither Holloway nor his associate, attorney Kirk Lyons of North Carolina – who paid for the pair's trip – were ever charged with aiding Strassmeir's flight. At the time of Strassmeir's escape, he was listed as an illegal overstay by the INS and wanted by the ATF for illegally carrying a firearm in the U.S.
Believing him to be "armed and dangerous" at the time, the OKBOMB task force even contacted the INS and asked that Strassmeir be stopped at the border and held for questioning in the bombing case. This was the same week Freeh told several offices Strassmeir was staying in North Carolina with Lyons.
Safely back in Germany for many weeks, it was only after Strassmeir's name was linked to McVeigh by this newspaper and others that two Justice Department lawyers in Denver called Strassmeir in Berlin, twice, to ask about any contacts he may have had with McVeigh and the bombing.
During those brief interviews, Strassmeir admitted over the phone that he may have met McVeigh at a gun show in Tulsa once, but he also assured prosecutors he did not help with the bomb plot.
In the wake of the tragedy, the FBI had available several well-qualified commanders with extensive experience in major case investigations to lead and complete the investigation.
However, a man with much less investigative experience, Danny Defenbaugh, replaced the original five experienced FBI commanders who initially had been assigned to the case.
With the original five commanders off the OKBOMB case, considerable criticism has since been leveled at the job Defenbaugh did while heading up the FBI's most expensive investigation in U.S. history.
In spite of two dozen eyewitnesses that placed McVeigh with others in downtown Oklahoma City that day and $85 million that was spent putting together a case that sent two men to jail and one to the death chamber, only McVeigh and army buddy Terry Nichols were charged. Also imprisoned, Michael Fortier admitted his involvement in the conspiracy and agreed to cooperate with the FBI in return for a lighter sentence.
Jurors in both cases in Denver, plus a grand jury in Oklahoma City, said they doubted the FBI had gotten everyone involved.
In 2001, more than 4,000 pages of FBI interviews and other evidence never shown the defense teams for McVeigh or Nichols were discovered on the eve of McVeigh's execution.
The discovery caused McVeigh's execution to be put on hold and the fiasco quickly led to the sudden resignation of Defenbaugh.
Beyond a congressional investigation, Coulson believes the magnitude of the tragic attack that left 168 dead and 500 injured also warrants the appointment of an experienced federal prosecutor to look into all of the evidence and the use of a federal grand jury to facilitate the investigation.
"Based upon my investigation following the bombing of the Murrah building on April 19, 1995, and these new documents from the FBI turned up in the Utah case, it's clear to me further investigation is required," he said.
Referring to the documents uncovered during the FOIA lawsuit and the large number of witnesses the FBI interviewed after the bombing that placed McVeigh in the company of others at key points in the conspiracy, Coulson observed, "The totality of this information very strongly indicates there are others involved and not charged who were involved at least in conspiratorial acts.
"Families of victims and the American people deserve answers to many unanswered questions," he said.
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Wabash Wakes Up for Transit of Venusby Steve Charles • June 8, 2004 Share:
Crawfordsville High School students look through a glass darkly.
Associate Professor of Physics Jim Brown aligns the scope under the watchful eye of Henry Swift, son of Wabash archivist Beth Swift.
Wabash physics major Chris Carpenter '06 views the transit.
Crawfordsville High School English teacher Dr. Helen Hudson takes a look.
After inviting community members to the viewing via email, Brown set up the College's 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on the sidewalk behind Little Giant Stadium at 5 a.m. Tuesday.
Only six transits of Venus have occurred since the invention of the telescope (1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882). The next transits of Venus will occur June 6, 2012. The next after that - over a century from now on December, 11, 2117, and December 8, 2125.


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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has begun directly providing weapons to Kurdish forces who have started to make gains against Islamic militants in northern Iraq, senior U.S. officials said Monday, but the aid has so far been limited to automatic rifles and ammunition.
Previously, the U.S. sold arms in Iraq only to the government in Baghdad, which has largely failed in recent years to transfer them to the Kurdish forces in the north, American officials have said. Baghdad made some transfers with American help in recent days, since U.S. airstrikes began to support Kurdish forces fighting off the Islamic State advance toward the northern city of Irbil.
But U.S. officials decided to begin their own deliveries. The Kurdish peshmerga fighters had been losing ground to Islamic State militants in recent weeks, in part because they were outgunned and at times ran out of ammunition, officials said.
The weapons appeared to be coming through intelligence agencies covertly and not through regular Defence Department channels.
The officials wouldn't say which U.S. agency is providing the arms, but one official said it isn't the Pentagon. A Kurdish official said the weapons were coming from "U.S. intelligence agencies," and a senior Pentagon official said the Defence Department may yet get involved. The CIA has historically done similar quiet arming operations.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation publicly.
The move to directly aid the Kurds underscores the level of U.S. concern about the Islamic State militants' gains in the north, and reflects the persistent administration view that the Iraqis must take the necessary steps to solve their own security problems.
By providing military equipment directly to the Kurds, who want to be independent from Iraq, the Obama administration is cementing the Iraqi Kurdish claim as an independent U.S. partner. For now, however, U.S. officials say they still support a unified Iraq under a federal government in Baghdad.
In Washington, Lt. Gen. William Mayville, the director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that the U.S. had conducted 15 targeted air strikes that have slowed the Islamic State's advance. But he said the limited operation has done little to degrade the militants' capacity as a fighting force.
"In the immediate areas where we've focused our strikes we've had a very temporary effect," Mayville said. "I in no way want to suggest that we have effectively contained–or that we are somehow breaking the momentum of the threat posed by–" the Islamic state group.
Nonetheless, Mayville said, "There are no plans to expand the current air campaign," to target Islamic state leaders or logistical hubs, beyond the Kurdish plan.
"We are looking at plans and how we can expand that support," Mayville said, adding that the Kurds need ammunition and some heavy weapons that are effective against the Islamic state's "technical vehicles" and longer range guns.
The Kurdish government official said Monday the U.S. weapons already are being directly sent to Irbil —where U.S. personnel are based—mostly consist of light arms like AK-47s and ammunition.
The State Department sought to downplay the significance of the apparent shift in U.S. policy.
The militants have "obtained some heavy weaponry, and the Kurds need additional arms and we're providing those — there's nothing new here," said department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
But Mayville did not dispute the policy shift. He said the government in Baghdad had provided some weapons to the Kurds in recent days, but he said the need was so great that the U.S. government had to get involved — and is looking to do more.
The needs of Kurdish forces are "pretty substantial," he said. "We want to help them with that effort."
The additional assistance comes as Kurdish forces on Sunday took back two towns from the Islamic insurgents, aided in part by U.S. airstrikes in the region. President Barack Obama authorized the airstrikes to protect U.S. interests and personnel in the region, including at facilities in Irbil, as well as Yazidi refugees fleeing militants.
Mayville said U.S. and U.K. aircraft have flown 14 missions over the last four nights and dropped 310 bundles to Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar, including 16,000 gallons of water and 75,000 meals. But Mayville said the U.S. still does not have a handle on how many refugees are on the mountain or how dire their situation is.


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Wine & Winter Supper
Our Napa Valley group of eight had been planning our winter supper for weeks. Judging us by the yardstick of the supermarket shopper, our hunting, gathering, and foraging efforts were Herculean. As measured by our passion and joy, these were labors of love and great pleasure. We divided up the tasks.
An avid hunter and I were going pheasant hunting on a field just north of Napa. A professional Chef was foraging for mushrooms on the Sonoma coast, assured of a haul following a week of steady rains. A food photographer would travel to Hog Island Oyster Company in Sonoma for dozens of tiny, briny bivalves freshly plucked from Tomales Bay. A talented landscape architect had a thriving winter garden and would contribute kale, spicy red garlic bulbs, and bitter greens. A baker from a famed local restaurant had made a three-pound loaf of crusty ciabatta bread.
