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PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Acting United States Attorney Robert S. Cessar announced today, March 24, 2010, that on March 23, 2010, Shawn Leon Rose, a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws.
Rose, age 36, pleaded guilty to one count before Senior United States District Judge Gustave Diamond.
In connection with the guilty plea, Assistant United States Attorney Charles A. Eberle advised the court that on August 23, 2008, Rose, a convicted felon, possessed a Hi‑Point, Model C9, 9mm caliber pistol. Rose was previously convicted in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County on August 4, 1994, of the crime of robbery. Robbery is a crime that is punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year. Federal law prohibits anyone who has been convicted of a crime punishable by a term of imprisonment exceeding one year to possess a firearm.
Judge Diamond scheduled sentencing for July 21, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. The law provides for a total sentence of life in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed is based upon the seriousness of the offense and the criminal history, if any, of the defendant.
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OK I admit I picked this title to get your attention. But there is a bit of a parallel between the headlines of July 4 of the "discovery" of the Higgs boson, global warming, climate and environmental change and the way science works and how I hope how we learn. Indeed after the announcement of the discovery, Washington then had 4 100° days in a row and the temperature reached 105° July 7. A coincidence you say?? Of course
Peter Higgs is a theoretical physicist who with other scientists proposed a theory in 1964 for the existence of what would be known as the Higgs boson or Higgs particle. It was a mathematical fundamental concept or idea if you will. A theory. The theory of global warming is much older than Peter Higgs theory. A Swedish scientist Svante Arrheniis in the late 1800s examined the role that carbon dioxide plays in climate change (everyone agrees that the climate and earth's temperature have always been changing) and his theory was that a doubling of CO2 would raise the earth's temperature by about 10°. In the 1930s another pioneering scientist/engineer G.S. Callandar published a number of papers on the theory. All this well before Peter Higgs theory and the recent "discovery" of the Higgs Boson. What the heck is the connection? Well experimental physicists haven't actually seen the Higgs particle. Just the footprint of the evidence of the particle. This is the graph from the huge Hadron atom smasher in Switzerland at CERN and the statement about the Higgs being found "We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV." No one had actually seen the Higgs particle but the little bump in the graph below is its "footprint" of where it should be, when atomic particles are accelerated to tremendous speeds and energy and crash into each other
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How about our influence on land in this satellite image from 400 miles above us.
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See New York City, an urban footprint? Anthropogenic changes in land use? Even run off in the Hudson River after Tropical Storm Lee? Any footprints like the footprints of the discovery of the Higgs
Footprints similar to the footprints of the Higgs particle found by experiment? Scientists built tremendous atom smashers to test theory, perform atomic experiments and seek answers. But as scientist Ben Santer has pointed out, we don't have 2 earths to preform experiments with.
The Higgs theory was a model of elementary particles, how mass forms from nothing. (Don't ask me about the Higgs field it's way beyond me). But if we can't experiment on a "control" earth. But, we can model or simulate what will happen in the future. More and more the simulations are agreeing with the footprints and observations of global warming.
The chemistry of the air and water is changing. Sure there are many natural "drivers" of our climate, but we are also now a driver.
The chemistry of the air, oceans, even land is changing. We are now part of the experiment. What will the "discovery" be 40 years from now? As exciting as outcome of the experiment Dr. Higgs witnessed of his theoretical work? Dr. Higgs never thought he would live to see the day an experiment, observations and footprints would verify his theory, his mathematical model. What changes and experiments have we undertaken in the last 200 years with our environment and climate? What will our grandchildren live to see verified? A Higgs Boson . . .or something much bigger and maybe even more important?


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Argentina is not Greece. It has enough cash to fund obligations to bond holders who bought its debt after a default in 2002. However, it does not want to pay investors that refused to participate in the 2002 restructuring.
Elliot Capital Management recently made headlines when it got the Republic of Ghana to impound the Argentine navy's ARA Libertad off the coast of Africa. The hedge fund subsequently seized the three-mast frigate, which serves as a training ship for the Argentina navy.
Ghanaian officials cooperated with the operation because U.S. courts had ruled that Argentina owes Elliot Management money. How much money? Elliot and another hedge fund, Aurelius, hold around $1.3 billion in Argentine debt, which Argentina refuses to repay.
This debt is special because it is not restructured, which means that it wasn't part of the 2002 settlement, which saw creditors take losses of 70 percent on Argentine debt. The $93 billion default was then the largest in history, to be surpassed only by Greece in 2012.
Elliot Management and Aurelius bought the defaulted debt on the cheap but never accepted the 70 percent loss. They are fighting a legal battle to regain the full amount, and recently, court rulings in the United States have gone their way.
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In a ruling late Wednesday, Nov. 21, federal judge Thomas Griesa of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York ruled that Argentina needs to make good on the payment immediately.
"These threats of defiance cannot go unheeded," Thomas wrote in his judgment, indicating that the litigation road Elliot Management and Aurelius took had been open to all creditors.
They chose to forgo the option in lieu of a quick settlement and guaranteed, albeit much lower, payments. Therefore, ordering Argentina to pay the full amount on the defaulted bonds that Elliot holds is not a violation of the rights of the holders of the restructured bonds.
"In accepting the exchange offers of thirty cents on the dollar, the exchange bondholders bargained for certainty and the avoidance of the burden and risk of litigating," wrote Thomas.
Argentina still has various appeal options in front of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. This is why Argentina was ordered to pay the money into an escrow account by Dec. 15.
Argentine Refusal Puts Other Debt in Jeopardy
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner already said that her country would not pay "one dollar" to the "vulture funds."
The refusal creates a significant legal dilemma. Until Argentina files a successful appeal, the country is obliged to pay. If it doesn't do so, which it has said it won't, it will be ruled in contempt of the court.
