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The Chesapeake Bay, along with its rivers, streams and the lands that surround them form an extraordinary landscape that supports thousands of plant and animal species. But just as unique and inspiring as its natural beauty are the people and cultures that have called this region home for generations. Whether you're a Bay native or a new visitor, check out these museums that showcase the distinctive cultures from throughout the area.
National Museum of the American Indian – Washington, D.C.
Part of the Smithsonian Institution, this museum is dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history and arts of Native cultures of the Western Hemisphere. A recent addition to the museum collections is an exhibit called Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of the Chesapeake. Through photographs, maps and interactive displays, the exhibit provides an overview of the history of the Nanticoke, Powhatan and Piscataway tribes from the 1600s to the present.
Banneker-Douglass Museum – Annapolis, Maryland
As part of the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, this site is the state's official museum of African American heritage. Formerly known as Mt. Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church, the building—which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places—served as the meeting hall for the First African Methodist Episcopal Church for nearly 100 years before opening as a museum in 1984. The museum serves to document, interpret and promote African American history and culture, particularly in Maryland.
Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum – Scranton, Pennsylvania
Part of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, this museum highlights the state's anthracite coal mining industry, featuring exhibits that focus on the lives of people who worked in the area's mines, mills and factories. Its collection tells the story of European immigrants who came to northeastern Pennsylvania to work in coal mining and textile production, enduring harsh working conditions but building a rich culture and heritage.
Watermen's Museum – Yorktown, Virginia
This museum, located on the banks of the York River, documents the history of Chesapeake Bay watermen from pre-colonial to modern times. The site offers both indoor and outdoor exhibits, including workboat displays and a boat building program. For a localized take on the stories and experiences of watermen, you can visit the Tilghman Watermen's Museum in Tilghman, Maryland, which celebrates the unique traditions and culture of Tilghman Island watermen.
Jewish Museum of Maryland – Baltimore, Maryland
Through photographs, art, documents and everyday objects, this museum tells the story of the American Jewish experience in the city of Baltimore and throughout the state of Maryland. The museum also includes two historic synagogues: Lloyd Street Synagogue, finished in 1845 and the third oldest synagogue in the United States, and B'nai Israel Synagogue, finished in 1876. Visitors to the synagogues can explore a matzoh oven, a hand-carved Torah Ark and an active archaeological site.
Landis Valley Museum – Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Once a small settlement owned by German immigrants, this living history museum collects, conserves and interprets the history and heritage of the Pennsylvania German, or Pennsylvania Dutch, culture. Visitors can watch how Conestoga wagons—first created in Lancaster—are constructed, or stop in to the blacksmith shop, farmstead, one-room schoolhouse or other historic buildings.
Know another museum that highlights the life and culture of people in the Bay watershed? Let us know in the comments! And for even more ideas, check out our previous list of museums in the Bay region.
A recent report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency outlines trends related to climate change in the United States, with data related to 37 climate indicators such as air and water temperatures, river and coastal flooding, ocean acidity and sea level rise.
New to the fourth edition of Climate Change Indicators in the United States is information on stream temperatures in the Chesapeake Bay region. After studying more than 50 years' worth of data from 129 stream monitoring sites, experts found that stream temperatures are increasing throughout the watershed—across Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia—but the largest increases have occurred in the southern portions of the region. Water temperatures increased by an average of 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit (F) across all sites and by 2.2 degrees F at sites with trends considered statistically significant (to a 95-percent level).
Other effects of climate change throughout the Chesapeake Bay region are highlighted in the report. Washington, D.C., for example, has seen peak cherry blossom bloom dates shift approximately five days earlier since 1921. And from 2010 to 2015, Annapolis, Maryland, saw the second highest average number of coastal flood days: 46 days per year. The city has also experienced one of the most dramatic increases in overall frequency of flooding, where floods are at least 10 times more common than in the 1950s.
Also released in August is the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) State of the Climate report, which confirmed that 2015 surpassed 2014 as the warmest year on record since the mid-to-late 19th century. The report, which is based on contributions from more than 450 scientists from 62 countries, found that land and ocean temperatures, sea level rise and greenhouse gases all broke previously-held records.
Learn more about Climate Change Indicators in the United States or the State of the Climate.
Joe Wright of Stafford, Virginia, fishes off the end of the Port Royal Landing in Caroline County, Virginia. Port Royal's new 200-foot pier—just opened in 2015—features a soft launch for paddlers and was funded by grants from the National Park Service, Friends of the Rappahannock, the Chesapeake Conservancy and other organizations.
Nestled along the Rappahannock River, the small historic town of Port Royal borders the Port Royal Unit of the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge, where a 1.4-mile wildlife trail and two viewing platforms allow for visitors to hike and observe the river and surrounding land. The refuge—one of the first of its kind—is actually a collection of 17 unconnected tracts of land. From the northernmost Port Royal Unit to the Laurel Grove tract nearly 40 miles downstream, the refuge makes up 8,720 acres of protected land. The goal is to one day protect 20,000 acres along the river and its tributaries.
In the future, Friends of the Rappahannock and the Town of Port Royal will be working with the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge to establish a water trail that will provide access to the Styer Bishop, Port Royal and Toby's Point areas of the refuge.
Plan a visit to the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge, or use the Find Your Chesapeake site to find more places you can explore the watershed.
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Miguel Sacedo harvests squash on Cottingham Farm in Easton, Maryland, at sunrise. Owned by environmental-lawyer-turned-farmer Cleo Braver, the 156-acre farm has a mission to produce sustainably grown, locally distributed and certified organic food.
Years ago, Braver was unaware of the impact certain agricultural techniques could have on local waterways. But after some research, she learned how the use of excessive pesticides and fertilizers was partially responsible for the poor water quality in Goldsborough Neck Creek, a tributary of the Miles River that runs behind her house. Braver's interest in producing healthy food while minimizing her impact prompted her to make a change.
Now, Cottingham Farm is home to a variety of restoration efforts, including forest buffers that help trap nutrients and sediment from running into local waterways. The land is also home to an 18-acre wetland—a once-cornfield that was transformed into habitat for shorebirds and waterfowl with the help of Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage, Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the USDA Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP).
Learn more about Cottingham Farm, or learn about the effects of agriculture on the Chesapeake Bay.
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U.S. taking a big share of global dairy demand rebound
U.S. taking a big share of global dairy demand rebound
Recession still handcuffs the U.S. economy as a whole (what is the National Bureau of Economic Research thinking?), but a semi-boom has been underway all year in global demand for dairy products. Thanks to several factors, the American dairy industry has been filling more than its share of those orders.
According to the U.S. Dairy Export Council, foreign sales of domestic dairy products for the first half of 2010 were dramatically higher than a year ago. Of six major products tracked by USDEC, the smallest increase is 17 percent (lactose); the largest is 161 percent (whole milk powders, pictured here).
Overall, total U.S. dairy exports for the first six months were up 66 percent, to just over $2 billion.
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The 2ed smallest unit of measurement, one "cunt hair".
Move it a CH to the right and it will be perfect!
автор: snabald 13 июля 2003
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How "yes" sounds when used with a Spanish accent.
