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OriginClear Successfully Cleans Disaster Recovery Water
On-site Treatment Cuts Disposal Cost and Environmental Impact
OriginClear, Inc., and its licensee E3 Services and Solutions, LLC (E3), today announced the successful completion of a joint on-site disaster water cleanup project in Oklahoma City. The company released a video and an independent water analysis showcasing successful results. Read More
OriginClear Executes MOU with CSU Bakersfield
Parties establish framework to research applications for EWS technology
OriginClear, Inc., announced that the Company executed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with California State University, Bakersfield (CSU Bakersfield). The MOU establishes a cooperative framework to research and validate OriginClear's technology for application in agriculture and oil and gas operations and widen educational opportunities for CSU Bakersfield students. Read More
Joint venture intended to provide quick-response water reclamation for franchisees, insurers and impacted communities
OriginClear, Inc., and OriginClear licensee E3 Services and Solutions, LLC (E3), have teamed up to form a joint venture (JV) intended to offer quickresponse disaster water reclamation services to restoration franchise businesses in North America. Read More
USPTO Grants Early Algae Patents to OriginClear Inventors
Oil production invention referenced by 107 other patent applications
OriginClear, Inc., announced today that the US Patent and Trademark Office recently granted two patents for algae production. The inventors included OriginClear co-founders, Nicholas and Riggs Eckelberry. Read More
OriginOil to Rename Company 'OriginClear'
Rename positions the company to better serve wide water cleanup market
OriginClear, Inc., announced today OriginOil is now named OriginClear™ Inc., effective immediately. The company ticker symbol, OOIL, will remain unchanged. Read More
OriginOil Hong Kong Signs First Strategic Agreement with Puresino Science & Technology
Beijing-based partner is equipment arm of major wastewater solutions company Poten Enviro
OriginOil, Inc., announced today that its Hong Kong subsidiary, OriginOil (HK), has partnered with Beijing Puresino Science & Technology, to promote the application of EWS in water treatment for the chemical industry as well as urban wastewater and soil remediation. Read More
New product line to incorporate and replace earlier CLEAN-FRAC branding for oil and gas water cleanup
OriginOil, Inc., announced today the launch of its OriginClear™ product line for all waste water treatment, including oil and gas water cleanup. The new product line will incorporate and fully replace the company's earlier CLEAN-FRAC™ and PRIME product line, while also extending into waste water treatment. Read More
Independent lab results validate performance and feasibility of treating produced water for large-scale applications
OriginOil, Inc., announced today that independent third-party testing by Zalco Laboratories confirmed that OriginOil's PRIME product for oil & gas operations successfully reduced contaminants in produced water to the level required for reuse for cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) — a type of enhanced oil recovery. Read More
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OriginOil, Inc., announced today the launch of CLEAN-FRAC™ PRIME, a standalone product designed to provide core water treatment for frac flowback and produced water applications in the oil and gas industry. Read More

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Autism Social Group Bringing YouTube Sensation Back For An EncoreThursday, June 4, 2015 at 8:40 am
Families United in Newtown (FUN) will host its final meeting of the school year on Sunday, June 14, from 3 to 6 pm, at Dickinson Park, 50 Elm Drive. The meeting and social activities, themed "Dancing in the Park," are being held by the basketball courts and new FunSpace in the back of the park.
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A Night Of FUN: Benefit Concert Featuring Movie Music Supports Families United In NewtownWednesday, May 20, 2015 at 9:46 am
With her voice filling Newtown Congregational Church and her fingers drifting across piano keys, special guest and YouTube sensation Jodi DiPiazza performed "Somewhere Over The Rainbow," Saturday, May 16. She and others came together for a benefit concert, "Celebrating Movie Music," to raise funds for Families United in Newtown (FUN), which resident Linda Jones established in 2008 to offer recreational programs and respite for families with special needs children like her late son Tyler, who was a non-verbal child with autism.
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Newtown Autism Concert To Feature YouTube Phenom Jodi DiPiazzaWednesday, April 29, 2015 at 9:57 am
Families United in Newtown (FUN) will present its third annual autism awareness-raising concert, "Celebrating Movie Music," on Saturday, May 16, at 6 pm, at Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street.
This year's concert theme involves popular movie tunes spanning the decades, and will welcome headliner and YouTube sensation Jodi DiPiazza. Jodi, a resident of New Jersey, began improvising piano at age 3 and started taking lessons at age 7 despite her struggle with autism spectrum disorder.
FUN Celebrates At Its Final Meeting Of The School YearWednesday, June 11, 2014
Members of FUN (Families United in Newtown) met at Dickinson Memorial Park on Sunday, June 8, for the group's final meeting of the 2013-14 academic year.
FUN was formed in the memory of Tyler Jones, the son of the program's founders.
Booth Library Unveils Autism Resource CenterThursday, May 15, 2014
Through laughter and tears, sisters Sarah and Hannah D'Avino and their mother, Mary, spoke briefly on May 10 about their late sister and daughter Rachel D'Avino, who was killed on 12/14. She was a teacher's aide and behavioral therapist at Sandy Hook School.
"We're going to help continue Rachel's dream of helping [children with] autism," said Mary D'Avino.
Autism 'Heart' To Premier At FUN ConcertSaturday, May 3, 2014
Local Artist David Merrill stands beside a colorful heart he helped design for Families United in Newtown (FUN), which was founded by resident Linda Jones, right, in memory of her late son, Tyler. FUN will present a night of music, Friday, May 9, at 7 pm, at Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street.
A FUN Concert Planned, To Promote Autism AwarenessWednesday, April 16, 2014
Families United in Newtown (FUN) is planning a night of music for Friday, May 9. The performance will start at 7 pm and will be at Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street.
The concert will feature tunes for all types of music lovers.
Special Needs Kids Are Pretty Special To Many PeopleWednesday, November 6, 2013
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I want to thak Linda Jones for all that she does to make the FUN support groups happen. We took our son Daniel to a Halloween Party at the High School on November 2, 2013 and the Best Buddies club were there to play with and encourage the special needs children. I joined one of the children to judge the Halloween costumes, and it was a very special evening.


