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Melli, the Model Guy
By Kerri De Rosier
This is the third article in a series of four about the Museum's
FOSSIL MYSTERIES exhibition, which opened July 1, 2006.
How do you build a shark from a set of teeth? Need a mural with drawings of creatures that aren't around anymore? How about a full-scale model of a dinosaur? Meet Jim Melli—artist sculptor, zoologist, exhibit designer, naturalist, model builder, insect guy, live exhibit curator. The list goes on.
Melli, whose title is "exhibition artist," received a zoology degree from San Diego State University and nearly finished a graduate degree in entomology. He remembers taking one art class—in lithography.
His office, which doubles as his workshop, is a jumble of models, drawings, and even some live specimens in jars. His tools: a set of colored pencils, modeling clay, wire mesh, lots of books, and the desire to know.
For FOSSIL MYSTERIES, Melli did the maquettes for the megalodon shark, ankylosaur, pterosaur, baby mastodon, and the lion on a rock. He also designed the Eocene diorama with incredible detail, right down to the lichen on the trees, and drew sketches that were used as the basis for sculptures produced by the Science Museum of Minnesota.
To make the megalodon model, Melli started with only a set of teeth. How do you get a shark from a set of shark teeth? Melli explained that a paleontologist can look at the teeth and determine the closest relative. "The characteristics of the teeth of different sharks tell us which group they belong to," said Melli. "Teeth are just about the only parts that are preserved on sharks because they have a skeleton of cartilage. Some of the cartilage can become ossified and you can get vertebra, but for the most part, all that remain are teeth."
Showing me some sample teeth, Melli said, "This one is related to a tiger shark. It has these serrations and this weird hook shape. The tooth is asymmetrical, whereas this tooth, which is related to the mako shark, is adapted toward grabbing fish and holding onto them." Michael Gottfried from Michigan State University helped Melli and his team reconstruct the shark. Most shark teeth are scattered in the deposits where they are found, because sharks shed their teeth continuously as they age. Similar to a conveyor belt system, the jaw tissues roll forward, and as the younger teeth mature, the older teeth on the outer part of the "conveyor belt" fall out. Melli and his team used casts of an almost-complete set of fossil teeth found in Florida that belonged to one individual: the teeth were all associated in one bunch (all from different parts of the jaw). In a modern shark, teeth are configured differently depending on where they are in the jaw, so the artists were able to accurately reconstruct the shark's dental pattern. To determine how big to make the shark, Gottfried used a mathematical formula comparing the size of great white shark teeth to the casts of the fossil teeth. Based on the size of the teeth they used, Gottfried calculated that the shark was about 34 feet long.
Gottfried believes the megalodon probably wasn't as slender as the great white shark, because the bigger the animals get, the beefier they have to be to support all their weight. Also, to be stable, they had wider pectoral fins relative to the body size and a shorter snout than a white shark. The end result is an educated guess—as many reconstructions are.
According to Melli, "Gottfried has the most knowledge of megalodon. Other reconstructions of megalodons are more like white sharks: they are not as accurate as ours. Ours [is] by far the most accurate fleshed-out reconstruction ever made."
Artists logged many hours to make the reconstruction realistic. The shark has several rows of offset teeth, coming at different angles. Some jaw reconstructions shown at museums depict one row of teeth perfectly lined up. In addition, the model was proportioned and scanned by computer, and then the foam was hand-carved using all those proportions. Melli described the engineering inside the model as a steel internal structure that supports all the weight: "even though it's all foam, it's hollowed out, like Styrofoam cups. It has a urethane/fiberglass resin coating on the outside of it, which is really thick and really stiffens it up."
Atomic Props, one of the subcontractors working for the Science Museum of Minnesota, constructed the shark. Melli traveled to Minnesota three times to consult on the painting, texture, and color. The rest of the time, he depended on phone conferences and e-mailed pictures. There were a lot of challenges.
"How are you going to get this big fiberglass thing to look like an animal?" said Melli. "Some of those challenges are not only about what it looks like, but what materials to use. We have this waterbased epoxy stuff that's like putty. We put a layer over the fiberglass, smoothed it all out and got rid of that unnatural, sanded fiberglass look." This material was also used for sculpting details around the eyes, nasal flaps and mouth.
Another challenge for Melli was getting into the mind of fabricators who are more used to creating 15-foot-tall cups of Starbucks® cappuccino or billboards wrapped in Crown Royal® bags than creating something that's supposed to look lifelike.
"This is the first animal that they've done—an alive, real thing," said Melli. "They know how to do the engineering to make it big, but their artists are used to making giant bags. When I was there, they were making billboards in four section pieces—they were probably 50 or 60 feet long. When you're going by at 90 miles an hour in a car at a hundred feet away, they look pretty darn good, but if you walk up to them, they're crude." Melli had to impress upon the engineers and artists that at the Museum, scientists are going to scrutinize every aspect of the animal's design.
The shark hangs from the Museum's atrium, its wide mouth within striking distance as visitors walk past on the second floor.
Melli figures out his own fossil mysteries In addition to sculptures and dioramas, Melli drew some of the illustrations for the text panels, and provided drawings for what he called "a lot of weird little animals that are unique to San Diego" for artists at Blue Rhino Studios who sculpted the animals. But how does Melli know what the animals looked like? When he needs to uncover his own fossil mystery, he turns to books, the scientists on staff, his own life science knowledge, and his imagination.
Melli described how he created Harpagolestes, what he calls "the pit bull from hell."
"It's an ungulate, with hoof-like feet. You can tell by looking at the skeleton that it was like a sheep in wolf 's clothing. What did that guy look like? Well, we have a jaw and some bones, so we know that he was stocky, and there are other fossils that are more complete of animals in the same group."
He started with a pencil drawing, then made copies, and then did something that every ten-year-old would love to do for a living: he colored them in using colored pencils. "That's what the fabricators used as color guides," said Melli.
Then Melli described a crocodile-like creature you can imagine in a pair of running shoes. "It was terrestrial, and it had long legs and serrated teeth. Fish eaters have teeth that aren't made for slicing and cutting: they're more for holding. These guys have serrated teeth for slicing flesh, and they were probably pretty efficient in capturing mammals and things that they fed on. They were probably really quick, and prowled around on land more than modern crocodiles do."
With the help of Melli and the other museum staff, visitors are able to figure out their own fossil mysteries. For example, Melli explained that the Museum has some jaws that look like something was chewing on them. They were all in the same place and got buried and fossilized. "One of the interactive parts of the exhibition shows the bones and asks: 'what do you think happened? How did all these jaws get there? Was there a landslide? A big flood, and they got swept to their deaths? Or, did some critter take them to his lair and dine on them?'" asked Melli.
It's Melli's hope that visitors will have fun, and learn something at the same time. "We want people to connect with nature—turn them on to nature, and have fun, too."
Visit www.fossilmysteries.org.
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By Brian Morgan
Every life has a story and this is mine. I grew up on the rough side of Detroit but was fortunate to have great parents and a YMCA nearby where I played basketball. I went to Ashland University in Ohio on a basketball scholarship, played in a National Championship, and then after college played semi-pro for Global Basketball Association, needless to say I was an athlete.
But on May 17, 2011, I experienced a severe stroke in the right hemisphere of my brain, I was 41 years old.
