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Hawaii's sew SOS Center offers support
Oct 18, 2010
FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii - In a poignant ceremony, U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii opened the doors of its new Survivor Outreach Services Center, here, Oct. 13.
Aviation Summit Focus is on Depot's Future
Oct 18, 2010
Tripler urges retirees, spouses to get checks, primary care manager
Oct 18, 2010
Retirees and spouses convened at the Nehelani to get flu shots, blood pressure checks and current information at the annual Retiree Appreciation Day, held here, Oct. 9.
2/25 (CAB) command changes hands
Oct 16, 2010
Lieutenant Col. David Francis relinquishes command of the 2nd Assault Helicopter Battalion, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade to Lt. Col. Kelly Hines, Oct. 14.
Warrant officer helps carry the torch for the Hispanic community
Oct 15, 2010
CW2 Luis Martinez is a dedicated Soldier from the 1st Stryker Brigade who has used his Hispanic upbringing to succeed in the military.
Army fields 250,000 DAGR
Oct 15, 2010
A system that provides a pivotal situational awareness tool to Soldiers in virtually every mission they are involved in was recognized for achieving a significant milestone in Fielding and Training during a ceremony hosted by the Product Director Global Positioning System (GPS) at the Top of the Bay Club last month.
Battle Command Training Program wraps up Army exercise in Hawaii
Oct 15, 2010
Operations Group Delta of the U.S. Army's Battle Command Training Program recently deployed to the Hawaiian island of O'ahu to support the 25th Infantry Division's Mission Readiness Exercise prior to their 12-month deployment to Iraq.
25th ID holds reenlistment ceremony
Oct 14, 2010
Four Souldiers reenlist during the 25th Infantry Division Commanding General's Retention Celebration held at the Nehelani Club, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Oct. 13. "I want to thank this community, leadership of this division, and the units that allow the Soldiers to see the merit in their service," said Maj. Gen Bernard S. Champoux, commanding general, 25th Inf. Div. during his speech at the ceremony.
Fort Lee, Sustainment Center of Excellence readies stage for 'Best Warrior'
Oct 14, 2010
FORT LEE, Va. (Oct. 14, 2010) -- In a few days, a select group of warriors will converge upon Fort Lee to showcase their soldiering skills for the 2010 Department of the Army Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier of the Year "Best Warrior" Competition.
Always Lightning
Oct 12, 2010
Stanfield donned his original service uniform once more during the 'Tropic Lightning Museum's' Living History day and professed his pride in the division was what made him happy to serve as a historic guide to visitors, Oct. 8.
History comes alive during 'Living History Day'
Oct 12, 2010
Soldiers and community are invited to the "Tropic Lightning Museum's" Living History Day, a day of hands-on learning and up-close history of the 25th Infantry Division, on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Oct. 8.
Imagine an Army free of domestic abuse
Oct 12, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - The Army prides itself on its values - loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, integrity, honesty and personal courage - and admonishes its Soldiers to live by these attributes.
Blue Star Card program receives large monetary donation
Oct 12, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - A $50,000 donation was presented to the Blue Star Card program, here, Oct. 1, during a ceremony at the Nehelani.
ASAP celebrates life in support of Ntl. Suicide Prevention Month
Oct 12, 2010
SCHOFIELDAca,!E+BARRACKS, Hawaii - Army Substance Abuse Program team members marked the last day of national Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month, Sept. 30, by holding a celebration of life at Kalakaua Community Park, here.
Socio-cultural data collection provides insight for commanders
Oct 12, 2010
"Set it and forget it" monitoring system provides remote surveillance
Oct 12, 2010
The Remote Monitoring System, or RMS, is a wireless remote sentry monitoring sensor developed at the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command's communication-electronics center, or CERDEC. This quick-reaction capability can be left unattended for years and sends information wirelessly over a far distance to Soldiers at a base station.
Spirit points liven up 10-miler
Oct 12, 2010
Vigilance is their watchword
Oct 11, 2010
Army drivers endure deployment hardships without much recognition. They are often assigned to do much more than just drive, to include providing security to convoys moving in and out of Iraq.
USD-N commander honors Gimlets in award ceremony at Warhorse
Oct 11, 2010
The United States Division-North Commander Maj. Gen. Tony Cucolo paid a special visit to the Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment "Gimlets" for an award ceremony Oct. 6 at Forward Operating Base Warhorse, Iraq.
Sixty-three 'Battle Boar' Soldiers participate in regiment's largest reenlistment cer
Oct 9, 2010
Deployment Watch: 2nd Brigade Combat Team
Oct 8, 2010
The 2nd Brigade Combat Team "Warriors" are actively fulfilling their mission to advise and assist the Iraqi Security Forces within the Diyala Province. Check out the latest photos sent to us at the Division Public Affairs Office.
Small team trains for big mission
Oct 7, 2010
Four vehicles, two trailers and 23 people doesn't sound like much, but that's the idea: it represents the total framework of the Deployable Assessment Team, a small group of professionals with minimal baggage and a mission to rapidly respond when disaster strikes in the Pacific. The U.S. Army, Pacific's Contingency Command Post DAT is a unique concept on the way to becoming fully operational capable in the coming months. The DAT exercised a milestone in this endeavor through a load exercise conducted at Hickam Air Force Base Oct. 1.
Japanese logistics team visits APG
Oct 7, 2010
The chief logistician and a team of officers from the Japan Self-Defense Forces visited APG Oct. 7.
2ID celebrates Hispanic heritage month
Oct 7, 2010
CAMP CASEY, Republic of Korea - Sgt. Ione Barrera of A Company, Division Special Troops Battalion (left) and Sgt. Josue Ten of B Company, DSTB, dance bachata during the 2nd Infantry Division Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at the Camp Casey Thunder Inn dining facility Oct. 6. The two 2nd ID Soldiers and guest speaker Sgt. Alejandro Morlote of A Battery, 1st Battalion, 38th Field Artillery Regiment, 210th Fires Brigade, received a plaque from 2nd ID commander Maj. Gen. Michael S. Tucker.
ESPN to bring Sportscenter to Grafenwoehr on Veterans Day
Oct 6, 2010
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany - ESPN's flagship news and highlight program, Sportscenter, will broadcast live from the Grafenwoehr parade field Nov. 11, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. (CET).
88 servicemembers become U.S. citizens in combat zone
Oct 6, 2010
Eighty-eight Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines from 37 different countries took the Oath of Allegiance and became U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony Oct. 1 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.
Casey honors Tripler life savers
Oct 5, 2010
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. presented an Army Achievement Medal and a Meritorious Civilian Service Award to two men whose quick actions back in January saved a life at Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii.
Warrior Country participates in peace marathon
Oct 5, 2010
CAMP CASEY, Republic of Korea -- More than 100 Soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division stood side by side with almost 2,000 Koreans as they crowded the starting line of the 4th Annual Gyeonggi Peace and Unification Marathon held at Imjingak, only a few kilometers from the Demilitarized Zone, Sept. 12.
Gyeonggi governor tours helo
Oct 5, 2010
SUWON, Republic of Korea -- Left: Mr. Chong "Tiger" Lim, the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade liaison officer, gives Gyeonggi Province Gov. Kim Moon-Soo a tour of the AH-64 Apache Helicopter during an Air Show in Suwon early September. Following the Air Show Kim invited Lim and Col. James T. Barker, commander of 2nd CAB, to his office to present them with an award.
3-2nd Avn. runs flight line
Oct 5, 2010
CAMP Soldiers with 3rd Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade conducted a flight line run on Camp Humphreys Sept. 17. The runway was shut down during the run and a CH-47 Chinook and two UH-60 Blackhawks hovered above the formation. The run kicked off the battalion's organizational day in which Soldiers had the day off from their ordinary duties and participated in various other events.
Following proper protocol helps keep 2nd ID Families together
Oct 5, 2010
CAMP RED CLOUD, Republic of Korea - Getting involved in an international marriage can seem to be a morass of red tape. But that red tape can help reduce spousal abandonment. Spousal abandonment in Korea occurs when a Soldier transfers to a unit stateside and leaves their spouse in Korea, whether intended by the Soldier or due to issues related to the procurement of an immigration visa.
