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One Person at a Small Park Can Make a Big Difference, Jewel Cave National Monument, National Park Service, South Dakota
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Ms. Rene Ohms, Physical Science Technician at Jewel Cave National Monument, coordinated efforts that led to the park's success in becoming a member of the Climate Friendly Parks Program (CFP). Because of Ms. Ohms' efforts, the park was able to complete greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and develop a modified environmental management system (MEMS) and CFP Plan, in order to attain CFP status. Jewel Cave was the first park to successfully complete a MEMS/CFP Plan. Ms. Ohms also shared her lessons learned with other parks in the Black Hills area by coordinating and leading two CFP workshops, helping these parks make their way toward CFP status.
Jewel Cave National Monument is a small park with a small staff and visitation of less than 100,000. However, that small size belies the impact that one person can have on a park's sustainability operation. Physical Science Technician Rene Ohms has provided outstanding leadership of the park's efforts toward compliance with Executive Orders 13423 and 13514 and addressing Call to Action Goals. Rene's innovative ideas to save energy and recycle more items have inspired other employees to join the effort to incorporate sustainability in all park projects since 2010.
The Jewel Cave National Monument "Green Team" was established in 2010, and Rene became the first chair. Through her leadership, by example, and with innovation, park employees began to integrate energy conservation and sustainability ideas into all park operations. Probably the most remarkable aspect of Rene's leadership of the "Green Team" has been the subtle, yet apparent, sea-change in how park employees view the importance of these issues. As a result, the park planning team for some key projects (Visitor Center parking lot and ticketing kiosk replacement, and Visitor Center bookstore and theater addition) has incorporated sustainability techniques into the design features as they coordinated with the Denver Service Center (DSC). This included planning for recycling of the old parking lot asphalt and ensuring sustainable design features were incorporated into the ticket kiosk being designed by the DSC's A&E contractor. Significant project cost savings have resulted in the project which is due for construction in 2013. Worn out cave tour aluminum stair treads were recycled. Hot water heaters were analyzed for use and taken off line when not needed, resulting in energy and cost savings. Rene led the evaluation of alternative LED cave tour lights. These energy saving lights were determined to be feasible and a PMIS project was submitted to replace the existing, inefficient incandescent lights. Rene led the effort to replace fluorescent light bulbs in the two 28-story cave elevators with T8 LED lights, saving energy. These accomplishments are all the more remarkable when considering the Green Team's initial budget was only six dollars!
In FY12, Rene oversaw the completion of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories from 2008-2011 through the use of the Climate Leadership in Parks (CLIP) Tool, completing Milestone 2 of the Climate Friendly Parks Program (CFP) (addressing EO 13514, Call to Action Goal 23 "Go Green"). The data was compiled and entered into the CLIP Tool through the use of a Volunteer-in-Park who also assisted several other parks in the Black Hills area with their GHG Inventories, which is a daunting task. Rene helped coordinate and instructed at two CFP Workshops for Jewel Cave and eight other Midwest Region and Intermountain Region parks in the Black Hills. The parks were grouped according to each park's Sustainability Challenges. The workshops were a great success and in the spirit of a "rising tide lifts all boats", helped all the parks in the Black Hills (AGFO, BADL, DETO, FOLA, MIMI, MORU, SCBL, and WICA) get closer to achieving their CFP status by completing Milestone 2.
Rene led the effort to complete a Modified Environmental Management System (MEMS) and Climate Friendly Parks Plan, which is Milestone 4 of the CFP process, and the last hurdle toward CFP status. Jewel Cave was the first park to successfully complete a MEMS/CFP Plan as there was no existing template to use. Employees were pleased to learn that Jewel Cave was recently notified of its success in becoming a Climate Friendly Park.
Through her low-key, steady and consistent approach, Rene Ohms has led the way in helping Jewel Cave "Go Green" for several years. She is a demonstrated sustainability champion and agent of change at Jewel Cave National Monument. Rene inspires and motivates other park employees to help meet agency and park goals in addressing sustainability and Climate Change, one small step at a time. Through her actions and her leadership, she reminds and reassures us that one person can indeed make a big difference.
Results and Achievements
Through Rene Ohms' leadership of the park's Green Team, significant results have been obtained.
- Created a Green Team e-Newsletter and distributed it to all employees. Developed and presented Green Team training for new employee orientation.
- The Green Team's accomplishments were highlighted in the park newspaper for the past two years.
- Initiated an all-employee energy usage contest, and awarded prizes to the resident(s) with the lowest per-capita energy consumption. Park housing electrical usage was metered for a 2-month period and those not living in park housing could also participate by bringing in their power bills from home. Winners received a reusable water bottle and a solar phone charger. While this effort was more successful in educating employees than it was in reducing energy consumption, it successfully raised energy use awareness among park employees. (EO 13423, Call to Action Goal 23 "Go Green", submitted as a "Best Practice" on "My Green Parks" website).
- Presented a hands-on, "Green Team Day" environmental education program on recycling and water quality to the "Adopt a Class" program for the Custer, SD Middle School Class of 2016 (Call to Action Goal 15 "A Class Act").
- Developed and implemented a park specific Environmental Purchasing PowerPoint training session for all purchase card holders and an Environmental Purchasing Plan (EO 13423, Call to Action Goal 23 "Go Green").
- Led the park to completion of all CFP Milestones, resulting in Jewel Cave NM attaining CFP certification in Feb. 2013 (EO 13514, Call to Action Goal 23 "Go Green").
- Led the effort to recycle more items, especially remarkable in that the local area does not offer recycling services. Rene and the Green Team contacted the senders of unwanted mailings like catalogs coming to long-gone former employees, and stopped further deliveries, reducing the amount of waste paper significantly (EO 13514, Call to Action Goal 23 "Go Green").
Rene Ohms has been a "force multiplier" by inspiring other park employees to greater awareness and involvement in sustainability and energy conservation efforts. Employees have aggressively incorporated sustainability into project designs, begun carpooling, and found ways to reduce energy use. In addition, Rene and the Green Team have provided in-person and on-line training for park employees in the Green Team's role and function, and in Environmental Purchasing. Articles about Jewel Cave's progress have appeared in the Midwest Region Sustainable News In Parks (SNIPS) Newsletter of Jan. 2013 and a Case Study for Jewel Cave will appear in the upcoming NPS 2012 Annual Environmental Report. Two "Best Practices" were submitted to the My Green Parks website for reducing unwanted mail and the employee energy conservation contest.


