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presidency of the United States of America, chief executive office of the United States. In contrast to many countries with parliamentary forms of government, where the office of president, or head of state, is mainly ceremonial, in the United States the president is vested with great authority and is arguably the most powerful elected official in the world. The nation's founders originally intended the presidency to be a narrowly restricted institution. They distrusted executive authority because their experience with colonial governors had taught them that executive power was inimical to liberty, because they felt betrayed by the actions of George III, the king of Great Britain and Ireland, and because they considered a strong executive incompatible with the republicanism embraced in the Declaration of Independence (1776). Accordingly, their revolutionary state constitutions provided for only nominal executive branches, and the Articles of Confederation (1781–89), the first "national" constitution, established no executive branch. For coverage of the 2012 election, see United States Presidential Election of 2012.
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The Constitution succinctly defines presidential functions, powers, and responsibilities. The president's chief duty is to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed, and this duty is performed through an elaborate system of executive agencies that includes cabinet-level departments. Presidents appoint all cabinet heads and most other high-ranking officials of the executive branch of the federal government. They also nominate all judges of the federal judiciary, including the members of the Supreme Court. Their appointments to executive and judicial posts must be approved by a majority of the Senate (one of the two chambers of Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government, the other being the House of Representatives). The Senate usually confirms these appointments, though it occasionally rejects a nominee to whom a majority of members have strong objections. The president is also the commander in chief of the country's military and has unlimited authority to direct the movements of land, sea, and air forces. The president has the power to make treaties with foreign governments, though the Senate must approve such treaties by a two-thirds majority. Finally, the president has the power to approve or reject (veto) bills passed by Congress, though Congress can override the president's veto by summoning a two-thirds majority in favour of the measure.
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By the time the Constitutional Convention assembled in Philadelphia on May 25, 1787, wartime and postwar difficulties had convinced most of the delegates that an energetic national executive was necessary. They approached the problem warily, however, and a third of them favoured a proposal that would have allowed Congress to select multiple single-term executives, each of whom would be subject to recall by state governors. The subject consumed more debate at the convention than any other. The stickiest points were the method of election and the length of the executive's term. At first, delegates supported the idea that the executive should be chosen by Congress; however, congressional selection would make the executive dependent on the legislature unless the president was ineligible for reelection, and ineligibility would necessitate a dangerously long term (six or seven years was the most common suggestion).
The delegates debated the method of election until early September 1787, less than two weeks before the convention ended. Finally, the Committee on Unfinished Parts, chaired by David Brearley of New Jersey, put forward a cumbersome proposal—the electoral college—that overcame all objections. The system allowed state legislatures—or the voting public if the legislatures so decided—to choose electors equal in number to the states' representatives and senators combined; the electors would vote for two candidates, one of whom had to be a resident of another state. Whoever received a majority of the votes would be elected president, the runner-up vice president. If no one won a majority, the choice would be made by the House of Representatives, each state delegation casting one vote. The president would serve a four-year term and be eligible for continual reelection (by the Twenty-second Amendment, adopted in 1951, the president was limited to a maximum of two terms).
Until agreement on the electoral college, delegates were unwilling to entrust the executive with significant authority, and most executive powers, including the conduct of foreign relations, were held by the Senate. The delegates hastily shifted powers to the executive, and the result was ambiguous. Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States begins with a simple declarative statement: "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." The phrasing can be read as a blanket grant of power, an interpretation that is buttressed when the language is compared with the qualified language of Article I: "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States."
This loose construction, however, is mitigated in two important ways. First, Article II itemizes, in sections 2 and 3, certain presidential powers, including those of commander in chief of the armed forces, appointment making, treaty making, receiving ambassadors, and calling Congress into special session. Had the first article's section been intended as an open-ended authorization, such subsequent specifications would have made no sense. Second, a sizable array of powers traditionally associated with the executive, including the power to declare war, issue letters of marque and reprisal, and coin and borrow money, were given to Congress, not the president, and the power to make appointments and treaties was shared between the president and the Senate.
The delegates could leave the subject ambiguous because of their understanding that George Washington (1789–97) would be selected as the first president. They deliberately left blanks in Article II, trusting that Washington would fill in the details in a satisfactory manner. Indeed, it is safe to assert that had Washington not been available, the office might never have been created.


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SLIDESHOW: Reed First School celebrates centenary despite 'typically British weather'
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Birthday spirits were not dampened as past and present pupils gathered to celebrate a Royston school's centenary on Saturday.
Reed First School marked 100 years since it first opened its doors to 37 pupils.
Despite the torrential onslaught, visitors were still able to enjoy celebratory activities, including riding on a mini steam train and looking through old photos and school reports.
Headteacher Jackie Harvey said: "We knew that more people would want to be involved in celebrating the 100 years than we have indoor capacity to hold, so we waited until now to hold a garden party.
"Although the June weather was 'typically British' with heavy rain and thunder and lightning, there was a real feeling of celebration.
"As the 14th headteacher in the 100 years of Reed School, I feel extremely privileged to be a part of its ongoing history."

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Students prove real-life Star Wars deflector shield is possible
- By Ryan Whitwam on May 3, 2014 at 10:01 am
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In the Star Wars universe, firing up the deflector shields is no big deal. Imperial cruiser on your tail? Deflector shields. Incoming TIE Fighter? Better flip on the deflectors. Science fiction has the luxury of positing neat technological ideas without necessarily explaining how they work — if they could even work. A group of students from the University of Leicester have thought long and hard about what it would take to build a deflector shield in real life, and it turns out to be possible — as long as you're willing to make a few sacrifices.
The paper, published in the student Journal of Special Physics Topics, details a means by which plasma could be used to create a barrier around a ship, or other object, which could deflect certain kinds of energy. The basis of this approach to inventing science-fiction tech is very real. We already make use of the same physics described here when bouncing communication signals off the plasma present in the upper atmosphere — in a layer known as the ionosphere. If you want to send a radio frequency signal to a location on the Earth's surface that is over the horizon, scientists have long known it can simply be bounced off the ionosphere. It's a bit like a mirror for electromagnetic radiation. You want the same property in a deflector shield.