Given that it was winter in northern California, our Meyer lemon trees were laden with fruit. A winemaker had called her British mother-in-law to secure her special lemon curd recipe, to be lavished on top of her famed lemon and poppy seed pound cake.
We gathered on an unseasonably warm Sunday morning to begin preparations, opting for the Chef's home, as he had the best-equipped kitchen and a large deck on which to lounge after our feast.
We began the day with a platter of oysters, shucked outside in the sunshine. We flew in the face of conventional wisdom and opened a mature 1976 Dom Pérignon Oenothèque, disgorged in 2003. As expected, the Dom had evolved into more of a still wine than a sparkler. As it was winter, the oysters were extremely crisp and salty, and we assumed a richer wine was in order. The aged Champagne was divine, with its richness of mineral, brioche, and strawberry. The pairing was disappointing, however. Perhaps in the summer months, when oysters are creamier, our trial would have worked, but the sharp brininess of the oysters overwhelmed the lovely Dom. In our desire for a higher acid sparkler, we opened a 1999 Champagne Pierre Peters from magnum. With its bright acid and notes of citrus and minerals, it conformed perfectly to the conventional elements for an oyster pairing, and we marveled at the wisdom of that tradition.
Next came slabs of toasted ciabatta slathered with potted pork fat from a locally raised pig. We ground the fat back and then kneaded it with fresh rosemary until it was a silken consistency. Needing a burst of high acid to counter the richness, we pulled the cork on a 2004 Raveneau Chablis 'Montée de Tonnerre.' Its old world minerality, hint of earth and bracing structure did justice to the toasts.
Tiny omelets appeared next, into which were folded flavorful chanterelles with a smattering of fresh herbs from the garden. I opened a 1992 Calera Pinot Noir 'Reed.' With its notes of underbrush, earth, mushrooms, smoke and game, the wine perfectly mirrored the food. After a reprieve, we all reconvened in the kitchen and chopped, gossiped, and drank the remainder of the Dom Perignon.
The Chef took control of the pheasant, roasting it with tiny cippolini onions. I fried pancetta and red garlic and tossed in chopped kale. We decanted a 1985 Chave Hermitage. Slowly, the Syrah revealed its greatness with notes of animal, iodine, smoke, earth and concentrated raspberry. Our group was momentarily silenced by the profound complexity of this legendary Chave.
We opted to wait for dessert, but couldn't hold out for long. The crowning moment was ahead. One of the winemakers had pulled a 1989 Chateau d'Yquem, a truly outstanding vintage of this unique wine, considered by some to be the most hedonistic wine experience in the world. With the lemon curd, the wine sang the praises of winter citrus, revealing notes of lemon peel, Mandarin, and blood orange. As it opened before us, we found elements of honeycomb, smoke, roasted hazelnuts, and earth. This was goodness. Epicureanism at this level is indeed rare, but it is within reach, and well worth the effort, of those dedicated to experiencing the best life has to offer.


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Supreme Court Ruling: You May Not Be Able To Legally Sell A Product First Made Outside The US
from the this-is-bad dept
The Copyright Act's section that deals with first sale rights (section 109(a) for those playing along with the home game) notes that it only applies to copies "lawfully made under this title." Omega's lawyers argued that the design on the watches does not count because the watchers were made outside of the US, and thus not covered by US copyright law and thus the design was not lawfully made under US copyright law.
The Ninth Circuit appeals court -- which certainly has a history of wacky rulings -- agreed with Omega's interpretation of the law and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court. The court deadlocked on the issue today, coming to a 4-4 tie (with Justice Kagan not taking part, since she had filed an amicus brief in the case as Solicitor General), meaning that the 9th Circuit ruling stands and copyrighted products first made outside the US may no longer have a right of first sale.
In other words, be careful if you buy a book that was first published outside the US. Technically, you may no longer have a legal right to sell it -- or even to lend it to to others, which is why librarians were reasonably worried about this decision.
If there's any sort of silver lining to all of this, the fact that the Justices deadlocked, rather than coming to a full decision means that it's not a precedential ruling and a different case could allow them to decide differently later on. Though, if you were wondering, when Kagan filed the amicus brief as Solicitor General... she sided with Omega, and said the Supreme Court should not take the case, since the 9th Circuit's ruling was just fine.


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United Way of Henderson County is now accepting applications for the 2013-14 Rising Leaders Program, sponsored by Friday Staffing.
United Way of Henderson County is now accepting applications for the 2013-14 Rising Leaders Program, sponsored by Friday Staffing.
This year-long program is designed to prepare young professionals for leadership roles in local nonprofits. UWHC launched the Rising Leaders Program in 2011 as a response to the desire expressed by Henderson County nonprofit leaders to connect with young professionals who are interested in and well-prepared for long-term volunteer opportunities.
The goal of the program is to educate the next generation of community leaders and give them the tools and connections to become key volunteers with UWHC partner agencies and other nonprofits in the county.
Thanks to sponsorship by Friday Staffing, the Rising Leaders Program is free for participants. Space is extremely limited, as only 20 people will be accepted.
Program participants will commit to attending an introductory session on Sept. 7, as well as five of six informational sessions that will be held at lunchtime throughout the year. These interactive sessions will cover the fundamentals of board service and nonprofit management, and the essential knowledge and skills agency directors would like to see in their prospective board members.
In order to successfully complete the program, participants will also be required to complete at least 10 hours of volunteer service between September and April 2014. Several social events will be held, including a graduation event to introduce participants to agency directors and community leaders.
"Graduates of the Rising Leaders Program have already made a strong impact in our community through nonprofit board and committee work," said Graham Fields, UWHC board member and chair of the Rising Leaders Committee. "After completing this program, many have accepted opportunities and are now giving back, while helping to fill the need of nonprofit governance or committee positions."
UWHC makes every effort to match program graduates with an appropriate long-term volunteer position at a local health and human service nonprofit agency. However, completion of the Rising Leaders Program will not guarantee placement on a nonprofit board of directors. Decisions about new board members are made entirely by the nominating committees of each individual agency's board of directors.
A program outline and application can be found at www.liveunitedhc.org/rising-leaders.html. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and can be submitted to firstname.lastname@example.com. Anyone with questions about the program should email or call 828-692-1636.
For more information about United Way, write to United Way of Henderson County at P.O. Box 487, Hendersonville, NC 28793, call 828-692-1636, visit liveunitedhc.org or become a fan of UWHC on Facebook.


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This is an easy recipe that will add depth of flavor to your dishes and can be modified with additional/alternative spices to suit your palate.
6 Roma tomatoes
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1teaspoon dried basil
½ teaspoon smoked paprika
1 medium sweet onion - diced
2 cloves of garlic – minced
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon lime juice
(1/2 cup of vegetable stock, for a thinner sauce)
Set your oven to broil, line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil, put the tomatoes on the cookie sheet, and place them on the middle rack in the oven. Broil for fifteen minutes, until the skin starts to blacken and shrivel. Remove the cookie sheet to a hot-pad, flip each tomato, and place them back in the oven. Broil for another ten minutes, remove, and allow them to cool.
While the tomatoes are cooling, heat the olive oil in a large sauté pan over the stove on medium-high heat. Add the dried basil and paprika to the oil and fry until fragrant. Add the diced onion and sauté until lightly browned – about ten minutes. Add the garlic, and continue to sauté until it is lightly browned and fragrant. Remove the onions and garlic from heat.
Remove the skins from the tomatoes and place them in the bowl of a food processor, along with the onions, garlic, salt, pepper, and lime juice. Puree until smooth. For a thinner sauce, add the 1/2 cup of vegetable stock and puree until smooth.
