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Bridge Road Bistro is goin' mobile
CHARLESTON, W.Va.-- Bridge Road Bistro has gone mobile.
The South Hills restaurant is unveiling its first food truck, which hungry patrons will be able to locate on a phone application.
The Bistro Black Truck will make its debut Monday night at the West Virginia Power game at Appalachian Power Park, although it won't serve any food yet.
Bridge Road Bistro General Manager Sandy Call said restaurant workers applied for a city loading zone permit, which would allow them to park and serve food for 30 minutes on Charleston streets, Thursday. They are waiting for city approval -- still weeks away, Call said -- before they start serving food.
The phone app -- where customers will be able to see where the food truck is, check the menu and give feedback -- will be available in about three weeks, she said.
"We're going to be very respectful and ask owners of parking lots if we can park there and, of course, we'll pay. We want to respect the city and add to the vitality of the city," Call said, "We're not going to pull up in front of other eateries."
The Bistro Black Truck will switch up its menu every two weeks so customers won't see the same fare all the time, said Brandon Aubrey, manager of the food truck.
Some ideas Aubrey and Chef John Right are already tossing around include salads, wraps, fish tacos, empanadas, hot and cold soups, and a nacho of the day.
The menu will be displayed on the side of the truck next to the ordering window. Prices will range from $4 to $10.
Aubrey and one other Bistro employee will work inside the truck at a time.
He said he will prepare most of the food in the morning. By lunchtime, orders will go out in less than two minutes, he said.
"In the city, it's great to be able to eat something that's not fast food but delivered to you fast," Aubrey said. "We're used to doing 200 people [at the restaurant] in a couple hours, so this is nothing."
Aubrey, who has traveled to California and Florida exploring food trucks, said this is a dream come true for him. They bought the 1984 Ford food truck from a man in Atlanta, who took the mobile business to NASCAR races.
"I get to do what I've dreamed about for years," he said. "For a lot of us, it's not just a job, it's a passion."
Charleston Mayor Danny Jones said the Bistro is opening new doors as a "premiere operation in the city of Charleston."
"The Bistro will continue to expand because they attract the best customers, but they also attract the best people to work there," Jones said.
Call said they are doing what the Bistro's late owner, Robert Wong, wanted out of his restaurant. Wong died last May after collapsing on a tennis court.
"This past year has been really tough for us, losing Robert . . . but we embraced that philosophy behind Robert and Sherri's beliefs in serving great food and meeting people, so there's no stopping us," Call said.
The food truck will travel all around Charleston every day except Sunday, but it isn't restricted to city limits, she said. The restaurant already caters to numerous weddings in Lewisburg, and the St. Albans Armory has requested the Bistro Black Truck to serve its location.
Call said the truck will sit outside Charleston offices so that people looking for a quick, fresh bite to eat won't have to walk far.
Festivals, including Live on the Levee and other Boulevard events, are location goals for the food truck, she said.
"We hope to grow and get another one," Call said. "We got Morgantown tailgating, and more, to cater to."
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Its number crunching time for the industry. As Krrish 3 releases, trade pundits will be glued to their smartphones, keeping tabs on the incoming data from screens across the country. While Bollywood insiders are willing to be cautious about the opening numbers since Krrish 3(review) is not releasing on a holiday and traditionally pre-Diwali means people spend less on movie watching it will still be an underachievement for the Hrithik Roshan starrer if it doesnt set some records somewhere.
Eight. The Fridays left in this year after Krrish 3. Or in industry speak, the time between Krrish 3 and Dhoom 3 (releasing on December 20 which makes it the last big film of the year). In these eight weeks, a slew of big budget-big star cast films are up for their theatrical run. Girish Johar, business analyst and Head of Distribution and Acquisition for Sahara Motion Pictures, pegs the spread to be worth Rs 500 crore. As he tweeted: In the next eight weeks, more than Rs 500 crore is being put to gamble by the industry, as a combine (sic), with various releases coming up.
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LOS ANGELES (KNBC) -- Three officers were shot -- two in Riverside, one in Corona -- during the search early Thursday fora former Los Angeles Police Department officerwanted in connection with a double slaying in Irvine.
Police said two Riverside officers responded to Magnolia and Arlington avenues at about 1:30 a.m. after receiving a call for assistance. The response occurred during a search that began with a report of a vehicle matching the description of ex-LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner.
"By all accounts, it appears they were stopped at a red light and just ambushed by the suspect," said Riverside Lt. Guy Toussaint.
Both Riverside officers were shot and transported to a hospital, where one was pronounced dead. The second officer remained in surgery, police said.
"The suspect did flee the scene, and we're in the process of trying to identify and apprehend the suspect at this time," said Toussaint.
The LAPD confirmed officers are looking for Dorner in connection with the Riverside shooting.
Corona Sgt. Brent Nelson confirmed that the Riverside shooting is connected to another Thursday morning shooting in Corona. LAPD's Newton Division confirmed early Thursday that two of its officers were involved in a confrontation with a man believed to be Dorner.
One of the officer's was shot, suffering what was described as a "minor" graze wound. The officers were providing protection for subjects mentioned in an online manifesto in which Dorner issued threats involving several officers and their families, police said.
"Every officers that was identified does have protection," said Sgt. Rudy Lopez. "It's extremely intense. We're trying to identify where he's been, where he's going."
Officers in protective gear were at the locations in Corona and Riverside.
Also early Thursday, the San Diego Harbor Police Department confirmed a badge with Dorner's picture identification was found at about 2:27 a.m. in the center divider on Harbor Drive, near San Diego International Airport.
A third officer-involved shooting was reported at about 5:30 a.m. in Torrance. Officers later confirmed that shooting was not connected to the Dorner search.
Authorities asked for the public's help in finding Dorner, whose last known address is 4931 Sharon Dr. in La Palma. Dorner is described as 6 feet tall, about 270 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. The vehicle was described as a gray Nissan Titan with California license plate 8D83987. That information was displayed on freeway signs Thursday morning in Southern California.
