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The Cleveland Browns had targeted Aug. 19 as the day they chose between Brian Hoyer or Johnny Manziel. But after the Browns, Hoyer and Manziel all struggled against the Washington Redskins on Aug. 18, it wasn't too shocking that a decision wasn't made the next day. But that made it more surprising for Cleveland to choose anyway on the morning on Aug. 20 - never mind that its ultimate choice of Hoyer may not be the most popular in town.
While the Browns had made clear that the job of starting quarterback was Hoyer's to lose, Manziel's overwhelming popularity and buzz could have easily carried him over. In fact, all he needed was a solid performance against the Redskins, and it might have been impossible for Cleveland to ignore the calls for his promotion. Yet the biggest thing he did in Washington was flip off the Redskins' bench.
That could have made the Browns pick Hoyer the next day, but Aug. 19 came and went without a decision. This made it likely that the competition would stretch into Cleveland's third preseason game against the St. Louis Rams on Aug. 23, which will be Manziel's home debut.
Nevertheless, the Browns finally made their choice this morning, putting Hoyer on an even bigger hot seat. At the slightest struggle -- of which there may be many, given how poor the Browns are -- the Manziel-loving fans will be quick to call for Hoyer's benching. If Cleveland has a poor first half of the season, it may need to bench Hoyer and finally see what it has in Manziel by necessity in the second half.
Until Manziel takes the field in the regular season, the Browns will likely toil back in obscurity, no matter how fair it is. Manziel's selection in the NFL draft gave Cleveland professional football its biggest buzz since the Browns were reformed over a decade ago. However, it clearly hasn't influenced the Browns' coaching staff the way many fans wanted.
Those fans will still get to see Manziel play in Cleveland for the first time on Aug. 23. If the Browns actually win under Hoyer, however, it might be the last time Manziel gets serious action at home in his rookie season.

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T-Mobile HTC HD2 apparently sold out within hours
The HTC HD2 will never get to be upgraded to Windows Phone 7 Series, and it's certainly not as hot as Sprint's upcoming HTC EVO 4G, but this has not stopped T-Mobile USA customers to want it.
In fact, it looks like the HD2 is an instant hit in the US, as Boy Genius reports that the smartphone (launched on March 24) sold out in about four hours in almost all T-Mobile locations across the country.
At the moment, the HTC HD2 is also out of stock at T-Mo's online store, where it should have been available for $199.99 (with a 2-yr contract agreement).
It should be interesting to know exactly how many HD2s T-Mobile has sold until now, but the carrier will probably not talk numbers in the near future.
Meanwhile, if you really want a HTC HD2 right now, you can try your luck at Amazon, where the smartphone's actually cheaper than via T-Mobile – it's $99.99 on contract.


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CARACAS, Jan 29 (IPS) - An informal International Women's Tribunal, meeting at the sixth World Social Forum in the Venezuelan capital, found "imperialism" and U.S. President George W. Bush guilty of violating the human rights of people in countries like Iraq and Cuba.
Another panel made up of 10 religious leaders, human rights lawyers and activists held a trial and condemned "state terrorism" committed by Washington in Iraq.
Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Forum, which brought together the legislators taking part in the annual WSF global civil society gathering, roundly criticised a U.S. bill that would tighten immigration laws.
Host President Hugo Chávez, addressing some 15,000 WSF participants, called the Bush administration "the most perverse, murderous, genocidal and immoral empire" in history.
The Venezuelan leader said Bush, who he calls "Mr. Danger", in reference to a character in a Venezuelan novel, is "the world's biggest terrorist".
"Mr. Danger talks about human rights, but there are people in Guantanamo (Cuba) who are tortured, and people who disappear in the CIA jails in Europe and elsewhere in the world," Chávez told a cheering crowd.
In every street demonstration held at the Jan. 24-29 WSF in Caracas, signs can be seen proclaiming "No to Bush!" or "Get Out Bush!", while the protesters frequently chant anti-Bush slogans.