This might lead the courts to block scheduled payments to other bondholders in December. The payment of around $3 billion in interest is due next month. If Argentina cannot make the payment because of a transfer block by the U.S. judicial system, it will be placed in technical default.
Argentina said it will continue to make payments in Argentina, as they cannot be seized by the United States. However, even if those payments are made, it will be very difficult to transfer them out of the country.
Investors, fearing the uncertainty, have exited Argentine bonds en masse. A 10-year bond denominated in Argentine pesos fell 1.8 percent Nov. 22 in Argentine trading. It now yields a whopping 24.6 percent, as much as Greek bonds before they defaulted earlier this year. According to Bloomberg, contracts to protect investors from a default in Argentine debt are now the most expensive in the world.
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The Association of Professional Genealogists (APG®) is now accepting applications for the APG Young Professional Scholarship.
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The Association of Professional Genealogists (APG®) is now accepting applications for the APG Young Professional Scholarship.
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The Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy to Hold Fourth Annual Forensic Genealogy Institute on March 26-28, 2015. The 2015 FGI Offers Two Brand-New, Cutting-Edge Courses for Forensic Genealogists.
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The Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy is pleased to announce its 2014-15 Board of Directors. Joining the board are…
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The Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) is pleased to announce a special guest presenter at the 2014 Forensic Genealogy Institute. James J. Canik, Deputy Director, Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL), Armed Forces Medical Examiner System, will present two sessions during the Advanced Track, immediately following Forensic Techniques for Genetic Genealogy by Debbie Parker Wayne, CG (sm).
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On this Memorial Day weekend the Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) is proud to announce our partnership with Purple Hearts Reunited as CAFG's newest Volunteer Initiative Program. Capt. Zachariah Fike of the Vermont Army National Guard has established Purple Hearts Reunited, Inc., a non-profit organization that "rescues" lost or stolen Purple Heart medals and returns them to the family of the serviceman/woman who earned them. …
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To hear John Tintle tell it, the neighbors of his Sand Land mine, composting and recycling facility in Noyac simply want to make his business go away to increase their own property values.
"They don't like it that we're here," he said on Friday, while giving a tour of the deep pit, where grinding machines and screeners process mountains of sand and gravel for the manufacture of the concrete used for roads and foundations; stumps and branches for compost and top soil used in landscaping; and construction debris for things like driveway bases. "Yet they all need what we sell."
Those neighbors, and many other residents of Sag Harbor, Noyac, and Bridgehampton, as well as elected officials and environmentalists turned out last week in a bid to have the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation deny Sand Land's request for an expansion of its mining permit—or at the very least require that an environmental impact statement be done to protect the groundwater and reduce the potential for other environmental harm at the site. That hearing is covered separately in this issue.
But Bob DeLuca, the president of the Group for the East End, who was among those who is calling for a DEIS, said "the idea you would not do a comprehensive environmental review would be laughable if it were not so disconcerting." He criticized the DEC for not planning to hold a hearing on the matter until the public pressured it to do so.
He pointed out that sand mining only makes up a portion of the activity at the site—although Mr. Tintle says it accounts for about two-thirds of his business—and said environmentalists are more concerned about mulching, composting and construction debris recycling.
Sand Land sits atop the aquifer and chief among the concerns of Mr. DeLuca and other environmentalists is the potential for groundwater pollution. He cites a DEC investigation of the Long Island Composting site on Horseblock Road in Yaphank, released in 2013, which showed sharply higher levels of manganese emanating from the site. As a result, Long Island Composting has agreed to build an indoor composting operation on a concrete pad with runoff contained on site.
"It's kind of crazy to think of all the work we did to get rid of the landfills" in New York State, he said. "And then to allow an industrial waste site to continue operating" with no additional oversight.
"In my mind, projects like this over time should probably be amortized," Mr. DeLuca said. "These places are grenades waiting to explode."
The trouble for Sand Land—and Wainscott Sand and Gravel, which operates the 50-acre site off Millstone Road and Middle Line Highway, in the shadow of the exclusive Bridge golf club—began in 2005. A group of three neighbors, with financial backing from Robert Rubin, the golf club's owner, sued. They sought to have the site declared a nuisance and shut down because of, among other things, its odor, noise and the hundreds of large dump trucks that rumble onto and off the site each day. The opposition came, Mr. Tintle said, despite the fact that the mine has been there for more than 50 years—and provided much of the sand used for fill when the World's Fair was held at Flushing Meadows, Queens, in 1964—and was opened when the land was zoned for industrial uses and the nearest house was a quarter mile away.
The result of that suit was a protracted battle between Mr. Tintle and Southampton Town. In 2011, the town's chief building inspector, Michael J. Benincasa, issued a certificate of occupancy that recognized that the mine was operating before 1972 when the town changed the zoning from industrial to residential. It also legalized the compost and mulch processing at the site. The neighbors, who had sued, Margo Gilman, Joseph Phair, and Amelia Doggwiler (who replaced Robert Flood, an original petitioner, after he sold his house), appealed the issuance of that C.O. to the town Zoning Board of Appeals.
The Z.B.A., in turn, "wanted to make everyone happy," according to Mr. Tintle. "They wanted to split the baby in half." In 2012, the ZBA ruled that while the sand mine was legal, the other activities were not, and ordered them shut down. Mr. Tintle sued, and last February, New York State Supreme Court Justice W. Gerard Asher, ruled in his companies' favor, ordering the C.O. to be reinstated in its entirety.
In his ruling, Justice Asher gave considerable weight to the testimony of people like Bill Masterson, the former Southampton Town highway superintendent, and Sag Harbor Mayor Brian Gilbride, who was formerly the town's director of sanitation. In affidavits, they and others who worked at the site or made deliveries, described an ongoing operation that had been in place for decades.
