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Aaron Brundage of Sandia National Laboratories has been named a 2013 Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) Minority in Research Science Emerald Honoree in the category of Most Promising Scientist – Government.
The award is intended to provide guidance to young people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
BEYA awards recognize the nation's best and brightest engineers, scientists and technology experts. They are a program of the national Career Communications Group, an advocate for corporate diversity, and part of its STEM achievement program. Brundage will receive his award at the 28th BEYA conference Feb. 6 in Washington, D.C.
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About the photo: Aaron Brundage of Sandia National Laboratories took to engineering at age 3 when his mom gave him a LEGO 566 kit for Christmas. (Photo by Randy Montoya)
U.S. Congressman Mac Thornberry joined local dignitaries and other visitors at the Pantex Plant Thursday to make their mark on an important wind project at the Plant. The visitors joined NPO and B&W Pantex leaders, as well as representatives from project contractor Siemens Government Technologies Inc., in signing one of the massive wind turbine blades that will become part of the Pantex Renewable Energy Project (PREP). When it is complete this spring, PREP will be the largest federally owned wind farm in the U.S. and will provide more than 60 percent of the annual electricity needs for the Plant.
The ceremony provided stakeholders an opportunity to receive an update on the project, as well as get an up-close look at the wind turbines that make up the project. Each blade weights 11 tons and is 150 feet long. When completed, the towers will stand over 400 feet tall at the blade tips.
Elected officials visiting the Plant included Thornberry, Texas State Sen. Kel Seliger, Texas State Legislator Four Price, Amarillo Mayor Paul Harpole and Carson County Judge Lewis Powers.
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) visited the National Security Campus on Tuesday for a tour of the new facility. As part of the tour, KCFO Site Manager Mark Holecek described the transformation to a smaller, more efficient facility that will ensure the longevity of NNSA's mission while saving taxpayers more than $100 million annually. The move from the Bannister Federal Complex to the National Security Campus is expected to be completed ahead of schedule in July 2014.
Sen. Blunt also got an inside look at the Fireset and Reservoir manufacturing areas and saw a demonstration of NSC's 3D printing capabilities. Additive manufacturing and 3D printing have opened up a world of design options for innovative and timely solutions for the broader national security mission. While additive techniques can create traditional parts, they also allow greater flexibility to create parts that are hollow inside, have a complex geometry, or are even a part within a part.
About the photos:U.S. Senator Blunt holds a metal 3D printed part as Interim Engineering Director David McMindes explains how the National Security Campus is printing parts in less time and for less money than traditional manufacturing.
Kansas City Field Office Site Manager Mark Holecek greets U.S. Senator Roy Blunt during his visit to the National Security Campus.
NNSA's Office of Emergency Operations participated in "DHS Day on the Hill," sponsored by the House Committee on Homeland Security, last week at the Cannon House Office Building.
The event was an opportunity for each respective Department of Homeland Security component to demonstrate and showcase to members of Congress their unique capabilities and projects which contribute to the broad mission of DHS.
As part of the event, NNSA helped showcase the RadResponder initiative, which is a FEMA-funded software initiative that provides state and local organizations the ability to report and manage environmental radiation monitoring data. During a large-scale radiological emergency, the state and local data will be available to the Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC) and integrated into the data collected by the FRMAC, providing decision makers a robust set of data to use when taking action to protect the public.
About the photo: Representing NNSA (from left to right) was Alan Remick and Dan Blumenthal. Also in photo are Bill Beal, from the Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) at Joint Base Andrews and Bob Allen and Chris Lee from Chainbridge Technologies.
For the first time, some of the world's most sensitive radiation detection systems and fundamental physics research can be seen from your desktop computer or mobile device.
PNNL recently launched a virtual tour showcasing its Shallow Underground Laboratory (SUL), a facility dedicated in 2011 as part of the $224-million capability replacement project jointly funded by Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The SUL is a one-of-a-kind facility that most people may never get to visit in person in order to protect its sensitive instruments from outside contamination and even the slightest radioactivity.
Scientists in the SUL conduct research which includes the construction of a variety of sensitive detectors that require ultra-low background environments. These can be used for international treaty verification for the Comprehensive-Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty to basic science research such as the search for dark matter in the universe or neutrinoless double-beta decay. The virtual tour allows visitors to witness the development of gas proportional counters or germanium detectors with extraordinary detection efficiencies.
To take the SUL virtual tour, access http://tour.pnnl.gov/ and click on the facility marked Shallow Underground Laboratory. Once in the virtual environment, you'll hear a short introduction and then can self-navigate through the dropdown menu, the map or the arrow to enter through the front door. At any point you can jump to the virtual tour by clicking "View Tour." At each tour stop, you have the ability to zoom and pan 360 degrees within the laboratories. Short video features, interviews, reference information and more are scattered throughout the tour.
About the photos: Top (Measurement hall): Scientists use ultra-sensitive germanium detectors to perform low-background measurements on a variety of samples, addressing applications that span from environmental age-dating to international treaty verification.
Bottom (Electroforming): Electroformed parts are fabricated in the Electrochemical Purification Laboratory that was specifically designed to produce radiopure copper.
Admiral Cecil D. Haney, Commander of USSTRATCOM, recently visited Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories. Admiral Haney and Lab Director Charlie McMillan stand in front of the Army-Navy E (as in excellence) Flag awarded to the Lab at the end of World War II. At Sandia, Admiral Haney met with President and Labs Director Paul Hommert and addressed the workforce that afternoon.
B&W Pantex General Manager John Woolery, center, presents a B&W corporate donation Friday to the United Way of Amarillo and Canyon. United Way Interim Executive Director Jeff Gulde, left, and Campaign Director Stephanie Goins were on hand to receive the gift.
The $57,250 corporate donation supplements more than $650,000 pledged by Pantex employees to United Way for 2013, making Pantex one of the largest supporters of United Way in the Texas Panhandle.
Work crews began to erect the first of five wind turbines that will make up the Pantex Renewable Energy Project (PREP). The first wind turbine blade was delivered to the site last week. When completed this spring, PREP will be the largest federally owned wind farm in the country and will provide approximately 60 percent of the average annual electricity need for the Pantex Plant.
Lt. Gen. Tom Bostick, commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), visited Pantex this week to tour the High Explosives Pressing Facility (HEPF). Bostick toured the facility and said he came away impressed, singling out HEPF as an excellent demonstration of what can happen when federal agencies and contractors work together effectively to manage projects. USACE is managing construction in cooperation with NNSA, B&W Pantex and main construction contractor Kiewit Building Group.
Construction on HEPF is approximately 90 percent complete and is on schedule and under budget. When finished, the $65 million project will combine high explosives work from a half dozen older buildings – two dating back to World War II – into one state-of-the-art facility.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visited the Z Pulsed Power Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., yesterday. The tour was part of a broader visit to the national laboratory and Kirtland Air Force Base. While at Sandia, Secretary Hagel was provided with briefings and tours of several of the unique capabilities at the laboratory used to assist the Department of Defense in support of the national security mission.
About the photo:Dr. Paul Hommert, Sandia President & Laboratories DirectorFrank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & LogisticsChuck Hagel, Secretary of DefenseDr. Mark Herrmann, Director, Pulsed Power Sciences Center, Sandia National LaboratoriesMadelyn Creedon, Assistant Secretary for Global Strategic AffairsAndrew Weber, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs


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Information Literacy in Political Science & Government
Back to Information Literacy in the Disciplines Menu
The ACRL IS Information Literacy in the Disciplines Committee has gathered links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education for Political Science & Government.
Accrediting Agencies, Professional Associations, and Standards
ALA/ACRL/LPSS Education Task Force. Political Science Research Competency Guidelines. Law and Political Science Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/PoliSciGuide.pdf (accessed April 26, 2010).
Curricula, Articles, and Presentations
Bernstein, Jeffery L. 2010. Using "think-alouds" to understand variations in political thinking. Journal of Political Science Education 6(1), 49-69.
The Board of Trustees at the University of Illinois. Global News Village 13 July 2005, University of Illinois Library, available from http://www.library.uiuc.edu/village/globalnews/index.htm (accessed April 26, 2010).
Brians, Craig L. and Tyler Garaffa. 2009. Assessing information literacy skills in research methods courses. Conference Paper, 6th Annual APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning in Political Science, Baltimore, MD, February 6-8, 2009. http://www.psci.vt.edu/brians/papers/TLC-2009_paper25.pdf (accessed April 23, 2010).