"Multi-Page Manifesto" Implicated Ex-LAPD Officer
Dorner is wanted in connection with the double slaying of a newly engaged couple last weekend, Irvine Police Chief David Maggard said Wednesday evening. Maggard said that Dorner implicated himself in a "multi-page manifesto" that was published online but has since been taken down. A source inside LAPD gave NBC4 the manifesto, which is about 11,300 words long and appears to lay out a plan for targeting those involved in his firing.
In the manifesto -- addressed to "America" and titled "Last Resort" -- Dorner writes that the "horrendous murders" are "a necessary evil."
"I know I will be villified (sic) by the LAPD and the media," he writes. "Unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name."
Dorner goes on to say, "There will be an element of surprise where you work, live, eat, and sleep."
Monica Quan, 28, and her fiancé, Keith Lawrence, 27, were fatally shot Sunday while sitting in their car on the top level of a parking structure in the 2100 block of Scholarship Drive, according to Irvine police. The recently engaged couple was last seen in Winnetka at a Super Bowl party, and lived in the apartment complex attached to the parking garage. The couple left the party about 7 p.m. and were found slumped over in their car about 9 p.m.
Quan's father was the first Asian-American to become an LAPD captain, and also worked on the Asian Gang Task Force.
In his manifesto, Dorner repeatedly refers to a Randy Quan as being involved in his firing.
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Roast Coffee Pairing #26: African Coffee for the Holidays
With this pairing we are matching up the Ethiopia Moplaco with one of our special Kenya lots, the Tambaya. The Ethiopia Moplaco is a remarkable aromatic coffee with complex estery high notes. The cup has a soft, full mouthfeel, and ample sweetness. It's a surprisingly silky body for a Yirga Cheffe, which can sometimes be a little thin. Apricot and peach notes emerge, sweet stone fruits, along with the honey and floral notes found in the aromatics. The Kenya Tambaya is outstandingly bright, yet balanced. There are pink grapefruit citrus notes, jasmine tea floral flavors, and a light brown sugar sweetness. As it cools, toasted almond essence comes out, peach and apricot stone fruits, Earl Grey tea in the finish. While it has a bracing finish, it is milder overall in acidity than some of our other lots, and complex in it's estery floral and fruit characteristics as well. Roasted to City+: Final temperature of 422 degrees, and roast times around 15 minutes.
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Another great trip to Kenya, to see the amazing system from the small cooperative farmer, to the factory (what they call a coffee mill), to the dry mill and preparing coffee for export. The entire Kenya photo travelog is here. There is no other coffee origin with a system like this, including the Nairobi Coffee Auction that markets small lots based on cup quality, where the best coffees get the best price. Add to that the recent reforms that guarantee 80% of the sale price minus costs gets into the hands of the farmer, and you have a fantastic system to help buyers discover the best qualities. Again, Kenya is a place I just can't take my finger off the shutter, and nothing gets me going like photos of ripe coffee cherry. We came to see the harvest and take photographs, and that we did. It was just my 2nd trip to this place, and the first for my travel pal, little Jeremy Tooker of 4 barrel coffee. I think we sorted out some details, visited a ton of factories, saw a lot of harvest and a lot of cherry being sorted (one of many small details that makes for such high quality in Kenya coffees). Some nice images are buried in here, and a few just get by. There are some mediocre ones that are from my GPS device, and have accurate geotags. Thanks for looking! -Tom


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Guantanamo Bay detention camp will still remain open
Newscast Media WASHINGTON—Critics accuse US President Barack Obama of breaking his promise to close Guantanamo. But his hands are tied by a reluctant Congress – and an America that might not want captured terrorists on its soil.
Even if "most Americans are more ready" to see Guantanamo Bay's detention camps closed, as Republican Senator John McCain cautiously phrased it in June, for the foreseeable future the island's 164 detainees will have to wait for events in the Middle East and a partisan roadblock in the US House of Representatives to be resolved.
Eighty-four detainees have already been cleared for transfer to foreign countries, says Raha Wala, a senior council member at Human Rights First. "Some of those detainees will have to be resettled in third countries, because either their home countries are unable or unwilling accept them, or there's a credible fear that they'll be tortured there."
Republicans have a different fear, one founded on events in late July and early August when upwards of 500 al-Qaeda linked terrorists escaped prisons in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan. Since then, a worsening security situation in Yemen, the home country of the majority of Guantanamo detainees, has stalled plans by President Barack Obama to restart detainee transfers to that country. Most recently, an October 22 jail riot involving dozens of al-Qaeda prisoners was subdued with tear gas in Yemen's capital. No prisoners have been transferred to Yemen since 2011.
The detainees, in other words, will be sent home slowly. If Guantanamo is to be closed down under Obama's tenure, many of the 84 – along with another 46 considered "too dangerous" to release – "will likely have to be transferred to the US," Wala says.
Placing international terrorists behind American bars, however, is controversial. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the subject in late July, Republicans voiced concerns that detainees might be placed alongside American inmates, where they could spread extreme Islamist ideologies. Worse, they argue, terrorists might be released due to a lack of evidence, ultimately ending up free men on US soil.
But Matthew Waxman, who worked within the Defense State Departments on detainee issues during the administration of US President George W. Bush, considers the latter scenario improbable.
"A dangerous detainee being released into the United States is a very low probability, but it is used to great political effect," the Columbia University law professor told Deutsche Welle. US prisons already hold high-profile terrorists: A super maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado houses British "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef of Pakistan as well as the "The Blind Sheik," Omar Abdel-Rahman of Egypt.
In all likelihood, though, Guantanamo detainees would never be transferred to such a prison. In a May 2013 speech given at Fort McNair in Washington D.C, Obama announced the reinstatement of a special Defense Department post to determine a location for Guantanamo detainees on US soil. Even if relocated to the US, the president said, some detainees still "cannot be prosecuted – for example because the
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Just talk? Or is it time to walk?
