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Curriculum Vitae
|Science Teacher Preparation Program at Stony Brook University (9/02 – 1/03)
Ph.D., Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Stony Brook University (Aug. 1999)
B.S., Biochemistry, Stony Brook University (May 1991)
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Science and Mathematics Education, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University (7/08 – present)
Faculty advisor for the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program for Stony Brook undergraduates (2005-08)
Lecturer/Education Specialist, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University (4/03 – 7/08)
Research Associate, Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (8/00 – 8/02)
Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, Research Foundation, Stony Brook University (8/99 – 8/00)
Research Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, State and Research Foundation, Stony Brook University (6/94 – 8/99)
Teaching Assistant for Biochemistry Laboratory and Introductory Biology Laboratory courses, Stony Brook University (9/93 – 5/94)
Clinical Laboratory Technologist, Chemistry Department, National Health Labs, Inc. Uniondale, New York (8/91 – 8/93)
Albert Einstein Scholar Award – Belfer Institute for Advanced Biomedical Studies, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (8/00)
Harry Eagle Scholar Award – Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1/00)
Student travel awards to the Glycobiology Conference granted by the Society for Glycobiology (10/96 and 8/98)
International travel grant awarded by the National Science Foundation to attend the NATO Advanced Study Institute conference on the Molecular Mechanisms of Lipid and Protein Traffic in Cargese, France (4/97)
Clinical Laboratory Technologist License awarded by the City of New York, Department of Health (6/93)
Employee of the month, National Health Labs, Inc. (6/92)
Sigma Beta Honor Society, Stony Brook University (89-91)
|Principal Investigator, NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate, September 2013 – April 2018, $1.6 Million
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|Principal Investigator, NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate, October 2007 – September 2012, $1.1 Million
Guest Speaker and Panelist, "A PhD, The Other Kind of Doctor: Access and Opportunities for Students in Biological & Biomedical Sciences" sponsored by the Center for Inclusive Education, Stony Brook University, NY (December 2012)
|Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, and the NIH MARC & Bridges Program Directors meetings, Nashville, TN (Nov. 2013), San Jose, CA (Nov. 2012), St. Louis, MO (Nov. 2011), Charlotte, NC (Nov. 2010), Phoenix, AZ (Nov. 2009), Orlando, FL (Nov. 2008), and Austin, TX (Nov. 2007)
Guest Speaker, "Upcoming Trends and Opportunities in Biotechnology." A presentation for Queensborough Community College's National Science Foundation QCC-STEP, STEM Academy, and Biology Club organizations, Queensborough Community College, NY (March 2011)
|Session Leader and Presenter, "Detection of Genetically Modified Foods through Polymerase Chain Reaction." Real World Science Workshop, Stony Brook University, NY (Aug 2010)
Guest Speaker, NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate student recruitment meeting at Nassau Community College, NY, "BioPREP at Stony Brook – a summer research opportunity" (March 2009)
|Guest Speaker and Discussion Leader, 6th annual Research and Science Visions Preparation (RSVP) NSF Pedagogy Workshop at Sullivan County Community College, NY (March 2008)
Guest Speaker, NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate student recruitment meetings at Nassau and Queensborough Community Colleges, NY, "Building a Bridge to the Baccalaureate Biomedical Science Degree" (March 2008)
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, and the NIH Bridges Program Directors meeting, Austin, TX (Nov. 2007)
Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) - Northeast Regional Conference, Amherst, MA "BioPREP – Bridges to the Baccalaureate" (Oct. 2007)
Guest Speaker for A Gathering of Science Scholars National Conference at Stony Brook University, NY "Where Can a Ph.D. Take You?" (March 2005)
|Andersen J, Krichevsky A, Leheste JR, and Moloney DJ. (2008) Caenorhabditis elegans as an undergraduate educational tool for teaching RNAi. BAMBED 36, 417-427.
Moloney DJ. (2006) A Review of Biology and Biotechnology: Science, Applications, and Issues by H.Kreuzer and A.Massey. Q.Rev.Biol. 81, 269-270.
Rampal R, Li AS, Moloney DJ, Georgiou SA, Luther KB, Nita-Lazar A, Haltiwanger RS. (2005) Lunatic fringe, manic fringe, and radical fringe recognize similar specificity determinants in O-fucosylated epidermal growth factor-like repeats. J.Biol.Chem. 280, 42454-42463.
Shao L, Moloney DJ, and Haltiwanger RS. (2003) Fringe modifies O-fucose on mouse Notch1 at EGF repeats within the ligand-binding site and the Abruptex region. J.Biol.Chem. 278, 7775-7782.
Shao L, Luo Y, Moloney DJ, and Haltiwanger RS. (2002) O-glycosylation of EGF repeats: Identification and initial characterization of a UDP-glucose: protein O-glucosyltransferase. Glycobiol. 12, 763-770.
Panin VM, Shao L, Lei L, Moloney DJ, Irvine KD, and Haltiwanger RS. (2002) Notch ligands are substrates for protein O-fucosyltransferase-1 and Fringe. J.Biol.Chem. 277, 29945-29952.
Chen J, Moloney DJ, and Stanley P. (2001) Fringe modulation of Jagged1-induced Notch signaling requires the action of b4-galactosyltransferase-1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 98, 13716-13721.
Moloney DJ, Panin VM, Johnston SH, Chen J, Shao L, Wilson R, Wang Y, Stanley P, Irvine KD, Haltiwanger RS, and Vogt TF. (2000) Fringe is a glycosyltransferase that modifies Notch. Nature 406, 369-375.
Moloney DJ, Shair LH, Lu FM, Xia J, Locke R, Matta KL, and Haltiwanger RS. (2000) Mammalian Notch1 is modified with two unusual forms of O-linked glycosylation found on epidermal growth factor-like modules. J.Biol.Chem. 275, 9604-9611.
Moloney DJ and Haltiwanger RS. (1999) The O-linked fucose glycosylation pathway: Identification and characterization of a UDP-glucose: O-linked fucose b1,3 glucosyltransferase activity from Chinese hamster ovary cells. Glycobiol. 9, 679-687.
Moloney DJ, Lin AI, and Haltiwanger RS. (1997) The O-linked fucose glycosylation pathway: Evidence for protein-specific elongation of O-linked fucose in Chinese hamster ovary cells. J.Biol.Chem. 272, 19046-19050.
Haltiwanger R, Busby S, Grove K, Li S, Mason D, Medina L, Moloney D, Philipsberg G, and Scartozzi R. (1997) O-glycosylation of nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins: Regulation analogous to phosphorylation? Biochem.Biophys.Res.Comm. 231, 237-242.
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Sometimes One-Term is not Enough
Just like the recent Presidential Election of 2012 many Americans believe that President Obama should be allowed to continue the work that he has started for the American people. Many sound minded individuals realize that because of bipartisanship, President Obama was met with obstacles on every turn. People had promised from the beginning to make him a one term president, yet he made plans to continue his fight and to deliver what he had promised. This is also true for Dr. Donna Oliver of Mississippi Valley State University. Sure, it?s true that not everyone will be on your side although they may be on your team. Go figure! But that is the way that it is sometimes. Just like President Obama knew that the job of turning the problems around that America has was not going to be easy, Dr. Oliver also realized the same for Mississippi Valley. So IHL and all of those in the decision making business, Dr. Oliver is not finish and three years or one term is not efficient time to complete the tremendous task that was before her when she hired as President of MVSU.
