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A woman in Henrico County fears her home could sink into the ground at any moment. Tammy Young says a sinkhole is spreading across her front lawn. She says it's grown six times as large as last week.
"I can fit my body in there," said Tammy Young. "It's getting bigger," she continued.
The hole in Young's yard is more wide than it is deep. It appears to be a shallow hole, about two feet deep, which is spreading indefinitely underneath the surface of Young's lawn.
Young says the hole is threatening her family. She lives with her father, whose room is closest to the hole.
"My dad's bedroom is right here…The house can collapse. There goes my dad," worried Young.
Young also found a hole, now filled with rocks, across the street in her neighbor's yard. She says those rocks are starting to sink as well.
NBC12 discovered that Young's home may be located near an old, unfilled coal mine. Soil engineer Tom Zannino, of Zannino Engineering in Henrico, says there are old mine sites dating back to the 1700's across the West End.
"(Miners) basically just excavated ... mostly hand equipment, some dynamite…Then they just left the void," explained Zannino.
However, Zannino plotted Young's house on a map of the old mine sites. As it turns out, her home isn't near any of the mines.
"She's outside the coal area," concluded Zannino.
However, Young does live near a Civil War site, where soldiers dug out trenches to protect Richmond.
"The Brigham Road area (where Young lives) would be somewhere out in this vicinity right here," said historian Robert Krick of Richmond National Battlefield Park, while pointing to a Civil War era map. "That's just where the trenches were."
It's uncertain whether old trenches caused the hole in Young's yard. Regardless, she says her battle will continue.
"Everything's going to open up. That's the way I feel about it," said Young.
Young says she's going to hire a soil or geotechnical engineer out to assess the sinkhole.
Anyone who discovers a sinkhole, should contact the county. If the hole is caused by government property, the county may fix it. Officials say Young's hole wasn't triggered by city pipes or land, so it's her responsibility to solve the problem.
Other common causes of sinkholes are broken underground pipes which can carry away soil, weakening the ground. Old wells, or holes dug up by contractors during the building of a home, can also lead to sinkholes.
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The Smaller Side of Penn State Sports - 3/26/12 (by @kmart93)
While having a full staff was good news, Rose also confirmed Monday that his roster is now a little bit smaller. Darcy Dorton and Ali Longo have left the program and are looking to transfer. "I didn't want either one of them to go," Rose said, "but I don't fight for anyone to stay, either. To me, it always comes down to the same mantra as when I arrived here 33 years ago: I want players and staff that want to be here. Then I trust them to work their hardest on a day-to-day basis to be the best they can be." Both have been released from the program and can go anywhere, although Big Ten rules prohibit an athlete from transferring to another conference school on a scholarship. While there have been a few other women who have left the program over the last decade, perhaps none have had such large roles with the Nittany Lions. Longo, who is from Littleton, Colo., was the starting libero for most of last season and led the team in total digs (397) and digs per set (3.39). Dorton was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2009 and an honorable mention AVCA All-American, starting throughout the season and registering 13 kills in the national championship match against Texas. However, the native of Muncie, Ind., tore her ACL the following spring, missed all of 2010 with a medical redshirt and played sparingly last season as she struggled to beat out others for playing time. She was a team captain and a strong personality even while cheering from the bench, but she played in just 17 matches, starting none and appeared in only 22 sets with a total of 20 kills for the season. Rose declined to go into details about their departures, and an e-mail to Dorton did not draw a response. "They made great contributions while they were here," Rose said. "I'm sure they will make great contributions wherever they go."
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Discover what aviation innovators are thinking and doing. Regular contributors include SITA executives as well as guest bloggers from airlines, airports and other air transport industry stakeholders.
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On the hunt for the next big thing
Published on 19 August 2014 15:08 by Eash Sundaram
Eash Sundaram, Executive Vice President & CIO, JetBlue Airways
At JetBlue, we have a reputation for innovation and new ways of working. It's something we're proud of. We are proactive in the way we approach innovation – in fact, we're always on the hunt for the next big thing.
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Putting the passenger first
Published on 14 August 2014 14:08 by Bryan Thompson
Bryan Thompson, General Manager for Planning, Strategy & Development, Melbourne Airport
As passengers pass through Melbourne Airport, they're increasingly active in their use of IT to help them on their travels. More and more, they want information to flow to them through their mobile devices. This gives them back time, in essence, as they progress more smoothly.
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Using wearable computing to improve customer service
Published on 7 August 2014 14:08 by Tim Graham
Tim Graham, IT Innovation & Development Manager, Virgin Atlantic Airways
Wearable computing is a hot topic at the moment. Together with SITA, Virgin Atlantic created a six-week project to test the technology at London Heathrow. It was a small-scale project, using just one pair of Google Glasses and three Sony SmartWatches.
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APC in the US of A
Published on 29 July 2014 16:07 by Paul Houghton
Here in the US, it can take up to two hours for passengers to progress through queues at immigration. SITA, in partnership with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), is addressing this pinch-point with the introduction of Automated Passport Control (APC).
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We care and we're willing to invest
Published on 17 July 2014 00:07 by John Newsome
John Newsome, Director of Information Technology, Greater Orlando Aviation Authority
Prior to implementing Automated Passport Control (APC) kiosks, on average, it took 3-4 minutes to process each passenger. Our border control infrastructure consisted of the same Customs and Border Protection (CBP) configuration found at airports throughout the United States.
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The new journey
Published on 30 June 2014 19:06 by Francesco Violante
Let's work together to make it happen
The greater role played by IT and communications over recent years has uprooted the traditional passenger journey and replaced it with a brand new one.
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Air Transport IT Summit 2014 – Day 2
Published on 19 June 2014 18:06 by Thomas Knierim
After a fun and productive night of dining, networking and World Cup watching, the 2014 Air Transport IT Summit concluded with today's three plenary sessions.
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Air Transport IT Summit 2014 - Day 1
Published on 18 June 2014 19:06 by Thomas Knierim
The 2014 Air Transport IT Summit officially kicked off at yesterday's welcome drinks and buffet dinner in the exhibition hall. Amid the SITA and sponsor demo booths was the constant hum of networking between hundreds of delegates. The SITA Lab's wearable computing demo was a big hit as delegates tried on the Google Glass and SmartWatch used by Virgin Atlantic staff in an award-winning pioneering pilot.
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Internet of Wearable Things?
Published on 17 June 2014 10:06 by Jim Peters
The term "Internet of Things" or the "Internet of Everything" as CISCO calls it, continues to evolve with new technologies such as Google Glass and iBeacons. With Glass, users can access information while keeping their hands free, which would be nice for some staff working in our industry, as they deal with customers, baggage, planes, etc.
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Taking time to give a little back
Published on 19 December 2013 18:12 by Amber Harrison
The end of the year is traditionally a time for reflection on the achievements and contributions made over the previous 12 months. Each of us has goals in mind at the start of the year - getting to the gym more, learning a new language, or visiting new countries. For a lot of the communities where SITA operates, the hopes and aims are often simpler. A hope for enough food to feed their families, basic home, health and safety needs, or finding the funding needed for a charity providing essential services.
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Stepping closer to "Tap n' Fly"
Published on 21 November 2013 03:11 by Renaud Irminger
IATA and the NFC Forum released the "NFC Reference Guide for Air Travel" a few weeks ago. It's great to see this unanimous claim about the benefits that a technology such as NFC can bring to all stakeholders in the air transport industry.
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Great idea, but show me the money!
Published on 14 November 2013 19:11 by Kevin Peterson
Airports are continually trying to improve the quality of customer service and with unlimited financial resources it is quite easy to do. Of course, here in the real world there are commercial constraints limiting how much airports can spend on making passengers smile as they make their way to the aircraft. There typically has to be a balance or trade-off.
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Embedding CSR into our business
Published on 23 October 2013 03:10 by Amber Harrison
At SITA, we often get asked about what we're doing as a business in the areas of social responsibility and the environment. The questions can be a requirement in the sales process, part of a responsible supply chain program, or are raised by individuals. Wherever the queries come from it shows that these areas are of interest, so I'd like to share a little of what we're doing.
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Flying tablets
Published on 3 October 2013 15:10 by Paul Boyle
Tablets transforming travel
As Apple released its new phones I was reminded how this company has changed the way we do things everyday in our everyday lives. iPods, iPhones, iPads - we've come a long way from Walkmans.