I'd just gotten home from work and was talking with my wife about our two sons. When all of a sudden my head felt like it was exploding; as if it was on fire. I tried to move but my body was very weak and starting to droop, the pain was unbearable.
I was transported to Gwinnett Medical Center and within hours I was on life support and not expected to survive. I felt my spirit surrender to my death, but I could not let go - I had to fight for my life, for my wife and children. Three surgeries and many months later, I left the hospital and rehab in a wheelchair and breathing on my own. My wife never left my side.
It's been a long year and a half; my recovery is slow, but progressing. The financial strain that my health situation has on my family is almost unbearable, my wife works very long hours and we are still unable to make ends meet. We recently lost our home, it's difficult to purchase groceries and it breaks my heart that my sons, who are 6 and 10, have to see me so helpless. I keep thinking - what am I going to do, I can't even dress myself, how can I work like this. Sometimes I feel like giving up, but God didn't give up on me, I can't give up on him.
I currently take aqua therapy at the Fowler YMCA, this is an expense that we are also unable to maintain, but it is the very thing that I believe is helping me. Outside of the pool, when you are paralyzed you feel a separation in your body, you don't feel whole. While I'm in the water my body comes together like a puzzle, it doesn't feel like I had a stroke, and I don't ever want to get out. The Y has a wheelchair that goes into the pool, they roll me in and stand me up in the water and we walk like ballroom dancing, I walk with Jan Nance, my aqua coach supporting me with the gait belt. Recently something special happened - I took my first unassisted step in the water, I was so happy, you just can't imagine a thing like that, it was like being reborn!
Aqua therapy at the Y has been very beneficial to my physical and mental health. Mark Thornell [YMCA's executive director] told me not to worry, that the Y was going to be there for me and my family. He said they would seek donations to cover my aqua therapy, give my family a Y membership, let my boys play basketball and I can co-coach their teams.
God is so good.
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While health care has dominated the news cycle for the past week, new economic indicators show a struggling economy is still the top concern for most Americans. For millions of people who are unemployed, there's still little to celebrate on the jobs front. Manufacturing took a nose dive for the first time since July 2009 and weekly wages dropped for the 5th time in 33 years. Even leading House Democrat Henry Waxman admitted, "The economy has not recovered. Some people call it a recession, I think it's a depression." In the coming weeks, House Republicans will move on pro-growth policies to remove red tape and stop the tax hike to boost small business job growth and help get more people back to work.
This Day In History: In 1985, "Back to the Future" was released. Now considered a modern-day classic, movie-goers were introduced to Doc Brown and his time travelling DeLorean DMC-12. The movie became the most successful of the year, grossing $383 million, sparking two sequels, an animated series, a theme park ride, several video games and was quoted in Ronald Reagan's 1986 State of the Union Address. Due to the movie's massive success, the car as become a collector's item with only 6,500 still in existence.
Birthdays: Sen. Lamar Alexander, Rafael Nadal, Anderson Cooper, Tom Cruise, Jefferson Davis, Franz Kafka, Allen Ginsberg, and Montel Williams
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1. The Economy: Manufacturing Takes A Dive, Global Economic Slowdown Hurts American Factories. The global economic slowdown has finally caught up with American manufacturers. The U.S. factory sector shrank in June for the first time since July 2009—the first month of the economic recovery—the Institute for Supply Management said Monday. Exports fell, and new orders, which gauge future factory activity, dropped at their fastest pace since the post-9/11 plunge in October 2001. The report is the strongest evidence yet that Europe's troubles and slowing growth in China are hurting American factories, one of the biggest drivers of the U.S. recovery. Separate reports have shown U.S. exports fell in April for the first time since November, and last week the government revised downward its estimate of export growth in the first quarter. The darkening outlook for U.S. factories comes amid new signs that the rest of the world is losing momentum, too. Manufacturing activity in the euro zone continued its months long decline in June, with even the region's biggest economy, Germany, contracting at its fastest pace in three years. Manufacturing also slowed in China, the world's second-biggest economy, and South Korea's and Taiwan's manufacturing industries fell into contraction. Wall Street Journal
2. Jobs Numbers: Weekly Wages Drop For 5th Time In 33 Years. Unemployment ebbs and flows, but one measure of the nation's economic health, average weekly wages, rarely dips. Until now. In the latest demonstration of the struggling economy that threatens President Obama's reelection, average weekly wages fell in 2011, one of only five declines since the category was created in 1978 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In a just-released review of employment in the nation's largest 322 counties, BLS found that weekly wages dropped over the year by 1.7 percent to $955 in the fourth quarter of 2011 from a high of $971 in the fourth quarter of 2010. That means the $50,000-a-year mark, busted in the fourth quarter of 2010, has dropped back to an average yearly salary of $49,660. And the wage depression was widespread: 282 major counties suffered wage declines; just 36 saw increases. The wage drop comes as employment has increased in a majority of the counties in the last quarter of 2011, said the agency. That irony makes it the only quarter in history where wages shrunk while employment grew, a grim reminder that more Americans are taking additional jobs to make ends meet. The Labor Department agency added that smaller bonus payments in the fourth quarter helped to push weekly wages down. Washington Examiner
3. Dem Divide: Leading House Dem Henry Waxman Admits The Economy Has Not Recovered, Says It's A Depression. A top Democratic congressman, Rep. Henry Waxman, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, says that we're living through a "depression": "The economy has not recovered," says Waxman on C-SPAN. "Some people call it a recession, I think it's a depression." Waxman's remarks follow-up on Vice President Joe Biden's from last week, in which he stated that millions are living in a depression. Weekly Standard
4. Obamanomics: With Americans Still Focused on Jobs, Obama Policies Failing To Promote Recovery. The unemployment rate has held above 8% for 40 straight months. It ticked up to 8.2% in May, and would actually be around 11% if labor force participation wasn't at record lows. A recent Gallup survey found that 31% of Americans say the economy is their top concern. Another 25% cite unemployment…Employment is still five million below the previous peak in January 2008. It's already America's longest jobs recession since the Great Depression. As for the private sector, which the president has blithely said is "doing fine," payrolls are still down by 4.6 million, or 4%. Government jobs are 1.8% below their peak, with federal jobs up 11.4%...Jobs rose by just 69,000 in May, the worst in a year, after climbing 77,000 in April. June's employment report is due out Friday morning. Economists expect a gain of just 90,000. (Update: Manufacturing activity shrank for the first time in three years, according to ISM's June U.S. factory index. The new orders index suffered its biggest one-month decline since October 2001)… It's still 18 weeks until Election Day. But that's not very long. Just ask the unemployed. They now spend 39.7 weeks out of work on average, a near-record duration. Investor's Business Daily
5. Health Care: Reps. Goodlatte, Griffith, Hurt: GOP Exhibits Resolve To Repeal ObamaCare. In the days after the Supreme Court's disappointing ruling on President Obama's health care law, the resolve of the American people and Republicans in Congress only grows stronger. While the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Obamacare on the basis that it is a tax, this decision certainly does not make the law good policy. A law that raises taxes, destroys jobs, and hampers economic growth, while doing nothing to rein in soaring health care costs is simply the wrong prescription for Virginians. Virginians are now presented with a choice: a future of bigger government, fewer options, and increased health care costs under Obamacare, or a future of smaller government and affordable health care options where decisions are made by patients and their doctors, not Washington bureaucrats. We choose the latter…Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced that the House will vote on July 11 to fully repeal Obamacare. Let this be a sign that the fight for full repeal of this costly, job-killing law is far from over. The House will once again give the Senate an opportunity to repeal this bill. The choice is simple: Again ignore the will of the American people, or join the House in full repeal of this misguided law. Richmond Times-Dispatch
