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The Department of Civil Engineering is dedicated to lending its services to the community. The overall goal is prepare K-12 students for studies in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)- related fields and pursue careers in engineering. This is done by engaging students though hands-on activities that generate creativeness and inspire them to become technically savvy.
21st Annual Toothpick Bridge Competition
This Spring, the High Bay Lab was proud to host the 21st Annual Toothpick Bridge Competition for the second time. Organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), high school students were able to see what they can do with toothpicks and architecture on a small scale. Students from a dozen regional high schools competed for strength and creativity for their bridge structures.
The bridges weighed only about a third of a pound, but some can hold 150 pounds. Students were also judged on their bridge's appearance. Some put so much work into their project that they did not want the bridge tested, since this would destroy their creation.
John Hinzman, a member of ASCE stated, "We believe this is an excellent learning experience for students who possibly want to get into engineering or understand engineering a little better."
Engineering Day
This fall, UMD hosted the annual Bulldog Engineering Day. The goal of Bulldog Engineering Day is to sharpen interest in the minds of high school and middle school students and explore opportunities available in engineering. Students were given opportunities to explore Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, and Industrial Engineering who put on various demonstrations relating to their category. The Civil Engineering demonstrations included the flume, structures/earthquakes on the shake table, soil stability, and construction materials testing.
State Fair
UMD Civil Engineering students and staff helped man the UMD booth at the 2012 Minnesota State Fair. This group of volunteers used this opportunity to promote the Swenson Civil Engineering School at UMD by discussing the facility attributes with fair attendees and organizing a stage presentation on engineering principles that culminated in a marshmallow and toothpick structure competition for kids to demonstrate the engineering principles that were discussed. The structures were placed on a shake table to test their strength. All participants had a great time.
Mesabi Range STEM Camp
In Virginia, Minnesota the Mesabi Range Community and Technical College hosted its 4th annual STEM Camp in the summer of 2011. Students from grades 7-10 were able to spend an exciting week exploring natural disasters and experience how STEM professionals forecast weather events, engineer structures to withstand extreme natural disasters, and respond in emergency situations.
UMD Civil Engineering faculty and students were invited to participate in the Camp for a day to teach about earthquakes. The faculty prepared a short presentation on different types of failure that occurs in structures during an earthquake, and ways that engineers are trying to prepare and prevent future destructive damage from occurring. The UMD civil engineering students constructed an earthquake shake table for this event. The shake table was used for a fun hands-on demonstration and contest. With the use of toothpicks and marshmallows Mesabi Camp students were given time to construct a 3 story building that would need to withstand the shake table. In the end, the buildings that the students prepared were well enough constructed that they stood tall after they faced the shake table. Not only for the camp members and students, this was a fun day for the UMD Civil engineering faculty and students as well.
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In the summer of 2011 a wonderful group of students from the Mind 2 Mind program toured the Swenson Civil Engineering Building. The faculty and staff were very excited to give a tour to such a young group of individuals. The students were able to see demonstrations of the lab equipment, such as the flume, the rain table, and watched a concrete cylinder crumble. The faculty and staff set up a contest for the children to see who could build the tallest paper tower. It was fun to see the creative ideas that the teams designed. We hope that one day these children will consider engineering as a field of study.


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(ABC 6 News) -- Two similar crashes in one day involving rollovers, power outages, and good Samaritans coming to the rescue. One of those crashes was on Highway 14 just west of Chester. A van smashed into a power pole, and knocked it down before rolling over.
Jesse Halling was just passing by when he saw the power poll crash onto the ground, but once he saw the van a few feet down, he passed the cars around him and quickly pulled over. "I just moved down in the ditch under the van and could see his foot under the window," said Halling.
The van was upside down with the driver still in it. "I saw that the wheels were still turning and there were flames starting to emerge from underneath the motor," said Halling.
Dodging around active power lines, Jesse opened the door to help. " I tapped him on the leg a couple times and he didn't respond at first," said Halling. He started yelling until he the driver came to. "I said to him, 'the vehicle is on fire we need to get out now,'" said Halling.
While lifting the seat belt so the driver could step out, other neighbors came to put out the fires. "People came out of the buildings after I had the kid out. They had fire extinguishers and they started spraying it with that," said Halling.
Soon after, police and fire crews were there. "When we arrived on scene the car was upside down in the ditch," said Rochester Fire Captain Chuck Solseth.