The International Women's Tribunal heard testimony from Irma González, the daughter of one of the "Cuban Five" - the five Cuban men in prison in the United States on espionage charges - and from Ramia Masi, an activist with the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq.
González said her father had spent seven years in prison without being able to receive visits, "because among other things, it has gotten more and more complicated to obtain a visa to the United States, which is a routine human rights violation."
For her part, the Iraqi activist presented a documentary that contains personal accounts and testimony on atrocities committed in the U.S.-led war and occupation of Iraq.
"Fundamentalism is a new thing in Iraq," said Masi. "The occupation drew out the greatest enemy of my country, the fundamentalists, who have destroyed our identity." She called for the construction of a secular alternative, in which women can be free.
Among those sitting on the panel that tried and condemned state terrorism were Reverend Lucius Walker, the leader of the U.S. organisation Pastors for Peace, Mexican activists Héctor Díaz and Guillermo López, and Reverend Raúl Suárez, a peace activist from Cuba.
The witnesses testifying against the Bush administration included Fernando Suárez, a Mexican-American whose son was killed in Iraq; Javier Couso from Spain, whose brother José, a journalist, was killed when a U.S. tank fired a shell at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, which was being used as a base by many independent reporters; and Colombian parliamentary candidate Lilia Solano.
Couso recalled that 90 journalists have lost their lives during the war in Iraq, while Suárez stressed that his son died as a victim of a cluster bomb, which "the United States is using on a daily basis in Iraq and which not only claim the lives of Iraqi civilians, but also the lives of their own soldiers. Bush is the number one terrorist," he declared.
Solano spoke out about Plan Colombia and its recently launched second stage, Plan Patriot - counterinsurgent and anti-drug initiatives that she described as "state terrorism financed by Washington."
The panel concluded by "firmly condemning" imperialism and the Bush administration.
In the meantime, a delegation of lawmakers from Mexico earned the backing of legislators from throughout the region in their opposition to a bill currently before the U.S. Congress aimed at extending the fences already blocking portions of the U.S.-Mexican border, among other measures.
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As for "U.S. imperialism," he pronounced that "we will surely bury it this century."
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One of the greatest female voices in pop music is back with her new album, 'Me. I am Mariah,' & unfortunately the dashing diva crashes on this aggravating attempt to revive her career on the charts and amazing production.
The first two ballads soar and give hope that the rest of the album will slowly bust out with songs reminiscent of 'Migrate,' 'Side Effects', 'Heartbreaker' and 'Say Somethin,' featuring Snoop Dogg. We get who you are, Mariah, but does this production value really exude the amazing vocalist/chart slayer you have been accustomed to in the past? Ugh, no. Other than a decent track called 'Dedicated,' featuring Nas, MC fails to give us the summer sassiness of 2005's 'The Emancipation of Mimi,' that brought her back to surface and provided Mariah with many accolades and Grammy awards to add to her resume. Oh, Mariah, what was going on during recording sessions on the studio, girl? You're absolutely amazing and deserve to shine album after album, especially with all the technology and ridiculously talented producers floating around the world.
'Me. I am Mariah,' is one over-produced track after another shying away from the Neptunes/Pharrell influence that made her previous albums so great. None of the songs stay with you or make you want to cruise in the car with a big smile on your face. Not only does the new album bore to death, it just doesn't make sense. After all of the trials and tribulations Mariah has endured throughout her tumultuous past, the album masks her true talent and the gitty feeling we all received from her most recent past studio albums. Now, this is no meltdown like the disastrous 'Glitter' stint, although I did love 'Loverboy,' but next time, Mariah give us what we really want, memorable records!