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I've been peering at this Hedningarna lyric for a few days and wondering the gender referred to in it. Google Translate, which I trust only vaguely, goes from "his life" to "her life" on a whim, and I'm not really great with this language in particular, so if anyone has any light to shed, that would be awesome.
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The phrase is not a correct or complete phrase in Swedish without it. My guess is (Hedningarna is/are... not my cup of tea), that it is the pluralis: de/dom.
Here's what I think:
"Sitt" is a possessive pronoun that refers back to the subject, and the subject can be female or male. It's basically "his own" or "her own" or "its own".
In your quote the subject's gender should be known from context. If it's not, both "his" and "her" (or "its") are possible, that's why Google translate can't decide.
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There is one more thing to mention about possessive pronouns, and that is the word sin (ett-form sitt). This is used in place of either hans, hennes, or deras if the possessive pronoun is referring directly back to the subject. Sin/sitt can never appear in the subject. Look at these examples (don't worry if you don't know some vocabulary):
We live in his house. ---> Vi bor i hans hus.
Their table is in the house. ---> Deras bord är i huset.
She and her husband speak English. ---> Hon och hennes man talar engelska.
She sees her husband. ---> Hon ser sin man.
He is going to his school. ---> Han går till sin skola.
They live with their child. (ett barn) ---> De bor med sitt barn.
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A Detroit-area soccer player accused of killing a referee with a punch to the neck made an initial court appearance on a second-degree murder charge Thursday, the same day family and friends were saying a final goodbye to the referee.
A Detroit-area soccer player accused of killing a referee with a punch to the neck made an initial court appearance on a second-degree murder charge Thursday, the same day family and friends were saying a final goodbye to the referee.
Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad was arraigned in Livonia District Court, less than 10 miles from where a funeral service was being held for John Bieniewicz.
"This is a horrendous tragedy," Judge Kathleen McCann said before ordering a $1 million bond for Saad. A second-degree murder charge carries a punishment of up to life in prison.
Bieniewicz died last week from injuries sustained June 29. Police and prosecutors said Saad struck Bieniewicz as the 44-year-old referee announced his decision to eject him from a men's league game in Livonia.
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Saad, a 36-year-old auto mechanic from Dearborn, had been charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm before Bieniewicz died July 1. That charge was formally dropped at Thursday's hearing.
McCann entered a plea of not guilty on Saad's behalf and set a probable cause hearing for July 30.
Saad stood mostly silent during his arraignment, saying only "yes" a few times when McCann asked if he understood his rights.
Defense lawyer Ali Hammoud said his client was "extremely remorseful" and still stunned by what happened.
"One day he's playing soccer, the next he's charged with murder," said Hammoud, who added that Saad "has been crying ever since."
The attack on Bieniewicz came during the second half of an over-30 Michigan United Soccer League game in Mies Park. Bieniewicz reached into his pocket and was in the process of pulling out a red card when he was punched, according to witnesses and police, who said Saad later took off with another person as Bieniewicz was being tended to.
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Bieniewicz worked in the pediatric dialysis unit at Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor. He lived in Westland with his wife and two sons.
His death touched those at the highest levels of the sport. Referees working Major League Soccer games recently wore black armbands in tribute, and the president of soccer's international governing body expressed his condolences in a letter to the head of U.S. Soccer.
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By James Swift, campaignlive.co.uk, Monday, 31 March 2014 03:26PM
Omnicom has hired JWT's North America chief executive, Peter Sherman, as its executive vice-president.
Sherman, who will report to Omnicom's chief executive and president John Wren, will be charged with driving innovation and collaboration throughout the holding company's client accounts.
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Sherman joins Omnicom from the WPP-owned JWT, where he looked after the North American agencies' strategy and creative work. He joined JWT as the New York chief executive in June 2013, but was promoted to North America chief executive within six months.
Before joining JWT, Sherman was the executive vice-president and managing director of BBDO Europe, which is part of Omnicom.
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I WAS PRESENT when my uncle died. I didn't plan to be, but once I understood his end was near it felt right. I had been the flower girl at my aunt and uncle's wedding, the ritualized beginning of their life together, so witnessing this milestone event of my uncle's death seemed appropriate. And I wanted to support my aunt, I told myself.
My aunt is my father's youngest sister. They are the last living siblings from nine brothers and sisters; both their parents are also long gone. My aunt wears this fact like a veil. Sometimes it's barely noticeable; sometimes it's the only thing she sees. While my parents' divorce had kept me apart from my aunt for much of my life, it seemed important, the fury of those old family dramas now covered with dust, to offer my aunt support in her husband's last days, hours, then moments. She was hardly alone. My aunt has three grown daughters, and my uncle comes from a huge family, most of whom were packed into the hospital room where he died at 2:20 p.m. on Sept. 22, 2013.
My aunt told me she was happy to have me, a representative from her side of her family, present. So I was there. For her, I said.
But to tell the truth, I was there to learn. I have plenty of information about the beginning of life. People in my generation received hours of tutoring, lecturing, indoctrinating, and warning about puberty, childbirth, birth control, and "safe sex." Although we were actually not given much information about sexuality—I had to learn that on my own. But I knew even less about death.
In those days during my uncle's passing, I felt the need to understand what some call the great mystery, the last journey, the final frontier. When my uncle died, would there be a bright light, a cold shudder in the room? Would time stop? Speed up? Would angels descend on clouds of harp music? Would there be someone or something to lead him from his physical body when he passed? Where was he going? Was he ready?