Mr. Tintle said in 2013, the Suffolk County Department of Health Service asked to test the water from wells used to supply both his office at the Sand Land site and in an irrigation system that is run during the dry summer months to keep dust down. The tests have shown no sign of any contamination, he said.
"If the DEC wants me to put in test wells, I will, but I'll be the only [sand mine] place on Long Island to have them," he said.
Mr. Tintle says much of the public opposition to his plans have been stirred up by Mr. Rubin. House lots approved as part of the Bridge development back up to Sand Land, and Mr. Tintle showed a reporter photographs of surveillance cameras he says are on the Bridge property overlooking his mine. "I'm under a microscope here," he said.
He also charges that Mr. Rubin has enlisted the Group for the East End to fight the battle for him. Mr. DeLuca dismisses those claims, while acknowledging that Mr. Rubin is a contributor to the Group and has attended its annual benefits.
"We made Bob Rubin's life very difficult for three years" during the review of his golf course, Mr. DeLuca said, with the result that he now spends an estimated $200,000 to 300,000 annually to monitor the groundwater. "The bottom line is our position is consistent, whether it's been Bob Rubin's or this project," Mr. DeLuca said.
"He's in a position where he feels this is personal," Mr. DeLuca added. "But it's not like somebody went to the phone book, found this guy and decided to pick on him."


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Utah Valley Regional Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital's commitment and success in implementing excellent care for stroke patients, according to evidence-based guidelines.
Only two hospitals in Utah have received this level of recognition. McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, another Intermountain Healthcare facility, is the other hospital to receive the award.
To receive the award, Utah Valley Regional achieved 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Performance Achievement indicators for two or more consecutive 12-month intervals and achieved 75 percent or higher compliance with six of 10 Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Quality Measures, which are reporting initiatives to measure quality of care. These measures include aggressive use of medications, such as t-PA, antithrombotics, anticoagulation therapy, DVT prophylaxis, cholesterol reducing drugs and smoking cessation, all aimed at reducing death and disability and improving the lives of stroke patients.
"This award says a lot for our Stroke Team, hospitalists, family practice physicians/residents, intensivists, and our rehabilitation physicians," said Jeanie Hammer, RN, Stroke Services coordinator. "We are always striving to provide quality care for our patients and this award shows what we are currently able to offer to the community."
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• A 78-year-old man arrived at Utah Valley at 9:05 a.m. Orem paramedics had been called after the man felt dizzy in the shower and fell to the floor at his home. The patient underwent a CT scan just 23 minutes after arrival to the ED and received the clot busting medication (t-PA) just
56 minutes after he arrived. In addition, the Stroke Team had offered the patient further treatment measures in Interventional Radiology, but due to the patient's dramatic improvement in the ED, it was determined that no further intervention was needed. The patient started moving his arm and leg, smiling symmetrically, and speaking much more fluently. It was apparent the t-PA had worked. It had dissolved the blood clot and restored the blood flow in the brain.
Hammer said Utah Valley Regional, the county's only Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, is able to provide very comprehensive treatment for acute stroke due to the excellent group physicians who practice at the hospital. Less than 100 hospitals nationwide are able to offer both intravenous and intra-arterial stroke therapies.
According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of serious, long-term disability. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 45 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every three minutes; and 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.
"With a stroke, time lost is brain lost, and the Get With The Guidelines award demonstrates Utah Valley Regional's commitment to being one of the top hospitals in the country for providing aggressive, proven stroke care," said Carl Black, MD, an interventional radiologist and co-medical director of the Utah Valley Regional Stroke Team. "We'll continue with our focus on providing care that has been shown to quickly and efficiently treat stroke patients with evidence-based protocols."
Dr. Black said there's a three-hour window where stroke patients can receive aggressive clot-busting medications. However, new research is showing that the quicker medication is given, the better. This is prompting all of Intermountain facilities that treat stroke to set the goal of getting patients to a CT scan within 25 minutes of arrival and receiving the medication within 60 minutes.
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Swami Atmaqvidyananda, composer and musical director, led a 20 voice choir in a performance of his "Vivekananda Oratorio 150″ created in honor of the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, one of the founders of the Parliament of Religions in 1893. The premier was held at the Vedante Society of Southern California headquarters in Hollywood Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. The Oratorio lyrics repeat words from Vivekananda's speeches and writings; it was a 90 minute performance to an interfaith audience in the Vedante Society's main worship area.
Composer Atmaqvidyananda (born as William Scott) has been active in the Society since 1954. Other major works include "Mountain Journey," an interfaith opera; "Claudia and Alexander," a mystical operetta; the oratorio "Ramakrishna and His Teaching" and "Ram Nam Symphony." He is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India posted to the Hollywood center where he is organist-choir director, treasurer and gardener. He is a campus minister at the University of Southern California where he also lectures.
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Chakra Linux 2012.08 preview
Chakra Linux is a desktop distribution forked from Arch Linux. It uses the K Desktop Environment as its primary and only officially-supported desktop environment.
Last year, it made the list of my top distributions that use KDE, but my opinion of it went downhill – somewhat, after that article was published. Main reason was the issue surrounding the distribution's graphical package manager. An issue so bad that led to a complete absence of a graphical package manager from the last two or so releases.
Sadly, even this latest release does not ship with a graphical package manager. All package management tasks have to be accomplished from the command line. Aside from that, I think this release has a lot of goodies to offer, and is what a detailed review. While that review is still in the works, here are a few screen shots from a test installation.
On first boot, Kapudan is the first application to run. Kapudan is Chakra's version of Kaptan, the desktop customization utility of Pardus. Kapudan is actually an enhanced port of Kaptan.
Kapudan allows you to configure many aspects of the desktop.
This is the default desktop with the Kickoff menu, the default.
And this is the default desktop with a different wallpaper. I find the default wallpaper too bold and too in your face. Even this one is not exactly to my liking, but it is the best that I could find.
The desktop as seen from the KDE Plasma Netbook interface.