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June 30, 20161:57 PM ET
ISTANBUL (AP) — As the death toll from the Istanbul airport attack rose Thursday to 44, a senior Turkish official said the three suicide bombers who carried it out were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and police raided neighborhoods for suspects linked to the Islamic State group.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — An adoring father of his four "princesses." A weeping bride-to-be, bent over her fiancee's coffin. Two women looking forward to a few days' vacation with their husbands and their infant children. Victims of Tuesday night's attack at Istanbul's main airport have left behind mourning friends and relatives who are now struggling to deal with their loss. Here are some of their stories:
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Today in unexpected feuds: Wolfgang Van Halen questions the manners (and hairstyles) of One Direction. The band's current bassist, and the son of its co-founding guitarist Eddie Van Halen, fired off a string of tweets yesterday that described his chance encounter with the group in a hotel lobby in Birmingham, England. While the boys are by no means an official British welcoming committee, it wasn't the interaction he was expecting:
Fun fact: Was just insulted by that shitty boy band #OneDirection in the lobby of our hotel this morning! Greetings Birmingham!
— Wolfgang Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) October 16, 2012
No joke. That ACTUALLY happened. That group of kids in #OneDirection were dickheads to @iierockii @gwdrums and I.
— Wolfgang Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) October 16, 2012
As a fellow performer, has Wolfgang considered the possibility that the group was just preoccupied—Niall celebrating his seven million Twitter followers, Liam admiring the pretty scenery—in addition to plugging through a series of radio interviews? Van Halen hasn't revealed the specifics as to how the guys managed to be so disrespectful, but we'd put our money on Harry mistaking him for a bellhop, Zayn refusing him a photo opportunity or Niall flubbing the lyrics to "Jump." Don't be angry though, Wolf; they're just doing what their songs tell them to do.
The 21-year-old, who is just a few months older than 1D's Louis Tomlinson, resorted to name-calling ("dickheads," "shitty boy band") in his retelling of the ordeal, which proves he took the cold shoulder he was allegedly given by the group to heart, or has a very limited vocabulary. Didn't your mother teach you to use your words? And the decision to retaliate by ragging on the guys' signature coiffures is reason enough for the Directioner army worldwide to start snatching up tickets for the next flight to the U.K.
They must call themselves that because all of their hair points in #OneDirection
— Wolfgang Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) October 16, 2012
While four out of five guys likely use a good amount of product to transform their shaggy mops into the perfect brand of disheveled, Liam has a buzz cut now! That has to count for something. All's been quiet on the various 1D accounts today, with the exception of Louis, who appears to have suffered an unspecified injury:
I've bruised my big toe
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The intraday elasticity of a $29 intraday range suggests the next leg will be substantial.
The following are the latest daily summaries of my ongoing intraday coverage, providing context to interpret price action. Any prices listed are for a contract's current "front month." Their direction tends to correlate with any ETFs listed for each.
Today's Highlight:
Gold's volatility Tuesday suggests that the pattern is ready to resume trending, and in a very big way. Gold's biggest moves tend to happen overnight, but they are still credible for extending the next day.
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Jun Contract DX; (NYSEARCA:UUP), (NYSEARCA:UDN)
Tuesday's bounce to 84.30 stopped short of triggering the 84.45 buy signal. The pessimism just below prior highs suggests that at least a fresh high will be probed.
Jun Contract EC; (NYSEARCA:FXE)
1.2955 resistance held again. Closing under 1.2840 Wednesday would confirm new lows at 1.2745 were in-play.
Apr Contract GC; (NYSEARCA:GLD)
Tuesday morning's probe under 1383.00 in negative territory was recovered to test 1401.50 resistance. But the bounce failed as the session reversed back down under 1383.00. Closing under 1377.00 and 1372.00 would confirm a new downleg underway, still having some support to work through at 1367.00 on the way to new lows.
May Contract SI; (NYSEARCA:SLV)
Tuesday's gap down never extended down, and only ranged sideways until fill the gap back to 22.50. A dip has room down to 21.80 before signaling a more substantial downleg has resumed.
30-year Treasury
Jun Contract US; (NYSEARCA:TLT)
More ranging at the lows without yet bouncing above a prior high finally proved to be taking too long to be bullish. Instead, Tuesday's gap down to the 142-19 target's lows soon broke lower sharply to 141-09. Bounces should hold 141-24 to maintain this leg's momentum next targeting 140-14.
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Apr Contract CL; (NYSEARCA:USO)
Tuesday's gap up to and through 95.00 could extend the rally to 98.10 if 96.60 were also recovered without delay. There is otherwise no momentum reversal signaled.