The fire had been put out, but the power cords were still a threat. "We had one power pole that was sheared off, damage to another one, and we had power lines laying down across Highway 14," said Capt. Solseth.
That section of the highway was shut down and the young man was taken to the hospital. "The individual was able to walk away," said Capt Solseth.
However, had Jesse and others not rushed over, things could have ended much worse. "If there's someone in need I have to help," said Halling.
About 300 homes and businesses were without power for a few hours after the crash. That's since been restored and the driver is said to have minor injuries.


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Some time ago, Peter Zaitsev posted a blog titled "How well does your table fits in innodb buffer pool?" He used some special INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables developed for Percona Server 5.1 to report how much of each InnoDB table and index resides in your buffer pool. As Peter pointed out, you can use this view into […]
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When (and how) to move an InnoDB table outside the shared tablespace
In my last post, "A closer look at the MySQL ibdata1 disk space issue and big tables," I looked at the growing ibdata1 problem under the perspective of having big tables residing inside the so-called shared tablespace. In the particular case that motivated that post, we had a customer running out of disk space in his […]
InnoDB performance optimization basics (redux)
I recently stumbled upon a post that Peter Zaitsev published back in 2007 titled "Innodb Performance Optimization Basics." It's a great post and reading it inspired me to examine what's changed in the nearly six years that have followed in terms of MySQL, Percona Server – as well as in all of the other now-available […]
TokuDB vs InnoDB in timeseries INSERT benchmark
This post is a continuation of my research of TokuDB's storage engine to understand if it is suitable for timeseries workloads. While inserting LOAD DATA INFILE into an empty table shows great results for TokuDB, what's more interesting is seeing some realistic workloads. So this time let's take a look at the INSERT benchmark.
Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB
After compiling Percona Server with TokuDB, of course I wanted to compare InnoDB performance vs TokuDB. I have a particular workload I'm interested in testing – it is an insert-intensive workload (which is TokuDB's strong suit) with some roll-up aggregation, which should produce updates in-place (I will use INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statements […]
Innodb Table Locks
Innodb uses row level locks right ? So if you see locked tables reported in SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS you might be confused and rightfully so as Innodb table locking is a bit more complicated than traditional MyISAM table locks. Let me start with some examples. First lets run SELECT Query:
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MariaDB 5.3/5.5 has introduced a new join type "Hash Joins" which is an implementation of a Classic Block-based Hash Join Algorithm. In this post we will see what the Hash Join is, how it works and for what types of queries would it be the right choice. I will show the results of executing benchmarks […]
How to recover deleted rows from an InnoDB Tablespace
In my previous post I explained how it could be possible to recover, on some specific cases, a single table from a full backup in order to save time and make the recovery process more straightforward. Now the scenario is worse because we don't have a backup or the backup restore process doesn't work. How […]
Avoiding auto-increment holes on InnoDB with INSERT IGNORE
Are you using InnoDB tables on MySQL version 5.1.22 or newer? If so, you probably have gaps in your auto-increment columns. A simple INSERT IGNORE query creates gaps for every ignored insert, but this is undocumented behaviour. This documentation bug is already submitted. Firstly, we will start with a simple question. Why do we have […]
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David Loeb tops City Council candidates fundraising
CORPUS CHRISTI - City Council candidates have collectively raised more than $165,000 in donations and spent more than $75,000 on signs, banners, billboards and food, according to finance reports detailing spending during the first phase of campaigning.
At-large candidate David Loeb received the most contributions, with $44,428 in donations. Loeb was the exception to a pattern that had incumbents' fundraising far outpacing that of challengers.
He's also the candidate with the highest balance in his account, with $36,981 left over to spend as the campaign continues in the next month. Loeb spent $11,467 in the beginning of his campaign and had money left over from his council campaign two years ago to start with.
"Last time I was not as well-known as some of the other candidates, but I think I'm getting a lot of support this time," he said. "I think there is a desire amongst people to have some new people on the council, and I think they also want those people to be well-versed in the community."
District 2 incumbent John Marez spent more than any other candidate during the first phase of the campaign, with $17,983 reportedly spent on advertising, contract labor and political consulting.
Marez said he relies on a core group of volunteers, but he has a few helpers he pays to work on getting mailing lists and staff events.
"We knew we were going to have a hard fight," he said. "As campaigns get more advanced, you need more help."