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' groundbreaking book On Death and Dying was released in 1969. But many in the West, even people of faith, still have a problem talking about death in a way that is not infused with fear. As Mirabai Starr writes in Living Fully, Dying Well, "In spite of significant advances in death and dying education since the 1970s, American society on the whole still seems to suffer from fear and denial about the reality of death. In a culture where the casualties of our wars are invisible to the average citizen, where many of our elders are institutionalized, and where most of our ill pass away behind the closed doors of impersonal hospital rooms, we are becoming increasingly unfamiliar with one of the most natural and sacred functions of living: dying."
I've been drawn to the subject not out of some morbid curiosity, but perhaps because I have a genetic memory of embracing death as a fact of life. I am Mexican by heritage, and in Mexico, and in other parts of Latin America, the approach to death is less shrouded in silence or smothered with horror.
"To the inhabitants of New York, Paris, or London, death is a word that is never uttered because it burns the lips," writes Mexican author Octavio Paz. "The Mexican, on the other hand, frequents it, mocks it, caresses it, sleeps with it, entertains it; it is one of his favorite playthings and his most enduring love."
I wasn't interested in caressing, sleeping with, or entertaining death when, during my childhood, one of the kids in my Lincoln, Neb., neighborhood had discovered old family photos in the crawl space in his rented home. Among the photos were images from several generations earlier of stoic-looking people, dressed in pitch-black suits and dresses, all arranged around a propped-up coffin, which held a corpse. We were stunned. The once-common tradition of bringing the dead into the home was one thing, but documenting it in what to us resembled a grammar school class photo, with the dead person as the organizing centerpiece, was almost too much to make sense of. We had so many questions that we dared not ask. Instinctively, we knew we were looking at something profane but also profound: the idea that the dead could share a place in the everyday and the ordinary. How did that change?
ALTHOUGH I WASN'T there to witness it, the first and most painful death I experienced was my grandmother's. I was a young adult, many miles from home, attending the University of Texas at Austin. Her death wasn't a surprise. I had a dream about my grandmother two days prior to her death. Though she didn't explicitly say the words, the message was clear: She intended to die. Some have called my dream a "visitation," others a "ghost story." Still others are deeply troubled by my suggestion that this dream indicates to me that the membrane separating the living from the dead is much more porous than many would like to believe.
Death may ultimately be unknowable, but that doesn't mean it must be frightening. I began praying to my grandmother after her death, and praying to others that I knew and adored who have died. I don't pray to them in the way some pray to a deity, asking for miracles. I pray for solace. I pray for guidance. I pray to find the words when I feel speechless. I pray to make choices that will make me worthy of being one of theirs.
"We need to see what is lovely in what the world has declared ugly or loathsome," Debbie Blue writes in her thoughtful book Consider the Birds. In this case, she's specifically speaking of the vulture, the animal given the most thankless task of cleansing the world, of clearing away the debris of the dead.
"We are all going to die, whether old or young," Blue continues. "But what if we weren't smothered and dimmed and made mean by our fear? What if we could be attentive ... and not be overcome with our assumptions about the goodness or badness, beauty or ugliness. ... We need to have a little more imagination. The well-being of our children depends on this."
AFTER MY FATHER was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, he declined rapidly. He spent some time in a care facility but was eventually moved back home when a health crisis convinced everyone he was nearing the end of his life. I've dwelled in that emotional storm, raw with pain and anguish, hoping for a peaceful passage while also terrified at the thought of letting my father go. That was five years ago. So far, he's lived far beyond everyone's expectations.
Still, the illness has left him bedridden, unable to speak, and absolutely dependent on others for his needs. In the meantime, many of my contemporaries' parents and loved ones have died, and illness has stricken dear friends and colleagues. And while I'm happy my father has survived, I can't help but wonder: What is he waiting for? My father was a robust and active man; to see him trapped in his body is sometimes too much to bear—until I am reminded that he is also a man of great imagination. A former painter and consummate storyteller, he is someone who could make games out of the silliest of circumstances. Though his coherent moments are drawing shorter and rarer these days, he maintains the ability to find pleasure in life—perhaps more so than many of the so-called able-bodied among us who can be far less attuned to our spiritual selves, our imaginative selves.
"We must die to the flesh, in a sense, in order to experience more of the life of the spirit," observes Edward W. Bastian, referring to a Sufi concept, in a conversation with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi included in Living Fully, Dying Well. Schachter-Shalomi responds that the Sufis are not suggesting a "killing of the body" but rather overcoming the idea "that we are only a body of flesh." (Italics are mine.) "When considering the end of life," Schachter-Shalomi continues, "we have to learn to say, 'I am not my body. This body is worn out, but I have other organisms. I have a spiritual organism. I have a mental organism. I have an affective organism; only the physical organism is being discarded at this point. I am not dying just because I am giving up my body.' The sooner you can make that distinction, the better."
But making that distinction is easier said than done. So much experience is carried in the body. Our sense memories delight and define us. It's difficult to imagine an existence beyond caresses, the joy invoked by a loved one's laughter, the way that the taste of a certain food can take you back to your mother's kitchen or the scent from a lover's garment can make you swoon.
MY AUNT TELLS me she needs to clear my uncle's things but cannot bring herself to do it. Not yet. She's not ready. I offer to help. Her children offer to help. She wants to wait for spring, for warmer weather. That makes sense, we tell her. She apologizes for being so teary and needy between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. every day. She doesn't know why, but that time of day is the toughest for her, a time when the anguish of missing my uncle is renewed. I know to make myself available if she calls and needs company.
