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|The event will start 9:00pm Tuesday night and go until 9:00pm Wednesday night. Students and staff will be invited to step into the footsteps of those trapped in slavery around the world; standing one day for their everyday. The event will include activities for students and staff to learn more about modern day slavery, and also provide ways to take action through donating, signing a petition, and standing. By standing, students and staff will join hundred of other colleges/universities around the world as they give a voice to the voiceless slaves trapped around the world. Snacks will be provided for those standing.
|We would be on the Heflin bridge, with approximately 1000 water balloons filled with, you guessed it! Water. Several new members and current members will be below the bridge in the ravine, while the rest of the members and participants remained on the bridge. We would sell the balloons for .50 each. Those in the ravine will remain hidden beneath the bridge until somebody above yells "Go!", then they will run about in the ravine, and those on the bridge will hurl said balloons upon them.
|Please join the Women of Tri Chi in celebrating the club's 25th birthday! Alumni and families are welcome.
The event will consist of a worship service, then a Bible study with a grill out in conclusion.
The Women of EEE will put on a country theme event with games. There will be four games to be played at the event. There will also be a petting zoo with miniture pigs. The pig will be in a caged area with a tarp down for her to run around on. There will be a photo section with a few props. PC' 14 will also have a routine to perform at EEE haw. There will be refreshments and a little snack such as cookies. This event is a fundraiser for PC' 14 and the admission fee is $3 for singles and $5 for couples.
meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
The men of Kappa Chi invite you to come to the Tiger Den and enjoy some live music from some of the most talented men and women on campus. Did we mention that we'll have all the hot chocolate and (Starbucks) coffee that you can drink? Admission is $3 for singles and $5 for couples.

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Wednesday Apr 17 2013
Auburn hosting trapshooting series SaturdayBy: Journal sports staff
CYSSA trapshooting is growing youth sport
By Roxie Rice
Special to the Journal
Trapshooting is a shotgun-shooting sport that was first introduced in the United States in the early 19th century. The game has evolved into today's American Trap with standardized clay targets and automatic traps via target-throwing machines.
The Amateur Trapshooting Association, or ATA, trapshooting's governing body, sanctions three trapshooting events, singles, doubles and handicap.
Singles is the only event in the California Youth Shooting Sports Association, or CYSSA, Trap Program. Singles places the competitor 16 yards behind the trap (target thrower). As the trap oscillates, clay targets are thrown away from the competitor at various angles. One shot is allowed to break the clay target.
Members of a squad of five competitors position themselves on an arc 16 yards behind the trap. In turn, each signals for a target, and attempts to break it. When five targets have been thrown for each competitor, they change positions moving one post to the right and post five goes to post one. This continues until each has attempted to break 25 targets.
"The California Youth Shooting Sports Association (formerly The California Scholastic Clay Target Program) started in 2001, with five kids. Now, in the thirteenth year, our membership is pushing 1,000 youth shooters from 37 Northern and Central California teams," boasts board member Gail Miller, one of the founding members and past present. "In terms of numbers, our youth shooting program is second in the nation only to Tennessee which, as opposed to our program that is privately funded, is sponsored by their Fish and Game Department."
The CYSSA Clay Target Program is a team based youth development program for school-aged youths (grades 12 and under) which uses participation in shooting sports to provide it's participants with a positive, life-enhancing experience and is designed to instill in them a set of personal values or character traits that teaches fair play, individual responsibility, sportsmanship, self-discipline, and personal commitment – qualities that will serve them well throughout their lives.
CYSSA has 19 high school teams with shooters competing individually, as teams and as High Five Division I, II, and II competitors, contingent on school enrollment. The remaining 18 teams are formed from shooting clubs like the local Auburn Gold Miners and Coon Creek in Lincoln, often bringing in younger shooters.
"There are five or six teams in the incubator stage, ready to start next year. We are forming an outreach committee that helps the school or club in their beginning stages to apply for grants and organize the team so they get a better start," Miller said. "Unlike football or basketball, which often require certain physical attributes, in shooting, no one sits on the bench."
For more information visit www.CYSSA.com
The Auburn Trap Club will play host to a California Youth Shooting Sports Association (CYSSA) trapshooting series Saturday.
The event, which will feature some 170 shooters from nine different teams, starts at 9 a.m. and ends around 4 p.m.
The Auburn club team, along with Colfax, Lincoln, Oakmont, Rosville and other Northern California high school teams, are set to compete in the clay targert-shooting event.
The day will also serve as a fundraiser for the Colfax High trap team. A barbecue lunch will be served.
Also on Saturday, Del Oro will be competing in Livermore. Other CYSSA teams will be traveling to Angels Camp.


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For those of you who can't get the game today I'm providing a stream on Justin.tv. I have it streaming live now so you can check in before the game to make sure it's working for you. Broadcast is MUCH improved over last season.
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I just realized you chsnged your SN. I was about to post how ISUAggie usually streams, but you are him. Or is him you?
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I just realized you chsnged your SN. I was about to post how ISUAggie usually streams, but you are him. Or is him you?
Yeah, it's me.
Wow thanks man. I was hoping someone on here would put up a stream cuz i have crappy mediacom and i guess i dont have the sports pack so i was SOL.
Just an FYI, the "Paul Rhoads Show" is on preceding the game from 11-11:30.
Is there streaming radio anywhere?
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Is there streaming radio anywhere?
Cycloneradio on Justin.tv
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
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Is there streaming radio anywhere?