6. ObamaCare Fallout: Editorial: An American Mandate: The Founders Would Be Appalled. On the eve of Independence Day, many Americans are still digesting last Thursday's ruling in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared that Congress has the authority to tax the free and independent people of the United States for the offense of not following orders Congress has given. Moreover, the content of those orders is limited only by the imaginations of the 535 members of Congress. What might the Founders of this nation, the men who risked death to secure for posterity the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, think of such a turn of events?... When Samuel Adams and other Sons of Liberty threw tea chests into Boston Harbor, they were not protesting the tax, which had been passed six years before. They were protesting the Tea Act, which compelled them to buy East India Company tea and forbade them from buying or selling any other. It was a mandate to buy a specific product. It helped spark a revolution. Now, 236 years after that revolution began, we are told that our own government can compel us to buy whatever product it wishes, to behave in virtually any way it wants, as long as it does so through its power to tax. When the Founders fought to secure the blessings of liberty for their descendants, seeing those descendants submit to the orders of a distant government was not what they had in mind. New Hampshire Union Leader
7. Keeping Tabs: Poll: Majority Of Americans View Individual Mandate As A Tax. A strong majority of Americans say the individual mandate is a tax, rather than a penalty or a fee, according to a CNN-ORC poll released on Monday. Sixty percent said they view the individual mandate as a tax, versus 39 that said it's not a tax. Republicans jumped on the court's ruling that the healthcare law's individual mandate, which the Obama administration originally pitched as a penalty or fee for those who don't purchase insurance, is constitutional under Congress's power to tax, calling it evidence that President Obama has raised taxes on the middle class. The Hill
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If you're an avid Antiques Roadshow viewer as am I … you may already know that this Monday there's another double-header. The first hour of the program is from Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Appraiser Andy Qurant discusses the market for swimsuit-clad, early 20th-century bisque figurines, known as bathing beauties. There is also a collection of Enrico Caruso memorabilia brought to the show by his grandson and a pair of heirloom boxwood and ivory figurines estimated to be worth $50,000 to $75,000, but if confirmed to be 18th-century originals by sculptor Simon Troger, could be worth $400,000.
Troger was an Austrian ivory sculptor, born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1683, specialized in figures and groups of figures sculpted from a combination of ivory, black stained wood, and with inset glass eyes.
Hour two is part one of a visit to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the city is having its traditional German Fest. Mark Walberg and appraiser Stuart Whitehurst talk about collectible German beer steins among other things. Featured is the Midwest Airlines Center, where collectors can see a 1952 Fender Esquire guitar and a late 19th century child's sled in the shape of a swan.
The crème de la crème is an 18th century desk and bookcase passed down to the owner from his great-grandfather, a former governor of Connecticut that could be worth as much as $250,000 or $20,000, if the two pieces are determined to be "married." The cliffhanger is answered in part 2 of Antique Roadshow from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


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The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jacqueline Laurita has finally made a decision when it comes to her friendship with Teresa Giudice. After all of the drama that happened last year, Jacqueline had a hard time walking away from the friendship. It was almost like she was waiting for Teresa to apologize, so they could go back to the way they were. However, when Teresa finally did apologize, everyone around Jacqueline said that Teresa's apology wasn't sincere, so Jacqueline stuck with the other women. Well, after experiencing a negative backlash from her behavior on field day with Teresa and Gia, she is done trying to make nice with her former friend.
"I'm over the Teresa and Gia thing," she told a friend who spilled the beans to Radar Online. "In retrospect, do I think I should have read her the book? My answer is NO, and I apologized for that many times," she explained. "I love Gia and I also tried to comfort her and tried to convince her to come back to joining field day. I even rewarded her with Provolone cheese, unwarranted."
It sounds like The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jacqueline Laurita thinks that giving Gia the cheese was a big gesture, but Teresa probably doesn't see it that way. In fact, it sounds like Teresa isn't exactly willing to forgive Jacqueline for what happened, sending out various messages to the press. "Teresa can try to spin it any way she'd like but she, or anyone else for that matter, will NEVER convince me that I attacked her child or tried to belittle her," Jacqueline explains.
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The Odeion (or small theate) of Ephesos was built in the second century CE and was used as both a meeting chamber and for entertainment. The marble seats gave a capacity of approximately 1,400.
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Marin on Ice, Marin's only holiday skating rink, opens to the public in November, and the organization is looking for people to be a part of the guest service team. All the jobs are part-time seasonal positions that would require work on weekends, evenings and holidays. The ice rink will be open to the public from Nov. 10, 2012 to Jan. 13, 2013.
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SEBRING -- Bradenton 13-year-old Mika Liu shot a second straight 1-under-par 71 at the Harder Hall Women's Invitational in Sebring, but she finished second in the tournament after Erica Popson of Davenport sank a 10-foot putt on the 18th hole to win the 58th annual event.
Liu held at least a share of the lead after every round and entered Sunday's final round at Harder Hall Country Club with a one-shot lead over Hannah Pietila of Brighton, Mich.
Popson was three shots ahead with three holes to go, but her putter cooled off to bring Liu back in to contention. On the 18th, Liu sank a 17-footer and forced Popson to hole her putt to win. Popson shot a 68 in the final round for a 282 total to beat Liu by one stroke.
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BPA Baby & Child a 'one stop shop' for all the latest products
Published: 04 November, 2009
Lorna Smith, creator of Baby Aid, a great new take-anywhere first aid kit for babies and children was very pleased with what the show had to offer. Her product Highly Commended at the Baby & Child Recognition Awards, she said: "I have met buyers and taken some very good orders". A major department store and Independent retailer were at the show and snapped up Lorna's product - another example of what the Launchpad can do for start-up businesses.
Over at Natural Baby, Claire Bowen said that Sunday had been a good day with lots of potential leads, while Alison Withell of Dribblebuster dropped by the Nursery Industry stand to say 'hello', before taking me off to view her range of neckerchief dribble bibs. Talking of the show she said: "I'm glad I've done it. I have had a lot of interest and taken two really good orders. My pastel coloured sleeping bags seem to be doing well - they are a unique selling point as the traditional colours seem to be more popular at the moment. That said the Liberty Print in the neckerchiefs has done really well here too."
At Schnuggle, Director Adam Murphy said: "Sunday was great, but Monday was an even bigger success - I made some good contacts and have lots to follow up on. Keira O'Mara of Mamascarf, which enables mums to breastfeed discreetly in style added: "I have really enjoyed being part of the Launchpad...we have all been sharing customers and information...there's a strong sense of community. I have had lots of orders and potential orders, and linked up with an international distributor. This is the best place for a small stand....I have had lots of passing trade."