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Can mobile wallets add value in travel?
Published on 5 September 2013 15:09 by Renaud Irminger
The use of mobile wallets within our industry is currently a hot topic. I did an Industry Insight Session at the Air Transport IT Summit in June with Shashank Nigam, the CEO of Simpliflying and Thomas Husson from Forrester and it dominated the conversation.
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Mobile innovation: fact or fiction?
Published on 8 August 2013 15:08 by Thomas Knierim
Did you read the article on Tnooz, "Admit it - true innovation in travel is a bit of myth"?
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Next gen PSS - for smarter, more mobile and personal travel
Published on 1 August 2013 15:08 by Helen Porter
The Air Transport IT Summit 2013 gave SITA the opportunity to unveil Horizon, our next generation passenger services system (PSS).
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Being a responsible business makes us a better business
Published on 25 July 2013 14:07 by Amber Harrison
June was an exciting month for SITA, as we released our first Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report at our Annual General Assembly in Brussels.
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2013 Air Transport IT Summit
Published on 20 June 2013 17:06 by Thomas Knierim
This year marked the 14th Air Transport IT Summit and was attended by over 350 delegates from 75 countries. Paul Coby, SITA Board Chair, hosted the event and Max Kingsley-Jones, Editor of Airline Business, moderated.
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2013 Industry Insight Sessions
Published on 19 June 2013 19:06 by Thomas Knierim
The Air Transport IT Summit kicked off today with four Industry Insight Sessions.
The mobile explosion
The first centered on mobility in the air transport industry (ATI).
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Airline passenger services systems (PSS) - commodity or differentiator?
Published on 31 May 2013 17:05 by Ian Ryder
This question was hotly debated by a group of us over coffee in Atlanta last week. Clearly, technology, lifestyles and customer expectations are forcing rapid change on airlines - but is this innovation bypassing core functions such as reservations and DCS? Are they becoming a commodity?
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Is it time for airlines to think big?
Published on 23 May 2013 21:05 by Jim Peters
There has been a lot of shouting about big data and it is clear that there should be something useful in it for our industry given the massive amount of data we generate. (See my previous post on big data).
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Smartphones for all! Is NFC the next wave?
Published on 20 May 2013 18:05 by Nigel Pickford
As extraordinary as the rise of the mobile phone has been in our everyday lives, the move this has sparked from voice to data for personal communications is, arguably, even more extraordinary.
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Falling out of love with social media, already?
Published on 7 May 2013 14:05 by Thomas Knierim
Airlines & social media: In a relationship? It's complicated
A great love affair started only recently: airlines and social media. Is it a fling or something more serious?
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SITA's annual Baggage Report
Published on 1 May 2013 17:05 by Nick Gates
Ninth edition highlights
The 2013 Baggage Report was released at Passenger Terminal Expo in Geneva on 9 April 2013.
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PTE 2013 - Leveraging technology to meet changing passenger demands
Published on 11 April 2013 14:04 by Catherine Mayer
Human touch on demand
Passengers are increasingly more in charge of their travel experience. What, when and how they buy, and at what price, is now in their domain. Airports, airlines and other sellers have to adapt.
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PTE 2013 - Customer expectations and converging trends
Published on 28 March 2013 09:03 by Catherine Mayer
Once again Passenger Terminal Expo has pulled together interesting topics at this year's event in Geneva, Switzerland, and I am excited to be presenting and leading a panel discussion about how the industry can leverage technology to meet evolving passenger demands.
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ATN names SITA "IT Company of the Year"
Published on 19 March 2013 16:03 by Arthur Calderwood
It was a pleasure to accept, on behalf of SITA, the IT Company of the Year award from Air Transport News (ATN) on Sunday evening at a gala dinner in Montreal.
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What the future holds
Published on 13 March 2013 16:03 by Thomas Knierim
In spite of ongoing economic uncertainties worldwide, the outlook for air travel is positive. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) predicts airlines will carry 3.6 billion passengers in 2016. That's an increase of 800 million from 2011.
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What the future holds ... maybe
Published on 6 March 2013 22:03 by Kevin OSullivan
This year, over 72,000 delegates, and 1,700 exhibitors attended Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, the annual mobile technology trade show, organized by the GSMA. Exhibitors showcased phone devices, components, backhaul infrastructure, payments, apps and accessories.
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Big data and predictive analytics
Published on 3 December 2012 15:12 by Jim Peters
If you have any kind of technical ear to the ground these days, you won't go too far without bumping into the term "Big Data". Originally spawned from web giants like Google, Yahoo, Amazon and Facebook, it was a term coined for how they can analyze and look at all the user information they gather as you use their systems to search, shop, email and share stuff online with your friends.
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iPhone 5 and NFC - Where to next?
Published on 25 September 2012 14:09 by Jim Peters
So Apple didn't include NFC in iPhone 5. After personally announcing at our IT Summit in June that Apple's inclusion of NFC in the iPhone 5 would be the "slam dunk" to ensure NFC's future and rapid rollout, I am left still scratching my head. What will Apple do with NFC?
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Summer loving ... embrace those extra passengers
Published on 14 September 2012 15:09 by Thomas Knierim
In the second of a two-part blog series on how the air transport industry can accommodate peaks in passenger flow, especially during the busy summer season, Thomas Knierim looks at three areas for airlines.
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Share the love ... embrace those extra passengers
Published on 29 August 2012 20:08 by Thomas Knierim
In the first of a two-part blog series on how the air transport industry can accommodate peaks in passenger flow, especially during the busy summer tourist season, Thomas Knierim discusses three key areas for airports.
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Paying for paying
Published on 31 May 2012 23:05 by Jim Peters
Our investigations in SITA Lab into NFC have been focused mainly on boarding passes, but it has given us a glimpse into the world of payment systems and credit card processing, which to me has always been a bit opaque.
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The rise of the tablet and BYOD
Published on 3 April 2012 20:04 by Jim Peters
Apple's phenomenal success with the iPad, pushing it to the largest market cap company in the world, with nearing $100B in cash in the bank from the profits over the last few years, is indeed an incredible story. But it is only getting started. They have sold around 80 million iPads to a world with 7 Billion people, and everyone wants one!
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2011 - It was a very good year
Published on 19 January 2012 19:01 by Jim Peters
2011 was a good year for SITA Lab. We concentrated our efforts in three key themes: Social networking, near field communications (NFC) and WiFi indoor location.
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Business intelligence in the palm of your hand
Published on 14 December 2011 14:12 by Ron Reed
The iPad is today's ultimate 'all-purpose' device. By that, I mean, it is a device that has meaning and purpose for just about everybody: from toddlers (my three-year-old son uses it to play educational games) to teenagers (playing action-packed video games) to business users (filling out forms at doctor's offices). Indeed, the iPad's uses are as broad and various as its users.
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Can't get there from here
Published on 28 September 2011 20:09 by Jim Peters
With the recent break-up of one of my favorite bands, R.E.M., I am reminded of their song, Can't Get There From Here. Often, when I hit a busy large airport, and they are getting busier and larger all the time, getting to where I want to go can be a challenge.
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NFC still not so near?
Published on 9 August 2011 22:08 by Jim Peters
Near field communications (NFC) is an emerging technology that can be used on new smartphones. It allows communications between the phone and a NFC reader or another NFC phone to transfer information. Because it is secure, NFC is seen as an opportunity for everything from electronic wallets, where money can be stored and transferred, to credit card information. It can even replace the traditional card swipe for payment.
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Booking flights on Facebook
Published on 12 May 2011 21:05 by Jim Peters
On February 28th, SITA Lab launched a booking application for Malaysia Airlines on Facebook called MHbuddy. The reaction and comments so far have been really interesting and wide-ranging.
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Making travel booking so easy ... even a baby could do it!
Published on 16 February 2011 22:02 by Jim Peters
The SITA Lab participated in the Tnooz THack event over the last couple of weeks and took the gold medal with an Android voice-based search for tours and flights.
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Back on Location
Published on 31 January 2011 23:01 by Jim Peters
As promised in my previous post, here is some more brain candy on our work with Cisco and Copenhagen Airport on the passenger geo-location topic.
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Location, Location, Location....!
Published on 19 November 2010 17:11 by Jim Peters
While this is the mantra of product placement, its now also the buzz in the smartphone world with GPS enabled phones.