At first, I was worried that I would say the wrong thing or not say enough or say too much. I prayed to my grandmother to help me find the right words. I eventually understood that my job is to listen, offer a hug, or share a quiet meal.
I asked my aunt if she can feel my uncle's presence. She wasn't put off by the question. Instead, she seemed encouraged to contemplate something beyond the present emotional pain.
"Yes," she said, a wan happiness peeking through the dreary light of mourning. "Sometimes I sense him."
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STRATIFIED PREHISTORIC SITES ALONG THE C&O CANAL Stuart J. Fiedel Louis Berger Group Stephen R. Potter National Park Service Society for American Archaeology 2004 From 2003 through 2005, the Cultural Resource Group of the Louis Berger Group, under contract to the National Park Service (NPS), National Capital Region, undertook a three-year program for the identification and evaluation of archeological resources within the lower 59-mile segment of the C&O Canal National Historical Park, which extends along the Potomac River from Georgetown to Sandy Hook, just east of Harpers Ferry. This work was intended to implement the Systemwide Archeological Inventory Program for the park. Geoarchaeological testing and archaeological surveys resulted in identification of 16 new sites and relocation of 14 previously known sites. We are currently performing a comparable investigation of the 59 to 123-mile segment of the park. We had great success in discovery of deeply stratified prehistoric sites on the floodplains of the Potomac, which was a primary research goal. Unlike the ubiquitous shallow plowzone sites in Piedmont uplands, where cultural remains from the past 13,000 years are inextricably jumbled together, these are classic layer-cake formations, where sterile river-laid sediments separate discrete episodes of human occupation. The deeply buried remains of camps and villages have never been disturbed either by later prehistoric inhabitants or by historic and recent farmers. As Joffre Coe declared in 1964, it is imperative that we find and investigate such sites, "since that is where the answers lie to the problems of early cultural developments in the eastern United States. On the Potomac River, very few deeply stratified sites have been investigated previously. But, surface finds of fluted points and later Archaic artifacts in the Potomac drainage demonstrate a continuous human presence in the region since 13,000 cal BP. Several well-known Eastern Paleoindian sites are quite extensive--over 300 feet long. Paleoindian sites along the Potomac are likely to include similar large camps, comparable in scale to later Archaic communities. Thus, on the optimistic assumption of the survival of intact floodplain sediments of requisite age, we hoped that, with an intelligently designed systematic survey strategy and some dumb luck, we could discover deeply buried sites from the 9000 years preceding the Terminal Archaic. Berger's geoarchaeological consultant for the C&O Canal project was Dan Wagner. Using a 3- inch auger, Wagner was able to sample alluvial deposits to a depth of about 11 feet. But with almost 60 miles of riverbank to cover, we had to develop a strategy for efficient testing of selected locations of highest potential. For this, we turned to Joffre Coe's pioneering research in the Roanoke River basin. Coe concluded that, in Fall Zone river valleys, early Holocene sites would be found at locations with specific characteristics: 1) a narrow valley forms a funnel neck where there was limited space for a campsite 2) In narrow and rocky valleys, the high velocity of the water prevented the development of mature meander patterns, and 3) Fingers of resistant rock extend from the valley wall to the edge of the river. Behind these projecting rocks, the river forms large eddies when it is in flood and deposits sand and silt at a faster rate than elsewhere along the narrow flood plains. Eventually these deposits become higher than the normal flood level. Coe also observed that deep alluvial deposits containing stratified sites may occur where a river confluence, located just above the narrowest point in the valley, creates eddies. Michael Stewart (1991:100) similarly attributes the preservation of the Paleoindian zone at Shawnee-Minisink to slackwater deposition as a result of the hydraulic dam effect common at stream junctions" where "The velocity of a tributary stream with a low to moderate gradient is slowed dramatically when it junctions with the river in flood, moving at a greater velocity. This decrease in energy causes the tributary to dump its sediment load." Based upon a preliminary examination of USGS topographic maps, and with Coe's model in mind, we selected 14 extensive floodplains for geoarchaeological reconnaissance. Selection of particular locations for auger tests was aided by our discovery, in the Library of Congress, of very detailed maps drawn for the US Army in 1865. These showed small tributary streams which are not depicted on the modern maps. Wagner tested 12 floodplains, with a total of 23 auger tests. Seventeen of these tests produced stratigraphic sequences with multiple buried A-horizons that indicate the past availability of stable surfaces for human occupation. Only one of the 12 tested floodplains had no buried A-horizons. In 13 of the 23 auger tests, Wagner recovered charcoal or encountered fire-cracked rock that provided unambiguous evidence of human occupation. Based upon soil weathering, he believed that the deepest A-horizons in 4 floodplains date from the Early to Middle Holocene; 3 are Middle Holocene; 1 is Mid- to Late Holocene, and 2 date from the Late Holocene. Based upon soils alone, Wagner was convinced that the deepest strata at the Tuscarora Creek confluence dated from the Terminal Pleistocene to Early Holocene. These stratified sites have generally been found where smaller streams flow into the Potomac. At seven such confluences, inspection of bank exposures—where the meandering tributary streams continue to eat away the old levees and alluvial fans-- confirmed that cultural deposits were associated with the buried surfaces. Now, it is obvious that one reason for the dearth of investigations of deeply buried sites is that they are not only hard to find but also difficult to adequately and safely expose. Once you get below 5 feet, OSHA standards for trenching require very extensive lateral excavation to open relatively small deep holes. Stepped excavation of stream cutbanks proved to be an expedient approach to sampling the deep cultural deposits at Broad Run and Tuscarora Creek. Excavations at Broad Run showed that the lower of two A-horizons there, lying about 7 ft below surface, dates from the Late Archaic. Several typical diagnostic artifacts of the Savannah River Broadspear complex were found within this deposit. Stone tools from this zone were associated with abundant, well preserved charcoal, including carbonized nutshells. Charcoal from this zone has been dated to about 4200 cal BP [3800+-40 rcbp, 4290 to 4080 cal BP (Beta-187616)]. The upper A-horizon at Broad Run, about 1.5-2 ft below surface, yielded Late Woodland artifacts (ca. AD 1200-1500) such as potsherds. Savannah