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This character in Christian mythology has a bad rap. It so foolish that grown men and women believe and fear the devil. Facepalm. Despite the fiction, I've been thinking recently…..
Is/was the devil such a bad guy? I mean by our (atheist) standards. I know we have plenty of biblical experts among us – so I ask you - Besides tempting Jesus to turn away from god (we would've done the same thing), did the devil actually perform any unsavory acts that we (atheist) would deem bad/ unethical/ immoral/ objectionable?
Did he ever kill anyone? Cheat anyone? Did he ever plague a community? Or -Did he ever influence humans to perform bad acts (kill, steal, cheat etc.)? Beside his opposition to god, what's he done that so bad? If anything, we know the God of Abraham is guilty of countless human atrocities. What about the devil?
I mean, maybe he has done some bad stuff – I don't know – I haven't gone through the bible with a fine tooth comb. Would you mine drinking a beer with this guy?
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His torturing of Job (in which Yahweh was complicit) was pretty sadistic.
Ok. I'll look that story up.
I think I rememeber that one. That's where god and the devil have a bet on job's devotion and the devil has to get job to 'use the lord's name in vain' or something, which results in the devil destroying this man's life, killing his family, and leaving him a broken wreck but the guy still worships the god that allowed all of it to happen just to win a stupid bet. How can you trust a guy who will screw you over just for kicks and to win a bet?
Eoganacht - that ain't all, lemme tell ya --
During the process, Job's wife and children were killed, as part of Job's torture, but in the end, Job is allowed to find a new wife and have more children, and the way the story's written, that's supposed to make it all OK!
Your puppy's dead - here's a new puppy! OK?
pax vobiscum
I didn't think Satan was ever mentioned in the OT. I guess he is in the Book of Job. Do Jews believe in the devil?
Satan comes from Shai-tan, which iirc, means "adversary," in Hebrew. Make sure you don't confuse him with Lucifer, who was the god of light for the Etruscans.
While he has a spot in Hebrew myth, I'm pretty sure that his role is different from the incarnation of evil that NT Xtianity has cast him in.
So the Etruscans were the origin of Lucifer? That makes sense, as the Etruscans were from Italy, they and Greece, home of Prometheus, likely traded folklore.
Good to know, thanks for that.
Which makes me wonder where the word, "Lux," - which is Latin - came from in Genesis of the OT, as the name of the ruins of an ancient city where Jacob, the Sleazy spent the night? Ideas, anyone?
pax vobiscum
Out side of a city called Luxor (and the casual game of the same name) the only other Lux reference I know is the dish-soap my mom used to get when I was growing-up.. LOL
I wrote it wrong Rob, it should have been, "Luz," from Gen 29:19, "And he called the name of that place Beth-El: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first."
But my question remains the same, how did a Latin word get into the early OT?
pax vobiscum,
It is a very different role. Satan is a servant of YHWH and he is not evil. He is quality control, and his job is to test the worthiness of those who are to be around YHWH or in his favor. The book of Job is Job proving his worth and getting rewarded, not about God just wanting to one-up Satan. Of course God could have just gone "well, being 'all knowing' and everything I can personally vouch for Job".
Job is actually a really interesting book, because it incorporates Israel's pagan past and includes the other gods in the divine council. But at this point, the remnant of Judah was strictly monotheist. However the language used clearly mark it as a later book.
John - RE: "The book of Job is Job proving his worth and getting rewarded"
Could you possibly tell us, John, how Job's wife and children got rewarded?
pax vobiscum,
And again, John, with all due respect, he lost his claim to omniscience when he failed to see that Adam and Eve would brunch on fruit salad, and that his creations would piss him off to the extent that he would have to drown them, or that he would have to "come down," to see, in the case of the Tower of Bable fable, that Man was trying to use a Summerian Ziggurat (known in Sumerian as the "gate of heaven") to reach heaven, when he, of all supernatural entities, should know that you just can't get there from here.
The god you seem to be defending, falls far short of my expectations.
pax vobiscum,


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Press Reports on the
Andrade Synagogue
Compiled by Harold Pollins
Jewish Chronicle, 22 September 1865, page 5
Jewish Chronicle, 6 January 1866, page 2
Two letters in response to one advocating a new synagogue in Islington.
Jewish Chronicle, 2 February 1866, page 1
'Death on 30th ult, Solomon Hyam Andrade, at his residence, Essex Road, Islington, in his 64th year.'
England & Wales National Probate Calendar 1861-1941
Will of Solomon Hiam Andrade formerly of 63 Leadenhall Street in the City of London, Ostrich Feather Manufacturer, late of Spencer House, Essex Road, Islington, Gentleman, who died 30 January 1866 at Spencer House. Will proved by Esther Andrade of Spencer House, widow, the relict, one of the executors. Effects under £5,000.
Jewish Chronicle, 9 October 1868, page 4
[Re Holy Day services.]
Jewish Chronicle, 10 September 1869, page 8
'ANDRADE SYNAGOGUE. This neat little place of worship, situated in Essex-road, Islington, was created by the late Mr. Andrade and is maintained at the expense of his family. It was well filled with a devout congregation of ladies and gentlemen. The services, which are held according to the Portuguese Minhag, were exceedingly well conducted by the minister, Mr. J. H. Valentine (formerly of Jews' College).'
Jewish Chronicle, 4 February 1870, page 2
'Mr John Hart, a resident of Highbury, has presented the Andrade Synagogue with
a very handsome crimson velvet Sepher cover, beautifully embroidered with the
Jewish Chronicle, 30 September 1870, page 8
'Attendance at the Andrade Synagogue in the High Festivals was unusually large. Services were conducted by Mr J. H. Valentine and Mr B. Cohen.'
Jewish Chronicle, 14 June 1872, page 155
'Mr J. P. Capua has presented a handsome Sepher Torah [in Hebrew] with the usual
appurtenances to the Andrade Synagogue. The Sepher was written in Jerusalem.
'The silver bells are of great beauty and clever workmanship.'
Jewish Chronicle, 7 September 1877, page 12
'ANDRADE SYNAGOGUE. - On Sunday last, Mr. Salomon Pool, in the name of the subscribers, presented to Mrs. Andrade, relict of the late Solomon Andrade, a Sepher Torah, with bells and mantle, as a testimonial, in recognition of her kindness in permitting the continued use of her synagogue, in Spencer House, Essex Road, Islington. Mrs. Andrade, and her son, Mr. Samuel Andrade, suitably returned thanks for the present. The usual mincha service was read by the chazan, Mr. Chumaceiro. The Scrolls of the Law were then taken out of the Ark, and the bearers walked in procession to the door of the synagogue to meet the new Scroll, which was brought in by Mr. Salomon Pool, and met by the congregation chanting Baruch Habah [in Hebrew]. One circuit of the synagogue of the Scrolls was made, and Prayers for the Royal Family, for the Congregation, the donors of the Scroll, and for the Andrade family were recited. Mizmar Ladow [in Hebrew. 2nd word lamed daled vav. Should be ladonai?] was then sung and all the scrolls having been deposited in the Ark, the service was brought to a conclusion, with the singing of Adon Olam [in Hebrew]. The congregation then repaired to the house of Mrs. Andrade, where refreshments were served, and thanks were suitably returned to Mr. Salomon Pool, as Chairman of the Fund, and Mr. Harris, promoter of the testimonial, the sub-committee for their services, and to the Andrade family for the use of their synagogue. Mention was made by Mr. S. E. Moss of the late Mr. Andrade who had erected the synagogue, and taken such an interest in it. Prayers are said at this synagogue every Friday evening, Saturday morning and afternoon, also on the holydays. The minhag followed is the Portuguese, the same as at the parent synagogue in Bevis Marks. A large proportion of those who attend the synagogue are Ashkenazim.'
Jewish Chronicle, 17 September 1880, page 6
Hatan Torah Mr Edgar R. Lindo
Jewish Chronicle, 7 October 1881, page 12
Hatan Torah Isaac Hazan
Jewish Chronicle, 21 March 1884, page 13
'Meeting of Yehidim of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation.
Jewish Chronicle, 18 April 1884, page 5
'It was announced on Thursday that that the Andrade Synagogue will cease to be opened for divine worship after the Feast of Pentecost. The public motive for the present decision is the hope that by this means the scheme for a proposed branch synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation will receive a powerful stimulus. 'The unstinted thanks of the community are due to the Andrade family for having, at great expense, so long supplied a very pressing need.'
Jewish Chronicle, 1 October 1886, page 7
'For several years Spanish and Portuguese Jews residing in the North London District, east of Highbury, had the advantage of attending services at the pretty private synagogue situated in the grounds of Spencer House, Essex Road, and built by the late Mr. Andrade. This synagogue has been closed for upwards of eighteen months, and since then services were held on the festivals in another private house.'
Register of Death
Death of Mrs Esther Da Costa Andrade. March quarter 1899. Aged 94. Islington 1b 280.
Jewish Chronicle, 26 May 1899, page 25
'Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue
Jewish Chronicle, 3 January 1913, page 20
'Obituary of Jacob Mendes Chumaceiro, 'a most
faithful Chazan'. Between the closing of the Andrade Synagogue and the opening
of the Mildmay Park Synagogue, the services were carried on for some
considerable time at the house of the late Mr. Cazès, where Mr. Chumaceiro
officiated gratuitously.'
Jewish Chronicle, 5 August 1955, page 19
A. B. Levy, 'In Old Canonbury'.
Jewish Chronicle, 3 June 1994, page 21
Letter from Edgar Samuel, Curator, Jewish Museum.
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Cute animal knackers itself in comical fashion.
What Scotsmen do for entertainment at football matches.
Scarface, the fucking two-minute version. Not safe for work, unless you have headphones.
Scarface, the Dick Cheney version. Funny for about fifteen seconds. Not safe for work either. Headphones required.
The highest grossing movie in Turkish history - apologies to Americans, I guess you're even less popular in Turkey than we are. No mean feat, since we send thousands of tourists and football hooligans there every year.
Black people love us.
Sadly, it transpired that this kayak disaster was a hoax. But I laughed even when I thought it was true, scumbag that I am.
That'll have to do for tonight - I'll gratefully accept advice on how to post Youtube videos directly to my blog. Can't be bothered working it out at this time.
All Hail the Perry Bible Fellowship, without which I would have to post something worth reading.