LEGAL ADVICE: The bride, the groom, and the taxman
Oct 5, 2010
CAMP CASEY, Republic of Korea - Flowers, music, a white dress, and . . . an ITIN' An international tax identification number, better known as the ITIN, is probably the last thing you think of when planning your dream wedding. But if you are marrying someone who is not a U.S. citizen, and your special someone does not have a social security number, and is not able to apply for one, then that person needs to apply for an ITIN.
Strong Bonds strengthens Iron Brigade marriages
Oct 5, 2010
CAMP CASEY, Republic of Korea - Between long days spent at work, and nights spent tending to children, some military couples have little time for one another. In order to alleviate some of the demands placed upon married Soldiers, the 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, has sponsored Strong Bonds retreats.
Transportation Soldiers train 2ID Warriors
Oct 5, 2010
CAMP CASEY, Republic of Korea - The sound of armored vehicles revving their engines as they climb the ramp at the Camp Casey railhead is something the Soldiers of 662nd Movement Control Team have become accustomed to over the past several months. On a weekly basis, both the Soldiers and their Korean National coworkers, manage the upload and download of heavy equipment for the 2nd Infantry Division.
Chuseok celebration
Oct 5, 2010
CAMP CASEY, Republic of Korea -- Warrior Division Soldiers enjoy a traditional Korean meal in celebration of Chuseok, which is the Korean Thanksgiving, while the Evergreen Children's Choir sang them a few Korean songs at the Camp Casey Thunder Inn dining facility Sept. 17.
Chuseok - The Korean Thanksgiving
Oct 5, 2010
CAMP RED CLOUD, Republic of Korea - Soldiers stationed in the Republic of Korea may have noticed that from Sept. 21-23, their Korean counterparts, Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army Soldiers, were nowhere to be seen. That's because they were out celebrating one of their biggest holidays in Korea, Chuseok.
'Wings of Lightning' Brigade welcomed home
Oct 5, 2010
The 25th Combat Aviation Brigade formally uncases the brigade colors during a redeployment ceremony held at Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, Oct. 05.
U.S. platoon shows new tactics to IA officers
Oct 5, 2010
Commentary: Army seeks end to domestic abuse
Oct 4, 2010
One of the great, positive changes in Army culture over the years is the ever-increasing willingness to acknowledge and talk about domestic abuse in Army families. There are resources available for families seeking assistance, places for victims to go for help, advocates and counselors to monitor the situation. It hasn't always been that way.
Soldiers from Japan take advantage of the wide-open spaces at the Yakima Training Center
Oct 4, 2010
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD YAKIMA TRAINING CENTER, Wash. - The annual Japanese-led training exercise in its 17th year at Yakima Training Center, dubbed Operation Rising Thunder, officially came to a close Sept. 24. The event, lasting nearly a month, opens all of Yakima's vast expanse of ranges, trails and terrain to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.
Window-safety awareness campaign launches in October
Oct 4, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - Nearly 4,000 children are injured in falls from windows each year, according to Safe Kids USA.
Volunteers help protect Oahu's native forest with DPW
Oct 4, 2010
KAHUKU, Hawaii - Volunteers needed four-wheel drive to navigate a deeply rutted dirt road at the training area, here, Monday, in celebration of the nation's largest volunteer effort, National Public Lands Day.
Rededication ceremony lauds renovations at Soldiers Chapel
Oct 4, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - The pealing of the bell reverberated throughout the white clapboard country-style church as U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii community members and guests met to celebrate the completion of the Soldiers Chapel renovation, here, Sept. 24.
8th TSC represents armed forces in Aloha Festivals Floral Parade
Oct 4, 2010
HONOLULU - A colorful equestrian procession of male "paniolo," Hawaiian cowboys, and female "pa'u," skirt or sarong, horseback riders; extravagant floats with cascades of Hawaiian flowers; and marching bands brightened Kalakaua Avenue from Ala Moana Park to Kapiolani Park, here, Sept. 25.
Casey promises sustained Soldier, Family programs
Oct 1, 2010
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. spent Sept. 30 with U.S. Army, Pacific troops in Hawaii where he presented two prestigious awards and reassured Soldiers and Families that the promises made in the 2007 Army Family Covenant will not suffer when Department of Defense budget cuts are made.
USARPAC and NOLCOM combine effort at Balikatan-11 planning conference
Oct 1, 2010
U.S. Army, Pacific, as the Executive Agent for Pacific Command's Balikatan-11, met with their Armed Forces of the Philippines counterparts Sept. 20 through 24 at the Northern Luzon Command here for the Balikatan 2011 Operational Planning Team conference.
25th ID commanding general recognizes Soldier's role in the MRX
Sep 30, 2010
Maj. Gen. Bernard S. Champoux, commanding general, 25th Infantry Division, recognizes 25th Inf. Div. Soldiers, Officers and Department of the Army employees for their significant role during the two-week Mission Readiness Exercise the Division went through for the upcoming deployment to Iraq, by presenting Certificate of Appreciation at the Post Conference Room, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Sept. 30.
Chief of Staff of the Army reviews 25ID pre-deployment training
Sep 30, 2010
Gen. George W. Casey Jr. also participated in the 25th Infantry Division's After Action Review of the two-week Mission Readiness Exercise the division just completed for the upcoming deployment to Iraq.
Samoa reservists honored for tsunami relief efforts
Sep 30, 2010
On the morning of Sept. 29, 2009, four, massive waves ripped through the hearts and homes of local communities throughout the island of Tutuila. Following the 8.3-magnitude earthquake that resulted in the devastating tsunami waves, Soldiers from the 9th MSC sprung into action to support their brothers and sisters in arms and the local American Samoan community.
Fallen Stryker 'Warriors' honored
Sep 29, 2010
Family, friends, wellwishers, and colleagues of fallen heroes Staff Sgt. Philip C. Jenkins and Pfc. James F. McClamrock gathered during a memorial ceremony held in their honor at the Main Post Chapel on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Sept. 29.
1st Signal Brigade career counselor receives top retention recognition
Sep 29, 2010
One noncommissioned officer was chosen to represent the unit at the Department of the Army Career Counselor board in Washington, D.C., in January 2011.
Pacific Soldiers endure "trials" at 3rd Paralegal Warrior Challenge
Sep 28, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - Eight top paralegals from commands throughout the Pacific judiciously competed to become the top Paralegal of the Pacific, September 20 through 24.
Commanding General commends, counsels Alaska troops
Sep 24, 2010
-- Brig. Gen. Michele G. Compton, the new commanding general of the U.S. Army Reserve's 9th Mission Support Command, met with more than 100 Anchorage Army Reservists during a town hall meeting here, Sept. 19, at the U.S. Army Reserve Center.
Building relationships through my job
Sep 24, 2010
Teamwork vital to USARPAC CCP readiness
Sep 23, 2010
Senior field grade officers, noncommissioned officers and junior enlisted Soldiers from the U.S. Army, Pacific Contingency Command Post worked side-by-side Sept. 7-24 at Fort Shafter Flats for Exercise Autumn Laulima, turning an empty field into a self-sustained operational command post.
USARPAC commanding general visit BCTC
Sep 23, 2010
Lt. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon, commanding general, U.S. Army Pacific, talks to Soldiers during his visit at the 1st Nainoa Hoe Battle Command Trainig Center, Schofied Barracks, Hawaii, Sept. 23.
Gen. (retired) Sullivan visits Schofield Barracks
Sep 16, 2010
Gen. (retired) Gordon Sullivan and Command Sgt. Maj. (retired) Jimmie Spencer meets with Maj. Gen. Bernard Champoux, commanding general, 25th Infantry Division, and the leadership from the division for a welcome brief during his visit to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Sept. 14.
When disaster strikes, are you ready'
Sep 16, 2010
Most people don't think about emergencies or disasters until they happen to someone else.