The Takeoff menu is one of four menu styles configurable from Kapudan. It is actually my favorite KDE menu style, but not with this default background.
Another shot of the desktop with the Takeoff menu.
As a "pure" KDE desktop, Chakra makes GTK applications available via its Bundle system. This screen shot shows a partial list of GTK applications installable from the Bundle manager.
You may download an installation image of Chakra 2012.08 from here and read the Release Notes. Note that with this release, Chakra is now available for 64-bit architectures only.
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When, oh, when are people going to learn the difference between a great looking photo (usually striking, and attention grabbing) and a great looking desktop wallpaper (usually subtle, abstract and acting as a *background* to everything else that is happening on your computer).
It's a beautiful photo, though.
Did you notice the Manjaro release? Supposedly one of the lead developers from Chakra left to join the project. It's also based on Arch, and available in both 32 and 64 bit versions with Xfce, KDE, and Cinnamon/Gnome DEs.


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TG was at the launch of an electric Pug supercar capable of outpunching the Veyron. But did it work?
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Still, despite not having a go, the EX1 promises excitement. It's the latest in a long line of tree-hugging concept supercars which include the Citroen Survolt, Audi E-Tron, Mercedes' electric SLS, Porsche 918 Spyder, BMW Vision EfficientDynamics et al.


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I haven't seen very many variations of Magneto's suits so I'm always interested whenever one pops up, like this one from the new 6-inch X-Men line. It's always nice to see what a character looks like in different outfits. Imagine Wolverine in a suit or Rogue in a bikini? Niiiiiice ;D I hope someone out there makes an "Age of Apocalypse" Magneto where he has the long white beard and more muscle.
Magneto stands at 6 1/4 inches tall and wears a purple suit with metal trimmings. It's almost as if you can tell that whoever was designing this suit was watching an Avengers cartoon with Hawkeye in it. He even has the loincloth around his waist! He makes a great Hawkeye custom and you don't even have to paint anything, all you have to do is change the head! But you're not going to change his head because it is finely sculpted, even his eyebrows are detailed! He has white slicked-back hair with two bangs hanging on his forehead and also comes with his helmet which fits perfectly. It's made of soft rubber so you won't damage the paint on his hair. His eyes are clear-blue and will melt the pants off your girlfriend, so keep her away from him. He looks about 40 years old and has a cold, calculating expression. He has an average build, as he should, since he doesn't really have to do a lot of physical labor to thrash the X-men. There is a small device strapped onto his right arm which is useless and should be removed immediately. You're going to have to peel the straps off and pop out the little unit though because they're glued on, but you'll be happier without them. I don't know if I like his cape or not, yet. It's a soft-rubber purple half-cape with a red underside and a metal collar, which is kinda bulky. It's a "half-cape" because it hangs all the way to his feet but it starts in the middle of his back and only drapes over his left shoulder. This is so you can strap another useless device over his right shoulder. It's like a backpack with a tube that leads to a little electromagnet (which actually works, after installing 3 AAA batteries) that he can hold in either hand. He's Magneto! He doesn't need a fancy magnet! He IS a magnet! But I'm sure some kid somewhere is going to love it. The cape isn't supposed to be removable but it's a good thing that it isn't glued on. It's just held on by the collar, but if you make a neat slice in it, you can remove the cape easily with no damage to Magneto. There are two small holes in his back to fit a peg from the cape and another from the magnet so they don't slide around. If you have one of those clear stands, like the ones that come with Black Panther or Mystique, you can use these holes to make him look like he's flying!
Like the Legends before them, the figures from this new X-Men line are very articulated. Magneto's neck is swivel-hinged, he tilts at the mid-section, and has a swiveled waist. Shoulders are swivel-hinged, arms swivel just under them, elbows are double-hinged, wrists are swivel-hinged, and each finger is individually articulated. Hips are swivel-hinged, legs swivel just under them, knees are double-hinged with a swivel just under them, ankles are rocked-hinged and the toes are hinged. They even bend backwards, creepy...he has 44 points of articulation! That's pretty good.
His fingers are articulated individually but they aren't sculpted the right way. The fingers just look awkward when moved alone. I think it would have been better to keep the fingers articulated as a whole. Also, his feet look a little too long to me. There was a painting mistake on his right leg where a part was supposed to be black was painted metal instead, but this might be a mistake on mine only. I heard this Magneto was rare, and it might be true because I only saw one of him in the store and bought it. I went back a few times and they never had him again, just a lot of Wolverines, Gambits, and a cat-faced Beast.
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Two Hoosiers Honored as IU Scholar-Athletes of the Month for October
Oct. 31, 2008
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Two Indiana student-athletes were honored by the IU Department of Athletics for their achievement on and off the field. Junior offensive tackle Roger Saffold and sophomore point guard Whitney Lindsay were selected as the IU Scholar-Athletes for the month of October.
Saffold, a Bedford, Ohio native, started 13 games as a sophomore for the Hoosiers and helped IU average 157.4 yards per game on the ground and 393.8 yards of total offense in 2007. He has started all eight games this season at left tackle. A finance major, Saffold has continued to make strides in the classroom during his junior year.
"We are very proud of Roger," Indiana head football coach Bill Lynch said. "He works just as hard in the classroom as he does on the field and that is evident by him being named IU Scholar-Athlete of the Month."
Lindsay, a Mansfield, Ohio native, averaged 1.5 points and 1.0 assists per game her freshman season for the Hoosiers. She played in 33 games and started four during her rookie campaign. Lindsay scored a career-high eight points against Michigan State and grabbed a career-high six boards against Northwestern last season. A psychology major, Lindsay has continually improved in the classroom during her sophomore year.