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Yunnan, China. Tent Peak. Fraser Ratcliff, Muleteer, Lashiba, on the way to first high camp. 29 October 1938., 1938
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RHQ 4.8 has been released with another batch of new features and bug fixes.
Major changes since RHQ 4.7 are
- New storage backend for metrics based on Cassandra:
Numerical metric data is now stored in a Cassandra cluster to improve scalability for larger deployments with many metrics.
The intention is to move more mass data into Cassandra into the future (events, calltime data etc). We just had to start somewhere. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of RHQ, a utility to migrate metrics gathered is provided.
- More improvements to the new charts
The selection of the time period has been changed:
- There is now a button bar at the top to quickly select the timeframe to display
- If you hover with the mouse between two "bars" you will see a little crosshair, that starts the
selection mode - drag it over a series of bars to zoom in. Mike Thompson has created a YouTube video that explains this.
- New installation process:
With the above change of the backend storage, we have changed the installation process again to reduce the complexity to install RHQ. The new process basically goes:
- unzip rhq-server-4.8.0.zip
- cd rhq-server-4.8.0
- edit bin/rhq-server.properties
- bin/rhqctl install (--storage-data-root-dir=<some directory>
For upgrades the process is very similar: you run unzip the new binaries and then run
bin/rhqctl upgrade --from-server-dir=<old server>
Please consult the installation and upgrade guides before starting.
- REST-api is now (mostly) stable and supports paging on (some) resources. The documentation is also up on SourceForge and the rhq-samples project has a special section on examples for the REST-api.
As always there have been many more smaller improvements and bug fixes - many thanks to everyone who has contributed via bug report, comments, discussions on #rhq and/or via code contributions.
Please check the full release notes for details. They also contain a list of commits.
RHQ is an extensible tool to monitory your infrastructure of machines and applications, alert operators on user defined conditions, configure resources and run operations on them from a central web-based UI. Other ways of communicating with RHQ include a command line interface and a REST-api.
You can download the release from source forge.
As mentioned above, the old installer is gone, so make sure to read
the wiki document describing how to use the new installer.
Maven artifacts are available from the JBoss Nexus repository and should also be available from Central.
Please give us feedback, be it in Bugzilla, Mailing lists or the forum. Or just join us on IRC at irc.freenode.net/#rhq.
And as I have been asked recently: yes we are happy to accept code contributions -- be it for the RHQ core, as well as plugins or for the samples project. Also if you e.g. have written a plugin, share a pointer to it, which we can then share on the wiki etc.


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Steve Drummond
Steve Drummond heads up NPR's education reporting project. NPR Ed launched in March 2014, providing deeper coverage of this vital issue and extending it to audiences across digital platforms. It's a nine-member team within the network, working in partnership with member stations around the country.
Drummond brings to this initiative more than 20 years' experience covering education issues, and more than a decade at NPR in a variety of roles. Prior to this assignment, he was the network's Senior National Editor. In that role, from 2007 through 2013, he oversaw domestic news coverage and a team of more than 60 reporters, producers and editors in Washington, DC, and 18 bureaus around the country. In 2012, he also served as acting Senior Editor for Investigations, managing a team of six reporters and producers on investigative projects.
In addition to his journalism credentials, Drummond has also spent some time in the classroom. In the early 1990's, he left journalism temporarily, for a graduate degree in education and a brief career as a middle and high school teacher. His journalism and education interests merged in 1993, when he joined Education Week, where he spent six years as a senior editor and writer.
Drummond joined NPR in 2000 as an editor on the national desk. In 2003, he became the senior editor of All Things Considered. He returned to the national desk in 2004 to edit coverage of poverty and welfare, education, religion, and crime and punishment.
At NPR his work has been honored with many of journalism's highest awards, including three Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award.
Drummond's work with NPR Correspondent Laura Sullivan and Producer Amy Walters on an investigation into sexual assault of Native American women earned a 2009 duPont Award. The next year, Drummond edited a series by Sullivan, "36 Years of Solitary: Murder, Death and Justice on Angola," which also earned a Peabody, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award. A three-part series, "Bonding for Profit," exposed deep flaws in the bail bonds system in this country. The series, reported by Sullivan and edited by Drummond, earned a 2010 Peabody and a 2011 duPont award. A series examining South Dakota's system for handling Native American children in foster care won a 2011 Peabody Award.
Drummond has been a reporter with The Tampa Tribune and The St. Petersburg Times in Florida and at the Associated Press in Detroit. He has written for a variety of publications including The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, The New York Times, and Teacher magazine.
Drummond holds a bachelor's degree and two master's degrees, in journalism and education, from the University of Michigan. In the fall of 2013 he was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.