Monette D.Stransom, Owner of Eleanor's Closet, a distributor of personalised books and puzzles which are perfect as gift purchases, said: "I have had some good conversations with independent retailers and been exposed to new people and ideas. Sharing her stand, Barbara Hobart, President of Homeplates, a manufacturer of decorative light switch covers said: "I don't think I will really know until after the show whether or not it's been worthwhile. I have had a lot of interest though, especially from the small independent buyers."
Having just won its third award, the absorbent, washable, re-usable bed pad Aquasolari has become very popular with retailers since launching earlier this year. CEO Patrick J Fischer was in good spirits: "I had no expectations really - this is my first trade show. Eventually I want my product sold in every shop and major department store in the UK, alongside other bedding ranges."
Over at Baby Tourist, Leigh Cromwell said of his Holidoze travel cot and play area, Slumber Bumper bed guard and Cosy-Crib travel moses basket: "We have had people coming to the stand and spoken with a couple of large suppliers. People are very positive about the products, they tend to say: 'Wow, what a great idea,' when they see them." Shortlisted for a BACRA, the BPA seemed to agree!
Monique Nanson, of Toys4Life, a range of beautiful wooden, transformable toys that grow up with your child explained: "This is my first show; I did it as a taster to see if it would work. It has been really good - I have had some very positive responses, which will hopefully result in orders. The toys encourage sustainability and because they are so beautifully made, can become part of your everyday furniture."
Alistair Antoine, Managing Director of Stellina Baby was also keen to talk: "The show is going really well, it's busier than I expected. Sunday was particularly good - I had a lot of interest from buyers." Ian Elliot, inventor of the tap strap - designed to childproof taps - added: "On Sunday I met a lot of good independent retailers, while Monday brought some of the bigger companies. We have been very well received here."
Natasha Poffley, Director of Piccolo Lusso, the UK's distributor for Chic 'o'
Bello baby changing bags said: "I have had a really successful few days, with lots of orders and interest to follow up on when I get back. The Launchpad seems to have come together really well from a brand awareness point of view - it has really gelled." Sahil Jain Director of babiesblankets.co.uk agreed, he said: "It's been busy, I have taken a lot of orders and would definitely come again." Sarah Tague of Indicare added: "The show has gone really well for us, there has been a real buzz in the air and people have been nothing but positive about us."
Ginny Jogee of 1 two kids, winner of the play time award for the 'Vegging Out' range, made on a fair-trade project in Egypt and designed to encourage positive food associations, was over the moon at the response: "It's been a great show. We came to find independent retailers and exceeded our expectations massively. Sunday and Tuesday were the best days for business. I also want to promote Sophie, made of 100% natural rubber it is the perfect gift purchase and I want it to become the UK's number 1 selling toy."
Over at SnoozeShade, the blackout blind for babies on the move, Cara Sayer was certain she made the right choice to exhibit: "It was either do Dragon's Den or the BPA Show. I chose the BPA Show. It seemed sensible to try and work out if there was a market for the product first and it seems fairly obvious that there is." Over at Pourty, John Rathbone had similar questions: "We wanted to work out whether it was worth spending the money on tooling - there has been lots of interest here, so now we definitely know it is."
Geraldine Abrahams Managing Director of TWM Productions said of her new relaxation concept for babies Tummy with Mummy: "The show has been very good. I have found the whole experience really encouraging - we are just launching and the PR surrounding the Launchpad has been great for us. It has been the perfect platform."
Christa Morris of The Stripy Company added: "We have had a lot of interest - we are in 10 shops, three online, and want to expand. Sunday was good for independent customers in particular. The Launchpad has been great for meeting new people; we have all been exchanging ideas and helping each other. It's great that visitors can go to an area where everything is new."
Having travelled all the way from Australia to bring his Boys Toilet Trainer to market, Terry McGrail of Weeman said the visit had been worthwhile. And having won in the Bathtime category at the BACRAS, the sheer number of visitors to SplashnBump was a guarantee of future success.
Dr Bee meanwhile was another busy stand, with the unveiling of its Dr Bee Electronic Nasal Aspirator. Similarly, Lights Out seemed to be doing well with its black out range of blinds designed to fit any window.
A representative from vida & colour dropped by the Ni stand to bring the company's baby blankets to our attention and judging by the number of visitors they had, these quality products clearly went down a storm.
Betty Zi from Sunny Spread was keen to show me her range of fun and funky tie backs - perfect for brightening up any nursery, while Sunproof Ltd came in as a late entry and highlighted Sunday as its best day.
Jane Ebejer Managing Director of Babyglow a company producing baby sleep suits that change colour to indicate temperature said that thanks to a lot of media coverage in the run up to the show, she had managed to meet with a big international distributor and use it as a meeting base for a number of prospective buyers.
Jacqueline Ottewill of Slade + Ottewill Distribution brought Kiddy Balm and Thailand's No.1 balm, Golden Cup to the show in addition to a range of beautiful hand made soft toys, raved about by Vogue. She said: "I lived in Thailand for 8 years and that's where I discovered the balm; I want it to become the No 1 balm in the UK because I know it works."
Moving out of the Launchpad...
Emily Sheldrake of Green People, home to the Organic Babies range that won the Environmental award at the BACRAs in addition to a Highly Commended in the Bathtime category, reported some quality leads.
Matthew Turner at Britax gave this comment: "A really good show, we have been a lot busier here than at the NEC and have had some really good feedback." Paul Walters of Tippitoes added: "It's been a good show. We are very pleased to be supporting the BPA. A lot of people don't buy in the run up, so those that don't exhibit are missing out. We have seen lots of new customers and met with existing customers who have come for top-ups."
Andrew Payne of Baroo commented: "Sunday was better than I thought it would be, with lots of leads and orders. All leads have been quality ones, it's been a good show - very worthwhile with a steady flow of customers."
Peter Shaw, Hippychick's Sales Manager also spoke highly of the event: "We have done great. Our ranges all complement each other. We are so glad we went for a bigger stand, because of the amount of traffic we have had.
We are keen supporters of the show - it has given us a massive boost for October. This is the first time that the Dusky Moon Dream Tubes - Cot Bed has been showcased and a real highlight of course, was it winning Best Debut...we got a few other short listings and a Highly Commended. The first visit to our stand on Sunday morning resulted in a new account and they selected the majority of our product ranges. 30% of the business we have done here has come from new accounts, with many others topping up existing orders."
Petite Star used the show to introduce the first lines of Ed Hardy Baby products to retailers. Since 2000, Ed Hardy's iconic design has become a global phenomenon, making it instantly recognisable to millions of people worldwide.
All the products are beautifully designed and manufactured in Europe, the bottles are Bisphenol-A free and both the Ed Hardy bottles and pacifiers come with silicone teats.
Kiddy really got into the spirit of things, dressed up as pirates throughout the event to promote Capt'n Sharky's new KIDDY DESIGN range of personalised car seats. Eye catching and chic, they come with your very own pirate bandana.
Over at Dorel, I was shown the Maxi-Cosi Pebble car seat (0-13kg, up to 12 months), the Pearl car seat (9-18 kg, 9 months to 3 ½ years) and the FamilyFix Isofix Base which make up the new Maxi-Cosi FamilyFix Collection.
