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I can't wait to get some good Southern food," was the first thing I thought to myself when I got off the plane at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport last September for the Goodguys 14th Lone Star Nationals. The airline could've lost my luggage and I wouldn't have cared as long as I got some delicious fried okra, catfish, chicken fried steak, or all of the above. People who haven't been to the South don't know what they're missing or possibly even what okra is, and they probably think a chicken fried steak is some frozen thing a diner warms up for you and dumps white gravy on. They really should teach this stuff in school. Regardless, my luggage didn't get lost, and Rob and I were going to make the most of a beautiful weekend in the Lone Star State. I ate what might be the best chicken fried steak ever made at a little place called Babe's that's not too far from the track.
Babe's means business when it comes to chicken. When you walk in their cool old building, the place is filled with banquet tables covered in gingham tablecloths, and there are two things on the menu: fried chicken or chicken fried steak. Once you make your choice, either one is served with salad, mashed potatoes and gravy, and amazing creamed corn. Believe me when I say you don't need dessert after you polish your plate, and a word to the outta-towners, Babe's is also BYOB, so plan accordingly and pick up your own ice cold Shiner Bock beforehand.
Oh yeah, back to the show. If you've never been to the Texas Motor Speedway, it's a cool site and a perfect place for the Goodguys show. There's lots of parking, hotels, and it's close to either Dallas or Fort Worth if you want to see the sights of North Texas. If you come to the show hoping to go home with an award to dangle in front of your buddies, there's plenty given out here, from our own Classic Trucks Top Ten picks to Boyd Coddington's, Rod & Custom's, plus about 50 more from Goodguys, vendors, and others.
There was a decent amount of projects in the infield at the swap meet, along with plenty of parts and some cars and trucks you could drive home, too. There were a few we couldn't believe were still there after the first day-if we could have taken them back to California with us on the plane, we would have. How 'bout the trucks in the show, you ask? Even with both Rob and I covering the event, there wasn't enough time to shoot all the feature-worthy trucks we found-looks like we'll have even more work cut out for us this year. See ya'll there!
Even though the '07 show season is just getting started, plan on making it to the Goodguys 15th Lone Star Nationals October 5-7, and make sure to register early! Go to www.good-guys.com for more info and a schedule.
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Goodguys 14th Lone Star Nationals Top TenWe just about tripped over Stacy Campbell's '70 F-100 Sport Custom because it was sitting on the ground! Needless to say, there's been a bit of chassis work done to get the truck to sit like this. The two-tone '70 now wears a '69 grille and is bagged on 20- and 22-inch billet wheels. I better get back to work on mine...Ed Hopper from Gordon, TX, was happy to receive a jacket and a plaque for his efforts on his gorgeous '48 F-1. The Ford is built for show and go using a Flathead with tons of speed equipment, a five-speed trans, a Mustang II clip, and an interior that's comfier than most people's living rooms. We liked Ed's so much that we shot a full feature on it-look for it coming soon.Keith Talley was another lucky guy who took a Top Ten for his '52 F-1. Keith's truck looks like a straight-up resto, but under the hood is another dressed Flathead with dual carbs, a Clay Smith cam, and a six-volt battery. This truck from Boyd, TX, and Ed Hopper's F-1 made such a nice couple sitting next to each other that we shot the two together for the feature.It was tough to find a shot of Dennis Eaton's '48 Chevy without its hood open because he was busy all weekend surprising people with the giant 572 big-block crate motor nestled between its sunburnt fenders. Steve Silva from Santa Rosa, NM, built the truck for Dennis after he saw Steve's '52 Chevy in the June '06 issue of Classic Trucks. Now the two drive all over the country running amuck in their self-proclaimed "grunge trucks." Watch for a feature on this one, too.Rob Boardman's '54 Ford F-100 might have been one of the cleanest sleepers at the show. The ultra-nice Effie sports countless coats of Sapphire Blue that suck you in when you get too close. The almost-stock exterior hides a Heidt's SuperRide IFS, and under the hood is a Sean Hyland-built 4.6 DOHC Ford hooked to an AOD trans and a Currie 9-inch. Nice work!You might remember Scotty Gray's '47 Ford COE featured in Classic Trucks a while back-well, he's at it again with this '29 Model A roadster pickup that knocked 'em dead all weekend. The little black open-air hauler was light and low with lots of race car-inspired tricks like lightning holes drilled in everything and a stout Ford pushrod motor with a nice magneto sticking out of it!Native Texan Lloyd Triplett drove his '46 Chevy truck to the show to do battle with the sun over whose flames are hotter. It's hard to tell exactly where, but Lloyd's truck has had a total of 5 inches of vertical height cut between the 3-inch chop: 2 inches out of the hood sides and grille to smooth out the post-war Bow Tie's lines. The '46 also has '37 Ford passenger car headlights, a 350/350 combo, and Chevelle underpinnings to smooth things out.
Judging by the looks of it, what do you think Keith Stephens' '68 C-10 has for a powerplant? An LS-1, or maybe a 572 crate motor? Nope, how about the original six-cylinder and Powerglide! The way-cool Chevy from Rockwall, TX, also sports big Billet Specialties wheels, Air Ride, and is used as a shop truck for Stoked Out Specialties. How could you not like it?We're not sure if Brandon Carter from Corinth, TX, was actually dared to be different, but he was nonetheless with his '72 Dodge D-100. When was the last time you saw one of these Dodges at a show, let alone a customized one? Brandon's has a 400 big-block, a 727, and an 8 3/4 rearend, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. He also gave the D-100 a 6/8 drop over the 17- and 18-inch Boyd Coddington Harm wheels, and there's even a set of Bonspeed Roulet gauges inside the two-tone hauler.Billy Pool from Mineola, TX, was awfully proud to show off his '53 F-100, aptly named Copperhead for its blinding paint job, and if that doesn't hinder your eyesight, maybe you'll notice the chrome grille, bumpers, and 20-inch wheels. Under the hood of any good Ford is a...just kidding, but Billy's Effie does have a Chevy 350 for power that moves the Fatman Fabrications chassis complete with their Mustang II IFS and four-link out back.Jason Wilson single-handedly kicked up Oklahoma's reputation (which is hard to do in Texas!) with his amazing '54 F-100. Under the 5 1/2-inch chop is a gorgeous red UltraLeather interior and a BBK-built Ford SOHC motor. The red steel wheels, whitewalls, and spider caps are a nice touch that go hand in hand with the chrome running boards-stay tuned for a feature on this beaut!Has anyone ever tried driving from Amarillo to Fort Worth in a '66 Dodge A-100? Charles Lamb has, and because I didn't get any hate mail for the Econoline I gave a Top Ten to in Waukesha, I figured I'd include this odd duck here. The A-100 is Charles' daily driver, and he keeps the two-barrel-fed 318 in tip-top shape so the Daisy mags can stay rolling across the Panhandle.Toward the end of the show, we found Kenny Murphy's '59 Chevy sitting pretty much by itself in the middle of the infield. Whether we missed it before or he showed up late, we're not sure, but one thing we know is that he got a cool truck. The window sticker told us he's from Farmersville, TX, and the drivetrain was stock, but this Apache's chassis was anything but! If you have a '55-59 Chevy and wondered what it'd look like with the rockers on the ground, here you go.Few people take the time to dress their inline motors as nicely as Keith Stephens in his '68 C-10. The rest of the truck is immaculate, and the engine bay is, too. A few dress-up parts and a lot of planning made it so most of the plumbing and wiring is either out of sight or run as if it were art. Notice the gloss-black powdercoated radiator "hoses."If we understood right, Dennis, Kim, and Chloe Edwards cruised three-wide all the way from Duncan, OK, in their red '50 Studebaker pick 'em up. Studes have some pretty smooth lines from the factory and don't need much to look good, and the Edwards agree. They decided to ditch the flathead and Commander trans for the fail-safe Chevy 350/350, and had a nice red interior stitched up to match the paint.