River Complex, Broad Run 3800 + / - 40 rcbp (4290-4080 cal BP) Excavations at the mouth of Tuscarora Creek revealed a four-horizon cultural sequence: Late Woodland at the top, Early Woodland about 3 ft below surface, a very faint late Middle to Late Archaic horizon at about 5.7 ft, and an Early Archaic and/or Paleoindian zone at ca. 7 to 8 ft below surface. The Early Woodland zone can be dated to about 3000-2500 rcbp, based upon the ceramic sherds recovered: sand- and quartz-tempered Accokeek sherds, steatite-tempered and cord-marked Selden Island sherds, and Marcey Creek ware, steatite-tempered, flat-bottomed, and lacking cord-marks. The Middle Archaic zone produced almost no artifacts, but a distinct feature with charcoal, FCR, and calcined bone flecks dated to about 5800 cal BP [5110+-40 rcbp, 5740- 5930 cal BP (Beta-187613)]. The lowest zone lacked unambiguously diagnostic artifacts. Tuscarora Creek Stratigraphy 18FR798 A (TUSCARO R CREEK) Late Woodland (top) ca. 700 rcbp Early Woodland (3 ft below surface) ca. 3000 rcbp Middle/ Late Archaic (5.7 ft below surface) 5110 + / - 40 rcbp (5740-5930 cal BP) Early Archaic (7-8 ft below surface) 9290 + / - 40 and 8340 + / - 40 rcbp (10,280-10,570 and 9270-9470 cal BP) Wagner found a jasper flake and rhyolite point at about 7 feet; we suspect that the point is Middle Woodland, from a slumped deposit. The tip of a broken late stage biface made of fine-grained grey quartzite, was found during excavation at 6.95 ft below surface. Unfinished and lacking a base, this biface is not typable. A point base fragment was recovered from the screen during excavation of level D23 (7.7 to 8 ft below surface). It is made of black chert, and represents one corner of a corner-notched, convex-based point, with a ground basal margin. We were excited by recovery of lithic debitage comprising materials rarely seen in typical Archaic and Woodland assemblages. A tan or amber, translucent chalcedony or jasper appeared to be the same stone that was used to make a spurred endscraper, which was a surface find from 18MO10, the Patton Turf Farm site, about 10 miles downstream. This scraper is presumably a Paleoindian tool, so we thought there was a good likelihood that we were dealing with a Paleoindian component at Tuscarora Creek. On the other hand, the deep zone assemblage included, besides the yellow and red jasper, translucent chalcedony, and grey and black chert, quartz and a considerable amount of rhyolite, which seemed inconsistent with a Paleoindian attribution. And then there was that point fragment…. Although it was too small to be definitive, it resembled the Kirk-like points found by Broyles (1971) in one of the deepest cultural zones (Zone 36) at the St. Albans site. A hearth in that zone was radiocarbon-dated to 9850+-500 rcbp, and we guessed that the Tuscarora Creek material would be of comparable age. In fact, we soon obtained two AMS radiocarbon ages on charcoal fragments: 9290+-40 rcbp (10,280-10,570 cal BP) and (from two inches deeper) 8360+- 40 rcbp (9270-9470 cal BP) (Beta-187614 and 187615). Still, we wondered if the deep zone might be a compressed multicomponent accumulation of both Early Archaic and Paleoindian elements. So, we opened another 2.5 by 5 ft unit on the cutbank in the next field season. This excavation yielded more jasper and chalcedony flakes. Again, no diagnostic points were found, but we did find a spokeshave on a red jasper blade-like flake, which had us thinking about Paleo again. However, just below the concentration of cryptocrystalline debitage, we found a pebble chopper. Such tools are never found in Paleoindian assemblages, but they occur in association with Kirk Corner-notched points at several sites in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, with dates of about 9500 rcbp. So, putting all the evidence together, we conclude that this is a single-component Early Archaic campsite, dating from 10,500 cal BP. Now, note that all of this material was situated just above a cobble lens. We suspect that these cobbles represent an Early Holocene scouring episode by the Potomac, the same event that Al Goodyear has documented in many other Southeastern river valleys. It may be a marker of the end of the Younger Dryas at 11,550 cal BP, when there was an abrupt increase in temperature and probably also in rainfall and consequent erosion of denuded landscapes. We close with a few thoughts about the implications of these stratified sites for Cultural Resource Management. Having been identified and, to some degree, delimited, the sites can be protected by park personnel against looting or destruction by proposed development. However, the same erosional processes that have exposed the bank cuts, allowing access to the deepest occupation zones, also threaten to destroy these sites in the not too distant future. Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended [P. L. 102-575], states that each Federal agency shall ensure that historic properties under its jurisdiction and which "may be eligible for the National Register are managed and maintained in a way that considers the preservation of their … archaeological …values … and gives special consideration to the preservation of such values in the case of properties designated as having National significance." Clearly, the deeply stratified sites we have discussed are potentially eligible for listing on the National Register, certainly at the regional level and perhaps at the national. It is equally clear that the NPS, as part of its legal obligation under NHPA and the 1916 Organic Act [P. L. 64-235] that established the agency, must develop and implement a plan to stabilize these archaeological sites in order to "conserve [them] … for the enjoyment of future generations."
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 Are you transferring data efficiently? Or is valuable computing power sitting idle in your clustered environment, waiting for files to be moved back and forth—and costing you money? For many organizations, critical workloads often take... 0 0 1524 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-ecd67bbb-d625-49f1-99a0-58ea161813d7 IBM Platform Computing Blog 2015-06-29T09:13:28-04:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-4d50556b-085e-4a17-b88d-d16559d1c2d6 Accelerated analytics with IBM Platform LSF Gabor Samu email@example.com 2700060UA1 active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2014-08-22T10:00:00-04:00 2014-08-22T09:03:47-04:00
 With the collision of big data & analytics with traditional High-Performance Computing (HPC), there is growing interest in leveraging the disciplines of HPC to perform analytics on the vast amounts of data being collected in many fields. MapReduce is the de facto programming model for performing analysis on large volumes of data, and there is a focus in traditional HPC environments to harness expanding computational capabilities for such workloads. In addition to the recently launched Hadoop Connector Script for IBM Platform LSF, users of IBM® Platform™ LSF® now have available another option to run MapReduce analytics workloads in their existing infrastructure, accelerated!

