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OLD MOVE: Wait until you're alone to kiss.
HOT NEW TRICK: Kiss him in public!
"Try pulling him into a corner at a party or kissing him in a super-public place, like a football game. The spontaneity makes it exciting!" — Xiomara, 16
EVEN HOTTER: Spice up a PDA peck by planting it in an unusual spot, like his inside wrist or the skin next to his collar. It's unexpected, which makes it better!
OLD MOVE: Kiss him passionately.
HOT NEW TRICK: Hold back a little!
"When I'm kissing a guy, I'll play with his hair and then pull his head back, so my lips are just slightly out of his reach. Guys love to be teased a little!" — Claire, 16
EVEN HOTTER: When you do lean in, mix it up and kiss his top lip or the corners of his mouth. It's still a little teasing — and he'll love wondering what other kissing tricks you know!
OLD MOVE: Afterward, pull away and smile.
HOT NEW TRICK: Linger for a second!
"Drag out your last kiss by cradling the back of his head in your hand or planting small kisses up his jawline. He'll be thinking about you all night!" — Whitley, 19
EVEN HOTTER: As soon as you leave, text him a smiley face (with no message). It lets him know he's on your mind too, but keeping it brief seems super-confident!
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Stewart hopes to revisit Penske's Indy 500 offer
CONCORD, N.C. Tony Stewart believes he has an open-ended offer from Roger Penske to run the Indianapolis 500.
The three-time NASCAR champion turned down Penske's offer in December to drive one of his cars at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but Stewart revealed Monday he told "The Captain" over dinner he'd like to revisit the offer down the road.
"It's a very flattering offer. I went back to Roger and actually had dinner with him in Indianapolis and told him he not necessarily backed me in a corner, but he made me a generous offer," Stewart said. "I made him a counteroffer that it's an open-ended invitation. So even though we haven't accepted this year, maybe some year down the road we may be able to accept it. He never said no, so as far as I'm concerned we have an open invitation."
Penske, a 15-time winner as a car owner of the Indy 500, first made his offer while accepting the Sprint Cup trophy and lauding Stewart, the 2011 champion.
"I know we took your spot this year," Penske said. "But you're a car owner, you're a race driver, you're a track promoter - how about doing the double at Indy this year? Are you available?"
Penske later insisted he was serious about wanting Stewart, an Indiana native and former IndyCar series champion, to drive for him in the 500.
Stewart, who grew up dreaming of winning the Indy 500, was silent about Penske's offer for several days. Then he turned Penske down.
He said Monday his role as co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing and his responsibilities as a NASCAR driver and owner of several race teams and tracks left him unable to run the Indy 500. And, he said he wasn't certain he'd be competitive.
Stewart ran the 500 five times and finished a career-best fifth in 1997. Stewart twice attempted to run both the Indy 500 and NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 on the same day: In 1999, he was ninth at Indy and fourth at Charlotte, and he was sixth at Indy and third at Charlotte in 2001.
He hasn't tried Indianapolis since.
"Indy car racing has progressed and the competition has gotten tighter and tighter there," he said. "I feel like (Penske's) the perfect team to go and do the month of May with, but I still feel like for me as a driver, I would need to start the year with that team and run through the month of May with that team to really feel like the first day of practice I was competitive."
Stewart this year will be fielding a Sprint Cup Series car for Danica Patrick, who is also sitting out the Indy 500 for a second consecutive year. She joked Monday that maybe Stewart could help her get a seat with Penske.
"I feel like Tony is my in now. Put in a good word for me, maybe? Maybe something in the future? Maybe the both of us can run it in the future?" she said before turning serious. "It's just something that didn't work out for this year, I think it's most important to focus on the Cup effort. I think it would be exciting and interesting to do it in the future, if it works out, it does. And if it doesn't I've had many great years at Indy and lots of great memories.
SHR competition director Greg Zipadelli was Stewart's crew chief for both of his double duty attempts, and he discouraged Patrick from pursuing a ride in this May's race. He understands how badly Stewart once wanted to win the Indy 500, but doesn't think Stewart struggled too much with the decision this time around.

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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Look what some Wizards bloggers found! Andray Blatche actually playing basketball! Blatche is sponsoring a team in the Gametime Lifestyle league this summer in Miami, called the Elite Society LGI. Elite Society also happens to be the name of the club he partners with.
(H/T @BulletsForever & @AdamMcginnis)
The last time Wizards fans saw Blatche play in an actual game was on March 18, at Memphis. Blatche saw just five minutes of game action against the Grizzlies, before Ernie Grunfeld decided it was time to shut down his favorite forward due to "conditioning" reasons.
In yesterday's Wizards press conference, Grunfeld and Randy Wittman completely beat around the bush when asked about Andray Blatche. In fact, some are saying the Wizards hiring of the cheaper candidate in Randy Wittman, has to do with the franchise saving money once Blatche is amnestied this summer.
Fast forward towards to end of the video to check out his hilarious highlight. Did the basket even go in? Blatche apparently finished with 22 points and 14 boards. Those are very April-esque numbers for 'Dray.
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Bryan Havemann is the new Chair of the IUCN National Committee of South Africa
14 February 2009 | News story
The IUCN Committee of South Africa elected Bryan Havemann as the new Chair during a recent meeting held at De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife. Bryan is the National Director of Conservation at the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA).
During the meeting, Yolan Friedman, one of the three IUCN Councillors for Africa, reported back on the February Council meeting which she attended. In addition, the ESARO Head of Constituency Support, Hastings Chikoko, gave a presentation on the One-Programme and the networked approach to delivering the IUCN programme.
The meeting recognized two new IUCN members in South Africa namely, Resource Africa and Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee.


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Would it be possible to make Zimbra utilise the Global File System (GFS) from RedHat in order to allow multiple backend servers simultanious access to the message store?
If used with a SAN, iSCSI and some form of layer-4 load balancing, you could eliminate the need to run clustering services to get redundancy. You then don't have to try and split mailboxes across muliple stores in order to try and get quasi load balancing. You can scale the system just by adding an additional backend server without having to try and shuffle mailboxes around stores.