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YCDSB celebrates World Teachers' Day, October 5th
October 5th is World Teachers' Day. Created by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), World Teachers' Day recognizes the contributions of teachers worldwide and helps to raise awareness, understanding and appreciation for the invaluable contributions that teachers make to education and development throughout the world.
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October is Learning Disabilities Awareness month
Throughout October the Learning Disabilities Associations of Ontario will be marking LD Awareness month. In York Region the key event will be their 40th Anniversary Event taking place on September 26th 2016. However this month long effort is about more than events, rather it is about raising awareness and reducing stigma to allow people to get the supports they need to reach their potential. ... Continue reading "October is Learning Disabilities Awareness month"


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What we're reading today: Obama continues Israel tour, Michigan Senate approves emergency dredging bill and Colorado shooting investigation continues
Here are some stories we're reading today:
- President Obama continues his tour of Israel, as he asked Israelis to put themselves in the shoes of Palestinians during a speech Thursday.
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California Department of Transportation
Date: October 8, 2013
District: Caltrans District 3
Contact: Deanna Shoopman
Phone: (530) 632-0080
Bay Area gets $140 million from high-speed rail bond
MARYSVILLE – The California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $359 million to 36 projects, an investment that will create jobs bolstering the state's economy, reduce traffic congestion, repair highways and bridges, and improve rail service.
"These projects allow millions of dollars to flow into construction and produce enormous economic benefits for California," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) received $140 million from Proposition 1A, the high-speed rail bond, to purchase 46 new rail cars that will provide new service from the BART/Caltrain Millbrae Station directly to San Francisco International Airport.
The Millbrae facility is one of several key regional connectivity points California's High-Speed Rail Authority has identified that will link BART and high-speed rail, creating a "blended" rail system. To handle additional transferring of passengers at Millbrae from the blended system longer trains will be needed. The $140 million will help pay to lengthen all three rail storage tracks at the south end of the station, enabling the facility to handle BART's maximum train length of 10 cars and make it possible to run longer trains from the East Bay to the airport.
Today's allocations also included $44 million from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved transportation bond. To date, nearly $17 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been put to work statewide for transportation purposes. The remaining $175 million in allocations today came from various state and federal transportation accounts
Other highlights of the CTC funding allocations include:
- $1.75 million from Proposition 1A will provide improvements to the Sacramento Intermodal Facility High Speed Rail Program projects. This project will provide connectivity of Sacramento Regional Transit Service to High Speed Rail including relocation of existing light rail track, storage tracks and passenger platform and associated systems.
- $6.6 million to replace the Sly Park Road Undercrossing near the town of Pollock Pines in El Dorado County. Construction is scheduled for spring of 2014.
- $2.4 million in Placer County on State Route 89/28 Junction in Tahoe City to install drainage system for roadway improvement safety.
- 95,000 for Class I Bike Path Trail from Clay Street to Bedford Avenue in El Dorado County. This project will provide viable transportation alternative to cyclists, pedestrians, and equestrians by providing safe and direct route in the City of Placerville.
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Laura Ling has made a career out of telling other people's stories. Now it's time to hear hers.
Ling, an award-winning journalist and host of the E! Network's "E! Investigates," will discuss her career at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 2. Ling's talk, titled "Journey of Hope," is part of the campus' Speaker Series and takes place in the McGarvey Commons of the Reed Union Building. Admission is free and open to the public.
Throughout her career, Ling has covered a variety of topics, including slave labor in the Amazon, Mexico's drug war, Internet censorship in China and women's rights in Turkey. In 2009, she was detained by North Korean soldiers along the Chinese-North Korean border while reporting on the trafficking of North Korean women. Ling was arrested and held captive for 140 days before being granted a special pardon and returning to the United States.
Ling continues to tackle difficult issues in her current role as host of "E! Investigates." The show is a documentary series that explores topics such as teen suicide and the challenges faced by military spouses.
Ling co-created "Breaking it Down," a documentary series on MTV that aired between 1999 and 2001. Her work has also appeared on ABC's "Nightline," NBC and PBS, and she and her sister co-authored "Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home."
Ling's talk at Penn State Behrend is sponsored by the college's Student Activity Fee, the Division of Student Affairs and the Harriet Behrend Ninow Memorial Lecture Series Fund.


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The Mac release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Ultimate Edition will be a complete version of the game, containing the Explosive Mission and Tactical Enhancement packs, as well as The Missing Link DLC.
Set in 2027, Deus Ex: Human Revolution immerses players in a world where amoral corporations market biomechanical modifications that blur the boundary between man and machine. The player controls Adam Jensen, the security chief of biotech company Sarif Industries, who has been forced to undergo extensive cybernetic augmentation after a terrorist attack on the company.
To find those responsible, the player must explore the full potential of Adams augmented body and develop it to suit their playing style. Every situation can be approached either by focusing on one of the four pillars of gameplay - combat, stealth, hacking and social - or by deploying an artful combination of all four.
Deus Ex: Human Revolutions engrossing plot puts players in strikingly inventive visions of Detroit, Shanghai and Montreal, where they must scrutinize everything to uncover the secrets behind a global conspiracy that threatens everyone, from the purely human underclass to the augmented elite.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution has enjoyed huge critical and commercial success on its original release platforms. The Windows version has an average Metacritic rating of 90 out of 100 and has sold over 3 million units to date.
Minimum System Requirements:
- 2.0GHz Intel Mac
- 20GB free Hard Drive space
- 256MB or better graphics card
- Mac OS X 10.7.3 or later.
- The following graphics cards are not supported:
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Agenda set for Private Forest Landowners Conference
Agenda set for Private Forest Landowners Conference
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The tours and presentations have been finalized for Penn State's first statewide Private Forest Landowners Conference, and the program promises to be unparalleled for providing forest stewardship information to Pennsylvania citizens.
To be held May 10 and 11 at the Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, the event will be hosted by the College of Agricultural Sciences' Center for Private Forests. Focusing on the future of Penn's Woods, the day-and-a-half conference will reach out to owners of all sizes of woodlands, from backyard woodlot owners to those who view their woodlands as business ventures.
"This is an unprecedented opportunity for Pennsylvania's woodland owners to participate in an entertaining and enlightening conference on forest land use, conservation and best-management practices for woodlots of all sizes," said James Finley, Ibberson Professor of Forest Resources and director of the Center for Private Forests. "The event offers nationally recognized experts on virtually all matters of concern to woodlot owners.
"With an expected 1,000 participants, nearly 100 seminars, field trips, exhibitions and interaction with fellow landowners, this event will offer all you need to undertake the best practices and enhancement of the myriad values you hold for your property."
The conference will feature five optional field tours (cost is $15 per tour) on Friday morning before the conference officially kicks off at 1 p.m. May 10:
-- "Wind Energy and Implications for Private Forest Landowners," to be led by Michael Barton, a consulting forester. The tour will visit a wind turbine farm, and participants can learn about wind energy and potential impacts on the forest, and about the important considerations for private forest landowners from leasing to forest management.
-- "Vernal Pools: Special Management Considerations," to be led by Clayton Lutz, a wildlife biologist with the Pennsylvania Game Commission. This tour will cover basic ecology, hydrologic regimens and varying characteristics of vernal pools; basic ecology (breeding movements and habits) of vernal pool-breeding amphibians and reptiles; the value of vernal pools for other game and nongame wildlife; and best-management practices for conserving and protecting vernal pools and their obligate wildlife users.
-- "The Nature Conservancy: Brush Mountain Field Tour -- Restoration of Forest Lands: Including Use of Prescribed Fire," to be led by Michael Eckley, a forester with The Nature Conservancy. This tour of a severely degraded property, purchased by The Nature Conservancy in 2008 to conserve the southern-terminus of the Brush Mountain range, will cover the organization's efforts to rehabilitate and enhance the tract for people, wildlife and biodiversity.
The tour will focus on evaluating specific management units receiving a sequence of silvicultural treatments to achieve landowner objectives. Key forest condition attributes will be discussed, encompassing forest composition, structure and regeneration. Forest management activities will include the use of prescribed fire, scarification, herbicide applications, precommercial felling, deer fencing, public hunting, and tree and shrub plantings.
-- "Management and Control of Non-Native Invasive Plant Species," to be led by Art Gover, Penn State research associate who is an expert on controlling invasive species. Art and Canoe Creek State Park Manager Andy St. John will highlight practices used at the park to control and manage invasive plant species found in riparian buffers. New plantings helping to control reed Canary Grass and other invasives and the effort to use fungal parasites to control tree of heaven will be highlighted.
This tour also will include special practices utilized in early succession habitats while controlling invasive and interfering plants. Pesticide credits are available upon request. Special golden-winged warbler habitat development and funding opportunities will be discussed.
-- "Forest Management Practices on Private Forest Land," will be led by Chris Jones, a forester with the state Bureau of Forestry. The many forest-management practices the bureau employs will be shown and explained so that private forest landowners also can use them on their lands to meet their objectives. Practices such as shelterwood harvests, controlling interfering plants and deer management will be observed and discussed.
The conference will offer 99 concurrent sessions with presentations in the following tracks: forest finance, forest legacy, forest history, backyard woods, woods wildlife, forest health, tending and management, wood products, making your woods accessible, forests and water, forest recreation, aesthetics and biodiversity, and forest policy and advocacy.
A list of scheduled presentations is available on the conference website.
The conference fee of $75 includes two breaks with refreshments on Friday, two breaks and lunch on Saturday, a Saturday morning general session with Curt Meine, senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation and Leopold biographer, and access to information and resources from respected presenters from across the region.
Optional events (at additional cost) include the Friday morning field tours and a Friday evening keynote banquet that will feature an address by Doug Tallamy, professor and chair of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware and author of "Bringing Nature Home."
Conference exhibitors include educational, resource and service providers with tools and information to help participants undertake sound practices on their woodlands.
"If you are a woodlot owner in Pennsylvania and are concerned about the future of your investment and the future of Penn's Woods, you should plant to attend," advised Finley.
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I apologize for the lack of posts of late. However, quantity over quality has always been a motto of mine (except I'd prefer to have a quantity of trillions of dollars; but we can't all have what we want).
Today, January 1, 2013, is a historic day. It has been 150 years since Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
The National Archives exhibited the original document Sunday, December 30, 2012-January 1, 2013. There were other programs there in December and some others coming later in January.
The Emancipation Proclamation perhaps was best summed up by former slave turned abolitionist-writer/orator, Frederick Douglass.
"THE first of January, 1863, was a memorable day in the progress of American liberty and civilization. It was the turning-point in the conflict between freedom and slavery. A death-blow was given to the slaveholding rebellion. Until then the federal arm had been more than tolerant to that relic of barbarism. It had defended it inside the slave States; it had countermanded the emancipation policy of John C. Fremont in Missouri; it had returned slaves to their so-called owners; it had threatened that any attempt on the part of the slaves to gain their freedom by insurrection, or otherwise, should be put down with an iron hand; it had even refused to allow the Hutchinson family to sing their anti-slavery songs in the camps of the Army of the Potomac; it had surrounded the houses of slaveholders with bayonets for their protection…."
Much has been made about Lincoln's motivations. Be not confused, Lincoln was opposed to slavery. Being opposed to slavery did not make him a racial equality person throughout his whole life. However, by the release of this Emancipation Proclamation, much about Lincoln's feelings regarding enslaved people and their immediate future (at least) had been altered.
Lincoln's final draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was something different in American political discourse and in Lincoln's own thought process for this document (points I summarize from Eric Foner's book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (W.W. Norton & Co., 2010):
- The proclamation did not seek slave owners' cooperation in emancipation.
- There was no mention of loyal versus disloyal owners.
- It was immediate and offered no financial compensation for the slaveholders.
- There was no mention of colonization or action from the specific states.
- For the first time really in American history, the Federal government would actively seek, train, uniform, train, and arm black soldiers. This is an often ignored portion of the document but by the end of the Civil War, of the approximately, 179,000 black men who served in United States Colored Troop regiments or in the few state regiments of black men, some 150,000 were former slaves (the remainder being free-born persons from North and South).
So with this in mind, I encourage all my readers to take a re-read of the Emancipation Proclamation (which you can find here along with the preliminary draft, a former slave's interview, and a thoughtful commentary from the respected and revered historian John Hope Franklin.)