International | ANGLICAN CRISIS: Traditionalist Episcopalians, fresh from an angry exchange with liberal leaders, are watching what happens next week, when an openly gay bishop is slated to take power in the United States; "there is a huge crisis looming," admits the archbishop of Canterbury
"Just talk? Or is it time to walk?" Continued...
Episcopal theologian Paul Zahl, dean of the 3,000-member Cathedral of the Advent in Birmingham, Ala., arrived late for an inter-Anglican commission meeting on doctrinal issues in Alexandria, Va., in early September.
Better late than never? Not for some Anglican establishment liberals, who would have preferred "never."
Rev. Zahl was the only American participant in the talks. They dealt in part with the controversy over actions by the Episcopal Church (ECUSA), one of 38 "provinces" in the 75-million-member worldwide Anglican Communion. Weeks earlier, ECUSA's general convention had sparked an international uproar by approving priest Gene Robinson, a homosexual living openly with a male partner, as bishop of New Hampshire; his consecration was set for Nov. 2. The majority of ECUSA's bishops, clergy, and lay delegates also had recognized same-sex unions as within the bounds of church belief.
An outcry that threatened to tear the communion apart prompted Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to call an emergency "crisis meeting" of the communion's 38 primates, or church heads, for Oct. 15-16 at Lambeth Palace in London.
A secretary handed Rev. Zahl a sheaf of papers, and he settled in for the morning presentation. Thumbing through them, he noticed two unusual documents. The first contained what he called a "carefully scripted" agenda for the upcoming primates' meeting. It was designed to allow for much discussion but no action.
The second document was an unsigned strategy memo to Archbishop Williams. It posed as one of the possible "outcomes" of the primates' meeting "some kind of parallel jurisdiction" in North America, a disciplinary action that must be blocked "at all costs." It exhorted the archbishop not to be "swayed by the American traditionalists [who] love to 'make a fuss.'" Taken together, Rev. Zahl concluded, the papers amounted to a plan to manipulate the primates and prevent any action from being taken.
Ten minutes later, the secretary came to him again. She said there had been a mistake and he shouldn't have received some of the documents. She swiftly swapped the stack of papers with another, minus the two sensitive documents.
Rev. Zahl told friends what he had seen, and reporters soon were calling him. As word spread last month, conservative leaders in ECUSA expressed dismay and denounced any attempts to manipulate the primates' meeting.
After all, thousands of biblically orthodox ECUSA members were counting on the primates to reprimand 2.3-million-member ECUSA. Feeling betrayed and abandoned by ECUSA leadership, some 2,700 conservative clergy and lay leaders, including about 20 ECUSA bishops, had gathered in Dallas on Oct. 7-9 to explore their options. Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, leader of the evangelical-oriented American Anglican Council, summed up the situation:
"The Episcopal Church in the United States is in a deplorable state theologically; we cannot reform ourselves; and we need intervention from the wider Anglican Communion."
At the end, most participants signed a statement titled "A Place to Stand, A Call to Action." It reaffirmed Scripture's standards for sexuality and called on the denomination to "repent and to reverse [its] unbiblical actions." It called for redirection of giving away from ECUSA national headquarters and dioceses that supported the controversial actions.
It also called on the primates to intervene and create "a new alignment for Anglicanism in North America," to encourage biblically faithful bishops to cross diocesan boundaries and extend pastoral care to like-minded parishes, and to "support isolated and beleaguered parishes and individuals in their life and witness as faithful Anglicans."
"Free at last, free at last!" some priests shouted in joyful anticipation.
ECUSA Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, the primate of the American church who had voted to approve the ECUSA actions, issued a statement lamenting what he called the "inflammatory rhetoric" and "ultimatums" coming from Dallas.
The Zahl disclosures, a corridor conversation topic at the Dallas meeting, embarrassed officials at the liberal-led Anglican Communion Office in London. The office serves as headquarters for the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), the formal advisory body to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Its leaders have been accused of manipulating past meetings of primates.
The officials on Oct. 7 confirmed that Rev. Zahl had mistakenly been handed "early draft versions" of proposals for the primates' agenda. But Rev. Zahl's comments were "misleading" and quotations in some reports were "incorrect," a spokesman said. The spokesman declined to elaborate on how Rev. Zahl's comments were misleading or comment on whether the London meeting was still scripted.
The primates met privately as scheduled at Lambeth on Oct. 16-17 but without the usual commanding presence of ACC general secretary John Peterson. Only one primate was unable to attend, a conservative bishop from the Philippines.
As it turned out, talk was all they did-sometimes in heated exchanges. Many of the global South primates had come prepared to expel ECUSA from the Anglican Communion if it didn't reverse its actions. Over the preceding year, some had traveled to North America and allied themselves with ECUSA's conservatives and with dissenting Anglican Church of Canada parishes in the Vancouver-area New Westminster diocese. These 11 Canadian churches are opposed to Bishop Michael Ingham's approval of blessings for same-sex unions. They, too, were looking to the primates for relief from crackdowns by their ham-fisted bishop.
At least half of the primates came to the meeting having declared themselves in impaired communion with the dioceses of New Hampshire and New Westminster.
But the primates couldn't do much beyond talk and issue a statement they all signed (see sidebar). Church expert Peter Toon says his fellow conservatives expected too much. He points out that the primates' meetings are not like an ecclesiastical court or synodical business session. They are what amounts to a fellowship meeting of senior bishops from 38 autonomous church provinces. They have moral authority as a group, and all Anglicans should take seriously the things they agree upon, but they have no enforcement power or the right to kick any member church out of the Communion-as liberal primates were quick to point out. The Archbishop of Canterbury himself is a relatively powerless "first among equals," but he does have the right, in consultation with the Archbishop of York, to determine with whom he is in communion.
Several American conservative leaders expressed disappointment with the diplomatically worded statement. But upon reflection, most said they were pleased it went as far as it did, despite a few touches by liberals. (For example, liberal primates succeeded in making "interpretation," rather than "authority," of Scripture the core of the dispute over sexuality.)