My point is, is that we have time and it is on the side of a University that has the potential to be one of the best that the State of Mississippi has to offer in the Mississippi Delta. Dr. Oliver has the wheels turning in the right direction, programs are being developed to continue the legacy of producing productive citizens such as teachers, social workers, businessmen and women, scientists and a labor force second to none. No, I do not know Dr. Oliver personally, but I believe in giving individuals a chance to do what they were hired to do. Jumping from person to person doesn?t do the University any good, and it certainly doesn?t help to have to start over and over and over and over again. Let?s keep the progress of MVSU moving forward.
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Just after 6 a.m., police went to the home and found the body of James Z. Cody, 55. Cody had been shot multiple times.
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A daily updated summary of the week in TV.
Monday, November 30, 2015
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A daily updated summary of the week in TV.
From All Movie Guide: A native of Canada who began taking acting lessons at the age of 12, Baruchel was first introduced to television audiences through his numerous appearances on the popular small-fry chiller series Are You Afraid of the Dark? Baruchel would next receive his first taste of sitcom life with a leading role on the short-lived sitcom My Hometown (1996). Though he equates his subsequent stint as host of Canadian television's Popular Mechanics for Kids with his mother showing a date his naked baby pictures, the exposure it gave Baruchel got him stateside attention and he soon made his feature debut, as an obsessive Led Zeppelin fan, in director Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous.


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These are just a few examples, and you can have the kids make their own names for fun. This really helps students understand what the rhythm sounds like before attempting to play the rhythm on an instrument. As the student matures and progresses as a player, I introduce the traditional way of counting. The transition is smooth because the students already understand and feel comfortable with how the rhythm sounds.


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Curt Toppel, a 6-9 middle blocker for No. 13 Stanford is the AVCA/Sports Imports Division I/II Men's National Player of the Week for the week ending April 3, 2000. The Cardinal first played host to No. 3 USC on March 31st; despite Toppel's match-high 32 kills, the Cardinal was unable to upset their higher ranked opponent losing in four-games. The opportunity to orchestrate an upset was again a reality on April 1st. The No. 1 ranked team in the USA Today/AVCA Coaches Top 15 Poll, Long Beach State University was up next for Stanford. Long Beach captured games one and two 15-5, 15-7, but Toppel and the rest of the Cardinal squad were not going to let the opportunity pass. The Stanford offense came to life in games three through five, capturing the fifth game 15-11 behind a .667 hitting percentage. The freshman became the first athlete to break the 50 kill mark thus far in 2000. Toppel's 50 kills on 87 attempts for a .471 hitting percentage allowed the No. 13 team in the nation to put a poetic end to April Fools Day. For the week Toppel averaged 9.11 kills per game, .56 digs per game and 1.0 block per game.


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GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) - An emergency management employee in
central Kentucky has been charged with possessing child pornography.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that 38-year-old Eric Dwayne Westerfield of Georgetown was arrested Tuesday after police say they found several images in his home portraying the sexual performance of a minor younger than 13.
He was charged with eight felonies.
Court records showed Westerfield posted bond and was scheduled to appear in Scott County Circuit Court on May 19. No attorney for him was listed.
Westerfield is a captain with the Scott County Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security.
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Alright, guys. It's happened. It's come. My hours have been complete and my yoga teacher certificate arrived this past weekend in the mail!
To say that I'm thrilled is an understatement. It was a really long Fall, Winter, and Spring as I trekked through eight months of yoga teacher training. It was one of the most profound experiences of my life, but it came with a lot of work. And I don't mean the constant study of asanas, and breaths, and learning how to sequence yoga poses. I mean the delving into myself, the work I had to do when ego, fear, and anything dark came up. If starting yoga set me on a path to truly start discovering myself, than starting yoga teacher training set me on a path to mastering myself.
I'm proud of myself. This is the third holistic trade certification that I've gotten in three years, adding on to my Reiki Master certificate and my massage license. I'm excited to see what I'll do from here. And where I'll go with these three trades under my belt.
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SEBREE, Ky. (7/10/13) – The Kentucky State Police has charged a Sebree man with arson.
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at approximately 1:50 a.m., KSP Arson Investigator Rick Godsey charged Tommy R. Branson, 60 of Sebree, KY, with one count of Arson 2nd Degree (Class B Felony).
On Tuesday, July 9, 2013, at approximately 10:21 p.m., KSP Post 2 Madisonville received a call from Webster County in reference to a house fire located at 328 Starl Shelton Road in Sebree. (There were no injuries reported.)
Through the course of the investigation, Investigator Godsey was able to obtain an arrest warrant for Mr. Branson. Mr. Branson was lodged in the Webster County Detention Center.
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I am interested in making investment in a 250-300 sq yd plot in the mullanpur region with a time period of 4-5 years.
I am getting the following quotations for the project:
- Manohar Singh & Company - Rs 18000 per sq yd in fresh booking
- Omaxe - Rs 19000 in resale
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- DLF - Out of my budget as it has only 350 and 500 sy yd plots.
Point to be noted: I have approximately 18 lacs cash available. The remaining amount hinges upon Construction Link Plan time periods.
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How Did Stalin Become the Leader of the Soviet Union?
Why and how Joseph Stalin overcame Leon Trotsky to become the second leader of the USSR.
During the revolution Trotsky lead the red guards to take over post offices, bridges and the state bank on the 6th the next day he and the red guards stormed the winter palace without much opposition they then arrested members of the provisional government Alexander Kerensky managed to escape but failed to get enough support to take back power.
Trotsky was put in charge of making peace with Germany, he was told by Lenin to spin out the talks in hope for a socialist revolution in Germany, which never came, the treaty came after Germany threatened to make an attack, Russia lost 34% of its population, 32% of its agriculture land, 54% of its industry, 26% of its railways and 89% of its coal mines this was not the reasonable deal Trotsky hoped for.
By the end of 1918 Russia was at war again but this time with its self a lose coalition of anti-socialists collectively called the whites attacked the Bolsheviks known as the reds, Leon Trotsky threw himself into action and in a very small amount of time amassed an army of 300,000 men who where lead by former tsarist officers to make sure these officers did there job properly Trotsky took their families hostage political commissars also watched over them. There where many beating and killings of white supporters or even suspected supporters of the whites to keep control of the people this was known as the red terror.
Trotsky's new army then beat the white armies one by one the last major white army was beaten in 1920.
Trotsky had many good points he was a genius even Lenin compared to him was just intelligent he was an amazing public speaker some say even better than Lenin as well he was also very organised which lead him to his victories in the civil war.
With out Trotsky I don't think the Bolsheviks would have had any public support after the revolution because Trotsky was the public face of the party the people thought of him as one of them and no one could match his speaking ability, later on the Bolsheviks would not have survived the civil war because he was there great leader then as well.
After Lenin's death in January 1924 Stalin surprisingly won the power struggle in the Bolshevik party ahead of many other leading communists such as Bukharin, Kamenev, Zinoviev and most surprisingly Trotsky. Stalin won because partly from Trotsky's arrogance but a bigger part in Stalin's victory comes from Stalin himself he informed Trotsky that Lenin's funeral would be on the 26th of January when it was actually on the 27th Stalin had known that Trotsky would not have been able to attend on the 26th because he was so far away from where the funeral was being held he would have been able to attend on the 27th however so Trotsky didn't go to Lenin's funeral instead Stalin appeared as chief mourner and closest friend. Stalin also used his job as general secretary of the party to put his supporters in important jobs and supports of his opponents in remote postings. Stalin also supported one opponent to get rid of another opponent he did this most notably with Bukharin and Trotsky, Stalin supported Bukharin on a debate on the NEP against Trotsky and once Trotsky was disposed of Stalin used Trotsky's arguments to get rid of Bukharin. Stalin's policies where also more popular than Trotsky's, Stalin favoured socialism in one country opposed to Trotsky's spread of socialism which people feared would start another war. Stalin also appeared to be just a Georgian peasant who understood the war weary people when his seemingly intellectual rivals didn't appear to understand the people.