All but four candidates turned in campaign finance reports to the city Thursday, the deadline for the first report that details each candidate's donations, expenses and how much money is left over in their campaign account.
The Texas Ethics Commission requires candidates to turn in the reports 30 days before an election, eight days before an election and for elected officials, twice a year. Candidates aren't penalized for not turning in a report unless someone files a complaint against them.
Mayor candidate Ray Madrigal, at-large candidate Hector Salinas, District 2 candidate John Sloan and District 3 candidate Rose Marie Soto missed the April 14 deadline to turn their reports in to City Secretary Armando Chapa. Council members Kevin Kieschnick, Larry Elizondo and Chris Adler weren't required to file reports this period because they don't have challengers.
In the mayor's race, incumbent Joe Adame raised $16,257, significantly more than challenger Carolyn Moon's $1,278 but down dramatically from the 2009 election.
Two years ago, Adame raised $54,201 as he raced to oust then-incumbent Henry Garrett. Adame has leftover money from that campaign, giving him the second-most cash on hand balance at $33,565.
In the District 2 race, incumbent Marez raised $18,287, compared with challenger Daniel Lucio's $10,264.
In the District 3 race, incumbent Priscilla Leal raised $13,940, compared with challenger Roland Barrera's $7,362.
With Loeb leading the at-large candidates in fundraising, incumbent Mark Scott collected the second-highest amount at $30,375. Incumbent Nelda Martinez came in third at $23,400. The other two candidates trailed with Jesse Noyola raising $9,675 and Bryan Menard raising $500.
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Controversial call makes brave Bath Rugby wait for Premiership play-off place after draw with Northampton Saints
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MATCH REPORT: Bath Rugby 19 Northampton Saints 19
Bath Rugby's quest to bag a place in the Aviva Premiership play-offs looks set to go down to the final weekend of the season after their crunch clash against Northampton Saints ended in a controversial draw on Friday.
The two sides shared the spoils in enthralling encounter at The Rec as Bath stayed third in the table, while Saints remain in second place.
A win would have all but made sure of Bath's spot in the end-of-season shoot-out but they can be overtaken by fourth-placed Leicester Tigers if they beat Sale Sharks tomorrow. And Harlequins will close the gap to Mike Ford's side with a win over Exeter Chiefs, meaning they and Bath would face a play-off decider at The Stoop next weekend.
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It could have been so much better for Bath, however, but for a controversial decision by referee Matthew Carley in the dying seconds of the match.
With time having elapsed, Carley awarded Bath a penalty and fly-half George Ford tried his luck with a drop goal, knowing he had an advantage. The effort went wide but, amazingly, Carley consulted the TMO and then revoked the penalty decision, therefore ending the game as a draw.
It was otherwise a very impressive night for Ford, who scored all of Bath's points, including a sensational try early in the second half. Opposite number Stephen Myler was equally imposing for Saints, landing 14 points with the boot and setting up his side's touchdown, scored by Jamie Elliott.
Saints started the game in dominant fashion and almost all of the opening quarter was played deep in Bath territory. The home defence was excellent, though, and they dealt with the crash ball well and all Northampton had to show for their efforts was a sixth-minute penalty from Myler.
Bath suffered a blow in that time as Rob Webber was forced off with what appeared to be a severe ankle injury. The England hooker had been just three games into his comeback from a similar problem suffered in early February.
The visitors began to grow frustrated as Bath defended resolutely and fly-half Myler – tired at seeing his side pushed back from the tryline – tried his luck with a drop goal but the kick flew wide.
When Bath finally got themselves into the Saints half it proved fruitful and they got themselves level on the half-hour mark. First they won a scrum against the head deep in Northampton territory before a scrum of their own yielded a penalty. Fly-half Ford gratefully obliged with the kick.
But Saints had an immediate chance to respond when Dave Attwood was penalised for taking out Samu Manoa in the air. Myler missed his kick but was not so careless when the home side infringed again soon afterwards.
Bath's resurgence refused to die, however, and they began to trouble the Saints defence for the first time with some big hits through the middle and a second Ford penalty brought them back level.
And it could have been even better for the hosts as Ford worked himself into the pocket in the last action of the first period but the fly-half was a long way out and his drop goal attempt went wide.
Bath started the second half like they ended the first and showed all the intent from the whistle. Although Ford missed what seemed a makeable penalty, he soon made amends in sensational fashion.