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reaffirmed the 1998 Lambeth position in which an overwhelming number of the world's bishops said homosexual practice is incompatible with Scripture;
expressed in strong words heard around the world that the sexual innovations of the American and Canadian churches were morally and biblically wrong;
admonished dioceses and provinces against unilaterally changing Lambeth positions or traditional Anglican teachings;
called for alternative spiritual oversight for biblically faithful parishes in liberal dioceses by like-minded bishops;
appointed a panel to work with the Archbishop of Canterbury on legal issues of entanglement and disengagement, with a deadline of one year;
warned if the consecration of Rev. Robinson takes place on Nov. 2, as scheduled, it will have immediate and long-term consequences that will tear apart the Communion.
At a church service Oct. 12, Rev. Robinson said he was determined to go through with his consecration, but he left open the possibility that a phone call from the Archbishop of Canterbury could possibly change his mind-if it also was accompanied by a similar "call from God." As for what the Bible says about homosexuality, "you can't elevate a piece of historical Scripture to give it a modern significance it does not have," he said. "The Bible is the story written by us about our love affair with God."
Although he signed the statement, Bishop Griswold distanced himself from parts of it at a press conference following the primates' meeting. Asked whether he would still participate in Rev. Robinson's consecration as scheduled, or try to persuade him to withdraw, he replied flippantly: "I might do anything."
In a BBC interview the next day, Archbishop Williams said, "Undoubtedly there is a huge crisis looming," but the primates hadn't jumped into quick solutions. "There are constitutional, legal questions for all the churches," he said, and the new commission needs some time to do its work. He was not optimistic.
Meanwhile, fires continued to burn in North America, where U.S. conservatives are engaged in a new round of where-do-we-go-from-here discussions around the country as they try to keep their distressed church members from walking.
One of the fiercest fires is burning in Canada. Bishop Michael Ingham of the New Westminster diocese in Vancouver has initiated proceedings against conservative bishop Terry Buckle of Yukon. Bishop Buckle earlier this year began providing "alternative" spiritual oversight to a group of churches. These parishes, now numbering 11, had rejected Bishop Ingham's leadership for his role in approving blessings for same-sex couples in the diocese. Bishop Ingham accused Bishop Buckle of trespassing across diocesan boundaries, contrary to church rules. The area's senior archbishop, David Crawley, has now banned Bishop Buckle from New Westminster and may defrock him.
Bishops from Africa, India, Australia, South America, and the United States have sided with Bishop Buckle and the dissident churches, and condemned Bishop Ingham's actions.
The conflicts in Vancouver and the United States show what may happen throughout the worldwide Anglican Communion as it struggles with the issue of homosexuality and biblical authority.


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Dave MacLeod, partnered by Alan Cassidy, has climbedBellavista (8c/5.14b) on the north face of Cima Ovest in the Italian Dolomites. This 10 pitch route was first climbed in 2001 by German climber Alex Huber. The Scottish duo of Dave and Alan got terrible weather for their trip, which was MacLeod's second trip to try this route this summer (more on his first trip here: UKC News). However on the last day they found the crux pitch to be dry, and they managed to climb the route, swinging leads, with MacLeod leading the crux roof in freezing conditions. Cassidy jumared the crux pitch but led several other pitches, including an 8a (5.13b) pitch above the crux.
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Some thoughts on a Transit of Io
Posted 26 November 2012 - 10:55 AM
I did the bulk of the observing with my 8", the 4.5 was just there because the transit would be a fun test of its contrast and resolving abilities, with its near-spherical primary.... The 8" dob was running a 12.5mm plossl and 2x barlow, for about 200x. The 4.5" had a 4mm Huygens of very low quality, giving 225x.
The GRS turned out of view a little before Io's shadow contacted Jupiter's disk. The seeing was uncommonly good, with all 4 of the moons showing clean disks, with a faint spray of glare around each. Knowing Io's angular dimension, the seeing was generally well under 1".
As the shadow bit Jupiter's limb, I was astounded by the "3d-ness" of the spectacle. Fascenating to see the limb reach around the back side of the shadow, until it was a black spot on Jupiter's face rather than the bite it had been moments before. A look through the 4.5" newt showed the shadow quite well too, not quite so vividly, but easily observable. An pleasing view, when the planet was well centered in the FOV, as the cheap eyepiece had tons of false colour off-axis.
The real magic hadn't yet begun, however. Back to the 8". As Io approached Jove's limb, it seemed to take on a 3d aspect in its own right, a yellowish pearl. Its glide into the face of Jupiter's disk was astounding.... I was surprised how clearly the tiny disk stood out from the otherwise similar colourscape of the Jovian cloudtops. I was also able to see Io's disk in transit thru the 4.5" scope, but it was much harder to resolve.
Over the next hour or so, I began to notice something very peculiar about Io, and it is this that is the real subject of this post.
Now, Io has a diameter in the 1.5" range (I don't have the figure here), and an 8" scope has a resolution on the order of 0.5".
I could swear that in my telescope, while in transit, Io appeared to be elongated in the equatorial direction. It was my impression that it appeared to be about 3:2, seemingly squashed pole to pole.
Now I know that Io's effectively spherical. I also have read (in the imaging forum), that Io often appears "football" shaped in their images, aparently due to albedo (seems Io's poles are darker, and blend into the Jovian cloudtops more).
So, did I genuinely see this effect, or am I (once again, LOL) a victim of the "aperature of my own mind"? I was aware of this effect (the "Io Football") before I made my observation, but one cannot put the genie back into the bottle.
Anyway, it was a great blast watching the first half of this transit (before the skies went to pot), and one of the more memorable sights I've seen thru my scopes. What a beautiful season this has been for Jupiter. I've never seen it like this!
Posted 26 November 2012 - 12:22 PM
If the football effect is visible to the human eye, contrast wise, then you very well could have seen it. As to whether you are engaged in "aperture of the mind" or not, I have no way of knowing without evaluating your response to some ink blots.