The students used the ionosphere as the seed for the hypothetical shield described in the paper. Essentially, if you can wall yourself off with plasma, it can be used to deflect electromagnetic radiation, like a directed energy weapon (a laser or something similar). The design of this s-style shield relies on high-power magnets, which would be used to contain a wall of plasma around the vessel. The more dense this plasma is, the higher the frequency of electromagnetic radiation (i.e. power of the laser) it can protect you from.
On the face of it, this sounds like a cool idea, and it's technically feasible with today's technology. Although, there are some drawbacks that make it impractical without crazy, futuristic technology. The first roadblock in implementing a plasma-based deflector shield is that a magnet powerful enough to hold a bubble of super-hot plasma in place around your craft would be gigantic and consume a huge amount of power. Maybe that's no big deal if you assume some sort of magical sci-fi tech, but the other issue with this shield is rooted in the fundamentals of physics, which aren't so easy to explain away.
Let's say you build this deflector shield, and you want to protect yourself from a laser beam. You flip it on, and sure enough, lasers bounce right off. However, the shield works equally well in both directions, so you can't return fire either. In fact, since the plasma blocks all frequencies at or below the threshold dictated by its density, you probably won't even be able to see past your own deflector shield. That's not exactly the ideal scenario for defending yourself.
The students concede that this probably isn't going to be how we bring energy shields to life, but the technology might have other applications in the future. Or maybe a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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The Russians have been doing a lot of research into plasma fields for stealth aircraft. That was the bet they made back in the late 80s, before the Soviet Union collapsed. It was to compete with our stealth tech. But when the SU collapsed, the project stalled in a big way. I read the US is finally looking into it, but who knows when it well go live.
Etenray Homosapien
What if we develop the technology to detect laser beams before they're fired, as in detecting the firing process itself. That way we can only turn on the shields during the anticipated attacks.
Also, Do we really need the shield to cover the entire body of the object? maybe we can increase efficiency by having a computer calculate the exact area the beam is bound to hit.
Another thought, maybe we can design our crafts alittle differently from what we see in Star Wars, in a way it's more difficult to land a succesful hit.
Finally, rather than creating shields, we should focus more on the agility of the crafts so that a hit won't occur in the first place.
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Since Lasers move with lightspeed and nothing else can move faster, how will the signal "laser is fired" reach you and still give enough time for the calculations and to power up the shield?
Etenray Homosapien
Like I said, "If" we develop the technology to detect the very firing of the laser. What I mean is to detect the process that leads to the firing, seriously you don't watch enough sci-fi movies.
Unless… there's no interval at all between the comand to fire and the firing of the laser.
"Sir, they are powering up their weapons." " Shields up!!" heard all the time in star trek – personally though i'd create portholes in the shields and stick a sensor through them
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I watch A LOT of scifi, but I have the Neil deGrasse Tyson sickness: Knowing too much about science and picking the movies apart because of that. ;)
So: There indeed IS an interval between the "firing" command and the laser forming of the beam, but it's DAMN short. It could be feasible however to have somebody tell you "Sir, they are powering up their weapons!":
Every type of directed energy weapon (like a laser) would need huge capacitors that fill up with energy before you can fire. If you can detect that, it would tell you they are getting ready to make your day worse. So this could work.
But now we have a new problem: I didn't read the paper, but my guess is, that the shield needs some time to power up and reach full strength.
And of course there is that one pesky thing with laser weapons: No need for a hightech shield – just have your ship have a reflecting outside. A mirror is cheaper than a shield. ;)
Abdul Rahman NADER
lol, then its gonna be a high tech mirror shield! :P
i seem to recall reading somewhere that really high energy lasers mirrors dont work well
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It's impossible to make a perfectly reflecting surface, so some energy will always come through. The question is, how much energy you have to muster to do any damage. When your giant reactors do more damage to your ship than the lasers do to your enemy, you have to come up with a new plan. ;) I doubt lasers will be the weapon of choice in space combat, but it's hard to predict technological evolution.
Let's say we use lasers: The plasma-shields from the paper could be a nice addition to mirrors in that regard.
But I agree with the authors: This will probably not be how we build shields. It think we'll come up with better and especially easier ways to deflect electromagnetic radiation, than to wrap the whole ship into plasma (which would be quite dangerous in itself).
what else are you going to use instead of lasers, bullets, projectiles? i guess the space ship will already be heavily armored for space rocks. just light to warm up the ship this could be more effictive.
i guess plasma weapons could be effective.
nukes could be the weapon of choice. space is already super radioactive so no problem whit that.
an other option could be antimatter.
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Surprisingly, bullets would still be a very effective weapon in space, especially because there is no air resistance. But this gives us a very big problem: Once a bullet is fired in space, it just keeps going. Every bullet not hitting your target would just keep flying until it finds a target, be it minutes later around the block or a thousand years later in the next solar system.
You are right: Everything "warming up" the ship could be a weapon. Many people don't know is that one of the problems for spaceships is too get rid of excess heat. There's no air around you that could dissipate heat, so you have to come up with other ways to get rid of it.
Nukes are a great weapon in space, since the bad things about them don't count anymore in the radiation soup that is outer space. Antimatter-nukes give you a great bang for the buck, but are quite dangerous: As long as a conventional nuke isn't activated, you can do whatever the hell you want with it: Put it in a fire, throw if from a cliff, sink it into the ocean: Nukes just CAN'T blow up by themselves. Antimatter-nukes on the other hand might need an active containment unit for the antimatter. The second that fails for some reason, you better be FAR away…
I agree with you, that plasma might be a good weapon: Plasma is easy to produce, moves fast and can deliver a lot of energy in a short time. But it is highly charged, so deflecting it is not that hard… How about particle beams?