Also see jes (second definition)
Also see jes (second definition)
"Wanna go to the arcade?"
автор: stop it loser 28 февраля 2009
CH also known as Canuckle Head, is a particular troll within the online role-play community who seems to have no life of his own other than trying to pull one over on others online. He seems to suffer from mental illness, perhaps even bi-polar disorder; as he has frequently demonstrated abrupt bouts of anger of the simplest of things. CH is also a compulsive liar, and will manipulate those gullible enough to believe his lies in order to gain sympathy. Besides being a compulsive liar, he is also a compulsive pervert, who has no sense of personal boundaries and will lewdly pursue any female that catches his eye to the near point of being a pest, and when turned down thus makes the woman in question out to be the bad-guy.
"Oh god, you're being a real CH right now"
автор: NessaCat 11 апреля 2013
The spanglish word for Chest, as in the anterior of a human body where the sternum attaches to teh ribcage
I got a pain in my ches...an I can breave
автор: Falcon157 4 августа 2009
to unexpectedly and mysteriously embark on a journey of self-exploration and descent while leaving friends and comrades left to speculate.
to "pull a ches"
to flunk out.
to "pull a ches"
to flunk out.
Wow... that vomit covered monster with twigs in his hear really pulled a ches.
автор: french broad 6 сентября 2008
a sound of disbelief, commonly used by LEAP students.
Riley: "Ch, what's up Danni?"
Danni: "Ch, nothing."
Dylan: "Ch, dragons!"
Danni: "Ch, nothing."
Dylan: "Ch, dragons!"
автор: Boier 26 мая 2009
A type of person who is funny and deecent, chill, sexy and cool.
Dude what a Ches
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LORETTO - Friday night's 61-36 win over huge underdog Portage might have been the most anticlimactic of Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School's 23 District 6 championships.
Just don't tell the Lady Marauders that.
"Even though it wasn't really a close game," BG senior forward Elyssa Ehredt said, "it still feels just as amazing as if we won by one point or at the buzzer."
The numbers don't lie.
For Ehredt and Halee Adams, it made them a perfect 4-for-4 as starters in district championships, as it did for Devin Stessney and Kayla Bates, reserves in 2010. It also ran Guilfoyle's streak of consecutive D6 titles to seven, a number only surpassed by the Altoona girls in Class AAAA. That alone should place it among the biggest wins in BG's illustrious girls basketball history.
And, oh yes, it was Mark Moschella's 500th win, too.
Moschella was his usual magnanimous self.
"To get 500 in a district championship and to be maybe the first program in the history of Blair County to hit 500 with one team, that shows a lot of loyalty to the school to keep me for 21 years," Moschella said.
Of course, with Moschella's track record, Guilfoyle would have been more foolish than disloyal to dismiss him.
"He means so much to all of us," Adams said of Moschella. "We didn't even know [it was coming up] until he told us how happy he was to get 499. We were talking in school and saying, 'We've got to get this, not only for us, but to get him his 500th win.'"
The reason for Moschella's success seems to be two-pronged.
On the one hand, he and his assistants are sticklers for details.
"He really goes over step-by-step what we need to do and keeps us focused," Ehredt said.
At the same time, Moschella is a master of handling personalities. Adams said he doesn't talk down to the players.
"He treats us like adults. That's how we like to respond to him," Adams said. "He's so likeable, and we have so much respect for him. He's amazing."
Adams said the only pressure she felt while chasing history on Friday came from within, and not from Moschella. Moschella, in fact, said basketball takes a backseat to several things in his coaching scheme.
"The first thing I tell the girls is if we keep our priorities where they need to be, then we'll be a good basketball team," Moschella said.
In order, Moschella's list is God, family and academics. Basketball is fourth, just ahead of making mature social decisions.
By deemphasizing basketball, Moschella keeps the team looser and thinks he makes the sport more fun.
Moschella had his own, more somber motivation this season. His close personal friend and longtime assistant Bill Adams was stricken by a stroke almost a year ago. Adams has since moved to Reading.
Moschella and Bill Adams were constant companions to the point some of the Lady Marauders thought of them as almost one and the same.
"They have the same ideas about everything," Ehredt said. "Coach Mo was the voice, and it seemed like Coach Adams was the mind behind it."
"I know how much this means to him," Moschella said. "I'm looking forward to driving to Reading. The ball's going to say '499' because of a guy named Abe Lemon, who ended with 599. Bill and I always thought that was cool."
And for Moschella, what if he ended at 499?
"That would be fine with me," Moschella said. "I don't want it to be an individual thing about my wins."
OK, then how about a group thing about those wins?
"This is just like a family," Halee Adams said, "coming together to do our thing."
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Seib & Co.: What We're Reading Wednesday
White House Seeks to Avoid Another Lost Year
The countdown is on to President Barack Obama's fifth State of the Union address next Tuesday. The White House is still finalizing the policy proposals the address will include, following weeks of soliciting ideas. Look for income inequality, energy, climate change, college affordability and early childhood education as highlights.
But the State of the Union address is about more than just the speech. For a sitting president, it's essentially a fresh start. And, more than any time in his presidency, Mr. Obama needs one of those. The year 2013 was a mostly empty year, with little to no movement on the White House's legislative agenda (The president has rushed in recent weeks to make good on promises from last year's State of the Union address). The year was capped by a botched rollout of Mr. Obama's signature health care law, a self-inflicted wound that handed Republicans a political cudgel.
And he's got just three years left.
In that sense, the White House hopes the speech, which will draw the largest audience Mr. Obama is likely to command all year, will reboot what has been a lethargic and relatively unproductive start to a second term. How Mr. Obama's aides lay the groundwork for his policy announcements, and the White House's subsequent follow-through, are critical. READ MORE
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From Washington in today's Wall Street Journal:
U.S. military leaders have presented to the White House a plan to keep 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014 but reduce the force to nearly zero by the end of President Barack Obama's term, a far shorter time frame for a U.S. military presence in the country than commanders had previously envisaged after the current international mission ends this year. The plan would buy the U.S. military time to advise and train the Afghan army while allowing the president the legacy of having ended America's longest war. Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes report.
The Supreme Court heard a challenge to a decades-old precedent allowing public-sector unions to collect fees from workers who refuse to join the union but benefit from collective bargaining. The case could further hurt unions fighting to maintain ground in financially burdened states, Melanie Trottman and Jess Bravin report.
Financial burdens are also taking their toll on the Army and the National Guard, where tensions have arisen as both seek to grapple with budget cuts. The Army developed a proposal to reorganize its helicopter fleet, saving more than $1 billion a year. But the National Guard is arguing that such changes would make its forces less capable of stepping in to fulfill the duties of the active-duty Army. Julian E. Barnes explains the tensions.
An independent Defense Department advisory panel has released a report recommending increased U.S. surveillance capabilities to track nuclear proliferation, citing the National Security Agency's controversial counterterrorism programs as a model. The report, coming days after President Obama called for new curbs on NSA practices, says current antinuclear efforts are inadequate and point to "big data" technologies as a good method of unearthing threats. Siobhan Gorman reports.