Schofield Barracks hosts AUSA President
Sep 16, 2010
Former CSA and CG current AUSA President, Army Gen. retired Gordon R. Sullivan tours Oahu and pays a visit to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Sept. 14.
Army hosts DOD, Indian delegation to discuss future R&D collaboration
Sep 14, 2010
The U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force met with an Indian delegation at Fort Monmouth, N.J. to discuss potential collaboration efforts in emerging information and command and control technologies, Aug 31 - Sept. 3. Government, industry and academia representatives from both countries presented research and discussed projects in the areas of service-oriented architecture, intelligent agents, language translation and artificial intelligence technologies.
Competitors 'TRY' something new at PARC
Sep 13, 2010
PILILAAU ARMY RECREATION CENTER, Hawaii - Excitement filled the air, as competitors in the first Pokai TRY gathered near the starting line, here, Aug. 28.
Army announces results of DU risk assessment
Sep 13, 2010
WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD, Hawaii - Results of the Army's recent depleted uranium Basic Human Health Risk Assessment for the Pohakuloa Training Area impact area indicate no likely adverse impacts to current and potential future persons working on or living near PTA, due to DU present at PTA.
'Tropic Lightning' Band makes history, entertains overseas
Sep 13, 2010
History was made, not once but twice, by the 25th Infantry Division "Tropic Lightning" Band as they traveled to Shanghai, China and then Sakhalin, Russia, to perform for new audiences during an international community relations mission for the U.S. Army, and Pacific Command.
Office of the Native Hawaiian Liaison to sponsor hula workshops
Sep 13, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - Hawaii. Ah, just the very sound conjures up images of gentle, tropical breezes, lightly scented with plumeria flowers; endless miles of white, sandy beaches; catching the perfect wave; and learning the hula.
USARPAC honors 9/11 victims, Soldiers at retreat ceremony
Sep 11, 2010
Soldiers and Family members from the U.S. Army Pacific paid tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States during a retreat ceremony Sept. 10 at 4:30 p.m. on historic Palm Circle at Fort Shafter. Lt. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon, U.S. Army Pacific commanding general said the atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, did not go unanswered by our nation. "In response to the attacks, the United States entered the War on Terror, and soon Soldiers were serving in harm's way in Afghanistan, Iraq, and multiple other hot spots around the globe," Mixon said.
U.S., Japanese Generals Visit Army Reserve Soldiers in Japan
Sep 10, 2010
The commanding general of U.S. Army, Japan and the chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force visited soldiers of the 311th Expeditionary Sustainment Command and 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command taking part in an exercise here Aug. 28.
25 ID Band trip to China and Russia
Sep 7, 2010
The Division band is the first U.S. military band to perform in the World Expo and the first cultural exchange unit in China this year.
Hockey charity game for wounded warriors breaks the ice
Sep 7, 2010
HONOLULU - It may have been cold inside the Ice Palace, here, but hockey players from the Navy, Marines, Air Force, Army and Coast Guard heated up the ice during an intense hockey contest benefiting wounded warriors, Aug. 29.
'Under a Jarvis Moon' tells story of U.S. colonies on deserted islands
Sep 7, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - "Under a Jarvis Moon," a 45-minute documentary developed by the Bishop Museum, was presented at the U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii's Distinguished Lecture Series, at the Nehelani, here, Aug. 27.
PTA fire crews control flames
Sep 7, 2010
WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD, Hawaii - The wildfire at the U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii's Pohakuloa Training Area, which began at approximately 9:30 a.m., Aug. 22, about a quarter mile east of PTA's main gate by Mauna Kea State Park, is 80-percent extinguished and has burned an estimated 1,386 acres, as of Sept. 1.
Couples bond at largest 9th MSC Married Skills Workshop
Sep 7, 2010
Fifty couples attended the U.S. Army Reserve 9th Mission Support Command's Married Skills Workshop here, Aug. 27-29, making it the command's largest couples event held in Hawaii to date.
Commanding General hosts town hall in American Samoa
Sep 7, 2010
The commanding general of the U.S. Army Reserve 9th Mission Support Command (MSC) hosted a town hall meeting at the Sergeant First Class Pele U.S. Army Reserve Center in American Samoa Sept. 1. Brig. Gen. Michele G. Compton met with more than 100 members of the 9th MSC community to include the command's Soldiers, family members and full-time support staff.
Army Reserve hosts first naturalization ceremony in Samoa
Sep 3, 2010
Forty-two members of the U.S. Army Reserve's 9th Mission Support Command were naturalized at the Governor H. Rex Lee auditorium in the first Military Naturalization Ceremony ever held in American Samoa.
First CCP load exercise prepares new unit for rapid deployments
Sep 3, 2010
The U.S. Army, Pacific, Contingency Command Post, the first unit of its kind in the U.S. Army, successfully conducted a load exercise with the U.S. Air Force 535th Airlift Support Squadron, 15th Air Wing, at Hickam Air Force Base, Sept. 1.
One Team! key leaders collaborate on Asia-Pacific disaster contingencies, cooperation
Sep 3, 2010
U.S. Army, Pacific senior leaders met with more than 30 other military and government leaders from countries in the Pacific area of responsibility at the Asia Pacific Senior Civil Military Seminar here Aug. 31 to Sept. 1. Focused on improving regional disaster response the inaugural seminar was the first in a series of annual events to bring together senior military and civilian leaders from around the Asia-Pacific region.
18th MDSC shines during its CERTEX
Sep 1, 2010
Fort Shafter, HI Aca,!" The 18th Medical Deployment Support Command completed a certification exercise conducted on Schofield Barracks from 17-25 Aug., that will officially make the unit initial mission capable to perform its war time mission as command and control for all medical units assigned and attached in the United States Army Pacific theater of operations.
USARAK commander visits Schofield Barracks
Sep 1, 2010
Brig. Gen. Raymond P. Palumbo, commanding general, U.S. Army Alaska (USARAK), talks with Maj. Gen. Bernard S. Champoux, commanding general, 25th Infantry Division, during a familiarization visit to the 25th Inf. Div. Headquarters Sep. 1, at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Hawaiian community leaders tour Schofield
Aug 31, 2010
Hawaii's Pacific Century Fellows Class of 2010 toured Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Aug. 31.
ROC drill works out difficult DOL issues
Aug 31, 2010
The rehearsal of concept drill took place Aug. 24-26 at the Radisson Quad City Plaza, Davenport, Iowa. The Army Materiel Command will take over operational control of all DOL functions located in the United States on Oct. 1. The Army Sustainment Command through its Army Field Support Brigades will manage the DOLs. Resource and personnel transfer of DOLs worldwide is scheduled for Oct. 1, 2011.
25th Infantry Division Band to perform in China, Russia
Aug 30, 2010
The marching band, the brass ensemble which mostly plays jazz, and a pop and rock group which plays modern music will perform in different cities of Sakhalin Island, Russia, to help celebrate the Island's independence day from Japan and at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China.
Double amputee 'drops' into TAMC
Aug 30, 2010
HONOLULU - If it's true that actions speak louder than words, than retired Sgt. 1st Class Dana Bowman, "roared" as he parachuted onto the grounds of Tripler Army Medical Center, here, Aug. 19, bringing with him an American flag, captain bars and commander coins.
Hawaii residents to see change in child care fees
Aug 30, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - Many patrons of Child, Youth and School Services in Hawaii may soon find some good news on their monthly child care fee statement, as the Department of Defense will be implementing a new fee chart to standardize child care fees at military child care facilities, nationwide, Oct. 1.
Native Hawaiian Advisory Council explores contract issues
Aug 30, 2010
FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii - The challenges that face Native Hawaiian businesses while procuring federal contracts was the topic of a unique panel discussion at the Aug. 18 meeting of U.S. Army Garrison's Native Hawaiian Advisory Council, here.