"Whitney did a tremendous job last year with her academics, but she was not satisfied. She felt that she could do more," IU head women's basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack said. "She has made even greater strides to becoming a better student-athlete this year. I am thrilled that our Department of Athletics has recognized her strong efforts. I am always proud of her and I am so happy for her accomplishments thus far."


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Boys State officially begins with formal opening ceremonies at 7:30 p.m. on June 20, with the keynote address delivered by Connecticut State University System Chancellor David G. Carter. David Greenleaf, chairman of the American Legion Boys State Commission and American Legion Department Commander Charlie Morrissey will also speak.
The weeklong program is formatted to educate students on how state and municipal governments operate. Participants will set up and run mock town, city and state elections. Students will engage in role-playing where towns are represented, mayors will lobby, and representatives and senators will debate and enact legislation. The election of a governor and signing and vetoing of legislation passed by the legislature will take place on Friday.
Greenleaf praised Eastern for hosting Boys State over the years. "Eastern makes the summer program a very positive experience for young people who cannot help but return to their communities with a desire to make a positive contribution," said Greenleaf.
This year's guests include Connecticut Comptroller Nancy Wyman who is scheduled to speak at 9:15 a.m. on June 21; Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz who is scheduled to speak at 1 p.m. on June 21; and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal will speak on 2 p.m. on June 24. On June 22,


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Pretty Little Liars: Is Alison Alive? You Tell Us!
Is Alison DiLaurentis (Sasha Pieterse) secretly alive — and possibly involved with the "A" team — on Pretty Little Liars? It's a popular theory, but how popular? We're turning to you, our readers, to find out.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Pretty Little Liars book series.
If you've somehow missed this entire discussion, you can get a rundown of it here. But the basic idea is inspired by the Pretty Little Liars book series, where it turned out it was Ali's twin, not Ali, who died.
While the TV show writers have gone in a very different direction than the books for a lot of plot lines, Mona was the original "A" in the books, so clearly the show isn't afraid to parallel the book series it was based on. There have been copious clues that Ali may have had a twin on the TV show, too. And after the revealing flashback in Season 3, Episode 22: "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?" that made it sound like Ali knew she was going to "die" we're more convinced than ever that her fate is more complicated than mere murder.
What do you think: Is Ali still alive? Vote in our poll, and sound off in the comments below!
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THE Technical Committee of the Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) has proposed plans for the country to feature in nine sports disciplines during next year's Commonwealth Games to be held in Glasgow, Scotland.
TOC Secretary General, Filbert Bayi told reporters that the respective sports associations are supposed to table their strategic plans to the committee by March 25 this year.
He cautioned that associations which will fail to meet the set deadline will have to count themselves out of the Commonwealth Games. Bayi said they plan to send a squad of 64 athletes in the quadrennial event.
However, he said, the proposal does not mean that it was now automatic for all nine sports disciplines to send sportsmen and women for the event, saying the athletes will have to meet the set qualifying standards.
"Our plan is to send a squad of 64 athletes," he said, adding that a sum of 90,000 US dollar (about 140m/-) support to facilitate the team's training, a month before the games has been offered by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The proposed sports are boxing, athletics, weightlifting, swimming, table tennis, judo, netball, cycling and Paralympics sports.
This is an increase of five more sports disciplines compared to the 2010 New Delhi, India Games, when the country was represented by four disciplines -- boxing, athletics, Paralympics and swimming. In the 2006 Melbourne Games, the country was only represented by athletics, boxing and Paralympics in which, Samson Ramadhani won gold medal in marathon.
Bayi said for the proposed sports, their respective associations must be active members of their international bodies. "After receiving the strategic plans, the TOC technical committee, respective associations and the government will sit and plan together on the way forward," he said.
He advises the sports associations to pick few talented and competent athletes and train extensively, instead of having a bigger team, which can not win medals. "We know that the situations was not all that good within our sports associations but it will be proper if they choose to focus on few athletes who will be trained scientifically to win medals", said Bayi.
The country marked its first participation in the Games in 1966 and won its first silver in the 1970 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games, legendary 1,500-metre runner Filbert Bayi won the country's first gold in 1974 in the Games held in Christchurch. Certainly, 2010 New Delhi Games remain an event to forget for Tanzanians because the team returned home without a single medal, the worst performance for the country in the event.
Melbourne 2006 Games will also go down in history as a year to forget for Tanzanians because the team returned home with only two medals and worse enough without two boxers, who disappeared in Australia. Omary Idd Kimweri and Karim Matumla behaviour shocked the nation as they disappeared while representing their country.


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Editorial: "We shouldn't mourn the demotion of Archaeopteryx"
FOR 150 years Archaeopteryx has been iconic as the earliest bird. The fossil sports feathered wings but a dinosaur's teeth and tail. Now the discovery of a feathered dinosaur in China has prompted a reassessment that has left Archaeopteryx squarely in dinosaur territory.
The diminutive new fossil, Xiaotingia zhengi, recently acquired by the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature from a fossil dealer, was excavated from 160-million-year-old rocks in Liaoning province (see the fossil here). It shares several key anatomical features with Archaeopteryx, including a "killing claw" on its second toe, and long and robust arms that probably allowed it to glide.
However, a team led by Xing Xu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing deemed it sufficiently distinct from birds to be classified as a theropod dinosaur known as a deinonychosaur - and because of the similarities with Archaeopteryx, Xu's team concluded that the "first bird" is a deinonychosaur too (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature10288).
"We used to think Archaeopteryx was so different from other dinosaurs that it was ancestral to birds, but recent discoveries show that this is no longer the case," says Xu. "Our main conclusion is that Archaeopteryx is no longer a bird."
Other palaeontologists give Xu's findings a cautious welcome. "I am not surprised," says Gareth Dyke of University College Dublin in Ireland. "Flight may have evolved many times among small bodied theropod dinosaurs."