The International Monetary Fund raised its global economic growth outlook for the year to 3.7%, up 0.1 percentage point from October, signaling that the economy's recovery is strengthening, though it remains weak and uneven. The expansion will be driven by U.S., euro-zone and Japanese growth, while deflation and financial-sector risks will continue to pose a threat. Ian Talley delves into the IMF's forecast.
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On the anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, foes are having some success chipping away at abortion rights at the state level but face a tough decision on whether to seek bigger steps curtailing the procedure, a move that could risk having their efforts overturned in the courts. [Associated Press]
Peter Wehner, harking back to the style of Ronald Reagan, urges conservatives to avoid the temptation to be too inflexible. He writes that the tendency "to enforce rigid ideology, to attack those who are not sufficiently pure and fervid, and to remove conservatism from any real-world context–is arguably more widespread today than it was thirty years ago." [Commentary]
Opponents of Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis are latching on to small discrepancies in her telling of her life story—particularly the help she got from her second husband in acquiring a law degree—to charge that she embellished details of her hard-scrabble life as a single mother to make the tale more dramatic. [Huffington Post]
Jake Zamansky writes that "the clock is ticking towards a default by Puerto Rico on its massive municipal bond debt," and the island commonwealth faces a downgrade of its debt to junk status by the end of this quarter. [Forbes]
Buttonwood muses that the decline in trust in government may be, in part at least, a result of the fact that young people have grown up in "era of consumer choice" in which they can choose from among an endless varieties of coffee at Starbucks, ensuring they can get "exactly the drink they want" without having to compromise. By contrast, "democracy is about compromise," now an unfamiliar phenomenon. [The Economist]
Political scientist Alan Abramowitz of Emory University says the demographic and cultural trends that contributed to Barack Obama's 2012 victory are likely to increase the Democratic advantage in both the national popular vote and the Electoral College in future presidential contests. [MonkeyCage]
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If you are a gardener, April is probably your busiest month.
While picking up sticks from beneath the trees, pruning dead stalks and general yard clean-up are obvious, there are a few spring garden chores that sometimes get overlooked. One of these is the compost heap.
I have one compost bin at the back of my yard near the vegetable garden, and we toss everything onto the top of the pile. Everything goes there, except bones, meat and oils, including leftover salad that contains salad dressings. I toss in tea bags, coffee grounds, egg shells and even the shredded paper from junk mail, provided it isn't the shiny, petroleum-based paper and ink used in a lot of advertising circulars. During the season, weeds that I've pulled go into the bin as well as spent flowers from deadheading plants. At the end of the season, grass clippings and leaves go on top.
The basic recipe for making good compost is simply a combination of two basic ingredients, green and brown. Green is the living, wet matter from kitchen vegetable clippings and freshly pulled weeds. Brown is the crispy fall leaves, dried corn stalks, straw and a little sawdust from the husband's woodworking shop. I go easy on the sawdust because too much will lower the PH of the soil.
If you think your plants aren't doing as well as they should be, pick up a soil test kit from the Trumbull County Extension office in Cortland and find out your numbers. Recommendations will come in the mail to add nutrients as needed.
I know we are advised to turn our compost piles once a week or once a month or whatever, depending on the writer of the article, but I don't have time to tend to my compost heap so diligently. My heap gets turned once a year whether it needs it or not. Usually in spring when I'm getting ready to plant the majority of the garden after I think it's a pretty safe bet there won't be any more frosts, I'll go through the compost heap.
First, I move aside the stuff at the top of the heap that hasn't decomposed until I get to the middle or bottom where almost everything has been reduced to rich, loamy soil. With a wheelbarrow that I've covered with a framed, mesh screen, I'll start to dig out shovelfuls of compost and toss it onto the screen. What falls through into the wheelbarrow goes into the planting holes of young seedlings.
While I don't have a huge garden, there still isn't enough decomposed material to cover the entire garden. I sometimes toss in compost from bags I've purchased from the hardware store when I'm in the mood or have the extra cash. If I can snag some free manure from local sources, I'll put that on the garden as well.
After I've confiscated all the rich, compost I can find at the bottom of the heap, I turn what's left, thoroughly mixing it as though I'm stirring a large pot of soup. Throughout the year, more debris is added to the heap and next spring, I do it again.
When I was growing up, my parents always had a huge garden, but they didn't keep a compost heap. After dinner every night, either I or one of my brothers would carry the big bowl of vegetable clippings outside to toss on the garden. This was a fun chore because it didn't involve digging or pulling weeds. We stood somewhere among the plants and give the entire bowlful a toss. Sometimes my brothers would dump it all in one lump, but I liked to twirl around in a circle and watch as the cucumber and potato peels, carrot ends and celery clippings flew as far as I could get them to go. I remember some occasions when I had to pick up clippings that flew a little too far and ended up in the lawn.
There are gardeners that tend to their compost piles as if they were the most important part of the garden soil, and the rich, decomposed soil is pretty important. Some compost heaps have elaborate homes, from intricately built sectional bins that get alternated every year to expensive barrel-type containers that turn with a handle and open up underneath to release the black gold. Some gardeners simply pile their debris on the ground without any containment whatsoever.
There is no right or wrong way to make compost, as long as the end result is using leftover plant material to enrich the soil rather than sending it to a landfill in a huge plastic bag.


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quote: So patenting a shape is considered within our limits? Patenting disappearing graphics is within our limits? I see where you are going with this, although your argument loses strength when its only ok for Apple to do this outside these obvious limits to set the standard. Pretty sure if Samsung had patented a shape or disappearing graphics before Apple, you would be calling bullshit...
quote: I personally hope Apple win but I trust the process whatever the outcome.
quote: The only fair and sensible way to judge whether limits have been overstepped is in a court of law. Which is precisely what is happeng.
quote: What also astonishes me is how many Americans have become so deranged that they actually support a Korean company ripping of an American company. Apple is a great, successful and growing American company, there aren't too many of them left, I would have thought any American with a shred of affection for their country would not want to see one of it's leading companies ripped off.


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All eyes were on a cuddly three-month-old polar bear cub as she made her first public appearance at the Buffalo Zoo on Friday, while artist renderings nearby revealed what her new home will look like – and what visitors will see.
The cub – which resembles a fluffy, white teddy bear – was put in a makeshift enclosure, where she purred audibly after being bottle-fed by veterinary technician Alice Rochauer, and then playfully nipped at her and Zoo President Donna Fernandes.
The little bear's entrance highlighted the kickoff to the zoo's $4 million "Our Bears Belong in Buffalo" community fundraising campaign. Fernandes said that if the three-month campaign is successful, the new "Arctic Edge" exhibit – and the cub's future home – will go out to bid this summer for a planned 2015 opening.
"We have been so gratified by the comunity's ongoing support of the zoo, and we are turning to you once again to help us meet our final goal," Fernandes said. "We're about 80 percent [there], but we need the community to help us with the last 20 percent.
"We're hoping to keep the cub here, but that can only happen if we can [open the exhibit] on time."
The coolest feature of the Arctic Edge may be the two pools of water – one shallow, the other deeper – with viewing windows that will allow viewers to come nose-to-nose with the curious bears.