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|Deaver's Derringer hits the silver screen in new 'Lone Ranger' film
|Written by Becca Brandt
|Wednesday, 03 July 2013 12:50
A three-barreled Marston Derringer is a rare find with only about 3,300 manufactured, but finding an 1864 three-barreled Marston Derringer with an engraved four-inch barrel and frame with a mother of pearl grip is even harder, with only the first 50 units being given special options.
Narrowing the criteria even more to a firearm that was also used on the set of "The Lone Ranger" to threaten the life of Johnny Depp's character, Tonto, there is only one weapon that fits the description.
Steve Deaver of Holyoke is the owner of the sole Marston Derringer that can be classified thusly. His Derringer is marked serial number 25 on the barrel by the hinge.
Steve Deaver's Marston three-barreled Derringer features a four-inch barrel, engraving and a mother of pearl grip exclusive to the first 50 Derringers produced. —Enterprise photo
The engraved detailing runs along the barrel and on the frame. The engraving was done either by prominent 19th century gun engraver Louis D. Nimschke or in his style by an apprentice under his supervision, as were most other Marston Derringers. A Nimschke star and Nimschke scroll motif adorn the frame on which is stamped the patent and improvement dates of the gun.
The Derringer uses .32 caliber short rim-fire cartridges. Deaver equated it to a concealed handgun someone may use today. Since the gun was manufactured before 1898, it does not require a permit to own.
Stumbling upon the unique piece at a gun show in Denver in November 2011, Deaver traded one of his firearms for the gun.
He then sent the gun with a friend to Las Vegas for an antique collectors gun show with the intent of selling the Derringer. This is where property master for "The Lone Ranger" Kris Peck took notice of the pistol.
With the gun being improved in 1864, it was a must-have item for Peck as it was from the correct period for the film set in 1869.
Peck asked Deaver's friend if he could rent the gun, then Deaver was put in touch with Peck to discuss the details.
The only details Deaver received about the use of the gun was that it would be pointed at Depp.
After a little research indicated an increase in value of firearms used as props, he decided to ship the gun to Peck at Silver Bullet Productions in January 2012.
Peck has worked as the prop master for numerous box office successes, including "Pirates of the Caribbean," "The Dark Knight Rises," "Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol" and "Rock of Ages."
Deaver has found the whole experience to be very cool and could contact Peck in the future with unique firearm finds.
The Derringer will be on display at Deaver Hardware with the other guns Deaver buys, sells and trades. With the increased value, the gun will be out for people to see during business hours, but closely guarded and locked in a safe otherwise.
Steve Deaver holds the Derringer that was used as a prop in "The Lone Ranger" in front of many of the other unique guns he has in his collection. —Enterprise photo
Deaver may advertise the Marston Derringer for sale after the film is released, but he will only sell if the price is right. Using a firearm in a movie generally doubles its value, but other factors, such as the actors and success of the film can influence value.
As he continues his work as a collector and dealer, Deaver has about 150 guns on hand, but he has noticed that people flock to the Derringer at gun shows.
Despite the use of his gun in the film, Deaver has been kept in the dark about most of the gun's involvement in the movie. He will discover more when he goes to a Colorado Springs gun show, where he plans to attend the film with his family and friends.
Viewers can get a sneak peek of the gun in the official "Lone Ranger" trailer No. 2. Directly after Depp stabs a knife into a table, Helena Bonham Carter's character, Red, pulls the Derringer on Depp at the two-minute mark in the preview.
The scene in which the gun was used was filmed on March 13, 2012 and audiences can finally see it on the big screen as it premieres nationwide July 3.
Community members can check out Deaver's Marston Derringer at the Peerless Theatre where the movie will begin playing July 3 for a two-week engagement.
The Holyoke Enterprise July 4, 2013


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WASHINGTON (WUSA) --- To become one of the scientists of the future, sometimes you have to learn lessons about what took place millions of years ago. Some young people are doing just that at the Smithsonian's Museum of National History in Washington, D.C.
Tiffany Munos-Cegarra may be the only teenager but she get to work with some of the most talented scientists in the world there. She is working with ancient mollusks found in New Jersey. Handling something more than 60 million years old can be tricky, she told us.
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It translates to the younger students as well. The Smithsonian's Shari Rosenstein Werb said, "Young people are here with their families and they peek in the window and they see somebody like Tiffany, working on bones and excavating and a young person will look at them and say 'wow, she is just a few years older than I am. I can do that!'"
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Lee Jones thinks a cold spell is headed to Rifle in about a week.
The Rifle resident based his weather forecast on careful observation of rows of vegetables he's grown for the last three summers at the Bookcliffs Council on Arts and Humanities community garden off 16th Street.
Jones and his wife, Esther, are among a group of dedicated gardeners who have filled the 18 beds at the community garden with rows of fresh, organic vegetables for their tables.
The appearance and behavior of his crops tells Jones temperatures are due to take a dip fairly soon.
"Just based on past experience, you look at the color and if they're starting to droop down," Jones added.
But it's been a bountiful harvest for the community gardeners.
Jones said he and Esther have already picked more than three bushels of both squash and cucumbers, a half-bushel of potatoes and many other crops.
"We started picking on June 10 and we're on our second run through on most of them," he added. "Cauliflower, broccoli, beets. We make a lot of salsa verde with tomatillos. We want to make a combination broccoli, cauliflower, squash and green beans medley, too."
Jones and his wife have canned about eight quarts of salsa and 22 pints of sauerkraut, too. They started seeding their bed in February, when temperatures rose enough to get the ground dry and warm, he said.
"I think, if we've got our calculations correct, we saved about $200 a month by growing our vegetables here at the garden," Jones said.
growing up on a farm in Mississippi.
"The closest town was 12 miles away and there were no fancy roads like they have now," he said." So we had to grow a lot of our own food. "We canned everything."
One thing Jones learned was to let some of the vegetables go to seed, collect those seeds and you have a good starting point for the next year.
"You know they've come from the same soil, so they get started easier," he said.
June Renfro, secretary/treasurer with the council and a member since 2003, called the community garden "A real Godsend."
"I think a lot of people don't even know we have one," she said. "The irrigation rights [from the Bill Morrow property that hosts the garden] make it viable. We couldn't afford city water, especially since they raised the rates."