The home side were quickly back on the attack and Ford spotted a gap in the Northampton defence, side-stepped lock Courtney Lawes and had just enough pace to make it over the whitewash for the opening try. The fly-half then added the extras too.
But Northampton's reply was swift and they made a good spell of territory count. Several big hits pounded the Bath defence before the ball went out wide and Myler sent a lovely back-of-the-hand pass to winger Elliott to dot down in the corner. Myler converted to tie the scores.
And there was further bad news for Bath as they lost a second hooker to injury in the build-up to the score, with Batty falling victim to a shoulder problem. Prop Nathan Catt came on at hooker as Bath opted not to go uncontested at the scrum, while flanker Guy Mercer took over throwing duties at the lineout.
The first scrum with Catt at the helm proved beneficial for Bath, yielding a penalty which Ford sent through the sticks to put the home side back in front.
And Northampton then suffered another blow as Lawes was sent to the sin-bin for taking out Anthony Watson off the ball.
But Bath failed to make their numerical advantage count and Saints actually edged the period when they were a man light, courtesy of a Myler penalty to restore parity.
The home side were soon back on the attack and although Ford missed a drop goal attempt, he fired over a penalty with two minutes to play.
Saints refused to give up and marched up the other end of the pitch, capitalising when Anthony Pernise was penalised for a late tackle. The Samoan prop – in his last match at The Rec before leaving for Bristol – was sent to the sin-bin and Myler's kick brought Northampton level once more.
Although there was less than 30 seconds left on the clock, there was still more than enough time for a further twist. Bath went back on the offensive and thought they had one last chance to win the game when Lawes appeared to catch Ford late, only for Carley to reverse his initial decision, much to the dismay of the home crowd.
BATH RUGBY: Abendanon, Watson (Agulla 73), Joseph, Devoto (Henson 72), Banahan, Ford, Young (Stringer 64), James, Webber (Batty 17, Catt 55), Wilson (Perenise 55), Hooper (c), Attwood (Day 72), Fearns, Mercer, Houston. Replacement not used: Fa'osiliva.
Try: Ford Conversion: Ford Penalties: Ford 4
NORTHAMPTON SAINTS: Foden, K Pisi, G Pisi, Burrell, Elliott, Myler, Fotuali'i, Waller (Denman 71), McMillan (Heywood 54), Ma'afu (Mercey 54), Manoa (Craig 54), Lawes, Clark (Dowson 54), Wood (c), Dickinson. Replacements not used: Day, Wilson, Collins.
Try: Elliott Conversion: Myler Penalties: Myler 4
Referee: Matthew Carley
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Word comes that the Obama transition team is chock full of bundlers and lobbyists. The New York Times tells us:
Among the full roster of about 150 staff members being assigned to government agencies between now and Inauguration Day are dozens of former lobbyists and some who were registered as recently as this year. Many more are executives and partners at firms that pay lobbyists, and former government officials who work as consultants or advisers to those seeking influence.
Welcome to reality. For some of us, the whole "New Politics" pitch was always a canard, a cynical sales pitch. Barack Obama didn't eschew misleading ads. He didn't keep to his word on public financing. And he hasn't chased those dreaded lobbyists out of Washington. This should come as no surprise. This is how politics is done.
This duplicity might have annoyed Obama's opponents –both Hillary Clinton and John McCain — who were often on the receiving end of his barbs about Washington insiders. They may have rolled their eyes in disgust as he presented himself, the willing ally of the Daley machine, as politically holier-than-thou. But he won, and now we will see if the President-elect will cater to those special interests he railed against and which now infest his transition team.
Can he say no to Big Labor? We will be able to judge if the Employee Free Choice Act reaches his desk, or if he goes forward with economically perilous protectionist measures. And we also will get a hint when education reform comes up and the teachers' unions scream about school choice. We will see if the trial lawyers must suffer any setbacks in health care reform, accepting limits on malpractice suits. And if the new President shushes the environmental lobby and insists that offshore drilling must indeed be part of an energy plan, we will know he has risen to the occasion.
The more cynical among us suspect he has just changed "their" lobbyists for "his," and that a new crew of equally self-interested and self-dealing officials is moving in to replace the old crew. The election is over — it is back to reality.


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First travel day under our belts as Drea and I are posted up at the Marriot Hotel in Torrance after a 7 1/2 drive from Tucson that started mid-morning on Sunday.