Brunvand, Amy and Tatiana Pashkova-Balkenhol. 2008. Undergraduate use of government information: What citation studies tell us about instruction strategies. portal: Libraries and the Academy 8(2), 197-209.
Downie, Judith A. 2007. Instruction design collaborations with government information specialists: Opening the conversation. Reference Services Review 35(1): 123-136.
Downie, Judith A. 2004. The current information literacy instruction environment for government documents (pt 1). DttP: Documents to the People 32(2), 36-39.
Hill, Kim Quaile. 2004. Myths about the physical sciences and their implications for teaching political science. PS: Political Science & Politics 37(3): 467-471.
Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke, Dawn M. Schmitz. 2006. Digital news: Key to global literacy and information literacy education. World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council, Seoul.
Hogenboom, Karen. 2005. Going beyond .gov: Using government information to teach evaluation of sources. portal: Libraries and the Academy 5(4): 455-466.
Hogenboom, Karen & Stephen Woods. 2005. Choosing the right approach: Three models for teaching government information sources. Research Strategies 20(4): 397-408.
Hollens, Deborah. 2004. Documents to the freshmen! Early exploration of government publications. DttP 32(4): 15-17.
Kauhanen-Simanainen, Anne. 2005. Collaborative information literacy by government. IFLA Journal 31(2): 183-187.
Marfleet, B. Gregory & Brian J. Dille. 2003. Information literacy and the undergraduate methods curriculum. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED479704). http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1b/50/66.pdf (accessed April 26, 2010).
Stevens, Christy R. and Patricia J. Campbell. 2008. Collaborating with librarians to develop lower division political science students' information literacy competencies. Journal of Political Science Education 4(2), 225-252.
Stevens, Christy R. and Patricia J. Campbell. 2006. Collaborating to connect global citizenship, information literacy, and lifelong learning in the global studies classroom. Reference Services Review 34(4): 536-556.
Williams, Michelle H. and Jocelyn J. Evans. 2008. Factors in information literacy education. Journal of Political Science Education 4(1), 116-130.
Williams, Michelle H., Kymberly Anne Goodson, & W. Gary Howard. 2006. Weighing the research paper option: The difference that information literacy skills can make. PS: Political Science & Politics 39(3): 513-519.

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The Black Hills State University Alumni Association recently presented the Young Alumni Achievement Award to Stacy (Lowry) Geer, a 1998 graduate of the University who is a practicing veterinarian and co-owner of Camelot Pet Castle kennel, which she operates with her husband, Bryan.
The Young Alumni Achievement Award is given to honor an alumnus who attended BHSU within the last 10 years and is noted by outstanding achievements and contributions to society, the community, as well as Black Hills State University.
During her time as a BHSU student, Geer was a member of the Scientia Club and the Health Sciences Student Organization (HSSO). She was also team manager for the BHSU volleyball team.
After graduating from BHSU with a degree in biology, Geer continued her education at Colorado State University. She graduated in 2004 as a doctor of veterinary medicine. As an addition to her veterinary practice, she and her husband opened the Camelot Pet Castle in Gillette, Wyo., in 2005. The Camelot Pet Castle is a kennel that houses both cats and dogs as well as a small area for pet food and supplies. Geer and her husband plan to transform the kennel into a 3,000-square foot pet store with a full-time groomer.
Geer is active in the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Angus Association. She and her husband also have a small herd of Black Angus cattle.


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Let's Not Impeach Obama
"So Sue Me!" Taunts His Most Grandiloquent Emperor of The Sand-Trap. If Barack Obama can't do anything intelligent to better the American Nation's commonweal, then perhaps John Boehner can distract attention away from the emperor's sartorial elegance. I have high hopes that John Boehner's lawsuit threats are ultimately rhetorical. He was smart enough not to fall into the trap of impeaching. That would be Sarah | Read More »
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James Denekas is the KLEM "Citizen of the Day" for Tuesday, May 4, 2010. James is a Le Mars Community High School Language Arts teacher, has been with the district for 32 years and is retiring at the end of the school year. James may pick up a boutonniere at the Le Mars Flower House, pizza from Pizza Hut in Le Mars or Kingsley, a movie or game rental from Jo's Movie House in Le Mars and a car wash from Easy Clean Car Wash in Le Mars.
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Join us for fun with brooms, wands and owls! Come to Cave Hill, and get a touch of Harry Potter along with learning about owls. We still have all your favorite camp activities yet with a Potter-twist to them! Come make your own wand, learn about some wonderful potions, learn to play quiditch and lots of other fun things that we are still planning. We know our rope runners will be back with the Harry Potter theme. See you at the Cave!
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July 22 – 26, 2013; 9 AM – 4 PM daily (with older girls overnight on Tuesday and overnight for all girls on Wednesday)
Girls entering grades 6–7 may stay overnight on Tuesday at the leader's discretion. Junior staff will spend Tuesday night at camp. All girls will camp overnight on Wednesday (at no additional fee).
Campers' Ages
Girls entering grades 1–7 in Fall 2013 may attend as campers. Girls in grades 8 and up may apply for Junior Staff positions. Contact the camp director if you plan to serve in one of these positions.
Camp Leadership Programs
Camp Program Assistant (CPA) (grades 7 and up)
This program is for girls who want to help younger campers. CPAs assist leaders in carrying out camp programs and activities. Space for this program is very limited. They must register for camp and attend a staff planning session prior to camp. Training will be held in Weyers Cave, VA; please contact the camp director for additional information.
Counselor-in-Training (CIT) (grades 8 and up) (formerly known as Counselor Apprentice)
Older girls may apply to become a CIT. They must complete a CIT application and attend GSVSC's CIT training. Check www.gsvsc.org/calendar or this publication's training section for more information. They must register for camp and attend a staff planning session prior to camp.
Counselor-in-Training II (CIT II) (grades 10 and up, and have served at a GSVSC summer camp as a CIT) (formerly known as Junior Counselor)
Girls can apply to be a CIT II if they have previous camp leadership experience. They must register for camp and attend all camp staff meetings.
Adults interested in serving as Adult Staff Volunteers should contact the camp director for an application and background check. Volunteers must attend the full week to get the following discount: daughters attend for half price (first daughter). A volunteer with two daughters attending will receive a $10 discount off the camp fee for the second daughter.
Fee includes theme patch (Cave Hill patch for first-time campers and Wide Game progression patch for returning campers). A camp gift is given every year, but it may not be a t-shirt. Please indicate t-shirt size on the registration form, just in case. Please note: Credit cards are not accepted for this camp.
$70 Camp fee, rising 1st–5th grades
$75 Camp fee, rising 6th–7th grades
$35 Camp fee, Junior Staff (CPAs/CITs/CIT IIs)
$20 Late registration fee, registrations received after July 11, 2013
$12 Membership fee for non-Girl Scouts
50 girls/100 girls
Registration Opens April 1, 2013
Registration Closes July 13, 2013
Scholarship Deadline July 13, 2013
Parents/guardians are responsible for transportation to and from camp. Parents are encouraged to form carpools with other campers in the area or with their troop.
Send Camp Registration and Health History Form (PDF or Fillable MS Word Doc) and fee (payable to Cave Hill Day Camp) to:
Michelle Kramer
2310 Wishing Well Court
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
540-383-7982 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Camp Director
Beth Raynes
540-249-4756 or email@example.com
Refund/Cancellation Policy
GSVSC Cancellation Policy applies to this camp.
A confirmation will be emailed to participants as registrations are received. A parent letter and leader letter will be sent to girls 1–2 weeks before camp starts. Credit cards are not accepted for this camp.


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I haven't seen a new south park thread recently. But I have to say tonights episode really made me laugh. I think I might be bike-curious.......
That was one of the worst South Park episodes I've ever seen. I really haven't liked any of them from this season with the exception of the one where Butters was a pimp.
tough crowd, I would guess you ride a harley
Seriously, I thought this was one of the most funny moments in SP history:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34VBNoim91Q]YouTube - Cartman sings Poker Face by Lady Gaga ( South Park )[/ame]
Go Cubs Go!
The wrestling episode was a classic. I have enjoyed all of the new ones so far. Haven't seen tonight's yet, watching it on dvr later.
I thought the wrestling one was one of the worst ones ever actually
There alright, it just seems like Matt Stone and Trey Parker are trying a little bit to hard to be funny.
The Whale Wars episode was freakin hilarious.