Cycloneradio on Justin.tv
(Last week's game info listed but it's live now)
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Cycloneradio on Justin.tv
Thanks. Is there another site that uses a different player? JustinTV is apparently not compatible with my mobile device...
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A theme includes a desktop background, a screen saver, a window border color, sounds, and sometimes icons and mouse pointers. You can choose from several Aero themes. Use the whole theme or create your own customized theme by changing the pictures, colors, and sounds individually. For more information, see What is a theme?
You can add more themes to your collection from the Personalization Gallery on the Windows website.
Aero is the premium visual experience of this version of Windows. It features a transparent glass design with subtle window animations, a new Start menu, a new taskbar, and new window border colors. For more information, see What is the Aero desktop experience?
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Skill Level: Easy
Size: Fits ages 2-6
Materials: Yarn Needle, Worsted Weight Yarn;
Storage Bag: Red (MC): 6 oz, 330 yd (168 g, 297 m); Small amount Pink (P); 1 ½″ button;
Apron: White (MC): 5 oz, 275 yd (140 g, 248 m); Rose (R): 1 oz, 55 yd (28 g, 50 m);
Pink (P): ½ oz, 28 yd (14 g, 25 m);
Chef's Hat: White (MC): 3 oz, 165 yd (84 g, 149 m);
Oven Mitt: Red (MC): 1 ½ oz, 83 yd (42 g, 75 m); Small amount Rose (R) and Pink (P);
Tools and Food: Red (MC), Grey (G) and Beige (B): 1 oz, 55 yd (28 g, 50 m) each;
Small amount Bright Red (BR), White (W), Black (Bl) and Brown (Bn); Fiberfill.
Crochet Hook: Size H-8 (5.00 mm) or size needed to obtain gauge.
Cooking Katie Chef Set Crochet Pattern
Pretending to cook in the kitchen like mom is a favorite of many little girls. With the Cooking Katie Chef Set, dress up and cooking pretend time is a breeze. The ensemble is fully functional and can be worn to help bake cookies with Mom or Grandma. Pattern includes instructions for the Apron, Chef's Hat, Oven Mitt, Rolling Pin, Ice Cream Scoop, Pizza Cutter, Cookie, Pizza Slice and Storage Bag. There is nothing missing with this fun crochet toy set. The apron and chef hat is designed to fit a girl ages 2 to 6 perfectly, with plenty of pocket room in the apron to hold cooking accessories or play food. She will fit the part of a master chef with the complete crochet kitchen accessories, utensils and food.
Cooking Katie Chef Set is an easy crochet skill level that anyone can quickly whip up using a worsted-weight yarn. Use the recommended colors in the pattern, or change it up to any color combination that you little girl likes. This complete kitchen cooking crochet play set makes an excellent gift for a birthday, Christmas or just as a surprise. Don't forget the boys in your life. Check out the companion pattern Handy Andy Tool Set. You can also adjust the Cooking Katie Chef Set yarn colors to make the set boy friendly. These fun crochet play sets will provide hours of fun and creativity. What an excellent way to get your children involved in the cooking process when they are too young to dig into a real recipe.
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Describes characteristics of living organisms, and the origin of life.
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Trey Hillman Pregame Media Session: August 7
Billy (Super Boy) Butler
What is Billy Butler doing at the plate that is making him such a terror for opposing pitchers these days? Manager Trey Hillman says it is a multitude of things, "First, he is not trying to add power during hitters counts, he is taking what they are giving him. He's being more selective and he is doing very well when he gets behind in the count. Billy is growing up and becoming a more complete baseball player, it happens with maturity."
Hillman says he is going to be taking long hard looks the rest of the season at some of his younger players on the roster. Case in point is Royals catcher Brayan Pena hitting fourth tonight against the Oakland Athletics, as he did last night. "We are going to keep looking at him closely. He's calling games very well. Brayan is a talented baseball player and we like what he is doing at the plate."


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The Reserve Component Category Management Branch deals with boards, panels, promotions, evaluations, advancements, retirements, resignations, discharges and separations for all reserve officer, chief warrant officers, and enlisted members.
Copy of your record/ EI-PDR including OERs, visit the Military Records Section of PSC PSC-psd-mr
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Sales of Apple's new iPhone models - the 5s and 5c - began in earnest Friday around the world.
Although Apple has yet to release any early numbers on what demand for orders looks like at this stage, the delivery dates for some models in the U.S. - ordered through Apple's U.S. website - are already starting to be pushed back to October.
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The iPhone 5s and 5c go on sale Friday in the U.S., U.K., China, France, Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Two men have pleaded guilty to the 2011
beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow outside Dodger Stadium.
Marvin Norwood and Louie Sanchez admitted guilt in the March 31, 2011 incident
that left Stow disabled.
Norwood and Sanchez faced charges of assault and battery, mayhem and
inflicting great bodily injury. A judge sentenced Norwood to four years in
prison, while Sanchez was sentenced to eight years.
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Who's No. 1?
Ohio State edged past their chief nemesis, Michigan, to finish at the top of the recruiting class rankings.
Alabama finished third after a strong close on Signing Day and Notre Dame came in at fourth while UCLA finished fifth.
LSU, Texas A&M, Georgia, Florida and Ole Miss rounded out the top 10.
Where would Nkemdiche go?
The general consensus was that the No. 1 player in the country, Robert Nkemdiche, would end up at Ole Miss.
And that's what happened to kick off the craziness of the day. Nkemdiche committed to Ole Miss early Wednesday morning.