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Augmented Reality: Gimmick or a New Way to Look at the World?
Published on 1 September 2010 21:09 by Jim Peters
One of the more intriguing technologies emerging from the smartphone revolution is Augmented Reality. A sci-fi term for using your phone's camera to get a view of what is physically around you through a graphical and textual overlay of the camera's view.
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Moore's Law and Intel's never-ending "Bang for the Buck"
Published on 16 July 2010 16:07 by Jim Peters
Intel announced their Quarterly results recently, and they continue to dominate and grow in the microprocessor chip space. Their chips continue to go faster and do more for less.
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The Tesla IPO and Green Crude
Published on 2 July 2010 15:07 by Jim Peters
The electric car company Tesla IPO'd this week, pricing at $17 and ending the first day of trading up 40% above that.
As commentators point out, this IPO is a tracking indicator of the overall "green economy" with a game-changing technology.
Tesla's all-electric Roadster Sport goes from 0-60 mph in 3.7 seconds, and there is no engine noise, which must be kind of freaky (I wonder if owners of this car make engine revving noises to themselves while driving?)
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iPad Mania!
Published on 18 June 2010 19:06 by Jim Peters
On 3 April, Apple firmly planted the iPad as the Next Big Thing. 300,000 were sold on the first day alone, 500,000 in the first week. Within 5 days, 3.5 million iPad apps and 600,000 iBooks were downloaded. In less than 2 months, 2 million iPads have been sold in the U.S. alone. International sales just started on 28 May, so those numbers will surely skyrocket. Developers have created 5,000 new apps to take advantage of the iPad's Multi-Touch interface, large screen and high-quality graphics.
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Making a difference with IT in air transport
Published on 3 June 2010 22:06 by Jim Peters
In today's air transport industry, one does not have to look very far or hard to see the huge challenges the industry faces. IATA is diligent in publishing regular updates on the state of the industry, and these have come to be more doomsday reports, with losses of $9.4B in 2009 and estimated losses of $2.8B in 2010.
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Electronic Government:
Performance Measures for Projects Aimed at Promoting Innovation and Transparency Can Be Improved
GAO-11-775: Published: Sep 23, 2011. Publicly Released: Sep 23, 2011.
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Congress enacted the Electronic Government (E-Gov) Act in 2002 to promote better use of the Internet and other information technologies (IT), thereby improving government services for citizens, internal government operations, and opportunities for citizen participation in government. Among other things, the act established the E-Gov Fund to support projects that expand the government's ability to carry out its activities electronically. The act also created the Office of Electronic Government within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Administrator of this office is to assist the OMB Director in approving projects to be supported by the E-Gov Fund. The General Services Administration (GSA) is responsible for administering the fund and notifying Congress of how the funds are to be allocated to projects approved by OMB. GAO was asked to (1) identify and describe the projects supported by the E-Gov Fund, including the distribution of fiscal year 2010 funds among the projects and their expected benefits; and (2) for selected projects, identify their progress against goals. To do this, GAO reviewed project and funding documentation, analyzed project goals, and interviewed agency officials..
The $34 million appropriated by Congress in fiscal year 2010 for the E-Gov fund was distributed among 16 projects in six investment areas, as defined by GSA. One investment area--Improving Innovation, Efficiency, and Effectiveness and Federal IT--accounted for $10 million of the fiscal year 2010 appropriation. This area included an initiative on federal cloud computing--the use of Internet-based computing services. The remaining investment areas supported projects promoting government transparency, collaboration, and public participation and a project for developing best practices for IT management. Among other benefits, the 16 projects are expected to improve data quality and foster cross-agency knowledge sharing and communication as well as increase public access and use of federal datasets. As of May 2011, the four E-Gov projects GAO selected for more detailed review had made varying progress toward their goals. For example, a cloud computing security initiative was still being developed; a dashboard for displaying target and actual customer service metrics had been developed in a pilot with four agencies, but had not been publicly released; a platform for government employees and contractors to use web-based networking and collaboration tools was in limited deployment; and a website (Data.gov) that allows the public to find, download, and use government-generated data had been fully launched. In addition, the four projects had defined performance metrics that aligned with many, though not all, of their major goals and intended benefits. Although the E-Gov Administrator (who serves as the Federal Chief Information Officer) announced the termination of two of the four reviewed projects in May 2011, the two ongoing projects do not yet have fully defined metrics that align with all of their major goals and intended benefits. Thus, managers and stakeholders cannot effectively assess project results and provide credible evidence of progress, which is particularly important in a resource-constrained environment. GAO is recommending that GSA ensure that performance metrics that align with all project goals be developed for ongoing E-Gov projects. In written comments on a draft of this report, GSA concurred with GAO's recommendation.
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Recommendation for Executive Action
Recommendation: For any E-Gov Fund projects that continue to be supported, the Administrator of the General Services Administration should ensure that performance metrics are developed that align with those project goals, especially those that currently lack such metrics.
Agency Affected: General Services Administration
Status: Open
Comments: When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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Regulatory Impact Analysis:Development of Social Cost of Carbon EstimatesGAO-14-663: Published: Jul 24, 2014. Publicly Released: Aug 25, 2014.
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Jul 22, 2014
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Parking passes for Municipal Auditorium Garage and Cathedral Parking Garage for conference week will be sold on-site only. The cost will be $50 for Municipal and $45 for Cathedral. Passes will be on sale in Lobby 2100 (north side of 13th Street), just outside the SkillsUSA Conference headquarters on the following days and times: Friday, June 22, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, June 23, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Cash, checks, Visa, MasterCard and American Express are also accepted. A map of the immediate downtown area with other parking options will be provided. Please refer to the following link for more information: www.skillsusa.org/events/nlscparking.shtml.
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Damage claim amounts are coming out in last week's North Texas tornadoes.
News 8 has learned damage claims could top $500 million. The numbers have already passed $300 million. The numbers are according to an insurance industry group based out of Austin.
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Artichoke Rye Toasts Recipe
Quick, light and cheesy, Joann Guzolik's mouthwatering artichoke bites make irresistible finger food for guests of all ages at her home in West Leechburg, Pennsylvania.
- 24 slices snack rye bread
- Refrigerated butter-flavored spray
- 1 can (14 ounces) water-packed artichoke hearts, rinsed, drained and chopped
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 4 egg whites
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- Place the bread on ungreased baking sheets; spritz with butter-flavored spray. In a small bowl, combine the artichokes, cheeses and cayenne. In another bowl, beat egg whites until stiff; fold into artichoke mixture.
- Spread over bread; sprinkle with paprika. Bake at 400° for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 2 dozen.
Originally published as Artichoke Rye Toasts in Light & Tasty October/November 2006, p36
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Old ITP News
Summer 2012
- Tom Kepler is the Director of the Computational Biology Scientific Resource Support Center for the new Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology-Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI-ID) awarded by the NIAID to Duke University in July.
- From the website: (http://chavi-id-duke.org/home): The Computational Biology SRSC is led by Thomas Kepler, PhD of the Boston University School of Medicine and includes Bette Korber, PhD and Alan Perelson, PhD of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The goals of the Duke CHAVI-ID consortium are to overcome the roadblocks to HIV-1 vaccine development, which include the diversity of HIV-1 and the inability to induce broad neutralizing antibodies (BnAbs). Therefore, this SRSC will support the B cell lineage immunogen design efforts and the new mosaic T and B cell immunogen design efforts of the Duke CHAVI-ID consortium using specialized statistical analyses of the dynamics of the antibody repertoire, intra-subject virus evolution, and computational immunogen design.
- Krishna Moody was awarded an NRSA fellowship. The title of the grant is: "Modulation of Autoantigen Trafficking and TLR engagement by FcgRIIB and AP3B1. It is an F31 awarded through NIAMS.
- Barb Nikolajczyk, Madhu Bogdan, and Gerald Denispublished the following paper: The outliers become a stampede as immunometabolism reaches a tipping point.Nikolajczyk BS, Jagannathan-Bogdan M, Denis GV. Immunol. Rev. 2012 Sep: 249(1) 253-275. Doi: 10.1111/j. 1600-065X.2012.01142.x.
- Hans Dooms published a paper: Penaranda, C., Kuswanto, W., Hofmann, J., Kenefeck, R., Narendran, P., Walker, L.S.K., Bluestone, J.A.B., Abbas, A. K.A., and Dooms, H., IL-7 receptor blockade reverses autoimmune diabetes by promoting inhibition of effector/memory T cells Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2012, 109: 12668-126732.