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I am sitting in Boston's Logan Airport. My 3 days in Cambridge, MA were great. On Friday, I went to dinner with my co-author Denise DiPasquale. While we published our last paper more than 10 years ago, we have agreed to write a new paper on the energy efficiency of multi-family housing. The paper will be good! Saturday I went out to dinner with my co-author Mike Cragg's family. Mike now lives in Belmont, MA and this allowed me to return to a place (Payson Park) where I lived in a nice home adjacent to the park for six happy years. My son's first days of his life were spent there. On Saturday afternoon at 4pm, I sat in Payson Park on a sunny day and wondered if I made the right choice to nudge our family West. It was awfully pleasant in that park. On Sunday, I had breakfast with Dan McMillen (not a co-author) and then had lunch with a new co-author of mine Danglun Luo from Sun Yat-Sen University in China. We will be working on corporate finance and environmental performance in China. On Sunday, I went to dinner with my co-author Erin Mansur. At the Lincoln Conference on Monday and Tuesday, I spoke for a long time to my co-author Siqi Zheng and Nils Kok. I then met my co-author Ed Glaeser for coffee in Harvard Square. So, that's a lot of talk with 7 different co-authors. I now fly home to see my favorite co-author and her young son.
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Back when I served as a commander in the U.S. Air Force, "C3" was a term that was used a lot, especially when involved in special ops missions. Unlike C4, C3 is not a form of plastic explosive, but military jargon referring to "Command, Control and Communication." During those interesting times when the battle staff was assembled in our locked, guarded and windowless room, we relied heavily on C3 as we made decisions under duress, some of which involved life-or-death emergencies occurring on the other side of the world that depended heavily on having a robust C3 system in place.
While we may never be involved with anything that dramatic as school transportation professionals, we could be called upon to assist local municipalities, or even deal with a school-related emergency for which we as a component and extension of the school system should be prepared to react quickly.
In such times, a well-developed C3 plan could mitigate potential injury and suffering, or even save lives, by streamlining what we do and how we do it in terms of developing an organized, speedy response. Enter ICS: a nationally recognized "Incident Command System."The role of the Incident Command System According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the ICS "is a standardized, on-scene, all-hazards incident management approach that:
● allows for the integration of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures and communications operating within a common organizational structure;
● enables a coordinated response among various jurisdictions and functional agencies, both public and private; and
● establishes common processes for planning and managing resources."
The neat thing about ICS is that it is flexible by design, and it can be deployed on any kind of incident, from simple to complex, from a school bus crash with minor injuries to a plane crash where potentially dozens of survivors might need immediate transportation away from an accident scene. Communication is essential to effective emergency responseSince the use of an ICS is expanding rapidly across the country — at all levels of government and the private sector, including education — it helps immensely if all the players in a response scenario use the same language relative to a coordinated emergency response.
The emergency response management cycle is made up of five basic parts: prevention, mitigation, preparedness, recovery and response, though not all of these may be used with every incident — it depends on the needs of the moment. The glue that holds all this together is communication. Having a solid plan in place ahead of time can save you and your department a lot of grief when the bell goes off.
One of the best ways to ensure your department's viability in the response cycle is to befriend your school's emergency response personnel, many of whom have already established key communication protocols and developed relationships with your community's emergency first responders.
Police, fire, EMS and other emergency service providers often meet regularly to discuss potential response scenarios, as well as to use their time to creatively network with others and freshen up mutual aid agreements for when they are needed. You should be a part of those meetings — emergency managers need to know your name and what you have to offer the community in the event of an emergency.Working with first responders provides real-world training According to Michael Coleman, vice president of business development at QDS Communications, public safety response to schools is on the rise across the country. For one of the latest years for which hard data were available, 2007, the U.S. Department of Education noted 684,100 incidents of violent crime occurring at school, while in 2003, there were 36,000 reported cases of chemical exposure for which separate masses of students had to be evacuated from the scene of the emergency. For those incidents, mass transportation was and continues to be a vital component of any school or community's emergency response plan.
The best part about developing this kind of operability with each other is that it is generally revenue neutral; that's important as we continue to struggle through the fog and friction of our states' austere budgetary environments.
In addition, think of the value-added potential of allowing your local first responders the use of an old school bus to practice their skills in. For them, real-world training environments are not only expensive, they are scarce; many first responders never see the inside of a burning bus, for example, until they're faced with a real one on the street, with kids inside.
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Kanthan Shankar, an Indian national, is the Country Manager for the World Bank Group's first office in Myanmar. Mr. Shankar assumed his post in Yangon on September 17, 2012, and will oversee the implementation of the Bank's program, which is aimed at supporting government economic reforms, building stronger institutions and helping government's efforts to bring inclusive and sustainable development to the country.
Mr. Shankar has vast experience in post-conflict reconstruction operations. He has been with the World Bank for over 20 years of which 15 years were dedicated to work in fragile countries.
He first joined the Bank in 1991,as a consultant on a global water supply and sanitation program and later worked in the Middle East and North Africa Region where he managed numerous projects in West Bank and Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. He became the World Bank Representative in Kosovo in June 2004 and was responsible for developing the World Bank strategy for the period of 2005 to 2007. After his assignment in Kosovo, Mr. Shankar worked on infrastructure projects in Russia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. In 2009, he moved to the Pacific Department as the Operations Manager for 12 countries including the Pacific Islands, Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea.
Mr. Shankar holds engineering degrees from India and the United States. He also worked as an engineering consultant in those two countries before joining the World Bank.


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|Infant's bilobar thyroid agenesis and mother's I-131 accidental administration.
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|Bilobar thyroid agenesis is one of rare diseases. Genetic and environmental factors may associate with bilobar thyroid agenesis. But the mechanism is still not completely understood. It had been showed that I-131 administration during pregnancy may induce thyroid dysfunction in newborn. Here we reported a case of female hospital staff who received I-131 accidently during (10-12th gestational weeks) and after her pregnancy. The absorbed dose to fetus was higher than 30mGy. At birth, the infant was found to have no thyroid. It was speculated that the fetal thyroid agenesis may be related with mother' I-131 administration during pregnancy. In addition, this case report also indicated that the radiation dose should be minimized to any developing embryo.
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Salman Khan's upcoming project 'Kick' has been hogging all the media attention since its trailer released. Sallu Bhai and Jacqueline Fernandez were recently spotted getting cozy at the launch of their movie, 'Kick'. The two met during the shoot of the movie and now it looks like the two are more than just "good friends".
Right from the start, Salman's love life is always been talked about. And now it seems that the superstar of Bollywood is love-struck yet again! Sangeeta Bijalani, Somi Ali, Aishwarya Rai, Sneha Ullal, Katrina Kaif, Zareen Khan and now Jacqueline Fernandez; Salman Khan is the only Bollywood actor who has had such a colourful love life. We bring to you a list of women who have romanced the Bhai Jaan in real life:
1. Sangeeta Bijalani:
Salman and Sangeeta started dating in the late 80s and soon parted ways in early 90s.
2. Somy Ali:
Sallu Bhai and Somi Ali started seeing each other after the latter's debut in Bollywood in 1993. If rumours are to be believed, Salman's excessive drinking habits and abusive behaviour paved way for her to move out of his life.