Pacific Endeavor Builds Partnerships Among Asia-Pacific Nations
Aug 28, 2010
CHANGI NAVAL BASE, Singapore - Interoperability based not on rank, uniform or country brought together 16 Asia-Pacific militaries for the 7th annual Pacific Endeavor, a humanitarian communication workshop sponsored by the Singapore Armed Forces and U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) at the Changi Command and Control Center at Changi Naval Base, Singapore Aug. 16-27.
Australian General visits 'Tropic Lightning Division'
Aug 27, 2010
Maj. Gen. David Morrison, commander, Forces Command, Australian Army, is greeted by Mark York, deputy director of the 1st Lt. Nainoa Hoe Battle Command Training Center during his visit to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Aug. 26.
The 'Faces of Strength'
Aug 27, 2010
A discussion panel of five female senior-enlisted and field grade officers shared their experiences and insights with an audience of Soldiers and guests during the "Faces of Strength" Women's Equality Day Observance ceremony at the Nehelani Banquet and Conference Center, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Aug. 27.
16th CAB to support Pakistan flood relief
Aug 27, 2010
Soldiers and helicopters of the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade are preparing to rapidly deploy in support of U.S. Government humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts in Pakistan.
Pacific Endeavor Aims to Improve Response Time during National Disasters
Aug 25, 2010
CHANGI VILLAGE, Singapore - Saving lives using agreed upon communication procedures was the goal during Pacific Endeavor, a multi-nation humanitarian workshop hosted by U.S. Pacific Command and the Singapore Armed Forces at Changi Command and Control Center in Changi Village, Singapore Aug. 16-27.
Khaan Quest 2010 participants gather for two closing ceremonies
Aug 25, 2010
Service members with the U.S. Military, Mongolian Armed Forces and exercise observers from other countries gathered for a dedication ceremony and closing ceremony of Khaan Quest 2010 in Mongolia Aug. 20.
U.S. and Mongolian Military Leaders Share Vision and Strategy at Senior Leader Seminar
Aug 25, 2010
More than 25 U.S. and Mongolian military leaders gathered in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia for the inaugural Mongolian Armed Forces Senior Leader Seminar Aug. 18.
Staff sergeant receives second Purple Heart
Aug 20, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - Staff Sgt. Llewellyn Grant, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii, received his second Purple Heart from Col. Jay Hammer, executive officer, USAG-HI, during a special award ceremony, at the Tropic Lightning Memorial, outside the 25th Infantry Division Headquarters, here, Aug. 10.
School Partnership Program builds, strengthens relationships
Aug 20, 2010
WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD, Hawaii - In the spirit of community partnership, the Army School Partnership Program encourages a voluntary partnership between the Hawaii Department of Education and Army units to enhance the educational experience of the children of Hawaii.
Motorcycle safety course hones riders' skills
Aug 20, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - After spending months in the pressure cooker, known as a combat zone, many Soldiers find solace in the simple freedom of a motorcycle ride once home. Unfortunately, what begins as a carefree weekend ride sometimes ends in roadside tragedy.
Avatars teach realistic challenges of working with interpreters
Aug 20, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - The young Soldier jumped up in frustration exclaiming, "This darn computer doesn't understand a thing that I am saying." Could it be that a real, live, foreign national interpreter might also not understand anything the Soldier had to say'
Army Operating Concept provides Capstone follow-up
Aug 20, 2010
The 2010 Army Operating Concept has been approved and is now available online. Also known as TRADOC Pamphlet 525-3-1, the Army Operating Concept explains how the Army will comply with and execute guidance derived from the Army Capstone Concept released in January 2009.
Agencies work to prevent, counter cyber crime
Aug 19, 2010
News agencies across the United States have been highlighting an alarming, invisible and rising threat, affecting citizens and therefore service members, worldwide.
Aca,!A"WildcardsAca,!A? prepare for Tropical Storm Dianmu
Aug 19, 2010
Soldiers from the 2nd (Assault) Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade move a UH-60 Blackhawk from a hangar at Seoul Air Base Aug. 11 following a severe weather exercise conducted in preparation for tropical storm Dianmu. Once the storm passes, Soldiers must take the helicopters out of the hangar and unfold the blades. The aviation unit conducts weather training several times a year to ensure readiness for the Korean monsoon season.
USARPAC National Guardsmen provide medical support at Khaan Quest 2010
Aug 18, 2010
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia- Three Alaska National Guard members are providing medical support for U.S. and Mongolian troops during Khaan Quest 2010, a bilateral peacekeeping operations training exercise in Ulaanbaatar and Five Hills Training Area, Mongolia Aug. 8-29.
Alaska and Washington National Guardsmen experience Mongolian culture
Aug 18, 2010
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia - Soldiers with the Alaska and Washington National Guard had the opportunity to explore the city of Ulaanbaatar and dive into the history and culture of Mongolia during a Morale, Welfare and Recreation Day Aug. 15.
USARPAC Reservists labor for Mongolian bath house luxury
Aug 18, 2010
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia - Guam-based, U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 797th Engineer Company, which is a subordinate unit of the 411th Engineer Battalion and 9th Mission Support Command, are working side by side with Mongolian Armed Forces here to provide humanitarian assistance as part of U.S. Army, Pacific's exercise Khaan Quest.


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This is a bit of a bizarre game, a typically bonkers mix of Japanese adventuring, dating simulator and RPG with turn-based combat doesn't quite live up to the best that the country has to offer, but which remains an intriguing experience, especially if you're into Season of Sakura. The game takes place in a strange alternate past, where Western technology is making its way through Japan, bringing the advantages of steam to the nation. However, when a dark cult threatens to destroy the world, it falls to an elite group of young women to step up and save the day. You play the role of the young lad whose job it is to control these lasses, which is going to take all your skill if you are to succeed. The gameplay mixes RPG elements such as exploration with dating sim aspects and turn-based combat, where you'll have to forge relationships with the girls which will affect their stats and the way the story unfolds. The RPG elements are a bit simple, as there's no leveling up or gear to find, while the combat plays out over isometric battlefields and uses a mix of physical and special attacks. Sakura Taisen is a bit of a curiosity and although it's not a must play, for those in tune with its very Japanese way of thinking, it should prove entertaining. The visuals aren't anything special, but manage to pack a reasonable amount of personality in, with some solid enemy design work. The mix of gameplay styles works quite well, and is perhaps one of the key attractions here, so if you are looking for something a little unusual, this certainly fits the bill.
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This PC version of Sakura Wars has graphics that are superior than the Sega Saturn original. And the controls are far more easy to access in this PC version (due to the fact you are using a mouse which was the best way to play Sakura Wars). Everything that made the original game such a wonderful masterpiece remain in this port, plus the beautiful cutscenes are showed with higher resolution. Sakura Wars was already the best console JRPG ever made, and this port to the PC proves that fact!
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Jim Ross is back with another blog over on jrsbarbq.com. Here are some highlights:
– Great to see Edge fulfill his commitments and travel with WWE on this European tour to say adiós to his fans. I can still vividly remember hiring Edge and Christian out of Ontario back in the day and then signing them both to a full time deal one night at a TV taping under the bleachers of an arena that slips my mind at the moment. Edge has so much to give to the business and I'm relatively certain that WWE will utilize Edge's many skills in the future.
– Hard to believe that some fans want to know what I'm wearing for our tag team 'match' at Extreme Rules. Haven't given it much thought. My lack of grappling skill is going to make this a train wreck without fail. If I have to be in the ring with Swagger, perhaps I should wear a suit of amour but he would likely dent that just as he ripped my ankle that's still sore after all these weeks. Hopefully Swagger sees the light and bails on Cole as the former Sooner has embarrassed himself enough with his relationship with the Syracuse grad. When one gets out of their element, as I will do in Tampa at Extreme Rules, it certainly creates an adrenaline rush notwithstanding some levels of self doubt as well.
– It is crunch time for several WWE Superstars to rise to the occasion and assume leadership and main event roles on both the Raw and Smackdown roster. I hope that we don't hear from those that don't take it to the next level that the sole culprit of them not making it was everyone but the Superstar themselves.
– There are so many potentially excellent talents now competing on WWE rosters but they all have to work diligently to make themselves special no matter the situation that they may find themselves in at any given time.