- The paper was highlighted in:
- IL-7 receptor α blockade, an off-switch for autoreactive T cells. Boettler T, von Herrath M. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jul 31;109:12270-1.
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 11, 599 (August 2012) | doi:10.1038/nrd3805 Autoimmune disease: Targeting IL-7 reverses type 1 diabetes
- SciBX vol. 5/number 29, July 26, 2012. Taming T cells in T1D.
- The paper was highlighted in:
- The following article was published. Authors in ITP includeJay Mizgerd and Lee Quinton: Type I Alveolar Epithelial Cells Mount Innate Immune Responses during Pneumococcal Pneumonia. Yamamoto K, Ferrari JD, Cao Y, Ramirez MI, Jones MR, Quinton LJ, Mizgerd JP. J Immunol. 2012 Sep 1;189(5):2450-9. Epub 2012 Jul 27.
- Jay Mizgerd published the following perspective:Respiratory Infection and the Impact of Pulmonary Immunity on Lung Health and Disease. Mizgerd, JP. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2012 Jul 12 (in press)
June/July 2012
- 3 new faculty were appointed to ITP: Tom Kelpler, Matt Jones, and Hans Dooms. Stay tuned for their faculty pages on our website.
- Munir Mosaheb finished his lab rotations, and has joinedLee Wetzler's lab. His research project is as follows:
o Munir has started investigating the immunobiology of TLR ligands as vaccine adjuvants, especially the Neisserial porin (PorB). He will be comparing and characterizing the effects of various adjuvants to PorB on humoral and cellular immune responses using ovalbumin as an antigen. He will also utilize a Listeria mouse model of infection to characterize the effect of PorB and other adjuvants on inducing cell mediated immune protection to this pathogen."
- Congratulations to Bill Cruikshank who was just appointed Assistant Dean in the BUSM Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. The following paragraph is from the mail communication about this new appointment.
o William Cruikshank, PhD, a professor of Medicine with extensive experience in teaching and funded research, is actively involved in the GMS Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), which provides research experience for underrepresented minorities. Dr. Cruikshank is committed to organizing and implementing outreach programs to attract minorities to biomedical research. He will serve as the Office of Diversity's liaison to the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences.
- Lee Quinton's lab published the following paper. It includes 4 ITP members: Professors Lee Quinton, Jay Mizgerd, and new ITP faculty member Matt Jones, and ITP pre-doc student Kristie Hilliard. The paper is: Quinton, L.J., Mizgerd, J.P., Hilliard, K.L., Jones, M.R., Kwon, C.Y., and Allen, E. (2012) Leukemia inhibitory factor signaling is required for lung protection during pneumonia. Journal of Immunology 188(12) 6300-8
o The pubmed link is here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22581855
- Gerald Denis' lab has an article in the July 2012 issue ofNature Reviews Cancer. It is entitled, "BET domain co-regulators in obesity, inflammation and caner." The full text can be found here:http://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v12/n7/full/nrc3256.html
- Lee Wetzler had a review published on TLR2 and Infection and Immunity in Frontiers in Immunology. The pubmed link is here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22566960
- Tom Kepler and colleagues published the following paper: Haynes BF, Kelsoe G, Harrison SC, Kepler TB. B-cell-lineage immunogen design in vaccine development with HIV-1 as a case study Nat. Biotechnol. 2012 May 7;30(5):423-33.
Awards and Grants :
- Gerald Denis' lab received an Ignition award from the BU Technology Development for a project entitled 'Novel Brd2 inhibitors to treat inflammatory diseases and diabetes.'
- Dave Sherr's lab has been awarded a 2 year grant from the Mary Kay Foundation to study the effects of aryl hydrocarbon receptor in human breast cancer.
- Dave Sherr's lab was awarded a Coulter foundation grant for translational studies to develop AhR modulators as triple negative breast cancer therapeutics.
Conference invitations and presentations :
- Gerald Denis has been invited to chair a two-track symposium at the September 2012 annual meeting of the Obesity Society on the topic of the role of inflammation in the obesity-associated cancers.
- Barb Nikolajczyk presented her team's work at the American Diabetes Association annual meeting June 2012. The title of the work was "B Lymphocytes are Master Regulators of a Pro-inflammatory T Cell Balance in Obesity and Glucose Intolerance". This work has also been selected as a plenary oral presentation for The Obesity Society Annual meeting in Sept. 2012 in San Antonio TX.
- Barb Nikolajczyk presented "B lymphocytes are master regulators of a pro-inflammatory T cell balance in obesity and glucose intolerance " as an invited speaker at the Univ. of Pennsylvania Immmunology seminar series in June, 2012.
- Barb Nikolajczyk has been invited as a panel member at an Obesity Society Annual Meeting Pre-conference Workshop on Adipocyte Metabolism, to be held in Sept. 2012 in San Antonio TX.
- Tom Kepler lectured at the I lectured at the 2012 Summer school on Computational Immunology at the University of Rochesteron "Agent-based models applied to affinity maturation and the germinal center reaction".
o The lecture can be viewed here:http://imcportal.org/education/video/thomas-kepler-agent-based-models-applied-to-affinity-maturation-and-the-germinal-center-reaction.
- Tom Kepler spoke at the Symposium on Modeling Immune Response from Complex Data, at the University of Rochester. The talk was on "Affinity Maturation via Computational Biology.
o This talk can be viewed here:http://imcportal.org/education/video/thomas-kepler-affinity-maturation-via-computational-biology
April/May 2012
Professor David Center will receive the 2012 Trudeau Award from the American Thoracic Society, to be presented at the San Francisco ATS meeting in May. This award is a major honor, given to one individual a year to recognize "lifelong major contributions to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of lung disease through leadership in research, education, or clinical care." A trulyexceptional accomplishment!
Dr. Susan Winandy was chosen to co-chair the "Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Lineage Fate Decisions" Block Symposium at the American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting in Boston in May. Her work was also chosen for an oral presentation.
Parul Agnihotri, a second year graduate student in the lab of Dr. Susan Winandy who is supported by the ITP training grant, presented a psoster entited "Role of Ikaros in Foxo1-driven gene expression in CD4 T cells" at the International Graduate Student Immunology Conference 2012 at Harvard University on April 27-28 2012.
Dr. Rahm Gummuluru's lab has the following papers in press (ITP members are highlighted):
- Sagar, M., Akiyama, H., Etemad, B., Ramirez, N., Freitas, I., and Gummuluru, S. 2012. Transmembrane domain membrane proximal external region but not surface unit directed broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibodies can restrict dendritic cell mediated HIV-1 trans infection. J. Infect. Dis. 205(8): 1248-1257. PMID: 22396600
- Puryear, W.B., Yu, X., Ramirez, N.P., Reinhard, B.M., andGummuluru, S. 2012. HIV-1 incorporation of host cell derived glycosphingolipid GM3 allows for capture by mature dendritic cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. In press. PMID: 22529395
- This paper was recently highlighted on the BUSM front page. The blurb can be found here:http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm-news/2012/04/24/mechanism-of-hiv-spread-has-potential-for-future-drug-therapy/
- It was also highlighted in other news agencies, see the links below:
- http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120424/Researchers-describe-novel-mechanism-of-HIV-1-spread-by-dendritic-cells.aspx
- http://www.health.am/aids/more/mechanism-of-hiv-spread/
David Sherr was selected to give a symposium lecture at AAI this month on "Environmental Chemicals as Probes of the Immune System"
An abstract from Barb Nikolajczyk's lab was chosen for the opening plenary session at the Obesity Society meeting in San Antonio in September. The abstract is titled, "B Lymphocytes are Master Regulators of a Pro-inflammatory T Cell Balance in Obesity and Glucose Intolerance
March 2012
- The Nikolajczyk lab's work has been selected for an oral presentation at the American Diabetes Association annual meeting in Philadelphia in June. Dr. Nikolajczyk will be presenting. The title of her talk is: "B Lymphocytes are Master Regulators of a Pro-inflammatory T Cell Balance in Obesity and Glucose Intolerance"
- The Nikolajczyk lab's work has also been selected for an oral presentation at the American Association of Immunologists annual meeting in Boston in May. Anna Belkina will be presenting.