Each gardener can set up their own compost pile, Renfro said. Plots, or beds, cost $20 for the summer, plus a $20 council membership fee. The close to 100 current members get first choice of a garden bed each year, Renfro said, and applications are available for the remaining beds on the council web site, www.artsinrifle.org.
Renfro said they hope to add six more garden beds next summer, if funding is available.
"Originally, we were a Walmart sustaining project, so that helped with the materials," Renfro said. "They still give us things like broken bags of dirt to help out."
Another gardener, Helen Rogers, of Rifle, has grown and harvested vegetables at the community garden for the last three years as well.
"It's a good way to support the arts council," she said. "I live downtown, so the sunlight is limited and there's not enough space for my tomatoes, potatoes and everything else, too."
There's also a lot of camaraderie you'd expect when people get together and get their fingers in the dirt, Rogers said. They share tips and make new friends, she added.
Lindsay and Chris McLean are both teachers in Rifle and have their own bed of thriving vegetables. This is their first year as community gardeners.
"It was something we heard was going on, and when we called, they said they had one bed left," Lindsay McLean said. "We were really happy to get it."
"We've always wanted to have a good vegetable garden," Chris McLean added. "But we never seemed to have the room."
The couple is renting, Lindsay McLean added, and didn't want to tear up the existing landscaping for a garden.
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"We were up here every single day in the summer," Chris McLean added. "Now that school's in session, it's about every other day."
Weeds don't seem to be a huge problem, Lindsay McLean said.
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They also learned jalapeno peppers turn red when they're getting to the end of their life cycle, Lindsay McLean added.
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and she thought they were a bit boring. So many white shells, so little personality.
Time to find a pretty bowl or basket so we can display them on the coffee table.
What a wonderful idea!
Now to find some seashells...
B has done this with rocks and watercolor (not a lot of shell findings in the midwest.) The nice thing is, if we forget them outside and it rains, she has a clean canvas to paint again.
love these! novi painted shells we found in myrtle beach and gave them to our family members on mother's day this past spring... everyone loves them and uses them as paperweights on their desks.
How funny - we painted seashells yesterday. They will be in my post tomorrow. Are you doing anything special with them now that they are painted? We may use some of ours in mosaics.
Those turned out cute.
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so cute!!!! We need some shells, but I think I will have to buy them at the craft store!
What a cute activity!!!
What a great idea, I totally flag all your activities for kids to do with mine, once we get back to our house. Thank you thank you thank you for sharing.
this is beyond fabulous! I love it! I think I might do this, this week with the kids! We live in so cal and there are some pretty seashells where we live!
thanks for the inspiration!
I love this idea! They really are pretty! We have so many sea shells that could use some color in their lives!
Thanks for sharing!
they are gorgeous. Such a simple thing too. We have heaps of shells here so that is a great idea.
That's fantastic - what a great idea... I have a stack of shells sitting in a bag from a recent coast holiday - now I know what I am going to do... Thank you.
so fun! we spent a lot of time painting sea shells this summer. Hope you all are enjoying the rest of your summer days!
We go camping several times a year down in Hatteras, NC and everytime we take our paint and brushes to paint our ocean treasures, its so much fun for my 5 yr old son and I!!!
This is such a great idea! I bought some shells for my daughter, but wasn't sure what to paint them with. Thanks for giving me an answer - your shells look gorgeous!
We have painted both shells and pebbles this summer. Something finally to do with all the ones that keep coming home in pockets.
I have them displayed in a large glass jar in the bathroom.
These shells look so exotic.
What a great idea! The shells look so lively and the kids are having fun painting. Thank you so much, Candy, for the prayers for Rea....Christine
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your shells have just been featured on my site! http://applegreencottage.blogspot.com/2015/07/seashell-crafts-for-kids.html
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Nice job so far!
I like the overall layout and the textures you've used for the wall and objects.
A few suggestions:
1) The floor seems very clean and pristine. Is it intended to be a very clean, well-maintained crypt? If not, I'd suggest darkening the floors and "grunging" them up a bit.
2) Try using a smaller and darker drop shadow for the coffins and other objects, so they look a little more grounded rather than floating up off the floor.
3) A couple light sources would also be a nice detail, unless visitors are supposed to just carry their own lanterns or torches?
And I definitely agree that the overall lighting is too bright. Darker lighting would look much better (IMO) and make more sense, especially if there are no fixed light sources. But if you added some wall torches (or similar) you could create a really nice atmosphere with light and shadow.
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We briefly interrupt the Whole Foods Holiday Top Ten List for this special post on the 2008 Pancake Cellars Big Day White, Paso Robles, California.
Along those lines, a question that I keep thinking about is whether or not wine bloggers need to disclose that they receive wine and product samples from wineries, winemakers, PR firms and whoever else might gain from sharing product with anyone who has an audience. For me, I currently disclose the source of my wine – if I buy it myself, I say nothing, but if I receive a sample, I let people know that it's a sample. In the blogging world, it's my way of letting you know that my opinion may be swayed in some way by the notion of "free."
Where I struggle with this approach is this...
The biggest wine reviewers in the world are giving reviews of sample wines and not disclosing it. If you think Robert Parker or the folks over at Wine Spectator buy all their own wine for review, just go to one of their offices to see how much wine is provided by eager seekers of high scores and validation. Now, I have nothing against Wine Spectator and I truly believe that there has to be some kind of authoritative voice reviewing wine, if for no other reason than most consumers, unfortunately, need to be told what to drink...but also for the simple notion that bloggers need something to complain about, rail against, rally behind, compare themselves to, whatever you want to call it (if you disagree, just check out all the blogger noise over Robert Parker, starting with 1WineDude, who so elegantly steered us all through the debate).
So, if the big boys don't share with you every time a wine was provided free of charge, why is everyone else expected to? When I first started this blog, I felt it was my duty and, to be honest, when I got a sample, it was like I won the lottery. I felt like I had arrived, like I had reached some magical point in my wine blogging and it was fun to share that with people. It was very easy at that point to determine which wines were samples and which were not, so, by extension, it was also easy to let everyone know what was what. Now, as more samples have been coming in, it seems 50 – 60% of the wines I review are in that category and the organization of it all hasn't yet reached daunting, but it certainly takes some thought as to how best to arrange and store the wines.