I guess it will come down to a good collection of different weapons, rather than one or two default weapons of choice.
can you please tell me why a bullet would be good the space ship especially a frigate would be heavily armored for space rocks because they already travel at high speeds so a bullet would just be the same.
a particle beam would just be as easy to deflect, electrons would be to weak and the ship would already be shielded for beta radiation. alpha like radiation would also be easy to stop so protons etc wouldn't be that good ether.
but bullets, or just comets would be really useful to be used to attack a planet but i guess it would be outlawed like in mass effect.
Andreas Sjånes Berg
No its more to it than that. Bullets would actually be of little use in space. Muzzle velocity would be almost identical in space VS on earth, but obviously it would just keep on going. A high velocity and fairly high caliber round would be in the scale of around 2200 km/t. But even if you double that, that is VERY slow relative to the speed of spacecrafts (yours and the enemy) which would probably be ten or twenty times that. And thats without taking the huge distances into concideration.
So if for example your ship is moving away from the enemy ship, or the enemy is a little bit faster than you, the bullet would not even reach the ship, ever. If you moved away from the enemy with a speed of more than the muzzzle velocity (high probability), the bullet would not even go in the right direction! It would still go towards you, and if you stopped, it would hit you in the back. :P
Antoher example. If you are travilng away from earth with a normal speed of 35 000 km/t, and you tried to shoot a bullet at earth, and it had a muzzle velocity at 3500 kmt (very fast for a bullet), the bullet would still travel at a speed, 31500 km/t away from earth. And if you could stop the ship (relative to earth) after an hour from you fired the bullet, it would hit you in teh back within the next hour.
personally, i think Railguns would be ideal. since a ship designed for deep space travel would probably be equipped with a decent power source, charging up such a weapon would not be too much of an issue. the amount of kinetic energy in a Railgun round would be extremely difficult to deflect and the sheer speed would leave very little time to evade. however, unless the projectile had some sort of guidance (good luck trying to steer a __km/s bullet), it would probably require a very precise targeting system for long ranges.
Andreas Sjånes Berg
What if they charged the capacitors forehand? ;)
But yeah, a larger change in the electromagnetic fields around the enemy ship would probably one of the only thing you could detect before the were firing a laser. And even then, you probably only had a extremly short time before the laser hit you, and you need to get the shields up and running.
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Depends on future capacitors: Todays capacitors are very good at taking and giving of huge amounts of energy in very short times. But they are VERY bad at storing energy (that's why we still use complicated batteries with rare materials instead of cheap capacitors everyone could make by hand). So the earlier you charge the capacitors, the more energy is lost. But in a fight they would discharge and recharge all the time, so the "ready to fire weapons" would work before the first shot anyway. ;)
Andreas Sjånes Berg
Even though they arent good at storing large amounts of energy, they could hold the charge at a decent rate, and charging them slowly will give the benefit of lower charge current, and therefore lower the losses. But epcially if the enemy could detect charging of the capacitors, I know I would charge them forehand. :P
Though, I would guess space-warfare mostly would be won or lost on the premises of who could detect the enemy first.
Based on what they are saying the shield would basically act as a mirror. Any type of laser powerful enough to do damage to something like a ship would destroy a regular mirror. The field of plasma would effectively reflect the laser away from whatever the shield was meant to protect.
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Any good shield SHOULD work as a reflector. There's a big problem with the shield you usually see in TV: You see the enemy shot hit the shield, the shield flares in a nice CG-effect and the shot is gone. What the authors of the movies don't tell you: What the hell happens to all the energy that shot carried? With every shield that just "takes it" (instead of reflecting a shot), you could just keep shooting until the target is cooked inside his own shield.
It's the same as the usual idea of blowing up a large asteroid about to hit earth: Yes, we don't have a large rock anymore that can to blow a hole in our nice planet. But ALL the impulse energy that killer-asteroid carried is still there in the large debris cloud hitting our atmosphere, so instead of a hole in the ground, we get an atmosphere on fire…
Andreas Sjånes Berg
Yupp, a mirror would not be of any use deflecting a powerfull laser. You could easily cover the ship with mirrors, but they would probably only briefly limit the damage. Even if they could reflect 90 %, the 10 percent, or even 1 % would destroy the mirror fairly quickly.
Even if the plasma didnt reflect 100 % of the electromagnetic radiation, it can absorbe the rest of the energy without beeing destroyed. To my knowlege, plasma have no problem existing at many hundred millions of degrees, or have any real upper limit.
Lots of good discussion here. I think the most practical is using a rail gun approach. You could very easily build a device that could hurl massive objects through space at extreme speed with the use of magnets.
Andreas Sjånes Berg
Yeah, rail gun might work in a few occations. Conventional rockets and cannons/bullets would be way too slow. When your target might be tens of thousands of miles away, and the target is moving at 50-60 000 Km/t, you would want reaaaaally high speed weapons.
Rail gun might be to sloe also, with the risk of taking hours and days before anything hits the enemy. If he does have a laser, he would BBQ you and your projectiles long before you could inflict any damage. And a easy change of direction would make the object miss completly.
In other words. Laser is the only viable weapon in real space combat, since any other weapon would only work in "close" combat. And close combat aren't very likely. Unless the tactics is hiding and surprise attack.
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You are quite right about the speeds and incredible distances in space making most conventional weapons ineffective. One thing to remember though: For the math to work out, you have to set your reference frame first. For two spaceships moving parallel at the same speed for example, you can ignore the speeds altogether. A bullet fired from one ship to the next still has its full muzzle velocity, no matter how fast the firing ship moves while firing.
For two ships moving away from each other, we get exactly what you are talking about: It's no problem for a ship to move with the speed of a bullet (especially for ships moving in different directions, since both ships speeds have to be added). Then we really have the problem where your enemy is moving away faster than the bullets fly.
One important thing we didn't talk about is how much maneuvering will be going on in space: To change the course of a massive ship, we need a lot of energy, so we should assume that ships in future space traffic will only change course, if absolutely needed. So battles would probably take place over huge distances, giving even more weight to your argument…
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One problem in space: Once you hurl a massive object in one direction, you hurl your ship into the opposite direction at the same speed. And that would make your astronauts hurl.