That you know of the effect or not may not matter. Question is, did you see the elongation or not? You'll have to tell us. I don't know, but judging from the highly processed, yet distinct contrast, it looks doable under very good conditions necessary on that scale - IMO.
What a beautiful season this has been for Jupiter. I've never seen it like this!
So true.
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Posted 26 November 2012 - 12:36 PM
I tend to think I DID see it...
Does that make it my first successfull detection of a surface feature (ie the dark poles of Io) on a Jovian satellite? I'm gonna contend that it does!
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Posted 26 November 2012 - 01:06 PM
It would be interesting to know more about the surface of Io. Does it indeed have darker poles? Or is it some sort of effect caused by uneven illumination of a sphere. Or is it an image processing effect? (I hope not.)
Again, just accounting for the image above, the contrast between the poles and the equator looks significant. Possibly enough to differentiate visually. But, maybe another observation or two would confirm it. Or if you held the elongation for a period of time, then it seems more real.
Another question that just popped up, does Io exhibit the same football effect against the black of space. If so, or if not, what does the answer mean? Does this effect require Jovian could tops to pull off. And if so, what does THAT mean? Are there images of Io against the black of space that show this pole darkening? Or is the pole darkening simply an "effect" requiring a Jovian backdrop.
In any case, it's a stunning observation. I am inclined to believe, if you saw elongation...well, then you saw elongation. I've never seen it, but I have never tried. Maybe I should, others should.
Posted 26 November 2012 - 02:04 PM
Once Io had made it about 1/4 of the way across the disk, I went inside for a bit, and put away the 4.5" instrument. An hour or so later, when I returned to the eyepiece, Io was nearly halfway across the planet's disk, and much more difficult to resolve against the clouds. The seeing had deteriorated, the wind was rising and the clouds were thickening.
Just looking at some HST images of Io, and the poles do seem to be subtly darker than the equatorial region in many photos. I'd guess that what I may have observed might be a subtle colouring difference between the poles and equator that is all but blown away from my eye when seen against the blackness of space. But Io and Jupiter's colours are quite similar, so against the giant's disk, the more subtle detail in Io is more easily noted.
Or, I'm a victim (again) of the complex interaction between eye and brain. It's easy to have an idea in one's head, and to force the "eye" to see supporting evidence. I'm not sure if I saw what I saw or not, but I'm certainly gonna try to repeat the observation.
Posted 26 November 2012 - 02:21 PM
Posted 26 November 2012 - 03:17 PM
a yellowish pearl.
This is almost exactly how I described Io during the night about two weeks agon when Ios shadow transited the GRS. I saw Io as a pale pearl. Interesting that we both came up with the same analogy, but like you, I found that the similarity was striking!
And in that post, I attributed it to some very slight albedo effects!
And I noted the exact same oblate-ness but again, felt that both the pearl texture and the oblate appearance were due to albedo features on Io.
Anyway, I am of course quite sure that they would be visible to you.. I was using a C14 but my seeing was not great that night, so with better seeing it would not at all be a surprise to have someone report this using an 8" aperture.
And yes, the shadow transits have been great. Norme caught on where the shadow was on the Oval BA, and there have been images of both of these events.
Looking at images posted on CN though you can see that Io is indeed showing albedo features in most of the images these day.
But the "Pearl" analogy is again exactly what I reported, so that says that the effect is very real and more than ust an "Impression." When two different observers on two different nights use the same term to describe it, that kind of says that it isn't their imagination.
Nice report.
Posted 26 November 2012 - 03:26 PM
"By the gods, it does look like a pearl!"
Posted 26 November 2012 - 08:33 PM
It's interesting, however, that Io is football shaped against the planet. Thinking out loud, it if has the same color scheme, more or less, it might appear camouflaged against Jupiter except for it's brightness.
Could be volcanic activity that gives Io it's perceivable contrast. It probably does look pearl-like. Need to observe it more closely.
Posted 26 November 2012 - 09:58 PM
But I am thrilled that someone else not only enjoyed the sight the way I did, but agreed that the "Pearl" look I reported was in fact visiable.
Very happy that you saw it and reported it....
Cool, isn't it? Way cool. And really beautiful to see.
Posted 26 November 2012 - 10:18 PM
Id like to think this is a toe hold on Io discerning albedo in its own peculiar way or effect but Id be more in line with seeing vagueries and the manipulation these fine orbs are subject to through atmospheric lensing.
My .02!
Posted 27 November 2012 - 03:16 AM
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Posted 27 November 2012 - 12:07 PM
Okay, just observed Io and Jupiter for nearly 3 hours from 27/1330 to 1630UT. My scope was perfectly collimated. I know because in 9/10 seeing I tweaked the Poisson spot about half an arc second to dead center at about 1 wave de-focus. In focus was perfect.
If observing this elongation had a chance, it was tonight as Jupiter was approaching the zenith. Europa was on the other side of Jupiter, but Callisto was just 1' arc trailing Io. So, I had two good references for what round looks like. One in the same high power field of view.
Normally, I'd make you read the entire account, but I gotta say Jason might be onto something. I'll explain why below. But, this brings one question to mind. Why is this not common knowledge already? I mean, surely we're not doing ground breaking amateur observations, here. Surely someone has reported this before.
Okay, now the boring account. A bit before Io's shadow touched Jupiter's limb, I observed it at 320x (6mm TMBII.) I wanted to observe it against the black of space. At this magnification, nothing really struck me but I did get a curious feeling about it. Not curiosity, I already had that. But a, "hey, hmmm, that's curious moment."
So zipping up to 380x (8mm TMB II and 1.6x Barlow) there sat Io against a pretty dark background, for all intents and purposes. My first impression was, "Hey, that does kind of look like a tiny bright dash." But, always on guard for the mind's aperture effect, I noted it and kept observing. Over time, Io bounced and blurred slightly. It was sometimes circular, sometimes not. Inconclusive on the elongation, but that nagging feeling it might be hung in there. Glancing at Callisto, then back to Io several times gave the impression Io might not be exactly circular. But I wasn't sure.