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On Thursday, June 19, the Kingstree Post 8 Junior Legion team honored Americas veterans during a game in which they played host to Lake City. All players on each side played in honor of a veteran of an American war. As the players were called out on the lineup, the veteran that they were representing was also announced, along with their accolades. After the lineups and veterans were announced, Retired Army National Guard First SGT Robert McClary read the Players Creed to the teams at home plate. Kingstree also paid respect to our veterans by wearing their military appreciation uniforms. These special jerseys were all digicamo except for the black numbers on the back and the words Kingstree Post 8 printed on the chest. The most unique part of the jersey, however, were the words above the numbers on the back. Each player had a different military-related term such as service, loyalty, and courage just to name a few. When the ceremonies ended, Kingstree finally took the field wearing their jerseys of honor. The pitching matchup for the night included Williamsburg Academy rising sophomore Hunter Knight on the mound for Kingstree dueling against Thomas Montrose of Lake City High getting the start for Lake City. Being the away team, Lake City struck first, scoring four runs in the first inning. Montrose held the Kingstree offense silent for the first three innings of the contest. After some solid hits and good breaks, Kingstree managed to plate two runs in the bottom of the fourth. Kingstree clawed their way back into the contest, unfortunately, it was too little too late. Overall, it was an exciting game, but it went in Lake Citys favor with a final score of 7-2. Despite the loss, it was a memorable night for everyone in attendance, especially our veterans. We greatly appreciate every military veteran and all they have done for us and this great country.
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The biography of Thomas Hardy. This page has biographical information on Thomas Hardy, one of the best poets of all time. We also provides access to the poet's poems, best poetry, quotes, short poems, and more.
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A British novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement.. English novelist and poet
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was a British novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, is marked by poetic descriptions, and fatalism.
Thomas Hardy was born at Higher Bockhampton, a hamlet in the parish of Stinsford to the east of Dorchester in Dorset. His father was a stonemason and local builder. His mother was ambitious and well-read, supplementing his formal education, which ended at the age of 16 when he became apprenticed to John Hicks, a local architect. Hardy trained as an architect in Dorchester before moving to London in 1862. Five years later he returned to Dorset to work as Hick's assistant. He won prizes from the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Architectural Association.
In 1870, Hardy met Emma Lavinia Gifford, whom he married in 1874. Although he later became estranged from his wife, her death in 1912 had a traumatic effect on him. He made a trip to Cornwall to revisit places linked with her, and with their courtship, and wrote a series, Poems of 1912-13, exploring his grief. While he married his secretary Florence Dugdale in 1914, who was 40 years his junior and whom he had met in 1905, Hardy remained preoccupied with Emma's sudden death, trying to overcome his remorse by creating poetry.[1]
The writer Robert Graves, in his autobiography Goodbye to All That, recalls meeting Hardy in Dorset in the early 1920s. Hardy received Graves and his newly married wife warmly, and was encouraging about the younger author's work.
Hardy's religious life seems to have been a mixture of agnosticism and spiritism. Once when asked in correspondence by a clergyman about the question of reconciling the horrors of pain with the goodness of a loving God Hardy replied,
"Mr. Hardy regrets that he is unable to offer any hypothesis which would reconcile the existence of such evils as Dr. Grosart describes with the idea of omnipotent goodness. Perhaps Dr. Grosart might be helped to a provisional view of the universe by the recently published Life of Darwin, and the works of Herbert Spencer, and other agnostics."[2]
"Mr. Hardy regrets that he is unable to offer any hypothesis which would reconcile the existence of such evils as Dr. Grosart describes with the idea of omnipotent goodness. Perhaps Dr. Grosart might be helped to a provisional view of the universe by the recently published Life of Darwin, and the works of Herbert Spencer, and other agnostics."[2]
Nevertheless, Hardy frequently conceived of, and wrote about, spiritual forces that control the universe, more through indifference or caprice than any firm will. Also, Hardy showed in his writing some degree of fascination with ghosts and spirits.[3] Despite these sentiments, Hardy retained a strong emotional attachment to the Christian liturgy and church rituals, particularly as manifested in rural communities, that had been such a formative influence in his early years. Some attributed the bleak outlook of many of his novels as reflecting his view of the absence of God.
Hardy fell ill with pleurisy in December 1927 and died in January 1928, having dictated his final poem to his wife on his deathbed. His funeral, on 16 January at Westminster Abbey, was a controversial occasion: his family and friends had wished him to be buried at Stinsford but his executor, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, had insisted he should be placed in Poets' Corner. A compromise was reached whereby his heart was buried at Stinsford with Emma and his ashes were interred in Poets' Corner in the abbey. Hardy's cottage at Bockhampton and Max Gate in Dorchester are owned by the National Trust. Hardy's work was admired by many authors, amongst them D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1910 he was awarded the Order of Merit.
Shortly after Hardy's death, his letters and notebooks were burnt by the executors of his estate. Twelve records survived, one of them containing notes and extracts of newspaper stories from the 1820s. Research into these provided clever insight in how Hardy kept track of them and how he used them in his later work.[4]
In 1898 Hardy published his first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems, a collection of poems written over 30 years. Hardy claimed poetry was his first love, and published collections until his death in 1928. Although not as well received by his contemporaries as his novels had been, Hardy's poetry has been applauded considerably in recent years, in part because of the influence of Philip Larkin. However, critically it is still not considered as highly as his prose.
Most of his poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life, and mankind's long struggle against indifference to human suffering. Some, like The Darkling Thrush and An August Midnight are thought of as poems about writing poetry, because the nature mentioned in them gives Hardy the inspiration to write those. A vein of regret tinges his often seemingly banal themes. His compositions range in style from the three-volume epic closet drama Dynasts to smaller, and often hopeful or even cheerful ballads of the moment such as the little-known The Children and Sir Nameless, a comic poem inspired by the tombs of the Martyns, builders of Athelhampton. Here is The Darkling Thrush dated 31 December 1900:
This has elements typical of Hardy's work. The first person voice; an incident in nature triggering deep reflections; the bucolic setting; the desolate landscape; the struggle of small forces against inimical nature; the possibility of redemption. Note the formal rhythm and rhyme, the high poetic tone, and simple phrases such as "happy good-night air".
Composer Lee Hoiby's setting of this song is the basis of the multimedia opera "Darkling." Other composers who set Hardy's text to music include Gerald Finzi, who produced 6 song-cycles for poems by Hardy, and Benjamin Britten, whose song cycle Winter Words is based on Hardy's poetry.


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Louis Vuitton debuts limited edition collection of outrageously impractical travel objects
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Granted the objects are supposed to be more travel-inspired than travel-hardy, LV will never have a more rapt audience than the modish consumers at the premiere's location at Art Basel in Miami.
Louis Vuitton didn't become a successful purveyor of travel goods by sitting on its thumbs. Over the years, the company, which was founded in 1854, has invented steamer trunks that convert into beds and a padlock that it challenged Houdini to pick.
Vuitton is recalling the adventurous spirit of those designs with Objets Nomades, a collection that was presented in the Miami Design District on Tuesday and will remain on view through Sunday.


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Random thoughts of a worried mind on Japan
Publication Date : 20-03-2014
Here in Korea and other countries of East Asia that suffered from Japanese imperialist aggression, people often ask why the Japanese do not learn from the German model of historical contrition, best exemplified by Willy Brandt's "Warsaw Genuflection" in 1970. The answer, I believe, lies in the psychological differences between the two peoples, rooted in their religious cultures.
For Germans, their basically Christian faith requires repentance - for any guilt, sin or crime committed individually or collectively - as the single condition for salvation. In everyday prayers, they confess their wrongdoings to be forgiven by their god and thus earn a degree of moral cleansing. The Japanese culture, as I understand it, does not have such a process of thinking. Contrition - the admission of guilt - should only be answered by death, often self-inflicted.