The real question is this – do I review wines any differently knowing that I purchased it vs. having someone supply it for me? The answer to that is "no, absolutely not." I have never gone into a tasting of a sample wine thinking that I need to treat it any differently than any other wine I purchased. That I can say with complete honesty. What I can't say for sure is whether or not my biases come into the picture in a subconscious way – for example, do I have a preconceived notion that a high-end cult wine is better than a sample wine from a winery I've never heard of before? Probably. But, we all have that.
And, although I do some blind tastings, I refuse to do all my tastings that way because I believe there is some value to tasting a wine within the context you came across it. If I've coveted a wine for a long time and then somehow end up with a bottle, the search is part of that experience and, thus, should have an impact on how I taste the wine. Some purists may argue with me on that one, but that's the way I've always seen it. Does it influence the end score I give a wine? Maybe, but never by more than a point or two and, let's be honest, we all do to some extent, otherwise blind tastings wouldn't exist.
You may be thinking at this point – "Is this guy writing in his journal or does he have a point here?" My point is this – I've decided I will no longer disclose in individual posts which wines are samples and which wines I buy. I will provide an ongoing disclosure here on my blog saying just that, but wanted to let you all know that I'm treating everything the same from this point forward.
Let me know what you think on the matter and how you treat it on your own blog.
CORRECTION TO THE BLOG POST ABOVE (11/10/09): As you can see in the comments for this post, Thomas Matthews of Wine Spectator has graciously sent along the Wine Spectator tasting guidelines (you can find them at Wine Spectator Tasting Procedures and Taster Profiles). Although the title of the post says that Wine Spectator does not tell you about their samples policy, my real intent was to say that they do not disclose it as part of every wine review, as was my policy for the last year or so. I have now changed that policy and, although I will not tell you in every post whether the wine being reviewed is a sample or not, you can always find my disclosure policy here.
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"We've had a ton of people leave positive comments and questions. In fact, there are so many comments that I'm flat out keeping up with them, but I'm doing my best to reply to all the questions and comments and looking forward to helping as many people as I can and working towards creating a positive tipping point."
- "Geoff: Let's see if we can head off the crisis rather than go through it. I feel the same urgency… we can move forward together." – John D. Liu
- "In my 42 years on this planet, nothing has made more sense to me than this aproach to living. It literally made my eyes water up. I have to find a way to change direction and head down this road." – Greg
- "I had to stop the video for a few minutes because it brought me to tears of joy. Beautiful. Since I happened upon the first permaculture information two years ago, I've been telling everyone (who will listen) about this wonderful system. I love watching your videos. Thank you." – Dottie
- "This is just flat out genius!!! I can't wait for the next videos as I too am planning to be a part of the solution and not the problem. By that I mean, production for myself and others. I have been trained to consume all my life. I thank God for his mysterious ways in providing solutions to problems that I could not see myself out of. Yes, this does seem overwhelming, but I shall start small and work my way up (Lord willing). Great work Mr. Lawton!! I encourage you to keep on!!" – Contramondial
- "I love your video, 2 years ago we bought a tiny house and the 3 vacant lots next to it, we grow buckwheat and sun hemp among our veggies, fruit trees here and there, cedars to the north, chickens and guineas roam free, we have enough to feed our family and our neighbors all this within 10 blocks of downtown. After watching your video our next project is going to be digging curvy swales. Thank you so much." – Dot Schwartz Pensacola FL
- "Thank you and your team for this set of examples. I've been evolving towards food forestry for about 7 years now, and am in the middle of my pdc in Maryland, USA. This can be done anywhere! As you have proved, time and again. Keep up the good work, and I'm looking forward to the future videos." – James
- "Geoff, your work is truely inspiring, my hat off to you. I've only recently come accross you through research on youtube and the internet in general. I greatly look forward to following and learning more! Thanks." – Paul
- "Geoff, I can't tell what your work means to me. I feel like I've found my life purpose when I found permaculture. I live in Ottawa, Canada and we're growing our permaculture community here and it's going well. I'm also starting a business to help people transform their backyards into Edible Spaces. I particularly want to help farmer's transform their land for more sustainable land management. Your work has been instrumental to my inspiration, and I can't thank you enough for all that you've done…. I appreciate this video and I can't wait for the next instalment! Keep up with all that you do, your work is instrumental to humans the world over!" – Nathalie
- "Hi Geoff, great video, very inspiring. I studied with you and Bill in 2009 in Melbourne. Dave Tailby (who did a PDC with you on Zaytuna Farm) and I have been working hard here in Sunny Karamea on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. We have a food forest in and it's growing well, we have chicken tractors, woodlots, composting system, large vegetable gardens, duck pond, sheep etc and we are well on the way to an abundance of food and the associated security. You were right…doing the PDC did change my life!" – Paul Murray
- "Hello from north of Dallas, Texas. I just bought under an acre of land. Fate brought me to this site. Keep doing what your are doing. This is fantastic. I am so excited to get this started." – Beli
- "Thank you for all you do to get people engaged in self-reliance. . . thank you for making it free and accessible. . . visually stunning with a basic approach. . . it's great to see how the property has evolved from the beginning.. beautiful." – John
- "I am inspired,Geoff….I would gladly devote the remainder of my life into being a part of such a project" – Paul
- "I really enjoyed the video. Regardless of a crisis or not, it makes complete sense to me that this is how we should be farming. The ancients had it right and it is good that you are reviving this knowledge for us now. Bravo Geoff! I look forward to more videos from you." – Jupiter Girl
- "Great series of videos. I love this and have been interested in this for some time. It is the natural order of things. This is something my husband and I, our daughter and her 4 children would be interested in doing on our property. We have 10 acres." – biolynx