******* whale! ******* dolphin!
This isn't real wrastling!
for a lot of people i think that they find south park really funny until they make fun of something meaningful to them. we've all been offended by something on Southpark at one time I'm sure. Harley guy, don't be mad about tonight's episode. you're still really cool and you're bike is louder than all other bike models, we promise!
one thing I will say is that Southpark never fails to surprise me with the ridiculous stuff they come up with even after all these years. I think that's what keeps me watching.
Dead Celebrities one was unbelievably funny IMO. The whale one sucked a bit, but the others have been pretty funny.
**** you dolphin!!!
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This season has been pretty good but last night's episode kind of fell on its face.
I wasn't offended by any means but it just seemed off compared to what else they have done this season.
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I loved the Whale and Dolphin one. Watching Cartmen sing Poker Face was hilarious to me.
I thought the Harley episode was hilarious.
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News: Lancers Water Polo Hosts 10th Mini Tournament Friday, October 26
The Pasadena City College women's water polo team will host the 10th Pasadena Mini Tournament on Friday, October 26 at the Aquatic Center. This year's tourney will be a four-team affair with four overall matches, two involving the Lancers.
The games begin at 10:15 a.m. with PCC playing Los Angeles Valley. At 11:30 a.m., Miramar faces Santa Monica. At 2:15 p.m., the Lancers play the Corsairs of SMC, and at 3:30 p.m., Miramar takes on LA Valley.
Prior to the tourney, the Lancers (7-15 overall) will travel to face Rio Hondo College in a 3 p.m. South Coast Conference match on Wednesday, October 24.
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I'm migrating from 7.2.1 on CentOS to 7.2.1 on Ubuntu.
I've already imported all ldap datas, index files and databases data ( still waiting for the message stores as is something like 140GB of messages ).
I'm stuck with the self signed certificate deployment as follows:
And then:Code:root@zimbra:/tmp# /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcertmgr createca -new ** Creating /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/ca/zmssl.cnf...done ** Creating CA private key /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/ca/ca.key...done. ** Creating CA cert /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/ca/ca.pem...done.
Here's the full zimbra version:Code:root@zimbra:/tmp# /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcertmgr deployca -localonly ** Importing CA /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/ca/ca.pem into CACERTS...failed. keytool error: java.io.IOException: Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect ** Copying CA to /opt/zimbra/conf/ca...done.
Can anyone help me?Code:Release 7.2.1_GA_2790.UBUNTU10_64 UBUNTU10_64 FOSS edition.
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Hmm, it looks good and 'tis sth I do fiddle with too, so I'll try to get some of my examples up ...
I like to aim for a more natural, artistic style with my maps. After a recent computer crash, I've been slowly rebuilding my brushes and presets... and doing a lot of fiddling with settings. In that process of testing new things and getting used to them (which usually includes drawing tons of mountains and/or fantastic creatures) I stumbled across a new, sort of complicated (many layers), way to blend 'wet' media with the paper background. Because it irks me when the ink just kinda sits above it.
Mainly what this particular use of layers, etc does is sandwich the drawing between two paper layers so the ink/watercolor doesn't mask the texture. And some other stuff. So anyhoo, here's what happened. The colored version has my working notes and layer settings. Oh yeah, I use photoshop. I'm not entirely (at all) happy with how the color-wash over the ink turned out (just a flat wash without highlights), but it's somewhat quick and malleable at any rate. I'm sure I'll continue fiddling with everything. I'm stubborn like that, and still not close enough to the real thing to give up. =P
And if anybody has something to share, more tips and tricks or helpful suggestions, please do share them (and an example of what it looks like). Maybe we can create a little go-to corner for different ways to mimic natural media with a computer. =)
Hmm, it looks good and 'tis sth I do fiddle with too, so I'll try to get some of my examples up ...
Well regarding tips... I picked up a tip that I really like from a digital artist (Steve Argyle) about using a texture layer on top of everything you are drawing set to 10% overlay. A parchement, rust, rocky or whatever kind of texture (preferably something high resolution that doesn't repeat much if at all). Basically it gives your canvas a more textured real feel that a single flat colour doesn't, but it is still quite subtle.
bump up your pixls by a whole bunch, make sure that your resolution is like 12000 or 14000 pxls wide and tall, then zoom in a little find the correct brushes or set up yours to have correct opacity, then blur then slightly if you do it with your opacity control and size control on should look pretty close... make sure you draw them on different layers then mess with the transparency settings?
upgrade your ram then, it will make a world of difference! especially with your amazing art style
Been playing around with ArtRage recently. It's a piece of software that's been mentioned around here a few times, but in rather hushed tones and without much action. I got it some time ago, and then, with life scattering in all directions, never did anything with it. But it's a fun program, and it actually does watercolor rather well. Here's a little mess-about I did today... took less than five minutes (I wasn't following a plan). And some notes on the settings I used to achieve the effects. Hopefully you can see the possibilities. And watercolor isn't the only thing ArtRage can do. It can mix oil paints with beautiful results as well. Not the topic of this thread, though. I'm certainly looking forward to doing more with this program.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I just did this using one of the provided paper textures, and you can see where it repeats itself (ick). I believe it's possible to use your own paper textures, but I haven't tried that at this point.
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Very pretty water colour effect; I could see some nice maps produced with this sort of style...
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great watercolour effects. ive had artrage for ages though just mess about mixing paints on the canvas, though if you can get results like this it surely has its uses.
what formats does it save in ?
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The Zappos API team held the 9th Hack-a-thon event from December 12-16th. The theme was "Do it Live", which meant each team was encouraged to try and have their project accessible to the intended users by the end of the week.
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It seems to be really low. From my observations, my estimate is that he has a cadence of between 90 and a 100, a fairly low cadence for a sprint, but I guess after going over 100 miles, your legs are not to have that much snap.
So assuming he's riding a 53/11, that means his speed is about 35 to 40 mph.
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I am new to this forum... hello... I live in Oregon and applied for an Elk tag with a Muzzleloader. I have hunted with a ML smaller animals but not Elk yet. I have 2 knights and a T/C Hawken.
I came across a bunch of 385 gr. Buffalo Bullets 385 gr. HP (so I bought em all)and they work very well in the 1-48" twist Hawken.
I shot an Antelope a few years back with them and DRT!
I do not have much faith in the hollow pointed bullets for larger critters. I may be wrong
The knights 1-28" twist seems to really like the No Excuses 460 gr. Great guy to deal with!
Oregon says the bullet diameter cannot exceed twice the bore diameter. so that is about as heavy as I can go.
2" group with williams FP and fiber optics at 50 yards. that is with 80 gr T7 and a wad. I am thinking a little less powder may shrink the group up some.
I cannot wait to try them on elk.
The beauty of heavy slow bullets is it doesn't tear up a lot of meat. It's fine for deer if you take lung shots. Which is all i'll do. Once i have a load worked out for a ML. I don't like to change it for different animals.
I was very surprised in how little the bullet dropped from 50 to 100 yards, less than an inch. As a first time muzzle loader, I was anticipating the drop to be much more. In fact, I shot a few powerbelts from 50 -100 yards, and they dropped nearly 4 inches at 100.
Here in the next few weeks, I'll try loading with loose powder, and I'll put it on the crono to see what kind of speed I'm getting.
As a side note, the Williams sights that UH recommend are awesome. Was immediately dialed in left to right, and one adjustment had me good up and down.
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
That's the beauty of an all copper bullet like the Thor. It's lighter than lead, so the bullet is longer. A much better BC. Compare the Thor in the same weight as a lead conical, or Powerbelt. The difference is a lot.
Plus, the Thor has 100% weight retention, perfect expansion, and impressive penetration.
If you want to see how accurate the bullet is. Put a scope on the gun, and hunt the rifle seasons. Good for 250 yds easily.
I'd bet the bullet is good for 250 easy, I'm not so sure about the gun itself though.. It's got a very short barrel, squeezing 250 out of it might be pushing it. I may eventually put a scope on it, but the Idaho muzzleloader tag I WILL be drawing in the next month or so, says I have to shoot open sights.
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
The Wolf will be fine at that yardage. It has a 24" barrel. I've had two Wolfs, and the barrel won't hold it back.
I know someone on another ML forum i'm on. He took an Accura, and cut the barrel down to 20". He was shooting 2" groups at 300 yds with it.


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Day13: Eat Breakfast- Automate It
We all know it really is the most important meal of the day and it turns out making the same meal every day is a good idea too. Research shows people who have successfully maintained at least a 30-pound weight loss for a year or more tend to consume a diet with limited variety. Similar meals over and over may lead you to feel fuller faster and eat less overall. Did you know skipping breakfast can more than quadruple your risk for obesity? Of course this works best with a healthy breakfast. A really easy way to start the day is a grapefruit with greek yogurt. The combo gives you healthy doses of vitamin C, lycopene (an antioxidant with anticancer benefits), and probiotics- good bacteria that aid in digestion and may boost your immunity.