Andreas Sjånes Berg
Thats correct. Tough, not too problematic if you have another rail guns shooting at opposite direction :P, or just turn on thoose rocket boosters.
In a more realistic way, remeber that you could be "flying" towards the enemy ship at tens of thousands of km/t with something that probably is pretty heavy. Shooting a smal rail-gun wouldn't do much to that kind of velocity.
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I remember two scifi serials that tackled this problem (don't remember which ones though): In one the spaceship had to put the main engines into full speed, to hold the position, while they fired the main gun. The other one was a mecha series where one of the mechas used something like a giant sniper rifle. At the start of a fight, he would fly to the nearest asteroid and attach the gun to it, giving him some steady shots, before the asteroid began to tumble and he needed a new position.
You are right, of course: All these ideas depend on the mass (and speed) of your ship and the mass and velocity of your projectiles. Especially since you probably won't shoot in the exact same direction every time, chances are the mass of a huge, moving ship could take the kickback of a rail-gun without much of a problem.
The rail gun would be in a seperate compartment, but attached to the station via a swivle or something. If you turned the repulsive force into rotational, then you could remain stationary while the gun or whatever spins around the station after firing. Then you could gradually slow it down.
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We just discussed too other ideas about your railgun in the previous comment. But I really like this idea. I'm far too lazy to work out the physics right now ;) and it might be hard to have the railgun hit the target, when the shot itself moves the gun in an arc. But if we can change the force of the kickback into rotational energy, the rotation could actively stabilize the whole thing and maybe we could even use that "stored" energy for the next shot or something else.
The only way to really wage a war in space is to have large heavily augmented humans who wear special armor, board the enemy ship and chop everyone on board up with chain swords and power axes.
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Not the only one! Don't forget the incredibly practical idea to have a small fighter ship, that transforms into a giant mecha every few seconds to fights with its fists… ;)
But without guidance from the Codex Astronimican such a thing will have no chance against the powers of the warp.
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You forget to take into account the incredible advances in nano-engineering and meta-materials we made in the last years. Todays mirrors wouldn't do the job, but tomorrows should. But even if we find the "perfect" reflector, Heisenberg showed, that some of the lasers energy still tunnels through, until we find a way to cheat quantum physics.
> "the plasma … can absorb the rest of the energy"
Didn't think of that, thanks. The shield would actively store the absorbed energy while turned on. So the rule of thumb in the future is: Never be ANYWHERE near a ship the second it switches of its shields… ;)
If you could just see a few seconds into the future….
I know how to create a plasma shield without magnets. I am actually working on it. I am not kidding =)
science demands peer reviews, in other terms: proof ^^
but seriously it sounds cool if you really do ^^
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No science doesn't demand anything you jack ass atheist, IT'S A FORM OF MEASUREMENT and there's more than one method. It's LIVING morons with no life who DEMAND impolitely "proof", and proof you idiot is EVIDENCE WHICH CONVINCES, so you're asking for something subjective. You cultist morons are always making illogical rants like this when it comes to the big bang and evolution and magical life from whatever and poisoning everyone's thinking. As for peer review, that only works well if you have a rational and objective person doing the reviewing, not just some dumb atheist. If peer review was some magical way to "prove" something via science than the big bang, heliocentrism, evolutionism and magic life from crystals would have been stamped out as soon as that garbage came out. So stop with the Scientology crap you illogical oaf.
psst, pot, meet kettle….
Of course science needs proof. Science does't work just by takings someones word for it. It isn't religion.
Also, Scientology does't mean what you think it means.
you had a bad day huh?…
dont worry itll pass ^^
(or suicide, in both cases youll do us a favor, so cheer up ^^)
"you jack ass atheist"
1. well, you certainly aren't helping the stereotype of Christians there, Mr. saint.
2. its people like you that drive people away from religion. you only have yourself to blame.
"You cultist morons are always making illogical rants like this when it comes to the big bang and evolution and magical life from whatever and poisoning everyone's thinking"
1. Cult? What do cults have anything to do with this article, this thread, or that comment? Talk about illogical.
2. The big bang theory and the theory of evolution are THEORIES. Unlike religion, theories are based off of evidence and they accept the possibility that they may be wrong, follow where the evidence points to (not where we'd like it to), and encourages people to challenge them and improve upon them. You call this "poisoning everyone's thinking"? I prefer to think of it as liberating peoples minds from the thousands of years of religious oppression that have been forced on people under the threat of death, torture, war, alienation, and exile. I'm willing to bet money that if religion never existed in human history, we'd be a hell of a lot more advanced technologically, socially, and culturally.
3. "poisoning everyone's thinking"< THAT'S the kind of thinking that has lead to wars and have wiped entire civilizations off the face of the earth because they didn't think, act like, or believe exactly what their slaughterers did.
I have no problem with religious beliefs as long as they don't try to force it down other peoples throats.
So, do us all a favor and take your hateful, self-righteous, ignorant "opinions" elsewhere. you give religion in general a bad name. Its disgusting.
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And have you written any research about it anywhere and how it will work? If so tell me about it as I'm working on something myself that you might like to know about fototrick at gmail
we already have this tech, it was tested for the military, using an APC filled with a bank of capacitors and a multi-joul discharge unit, it detects the incoming alteration of an EM field (like an rpg being shot at it) and then focuses and discharges massive amounts of energy, nullifying and destroying the round before it reaches the vehicle. That was little over a decade ago.
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that isn't a force field you idiot.
sure it is.. can you see it? does it prevent things from hitting you? =force field. (in fictional terms anyways.. which is of course the point of this topic, unlike the physics term of force field).