The Chicco stand was busy throughout and I loved the Black Label Limited Edition Range. The Trio Living combines class and functionality - you can use the stroller in parent-facing or front facing mode, as a pram or with the Auto-Fix Fast car seat which, together with the special baby carrier "...gives to the parent a catwalk beauty."
John Crane himself dropped by the Nursery Industry stand, pleased to collect his front cover board and having been over to them earlier in the day I can confirm that their stand was busy with buyers, keen to find out more about the educational value of their toys.
The Cheeky Rascals stand was popular and a representative told me that there had been a lot of interest generated by its most recent signing, Merino Kids. Clevamama did well too, introducing the Splash & Wrap baby bath towel into its range, where all products are designed to make life easier.
Over at Content&Calm, Solvej Biddle was busy launching her latest product, the ProtectiShade - believed to be the first true in-car sun shade, kindly taking the time to demonstrate how it works. Following the huge success of the Cot Canopy, I expect this to be just as popular with retailers.
Javaid Gilani from Out n About was another happy customer: "It's been a very good show. We have just launched distribution of the Mountain Buggy range and it has generated a lot of interest."
It was great to see Silver Cross back at the show....they were very warmly received by visitors and their stand was filled to the brim throughout.
All in all a fantastic show, well done to the organisers!


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- MSc Technology Entrepreneurship Programme Approved for Robert Malpas Bursary
- UCL Management Science and Innovation PhD student Sebastiano Massaro has won the 2011 Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division's Most Innovative Student Paper Award.
- MS&I Staff and students shine at UCL Awards for Enterprise
- BSc Information Management for Business ranked fifth in UK
- IMB Student was Awarded the e-skills Internship 'Intern of the Year 2011' at the Annual Event at IBM
- UCL Enterprise Society Team wins Enterprise Challenge
- BSc Information Management for Business and UK IT skills shortage
- Technology Entrepreneurship Students win £100k Technology Strategy Board Grant with their start-up
- Web-based Start-Up Showcase Project Launched
- Student entrepreneurs set to share idea with China's billion-plus consumers
- MSI Envites you to a Research Seminar on: The Dangers of Deep Knowledge: New Ventures in the U.S. Solar Industry on 12 October 2011 from 15.30-16.45
- MSc Management students win HELO Awards!
- Former MSc Technology Entrepreneurship student receives $2.5 million funding
- The Future of the Internet: Cisco's Vision of technological change and how it plans to respond
- Entrepreneurial electives at London Business School
- MS&I joins the Association of Business Schools
- Eeve app for iPhone launched by former MSc Technology Entrepreneurship students
- UCL alumnus breathes fire in Malaysia's 'Dragon's Den'
- Have Your Say! The 2012 National Student Survey seeks the views of final year undergraduates...
- UCL Student Business Receives International Recognition
- Fulbright-UCL Award for MSc Technology Entrepreneurship Announced
- MSc Technology Entrepreneurship student leads Silicon Valley trip
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- MSI Invites you to a Research Seminar on: The role of cost modeling in competitive bid procurement
- MSc Technology Entrepreneurship students shortlisted for Seedcamp London 2012
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- MSI Teaching Fellow on BBC News site
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- New innovation centre in Tech City will benefit MSc Technology Entrepreneurship students
- Speak up! The 2013 National Student Survey seeks your views this term
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- MSc Technology Entrepreneurship students mentioned in The Guardian
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- Research by Dr Mihaela Stan featured in the Financial Times
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MSc Entrepreneurship graduate wins China-UK Entrepreneurship Challenge
7 December 2012
A graduate of UCL's Technology Entrepreneurship postgraduate degree has won the final of the China-UK Entrepreneurship Challenge.
Piatkowski, 24, graduated from the Masters programme this year – during
which he developed his idea for Jive Bike, a revolutionary folding
electric bike with a battery life sufficient to propel the rider over 33
Beating off competition from five other teams – two other
British teams, from the LSE and King's College London, and three from
mainland China – Marcin impressed the judges with his pitch about his
business to win a cash prize and the opportunity to visit the country to
develop his idea.
The winner is the latest in a line of several competitions for Marcin, since being awarded a UCL Bright Ideas Award at the university's Awards for Enterprise earlier this year, also winning last year's London Entrepreneurship Challenge and recently appearing at Start UP Hub 2012 at the Conservative Party conference this Autumn.
The Competition, which aims to encourage new business
ventures between China and the UK, is for both student entrepreneurs as
well as existing businesses looking at either utilising Chinese
expertise or sending a product to the Chinese market. The competition is
sponsored by UCL, the University of York, Lancaster University Management School and the China Innovation and Development Organisation.
"The standard of the teams was the strongest we've seen in
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against exceptionally tough competition – which made it even more
satisfying to see a graduate of UCL take home first prize."
Other members of the panel included Jack Lang, Chair of the Rasberry Pi Foundation, Madeline Sturrock of PanCathay.com, Professor David Brown from Lancaster Business School, Dr Frank Wang, Co-founder and Managing Director of CamLase and Sunny Crouch, one of the governing body of the University of East London, which hosted the final.
"Winning the competition could not have come at a better time," says Marcin, the founder of Jive Bike. "We are just about to launch a project to win funding through Crowdcube to begin production of our product and it was great to have another vote of confidence in its strength."


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Melting of a mantle source, consisting of multiple rock types, each with its own melting behavior and chemical and isotopic composition, is believed to be an important factor in producing the range of magma types characteristic of individual igneous provinces. An important example of such a compound source is a dominantly peridotitic mantle with minor eclogitic or pyroxenitic veins—the literature concerning this particular example has grown substantially over last decade. Models of the melting of such mixtures require knowledge of the relationships between melt fraction (F), temperature (T), pressure (P), and bulk composition (X) for both peridotites and pyroxenites. While various parameterizations are available to model the melting behavior of peridotites, none yet exist to model pyroxenite melting.
I present here a parameterization that, while remaining mathematically simple, succeeds in capturing the important features of the behavior of pyroxenites melting.
We have used 193 high-P experiments (20 bulk compositions) in which F has been determined up to the disappearance of clinopyroxene (i.e., cpx-out) for pyroxenites over a substantial range of P and T (0.9–5 GPa; 1150–1675°C) to constrain a model that can be used to estimate T from near the solidus (i.e., T5%, the T at which F = 5%) up to cpx-out (Tcpx) for mantle pyroxenites spanning a wide compositional range.
When applied to the 193 experimental data, the model reproduces experimental F values with an average uncertainty of 15%, absolute; T5% of pyroxenites are reproduced with an average uncertainty of 28°C over a temperature range of ~500°C.
In conjunction with estimates of heats of fusion for pyroxenite and peridotite lithologies, these parameterizations permit calculations of how multi-lithologic mantle sources melt during adiabatic decompression, including the effects of varying the composition and the modal proportion of pyroxenite in such source regions. A potentially important prediction of our modeling is that a significant fraction of mantle-derived pyroxenites have both higher solidus temperatures and higher productivities than fertile peridotite at high pressures and therefore will begin to melt at shallower levels than fertile peridotite.
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A Salem Street man is home, after a year-long deployment in Afghanistan.
According to several news organizations, the 182nd Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army returned to American soil in late March before heading back to their lives as civilians.
Spc. Jonathan Nestico of Salem Street was one of those soldiers.