- "Truely inspiring. I love the examples of the food forests at different stages of development. Many Thanks" – Marcus
- "Thank you Geoff. This is really encouraging, sensible and real. Looking forward to 2013 launch. All of the best!" - Andreas
- "Wonderful to see, I can't wait for the rest of the videos. I'm not sure if I can manage to take a PDC course soon, but I am reading all I can and videos are really helpful to make the texts come alive. I am aiming to develop my small rented suburban place as a permaculture food forest. Even if I can't make major structural changes or be sure I will still be here to enjoy the long term benefits of my planting, it's an opportunity to develop skills while restoring a tiny patch of Earth to lush abundance." - Meliors
- "Once again Geoff has provided a beautiful overview of the Permaculture Way while making some very important points and details understandable for almost anyone who is interested. These are the principles and methods permacultures and designers around the world are applying in all kinds of climates and productive growing systems to stabilize healthy, natural ecosystems that are absolutely abundant and sustainable."- Bruce
- "Great video! I've become really inspired by permaculture and food forests over the last years. Now I'm planting my own food forest in it's pioneer stage." – Rein
- "Hello Geoff! I am so grateful to have found this video! I am merely 18 years old but I just know that my path involves designing landscapes like this." – Chrispeters
- "Thank you Geoff!! I'm working toward an urban food forest on a 17,000 sf residential city lot in SW Virginia. I appreciate you making these videos and look forward to learning more and more…. I'm very excited about the project and your future videos. Can't thank you enough for everything you do!! " -Trish
- "Inspiring stuff! Thanks Geoff for all the great work! I am excited to see the subsequent films. I do feel that we are hitting the tipping point and it is going to take all or our collective input to receive the high numbers of interest. Exciting times we live in!" - Daniel
- "Really positive vibes Geoff!…another kick up the bum for those who linger…very few excuses now!!" – Rami
- "That was so inspiring. Thanks, Geoff! My long term goal is to have a piece of land and be self sufficient on it, so I will continue to follow your updates. I'm currently working on environmental education for high school students and focusing largely on food systems so this is great!"- Rozina
- "Geoff – amazing. :) Thank you so much for sharing this information!! I believe that Permaculture should be taught in all schools and all colleges." – Tammy
- "Well done Geoff! As you said "This is the future and the only possible future. Let's do it!". I had a very positive and enlightening experience during your PDC Course and working in The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia too; I am sure these videos will change the future of Permaculture knowledge even through the most distrustful people. Looking forward to watch the next video."- Marcello
- "Thanks Geoff, looks like just what I need. Hoping to secure my land in the next year and begin building asap. Already building Aquaponics gardening systems and learning alternative building techniques like cob and straw bale. Looking forward to more videos!" – Jeff
- "Incredible!!!! This is fantastic! Now if we as a society can let go of our vices and work together as a community there is no stopping us. This should be taught in schools around the world to feed our people to care about what mother earth has provided us and to utilize what is on our earth through your teachings. You are a gift, to share your knowledge to help other, countries and people with the "how to knowledge" is a gift that keeps on giving. Thank you for sharing. How can I learn more? Bless U and your team." – Robin
- "Standing ovation! clap clap clap… A series (service) like this is exactly what I've been wanting. I just didn't realize it. The only thing I could think of to add is a reminder that even if no crisis were to happen… Worst case, you end up with a GREAT retirement plan (food system) and an INCREDIBLE asset for your next generation and beyond. Thanks Geoff & Mrs. Lawton!!!" – Randy
- "Geoff Lawton and his buddies might just save the world! I am smiling but not joking around. I've watched several video on youtube and each time I watch your videos the inspiration swells in me. I learned a little about permaculture a while back and the gardening started. The peace gardening brings me is priceless. It has been a little at a time in the back yard with mostly fruit trees and perenials. To learn more about this and become an expert would be an honor. The thought of saving the world through such peaceful acts is beautiful and everyone should participate across the globe. I wish to be able to do this full time, change the vacant lots in my city and start a food forest in the country. Thank you guys, keep up the good work!" – Jamie
- "Hi Geoff! We're on board!.. Started with a 1/10th acre urban lot in Jacksonville.,FL.. it's now a 3 year growth food forest with 40+fruit trees and berries and NFT's and veggies/herbs. We have permission to transform a 6 acre wooded lot, just next door, and in the heart of all this urban sprawl- into a permaculture base for education and and interactive understanding. We look forward to your new video and checklist!…Thanks again Geoff!.. It IS our right to have live, vibrant, abundant food! This is what 2012 is all about!" – Elibaha
- "Geoff man this is so cool i don't know how to thank you i can't wait for more Im 62 but your goving me courage to buy some land to turn into paradise thanks" – Sam
- "Hello Geoff, Great video. My partner and I are moving from WA to NSW early next year were she will be teaching at a rural school. We will be purchasing some acerage and together we will try to transform it to be as sustainable and self sufficient as possible. How I see it, to help solve the current accumalting problems in the world is simply not to be apart of those problems. We will need all the help we can get. Thankyou for being an inspiration and a great resource of knowledge." – Lion Roar
- "Hi Geoff, I've been following your marvelous work for a year and half and congratulate you for the effort of teaching Permaculture and sustainable living for a wide spread audience as a foundation for a new abondant era in humanity.
- "I still live in a city and aquired about 10ha (around 20 acres?) of terraced farm, in center of Portugal (near Fundão in a valley at south slope of Serra da Gardunha) and want to create a sustainable environment for a small eco-community, including water and energy harvesting, swales and ponds, food forest, chicken, ducks and sheep or goat breeding, using permaculture design." – Miquel
- "Beautiful! Makes me very excited about the future." – M. Atkinson
- "i finally found a good source of information on premaculture. was looking for days on internet. cant wait for spring to start gardening again, and to start learning first in my own garden and maybe beyond;-) living in a city in holland so it will be on a small scale. thank you Geoff for teaching us."