Day 14: Pack a Smart Lunch
Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab offers these lunch tips:
-Vary your veggies. By packing 2- you'll up your odds of eating at least one.
-Think Small. Using smaller containers can decrease caloric consumption without leaving you hungry. Diners who trade 12-inch plates for 10-inch plates eat about 22% fewer calories and still feel full.
-Beware of the Low-Fat Label. It could actually cause you to eat more because you think you can have a larger potion. To avoid this, eat the suggested serving size or opt for single-serving bags.
Day15: Know Your Portions
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Kent, OH (Sports Network) - Scootie Randall scored a career-high 31 points to
help the Temple Owls open the season with an 80-66 win over the Kent State
Golden Flashes.
Randall made 5-of-7 shots from inside the arc and drained five 3-pointers. He
was joined in double figures by teammate Anthony Lee, who supplied 16 points
and grabbed eight rebounds.
Khalif Wyatt and T.J. DiLeo had nine points apiece for Temple (1-0), which
shot 52.9 percent from the floor.
Kris Brewer had 19 points to pace the Golden Flashes (1-1), who started their
campaign by edging Drexel in overtime on Friday. Chris Evans scored 17 points,
but committed eight turnovers.
Temple raced out to a 12-4 lead and DiLeo hit a 3-pointer to make it 30-15
with 7:36 remaining in the first half.
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chip away following the break. The Golden Flashes drew even at 46-46 on a
Brewer dunk just past the four-minute mark, but the Owls began to pull away
again, beginning with consecutive threes by Randall.
Jake O'Brien knocked down a trey to put Temple up 61-51 at the midway point
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296.3 Major Depressive Disorder (Recurrent). 300.3 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. 300.4 Dysthymic Disorder. 307.1 Anorexia Nervosa. 300.02 Generalized Anxiety Disorder. 307.5 Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. — Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM IV).
Age 27. I spent much of my first-ever therapy sessions "instructing" the therapist what she may or may not write on my chart, "proving" that I may have "some issues" but definitely not clinically diagnosed diseases. "Do not put me down as anorexic or depressed. I am not. I know the criteria in DSM IV and I do not meet them. I'm a little confused, a little sad, and I don't want to be fat — but that's normal. I am not crazy. What are you putting on my chart? I don't want anything on my record!" My primary concern was not getting better — of course, if you are not sick in the first place, you don't have anything to get better from.
My eating disorder symptoms started when I was 14, a year after my family moved from Hong Kong to the U.S. As an eager-to-please child living with high expectations, I took perfectionism to the extreme. I felt like I had to be good — preferably the best — at whatever I did. The message I internalized was, "Be the best! Must not fail!"
I remember always having a huge fear of going crazy and of being fat. Growing up, I only knew one person with a mental illness. One of my aunts had some sort of schizoid disease. The family didn't talk about it. By the time I was born, my aunt had been medicated for years and I never experienced her hallucinations and delusions firsthand. But I knew "something was wrong" with her. She was "weird" and was obese. She was many other things, but those two stood out for me.
I don't know how much my fears were related to my aunt; the media and our culture certainly didn't help. I irrationally believed that if I went crazy, I'd be fat, too, so if I didn't get fat, then I can't be crazy. Either way, my conclusion was that I definitely did not want to be crazy or fat. My aunt was yelled at, shamed, ignored, made fun of and pitied, all of which, even as a young child, I knew I didn't want to experience. I don't know when, but I think I subconsciously determined early on that I would never allow myself to be crazy or fat. That just wouldn't happen — not to me — as if those were things I could actually control.
It was a very difficult transition to American middle school. I felt lost, lonely and out of control. In addition to the usual teenage turmoil, everything I knew became ambiguous as my two cultures clashed. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do, how I felt, and ultimately who I was. I was having an identity crisis. I didn't belong. I didn't fit in. I spoke with an accent. I looked different. The wish to be happier, more popular, more in-control morphed into a relentless focus to be better and thinner. My belief that I could handle it myself, while trying to cope with confusing and painful emotions, ignited a destructive war within me.
The frequency and severity of my eating disorder behaviors fluctuated throughout the next 14 years. It would subside for month or years, and then peak again, particularly during transitions. For a long time, I got by under the radar. Undiagnosed. Untreated. Unlabeled. The worse the eating disorder got, the more strongly I tried to evade detection and treatment — not a surprise since denial is a prominent feature of eating disorders, making the disease even more lethal.
It is scary how easy it is for people, even those close to you, not to realize something is very wrong when you "look normal" and "are doing well." After all, how bad can things be for a 27-year-old with two Ivy League degrees, a nice condo, a fancy car, a promising career, and a seemingly good relationship? Aren't people with serious mental illnesses unemployed and living on the street? She has it all — she is just stressed. While some people were dying to be me, I was dying — literally. And, dangerously, I didn't mind.
Some say you need to hit rock bottom before you are forced to change — I supposed that is true in my case. The bot- tom led to a four-and-a-half month inpatient treatment at the Renfrew Center, where my journey of recovery began.
Recovery is such a strange process; it's not intuitive, especially when I was fighting against myself. The "getting better" part just couldn't happen when I refused to accept that there was something to get better from. At first, I fought the diagnoses and was ambivalent about recovery. In my mind, those labels described "really crazy people" who obviously were not me. I wanted to be far, far away from the stigma and judgment I associated with having a mental illness. I wasn't sick. Besides, nobody around me had mental diseases. Nobody talked about it and everyone seems normal. What would people think? Will I still get promoted at work? Who is ever going to date me? Will my parents think I'm a failure? I was terrified that if labels were written next to my name, the diseases would become me.
Letting go and being willing to be diagnosed and treated freed me from the fear of being labeled. Learning to accept who I genuinely was, the good and bad, was critical in letting me just be. I never found out what exactly was written on my charts. Gradually, the details didn't matter. I learned to treat them as just words and categories — like numbers on a scale. They do not define me.
With nearly five years in recovery, I now have a life I enjoy. And I enjoy living, despite and along with the long list of mental diseases I had or have. It's not easy. I sometimes wish I didn't have to deal with them or that there would be a "quick fix." But I have learned to accept and continue to get the treatment I need to maintain my health. I have learned to love my body, accept and integrate the diverse pieces of my life, and continue to discover and value my worth.
I have learned that I am not alone and there is a supportive community available to help. Now, it is important for me to help raise awareness about and increase access to treatment for eating disorders and mental illness. I want to help fight the secrecy, shame and stigma that perpetuate myths and deter people, including me, from getting help. I have learned that recovery and living well with mental illness is possible. And I have learned that, even when it may not seem like it, there is always hope


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Diesel prices continue to edge up
August 10, 2010
Even though the price per gallon of diesel fuel has been below the $3 mark for the past 11 weeks, that could be changing soon based on recent data from the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The EIA reported that average diesel prices for the week of August 9 at $2.991, are up 6.3 cents compared to the week of August 2. The recent run-up in prices is partly due to increasing oil prices, with current prices around $80 per barrel.
According to EIA data, diesel prices are up 36.6 cents year-over-year and 9.2 cents in the last three weeks. What's more, the current $2.991 average per gallon for diesel fuel is 13.6 cents below the $3.127 high for the year, which occurred during the week of May 10.
Current diesel prices appear to be in line with the EIA's most recent Short-Term Energy Outlook, which is calling for 2010 average diesel prices to come in at $2.96 per gallon in 2010 and $3.11 in 2011.
The EIA is also calling for 2010 crude oil prices to be average $78.75 per barrel in 2010, slightly higher than the current price of $74.74, with 2011 prices currently forecasted at $82.50. In April crude hit nearly $87 per barrel, marking its highest price in 17 nearly 20 months.
While diesel prices appear to be in check to a large degree for the time being, many industry observers maintain there is no real rhyme and reason in terms of fluctuating fuel prices.
"There has never been a period of volatility in fuel prices like there has been in the last year," said Mike Regan, president of TranzAct Technologies and a frequent blogger for LM. "That means the fact that prices are down is no indication that the prices are going to stay down or rise sharply."
With such uncertainty, Regan said it is imperative for shippers to develop fuel budgets for different potential scenarios that have the ability to dramatically alter planning such as a Middle East conflict or China's mild economic downturn.