 Announcing the availability of IBM® Platform™ MapReduce Accelerator for LSF via open beta. Drawing on the extensive experience of IBM Platform Computing in distributed computing and resource management, IBM Platform MapReduce Accelerator for LSF uses proven technology to run MapReduce workloads faster than open source MapReduce. From the user perspective, MapReduce workloads are submitted to Platform LSF and are scheduled and executed in a seamless fashion; taking advantage of the underlying parallel file system for access to data. Ultimately, this allows HPC users to run analytics workloads on their existing Platform LSF infrastructure without the need for further investment or dedicated hardware. For more details about IBM Platform MapReduce Accelerator for LSF, visit the Technical Computing community on Service Management Connect and turbo charge the elephant!
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 At this very moment, 80% of the data created will be unstructured. Much of the unstructured data is quite valuable. For example, sensors are collecting and generating continuous data streams from scientific experiments, wind turbines, and nuclear reactors. Marketers listen to sentiment data from social networks to quickly respond to your concerns about their products. And your MRI or X-ray from the emergency room in digital form is most certainly precious data.

 Is data a resource and/or a nightmare?

 Data is a resource. To the storage administrator, however, Big Data can also be a nightmare to manage. Think about the file sprawl on your own personal computer. You know from your experience that hierarchical file directories are arbitrary and complex. Steve, a storage administrator, wakes up every morning with ever growing branches of directories to manage. Basic storage management tasks like archiving, backup and disaster recovery is a challenge at scale.