This may sound a little too simplistic but it can explain why the East Asian victims are unsatisfied with the many "apologies" made by Japanese officials and regret the absence of real atonement. The Japanese Foreign Ministry has a dossier of formal apologies from as many as 50 occasions, stretching from Emperor Hirohito's statement to Gen. MacArthur in 1945 to former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's as late as October 2013. Still, 82 per cent of Koreans believe Japan has not properly apologised, according to a recent survey.
Shinzo Abe, who began his second term as prime minister in December 2012, has become by far the most hated Japanese head of government for Koreans in recent decades. He set a breathtaking pace, alerting and angering his Korean and Chinese neighbours with one nationalistic move after another. He made a strong push for the revision of the 1947 "Peace Constitution" to abrogate the no-war clause. He visited the Yasukuni Shrine and asserted that the war criminals enshrined there committed no crimes under Japanese laws.
During the past few years no particularly grave or violent ethnic incident has happened in either country. The March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami raised a wave of sympathy, prompting people from all walks of life to send relief goods to the disaster zone. However, Japanese politicians' sudden initiatives on the Dokdo Islets, with some lawmakers attempting to land on Ulleungdo Island near Dokdo, quickly changed the mood.
President Lee Myung-bak visited Dokdo in August 2012, becoming the first Korean head of state to do so, and remarked that Japanese Emperor Akihito should first issue an official apology to Koreans if he wanted to visit the country. The reasons why the president performed these abrupt acts near the end of his tenure were not clear, but he raised an uproar in Japan, while some of his compatriots said he was out of line.
When Park Geun-hye succeeded him, largely helped by her father's legacy as the founder of industrialised Korea, she knew that Park Chung-hee's affinity toward Japan had better be swept under the carpet. Since her inauguration last year, she has remained inflexible with Tokyo as Abe has escalated his nationalist drive. Only when Abe took a small step back last week, vowing to honour earlier government pronouncements on past history, including Yohei Kono's statement on the "comfort women," Park said it was "fortunate." And Tokyo "welcomed" her reaction.
It is likely that Park and Abe will hold their first meeting in The Hague during the Nuclear Security Summit next week, with or without U.S. President Barack Obama joining them. But I wonder how constructively the leaders of Korea and Japan can talk to each other in the present environment of chilly, if not frozen, bilateral ties. They may perfunctorily reiterate the "strategic partnership" between the two countries and emphasise common efforts to denuclearise North Korea.
Politics and politicians cannot bring the two peoples any closer. Since diplomatic normalisation in 1965, 20 years after liberation at the end of World War II, economic cooperation and cultural exchanges have steadily moved ahead, but historical issues have gone from bad to worse because of nationalist appeals and agitation in the political sector on both sides. Heated controversies have included the issue of history textbooks, the semantics of apologies, wartime sex slavery and now the constitutional amendment scheme.
While we Koreans are fed up by the Japanese evasiveness regarding historical responsibility, Japanese intellectuals complain that no words can satisfy Koreans, Taiwanese and Chinese. In the media space, perhaps the most radical analysis has been made by Katsuhiro Kuroda, a columnist for the Japanese right-wing newspaper Sankei who claims to have been branded anti-Korean in Seoul and pro-Korean in Tokyo.
The 40-year specialist on Korea believes that the root of Koreans' antipathy toward Japan lies in their frustration with having been passively liberated from Japanese rule without the chance to remove the colonizers through their own independence war, unlike the Vietnamese, Indonesians and Indians. There is no other way for Koreans to resolve their anti-Japanese sentiment than fighting a war with Japan and winning it, he argues.
There may be some other pessimists here who would agree with the 74-year-old Kuroda, even if they would not accept his categorisation of the disputes over the Dokdo Islets, "comfort women" and East Sea as part of an unending war in the minds of Koreans. Then is there really no future between the two neighbours?
Remedial steps are suggested by respected thinkers who find great value in the common ideological identity of the two countries, both of which believe in liberal democracy and the free market. Lee Sang-woo, director of the New Asia Research Institute, proposed that "a multi-tiered complex system" be applied to the relationship. A "value alliance" is desirable between the two neighbours to pursue economic, cultural and security interests on separate spheres of cooperation. The global community in the 21st century operates through a multi-tiered complex system that does not allow for interference across different planes, he observes.
Yes, our neighbourly relations will have a future as long as some restaurants in Myeong-dong and Insa-dong are half filled with Japanese patrons regardless of Shinzo Abe's politics or the weak yen, and as long as there are conscientious voices reprimanding anti-Korean demonstrators in the streets of downtown Tokyo and Osaka. These are aspects of the multi-tiered system. Anyway, history will advance undisturbed by nationalist-populist noises, without Kuroda's "war."
Kim Myong-sik, a former editorial writer for The Korea Herald, has served as head of the Korea Overseas Information Service. - Ed.
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Was the Black Death more immediately beneficial to landlords or to peasants?
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Insofar as the Black Death can be said to have been beneficial to one class or another, it was beneficial to those peasants who survived it. The major reason for this was that so many people were killed by the plague. The deaths of so many peasants meant that those peasants who did not die were in a stronger position to bargain with those who owned the land. The landowners needed people to work their land. Therefore, they had to compete to some extent for peasant labor. This led to a situation where life became easier for peasants as landowners had to treat them better in order to get them to stay and work.
The peasants and physical labourers that survived the black death benefitted greatly. Since so many people died, labourers were a rarity, and therefore they were paid better wages, and generally benefitted from the plague.
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Oliver Stone's outburst of rank anti-Semitism in an interview last weekend with the Sunday Times of London has barely created a ripple in the mainstream media. Just as the sophisticates in liberal media outlets and the Hollywood elite gave a collective shrug of indifference when Mel Gibson issued his original anti-Semitic rantings, we have heard not much at all from the trend setters (too busy with their Roman Polanski victory celebrations?). The ADL issued a statement that nicely sums up what others prefer to ignore:
Oliver Stone has once again shown his conspiratorial colors with his comments about 'Jewish domination of the media' and control over U.S. foreign policy. His words conjure up some of the most stereotypical and conspiratorial notions of undue Jewish power and influence.
The myth of Jewish control is an old stereotype that persists to this day. Stone uses it in a particularly egregious fashion by suggesting that Hitler has gotten an unfair shake because of Jewish influence.
This is the most absurd kind of analysis and shows the extent to which Oliver Stone is willing to propound his anti-Semitic and conspiratorial views.
Israel's Diaspora Affairs and Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli Edelstein blasted Stone:
"Beyond the ignorance he proves with his comments, his demonization of the Jewish people could be a sequel to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion," the minister said. "When a man of Stone's stature says such things, it could lead to a new wave of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism, and it may even cause real harm to Jewish communities and individuals."