...So much for resting our feet-we had to see who was going to win between the flathead Ford V-8 and the Chevy straight-six. Guess who? The Chevy!TJ Akins and Nathan Hale were afternoon stragglers, and we're glad they made it with their '70 C-10 longbed and '53 Chevy truck. Both cruised in from Lewisville, TX, and Nathan's blue '53 looks great with Supremes sitting on the boiling pavement next to TJ's C-10 that's slammed as well with a 400 and a Turbo 400 under the hood.You can always plan on doing some shopping whenever you go to a Goodguys show, and Fort Worth was no exception. This is all the more reason to drive a truck into any show, and if you don't have one, there were plenty for sale, whether you were looking for a project or a driver.Gary Coe continued his cross-country tour with his breathtaking F-157 spreading awe and wonderment across the land. It'll be interesting to see who can raise the bar from here and with what over the next few years.Alton Squier headed west for the weekend, driving all the way from Mena, AR, in his EFI 5.7 Dodge Hemi-powered '55 Ford F-100. The '04 Super Tour entrant wears a snazzy '60s-style fade paint job that goes nicely with the polished Americans....


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Miley Cyrus is collaborating with Wayne Coyne on a cover of Beatles' classic "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
The "Wrecking Ball" singer has performed with the Flaming Lips frontman several times during her Bangerz tour, and now they are teaming up off-stage.
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The pair hit the studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma to record their own interpretation of the 1967 classic along with Andrew VanWyngarden from rock band MGMT.
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Coyne posted a picture on his Instagram.com page with the caption, "Miley in the studio vomiting diamonds while singing 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds!!' If you're a Beatles and John Lennon freak you (are) gonna love love love this track!! Got Andrew from MGMT too!!!!"


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Any members on board here? I know there's only 100 members, with me being the "newest". Just wondering if we have anyone on site.
Any members on board here? I know there's only 100 members, with me being the "newest". Just wondering if we have anyone on site.
My dad is a member of the Ncsc. I'd be suprised if there was a member here. I heard a nice 4x3 was shot on the opener by member near the cabin.
What is GVSC? The closest thing I can think of is Grand Valley State U. in Michigan.
Grass Valley Sportsmans Club. Really neat lodge in a secluded location. Commercial kitchen, 40 bedrooms, big living space, all nestled on a medium sized lake with great fishing. The hunting I have yet to delve into, but with the amount of timber harvest and new growth, I should be able to pull a buck out. There's only 100 memberships, and a waiting list for those that do come available, which isn't many. I bought my membership, which lasts my lifetime, with $250 annual fee, and when I pass on, it gets inherited to my son. It's really a great deal for me, as my kids are 16, and 17yo teenagers. They absolutely love it, as they both love fishing/hunting. It's located in California's d3 zone at approx 7000'. From my doorstep, I can be on site in 1.5 hours. It's been around since 1818, and many memberships are grandfathered in, which makes it even more the better!
OK, I went to Grass Valley several times way, way back in my teens. I never knew about the club, though.
In fact, one reason I remember Grass Valley is that I took a hit in the chest one time not far from there. It was a lead chip from a splitting wedge that broke off as I was splitting wood. It bled like a son of a gun, soaking the front of my shirt in no time. I wondered if I would make it to the Grass Valley hospital in time and then the bleeding just stopped. That little chip stayed in my chest muscle for years, showing up on X-rays and eventually just got absorbed, I guess.


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GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. -- Like so many, I've been watching the Olympics with regularity the past few days. Somewhat ironic for someone who describes his own athletic prowess as, jumping to conclusions. But I digress. I love watching these amazing athletes go for it. Years of dreams, training and sweat come down to a split second or less.
And what a powerful moment for the utterly guileless Missy Franklin. Just in case you need to be reminded, she's the three time gold medal winner from Denver who just can't stop smiling. And for good reason.
While winning is of course the goal of all of the athletes who are competing in the Olympics. There appears to be more to it for Missy.
The amazing, 6'1", 17-year-old high school student has followed an unconventional route to gold. She has trained with the same coach since the age of 7. And rather than accept endorsements, which would prevent her from swimming with her high school team, she's going home after the Olympics are over. Returning to the family and friends who have supported her all along.
In an interview following her awe inspiring performance on Monday, Missy talked about her parent's and the example they set. In a voice choking with emotion, she said, "They taught me to be kind and to think of others."
The implications of this are huge. What this says to me is something all of us need to be occasionally reminded of. None of us realize success alone. We do it as a team. Together, as the saying goes, we can move mountains.
Imagine, if all of us really worked as a team what we could accomplish. From Washington, D.C., to hard working news rooms, it could be solid gold.
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Crying can mean that your baby is hungry or needs a diaper change. It can also mean your baby is bored or lonely or fatigued. As you grow used to your baby, you will begin to know what each of her cries means, and you'll learn different ways to comfort her. Babies often have a regular "fussing" time every day, usually late afternoon. Instead of a steady cry, your baby may cry lightly on and off and appear restless. This is normal, and she will outgrow it as she becomes more aware of the world around her.
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A mistrial has been declared in the fraud and bribery trial of two American Samoa officials, according to The Blog of Legal Times.
Lt. Gov. Aitofele Sunia and American Samoa lawmaker Tini Lam Yuen, a senator in the territorial legislature, were charged with fraud and bribery.
The trial, before Judge Reggie Walton in federal court in the District of Columbia, began Jan. 12 and the jury had been deliberating for more than two weeks when it announced on Tuesday that it was deadlocked. Eleven of the jurors said they favored acquittal.
Federal prosecutors in the 2007 indictment of Sunia and Yuen allege that they used their political positions and relationships to secure contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for companies under their control, BLT reported. Under the contracts, the companies supplied classroom and library furniture to the American Samoa Department of Education.
Stephen Anthony, a partner at Covington & Burling and a lead attorney for Sunia, told BLT the jury deliberated "carefully and thoroughly" in the case. He added, "It was clear the jury paid close attention to the evidence." Sunia also was represented by Covington & Burling partner Emily Henn. Yuen was represented by Michele Peterson, an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C.
When the indictment was issued, Lanny Breuer, then a partner at Covington & Burling, was lead counsel for Sunia and appeared in court several times. He withdrew from the case in February 2009, a month after being nominated to head the criminal division at the Justice Department. He recused himself from participating in the prosecution of the case.
The case was prosecuted by DOJ trial attorneys Matthew Stennes and Kathryn Albrecht of the Public Integrity Section. They did not comment on whether DOJ plans to prosecute Sunia and Yuen again, BLT reports.
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There is a growing frustration all across Eastern Carolina over high utility bills, in particular from ElectriCities customers.
ElectriCities is the umbrella organization that oversees management of what's known as the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency made up of 32 municipalities across Eastern Carolina. Collectively they provide power to 268,000 customers. But they're paying more than customers at Progress, Duke and even electric co-ops.