The Rebels also added the nation's No. 1 offensive tackle, Laremy Tunsil, and the No. 3 safety, Antonio Conner.
What would Foster do?
Reuben Foster committed to Alabama once, when he was living in Georgia. Then he moved to the city of Auburn in Alabama and committed to the Tigers, complete with a tattoo.
On Monday night on FOX Sports South, he committed again to the Tide.
|Chris Jones sparked a heated recruiting battle in Mississippi.
And the the Tide got his Letter of Intent on Wednesday morning. Foster even wore a Nick Saban-style straw hat for the occasion.
Which way for Chris Jones?
The under-the-radar Chris Jones committed to Mississippi State in the fall, a relative unknown who the Bulldogs were content to keep that way.
Then he blew up at the Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic and again at the Under Armour All-America Game. He's now a five-star defensive end, No. 2 at the position.
Ole Miss was trying to stick it to their rivals and take Jones, while the Bulldogs did what they can to hold on to their one-time diamond in the rough.
Tuesday night, it looked like he would flip to Ole Miss.
But Wednesday morning, Mississippi State got Jones' Letter of Intent, ending the drama.
West Coast or national for Vanderdoes?
Auburn (Calif.) Placer five-star defensive tackle Eddie Vanderdoes was the last of the marquee prospects to make an announcement on Signing Day.
And Notre Dame loved where they sat when the day was over.
The ninth-ranked player overall chose the Irish over Alabama, UCLA, USC and Washington on Signing Day.
Any Signing Day drama?
The big drama is in Florida, where five-star Alex Collins, who committed to Arkansas on Monday, is waiting to sign his Letter of Intent.
The only problem? His mom has confiscated it.
Mom doesn't want Collins gone, and she won't sign his Letter of Intent, or let Collins sign it. Reports indicated that Collins was trying to get his dad to sign instead.
So Bret Bielema and his staff wait to see what happens and if Collins, will in fact, sign with the Razorbacks.
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Retrograde motion reverses the flow, endless repetition of what you already know, wordless renditions as we watch it all go
Dontcha know?
It's all about love.
Innumerable postulates masterbates minds. SPEECH! it's a TOOL - a weapon, a chainsaw, a blind
Planets align to our own design while we worry about 'the times'
and the only thing certain is change.
Simplicity is key
Karma is dharma
Visions of what is and can be, ecstatic energy - kundalini!
The doors are the core it's up to you to decide
Open or close your mind
And your body is one.
Visions of grandeur
Deluding dilemmas
Tales of fame and power
Subversive innuenda
Psychic subtrefuge - return to sendah! ( could be an electrical problem)
as it rocks and it rolls
Dontcha know?
It's all about love.
Sensual insatiability deceives the senses
In full Mayaic presentation ( Technicolor!)
Innocence and Intention
We're talkin' 'The End'
Green light means GO
My heart slightly quickens
My stomach, it sickens
And I know
It's all about love.
*plucked out of the etheric ~ a gift through me to you from Spirit circa 1981
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I can just hear Donovan singing this song.
Sung to the tune of "Wear your love like heaven" sort of.
Funny, i always hear the music before the words come....how astute are you?
Thanks for chiming in and reminding me of a great song,James.
I do not think I am in any way astute.
As soon as I started reading, the cadence reminded me of Donovan.
Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow, and of course Wear Your Love Like Heaven.
James, lighten up for the godsource's sake if not for mine and your own. My comment wasn't a question to you about whether you think you're astute. It was an intimation that you intuited a truth about my process of 'writing'. Do you wear a hairshirt? Sananda has my back on this one. This planet's got a bunch of serious folks, they just don't get the cosmic joke, and some spend their lives in hot pursuit of what they call a cosmic truth - but i heard a joke in the heaven's above- laughter is truth- and the punchline is love.
Who is to say whether in the end those who think lifes a joke will be gnashing their teeth
While those who took life more seriously may have the last laugh?
I started a joke that started the whole world crying,
Till I finally died which started the whole world living.
Oh if I'd only seen that the joke was on me.
And then there is this advice from Monty Python.
Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the light side of life...
If life seems jolly rotten There's something you've forgotten And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing. When you're feeling in the dumps Don't be silly chumps Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.
And...always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the light side of life...
For life is quite absurd And death's the final word You must always face the curtain with a bow. Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.
So always look on the bright side of death Just before you draw your terminal breath
Life's a piece of shit When you look at it Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true. You'll see it's all a show Keep 'em laughing as you go Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the right side of life... (Come on guys, cheer up!) Always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the bright side of life... (Worse things happen at sea, you know.) Always look on the bright side of life... (I mean - what have you got to lose?) (You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!) Always look on the right side of life...
On second thought and with regard to your serenade.....here's one I like....." the wind was a-howlin' and the snow was outrageous, we chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn, when he died i was hopin' that it wasn't contagious, i made up my mind that i had to go on...'
and in the words of Churchill " if you find yourself in hell, keep going'...
Sung to the tune of Battle of New Orleans
Survival... how does that fit in with "no greater love than this that a man would give his life to save another"
Is it always best to survive no matter what the cost?
All around us we signs that people are willing to give up their lives for a righteous cause.
Who said anything about 'survival'? I'm talking about LIVING. BIG DIFFERENCE. Living with and through ALL the seeming chaos that your reptilian mind keeps arguing with, to be specific James. If you haven't yet figured out that we're in a raging river with no hand or foothold we have nothing further to discuss because as evidenced in your first response/reaction to my first post here and my reply....you refuse to find common ground. And that train of thought took a dirt road. I shared a transmission from my own Spirit. I suggest you follow your own Spirit without hesitation. Good day.