The Nesticos were recently profiled on Boston's National Public Radio station, WBUR.In the story, Nestico's mother and he spoke to reporters about re-entering civilian society in Woburn after the solider was involved in an Improvised Explosion Device (IED) attack in Afghanistan.
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Scope of DCAA's access to internal audits still muddled
Monday - 12/12/2011, 5:51pm EST
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The Defense Contract Audit Agency is tasked with oversight of the Defense Department's myriad defense contracts.
But its mission also often requires it to oversee defense contractors — and their internal business systems.
It's no secret DCAA has faced obstacles on that front. Defense companies have their own internal audit departments, and they're not always eager to turn their information over to DCAA. There is also disagreement about the scope of the agency's authority to request those internal documents.
Those are the findings of a new Government Accountability Office report.
Access to audits in question
GAO's director of acquisition and sourcing management issues, Bill Woods, told In Depth with Francis Rose the problem doesn't necessarily lie with the companies' internal audits themselves, but with DCAA's access to them.
As part of the watchdog agency's review, it examined internal audits of seven of the largest defense companies.
"When we compared those audit departments and the standards that they used, they compared very favorably to the standards maintained by the Institute of Internal Auditors," an independent organization, which sets audit standards, Woods said.
Over the course of 2008 and 2009, those seven companies prepared about 1,100 audits, of which 520 were relevant to their business systems. However, DCAA requested access to only 115 audits over the same period.
Woods said the lack of audit access was due to a number of culprits. First, DCAA doesn't keep track of the number of audits the agency actual requests of companies or the number of audits that companies independently initiate. And the audits the agency does receive are often vaguely titled.
"Very often those titles are too brief to really inform DCAA about what they might find in those audit reports," Woods explained.
There are also contradictory assessments of DCAA's legal access to internal audits.
A 1988 court ruling found DCAA's request for internal information was too broad and restricted requests for documentation to cost records, Woods explained. However, a separate ruling allowed DCAA to access companies tax receipts and financial statements.
GAO made three recommendations to the audit agency.
- DCAA needs to assign points of contact for major companies to help keep track of audit requests.
- The agency should periodically review audit-request information to determine if they've been successful.
- DCAA should provide more training to its workforce about what types of materials the agency can request.
"The department is skeptical that fully implementing the GAO recommendations will ensure (DCAA) has full access to and use of contractor internal audits," Easton wrote in DoD's response. "as GAO found during the audit, companies currently place limits on access to internal audit information based on interpretations of DCAA's access authority and related court cases.
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A jury last week acquitted a Chatsworth man accused of sex crimes against his girlfriend's 16-year-old daughter.
Public Defender Mike McCarthy said a jury heard the case in Judge Cindy Morris' courtroom in Murray County Superior Court and deliberated parts of two days before finding Phillip Ray Cooper, 37, not guilty of rape and two counts of aggravated sodomy.
Records show the girl previously told authorities that Cooper woke her up in the middle of the night, made her watch pornography and forced her to have sex with him. McCarthy said Cooper's defense was that the girl consented to the sex. He said a nurse who examined the girl after the alleged incidents testified the physical evidence left behind didn't definitively show whether she was forced into sex acts or consented.
Assistant Public Defender Amanda McCoy, who along with Assistant Public Defender Betsy Flack represented Cooper, said parts of the girl's story were inconsistent.
"One of the jurors told us (after the verdict was announced) there just wasn't enough evidence," McCoy said. "They didn't really believe the victim because their story changed so many times."
District Attorney Bert Poston said it's not uncommon for victims to be inconsistent on some things, even when their overall story is true.
"People who have been through traumatic events, particularly sexual assaults, frequently do not remember the events with the crystal clarity that jurors sometimes expect of them," Poston said. "Nevertheless, it is the jurors' role in the criminal justice system to consider the credibility of the witnesses, including the victim, and to decide on a verdict."
Cooper initially told officers he didn't have any sexual contact with the girl, but DNA evidence later showed that he did, Poston said. McCoy said that's true, but his defense has always been that the sex was consensual. In Georgia, adults can be charged if they commit sex acts with a person under 16, regardless of whether the person agrees to the acts.
"If she had been younger than that (16), then it would have been a crime because you can't consent to any sexual contact under 16," McCarthy said.
Cooper couldn't immediately be reached for comment. Records show he is in the Catoosa County jail for probation violation on a forgery conviction.


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You know, you could probably sell tickets for when the faithful few of WBC reach the pearly gates… and St. Peter kicks them off for the long fall.
Apparently nothing warms the cockles of a bigot's soul than telling a five-year-old that she is going to burn in hell. That is, incidentally, what Westboro Baptist Church has done. Rather than acting like mature individuals, they chose to act less maturely than Jayden Sink, the five-year-old who sold lemonade at Equality House last Friday.
The put up on their marquee "F*gs and enabelers all burn in hell. Lemonade won't cool any tongues." They also said in a statement "If you loved Jayden, you'd teach her to obey her God, who said 'if you love me, keep My commandments!' (John 14:15 Including: no fags! (Leviticus 18:22)."
It is difficult to understand, in some ways, why Westboro believes that they are in compliance with the word of God given that they are constantly spewing hatred, and it seems that Christ was adamant about no longer keeping the laws of Leviticus, and that people should love each other as they loved themselves.
In fact, hatred seems like the last thing that Christianity would teach.
Jon Sink, the father of Jayden, stated that "Our intention was never to go stand up to the Westboro Baptist Church or any of that. We went out there to support Planting Peace, to support all the initiatives they do, and to teach Jayden about peace and love and compassion."
Jayden raised about $200 on site and an online fundraiser netted more than $20,000 all for Planting Peace, if I have this correctly. The group Planting Peace plans to hold a same-sex wedding ceremony in the front yard this upcoming Saturday.
Westboro Baptist has a long history of vile attacks and claiming that God hates everyone. They have been known to picket outside funerals in order to spread their hateful message, and are often met by massive counter-demonstrations. Typically, they blame natural and man-made disasters on gays.
The founder of Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps, has not been seen in more than a year. Members of his church, which is largely made up of family members, have been slowly leaving as well.


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If you watch those videos from when he was competing all he did was train, watch television, eat, and drive around to local restaurants for comped food. Other than the gym there is nothing focused about getting to drench your food in bbq sauce while on a precontest diet. I think he has to adopt not the same focus he had in later years as MR O like described above but to get back that focus that he had when he was working full time and training for the earlier Mr O's. 2 different worlds IMOyou are a lil delusional,cause that focus in the prime years he CANT adopt to the world of business,cause how can he manage who will buy his products?!one day he can do great and another he will not,thats the name of the game you cant predict,its not training any more!
and please dont tell me that he is doing some job,cause hes only doing like a celebrity appearances and people are buying his products cause of the videos they saw on youtube nothing else!
he only texts his girls all over the world god knows how many kids he have,but this is not a job...and his popularity will soon start to decline and he will be more and more humble...damn todays ronnie is unrecognizable versus the cocky arrogant ronnie as a mr olympia...its time to sit down dear ronnie,
BTW do you think when people ask him whats your job,that he say "am 8 time mr olympia" hahaha 99.99999999999999999999 population doesnt even care,its like ask me and i say you know am IBF SNOOKER CHAMPION some organization blabla


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This month we celeberate the Jerzey Derby Brigade's blocker, River Slam #6. She may be a sweety off the track, but if you skate in her path you'll get slammed! Catch hard-hitting River Slam and the rest of the Jerzey Derby Brigade's Major Pains on May 5th as they take on New Brunswick's Hellrazors at Inline Morristown.