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Brighten Godfrey of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign delivered the keynote titled Five Years of Research on GENI: From the Future Internet Back to the Present. He described how over the last five years his research group has used GENI to enable a breadth of experiments spanning future Internet architecture, a new design for consistently high performance data transport, and network verification.
The GENI LTE update and transition session showcased the exciting projects underway as GENI transitions 4G cellular capabilities from WiMAX to LTE. The technology upgrade timeline and GENI Rack integration plans were presented to the community. Kettering University and Clemson University talked about their respective proposed connected vehicle and public safety application projects using the LTE deployments. University of Utah showcased its PhantomNet testbed that allows proof of concept indoor deployments of LTE networks.
The session on Testbed Supported Education and Curriculum featured five talks by instructors on their experiences using GENI in their classes and three by people developing GENI-based courseware. All five instructors have used GENI in multiple classes over the last few years. They all spoke of the educational benefits of the hands-on laboratory exercises assigned to their students and appreciated having a growing library of reusable lab modules that are coordinated with established textbooks and curricula. Several educators also emphasized stability, availability of resources, and system monitoring as central concerns.
At the Future Internet and Distributed cloud session, experimenters and testbed providers presented recent progress. They talked about federation status, research plans and key GENI features that enable innovative deployments. The session included 4 demonstrations that showcased SDN's ability to support advanced services and architectures, as well as the benefits of federation and dynamic cyber-infrastructure that extend beyond the computer science community into other domain sciences.
Concurrent with GENI NICE was the ICNP CoolSDN workshop. The two workshops organized a joint panel discussion on the Innovative uses of SDN in Research Cyberinfrastructure. The panel, moderated by Mark Berman, consisted of Jun Bi (Tsinghua University), Deniz Gurkhan (University of Houston), Tom Lehman (Univeristy of Maryland) and Alex Sprintson (Texas A&M University). Jun talked about the SDN-based Future Internet Testbed Project (FINE) in China; Deniz described her SDNTrace tool for protocol design and testing in SDN networks; Tom reported on a Software Defined Exchange (SDX) at the MAX Regional network; and Alex spoke on the possibilities and challenges related to implementing network coding in software defined networks. The discussions that followed the presentations ranged from the opportunities opened up by SDNs to how SDN technology may evolve with an emphasis on raising the level abstraction seen by applications.
GENI NICE included a demonstrations and posters session held at the ICNP Welcome Reception. 14 demo and 11 poster teams took this opportunity to showcase their work to the broader ICNP community in addition to those at GENI NICE. At the start of the session, each team made a 30-second presentation on their work so attendees could prioritize the demos or posters they wanted to see.
For a complete event agenda and for material presented at the workshop, see http://www.geni.net/nice2015.
About 50 faculty, students and networking researchers from 18 different institutions participated in the workshop. 20 attendees were from NEIU and 32 were within driving distance of Chicago. Since NEIU is a designated Hispanic-serving institution, the workshop drew a very diverse set of participants including under-represented minorities.
The morning of the first day of the workshop included a keynote speech presented by Brighten Godfrey of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; an overview of GENI by Niky Riga of the GENI Project Office; and talks by Graciela Perera and Jay Aikat (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) on their experiences using GENI in their classroom.
The next day and a half of the workshop included presentations and hands-on tutorials on topics such as software defined networking using OpenFlow, cloud computing experiments, experimentation with wireless resources, and systematic experimentation using GENI. Tutorial topics were selected based on preferences indicated by participants during registration. The agenda included parallel sessions to cater to different participant preferences and prior experiences with GENI.
Regional workshops represent a new approach to introducing students, researchers, and educators to GENI and its capabilities. The NEIU workshop is the second in the series, following last year's inaugural Baltimore-area workshop at Morgan State University. Regional workshops deliver a focused introduction to GENI, using the lecture and hands-on tutorial information that new users find most helpful to begin using GENI effectively in their work. If you are interested in attending a GENI regional workshop near you or hosting one at your institution, write to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Many thanks to Graciela, Maria Luna-Duarte and the staff at El Centro for hosting this workshop and handling tutorial logistics including networking, audio/visual equipment, local transportation and publicizing the event in the Chicago area colleges and universities. And thanks to Karim and Alma for catering the delicious food served at the workshop.
Workshop website: http://www.geni.net/geni-neiu]]>
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Over the next two years, the NSF's Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project will transition from a stage of development and deployment managed by the GENI Project Office (GPO) to a phase of continuing operations and support of research innovations under community governance. During the period from Fall 2015 through Fall 2017, the community – to include academia, industry, and government stakeholders, including NSF – will establish governance, administrative, and operations resources and procedures to meet the following goals:
The participation and guidance of relevant community members is of vital importance both to steer the ongoing operations and governance of the GENI infrastructure and also to define and focus future research efforts that may build on work from GENI and related cyberinfrastructure research. For example, consider NSF's current mid-scale investment in NSFFutureCloud (CloudLab, Chameleon) along with recent NSF-funded workshops in mid-scale infrastructure, including NSF workshop on Future Research Infrastructure for the Wireless Edge 2014 (report) and Workshop on the Development of a Next-Generation Cyberinfrastructure (report).
Initial brainstorming sessions to begin the information gathering process were conducted at the 23rd GENI Engineering Conference at UIUC in June. Additional community input, including specific recommendations for action, is now sought. Important questions for community input include, but are not limited to, these:
How to participate: Input is invited from interested individuals and institutions in academia, industry, and government, including both GENI participants and non-participants. Input should be submitted via electronic mail to firstname.lastname@example.com by August 24, 2015. While there is no specific page limit, brief submissions of fewer than five pages are encouraged. Do not include proprietary information; submissions may be published to the community in verbatim or summary form and used for future planning activities. Please state whether you are interested in participating in a community decision-making and planning workshop tentatively planned for December 10-11 in DC and provide contact information for 1-2 candidate participants from your organization.
Background information: These resources may be useful in researching and preparing submissions.
Important note: The information in these timelines and tables represent working drafts and should not be treated as complete or final. Expanding, correcting, and revising these documents are important components of the ongoing planning process.
Planning process strawman timeline (now through fall 2015)
GENI transition strawman timeline (fall 2015 through fall 2017)
GENI current and continuing activities - What should continue, ramp down, or start?
Candidate models for governance, administration, and finance - How should GENI be managed beyond 2017?
The materials above were developed in preparation for the June 2015 brainstorming sessions at GEC23. The purpose of these sessions was solely to expand the potential solution space and invite community participation. Results from these sessions are captured under "Summary/Notes" at this page: GEC23 Future Planning Sessions]]>
ProtoRINA provides a framework with common mechanisms so researchers do not have to implement these from scratch; rather they can focus on programming different policies (supported by user applications or network management applications). ProtoRINA offers several features:
ProtoRINA (version 1.0) was released in October 2013 and has been used to demonstrate the RINA architecture and its advantages, and also to experiment with different policies.
In a GREE 2013 paper, RINA experiments over the GENI testbed demonstrate enrollment of an IPC process into a RINA layer, and the dynamic formation of a high-level layer on top of lower-level layers. The latter illustrates how RINA naturally supports the provision of a virtual private cloud service (demonstrated in NSDI 2013). In a GREE 2014 paper, ProtoRINA on GENI is used to experiment with different routing policies configured over different layer topologies. In a CNERT 2014 paper, the programmability of ProtoRINA is demonstrated with the jitter-based routing of video traffic across multiple GENI aggregates.
GENI has been instrumental in testing RINA as it supports repeatable wide-area and non-IP experiments. GENI capabilities and tools—such as stitching distant resources using GRE tunnels or VLANs, configuring the experiment using GUI tools, and visualizing real-time measurements using the GENI Desktop—provide the needed experimental support environment, which has markedly improved over the past two years. Future experiments will continue to test RINA's inherent support for Network Function Virtualization and application-driven network management, demonstrate the programmability of additional recursive-networking policies, and run a long-lived RINA-managed slice on GENI to which users can opt-in to offer or use new services.