And Derek Leathers, Chief Operating Officer of Werner Enterprises, said that even with the ongoing uncertainty regarding oil and diesel prices, Werner is planning for "fairly stable" pump prices for the rest of this year.
"We don't see $4.75 prices per gallon [like in 2008] returning between now and the end of the year," said Leathers. "At the same time, though, we don't know where prices are going to go so whatever we can do to be more efficient and burn less fuel is a better approach."
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Hunting seasons expanding, back up into summer
Hunting is big in West Virginia - so big, in fact, there aren't enough days in the fall to squeeze it all in.
So state wildlife officials are doing the only thing they can do. They're moving seasons from the fall into late summer. Five years ago, only two seasons began in September. This year, the number climbs to six.
Paul Johansen, assistant wildlife chief for the state Division of Natural Resources, said the shift toward earlier seasons was a move agency officials simply had to make.
"If I had a magic wand and could generate additional fall hunting days I'd do it," Johansen said. "Hunting is so near and dear to us West Virginians that we have trouble satisfying the need. There are lots of critters to pursue, and lots of people who want to pursue them. We want to accommodate as many of those interests as possible.
"The more seasons we open, though, the more things get compressed. We don't want to create conflicts among user groups, so we've tried to capture some additional days by adding days on the front end of the season."
The trend began four years ago when members of the state Natural Resources Commission created two new antlerless-deer seasons and scheduled them for mid to late September. They also created a September firearm season for black bears in counties where bear populations are too high.
Last year, commission members voted to open squirrel season in early September instead of early October. This last spring, they voted to eliminate the two September antlerless-deer seasons and open the archery seasons for deer and bear on the Saturday closest to Oct. 1. That Saturday falls on Sept. 29 this year.
That's a far cry from half a decade ago, when only the early season for resident Canada geese and the season for mourning doves began in September. Johansen said wildlife officials considered shifting the closing dates of some of the big-game hunting seasons into January, but decided that might create conflicts with grouse and waterfowl hunters.
"The sense among our staff, and among the public, was to avoid spreading big-game hunting opportunities into [a time period] that traditionally had been used only by bird hunters," he said.
The ultimate success or failure of early hunting seasons depends on the hunters. Johansen said hunters who filled out questionnaires at the DNR's annual sectional meetings generally have endorsed season shifting, primarily because the shifts create additional days of hunting.
"We have never gotten 100 percent endorsement, though," he added
"Four years ago, when the September archery and muzzleloader seasons for antlerless deer were being considered, some hunters said it would be impossible to kill a deer in 75-degree temperatures and get it out of the woods without having the meat spoil. As it turned out, many guys found a way to do just that."
DNR administrators also got some resistance when they first proposed to change the squirrel opener from early October to early September. Some critics argued that lactating female squirrels would be killed, and that their offspring would then die.
Others argued that squirrels might still be infested by botfly larvae, commonly referred to as warbles.
On the other hand, they got almost no resistance when they broached the idea of starting the deer and bear archery seasons two weeks earlier, in late September instead of mid-October. Bowhunters almost universally praised the move.
Wildlife officials hope hunters will have similar fondness for a brand-new season implemented this year. Part of the so-called "traditional" firearm season for antlerless deer has been shifted forward from its usual spot, from early December to late October.
There was no hue and cry for the change, but DNR biologists asked for it because they believed it would help them stabilize whitetail populations in overpopulated areas.
"We wanted to start the antlerless season earlier so females would be taken out of the population before the rut," Johansen explained. "With fewer females available for bucks to mate with, the rut will become more compressed. Does will drop their fawns in a more compressed time window, which in turn will reduce the amount of predation on newborn fawns."
Johansen believes hunters ultimately will come to view all the early seasons as additional opportunities to pursue their favorite pastime.
"For the most part, we've seen pretty broad support for providing extra days of hunting," he said.
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It wasn't long ago that I was proud to pull out my bestseller on the subway. I would relish over those occasions when looking up from the pages, I would spot a fellow reader emerged in a matching thick paperback like Middlesex or The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and we'd exchange that knowing glance that said "I feel like I know you, stranger" or "that 'crocus' part was pretty weird, huh?" Moreover, I used to love judging people based solely on their book choice; you can realize that the attractive hipster fellow takes himself too seriously before you even talk to him, based on the tattered copy of Catcher In The Rye he's reading. Reading on the subway was a way to bring people together, to make yourself look like whatever literary sham you always dreamt you could be, and a way to inconspicuously judge everyone around you. But the days of smugly displaying your intellectual capacity on public transportation are over, all because of Fifty Shades Of Grey.
Yesterday my friend (who works at a book store and publishing house, and is a lover of literary transit experiences) confessed that she has started the Grey series and is so ashamed of partaking in the indulgence in public, that she has considered buying a Kindle (ultimate book store employee betrayal) so she can read without judgmental eyes. She say it's inappropriate and embarrassing to read Fifty Shades in public because even if people haven't read it, they know what it's about. It's up to par with reading Playboy in the barbershop. But with her long commute each day she can't stand leaving it at home, and can't help read it if it's with her.
So, friend, here are some ways to help hide your scornful addiction to scholastic smut (which I haven't read…yet), and hopefully the next book you'll read will make everyone around you feel dumb by comparison.
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CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The woman held for the longest time in captivity and repeatedly sexually assaulted by Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro testified on Thursday about the abuse she endured during 11 years of captivity.
Michelle Knight, 32, spoke in a strong voice, at times choking back tears.
"I served 11 years of hell. Now your hell is just beginning," Knight said of Castro in a statement read to the court.
Castro pleaded guilty last week to hundreds of criminal charges to avoid the possibility of the death penalty. He is expected to be sentenced later on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 1,000 years.
Wearing leg shackles and dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit, Castro listened to the testimony without expression.
Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23 and Knight, all went missing from the west side of Cleveland between 2002 and 2004. They were discovered on May 6 after neighbors heard Berry's cries for help from Castro's home.
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Hi all,
This post is a result of a lot of frustrated research. I have found several posts about this topic ranging over the last 6 years or so, and no really satisfactory solutions. I hope to collect all the possible ways of synching two Zimbra installations and invite comment from the community. Maybe (hopefully!) I'm missing something.
Executive Summary
While there are a number of solutions for High Availablilty / Disaster Recovery (active/passive) which work over a LAN, there are no officially supported solutions which work over a WAN, mainly due to high bandwidth required to sync up terabyte sized installations.
Here are the solutions I've identified, with a brief description, and the inherent problems.
1) Use VMware's HA capability. Apparently you need at a minimum Vmware Essentials Plus Kit. Two physical servers are clustered together within Vmware, and the VMs can live on either (or both) servers.
Problem: not realistic over a WAN, due to high bandwidth required
2) Use Red Hat Cluster Suite. This you have to purchase Redhat and the cluster suite, which is about USD 1500 per server per year. This option is now no longer officially supported since version 8 of Zimbra.
Problem: not realistic over a WAN, due to high bandwidth required; not officially supported.
3) Sync the SAN on a block level between datacentres. I'm guessing you'd need the same SANs at both ends.
Problem: Would need a lot of bandwidth and SAN is expensive; hard to find same SAN at both ends if using commercial datacentres.
4) Use OS's DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) functionality to replicate file systems.
Problem: Again data replication bandwidth is problematic. May be ameliorated by using DRBD proxy. This is extra software at a one time fee of USD 2000. Not officially supported.
5) Use zimbra's replaylog functionality and some community supplied scripts.
Problem: Not officially supported. Some problems reported with missing data; some issues with switching back from secondary to primary afterwards.
6) Use Ubuntu clustering File System. GlusterFS.
Problems: Same as DRBD. Bandwidth. Not officially supported.
7) Give up and put both servers in the same datacentre!
So I'm finding it hard to believe this is the case. Exchange and Notes will do this sort of thing out of the box, and indeed it seems like such a basic function for an enterprise mail system to be lacking.
Why is it not just as simple as doing an rsync over ssh of the /opt/zimbra/store followed by an LDAP sync? And maybe a mysql replication. Surely that's all that's needed for an active / passive setup? Or LDAP sync plus IMAPsync of all mailboxes?
Any help, comments, suggestions and reality checks gratefully received. At the least I hope this serves as a current roundup of the options available for syncing Zimbra. Maybe it should become a wiki page.


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Nation Retail Federation issues promising report on consumer spending
November 16, 2010
With four straight months of sales gains under their belts and with the holiday season fast approaching, retailers have reason for optimism as consumer spending finally shows momentum.