It's not like Stone's interview didn't have newsworthy remarks:
In the interview, Stone said America's focus on the Holocaust was a product of the "Jewish domination of the media." He said his upcoming Showtime documentary series Secret History of America would put Hitler and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin "in context." "Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 [million killed]," Stone said … Stone, who recently met with Ahmadinejad, said American policy toward Iran was "horrible."
"Iran isn't necessarily the good guy," he said. "But we don't know the full story!"
By contrast, Stone praised Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as "a brave, blunt, earthy" man, who does not censor the Internet in his country.
Stone also raised an uproar when he defended Hitler at a press conference in January.
"Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and it's been used cheaply," he said at the time. "He's the product of a series of actions. It's cause and effect."
Maybe it's Stone's long leftist track record — who can forget his glowing biopic of Fidel Castro? — that has earned him a pass from the liberal U.S. media.
But maybe there is something else at work. Stone's venomous rant against "Jewish domination of the media" and his assertion about the "Israel lobby" ("They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f***** up United States foreign policy for years") are not so different from what comes from the lips of Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, the writings of the Israel-hating left, and the bile-drenched blogs of those who, for example, claimed John McCain was surrounded by Jewish neocon advisers.
It's reasonable to conclude that Oliver Stone hasn't been called out by the liberals — those who advertise themselves as experts on diversity and bigotry — because a great deal of what he said doesn't sound all that objectionable to far too many of them. And of course, it's rather embarrassing for those seeking respectability (the "tough love for Israel" gang) to illuminate that anti-Israel venom is, when you scratch the surface, nothing more than old-fashioned Jew-hating.


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Recently, Who Leads Us released a massive dataset that outlines the gender and ethnicity of elected officials across the USA, all the way down to the county level. I dumped that data into Google Sheets, filtered it for Houston (we span three counties!), and provided an overview. Rundown after the jump.
Q&A with Sarah Rigdon
Sarah Rigdon is a former Delivery Lead for Code for DC, and she joined Open Houston a few months ago. We"re really happy that she"s here! Check out our Q&A with Sarah, and be sure to come by the civic hack night tonight to meet in person!
Sample Projects for Civic Hack Night
Our next civic hack night is Tuesday, July 29 (TOMORROW!) at Bouncing Pixel. If you have a civic project you"re working on, or you want to join one in progress, please join us! Here are some sample projects you might find interesting:
Civic hack night is back! Pick a project or bring your own.
The 8 Wonders of LiteracyHack
The first ever LiteracyHack took place at the Central Houston Public Library on June 6th, 2014. After working for four hours, eight teams in total presented their ideas to help the Houston Center for Literacy with its mission and projects.
Literacy Hack Project: TOLD Map
Here"s a look at one of the projects from the Literacy Hack last weekend. Our friends at the Houston Center for Literacy have great data on literacy education providers via their Texas Online Learners Database, but up until last weekend they had no way to display it!
An Inside Look at the Houston Hackathon City Award Winner, Blighted Properties
The 2014 Houston Hackathon City Award Winner was Blighted Properties, a collaboration between the City of Houston, the City of Stafford, and Texas A&M University.
LiteracyHack in full swing!
We"re here at the Houston Public Library for LiteracyHack, a hackathon to raise awareness of literacy in Harris casino online County. Sponsored by the Houston Center for Literacy, this hack has 8 teams working on a variety of projects.
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We"re about halfway through the Houston Hackathon, and we"ve got a ton of interesting projects. I missed about seven or eight teams because they left for the day. But the folks grinding into the night are coming up with some great ideas. Come down to the Houston Technology Center tomorrow (Sunday) at 1230p to hear the final version. Here"s what we have so far:


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Jefferson City, Mo. Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander today announced that his office has issued a cease and desist order against Daryl Mitchell of Lee's Summit and his company, Multicast Entertainment TV Corporation.
Kander's Securities Division alleges that Mitchell told investors he had developed a computer chip that would "prevent overload on the internet" and help protect the internet from hacking. Mitchell told at least one investor that the Google fiber network was dependent on his technology, but Mitchell had no affiliation with Google. Mitchell also told at least one investor that he had "affiliations with Warren Buffet and Donald Trump."
"It's unacceptable to take advantage of the trusting nature of Missouri seniors by stealing their hard earned money," Kander said. "Seniors contacted to invest their nest egg should call my office to check the registration status of the individual offering securities and the investment."
According to the petition filed by Kander's Securities Division, Mitchell admitted to investigators with the Secretary of State's Office that he sold unregistered investments in his company, Multicast Entertainment TV (METV). At least 40 of the 53 investors were Missouri residents, and many of these investors were elderly. The petition alleges that one elderly investor told investigators that the investment in METV was her "last nest egg."
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Reincarnation: I very well understand your points and I agree. I would only hope that those involved and any others who have viewed the videos will seriously think 2X or 3X before trying to act macho tough and hence, overreact in any rage type situation. In fact, I myself have wanted to play tough lady many times over, but I think of what could happen and just curse to myself and move on. But, as we all know, time passes and it's human nature to forget... until the next time something tragic occurs. It's a vicious cycle for sure and unfortunately, a lesson is hardly ever learned until its too late. No, I did not have my son there thankfully but a very close friend's son and his wife, a relative of Anthony's, was present and an eye witness. (My son is an FDNY paramedic in this area and had just gotten off duty or I guess this would have been his call!)
Like I said, my only concern was why it took so long to get Anthony to a hospital ASAP. They didn't have to wait for an ambulance. Just get him in a car and go as there were plenty of other witnesses who could have stuck around to wait for the police! Too much time was wasted. From what I saw in the video, when he first was on the ground, he seemed to be trying to get up but didn't, so he was still alive. Ugh...very disturbing.
As a retired federal court reporter who has worked in grand juries, the federal pens, and the courtrooms for many years, I have seen and heard way too much! I viewed these somewhat blurryish videos and although I do know one person who was there at the party, he is somewhere in these videos, but I find it difficult to distinguish who he is. Maybe it's my old eyes but it's hard to identify who is who, except for gender and I can see the poor victim lying on the ground surrounded by a group of people. In the video of the darkened alleyway, I see the back of the victim holding his jacket open looking down and running to the end of the alley, and fighting, chair throwing, etc . The videos do not show how this chaos actually started. We only see its aftermath. Unless you were an eye witness, you need to seriously step back and refrain from forming opinions and facts as to "who, how, why, and therefore". That was left for the jury and whether you agree or disagree, a decision was rendered.
Regardless, as a mother, my heart is broken for the families. I can't imagine Anthony's mother and father viewing these videos and staying sane and composed! The only thing that strikes me odd is that you see Anthony obviously wounded. Approx. 9 mins elapse on the videos and no ambulance. Why didn't someone call 9-1-1 immediately or take him in any one of those cars to the hospital ASAP? Instead I see people hovering around the victim, others on their cellphones, others obviously clinging to one another in disbelief and horror, but too much time passed before a dying man was taken to the emergency room. A life was lost that might have had a chance to be saved. Very tragic ending regardless.
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Well, I hate to admit it but she cancelled on Nov 1 and promised to be here on Nov 4th. Two days, no show. We're done. And she was so nice and good when she did show up. Too bad.