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Apr Contract NG; (NYSEARCA:UNG), (NYSEARCA:UNL)
Gapping down Tuesday to 4.16 tried to recover, but spent the day essentially ranging back to 4.16. The rally must resume with almost no further delay if it is valid, and if a deeper dip to at least 4.05 can be avoided.
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State Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, apparently has a different dictionary than we do. As Senate leaders last week floated the idea of raising the state's gas tax another 111/2 cents per gallon, King declared, "We think it's fair, we think it's balanced."Our definition of fair and balanced is quite a bit different from the senator's. Because, looking from a Southwest Washington perspective, this plan is neither.
The proposal would raise $12.3 billion for transportation projects in the state and, as usual, little of that would be earmarked for Clark County. Among the 66 itemized projects on the list, four of them are in Clark County, and those would bring in a total of $41.4 million. That works out to 0.34 percent of the revenue that would be raised through the additional gas tax. Considering that Clark County is the fifth most populous in the state, and that it is home to just over 7 percent of the state's residents, and that it includes the region's primary transportation corridor, this plan seems more inequitable and incongruous than fair and balanced.
The argument, of course, is that what is good for the state also is good for Clark County. That's true — to a point. But the fact is that in 2003, the Legislature enacted a "nickel" funding package that raised the gas tax 5 cents a gallon, and more than half of that revenue went to congestion-relief projects in the Puget Sound area. Then, in 2005, the Legislature added a 91/2-cent tax to be phased in over four years. The bulk of expenditures from that increase: $2 billion for the Alaskan Way viaduct project in Seattle; $551 million for the I-90 corridor east of Seattle; $500 million for the Highway 520 bridge linking Seattle with Bellevue; and $152 million for freeway improvements in the Spokane area.
If what is good for the state is good for Clark County, then we must be living amid stardust and unicorns by now. Which brings up this question: When do lawmakers start thinking that what is good for Clark County is good for the remainder of the state?
That is the crux of this issue. With the looming specter of the Columbia River Crossing and a replacement Interstate 5 bridge, it would be absurd for lawmakers and Gov. Jay Inslee to proceed on a major transportation bill without including funding for the project. The Senate chose to not vote on such funding earlier this year, which means that local Sens. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, and Ann Rivers, R-La Center, have some explaining to do. By championing the fight against the CRC, they may have rejected a major gas-tax increase that included the project in favor of a major gas-tax increase that includes nearly nothing for Clark County. Regardless of how one feels about the CRC, it's difficult to argue that local taxpayers are well-served by such a trade-off.
All of that, of course, remains to be seen. With Senate leadership apparently on board for a $12.3 billion transportation bill, the governor might call a special session of the Legislature for next week. If that happens, we expect Benton and Rivers to be just as adamant in their opposition to this bill as they were in fighting against the CRC funding. And we expect Sen. Annette Cleveland, D-Vancouver, to join them in doing what best serves her constituents.
Clark County, like most counties outside the Puget Sound region, provides more revenue through gas taxes than it can hope to recoup in the way of projects. That makes us a donor county, and that's a fact of life we can somewhat accept. But we've already given till it hurts.


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Members of Hamilton High School DECA earned 29 awards and qualified 12 students for state competition. A total of 28 students recently represented Hamilton at the Southeastern Wisconsin Career Development Conference at Kettle Moraine High School. The event drew more than 800 students from southeastern Wisconsin who competed in 15 different categories of business and marketing management.
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Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women
February 26–July 29, 2012
From 1971 to 1994, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) embarked on a series of projects with Afghan embroiderers, creating monumental pieces that would become some of the artist's most iconic works. Working first in Kabul in the 1970s and then in refugee camps in Pakistan after the 1979 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Afghan women embroidered works based on Boetti's templates that include: colorful grids of letters that spell out phrases (such as "Order and Disorder"); Mappe (maps), wall-sized world maps with countries filled-in with the colors and symbols of their flags; and Tutto (everything), large-scale works entirely filled with intricately embroidered shapes representing diverse objects—sunglasses, a Hindu goddess, a protractor, twins, and more. The exhibition features twenty-nine works by Boetti along with documentary photographs of the Afghan embroiderers taken in 1990 at Boetti's request by Randi Malkin Steinberger, as well as examples of the traditional styles of embroidery that might have played a role in stimulating Boetti's best-known works.