"In fictional works, a force field, sometimes known as an energy shield, force shield, or deflector shield, is a barrier made up of energy or particles to protect a person, area or object from attacks or intrusions. This fictional technology is created as a field of energy without mass that acts as a wall, so that objects affected by the particular force relating to the field are unable to pass through the field and reach the other side. It is a concept popular in science fiction and fantasy works. Scientific research into real energy shields is ongoing, primarily to protect against radiation."
also.. "knightforchrist", is it wise for somebody who apparently believes in a God to be calling another person an idiot? At best there is no god, and you are simply proven to be an idiot, at worse there is a god, and he holds your sins against you for your judgement and slander of others…
I just tried this and actually don't mind it that much. Clicking on the URL button shows and selects the entire URL for copy or edit. Clicking in the address bar hides the button. The one change I would make is to make the URL button look more like a button instead of just a label. It isn't obvious that it is clickable unless you hover over it. I'll probably stick with the URL always showing but not too bad really.
what if they discover a super powerful permanent magnet so they do not have to create an electromagnetic field, it would require no energy to run.
Andreas Sjånes Berg
A plasmashield that cant be turnet off would be pretty unpractical, or just hopeless.
The problem isnt to maintain the field though. Even a n normal MRI machine have a powerfull magnet in the size of 1-3 Teslas, and some more experimental stuff is closer to 10 Teslas. They are helium cooled, and its magnet is always on. And require almost no energy, because it is auperconducting. Turning the magnet off (emergency stop for examble) is a violent effect, and causes a so called quench (look it up at youtube), becouse the magnetic field collapsing is causing huuuge heat-up and driving the machine out of its superconducting state, causing the helium to evaporate.
It is a much more practical thing, using a electromagnet. Remeber that a powerfull permanent magnet is made by using a powerfull magnetic field made by an electromagnet in the first place.
Jeff Vahrenkamp
Technically you could use a super conductor to maintain the magnetic field with lower continual energy input, and since this is outer space we're talking about, cooling wouldn't be quite the problem it is here on earth.
On the other hand I suspect the amount of power to maintain a plasma dense enough to repel visible light lasers or higher over an area more than a few feet would be quite prohibitive as a 1 inch plasma window takes 20kW to maintain. Of course if regular space flight and lasers have come about, I"m sure power will be less of a problem by then.
Andreas Sjånes Berg
I'm don't have any especially good clue, but wouldnt it be the opposite?
Cooling at space would require that you radiate the heat, since no air or other medium could transfer the energy away. Especially at low temperatures where there radiation energy would be very low. So you would need huge radiators. (as seen on ISS)
But again, it probably will differ massivly on where you are. If you travel farther away from the sun/star, you could probably reach a temperature cool enough that you could have a superconducting material without using compressors or using extra energy at all. Depends on the material used, obviously.
Problem though, is that you want to switch the plasma shield on/off quickly. If you turn the magnetic field off, the collapsing field would produce huuuge amounts of electric energy in your system. You could use this electricity to charge some huge capacitors or batteries. And with superconducting materials, the actual loss would be pretty small. Now, you could turn the shield on and off without using much extra energy.
Jeff Vahrenkamp
Radiative heat transfer is pretty efficient by itself. I'm not positive, but I think a large portion of the heat the ISS gets ride of is from its exposure to the sun. So, as you said, as long as you're not flying in close to a star, maintaining shields a superconducting temperature shouldn't be a major problem. Especially with the higher temperature super conductors we have currently, some which are purported to work at 135 K which is about 130 C higher than the background temperature fo deep space.
This might be a little stupid but doesn't light "changes course" (refracts) when moving from one surface to another. Couldn't we use that property to, instead of blocking the laser, reflect it?
It would be to powerful. In order to reflect or refract the light it need to absorb some of the energy. That energy would destroy the material.
Instead of showing how young you are, look at star trek shield devices
It's strange that this article assumes a shield HAS to be placed outside of a ship. It'd be far more practical to place a radiation shield between the inner and outer hull of a ship, that way the shield can be active all the time, protecting the people in the ship from radiation. Interface between the inside and the outside of the ship can still happen, while that sort of interface would be impossible if the shield was on the outside.


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A compromise on the proposed merger between Rowan University and Rutgers-Camden moved another step closer Thursday as the Rutgers board of trustees passed a resolution stating that the Camden campus must stay within the university and suggesting that it was open to compromise to make that happen.
Weeks in the making, the resolution is largely symbolic and comes three months after Gov. Christie announced plans to overhaul New Jersey's public universities with an eye toward making them more competitive — a process that is to include a shrinking of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and giving Rutgers a long-sought medical school and other health facilities.
"We've considered and heard a lot, and we felt it was appropriate for the board to be heard at this point, with the governor's July 1 deadline fast approaching," trustee Lora L. Fong said in an interview. "Rutgers is the state university of New Jersey, and Camden has been part of Rutgers for a significant period of time."
In the resolution, adopted by a 32-4 vote, the trustees said that a merger of Rowan and Rutgers-Camden would "preclude many citizens of this state from obtaining a Rutgers University education and be contrary to Rutgers' express mission," "deprive Rutgers of property and assets," and "remove from Rutgers a broad range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional educational offerings" and "faculty members that have attained national and international recognition for excellence."


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In Sophocles' Oedipus the King, what does Oedipus say when he stabs his eyes?
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In Sophocles' Oedipus the King, the title character discovers that he has killed his father, Laius, and married his mother, Jocasta. When Oedipus is on the verge of discovering the truth, Jocasta rushes back into the palace because she realizes that Oedipus is about to learn his true identity.
After Oedipus learns the truth, he also rushes back into the palace in search of Jocasta. When he finds her, she has hanged herself. Oedipus then takes her down, removes the brooches that Jocasta was wearing on her dress, plunges them into his eyes. When he does this, he cries out to his eyes:
"You will no longer see
all those atrocious things I suffered,
the dreadful things I did! No. You have seen
those you never should have looked upon,
and those I wished to know you did not see.
So now and for all future time be dark!"
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Assaidi has joined the Potters on a season-long loan from Liverpool and becomes the club's fourth signing of the summer.
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continued growth of Internet resources and the development of prescriber outreach and other educational programs, alternative sources of timely, objective, up-to-date information should become more available and readily usable.