- "Hi, Been researching permaculture for years, Im an avid gardner and a nature science major, I thinking what you are doing is well timed and urgently needed." – Pascal Ontario, Canada
- "Geoff, Thank you for presenting real answers to real problems. My family has been so inspired by the work that you are doing. We have always seen ourselves as servants to our community. Now through permaculture, we are able to present real solutions that empower people to become free members of society. Do not grow weary in doing the good work!" -Justin and Shawna
- "The video is nicely done as a comprehensive introductory overview of permaculture. I enjoyed it. I'm an urban gardener/agriculturist, and I think permaculture is the way to go—I'd love to see forest gardens everywhere, including my own community garden" – JS Smith
- "Hi Geoff, great video and actually confirming what I'm doing right now and giving me lots of confidence. Thanks." - Alex
- "This is really exciting! I am so looking forward to hearing about how to choose land as I am planning on buying some land in the Detroit area in the next couple years :) Thank you for your amazing work and service" – Sam
- "Hi Geoff, thank you for the concerned and very loving way you expressed the real possibility to design the survive to the coming crises. Thank you!" – Ebenarini
- "Thanks for all your hard work Geoff for the planet and all living systems on her. You are a true leader of life into the coming age." - Cecil
- "You've given me the motivation to really get started here in south texas, can't wait for the next installmen"- Gaby
- "Nice cinematography with the aerial shots: the best way to show a Permaculture site! Also a really interesting angle to hook people with the fear of collapse, with the flashy graphics and intense music in the beginning, then transform the vibe into the abundance of Eden. Interesting section where you address people's fears about hungry hordes looting their system but not being able to interpret the food forest system." - Andrew


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Since the nearly instant breakout success of last year's "Huzzah," Mr. MFN eXquire's name has been found on the tongues of New York City Rap purists seeking to enlist saviors to restore the city's quasi-crippled reputation outside of the obvious Kings of New York. A native of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, he's come to separate himself from lesser knowns thanks to free mixtapes full of outlandish imagery and a blossoming fan base due to diverse working relationships including the likes of the Alchemist, Danny Brown, and Das Racist. His buzz extending to a deal with Universal Republic, the Power & Passion EP is eXquire's premier chance at making an impression greater than prior releases have called for.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State will look to start the month of February off on the right foot, as the Wildcats host Kansas on Saturday at 2 p.m., in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown. K-State has won 21 of the last 24 meetings in the series with the Jayhawks, including 11 straight in Manhattan. The Wildcats will play three of their next four games in Bramlage.
Saturday afternoon's game will be broadcast on Metro Sports in the Kansas City-area and Cox 22 on the Cox Cable system in the state of Kansas. This will be the 175th K-State women's basketball game to be broadcast on television. K-State holds an all-time record of 105-69 (.603) in televised games. The game will also be available on the radio through the K-State Sports Network and for free online at kstatesports.com/allaccess. Fans can also follow the free live stats at kstatesports.com and receive updates on Twitter by following @kstate_gameday.
Fans attending Saturday's game will see a return engagement from last year's popular halftime act, the Zooperstars!, as well as Shalee Lehning receiving her 2013 KSHSAA Hall of Fame induction plaque. Prior to Saturday's game, fans are encouraged to bring packages of toilet paper, paper towels and trash bags to assist the Manhattan Emergency Shelter.
K-State (12-8, 3-5 Big 12) built a nine-point lead midway through the first half, but Texas used a combination of interior scoring and cold shooting by the Wildcats to record its first win in league play this season, 59-40, on Jan. 26 at the Erwin Center. The 40 points were a season-low for the Wildcats this season.
The Wildcats were led by Brittany Chambers with 15 points, three rebounds, three assists and three steals. The product of Jordan, Minn., reached double digits for the 19th time this season and the 93rd time in her career. During the game against the Longhorns, Chambers became the sixth player in Big 12 history and the third in school history to achieve 1,700 career points, 700 career rebounds and 300 career assists.
For the season, Chambers leads the Wildcats, ranks second in the Big 12 and 26th in the nation for scoring with a career-high average of 19.2 points per game. Chambers also leads the Wildcats and ranks eighth in the Big 12 in rebounding with a career-high 7.2 per game.
Joining Chambers in double digits on Saturday was Bri Craig with 10 points. The freshman from Lincoln, Neb., has reached double figures in nine games this season. In her debut season, Craig is averaging 9.1 points per game and is second on the team for 3-point field goals made (35) and attempted (127).


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Indianapolis, IN (July 28, 2013) – For the last nine years, Casey Mears has held the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series track qualifying record at Indianapolis, while his uncle Rick boasts four Indianapolis 500 wins at the famed racing facility. The heart of Indiana is a special place for the famous racing family, which always leaves the younger Mears excited to make his arrival.
Casey Mears got to work early this week, when on Thursday he made an appearance at a newly opened GEICO office in the Indianapolis area. He spent time visiting with associates, signing autographs and taking photos. He got down to business a day later when he arrived at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for practice and qualifying.
Mears first practice session on Friday was tough, as he ended up 31st on the board. Fortunately, Saturday brought better news when the #13 GEICO Ford Fusion rested 21st at the end of the weekend's final practice session. Mears would later qualify 30th for Sunday's race after circling the 2.5-mile racetrack in 48.979-seconds.
Bright sunshine and temperatures in the 70's set the scene for Sunday's 400-mile race at the Brickyard. Mears rolled off 30th and quickly made up ground, moving into the 26th position by lap six. At a track where passing is at a premium, coupled with the fact that only three caution flags were displayed throughout the entire 160-lap race, Mears would find his day frustrating. Long green flag runs left little time to make adjustments to the #13 GEICO Ford Fusion and track position was tough to achieve.
On lap 54, Mears was sitting 13th in the Lucky Dog position, but after no yellow flag showed up, he was forced to visit pit road for a scheduled green flag pit stop. It seemed as though good fortune may have found him when the caution flag came out just after Mears and his GEICO Ford exited pit road. Crew chief Bootie Barker instructed him to take the wave-around, which would allow Mears to return to the lead lap. Unfortunately, leader Jimmie Johnson elected to stay out and not visit pit road under the caution, which would ultimately preclude Mears from taking the wave-around.
When the day came to a close, Mears finished 27th, just behind the Fords of Greg Biffle and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., but one spot ahead of the #21 Motorcraft Ford of Trevor Bayne.
"It was a challenging day and the long green flag runs and lack of cautions made it tough on everyone. It's also hard to pass here, which didn't help," Mears said after climbing from his #13 GEICO Ford Fusion. "We have a great group of guys on this GEICO team and we'll be ready for Pocono. Long day here today and we're ready to move on to the next race."
Mears and the Germain Racing team will now travel to Long Pond, PA, for race number 21 of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.
Casey Mears and the #13 GEICO Ford Fusion will hit the track at Pocono Raceway for the weekend's opening practice session on Friday, August 2nd, at 11:30 AM (EDT). Qualifying will follow at 3:10 PM (EDT).