Here is what my spirit says to yours.... READ YOUR OWN REPLY... and tell me who refuses to find common ground.
YOU said 'If you haven't yet figured out that we're in a raging river with no hand or foothold we have nothing further to discuss '
If you do not see the survival urge in your ' raging river with no hand or foothold' then perhaps you are the one who is not finding the common ground and would rather not discuss thing with those who have a different viewpoint than your own.
JAMES!!! This is divine high velocity FUN. You didn't think you were astute when I felt you were. So be it. It's ok. Then your next post about 'life' intertwined with lyrics seemed so defensive and sarcastic that I figured you didn't want to knock heads with me on any form of 'common ground',,,


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PHOTOS: Florida's rejected license plates aren't always offensive
Satellite Beach, FL (Florida Today) -- It was supposed to be a magical trip aboard a Disney cruise ship for
37-year-old Cedrick Royce Swinson, his girlfriend and her two children.
the Charlotte, N.C., man is in jail on charges of carrying out a credit
union robbery Thursday in Satellite Beach. Investigators say Swinson
could not come up with the final balance owed for the cruise, and he
felt "pressured" to fulfill his promise to buy tickets for the
long-planned excursion.
"It's a bizarre set of circumstances," said Cmdr. Brad Hodge of the Satellite Beach Police Department.
Beach police said Swinson and his girlfriend drove overnight to Brevard
County to take the cruise, when he discovered the cash for his final
payment was not available for withdrawal.
"He claimed he had money in the bank but that he couldn't get access to it or that they had a hold on it," Hodge said.
said he felt pressured to follow through with his promise to take (the
girlfriend and her two children) on a Disney cruise and decided to rob
the credit union."
robbery happened at about 10:40 a.m. at the Navy Federal Credit Union
in the Atlantic Shopping Plaza at Scorpion Lane and State Road A1A.
No one was hurt.
Beach police - alerted by a bank alarm - and deputies from the Brevard
County Sheriff's Office responded within minutes and set up a perimeter
along the commercial strip.
told police that the robber strolled into the bank, walked past the
customer service agents and slid over a note demanding cash.
"He put his hand into his sweatjacket pocket as if to indicate that he had a weapon," Holdge said.
said Swinson, wearing a cap and sweatsuit, then left the building and
got into a white sport utility vehicle where his girlfriend and her two
children, ages 6 and 11, were waiting inside.
Beach spotted a similar-lookingsport utility vehicle about five minutes
later as it headed west on the Pineda Causeway.
Officers, with weapons drawn, took Swinson into custody. No weapons were found in the vehicle, but officers recovered cash.
Police questioned the girlfriend but do not believe she knew of Swinson's plan.
was horrified and the children were upset. They watched as we took him
into custody. They drove here overnight from Charlotte for a cruise. But
they didn't know he was going to do this," Hodge said, adding that
police were searching Swinson's bank records to verify his claims.
The woman and her children were allowed to leave the police station following questioning.
was taken to the Brevard County Jail Complex where he was booked on
robbery, grand theft and driving on a suspended license charges, records


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FAIRFAX, Va. – The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority will hold an open house and public hearing on how to best ease congestion for commuters.
The event will take place on June 20 at 5:30 p.m at Fairfax City Hall.
"It's going to be a great opportunity for citizens to interact with Authority members and understand how it affects them," says NVTA Chair Martin Nohe. "Things we talk about on radio programs are often very condensed. They don't address people's personal questions. What we want to do on June 20 is to allow people to ask questions about how it will affect them."
NVTA officials set the public hearing at a meeting on Thursday, after debate about whether to approve projects on July 1 or wait another month or two before making a final decision. Ultimately, the group decided to hold the wait until August or September.
Delegate Jim LeMunyon wrote a letter to the NVTA earlier this week, calling on the group to take a cautious approach and give citizens a chance to fully understand how each project would improve their commute.
So far, the current project list does not contain that information, although Nohe tells WTOP that specific traffic data will be available soon. The short list contains about 12 road and 21 transit projects, although the NVTA will take comments on other projects too.
A second hearing will be held in July, although a final date and location have not been set.
"The second hearing will allow people to review the list of projects, sleep on it a little and then give us any refined comment," says Nohe.
Loudoun County Board Chair Scott York, who pushed fellow NVTA members to take a cautious approach, tells WTOP that he hopes the two public hearings will allow citizens to fully grasp how each project can help their commutes and give informed feedback.
York points out that money from the new transportation bill will not likely be available to spend until August or September, allowing more time for public input to help make sure the best projects are approved.
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That is kind of surprising. Not to see Beverly lose, but to lose to Chelmsford, a very middle of the pack team at best. BevDan had a 1-0 win and a 0-0 tie against a decent Winthrop-Lynn team. Pretty much whenever teams from the GEMIHL league step outside the league against stronger leagues they have not fared well. A 13-4-2 Masconomet lost to 10-7 Burlington team 4-0 which would probably only be considered the 7th best team in the Middlesex league.
As was mentioned above a while back, some of the teams in the playoffs are paper tigers with records out of proportion to their skill level when compared across leagues. That is just the way things are. I am sure this same thing happens in other sports as well. However watch how teams from certain leagues tend to do in the post season and you can tell which leagues have the strongest competition in all sports. The other time is out of league performance.