If a physician chooses to meet with pharmaceutical and device company representatives, certain conditions should apply. Meetings should be at the invitation of the physician and by appointment and should not involve gifts, including meals provided at the physician's office. In limited cases, it may be appropriate for meetings to take place in the presence of patients (with their informed consent), primarily when representatives are providing in-service education or assistance with devices or equipment.
A related issue is drug company access to physician prescribing information. Currently, drug companies can buy coded prescribing information from pharmacy benefits programs and pharmacy chains. Companies can also purchase data from the AMA Masterfile, which links physician license numbers with their names, addresses, and phone numbers. Some physicians and others have objected to this practice (Steinbrook, 2006). In response, AMA now allows physicians who do not want their identifying information to be provided to companies to fill out a form to request that their data not be made available to company sales representatives and their supervisors (O'Reilly, 2006). (Other company personnel could still have access to the information.) It would be preferable and a lesser burden on physicians for AMA to set the default option so that identifying information would not be provided unless a physician affirmatively agrees.
As discussed in Chapter 5, the committee recognizes that access to affordable medications is a serious problem for many Americans, but it believes that reliance on drug samples is an unsatisfactory response. Samples are typically available only for newer and heavily marketed drugs, which may have no proven clinical benefits over alternatives, including less expensive equivalent drugs or generics. Although a sample may be convenient for the patient, it may not be the most appropriate medication. Many samples are provided to patients with insurance coverage and to physicians and their families, groups that do not have impaired access to medications. In such situations, the convenience of samples is outweighed by their potential to undermine evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing. For patients with chronic illnesses who lack the ability to pay for medications, a sample should be a stopgap that is accompanied by referral of the patient to a public or pharmaceutical company assistance program that can provide continuity of treatment. If physicians decide to accept drug samples, they should be given to patients who lack financial access to medications in situations in which appropriate generic alternatives are not available and the medication can be continued at little or no cost to the patient for as long as the patient needs it. The committee recognizes that physicians in


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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Tonight we'll learn the "American Idol" top three — or maybe not. At the close of last night's show, Ryan Seacrest announced there would be a surprise twist in this season's competition. He didn't give a hint of what that might be. But this season Idol has been in a ratings slump. Last night, the final four did two songs each. Randy Jackson says Angie Miller won the night "hands down." Nicki Minaj thinks Amber Holcomb sounds great and looks like "a big sexy glass of milk." Candice Glover was praised for singing well despite a bad cold. But Kree Harrison got some criticism from the judges for not going far enough with her vocals. She was in the bottom two last week.
A three-way tie in the Tribal Council meant two votes on last night's "Survivor: Caramoan." Andrea, Malcolm and Reynold all got the same number of votes the first time around. But things weren't even close on the second ballot, with Malcolm getting the ax. Earlier, Cochran won Immunity by using the advantage he had purchased during an auction. Malcolm thought he too would be getting a break, thanks to a Hidden Immunity Idol clue he bought at the auction. But he wasn't able to get free to dig up the Idol. He says as soon as you think you've got Survivor figured out, you're going home.
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To determine what antigens Tregs can recognize, Drs. Pacholczyk and Ignatowicz did side-by-side studies of antigen receptors expressed on nave T cells and Tregs.
Here, we could quantitatively compare proportions of how many regulatory cells or how many non-regulatory cells see non-self versus self antigens, and we found these proportions to be similar,? says Dr. Ignatowicz. We found regulatory cells respond to cells presenting non-self antigens as frequently as nave T cells.
Researchers report that 70 percent of the most frequent receptors found on na ve T cells also were found on Tregs. Since receptors define what the individual T cell recognizes, it provides additional evidence that nave T cells and Tregs see the same thing, they say.
Drs. Pacholczyk and Ignatowicz reported in the August 2006 issue of Immunity that Tregs, like na ve T cells, learn what to recognize in the thymus. They also reported that most Tregs that mature in the thymus retain their regulatory properties and do not later convert to nave T cells as was previously believed. This finding emphasized the role of the thymus as the primary site where Tregs differentiate and acquire their unique inhibitory functions, they say.
Although, the majority of T cells that may harm healthy body tissue are eliminated in the thymus, some errant autoreactive cells can escape and cause autoimmune disease. Tregs previously believed to primarily recognize self-tissue with the idea of protecting it are considered the antithesis of these autoreactive cells.
It was believed that regulatory cells are baptized autoreactive cells, says Dr. Ignatowicz. They are like bad boys that went good, since they also recognize self tissue but seek to protect it.
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The Voice contestant Jamar Rogers inspired everyone watching on Feb. 6, including judge Cee Lo Green — Jamar's personal idol.
And he would know a thing or two about Idols. The Bronx star has auditioned for American Idol several times, and is perhaps most memorable as Danny Gokey's close friend during Season 8's Hollywood Week (check out their group number of "Somebody to Love"). He dropped out of Season 9 auditions to pursue a career with Phil Ramone — a Grammy Award winning producer who has worked with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Madonna.
In his personal life, Jamar has battled crystal meth, been diagnosed HIV-positive, and was even homeless. He has used these challenges to become a strong individual, and today, he works to help those who are less fortunate by volunteering at God's Love We Deliver.
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From a revised MousePlanet update from today...
If you do want to camp out here is the setup:
DCA will open at 2:00 am 7/17 for the purpose of holding guests waiting to get into Disneyland. - valid 7/17 DL admission will be required to enter DCA and ticket booths will be open. When guests queue up they will get their commemorative ears and whatever other gifts will be given out on the 17th. The commemorative ears are not the regular ones currently sold in the park, and they can not be embroidered. Limited refreshments will be available for sale inside DCA - Smoozies, Award Wieners (limited menu), ODV. Restrooms will be open. NO entertainment. It's a line, not a party. When guests enter the park they will receive a wristband. If they leave for whatever reason, they will lose that wristband. If they return, they will have to rejoin the line wherever it currently is at that time.
The Timon lot will be open, with tram service, for those who wish to camp out in DCA the morning of 7/17. The Mickey & Friends parking lot will open at 6:00 a.m.
DCA will stop admitting people around 6 a.m. Guests who arrive after that will queue outside of the security checkpoints at either end of the Esplanade.