The CEO of ElectriCities tells WITN the bills are as much as 35 percent higher. It has many residents fed up. Even Governor Beverly Perdue is questioning her personal bill at her New Bern home. So why are the bills so high and is anything being done about it?
Lois McClellan of New Bern was happy to get out and work in the yard recently on a nice day where it wasn't too hot or too cold. That also meant she didn't have to worry about spending money by turning on the heat or the air conditioning. "That's a big chunk of the budget, the utilities." Neighbor Durwood Johnson, who's retired and on a fixed income, feels the same. "I only have 1,600 square feet of floor space, heated space, it runs about $500 a month year round and that's a lot."
New Bern Mayor Lee Bettis says he's seen bills much higher than Johnson's, like $1,000 a month for a single wide and more. "The highest one I ever heard is $1,500 a month for an electric bill."
Even Governor Beverly Perdue is complaining about her bill. In March of 2009, she wrote then New Bern Mayor Tom Bayliss a personal letter, saying her most recent ElectriCities bill, "Sounds exorbitant." She goes on to say, "That bill was $537.57 for a house I have not been in since the preceding Christmas and where the thermostat was set at 64 degrees."
The governor's office tells me Perdue, speaking as a private citizen and resident of New Bern, believes the rates she and other ElectriCities customers pay are too high.
So just how many other customers feel the same way as the governor and have been complaining about ElectriCities rates? The governor's office says it doesn't have jurisdiction over such complaints. So what about the North Carolina Utilities Commission? Commission officials say they don't have oversight over ElectriCities and therefore don't handle those complaints. They referred us to the North Carolina Attorney General's Office. But representatives of the attorney general's office said they don't handle such complaints either and referred us to the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority. And guess what? Officials at the authority say they don't handle those complaints either.
Graham Edwards, the CEO of ElectriCities, says aside from complaining to the city where a customer gets their bill, the place which sets the rates, there is no independent oversight. In response to a question that there is not an outside agency that regulates the municipalities that set the rates or ElectriCities, Edwards said, "That is correct."
While Edwards recommends customers take their complaints to city officials like the governor did, the governor's office says the letter she sent had no effect on her bill, or rates for other customers...bills that Edwards acknowledges are higher than what other power customers in North Carolina pay. "If you look at the cities in Eastern North Carolina that are members of the power agency, 20 to 35 percent higher than what Progress Energy would charge."
Recent rate increases contribute to the higher bills, but you have to go back decades to find the biggest reason. That's when ElectriCities bought into the construction of the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant in Wake County. Edwards says four units were to be built at a cost of one billion dollars. The accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility changed that and costs skyrocketed. Instead, they got one unit for four billion dollars. "It's easy to Monday morning quarterback but the folks that made that decision back in the early 80's, they did the right thing at the time. It's just it didn't turn out to be as good a deal as we thought."
And it's a deal customers today continue to pay for in the form of a 2.4 billion dollar debt. That debt is spread out over the 32 municipalities and passed on to its customers. Greenville's share is $364 million, $361 million in Rocky Mount, $350 million for Wilson, $196 million for Kinston, and $144 million for New Bern, just to name a few. That debt won't be paid off for another fifteen years.
New Bern Mayor Lee Bettis says if something isn't done about the rates the entire region could suffer. "People won't be able to move here, people won't be able to stay here, businesses won't locate here."
Residents like Durwood Johnson and Lois McClellan just want something done. Johnson says, "Ya know, I've been here since 74 and it's a fine town and I enjoy it but I do hate paying this high bill that I have to pay every month." McClellan added, "I wish something could be done. I don't know what, but there should be a solution."
WITN did ask the governor's office, in light of her sending that letter, if she is doing anything to try and lower rates. The answer was no. However, others are taking action and we'll take a look at that tomorrow at six.
If you are an ElectriCities customer, we would like to hear from you about your bill. You can send an email to email@example.com or contact him on facebook.


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We have obtained and provided for you a list of approximately 14,000 men aboard the ships of the "Great White Fleet" which sailed
from the east coast of the United States in 1907, rounded South America, stopped in San Francisco, Hawaii and then proceeded from
there to points east.
This list was originally published by the Navy Department - Bureau of Navigation and consists solely of the last name, first and middle
initial(s) of individuals aboard ships. The data is organized sort of alphabetically by ship. For this reason we have not included
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As an alternative, you may peruse this publication by page as follows:
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Page 09 - Battle Ships Georgia and Illinois
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Page 32 - Battle Ship Rhode Island
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Page 36 - Battle Ships Vermont and Virginia
Page 37 - Battle Ship Virginia
Page 38 - Battle Ships Virginia and Yankton
Page 39 - Torpedo Boats Hopkins, Hull, Lawrence, and Stewart
Page 40 - Torpedo Boats Stewart, Truxton, Whipple, and Auxilliary Arethusa
Page 41 - Auxilliary Culgoa, Glacier, Panther
Page 42 - Auxilliary Panther
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For building fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and problem-solving skills, puzzles can't be beat! But to many parents, trying to make sense of the huge variety of formats and styles can feel like a puzzle in itself. Feel like you're missing a piece? Check out our puzzle primer to find the perfect fit for your child:
Before real puzzles come into play, babies develop puzzle skills with simple in-and-out toys. Fill and Spills are a great example—babies place the objects in the hole and dump them out. They're like a soft, squishy puzzle with no wrong answer!
Around age one, children delight in fitting a piece into the "right" spot. Try an oversize Knob Puzzle with just a few big pieces to encourage them. The individual pieces fit into distinct spots in a recessed puzzle board, so each one is like a separate one-piece puzzle. Pieces with large handles are easiest to grasp.
For older toddlers beginning to engage in imaginative play, Chunky Puzzles are ideal. Both puzzles and play sets, they feature big pieces that are easy to hold and thick enough to stand up for pretend play! (They also make good first manipulatives—use them for counting and sorting.)
Like Knob Puzzles, Peg Puzzles offer something to grasp—in this case, a smaller handle that requires a more precise grasp. Some Peg Puzzles have pairs of pieces that fit together in a single space—a big step toward jigsaw puzzles! Pictures under pieces help guide each piece to its home.
Preschool kids embrace the challenge of Wooden Jigsaws—just like "big kid" puzzles, but with helpful aides like a puzzle board that defines boundaries and a limited number of pieces. Gone are pictures under pieces—but you can always provide a printout as a guide. (Find your puzzle at MelissaAndDoug.com.)
Floor puzzles are another great introduction to jigsaws: They have proportionately larger pieces and make a big impact, so they can serve as an encouraging introduction to cardboard jigsaws. They're great for teamwork, too—ideal for social preschoolers!
JIGSAW TIP: Wondering how to choose a piece count? Consider the number of inside pieces to gauge the challenge: a 12-piece jigsaw has 10 side pieces and only 2 middle pieces; a 24-piece puzzle has 8 middle pieces.
From here, just enjoy exploring different types of puzzles to see what fits best! Explore themes, formats, and piece counts. (Click here to see our entire selection.) Then enjoy puzzling together!