Work for both of these was done in collaboration with the Denis Lab
- Lisa Ganley-Leal received a score of 20 on an R21 to define a novel TLR4 complex on human B cells. Anticipated start date 7/1/12.
- Munir Mosaheb's abstract from his research during his first rotation in Bill Cruikshank's lab was accepted by AAI for a poster presentation, and he was awarded a GMS travel award.
January/February 2012
- The following paper was published from Jay Mizgerd's lab. ITP faculty authors are bolded: Blahna, MT, MR Jones, LJ Quinton, K Matsuura, JP Mizgerd. 2011. Terminal uridyltransferase enzyme Zcchc11 promotes cell proliferation independent of its uridyltransferase activity. J Biol Chem286:42381-42389.
- Also from Jay Mizgerd's lab, this publication has been accepted: ITP faculty and student authors are bolded: Quinton, LJ, MT Blahna, MR. Jones, E Allen, JD Ferrari, KL Hilliard, X Zhang, V Sabharwal, H Algül, S Akira, RM Schmid, SI Pelton, A Spira, JP Mizgerd. 2012. Hepatocyte-specific mutation of both NF-kB RelA and STAT3 abrogates the acute phase response in mice. J Clin Invest (in press).
- Greg Viglianti's Lab published: Melissa B. Uccellini,, Patricia Busto, Michelle Debatis, Ann Marshak-Rothstein,Gregory A. Viglianti 2012. Selective binding of anti-DNA antibodies to native dsDNA fragments of differing sequence.Immunology Letters (2012), doi:10.1016/j.imlet.2012.01.003 ImmunologyLetters
- Publications from Lee Quinton's lab include:
o Quinton, L.J.*, Blahna, M.T., Jones, M.R., Allen, E.,Hilliard, K.L., Ferrari, J.D., Zhang, X., Sabharwal, V., Algül, H., Akira, S., Schmid, R.M., Pelton, S.I., Spira, A., and Mizgerd, J.P.* (2012) Combined hepatocyte-specific targeting of NF-kB RelA and STAT3 abrogates the acute phase response in mice.Journal of Clinical Investigation (In press; * co-corresponding author)
o Quinton, L.J. (2012) GM-CSF: A double dose of protection during pneumonia. American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular Biology (Epub ahead of print)
- Dave Sherr published: B Paige Lawrence & David H Sherr. You AhR what you eat? Nature Immunology. 13(2): February 2012. Lawrence and Sherr Nature Imm
o Lee Quinton Received a 7th percentile score (payline = 20th percentile) on an NIH R01 entitled "The biology of LIF during pneumonia". Anticipated start date = 7/1/12
- Lee Wetzler received an award from the BU CTSI Microarray Initiative to perform 30 microarrays. This is to evaluate the genetic responses in immune cells to TLR ligands.
A new post-doc, Min Zhu, joined Barb Nikolajczyk's lab in late January. She is a graduate of the Oral Biology Program at BU Goldman Dental School and will be looking at the role the immune system plays in obesity-associated periodontal disease.
Dan Rozelle, a new post-doc on the training grant, had artwork chosen for the BUMC artwork display.
Sudha Natarajan's AAI abstract was selected for an oral and poster presentation at this year's meeting in Boston.
November/December 2011
- Members of our faculty and some of our students attended the NERCE-BEID (New England Regional Center of Excellence – Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease) conference November 13th-14th. The Elke Muhlberger lab, Paul Duprex's lab, and Dr. Igor Kramnik's lab all went with Dr. Ronald Corley. The conference was in Newport, Rhode Island and the attendees found some time to enjoy the famous cliff walk.
- 3 members of the John Connor lab, recently presented at the Chemical and Biological Defense Science and Technology conference in Las Vegas. John Connor and his lab manager Judy, each presented a poster. One of Dr. Connor's graduate students, Sara Garamszegi was chosen to give an oral presentation, and received a student scholarship award.
- A team of researchers, including Dr. John Connor from ITP, from Boston University's School of Medicine (BUSM) and College of Engineering (COE) were awarded a five-year, $4.8 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to develop a low-cost, multiplexed virus detection platform. See the following link for the announcement: http://www.bu.edu/news/2011/10/04/virus-detection/
- ITP faculty Drs. Gerald Denis and Barb Nikolajczyk hosted an afternoon symposium entitled "Obesity, Cancer and Inflammation" Oct. 26, 2011. The Evans Medical Foundation-supported program included clinical and basic science researchers, as well as epidemiologists and public health experts from BUSM, BMC and the Geisinger Institute in PA who discussed causes and treatments for obesity and its associated diseases.
- Congratulations to Madhu Bogdan for brilliantly defending her thesis on October 28th. She worked on the role of the immune system in type 2 diabetes using human subjects material. He work represents the first detailed immunophenotyping of type 2 diabetes with mechanistic insights explaining the maintenance of inflammation by immune system cells in metabolic disease.
- Barb Nikolajczyk presented her group's research to the MGH Center for Engineering in Medicine in a Nov. talk entitled " Immunometabolism: The new frontier in defining roles for immune system cells in obesity and type 2 diabetes "
- Barb Nikolajczyk and Madhu Bogdan traveled to Wayne State University to meet with students who are interested in pursuing a PhD in biomedical sciences. They made several strong connections, and already have several emails in response to their recruiting efforts.
- Bob Lafyatis received two multi-PI grants to support scleroderma research. One is a P50 "Center of Research Translation" and the other a P30 "Core Center" grant. The total funding for the two grants is $11.3 million.


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Joppa Jr./Sr. High School, Maple Grove Elementary, and the District overall Met the Standards for the Adequate Yearly Progress -- It represents the annual academic performance targets in reading and math that the State, school districts, and schools must reach to be considered on track.
A Teacher takes a Hand, Opens a Mind, and Touches a Heart.
Why Are We Here?
We are here to prepare our students for post-secondary success through both academic and social maturity
Four Core Beliefs
1. Parents, teachers, administrators, and community leaders are partners with a shared mission
2. Being able to adapt and overcome challenges is the key to success
3. Teaching self-discipline is an important component of our curriculum
4. Joppa-Maple Grove Unit 38 is a data driven district


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Today's weather forecast: Land of Sunshine
When Nirvana came down to L.A. to record Nevermind in 1991, nobody knew who we were, so our budget was pretty small. We picked a recording studio in Van Nuys called Sound City because it was cheap—and because it had a Neve 8028 sound board. Rupert Neve is an English electronics engineer—he's still alive and in his eighties—and his handmade, hand-wired analog recording consoles from the 1970s were famous for giving music a warm sound that was good for rock and roll.
Sound City Studios was in a warehouse complex near the Budweiser Brewery, and the owner, Tom Skeeter, hadn't done any decorating since they opened in 1969. I think they rented the same couch for 25 years—they didn't even bother to buy it. Everyone knew Sound City was a shithole, but that board brought out the best and the worst in musicians. A Neve can enhance the sound of an instrument to make it more powerful, but it is what it is. It can't make a bad band sound better. There are no shortcuts or digital manipulations. When Tom Petty recorded Damn the Torpedoes, the band played "Refugee" more than 100 times because they wanted the perfect take. It had to be real.
In the early '90s, Sound City nearly closed because producers and rock stars didn't want to come out to the Valley, so it stayed every great musician's best-kept secret. You'd walk down the hallway, look at the records and think, Neil Young's After the Gold Rush was made here? Rick Springfield's Working Class Dog and Cheap Trick's Heaven Tonight—are you serious?
Nirvana spent maybe 16 days there—we recorded and left. Six months later Nevermind was number one and we were selling millions of records. Then everybody wanted that noisy sound, and Rage Against the Machine and Weezer recorded there.
I remember coming back to Sound City and seeing that they'd put Nevermind 's gold record on the wall. I had offered to buy the console before, so when it did come time to sell the board, they picked me to have it. It's one of a kind, so it was either going with me or to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It hadn't been moved in 40 years, but I unplugged it, put it on a truck, moved it six miles to my studio in Northridge, plugged it in, and it works just fine.
I initially wanted to do a 12-minute Web piece on Sound City, but there were too many people and the stories were great, so I made a documentary called Sound City: Real to Reel. This is where Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks met Mick Fleetwood. They passed each other in the hallway, and Mick had heard a song they recorded. Two weeks later, when his guitar player quit, Mick asked someone about Buckingham as a replacement. He was told, "If you take him, you have to take his girlfriend, too."