3. Aishwarya Rai:
Bollywood film actress and former Miss India Aishwarya Rai (then) and Salman Khan fell in love on the sets of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999). However, their relationship had an extremely bitter end when Aish's parents lodged a police complaint against Sallu Bhai in March 2002. Theirs was the most talked about and memorable love affair.
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"Its all clear sir." The peacekeeper who entered first said this as the others still looked around the room. Just then the leader of the group dropped down and walked in with haste. He trained his rifle well, watching as fast as he entered. Adrenaline rushed through his veins with every movement. Nothing had he found, just an empty room. He seen the shelf as he entered and continued to it, his heart now pounding in his chest.
He slowed down as he crouched in front of the lonely metal shelf. He knew there had to be something about that shelf. He snapped his finger and all watched his hands as he signaled for them to aim to the door. All did as such even a peacekeeper now dropping from the hatch and positioning himself to peer around the corner the door way provided. His rifle to was trained upon the shelf as he stood.
"Stack up." The man whispered as he motioned his hands to give the order. Three of his men took to the side of the shelf as he back away. One pulled a flash grenade from his inventory began to get it ready as all save these three stood still aiming at the could be door. The men all begin to feel their hearts beating. Some pounding, some rushing and others racing.
Suddenly all felt relief as the leader pulled on the shelf and nothing happened. He pulled on it again and again, yet still nothing happened. He noticed bolts in the railing in the back of the self leading him to figure that it was just bolted to the wall. He stood and signaled for his men to stand down. With this is called in the present situation and as he finished he became angered.
"How could the bartender of just disappeared like that? It doesn't make any sense."
"He must of jumped out of the window or something sir." One of his men assured trying to calm the peacekeeper down.
"Theirs no way, we were outside on both sides. We would of seen him!" With that said the man's commanding officer pushed him back forcing him up against the shelving. "Until we find them you will be on point from now on!" The groups commanding officer gave an order that both left pride, shame, and fear in the peacekeeper. From now on he would be first to risk his life. As this entered his core he stepped forward as the group exited the room.
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Chief Sean Kapfhammer declined to name the boys because they're juveniles, but he confirmed they are between the ages of 16 and 17 and from the Dillsburg area. He said each will be charged with child luring, a first-degree misdemeanor, and disorderly conduct and harassment, both summaries.
Kapfhammer said the boys confessed to police. "They said they were trying to scare the girls, which they did," he said, adding that the behavior was immature.
Kapfhammer said such conduct "strikes fear into the community, and obviously with any police department, our goal is to reduce fear in the community." He said he authorized overtime to investigate the incident, which is at a cost to taxpayers.
Kapfhammer said an off-duty police officer got a good look at the suspects and the vehicle they were in at the time of the alleged child-luring incident. Within hours of the incident, a Carroll Township officer stopped the vehicle and made contact with the suspects.
Kapfhammer said there are lesson to be learned from this incident.
First, getting a good description of a suspect and their vehicle, especially the vehicle's license plate, and then quickly reporting that to police is key to an investigation. Second, perpetrators of such crimes don't fit a specific mold. "People who might want to pull this off could come in all shapes and sizes," he said.
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Carroll Township Police located Saturday the three teen boys they were looking for in connection to a child-luring incident on Friday, according to a news release.
Police reported on the department's Facebook page that someone called them around 12:30 p.m. Friday, saying there was an attempted child luring in the 400 block of Woodland Drive in Dillsburg. The caller said a tan car, possibly a Chrysler Sebring, with the males in it approached a group of girls ages 7 to 10 and offered them a ride. The teens got out of the car and offered the girls candy if they would get into the vehicle, police said.
The girls yelled, and the teens got back into the car and drove off.
The vehicle was later seen on Route 15 by a Carroll Township Police Officer. The teens admitted to police it was a prank, the release states.


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The world needs more ofDonald Trump. He's an entertaining individual, and the world also needs more crowdfunding sites. Okay, maybe the world doesn't need more of both, but we're getting it! Donald Trump has thrown his commercial and financial support behind a new crowdfunding site, FundAnything. The site is supposed to spread the crowdfunding trend away from the coasts and into the breadbasket of our country.
FundAnything is the brainchild of Bill Zanker, the founder of The Learning Annex. In an interview with AllThingsD, Zanker explained, "Crowdfunding got traction with creatives and tech, but you go anywhere but the coasts and they don't get it yet," he said. "What I'm trying to do is bring crowdfunding away from the Brooklyn hipsters and bring it to the masses."
Unlike Kickstarter, FundAnything can be used to fund ... anything. Catchy name, right? I am planning a summer vacation to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, a region my family just loves, and theoretically I could use FundAnything to raise money to pay for my road trip.
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LAS VEGAS » We may be made of star stuff, as astronomer Carl Sagan once said, but our imaginations contain a strong dose of "Stardust" — at least as the word appears here. The capital S, its 17-foot-tall body peppered with bulbs, is shaped like a coy lightning bolt. Its jagged strokes change thickness and meet at unexpected angles, like the stylized clothes of "The Jetsons." The T's are like toon sketches of rays shooting from stars.
And the whole word here — although not lighted up with pulsing energy like it once was — seems to conjure fantasy. It doesn't just advertise the name of a now-defunct Las Vegas casino. Its associated whiffs of sci-fi adventure and high-tech possibility — of stardust and neon — are imprinted on the imagination of several generations.
The letters appear here in the outdoor "boneyard" of the Neon Museum, just past a time-rubbed Aladdin's lamp and a shattered signature of tubed glass that once heralded the Liberace Museum. A boneyard is an outdoor graveyard for discarded hardware and spare parts; in this case, it contains the relics of an age of neon in a town that transmuted inert gases into things nearly alive.
The museum began in 1996 as a modest attempt to rescue remnants of that era, later leasing city land for its own boneyard of salvaged signs. The Young Electric Sign Co., once Las Vegas' most innovative sign manufacturer, also donated its jangle of corpses. The collection grew.
Over the years, the boneyard began to live up to its name with peeling paint, empty sockets and rusted metal, and the museum began to live up to its name with tours on request through its 1 1/2 acres containing about 450 elements from often kitschy signs. Public and private money was raised for what became a $4 million project (including a small park across the street). By raising another $2.5 million, 15 major signs were restored to their full glory and mounted downtown and on Las Vegas Boulevard (including the light-spangled Silver Slipper outside the museum).
Finally, the lobby of the 1961 La Concha Motel, which the museum helped save from the ax, was moved here. Its poured concrete clamshell design, revealing glass walls beneath its whorls, was restored to the vision of its creator, Paul Revere Williams. That building opened last fall as a kind of museum lobby, providing a small store, display screens surveying Las Vegas history, and a place where visitors could meet guides for a 45-minute tour, which is still the only way the artifacts can be viewed. With set hours, a visitor center and a staff, the boneyard is being resurrected in museum form. Annual attendance is expected to double from the roughly 20,000 of the past.
This does not mean that the museum has reached maturity. But before chiding it for reticence amid its display of ruin, homage is due. The museum's executive director, Danielle Kelly, took me through the boneyard, bringing many of the signs to life and defending the decision to leave artifacts unlabeled and to preserve them in disrepair. And the wreckage is uncanny, sometimes lovely, often haunting.
Stick with Stardust for a moment. As those letters stand here, we can't really get their full impact. They come from the original sign that made its debut with the casino in 1958. It was just after Sputnik was launched and tourists were gathering here to watch atomic blasts at the Nevada Test Site. Its font became famously known as "Electra Jag" or, more familiarly, "Atomic."