A tutorial on running ProtoRINA on GENI was delivered at GEC19; tutorial instructions and a video are available online. The ProtoRINA code, along with its user / programmer's manual and other documentation, are available on the project's wiki page.
Under the leadership of the National Science Foundation, a growing community of researchers, educators, and industry partners have designed, developed, and deployed a working prototype of the next Internet. The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) spans dozens of university campuses across the US, supporting thousands of users with access to deeply programmable cyberinfrastructure that transcends important limitations of the current Internet. The US Ignite initiative brings together corporations, cities, and their advanced application developers and learning communities to bring these new capabilities to bear in key areas of national interest, including education and workforce training, energy, transportation, health, and public safety.
On Wednesday, March 25, we will feature a special event, Beyond Today's Internet: Experiencing a Smart Future. This event will showcase new applications running on deeply programmable cyberinfrastructure that transcends the current Internet and has the potential to completely transform how we live, work, learn and play.
A networking event with demonstrations and posters will be held the evening of Tuesday March 24 at George Washington University. Fifty teams will demonstrate next generation Internet technology and the exciting research and applications it enables.
At the conference you will learn what you can do with GENI by means of presentations and hands-on tutorials, and experience first-hand demos of next-generation applications run on this new network. Learn from engaging keynotes, tech presentations and workshops by leading researchers and visionaries. Hear from community leaders highlighting recent case studies, success stories and best practices to improve your group's next-generation technology initiatives.
The conference is hosted by The George Washington University, Washington DC. Please register online via this link:
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If you have questions about the event or would like to get your organization involved, please email Henry Yeh.
This GEC completed the transition to a new conference structure based on community feedback at GEC19. Day 1 of the conference was primarily for newcomers to GENI; Days 2 and 3 formed the core of the conference with sessions of interest to experimenters, campus operators and developers; and Day 4 was primarily for GENI developers. This new format was well received, especially by developers who appreciated having time for discussions on Day 4 without being pulled away but other concurrent sessions.
Over 80 attendees participated in the Day 1 newcomer tutorials. About half of them used the new jFed graphical tool while the other half used the new Jacks tool. A new session on this day had attendees pick one or more assignments of interest to them and work on them without the aid of step-by-step instructions. The objective was to prepare them to work independently on their own experiments.
Presentations and tutorial instructions for all the conference sessions are available on the GEC agenda page.
Highlights of the general sessions:
The demonstrations and poster session included 39 demonstrations and posters. As with the last GEC, attendees voted for the best demonstration. The winning demonstrations were:
The GENI-Enabled Vehicular Sensing and Control demonstration by Hongwei Zhang, Jing Hua, Yuehua Wang, Jin Hai and Chaun Li of Wayne State University showed the real-time collection of a vehicle's internal state and surrounding data while it was driven around the Wayne State campus (Figure 1). As seen in the diagram, data was sent from the vehicle to a GENI Rack for processing over multiple wireless technologies: the GENI WiMAX network when in range of the campus WiMAX base station and the Sprint LTE network when out of range. A private network in GENI was used to carry the data from the GENI WiMAX network to the GENI Rack. The team used the GENI LabWiki GENI tool for monitoring system performance.
Francesco Bronzino, Ivan Seskar, Kiran Nagarajan of Rutgers University demonstrated the latest advancements in the MobilityFirst (MF) Future Internet Architecture project. They showed their network protocols support at-scale mobility, trustworthiness and improve data transport to mobile devices. Their topology; depicted at Figure 2, spanned seven GENI sites: U. of Utah, U. of Wisconsin, UIUC, NYSERNET, GPO-BBN, NYU/NYU-Poly and Rutgers-WINLAB. Each site has one or more core network routers running the whole MobilityFirst network stack and are interconnected over the GENI backbone. The core interconnection is set up using a multi-point VLAN provided by Internet2′s advanced layer-2 services (AL2S). At three sites (Rutgers, NYU and Wisconsin) there are also edge networks connected to the MobilityFirst backbone. Each edge network had clients connecting over the local WiMAX network. The edge network also hosted a compute cloudlet running a video caching and transcoder service. This setup was used to run the in-network rate-adaptation service for a DASH video streaming application, with the DASH-enabled content server at the Wisconsin site, and clients at the Rutgers and NYU WiMAX networks. The access link was monitored using a routing layer service at the access router and the rate-adaptation was dynamically invoked if the access bandwidth dropped below the server encoded rate. For the demonstrations, the drops in access bandwidth were emulated by adjusting bandwidth reports, to simulate link quality variation from client mobility. GENI OMF/OML instrumentation and measurement tools were used during the demo to monitor the network.
Suman Banerjee of the University of Wisconsin and Anthony Kapela of 5Nines Network used two kinds of aerial vehicles—drones and small aircraft— in their GENI takes Flight demonstration to illustrate capabilities of the GENI's wireless infrastructure. In each case, the goal was to stream live, interactive video and audio from the aerial vehicle to the GEC audience at UC Davis, The video and audio streams were captured using a camera (mounted on the drone and the aircraft) and was streamed over WiMAX base stations, via an InstaGENI VM installed in the GENI rack in Madison, WI. Since the capacity of the WiMAX link can be variable, they installed a media transcoding service in the aerial vehicle. The transcoding service was implemented as part of the compute layer of the MobilityFirst network stack and installed in a Raspberry PI connected directly to the camera system.
The aircraft flew around downtown Madison and streamed two separate views: (1) A videos stream of downtown Madison and (2) an interactive Skype session between personnel in the aircraft and the audience at UC Davis. The entire session, including the audio and video flows worked well over the aerial link connecting the aircrafts and the WiMAX base stations in the Madison area, successfully demonstrating the transcoding service and the value of the GENI WiMAX infrastructure.
The demonstration by Thanasis Korakis and Fraida Fund of New York Polytechnic School of Engineering was titled Dynamic sensor value estimation for minimizing message exchange in wireless sensor networks. They demonstrated a protocol that uses temporal and spatial relationships between nodes in a wireless sensor network to minimize message-passing in the network. In an offline phase, they collected temperature, light, and humidity measurements from all of the sensors in the network over the course of several days, and applied machine learning techniques to estimate correlations in time and space. In the live demo, they used this information to selectively determine which sensors to request values from, and when, to minimze the total number of messages while still having more than 90% monitoring accuracy across the sensor network. The demo used the GENI WiMAX testbed at NYU, compute resources at the Rutger's GENI rack that were interconnected through the GENI backbone. ,Standard OMF/OML tools were used for instrumentation, archiving of the measurements, and experiment orchestration.
The SciWiNet demonstration by Jim martin and Adam Hodges of Clemson University illustrated how GENI/WiMAX experiments can be extended with coverage from a commercial cellular network. At Clemson, they had a GENI WiMAX handset that had access to SciWiNet (using Sprint's 3G network). A student at Clemson moved out of WiMAX coverage and into coverage of Sprint's network.
The device periodically sent location, signal strength and ping RTT data to a server (a GENI VM) on the OpenGENI rack in Clemson. They showed live visualizations: location/access network, ping RTT time series and audience members could point their browser at a publically available website to see a live map. The visualization showed the device seamlessly moving location and changing access networks.]]>
Over 250 students at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, the University of Thessaly, the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Arizona State University know that real networks don't always obey the models they learn about in the classroom. These students have all run lab experiments on GENI wireless resources as part of classes on computer networks, wireless communications, or mobile computing. GENI wireless resources are deployed at over 14 campuses across the United States. These resources enable researchers to conduct experiments in real-world conditions.
GENI researchers Thanasis Korakis and Fraida Fund at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering have developed a set of prepared experiments on a range of topics, including: wireless link adaptation, IP mobility, TCP congestion control, adaptive video streaming, wireless signal propagation, software defined radio, and QoS of wireless networks. Each experiment is designed to show a side of computer networks that wouldn't usually be covered in textbooks and classroom lectures, and to highlight the differences between the simplified models taught to students and the behavior of real networks.