After a quick pit stop in Phoenix to see if we could find Steve Nash (we failed....miserably), Keros and I hopped into our Volkswagen Tiguan to make the trip West while Drea jumped into the Volkswagen Passat TDI right behind us. Fast forward one gas tank later at the Morongo Casino to fill up, I found myself wondering out loud if the Passat was missing a gas pedal with Drea pulling in a solid 20+ minutes after us.
Another good thing to know about Drea.... If you offer her some of your snacks, you might not see them again.
Going to take the crew out to see what a morning in Hermosa Beach looks like through my eyes - Coffee and Breakfast Burritos coming in hot!
Got down to Tucson on Monday afternoon to finish up some future in-game spots for Real Salt Lake before taking up the analyst role alongside Allen Hopkins for the second game of the opening matches of the Desert Diamond Cup between RSL and the New York Red Bulls on Wednesday evening.
Thursday and Friday afternoons I found myself to be incredibly fortunate to be a part MLS' Media Training, presenting to both the New England Revolution and Real Salt Lake players talking about the good, the bad and the ugly of television, Twitter, etc.....
Been hearing about these rides that Volkswagen are dropping off for us to roll up and down the Pacific Coast - I'm a self admitted car geek..... From stops in LA to San Jose to Portland to Seattle, I'm personally looking forward to great games, great fans and cool interactions with all of you along the way.
If there's something (cool spots, great food, must see sights) along the way that you think we need to see - LET US KNOW!!! Drea and I are planning to roll up our sleeves and hang out as much as possible, telling as many stories as we can through your eyes.
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Talk about an end of the year project! Research, writing, collaboration- making movies utilizes so many important 21st Century skills! Robert Miller's 4th & 5th grade class in Port Orange, Florida made their own BrainPOP-inspired movies, creating a fantastic learning opportunity for every student involved. We were wowwed once again by the movie magic these students created, using BrainPOP as inspiration. We know you will love these as much as we do!
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NEW YORK (AVAFIN) -- Trading of Amarin Corporation options resulted in establishing a new 90-day call volume record, where 15,922 call
contracts exchanged hands between the buyers and the sellers. A total of 4,700 put and 15,922
call contracts was traded raising a 0.30 put/call ratio on shares of AMRN
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to increase in value. Unusual volume provides reliable clues that the stock is expected to
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Amarin Corporation (AMRN) opened today at $11.37 and is currently trading at $12.15, up $0.34 (+2.88%) during
last trading session. To date, the stock has lost -19.33% within the last month.
The daily low is $11.14 and the high is $12.20. The trading volume
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day moving average and higher than the 200 day moving average. The stock's 52 week low is $5.99 and 52 week high is $15.96.


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A pair of church rummage sales start tomorrow, one in Erie and one in Lawrence Park Township. Here are the details:
Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Elmwood Avenue Presbyterian Church, 2816 Elmwood Ave. Friday is $2 a bag day. Call (814) 864-4809.
Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon, Lawrence Park United Methodist Church, 4015 Niagara Place. Saturday is 50-cent bag day. Call (814) 899-9851.
If you know of a rummage, garage, next-to-new or similar sale at a church or nonprofit organization, send the details to me at firstname.lastname@example.com. Make sure to include the sale dates, hours and address, along with a telephone number or web address where people can get more information.
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, a new softwarwe solution designed to work with an administrator's existing email server to eliminate spam and other unwanted email with virtually no false-positives. Spamcaster Gateway can be configured to filter email prior to delivery to their ISP and either to quarantine, flag, delete or bounce unwanted email. Outspring says it is compatible with virtually every email server and ISP. Spamcaster Gateway utilizes a database of spam identifiers, which is continuously updated by Outspring. Outspring says it processes thousands of emails every day to find new spam identifiers. The company will preview the product at Macworld Expo.
Spamcaster Gateway receives automatic database updates, without the need for installation or configuration. Outspring's database also contains
identifiers to detect scam ("phishing") emails and virus attachments. Outspring claims that the product is easy to install and requires just a few minutes a week to manage. Once installed, Spamcaster provides a detailed summary report that enables the administrator to fine-tune their email threat strategy, respond quickly to unique threats, and implement changes with a minimum of day-to-day management.
The company expects the product to ship by Q2 2005. It will cost $500 and will include a one-year subscription to the service that provides automatic and frequent database updates.