The renderings by Foit-Albert Associates show the bears occupying two of the six enclosures. There also will be separate viewing areas for bald eagles, waterfowl, arctic wolves and Canadian lynx.
The 1.5-acre exhibit was designed by Gwen Howard, the principal architect for several other newer exhibits in the zoo, including M&T Bank Rainforest Falls.
"In keeping with the theme of the exhibit that the zoo is doing now, this is a true immersive exhibit, where the patron will walk through a variety of animal habits so they feel they are at the 'arctic edge,' " Howard said.
To date, $14.2 million of the $18 million has been raised for the polar bear exhibit and the relocated entrance that will open this summer. The zoo's previous, century-old stone enclosure for polar bears no longer met current national zoo standards, forcing the zoo to temporarily relocate the cub's parents until the new exhibit can open.
Howard said the exhibit had to meet standards established by Manitoba, Canada, where there are many orphaned polar bears, for it to be eligible in the future to obtain polar bears from there. Those standards have been adopted by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the accreditation agency for zoos.
The standards deal with animal husbandry, and educating the public about global warming, environmental changes and the importance of preserving nature.
There also will be a new one-story building made of precast concrete that's stained a dark tone and ornamented with Inuit silkstone carvings sandblasted into the exterior.
Rochauer, the veterinary technician, has served as a surrogate mom for the little bear, who weighed 1.5 pounds when she was born at the zoo on Nov. 27, and is now up to 23 pounds. Her birth was a rare occurrence, just one of only three polar bears born to two mothers in captivity last year in the United States. Only 31 zoos in the country have polar bears.
When Rochauer was asked how quickly the bear was expected to grow, she answered, "I really don't know because I don't have anything to compare her to. [She's] my first bear."
Anana, the cub's mother, did not display maternal instincts, but Fernandes said she didn't expect the bear to experience later socialization problems.
"Polar bears tend to be solitary, and have been hand-raised successfully and incorporated well. They always have to go through an introduction with new animals, whether parent-reared or hand-reared, so I'm sure she'll be fine."
Anana now resides at the Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago, while the cub's father, Nanuq, is at the Columbus Zoo.
The cub is being called Luna for now but Fernandes said there will be a name contest on Facebook. There also will be a camera set up in the rainforest pavilion to record the cub's movements. She encouraged people to make a "polar pledge" at www.buffalozoo.org, or by texting zoobear256512.
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The Columbiana County Common Pleas Court grand jury issued 11 open indictments this week. Additionally, the grand jury examined 30 cases, issuing 17 secret indictments. Indictments were not issued in two cases.
Joel D. Possage, 34, Commerce Street, Wellsville, is charged with felonious assault with a firearm specification. Possage reportedly attempted to use a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, a Smith and Wesson .357-caliber Magnum revolver and a Glock 9 mm Lugar handgun to harm Wellsville Police Chief Joe Scarabino, Wellsville Patrolman Jeff Weekly and Liverpool Township Lt. Justin Wright on Oct. 4.
Kathy J. Diantonio, 58, East Fourth Street, Salem, is charged with aggravated arson after allegedly trying to set fire to her own home on Oct 12.
Lester D. Russell, 31, Commerce Street, Wellsville, is charged with two counts of aggravated robbery for allegedly using a knife to attempt to rob two Wellsville businesses. Court documents allege Russell attempted to rob both the BP Station on Lisbon Street on Oct. 18 and McGraw's Drive Thru on Main Street on Oct. 20.
Robert L. Bembry, 48, West Pershing Street, Salem, is charged with burglary and safe cracking. According to court documents, Bembry on Oct. 25 went into office and took $590 from the safe at the Guilford Lake Grill, East Lake Road, Lisbon.
Michael A. Howard, 26, Danbury Avenue, Wellsville, is charged with breaking and entering. Court records accuse Howard of going into Gibby's Mini Mart, Clark Avenue, Wellsville, on July 15 with the purpose of committing a felony crime.
John W. Jarvis II, 35, Beech Street, Wellsville, is charged with possession of criminal tools and breaking and entering. According to court documents, Jarvis allegedly on Aug. 2 entered a neighboring home on Beech Street, belonging to Michael Johnson, with the intent of committing a felony crime. In his possession, during the break in, Jarvis reportedly had a leather bag containing a homemade ski mask, hammer, pair of pliers, zip ties, flashlight and latex gloves.
Chad A. Smith, 38, Sprucevale Road, East Liverpool, is charged with felonious assault for allegedly using either a screwdriver or a knife or both to harm Bradley Gibson on Sept. 8.
Andrew J. Sandora, 58, state Route 14, New Waterford, is charged with three counts of OVI for allegedly having both marijuana and alcohol in his system while driving on Sept. 29. According to court documents, Sandora already has been convicted of OVI twice in 2003 and three times in 1992.
Christie L. Thrasher, 32, and Jason N. Barnes, 25, both of the same residence on Sixth Street, Wellsville, are charged with two counts trafficking in drugs and two counts possession of drugs. On Sept. 27 both Barnes and Thrasher allegedly had heroin and cocaine believed to be prepared for sale. Additionally, on the same date they are both accused of having Amphetamine and Buprenorphine in their possession. Additionally, there was a specification stating the pair had both $180 and digital scales.
Joseph D. Johns, 27, Lynchburg Road, Kensington, is charged with theft for allegedly taking two shotguns and a semi-automatic pistol belonging to Lisa Linrode sometime from July 1 through Aug. 30.


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6 Fights Worth Having With Your HusbandLori Garcia
No wife particularly enjoys fighting with her husband. After all, life's too short, you have to share a bed, and above all else, you love the guy.
While science tells us fighting can lead to a stronger marriage, most of us understand the importance of choosing our battles.
Check out the 6 battles Woman's Day believes are worth fighting in your marriage – after the jump!
He needs to see a doctor 1 of 6He'd rather sweep health concerns under the rug than face the fear of an actual diagnosis. Assure your husband that your concern for his longevity is rooted in love. Taking care of his health is the best way to ensure that he'll be around for a very long time.
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He undermines your parenting authority 2 of 6You said no only to have your husband give in. Calmly discuss the importance of showing a united front toward your children. Agree to uphold the parenting decisions he makes for the same courtesy in return. Differences in parenting opinion should be discussed away from the kids.
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He doesn't do enough 3 of 6It's hard not to take every burden and chore personally when it's all on you. Elizabeth Lombardo, PhD recommends broaching the subject with your husband calmly and specifically, reminding him a happier and more energetic wife will result with his help.
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He works too much 4 of 6Consider the alternative yikes! Still, all the overtime at the office has left you feeling like less of a priority. Rather than complain about his absence, emphasize how much he is missed and try finding creative ways to spend more time together.
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He's a spender/cheapskate 5 of 6Money is the inevitable third wheel in every marriage. According to Elizabeth Lombardo, PhD, "A spender may want to enjoy their hard work, while a saver wants to feel safe." Whatever your husband's money motive, discuss family finances and spending habits openly and honestly. For tips on how to solve the most common marriage money woes, click here.