Disneyland will open at 7:00 a.m. for an "unpublished opening." The DCA crowd will be escorted into Disneyland at that time. The security checkpints will re-open once the DCA crowd is inside Disneyland, bag check's will resume and people will be allowed to go right into Disneyland. It is estimated that it may take as long as an hour to get all of the DCA crowd into Disneyland, so the 8:00 announced opening time might be accurate for those who do not camp inside DCA.
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FORT MYERS - Deputies shut down the Caloosahatchee Bridge early Tuesday after they found a naked man walking southbound on the bridge claiming there was a bomb inside his car.
The bridge is now open.
Around 4:30 a.m., the Lee County Sheriff's Office received a call about a suspicious person.
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New Tri-Lakes Branch is Now Open
NORTH JACKSON ( August 13, 2013) - The community celebrated the dedication of the new Tri-Lakes Library, a branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County (PLYMC), at 5 p.m. August 13. The event included a ribbon cutting, dedication ceremony, plus a children's program featuring Outback Ray, refreshments, and more.
The Tri-Lakes Library officially opened to the public at 10 a.m. on Monday, July 22. Located at 13820 Mahoning Ave., the new branch library represents a merger between the previous North Jackson and Lake Milton/Craig Beach branches. These two branches closed in late-June to merge into the newer, more spacious 6,270 square-foot facility. The project cost is approximately $2.04 million.
The branch which serves the northwest portion of Mahoning County was named "Tri-Lakes" because of its proximity to three bodies of water, Berlin Lake, Meander Reservoir and Lake Milton.
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Remarks by Heidi M. Daniel, Library Executive DirectorIn remarks at the Dedication, Library Executive Director Heidi M. Daniel noted, "Andrew Carnegie once said, 'A library outranks any other thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring...' It is clear that the communities of North Jackson and Lake Milton believed in that benefit early on, when they each worked to bring the original libraries into existence in their areas. There are great stories of community members in each area advocating for the existence of a public library in their community.
"As time has moved on, it has become clear that the role of a public library has changed – it is now a community gathering place, a place to access technology, a place to increase job skills or a place to find your family's weekend DVD or get the school book that's assigned for the semester. With these changes come infrastructure changes and the need to serve more people, more efficiently. The need for better computers, faster internet connections. The need to serve small children, school students, teens, and older adults all in one space. The need to have a place for meeting, for discussion, and research. A place that combines civic life, leisure time, and academic pursuits. In short- there comes a time when a community needs a bigger library.
"It is a rare thing for a community to get a new library. We are very proud of the one that we are offering to the Tri-Lakes area today. We hope you are, too, as each community member, Library Board member, and staff member here today has a stake in its excellence."
Remarks by Dr. David RitchieDr. David Ritchie, Library Board President, said, "It is always a pleasure to gather for an event such as this – dedicating a new library. The Library Board of Trustees is pleased to present this beautiful new branch to your community.
"It has been gratifying to watch the interest this community has shown for its library and the enthusiasm that has been steadily growing. The Library's Board of Trustees shares your enthusiasm for our newest branch.
"We believe this library, like so many in our system, will soon become central to the community as a gathering place, a place for enrichment and recreation, a place for learning and growing.
"So today, it is my distinct pleasure to officially present this library to you. You are the reason we built this branch. We hope you will stop in often. We know you will enjoy each and every visit. We look forward to providing you with top quality library service for many years to come. Thank you for your support of libraries."
Remarks by Alex BenyoAlex Benyo, Library Trustee and Building and Sites Committee Chair, noted: "I was fortunate to be named chair of the Building and Sites Committee, which means that I was able to play a part in bringing your community this wonderful new library. As I look around, I think about how it wasn't so long ago that we were looking at drawings of this building and imagining what it would be like. Now I look around and think - it's even better than I imagined!
"And I'd like the members of this community to know that we had you in mind every step of the way. After all, this library is for you. In the time I've served as a Library Trustee, I've come to appreciate what the Library means to people. I've seen how important a library is to our residents. I've seen that people really do love their library and every day I get a little more insight into why that is.
"Today, we're celebrating one of the reasons people love their library - the new Tri-Lakes Branch. This is not only a beautiful building, but when you open the doors and step inside, you've got a world of information and a friendly, professional staff waiting to help you. As a Library Trustee, I'm proud of this new library and I hope that you are, too. We've come a long way since this library was just an idea. I hope you'll agree that it was worth the wait."
Remarks by Thomas FrostThomas Frost, Library Trustee, Member of Library Building and Sites Committee, Jackson Township Trustee, said, " I'm on the Library Board, but I'm also a member of this community and as such, I couldn't be more proud of this new library and what it will mean to our community now and for many years to come. Our children will benefit immensely from all that is offered here. There is something for all ages.
"Our new library is just a stone's throw from our middle school and high school. I expect it to play an important role in the education of our students. While you're here, make sure you get a closer look at our children's section. Notice the Early Literacy activities mounted to the wall. As you can see, the Library is committed to the reading experience, for babies, toddlers and kids of all ages.The Library envisioned that this branch would be a center of community activity and a gathering place, and so this beautiful meeting room space was included.
"We can all be proud of this new library, created with a vision that was enhanced by input from our community. I hope you will take advantage of all that this new library offers. And I'm thrilled to be able to say, 'Welcome to OUR library!'"
Dedication Ceremony Program:Ribbon cuttingBoy Scout and Cub Scout Troop 105Fred Schrock, opening prayerDr. David Ritchie, Library Board of Trustees PresidentHeidi M. Daniel, Library Executive DirectorAlex Benyo, Library Trustee and Chair of Library Building and Sites CommitteeThomas Frost, Library Trustee, Member of Library Building and Sites Committee, Jackson Township TrusteeHoward Vaynor, President, Lake Milton Library AssociationKirk Baker, Jackson-Milton Superintendent of SchoolsDeborah Liptak, Library Development DirectorCheerleaders from the Jackson-Milton and Western Reserve schools. Jackson-Milton Band.A special children's program featuring Outback Ray completed the event.