The sign was the Strip's largest, 216 feet long rising 27 feet above the casino's first floor, with 11,000 bulbs and 7,000 feet of neon tubing, sparkling with extraterrestrial splendor: It displayed the entire solar system, the Earth at its pre-Copernican center. It has been suggested that the original pinkish lettering matched the color of Vegas' radioactive dust. The sign made an explosive impact and could be seen for three miles across the desert, a blast in its own right.
Are we missing something by seeing it in such unilluminated disrepair, its paint peeling, many sockets empty, its spectacular context missing? Moving this sign cost about $180,000. What is it that we are perceiving here? What happens when we look at it? Or at the swoops of tubing that was Debbie Reynolds' giant signature for her casino? Or at a portion of the three-story-high sheath of animated neon that once wrapped the Golden Nugget?
You can get some idea by looking at old photographs at the visitor center or touring the Mob Museum nearby. In the early 1960s — the Renaissance of Neon — Tom Wolfe described Las Vegas as "the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs."
In their startlingly original book, "Learning From Las Vegas" (1972), architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour pointed out that signs may be the most "changeable" aspect of Las Vegas but are also "the most unique, most monumental parts of the Strip." The Golden Nugget casino, they write, evolved over 30 years "from a building with a sign on it to a totally sign-covered building." They refer to this as creating a "decorated shed." No one in Las Vegas, Wolfe suggested, buys a sign to fit a building; the building is modified to support the largest possible sign.
These signs, then, are more substance than ornament. Behind the original Stardust sign and its casino were motel-like buildings, undecorated sheds. They were lifted from the mundane partly by being given planetary names but mainly by the neon's afterglow. The sign transformed what was within not by pointing to it like a traditional sign but by pointing somewhere else — here, to the fantastical, explosive possibilities of the atomic Space Age. Signs had to be spectacular because they were enactments of fantasy fulfilled. You want stardust? Here it is.
That might give an idea of what was once at stake here. One of the most striking signs is from the 1955 Moulin Rouge, its cursive letters curving into elegant patterns in which art historian Kirsten Swenson fancifully sees a mock-Arabic script — as if invoking the early 20th century's French African colonies. And indeed the Moulin Rouge was advertised as "the nation's first major interracial hotel" at a time when most casinos made racial "exceptions" only for entertainment. But it closed just months after opening.
In their broken, darkened state, these signs have another form of illumination: Their distractions and disguises are unveiled, their motivations made clear. Wolfe compared Las Vegas to Versailles, partly because both were calculated projections. The Sun King, he pointed out, built a monument to his power not in Paris but in the countryside. In Las Vegas, casino creators were the king's opposites, thorough nonaristocrats: gangsters. But they were the first Americans with enough money and power to build monuments to themselves outside established cultural centers.
Some signs, then, are both monuments and alibis. The Stardust, after all, had a history of corruption and violence; the mob runs through it (a story told in Nicholas Pileggi's "Casino").
But the signs are so clearly a charade, you aren't really taken in. You see the lure of fleshly vanity, stardust and sensuality, yet as in those 17th-century vanitas paintings, you also see the skeletal reality. Using Google Earth, you can zoom in on the museum's boneyard: At its center, plundered from the Treasure Island casino, is a giant pirate skull with a golden tooth.
The themes are rich. What is needed is more information. The museum's companion book, "Spectacular: A History of Las Vegas Neon," is deft and informative, but it would help to have signs labeled and the narrative more clearly defined. And a deeper exploration of neon's past on the new video screens would help make sense of the surprisingly different present.
There are, of course, still signs in Las Vegas. But as the authors of "Spectacular" point out, the contemporary casino has become a sign unto itself. Beginning in the 1990s, themed casinos, like the Luxor and Excalibur, turned their entire structures into signs: an Egyptian pyramid, a medieval castle.
That effect endures even when the approach is more abstract. The Wynn, for example, calls attention to itself by having no apparent theme; it is a sleek, showy, mirrored curve of gold — a surface with no grit, only gleam. Inside the Wynn, the fantasy shifts with images of ripe flowers bursting into extravagant bloom in bouquets, floor patterns, paintings, even stage sets for the casino's show. Sensual fullness and fecundity within, gilded excess and elegance without. Who needs neon when everything is a sign?
But if you find yourself succumbing to stardust's allure too completely, you can now go to the Neon Museum and see what happens to all that flash when colors fade and decay sets in. The museum is Las Vegas' vanitas. Except that its bones are still lovely and the skulls still work their charms.


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Years: Since the fall of 2007
My name is April Becker, and I am writing this on behalf of my physically disabled son, Cole Koch. Though Cole has a disability, cerebral palsy, and has very limited physical capabilities, it never made Sue Rainville doubt that Cole could give something a try and she could find innovative ways to try and make it work for him.
She never gives up on him or any of her students and always keeps looking for new and interesting ideas to help them achieve a goal. She knows Cole very well, along with her other students, and communicates with the parents on a daily basis. She's not afraid to ask questions or to work with parents on solutions to problems or issues that arise.
She is very patient with Cole and keeps him busy all day long.
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Grades: Nine through 12
School: Mosinee High School, Mosinee
Years: 1983-85
Mrs. Phyllis Moss ranks among my favorites. Rumors were she was a strict English teacher, and she was. Mrs. Moss had such a presence and, truthfully, my class needed a strong instructor. Even the class clowns behaved in her classroom.
... As a veteran teacher, she really knew the curriculum and encouraged everybody to prepare speeches and deliver them to the best of their ability. I remember reading three Shakespeare plays concurrently for Brit Lit, and loving what I was learning.
She was not an easy grader, making me put extra effort into writing assignments to hone my skills. When our Brit Lit class ended for the year and the textbooks were going to be replaced, Mrs. Moss privately gave me a copy to keep. I treasure that book.
Along with teaching, Mrs. Moss coached forensics, and she encouraged me to join the forensics team. I still recall the beginning of a four-minute speech on surrogate motherhood that Mrs. Moss helped me write and get a gold medal at state. Mrs. Moss was an incredible influence on me. The proof? Today I am an English teacher. And, I coach forensics. Sadly, Mrs. Moss passed away a few years ago, yet her lessons live on in my classroom today.
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Course: German
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Years: 2000-02
Mr. Reinardy was my German teacher at Wausau West High School during my junior and senior years. The thing I loved most about his class was his passion for teaching, his caring for us as students, and his extremely high expectations he had of us.
Every day when we came into class, he would have a smile on his face and jump right into one of his crazy lessons. He had a way of teaching that made us all want to be in class -- you never quite knew what was going to happen next and didn't want to miss a moment of it.
He truly cared for every single one of his students and went out of his way for us. I don't think I have ever worked as hard in my life as I did in his class. When I earned an A in that class, it meant more than any other A that was on my report card. I knew that I had truly earned it and was proud of my effort I put into that class.
I firmly believe that it is because of Mr. Reinardy that I am the teacher that I am today. I learned from his passion and creativity, and to this day, use those characteristics to mold my own teaching philosophies.
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First, figure out how dense the cloud is. Scientists have measured the water density of a typical cumulus cloud (the white, fluffy ones you see on a nice day) as 1/2 gram per cubic meter—about a small marble's worth of water in a space you and a friend could comfortably sit in. The density will be greater for different types of clouds.