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I just got back from WY and filled both my doe/fawn tags. I seen tons of antlope, lot's of great bucks too. Hopefully next time I head up I'll have a buck tag. On the road trip to Wy I stoped in and did a little scouting, in my up coming deer hunt zone in Ut. Had a great time, here's a few pics I took.
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The Role of Government: The Federal Government and Fiscal Policy
Students will visit "A Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget" and use the federal government web site to obtain information which will help them understand basic information about the budget of the United States Government for the current fiscal year.
In this lesson you will define and describe the Federal Budget, and learn what percentage of GDP is used for government spending in the United States and other industrialized countries. You will also know which branch of the federal government is responsible for preparation of the Federal Budget, identify the major categories of government revenue and the major categories of government expenditures, list "non-defense discretionary expenditures", and know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid.
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Which industrialized nation allocated the highest percentage of GDP to government spending?
Which branch of the federal government, Executive, Legislative, or Judicial, is responsible for the preparation of the Federal Budget?
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List government revenues by category beginning with the largest percentages.
What is the estimated about of money that the federal government takes in each year?
List government expenditures by category beginning with the largest percentages.
What expenditures are classified as "Non-Defense Discretionary"?
Who are the beneficiaries of Medicare and who are the beneficiaries of Medicaid?
What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
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How good are the new fair foods?
You can be creative with batter and oil.
You can add new ingredients to carnival food favorites.
But not all of them work. And not all of them deserve your hard-earned money.
The Elkhart County 4-H Fair, which started Friday, July 19, has plenty of new items this year. Most of them were outlined in last week's column.
But until Thursday, at a preview event the night before the fair, I couldn't have told you how they tasted.
Some of them are worth your money if you have a hankering for fried food or for bacon. On others I'd take a pass and head for a pile of calories somewhere else.
Maple Bacon Funnel Cake
Where: Best Around Concessions near the grandstand and on Food Row
How is it? Surprisingly good. A funnel cake isn't that different from a pancake and so it works with maple icing and bacon in the batter and on top.
Cost: $7
Rating: Blue ribbon
Deep-fried jelly bean
Where: Pence's concession booth near the Ferris wheel
How is it? Pretty good. It's a giant cinnamon jelly bean dipped in batter and fried. The Wakarusa Dime Store jelly bean holds up well in the heat and the cinnamon flavor works well with the bit of batter.
Cost: Five pieces for $5
Rating: Blue ribbon
Deep-fried peanut butter
Where: Pence's near the Ferris wheel
How is it? Very nice. Etta Pence and her staff freeze cream JIF and fry it in batter. It works. The Pence booth fries about a dozen items. They're good at it and should be. The family has been in the concession business since 1902, Pence said.
Cost: Three pieces for $5
Rating: Blue ribbon
Bacon caramel corn sundae
Where: Pence's
How is it? OK, as a sundae goes, but I wouldn't choose it over the Dairy Bar soft serve. The ice cream isn't as good and the bacon, bacon caramel corn and chocolate syrup don't make up enough flavor.
Cost: $5
Rating: Red ribbon
Fried vegetables
Where: You can get them various places, but the new booth is Dr. Vegetable between Food Row and Kiddie Land near the Ferris wheel.
How are they? The batter is pretty good and the vegetables include pickles, green tomatoes, broccoli, mushrooms and other items. The pickles are probably the best spears I've ever had in a fried form.
Cost: $6 to $7 an order or $12 for a bucket
Rating: Blue ribbon
Flavored corn dogs
Where: Giant Corn Dog booths near main gate and Gate G
How are they? The jalapeño was OK, but the Fruity Pebble version wasn't good and didn't work. Cap'n Crunch may have, but this didn't. The booths will have a flavor of the day, including Doritos, bacon and others, every day of the fair, according to Aaron Pacifico, whose family operates the booths.
Cost: $5 for a flavored corn dog
Rating: White ribbon for Fruity Pebbles, red ribbon for jalapeño, blue ribbon for plain. You can read more at blogs.etruth.com.
Loaded tater tots
Where: Giant Corn Dog booths
How are they? These are good tots with a variety of toppings. They're bar food, but served at the fair. The broasted potatoes at the Joe's Gyros booth (blue ribbon) are far superior.
Cost: $4 to $6
Rating: Red ribbon
Dole Pineapple Whip
Where: Bunny Hut along Food Row
How is it? It's pineapple-flavored soft-serve that's light and refreshing. It has a legion of fans but it didn't wow me.
Cost: $2 for a serving of around 7 ounces
Rating: Red ribbon
Tacos and burritos
Where: Ricky's Taqueria truck between Building A and Heritage Park
How is it? As always, Ricky's delivers great flavor. I ate a ground beef taco that would beat any made by that taco place that has a bell in its name.
Cost: Varies by item
Rating: Blue ribbon
Lemonade Freeze
Where: Teakwood Gourmet at the north end of Food Row by the main gate
How is it? It's a wonderful blend of lemonade, ice and strawberries, peaches or mixed berries. When it's hot, it rivals the Lamb Club's lemon shake-up on the refreshing scale. It's not a new item, but was new to me and I'm now a fan.
Cost: $5 for 16-plus ounces
Rating: Blue ribbon
I have other blue-ribbon items at the fair, including:
Ÿ Pork burgers or chops from the Elkhart County Pork Producers
Ÿ Ice cream and the grilled cheese sandwiches from the Dairy Bar
But I'm surprised how good the new funnel cake is and the fried vegetables. I couldn't eat that much fried food often, but these two are nice additions if that's what you're looking for.
What are your must-haves? What are your favorites?
Enjoy the fair. Eat well and remember that we shouldn't eat this much sugar and fat all the time.
I'm hungry. Let's eat fair food.