Click here for event details.
How did you hear about roller derby? How did you get involved?
I actually got 'picked up' at the Grasshopper in Morristown. A girl came up to me as I was leaving the bar and said I looked like I should play derby and gave me the JDB's captain's email. I wasn't really sure what derby was honestly but I figured I should check it out!
What does your derby name say about you?
Mostly that I am a nerd. It's a play off of the name River Tam from the awesome and sadly canceled scifi show Firefly. River Tam is what I hope to embody at derby -- strong, clever and sometimes a bit crazy.
What is your favorite position and why?
B2 -- the outside blocker. I like to be able to work throughout the pack to be a constant annoyance to the jammer. Plus, even though I love strategy, sometimes you just need to hit someone.
Did you ever get any gnarly bruises? How?
I have a great one from our first game this season. Not sure what actually happened but it looks like someone skated up my shin.
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What do you want the people of Morris County to know about the sport?
If you've never heard of roller derby or if you were a fan back in the day, you need to come check it out now. It is such an amazing experience and I can't imagine my life without it!


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Tipton Scholarship concert set for April 28
The eighth annual David Tipton Memorial Scholarship Fund Concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, in the black box theater in the Gilliam Center for the Arts at UVa-Wise. The concert is an excellent opportunity for those who enjoyed the Jazz Ensemble's performances at recent events such as the PRISM Concert and the Chancellor's Inauguration to come enjoy much of the same program in a concert setting.
Admission is free and donations will be accepted at the door or can be mailed to: David Tipton Scholarship Fund, Powell Valley National Bank, 228 E. Fifth St., Big Stone Gap, Va 24219.
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While most people in the U.S. are preparing for holiday activities, Cumming volunteers with Operation Christmas Child—the world's largest Christmas project of its kind—are filling shoebox gifts with toys, school supplies and hygiene items for needy children overseas.
This year-round project of international Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan's Purse, headed by Franklin Graham, is ramping up as local businesses, churches and community groups prepare to collect 15,800 gift-filled shoeboxes during National Collection Week (now through Monday, Nov. 19).
Anyone can drop off a packed shoebox at North Lanier Baptist Church located at 829 Atlanta Highway in Cumming during the following hours:
- Tuesday, Nov. 13, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- Thursday, Nov. 15, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Friday, Nov. 16, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 17, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Sunday, Nov. 18, from noon to 5 p.m.
- Monday, Nov. 19, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Then, using whatever means necessary—trucks, trains, boats, bikes and even elephants—the shoe box gifts will be hand delivered to hurting children in 100 countries around the world.
In 2012, Operation Christmas Child expects to reach a milestone—collecting and delivering shoeboxes to more than 100 million children since 1993. During that time, Operation Christmas Child has collected more than 94 million shoebox gifts and hand-delivered them to suffering children in more than 130 countries.
This year, Operation Christmas Child hopes to collect another 9 million gift-filled shoeboxes. Through the power of a simple gift and the message of hope through Jesus Christ, children learn they are loved and not forgotten. For many children, the shoebox gift will be the first gift they have ever received.
Operation Christmas Child uses tracking technology to allow participants to "follow" their box to the destination country where it will be given to a child in need. To register shoebox gifts and find out the destination country, use the "Follow Your Box" donation form found here.
For more information on how to participate in Operation Christmas Child, call 770-777-9342 or contact Kimberly Sizemore, site coordinator, at 770-781-5433.
Additional details can be found on the Samaritan's Purse website.


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Gov. Tom Corbett toured the area Thursday morning, and signed a disaster emergency proclamation.
"I have activated the resources of twelve state agencies and this morning was notified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that my request for support services from the federal government has been approved," Corbett said.
The FEMA assistance is for residents of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Montgomery, Philadelphia and York counties.
The governor toured areas in Montgomery County on Thursday morning. Montgomery County had the most residents still without power on Thursday, an estimated 130,000.
Speaking Thursday morning, Corbett urged Pennsylvanians to use caution when seeking alternative heating methods for their homes.
"Due to the potentially lethal consequences from carbon monoxide poisoning, citizens are reminded not to use grills or generators indoors. Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless, tasteless gas that is found in combustion fumes like those made by generators, lanterns and gas ranges and can be fatal," the Governor's Office said in a statement.


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At Webster attempted-murder trial, assistant AG: No doubt who fired shots at officer
Manchester police Officer Daniel Doherty, left, and Myles Webster.
Myles Webster looks around as a jury views the area where a Manchester police officer was shot during the start of his trial Tuesday. Webster is charged with shooting officer Daniel Doherty multiple times in March. (Jim Cole/Press Pool Photo)
MANCHESTER - The defense attorney for Myles Webster, who is accused of shooting Manchester Police Officer Dan Doherty in March, suggested in her opening statement at trial this morning that her client was framed.
In her opening argument Tuesday in Hillsborough County Superior Court North, Caroline Smith said there is no fingerprint or DNA evidence linking Webster to the shooting of Doherty, who sustained serious leg and lower torso injuries.
Smith said Webster is the victim of mistaken identity. She said witnesses were not shown photo arrays from which to select the shooter, and she said the investigation was conducted in a way to convict Webster.
Smith said the investigation was "contaminated, unreliable, not trustworthy and done by choice."
Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin said there is no doubt who shot Doherty, and Webster made that clear when he told booking officers after his arrest: "You might as well kill me. I'm going away for life anyway."
Strelzin told jurors, "He knew what he'd done."
What that entailed was firing his .357 Glock handgun out the window of a vehicle on Granite Street after an argument, shortly before a foot chase that ended with Doherty's shooting.
Strelzin said Webster ignored Doherty's repeated shouts. "Police, stop."
As Doherty closed on Webster, close enough to be ready to tackle him, Webster stopped, spun around, and started shooting, Strelzin said.
Despite being wounded and flat on his back, said Strelzin, Doherty managed to pull out his gun and fire. No bullets struck Webster, but Doherty was shot seven times. As for Webster, Strelzin said, "He only stopped shooting because he'd run out of bullets."
Webster was arrested in a Putnam Street back yard, where police reported finding the gun used to shoot Doherty. It was empty, and 14 bullets had been discharged at the time Doherty was shot at Wayne and Rimmon streets, with another shot fired on Granite Street, where a matching shell casing was found.
At today's trial, the public was barred from hearing the first witness, an undercover police officer.
More to come as the trial proceeds.
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Sixteen people were chosen Monday in Hillsborough County Superior Court North to hear the attempted murder case of Myles Webster, 23, who is accused of shooting Manchester Police Officer Daniel Doherty five times after a foot chase on the West Side last March.
After all the evidence is heard and closing arguments are done, Judge Gillian Abramson will draw numbers and 12 members of the group of nine women and seven men will deliberate the charges of attempted murder, robbery and reckless conduct. Four members of the group will serve as alternates.