In their feedback, students consistently refer to three favorite parts of the lab experience: (1) Collecting their own data on a real network, (2) Plotting data using built-in tools, and (3) Running an experiment to answer a question that is relevant to their own lives. Comments include:
The GENI WiMAX lab materials are offered as a fully hosted service – the personalized lab website, course materials, and testbed infrastructure are all hosted at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. The course materials include assessment materials which are automatically graded by computer – multiple-choice quizzes on the content and automated grading of experiment results – as well as open-ended questions which can be graded by an instructor directly on the lab website (Figure 2).
If you are an educator interested in using these materials, please contact us here or email email@example.com.]]>
The current emphasis within the project is towards at-scale validation of protocols and architecture through both realistic testbed evaluation and real-world field trials. Prototypes of the key components of the architecture including a Click-based software router, a distributed global name resolution service (GNRS), storage- and edge-aware routing protocols (GSTAR and EIR, respectively), and a
name-based service API and host stack have been implemented on Linux and Android platforms. These prototypes are readily deployable on the wide-area GENI testbed utilizing layer-2 network connectivity and deep programmability of host and network elements, to enable realistic evaluations of the MobilityFirst features. To date, several experiments and demonstrations have been conducted on the GENI testbed, including the demo at the recently concluded GENI Engineering Conference (GEC-18), where a novel context-based messaging application was built and demonstrated over a long-running deployment of the MobilityFirst prototype network on GENI.
Contextual Messaging Using Name-Based Networking Concepts in MobilityFirst
A contextual messaging application — Drop It — was developed using name-based networking abstractions provided by MobilityFirst, which allows users to drop messages at a location, and to pick up messages left by others at a location. MobilityFirst allows locations (contexts, in general) to be assigned unique names (a GUID – globally unique ID) which help identify them for network operations such as send, recv or get (retrieves content by name). Locations in physical space may be defined (or fenced) by a set of GPS coordinates, for example, and a persistent GUID can be assigned to them by a well-known service. Next, by maintaining meaningful address mappings for a location GUID in the GNRS, endpoints can send and receive messages to/from this context. For instance, a mapping of location GUID to the set of all phones that dropped messages at that particular location can enable a pure peer-to-peer realization of the contextual messaging service, where the 'pick-up' can implemented as an efficient multicast request to each of the phones by using MobilityFirst's get API. It is also possible to realize alternate approaches to pure p2p, where in-network message caches could enable a more robust operation when phones go offline. Further information about the MobilityFirst services and the API can be obtained from the project website and the MobiArch'2013 paper: Network Service Abstractions for a Mobility-Centric Future Internet Architecture.
The GEC-18 demonstrations utilized both GENI wide-area deployments over Internet2's Advanced Layer 2 Service (AL2S), as well as mobile phones handled by volunteers on the demo floor. A total of ten Click-based prototype MF routers (each with a GNRS server instance), five of which functioned as MF edge routers providing WiFi access were used to construct the core-edge topology shown in Figure 1. Five MobilityFirst software routers ran within virtual machines at the five GENI rack sites (U. Utah, U. Wisconsin, BBN, Rutgers, and NYU) and formed the core network. The WiFi/WiMAX wireless edge access was provided by a combination of custom deployed MF edge routers (as WiFi APs) and the GENI campus WiMAX deployments at Rutgers University and NYU Polytechnic. Ten Android phones (some with dual WiFi/WiMAX interfaces), each running the MobilityFirst protocol stack and the "Drop It" application (shown in Figure 2) were carried around by volunteers (except two which were static at Rutgers) who performed message drop and pick-up operations at the several preset locations on the demo floor. Each location was marked with a QR-code tag that encoded the location's GUID, like the one shown in Figure 2. Note that QR codes were used to identify locations primarily due to the difficulties of using GPS indoors. However, QR codes and RFID tags are also the most effective way when defining fine-grain contexts such as a demo booth, which can be quite cumbersome to define using GPS-coordinates.]]>


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- Line Katrin said...
Thanks for sharing. I would like to try out that panel as well. I guess it doesn't bend like paper do when it gets wet. Great to be able to use it different materials at different time. Take care!
- Els said...
Ah Geninne, you're right about the simplicity and advantages of aqua board ... but : I much more like the ruffled edges of watercolour paper ...I think ;-)
- Nadia said...
I love it! I like to try out new things as well, love the colours, they are gorgeous!
- stephanie thomas berry said...
I work with pastels, and their pastelbord is AWESOME! Of course pastels must be framed, but it does make it easier to frame them without a mat, if you have a few tricks up your sleeve. ;)
- Anikó said...
i love the look of this, i like that it can display the work without framing. the glare on glass-framed watercolours always bothers me. i like its square format too!
the only thing that's worrisome is the corners - i'm prone to knock or crease corners, be it board or book :)
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I thought this was a tile at first! (Your artwork on tiles would be amazing!)
- dorothee draft said...
I will try it !
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So cute...
Fofo...in portuguese
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This bird is realy funny with his tuft in head!
for this new media, i don't know, it's new exprience for you.
- Green Morning said...
I always wanted to try those aquaboards but I've been skeptical... it looks like you can achieve same qualities as on paper
- Deb said...
Beautiful Geninne! And I love Aquabord. I normally paint on Arches cold press but have found that Aquabord is great for portraiture. I like that you can fix mistakes that would not be fixable on paper. As I am sure you have discovered it is very different than painting on paper but has its wonderful qualities too.
- Carole said...
Geninne, your birds are amazing. I've never tried aquaboard and maybe I'll give it a shot. Thanks so much for all your inspiration.
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so awesome! I love the colors :)
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Genine, If you would like, get some scratchboard nibs, and then you can scratch in to the clay surface when you are done painting, it could take the place of the RW white ink! I am a scratchboard artist, and love clapboard, aqua board and scratchboards! Fun!
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Fabrication of Fully Transparent Nanowire Transistors for Transparent and Flexible Electronics
1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University; 2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California; 3Department of Chemistry and the Materials Research Center, and the Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing, Northwestern University
In this study, the authors have demonstrated fully-transparent thin-film transistors (TFTs) on both glass and flexible plastic substrates. The TFTs utilize wide-bandgap semiconductor nanowires as the active channels, and transparent conducting oxides for the gate, source and drain electrodes. The transistors exhibit good performance characteristics, including relatively high on currents (up to 10 microamps per nanowire) and high on/off current ratios (required for digital applications in order to achieve low power operation).
Researchers have used nanotechnology to create transparent transistors and circuits, a step that promises a broad range of applications, from e-paper and flexible color screens for consumer electronics to "smart cards" and "heads-up" displays in auto windshields.The transistors are made of single "nanowires," or tiny cylindrical structures that were assembled on glass or thin films of flexible plastic.
"The nanowires themselves are transparent, the contacts we put on them are transparent and the glass or plastic substrate is transparent," said David Janes, a researcher at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center and a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Other researchers had previously created nanowire transistors, but the metal electrodes in the transistors were non-transparent, which made the overall structure opaque, said Tobin J. Marks, the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Chemistry and a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University.
"Our study demonstrates that nanowire electronics can be fully transparent, as well as flexible, while maintaining high performance levels," Marks said. "This opens the door to entirely new technologies for high-performance transparent flexible displays."
Findings were detailed this month in a research paper in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
The advancement has three broad areas of potential applications:
* Transparent displays for uses such as heads-up displays on windshields and information displays on eyeglasses and visors. The displays enable drivers to see information without looking down at the dashboard and could project information on visors for workers without obstructing their view. Potential applications also include sports goggles for spectators to follow a particular player while having relevant statistics displayed and real-time interactive information for soldiers and surgeons.
* Flexible displays for future "e-paper," promising to allow full-motion video. E-paper is a technology designed to mimic regular ink on paper. Unlike conventional flat-panel displays, which use a backlight to illuminate pixels, e-paper reflects light like ordinary paper and is capable of holding text and images indefinitely without drawing electricity while allowing the image to be changed later. Potential uses of e-paper include low-cost, energy efficient ways of displaying information and video as a replacement for paper in magazines, newspapers, books, electronic signs and billboards.