Okay, well, let's see if atmosphere is causing this tiny elongated impression. Slewed over to observe Europa. In the same seeing conditions, it was pretty much a clean disc. It bounced and blurred a bit, but it never gave any hint of elongation. Okay, so Io gave some hint of elongation, Europa nor Callisto did. Now, I am becoming somewhat convinced Io might actually be, and just barely detectable as elongated. The same observations were made at "stupid" 520x (6mm TMB II and 1.6x barlow.) Same results, but bigger disc.
The shadow drug itself over the limb, and Io struggled to keep up. It made contact with Jupiter's limb. And you know what? The elongation effect seemed a touch more convincing. Still not enough to really call it with utter confidence of a WWF wrestler picking a match in a school playground. But, interesting never the less.
Okay, not convinced, but cannot deny it's not elongated. That was the verdict at this point. By the way, I managed to follow Io all the way across the planet. It was in the darker SEB southern edge just preceding the GRS. In fact, Io with it's shadow just ahead of it (a few arc seconds) was just preceding Oval BA and it's companion. The whole entourage (BA, Dark spot, GRS, Io and shadow) marched across the disc. I got a sketch of it. Sweet.
So, anyway, after the sketch was done and Io approached the preceding limb, it deserved another look. Back up to stupid 520x for another look. Now! This was the most convincing elongation. In fact, I'd almost bet my Christmas gifts it's elongated. It just looked like a tiny bright dash mark.
So, yea, I really think Jason and Eddgie are onto something. I think it certainly can be glimpsed as elliptical or kind of like a small bright dash. It was way to small for me to even say whether it was 3:2 or any other ratio. Just that it did not really look circular all the time.
In fact, 72 Pegasi was clearly elongated at 0.56" arc (380x), and Io was a tougher to see elongation. Just to give you some idea, some scale of how hard this observation really was.
That's my report. Your turn! (Forgive the lack of editing...tired.)
Posted 27 November 2012 - 12:30 PM
When I was observing it, at 200x, the seeing was such that the moon's disk was quite clean and round, though it would jump about by about half its diameter once in a while, presenting a reasonably clean and stable image for maybe 50-70% of the time. As good a night as I can hope for, here at sea level on the east coast.
I'm going to remain skeptical of my observation, but with some cautious optimism regarding it. It seems now we've got 2 folk who are seeing this curious effect, and that breeds hope! I'd love to hear some more accounts, successful or not. Skepticism is entirely warranted, I think, when we're attempting to observe some form of detail/albedo on a disk that is a little more than 2x our scope's resolving limit.
Last night held 50km winds for me, and Orion's bright stars were twinkling mightily when I looked out. With luck, the coming days may afford me another chance to observe this.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Posted 27 November 2012 - 12:48 PM
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Posted 27 November 2012 - 12:59 PM
Then it dawned on me, is this even possible in a 6" with an Airy disc 1.84" arc? Io, according to JPL sim is only 1.2" arc. But, it is not a point source, it's an extended object. So, maybe more than a few tiny spurious discs overlapping at magnitude 5 might give it the edge into doable territory. I really don't know.
By no means was my observation conclusive, either. I was equally convinced Io was not circular as I was unconvinced it was elongated. Something like that. I was torn to whether it was or wasn't. The thing that struck me was, I was not torn about Europa in the same way. And not nearby Callisto either. It was that close, it was that difficult. Maybe the power of suggestion runs deep.
I dunno what to make of it. Like I mentioned, there was no doubt 72 Peg was elongated. Absolutely none. It's 0.5" arc. It was easy in comparison to detecting elongation in Io.
Surely it becomes easier in larger apertures, and I remain convinced it's doable, as you and Eddgie reported. I am convinced you might well have seen it. I mean, I am that close to believing I did, too. I just hope it's theoretically and practically even possible with 150mm aperture. If not, well, I must have experienced the power of suggestion. Surely that's always a possibility, especially when you are operating at the very absolute limits of our senses...pushing the envelop. You can bet I'll look again.
Thanks for pointing Io's effect out. I noticed it on images, but just thought it was an artifact of motion.
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Posted 27 November 2012 - 01:03 PM
"What are you doing, Pete?" Any more powers of suggestion you want to inflict in my head? Next time I sketch that spot (tomorrow), look for some very tiny corners on it. And maybe an ape nearby.
I might just add them for fun, though. A small monolith would be easy. I might can draw a monkey using about 8 pixels...
Edit: On a sad note, I /think/ I discovered a small cataract in my left (dominate) eye. I am of age to have them. Thankfully it's not directly on axis, but very occasionally, if I look at Jupiter at some specific angle it blurs pretty bad and has a small diffuse darkening imposed on it. My observing eye seems to be clear in this regard. And it seems a bit sharper and more sensitive. Gotta stick with it, I guess. Anyone else run across this?
Posted 27 November 2012 - 01:31 PM
My right eye never turns in a good performance with optics, despite it being dominant, generally floater free and not much worse in astig than my left. No cataracts yet, thankfully, though my mother has developed'em.
Posted 27 November 2012 - 09:40 PM
Doing the math last night in my head, and wagging it while half asleep, I figure the spurious discs on Io should be about the same size as a 6th magnitude spurious disc in a 150mm unobstructed scope. A little larger because it's brighter, then smaller a bit due to the CO. Anyway, the spurious discs formed on Io should be smaller than Io itself, at least currently.
So, if that is true (I believe it is), then at least one spurious disc on the eastern limb could be seen as elongated from one on the western limb. And, of course, with many more between. This would hold true for one on the northern limb elongated from one on the south. And, if they are a bit less bright, they may appear darker even if overlapped by some brighter ones along Io's equator.