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It's free agent shopping season. In all shapes and sizes.
While all the attention has been justifiably paid to the major league free agents, there's a larger subculture that the Orioles are busy scouring, too.
On Monday, 550 players declared for minor league free agency, more than three times the number who are major league free agents.
Most of the names may only be familiar to their family and dentist, but there are some names that will raise an eyebrow or two.
Adron Chambers played in three straight postseasons for the St. Louis Cardinals, but after striking out three times in four at-bats in the NLCS, he wasn't on the World Series roster. Just after the Series ended, Chambers was outrighted, and is now a free agent.
Armando Galarraga of almost perfect game fame, hasn't won a major league game since 2011. He tried out for the Orioles in spring training the next year, but didn't make it. He's on the list.
So is Rich Thompson. He's the 34-year-old career minor leaguer who was fooled by Manny Machado's deke in Sept. 2012.
A few former All-Stars are there, too. Evan Meek, who was Pittsburgh's representative in 2010, and Jair Jurrjens, an All-Star in 2011 and briefly an Oriole in 2013. The Detroit Tigers didn't bring Jurrjens back to the majors after he signed with them this summer. He's free, too.
So is Dontrelle Willis, a onetime Rookie of the Year and All-Star, who had a tumultuous and forgettable experience in Norfolk in 2012.
The Orioles have 27 minor league free agents. Mark Hendrickson and Kyle Hudson are among them. Hudson scored the tying run in the game that knocked the Boston Red Sox out of the playoffs in 2011, but hasn't played in the majors since.
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Some of the former Orioles on the list with their last team are: Jake Fox (Arizona), Brandon Snyder (Boston), Alex Burnett (Chicago Cubs), Jason Berken, Travis Ishikawa and Steve Tolleson (Chicago White Sox), J.C. Romero (Cleveland), Ronny Paulino (Detroit), Lou Montanez (L.A. Angels), Matt Angle (L.A. Dodgers), Joe Mahoney (Miami), Blake Davis (Milwaukee), Rhyne Hughes (New York Mets), Corey Patterson (New York Yankees), Pedro Viola (Oakland) and Adam Loewen (Toronto).
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Governor Christie, STOP! You have already gone over the line more than once attacking our state's educators. Your shameless policies have already affected every public school student in our once-great state. Now you stoop even lower and attack the children directly! These children, our future, are acting corageously by voicing their opinion, whether you agree with that or not. They are to be commended for doing so, especially since they have no other voice - they cannot vote for school budgets and they cannot vote for the state's governor. Mr. Christie, your disgusting legacy of bullying will go down in history in shame.
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Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi and state Senator Joseph Griffo pledged the oath of office during a ceremony at Watson-Williams Elementary School in Utica Friday morning.
"I think the schools are an outstanding place to hold this ceremony, instead of reciting the oath in a courtroom we wanted to involve the students and let them know education will continue to be an important issue in the legislature this year," said Brindisi, D - Utica.
"I also think it is notable the two legislators representing Utica and Rome can work together in a bi-partisan fashion on key issues such as education and economic development," he added.
"Taking the oath in front of the young children is a very real way to symbolize our commitment to making the democratic process work, and to involve all of our future citizens," said Griffo, R - Rome.
Before the ceremony took place students, faculty and the public joined together in the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of the National Anthem.
Leading the oath was Utica City Court Judge Ralph Eannace, Jr.
Brindisi explained to students why the opportunity to take oath of office inside the school was so important to him. "For me this is like coming home since my first elected position was on the Utica school board. Education is very important to me and it will always be very dear to my heart," he said.
After the ceremony Brindisi and Griffo made their way into the audience to speak to students and answer questions. During the session Griffo explained of how a bill becomes a law.
"First someone thinks of an idea and then it is drafted into a bill. After that, it is introduced to the Senate and Assembly. The two houses then debate the bill and vote on it. The bill will become a law depending on how the vote turns out," he said.
Since Brindisi took office as assemblyman a year and half ago, he shared with the students he has sponsored 13 bills to the Assembly and out of the 13, 11 were signed by the governor.
One student's question focused on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address and concerned the issue of gun control. Brindisi addressed the question by saying, "over the next few weeks were going to hear a lot about gun control and the overall goal is to create a law that will keep guns out of bad people's hands."
Brindisi represents the 119th Assembly District, which includes the town of Frankfort.
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Anyone compete in Amature Sumo???
Sumo is slowly becoming more popular in Southern California.
I went to watch a tournament a few years back and it was an interesting combination of Judo players, wrestlers, football players and just morbidly fat guys with no apparrent skill.
There were several weight classes and in the lighter weight class, there were some VERY ripped (non-fat) guys competing. They were obviously either Judoka or wrestlers. I was impressed by the skill of a few players, others, not so much.
I don't know of any pure Sumo schools in Southern California, but there must be some.
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Patented July 6, 1954 UNITED STATES NON SHANKING GOLFING IRON George F. Klein, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Application July 20, 1949, Serial No. 105,832
2 Claims. (01. 273 80) My invention relates to golfing-irons, this application constituting a continuation-in-part of my original application Serial No. 508,890, filed November 4, 1943, now abandoned, and a principal object is to provide golfing irons in varying degrees of loft, by the provision in each, and regardless of loft, of a striking surface the perimeter whereof is entirely uninterrupted by the hosel, the hosel in the case of my irons being eated wholly to the rear of the striking face, and growing out of the rear surface of the head of the iron so as to eliminate altogether the golfing fault known as shanking or socketing.
A further object of my invention is to provide a golfing iron of the character herewithin described wherein the striking surface extends in the plane thereof some little distance upon the heel side of the hosel, the hosel being united with the club head wholly upon the rear thereof in such a way as to provide a heel region of maximum density and impact absorbing depth by virtue of which the ideal striking point on the striking surface of the club will be closer to the produced or imaginary extended longitudinal axis of the hosel than is normally the case.
A further object is to provide a golfing iron wherein elimination of the shanking fault by virtue of the construction described will not' be substituted by undesirable heeling shots,
' through the provision of a heel region which projects uninterruptedly in the plane of the striking surface of the club head upon the heel side 0 the hosel;
A further object is to provide a golfing iron of the character herewithin described which materially facilitates playing out of the rough by virtue of the tendency of the novel projecting heel region to slash off grass just in advance of the passage therethrough of the following hosel, and which grass with conventional iron club designs would tangle with thehosel to the detriment of the stroke being played.
With the foregoing objects in view, and such other objects and advantages as will become apparent to those-skilled in the art to which this invention relates as this specification proceeds, my invention consists essentially in the arrangement and construction of parts all as hereinafter more particularly described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a number six club head according to my design with the hosel lying on the picture-plane.
Figure 2 is a rear elevation of the above identified club head also with the hosel lying on the picture-plane.
Figure 3 is a representation of Fig. 1 viewed from the right-hand end thereof.
Figure 4 is a plan view of Figure 1 as viewed from the line 4-4 of Figure 1.
Figure 5 is a cross-section on the line 55 of Figure l.