Does your kid love dinos, farms, or things that go? These are just a few of the themes that run from our youngest Jumbo Knob Puzzles to our trickiest jigsaws! Following one theme can be an exciting way to see skills progress. It also encourages subject knowledge as the artwork grows in complexity. Check out our "timeline" of a farm puzzler:
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Man in custody after Cameron Park standoff | Crime
CAMERON PARK, CA - A man possibly armed with a weapon was arrested approximately three and a half hours after refusing to come out of a residence in the 2200 block of Winterhaven Drive, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies were called to the home in response to a call for an assault with a deadly weapon around 3:30 p.m. Monday.
According to neighbors and eyewitnesses, 38-year old Miguel Ramirez stabbed a teenage boy who was transported to an area hospital. The teen's injury was not serious.
It wasn't clear if anyone else was in the home with the man.
About 7:45 p.m., SWAT sent in a police K-9 who bit the man, and officers were able to arrest him.
Neighbors said the man is a veteran and he had been involved in several disturbances in the neighborhood.
"He just said he was in Afghanistan and he has scars on his arms from Afghanistan and I guess it was a really bad experience for him," said neighbor Vanessa Zavala.
"He's always got his garage door open, blasting his music most days of the week," said neighbor Parker Wright.
Some homes on Winterhaven were evacuated as a precaution.
Some homes on Winterhaven were evacuated as a precaution.
Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Phil Chovanec said Ramirez would be booked into jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
"Even at the end he was combative and still would not cooperate," Chovanec said.
"I kind of feel bad for him especially since he's married and he has kids and we've seen them," said Zavala.
Chovanec said Ramirez would be offered help.
"When we find individuals liike this we offer them all kinds of medical and psychological services that we can," said Chovanec.


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UCC Foundation Events
UCC Foundation is committed to a number of events that provide value to attendees and allow for donation opportunities. We strive to support a variety of events that appeal to a wide range of interests among our constituents. Please join us at our events. We look forward to seeing you there!
April 8, 2014
Reader's Social
Each April the Foundation invites donors, staff and community members to take part in the Scholarship Reader's Social. This is an uplifting event in which attendees enjoy light refreshments and score scholarship applications from students who plan to attend UCC.
The 2014-2015 Readers' Social is April 8th, 2014 in the Danny Lang Teaching, Learning, and Event Center.
Can't make the event this year? That's okay! You can score applications from the comfort of your home!
July, 18, 2014
The Annual Umpqua Open Golf Tournament
Join us for a fun day on the golf course! Enjoy great company, contests, and prizes for a great cause!
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Opening Night Dinner & Musical
(Oregon Musical Theatre Festival)
This event is hosted every July by the UCC Alumni Association and features a wonderful dinner provided by the UCC Culinary Arts program and priority seating for opening night of the musical.
The 2014 musical will be Oliver. Read more.


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Northwestern College will host 11 Preview Days this school year to provide high school students with an introduction to the college. Preview Days are open to juniors and seniors and their parents, and are an excellent first step for students beginning their college search. The events will be held on January 24th, February 24th, March 14th and April 4th.
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The campus community is invited to attend the sixth annual Bryan House Silent Auction from 7 to 9:15 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19, at Community Christian Church, 1635 Emerson Lane in Naperville (corner of Ogden Avenue and Rickert Drive).
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BEYA Conference to Focus on STEM Opportunities for Minorities
African American engineers, mathematicians, and members of the science and technology community will converge on the nation's capital in less than two weeks for the annual Becoming Everything You Are STEM Conference.
The conference includes training, mentorship opportunities, workshops, and career fairs for professionals already in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, and also aims to entice minority students onto education tracks that lead to STEM careers.
"This conference is very important because it's about the promotion of STEMs within the minority community," said Imani Carter, corporate communications specialist for Career Communications Group, the company that organizes the conference each year.
The conference, now in its' 28th year, will be held at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park from Feb. 6 to Feb. 8.
"There will be career fairs open to the public on during specific times, and career fairs that are geared towards veterans and students," said Carter. "That's a really huge part of the conference because people can come in network and talk with top STEM companies and try to get a job with them."
Seminars will be held on topics including professionalism in the technology workplace, luncheons and dinners will recognize top achievers in the STEM fields, and small businesses will find helpful discussions on how to become and remain successful.
Discussions on climate change, cyber security, green businesses, social media, engineering licensure, and employee management will all be held, as well as seminars on obtaining security clearances.
"There will be a 'Stars and Stripes' mentoring program where people from different military services come and mentor students, and we also have a new veterans program called the veterans transition initiative where they can learn about education and business opportunities," Carter said.
Carter said the conference will feature a host of activities for students, veterans, members of the armed forces, and those currently contributing to areas of science, technology, engineering, and math.
"There is a deficit of minorities in these fields," said Carter. "A lot of people stray away from STEM fields because they don't see the opportunities."
According to Myron L. Hardiman, executive director of the Advancing Minorities' Interests in Engineering program at Morgan State University, improving diversity in STEM fields can bring secondary benefits to minority communities.
"Hopefully, as more minorities go into these fields they are able to establish careers and they, in turn, will reach back and assist other young minorities get into those fields," he said. "From an economic standpoint, as more minorities get better paying jobs that should have a positive economic impact on their neighborhoods."
Hardiman said his program works to develop partnerships between corporate government agencies and historically black colleges and universities. Past participants have taken their work as far as Afghanistan, helping to rebuild the country as members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
"The STEM areas really form the basis for everything that gets done from a technology and science standpoint," Hardiman said.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, by the year 2020, jobs within system software development are expected to increase by 32 percent. Professions dealing with medical science will increase by 36 percent, while careers within computer systems analysis will increase as much as 22 percent.
Statistics released by the Department of Education show that "only 16 percent of American high school seniors are proficient in mathematics and interested in a STEM career," but professions within the mathematics field are expected to rise by 16 percent.
Biomedical engineers stand to see the most gain within the next six years, as the Department of Education expects jobs within that field to increase by 62 percent.
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The conference kicked off with live deep-dive sessions of "Marketo University." These were interactive, hands-on workshops and included pre-work for participants. The content was of a high quality and relevant, especially for advanced users. I wish I could have attend all of the sessions, and I had a hard time prioritizing them.
Cisco Systems, Andy MacMillan, SVP, Products for Data.com and Salesforce.com, and Justin Gray, CEO and Chief Marketing Evangelist at LeadMD. Jon Miller, VP Marketing and Co-Founder of Marketo, led several break-out sessions and delivered an excellent presentation on the Lead Qualification process – after all, Marketo is best-in-class when it comes to SDR and sales teams.
My top five key takeaways from the Summit:
- Don't do social, be social.
- The role of Marketing is shifting – make friends with Sales & IT.
- If you can't report on it, why are you doing it?
- Less than 20% of inbound leads are "sales-ready" and typically need to be nurtured for 4 months.
- When talking to your CEO/CFO, provide details of the ask and how the expense will make a difference.
The Revvies award ceremony, where Marketo customers were recognized for their achievements in the innovation, leadership, success metrics and business impact categories. TheLadders was named the winner of the Most Dramatic Business Impact award in B2B, which is a huge achievement. We implemented the software in November 2011, and I'm proud to say it had immediate impact on business and culture across the sales and marketing teams.
Kudos to the teams here at TheLadders who made it happen!
Inga Romanoff is Director, Enterprise Marketing for TheLadders and the Marketo Regional User Group Leader in New York City with over ten years of marketing experience in the U.S., Russia, Europe and Asia PAC. Inga is responsible for strategic initiatives in developing the B2B platform at TheLadders.