According to the National Retail Federation, October retail industry sales (which exclude automobiles, gas stations, and restaurants) increased 0.3 percent seasonally adjusted over September and 2.6 percent unadjusted over last year.
"This continued momentum is good news for the industry, especially with Black Friday and Cyber Monday quickly approaching," said NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay. "While there is no question that consumer demand has improved, there are still questions about consumer confidence tied to high unemployment. We need to see improvement in key economic indicators to sustain any long-term growth."
October retail sales released today by the U.S. Commerce Department show total retail sales (which include non-general merchandise categories such as autos, gasoline stations and restaurants) increased 1.2 percent seasonally adjusted over September and 5.4 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
"While spending throughout the industry was varied, it appears the fourth quarter has gotten off to a solid start," said NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz. "October's results are a clear indicator that the economy and consumer spending continue to show marked improvement, even though we expect consumers to proceed with caution."
This cautionary note was also sounded by Chris G. Christopher, Jr. Senior Principal Economist, U.S. Macroeconomics with IHS Global Insight.
"Or worst case scenario is a 'double-dip,'" he said. "And we don't see that happening. But even our best case scenario hardly makes consumers want to break out the champagne. It will be a very soft recovery at best."
According to the NRF, cooler, seasonal weather in October helped apparel and sporting goods stores' sales. Clothing and clothing accessory stores sales increased 0.7 percent seasonally adjusted over last month and 1.4 percent unadjusted over last year. Sales at sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores increased 1.0 percent seasonally adjusted month-to-month and 5.9 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers sales also showed solid growth, increasing 1.9 percent seasonally adjusted month-to-month and 7.3 percent unadjusted over last year. Health and personal care stores sales decreased 0.1 percent seasonally adjusted from September but increased 1.6 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
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WHEELING - Inside the yellowing three-ring binder that contains the 20-year-old Interpretive Master Plan for the Wheeling Heritage Area is a glimpse at what Wheeling's residents then believed the city could be.
While the document itself has been mostly forgotten, readers who dust it off today will find much that is familiar, perhaps more than in any of the various revitalization plans that have come and gone since the Interpretive Master Plan was released in 1993. Its vision for using history as a tool to revitalize the city has resulted in the current state of some of the most prominent features of downtown Wheeling today, including Heritage Port, the Artisan Center and West Virginia Independence Hall.
Other aspects of the plan, however, have failed to materialize. These include a regular nighttime sound and light show at the waterfront, "Sounds of Wheeling" listening booths up and down Main Street highlighting the original Wheeling Jamboree - even Wheeling Island's own museum devoted to bridge building and engineering feats centered around the Friendly City's most famous such structure, the Wheeling Suspension Bridge.
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The Wheeling National Heritage Area Corp. logo is seen on a sign near the south end of Heritage Port. According to WNHAC Executive Director Jeremy Morris, reconnecting downtown Wheeling with the Ohio River by building and promoting this type of waterfront venue has been the most successful effort resulting from a "master plan" for the heritage area developed 20 years ago.
"A lot of what was in there, we've tried to make happen. ... A lot of this stuff is bigger than what we can handle at any one time, and it all takes money," Wheeling National Heritage Area Corp. Executive Director Jeremy Morris said.
A collaborative effort between the Wheeling Heritage Area Task Force, city officials and the National Park Service, the plan was released in December 1993 following months of interviews with local residents, including leaders in preservation, education and arts and culture. WNHAC was established soon thereafter to implement the plan. Morris - who joined the organization in 2005 and became its executive director in 2010 - believes, without a doubt, that the organization's greatest accomplishment has been the creation of Wheeling's riverfront venue, Heritage Port.
"One of the things we realized was that cities that were revitalizing themselves, what they were doing was reclaiming the river," Morris said, noting the old Wharf Parking Garage once stood in Heritage Port's place, effectively cutting off downtown Wheeling from the Ohio River. "We had turned our back on the river at that point."
Now more than a decade old, Heritage Port hosts dozens of events annually between May and September - including the Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival, the Wheeling Vintage Raceboat Regatta and Wine and Jazz Festival, just to name a few, as well as free community concerts and movie nights. Some of the larger events draw tens of thousands of visitors to the city, providing a brisk business for hotels, restaurants and other service industries.
WNHAC also played a significant role in the development of West Virginia Independence Hall, the Mountain State's birthplace, into a statehood museum.
It was responsible for the first floor exhibits, "West Virginia - Born of the Civil War," that greet visitors as they enter the museum, which is operated and maintained by the state Division of Culture and History.
The Wheeling Artisan Center, leased and managed by WNHAC, includes River City Ale Works on the first floor, a second floor featuring interpretive history exhibits and a gift shop offering a wide variety of West Virginia arts, crafts, books and music and a hall on the third floor that plays host to various events, speaking engagements and the annual Wheeling Celtic Celebration. And across the street, travelers stopping at the visitors center inside the Robert C. Byrd Intermodal Center can learn about Wheeling's rich transportation history through more interpretive exhibits, thanks to WNHAC's efforts.
While Morris is proud of what WNHAC has been able to do, he acknowledged it's unlikely the organization will be able to implement all aspects of the plan, for various reasons. He believes Wheeling is in need of additional space for a large-scale museum and for archiving purposes, but he admitted such prospects are limited by financial realities.
"You need a lot of space. Very few museums in the world make any money," Morris said.
Some aspects of the plan have become outdated, as well. Sound and light shows were a popular fad during the 1990s but may not be as big of a draw today, Morris said, and Viewmaster-like devices offering historic views of the city such as those the plan suggests be placed along the Suspension Bridge for pedestrians are no match for modern technology.
Recent advancements and the desire to engage youth in learning about local history have drawn WNHAC in directions that never could have been envisioned when the 1993 plan was created. One example is an application for the iPhone, iPad and Android unveiled last year that maps more than 20 sites of historic significance around town and provides audio and video information about each.
"A lot of that's more relevant to the younger generation than the written material," Morris said.
Another ongoing WNHAC effort is the Wheeling Spoken Word Project - compiling hundreds of hours of interviews on topics such as local mobster Bill Lias, the construction of W.Va. 2 and historic Centre Market.
"These are timeless treasures," Morris said of those stories. "People pass away, people move away."


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The vehicle for examining these issues is a hypothetical transaction involving the sale of a significant line of business by a public corporation, either to a third party or possibly to the corporation's controlling shareholder.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- The Food and Drug Administration says it will ban the use of trans fats in food because they are no longer considered safe.
The FDA commissioner estimates the move will prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths in the U.S. every year. The ban will not take effect right away simply because the FDA wants to take it easy on these companies because companies have to come up with brand new recipes.
Trans fat comes from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. In microwave popcorn, frozen pies, biscuits, in many cases, trans fats not only improve the flavors of the foods but sometimes extends their shelf life. Here's the bad news: trans fats raise bad cholesterol and lower good cholesterol. The Centers for Disease Control says it leads to heart disease and thousands of deaths every year.
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Centuries ago candles were used as a source of light. Today, candles symbolize celebration, mark romance and define ceremony. That's why using candles with caution is important.
An estimated two-thirds of American households will use candles this holiday season.
But, government studies show that many consumers are dangerously unaware of basic candle safety rules.
Candles and celebrations have gone together for centuries bringing families together at the holidays.
"Candles are more popular than ever. People use them to decorate their homes--set a mood. But, people have to remember candle safety," says Valerie Cooper, Exec. Director of the National Candle Association.
But, the latest government research shows consumers aren't following proper safety precautions. Industry officials believe 85-percent of candle related fires could be prevented by following a few simple steps.
"The most important thing to remember is to always keep a burning candle within sight. You should be able to see your candle from any place you might be in your home." Says Marianne McDermott, VP of the National Candle Association.
Leaving a lit candle unattended is the number one cause of candle related fires. But, it's also important to keep the candle away from anything flammable and to keep it out of the reach of children and pets. Also make sure the candle has a quiet steady flame.
"If you see that your candle flame is flickering you'll know that it's not burning properly and you should put it out," McDermott adds.
In addition, the national candle association says consumers should put the candle on a proper holder on a heat resistant surface.
Trim the wick to a quarter of an inch before burning. And finally never allow the flame to burn all the way down or come too close to the holder or container. More than a third of candles are purchased during the holiday season.
That's why, it's important to follow these tips to make your celebration safe this holiday season.
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04/24/2012, Man O War Cay, Abacos
Dorothy's Dad, Tom visits the crew of Foolish Heart this past week. Here we are on the beach at Man O War Cay.