The Middlesex league for example has gone 27-15-3 so far this year out of league with their 11 teams. Collectively those losses have come to StM(3), AC(3), AB, Falmouth, Hingham, Weymouth, L/S, Algonguin, Tewksbury and Winthrop/Lynn, who have a combined record for the opponent teams in those losses of something like 165-71-33 for all the games played. Only Algonquin and Tewksbury do not have winning records themselves and those two losses for the Middlesexx League both came against the 4-14-2 Belmont team.


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GLENMONT, Md. (WUSA) --- Secret Service records with private information about the financial, medical, and other personal details of the agency's workers and contacts were left on a Metro subway train here in 2008 and have yet to be recovered, according to reports on various cable news channels Friday.
CNN quotes congressional sources as saying the Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security has begun an investigation of the incident but DHS did not return WUSA9 calls asking for confirmation of the inquiry.
The records were reportedly on two computer tapes that were being taken to secure storage in Maryland by a contractor who agreed to move them from agency offices in Washington, D.C.
He apparently left the tapes on the train when it came to the end of the line in Glenmont and he left the train.
"Any time you have that kind of information out there, putting aside, perhaps, identity fraud, you have the potential of setting things up where someone could try to blackmail, coerce or otherwise persuade an agent or officer to perhaps provide some sort of information," said veteran Washington federal employment lawyer Mark Zaid, who has represented Secret Service agents.
"Any time you have a compromise of information that could somehow put into play an agent or an officers vulnerabilities, then you have threat to national security," Zaid told 9News.
The Secret Service issued a statement Friday, saying "In February of 2008, a contract employee whose function was to maintain, secure and transport this type of information lost two "back-up" tapes on the DC Metro while transporting them to an off-site facility. These back-up tapes were not marked or identified in any way and were protected by multiple layers of security. They could not be accessed without the proper equipment, applications and encoding.
The Metropolitan Transit Police were notified of the loss and assisted Secret Service agents searching for the lost tapes. All appropriate entities at DHS were notified, to include DHS-OIG, the Office of the CIO, the Security Operations Center, and the Privacy Office. The Secret Service complied with all guidelines related to loss of information.
Subsequent to this incident, the Secret Service instituted protocols to prevent this from happening again. To date there has been no reported fraud associated with the loss of these tapes."


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This week we are all enjoying that crazy thing called civilized living. Lights, heat, indoor plumbing that works! Whacky! Here is what we have to offer you this week. We have some trolls, some Hamptons, a naked boy on a porch, LBJ, a sworn enemy, Biafra (for the first time ever!), London, Manhattan, Nazis , a true Staff favorite, and some sins!
Let us begin!
John has left the bad girls behind it would seem but he is still involved in all kinds of sketchy. "I'm currently reading Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and it is so totally my kind of yarn! It has secret societies, computer programming, underground libraries, font design, copyright trolls, Google, boob simulation software, love, ebooks, books, and illicit book scanning. It's sort of like Cory Doctorow meets The Night Circus meets The Magicians. It's one of those novels that meets at the strangest intersection of disparate (and interesting) things, yet it all works together to create a dashingly fun book. This is a must-read for all geeky bibliophiles."
Erin the Programming Diva is poking around some bad behavior." I am about four pages into Indiscretion, which is what seems to be a contemporary Great Gatsby. Claire, a young half-French Manhattanite is invited out to the Hamptons by Clive, the new man she is dating. There is drinking. There is nudity. Claire is getting closer to Clive's married friends. I can't wait to find out what the indiscretion is!"
Amanda the Tech Goddess is listening to the audiobook of Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. The book starts by telling the story of a girl being mauled by starving wolves. Grace lies there on the ground, unmoving and helpless. Then she makes eye contact with a yellow eyed wolf. Years later, Grace does not remember how she survived the attack or how she arrived home. What she does have is an obsession with the yellow eyed wolf that stands behind her house every winter. Strangely though, the wolf disappears every summer. Enter Sam, a yellow eyed boy that Grace finds wounded and naked on her front porch. In the woods a wolf hunt is going on…Shiver is the epitome of adolescent romance and longing. I have not read many werewolf novels, so I have no idea what is standard for the genre, but Stiefvater's world is almost tangible as you buy into her explanations. The intensity of Grace and Sam's relationship is only heightened by the fact that soon Sam will be a wolf forever.
Miss Stephanie of the RA feels that her reading material might be a bit dry this week. BUT, it was election week after all and why not carry that political theme right on to your reading? " This week I finally finished Master of the Senate, the third volume in the LBJ biography series by Robert Caro. Yes, I am a nerd, and I love presidential biographies. And this series is just as good as they get. Actually, it's not an exaggeration to call them some of the best books I've ever read. Caro is a master researcher and his writing verges on perfection sometimes. This series not only explains LBJ (who was possibly one of the most complex Americans of the 20th century, so that's no small task) but also his times, making it the most interesting history lesson I've ever read. This volume, which focuses on his time in the Senate, where he was the youngest Majority Leader in history and, among other things, pushed through the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction, is fascinating. It's like the West Wing, but better. Suffice to say that I watched the Senate election returns with more interest than the Presidential on Tuesday night, all because of this book, and what it taught me about the US Senate. If you are even slightly interested in US history or politics, you owe it to yourself to read these books at some point. Why not start now?"