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LOL Jay! You're right, he does look like a white Snoop Dog! Can't believe he'd be mistaken for Kid Rock. Let's see...Kid's blonde, with straight hair, and kinda cute. No, No, and NO.
I remember those days too, Steve. It was such an event back then. I was one of the people lining up for an overnight stay in Plumbs parking lot to get an all-event pass, which would often sell out by 9 in the morning. I remember crowds so large that the SC guys would come on stage and ask everyone to move their chairs forward to make room for people to sit in the back. I really hope they find a way to save it, but I agree that it's the acts that are the reason for the lack of enthusiasm. Last year was the first time in about 11 years that we didn't get an all-event pass. Got one this year but only because we got a couple of the first 500 that were $59. It wasn't the money so much as the value for the dollar. I'd gladly pay $100 for a pass to hear bands of the caliber they used to be. Not so much anymore. It's sad, really.
Pier Marquette has certainly changed over the years. When I was growing up it was a place for families and children to enjoy the beach...yes, when we were teens we'd sometimes hang out in the evenings and play our music (too loud, according to our parents), but there was no violence! Now, during the day it looks much the same as I remember it but in the evenings the place becomes over-run with thugs and gangsta wannabe's. I've tried to tell myself, "it's just young people hanging out just like you used to do" ...but it's NOT the same. We didn't carry guns.
Nothing in the story indicates the color of the shooter, but I was down there, and the area where the shots occurred was filled with 15 to 20 year old black kids. So, do the math.
Exactly. The killing that occurred at the Sons of Norway is a classic example of this. Victim shot in the head at close range while sitting in his vehicle, after leaving a party where there were UP TO 500 PEOPLE in attendance?? The people at this party were not from the east Muskegon neighborhood where it was held. They were from the Heights, Wood St, Mason St., etc.... My question is what kind of party held in a public place has 500 people in attendance? I would think there is a occupancy limit in Sons of Norway and I'll bet 500 is a bit over the limit.
I was down there at Spider Park having a cookout with family. It didn't happen "late" Monday evening, it was at around 5 or 6 pm, and there were children and families everywhere! In Spider park itself, black families, white families, a group of Harley riders, all peacefully co-existed and kids played together. Down the street, the "they" that you speak of....yep...black youth. That's where the gunshots came from. This isn't a racial issue. It's a cultural one. The youth (no matter the color) are using guns to settle things. It used to be fists, and the worse that happened is that a guy lost a tooth or two. Now, you can't take your kids out of your own house on a holiday. It's sad.
This particular club has operated under many names over the course of years. Back in the 70's it was JC's Nightclub; a disco with a predominatly white clientele. At one point it was Sidewinders; with a country motif and again, white patrons. There were very few problems, even with those "redneck country boys". ;) When it was "On Broadway", the music and the people who frequented the bar began to change. Later as Rush Street and Cadillac Jacks things started to get out of hand. The main thing that changed over the years was the clientele. Call me racist if you want, but the "ghetto" culture, with gangs, guns, drugs, and thugs, ruined this club. I'm glad it's gone.
They exchanged Christianity for popularity.
A church no longer exists on this spot. It's been replaced by a social club. Being "inclusive" sounds great, but there has to be a common belief system for a true church to exist. From Websters dictionary..."Church: A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority...." "Club: An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc."
I hope they all have a great time at what they're doing, but they're not attending Church. Sadly, it's a sign of the times.


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Our "we're not in Kansas any more" moment came just before midnight on Saturday, last June 14, as we were leaving the 24-hour auto race for the night.
We were in Le Mans, France, driving a manual-transmission Citroen Xsara Picasso (a snazzy French minivan). And although I wasn't on the racetrack, manuevering my car required superior driving skills.
Only a few streetlights and car headlights illuminate the scene. No one tried to separate the cars and people. Off to the right, the lights of a Ferris wheel were going around and around; above the tunnel we passed through, racing cars roared by, accelerating toward 150 mph.
As the crowd parted for a few seconds, I eased the clutch out so we could get up a ramp without stalling the engine or rolling back into the couple standing behind us.
"It's not like Oshkosh," says my wife, Darlene, recalling our trips to the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual AirVenture — "the world's biggest air show" — in Oshkosh, Wis. There, friendly police and volunteers keep cars and pedestrians apart; it's all very orderly.
The French, it seems, have a more laissez faire attitude about details such as crowd control.