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He only shows affection when he's looking for action 6 of 6It's easy to feel suspicious of his affectionate motives, when they don't happen consistently. Alisa Bowman, author of Project: Happily Ever After suggests designated sex-free nights filled with affection that doesn't result in sex.
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COLUMBIA A law firm representing the state in the aftermath of a massive cyber breach now says no competitors were contacted before the state reached a $12 million no-bid contract with Experian.
Attorney Jon Neiditz of Columbia firm Nelson Mullins said the confusion over whether the firm had contacted other credit monitoring companies resulted from an unclear statement made by another attorney.
The Revenue Department reached an initial agreement with Experian just before the breach affecting millions of current and former S.C. taxpayers was first announced publicly on Oct. 26.
The company is providing a year of credit monitoring for taxpayers and dependents as well as lifetime credit fraud resolution.
The confusion over whether Nelson Mullins ever reached out to Experian competitors began at an Oct. 30 Senate Finance Committee hearing.
Revenue Department Director James Etter, who is resigning effective at the end of this year, correctly told senators that no other companies were contacted besides Experian.
But Nelson Mullins attorney Thad Westbrook immediately followed up and told senators that pricing was obtained from two other firms but Experian had the ability to scale up quickly in an emergency situation.
Weeks after the hearing, Revenue Department spokeswoman Samantha Cheek named the other two companies that Nelson Mullins had obtained estimates from as Citreas and Identity Force.
She said those firms and Experian were examined because of their favorable pricing and services.
Obtaining pricing information from Experian competitors and examination did not include reaching out to them.
Neiditz said he had pre-existing pricing information from various cyber security companies and knew Experian could offer the best deal. The leaders of other firms have disputed that assessment.
Neiditz said Monday that Westbrooks statement during the hearing caused confusion.
It wasnt clear, Neiditz said. It led to the impression that other companies had been contacted. I dont think he was intending to mislead anyone. He may have only seen the information that I sent on those two vendors. I mentioned those vendors to him.
Some senators have expressed concerns about the states no-bid contract with Experian.
Anderson GOP Sen. Kevin Bryant said its worrisome that no other companies were approached following the breach.
This snowball just keeps getting bigger and bigger as time goes by, he said. Bryant is co-chairman of a new oversight panel tasked with looking into the cyberattack.
Normally, state contracts are struck following a request for proposals from various companies.
But in reaching the deal with Experian, the state used emergency procedures. The emergency law can be used when there is immediate threat to public health, welfare, critical economy and efficiency, or safety under emergency conditions.
The law states competition as is practicable shall be obtained.
Neiditz recommended Experian to his firm, which then recommended Experian to the state. Nelson Mullins is being paid an estimated $100,000 for its work assisting the state.
Neiditz said he actually considered 20 vendors, not just Experian and two competitors as Westbrook and Cheek said, but never contacted any of them before deciding on Experian.
Neiditz said he provided pricing information on Citreas and Identity Force because they have different business models than Experian.
He said he first contacted Experian on Oct. 23, three days before the breach was announced.
Etter had told senators during the hearing that Experian was first contacted on Oct. 25. The Secret Service alerted state officials to the breach on Oct. 10.
Neiditz said Experian made the most sense for several reasons. Experian already had a contract worth about $750,000 with the S.C. Department of Health and Human services after a breach of Medicaid patient information announced in April. That deal also was reached using the emergency law.
Experian was best equipped to handle a large breach like the one at the Revenue Department and could move quickly, Neiditz said.
Still, Neiditz said he had intended to talk with Revenue Department officials about how the alternative model employed by Citreas and Identity Force could be useful.
Given the timing of everything, we never really got to have those discussions, he said. As a result, I dont think that those business models received full consideration. Neither did other companies.
Neiditz said he was concerned that news of the breach would have leaked almost immediately if he had contacted a number of vendors before the state had been cleared by law enforcement to announce the cyberattack.
Reached by The Associated Press, the CEOs of Citreas and Identity Force said earlier this month that their pricing would have been competitive with Experian and their services would have been superior in some ways. Gov. Nikki Haley has said she negotiated with Experian and got a great deal for the state when Experian agreed to cap its compensation at $12 million.
Bryant questions that logic, saying vendors likely would have been beating down the states doors and possibly could have provided a better deal with the potential for millions of future customers in mind.
I do realize something did have to be done, Bryant said. I guess we just have to ask more questions about the timeline.
The breach oversight committee is scheduled to meet for the first time at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
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But there was no mistaking him on the ice. The gifted ones always catch your eye. This is an extreme parallel, but as Grigorenko glided along the ice, it reminded me of the first time I saw Mario Lemieux, a big man who skated so effortlessly he barely seemed to be trying.
"He looks big out there," Lindy Ruff said after the Sabres finally opened practice at the First Niagara Center.
Grigorenko stands 6-foot-3, 200 pounds. Somehow, he seemed even bigger, perhaps because the expectations for him are so large, and because the interval between his drafting and his first practice was so long.
The question is, how long will he remain with the Sabres? They open the season at home next Sunday against the Flyers. The following Sunday, they'll play their fifth game of a compacted NHL season. At that point, they must decide whether to keep Grigorenko or return him to juniors.
That's not a lot of time to judge. There's no exhibition season, just a week of practices and the start of a whirlwind, 48-game sprint of a season.
"Hopefully," he said, "I'm not going back to juniors."
Grigorenko said he doesn't feel any pressure. On the day he was drafted last June, he said he expected to be in the NHL this season. But he said it shouldn't be any great disappointment if he doesn't stick here.
"If I do, people will be amazed," he said.
Will you be amazed, I asked him?
"Yes," Grigorenko replied.
Maybe he understands how things work with the Sabres, who have a history of caution in these matters. It certainly won't be a shock if they send Grigorenko back to Quebec for more seasoning.
Ruff intimated as much after the opening workout. He acknowledged Grigorenko's offensive skills, but said he'll know more after he sees the kid compete in drills and in games against live NHL opposition.
"Long-term, you have to understand where he's at and what's best for him," Ruff said. "What's best for him, and what's best for us."
It often comes down to what's best for Ruff's precious defensive system. Jochen Hecht, one of his long-time favorites, joined the team Sunday after signing a one-year contract for $1 million. Hecht's teammates tapped their sticks on the ice in a ritual welcome.
Hecht is 35, the senior Sabre. At that salary, he could be a helpful addition. But he also represents a tired, failed culture. He is part of a core group – including Ryan Miller, Jason Pominville and Thomas Vanek – that is going on six years without winning a playoff series.
The Hecht signing could mean that Grigorenko is ticketed for another year in juniors. That would be typical of an organization that becomes infatuated with its own players and is often too slow to elevate promising young players to the parent team.
Grigorenko is too good to spend another year in juniors, playing against boys. No doubt, his game needs polish. He has to mature. But if the Sabres want him to learn how to compete against men, they should allow him to learn alongside them at the NHL level.
Let the guys on the big club nurture and school him. The best way to adapt to the physical challenges of the NHL is to do it against NHL competition.
"If I'm with them every practice, I can learn so much stuff on the ice and off the ice, too," Grigorenko said.