A jury pool of 90 was whittled down during morning questioning as potential jurors were excused for various reasons, including acquaintance or relationships with witnesses, attorneys or other parties involved, and a stated inability to be impartial.
When the afternoon session began, 16 people were seated in the jury box; about two dozen others were seated in the first two rows of the gallery next to the jury box. Still others from the pool were seated on the other side of the courtroom, in reserve status.
Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Karen Gorham and defense attorney Caroline Smith questioned jurors as a group, in a process called panel voir dire.
One of Gorham's questions sought to determine whether potential jurors understood what part of the trial is evidence.
"Our job is to put information in front of you ... The evidence comes from the witnesses who are sworn," she said.
As an example, she said, if she were to ask a witness if it were not true that the witness saw a blue car and the witness said he saw a red car, the only evidence in that exchange would be that the car was red.
"What I say is not evidence," said Gorham. At the same time, she said, the job of the jury is to judge the credibility of the witness.
Defense attorney Smith asked the potential jurors if they thought that people involved in an event might not be impartial, and if that could affect their testimony.
"This case is about a really tragic event," Smith said. A lot of good people are involved, she said.
She asked if the jurors believe it's possible that good people's conduct and opinions might be affected by their involvement.
Officer Doherty, who said on the witness stand at a motions hearing last month that he is "100 percent sure" that Webster is the man who shot him, will testify, along with officers who chased and arrested Webster shortly after the shooting.
Smith also asked if the jurors thought is was appropriate that the media treated "this kind of thing" differently because of the victim's job as a protector of the public. Would gratitude "affect the way you view the evidence," she asked.
Smith also reminded the jurors that there is a presumption of innocence and that the defendant doesn't have to testify.
Following the questioning by attorneys, about half the original 16 in the jury box were excused as a result of challenges; they were replaced by people selected from the group seated near the jury box who were included in the attorneys' questioning.
The remaining members of the jury pool were excused. Abramson repeated some of the jury instructions, including reminders that they are to avoid any media coverage of the case and avoid any discussions regarding the case. She told them they are not to research the case in any way, including on the Internet, and urged them to report any juror who brings up information gained from outside sources.
The jurors will go on a "view" this morning, traveling to places relevant to the charges on which Webster is being tried. That will be followed by opening arguments by both prosecution and defense.
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Thursday, August 28, 2014 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Rich Theatre
You're invited to a special evening with visual futurist Syd Mead.
Recruited out of college by the Ford Motor Company's Advanced Styling Studio, Mead left a short time later to launch Syd Mead, Inc., which he still runs today. Mead provides architectural renderings and designs to a long list of clients both locally and internationally. Syd Mead also has designed for most of the major movie studios, working on such feature films as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Bladerunner, TRON, 2010, Short Circuit, Aliens, Time Cop, Johnny Mnemonic, Mission Impossible III, and Elysium. With transportation design being his first love, Mead seldom misses an opportunity to provide his unique blend of futurism and believability to projects related to vehicles. One of his renderings is included in Dream Cars, which you can check out following the lecture.
Tickets are available through the Woodruff Arts Center Box Office at 404-733-5000 or at high.org
$15, public; $10, members; $5, students.
Save your ticket stub for a special opportunity to see Dream Cars following this program.


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Pat Buchanan: The fall of the house of labor
In 1958, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, his eye on the 1960 GOP nomination coveted by fellow Californian Richard Nixon, went home and declared for governor.
Knowland's plan: Ride to victory on the back of Proposition 18, the initiative to make right-to-work the law in the Golden Land. Prop. 18 was rejected 2 to 1. Knowland's career was over, and the Republicans were decimated nationally for backing right-to-work.
Badly burned, the party for years ran away from the issue.
This history makes what happened in Michigan, cradle of the United Auto Workers, astonishing. A GOP Legislature passed and Gov. Rick Snyder signed a right-to-work law as libertarian as any in Red State America.
The closed shop, where a worker must belong to the union before being hired, is dead. The union shop, where an individual must join the union once hired, is dead. The agency shop, where a worker cannot be made to join a union but can be required to pay dues if the union is the agent negotiating the contract for all workers, is dead.
Michigan just legislated the open shop.
And behind the blue-collar bellicosity in Lansing is this new reality. Non-union workers can now "free ride" on union contracts. This is close to a non-survivable wound for labor.
Workers who do not belong to unions will cease paying dues, and union members will begin quietly to quit and pocket their dues money.
Why pay dues if you don't have to? Why contribute a dime to a union PAC if you don't have to, or don't like labor's candidates?
Michigan workers are not going to suffer. They have simply been given the freedom to join or not join a union, to pay or not pay dues. And while wages in right-to-work states such as Virginia, Tennessee, Texas and Florida are slightly below those of other states, employment in right-to-work states is higher.
For these are the states where domestic and foreign investors look to site new plants. The BMW assembly plant is in Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., the Mercedes plant in Tuscaloosa, Ala., the Volkswagen and Nissan plants in Tennessee. As Gov. Rick Perry boasts, Texas has been the biggest job creator in the Obama recession.
But union power is going to be circumscribed as non-union workers elect to free-ride and union members start resigning. And just as Michigan saw Indiana creating jobs after passing right-to-work, other states may observe Michigan and go forth and do likewise.
There are now 24 right-to-work states. But while these laws arrested the rise of the house of labor, there was an inevitability to its fall. Who are the collective killers? Like the murder on the Orient Express, just about everyone on the train.
First came automation. A third of U.S. workers were unionized in the 1950s. But with new technologies, we discovered we did not need so many men to dig coal, make steel or print newspapers. We did not need firemen riding in the cabs of diesel locomotives.
A second blow came with the postwar rise of Germany and Japan. Their plants and equipment were all newer than ours. Their wages were far lower, as they did not carry the burden of defending the Free World. Under our defense umbrella, they began to invade and capture our markets.
And Uncle Sam let them do it.
A third blow to Big Labor, concentrated in the Frost Belt, came from the Sun Belt. With air conditioning making summers tolerable, the South offered less expensive and more reliable labor than a North where union demands were constant and strikes common.
But the mortal blow to American unions came from globalization.
With the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China propelling hundreds of millions of new workers into the global hiring hall, U.S. multinationals saw historic opportunity.
If they could move factories out of the U.S.A., they would be free of union demands, wage-and-hour laws, occupational health and safety laws, environmental laws and civil rights law. By outsourcing, they could produce for a fraction of the cost of doing so in the U.S.A.
And if they could get the U.S. political class, in return for corporate generosity at election time, to let them bring their foreign-made goods back to the U.S.A., tax and tariff free, profits would explode, and salaries and bonuses with them.
The corporate establishment and political establishment shook hands, the deed was done, and the fate of U.S. industrial unions sealed. So came NAFTA, GATT, the World Trade Organization, MFN for China, free trade with all.
And with globalization came trade deficits unlike any the world had ever seen, a loss of one-third of U.S. manufacturing jobs in the last decade, a U.S. dependence on foreign-made goods almost as great as in colonial days, the enrichment of our corporate and financial elites beyond the dreams of avarice, and the decline and fall of the house of labor.
Unions are dying because, in America, economic patriotism is dead.
Pat Buchanan is a former Republican and Reform Party candidate for President, an adviser to two Presidents, a syndicated columnist based in Washington, D.C., and the author of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?"
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