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Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center recently turned the spotlight on its volunteers, celebrating their service and commitment at a luncheon at the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute.
In 2012, some 300 volunteers ranging in age from teens to nonagenarians gave a combined 41,683 hours of service in departments throughout the medical center, Heart Center of Niagara and Schoellkopf Health Center. Volunteer drivers transported 5,731 riders on Memorial's CARExpress van.
Don Roulley and Joe Currie were cited for volunteering more than 1,000 hours. Recognized for more than 500 hours of service were Phyllis Corey, Bill Everest, Gino Forte, Diane Glynn, Suzanne Muller, Mel Ricker, Peggy Shenk and Alice Snyder.
Special recognition also was given to volunteers who served 25 years or more. Peggy Addoms topped the longevity list with 55 years of service, followed by Marion Baker, Ida Garrison, Alanna Wustrack, Mary Norton, Alice Avdoian, Anne Hesson, Anna Martha, Bertha Frank, Danny Giancola, Betty Augustyn, Donna Hindle, Jane Schroeder, Peggy Shenk and Ida Mayflower.


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This Crystal Skull is hand carved from Golden Healer Quartz Crystal. This crystal skull absolutely glows and has beautiful areas of clarity.
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The Golden Healer is a powerful healing crystal as it allows the golden light of Universal Life Force to flow into body through the Crown Chakra. The energy then spreads its golden light throughout the body as it clears blockages and imbalances that ready the body for multi-level healing.
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Quartz has been used for centuries as a tool for meditation and healing. It is a stone of immense capabilities when coupled with the human psyche. The representation of the human skull carved in stone is a powerful image. It is one which corresponds with our deepest human emotions, hopes, and dreams. It is a gateway to the inner soul.
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How to Activate your Crystal
Crystals love to work with a purpose! In general, they are already "Turned On" and busy doing their own thing: Elevating Energies and pumping out Good Vibes! This is their natural state. We can tap into these elevated energies and combine forces by working with our crystals to expand and elevate our own energies and to connect with our highest self. This is done through activation and will set a field of expanded energies that will help us in our daily lives as we practice and deepen this connection with our crystalline friends.
To begin an activation, clear your mind and sit quietly with your crystal. Connect with your heart center and through your heart center connect with the crystal you are holding. This crystal is sharing its love and light with you, as you share your love and light with your crystal.
Think of activation as the growing and expansion of energy layers. The first activation establishes a connection between the crystal and the user, creating the first layer. These layers continue to grow, for both ourselves and the crystal, as we continue to connect. This energy field becomes more stable over time as we continue to connect and reconnect.
Cleansing your Crystal
Stones of all kinds are energetically alive. Crystals and Gemstones carry their own vibrations and can be influenced by subtle energies and/or thoughts and actions taking place around them. Crystals also have the ability to be cleansed of influences that have touched them before or after they have come to you. When gemstones are energetically cleansed they are cleared of all energies other than their own, and until they are used again in ritual or meditation, they will generally remain cleared. For some people, it is important to cleanse, wash and purify their gemstones and crystals before using them. For others it is not. This is really a personal preference, one that you may feel into on an individual basis.
Feel into your crystal when you first receive it. How does it feel? Does it feel yummy and scrumptious; is it a pure delight? Then maybe it doesn't need cleared at all. But, if you feel guided to make this new gemstone truly a piece of your own, and perhaps also to have a special bonding session with your new crystalline friend, then cleansing your crystals should be easy and fun. Below are a few ideas for consideration, but you may be inspired by something entirely different! The key is to have an open heart and to connect with your crystals just as you would with any person or spirit guide.
Listed below is one of our favorite methods. For a more exhaustive list of possibilities, see our Crystal Cleansing Guide.
Cleansing your crystals with the method of energy and intention:
Hold your crystal with the intention of Pure Love & Light enfolding it. Feel yourself and your crystal being surrounded within a sphere of very supportive white or golden light energy. (You may also play with different colors, if you enjoy color healing!) Begin to feel Cosmic Love and Source Energy flowing throughout your body and directly into your crystal. Stay within this protective sphere for as long as you feel guided. This is also an excellent way to begin any meditation.


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Imagine today's world without electricity. Hard to fathom, isn't it? Just as hard to comprehend is today's electrical industry without the people who built it — the workers who designed the structures, strung the wires, laid the conduit, energized systems, and currently maintain and improve the complex electrical systems we all take for granted.
EC&M sought out industry leaders — Voices of the Industry, we call them — to talk about how the electrical design, construction, and maintenance fields have changed through the years. In the profiles that follow, you'll read about electrical workers who got their start during or after World War II and worked through good times and bad, laying the groundwork for today's electrical industry. They saw major changes and improvements not only in the systems they designed and built, but also in the tools and processes they worked with. Many talked about changes in electrical training, work processes, and the National Electrical Code. Others commented on the way economic conditions affected their workload, and several noted the growth of specific subsets of the industry such as voice-data-video or the emergence of high technology.
Their voices represent all segments of the industry, including electric linemen, designers, journeyman electricians, electrical engineers, plant maintenance personnel, and owners of electrical design or construction shops. All were — and definitely still are — dedicated to making the field of electrical construction and maintenance one of the country's leading industries. None, it would seem, would have chosen anything other than the challenging, exciting, and rewarding careers they have had in this dynamic field.
We also asked our experts to make a few predictions for the future. While none were bold enough to predict what the industry would look like 100 years from now, many had interesting comments about developments to watch over the next five to 10 years.
Whether they're looking back on the great industry they helped build or looking forward to what might be around the next corner, we think you will enjoy hearing what our Voices of the Industry have to say.
Retired Electrician
Founder, Curator and Volunteer — Ken Mullen
Electrical Museum,
San Francisco
Started in Industry: 1934
Ken Mullen did not come to the U.S. electrical industry via the most traditional route. Born in Germany in 1919, Mullen worked as an electrical apprentice in Hamburg, Germany, from 1934 to 1938. In 1938, Mullen, who is Jewish, fled Nazi Germany and ended up in India, where he found work as an electrician and later as a supervisor in a foundry that made ammunition used against the Germans. After WWII, he moved to San Francisco and found a city bursting at the seams and in dire need of electricians.
"I walked into the local union office, and they said they could use electricians very badly," Mullen recalls.
Despite not knowing much about U.S. electrical work, he landed his first job doing motor repair in 1947. "In the time since, I have had only five jobs in almost 45 years, all in the electrical field and with some of the finest electrical shops in the San Francisco area," he says.
Mullen's early jobs were with very large contractors working on what he calls "enormous" factories. "San Francisco was a very industrial place then," Mullen says. "Everything was motors — motors all over. They needed electricians who could wire them up, and for several years I did only motor work. When work slowed at one place, I could simply go to another, because there was so much work to be had. I could go where I wanted and never had to leave San Francisco or the surrounding area to find work."
They had very little machinery, so most work was done by hand. "We had to bend pipe over tires with 2×4s," he says. "It was unbelievable, we had 2- or 3-in. pipe, and it was bent without any mechanical device. We heated it to bend it. It is so much different today, when the computer figures out the bends in the building, and then you get your pipes already bent. When we had to dig a ditch, it was with a shovel and a wheelbarrow. We had no machinery. We had battery-operated things but no way of doing things when the battery was dead."
Health and safety issues have also changed over the years, Mullen notes. "In India, I had to figure it out myself," he says of safety and health practices. "The last two years there I got lead poisoning and stopped working in factories. Most of my experience, though, has been in America, and I have never had any bad accidents here. We are much more careful. OSHA is preventing a lot of bad things from happening, and everyone is more oriented to safety. I have gotten two shocks in my life, and they were both 200V. I was very fortunate and have never been in a hospital in my life except for hip replacement."