He might help them win, too.
The NHL is evolving. Teenagers can have an impact these days. Four of the top eight selections in the 2011 draft played a full season in the NHL.
Jeff Skinner was 18 when he won the Calder Trophy for the Hurricanes two seasons ago.
Grigorenko was the No. 3-ranked prospect by NHL Scouting going into the draft. He slipped down the board on draft day, largely because he had a reputation for being lazy. It's a common bias against Russians.
The Sabres got him with the 12th overall pick. They were stunned to see him drop that far. They had a glaring need for a center. Still, Ruff was dubious until Patrick Roy, Grigorenko's coach in juniors, gave the young Russian a ringing endorsement.
Roy said Grigorenko was a hard worker, contrary to the reports. His stamina was an issue, but not his desire. Grigorenko has a seemingly effortless style, the kind that makes you think he doesn't care enough – that he's not enough of a "grinder" in hockey parlance.
Ruff loves his grinders. Maybe what he needs is more real stars. But Grigorenko might be too risky an idea at the moment. Ruff is under fire, more so than General Manager Darcy Regier. He always seems worried about losing the next game. Look at the way he handles his backup goalies.
So Ruff, who needs to win now, might be unwilling to tolerate the fundamental mistakes of a gifted 18-year-old. Before you know it, we'll hear about Grigorenko's back-checking flaws and he'll fall out of favor, the way Luke Adam did a year ago.
Grigorenko has played 50 games this season between juniors and the junior worlds. He's in shape and might have an edge over more established players in the early going. He might even win them a game.
But Hecht, the coach's ideal, is back on the ice.
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NEW YORK � New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a message for new mothers: Breast-feed your baby, if possible.
Starting in September, dozens of city hospitals will ask mothers of newborns to listen to talks about why their breast milk is better than the sample formulas many hospitals offer for free. Then the women can decide for themselves, says the mayor.
Bloomberg has been ribbed as the city�s �nanny� for pushing programs aimed at making New Yorkers healthier � from clamping down on big sugar-loaded drinks to creating no-smoking zones in public places.
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�Most public health officials around the country think this is a great idea,� Bloomberg said at a City Hall briefing earlier this week. �The immunities that a mother has built up get passed on to the child, so the child is healthier.�
He says formulas remain an acceptable solution if a mother cannot breastfeed, whether for health reasons or because her schedule does not allow it. The New York initiative is part of a national effort involving more than 600 hospitals, says Marsha Walker, a registered nurse and executive director of the National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy, a nonprofit based in Weston, Mass.
In 2011, Rhode Island became the first state to stop giving away free formula to mothers while educating them on the benefits of nursing. Massachusetts followed suit. New York state ranks next to last by the percentage of breast-fed infants who receive supplemental formulas in hospital, at 33 percent, New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said. The figure is 38 percent for New Jersey.
By contrast, only 8 percent of newborns in Vermont are fed formula just after birth, Farley said.
Walker calls the practice of including such gifts to new mothers �a very potent form of marketing by manufacturers.�
Hospitals, she said, �are in the business of providing health care, not marketing pricey products to vulnerable patients.�
One such patient was Beth Schwartz, a Manhattan mother of four who had trouble breast-feeding when her first child was born.
�In a moment of weakness, I defaulted to the formula,� she said. �The fact that the hospital gave it to me led me to use it, because I might not otherwise have gone out to buy it.�
Schwartz said her doctor didn�t know enough about breast-feeding to instruct her and she should have gone to a lactation consultant who could have helped her. The now 46-year-old mother did exactly that for her second baby.
�I got the proper support for breast-feeding, and I refused to take the formula home,� she said.
Health experts from the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics have been encouraging nursing for years, saying benefits include milk rich in nutrients and antibodies that protect a baby. It�s also easier to digest and is cost-free.
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VMWare is another stock I track. I wish you the best with VMWare but regarding a CSCO acquisition ... I assume EMC Corp would have something to say about that. Double check the major holdings section.
EMC bought VMWare for $600 mil (rough) in 2004 (I think). Spun them off and still own a significant piece of the VMWare pie. I'm not so sure it's in EMC's best interest to let VMWare be part of the CSCO empire. I could be wrong ...
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Zane Fakes, a graduate student in his final season on the Ball State football team, has been named to the Capital One Academic All-America Division I Football First Team, which is selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
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One of four graduate students on the Capital One Academic All-America Team, Fakes is the first team tight end. An exercise science major who graduated last May with a 3.59 grade-point average on the school's 4.0 scale, Fakes has spent this fall working on a master's degree. A 2013 Campbell Trophy semifinalist, which recognizes an individual as the absolute best in the country for his academic success, football performance and exemplary community leadership, Fakes was named to the All-Mid-American Conference First Team for a second straight season in 2013. He tallied 37 catches for 382 yards and two touchdowns in the regular season. Fakes has started 11 games in 2013 and 39 games in his career. A two-time Academic All-MAC honoree, Fakes had a season high eight catches for a season high 96 yards at Northern Illinois.
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The ~600 kinases that make up the human kinome comprise a group of exciting druggable targets that can be modulated using small molecule or monoclonal antibody approaches.
There are currently 15 FDA-approved kinase inhibitor drugs, yet there remains much uncapped potential, as the biological function of ~90% of the kinome is unknown.
Methods have been designed for improving small molecule type I kinase inhibitors, which target the ATP binding pocket common to all kinases in their active form, as well as type II inhibitors, which bind to the same area as type I molecules, but also to an additional allosteric binding pocket in the inactive DFG motif conformation of the kinase. Novel assays have identified kinase targets, improved the function of certain kinase inhibitors, and led to the discovery of new inhibitor classes to accelerate drug discovery.
Sheraz Gul, Ph.D., vp and head of biology at European ScreeningPort, indicates that he has had a long-standing interest in kinases, particularly NF-κB inducing kinase (NIK). NIK is known to phosphorylate IKK-α at Ser-176, the same site where IKK-α autophosphorylates.
Dr. Gul has noticed a few discrepancies over the years with regard to reported NIK biochemical assays: various suppliers who sell recombinantly expressed and purified NIK have shown that it is catalytically active in biochemical assays when using a number of substrates (peptide and the generic kinase substrate myelin basic protein), however not when using IKK-α protein or a peptide derived from it as substrates.
Using such non-IKK-α derived substrates is somewhat of a concern, as myelin basic protein will undergo phosphorylation by most kinases. Additionally, it is possible that a highly active kinase partner bound to NIK may be responsible for the observed phosphorylation of non-IKK-α-derived substrates in biochemical assays.
In light of the intriguing aspects of how physiologically relevant NIK activity arises, Dr. Gul concludes that, rather than developing a biochemical assay, a cell-based assay to search for NIK inhibitors that prevent IKK-α phosphorylation would more effective. However, cell-based assays do have their disadvantages, primarily that most hits often exhibit cytotoxicity.
His research team began by performing a dual transfection assay of catalytically inactive full-length IKK-α and full-length NIK in insect cells, and have translated this to a HEK293 cell-based system and performed proof-of-concept screens against compound libraries with both assays. The screen that utilized the former assay yielded a sizeable number of hits, some of which were shown to prevent p52 translocation into the nucleus from the cytoplasm, as this would be the downstream effect of inhibiting NIK.