If Xu's analysis holds up it will create quite a headache for taxonomists as Archaeopteryx is used to define the base of the birds. One solution would be to include deinonychosaurs in the birds, says Luis Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California.
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Total Economic Volume of GCC Monetary Council Estimated at $751b: SAMA Governor
Our Correspondent / 6 January 2010
JEDDAH The total economic volume of the four-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Monetary Council is estimated at about $751 billion, according to Muhammad Al Jasser, governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency.
The Arabic business daily Al Eqtesadiyyah quoted Al Jasser as saying that the monetary council would strengthen the GCC economies and boost their economic and commercial relations.
He said the monetary policies of the four GCC countries are identical with their currencies pegged to the US dollar, except that of Kuwait, and added that Kuwait has affirmed its commitment to the Monetary Union.
Al Jasser said Saudi Arabia does not need to change the US dollar as a peg to its riyal currency. The current exchange regime has served the national economy in an excellent form over the past two decades, he said, and added that there is an agreement between GCC countries to keep the dollar link until they enter the Monetary Council.
He explained that nothing justifies operating a change in the foreign exchange regime nor introducing adjustments to the exchange rate of the riyal versus the US dollar based on the periodic fluctuations of the dollars exchange rate in international markets. Saudi Arabia has been linking the riyal to the US dollar since 1986, he said
Al Jasser said that Saudi Arabias monetary policies were instrumental in curbing inflation rates in past years. Monetary policy plays a big role in facing inflationary pressures in a country, he said, added that the latest inflation was caused by an increase in prices of products in countries that export to Saudi Arabia.
We face this inflationary trend by subsidising prices of essential commodities and supporting low-income groups, he said. He said the monetary policy in 2010 would be adopted after closely analysing the countrys economic situation and world market developments.
Asked about an increase in the interest rate on loans, Al Jasser said the commission charged for loans are based on three fundamental factors: Cost, risk and competition. As a result of stiff competition between local banks to attract customers, the commission for loans is fixed on the basis of these three factors, he added.
We at SAMA want that customers should be aware of how much they have to pay back after taking loans and we ask banks to explain lending conditions to customers, he said.
Al Jasser said Saudi banks were least affected by the global crises. The rate of lending compared to the private sector gross domestic product has been increasing continuously, he said, refuting suggestions that banks had reduced lending operations. He denied allegations that the fall in interest rate had encouraged Saudi banks to invest in foreign countries. I dont agree with this assumption because most of the investments of local banks are in the kingdom. Financial organisations look for safe and low-risk investment opportunities irrespective of geographical locations and these incentives are abundant in Saudi market, he said.
International reports have shown that Saudi Arabia is one of the most attractive places in the world for investment.
Speaking about the debts of business conglomerates Saad Group and Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Bros, Al Jasser said they could affect the profits of some Saudi banks because of allocations made for suspicious debts. However, he added that the incident would not affect the strength and solvency of Saudi banks.
Saad Group and Algosaibi are family business institutions that are not directly or indirectly supervised by SAMA, he said. Commercial banks should take necessary precautions while providing loans.
What happened in Saad Group was not a settlement but a setoff financial operation for assets that were mortgaged, he said.
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This video is a visual 10 step instruction manual how to use a pressure bomb for measuring water pressure in the xylem of transpiring leaves. It is geared towards undergraduate students working in plant physiology labs as well as viewers who are interested in plant biology.
Water in the xylem is under negative pressure. This tension can be measured by a "pressure bomb". Tension pressure in a non-transpiring leaf is "equivalent" to water potential of cells surrounding the xylem (mesophyll cells), because the xylem's osmotic potential is negligible.
A single leaf is sealed in the pressure chamber with the cut surface protruding through a rubber stopper. Pressure is applied to the shoot from a tank of compressed air (or nitrogen) until xylem sap appears at the cut ends of the xylem. The hydrostatic pressure inside the xylem elements is then identical to the applied external pressure. The amount of pressure that must be applied to force water out of the leaf cells into the xylem is regarded as equal to the xylem tension when the leaf was cut from the plant.


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So my copy of Pikmin was sold a while back by my brother, who I hate. So I went online on amazon and looked it up. Turns out it cost 78.95! Wind waker is 149.99. Are they really that expensive or is it just because they don't make them anymore? Luigi's Mansion is 89.95 but I bought that one not too long ago at Gamestop for 15 dollars I believe.
GameCube games, really this expensive?
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I'm sure you'd have better luck finding used copies at a local game store. That said, I'm looking forward to whenever Nintendo decides to start selling GC games digitally.
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That is insane.
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Yep, GC games are really that expensive. I don't know if it's just a quantity issue, if GC was just considered so unpopular that so few copies of games exist in the wild, if some games just didn't get very many discs printed due to low GC console numbers, or if there's something else going on, but, yeah. I think a GC copy of the Mega Man X Collection on GC goes for around 50-70$ still, while a PS2 copy goes for like 15-20$. It really sucks too because the GC has a fair number of good titles that I think were necessarily appreciated in their prime as they may be now. Nintendo would be doing good to add GC titles to a virtual console, perhaps on the Wii U. I think it would actually go a long way to making people want to buy a Wii U if they had a bunch of GC games for the virtual store there. Or maybe not, maybe I'm just crazy and wish I had more GC games.
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the gamecube was a nifty little console. Look at that name. You know Nintendo meant business.
Amazon seems to jack up the price of older games. I saw Silent Hill for PS1 being sold $200 dollars and unopened copies for $170. $700 dollars for the PC Director's cut of Silent Hill 2. My favorite price listing is Final Fantasy VII for $200. If you can't find the games you are looking for at Gamestop. As an alternative, check out Half Price Bookstores, Goodwill or local flea markets. Those places sell used games.
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@ImmortalSaiyan:GC didn't have loads of great games but it did have some truly classic titles -RE4, Metroid Prime, Pikmin, Resi 1 Remake, Prince of Persia SOT, Eternal Darkness- some of my personal faves of all time.