People don't understand there's a whole life and depth behind every song on the radio, whether it's Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" or Justin Bieber's "Baby." But it was these people with that piece of equipment who changed the world. —As told to Nancy Miller
1. Producers can't cheat with it No Pro Tools, Auto-Tune, or cherry-picking bits of several songs to craft one flawless gem. Mess up on the Neve and you either start over or live with imperfection.
2. It's the only one like it on EarthThere are four Neve 8028 consoles in existence. This particular model was custom made for Sound City in 1973 for a whopping $72,000.
3. The musicians you love all love itTrent Reznor, Josh Homme, Tom Petty, Neil Young, and John Fogerty are a few big names who pay tribute to the Neve in Grohl's film. Some even took a pen to the board.
4. It's got serious mojoThe first song recorded on it was a tune performed by Stevie Nicks.
5. It was built for rock and rollThe owner of the studio ordered it, hoping for Beatles-level runaway success.
Neil YoungAfter the Gold Rush(1970)Young's classic third solo album's hits include the title song and "Southern Man."
Fleetwood MacFleetwood Mac(1975)Yes, Rumours was their bigger album, but this earlier release redefined their sound.
Cheap TrickHeaven Tonight(1978)Many consider this to be their best studio work, thanks to the polish on "Surrender."
Tom PettyDamn the Torpedoes(1979)Petty's third album, produced by Jimmy Iovine, landed on Billboard's top ten.
Pat BenatarCrimes of Passion(1980)Her Grammy-winning second album featured "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," the future arena anthem for sports teams everywhere.
Rick SpringfieldWorking Class Dog(1981)This multiplatinum and Grammy-winning debut transformed an Aussie soap star into the "Jessie's Girl" pop star.
NirvanaNevermind(1991)The surprise hit sold more than 30 million copies and ushered the studio into a 1990s renaissance.
Rage Against the MachineRage Against the Machine(1992)The L.A. act was a groundbreaking hybrid of rap and heavy metal.
Johnny CashUnchained(1996)The second release in the Rick Rubin-produced American Recordings series won a Grammy for Best Country Album.
Nine Inch NailsWith Teeth(2005)With segments recorded here, Trent Reznor showcased his mastery of mixing digital with the traditional.
--Julia St. Pierre
This feature was originally published in the February 2013 issue of Los Angeles magazine.
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Dog Crazy
The Dog
When former newspaper journalist John Grogan sat down to write his first book -- a memoir about life with a lovable maniac of a yellow Labrador retriever named Marley -- he never imagined that he was tapping into a national reservoir of affection for crazy dogs. Marley & Me, published in 2005, spent 76 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list -- 23 of them in the number one slot. The film version, starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson, opens in theaters on Christmas Day. Ladies' Home Journal recently caught up with the author by phone at his home in rural Pennsylvania.
Ladies' Home Journal: Somehow I feel compelled to tell you about the time our puppy tried to shred my husband's shoe -- while he was still wearing it.
John Grogan: Everybody who has a dog has a story! What's funny is that so many people are clearly proud of how bad their dogs are. [Loud crashing sound interrupts.] Hear that? That's my new puppy, Woodson, picking up his steel bowl and then smashing it onto the floor.
LHJ: Was there something about Marley's absolute joy in being bad that you secretly admired?
JG: Most of us play largely by the rules -- we're responsible employees, spouses, and parents. But I think we all have a little streak in us that says, "Wouldn't it be nice if I could do everything I ever wanted to do without worrying?" Marley didn't care what people thought of him.
LHJ: When did you realize that the story of Marley's free spirit would make a good book? Perhaps the time he dragged that wrought-iron cafe table halfway across a Boca Raton shopping center?
JG: Pretty early in Marley's life I figured out he was good material. I would tell stories about his escapades at dinner parties or at the office, and people would always laugh. But after Marley died of old age, in 2004, I wrote an emotional column about him in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The reaction was so strong -- like 25 times the usual e-mail response -- that it gave me the confidence to see the bigger story. The book isn't just a collection of funny anecdotes about a dog. It's really about the journey we make through life, with our pets at our sides.


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Kobe Bryant is in Boston as the Lakers prepare to play the Celtics on Friday. Bryant isn't playing, as he's recovering from a knee injury. So he killed time on Thursday by dropping in on a few business classes at Boston College.
Students understandably freaked out.
So Kobe Bryant stopped by my brother's International Marketing class at BC tonight… http://t.co/pI9wJ569ZA—
Nick Ironside (@nironside) January 17, 2014
So Kobe Bryant casually sat in on a class at BC tonight……… wut—
Lauren Beausoleil (@bow_so_lay) January 17, 2014
@kobebryant thank you for representing @BostonCollege #amazing http://t.co/gDxsAHs0Z6—
Josh Reed (@jreed0614) January 17, 2014
So Kobe Bryant just kind of interrupted my Product Management class tonight — a welcome break, @bostoncollege #mbalife #thatsafirst—
Hally Pinaud (@Hallypino) January 17, 2014
Kobe Bryant was just at Boston College and 5 feet from me #livinglegend http://t.co/sJWulGwtTa—
Ryan Dontas (@RyanDontas) January 17, 2014
Bryant never went to college, so it was a new experience for him. And these kids will have something to tell their kids about.
(Thanks to Hardwood Paroxysm for sharing.)


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Routes Sorted
L to R R to L Alpha
This is a pretty good lead up a thin crack for 40 feet. Start in the small, left-facing dihedral just left of a roof and a large, left-facing, inside corner. Jam and stem your way up to some good ledges. The pro is decent but a little unnerving when you're making moves over a no. 2 RP in sandy rock.... Continue up the finger crack to a large ledge, then stem up a right-facing dihedral to the bolts.
This has somewhat marginal pro in spots, because the rock isn't very solid. Full set of RPs, some Aliens, TCUs, micro cams or the like. Rack up to a #1 Friend. A #3 Friend is useful for the last short section. There are two bolts on top of the wall.


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Town Square
Palo Alto's new tool targets cardiac arrest
Original post made on Aug 20, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 9:58 AM
on Aug 20, 2013 at 11:07 am
Great news on the 52 defibrillators. But the article leaves out any mention of placing them at schools. Patch had a story that said:
"All school sites should receive the AEDs by June 2014."
Web Link
on Aug 20, 2013 at 11:25 am
This is a great decision. I applaud the city for its decision.
on Aug 20, 2013 at 11:30 am
This is another waste of time, and money.
There has been no evidence of people dying in local libraries, or parks, because of heart/respiration failures.
There simply is not excuse for this expenditure.


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Expo Notes: More work tools for the iPad
Two companies at Macworld | iWorld are touting products that make the iPad a more powerful tools for business.
Expo Notes: More stuff for the business folks
Yet more proof that Macworld | iWorld isn't all fun and games: New tools for recording meetings, presenting on the iPad, and keeping track of your contacts.
Macworld | iWorld: It's about business, too
It's not all art, music, and fun at this week's Macworld | iWorld exposition: Vendors are releasing business apps for the Mac and iPad, too.
Analysis: Apple's e-textbook push earns mixed grades
Ask publishers, analysts, and rivals about Apple's digital textbook initiative and they'll say it's good for everyone -- but they're skeptical about it, too.
Small businesses to buy more tablets in 2012
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"What makes me really happy is successfully communicating a complex idea through simple, beautiful graphics."
Another MICA alumnus has made a career out of his love for beer. After Colin McSteen '11 (graphic design) had left MICA, he went back to his hometown of Minneapolis where he was hanging out with a friend who brews beer. The two discussed starting a brewery but decided it would be more cost-effective to sell beer gifts-such as T-shirts, soap, bottle cap earrings, and other knick-knacks-designed to help people express their love for the beverage.
"Instead of brewing the beer, we're brewing the swag," McSteen explained. He designs all of the T-shirts and is responsible for the company's branding-tasks that his design experience and four years of MICA classes have helped him excel in. "People respond a lot better to an artistic design than something generic that you would normally associate with beer-related products," he said.


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Tom Zbikowski's offseason of boxing is now over; time for the Ravens' safety to refocus on football.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Zbikowski has backed out of his June 4 bout against Mike Howell at the Staples Center in Los Angeles so he can turn his attention back to his real job.