Abby has put down the magazines and is back to books this week! "Perhaps it's the election season that led me to literary jingoism but whatever the reason I dug into The Last Man by Vince Flynn. It's the latest in the Mitch Rapp series and is coming out November 13th. In this book Mitch is once again in Afghanistan and seems in a particularly impatient mood. And you really don't want to be in the same room (or country) with Mitch when he believes you are not being Fully Cooperative. When Mitch asks a question, just tell him what he wants to know. You're going to tell him anyway. Mitch continues to work for CIA Director Irene Kennedy using his efficient style of eliminating problems and cutting to the chase. Corrupt Afghan officials and a long-time sworn enemy are featured. This is a light post-Sandy, no more political phone calls please, Nor'easter Athena escape."
Judy, for those not in the know, is the Wonderful Woman responsible for making sure the Book Goodness gets into your hands. Here is what she has going on, and boy is it a lot! "I am almost through reading Dearie about Julia Child and am about to start Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher about the life and photography of Edward Curtis. I have also just begun Chinua Achebe's There Was a Country about Biafra."
Caroline has been using some spicy fiction to warm her! "Wicked Pleasures, a new arrival by Penny Vincenzi, is not quite as risqué as the title suggests, but more than enough to get you through 6 days with no power. This 639 page family saga centers around Virginia, Countess of Caterham, who is an American, and moves to London after marrying Alexander, Earl of Caterham. Hidden scandals slowly emerge as the story spans between London aristocracy and the New York City banking world from the 1950's-present. It has great momentum, and many likeable characters and side stories. However if you haven't read Vincenzi's "No Angel" trilogy, I would definitely start with those."
Miss Elisabeth is reading The Diviners by Libba Bray. "In her second foray into period drama, Printz-award winning Libba Bray goes dark – nightmarishly dark. Evie is a young flapper hiding a big secret. She lives with her uncle, the curator of New York City's Museum of the Occult and Supernatural. When her uncle is called to assist police in investigating a series of gruesome occult murders that have plagued the city, Evie is lured in as well. The book draws together a wide array of bright young things in Jazz-era New York, and does an absolutely fantastic job placing you in the 20's. Bray apparently spent 3 years researching this period in New York City history and it will shows. Additionally, the murder plot is spine-tingly scary. I had real nightmares while I was reading this book. Naughty John is a villain for the ages."
Babs B! is reveling in having power back and is catching up on movies! "I just finished watching a foreign film Black Book. It's the story of Jewish fugitives during WWII attempting to escape occupied Holland but they are ambushed by the Nazis. One person survives the attack and joins the Dutch Resistance to avenge her family. She then must infiltrate German headquarters by seducing a high ranking German officer, only to find out that a murderous traitor is within Resistance ranks. There are so many twists and turns and it's based on true events. This movie gets an A+ from me!"
Ann and Marianne are reading the same book which is turning out to be a huge favorite for us all; The End if Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe. Ann says, "This wonderful book is the true story of a remarkable woman, Mary Anne Schwalbe, who is dying of pancreatic cancer and the time she spends with her son Will sharing books and stories through her cancer treatments. This is a book of a loving family who you would want to know and invite to share Thanksgiving dinner with you. Yes, the subject matter is sad but your heart will soar with the love of this family and just the strength of the human spirit. It touched my heart as I am sure it would touch yours." Marianne's take is this: "This is one of my favorite reads of the recent past few months. The author's memoir of his family's last days with their dying mother was touching, uplifting, sad and beautiful. I loved the fact that mother and son filled the hours of her chemo treatments reading and discussing books. And there was not a bad book in the long list of those they read. This mother was a truly remarkable woman who had spent a lot of her life working with refugees in third world countries. The way she faced her illness with strength and courage was inspiring. This book will stay with you long after you've finished reading it.' Please read this. It is truly a love letter not only to Will's mom but to books as well.
Jeanne is reading Hostage by Elie Wiesel. "Shaltiel Feigenberg is an ordinary man; a good man who lives in Brooklyn in 1975. He makes his living through words. He is a storyteller. He is Jewish and his captors are Palestinian. Weisel, one of the greatest storytellers himself, tells a grimly honest, starkly beautiful tale where the victim is also the witness. Shaltiel is being forced against his will to represent the sins of others. Hostage reads like a holy book. I can't put it down."


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That was hilarious!
This made me smile.
Warning: contains rude language (and a rude logo)
I Wish I Worked With This Man...He's Hilarious
Oh the standard polite send off at the end was priceless! Especially with the response.
Chuckle Chuckle!
My Battlemaps Gallery http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...p?albumid=3407
Even funnier than that. Thanks for the link.
I've had only one bad map commission experience where a client waited almost 6 months before paying me for the work I've done, but not before asking for changes to the map. I told him simply, you normally need to pay me upon completion of the map. I would have provided the changes he asked for free, if he'd already paid. Since he had not, I insisted on getting the original pay first, then charging him additional fees for the changes. Again, if he'd paid on time, I'd have done the extra at no cost. However, because of the delay, he was not entitled to any breaks. I may have been curt in my response, but I was not rude, and don't find being rude to be the best response to most client interactions, no matter how badly they treated me. I tend to get more results with sugar, than vinegar.
If a publisher ever asks to work for FREE, based on his belief that his product will eventually sell, and will be paying you based possible royalties. I say, "No way."
A given product may or may not sell, that is not my concern. If my skills are needed to produce freelance work, then I will be paid a pre-agreed upon price at the completion of work. If the product is a super success, I don't feel I am entitled for extra payment (if a publisher pays me extra, I'm fine with that). However, I will not wait to be paid at some future date based on the 'pie in the sky' possibility that it will be successful. I don't do work as an investment towards a project. If you want services from me, I will be paid the full amount at completion, or I won't do the work at all.