It would be much like observing 72 Pegasi where the companion is in tight but a tad fainter (~5.7 and 6.1, respectively.) And elongation was visible with the fainter companion as a hump on the companion's disc at just 0.5" arc. That's smaller than the separation at Io's equator (and poles.) And that separation is tighter than the Sparrow limit at 107/Dmm. But there was no contrast between the spurious disc centers, just elongation (very evident in the diffraction ring) and a slightly fainter "hump."
Trick is, are Io's poles darker by enough to be detected as being dimmer than it's equator, hence some elongation effect? That get's complicated with numerous spurious discs superimposed on one another, unlike the two easily elongated by 72 Pegasi. Observing Io might be like separating two 5th mag stars separated by Io's diameter: two 5th mag stars at 1.2" arc. Bright when PA is along the equator, and dimmer from pole to pole at that same separation. At that mag and sep, it would be like splitting 32 Ori (slightly unequal pair at ~1.2" arc) with no dark space, of course. It is obscured by other points.
Processed and enhanced images show pole darkening quite easily, they eye not so. Hence the PITA you and I have calling it elongated. But, again, I think it's doable in 6" and 8" apertures based on the math and reports observing elongation - or hints of it. Not easy by any stretch, but Eddgie could do it with a higher degree of certainty.
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Posted 02 December 2012 - 03:16 AM
I'm thinking that the elongation effect might be caused by sunlight reflecting on gas along Io's equator. Looking at the photo that Norme posted we can see that while the moon appears elongated, its shadow does not. This effect would probably be apparent whether Io was in transit or not...maybe...possibly...?
Posted 02 December 2012 - 04:46 AM
This effect would probably be apparent whether Io was in transit or not...maybe...possibly...?
Don't be confused, it just might.
Personally, I found having something comparable in size that is known to be spherical for comparison introduced a small bit of doubt about Io being circular or spherical. The shadow might serve that purpose. Callisto was in the same FOV for comparison before Io transited. That was very convenient, but not conclusive.
It was a very tight call with Io against the black of space even with Callisto nearby. Over the cloud tops, it was more convincing. It really did take on a tiny bit of a bright dash-like appearance, whether exclusionary or not. It was still very hard to say for sure. I'm convinced it's more readily doable in greater apertures, even against the black of space.
Fascinating stuff.
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Filmmakers are not the most positive bunch when it comes to future. The visions of tomorrow are rarely too encouraging – usually, it's just death and oppressin waiting for us.
But not always! Every now and then, a sci-fi film comes up with a world to come that's almost beararble.
Zombie Room takes a look at the top-7 most promising days after tomorrow. Enjoy.
You know Second Life? Yeah, it's the hyped application where you are able to create your "second life" – you know, own a home, look cool, have actual friends and have no bad hair days. The only thing is that uh… Second Life sucks the shit out of your ass through your mouth – it's ugly, it's slow and it's the birth place of the saddest Internet phenomenon out there: Second Life sex.
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In Vanilla Sky future – it's all happening. And the girls… they are not just any random pixel lumps, but look amazingly like Penelope Cruz or Cameron Diaz.
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In the future, there's no crime – and even those who are planning to do them, get their asses kicked by Tom Cruise and his special pre-crime unit. But what's even cooler is that in the future we go back to the times when working on computers actually felt like something. Instead of your boring old mactop, you need a huge room with a screen the size of a small movie theater, special gloves to operate it – and a physique of a sports hero to use things like the Internet. In Minority Report's future, there's no more fat nerds rotting away in their mom's basements – these guys and girls are out on the squash range to be in enough good shape for some serious Googling.
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Imagine this: no more Big Brother. No more The Bold and the Beautiful. No more crappy talent shows and no more Survivor – everything is made obsolete by the biggest reality TV show ever – The Truman Show. And what's even better: instead of you hoping every day you pass a newspaper stand that these clowns on Big Brother, Talent and Idols would get in the same car and drive off the cliff, dying a quick but an extremely painful death – you'd actually care about the main guy! The world would be again a bit nicer place to live, and everybody wins.
Ok, it might not be the most ethical thing – but all we're asking for is a bit of sacrifice to keep the rest of the world is happily sedated.
In Duncan Jones' Moon, everything is just fine. The world's energy crisis has been solved: we've finally established a Helium-3 mining station on the Moon, so no oil or nuclear energy problems anymore!
Helium-3 is an extremely powerful source of energy which we don't have too much on Earth, but Moon (supposedly) has quite a lot of it. And what's even better, it only takes one guy to take care of the whole operation. It's not like he's going to start rebelling against Earth or anything, he's pretty much stuck there – and even finding a replacement for him once things go wrong isn't a problem, thanks to our friend, technology!
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One thing we all hate is cleaning up the mess we make. Now, in the perfect future, there would be robots to do that for you, right? In the Wall-E future, we would get on a huge spaceship travelling away from Earth – and we'd had to do absolutely nothing in order to survive. Just sit down, chat with our mates and let the ship take care of every need we come up with.
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If ignorance is bliss – then Idiocracy is the ultimate utopia. In this future scenario, created by Mike Judge (of Beavis and Butt-Head fame) claiming aloud that your highest principles in life are sex and money is OK – actually, it's considered as a damn philosophical statement! Ok, the world might be going to hell, and yeah, maybe watering your plantations with Gatorade is not the best idea out there – but hell, travelling in time there with your current brain capacity – which we both know is not much – you'd still be the combination between Einstein, Sun Tzu and Aristoteles.
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Give your little ripper the gift of the safety with the Bell Youth / Kids' Fraction Bike Helmet so that they can bike, skate, and bang their head against the wall with full protection. Bell infused the Fraction's shell with EPS foam for added durability and strength rather than combining two separate layers. The easy to adjust Ergodial, pinch-proof chinstrap, and camlock ear straps all work together to give your child a dialed-in fit.
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Perfect for the kid's melon
Good fit with lots of adjustability from included pads. Stays put, offers great protection. Oh and guess what - fits on a girls head too! I like it - but she loves it. Good for bikes and skating.