Next, figure out how big the cloud is. By measuring a cloud's shadow when the sun is directly above it, you can get an idea of its width. LeMone does this by watching her odometer as she drives under a cloud. A typical cumulus, she says, is about a kilometer across, and usually roughly cubical—so a kilometer long and a kilometer tall, too. This gives you a cloud that's one billion cubic meters in volume.


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If there are two things in life that I really love, it's thrifting and crafting. But if there's anything I like better than doing both separately, it's upcycling my thrifted finds. I created this awesome vinyl record clock in under 30 minutes and for $8, and you can too! Add some flare to your office in a few easy steps!
What You'll Need:
Vinyl Record
Clock Kit
(@ Michael's Crafts $7)
Clock Kit
(@ Michael's Crafts $7)
The Steps:
1. Disassemble your clock kit according the directions on the box. You may just have to remove the nut and the washer from the thread.
2. Thread the mechanism through the record by rotating it like a screw.
3. Replace the washer first and then the nut to tighten the mechanism to the record.
4. Place the smaller hand on first (push down until you can't push it any further). Once it's in place, thread the big hand on next. The hands won't touch, so don't force the larger hand to move past where it belongs.
4. Finish the clock by placing the second hand on top.
5. Add a battery and use the dial on the back of the clock to adjust the time.
That's it!
Fun Tips:
Clock kits come in many shapes and colors, and can even include numbers! You can design your clock to look any way you wish!
Many thrift stores sell working and non-working records for $1! I found mine in a box of records that was given to me for $5!
What do you think of this project? Is it something you'd add to your home decor?


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Mike Snavely, internationally recognized researcher on creation, will be the speaker during a Creation Evidences conference next weekend at Faith Baptist Church, 220 S. 22nd St., Lebanon.
Snavely will present the "scientific, fossil, archaeological, geological, animal behavior, stellar and other evidences that refute evolution and support the creation model of beginnings," according to a news release. He is the author of "Creation or Evolution: A Home School Curriculum" and creator of nine DVDs.
The event will begin with a potluck supper from 4:50-6 p.m. Jan. 18, followed by a session on "The Pillars of Evolution" from 6-7 p.m. and "The Hunters & The Hunted" from 7:10-8:30 p.m..
"The Horrors of the Flood" will be presented at 9:15 a.m. Sunday, followed by "The Return to Genesis" at 10:30 a.m.
"Aunt Lucy," a program on evolution, will be offered from 5:30-6:20 p.m. Sunday. "The Mystery of the Dinosaurs" will be presented from 6:30-7:30 p.m., followed by "Lost Secrets of Ancient Civilizations" from 7:40-8:30.
For more information, call 717-865-7261, 717-272-7574 or 717-273-2068, or visit natureofcreation.org.


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Crossroads of Religion and Politics
The Center co-sponsors a lecture series on Religion and Politics with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Since its inception in 1999 at the suggestion of a student, the series has emphasized both domestic and international affairs. Unless otherwise noted, all lectures take place in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, at 4:30 PM. Within several days of each lecture, the video is webstreamed and posted on the web.
For a listing of current and past Crossroad lectures, consult the Events section of our website and search with the keyword 'Crossroads.'


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Give Me Some Sugar! With Tuition on the Rise, University of Hawaii Students are Turning to Sugar Daddies to Cover the Cost
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - With tuition at the University of Hawaii rising 141 percent over the last 11 years, female students have found an unconventional method to cover the cost of education that can now cost nearly $10,000 a year for an undergraduate degree. They are signing up in record numbers with SeekingArrangement.com, a dating web site that openly boasts it will find them their perfect "Sugar Daddy."
These "attractive, intelligent, ambitious and goal oriented" women receive an average of $3,000 a month from their Sugar Daddy toward books, fees, tuition and living expenses. In exchange, they have a "mutually beneficial relationship" and spend time with their Sugar Daddy on dates.
In 2012, some 105 female students from the state university requested a Sugar Daddy from SeekingArrangement.com, the world's largest Sugar Daddy dating website - that is up 72 women from the year prior.
The 218 percent growth landed the University of Hawaii in the number 31 spot of the "Fastest Growing Sugar Baby Schools of 2012", according to Spokeswoman Angela Jacob Bermudo.
The Pew Research Center reports one out of five households are in debt due to student loans; Bloomberg BusinessWeek estimates the average cost of each student loan at approximately $25,250.
Tuition increases across the country are driving the SeekingArrangement.com student membership, according to founder Brandon Wade. In 2011, college students made up 40 percent of the website's total population, but after a 58 percent increase in co-ed signups in 2012, the total rose to to 44 percent. While Hawaii has seen a remarkable spike in female students seeking Sugar Daddies, other states have seen an even bigger boost. The top 20 Universities include:
- 1. Georgia State University – 292 (#11 in 2011)
- 2. New York University – 285 (#1 in 2011)
- 3. Temple University – 268 (#5 in 2011)
- 4. University of Central Florida – 221 (#14 in 2011)
- 5. University of Southern Florida – 212 (#7 in 2011)
- 6. Arizona State University – 204 (#8 in 2011)
- 7. Florida International University - 187
- 8. University of Georgia – 148 (#2 in 2011)
- 9. Indiana University – 123 (#17 in 2011)
- 10. Texas State - 131
- 11. Kent State University – 128 (#15 in 2011)
- 12. Penn State – 121 (#13 in 2011)
- 13. University of North Texas - 112
- 14. Florida State University - 111
- 15.Tulane University – 109 (#4 in 2011)
- 16. Michigan State University – 108 (#9 in 2011)
- 17. University of Ohio - 103
- 18. Columbia University - 100
- 19. University of Alabama - 96
- 20. University of California Los Angeles - 91
Wade, a dating expert, founded the SeekingArrangement.com web site on his belief that "successful relationships are formed out of two people being brutally honest with each other - about who they are, what they want and what they can offer," and now has more than 2 million members - a total of 3,881 members in Hawaii. The web site does not just match women up with Sugar Daddies - its service also matches males with Sugar Mommies.
"Unfortunately, most regular relationships aren't mutually beneficial in nature. If you are in a relationship where you feel used, or taken advantage of, you are most likely in a one-sided relationship where you are giving more than you are receiving," Bermudo said. "An Arrangement is short for 'Mutually Beneficial Relationship' between two people. At Seeking Arrangement, we believe that successful relationships are all 'Mutually Beneficial Relationships' in that they are two way street, i.e., two people giving as much as they take from each other."
Bermudo said no matter if the members are seeking love, companionship, friendship or some financial help, either in the short-term or long-term, they can find the "perfect match."
There are critics who compare the partnership to the world's oldest profession, but Bermudo maintains that is not the case.
"It is against SeekingArrangement.com's user terms and agreement to exchange or solicit sex for money. When a Sugar Baby decides to become intimate with their Sugar Daddy or Mommy, it is exactly like a regular relationship. After some time, if they find a connection with someone, then some Sugar Babies decide to become intimate with their counterparts. Prostitution and escort services are NOT allowed on SeekingArrangement.com. These are very different from the chemistry based relationships Sugar Babies/ Daddies have on SeekingArrangement.com. Prostitution is black and white: Sex for money," she said.
University of Hawaii officials have been grilled in recent months by state Senators who believe the administration has unnecessarily increased the cost of tuition by adding new unnecessary high salaried positions in the administration and also being careless with student tuition funds.
The University administration had no comment on the University of Hawaii's placement in the "Fastest Growing Sugar Baby Schools of 2012" report.
But Wade defends the practice: "While some may argue that these women are just using men for their own personal gain, I believe that they are proactive in pursuing a higher education."