Figure 6 is a cross-section on the line 6-6 of Figure 1, illustrating the manner in which the head of my club tapers in front-to-back thickness towards the toe thereof in contrast to conventional clubs which are usually of uniform thickness but sometimes thicker at the toe than at the heel.
In the drawings like characters of reference I indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.
My non-shanking golfing iron, of which the accompanying drawings depict one of a loft approximately equal to that of a number six club, consists of a head collectively designated I and a hosel 2. The hosel, it will be observed, rises out. of, or alternativel may be said to grow into the rear side collectively designated 3 of my club head 1. Further, it should be particularly observed that the hosel unites with the club head wholly upon the aforesaid rear side.
It will be observed moreover that by the foregoing construction I am able to provide a striking surface 4 which is uninterrupted at any point upon the perimeter 5 thereof, and is planar right up to and including the perimeter B of the heel region 1. This heel region, it is to be understood, includes the face surface portion of a heel piece 1 which projects on the heel side of the hosel axis 8, and lies clear beyond the produced boundary 8 of the unattached major portion of the length of the hosel 2. By reference particularly to Figure 1, it will be observed that an axial plane coincident with the said hosel axis 8, and extending at right angles to the picture-plane intersects the striking surface 4 to mark off substantially the heel region 1 and the heelpiece 1'. Furthermore the heel region also lies clear beyond the produced boundary 8 of the unattached major portion of the length of the hosel 2.
The hosel 2 being setback in the manner aforesaid, a land" 9 is provided adjacent to the perimetrical portion ID, and this land continues around the club head in the form of a flange II widening out at the base of the head to provide the sole [2.
The head of my iron or club is of maximum density or thickness at the heel end thereof, specifically in the above described produced plane of axis 8. I therefore call the area about such plane an impact absorbing mass 12. This mass slopes or diminishes in thickness ambiclinally (that is, ambiently and inclinably, or in a hill-shaped manner), from the aforesaid plane of maximum thickness towards both the perimeter 6 and the rear surface area [3 as most clearly revealed in Figures 2 and 5. Thus the surface of my impact absorbing mass I2 actually constitutes a part of the rear side 3. With such a conformation, the ideal point of impact is closer to the produced axis 8 of the hosel than is commonly the case. The result of this disposition is a drive of greater velocity for the expenditure of a given quantum of energy by lessening the dissipation of such energy in twisting moment.
It is to be particularly noted that in providing a golfing iron which overcomes the shanking or socketing fault through the elimination of a hosel projecting from the perimeter of the striking surface in accordance with conventional design, and projecting in advance of the produced striking surface, I have not substituted a liability toward heeling shots as might be the case had I, for example, rolled or curved the heel region of the striking surface rearwardly into the hosel. By contrast, it will clearly be perceived that by extension of the striking surface upon the heel side of the hosel, I have altogether eliminated the possibility of such a substituted form of mis-play.
For purposes of definition, I have elected to refer to the heel region I of the striking surface of my club, in the accompanying claims, as marginally planar in that, as clearly illustrated in Figure 1, the said heel region is fiat and coplanar with the rest of the striking surface 4 '2 clear up to and including the perimeter 6 of the heel piece '1 within said region, the limits whereof I indicate by double-headed arrow 14. I also desire to define the perimeter 5 (including the portion 6) of the striking face of my club head as free, by which I mean that, an instrument such as a stylus or graver could be tracked clear around the perimeter 5, without being intercepted by projecting metal (by which of course I refer particularly to the metal of the hosel or the Web connected thereto, in the conventional designs of iron club). Finally I wish to state that it is desirable that the heel region 1' projects apparently widely different embodiments of same made within the spirit and scope of the claims, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanying specification shall be interpreted as illustrative only and not in a limiting sense.
What I claim as my invention is:
1. A golfing iron comprising the combination of a head having a striking surface and a rear side, with a hosel, said head having a thickened, rearwardly projecting impact absorbing mass the surface of said mass sloping ambiclinally towards the perimeter of the heel-edge of said head, said mass being of greatest thickness near the heel end or said "rear side, said hosel being united with said impact absorbing mass near said heel-end of said rear side and wholly to the rear of said striking surface, thereby preserving an uninterrupted perimeter wholly around said striking surface.
2. A golfing iron comprising the combination of a head having a striking surface including a heel region and a rear side, with a hosel, said head having a thickened, rearwardly projecting impact absorbing mass upon said rear side and at the heel end thereof, said hosel being united with said impact absorbing mass wholly to the rear of said striking surface and near the upper heel end perimeter thereof, a heel piece integral with said head at the heel end thereof, said heel piece projecting upon the heel side of said hosel beyond the produced boundary of the unattached major' part of the length of said hosel, said heel region of said striking surface being co-planar with the major area thereof, said mass diminishing in thickness ambiclinally towards the surrounding edge of said heel piece, said heel reg-ion being marginally planar and lying in advance of said hosel, the perimeter of said heel region being free, said region projecting upon the heel side of said hosel, the distance of such projection being not more than one-fifth of the distance by which said head projects upon the toe side thereof.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number 7 Name 7 Date 1,250,296 Eitzjohn et al. s Dec. 18, 1917 1,550,501 Byrne Dec. 18, 1925 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 20,623 Great Britain 1904
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Artists Robert Bomkamp and Kelsey Murphy call their southern West Virginia studio "Made in Heaven," and the name is an apt one, indeed. Collectors and museums alike have come to regard Kelsey and Robert's work as "heavenly!"
Kelsey and Robert specialize in glass cameo carving, an exacting art that demands both skill in design and great dexterity in execution. They have teamed with Fenton Art Glass to design and produce some remarkable limited edition pieces. Kelsey's Dragonflies on Ebony Favrene was part of Fenton's limited edition Horizons group in 2006, and her Gauley River Sunrise Vase (limited to 375) on Fenton's Burmese glass was an instant hit with Fenton collectors when it debuted in late 2006. Likewise, Robert's West Virginia Woodland lamp on Burmese sold out in record time.
Cameo carving is a painstaking process. After the glass has been annealed, a special mask is taped to the surface of the glass. Using an advanced "vignetting" technique, each piece is carefully sand carved, by hand, using aluminum oxide crystal under pressure to take away some of the surface. Great individual skill and experience are needed to control this operation, as many distinct stages of successive cameo carving are required to create the remarkable depth and the intricate details.
Fenton Art Glass looks forward to working with Kelsey and Robert to develop additional examples of their distinctive art on Fenton glass.
Fans and collectors of Kelsey Murphy and Robert Bomkamp's exquisite modern cameo glass may be interested in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cameoglass. Discussion of other modern cameo glass artists, as well as the history of cameo glass, and anything else relating to cameo glass, is permitted.
We also have one-of-a-kind Artist Proof (AP) and Developmental Proofs (AP) available. The glass for all of these pieces was handcrafted by the skilled artisans at Fenton in Williamstown, West Virginia. The Artist Proof pieces have AP and the Made in Heaven logo stamped on the bottom. These pieces were masked and sand carved by Kelsey and Robert at their southern WV studio. The Developmental Proofs (DP) have DP on the bottom and were sand carved at Fenton. View more cameo carved creations. Shown above are two examples from our 2010 Cameo Gallery Collection.