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My nephew refused to wear a helmet because they are so dorky looking. So i got him this helmet and he now wears it every time he bikes. He loves the design and it fits great.
Bought the XS for my 4 year old. He picked the bug camo color. It fits with a combination of pad sizes. It will probably last him another year or so. This helmet would be better with the dial fit system other child helmets have which would allow the fit to be customized a bit better. We do love how this helmet looks and its durability. It is pretty much bullet-proof.
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I got the x-small for my two year old. It said it fits sizes 48-53CM. It comes with two sets of insert one is about 1cm thick the other about .5 cm thick. I was able to combine the two to dial in a perfect fit with no flopping around on his head.
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This helmet is great, super bright, great fit, and if you have kids you know that fitting a helmet to a small head is a challenge. Got the same size XS for my 6 and my 4 year old. They love them; this is the first helmet that works for them.
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Every parent knows that finding a helmet that actually fits kids ages 3-7 is a challenge. Well, my search is over. This helmet is super burly, fits well, and size XS works great for my 3 and 6 year old boys. They love the evil demon graphic on the side. Great color, you can't miss it!
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I got this helmet for my 2-year old in XS. Even thought the helmet doesn't have an ergodial adjustment as described in copy I actually see that as a benefit now. I used one of the included extra pads to dial in the fit for my son and it was perfect! I really appreciate that there is not a side gap in the helmet like you see on so many of the universal fit helmets. This helmet never flops to the side, front or back, good fit is key. The styling is great. I wanted this helmet because the back was nice and round and doesn't tend to push over the eyes when used with a burley trailer or car set. I also like the styling because it can be used for Bike, BMX, or skateboarding. The helmet is a little on the expensive side comparing it to others but well worth it.


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President Barack Obama announced government-wide plans to address the climate crisis on Tuesday, June 25 at Georgetown University.
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For the next couple months, we'll be bringing you updates from Montana, where Wilderness Society interns Lily Clarke and Greta Hoffman are conducting collaborative
This was the message from a group of park rangers and the National Parks Conservation Association at a Congressional briefing they hosted on the topic on June 19.
Dinosaur National Monument, located on the border between Colorado and Utah, takes visitors back to a land before time, when dinosaurs roamed North America's southwest some 150 million years ago.
In recent months, there have been many discussions about how to ensure that our communities remain safe, but few have mentioned one particular resource for this:
Wilderness Volunteers (WV) is offering a unique opportunity to experience the wild lands of Southern Californi
At least, that's what the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) is hoping to achieve with their recently launched "10,000 Steps to Denali" campaign, geared towards motivating youth of color to get involved in o
If the Senate is any indication, your support of wilderness bills may meet success this year.
An after-school instructor for Washington, D.C.'s Mundo Verde school recently read Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree with her group of pre-kindergarten students, and encouraged them to talk about the different types of services that trees provide for all of us.
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text: By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican "Wow!" That's how Frenchman Valley Coop General Manager Jim Chism opened his report to patrons Saturday during the annual meeting for the fiscal year that closed Jan. 31, 2009. Chism said the completed fiscal year set a number of records, noting this marked the first full year of the operation after merging Farmers Elevator Company of Kimball into FVC. He said the past fiscal year, ending Jan. 31, 2009, set records for sales, profits and dividends. For the first time ever, Chism said FVC eclipsed more than $500 million in sales, with $525,301,927 in sales to be exact. That's more than a half-billion in sales, Chism noted. Local net savings totalled just more than $7 million—a record for FVC. Combine that with income and patronage refunds from coops FVC does business with, and the figure grows to more than $11.7 million. After income taxes, the net savings generated by the coop totalled $10,437,678. As a result, the coop paid out $2,161,500 in the form of qualified cash dividends and another $2,161,500 in non-qualified dividends. In addition, the coop redeemed more than $800,000 in membership equity of members who have retired, along with estate retirements of more than $36,000. All totalled, Chism said the coop returned more than $3 million in cash to members this year. Over the past five years, that brings the total cash distributed to patrons to more than $7 million. Chism said the board opted to make qualified and non-qualified dividends for the first time this year. In the past, all dividends declared by the coop, including retained savings, were taxable to the member. By using qualified and non-qualified dividends, patrons owed taxes on the qualified portion only. The tax on the non-qualifed dividend was paid by the coop. This results in putting more money in the patron's pocket, Chism said. A Wild Ride While the coop recorded a record year for the fiscal year, Chism admitted it was definitely a "wild ride" due to the widely fluctuating crop prices, and with high fuel and fertilizer prices. As an example, wheat hit a high of $12.50 per bushel compared with around $4 today. Corn went to $7 per bushel compared to around $2.89 now. Starter fertilizer skyrocketed to $1,250 per ton compared to the current cost of $375/ton. Chism said that created some conditions of extreme risk but said his staff maneuvered through it all quite well. That risk included added interest charges on grain and fertilizer inventories, totalling $5 million, which is far higher than normal, he said. He said they didn't get everything right during the year but got far more right than wrong. Four members of the board of directors were re-elected. They included William "Dude" Tines of Venango, Steve Leibbrandt of Imperial, Dale Dueland of McCook and Jay Gue of Sidney. The evening concluded with an appearance by Brad Montgomery of Denver. He combined magic with a motivational message on how to cope with daily life by adopting a "happy" attitude.


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Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc., welcomes George Brown to its Pike Creek office, 5301 Limestone Road, Wilmington.
Brown has been a licensed real estate agent since 1985. Brown's career has included affiliations as a sales associate and a manager for a number of firms, including Dunn-Associated, Ltd. and Re/Max Ltd. Prior to joining Long & Foster, Brown had been affiliated with Re/Max of Wilmington since 1996.
Brown holds a degree from the University of Delaware and served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1969 to 1975. He is a lifetime member of the New Castle County Board of Realtors and an active member of the AHEPA Association. He also conducts fellowship work in the state prison system and is a Real Estate Owned (REO) specialist for banks and mortgage companies. For more information, visit LongandFoster.com.
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