* Transparent and flexible electronics for radio frequency identification tags, electronic bar codes and smart credit cards, which resemble ordinary credit cards but contain an embedded microprocessor. This microprocessor replaces the usual magnetic strip on a credit or debit card, increasing the security of data stored on the card and enabling computers to "talk" to the microprocessor. Such a technology could be used to display balances on cards and could be used for the free flow of people through transportation systems, avoiding the need of ticketing machines or validation gates. The cards could contain encryption software, secure data for use in pay phones and banking, and to contain health-care data for patients and allow tamper-proof identification information for workers.
The nanowires were made of zinc oxide or indium oxide.
Unlike conventional computer chips - called CMOS, for complementary metal oxide semiconductor chips - the thin-film transistors could be produced less expensively under low temperatures, making them ideal to incorporate into plastic films, which melt under high-temperature processing.
Liquid crystal displays now used in applications such as color cell phone screens are made with thin-film electronics. This thin-film technology makes it possible to lay down electronic devices in large sheets containing individual pixels. Current thin-film electronics use technologies known as amorphous silicon and poly-silicon.
"These approaches work fine if you have a flat, rigid display that's going to be opaque," Janes said. "They require fairly high-temperature processing, so they are not good on plastic, although industry is working really hard to get them on plastic and make them lightweight, flexible and transparent."
An alternative, emerging technology uses so-called "organic" or "plastic" transistors to replace the conventional silicon that has been a mainstay of microelectronics for decades. While this technology enables transistors to be embedded in or printed on flexible plastic, it has lower performance, although major advances are being made, Marks said.
The new research represents the best of both worlds.
"You can get high performance because the nanowires themselves give you some unique performance advantages, and you could still think of dispersing them down over large areas for displays, smart credit cards and other applications," Janes said.
The nanowires are transparent because they are made of materials that do not absorb light in the visible range of the spectrum. In conventional electronics, transistors are connected to the rest of the circuitry by tiny lines of metal that act as wires. But in the new approach, the nanowires are the transistors.
"This is a different kind of wire," Janes said. "It is basically taking the place of the silicon in silicon electronics."
One reason for the higher performance realized in the new technology is that the devices have a better "on-off ratio" than previous thin-film technologies, Janes said.
Having a good on-off ratio helps conserve power, making the new thin-film transistors practical for portable battery-powered devices.
"In a transistor, you are trying to turn it off and on, like a switch," Janes said. "But unlike a wall switch in your house, a transistor never really turns completely off. There is always a little bit of leakage through it, sort of like crimping a garden hose."
The nanowire transistors help to reduce this leakage while also offering the possibility of precisely controlling the pixels in displays.
"We think of transistors as switches, but we don't just want them to be full on or full off," Janes said. "We'd like it to have gray scale, to be able to mix up many colors to get different subtle shades. And that's in part where this on-off ratio comes into play. We want to be able to turn it on, have the pixel light up really bright, but we also want to be able to controllably dim it down."
Television screens contain millions of pixels. Rows and columns of circuits crisscross in the large arrays, with each pixel located at the intersections. Control circuitry drives transistors and turns them on and off.
Researchers found that transistors using a single nanowire carry enough current to drive a single pixel.
"Ideally, we want to have circuitry where each pixel has a drive transistor and then some control transistors with it so that you can turn your pixels on and off," Janes said.
The new nanowire transistors could be used to create electronics based on another emerging technology called OLEDS, or organic light-emitting diodes. OLEDS are now used in cell phone and MP3 displays and the newest television sets, Marks said.
Unlike liquid crystal displays, the pixels in OLEDS directly emit light.
"In LCDs, the whole screen is backlit by a white light, and then each pixel is basically just a little filter that you can turn on and off," Janes said. "So the light you see is not directly being emitted by that pixel; it's being kind of screened by that pixel. In OLEDS, each pixel directly emits light, making the color richer and eliminating the need to backlight the display. Because OLEDS pixels are bright only when their part of the image is bright, they are more efficient, and they are ideal for use in transparent displays."
The technology also could be used to create new flexible antennas that unfurl like a sail and aim their signals more precisely than current antennas.
"What the military would really like is for the soldiers to be able to pull up to their destinations and unroll this large-area antenna array and be able to communicate with each other," Janes said "Most antennas don't work this way now. For example, you might notice that your cell phone sometimes gets a signal and sometimes doesn't. Part of the reason for this is that your antenna doesn't have any way to look just in one direction versus everywhere. You want this sort of omni-directional effect in commercial broadcast antennas for television or radio, but for certain military communications you'd like to go just from one soldier to another and transmit in a tight beam."
The new transparent technology has been shown to have "carrier mobilities" similar to those of conventional computer microprocessors, meaning electrons travel in the devices at nearly the same speed as current consumer electronics but in a low-cost, flexible package.
"The significantly higher mobilities than other thin-film transistor technologies offer the potential to operate at much higher speeds and to use much smaller transistors and other devices," Janes said.
Research has been funded by NASA through the Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing, based at Purdue's Discovery Park, and at Northwestern University.
Nanotechnology is critical for the advancement because electricity flows differently on the scale of nanometers, or billionths of a meter, than it does in larger wires. The nanowires used in the research measure as small as 20 nanometers in diameter. A single nanometer is roughly the size of 20 hydrogen atoms strung together.
Future research is expected to include work to integrate the thin-film transistors into large circuits and to develop ways to interconnect numerous transistors.
The Nature Nanotechnology paper was authored by Sanghyun Ju, a postdoctoral research associate in Purdue's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Antonio Facchetti, a research associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University; Yi Xuan, a postdoctoral research associate in electrical and computer engineering at Purdue; Jun Liu, a doctoral student in chemistry at Northwestern; Fumiaki Ishikawa, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California; Peide Ye, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue; Chongwu Zhou, an associate professor of electrical engineering at USC; and Marks and Janes.
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A woman (/ˈwʊmən/), pl: women (/ˈwɪmɨn/) is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights". Unlike men, women are typically capable of giving birth.
The Old English wifman meant "female human" (werman meant "male human". Man or mann had a gender neutral meaning of "human", corresponding to Modern English "one" or "someone". However in around 1000AD "man" started to be used more to refer to "male human", and in the late 1200s began to inevitably displace and eradicate the original word "werman"). The medial labial consonants coalesced to create the modern form "woman"; the initial element, which meant "female," underwent semantic narrowing to the sense of a married woman ("wife").
A very common Indo-European root for woman, *gwen-, is the source of English queen (Old English cwēn primarily meant woman, highborn or not; this is still the case in Danish, with the modern spelling kvinde, as well as in Swedish kvinna), as well as gynaecology (from Greek γυνή gynē), banshee fairy woman (from Irish bean woman, sí fairy) and zenana (from Persian زن zan). The Latin fēmina, whence female, is likely from the root in fellāre (to suck), referring to breastfeeding.
A week is a time unit equal to seven days. The English word week continues an Old English wice, ultimately from a Common Germanic *wikōn-, from a root *wik- "turn, move, change". The Germanic word probably had a wider meaning prior to the adoption of the Roman calendar, perhaps "succession series", as suggested by Gothic wikō translating taxis "order" in Luke 1:8. The term "week" is sometimes expanded to refer to other time units comprising a few days. Such "weeks" of between four and ten days have been used historically in various places. Intervals longer than 10 days are not usually termed "weeks" as they are closer in length to the fortnight or the month than to the seven-day week.
Evidence of continuous use of a seven-day week appears with the Jews during the Babylonian Captivity of the 6th century BC. Both Judaism (based on the Creation narrative in the Bible) and ancient Babylonian religions used a seven-day week. Other cultures adopted the seven-day week at different times. Between the 1st and 3rd centuries the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. Hindus may have adopted a seven-day week earlier than 11th century BC.[citation needed] See Rig Veda. There is evidence of some Chinese groups using a seven-day week as early as 4th century.