"It's time to start the transition back to football," Zbikowski told the newspaper via text messages. "My teammates are starting to organize some workouts, so it's just time to head back [to Baltimore]. Wish I had more time to do both."
In three fights since the lockout began, Zbikowski had a 3-0 record. He has missed all of the Ravens' voluntary workouts this spring, which are being held at Towson University in Baltimore.
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The Postal Service moved all processing operations from Panama City to Pensacola early last year. A study showed that combining operations nationwide would save more than $2 billion a year.
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Deer Park and Riverside will not be going anywhere when it comes to Washington Interscholastic Activities Association sports classifications for the 2012-13 school year.
In a WIAA meeting in Renton last week to look at preliminary classifications for the upcoming two school years, Deer Park will remain a Class 2A (Great Northern League) school will Riverside will remain in the Class 1A (Northeast A League) ranks.
A funeral service is planned for a later date for area resident Michael S. Slocum, 59, who passed away on Dec. 11.
Born on Jan. 29, 1952, he graduated from Shadle Park High School in 1970 and later enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, where he spent time stationed in Thailand and at Nellis Air Force Base.
After being honorably discharged he worked for many years at Alcoa in Addy, Wash., as an emergency medical technician and security guard.
Mr. Slocum enjoyed hunting and hiking in his spare time.
A graveside funeral service will be at 1 p.m. on Dec. 19 at the Woodland Cemetery, Deer Park, with the Rev. Richard Finch officiating, for longtime Denison area resident Myrna R. Walters, 80, who passed away on Dec. 3.
A reception will follow the service at the Deer Park Eagles Lodge, W12 South Ave.
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While the cancellation of the Light Up Logansport Parade means downtown won't be nearly as bright this year on the day after Thanksgiving, organizers say they have revamped the annual event to ensure the message behind it won't be in the dark.
A press release issued by the Logansport Parks and Recreation Department states the Light Up Logansport Committee has decided to cancel the parade and instead provide a "Light Up Logansport Celebration" at Little Turtle Waterway and Heritage Park in cooperation with the Logan's Landing Downtown Open House Dec. 5.
"As times have changed, we feel that it is in our community's best interest to change with them," the release states. "As businesses and organizations streamline their workforce, we hope to provide them with a promotional opportunity through the use of stationary displays at Heritage Park and Little Turtle Waterway."
Logansport Parks Administrator Jan Fawley, who formerly served as chairwoman of the Light Up Logansport Parade Committee, said she and the other organizers are still working out the details, but that the event will allow local businesses and organizations to set up lighted displays in Little Turtle Waterway and Heritage Park, which will remain for the month of December.
"We're still going to make up Little Turtle and Heritage Park with lots of lights and lots of displays and we're still going to try to sell displays that are in the park so different businesses and organizations can sponsor one of them," Fawley said. "People who have done floats who have always put something in the park can still do that if they want to. They can still create their own display."
Fawley said the time and effort required to take part in the parade has swayed businesses and organizations from participating in the past.


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Interview with Mr. Nature Love
While spending time this weekend with my good friend and mentor, Mr. Nature Love, I got the spontaneous urge to interview him for WLIR. Lucky for me (and you) Nature was noting but excited! So here you go, 45 minutes of pure raw goodnes. (Photos of Nature and his ripped raw food body coming soon)
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- How I met Nature and how we become my friend/mentor
- Thoughts on synchronicity & health
- Nature's diet, food evolution and his arthritis
- Working out and raw food nutrition
- Muscle and bone, being thin but healthy
- The spiritual element of food
- Kissing girls while being on a raw food diet
- Loving yourself, self sabotage & insecurities
- Transforming together with mentors and friends
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WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – UNCW golfer Lori Beth Adams is looking to make program history. Adams, who will play in the NCAA Central Regional in Oklahoma May 9-11, is trying to become the first Seahawk to advance to the NCAA Women's National Championship.
During the regular season Adams was called upon to be the Seahawks top scorer every tournament. Now she heads to the Jimmy Austin Golf Course just looking to have fun. "I am just going out to play. There is no pressure on myself, just treat it as a regular tournament" said Adams.
Only the top two individual players not part of the top eight teams advancing will make it to the NCAA Championships. While Adams is ranked 74th in the country she has a great chance of moving on according to Seahawk Head Coach Cindy Ho. "She is one of the best players in the country. She could be a starter on any of these 72 teams that are out there."
Adams is the fourth Seahawks to earn an individual berth into the NCAA Regionals. The others players to do so are Sofia Hagsund, Michelle Jarman, and Nichole Flood.
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Reading a fan post by Jason B regarding Stevie-G and whether he should be taking set pieces got me thinking about the captaincy of Liverpool next season. Let's take his thoughts one step further. Before you all think I am committing heresy I love Stevie-G and think he is a fantastic player. Given his extended absence this season brings to light some questions.
-Has he passed his prime – I think without a doubt he has but he can still offer a lot to the team.
-Will he remain crocked next season – only time will tell?
-How much can he contribute with an aggressive summer transfer season planned?
So I would like to bring this discussion to the forum to discuss if Stevie G should remain as Capitan next season. If not who should step up in his place. Should Jamie fill that void or should he remain as Vice Capitan and should someone else fill the role. Perhaps an emerging Lucas, fantastic penalty taker Kuyt, or world class Pepe?


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I was reading Bill Thompson's suggestions the other day on increasing revenue for the MTA. Pretty unimaginative, I thought. Why not instead impose a 2 cents a gallon increase in the gasoline tax for four years in order to get the MTA back into some decent fiscal shape? With the price of gas fluctuating by dollars rather than cents from month to month I don't think it would be much noticed. Since I am generally opposed to increasing taxes, I would have the leaders in Albany vow to only renew the tax if a super majority exists to bring the bill to the floor four years from now. We know writing it into the legislation would be unconstitutional. Thompson suggests whopping increases in Registration Fees for car owners. But I digress.
Bill Thompson's proposals started a chain of events in my head which lead me to publish this post. Bill Thompson is one of four elected officials in New York City who receives full-time protection from the NYPD - Intel is the name of the unit. Bill Thompson has said he still intends to run for mayor. I'd be a little careful were I Bill Thompson. That chain of events in my head lead me back to a conversation I had with Tony Carbonetti in the summer of 2001.
I was in Tony's office when he took a phone call from someone on Rudy's Intel detail about some advance matter. While on the phone with this person Tony started laughing and gave me a look that said, "I've got something good to tell you." Bear in mind that this was election season, although not for us. Freddie Ferrer and Mark Green were battling it out for the Democratic nomination. Mike Bloomberg was awaiting the winner of that primary.
After Tony hung up the phone he said, "That was...(he then named a member of Rudy's detail) and he told me that Mark Green is fucking one of the assigned cops on his detail." "A woman I presume," I commented. "Yea, a hot Hispanic chic," Tony said. "I wonder if it's Mabel's cousin," was my response. My old secretary had a very attractive cousin who worked Intel. She would stop by the office occasionally when we were in Tweed. My brother had the hots for her, big time. He would always inform me when the cousin had been around my office or in the building. She was the only Hispanic woman I knew who worked Intel for the four electeds, although there certainly could have been others. I didn't make a study of such things.
"How did he know this?" I asked. "I get reports through Intel on his activities," Tony informed me, referring to Mark Green. It hadn't occurred to me before that you couldn't really trust your detail. Rudy's guys -and woman- were true blue and would never leak info. But the other details reported back through the chain of command. The Mayor's Intel detail is at the top of the heap and I suppose all others would be subordinate to them in a manner of speaking. Not to mention, cops usually gossip like crazy.
"Are you going to do anything with this?" I asked, referring to Green's adulterous relationship with a member of his security detail. "Nahh," was Tony's reply, "who the fuck cares - Green or Ferrer - what difference does it make? He's just lucky he's not running against us this year." We had a good laugh at that line because we both knew, like the Dinkins love letters of 1989, we would surely have seen to it that Mark Green's affair found its way to the public's attention.
Now let me preface what I am going to say next by pointing out that I don't know Bill Thompson. I know nothing about his private life and for all I know he's as clean as Caesar's wife. But it is important for him to realize that elected officials mistakenly tend to view their security team as loyal to them. A bond develops and you think, "this guy (or gal) will take a bullet for me. That's closeness. I can trust em." But you can't. You let them into your life because they are so omnipresent. Big mistake. A member of Dinkins' detail used to leak info to us regularly in '93'. A lot of Dinkins' detail couldn't stand him. They knew what a phony he was and how anti-cop his thinking. That didn't win him many points with those guys.