That's not exactly true — Mullen did visit hospitals as part of his electrical construction work. In the 1950s, he says the city was teaming with new construction for hospitals, breweries, and apartment buildings. "I worked in many breweries in the 1950s," he recalls. "Hospitals and apartment buildings were very big, too. We always put in pipe and then pulled wire through. It was much slower but did a very good job of protecting the wires. Air conditioning started coming about then, too. All of a sudden, everybody started putting in furnaces and air conditioning after 1960."
Mullen says he has always been a strong supporter of electricians' unions, particularly the IBEW. "I was very strong in the union," he says. "I was never a business representative, as I had too many other things to do, but I found that without the unions, there was no life here in this country. Many said why don't you go into business on your own, but the unions in my opinion offered a great advantage." In his post-retirement life, Mullen has partnered with IBEW Local 6 in San Francisco to found the Ken Mullen Electrical Museum of San Francisco in 1991, where many of the tools he used in his life's work are on display.
Mullen says he sees good times ahead for the electric industry. "It is still booming, but we still have problems finding people to work," he says. "There is a lot of work building hotels and high-rise office buildings, not as much industrial any more. We don't know what will happen in the future, but I am one of those persons who does not bother with politics. I am happy to have had a great life doing electrical work."
Retired Lineman and Electrician
Crown Point, Ind.
Started in Industry: 1946
Glenn Zieseniss got his start in the electrical industry courtesy of a milkman. "I lived on a farm, and the milkman quit his job and went to work for the electric line company," Zieseniss recalls of his start in electric work. "It was 1946, and I had just come home from World War II, where I met the Russians at the Elbe [River]. [The milkman] told me electric work was good work." On the milkman's suggestion, Zieseniss tried it and never looked back.
Zieseniss started out as a groundman, or "grunt," on utility line crews, but says circumstances soon led him to work as a lineman. "We were short of workmen then, and there were several of us that started out as apprentice linemen stringing wires," he recalls. "I started doing mostly 7.2kV line extensions to homes and/or farms in rural areas, and by 1948 was promoted to journeyman lineman, in part because of the shortage of qualified linemen. For the next four years, I worked on increasingly higher voltage lines, and in 1951 and 1952 I worked in an ordnance plant in Illinois that produced ammunition for the Korean War, where I started in the inside wiring field." From 1952 to 1989, Zieseniss worked as a journeyman lineman and electrician in the Chicago area.
Zieseniss says he saw major changes in equipment and safety materials. "I would say the biggest changes in line work were the use of bucket trucks and improvements in safety equipment," he says. "When we worked in the ordnance plants, it was all either rubber gloves or maybe some hot-stick work. I've been bitten by 2300V a couple of times, but never got burned, just got bit heavily."
From 1947 through 49, Zieseniss did a lot of conversion work in Hammond and smaller cities. For the most part, the work consisted of burying conduit in concrete. He also worked with 17 different contractors on schools, hospitals, and the occasional odd job. "In one case an airplane hit a smokestack and that was a specialty job, reconstructing that," he says.
Zieseniss also served as an electrical inspector for the city of Crown Point, Ind., from April 1984 to March 1998. "On the inspection side, I saw that many contractors were not really keeping abreast of what the Code says for safety," Zieseniss says. "They seemed to be fighting that all the way." He says safety is a big thing today for most contractors and utilities, and he points to the increased use of flash hazards and low-impedance transformers as steps in the right direction.
Zieseniss says today's emphasis on design-build may be an example of electrical work going in the wrong direction. "When I was working in the mills, the working prints were excellent," Zieseniss recalls. "Now you don't know what is going on. The engineers have been priced out of the job for detail work. They leave it up to the guy in the field to figure things out. The prints are just not complete when I see them. In the early years, they had a detail for every column for all the electrical. Nowadays, you have to fight for your spot on that column or figure out what should go on the column."
In his long electrical career, Zieseniss always enjoyed the freshness of new challenges. "I was never in the same place for very long," Zieseniss says. "I never was much of one for the maintenance jobs, and preferred building new things and moving on. I was a free electrician to go wherever I was sent. I never drove more than 50 miles for day-in and day-out work, and could always find plenty of work in the Chicago area."
Zieseniss, who says he has been a faithful reader of EC&M for decades, says something he read in a 1970 editorial has stuck with him through the years. "It was in a 'Thoughts From Our Shop' article on page seven of that issue," Zieseniss recalls. "It said that the inspector must enforce the letter and spirit of the Code that is written, not as the designer or installer would like to see it written. We need to live by laws or else we will have electrical anarchy."
Retired Electrical Engineer
Bechtel Engineering,
Started in Industry: 1948
Dick Porcaro's interest in the electrical trades started as a young boy. "I always had a fascination for electrical things as a kid, starting with radios and crystal sets," Porcaro says. "I went to a technical high school and had an electrical course there. Then, I was doing part-time electric work and went to City College of New York at night. All that time I was working during the day full-time with engineering and construction companies. I spent some time with Mobil, and then wound up with Bechtel."
Porcaro says most of his work focused on electrical engineering for chemical and petrochemical plants and notes that one thing he always liked about the electrical industry is that it is constantly changing.
"Code changes were always interesting things to keep on top of," Porcaro says. "If you look at the way the Code looked in the early '40s or '50s, it was a 5×7 brown soft-cover thing a half-inch thick. Now it is a heck of a lot bigger, and the changes are mostly around different materials — how you can use new things without compromising safety."
Cabling and installation materials, he says, have changed a lot. "Leaded cables used to be popular. They were always interesting in that they required high-caliber mechanical help to make the splices. New methods have come along to simplify the splices, and no one uses lead anymore due to environmental concerns."
"Lighting has also changed quite a bit," Porcaro adds. "It seemed that equipment was generally a lot more robust in the old days, while today the tendency has been to make things less expensive and still get an adequate amount of light in the facilities. The robust equipment seems to be gone, and everything has been made simpler and lighter."
In the engineering offices, the major activity used to be making drawings, Porcaro adds. "You made them as clear and simple as possible and error-free. Some were so darn good you knew exactly what you had to do. In those days, once the drawing left the designer you could be sure it was right. We have more of a challenge with some drawings today. Drawings made by some computer designers are a heck of a lot different. Some still are making them clear, but there is so much pressure to get the work done as quickly as possible today. I think people sometimes lose sight of the fact that you can build something cheaper by spending more time on engineering and not as much on construction."
Another major change Porcaro saw through the years was the increasing use of trays instead of conduit. "Most installations were wiring conduit. Then, in the 1950s, people were realizing you could get a pretty good installation by installing cable trays and laying cable in the trays rather than pulling conduit," he says. "That was a major change in terms of wiring technique."
System grounding changes have also been significant, he says. "Everything used to be either solidly grounded or completely ungrounded," Porcaro says. "One thing companies learned really early was the damage that could happen if things were not grounded properly. You started seeing more medium- and low-resistance grounding systems, rather than having things solidly grounded."
Porcaro also has observed changes in the way electricity is used, citing energy conservation as an example. "We never even thought about it much before — the whole idea of energy conservation using adjustable-speed drives," he says. "That has been a big change, trying to reduce energy requirements."
Concerning the future of the industry, Porcaro says he sees the U.S. electric industry getting less and less involved with heavy manufacturing and more involved with power generation. "We haven't necessarily created a lot more generating capacity in the last few years," Porcaro says. "I see a continued emphasis in power plant construction."
Rosendin Electrical Inc.,
San Jose, Calif.
Started in Industry: 1950
Ray Rosendin calls his entry into the electrical-contracting business a "baptism by fire." Rosendin's father started Rosendin Electrical in 1919, and by the time Ray was 13 he was already working in his father's shop, running errands in the summers. When Ray graduated from college and came on full-time in 1950, the firm had grown to around 30 employees. "My father brought me up around electrical work, so by that time I had a fair knowledge of what was happening," Rosendin recalls. "But in 1953 he had a heart attack, so I had to take over the business, ready or not."