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DERWOOD, Md. (WUSA) -- John R. Johnson may have been 73-years old, but he got up at 3:45 a.m. every day to work at Washington's Navy Yard because he loved work and people.
He simply did not want to retire, his family said. He was the oldest victim of Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis.
"He never met a stranger," said his wife Judy Johnson outside the couple's home in Derwood, Md. Tuesday. "My husband was a wonderful, wonderful man. He was always happy. Always positive."
His family doesn't know if Johnson was acquainted with Alexis.
"I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't stand up and try to talk the guy out of it, I'm serious," Judy said.
"He would have hugged him," said daughter Erin.
Johnson, known as "J.J." to his friends, was a career logistics analyst working for a contractor serving the Navy, his family said. He liked to work early and park more than a mile from the Navy Yard to get in a brisk walk each day. "Plus he liked parking for free," laughed his eldest daughter Erin Zagami.
Johnson, a widower, has four adult daughters and nine grandchildren. He remarried 8 and a half years ago.
"Every morning he said 'goodbye beautiful. I love you so much. You have a good day and God bless you," said wife Judy. She said she talked with J.J. at about 7:30 a.m. before the shooting broke out and after he had arrived at work.
Johnson's daughters were among the families who gathered at Nationals Park to meet survivors being brought out of the Navy Yard after the shootings. When J.J. didn't get off the last bus, the family was pulled aside by officials.
"I'm still in shock," said Judy through tears.
Johnson had lived in the same home in Derwood for 42 years. "How does somebody that nice be in the wrong place at the wrong time," said neighbor Robert Durst.
Johnson was a native of Minnesota who served in the National Guard, and worked for Boeing in Tacoma, Washington early in his career. He moved to the Washington area to begin work for the Navy and stayed. He loved surf fishing in North Carolina and ice hockey. He was a huge fan of the Capitals and the Redskins, his family said.
But mostly they said, he was an extremely devoted grandparent, parent and husband.
Johnson had a "very strong faith" his family said. He was a member of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Gaithersburg, where he will be memorialized.


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ExxonMobil headquarters in Houston rapidly developing
Newscast Media HOUSTON—Forty-seven years ago, Coventry Development
Corporation purchased 1,800 acres of land and waited for the right job creator.
ExxonMobil came along a few years ago, and purchased 386 acres that will house a
new community called Springwoods Village. It is scheduled for completion in 2015.
The community is more like a small city near Interstate-45 and the Hardy Toll Road.
"There will be more than 12,000 people working in Springwoods Village," Coventry
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Convert Windows XP Machines Into Secure Thin Clients
2X Thin Client Management prolongs the life of PCs with legacy operating systems such as Windows XP by converting them into secure thin clients, delivering considerable cost savings. 2X Remote Application Server will create a shell in which you can securely run a virtual desktop or applications and disable most of the OS, leaving it immune to viruses. What's more, the device can then be fully managed from the 2X RAS Management Console. Learn more here.
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2X Thin Client Management can do the same for Windows 7 and 8 machines, installing a secure shell that allows you to run virtual desktops and applications, without having to worry about the underlying operating systems. You can manage these ex-fat clients – which are now immune to viruses – from the 2X RAS Management Console.
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Project Max Effort 1967 Cougar Three-piece Splined Sway Bars - Control The Roll!Written by on December 1, 2012 We show you how to upgrade to a splined sway bar in any car!
One thing that we should probably clear up right off the bat is that an antiroll bar—more popularly known as a sway bar—is not the final word in handling, nor is it the most important component; they're simply a tuning tool that must be tailored to work with the rest of a suspension system to get the desired handling effect. Sway bars do that by adjusting the understeer/oversteer balance of a car as it negotiates a curve by essentially coupling the front wheels together and using torsion to overcome body roll. That coupling also allows fine-tuning of the amount of load that transfers to the outside tires during cornering.
The key word in all of that is tuning. Technically, you can run a car without sway bars and get similar roll resistance by cranking up the spring rate, but you'll end up with a car that's extremely stiff and doesn't handle bumps or irregularities well. Sway bars (either in tandem or singly in the frontend of the car) allow for softer springs, since it's essentially an auxiliary torsion spring that only comes into play when you need it the most: while cornering.
Sway bars come in two styles: standard one-piece bars, and three-piece splined bars, often referred to colloquially as NASCAR bars. Nearly all factory cars use one-piece bars and soft rubber bushings since they are cheap to manufacture and will create enough roll resistance without sacrificing comfort. Many enthusiasts turn to larger-diameter one-piece bars with polyurethane bushings to increase effectiveness, but there are still some inherent drawbacks like deflection and binding.
That's not to say that traditional-style one-piece bars and bushings don't work well; they absolutely do on many cars, but they introduce variables that are difficult to tune out on serious Pro Touring or track cars. By design, single-piece bars can and do flex along the arms as well as on the torsion spring section of the car, which causes an incalculable reduction in the bar rate of the whole assembly. Larger, stronger bars negate some of this, but the torsion is still not isolated to the torsion spring. The binding and deflection part comes from the use of pliable mounts that squish since they absorb energy rather than forcing the bar to handle all of it. That can result in unpredictable winding and unwinding of the sway bar when under extreme loads.
The three-piece splined sway bar effectively eliminates both problems since it typically uses spherical bushings or bearings at the end of the torsion bar that eliminates deflection and binding. The splined arms are also much more rigid than the one-piece bar's arms, so the torsional force from the suspension is focused upon the torsion spring itself.
As for the tuning aspect, because of their extensive use in motorsports, splined bars are available in a large selection of bar sizes and rates, plus they're easy to swap in and out, giving you the ability to tune your car quickly for a specific activity. One-piece bars are usually only available in one or two diameters and are platform-specific rather than universal, so you're limited to what's available on the market. For quite a few offbeat classics, there may not be anything available.
The good news is that with a little planning and the correct parts choice, you can upgrade to a splined sway bar on any car; all you really need is a flat surface to locate the mounts, the tabs on the lower control arms for the endlinks, and arms with the proper bends to clear steering and other components.
With all that said, do you actually need one? Maybe. It depends on how hard you like to drive your car and how much control you want over making adjustments. For the Max Effort '67 Cougar project car, the tunability of the suspension is vital, so we'll be installing a splined sway bar from CorteX Racing.
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When it comes to locating the mounting points for the sway bar mounts, the ideal spot is a flat area on the frame forward of the control arms, which may require a small amount of fabrication on some cars. Exactly where the mounts are located will dictate not only the length of the arms needed, but also the diameter and rate of the bar required. Make sure to account for clearance on the arms as well.To create the mounting points on our '67 Cougar, Ryan Kertz of Kertz Fabrication cuts two stripes of sheetmetal at 9x2 inches.Back under the Max Effort Cougar, Kertz uses a small template to outline the area where the nuts will need to pass through the frame.Kertz used a Miller Extreme 375 plasma cutter to make quick and clean work of the holes, but a drill and a carbide burr can also get the job done. Just remember to account for the size of the weld since the plate needs to sit flush to the frame.The spherical bearing in the mounts are intended to be quite snug, so sliding them onto the bar will likely require a little persuasion from a dead blow hammer. The mounts should be equally spaced from the end of the bar. Double-check against the plates on the car as you go.Once the mounts are installed on the bar in their final position it can be bolted into place, and these collars are installed to lock the bar in the inboard side of the mounts. The collars prevent any unwanted side-to-side sliding of the bar in the mounts.