I'm no fan of Mr. Thompson. I don't dislike the man, I just find him to be dull, uninspired and without any individual rationale for a candidacy other than an anti-Bloomberg one. But I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he has nothing embarrassing to hide in his private life. If he does, however, I'd advise him not to assume that his Intel detail is going to keep it a secret. Especially from their boss, the incumbent, Mayor-for-life-Mike. I don't expect this to be a close race; Mayor-for-life-Mike will buy his way back into office. But if it does get close - his approval rating stands at only 51% - $80-$100 Million dollars can buy a lot of negative ads. And further you can bet that if things get hairy at the end he and his staff will be turning to the Intel guys to find out what Comptroller Bill may be up to in his public and private life. Just a note of caution to Bill Thompson. He can't say he wasn't warned.
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|Vilas County Court report
Jury trial set Oct. 10 for suspect
A 48-year-old Sayner woman, who allegedly neglected animals left at her former home, will receive a jury trial Oct. 10 in Vilas County Circuit Court.
Lauri A. Schilling has been charged with 27 Class A misdemeanor counts of neglecting at least nine cats at the home, located at 2610 Hwy. 45 in Sayner.Her estranged husband, Ronnie R. Schilling, 48, also faces 27 Class A misdemeanor counts. According to online court records, an annulment of the marriage is being sought.
Both defendants had pretrial conferences scheduled for Tuesday of this week. No jury trial has been scheduled for Ronnie Schilling. The jury trial for Lauri Schilling is scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 10, presided by Vilas Circuit Judge Neal A. Nielsen III.
According to court documents, both Schillings have entered not guilty pleas to nine counts of intentionally failing to provide food for animals, nine counts of intentional improper shelter and sanitation, and nine counts of intentionally abandoning an animal.
According to the complaint, the Vilas County humane officer and Vilas County Public Health Department were asked to do a welfare check of cats at the home.
Vilas County authorities were told the Schillings were in the process of getting a divorce and Laurie Schilling had moved to Florida and Ronnie Schilling had moved to another residence in the Sayner area. Authorities also were told there were unsanitary living conditions inside the Schilling's former residence, where another woman was staying because she had no place to live at the time.
Once inside the home in early March 2013, officers located nine cats and one dog, according to the complaint. Some of the cats were found peering out of holes in the walls and from behind furniture. Authorities also reported cat feces all over inside the residence. In an area under the kitchen sink, cat feces was found to be several inches deep.
According to the complaint, authorities also found a closet and main bathroom also with a litter box area with seven or eight pans that all had cat feces and litter box material all over. Inside an unusable bathroom, there was a litter box-type pan that was overflowing with cat feces.
Authorities said there were no floor coverings and just plywood on the floors of the homes. The woman living temporarily at the home said she tried to clean the residence, but it "was just too overwhelming." She said the cats would urinate and defecate "where they pleased."
Officials said the cats appeared to be in healthy condition, though eventually one deceased cat was found.
Both defendants are free on $1,000 signature bonds with the condition that they are not allowed to possess or care for animals.
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Our cabin was a great size, ocean view Main deck 2400. Ample storage and we had a great cabin steward, Booty. Yes his name was Booty. We meet him early when boarding and he didn't have a problem with putting our beds together. We had for endless ice and he kept it coming.
We were both surprised about the food on this sailing. The food excided our expectation. Even in the main dining room. We had dinner in the steak house and it was exceptional. But it didn't complete with the Chef's Table event. Save your funds for that excursion. It is an onboard excursion and well worth the $75.p/p. Can't tell you what we had don't remember it all. Anyway its all special prepared so it's different every time.
There were a lot of available activities and lounges to meet people and have fun. I have to say we didn't do a lot of those so I can't really comment. We did go to the comedy club on evening and I didn't find it that funny, he really only found people in the audience and make fun of them. We didn't go to any of the shows. The main pool deck was very crowed and I have to say the surface of the steps leading to the slid entrance was hot. And with your feet wet it was scalding.
I'm sorry I'm not that great at writing reviews because I'm pretty easy going. But overall it was a nice cruise. Was it worth what we paid, absolutely, will I sail again on Carnival, well I said no the last time and here I've sailed again. Not sure if I'll do another September cruise. It was very hot in every port and hot any time outside on the decks. I'm glad we didn't have a balcony not sure if we would have used it. I was also glad we brought along our small fan. Our cabin was comfortable with the curtain closed but the small fan kept the air moving a lot better.
We'll I forgot about debarkation. At each port it was easy going. Even with the tenders, there was a long line but it seem to go fast. And debarkation back in FtL was just as easy. I just wish getting onboard was as nice. I have to say we got off the ship late because we drove. Customs moved fast and once outside we were able to meet our offsite parking company and head to the car. And a plug there, we used the link from Carnival for Park'n Go. No problems with them and for our cruise we paid just under $38. They were there when we got off the ship and we didn't have to wait.
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Jay Cutler - #6 - QB
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The departure of several of Lovie Smith's defensive assistants increases the probability that longtime Bears MLB Brian Urlacher won't return in 2013.
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The Bears added to their new coaching staff on Friday, hiring Mel Tucker as defensive coordinator, the team confirmed.
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Cutler turned in sub-par numbers in Sunday's 28-13 win at Arizona.||||||| Cutler completed just one of his first 11 passes, then went 5 of 5 on a touchdown drive in the final minutes of the first half. He finished 12 of 26 for 146 yards and a touchdown. He has not been good for fantasy owners this season.
Cutler appears ready to play Sunday against the Green Bay Packers.||||||| Cutler went through a full practice on Friday despite knee and neck problems and was officially listed as probable.
Cutler says he expects to play this week against Green Bay.||||||| Cutler says "unless something drastic happens, absolutely" he will be ready to play against the Packers after leaving Sunday's loss at Minnesota with a sore neck. He says he got treatment on Monday and "should be ready to go later in the week." Cutler spoke during his weekly appearance on the "Waddle & Silvy Show" on Chicago's WMVP-AM 1000.
Cutler left Sunday's game at Minnesota in the fourth quarter with a neck injury.||||||| Cutler took a hit to the head by Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen that drew a penalty, but he said afterward his neck was bothering him all afternoon and worsened as the game went on, complaining of stiffness. Cutler stayed in for the rest of that drive, but when the Bears got the ball back Jason Campbell was running the offense instead. Cutler, who missed a game last month because of a concussion, got up slowly after Griffen's hit.
Cutler waa 17 of 26 for 233 yards with two TDs and no INTs in Sunday's loss to Seattle.||||||| Though the Bears lost, Cutler played one of his best games of the season. A deep drop by Earl Bennett prevented Cutler from an even bigger statistical contest.


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Pool area was nice, but crowded. The pool water after a few days was kind of nasty. Cloudy with foamy dirt bubbles on the top. We only went into the pool once because of this. With the breeze we really didn't need to be in the water. The hot tubs were ALWAYS clean and hot!!
The food: Well, we give it a C minus all around in Windjammer and Main Dining. Nice presentation in MDR, but tasteless, not enough flavor. If we didn't like it, we sent it back and got another entree to try, as there were several to choose from every night. Our Waiters and Wait Staff were lovely people who treated us with the utmost courtesy & respect. Rose, Didi and "the Sippy, Sippy Guy", Joseph we love you all. For a wonderful lunch skip Windjammer on sail days for MDR salad bar...best salad ever. Breakfast in MDR is better than WJ any day but most days were not up early enough to partake. Room service was quick, but the coffee wasn't very hot.
Ports: CoCo Cay: C minus. Seagulls are aggressive especially when the food got served. We did not eat after seeing a woman get attacked by seagulls who wanted her hamburger. I also got pooped on as the seagulls are everywhere and low flying. Snorkeling is boring here; nothing to see. Not enough chairs, drinks were not tasty and very overpriced.
St. Thomas: A. Beautiful Island. We did the sail-away excursion to Honeymoon Bay and Christmas Cove with BONES which was fun.
St. Maartin: A. Mountains, scenic, crystal clear turquoise waters. We did the Extreme Zip Line at Loterie Farms.
Overall 7 day cruise rating: B Plus. Would definitely go again