"They did business on the back of an envelope in those days," Rosendin says. "If someone didn't have integrity, you just didn't do business with them. Then when I got out of school and into the business you saw more paperwork." Rosendin says in the 1950s schools and residential work made up the bulk of his business, followed a bit later by industrial growth in and around the San Francisco Bay area. "Industry started coming into the Bay Area in the middle 1950s," Rosendin says. "That was when Lockheed and IBM came here."
Next, Rosendin says, came the electronics boom of the mid-1960s, spearheaded by companies like Fairchild Industries and Hewlett-Packard. That boom, he says, was nothing like the Silicon Valley explosion that took place a few decades later, but the big electronics companies formed the base from which the area's current "dot-com" economy could mushroom, he says.
Rosendin says one major change in the way the electrical industry has developed is that more contractors are now including designers and engineers on their staffs. "We have a complete engineering department," he says. "We have seen that evolve into pretty much of a science and seen the inherent benefit in having our own engineers."
Another way the industry has changed, he says, is that training and staff development is more crucial than ever. "We have always wanted to maintain as strong and knowledgeable a work force as we could," Rosendin says. "We started attending trade shows in the 1950s. We attend all the new shows, and we demo new tools here whenever we can. We have always had good apprenticeship programs, but in addition to that, contractors now supplement apprenticeship with their own programs to bring additional knowledge to employees. People in the field need to know a lot more now to solve some of the complex problems that come up. We also have our regular meetings with our people to talk about safety and new procedures."
Rosendin says Silicon Valley itself has changed a great deal over the past 20 years, with computers and the Internet becoming a part of everyday life. "Power requirements are growing exponentially from what we used to know, while people are more concerned than ever about their backup power systems," he says. This summer in particular should be interesting for California consumers, Rosendin says, as the state tries to work its way through high demand and tight power supplies. As for the future of the industry, Rosendin says he sees strong growth well into the future.
President — NECA, Consultant
Former part owner,
Motor City Electric,
Started in Industry: 1953
Dick Martin started in the electrical industry in Detroit in the early 1950s, and is now in his sixth decade in the electrical trade as the current president of NECA and a consultant and former owner of Motor City Electric. The son of an electrical contractor, Martin started as an apprentice in 1953, became an estimator in 1967, and became part owner of Motor City Electric in 1992.
"The 1950s was kind of a tough period, with a lot of unemployment," Martin says. "I never got laid off, though, because there were lots of schools and hospitals to be built, plus new auto plants. By the end of the decade, we were also starting to put in a lot of central air conditioning. They were also starting to build a lot of expressways, and so the 1960s were really pretty good times."
However, as imported Japanese and German cars became more popular in the U.S., the Big Three American automakers suffered sales losses, and business tapered off. Work in and around Detroit became a bit slower, he says, but much of the slack was taken up by hospital and school construction, particularly in the suburbs. Those building booms went on, Martin says, until the late 1970s and early 1980s, when higher interest rates froze construction and the local economy slowed. By the 1990s, electrical workers in the area were busy again, with automakers upgrading plants and factories. Another booming business, he says, was the construction of casinos.
Martin says the tools and technologies of the electric construction trades have changed in several important ways over the years. "Flex wiring made our productivity go up immensely," he says. "We now use mobile rigs in all our work, and electric scaffolds are a big thing today. All the tools are so much more sophisticated, like for instance one-shot benders. Today, you dial the bend you want, and it's done. All the cordless tools today make a big difference, and the use of PVC conduit became more prevalent in the 1980s and 1990s because it is easier to install and work with. The use of computers in our estimating has been fabulous. Years ago, you did it by hand. An estimate would take you two weeks. Today it's done in three days."
As befits the current president of NECA, Martin says he and his companies have always been very active with unions and industry associations. He estimates about 65% of Detroit-area contractors belong to NECA, and says unionization is "on the upswing" in Michigan and elsewhere around the country. Among the reasons, he says, is the unions' and union shops' tendency to offer some of the best training. Not only that, electrical workers today understand that comprehensive and ongoing training is critical to their success. Martin has been in his local for 48 years.
Looking toward the future, Martin says a big change in the industry may be a move toward distributed generation, particularly in fuel cells that will sit on-site and produce power for local use. "We will need some training for that," he says, predicting that fuel cells could "revolutionize our industry."
President and Owner
Electrical Corp. of America,
Raytown, Mo.
Started in Industry: 1961
Jim Lacy is closing in on his 40th anniversary in the electrical contracting industry — all in and around the Kansas City metropolitan area. He started in the industry as part of an electrical apprenticeship program at a junior college in the Kansas City area in 1961. For the first six months, he worked for a contractor doing strictly residential work. In January 1962, Lacy went to work for Great Northern, which focused on petrochemical and refinery work, and he stayed with that company until December 1978, working his way up the ladder from apprentice to journeyman, then foreman, estimator, vice president, and eventually president. Today, he is president and owner of Electrical Corp. of America in Raytown, Mo.
"The work I did back then was heavy industrial work," Lacy recalls of the 1960s. "The scaffolding was all hand-built on wheels, and we had a man on the ground pushing the scaffold from place to place. There was no such thing as a rotohammer or rotodrills. Drilling was done with a drill or an impact hammer — a mini-jackhammer — and when the rotohammer came out with a drill and hammer all at once we thought that was the end of the world. Most of the anchoring was done with lead anchors, and now so much is done with epoxy. Cable and wire has also changed considerably. The wires you see today are much smaller, and the insulation is much thinner."
Lacy says the increasing importance of electrical work in the construction industry has been a major change over the last several decades. Electric work, he argues, has grown and changed considerably more than most of the other building industries. "It has become a larger portion of any building or home," Lacy says. "If you go back to a house built 40 years ago that hadn't been modernized, you will see how much the electric industry has changed — with a lot more outlets and many more things running off electricity. It is no longer a question whether every home will have a refrigerator, television, and a lot of other electrical appliances running all or most of the time."
Looking toward the future, Lacy says he sees the telecom or voice-data-video (VDV) segment of the business growing larger and larger. "That area is growing more technical, and the people that are in the business are receiving more and better training than ever. We are going to see more and more time out of every employee's year spent in training. If 25 years ago someone went to a three-day seminar that was a big deal, but today my technicians are spending six to nine weeks per year staying up with the changes — that will be a trend hitting every employer in the future."
Another trend Lacy sees is a move toward private generating facilities. "We are going to see all kinds of energy growth requirements, and people doing private investment rather than generation being done strictly by utilities," Lacy predicts.
Retired Plant Engineer
Started in industry: 1964
George House is an electric maintenance guru — at least that's what they called him at Amoco in Houston, where he was a plant manager for 22 of his 30 years in the business. His knowledge of the maintenance field was what took him so far, but his entry into the field, he says, was due to one overriding personality trait — curiosity.
"I started, like everyone else, in the engineering department doing projects," House explains. "It really interested me to figure out what was causing equipment to fail. Outages were a big cost factor. Not only that but when we had outages there were safety concerns like loss of cooling water or loss of power to the safety systems themselves."
House calls the evolution of equipment during his electrical maintenance career extraordinary. "When I first started, a 23kV switchgear was an open device with long arc shoots, and many were encased in oil," he says. "Even for 480kV stuff, we were using oil-encased gear. It was big and bulky. That was before the development of metal-enclosed switchgear, which has been a huge improvement. Metal-enclosed gear is easier to keep clean, and in the event that there is a problem, it doesn't migrate and you don't burn the whole switch room down."