For mounting the sway bar arms to the lower control arms, all that is needed are simple tabs like these. The endlink itself is a pair of rod ends that will allow movement through the range of travel without binding or deflection. Note the multiple mounting holes for the endlink on the sway bar arm; these effectively shorten or lengthen the arm to aid in suspension tuning.Here's the full kit installed on the Max Effort Cougar. Between the tunability of the sway bar and the coilovers, we should have all the options we need to dial in Max's performance once it's out on track.This install was actually the end of an extended stay for our Cougar at Infineon Raceway in the capable hands of Filip Trojanek of CorteX Racing and Ryan Kertz of Kertz Fabrication. With their help we've mostly wrapped up the chassis and suspension work, so it's time to move on. We owe these two a great deal of gratitude for their hard work and knowledge. There is still a lot of work to do, but it's definitely got the stance and attitude!


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Taxes and regulations thwart air cargo growth
September 07, 2011
With the air cargo market continuing its decline, shippers are demanding that global governing bodies reassess their positions on taxes and new regulations.
Freight markets, which reflect economic sentiment more quickly than passenger markets, showed a decline of 0.4 percent in July compared to the previous year. The nature of the weakness has changed. In 2010, airlines were losing market share to other modes of transport as world trade expanded. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan, coupled with the general economic gloom are now the main driving factors of continued weakness.
Asia-Pacific carriers continue to show the weakest freight performance with a 3.6 percent decline compared to July 2010. Middle East and Latin American carriers showed the strongest performance with gains of 8.4 percent and 8.2 percent respectively.
Freight load factors have declined significantly (1.8 percentage points) to the pre-recession level of 45.0 percent. Asia-Pacific carriers, the largest in the market, have seen load factors slip to 58.1 percent (from 60.2 percent in July 2010). While the region suffers from a major imbalance with strong outward flows of manufactured goods and weak inbound traffic, the scale of their home carrier operations allows for better capacity utilization.
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), some of the challenges have a high percentage of government-made content.
"The recent downsizing of Air Berlin is a clear reminder of the high cost of the German departure tax on the economy, jobs and communities. Governments should not compromise aviation's role as an economic catalyst for the short-term revenue gain of gratuitous taxation—particularly when economies remain weak," IATA noted in a recent report.
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I've been a Canon and Nikon user from the beginning and changing to micro 4/3 system (huge learning curve for me).
Currently waiting on the OM-D E-M5. And a new Oly 50mm f/2.0 lens "for E1, E300 & E500 Digital SLR Cameras".
Will I need an adapter?
I realize focus will be dreadfully slow on the macro (I shoot in manual focus for macros anyway). But want to set myself up to receive other Olympus AF lenses in the future as I build my kit.
Do I buy the Olympus MMF-3 4/3 Adapter for $179 (Amazon)? Or the cheapies by fotodiox for $20? Again, I'd like AF functional on future lenses except this macro.
Anything else I should know from you Oly veterans? Might there be a manual equivalent as sharp as the new AF 50mm lens cheaper elsewhere? Seems a waste to pay for AF if I won't be using it.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Police are searching for several suspects in connection to a burglary incident.
The incident happened around 7:05 p.m. on Sunday at Mckinley Technical High School located at 151 T Street, NE when suspects entered the school and stole belongings.
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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Brendon de Jonge had more birdies than people in his gallery Saturday at the AT&T National to take a one-shot lead over Tiger Woods and two others.
De Jonge had three birdies for a 2-under 69 on a bizarre day at Congressional. An overnight wind storm toppled trees, leading tournament officials to keep spectators and all but essential volunteers off the course. Except for Woods, most players had no one watching.
De Jonge was at 7-under 206 as he goes for his first PGA Tour win.
Woods got within one shot of the lead with four birdies on his opening 10 holes, but no closer. He had a 67 and was one shot back, along with Bo Van Pelt (67) and S.Y. Noh (69).


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Charles E. Messick receives the Administrator's Gold Award upon his retirement after more than 40 years of public service. From left to right: Anne Harrington, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation; Charles E Messick, Susan Messick, and Frank Klotz, DOE Undersecretary for Nuclear Security and NNSA Administrator.
This month, employees at the National Security Campus in Kansas City, Mo., are celebrating the completion of the last "build ahead" part needed to maintain their 99.9 percent on-time delivery record during one of the nation's largest industrial moves. More than 275 unique part numbers encompassing 20,000 components were built in advance to ensure uninterrupted deliveries while production departments were transitioning between sites.
Several years before the massive move to the National Security Campus began, Honeywell planned to build an inventory of sophisticated components by establishing a plan for each part number to satisfy requirements for more than 20,000 components. The effort required the development of a new Manufacturing Transformation Database, which helped to schedule supply chain and production activities.
This on-time, on-budget move represents a significant part of Federal government's focus on modernization and infrastructure investment. As one of the only LEED® Gold-rated manufacturing facilities, the modern campus showcases innovative space management and cost savings of $100 million annually.
The Pantex Plant honored veterans at its recent annual ceremony to commemorate Armed Forces Day. Members of the Pantex Fire Department Honor Guard raised the American flag as attendees recited the Pledge of Allegiance and sang the national anthem. Pantex has been holding an Armed Forces Day ceremony for more than 15 years to honor those who served.
Pantex has a long history of supporting military personnel and currently employs 782 military veterans amongst its workforce of approximately 3,100 people.
In an effort to raise awareness of bike safety and to protect their fellow cyclists, a group of Pantexans recently left their cars in the garage and hopped a two-wheeled ride to work. The six Pantexans met in Amarillo, Texas and rode their bicycles approximately 25 miles to the Pantex Plant, then returned to Amarillo after a full day's work.
Joining a list that includes structures like the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower, the Savannah River Site has officially been named as a Historical Landmark by ASM International, the professional society for materials science and manufacturing.
SRS is one of only three landmarks designated from the current year's class of nominees. ASM historical landmarks identify sites and events that have played a prominent part in the discovery, development and growth of metals, metalworking and engineered materials. The designation became official with the dedication of a historical marker, presented by Professor Ravi Ravindran, current President of ASM International.
Ravindran noted that the award recognized SRS for advancements in the production of tritium, plutonium and other isotopes used in national defense, research and medical applications. Ravindran cited several contributions over SRS's history, including large-scale production of aluminum-lithium alloys; production of kilogram quantities of radioactive waste glass; materials science improvements made at SRS through the U.S. tritium program; and discovery of the neutrino, a Nobel Prize-winning experiment conducted at the P Reactor.
Savannah River National Laboratory Director Dr. Terry Michalske joined Ravindran at the marker presentation, acknowledging that that the listing validated the work of people who contributed throughout decades of research, development and execution. The marker will be permanently placed near the former M Area facilities, where fuel and target assemblies were once produced for the site's production reactors.
About the photo: President of ASM International Professor Ravi Ravindran presents the ASM historical landmark plaque to Executive Vice President and Director of SRNL Terry Michalske.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists Jennifer Pett-Ridge and Todd Gamblin have been selected by DOE's Office of Science Early Career Research program to receive funding for proposed projects.
Jennifer Pett-Ridge was selected for her work titled "Microbial Carbon Tranformations in Wet Tropical Soils: The Importance of Redox Fluctuations.