As an alternative to the dual transfection assay, Dr. Gul's research team made the surprising finding that batches of cells that were separately transfected with NIK and catalytically inactive IKK-α, which were mixed together upon cell lysis, did not result in the catalytically inactive IKK-α undergoing phosphorylation, indicating that its NIK- mediated phosphorylation can only occur in a native cellular environment. This was all the more reason to prioritize cell-based assays over biochemical assays when searching for NIK inhibitors that prevent IKK-α phosphorylation.
"NIK is clearly an unusual kinase, as there have been no reports of a biochemical assay being developed that specifically makes use of its well-known substrate, IKK-α (or relevant kinase inactive mutant)," Dr. Gul says.
"It is not necessary that every kinase assay be cell-based, but for those that have characteristics like NIK, you will get many hits in a biochemical assay whose activities will not translate to a cell-based assay. Therefore, in order to mitigate the risk of this all-too-common scenario, it should be best practice to use a panel of both biochemical and cell-based assays as early as possible."
"Over the past 15 years, Array BioPharma has synthesized over 10,000 kinase inhibitors, which together inhibit about 95% of the entire kinome," says David Chantry, Ph.D., senior director of translational and cellular biology. "By applying this state-of-the-art collection of kinase inhibitors, we have invented a cell-based phenotypic screening platform that enables discovery of novel drug targets."
Dr. Chantry also notes that the alternative global approaches of molecular-driven target discovery, such as using an shRNA knockdown approach or systematic knockouts in animal models, have not been very fruitful when it comes to identifying targets for small molecule drug discovery.
Array BioPharma's phenotypic screening platform has multiple differentiating features from other platforms, most notably that Array researchers are able to reverse engineer from the screen back to the molecular targets in a chemoinformatic approach. All of the inhibitors in the curated collection have demonstrated cell activity at 1 µM or less, and data has been collected regarding in vitro properties of microsomal stability, permeability, and solubility.
In total, Array BioPharma has collected ~1 million data points outlining the in vivo physical properties of their kinase inhibitor collection. Its library of diverse kinase inhibitors covers the vast majority of kinases, says Dr. Chantry, most of which have completely unknown functions.
"Our approach ends up working like a Venn diagram: we obtain an overlapping set of information for each group of inhibitors that exhibit the same cellular phenotype in our assays," adds Jim Winkler, Ph.D., vp of discovery biology and translational medicine.
"There might be one inhibitor that inhibits 20 kinases across the kinome, and another that inhibits 15, most of them different from the first inhibitor; but if you do this for enough inhibitors, they will ideally only have one kinase as a common target. Using all of the selectivity data we have collected for each inhibitor, we end up combining target validation and target identification in the same process."
Depending on the therapeutic application, each phenotypic screen will be unique in terms of the number of hits and the nature of the intersection of shared kinases that are inhibited, but the end result is a manageable list of potential targets, which can then be further analyzed by traditional approaches like RNAi knockdown.
A subset of the inhibitor library was recently used to demonstrate the strength of the platform. The researchers were interested in identifying a single kinase target that would affect cytokine production by both innate and adaptive immunity, as there are currently targets that affect each type of immunity separately but no single approach for both.
In addition to the clinical relevance of this phenotype, Array BioPharma already had inhibitors of the p38 and MEK pathway in its collection to provide useful internal controls. Using a reverse-engineering approach, Dr. Chantry and colleagues discovered and validated a novel kinase target that regulates cytokine production by cells of both the innate and adaptive immune system.
"We are interested in using this phenotypic screening platform to drive collaborations with other companies, to discover novel targets, and develop clinical candidates," Dr. Winkler adds. "We would like to work with collaborators that have in-depth biology expertise in their particular therapeutic area, and an understanding of which are the most relevant phenotypic screens that can lead to novel therapies for patients with serious unmet medical needs."
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With camps, community programs and Addlestone Hebrew Academy, the campus of the Charleston Jewish Community Center in West Ashley has established itself as a place where families gather.
This is where children and families come, said Judi Corsaro, executive director of the JCC. It would be a crime not to have a Holocaust memorial of some sort here. Weve got to keep the torch going and keep the story alive.
Enter Fannie Appel-Rones, with a vision to renovate the centers atrium into a garden memorial to the 1.5 million children who were killed in the Holocaust.
The project will be in the open-air center of the building, which was built in the early 1960s. It will replace a garden funded 50 years ago by an anonymous donor and the now-defunct Kalushiner Society in memory of the 6 million people killed in the Holocaust.
That garden has been neglected in recent years and is rarely visited.
The garden needs restoring and now they have a memorial for the 6 million in Marion Square, said Appel-Rones. But theres nothing for the children. A million and a half Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust, and I thought it was time we did something to remember them.
The garden will be the only Holocaust memorial in the area dedicated specifically to the children, she said.
It is not enough that we build it, said Joe Engel, a native of Poland and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everybody should know about it. I want people to come spend time in it and use it in memory of the kids. A thing like that should never be forgotten.
Designed by Charleston landscape architect Sheila Wertimer, the passive garden will be meditative and low-maintenance.
I have been in the atrium recently and its so relaxing to be in there, said Masha Kalinsky, president of the Charleston Jewish Federation. Thats what we want for the children. I think this will resonate more with people because its in the memory of the children.
The current garden will be removed to make way for the new design, which calls for blue stone ground cover and raised brick beds filled with English boxwoods, Japanese maple and other shades of green meant to be calming and soothing, Appel-Rones said.
Everything is first-class so this will be here forever and ever, long after we are all gone, she said.
The garden will also include a meaningful sculpture by North Carolina artist Timothy Werrell, Appel-Rones said.
When I say meaningful, I mean you dont have to think what it is, she said. Youve seen a lot of sculptures and you say What in the world is that? But this would have something where, you see it, you know what it is, what its for, what its meant to be.
So far, about $13,000 has been donated to the project, mostly from the Henry and Sylvia Yaschik Foundation and the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust. Appel-Rones said she does not know what the total will be as the project is still in the planning stages, but she hopes the community will embrace it.
We want to encourage children to give a dollar, 50 cents, whatever, she said.
Work will start once enough money is collected and will take about three months, she said.
For more information or to donate, call the JCC at 571-6565.
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Of course I would not prefer White, Q or Cola....Wiz in Columbus is top pair dman, so thats a redundant arguement...like saying..."Well, Instead of Hossa we got Eaves"-Make it a level playing field here. If you like, I can give you an extended list of guys I would have preferred in Detroit who's talents are about the SAME as Wisneiski's....let me know if you would like that.
I have never hated TooToo- I was actually in favor of the signing which ( PUSHING THE ECHO BUTTON) why I like the Huskins signing. Big gritty guy, stands up for the team without the trailer trash shenanigans that go along with a toddler like Wiz and what, 5 million cheaper. YES, Yes, please. he isnt going to win the Norris, but he isnt a cheapshot artist with several dirty suspensions under his belt.
Character wins.