This is the primary reason, that I am mostly creating maps for my own published projects to avoid any of the possible payment hassles dealing with companies other than me.
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27b/6 is awesome, thanks for reminding me of that! My personal fave is the Missing Missy one
Edit: Gamerprinter's post reminded me of a story my dad told me about some work he did a few decades ago.
My dad is a classical musician. Everyone in the orchestra he worked for was offered two alternate contracts for recording the music for a prospective project: one in which they were paid a set amount up front, one in which they were paid a fraction of a percentage in royalties. To the last person, they were almost certain that this project would be unsuccessful. Their music being their only means of income, they couldn't afford to gamble on that kind of thing and so chose the up front payment.
The project was a film, titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The royalties contract included a percentage of all subsequent income from this and any other films in the series.
You can imagine how my dad feels about that contract choice now!
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Ouch!!! That must have hurt - it's a great story though. I hope he got a few pints out of it.
Funny email correspondence ! Reminds me of a few things at work...


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|Paoli Post Office closes the doors
|Written by Chris Lee
|Wednesday, 05 December 2012 08:06
"I really feel badly that I let my people down, but I feel like I served them well for 46 years," former Paoli Postmaster Marilyn Miller said Monday morning, Dec. 3.
Miller closed the Paoli Post Office, which was located on the west side of her home, on Nov. 16. She retired earlier this year on July 31 after serving just over 41 years as postmaster. For the three and a half months leading up to the closure of the post office, a leave replacement employer was being utilized.
Miller began as a postmaster relief in 1966, so in all she has over 46 total years of service to the USPS.
When the doors closed on the Paoli Post Office last month, the United States Postal Service opted to install a community cluster box on the east side of Town Hall. All of the P.O. boxes and street addresses will stay the same, according to Miller.
A new cluster of boxes has been installed right in front of the Paoli Town Hall for post office customers. Addresses have stayed the same and a carrier from Haxtun drops the mail off at the boxes in Paoli each day instead of a driver stopping at the former post office connected to the home of long-time postmaster Marilyn Miller.
—Enterprise photo
"It's been working out really well," Miller said.
Miller's daughter, Melinda Groshans, is the postmaster in Haxtun and lives in Paoli. "She knows everybody," Miller said.
Miller has already begun construction on the former post office and has plans to turn it into a personal office space. She will continue to serve as Paoli's town clerk—a job she began in 1976. Since there isn't an office for the clerk's position, Miller keeps the town files in her home. She plans to move them down into the newly remodeled area. It obviously won't operate as a town office.
Miller built the addition on to her home in 1972 and leased it to the USPS five years at a time. When she decided to retire earlier this year, she opted to terminate the lease and had to give the USPS six months notice. Miller wrote a letter in May and the lease was up in November. That's when the doors closed and the newest chapter of mail delivery in Paoli began.
"I feel like I supplied them with a service for 40-some years, and that's about all I can do," Miller said. "I have to start something new in life," she added with a chuckle.
Miller assumed the Postmaster title in 1971 after Ruth Strehlow who served for 30 years as the Postmaster retired. At that time the office was located in the Flaker Store—a building located south of the Paoli Coop Elevator.
Strehlow lived in a room in the back. Miller remembers the living quarters being heated but the post office wasn't. Heat would drift in from Strehlow's living quarters.
Miller remembers hearing mice chewing around as the coop had storage connected to the space.
Miller said each day they would begin with three dollars in the small cash drawer. At the end of the day, anything over three dollars was considered the stamp sales and that money was put into a cigar box with a cheap lock on it.
In those days, Miller said they offered insurance, certified mail and money orders. "There wasn't any of this other stuff."
At night, they would put the mail out in a small shed that the truck driver had a key to. Miller also said there was an old light in the middle of the post office that had a pull string. Those retrieving their mail at night had to turn the light on and off themselves.
When Strehlow decided to retire, she told Miller that she should work from June 30 to Sept. 30—the end of the fiscal year. "She said I know they're going to close it," Miller remembers Strehlow telling her.
At the end of the fiscal year, the USPS sent Miller a letter telling her to post the job to see if anyone was interested. She still has that letter, by the way.
No one bit and Miller wrote back asking what she needed to do to get the job. The USPS wrote back and offered it to her.
"That was 40-some years ago. I don't know how many times I have been threatened that it's going to close."
Days began to get very long at the Flaker Building and that is when Miller asked the USPS to move the office to her home. They agreed.
Miller had saved up $1,500 for the 180 sq/ft addition to her home and construction began in 1971. She remembers the final price tag to be a little higher after some of the ceiling tiles flew out of the back of her husband Leland's truck.
The addition worked really well, Miller said, until the addition of the scanner, printer, credit card machine and other items. She said it became a bit crowded, but "it served its purpose."
Mail is no longer dropped off at the addition on the back of Marilyn Miller's home. The sign has been painted over and Miller plans to use the space for a personal office.
—Enterprise photo
Miller moved to Paoli in 1961 with her husband Leland. Leland has been gone 26 years after losing a fight with cancer.
She has four children. Daughter Melinda Groshans lives in Paoli and serves as the Postmaster in Haxtun. She has been with the USPS since 1985. She has three children Grady, Garet and wife Crissey and Gade.
Daughter Melissa and husband Ron Evans live north of Lemoyne, Neb. They have two children son Ridge and daughter Lacey and husband Mitch Williams and son Karder Lee.