Todd Gamblin will receive funding for a project to accelerate the adaptation of scientific simulation codes to increasingly powerful supercomputers.
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About the photos:Lawrence Livermore scientist Jennifer Pett-Ridge will receive funding through the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Early Career Research Program for her research in soil microbial communities and carbon cycling in the tropics.
Lawrence Livermore computer scientist Todd Gamblin will receive up to $2.5 million in funding through the DOE's Office of Science Early Career Research Program to accelerate the adaptation of scientific simulation codes to increasingly powerful supercomputers.
For the past two weeks, a group of volunteers at Pantex has been collecting donations for the Snack Pak 4 Kids program, gathering an impressive amount of food for needy children.
Pantexans donated more than $1,000 to the effort, as well as a variety of food items, which were placed in barrels located throughout the plant.
Snack Pak 4 Kids is an Amarillo-based charity started in 2010 to provide backpacks with snacks in them for children to take home for the weekend. The program is designed to provide food to hungry children when they are away from school and unable to access a reliable source of sustenance. The program serves more than 4,000 students in 24 school districts in the Texas Panhandle.
The volunteers this week delivered 5,000 Pop Tarts, 82 jars of peanut butter, as well as other snacks and money donated by Pantexans.
About the photo: A Snack Pak 4 Kids volunteer, left, helps Dale Philyaw unload food donated by Pantexans.
Catalyst, a first-of-a-kind supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is available to industry collaborators to test big data technologies, architectures and applications.
Developed by a partnership of Cray, Intel and Lawrence Livermore, this Cray CS300 high performance computing cluster is available for collaborative projects with industry through Livermore's High Performance Computing Innovation Center.
The supercomputer is a resource for NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing program and will provide a common user environment across NNSA's national labs.
About the photo: The Catalyst supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore employs a Cray CS300 architecture modified specifically for data-intensive computing. The system is now available for collaborative research with industry and academia.
To highlight the successful completion of the major goals of the 1993 HEU Purchase Agreement, Greg Dwyer, Director of the U.S.-Russia HEU Transparency Program within NNSA's Office of Nonproliferation and International Security, recently spoke at a side event at the United Nations in New York City. The event, which took place under the auspices of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, included delegates, nongovernmental organizations and other attendees. It was moderated by Mr. Adam Scheinman, Senior Advisor for Nuclear Nonproliferation in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the Department of State, and included a presentation by Mr. Vladimir Kuchinov, Senior Advisor to the Director General of the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, "Rosatom."
Dwyer's presentation focused on the transparency monitoring and technical aspects of the 1993 Agreement, how monitoring was conducted in Russian nuclear facilities and the results after twenty years. Kuchinov's presentation focused on the history of the 1993 Agreement and its commercial success.
NNSA's full presentation slides are available here.
About the photo: (left to right) Vladimir Kuchinov, Senior Advisor to the Rosatom General Director, Adam Scheinman, Senior Advisor for Nuclear Nonproliferation in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the U.S. Department of State, and Greg Dwyer, Director of NNSA's HEU Transparency Program, discuss the successfully completed 1993 U.S.-Russia HEU Purchase Agreement.
Anne Harrington, NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, visited the Kansas City Plant recently for a facility tour of the new National Security Campus and to receive project briefings on its proliferation deterrence programs.
During the visit, Harrington toured the Analytical Sciences Lab, one of the most complete and diverse labs under one roof. The lab provides analysis such as metallurgical diagnostics, mechanical/physical testing, environmental testing, and analytical chemistry to test a product under any condition and understand the conditions for product failure.


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Current AnnouncementsFROM: Swarn Gill RE: Promotion Workshops Fall 2012
Sent: 9/5/2012 12:25:34 PM
To: Faculty, Staff
Dear Faculty,
The University Wide Promotion Committee (UWPC) will be holding two Promotions Workshop sessions:
· Wednesday, September 12, 2012 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m
· Thursday, September 13, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 12 noon
NEW LOCATION!! Both Promotion Workshops will be held in Keystone 209
The Promotions Policies and Procedures will be distributed and reviewed at the Promotion Workshops.
Applicants are encouraged to attend one of these sessions; however, the Promotion Workshop will also be archived and broadcast live over the web for those who cannot make it onsite for the sessions.
The current copy of the Promotion Application and the Promotion Policy can be found in the Public Folders. Go to "Faculty/Staff Resources>Promotion Committee". Copies of the forms are available for download in the Public Folders.
Swarn Gill
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Nice to see you again. Most birds are thinking of surviving the winter cold by going south or producing layers of fat and new types of insulating feathers. Right now, and into late January, the Great Horned Owls are already going through their courtship hooting rituals. Since they mate for life most pairs by their intense hooting, are just resurfacing old bonds.
Sometime in late January the females will have found a suitable nesting site in their territory. Since these owls don�t build their own nests, they must rely on last year�s nests of crows, red-tailed hawks, and even squirrel leaf clusters to lay their two to five eggs. When Great Horned Owls live in suburban areas, ledges of buildings have been used.
Because of the cold weather, eggs are incubated as soon as they are layed. The late layed eggs hatch out three to four days later, causing possible death. Bird, like chickens or pheasants, lay all their eggs - usually one a day - before incubation, so they all hatch out at the same time. Once the female owl lays her eggs, she becomes the nest tender, depending on the male to bring her food. Biting cold, driving winds, swinging trees, snow, and pelting sleet or rain seem to make her more determined to hatch the eggs she is protecting.
If Mother Nature has been kind, sometime in early March the fuzzy young hatch out. The female will hover over the young for the first week, but eventually will leave them, more or less on their own, except to bring them food, which she and the male will catch. Most of the feeding is done several times during the night. The adults will kill any kind of bird or mammal by can catch. The young are fed a diet of rats, mice, rabbits, pigeons, pheasants and skunks -- yes, I said skunks!
Apparently, the Great Horned Owl has good eyesight and hearing, but poor smell. Many nest sites and even the adults when they are captured or found dead, will smell of skunk. One night i smelled skunk. When I turned on the porch light and went outside, there was a Great Horned Own on top of a squirming skunk. The owl flew away, but the next morning, the skunk was gone.
Owls swallow most of their prey whole, or in chunks. Some body parts are not digested and later on are regergitated in the form of pellets. Inside these balls of fur and feather can be found the bones, jaws, and the entire skulls of small birds and mammals. Many of these pellets may be found at an often used feeding site. When I was teaching biology at Boyertown, I would gather pellets and take them to school for the students to disect. Using a special lab manual, the students could identify the owl food.
Other than humans, the greatest problem for the Great Horned Owl must be crows. The large black birds seem to know where every owl roosts, and the location of all the nests. It appears when things get boring, crows love to gang up on dozing owls, and harass them around the woods until they tire of the chase. They never bother an owl on nest, but will send scouts to check on a nesting female.
With a good diet, the young grow rapidly, and by the 6th week, they are ready to leave the nest. At this time, the young owls can be seen sitting on the edge of the nest, or on a branch some distance from the nest.
When they leave the nest areas, their first flight is usually a disaster. They will leap from the nest, flapping their wings, but more often than not, come crashing to the ground. Using their hooked beaks and sharp toe claws, they will climb to some higher perch. They can be found immediately in an area of the nest tree for a day or two, but apparently the parents, by teasing them with food, get them to leave the nest area. The youngsters are cared for by the parents through the summer, and into the fall. By the time next years courting season rolls around, the old birds have forcefully chased the juniors out of the territory.