04/24/2012, Sea of Abaco
Tom "Big Daddy Hock" takes the wheel of Foolish Heart as we sail from Man O War Cay back to Marsh Harbor after a day of sightseeing.
04/24/2012, Sea of Abaco
Dorothy's Dad, Tom came to spend a week with us in the Abacos. We needed a new VHF handheld radio, so we had it sent to his house in Baltimore before he left. Good thing, because the phone system was down when he go here, and the only way we had to communicate was through the VHF. We dubbed him "Big Daddy" and that's how we called him every morning at his villa. "Big Daddy, Big Daddy, this is Foolish Heart" All the cruisers we knew wanted to know who Big Daddy was! Here we are in front of Nippers Bar & Grill on Great Guana Cay.
04/14/2012, Great Guana Cay, Abaco
Always trying to catch some dog time down here. This is Bear, and he is. About 150 pounds of puppy, he had my arm in his mouth shortly after this picture was taken. I still have my arm. Lots of new stuff has been added to the blog in the past few days, you might have to back up a page or two to see it all!
04/13/2012, Elbow Cay, Abaco
Picture taken while walking around Hope Town. Shoot a picture in almost any direction, and you have a post card. Very pretty town.
04/13/2012, Marsh Harbor, Abaco
Eleuthera crossing to Abacos
Our travels so far have been fairly uneventful. Some sailing has been mild and some has pushed the limits in our abilities. On the Chesapeake Bay we typically sail in anything from 5 to 20 knots of wind where 20 is my upper limit of comfort. In our Bahamas travels we've sailed in winds up to 30 and did well in body, mind and spirit. The seas were good, the sun was shining and we've been with other cruisers in those conditions.
Now for the Eleuthera to Abacos crossing... It was a 50+ mile sail crossing the Northwest Channel into the Atlantic Ocean before we hit the cuts into the Sea of Abaco. We had a weather report from the day before with NNE winds at 10 - 20 knots and a 20% chance of rain. We knew we'd be coming into the Little Harbor channel on the southern Abacos on a rising tide. That means we'd have the current and the wind in the same direction, critical for going through any cut. If the 2 oppose you can get a rage where there can be HUGE breaking seas, not good. Note for future reference... I did not have a report on sea state which provides wave conditions. We had been sailing on the Exuma banks for the last 2 months where it wasn't a critical piece of information.
We woke to sunny skies and 15 knots of wind out of the east... off we go. The beginning of the sail was quite nice, the seas started to build a little as we left the protection of Eleuthera. No biggie, we've been in that before. Foolish Heart was screaming and at one point hit 10.8 knots. Our boat has a hull speed listed at 7.4 knots, we were sailing the heck out of our boat (we averaged 7.7 that day). However, the further we got out in the Atlantic the bigger the seas got and the shorter the duration of those waves. It's one thing to have 8 - 10 foot seas if they are coming every 15 - 20 seconds. Up, Up, Up, Up, Up, Up... Down, Down, Down, Down... slow and steady (very much like our gulf stream crossing in January). Not so lucky on this day, the duration was more like 3 - 6 seconds and the waves started to get confusing and breaking within themselves. It was like UP, UP, UP, SURF down the other side, rinse and repeat. Then the weather started to turn and we had storms in front of us with winds up to 35 knots. I kept asking my Mom, "Please hold the weather off for us. Please get us through this crossing. Please hold the weather. If ever a time for your weather worries to benefit, now is the time." When we got within VHF distance to the cut I called to anyone in the harbor and asked for the current conditions. Not a good response, "Breaking waves, big swells, not a great day for that cut. Maybe try the next one." Well, of the 2 cuts we were considering (both had reefs on either side and both were deep), this was the better of the 2 as it provided a better angle and some protection from the waves. Ugh, what to do??? We did spot 2 other sailboats out on the horizon and managed to catch their conversations on the VHF. One boat made it through the cut but we couldn't hear the conditions. I managed to contact the other boat still out in the Atlantic and he said, "The other boat made it through fine. It will be a few minutes of sheer terror followed by calm seas. You'll be fine." Sheer terror??? Let's go for it, I have always been an adventurous person. One thing about going through any cut, once you commit you keep going. There is no turning around, that's when bad things happen and boats sink. So, we tied ourselves to the binnacle (in case the boat flips and rights itself we would still be attached), floored the engine and went for it. We could see the reefs on either side, waves breaking is a good indication. The seas slowly subsided as the depth decreased and we made it through the cut safe and sound. WHEW!!!!! Actually one of the easier parts of our day. It was exhilarating and scary at the same time.
Kevin held the helm all day and did excellent, my wonderful Captain! Super props to my man for holding it together, manning the helm (it was not easy to stay on track), and keeping me safe and sound. To say the least, we slept well that night. The Abacos await!


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Flushing, NY (Sports Network) - Mike Baxter's pinch-hit single in the bottom
of the 10th inning plated the game's only run and lifted the New York Mets to
a 1-0 win over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday in the opener of a two-game
set at Citi Field.
New York starter Matt Harvey was the story for much of the night, as the 24-
year-old right-hander struck out a career-high 12 batters and allowed just one
hit -- an infield single to Alex Rios with two outs in the seventh -- over
nine stellar frames.
The Mets' offense, meanwhile, managed just four hits until the decisive 10th
inning, which started with Ike Davis' leadoff walk off Chicago reliever Nate
Jones (0-3).
Davis then moved to second on Juan Lagares' bunt before racing home on
Baxter's pinch-hit single to right to send the Mets to their third victory in
their last four games.
Bobby Parnell (3-0) pitched a perfect top of the 10th to earn the win.
Chicago starter Hector Santiago was nearly as impressive as Harvey, giving up
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Here we go again!
Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will face each other for the sixth time this season after both ballers won their respective quarterfinal matches at the Olympics today.
Rafa dismissed Austrian Juergen Melzer 6-0, 6-4 in their first meeting and Nole needed three sets to subdue flashy Frenchie Gael Monfils 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Nole, of course, just defeated Rafa at the Cincinnati Masters after the Spaniard clinched the no. 1 ranking. The winner will be gunning for gold while the loser will battle for bronze.
So who'll come out on top here people? Do tell!
(image via Getty)
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Rafa + Nole reach semis in Beijing - who'll be gunning for gold?
Labels: 2008 Olympics, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, tennis
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They both played super late, though Nole had the tougher match. I'm going to say Rafa will avenge the Cinci loss and send a message that he's ready for NYC. :) If his serve is clicking, he wins it.ReplyDelete
I don't really have an input per se (I'm a Nole fan, but I think Rafa will win), but I just wanna say that at first glance, I thought the two of them were holding hands, lol.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 14, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Nole is easily winning this match in 2 sets...just like in Cincinnati. It is his surface though!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 14, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Nole in two.ReplyDelete
Even though I dislike him, I have to go with Nole. He's a better hard court player, and plus, as a Fed fan, I'm hoping that Rafa doesn't get too ahead of Fed in the rankings.ReplyDelete
Rafa didn't put much effort at Cincy. With Murray and Nole in the semis, he didn't want to push himself too hard ahead the Olympics. Also he was already guaranteed the no. 1 spot at that time.ReplyDelete
So, I believe Rafa will have no mercy for Nole this time.
I like Rafa better than Nole but I'd like to see Serbia win gold. So for once, I'm kinda rooting for Nole. However, Rafa really wants to win, too. So let's see.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 14, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Tennisity, if you root for Nole to win because you don't want Rafa to stay too far ahead of Roger, then think about this...If Nole wins the gold, he won't be to far off from Roger's soon-to-be #2 ranking, Nole will less than a thousand points behind Roger....Your Roger might just end up as #3 by the end of the year. HeheReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 15, 2008 at 3:48 AM
I think Rafa's going to win but I'll be supporting Nole as always.ReplyDelete
kakeru, I love the thought of them holding hands. :)ReplyDelete
"kakeru, I love the thought of them holding hands. :)"ReplyDelete
i love how your minds are just as twisted as mine...fun!


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Never one to mince words or hold back his opinions, Gore Vidal says he regrets voting for President Barack Obama last year and calls Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, "the stupidest man in the country" in a wide-ranging interview with The Times of London.
Now that the U.S. House of Representatives approved a health care reform bill by a 219-212 vote and the Senate appears likely to follow suit, the political wagons are circling in what's sure to be some nasty congressional races this fall.
Republicans, however, shouldn't expect to cruise to victory, and here's why.
If President Obama hopes to rely on all the socialists who in 2008 elected him with hopes of seeing all of America's wealth get spread around, he better come up with something even more radical this year.