Banner image: © Alighiero Boetti Estate by Artists Rights Society (ARS) and Società Italiana di Autori ed Editori (SIAE) 2011. Courtesy Fondazione Alighiero e Boetti, Rome.


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Shaine Jaime, two-time NCAA All-American wrestler and coach on "The Ultimate Fighter" TV series, is now the full-time assistant coach at Cumberland University, the Lebanon, Tenn. school announced Tuesday.
Jaime joins the Bulldog's coaching staff, working with head wrestling coach Todd Allen and graduate assistant Zeke Hunt. He replaces Andrew Nicola, who left Cumberland last month to join the coaching staff at California Baptist University in Riverside, Calif.
Mixed martial arts fans will recognize Jaime as having served as a coach for Team Miesha Tate during the 2013 season of the popular cable TV series "The Ultimate Fighter". He has also fought in professional MMA events.
In addition to that MMA coaching background, Jaime brings solid experience as a collegiate wrestler and coach to Cumberland. He was a two-time NCAA Division II All-American at Central Washington University, placing third twice during his career for the Wildcats.
Jaime launched his coaching career at the University of the Cumberlands, serving on the Kentucky school's staff for four seasons. He helped the Patriots to third-place showings in the NAIA Championships in 2004 and 2005 and seventh place in 2006. He coached 15 All-Americans and a pair of national champions at UC while also leading workouts and drills as well as supervising study sessions.
In addition, Jaime spent one season as an assistant coach at Grand Canyon University, at the time an NCAA Division II program that is now transitioning to Division I. While on staff at the Arizona-based school, Jamie assisted with training and road trips. He has a Bronze Level Certification for USA Wrestling and is also certified in First Aid and CPR.
Just last season, Cumberland placed third in NAIA competition at the 2014 National Duals. In addition, the Bulldogs came finished sixth in the team standings at the 2014 NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) Wrestling Championships, with a program-record three student-athletes – Zeke Hunt, Jake Williams and Cody Linton – all earning All-American honors.


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Henrico students explore nature during trip
Inside a conference room at J.R. Tucker High School recently, students Meredith Jaroneski, Kristin Schaefer, Lev Looney and Hunter Goff laughed and spoke over each other, displaying such easy camaraderie one would think they'd known each other for years.
"What are you guys doing this afternoon?" Kristin asked. "Anyone like to go to the movies?"
"Me," Lev exclaimed.
"I will," Meredith added quickly.
A few weeks before, all but Meredith knew each other, but only by sight and from the occasional class. From July 21-28, the four set out with biology teacher Jane Seldon, students and teachers from two other Virginia high schools and officials from the James River Association on canoeing and rafting trip down the lower James River
from Richmond to Hampton.
"I sort of didn't know anybody at all," Lev said. "We became close with everybody, like I've been texting people a lot."
Around the table the four students and their teacher compared blisters and sunburns and shared how what they learned was often unexpected as they came to trust each other.
"You had to trust the person in back to know that they'll steer you, because the person in back steers and the person in front is the power," Kristin said. It was difficult, she said.
Each day they were paired with a new boat mate and had different duties, such as pitching tents or being the camp reporter. On the day that Meredith had camp duty, Kristin helped – sort of.
"Both of us together, it took us like 45 minutes to put up one tent," Kristin said.
Meredith interjected: "Lev tried to help."
Kristin said: "He was like, 'This is really easy, guys.'"
The group entered the James upriver from Belle Isle and white-water-rafted down to an area around 14th Street.
"What was a lot of fun was everyone would jump to the front and so there were times when the water was like shooting into everybody's face," Lev said. "It was intense."