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I'm sure you'd have better luck finding used copies at a local game store. That said, I'm looking forward to whenever Nintendo decides to start selling GC games digitally.
That's when the prices will fall dramatically. Sell you're gamecube games now!
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Considering many of those games came out over six years ago, I was surprised to see that many first party used Gamecube games at Gamestop were still around thirty and forty dollars. I wanted to get some for old times sake but I went ahead and grabbed a shit load of PS2 games for the price of Twilight Princess. I have no idea why prices are so high.
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Those must be prices for sealed copies. Buy them used.
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Second hand via people is nonsense.
Here in Holland we got countless NGC games ranging from 1 to 20 in the gamestore's second hand.
Most expensive is Twilight Princess (pretty low output here) for 25 and Wind Waker for 20, but the rest is pretty normally priced (I think the games are still worth it).
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Looks like I can be a dick and sell my GC copy of Twilight Princess for a markup. Never realized this happened to GC titles.
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@ImmortalSaiyan:GC didn't have loads of great games but it did have some truly classic titles -RE4, Metroid Prime, Pikmin, Resi 1 Remake, Prince of Persia SOT, Eternal Darkness- some of my personal faves of all time.
Indeed. What it lacked in quantity, it dealt in overall quality. Plus the controller was fab, as was the oddly calming main menu screen. Then there's the cutesy discs, the compact size of the console itself making it easy for carrying around... Man, I bloody loved the Gamecube.
If I had to guess, it's because it's the only way to play those games. There aren't any virtual console versions of gamecube titles, right? Also, Nintendo's games seem to hold value in general. Maybe it's peoples nostalgia for games of their childhood that spikes prices. Whatever it is, I wouldn't pay those prices for games that are destined to be re released in some format or that I could just pick up used someplace else for much cheaper.
Don't look on Amazon for used games. People set their own crazy prices in hopes that someone who doesn't know any better will stumble in and buy it. If you go look on eBay, Pikmin will cost you about $20, Luigi's Mansion about $25, and Wind Waker about $30.
Amazon isn't very sexy, toad. Ebay however... dem prices.
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I recommend Lukiegames. I've bought 500 dollars worth of stuff from them in the last couple months. Cheap shipping, good prices, and the games are labelled properly. ALSO, they put these to peel stickers on the BACK of the game instead of the front! Leaves no film or muck, and it's on the back! You have no idea how important that is!
Although they did send me a copy of Barkley Shut Up And Jam! 2 rather than the original. I also got a complete version of Phantasy Star 3 when I'm pretty sure I just payed for the cartridge. So you might get lucky.
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The Global Food Emulsifier market is to grow at a CAGR of 5.46 percent over the period 2013-2018. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing preference for low-fat foods. The Global Food Emulsifier market has also been witnessing the increasing demand for packaged and convenience foods. However, the entry of low-priced products and private label offerings could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.
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Source: Kim Kardashian's Wedding "Was Contrived to Be Great Television"
On the day that Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from Kris Humphries, and issued a somber, careful statement, anonymous sources are hitting back, accusing Kim of insecurity and fame addiction.
Radar Online talks to one friend close to Kim, who says: "She doesn't want to live off camera she is totally insecure and addicted to fame," adding, "Everything is about her and her career."
Everything, including her $18 million dollar, 400-person wedding, says the source.
"The wedding was all for TV — they invited people they didn't even know — many of whom were business associates, and people who each had not even met before the wedding! The wedding was contrived to be great television, but had no warmth or intimacy."
It's no coincidence that Kim filed for divorce today, continues the "friend." "Don't think it's a coincidence filing/announcing on Halloween — she will be profiting off of this for years to come! Not to mention her mom's book comes out tomorrow."
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Seminars aren't the only thing we do in Renaissance. There are also Social Events, Excursions, Scholarships and many CSUS Events.
The leading Social Events are the twice-annual luncheons. These are presented in December and May and feature a lunch or brunch at a local restaurant with socializing and entertainment.
Excursions are offered about two times per semester. These are usually bus trips to an interesting place a few hours away. Some Excursions are overnights, such as recent trips to Yosemite and Monterey Bay.
Renaissance members are proud of the Scholarships we give each year to CSUS students. This year Renaissance presented five $2,500 scholarships to students in any field of study that can be related to the intellectual, social and health pursuits of retirement-age people.
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Ilhavo, Portugal — SADIF Investment Analytics, announces a new rating update report covering the following companies:
Report Summary for: Viver Incorporadora e Construtora SA is a below average quality company with a neutral outlook. Viver Incorporadora e Construtora SA has weak business growth and is run by inefficient management. The trend in Viver Incorporadora e Construtora SA fair value exchange rate against its closest rated-competitor, Trisul SA, has been depreciating over the past 2 weeks. When compared to its closest competitor, Viver Incorporadora e Construtora SA shows similar overvaluation and is equally likely to outperform the market.
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They lived on the planet with us for most of our history, yet until six years ago we didn't know they existed. Meet the species rewriting human evolution
THERE was very little to go on – just the tiniest fragment of a finger bone. What's more, it was clear that whoever it had once belonged to was long dead. This was the coldest of cold cases. Yet, there was also a suspicion that the remains, discovered in a cave high up in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, had a story to tell. So Michael Shunkov from the Russian Academy of Science bagged and labelled the shard, and sent it off for analysis.
At his lab in the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Svante Pääbo was just about to finish the first sequencing of a Neanderthal genome when ...
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UTShare PeopleSoft kickoff meeting is 3-4 p.m., Wednesday, June 22
(June 21, 2011)--The rescheduled UTShare PeopleSoft project kickoff meeting is 3-4 p.m., Wednesday, June 22 at the University Center Denman Room (2.01.28) on the Main Campus.