Electrical meters were very different too, House adds. "The meters were all analog," he says. "The old Simpson 260 was the mainstay, and it was nothing like the digital meters we have today. I don't see the day-to-day fix-it type of tools having changed that much, but the way we go about our work has really changed.
House notes a big change has been trying to figure out how to spend your maintenance money. "So much today is based on signature analysis, while it used to be that you would take a breaker down and put it back together and that was maintenance. Half the time, we didn't put it back together right, so we caused many of our own problems. Today, everyone has some type of advanced, computerized diagnostics to make sure things are functionally adequate. You can figure out what is going to go wrong before it is going wrong, and do something about it before you have a bunch of damage to fix," he says.
"The reliability of the equipment has improved so much over the years that it does not take as many people to maintain that equipment," House continues, "so there has been a steady decline in the number of people needed for maintenance. Also, a motor that we might have rewound a few years ago five or six times, now we just buy another one."
Computers have also changed the electrical maintenance field, House says. "This is certainly true in terms of process control," he says. "The idea today is to use computerized analysis to wring every bit you can out of the process and make it more efficient. We have also gone away from the individual controller and more to the controllers where we use a computer to turn them on and off. Reliability, though, is more important than efficiency. You can't even afford one failure today."
House says his fondest memories of working in electrical maintenance are of the people he has worked with. "The things I remember most are the people," he says. "I hear so many times that people have changed, that the old guys had the work ethic and the young people don't have it. I'd love to think us old dogs were that good, but I think the young people today are pretty good, too — maybe even better than some of us were then."
Director of Building Facilities
LEGO Systems,
Enfield, Conn.
Started in industry: 1976
John Weber is director of building facilities for LEGO Systems in Enfield, Conn., the U.S. headquarters of the Danish toy giant. Before working in plant management, he spent eight years at Allen Bradley Inc., of Milwaukee, now the Industrial Control and Automation Products Division of Rockwell Automation.
Weber says he has seen major advances in electrical industry safety. Terminal strips and terminations, he says, are inherently safer today, with a "dead front" design. He says he remembers working as an electrician's helper in the 1970s with terminations that had exposed or protruding screw heads, leaving little room for mistakes — if a screwdriver made contact with a termination screw, it could arc and destroy equipment. Most, if not all, equipment today features recessed screw heads, he says, reducing that particular safety risk.
Another example, he says, is the development of ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) equipment. "It used to be two-pronged plugs for everything," Weber says. "You would buy a refrigerator and it was just floating electrically. Now even if there is a leakage of current, it will trip a breaker at 3mA to 5mA."
Weber also credits OSHA standards for lockout/tagout, fall protection, and cord inspections that contribute to greater on-the-job safety. "When I worked my first electrical job there was not nearly as much safety training," he says. "Today it is a federal law to make sure I know all the lockout/tagout training."
A major technological advancement, Weber says, was the introduction and use of electronics for controls and relays. "I remember opening up panels that were as big as a closet, with rows and rows of relays," he says. "Those were complex control panels and just to get logic you were expending so much energy. They also threw off enough heat that the control rooms needed huge air conditioners." Today, he says, companies can take advantage of compact electronic programmable logic controllers that offer dense packaging and a lot more input/output in a small space.
Weber notes, though, "Electronics had a slow acceptance by the field. Electricians resisted it, because they did not like the fact that they could not see what was happening within a circuit. The industry wanted to promote the high-tech aspect, but it fell on deaf ears on the part of the electricians, until they finally had to accept it as the way things were going to go anyway."
Another important change, Weber says, comes in the form of increased power-metering capabilities. "I can remember standing in front of the old electro-mechanical, very maintenance-prone equipment," Weber says. "At the end of the month, someone had to replace the paper. If you forgot to do that, the pen ended up writing through the paper and onto the metal drum. The pens would also run out of ink or get stuck. They were a nightmare to clean or maintain. Today we have electronic meters that collect information and send it back to where I am sitting now. I can do archiving and look at very complex electrical measurements that weren't available before. Metering can be integrated into the IT functions of the building, and you can translate that information into other systems."
Weber is optimistic about the future of the electrical industry and the promise inherent in new technologies. "If we can produce power somewhere else and transport it with no line loss, maybe the future isn't as bleak as we anticipate," he says. "Maybe everything will not be as bleak as California's power situation is today. We shouldn't base all our expectations for the future on what is out there today. Technology can change things in ways we really cannot anticipate."


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Here are the biggest losses for the UCLA football team going into Tuesday's spring practice:
Anthony Barr, LB
The All-American linebacker's NFL draft stock has dropped a bit over the last month or so, but he remains a first-round lock and could very well go within the first 10 selections. Barr totaled 41.5 tackles for loss in his two seasons on defense.
Xavier Su'a-Filo, OL
Voted the team's offensive MVP last season, Su'a-Filo could be come UCLA's highest-drafted offensive lineman since 1999, when the Pittsburgh Steelers took Kris Farris in the third round. Su'a-Filo has generated some first-round buzz, and has a chance to be the first guard selected.
Jordan Zumwalt, LB
Arguably the fieriest player on UCLA's defense last season, Zumwalt turned heads in the Sun Bowl — notching 10 tackles, an interception and a knockout of Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas. He parlayed that co-MVP performance into a Senior Bowl invite, and will likely be a mid-round selection.
Shaq Evans, WR
The 6-foot-1 Evans doesn't stand out physically and could be hurt by a deep receivers draft, but he has good hands and could find a niche as a possession receiver. He led UCLA with 709 receiving yards and nine touchdown catches.
Cassius Marsh, DE
Ranked second on the team with 8.0 sacks and third with 10.5 tackles for loss. A versatile tweener who is working out at multiple positions for the NFL, Marsh was also used frequently in UCLA's jumbo offensive packages.


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Liberty News
Students support Christmas shoebox project
For more than a decade, Liberty University students, faculty and staff have participated in Operation Christmas Child (OCC), filling shoeboxes with small gifts and necessities for impoverished children around the world.
Last year, the Liberty community donated more than 1,200 shoebox gifts.
Boxes are being collected on campus through Friday, Nov. 18, when they will be taken to a local collection site.
"At Liberty University we seek to reach the community both locally and nationally," said campus pastor Chris Deitsch. "Operation Christmas Child is something practical that students can learn and practice here and continue this tradition every year, anywhere they go in the United States, impacting the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ."
Liberty's project is organized through the Liberty Champion student newspaper, with the cooperation of various departments and organizations on campus.
OCC began in 1993 and is operated by Samaritan's Purse, an international relief organization led by Franklin Graham.
- To read a story about one student's service with OCC, click here.
Drop-off locations
Main Campus:
The Liberty Champion Office
DeMoss Hall 1035
Green Hall (North Campus):
Campus Pastor's Office
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WALTHAM, Mass. – Brandeis University sophomore forward Ben Bartoldus (Hillsborough, N.H./Proctor Acad.) scored 11 of his career-high 23 points in first seven minutes of the second half tonight and the Judges never trailed after the break as they knocked off Amherst College, the second-ranked team in the D3hoops.com national poll, by a 76-61 margin. The win is Brandeis's third in a row and evens their record at 5-5, while the Lord Jeffs suffer their first loss and fall to 8-1.
A see-saw first half saw four ties and four lead changes, with four also sitting as the largest lead for either team. Brandeis jumped out to an early 6-2 lead, while six unanswered points by the Jeffs at the midpoint of the stanza put the visitors up, 20-16, on a bucket by senior Taylor Barrise (Allendale, N.J./Northern Highlands).