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Kindness - World You Need A Change Of Mind
When it's good, it's almost blinding. The rest of the time, it's very good at making you think it's giving you songs, when all it's actually giving is hooks and ideas that often don't go anywhere, like 'Bombastic's half-baked nouveau blues. And vocals drowned in reverb like on 'Cyan'. And sax. Please dear God, can we agree an amnesty on the ridiculous overuse of sax now?»


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A 100% Renewable Electricity Vision for Oregon: We can do it!
The key elements necessary for a 100% renewable grid in Oregon are being developed or are already in place. While we are not talking about 100% renewable grid by 2020, we are looking at approaching this goal by 2050-2075, which in the time frames of power system planning is "pretty soon". This article is simply a "30,000 foot" introduction to this possibility.
By Doug Boleyn
Solar Oregon Board Member
The dream of many of us who have worked in the renewable energy field for years has been to conceive of an energy system that is 100% renewable and sustainable. That dream is now being developed by visionaries and planners throughout the Northwest. The key elements necessary for a 100% renewable grid in Oregon are being developed or are already in place. While we are not talking about 100% renewable grid by 2020, we are looking at approaching this goal by 2050-2075, which in the time frames of power system planning is "pretty soon". This article is simply a "30,000 foot" introduction to this possibility.
What are these elements that are converging to make Oregon 100% Renewables a possibility in a short half century? Here are some key candidates:
|Visionaries are "working the problem"
|Oregon's incredibly diverse renewable energy mix: Solar, Wind, Wave, Geothermal, and Biomass
|Refined tools for characterizing and managing the behavior of the variable renewable sources: wind, wave, and solar.
|Strong opportunities for energy efficiency improvements and conservation
|The advent of the "Smart Grid" concept and technologies
|Distributed generation technologies with grid-sensitive controls
|The arrival of cost-effective solar energy broadly available
|Experience in creative ways of operating grid systems
"Working the Problem"- Clean Energy Vision
The Clean Energy Vision project (http://www.cleanenergyvision.org/) recently released its Western Grid 2050: Contrasting Futures, Contrasting Fortunes which studies in detail the design of our Western electric supply system by comparing a "Business as Usual" scenario with a "Clean Energy Vision" scenario. This is a must read for all who are committed to moving the Northwest to a completely "green grid".
The diversity of players must be expanded, however, so that the scenario of choice becomes the "Clean Energy Vision" and not the "Business as Usual" track we're all currently on, unless we change.
Oregon's Incredible Renewable Energy Mix
Oregon is one of the few states in the union that has an abundant mix of renewable energy resources that can be converted to electricity. Oregon has large rivers for hydroelectric production, windy gorges and ridges for wind electric production, abundant solar energy for solar electric production, a coastline which can provide wave-powered electricity, biomass resources in the form of wood and fiber that can be combusted to spin electric turbines, and volcanic activity which can be captured to produce geothermal electricity.
No other state – with the possible exception of California – has this broad mix of renewables. If we look at a chart (See chart below) of when these renewables are available in Oregon, we can see that the mix substantially covers all the seasons. (Geothermal and biomass are not included in the chart, as they can provide baseload.) It then becomes a matter of how many Megawatts of each resource are developed to match the seasonal loads.
Early in its history, Oregon had used a combination of hydroelectricity and biomass (hog fuel) to produce electricity. The first electricity use in Oregon was powered by the TW Sullivan hydroelectric plant at Willamette Falls in the 1880's. Until the mid 1960's, Oregon's electric power was substantially produced from renewable energy – hydroelectric power from the mighty Columbia River power system. But by the mid-1960's, the large hydroelectric sites had been fully developed, and yet the use of electricity was growing. The 1970's brought both nuclear and coal-fired electricity to the Northwest. The 1980's brought natural gas-fired power plants, which is now the new power plant fossil fuel of choice. The default new power plant of choice is Natural Gas turbines and continuing use of coal. The only criteria used in the selection of these bulk electric power resources was cost of production. The cheapest (regardless of environmental impact, as long as it was legal) determined the power source to be used.
Managing Diverse and Variable Renewable Energy Resources
Among hydroelectricity, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and wave power resources, all available in Oregon, there are some that are intermittent (vary seasonally, daily, hourly such as wind, solar and wave) and some that can be managed as baseload (geothermal and biomass). The availability and management of the hydroelectric system is well known and characterized well. Large scale wind generation has been working in the Northwest long enough that its energy production characteristics (seasonal, diurnal, by location) have been characterized in general terms. Wind energy predictive techniques have been developed, and alternative methods of managing the rest of the NW Power Grid to accept intermittent Wind electric resources have been and continue to be developed.
Solar energy data has been gathered across the State for over 40 years. General characteristics of solar energy are well known: Solar energy is only available in daytime, peaks in mid-day, and most of solar energy is available in the summer months. Scientists have been working on developing daily and hourly predictive tools to determine day-ahead production. Broad area dispersed solar energy systems have been studied to see how solar energy production (minute to minute, hour to hour) varies when a whole group of geographically dispersed systems is considered. Solar electric generation has the distinct advantage of coming in two different "packages", one in the form of large scale utility generation; the other in the form of distributed generation. The latter provides the opportunity to provide energy generation at the point of use without the requirement for new (and disruptive) transmission lines and infrastructure. SEGIS is a promising effort to combine into the inverter platform the means of control and energy management for both the grid operator and the host of the system.
Scientists at Oregon State University and other partners are deeply engaged in the study of wave energy resources, and have characterized wave power availability and density on a monthly basis.
Methods of biomass and geothermal production of electric power are well known. Both of these resources can be run as baseload as long a fuel (biomass in particular) is available.
Lots of Low Cost Energy Efficiency Still Available
The current electric grid still has hundreds of Megawatts of conservation still untapped. It goes without saying, as prices for grid electricity rise, more energy efficiency technologies will become "cost-effective", and thus worth investing in. The Energy Trust of Oregon is assigned the task of marshalling these energy efficiency resources from all sectors, and there's a long ways to go. These conservation resources need to be fully "developed" if we are to cost-effectively implement a 100% renewable electric system. Demand reduction, as well as implementation of this large portfolio of conservation measures and technologies, is critical so that unnecessary investment in more costly renewable generation resources – and the attendant costly transmission lines, is avoided as much as possible.
Smart Grid: Fine tuning the OregonRE100 System
|Up to this point, the electric suppliers have had only one
tool to manage the balance of generation and load: varying the supply (generation) of electric power.
However, the last decade has brought the Smart Grid concept (with attendant
technologies). The underlying premise of Smart
Grid is that it costs a lot less to invest a system to control and manage
the loads and distributed resources placed on the grid than it is to invest in building
more generation, transmission, and distribution facilities. Technologies
(control systems, sophisticated 2-way communication systems, pricing schemes,
energy storage technologies) are currently being studied and tested to
determine their feasibility.
Needless to say, using a Smart Grid concept in conjunction with a potentially variable renewable energy grid system is key in maintaining energy generation/load balance 100% of the time. How would this be done? Renewables would be allowed to run at maximum output possible at all times, but the smart grid would adjust by a portfolio of actions, ranging from storing electricity in the form of batteries (electric vehicle batteries) or thermal energy, or possibly cycling non-critical loads for short time periods (for example, air conditioning, refrigeration, water heating,).