 The OpenStack Object Store project, known as Swift, uses a simpler flatter hierarchical address space with unique resource identifiers for the objects it stores. Swift is ideal for storing unstructured data at scale. With no nesting like a traditional file system, capacity scan scale into the Petabytes and the number of objects into the billions.

 Can Elastic Storage Object really keep my storage projects under one roof?

 Due to its extreme scalability, extensibility, and resilience, OpenStack Swift is emerging as a dominant object storage solution. Despite its benefits, however, OpenStack Swift follows a model of deploying new storage systems for new application domains, effectively separating storage projects from each other.

 Elastic Storage Object and Swift, aims to change this model by consolidating File and Object under a single shared storage infrastructure. The global namespace eliminates the need for physical client-to-server mappings making this an ideal platform to perform common storage management tasks such as automated storage tiering and user transparent data migration. Elastic Storage Object simplifies data management even further by creating a flat namespace and eliminating the hassle of organizing data in a hierarchical namespace.

 How do I start exploring Object Storage?

 If you are in interested in exploring these capabilities, we can help you get your own object storage infrastructure up and running with this new Redpaper | A Deployment Guide for Elastic Storage Object. Click here for your free copy.

 The goal of this Redpaper is to describe the benefits of using Elastic Storage as the underlying file system with OpenStack Swift, guide the administrator through the installation and configuration of Elastic Storage Object, and describe the general set of configurations and scenarios that have been validated. So download the Redpaper and see for yourself:

 How to take advantage of the benefits of Elastic Storage when building an object storage solution.

 How to install OpenStack Swift on GPFS, providing best practices for configuring and tuning the software stack.

 Together, Elastic Storage and OpenStack Swift provide an enterprise-class object storage solution that efficiently stores, distributes, and retains critical data. Get started with your own Elastic Storage Object today.

 At this very moment, 80% of the data created will be unstructured. Much of the unstructured data is quite valuable. For example, sensors are collecting and generating continuous data streams from scientific experiments, wind turbines, and nuclear... 0 0 2272 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-ecd67bbb-d625-49f1-99a0-58ea161813d7 IBM Platform Computing Blog 2015-06-29T09:13:28-04:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-b33be292-e5f3-4523-8564-65c86bd71423 An Edge 2014 Highlight - Building a Multi-tenant Big Data Infrastructure at USAA GORDON SISSONS email@example.com 270005C3MQ active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2014-05-28T16:22:38-04:00 2014-05-29T10:43:05-04:00
 Last week, many of us had the opportunity to travel to Las Vegas for IBM's Annual Edge conference at the Venetian. For those not familiar with the event, Edge is IBM's premier conference focused on infrastructure innovation.

 Aside from the usual attractions of Las Vegas, a highlight was hearing Robert Ghavidel, a senior architect at USAA's office of the CTO, talk about his experience deploying Hadoop, and how USAA are leveraging the technology to provide better service to their members. Robert shared his experience with a packed room filled with customers and IBM people interested in learning more about big data and Hadoop in particular.

 USAA have much in common with other large organizations it seems. They are collecting and storing vast amounts of information to help improve operations across a variety of areas. In their case applications include fraud-analytics, sentiment analysis, and a variety of decision support applications to help them in areas like customer service, marketing, underwriting and actuarial decisions. While Robert was careful not to about USAA's applications or anything that might be confidential, it was hard not to be impressed with their use of technology.

 The focus of Robert's talk was specifically around infrastructure and how USAA use IBM software capabilities to build a more agile, multitenant Hadoop infrastructure. The products discussed included IBM Platform Symphony Advanced Edition, IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and IBM GPFS, part of IBM's Elastic Storage initiative. We were appreciative of Robert's endorsement and his taking the time to speak at the conference.

 Robert identified some key areas where IBM Platform Symphony helped them deploy a more effective big data environment citing some specific advantages:

 Improved application performance for analytic users

 Ability to start time critical workloads faster

 Improved application resiliency and available

 Capability to ensure service levels

 And most importantly multi-tenancy – the ability to accommodate multiple lines of business running diverse applications on a shared infrastructure.

 Robert also talked about their use of IBM GPFS, and how having a Hadoop compatible file system that was also a POSIX file system (meaning that non-Hadoop applications can access data directly) allowed them to simplify management and reduce their storage footprint by avoiding data duplication.