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Ready to get schooled on this old-school player? You don't need a history lesson to know this authentic tastemaker has been a best-seller for generations, but maybe you're fuzzy on its all-American athletic roots. Born in 1908 just a few miles from the birthplace of America's revolution, Converse began as a Massachusetts rubber shoe company with galoshes, then pivoted to go all-in on basketball shoes. Its original b-ball sneakers hit courts in 1917 during the new sport's first big growth spurt. Rubber-soled and canvas-wrapped above the ankle, these legendary pairs were renamed All Stars in 1920. But who's Chuck Taylor? Converse's first super fan. A former high school star, Chuck ran hoop clinics and smooth-talked his way into a gig advising the brand about shoe design. He took the canvas classics to the streets and painted a picture few could resist, so much so that in 1932 Converse renamed the sneaker line Chuck Taylor All Star and slapped its now trademark circle logo on the side. Ringed vents also were added to increase coolness in both senses.
You don't mess with perfection. Over the decades, Converse sneakers haven't changed much but became all the rage just the same. By the 1960s, seemingly every pro baller sported Chucks. But then just as many fans started claiming them - plus the low-cut Oxford and Jack Purcell sneaker variations - as everyday options. Soon you were more likely to see Converse's high-top and low-cut kicks at classes, concerts, parties, galleries, and skateboard parks. Especially in the 90s, the kind of idols wearing Converse reversed - rock gods replaced sports stars, as the versatile lines struck a chord more with artists. Creative spirits and freethinking souls of every kind turned these one-of-a-kind rides into personal statement makers.
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The Los Angeles Clippers today re-signed unrestricted free agent and five-time NBA All-Star point guard Chauncey Billups. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not announced.
In 20 games (20 starts) played for the Clippers during the 2011-12 season, Billups averaged 15.0 points, 4.0 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 30.4 minutes per contest. Billups shot 36.4 percent from the field, 38.4 percent from behind the three-point line and 89.5 percent from the free throw line. Billups 2012 season ended prematurely on February 6th in Orlando when he suffered a torn left Achilles tendon after scoring 18 points (10 in the fourth quarter) in what would eventually be a 107-102 overtime road win for Los Angeles.
Billups averaged 16.8 points, 5.4 assists and 2.6 rebounds in 32.1 minutes in 72 games with Denver and New York during the 2010-11 season. He was traded to the Knicks on February 22, 2011 and was later claimed by the Clippers off of waivers on December 12, 2011.
The 15-year veteran point guard was an NBA All-Star in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and named to the All-NBA Second Team in 2005-06 and the All-NBA Third Team in 2006-07 and 2008-09. Billups helped lead the Detroit Pistons to the 2003-04 NBA Championship and was selected the 2004 NBA Finals MVP for his stellar play in the series.
Originally drafted by the Boston Celtics with the third overall pick of the 1997 NBA Draft after a standout career at the University of Colorado, Billups has appeared in 1,002 career NBA games for Boston, Toronto, Denver, Minnesota, Detroit, New York and the Clippers, averaging 15.5 points, 5.5 assists and 2.9 rebounds per game.
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Most Awesomely Horrible Fashion Fads Of The Last 20 Years
Everyone is guilty of falling in with the "Sheeple" of their time and dressing in god awful ways. You're guilty of it and I am as well. Take for example the "Skinny Jeans" of today. They are surely the Parachute Pants of this decade. I'm sure there will be some really embarrassed kids 10 years from now when their mothers are showing their fiance high school pictures.
Well, when I was in school, there were fashion fads that were equally hideous. I have decided to share some of these with you. I had a trip down 'nostalgia' lane will finding these photos. I can only say that I'm glad we were broke and could not afford MOST of this stuff. Granted I totally rocked some parachute pants.
Tight Rolled Pant Legs
I used to roll my pants so tight that it would cut off the circulation to my feet. Now looking at someone with their pants tight rolled causes me to burst into spontaneous laughter.
Parachute Pants
I can remember how many times I lost my lunch money in one of the 15 pockets on my parachute pants. I may have been only 8, but I wore these with pride just like my brothers.
MC Hammer Pants
I never wore a pair of these when growing up, and for that I'm grateful. But, I do remember a friend of mine showing up at my house wearing some and I was so jealous. Now, I think it was God keep a photo of me in these ridiculous things cropping up on reddit today.
JAM Pants
I can't help but think of the SNL Skit with Chris Farley, David Spade, and Adam Sandler where they play the workout guys who are on steroids! That skit was so freaking funny.
Acid Washed Jeans
How on Earth did people think that these looked hot? I look at this photo and can't help laughing. It makes me remember watching the movie "Can't Buy Me Love". You know, back when Patrick Dempsy was a dork.
Dooney Bourke Purses
I can't believe how much of a 'Dooneycraze' there was back when I was in school. It was insane. I remember that girls would tease other girls and taunt them for not having one of these. I guess that is an example of bullying from back when I was in school.
John Lennon Glasses
These glasses were the sign of a person who would smoke cigarettes and beat on a bong drum while trying to tell me that if I don't recycle the world will end. These were the definite 'hipsters' of the time and surely grew into the very people you see on 'Whale Wars'.
KEDS Shoes
If you were a young girl/woman in the 80s and 90s I can guarantee that you either owned a pair of these, or really really wanted to. I remember the first day of school in the 7th grade and it was a sea of white shoes with blue tags as I walked into the school.
Stirrup Stretch Pants
Ok ladies, how many of you used to own a pair of these? You're out there! The really scary thing is when you see a woman wearing a pair of these at Walmart that you know she owned back in the 80s! Makes for entertaining trips to the local Supercenter.