The PeopleSoft system will replace Define (including HRMS and UT Direct/Point Plus), the current human resources and financial management system. Staff members who work with Define and other interested faculty and staff members are invited to the meeting. Light refreshments will be served.
Speakers and executive sponsors at the meeting will be President Ricardo Romo, Provost John Frederick, Kerry Kennedy (vice president for business affairs) and Gage Paine (vice president for student affairs).
The new system implementation will affect all UTSA financial and human resources processing, such as generating payments to vendors for goods or services, or making employment transaction changes. The planned launch of the new system is September 2012. In addition to UTSA, six other UT academic institutions and the UT System are participating in the effort.
The UTShare mission is to implement common, standard human resources (HCM), financials (FMS) and auxiliary support systems that provide access to accurate, timely and relevant data while using recognized best business practices in a shared services environment in support of the University of Texas System.
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BACTERIA that are not merely resistant to antibiotics, but feed on them are widespread in soil, say researchers who have discovered them by chance.
A team of microbiologists led by George Church of Harvard University were hunting for soil bacteria that can turn plant waste into biofuels. They grew soil samples in pure antibiotics as a control and found instead that there were hundreds of species that thrived on various types of antibiotics. "We expected not to find a lot of bacteria that could eat antibiotics for breakfast," Church says. "We were kind of surprised" (Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1155157).
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, such as MRSA, can grow despite the presence of the drug they are resistant to. In contrast, the soil-based "ultra-bugs" can not only resist many antibiotics, they can subsist on a diet of them, including modern-day "silver bullets" such as ciprofloxacin.
The discovery is worrying because, although none ...
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July 5, 2015
Many Americans only learn about the holocaust in history class.
But today Dothan residents learned firsthand.
Ann Roseheck a holocaust survivor came to the university to tell her story to bring the history books to life.
"Someone came and told us we are on the list, you momma and myself. They are taking us away." Holocaust survivor Ann Rosenheck said.
Ann was only 13 when she was rounded up by the Nazi's.
She and her family were put in a cattle car and taken to the first concentration camp.
Once she arrived, her nightmare began.
"I heard my poppa screaming and so i ran in and guess who it was. My closest friend's uncle that was beating my father." Rosenheck said.
Not long after everyone in her family was sent to the gas chambers...except for her...one of many times Ann escapes death.
"I went to life they went to death." Rosenheck said.
Ann says the conditions at Auschwitz were terrible.
"I only had one dress, it was December, and my shoes were gone. I was wearing clogs. No undergarments, just a gray striped dress and my feet were bloody." Rosenheck said.
However she managed to hang on, after four months in Auschwitz, she was taken to Germany to work in a factory.
It was here she would have to escape death for the last time.
A doctor pretended she had typhoid so he can smuggle her into his bunk and keep her from being sent off.
"That night the Americans closed in and I was liberated the next day the 29th of April." Rosenheck said.
A day that will be a bookmark in her memory for the rest of her life.
Ann is one of the few people still alive with memories of the horrific time in history.
She says she'll continue to tell her story for all who want to hear.
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Ringo Starr releasing unseen Beatles photos in e-book
Fans of The Beatles, get ready for some fresh new photos of the boys from Liverpool. The band's drummer, Ringo Starr, is releasing a bunch of never-before-seen photos from his personal collection, Reuters reports.
The photos of the band, taken during their heyday, will fill the pages of a new photography e-book Starr is releasing in June. "Photograph" coincides with the Grammy Museum opening an exhibit about the drummer, titled "Ringo: Peace & Love."
In addition to photos of The Beatles, the book will contain pictures from other moments in Starr's life, all the way back to his childhood. He's also including travel photos from the band's touring around the world. "These are shots no one else could have," he says in a statement.
A limited number of hard copies of the book, hand bound and autographed by Starr, will be made available in December. The e-book version is available in Apple's iBookstore on June 12.
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This is routine manual work in the maintenance and care of recreation department facilities and grounds which includes maintaining facility cleanliness, performing grounds maintenance, performing minor repair work, and assisting skilled trades workers in the performance of minor work orders. Work is performed under the supervision of a district caretaker supervisor. Assignments will include the cleaning and care of assigned buildings and surrounding grounds or performing grounds maintenance work as a member of a crew in a recreation park or square. Work is carried out in accordance with detailed work instructions. Work involves some disagreeable aspects and requires moderate physical effort.
Sweeps, mops and scrubs floors; waxes and polishes floors; washes windows; dusts furniture and woodwork; empties trash receptacles.
Occasionally secures loose flooring, ceiling tiles and paneling, measures partitions and shelves, repairs holes in panels or partitions.
Tightens door locks; repairs doors by tightening hinges or nailing wood over holes in doors or windows.
Tightens bolts on bleachers and benches; secures seats and footplates.
Repairs sport and play equipment by tightening nuts and bolts, wiring crossbraces and bending basketball rims into place.
Checks thermostat to assure proper temperature is being maintained.
Cleans debris from gutters and downspouts on one-story buildings.
Keeps building free of safety hazards.ELECTRICAL
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Sweeps and cleans all walks from curbline in; cuts grass using a power mower; rakes leaves; trims hedges and bushes; seeds and waters grounds areas as required; shovels snow; keeps playground areas free of debris and safety hazards.
Makes play areas; lines fields; fills holes and low areas.
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text: In addition to objects that have been preserved because of the information they convey about past human activities in the region, the parks' historical resources include dozens of sites and structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places and many others that are eligible for inclusion. Most of these places, such as the White Grass Ranch in Grand Teton National Park, are of interest because of their significance in architectural or park history, but archeological sites such as Obsidian Cliff in Yellowstone and the tipi rings in Bighorn Canyon are associated with American Indian use that pre-dates the arrival of the first park visitors. The need to protect and understand the importance of all of these resources affects how the parks are managed today.