The idea of foreign travel is to not only experience those "we're not in Kansas any more" moments, but also to become, at least for a while, part of another country's unique culture. Otherwise, why bother leaving the USA?
Get your motor runnin'
Auto racing is international, and people around the world, including in the USA, watch Le Mans — which takes place this year June 12-13 — on television. But it doesn't replace being there — the sounds, the smells, the day's heat and the night's coolness and most everyone around you speaking French or British-accented English.
And while the USA has a 24-hour sports car race at Daytona International Speedway in Florida each winter, that event doesn't have the history, prestige or ambiance of Le Mans.
The Automobile Club de l'Ouest staged the first Le Mans 24-hour race in 1923, and it has run every year —except for 1936, when Depression-era strikes paralyzed France, and from 1940 through 1948 during World War II and its aftermath.
Le Mans has a tradition of welcoming Americans. Donald Panoz, founder of the American Le Mans Series of races, was grand marshal last year; his duties included waving the French flag to start the race.
This year, the USA will have "home town" teams to cheer for on race day. The Audi from ADT Champion Team of Pompano Beach, Fla., will be a contender for the overall victory, and two factory team Corvettes will be racing to win the class for cars more like those you see on the highway. They are among the nine U.S. teams invited to race this year.
The need for speed
The race cars roaring overhead as Darlene and I were leaving Saturday night had just passed the start-finish line. They were beginning another trip around an 8.48-mile circuit consisting mostly of regular, two-lane roads — yes, they are closed for the race.
The fastest cars, such as the Bentleys that finished first and second, hit speeds just a little above 200 mph on the Mulsanne Straight. During the rest of the year this straightaway is part of French National Route 138 from Le Mans to the village of Mulsanne and on south to the city of Tours. Before and after race week you can drive on it. Just don't get try to drive like the professionals, French police are reported to be cracking down on speeding all around the nation this year.


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Five data-driven projects produced during the regional hackathon La Ruta de Dinero (The Money Trail) will receive support from HacksLabs, the first accelerator of data journalism projects in Latin America.
The projects focus on improving transparency and accountability in Colombia, Chile and Argentina. The regional hackathon, which I coordinated as part of my ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellowship, took place in 12 Latin American cities and one U.S. city.
From May 19 through 30, 2014, ICFJ brought together experts from around the world to the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy to find ways to use data to advance quality journalism. Ben Colmery helped organize this key summit.
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It is commonly believed that a properly-functioning democracy needs government to work for its citizens, and media/civil society able to foster an adequately-informed citizenry and hold government in check.
WASHINGTON—From digitally mapping Amazon deforestation to launching a news innovation challenge in Africa, innovative work by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will be supported by a new $3.15 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Fifty reporters from 46 countries will get a front-row seat to history on November 6 as they cover election night from the United States for their audiences back home. They will live-blog stories from the polls in battleground states using an exciting new tool, the Global Editors Network's (GEN) Live Desk platform.
Though the results of the 2012 U.S. Presidential elections were announced to the world on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 49 foreign journalists were able to provide first-hand reports on the outcome to their readers, listeners and viewers in their home countries. This opportunity came from their participation in The Elections 2012 Visiting Journalists Program.
Continuing its efforts to improve coverage of religion around the world, ICFJ has launched a two-year program for American and international journalists who cover religious issues. By improving professional skills and increasing the dialogue around religion, ICFJ hopes to encourage journalists to engage the subject more openly and free of bias, and simultaneously more respectfully and critically. The program activities will include two online courses and international joint reporting projects,
The program is designed to:
There's a lot more to data journalism than simply putting numbers into a story. Data journalism expert and Knight International Journalism Fellow Sandra Crucianelli outlines the skills reporters need to master the field.
Founding member of the International Association of Religion Journalists Rachel Kohn talks about the importance of connecting journalists across borders.
Founding member of the International Association of Religion Journalists (IARJ) Indeewari Dona of Sri Lanka's ART Television talks about the role religion has played in her country's conflicts and how quality religion reporting can help ease tensions.
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Best of AOP - Galaxies
M77 is a tremendous galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. It is over 170,000 light years across (the largest Messier galaxy) and over 49 million light years away. In this image you can see the very bright center and if you dim the lights in the room you can just make out the very dim outer arms. M77 is also remarkable because its central region emits copious amounts of energy. It is believed that the only source that could generate this amount of energy is a supermassive blackhole (as if a run-of-the-mill blackhole wasn't enough). In fact, the entire nucleus of this galaxy changes in brightness in a period of less than a week!. An energetic galaxy such as this falls into a special category called Seyfert galaxies (named after the discoverer Carl Seyfert). The galaxy is also a very strong radio source (for the reasons above). There have been more astronomical papers written about this galaxy than any others!