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Wales v Australia, Cardiff, December 1
Pocock returns for Wallabies
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November 29, 2012
David Pocock has not appeared for Australia since picking up an injury in their Rugby Championship opener in August © Getty Images
Australia's David Pocock will make his long-awaited return to international action against Wales on Saturday.
Pocock led the Wallabies to a series clean sweep of Wales in June but has not appeared since injuring his knee during their opening Rugby Championship clash with New Zealand in August. The 24-year-old was scheduled to make his return earlier on the current tour but was held back after sustaining a mild calf strain. Pocock's return sees the in-form Michael Hooper drop to the bench but lock Nathan Sharpe will retain the captaincy for what will be his 116th and final Test.
"David is one of the best in the world as a player, and is growing every day as a leader, so naturally we are delighted to have him back," said Wallabies coach Robbie Deans. "While he has continued to contribute off the field, this tour has been one of frustration for him, but we were not prepared to take any risks and potentially compromise either the player or the team, in terms of his fitness. The upside to the wait is that his return comes at a time where we need fresh energy, as was evident at times during our Test in Italy last weekend."
But Hooper can expect to play a role and cap and outstanding rookie year. "Michael [Hooper] has had a massive year and it was evident that for him, as well as some others, it was starting to take its toll last weekend," Deans said. "He's earned the right to finish the year on the park. Having the option of working him alongside David at some point during the contest is a win-win for us."
The change at openside is one of three alterations to the side that edged out Italy 22-19 win in Florence last weekend. The others see lock Kane Douglas return from a knee injury to take over from the suspended Sitaleki Timani, while Tatafu Polota-Nau reclaims his place at hooker.
The bench includes the tour's newest arrival, Waratahs scrum-half Brendan McKibbin, who jetted in from Sydney this week and will make his Wallabies debut if called into action. Hooper and hooker Stephen Moore have dropped onto the bench from last week's run on side.
Despite Wales' recent woe that has included defeats at the hands of Argentina, Samoa and New Zealand, Deans is not taking them lightly. "You don't win two Grand Slams in the last four years [2008 & 2012] while also making the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup without being a quality outfit, and a resilient one," Deans said.
"If we were in their situation, I know the response I would be expecting. Cornered beasts are always the most dangerous; they have nowhere else to go but straight ahead! I've no doubt that [Wales coach] Warren [Gatland] and his men will feel that way at the moment. They did some good things last weekend against New Zealand, and weren't always rewarded for them. Our recent history [against Wales] shows how little there is between the two sides. Our blokes won't need reminding of that."
Australia: Berrick Barnes; Nick Cummins, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Ben Tapuai, Drew Mitchell; Kurtley Beale, Nick Phipps, Benn Robinson, Tatafu Polota Nau, Ben Alexander, Kane Douglas, Nathan Sharpe (capt), Scott Higginbotham, David Pocock, Wycliff Palu
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Many fans dislike it and many players dislike it, but the NFL says the new rule restricting players from delivering blows with the crown of the helmet is working.
In a video distributed to the media, NFL head of officiating Dean Blandino said the league believes players are doing a great job of avoiding contact with the tops of their helmets.
"We are very encouraged with the results so far," Blandino said. "We have not seen a lot of examples of that through the first six weeks of the season."
According to Blandino, the rule has been violated four times so far this season.
"Players are getting the message," Blandino said. "They're adjusting. We've only seen four clear-cut examples in thousands of plays, so obviously the coaches are teaching the technique out of the game and players are aware that this is something that is dangerous, and the rule is designed not only to protect the player getting hit but the player doing the hitting."
Unfortunately, the rule is still causing some confusion for the league's officials, who in some cases have called penalties when they shouldn't have, and in other cases have failed to throw a flag when a player did violate the rule. The players are doing their part in complying with the new rule, and now the NFL needs to make sure the officials know when to call a penalty and when to let clean hits go.


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Here's something I wrote shortly after 9/11/01. I will never forget the lives lost, the bravery, the sadness, the fear, and the way we all came together for that one all-too-brief moment in time. My heart still aches.
The Frozen Zone
Soft autumn breezes rattle
The first crackling leaves
Dancing in crazy spirals
Across the graying asphalt
Silted with ash
Slick with tears
A surreal montage
Helmets and hoses
Buckets and backhoes
Streaked faces etched in horror
Working, hoping, working,
Debris flaming red as leaves
flutters the air
Amid unthinkable chaos,
A stillness grows
Enfolding souls lost
Souls at a loss
The world stops
Frozen in one aching moment
Then another, and another
But soft autumn breezes rattle
The first crackling leaves
And redden warm child cheeks
Hands reaching hands
Holding tight
Holding tighter
and the thaw begins
In memory of those who lost their lives September 11
In hope for those of us they leave behind
--Sue Pelletier, September 2001