Marshall V. King is managing editor and food columnist for The Elkhart Truth. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com, 574-296-5805, via Twitter and Instagram @hungrymarshall or the [URL]Dining A La King Facebook pag;http://facebook.com/diningalaking[URL]e. His blog is at blogs.etruth.com/diningalaking.[/URL]


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Sometimes, the anarchists lose. Even in leftist Sweden, The Pirate Bay's founders lost their last appeal. It's guys like these, who deliberately put up a system for infringing on US copyrights while playing word games to justify it, that motivated SOPA and that drive the desire for a treaty like ACTA. Google considers its privacy changes a public policy issue as the firm is getting | Read More »


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B&W Y‑12 employee and tour guide Bill Wilburn, left, chats with Teresa Neas, and her husband Kim, whose mother, Audeane Bowers-Neas, worked at Y‑12 in the 1940s. Tours of Y‑12 on June 13 brought almost 500 visitors. Tourists from 23 states and the District of Columbia toured the site as part of Oak Ridge's 12th annual Secret City Festival. Photo by Scott Fraker
Former Y-12 employee James Spicer points out the various ID badges used at the site during its 70-year history to his grandson Matthew Sellers. Spicer and Sellers joined almost 500 visitors who toured Y-12 as part of the Secret City Festival. Y-12 has been giving tours of the site for almost 10 years with guests traveling from all over the world to see a piece of history and learn how the site still is ensuring our country's security. Photo by Scott Fraker
To improve efficiency across the nuclear security enterprise, NNSA recently transferred the mission assignment of several product families from Sandia National Laboratories to the Kansas City Plant. The mission reassignment better aligns responsibilities with each site's core competencies and will leverage Kansas City's Supply Chain Management systems and tools.
Leaders from both organizations were at the National Security Campus in Kansas City on June 24 to sign the transfer agreement and finalize the details.
The Production Agency mission transfer includes Frequency Devices, Power Assemblies, Magnetics and certain Custom Pulse Discharge Capacitors. There will be no change in production agency mission assignment for all other Sandia External Production (SEP) product families: Switch Tubes, Electronics Packaging, Power Sources and Explosive Devices.
Pictured left to right: Steve Goodrum, NNSA Asst. Deputy Administrator of Stockpile Management; Chris Gentile, Honeywell FM&T President; Paul Hommert, Sandia Director
DOE recently awarded Chris Fischahs of Los Alamos its annual Safety System Oversight (SSO) Award. At the time of the award, Fischahs was an SSO staff member of the Safety Evaluation Team at NNSA's Los Alamos Field Office.
The award is national recognition of the extensive safety systems oversight Fischahs performed in 2013 and the resulting improvements in operational safety at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His operational awareness and oversight activities consistently provided Los Alamos Field Office managers with accurate, objective information on the performance of safety systems.
Examples of his oversight activities in 2013 were four vital safety systems assessments that led to safety improvements; input to a federal-integrated project team that led to improved safety systems designs for the LANL Transuranic Waste Facility project; participation in an important federal operational readiness review; and cross-cutting assessments of engineering processes and procedures that resulted in improved overall performance of all safety systems at LANL.
Brig. Gen. Jim Dawkins, NNSA's Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Military Application, presented Col. Emil Kabban with the NNSA Defense Programs Excellence award during a ceremony honoring Kabban's retirement from the military. Kabban, Chief Systems Engineer and Executive Director in the NNSA's Defense Programs Systems Engineering and Integration Office, served nearly 27 years in the U.S. Air Force.
Sandia National Laboratories recently hosted students from various tribal colleges and universities. During the event, Sandia's Stan Atcitty and Julius Yellowhair lead tours of renewable energy work at Sandia.
Julius E. Yellowhair shows students molten salt receivers at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (Solar Tower).
Stan Atcitty shows students energy modeling at the Distributed Energy Technologies Laboratory.
Los Alamos National Laboratory recently installed a new high-performance computer system, called Wolf, which will be used for unclassified research. Wolf will help modernize mid-tier resources available to the lab and can be used to advance many fields of science.
Wolf, manufactured by Cray Inc., has 616 compute nodes, each with two 8-core 2.6 GHz Intel "Sandybridge" processors, 64 GB of memory and a high-speed Infiniband interconnect network. It utilizes LANL's existing Panasas parallel file system as well as a new one based on Lustre technology.
About the photo: The Wolf computer system modernizes mid-tier resources for Los Alamos scientists.
Under Secretary Klotz delivered remarks at the Pantex Renewable Energy Project (PREP) ribbon-cutting this week. PREP establishes the largest federally-owned wind farm in the country and will generate approximately 47 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, more than 60 percent of the electricity needed for Pantex. The project will reduce CO2 emissions by over 35,000 metric tons per year—the equivalent of removing 7,200 cars from the road each year or planting 850,000 trees.
Below, Under Secretary Klotz and DOE Chief of Staff Knobloch conduct ribbon-cutting for the event. Pictured from left to right: General Klotz, Kevin Knobloch (Chief of Staff), Steve Erhart (Manager, NNSA Production Office), Judy Marks (President & CEO, Siemens Government Technologies), and Russell Thomasson (Associate Vice Chancellor and Director of Corporate Engagement, Texas Tech University).
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DOE Undersecretary for Nuclear Security and NNSA Administrator Frank Klotz recently presented the Gold Medal of Excellence for Distinguished Service to Michael Lempke, former Acting Chief and Associate Administrator for Defense Nuclear Security. The medal is the highest honorary award granted by NNSA and was presented to Lempke in recognition of his outstanding contributions to achieving the strategic deterrent and nuclear nonproliferation missions of the NNSA through his demanding and visionary leadership for the past two years.
Lempke began his naval career in the enlisted ranks as a yeoman serving on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations Telecommunications Officer at the Pentagon. He received his commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps after completing Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Fla. During initial training at the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, Ga., he was hand-selected for service at Naval Reactors Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Stephanie Hansen has received a $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the DOE's Office of Science for her fundamental science proposal to improve existing atomic-scale models for high-energy-density matter.
Hansen's winning submission, "Non-Equilibrium Atomic Physics in High Energy Density Material," describes an approach to improve simulation tools used to design high-energy experiments in dense hot plasmas, as well as the diagnostic tools used to interpret data from them.
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DOE Undersecretary for Nuclear Security and NNSA Administrator Frank Klotz visited the Y-12 National Security Complex today. Klotz toured the site and conducted an all hands meeting at the site's New Hope Center.
Julie Huff of B&W Y-12's Materials Management Organization leads a tour of the Highly Enriched Uranium Facility.
Captain Virgil Hester discusses some of Y-12's security equipment with Gen. Klotz.


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