Lev and Kristin both flew out once, but no injuries occurred.
"I mean, Ms. Seldon you like saved my life," Kristin said, recounting how her teacher grabbed her when she was slipping.
Going down river the group spent one rainy night on a pontoon boat, a flat bottom boat historically used to transport goods from plantations to market.
"They put up rain flies, that didn't really work that well," Lev said. "Hunter's sleeping bag was on the side and when we woke up there was just a puddle under him, but none of us were wet. He'd physically blocked all the rain from the guys."
Meredith said she woke up and her body was dry, but not her head.
"It felt like I had been like dunked in a pool of water on my face," Meredith said.
They received an unexpected wake-up call when the horns from a triathlon that was starting there went off at 5 a.m., Seldon said.
The weather was a problem again later in the week, when it stormed while they were near Fort Pocahontas. They stayed in President John Tyler's grandson's garage for shelter, after he offered them the space.
"It was so bad that the caretaker said he had to cut down all the trees to check on it," Lev said.
But there were some beautiful rainbows afterward, Kristin said.
Part of the purpose of the trip was to learn about the river, and how to protect it. One day they stopped at Virginia Commonwealth University's Rice Center to hear a talk about algae, and another day they learned about the blue catfish from college scientists who shocked the water to bring the fish to the surface.
They gave the group pounds of catfish, which Lev said he threw in the cooler behind him in his canoe to fillet later. Hunter explained that the catfish are harder to fillet because they have skin and not scales. Lev said he had filleted fish before using an electric knife, but not without.
"Yeah, that was not fun," Lev said. "It was hard because whenever you messed up it was so hard to get the next piece of skin. We ended up just sort of cooking it ... We were just kind of cooking it to have fun and then I sat down and ate everything."
The quality of the fish and the river were surprises to Hunter.
"The river is different than what we're really taught," he said. "At least me, all I've heard about the river is, 'Take your boat out, it's a little dirty but you can still get a fish here and there. If you go out at night there's going to be more fish.' But we constantly saw fish during the day, and the litter, yes, there was litter, but it wasn't as bad as we were taught."
One area in particular – where bald Cyprus trees formed habitats for ospreys and eagles – was particularly impressive. "That's nature," he said. "That's what nature should be."
Seldon, who said she was very familiar with the upper and middle James, had tried to anticipate what it would be like.
"I was just amazed at how broad it is and how much power the river has," she said. "It's so much cleaner than it used to be. I remember when it was so awful and it's really, really been cleaned up, but they were counting the tires on the bank."
In one day they counted 196 tires in about 10 miles, Lev said. They also found an abandoned car.
"If everybody just picked up like one piece of trash and didn't throw one piece of trash in, the difference would be like insane," Lev said.
As part of the expedition, the students are required to give a presentation to their peers about what they learned. Kristin said that a big part of what she would tell her peers is that one person can make a difference.
"I feel like a lot of people ... throw a can on the ground and they're just like, 'Oh whatever, it's just what can I do,'" she said. "But you really can make a difference."
Meredith, who said she was looking forward to doing the project, said that she was surprised at how much she learned about how important the river was.
"I just thought it was like a camping trip and I was like, 'Yeah, camping,'" she said. "It really hit me when we pulled up to Jamestown that we were actually doing like really pretty much the same thing that the settlers were doing when they just were on the James."
The long days and irregular sleep hours were difficult, Meredith said, but worth it when she was paddling.
"It was just really cool to just be able to ... lose sense of time and not really know what day it was or what time it was really, but just sort of paddle and get lost in the paddling. It gave me time to think, and then I really realized how important the river is," Meredith said.
Hunter said he was surprised at how much he didn't know about the history of the river, including about how the settlers stopped at Richmond because of the fall line there. He also learned about the historic importance of the forts along the river during battles, such as Fort Monroe, where they ended their trip, he said.
Seldon said she was proud of her kids, and said they were definitely not slackers. She also had nothing but praise for the James River Association and their trip leaders.