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With warmer weather just around the corner, it won't be long before the neighborhood streets and sidewalks are fairly humming with bicycles of all shapes and sizes. But two-wheelers don't have to be the only game in town, especially for the younger set. In fact, our merry researchers recently decided to spend a bit of time developing a four-wheeled "pump scooter."
This sporty little runabout — which is merely a homebuilt and simplified version of the once popular "Irish mail" handcar — is constructed almost entirely of electrical metallic tubing (about $20 worth) and thus is fairly inexpensive to put together. The vehicle's cost is further reduced (and the toy made stronger in the process) by the five-spoke "mag"-style wheels, which we made from discarded rims and sections of cut-to-length E.M.T.
Of course, you'll need to have access to a small welder and two different tubing benders (to handle 1/2 " and 1" E.M.T.) in order to complete the car, but if you can borrow these tools — or buy them with an eye toward future projects — you'll be all set. Other than that, even a relatively modest home shop should easily supply you with the equipment necessary to get the job done: a hacksaw, an electric drill with bits, a screwdriver, a round file, a measuring tape, a pipe wrench, and a coping saw.
Our Scooter Assembly Diagram details the parts that are required to make the scooter. But before you start gathering and cutting your building materials, it might help you to know that, if you're purchasing the electrical conduit new in 10-foot lengths, you'll need two complete 1" sections, one 3/4" piece, and three 1/2 " lengths to handle most of the job. (You will have to get an additional 2 feet of the 1/2 " size and an 8" length of 1 1/4" tubing to finish up.) Likewise, the two-piece seat can be cut from a single 20" x 28" slab of 1/4 " plywood.
The chassis is made from two 58" lengths of 1" conduit which are bent to the same contour, then joined together to form a sort of paddle shape. To curve these sections properly, choose one, and — starting at either end — measure off 4 inches, make a 90' bend at that point (which should eat up about 10 inches), mark off 5 more inches, start a second arc (this one a 5-inch-gobbling 45°), leave 8 inches straight, form the final 45' curve, then determine the length of the remaining leg (it should be about 21 inches).
Once you've curved a pair of the tubular side rails, join them together by temporarily placing your 1 1/2" pipe coupling between the parallel front tubes (it'll serve as a spacer), then welding the butted rear tips to each other with a scrap of 1"-diameter mechanical tubing (or filed-down 3/4" pipe) inside both parts to serve as a bridge.
The rear axle housings are welded to the chassis next, and these should be positioned so they intersect the right-angle bends at midpoint, yet are themselves equally divided by the joint. A 2-1/2" section of 1/2" conduit holds each one to the frame at the inner ends, but since the goal is to mount the housings true for proper wheel alignment and camber, these stubs may have to be made slightly longer or shorter to suit your homemade chassis.
The rest of the frame components are made from 1/2" E.M.T. These can be fine-trimmed as necessary. A 20" crossmember fastens between the side rails at a point 10 1/2 inches forward of the butt joint at the rear, then two 90° pieces — one 9" and the other 24" in total length — are arranged in the same manner, to help support the plywood seat.
To form the seat-back frame, we bent a 30 1/2" and a 35" conduit section into the shapes indicated, then welded the wider piece to the upper surface of the frame rails (1 inch forward of the crossmember) at an angle of 60°. The narrow hoop mounts atop that, at an 85° bias to the chassis. The seat-back strut, along with the 41 1/2" rear support, is fastened in place to lock the axle housings to the seat structure.
At this point, you'll need to complete the steering hub and pump-handle components. Both of these parts have to be adjustable, so they're designed to slide within the parallel front frame rails as necessary, and can be held in place with hose clamps.
The hub is simply the 1 1/2" pipe coupling welded to each half of a longitudinally split section of 1 1/4 " E.M.T., then capped at each end with 1 1/2" to 3/4" pipe bushings. (The threads within the center hole in each reducer must be filed out if it's to accept the shank of a 3/4 " nipple.)
The handle is nothing more than a section of 1" conduit, equipped with a 3/4 " x 14" upper grip bar and a 1" Xx 7" pivot shaft — at the lower end — made from a scrap of mechanical tubing (this piece can be replaced with a length of 3/4" pipe if you don't mind filing its outer surface a bit). A 3/16" x 1 1/2" x 7" hunk of flat metal — welded perpendicularly to the midpoint of the pinion — functions as the drive lever. The 1" shaft rides inside a pair of 1" x 2 1/4" E.M.T. stubs, which in turn are clipped to the chassis rails with half-sections of 1 1/4 " conduit and hose clamps.
A buttress front axle allows easy foot steering, and it's made by welding [1] a 3" piece of 1/2" E.M.T., then [2] a 2 1/2" washer and 3/4" x 3 3/4" pipe nipple combination to the center of the 1" x 30 " conduit axle housing at a perpendicular to that part. A 27" length of 1/4" reinforcing rod trusses the assembly, and two angle iron sections — fastened to the ends of the housing and tilted toward the rider — form modest footrests. (The axle itself is merely a 40" stretch of 3/4" conduit run through the housing. The front wheel hubs ride on that shaft, and are held in place with 1/4" bolts pinned through the tube's ends.)
To attach the front assembly to the steering hub, just slip the 3/4" pipe center pivot through the two bushings in your coupling, and lock it in place with a large washer and a 3/4" pipe cap.
The drive and brake mechanisms also work on a sleeve-within-a-sleeve principle. The 3/4" x 17 1/2" drive axle shaft utilizes a 3/16" x 1 1/2" x 5" flat metal crank throw (a 2 1/2" washer, welded in place 1 inch from that bar, makes a good walk stop), and the braked (right side) wheel is fastened to a 3/4" shaft that houses — and is bolted to — a 1/2" x 17 1/2" pipe, which is connected to a 5 1/2" pulley. The right axle shaft uses an antislide washer, as does the drive axle, and it's carried inside the axle housing as well.
A one-wheel brake is all that's needed for this simple pumpabout, and we worked that out by tacking a 1" x 9" E.M.T. housing to the upper part of the chassis just behind the crossmember. Two more conduit sections, welded at a right angle, provided a brake handle and shaft, then — once this control was slipped into place and a small spacer and stop were installed — a 27" length of strapping band was fastened between the brake shaft and the crossmember (with the pulley nestled in the loop thus created). In practice, this arrangement works reasonably well, since a good deal of tension can be drawn on the strap through the mechanical advantage of the small pivot. But the system performs even better if the pulley groove is covered with a steel band itself, and the inner side of the steel loop is then faced with a strip of "grabby" rubber matting.
All the cart's wheels were fabricated from E.M.T. scraps and discarded bike rims, since regular spoked wheels wouldn't likely stand up to the side thrusts placed upon them by a "four-footer." To make our sturdy units, we simply used 1" x 4 " conduit hubs, centered within the rims, and cut five 1/2" spokes to length (from 7" to 7 1/8" long, depending on the design of the rim) for each. Your work will be easier if you lay the rim on a slab of plywood, mark its circumference, then bore a hub-holding hole dead center. By using spacer blocks to lift the rim and spokes to the hub's midlevel, you can tack all of your parts in place first, then finish welding them once you're satisfied with the assembly.
When the wheels are bolted on their respective axle shafts (short lengths of vacuum-cleaner hose make nice grease covers to fit over the axles between the hubs and the housings), you can complete the pumper by fastening the seat boards and the connecting rod in place. That 1/2" x 29 1/2" arm, by the way, has a small offset in it at a point about 4 inches from the crank end to keep it centered. A 1" piece of conduit, welded to that same tip, provides a mount for the crank bolt. At the opposite end, a 1/2" nut allows for the installation (and adjustment) of an eyebolt — or if you have expensive tastes, a Heim joint.
Finally, with everything welded, bolted, and screwed in position, you can paint your chariot ... and then just try to keep the young'uns off it till the coating dries!


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2006 Macey Scholars Named, June 6, 2006
by Shawna Carter
SOCORRO, N.M., June 6, 2006 — New Mexico Tech, a state-supported science and research university in Socorro, recently named Victoria Aston, Jason Kooi, Darla Le Blanc, and Craig Nicholas as the university's Macey Scholars for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Aston, a chemical engineering major, is the daughter of Graeme and Martha Aston of Colorado Springs.
When she is not working on class-related projects, Aston can be found working as a research assistant to Tech professor John McCoy. In addition, Aston is the secretary-elect of New Mexico Tech's chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the vice president-elect of Tau Beta Pi, a National Engineering Honor Society.
"New Mexico Tech is a great school!" Aston says. "Students have the opportunity to learn from professors who want to see them succeed, and they also have the opportunity to become involved in research as undergraduates. The campus is very friendly and there are always activities going on if you look hard enough."
Kooi, a math and physics major, is the son of Thomas and Dianne Kooi of Albuquerque.
In addition to his studies and class-related work, Kooi is a student intern in the field of mechanical properties and failure analysis of ceramic materials at Sandia National Laboratories, and he is an active member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor Society.
"New Mexico Tech is truly my home away from home," Kooi states.
Le Blanc, an electrical engineering major, is the daughter of Dale and Sally Wade of Norman, Oklahoma.
When she is not working on school-related projects, Le Blanc can be found working as a teaching and research assistant for the electrical engineering department. In addition, Le Blanc is the corresponding secretary for New Mexico Tech's Gamma Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society and the treasurer of Aditi Natesa, the New Mexico Tech Belly Dance Club.
"I enjoy attending New Mexico Tech," Le Blanc says. "I especially like the small classes and how willing and available most professors are to spend time helping students."
Nicholas, a mathematics major and a physics minor, is the son of Pete and Marie Nicholas of Petaluma, California.
While he is not working on school-related projects, Nicholas works as a grader and tutor for the mathematics department, as well as a tutor for the academic resource center and as a teaching assistant for beginning calculus and linear algebra labs. Nicholas is also an active member of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA); an active member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor Society; the president of the New Mexico Tech Mathematics Club; the secretary of the New Mexico Tech Student Association; and the vice president of the New Mexico Tech Physics Club.
"You can't go wrong at New Mexico Tech if you are genuinely fascinated by your field of study," Nicholas states. "Not just mildly interested, but truly amazed by your subject in ways that make other people think you're strange because you are sufficiently motivated to explore it outside of what is offered in the classroom."
New Mexico Tech students named Macey Scholars are selected on the basis of their demonstrated academic accomplishments — both in the classroom and the research laboratory — as well as their active participation in institutional service and co-curricular activities.
The Macey Scholars Program is funded by an endowment established by William B. Macey and the late Jean M. Macey of Albuquerque and Tucson. William Macey graduated from the New Mexico School of Mines (as New Mexico Tech was known in its earlier years) in 1942 and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Tech in 1984.