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This galaxy is an exceedingly difficult object since it has both very bright features in the center and VERY dim
outer spiral arms. Special non-linear stretches (to the entire image) were utilized to emphasize the dim outer arms.
Two iterations of L-R deconvolution (sharpening) algorithm using CCDsharp were applied to the luminance image.
Digital Development (DDP) via Maxim/DL was also used in order to display the very dim and very bright details of
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The AO unit was used to for this session.
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Welcome to Belvoir
Belvoir Castle stands high on a hill overlooking 16,000 acres of woodland and farmland. Visitors from all over the world are welcomed here to events in the park, weddings, our world famous pheasant and partridge Belvoir Shoot, tours of the Castle and its art collection and our recently renovated gardens. Whatever draws you to Belvoir will enable you to share the magic of this estate.
***Sunday 2nd August: the Castle will now be open to visitors on this day.***
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Mediator training program starts in February
A mediator training program to prepare people to work in a variety of business, community and legal situations will be held through Antelope Valley College's Corporate and Community Services Office beginning Saturday, Feb. 6 in Room BE 243 (Business Education Building), 3041 W. Ave. K, Lancaster.
The series of five courses starts with "Introduction to Mediation," which provides an overview of this fast-growing means of resolving disputes in the courts, in business, and in other areas.
That will be followed by six other Saturday sessions covering "Mediation as a Second Career," "Mediation and Violence Prevention," "Mediation Skills Training," and "Advanced Topics in Mediation."
Those completing the 40-hour program will be awarded a Mediator Certificate of Completion and have the opportunity to offer their skills as mediators in a variety of situations, according to instructor Linda Hughes.
Also, people may choose to enroll in any of the courses individually, though the certificate is only awarded to those completing all the courses.
Hughes has almost two decades experience as a mediator and trainer in Southern California. She has a master's degree in conflict management and a law degree.
"It is my hope that many more people will soon know about mediation, a more effective, timely and cost-efficient means of problem solving," Hughes said.
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Metroparks opens nature photography exhibitWritten by Amy Biolchini | | email@example.com
Four nature photography exhibits open Sept. 4 at the National Center for Nature Photography inside Secor Metropark.
"It's more than just pretty pictures, but to inspire people to come out and enjoy the local natural areas," said Scott Carpenter, director of public relations at Toledo Metroparks. "Most importantly, it showcases nature and the metroparks."
Karen Pugh said, gallery manager at Secor Metropark, said, "When you look closely at something, you can see it in new ways. When you appreciate something and learn more about it, you ultimately preserve and conserve it."
Visitors used to come to the metropark and stumble across the photography gallery, Pugh said. Now the gallery is a destination and draws an average of 8,000 to 9,000 visitors a year.
The four new exhibits will be open for two months. Headlining the exhibit are 37 prints from noted photographer Howard Burkert, which are available for purchase. Burkert's work is composed of landscape and wildlife photos taken locally and throughout North America.
Adult participants from the Lucas County Board of Developmental Disabilities, who are learning nature photography, will have their photos on display as well. The Board of Developmental Disabilities partnered with Lott Industries to give the participants a chance to show their works in the "Lotts of Nature" exhibit.
Other exhibits include photos from members of the Naturalists' Camera Club of Toledo and the Toledo Photo Arts Club, featuring 50 close-up photographs of mushrooms taken by Bill Blanton. Director of photography at Secor Metropark, Art Weber will showcase 16 prints of autumn scenes taken on walks around the metroparks. Throughout the year, Pugh said the Secor Metropark hosts outdoor photography classes, as well as intro to photography workshops that begin indoors.
The National Center for Nature Photography is free and open on weekends from noon to 5 p.m. It will host local artist Harold Roe when he gives a free presentation titled "Wanderings and Wonderings" at 2 p.m. Sept. 12.
Roe is a four-time winner of the Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp competition, and is best known for his naturalistic paintings of birds. A former Navy seaman and traveler to Canada, Alaska, Africa and Australia, Roe has an established perspective as an outdoorsman.
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