The �archduke of the woods� is a powerful predator. Since it is often heard, seldom seen, and mysterious in its ways, the night time hooting can strike fear into the hearts and minds of many a woodland visitor.
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I think I was pretty clear. if the person is not looking up THEY ARE NOT GOING TO SEE YOU. not sure why you would come to the opposite conclusion. ???
if the person is not looking your probability of being hit is unchanged no matter where you are in their path. you could be waving a 5ft flat in front of their windscreen and if they are not paying attention they are still going to paste you.
See you without noticing you ?? your going to have to clarify that for me. that makes no sense ???
Further out in the lane. No we can't agree on that because that is not what I am discussing.
if your "IN" the lane you should "TAKE" the lane. no half A&& about it. if you try to scrub a lane your going to encourage lane splitting by cars. ie "close passes"
I am talking about using the wide easy shoulder "OUTSIDE" the lane such that a car does not even have to move asside to safely pass me. the car can simply ignore me as long as he does not go over the white line I am safe.
if there is no shoulder at all and you MUST enter the "lane" you should "TAKE" the lane when feasible and vacate that road as quickly as feasible as your "asking for it" staying their. because no matter how nice drivers may be eventually you GOING to encounter one not paying attention. ie ride with extreme caution. have mirrors etc.. so you can watch out for that one driver not paying attention. not saying you don't have a right to be their. but logic is logic. USE CARE.
and like I said before. 4000 pounds car. 200 pound meat bag . The meat bag loses every time :-) I am a 400 pound meat bag and I stand no greater chance.


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Allright... Same question, different way of asking it...
Does anyone know how to get Lee to run in Episode 2? I have been trying to get my Ipad to make him run away from the walkers and stay behind the tractor. I cannot seem to get him to run and keep getting chomped.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there another way of getting away?Has anyone experienced this? Has anyone done this and had it work?!?


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APL announces plans for new Chicago-area intermodal terminal
July 06, 2011
Container shipping carrier APL recently said it has made a land purchase in Joliet, Illinois to develop an intermodal container terminal. APL officials said the company purchased 43 acres of space from CenterPoint Properties within the CenterPoint Intermodal Center, the largest inland port in the United States.
APL spokesperson Pam Pung told LM that the driver for this purchase was that APL wanted be closer to the international rail terminals in the logistics park as well as the growing customer base in that area.
"APL continuously evaluates the efficiency and service level provided by its intermodal network," explained Pung. "A search for a suitable location for the facility began once it became apparent that both major western railroads [BNSF and Union Pacific] would have their terminals located in the CenterPoint Intermodal Center."
In terms of shipper benefits, Pung said that shippers enjoy proximity to the rail terminals and the growing number of distribution centers and warehouses in that area. What's more, she said that technological investments APL is making in the terminal gate and operating systems will facilitate time-efficient cargo flows in/out of the yard its customers.
In addition to the APL-owned and operated marine terminals in Los Angeles, Oakland and Seattle, APL has more than 80 intermodal container yards in the cities and markets that it serves in the U.S. Most are contracted with third parties, with APL owning the facilities in Chicago, South Kearny and Atlanta.
Pung said this facility will have approximately 1,500 wheeled parking spaces, with the capacity to handle far beyond that with decking capability for both loaded and empty containers.
This new facility is expected to be completed by December, with APL saying it will function as its Chicago Global Gateway and serve shippers in Chicago and surrounding areas. In time, it will replace APL's Chicago-based container terminal, which has been functional since 1985.
"The purchase of this land is in line with APL's long term strategic objectives. APL has a strong trans-continental intermodal network in the US and we want to build on that strength," said APL Americas President Gene Seroka in a statement.
Intermodal movements, particularly on the domestic side, continue to see steady annual volume gains. And intermodal continues to make strides due to fuel price pressure and its ability to provide service comparable to truckload at a more favorable rate, say shippers and analysts.
According to the Association of American Railroads (AAR), intermodal volumes on a year-to-date basis at 5,619,145 are up 8 percent compared to 2010.
Intermodal continues to make strides on the domestic side due to fuel price pressure and its ability to provide service comparable to truckload at a more favorable rate, say shippers and analysts.
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Government Police Raise Issues on Liberty
July 21, 2013
Following the Civil War, the former Confederate States were subjected to rule by U.S. Army troops during the10 long years of what history calls the Reconstruction....
Just a couple more words- What Triton says is very true. Trouble is; When, how to stop it??? Rep & Dem Administrations just keep making the problem worse. Too many empires created in gov with every new Admin.
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The article goes well beyond the gun rants, though back door attacks on 2nd amendment are indicative of an overall lack of respect for the American government system. When you take the NSA information, the IRS scandal, use of drones to watch ordinary citizens, and license plate readers to track everyone's daily movements its pretty clear that civil liberty and the whole American concept of freedom is in danger. Add to that the growth of Federal police agencies involved in local policing matters and there is due cause for concern. The Dept of Homeland Security and its reach into areas other than terrorism or stretching the concept of terrorism in domestic life is something that needs to be addressed. Obama, as it turns out, is a fascist in the mold of Mussolini and Hitler. No sense in pretending that Obama is a swell guy, the IRS thing should be enough to consider impeachment. Nixon was a piker compared to Obama. It is a serious subject.
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The story of the present Administration. We, the average working person no longer counts, except to pay taxes.
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It used to be that we would worry about them doing away with the first and second amendments little by little now they are doing it in leaps and bounds. You can have a gun but we will keep you from getting bullets to shot them with. We will now have people to buy guns not being able to target practice, that is just crazy thousands or millions getting guns and not be able to practice so now you will have way more bystanders or people that aren't doing anything getting caught in crossfire. Who is mining roads in the USA to prevent the govt from coming down their streets?
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text: Hounds Hang 20 at the 7th Annual Loews Dog Surfing Competition at Dunes Park Beach in Imperial Beach, California. There are four heats in this competition: Small Dogs, Large Dogs, Tandem and the Ultimate Champion Round. Each dog is given 10 minutes to catch waves and their score is determined by their top 2 waves. Waves are scored on confidence level, length of ride and overall ability to grip and rip it. June 16, 2012.


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Birth Place: Kent, England, GB
Rylance had small roles in "The McGuffin" (1985) and "Hearts of Fire" (1987), which was supposed to be Bob Dylan's film "comeback", but was only released in the UK. He was a different, hopeful Ferdinand in Peter Greenaway's "Prospero's Books" (1991). The light-haired actor won critical acclaim for his turn as William Adamson in "Angels & Insects" (1995), bringing the right mix of intellectuality and romantic wonderment to the role. Additionally, he won praise for his turns as a man drawn into the mysteries of a school in the Brothers Quay's experimental "Institute Benjamenta" and as a middle-aged butler romancing a young maid (Georgina Cates) in the period drama "Loving" (both 1995).
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text: Not exactly a hunting question but figured some of you may have encountered this problem before. I have a mobile home on some hunting property. I've always had problems with mice getting into the trailer and have always set out poison for them; always a constant battle. My sister and brother in law went up to mow grass over the weekend and were watching TV when a rattlesnake came out from behind the TV. After recovering from the near heart attack they tried to kill it but it got away. Any suggestions on how to get snakes out of homes? I'm fearful if there is one there may be dozens. Is there a way to fumigate the trailer to kill everything in it?