I'll take the Wiz and his .46 ppg, aggresive playing style, sticking up for his teammates, PP quarterbacking, cannon of a shot, and ability to log HUGE minutes, any day of the week. With or without his on ice attitude. If you know of some Choir Boy who was available two years ago when we needed to begin transitioning for Lidstrom and Stuart's departures that can do all that, then I'll agree that person was the better option.
Character wins: Which is why guys like Chris Pronger, Claude Lemieux, Dino Ciccareli, Darren McCarty, Ulf Samuelsson, Chris Chelios, etc. etc. etc. had such miserable careers.
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Jim Hogg: Phoenix Framework
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We recently caught up with Jim Hogg, program manager for the Phoenix Framework, a very robust backend compiler platform co-created by the VC++ team and MSR. Ever wanted to extend the functionality of a backend compiler? Well, now you can, and it's much easier than you'd think given the great work that's gone into "Phoenix" (it's a code name at this point...).
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for that you use a linker check this.staceyw wrote:Very cool stuff. The whiteboard work was fantastic. So does this mean you can take a .net assem and output native exe that does not require the framework be installed?
The subject is slightly esoteric and might have benefited from having a possible int/external customer for the Phoenix to throw in few leading questions. When the interviewer comes off as trying to think up a question on the spot it just doesn't come out
very well in terms of audiences confidence on the information gained and time spent.
Though since I don't write compilers I feel bad complaining here about the free peak into latest research..
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The subject is slightly esoteric and might have benefited from having a possible int/external customer for the Phoenix to throw in few leading questions. When the interviewer comes off as trying to think up a question on the spot it just doesn't come out very well in terms of audiences confidence on the information gained and time spent.
Though since I don't write compilers I feel bad complaining here about the free peak into latest research..
Thanks for this video, nice to see a fellow Scot flying the flag! I have to say this was one of the most intriguing interviews yet...and to be honest the real implications of this are eluding me somewhat.
I guess it means that...
a) you get fast response to new chip architectures - and so new platforms, probably most important for you guys with all the convergence thats going on.
b) you get more flexibility in analysing and tweaking code and introducing funky bits and bytes not handled by the source language.
c) The ability to optimise code in a bespoke manner if you are into highly specialised applications....
Are you going to be doing another interview focusing on managed code? I'd be interested to see what kind of improvements you can expect for managed code compared to C / C++.
Question time!*
1) Wouldn't it be possible to check for buffer overflows on the front end of the compiler? Maybe somewhere between the lexer/parser stages and the backend? Hopefully that is done before the optimization phase.
2) Any thoughts about running Phoenix itself through the Phoenix compiler?
3) How does it handle hand-optimized assembly code in the C++? I know that isn't done all that often anymore, but it does happen.
4) In theory, you could pretty much target any processor you want (not just x86 related ones). All you'd have to do is make the compiler emit its machine code into a text file and then take that file to whatever system you want. Er, right? While you're at, do it for the 6502.
5) His diagram threw me off a bit. If the .NET code is run by the JIT part of Phoenix, it would not produce a machine excecutable, correct? I hope I phrased that right.
6) I sensed there was some sort of "reverse engineering" ability with it? Is that a correct assessment? I thought at one point in the video he talked about taking a binary executable as input. If that is the case, does it backtrack to the point where it will crank out C++ code given a particular binary executable for input? Isn't that opening up a whole Pandora's box if people start reverse engineering everything in sight?
7) I have not done assembly language level optimization in a long, long, long time (like the 6502 days). I have a mediocre handle on x86 assembly (and can figure it out if I'm asked to) but the way the Pentium is put together internally is sort of goofy...at least the way the registers were sort of "added on to" over the years in terms of bits. Is that the case with the multi-core processors, too? Sort of like multiplying that several times over? I know the how/why of the register design additions over the years, but I can't imagine having to write assembly for a multi-core system.
8) I think the way parsers work is rather archaic, but that's just me. It seems incredibly inefficient to process code one character at a time (and then string them together into tokens, and then compare those tokens to predefined grammar, and then...). Any thoughts about changing that in the future? I have some ideas on how to do it, and if I find the time I might start messing around with that.
* yes, I watched the video
Here's my writeup of this interview.
Phoenix IR is a "linear", assembly-like language. Internally, it's binary, of course. A doubly-linked list of instructions, where each instruction has two single-linked lists hanging off - one for source operands, one for destination operands.
Take a look at "Advanced Compiler Design" by Muchnick to get a flavour of what it is, and the sorts of analysis/transformations you can apply.
Target new chips (or extensions to an existing chip's instruction set, like when SSE2 came along)? Yes.
Think of the job: get existing user programs, written in C++ or Fortran or whatever, to run on a new chip - the results must be correct (no compiler codegen bugs!), and the code must run fast. Well, with a framework like Phoenix, you start that job 90% already done! Keep all of the analysis and optimizations and codegen it already provides (ie, all those parts that are independent of target chip). Just define the new chip's instruction set (opcodes, addressing modes, etc) and plug it in. (how easy this is depends upon the chip - eg Itanium is much harder than the x64 chips from Intel AMD).
Can you add 'features' using Phoenix, that the front-end language does not provide? Yes. Think of things like adding code to gather runtime code-coverage by-function/by-block/by-edge/etc. Or all of the features attacked by "Aspect Oriented Programming".
Custom/Bespoke optimization? Yes - write a "plugin" that does what you need. Replace an existing phase, or provide new ones. Again, no need to build an entire optimizing compiler yourself from scratch before you get the job done - use 98% of what Phoenix already does - just add your bespoke 2%.
This is starting to sound like "Yes, Phoenix can do that - now what's the question". But it's not - it's just that so far, most of the questions have been directed-enough, that I can say "yes".
Thanks for your response Jim,
I have to admit that compilers are somewhat of a blackbox to me..or rather I treat them as such, it's going to take a change in perspective and a bit of thinking on my (and others i suspect) part to get the most out of this.
Very inspiring stuff though, I heard *rumours* that AMD are going to be making changes to their architecture for the "k9" that might take some of the sting out of coding parallel processing friendly apps. Is this going to be a future focus of effort between cpu designers and compiler spcecialists?
Guess you cant talk about that though . Keep up the good work!
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Charles, thanks again for this video. I think you need to interview compiler people more often.
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Out of interest - why would you like to run programs without the .NET Framework installed? - I'm not suggesting it's a crazy idea, just wondering which of several possible reasons you're interested in.
Mmm ... obfuscation ... the system needs to keep a copy of the original metadata and msil around, even after Ngen is done. Because if any of its Ngen-time dependencies change (eg, new version of a dependent assembly), the CLR will silently fall back to JITting the methods you need (the assembly is also enqueued to be 'fixed' by the Ngen service, I believe - tho' I'm not up-to-date with the details).
No easy solution on that one (altho' there's research afoot to improve obfuscators)
schrepfler wrote:Let say there's some code in places optimized to assembly code but for the PowerPC platform. Could Phoenix help a conversion of the pieces of code that target the PowerPC instruction set to Intel instruction set? Theoreticly of course, there's no need for such a thing I'm sure.
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