Twin son Mike Miller farms and lives southwest of Holyoke.
Twin son Mitch Miller and wife Julie live near Bennett and they have twins Jake and Lindsey.
Paoli was established in Weld County as a station on the Burlington-Missouri River Railroad in 1881 on the road from Holdrege, Neb. to Sterling. In 1887, with a population listed of 199, it became a part of Logan County, and in 1889, Phillips County.
The town is said to have been named after Paoli, Pa. by a chief engineer of the Burlington Railroad. The Pennsylvania town was named for an Italian General, Pasquale Paoli who was a French Corsica patriot.
A post office was established on June 8, 1888. It was discontinued on Feb. 11, 1890. By 1909 there was a railroad shed, stockyards and a general merchandise store.
In 1910 there was a blacksmith, billiard hall, restaurant and lumber yard. With this boom, another Paoli Post Office was established on March 9, 1910. In 1916 there were approximately 3,000 acres broken by plow. By 1919 there were 10 times that many. The Paoli Land Office operated by Oscar Lohn, Ira Taylor and William Krueger was an abashed promoter of growth in the area.
With persistent advertising and boasting, and planting crops of their own, they encouraged much new settlement.
As Paoli residents settle into a new routine with their daily mail, Miller plans to keep bowling in a couple different leagues in Sterling and Julesburg.
Holyoke Enterprise December 6, 2012
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Ancient Egypt and Its Art
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This class begins with a guided tour of the Ancient Egypt Gallery, which fascinates students with authentic artifacts, a re-created tomb, and a 2,300-year old mummy. After the tour, students are taught an age-old metalworking technique so that they can each create an ancient Egyptian inspired relief.
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Grade Level: 38
LINK: Planetarium Program: Mummies: Secrets of the Pharoahs, Grades 3-8
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VA-CE -1 Students will explore and identify imagery from a variety of sources and create visual representations
VA-CE-E2 Students will explore and discuss techniques and technologies for visual expression and communication
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VA-AP- 2 Students will recognize and respond to concepts of beauty and taste in the ideas and creations of others through the study of visual arts
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VA-CE-1 Students will demonstrate art methods and techniques in visual representations based on research of imagery
VA-CE-2 Students will select and apply media, techniques, and technology to visually express and communicate
VA-CE-M4 Students will develop skills in creating art forms, including art forms from other cultures
VA-CA-M2 Students will analyze and interpret art images for their symbolic meaning, purpose, and value in place and time
VA-HP-5 Students will describe and compare careers in visual arts and the role and status of the artist in various cultures and time periods
VA-AP-2 Students will recognize that concepts of beauty differ by culture and that taste varies from person to person
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The new Draft Global Beer Lounge & Grill, located directly across from the new Amway Center, is scheduled to open on March 31 and will feature 40 drafts on tap and more than 100 bottled brands.
Draft will serve lunch and dinner Monday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. with a menu created by Executive Chef Bryce Balluff. His Draft menu is a mix of American fare as well as some specialties that include: spring rolls, fried mac and cheese, pina colada salad and pork shank.
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I was disappointed to have been unable to make the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Congress last week in Moscow. It's a historic event, in its fifth year, that gathers startup champions from around the world--entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, thought leaders and policymakers--to work together to help bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. This kind of annual assembly has contributed to the expansion of a global entrepreneurial ecosystem by connecting experts and entrepreneurs across borders and sectors to unleash their ideas and transform innovation into reality.
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Gerard Brown: Seeing and Reading
Exhibit Dates: October 26th to November 27th, 2009
HANCOCK, MI -Seeing and Reading, an exhibition of artwork by Philadelphia artist Gerard Brown will take place at the Finlandia University Gallery, located in the Finnish American Heritage Center, Hancock, from October 26 to November 27, 2009.
An opening reception for the artist will take place at the gallery Thursday, October 29th, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. An artist talk will begin at 7:15 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Brown will be exhibiting a series of gouache paintings titled The Whiteness of the Whale, which reference Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby Dick. Brown makes paintings that sit at the intersection of seeing and reading. His paintings invite viewers to examine the idea that pictures can be read.
The notion of the image as a form of text was central to much of the art making and theory of the late 20th century. By employing various writing systems (Braille and others) as building blocks of pictures, Brown invites the viewer to be a reader and the reader to be a viewer in hopes that something might be gained in the space between these parts of our selves.
"A photograph of a person or a city is one form of description, and a poem about that person or place is another," he observes, "but what happens when these two perfectly adequate forms of description are turned on one another?"
Describing Brown's work in an upcoming brochure, art critic Tom Csaszar notes, "The Whiteness of the Whale presents us with two layers of small circles overlapping and fusing with each other into one pattern that moves across the paper looking sometimes structured and sometimes random, and in a true sense it always is both."
Csaszar continues, "While there are numerous ideas and intellectual responses to Brown's work, it is on the level of direct and immediate pleasures and impressions that Brown's surfaces are ultimately read. They can then be re-read as various suspensions and interruptions of meanings in order to make their sense more visible."
Brown received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boston University of Fine Arts. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the east coast and Chicago.
Brown has also been actively involved in art criticism and arts writing and has worked for clients including the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, and the Philadelphia Department of Recreation Mural Arts Program.
The Finlandia University Gallery is in the Finnish American Heritage Center, 435 Quincy Street, Hancock. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Saturday 12 pm - 4 pm or by appointment. Gallery closed Dec 23rd - Jan 2nd, 2010. Please call 906-487-7500 for more information.