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The quest for Energy Security has been the endeavour of mankind from times immemorial. The growth and prosperity of nations has revolved around their capacity to harness natural resources in the best possible manner even in pre industrial revolution era.It all started with concept of use of manual energy from humans and animals. Then mankind started using the force of flowing water ( Kinetic Energy ). Post industrial revolution, conversion of one form of energy to another and inventions of steam engine, petrol engine, electricity generators etc. changed the entire scenario. Fossil fuels and hydroelectric potential became synonymous with energy security. Then came the taming of the atom and nuclear power was considered to be the ultimate word in energy security. It was by about 1980, after the Three Mile Island accident in USA nuclear power plants started losing their sheen. So much so that after Chernobyl and recent Fukushima Daichi disaster the nuclear power route to energy security because of nuclear energy safety concerns has been abandoned by many advanced countries and phasing out of existing plants is underway. Energy from the fossil fuels has its own problems of huge carbon dioxide emissions which are a big contributor to global warming which is threatening the very existence of mankind on this globe. Besides the fossil fuel reserves are finite and at best can last for another seventy years or so for commercial exploitation. Needless to emphasize that carbon is precious and needs to be saved for future generations in view of futuristic requirements of mankind.
The enormity and eternity of renewable energy sources like solar, wind, ocean waves was always known to mankind and the thrust towards renewable energy sources is languishing because of vested interests of nuclear club nations and powerful industry lobbies who have spent billions and billions on researches, technology development and required manufacturing infrastructure in the fields of power plant engineering, transmission and distribution for fossil fuel and nuclear fuel based power plants which seems to be redundant in the light of majority of the electricity requirements of any country bestowed with very large solar, wind and tidal energy potential.
Deciding on renewable sources for energy security by any country is a win win situation for all times to come because of the following:
- Available in huge quantities with almost all nations much in excess of even their future requirements implying thereby that the user nations don't have to buy it from anywhere.
- Available on the site where electricity is needed or is to be employed with no additional fuel transportation costs and need for related infrastructure.
- The availability is eternal and not finite as is the case with fuel based sources.
- The technology of harnessing energy from these sources is suitable for standalone, micro,mini and even large grid applications with no bearing on its cost because of scale and size of operation.
- Clean energy with no contribution to much worrying issue of global warming.
- No large scale impact of natural disasters like hurricane Sandy in USA and grid failures witnessed this year in India, on the supply of power.
- Immunity against terrorist strike on the plant or accidents and catastrophe resulting thereof.
- Immunity against rising fuel costs as global reserves of all fuels are getting depleted at at a fast pace.
- Quick response capability instead of long gestation periods, five to seven years for thermal power plants and up to twenty years for nuclear plants which are normally witnessed. Imagine the compounding effect of investments in renewable energy technologies as benefits start accruing in proportion to the investments just after say six months from the day of start instead of waiting for the returns till the installation and commissioning of the plant takes place may be after five, ten or fifteen years.
- And above all, invest as per your present demand and requirement and keep on adding as the requirement grows without prejudicing earlier investments as the technologies are totally modular.


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Media 2006
|Statement: June 15, 2006
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|Docket No: RM05-23-000
Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher's statement on rate regulation of certain natural gas storage facilities
"Today the Commission acts to reduce price volatility in natural gas markets and provide greater assurance we can meet peak demand, by encouraging expansions in natural gas storage capacity.
Since 1988, natural gas demand in the United States has risen 24 percent. Over the same period, gas storage capacity has increased only 1.4 percent. While construction of storage capacity has lagged behind the demand for natural gas we have seen record levels of price volatility. This suggests that current storage capacity is inadequate. Further, this year, what storage capacity exists may be full far earlier than in any previous year. According to some analysts, that raises the prospect that some domestic gas production may be shut-in.
Gas storage is used very differently than in the past. Thirty years ago, storage was characterized by single annual cycles of injections and withdrawals. Last year, we saw storage withdrawals in July and injections in December.
For all these reasons, I think it is appropriate to reform natural gas storage pricing.
Congress sent a clear signal in EPAct that the Commission should be more flexible with respect to market based rates for new storage and that this rule, in reforming the Commission's old analysis as well as implementing the new EPAct provision, responds to Congress' recognition of the need for more storage infrastructure.
The final rule takes two approaches. First, it modifies our traditional market based rate analysis for storage to better reflect competitive alternatives and substitutes, such as available pipeline capacity, local gas production, and liquefied natural gas imports. Second, it implements our new authority under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to approve market based rates, notwithstanding market power, if it is necessary and in the public interest, and the Commission assures adequate customer protection.
Gas storage projects can also be authorized under cost based rates. The Commission has signaled it is flexible on cost based pricing for gas storage facilities. In the Saltville order last year we approved a departure from the Equitable policy, which traces back to the mid-1970s.
My hope is that reform of market based pricing for gas storage and flexibility on cost based pricing will help expand gas storage capacity, which in turn will help reduce the price volatility that has characterized gas markets in recent years. There is significant potential for near term expansion of natural gas storage. I hope that potential is realized.
I support the proposed rule."
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311 frontman Nick Hexum kept busy this summer selling one Los Angeles-area home and buying another.
The 42-year-old vocalist and guitarist sold a house in the Hollywood Hills West for $1.5 million. Built in 1990, it has four bedrooms, four bathrooms and 3,608 square feet of living space. It was built in 1990 and sits on a quarter acre.
He bought the property in 1996 for $647,000.
The singer-songwriter bought a contemporary Mediterranean in Topanga for $1.975 million.
The five-bedroom, five-bathroom house, built in 2004, has nearly 5,000 square feet of living space and sits on 10 acres. The two-story, with mountain views, features a den, a breakfast area, a family room and a three-car garage.
Hexum has played with 311 since its inception in 1988.
Melissa Oliver and Paul Ferra of Coldwell Banker in Topanga were the listing agents. Joan Duffy of Wish Sotheby's International Realty represented Hexum in his sale and purchase.
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311 frontman Nick Hexum kept busy this summer selling one Los Angeles-area home and buying another.