"I would encourage everyone to volunteer with the James River Association, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and with the James River parks," Seldon said. "It was absolutely wonderful ... We learned so much about the river and about how to take care of it, and about ourselves."
To view slideshows and video from the trip, as well as student accounts, visit http://www.jrava.org/expedition
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I need to organize automated backup for databases, websites, ftp, email, etc. at Ubuntu 9.04 and since I've never done it before, I'm looking for places to learn. What needs to be done, what (free) software I could use, tips&tricks, best practices and so on. If you could point me to relevant articles for beginners, I'd most appreciate that
There are many options out there depending on your goals, infrastructure, and media preferences.
First you'll probably need to figure out how to setup cron jobs no matter what solution you end up going with. It's what runs scheduled tasks on *nix.
As for the backup itself I tend to go with rsnapshot as it's simple enough to setup and does what I need. Amanda and Bacula are both great solutions but involve databases and other things which complicate the backup and recovery. I tend to avoid complicated things when I need something reliable such as in the case of backup. Rsnapshot uses rsync over ssh to transfer the data between systems so it's secure and efficient. It then uses hardlinks so that you have many point in time snapshots of the filesystem you're backing up.
Databases have to be treated a bit special b/c you either need to lock the tables while you're running your backup job or dump the database tables to another location where you then backup using what ever method you choose. This can be done with a tool like mysqldump if you're using MySQL. This dump is normally automated using a cron job.
Backups are always hard to tune properly; especially because people have different needs, and such needs are usually a mix between data 'snapshot' backup, data archiving, server (config) backup, reliable service, etc).
3dinfluence and davey are both right: it's important to try the restore operation (as Joel says), and a set of cron scripts is usually the first things to do; but additional actions have to be done depending on how much data you can "accept to loose", and which level of reliability you need.
So the questions you have to ask yourself are:
Depending on the answer to those questions, you'll see if daily backups are enough, or if you need a warm standby server staying in a different geographical location.
I'm not guru at all on this field, but maybe my example can gives you some idea.
I'm managing a small (debian) server, providing databases (postgresql), subversion repositories, trac sites and some others similar functions; the server is mainly used by our R&D group, so few people (~20 clients for the subversion), and some instruments (~50 clients for the database), but they are working almost 24/24h, 7/7days (especially the instruments, which feed the database with measures).
In case of average issue (like main hardware failure), a downtime of 2 to 4 hours is acceptable (instruments can work locally for a while). So I didn't have (yet) warn standby server, but only a set of local and distant backup and dumps.
So the requirements are not drastic at all: about hundred gigs of data, and less than hundred clients to serve.
The first "line of defense" is provided by the disk redundancy and partitioning (which not only help in case of disk crashes, but also for further backup or server upgrade) The machine is equipped with 4 disks (500Gb each).
The second defensive line is the regular backups: they are made from cron scripts, essentially launched every days (eg. hotbackup for svn, trac sites, copy of the db files, etc.) or every week (database dump, svn dump, etc.) Exact ways of doing each backup depends on the services; for example, subversion provides tools for the (fast) hot backup (using hard links, etc) and textual dump, but a simple rsync is used for the database, made from a lvm snapshot.
All those backups goes on the (local!) /backup partition (to be fast); this partition is usually mounted in read-only; two sudoeable scripts are used to re-bind it in rw mode (beginning of a backup), and back to ro (at the end). A semaphore made upon lockfiles is used to take care of concurrent backups.
Each time that the /backup is switched to ro (and also every 4 hours), a mirroring action is scheduled (using 'at' with a small delay to concatenates changes from the third line). The mirroring is made (using rsync) to a different server, from which data are archived on tapes (every day, with only one year of retention) and, over the network, to a set of distant terra stations.
To avoid the risk of loosing an entire day of work, at minimal bandwidth cost, a third line is also in place, which consist in doing incremental backup - where it's possible.
These increments are saved using the same concept as for the daily and weekly copy (to the local backup partition first, and with a small delay, on the second host). Of course, the daily copy and weekly dump scripts have to take care of the rotation of the increments.
Notice that this third line is really close to a warn standby server (well, it's a necessary step toward this concept).