Shown below are cameo carved pieces currently available to order online or you may check with your Fenton dealer.


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Bill Gates, the heavy Monsanto investor who purchased 500,000 shares of the biotech giant in 2010, has been touting Monsanto's genetically modified creations as a tool that is necessary to prevent starvation in poor nations. The same poor nations where thousands of farmers routinely commit suicide after being completely bankrupt by Monsanto's overpriced and ineffective GM seeds.
The same company that we recently exposed to be running 'slave-like' working conditions, forcing poor workers to operate the corn fields for 14 hours per day while withholding pay.
According to Gates, this is the company whose GMO crops are going to save the world from starvation. Of course, along with 'saving the world from starvation', GMO crops also bring along a large number of unwanted health and environmental effects.
A prominent review of 19 studies examining the safety of these crops found that consumption of GMO corn or soybeans can lead to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice – particularly in the liver and kidneys.
Are Monsanto's Devastating Creations Really the Answer to World Hunger?
What's more is that Monsanto's best-selling herbicide, Roundup, has been completely devastating farmlands for years through the creation of resistant superweeds. Experts estimate Roundup usage to result in the destruction of over at least 120 million hectares of farmland thanks to these superweeds.
Is it any wonder that in 2008 a startling report uncovered Monsanto's blatant abuse of poor farmers in the very poor countries that will supposedly benefit from GMO crops? Thanks to an article in the Daily Mail, it was revealed that thousands of farmers were committing suicide after using Monsanto's GM seeds. Due to failing harvests and drastically inflated prices, the bankrupt poor farmers began taking their lives — oftentimes drinking the very same chemical concoctions provided by Monsanto as a method of suicide.
'We are ruined now,' said the dead man's 38-year-old wife. 'We bought 100 grams of BT Cotton. Our crop failed twice. My husband had become depressed. He went out to his field, lay down in the cotton and swallowed insecticide.'
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It is quite clear that Monsanto really has no intention of helping these farmers fight starvation in their communities, as Monsanto investor Bill Gates would have you think. You can view Bill Gates' speech about how GMO crops are the answer to starvation and see for yourself how he puts such strong emphasis on that selling point.
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The ADA has a number of resources for parents, teachers, and even dental professionals who are
speaking to or educating children on good oral health.
Activities and Resources, including:
• Presentations
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National Children's Dental Health Month Information (such as fun activity sheets that can be
downloaded, that can be used any time)
Mouth Healthy website with information on A-Z Dental Topics, nutrition, dental care concerns, etc.: http://www.mouthhealthy.org/
The Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry
Teacher and Parent Resources - http://www.dental.umaryland.edu/museum/smile_resources.html
Nutrition and Overall Health
American Dietetic Association's 25 Healthy Snacks for Kids - Click Here
USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion - http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
USDA Classroom Materials - http://www.teamnutrition.usda.gov/resources/mypyramidclassroom.html
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services "Milk Matters" coloring book –
Produce for Better Health Foundation (Curricula and other teaching tools for classroom use to
teach fruit and vegetable nutrition.) http://www.pbhfoundation.org/pub_sec/edu/cur/
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids - http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/
Kids Health - http://kidshealth.org/
Alliance For a Healthier Generation - https://www.healthiergeneration.org/
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National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (variety of oral health topics) - http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/OralHealth/
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Seasoned citizens battle in Senior Games
The 2013 United Senior Games have begun and local seniors have been busy competing in the different categories.
The games run from March 26 through April 26 and feature seniors competing from around the county.
On April 17, a number of seniors could be found competing in Bowling Doubles/Mixed Doubles at Skyway Lanes in Monroe.
"It's nice to meet those in the same category as you," Renai Chatman, who competed in Bowling Doubles/Mixed Doubles April 17, said.
She referred to being able to meet and socialize with fellow seniors during the games.
"You just meet some nice people," Mary Stegall, who partnered with Chatman during the Bowling Doubles/Mixed Doubles competition, said.
This year there are 200 people participating in the United Senior Games, Hank Baucom, an assistant with the Ellen Fitzgerald Senior Center in Monroe, who is helping to organize and run the games, said.
"We've had about the same number of participants but more participation," Baucom said.
He referred to the fact that they have about the same number of participants as they've had in past years but this year more people seem to be participating in more events.
Charles Kilgo has participated in senior games held in other areas but this is the first year he's participated in the United Senior Games in Union County.
"It's just a lot of fun," Kilgo said.
He enjoys bowling, which is one of the events he chose to compete in this year in addition to competing in Bocce and horseshoes.
"I just enjoy it," Sara Nance said in reference to why she competes in the United Senior Games and has competed for years.
On April 17 Nance was competing in the Bowling Doubles/Mixed Doubles competition, which she has also competed in before.
In addition to enjoying meeting and socializing with fellow seniors during the games, it's also good for exercise, Ron Nelson, who also competed in the Bowling Doubles/ Mixed Doubles competition April 17, said.
"The exercise is good, it keeps us young," Nelson said.
The Closing Ceremony for the United Senior Games will be held April 26 at 6 p.m. at the Monroe Country Club, according to a United Senior Games calendar.
For more information about the United Senior Games contact the Ellen Fitzgerald Senior Center at 704-282-4657.
On April 18, separate senior games events were scheduled to be held in Marshville.
According to an e-mail from Mandi Maske, the owner of Olive Branch Family Care Home, the games in Marshville were planned to start at 2:30 p.m. in the parking area of Marshville Presbyterian Church and would include food and an awards ceremony in addition to various activities for seniors.
The event was open to any senior living in the Marshville area. This is the first year the event has been held and plans are to hold it again next year. As part of this year's event, the seniors were to be paired with an elementary student in the Marshville Girls on the Run program to compete with, Maske said.


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May 12, 2004
WORCESTER, Mass. - Holy Cross senior men's lacrosse player Brian Hodgdon (Pittstown, N.J.) was selected to participate in the 2004 Warrior Major League Challenge to be held at Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport, Conn. on June 3rd. The game features the top college seniors in the nation, who participate for an opportunity to play for a Major Lacrosse League team.
Hodgdon, a team captain this season, helped lead the Crusaders to their most wins since 1996 as the squad posted a 5-9 record. He recorded a 11.97 goals against average and a .589 save percentage in his 14 games. Hodgdon recorded 228 saves, the third highest single-season total in school history. He also posted two of the top three individual save performances in the nation this season. Hodgdon recorded 24 saves against both Army and Fairfield.
Hodgdon ranks 18th in the nation in save percentage which is the third best single-season total in school history. His 636 career saves rank second all-time behind Brian Buckley '98, who notched 695 saves. Hodgdon has a 12.40 career goals against average and a 54.5 career save percentage.
The Holy Cross men's lacrosse team finished the year with a record of 5-9 overall, 0-7 in Patriot League play.


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My custom themes
I have been playing around with making custom themes and I am having a ball at it. I only bricked my Wii's a dozen of times or so in the process so I doing good. I finally have the first one completed and thought I would share it with the community and I thought that doing so in a blog would be better then in the open forums.