 A PDF copy of Robert's presentation, along with other materials from IBM Edge, are available at the IBM Technical University portal. Conference attendees can login and search for additional presentations.
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Just as no single definition of Big Data exists, no specific cause exists for what's behind its rapid rate of adoption. Instead, several distinct trends have contributed to Big Data's momentum.

New data sources

Today, we have more generators of information than ever before. These data creators include devices such as mobile phones, tablet computers, sensors, medical equipment, and other platforms that gather vast quantities of information. Traditional enterprise applications are changing, too: e-commerce, finance, and increasingly powerful scientific solutions (such as pharmaceutical, meteorological, and simulation, to name a few) are all contributing to the overall growth of Big Data.

Larger information quantities

As you might surmise from its name, Big Data also means that dramatically larger data volumes are now being captured, managed, and analyzed.

New data categories

How does your enterprise's data suddenly balloon from gigabytes to hundreds of terabytes and then on to petabytes? One way is that you start working with entirely new classes of information. While much of this new information is relational in nature, much is not. In the past, most relational databases held records of complete, finalized transactions. In the world of Big Data, sub-transactional data plays a big part, too, and here are a few examples:

Click trails through a website

Shopping cart manipulation

Tweets

Text messages

Relational databases and associated analytic tools were designed to interact with structured information — the kind that fits in rows and columns. But much of the information that makes up today's Big Data is unstructured or semi-structured, such as these examples:

Photos

Video

Audio

XML documents

Commoditized hardware and software

The final piece of the Big Data puzzle is the low-cost hardware and software environments that have recently become so popular. These innovations have transformed technology, particularly in the last five years. As we see later, capturing and exploiting Big Data would be much more difficult and costly without the contributions of these cost-effective advances.

For more information about the proliferation of big data and tools such as Hadoop MapReduce used to manage large volumes of unstructured data, please download our free ebook

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Summer is just ending and Platform Computing is announcing today its second major product launch this year and since joining the IBM family. IBM has embraced Platform Computing as a key component of their newly launch Technical Computing agenda to bring HPC technologies to mainstream business companies. If you are building a cluster or grid, IBM would like you to evaluate Platform Computing as the management layer to enable a scalable, high performance application infrastructure. This is especially true as more applications become compute and data-intensive – everything from simulations, analytics, MapReduce, CAE, risk management, fraud, pricing, etc. There is also an enormous explosion in emerging growth economies for Platform Computing as well. I just returned from a two-week trip through Southeast Asia, Japan and China. These are exciting times!

Our mission continues unwavering - IBM Platform Computing is widely viewed as the cluster, grid, and HPC cloud management software of choice for technical and high performance computing (HPC) environments. We want to become a standard architecture for mainstream businesses to accelerate the time to results for high performance applications. It's all about the applications, workload management, and resource management. Platform Computing products are used both to simplify the deployment, management, and use of small departmental clusters as well as to optimize deployment of complex applications and workloads in many of the world's largest environments (100,000+ cores).

The latest product releases and additions to the IBM Platform Computing portfolio further extend this value with; new features making the products easier to use, enhanced management features, and significant advances in scalability and performance. Read our launch article for more details and I've captured a few highlights below:

The industry-leading workload manager, IBM Platform LSF, is now architected for twice the performance, improved scheduling, and enhanced usability, as well as three time more scalability to more than 150,000 cores and two million pending jobs

IBM Platform Symphony provides low-latency grid management with improved usability and scalability including a new multi-cluster feature for managing isolated clusters as single Big Data and compute grid

IBM Platform Cluster Manager delivers cluster and HPC cloud management including new easy-to-use departmental cluster management and enhanced HPC cloud security, usability and flexibility

New Technical Computing solution for Big Data integrate Platform Symphony, BigInsights, General Parallel File System (GPFS) and systems platform to simplify and accelerate big data analytics

Enhancements to cluster and high-performance computing (HPC) cloud management improves time to results and can help streamline administration, and user productivity so organizations can concentrate on solving their business, product or scientific challenges.

There is a lot of new enhancements for existing customers as well as a continued expansion of the portfolio demonstrating a solid product roadmap and commitment to continue leadership in this market. For more information, please fill in our contact form and we'll get back to you very quickly.

You can also follow us on Twitter @IBMPlatform or me @jaymuelhoefer.
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Round 9 of Three Minute Fiction is currently underway. Readers from more than a dozen graduate programs are plowing through the nearly 4,000 entries received. Host Guy Raz shares one of the favorite picks so far, The Generous Application of Grease by Stephen Fratus of Walnut Creek, Calif. You can read the full story below along with other stories at www.npr.org/threeminutefiction.


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You can do both. The only reason you have solar panels, is because NASA/JPL were using them first. The Cell phone was a military project. Stopping global warning and predicting global catastrophe is guided by what we observe in space. It's in man's nature to explore and to take on new challenges. We will need to move eventually, when a massive asteroid hits us, or the sun starts to act up, or a gamma ray burst flies our way. You seem content with just sitting it out and crossing your fingers. I personally think it would be very telling of our species if we could do things, other that wage war, screw, eat, and waste resourses.
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