Refreshments were provided by the Friends of the Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County.
Previous Library Director Carlton A. Sears was recognized with a plaque for his vision and efforts in beginning this project for the new library.
Project architect was Ronald Cornell Faniro, Youngstown. General Contractor is DSV Builders, Inc., of Niles. Other construction contracts went to: Ellyson Plumbing and Heating of Salem, OH (plumbing); D & G Mechanical, Inc., of West Middlesex, PA (mechanical); Zenith Systems, Inc., of Bedford Heights, OH (electrical).
The Library Board of Trustees Building and Sites Committee was actively involved in this new library project. Members are: Alex Benyo, chair; Trustee President Dr. David Ritchie; Richard Atkinson; Kathryn Bennett; Timothy Bresnahan; ThomasP Frost.A fundraising campaign with a goal of $250,000 is currently underway for this branch. Those wishing to donate should call the Library's Development Office at 330.740.6086.
BackgroundWhen the Library 2011 Strategic Plan was created over nine years ago, library service in the northwest portion of Mahoning County was being reviewed. Community members and school officials approached the Library and asked then-Library Director Carlton A. Sears director to consider putting a new branch on the site of a then-proposed high school/middle school complex, which was in planning stages. After much discussion and study, Library Trustees decided that a merger of the North Jackson and Lake Milton branches would provide an opportunity for that portion of Mahoning County to have a newer branch with more computers, more space and more features. The Board also realized that merging two smaller libraries would be more efficient and save money and the decision was made to merge the branches.
The Library began working with the community on a building in the Jackson-Milton area prior to the decline of the economy, but the project unfortunately had to be put on hold in 2009 due to the economic downturn and uncertainty of library funding. The Library was happy to be able to return to the project after passage of two levies and was thankful for community support of those levies in 2009 and 2010. Ground was broken on July 30, 2012, shortly after the arrival of new Library Executive Director Heidi M. Daniel, who oversaw the project through completion.
The Library appreciates the support of the Jackson-Milton School Board and Superintendent Kirk Baker, which donated land for the new branch on property adjacent to the new Jackson-Milton High School/Middle School.
The Library thanks community members who shared their aspirations for their community and what they wanted in their local library. The new Tri-Lakes Library opened its doors on Monday, July 22, 2013.# # #Tri-Lakes sets dedication August 13
The community will gather to formally dedicate the new Tri-Lakes Library, a branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County (PLYMC), at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, August 13, 2013. The event is open to the public and will include the Dedication Ceremony, plus a children's program featuring Outback Ray, refreshments, and more.
The branch officially opened to the public at 10 a.m. on Monday, July 22. Located at 13820 Mahoning Ave., the new branch library represents a merger between the previous North Jackson and Lake Milton/Craig Beach branches. These two branches closed in late-June to merge into the newer, more spacious 6,270 square-foot facility.
The branch, which serves the northwest portion of Mahoning County was named "Tri-Lakes" because of its proximity to three bodies of water, Berlin Lake, Meander Reservoir and Lake Milton. The project cost is approximately $2.04 million for the new facility. Library Director Heidi M. Daniel says, "We are pleased to be opening this new library branch, with its spacious interior and unique features. We are sure our customers at the new Tri-Lakes Branch will be pleased. We look forward to sharing this library with the community, which has lent support throughout the project."
The building's design takes advantage of the natural setting, with large windows serving two purposes: letting in natural light and providing a beautiful view of nature surrounding the new library.Along with traditional library materials, the new location will feature high-speed Internet access on public computers, free WiFi, collections for children and teens and adults, a community meeting room and study room, and much more.
Ground was broken for the new project on July 30. At that time, new library director, Ms. Daniel, welcomed the crowd and expressed her enthusiasm for the project. Previous library director Carlton Sears was also on hand to celebrate. Sears had been instrumental in the project starting with a vision for a new branch in 2004. The library and the community weathered the delay as this project was put on hold with the economic decline of 2009. In 2011, new life was breathed into the project and work began in earnest. This new facility builds on the work of those who came before – dedicated community members who supported with time and donations the two library branches in North Jackson and Lake Milton/Craig Beach which have merged into the new Tri-Lakes Library. The Library is appreciative of the donation of land from the Jackson-Milton School Board and the support of that Board of Education, the School Superintendent, and school and public officials for their assistance. The Building and Sites Committee of the Library's Board of Trustees, is overseeing the project. Members are: Chair Alex Benyo and members Thomas Frost, Richard Atkinson, Kathryn Bennett, and Timothy Bresnahan.Project architect is Ronald Cornell Faniro, Youngstown. General Contractor is DSV Builders, Inc., of Niles. Other construction contracts went to: Ellyson Plumbing and Heating of Salem, OH (plumbing); D & G Mechanical, Inc., of West Middlesex, PA (mechanical); Zenith Systems, Inc., of Bedford Heights, OH (electrical).A fundraising campaign with a goal of $250,000 is currently underway for this branch. Those wishing to donate should call the Library's Development Office at 330.740.6086.
From left: Ronald Cornell Faniro, project architect; David Foster, Library facilities and construction manager; Dr. David Ritchie, Library Trustee President; Heidi Daniel, Library Director; and Tom Frost, Library Trustee.
Many area residents, and even some very enthusiastic cheerleaders, turned out to support the Library as ground was broken to mark the launch of construction on July 30, 2012.
New Library Director Heidi Daniel attended the groundbreaking and expressed her thanks to the community: "The support of the community has been gratifying. It is my sincere belief that this new library building will be with the activities, resources, and dreams of the residents who use it."
A fundraising campaign with a goal of $250,000 is currently underway for this branch. If you're interested in donating, please call 330.740.6086.
>>Tri-Lakes donation form
Jackson-Milton Groundbreaking news and photos
Groundbreaking will be July 30, 5:30 p.m., for Jackson-Milton Library 7-26-12
Contracts awarded for Jackson-Milton Library 7-9-12
Jackson-Milton project goes out for bid 6-8-12
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