I made this first theme for my kids (even though they now say they wont SSB instead) and I think it turned out pretty good. It is tested on 4.1 and 4.2 and
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Obviously, Silva is being a little too silly with his Warsaw Pact. Therefore, I recommend that we form NATO to fight for true justice.
Our goals are as such:
1 - Ignore Silverdream and any of his alts.
2 - Be polite to Overwatch as long as he's being a gentleman.
3 - Laugh at Brickguy.
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To the Editor:
It came to my attention recently that Eastern Elementary school is planning a Go Pink! For Breast Cancer Awareness day on Oct. 18th.
I think this is a great thing, my mother is a breast cancer survivor, as well as other members of my family and the message of early detection early cure is an important one to send.
What's bothering me about this is the plan to release hundreds of pink helium filled balloons into the air. In a county where all we really have to brag about is the natural beauty and amazing wildlife of the area, we're going to sanction and allow something so environmentally unfriendly? These balloons burst and the slivered pieces of latex fall as trash on the ground and into our waterways. Animals confuse them for food and eat them, or get tangled up in the ripped pieces of latex.
I'm sure that there is some other way our young children can show their support for this worthy cause, while being shown how to do it in a way that is friendly to their environment, and to the county in which they live.
Melissa VanCooney
Pomeroy, Ohio


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AFA Rifle team loses first game of the season
Oct. 22, 2007
The Air Force Academy rifle team lost, 4558-4483, to the 11th-ranked UTEP Miners on Saturday, Oct. 20, in the Falcons first match of the season.
Sophomore Jon Stephenson and junior Chelsea Welsh were the Falcons' top shooters in smallbore, shooting a 553, respectively. Stephenson's score is a smallbore season high; he also shot a 547 in air rifle. Junior Brian Jarrell was the team's top air rifle scorer with a 577. Jarrell also shot a 547 in smallbore. Welsh had a 571 in the air rifle event. Collectively, the team scored a 2199 in smallbore and a 2284 in air rifle for an aggregate score of 4483.
TEAM Scores: AFA SB AR Jarrell 547 577 Stephenson 553* - Nick Krieger 546 - Tom Chandler - 565 Welsh 553 571 Justin Raines - 571 Total 2199 2284 Air Force Aggregate: 4483


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Earlier today, the folks over at Droid-Life got tipped that Motorola and Verizon will soon start rolling out the Android 4.0.4 (IMM76) ICS update for the Wi-Fi variant of the XOOM in the United States. The new version of Android includes quite a few minor but important changes, including a quicker screen rotation, a shortcut to lock the screen, better image quality for the camera and improved stability.
One of the recognized developers over at the XOOM sub-forum on XDA, solarnz, managed to get his hands on the OTA update, and has uploaded it for all other XOOM owners to flash and enjoy. Below are the steps to install the Android 4.0.4 IMM76 update on the Wi-Fi variant of the XOOM -:
P.S. – Your XOOM must be running on stock Ice Cream Sandwich, otherwise the update will not work. This OTA update package will only work on the Wi-Fi variant of the XOOM (wingray) in the United States.
Step 1: Download the Android 4.0.4 OTA update zip file from here, and transfer it to an external USB drive formatted in FAT32. Switch off your XOOM now, and connect the USB drive using a USB Host cable.
Step 2: Reboot your XOOM into Recovery mode, by either using adb or manually. To manually boot into recovery, switch it on. When the tablet displays the Dual Core boot screen logo, start pressing the Volume Down key repeatedly, until you see "Android Recovery" on the screen. Now, press the Volume Up button to boot into Recovery.
Step 3: Now simply select the 'Install ZIP from USB drive' option, and wait for the update to be flashed. If for any reason, the recovery does not detect any file, rename the OTA package to 'update.zip' and try again.
If your XOOM is running on stock Ice Cream Sandwich, but has been rooted with a custom recovery, you can try and simply flash the update via CWM. It might work, but don't take my word for it!


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Fall 2007
Enrollment limited to 60 students.
An examination of factors that contribute to the emergence and endemicity of selected infectious diseases in tropical developing countries, with a focus on diseases where transmission routes are unique to tropical developing countries or unknown. Examples will include waterborne, vaccine-preventable and zoonotic (animal transmitted) infections. Course participants will examine the microbiological, epidemiological and public health factors that control the emergence or persistence of infectious diseases in the tropics. One half semester. Enrollment limited to 25.
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Despite exports down, the thromde expects monthly rents to be paid for depots used
Bhutan Exporters Association: Mandarin exporters, who are already worried, with their exports not picking up, have now been asked by the Phuentsholing municipality to pay monthly rents for the space their depots occupy.
The municipality decided to charge rents for depots, starting November last year, and had informed exporters about the rents. But to date, none of the 27 exporters, who have set up their depots, have paid up, thromde officials said. The depot, where exporters pack, grade, load and unload mandarin was used free of charge until the last season in 2011.
Thromde's executive secretary, Tharchin Lhendup, said the exporters and Bhutan exporters association, were notified twice to make the payment. "When we first discussed the issue, the association agreed verbally," he said.
He said the thromde had to charge rents, because the thromde was decentralised last year, which meant that the office has to sustain on taxes and rents the office collects.
The rent, after discussions among municipality officials, was decided at Nu 5 a square foot for the area the exporters occupied in Amochu. By this rate, most exporters would have to pay more than Nu 6,000 a month. The export season ends by mid March.
"We wanted to charge rents, so that we can maintain the road to the depot, which is completely damaged," Tharchin Lhendup said. "This is also the reason why the exporters agreed, and the association was supposed to collect the rent and pay us." The thromde has however not calculated the amount of revenue required to maintain the road, or the rents they would be collecting, if exporters pay.
Thromde's chief urban planner, Tshering Phuntsho, said it was mandatory to charge or levy taxes when government land is used.
General secretary of the association, Tshering Yeshi said the works and human settlement ministry has been informed about the issue, and that they are still waiting for the ministry's response. He said the municipality's reason to maintain the road by charging rents is not justified. "If they want, they could have maintained the road a long time ago," he said.
Tshering Yeshi said city has also charged an industrial rate, while mandarin business is seasonal. "We didn't say the association would collect the rent and give it to city," he said. "We're an association to deliver service, so how can we force exporters to pay the rents?"
The general secretary said the municipality informed them to pay as per the "agreement", but insisted he didn't remember signing any kind of agreement. "They were even asking us to collect rents from illegal canteens that people have opened."
With export business low this year, the association has requested the government to not collect rents this year.
Meanwhile, exporters feel there is a need to have a permanent export depot in Phuentsholing, the country's main commercial hub. They fear that, when Amochu reclamation works begin, or any other developmental activities, they would have to look for space.
The association's general secretary said there is no space in Phuentsholing to construct a depot. "Other than Amochu, there's no space," he said.
This, many said, needs to be sorted out soon. "We've been raising this issue several times," he said. "In one meeting, the agriculture ministry has agreed to look for place."
By Yangchen C Rinzin, Phuentsholing