After the sides traded hoops, Brandeis responded with a jumper by junior Anthony Trapasso (Sterling, Mass./St. Johns Prep) that cut the lead back to two, while a Bartoldus trifecta at the 7:47 mark put the Judges ahead for good at 23-22. Amherst was able to stay within one possession until a key momentum shift at the end of the period. Trailing by one with the shot clock off, the Lord Jeffs got a turnover and could have held for the last shot. They missed a 3-pointer with about 15 seconds left, and the Judges sprinted the other way. Senior guard Tyrone Hughes (Roslindale, Mass./Taft School) drove the lane and found classmate Vytas Kriskus (Kvedarna, Lithuania/Holderness School) wide open in the corner, where he drained a trifecta and reestablished the four-point lead, 32-28, at the break. The bomb gave Kriskus a game-high nine first-half points to go with six rebounds. Junior Willy Workman (Northampton, Mass./Deerfield Acad.) led the Lord Jeffs with eight points at the break.
Bartoldus and the Judges opened the second half on fire offensively, connecting on seven of their first eight shots over the first 6:28 to outscore Amherst, 17-8, over that span. Bartoldus had 11 of the team's points in that stretch, hitting two 3-pointers and capping the run with a traditional three-point play that made the score 49-36, Judges. Amherst was able to close back within six on a couple of occasions, with a Barisse put-back at the 10:51 mark cutting the deficit to 50-44.
A nice move by Bartoldus, followed by two Workman free throws had the lead still at six with 9:44 left before the Judges embarked on a 14-4 run over five minutes, kicked off by an offensive put-back and free throw by sophomore center Youri Dascy (Fall River, Mass./St. Andrews, R.I., School). After two Hughes foul shots with just under five minutes to go made it 66-50, the Judges were able to keep the lead in double figures the rest of the way. Brandeis ended up shooting 60 percent from the field (12-20) in the second half – including 71 percent from beyond the arc (5-7) - while holding Amherst to 33 percent (10-30) overall and 18 percent from long range (2-11) to keep the visitors at bay.
Bartoldus established a new career-high for the second game in a row with his 23 points, 15 of which came in the second half. He connected on 9-of-16 overall, 3-of-3 from downtown and 2-of-4 from the line. Kriskus just missed his second double-double of the season with 17 points and a game-high nine rebounds. He hit 6-of-8 overall, with all three 3-pointers, and a pair from the line. Dascy was the third Brandeis player in double figures with 13 points, while grabbing seven rebounds. Hughes finished with eight points – hitting all of his free throws down the stretch – and a game-high eight assists, one shy of a career-best. The Judges' 52% shooting for the game (26-50) was their second-best performance of the season, while holding Amherst to a season-low 37.3% (22-59).
Workman led the visitors with 17 points, nine coming after the break, but he needed 5-of-16 shooting from the field to get there. Workman connected on 7-of-9 from the line. He also led the Lord Jeffs with two assists. Amherst senior Jeff Holmes (Saunderstown, R.I./St. Raphael Acad.) added 15 points and a team-high seven rebounds, while sophomore guard David Kalema (Burke, Va./Episcopal) had 11. Amherst outrebounded Brandeis, 33-31, but nine of those boards were team rebounds.
Brandeis is off for the rest of the semester before returning to action on Dec. 30 with a 6 p.m. game against Bates College. The Lord Jeffs take on Anna Maria College on Dec. 13.


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I could tell you I love them because they're so easy to make — who doesn't love a dish that comes together in less than half an hour? Or I could say it's because of their delicate texture and flavor — light and airy, but rich and almost nutty to the taste, it's like biting into a delicious cloud.
But honestly? The reason I love these pancakes is because of the way they puff in the oven. They're downright fun to watch.
Call them what you will — Dutch babies, German pancakes, Dutch puffs — they're all about the souffle factor. They're kind of like Yorkshire puddings or popovers, but supersized. Mix together a few ingredients and pour the batter into a hot buttered skillet, then put it in the oven and watch it swell. In minutes, these babies may puff to more than five times their original size.
It's magical. Serve them quickly; like a souffle, the magic begins to deflate once they're out of the oven.
Usually, German pancakes are served for breakfast, dusted with powdered sugar and maybe a squeeze of lemon, or perhaps with sautéed apple slices spooned in the center. Place the skillet on the table and watch as your guests tear in with forks or spoons, even fingers — I suppose you could slice your masterpiece into wedges, but civilized manners tend to go out the window when that wonderful aroma starts wafting from the oven. And that's just fine.
But why stop at breakfast? The basic batter is simple — a little flour, a few eggs, some milk, maybe a pinch of salt or a little sugar to sweeten. I prefer to think of it as a blank canvas waiting to be flavored. Add some lemon zest or a touch of spice. Perhaps a little rosewater for floral notes or chopped toasted nuts for depth.
Recently I added chopped fresh rosemary and thyme for a savory take. I threw in finely grated Gruyère cheese and a few strips of crumbled bacon (cook the bacon in the skillet you'll use for the pancake, using the rendered bacon fat in place of the butter as the pancake bakes). Not overly heavy, the cheese and bacon gave the pancake a subtle richness, perfect served alongside a simple salad as a lunch or light meal.
The trick with flavorings is to keep them delicate and use them sparingly. You don't want to weigh the batter down, or you'll trade "light and airy" for "dense and gummy."
Thinking dessert? Try chocolate. Fold sweetened cocoa powder into the batter to flavor (I found chopped chocolate or chips to be too heavy), adding just a touch of espresso powder — you won't taste the coffee, but it will help to bring out the richness of the chocolate. Round out the flavorings with a little almond extract or orange zest (I used both), then toss it in the oven.
You might think the best part is eating the pancake fresh out of the oven, topped with a big scoop of ice cream. While that is pretty magical, I still think the best part is simply watching it puff.


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Hey guys (and girls?)!
I was on this game jam this past weekend and it gave me an idea.. What about a DS Blender jam kind of thing where we each compete against each other with images (or games, depending on what people want to work on). Personally I don't care what we do.
Since this will be on DS I don't think a weekend is enough, and a month is too long. So a week or something should be enough. That way you can work on the project whenever you find the time really, instead of working on it for 48 hours straight.
What do you say? Any of you interested?
(I know some of you have school, others have work. Even I am busy right now, pretty much all day every day working on a project for someone. But stuff like this is always fun to put your mind to ease).


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Jan. 3, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's soccer team received its third consecutive National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Team Academic Award after posting a team GPA of 3.48 for the 2004-05 school year. Out of 29 Division III teams earning this honor with a minimum GPA of 3.0, the Engineers finished tied for second behind Pomona-Pitzer College (3.53) and University of Rochester (3.48). Among 59 teams in the nation across all three divisions, Tech was tied for fourth. The University of Pennsylvania led the way (3.6), followed by Lynn University (3.57) from Division II. MIT was the sole representative from the NEWMAC to collect these accolades.
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Is It Okay for Men to Cry in Public? — Survey of the Day
After losing in the Wimbledon finals to Roger Federer, Andy Murray wept tears of sadness. Although his passion seemed to endear him to tennis fans, his watery reaction didn't convince a whole lot of guys that it's okay to cry in public.
In the wake of Murray's water works, online casino Roxy Palace polled 400 adult males on whether they would ever cry in a situation where strangers were present. Eight-one percent responded that they would be too embarrassed to open the floodgates in public.
There was, however, one semi-public setting in which guys make an exception. Seventy-six percent of those surveyed said it was perfectly fine for a man to weep at the birth of a child.


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Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green: LAX Liftoff
Megan Fox and husband Brian Austin Green catch a flight out of town from LAX airport on Tuesday (May 17).
The Passion Play actress and her hubby kept a low profile and went undercover in baseball caps.
Megan celebrated her 25th birthday on Monday – happy belated birthday!!
Passion Play, where Megan stars opposite Mickey Rourke, is now in theaters in New York and L.A. – be sure to follow the film's official account on Twitter to keep up with the latest details!