Something called the Freedom Socialist Party announced in December that it is running two candidates in a national write-in campaign — New Yorker Stephen Durham for president and Christina López, of Seattle, for vice president. And today the duo sent out a press release demonstrating that America's real socialists are none too pleased with Obama's first three years in office.
In a memo titled, "Recognize healthcare as a human right — make it universal and free," Durham and López refer to Obama's healthcare reform as one of the biggest disappointments of his presidency.
"Instead of stepping up to the plate and acknowledging that public healthcare is a need as great as public education," the release states, "Obama made one concession after another to the pharmaceutical and insurance mega-corporations. As he restated in his February State of the Union address, his Affordable Care Act does not give the government the role of guaranteeing universal care; instead, it relies on a reformed private market."
López goes even further, calling the healthcare program just another one of Obama's "sellouts of the human rights of women and immigrants under corporate and right-wing pressure."
Durham, according to the FSP website, says Obama and the other jokers in Washington have furthered the struggle of America's working class and poor during their bipartisan attempts at correcting the recession.
"The Democratic and Republican parties have done nothing but cooperate in forcing workers and the poor to pay the costs of the Great Recession caused by the banks and Wall Street," the site says. "President Obama may play to the crowd by criticizing 'bad apple' corporations, as he did in his State of the Union address. But the facts show that the program of corporate coddling, which creates austerity for the masses, is completely bipartisan."
Durham and López are also offended by Obama's recent compromise with religious institutions over providing birth control coverage.
Durham says the only way to provide quality health care is to get private insurers out of the picture altogether. For-profit insurance companies, according to a Baltimore-area neurologist Dr. Steven Strauss, are a fundamental problem.
"No one should be making a profit from providing — or, more to the point, denying — the medical care that should be treated as a basic human right," Strauss says, according to the release. "But insurance and drug companies are among the biggest money-makers in the nation, amassing billions each year from people's suffering."
The Freedom Socialist Party believes that a single-payer option such as Medicare, if it were to be offered to everyone, would be a reasonable first step but that all for-profit entities must be removed from the pharmaceutical, medical supply and hospitals industries.
also suggests taxing corporations and the very wealthy — something
that's not going to take away any of Obama's votes because he's
trying to do that, too. And the duo's ideas for redirecting
military spending to the nation's human needs probably won't cost
the president too many reelection votes, either.
For more information go to www.socialism.com or email the stuff you hate about unrelenting capitalism to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Child poverty and its causes will be one of the main focuses of the conference. Nearly 15 million children in the United States, or 21 percent of all children, live in families below the federal poverty level, according to the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP). A study from the NCCP found Cincinnati has the third-worst children's poverty rate at 48 percent. Only Detroit and Cleveland were worse, with 53.6 percent and 52.6 percent, respectively.
"We're going to look at all the range of policies and practices and the impact of those and what we can do," CDF President Marian Wright told WVXU today. "It's going to be a real teach-in on what we must do to move forward and stop the move backwards, which I think we're in the midst of."
The conference will also look at education issues. It seeks to shine light on the issue of the achievement gap between the poor and non-poor and racial disparities. A 2011 analysis by the National Center for Education Statistics found black and Hispanic students are behind their white peers by 20 test-points in math and reading tests provided by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The difference equates to about two grade levels.
The conference will also look at child health care services, zero-tolerance discipline policies in schools and tools and programs that can be used to improve the lives of struggling children.
Anyone is free to register at CDF's website to join the conference. Experts, doctors and activists will also be there.
During the past two weeks CityBeat has published its list of endorsements in the race for Cincinnati City Council,along with those on local and state issues.
Some readers have requested that the endorsements be put into a smaller format that will be simpler to print out and take along with them to their polling places on Tuesday.
So, here it is. Clip, save and enjoy.
A group affiliated with the Heritage Foundation has bombarded voters in Ohio's 1st Congressional District with a glossy flier that tries to paint Rep. Steve Chabot as someone akin to an Old West hero.
The fliers, which began showing up in mailboxes during the past few days, feature a large photograph of a smiling Steve Chabot next to a headline that states, "Steve Chabot fights for our families." The direct-mail campaign piece was paid for and distributed by Heritage Action for America, a 501(c)(4) tax-exempt group founded last year by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
With Congress preparing for a long-awaited vote on a healthcare reform bill Sunday, some Democrats are calling the concerns of U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Price Hill) about abortion-related wording misplaced and just plain wrong.
Just two days before the general election, President Barack Obama made his case to 13,500 people packed into the University of Cincinnati's Fifth Third Arena and 2,000 in an overflow room.
Obama cast the race in comparisons to the previous two presidents, comparing his policies with those of Bill Clinton and equating Republican challenger Mitt Romney's plans with those of George W. Bush.
"So stay with me then," Obama said. "We've got ideas that work, and we've got ideas that don't work, so the choice should be pretty clear."
With less than 48 hours before polls open on Election Day, a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll had Obama and his Republican challenger locked in a statistical dead heat. However the same poll showed Obama with a slight edge in Ohio, up 48 percent to Romney's 44 percent.
Obama touted his first-term accomplishments, including ending the war in Iraq; ending Don't Ask Don't Tell, the policy preventing homosexuals from serving openly in the military; and overhauling the country's health care system.
"It's not just about policy, it's about trust. Who do you trust?" the president asked, flanked by a sea of supporters waving blue "Forward" signs.
"Look, Ohio, you know me by now. You may not agree with every decision I've made, Michelle doesn't always agree with me. You may be frustrated with the pace of change … but I say what I mean and I mean what I say."
Nonpartisan political fact-checker PolitiFact on Nov. 3 took a look at Obama's record on keeping his campaign promises from 2008. The group rated 38 percent as Kept, 16 percent Compromised and 17 percent Broken.
Twice during his speech the president was interrupted by audience members shouting from the stands.
The first was a man on the balcony level of the arena interrupted, shouting anti-abortion slogans and waving a sign showing mutilated fetuses before being dragged out by about five law enforcement officers. Both were drowned out by supporters.
Music legend Stevie Wonder opened the rally for Obama, playing a number of his hits, opening up "Superstition" with a refrain of "on the right track, can't go back."
Wonder discussed abortion policy between songs and urged Ohioans who had not already voted to do so either early on Monday or Election Day.
So far, 28 percent of Ohio voters have already cast their ballots. CNN reports that those votes favor Obama 63/35, according to public polling.
Meanwhile on Sunday, Romney campaigned before an estimated crowd of 25,000 in Pennsylvania, according to the Secret Service.
Political rallies always draw a number of the loyal opposition, and this late-evening appearance was no different. Only five people protested near the line to the arena, but what they lacked in number they attempted to make up for in message.
One large sign read "Obama: 666" and another "Obama is the Beast," alluding to a character in the Christian Biblical book of Revelation.
A man who only identified himself as Brooks carried a large anti-abortion sign that showed pieces of a dismembered fetus.
"I'm here to stand up for the innocent blood that has been shed in this land to the tune of 56 million," Brooks said. He said he was opposed to the politics of both major party presidential candidates.
"I pray for Barack Obama because his beliefs are of the Antichrist, just like Romney," Brooks said.
Brooks said his message for those in line was for them to vote for Jesus — not on the ballot, but through their actions and through candidates that espoused Christian beliefs.
"Obama is not going to change things, Romney is not going to change things," Brooks said. "In the last days there are many Christs, but not the Christ of the Bible. The Christ of the Bible is not for killing children, is not for homosexual marriage."


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Singer Taylor Swift marked her 24th birthday on Friday by offering up a $100,000 donation to officials at the Nashville Symphony in Tennessee.
Bosses in charge of the city orchestra have struggled with financial issues all year, so the generous "I Knew You Were Trouble" hitmaker decided to hand over an early Christmas gift.
A representative for the Nashville Symphony confirmed the news on the group's Twitter.com page on Friday, writing, "We are profoundly grateful for @TaylorSwift13's donation. Thank you, Taylor, for supporting musicians & music in MusicCity! Happy Birthday!"
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The charitable gesture is not the first for the singer – in 2012, she pledged $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame, and in October, the Taylor Swift Education Center in Nashville opened as a result of the donation.


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Guns N' Roses have confirmed a return to Las Vegas for a second residency at the The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino this summer.
Axl Rose and his bandmates will take their No Trickery! An Evening Of Destruction show to Sin City for a string of dates between May 21 and June 7.
The group staged its first Vegas residency, Appetite For Democracy, in late 2012.