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Dynamic HTML
This article is written like a manual or guidebook. (December 2008)
Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites[1] by using a combination of a static markup language (such as HTML), a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), a presentation definition language (such as CSS), and the Document Object Model.[2] The application of DHTML was introduced by Microsoft with the release of Internet Explorer 4 in 1997.
DHTML allows scripting languages to change variables in a web page's definition language, which in turn affects the look and function of otherwise "static" HTML page content, after the page has been fully loaded and during the viewing process. Thus the dynamic characteristic of DHTML is the way it functions while a page is viewed, not in its ability to generate a unique page with each page load.
By contrast, a dynamic web page is a broader concept, covering any web page generated differently for each user, load occurrence, or specific variable values. This includes pages created by client-side scripting, and ones created by server-side scripting (such as PHP, Perl, JSP or ASP.NET) where the web server generates content before sending it to the client.
DHTML is differentiated from Ajax by the fact that a DHTML page is still request/reload-based. With DHTML, there may not be any interaction between the client and server after the page is loaded; all processing happens in JavaScript on the client side. By contrast, an Ajax page uses features of DHTML to initiate a request (or 'subrequest') to the server to perform actions such as loading more content.
DHTML allows authors to add effects to their pages that are otherwise difficult to achieve. In short words: scripting language is changing the DOM and page style.
Simply put, DHTML is the combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Animate text and images in their document, independently moving each element from any starting point to any ending point, following a predetermined path or one chosen by the user.
- Embed a ticker that automatically refreshes its content with the latest news, stock quotes, or other data.
- Use a form to capture user input, and then process, verify and respond to that data without having to send data back to the server.
- Include rollover buttons or drop-down menus.
A less common use is to create browser-based action games. Although a number of games were created using DHTML during the late 1990s and early 2000s,[citation needed], differences between browsers made this difficult: many techniques had to be implemented in code to enable the games to work on multiple platforms. Recently browsers have been converging towards web standards, which has made the design of DHTML games more viable. Those games can be played on all major browsers and they can also be ported to Plasma for KDE, Widgets for OS X and Gadgets for Windows Vista, which are based on DHTML code.
DHTML support with extensive DOM access was introduced with Internet Explorer 4.0. Although there was a basic dynamic system with Netscape Navigator 4.0, not all HTML elements were represented in the DOM. When DHTML-style techniques became widespread, varying degrees of support among web browsers for the technologies involved made them difficult to develop and debug. Development became easier when Internet Explorer 5.0+, Mozilla Firefox 2.0+, and Opera 7.0+ adopted a shared DOM inherited from ECMAscript.
Structure of a web page
Typically a web page using DHTML is set up in the following way:
<!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>DHTML example</title>

var init = function () {
myObj = document.getElementById("navigation");
// ... manipulate myObj
window.onload = init;
Often the code is stored in an external file; this is done
by linking the file that contains the JavaScript.
This is helpful when several pages use the same script:

Example: Displaying an additional block of text
The following code illustrates an often-used function. An additional part of a web page will only be displayed if the user requests it..
<!doctype html>

<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Using a DOM function</title>
a {background-color:#eee;}
a:hover {background:#ff0;}
#toggleMe {background:#cfc; display:none; margin:30px 0; padding:1em;}

Using a DOM function

Show paragraph

This is the paragraph that is only displayed on request.

The general flow of the document continues.

changeDisplayState = function (id) {
var d = document.getElementById('showhide'),
e = document.getElementById(id);
if (e.style.display === 'none' || e.style.display === '') {
e.style.display = 'block';
d.innerHTML = 'Hide paragraph';
} else {
e.style.display = 'none';
d.innerHTML = 'Show paragraph';
document.getElementById('showhide').onclick = function () {
return false;
Document Object Model
DHTML is not a technology in and of itself; rather, it is the product of three related and complementary technologies: HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript. To allow scripts and components to access features of HTML and CSS, the contents of the document are represented as objects in a programming model known as the Document Object Model (DOM).
The DOM API is the foundation of DHTML, providing a structured interface that allows access and manipulation of virtually anything in the document. The HTML elements in the document are available as a hierarchical tree of individual objects, meaning you can examine and modify an element and its attributes by reading and setting properties and by calling methods. The text between elements is also available through DOM properties and methods.
The DOM also provides access to user actions such as pressing a key and clicking the mouse. You can intercept and process these and other events by creating event handler functions and routines. The event handler receives control each time a given event occurs and can carry out any appropriate action, including using the DOM to change the document.
Dynamic styles
Dynamic styles are a key feature of DHTML. By using CSS, you can quickly change the appearance and formatting of elements in a document without adding or removing elements. This helps keep your documents small and the scripts that manipulate the document fast.
The object model provides programmatic access to styles. This means you can change inline styles on individual elements and change style rules using simple JavaScript programming.
Inline styles are CSS style assignments that have been applied to an element using the style attribute. You can examine and set these styles by retrieving the style object for an individual element. For example, to highlight the text in a heading when the user moves the mouse pointer over it, you can use the style object to enlarge the font and change its color, as shown in the following simple example.
<!doctype html>

<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Dynamic Styles</title>
ul {display:none;}

Welcome to Dynamic HTML

Dynamic styles are a key feature of DHTML.

Change the color, size, and typeface of text

Show and hide text

And much, much more

We've only just begun!

showMe = function () {
document.getElementsByTagName("h1")[0].style.color = "#990000";
document.getElementsByTagName("ul")[0].style.display = "block";
document.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].onclick = function (e) {
Data binding
Data binding is a DHTML feature that lets you easily bind individual elements in your document to data from another source, such as a database or comma-delimited text file. When the document is loaded, the data is automatically retrieved from the source and formatted and displayed within the element.
One practical way to use data binding is to automatically and dynamically generate tables in your document. You can do this by binding a table element to a data source. When the document is viewed, a new row is created in the table for each record retrieved from the source, and the cells of each row are filled with text and data from the fields of the record. Because this generation is dynamic, the user can view the page while new rows are created in the table. Additionally, once all the table data is present, you can manipulate (sort or filter) the data without requiring the server to send additional data. The table is regenerated, using the previously retrieved data to fill the new rows and cells of the table.
Another practical use of data binding is to bind one or more elements in the document to specific fields of a given record. When the page is viewed, the elements are filled with text and data from the fields in that record, sometimes called the "current" record. An example is a form letter in which the name, e-mail address, and other details about an individual are filled from a database. To adapt the letter for a given individual, you specify which record should be the current record. No other changes to the letter are needed.
Yet another practical use is to bind the fields in a form to fields in a record. Not only can the user view the content of the record, but the user can also change that content by changing the settings and values of the form. The user can then submit these changes so that the new data is uploaded to the source—for example, to the HTTP server or database.
To provide data binding in your documents, you must add a data source object (DSO) to your document. This invisible object is an ActiveX control or Java applet that knows how to communicate with the data source. The following example shows how easy it is to bind a table to a DSO. When viewed, this example displays the first three fields from all the comma-delimited records of the file "sampdata.csv" in a clear, easy-to-read table.
<!doctype html>

<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Data Binding Example</title>
td, th {border:1px solid;}

Data Binding Example

<object classid="clsid:333C7BC4-460F-11D0-BC04-0080C7055A83" id="sampdata">
<param name="DataURL" value="sampdata.csv">
<param name="UseHeader" value="True">

Note: Data Source Object (DSO) is a feature of the Microsoft ActiveX technology Tabular Data Control. Consequently, it is unlikely to work in browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) and only up to and including IE 10.
See also
External links
- QuirksMode, a comprehensive site with test examples and instructions on how to write DHTML code which runs on several browsers.
- Introductory DHTML Tutorial
- HTML & DHTML Reference on MSDN


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Lost Cat - Black and White - Oakville Area ~ Update: CAT FOUND!
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If you can put her litterbox and/or a worn but unwashed t shirt or pair of smelly shoes of yours out on the deck this may help lead her home.
Go around the neighbourhood at dusk/dawn calling her, rattling a treat container or tap a spoon on her dish or tin of food. Bring a flashlight to pick up the shine off her eyes from under cars/decks/bushes or up trees.
If you can poster the neighbourhood, plus leave one w/ local businesses, schools, pet supply stores, grocery stores, bus stops, vets & all animal shelters in the area that will help garner attention that this kitty has a home who wants her back
Please visit the animal shelters in person often times the shelters are understaffed/over worked with so many animals/requests etc they may not have the time to personally look into each phone call or an emergency/something comes up in the meantime & the request gets overlooked.
Going in person means you can visit & identify the cat right away, if an animal comes in terrified it may act out of character & be labeled as sick or a feral and not be placed with the general population please ask to see these areas as well.
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