As of last week, Dish Network subscribers can rent Passion Play on demand.
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The Basics
Electrical current in Armenia is 230 volts, 50Hz. Round, two-pin attachment plugs and Schuko plugs are in use.
Armenian is the official language, and it has its own alphabet. Russian is widely spoken and English is becoming more prominent.
Travel Health
There are no immunizations required for travellers to Armenia but vaccinations for hepatitis A and hepatitis B should be considered. There is a small risk of malaria between June and October in some of the villages of the Ararat Valley. Tap water should not be drunk, unless filtered or boiled. Medical care is limited, particularly outside of Yerevan, and treatment is not recommended for anything major. Comprehensive medical insurance should include emergency medical evacuation. All required prescription medication should be taken along, in the original packaging and accompanied by a signed doctor's note.
Many restaurants in the capital will add a service charge onto the bill, but this generally does not go to the staff, so tips are welcome in Armenia. A tip of about 10 percent is fair.
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Crime is relatively low in Armenia, but travellers should still be careful with their personal possessions and avoid any unnecessary displays of wealth. Pickpockets take advantage of crowded market areas. Avoid travel near the border with Azerbaijan due to continuing tension between the two countries.
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Armenia is an orthodox Christian country and the locals tend to be conservative, especially outside of the capital. Women should avoid wearing shorts and short skirts, particularly outside of Yerevan. Military bases and installations should not be photographed. Homosexuality is no longer illegal in Armenia, but homophobia is still a problem.
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I was so pleased and honored when I discovered I had been awarded the Ancestor Approval Award by Hummer at Branching Out Through the Years. Just the fact others read my blog makes my day, but to also receive an award, my first ever, has put a huge smile on my face. Thank you.
As a recipient of this award, I am to list 10 things I have learned about my ancestors that have surprised, humbled or enlightened me and then pass the award on to 10 other genealogy bloggers who I feel are doing their ancestors proud. So here is my list of 10 things and my list of 10 other bloggers.
1. I was surprised when I found a newspaper article about Eugene Nettles Arnspiger, my husband's grandfather, relating his involvement in the accidental discharge of a shotgun, resulting in the wounding of a neighbor. Eugene was 17 years old at the time; 1902.
2. I was humbled when I discovered Catherine Shinkle Bolender, my 3rd gt gdmother gave birth to 10 children, one born about every two years, all of whom lived to adulthood and all the while settling the frontier of Ohio between 1811-1835.
3. I was enlightened and saddened after reading the transcription of a journal keep by a fellow passenger of Jorg Henrich Ernstberger, my husband's 5th gt grandfather. The ship was the Charming Nancy, arriving in Philadelphia 8 Oct 1737. There were so many deaths, mostly children.
4. I was surprised when I learned my father had two other wives that I knew nothing about. That made a total of four.
5. I was enlightened and humbled when I learned about Daniel Belden, my 8th gt gdfather: the murder of several members of his family, his capture and kidnapping, and the capture and kidnapping of several of his children by Indians, all in 1690 during King Phillips War in Hatfield, Connecticut.
6. I was surprised when I learned Henry Stephen Archer Sr, my 2nd gtgdfather, was a baptist minister but not a slaveowner in Mississippi.
7. I was enlightened when I found Joshua Atwood Tilton, my 2nd gtgdfather in the 1850 census in Boston, Massachusetts. He was indexed as "Silton".
8. I was humbled when I read the account given by my 6th gtgdmother, Ruth Hoyt Peck, to the court in Danbury, Ct. in 1777, documenting the trials and loss she and her family endured in the fight for independence during the Revolutionary War.
9. I was surprised when I watched the first episode of WDYTYA and discovered one, I was related to Sarah Jessica Parker, and two, my 8th gtgdmother, Esther Dutch Elwell was accused of witchcraft.
10. I was surprised when I discovered both Stephen Bolender, my 4th gtgdfather, and Abraham Houser Sr, a contemporary, neighbor and relation by marriage of Paul Ernspiger, my husband's 4th gtgdfather were both ministers in the first German Baptist Brethren Church, "Dunkers" and lived as neighbors in Clermont county, Ohio in the early 1800's.
Here are my choices to receive the Ancestor Approved Award
1. A Tale of Two Ancestors
2. The Genealogy Search
3. Kick-Ass Genealogy
4. Digging in ... To My Past
5. Genealogy Traces
6. Gen Wish List
7. Random Relatives
8. Lucie's Legacy
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Ancestor Approved Award
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- Amanda Acquard said...
Jo, Thank you so very much! I am honored to have received the award.
- Amy Urman said...
Jo, thank you for the nomination. I am thrilled to receive the Ancestor Approved Award.
- Tina said...
Congrats on your award and thanks for sending it my way.
- Judith Richards Shubert said...
Thanks so much, Jo, for reading my blog and putting me in your list to receive this award. I enjoyed reading about your ancestors and your list of things that you have learned that have surprised or enlightened you.
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I've been to Arizona a couple of times, both of them on trips to see the beautiful landscape and of course, the Grand Canyon. My wife and I took a very cool helicopter ride over the canyon, thanks to some wonderful friends who gave it as a wedding present. I think the only state I've been to that I think is prettier is Utah, Bryce Canyon and Zion are magical. I have to say that even though I love the visuals in Arizona, I'm not sure I want to visit there again. The blatant racism that is bubbling to the surface there is making me re-think whether it is a state worth visiting. I have a very good friend who lives in Phoenix, he reads this blog sometimes, and I'm sure glad that at least one person in Arizona isn't racist. I've been wanting to go and visit him, but I might have to make him meet me on the Utah border because I don't think I can stand the stench in Arizona.
The latest odors emanating from the state come from a city councilman Steve Blair who has a radio show on a Fox-owned station. I'll let karoli from Crooks and Liars fill you in on the idiocy...
This mural is painted on the side of an elementary school in Prescott, Arizona. Recently completed, it features the faces of children who attend the school, but not everyone is pleased with the outcome.
Prescott City Councilman Steve Blair, who also has a daily radio show on Fox News-owned radio station KYCA-1490-AM wants the mural taken down completely. He claims it depicts an agenda, an indoctrination of public school children. Somehow I do not think this has much to do with indoctrination nor do I think he really cares much about public schools. Especially public schools with brown children in them.
Instead of removing it, the school principal asked the artists to lighten the faces of the children in the picture. This request follows harassment of those same artists by drive-by wingers flinging racial epithets at them while they were painting it. Welcome to Arizona.
A little explanation of what the mural is all about comes from Wonkette…
And these children, for the past several months as this happy mural encouraging "green transportation" was being painted by local artists, have been treated to the city of Prescott's finest citizens driving by and yelling "Nigger" and "Spic" at this school wall painted with pictures of the children who attend the school. And this has been encouraged by a city councilman, Steve Blair, who uses his local radio talk show to rile up these people and demand the mural be destroyed.
Apparently this elected city councilman has a history of bigotry and hatred, more from Crooks and Liars
A few more gems from City Councilman Limbaugh wannabe Blair:
"I'm not a racist by any stretch of the imagination, but whenever people start talking about diversity, it's a word I can't stand." Daily Courier
"I will tell you depicting a black guy in the middle of that mural, based upon who's President of the United States today …" Daily Courier
"To depict the biggest picture on the building as a Black person, I would have to ask the question: Why?" AZCentral.com
Why depict a black person on the building? Why not, you fucking idiot? The only reason those words could possibly come out of his mouth is because he is a fucking racist. I'm sorry, but these assholes have to be called what they are. Sorry about the colorful language but those fuckers piss me off.
(Update) Steve Blair was fired from his radio gig, no more broadcasting of racist hatred for him….buh bye! And the principal and school superintendent have realized they screwed up. And someone put it on Youtube, here ya go.