Distributed Generation Technologies Maturing
Long gone is the time when utilities were very hesitant
about allowing customers and others (than themselves) to place electricity
generating equipment on the utility lines. Now in 2011, valuable experience
with tightly controlled distributed generation systems such as inverter-based
photovoltaics, small/medium/large wind generation, and others, is abundant. Small distributed electricity generation systems, properly
managed add a level of robustness and reliability to the entire grid. By
placing generation much closer to the loads, additional transmission and
distribution lines can be avoided. Smart grid control (turn on/turn off) of
these nimble technologies can fine tune the dispatch of generation exactly when
and where needed.
Long gone is the time when utilities were very hesitant about allowing customers and others (than themselves) to place electricity generating equipment on the utility lines. Now in 2011, valuable experience with tightly controlled distributed generation systems such as inverter-based photovoltaics, small/medium/large wind generation, and others, is abundant.
Small distributed electricity generation systems, properly managed add a level of robustness and reliability to the entire grid. By placing generation much closer to the loads, additional transmission and distribution lines can be avoided. Smart grid control (turn on/turn off) of these nimble technologies can fine tune the dispatch of generation exactly when and where needed.
Solar Energy Prices Decreasing Dramatically
No discussion of a 100% Renewable electricity system for the Northwest would be complete without addressing the future of the most abundant and broadly available renewable resource, solar energy. The price of solar electric systems has, for various reasons, decreased dramatically in Oregon over the last two years. Experts who follow solar energy prices are saying that the installed system prices will continue to decrease as more competition, higher factory output, better installation techniques, and lower raw materials prices continue to occur.
Already in southern California, the cost of utility scale photovoltaic power plants is competitive with current other sources of grid power. 20-year contract electricity prices of approximately 10 cents per kWh have already been offered to southern California utilities. Given this, it won't be much longer when utility scale prices cross the rising retail cost in Oregon (6-9 cents per kWh).
When solar electricity, in all its forms and potential applications, becomes cost-effective relative to (fossil) grid power, then the only impediment to widespread use is having enough ground and roof area – and enough laborers to install it. While some estimates vary, this crossover point is as little as 5 years away for most of Oregon. This can lead to a sea change in solar energy used.
Reinvesting and Changing the Structure of the Western Grid System
Supplying all the electricity consumed at exactly the times it's demanded is the challenge of every electric grid system. The system is always "in balance", that is, generation always equals load. No ifs, ands, or buts.
The patterns of electricity use are well known throughout the Northwest, but vary from place to place (E vs W of the cascades, southern Oregon vs Puget Sound), season to season as temperatures vary, weekday vs weekend as work varies, and daytime vs nighttime as human activity varies. The current electric grid system is controlled in such a way that as a load comes on or drops off, the generation does the same.
The Western Grid 2050 report calls on utility planners to rethink how the western grid (transmission system, generation system and distribution system) is structured and implemented. Changes in the way the grid is managed are also key to making the system work.
Challenges and issues to this 100% Renewable Vision
What are the key challenges to overcome as we move toward implementing such a vision?
Getting all the players to the table: The Northwest's grid system is complex with many moving parts and players. These players have managed a reliable electric supply system for over 100 years. So, these expert (and entrenched) players need to convene, discuss and commit to such a Clean Energy Vision, work through the technical, political, economical, and infrastructure problems and issues to make this a reality. It would take too long to list all those who should be "at the table" here.
Resolution of Environmental and community issues: We're already seeing these issues coming to the fore. Large scale wind generation and coastal wave generation are likely to continue to provoke concerns of competing interests, namely viewshed and potential noise impacts (wind generation), construction of new transmission infrastructure of energy from generating areas to load areas (NIMBY, wind generation), competing ocean fish harvest concerns (wave power), and intrusion on pristine/public lands (geothermal). All will provoke community discussions and ultimately difficult decisions.
Continued technological development: This continues for all technologies, but the Oregon renewable resource most challenged with technological development is wave power. Many technologies exist now and are competing for least cost, most robust, and most productive technologies. This will work itself out in the next decades, but given the wide range of technological creativity and innovation in the wave energy arena. I'm convinced that this will be a viable resource.
Improved cost;
High cost relative to cheap (but "dirty") fossil fuels continues to be the
"elephant in the room" for renewables. While hydroelectric power (existing
facilities) and large windpower are considered to be currently competitive (or
nearly so) with fossil fuel electric generation, the other resource conversion
technologies (wave, biomass, geothermal) combined with difficulties in
financing and siting still are higher on the cost curve. Further development of
these is necessary to meet cost goals.
Fuel availability, reliability and cost: This is the key issue for biomass resources. While biomass resources are considered to be abundant, they're located generally in remote areas and have potential competing uses for the fiber. How certain and reliable can we keep the fuel supply steady with reasonable cost?
Handling continued
growth – Can we live within our means?: Oregon's economy (we hope!) will not stand
still. The population will continue to increase, and hopefully industry and
jobs. Can a 100% Renewable system keep up with growth without resorting to
fossil fuels? Perhaps this is handled better by Codes requiring cost-effective
renewables for each building built, or by industry investing in additional
renewable infrastructure as it expands. Tough questions.
Role of fossil fuels: The ultimate goal of a 100% renewable system would be to shift the only use of fossil fuels to just those times that renewables (or "stored" renewables) are inadequate to meet the loads, and that where "smart grid" adjustments cannot be implemented in adequate quantity to balance generation/load. These fossil fuel systems are "valley-filler", short term, and well dispersed (micro-turbines) across the region so as not to require additional transmission infrastructure.
Actions we can take to make Oregon 100% Renewable a Reality
Embrace the Vision, Think "Systems"; Read the Clean Energy Vision paper Western Grid 2050: Contrasting Futures, Contrasting Fortunes Without this new vision, broadly accepted, the only direction will be "business as usual" with fossil fuels. See the two charts below from this Report: One shows the mix of resources in the Business As Usual case (BAU) and the other the proposed mix offered by the Clean Energy Vision scenarios. These define a sharp choice in direction which needs to be supported if we are to get beyond fossil fuels.
Get diverse renewable developers collaborating with one another and grid operators: Solar, wind, geothermal, wave, grid operators (BPA, PGE, Pac), Smart Grid proponents, Renewable advocates (RNP), NW Power Council, and energy storage technology proponents would be encouraged to hold a 100% Renewable "design charette" to map in further detail what a system might look like and how it might work. All these talents are represented in the Northwest and in Oregon, but they probably haven't considered the paradigm of a completely integrated, highly reliable 100% renewable electric generation/load system. Now is the time!


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Really depends on what you want to do with the Maps.
Anyone recommend good and simple google map plugin to display map ??
btw i only have longitude and latitude code only so any google map is good for me ?
Really depends on what you want to do with the Maps.
I've been investigating this area for a few weeks now and found tons of plugins.
I don't know in which format you have your DB, but a G search can help you out:
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In any case this one should do your trick:
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Amazon Kindle Lending Library to offer Harry Potter June 19
updated 01:48 pm EDT, Thu May 10, 2012
Harry Potter ebook lending possible step for Amazon sales
Amazon will be providing the Harry Potter series of books to users of the Kindle Owners' Lending Library in the near future. The all-time bestselling book series has been licensed from JK Rowling's Pottermore, and joins the existing 145,000 titles already available for reading.
Pottermore is the only retailer of the digital Harry Potter books, seen as a way for Rowling to control pricing and avoid the fighting between e-book retailers for exclusives. The step Amazon is taking in lending the series through the Lending Library system could be seen as a step towards selling the books directly in the future, instead of linking to the Pottermore store.
Amazon's Lending Library is open to Prime members who own the Kindle e-reader, and will make the complete Harry Potter series available in five languages from June 19.