Finally, the config of the server itself (to monimize the work if a new one has to be setup). As I wasn't convince by the ghosting solution (new machine will have different hardware, disk config, etc.), I'd setup a dedicated subversion repository, on which I put every script or config file that I've manually edited (directly, or indirectly via a user-interface). So the root of the filesystem (/) is a working copy. In addition, a cron task scheduled daily is responsible to save the list of installed packages (dpkg), the partitions tables (fdisk), raid and lvm setup and so on.
BTW, it's certainly the weakest point: the server config is on a subversion repos, served by the "same" host. Anyway, it's fairly easy to use one of the repository backup (either a fast backup or the dump) from a different machine (even a windows one), if needed.
In addition, I also try to conscientiously make lvm snapshots before touching any script (or package upgrade) on the main system. But the lifetime of those lvm snapshot should be as short as possible, due to the big penalty introduced on the other services.
Well, I hope it can help, or at least gives ideas...
Most folks I know use Bacula for this purpose.
They have pretty decent documentation, but here's an article that walks you through some basics.
Curtis Preston wrote the O'Reilly book on backups he has website and blog. He has some sections on Linux backups and on rsync based tools.
Mondo Rescue is an all in one free image backup/restore tool (apt-get install mondo) G4l is also an option. These two are good for backing up a single box.
Amanda is a centralised backup solution.
I'd say that your data is the important thing, to back up, use more than one means e.g. rsync to a remote box + cpio to a usb stick. Everything else can be rebuilt you can switch from ubuntu to Fedora and take your data with you, it just takes more work, you can never get back lost data so make doubly sure that you have the data covered.
Whatever you choose. Do some restores and get comfortable doing them. There is nothing worse than having to restore a system in the middle of the night and then finding out the hard way that you got something wrong and your backups are mince!
Good answers on backup policies already. I've come to love a simple backup tool: Backup Manager.
Backup Manager is very lightweight (just some scripts, really), and easy to configure. It knows how to backup SVN repositories, MySQL databases and can run specific commands to backup other systems that you can't just copy files to backup. It stores backup data in standard file formats (tar, zip, etc) and can save them to many different storage areas: local disks, FTP servers, scp, Amazon S3... possibly encrypting them using a GPG key on the way. Another important point is that it's already packaged in Debian and Ubuntu.
Definitely a simple and efficient way to start out, although you may want something more advanced in the end.
It's very good to save backups on Amazon S3.
For backups I recommend use duplicity and DT-S3-Backup bash script.
DT-S3-Backup was designed to automate and simplify the remote backup process using duplicity and Amazon S3. After the script is configured, you can easily backup, restore, verify and clean without having to remember lots of different command options.


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By Meg Handley
April 12, 2013
With Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both reporting record profits for 2012, taxpayers might be wondering if there's any reward for bailing out the agencies blamed for the housing bust – that is, besides saving the global financial system from imminent ruin.
According to Fannie Mae CEO Tim Mayopoulos, the government-sponsored enterprises aren't the only ones that will be rolling in the dough. In his first TV interview since the company reported a more than $17 billion profit for 2012, Mayopoulos told Bloomberg TV that U.S. taxpayers could actually see a net gain from the $116 billion they've shoveled into the beleaguered mortgage giant.
"Given the strength of our future profitability, [it is] possible that we will be able to pay dividends that would be equal to or greater than the amount of money that we've received from the Treasury Department," Mayopoulos said.
Since 2008, Fannie Mae has paid back almost $36 billion of the $116 billion in bailout funds it received. But projections included in the President's budget released this week suggest that total dividends paid to the Treasury by Fannie Mae over the next 10 years could ultimately exceed the total bailout sum by a whopping $51 billion, meaning taxpayers and the federal government could actually make money off of the much-maligned bailout of the mortgage financier.
By contrast, last year's budget projected Fannie and Freddie would result in net losses of about $28 billion for the government through 2022.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Taxpayers will, common share holders will get the screws
It violates the Takings Clause for them to pay anything "extra."
They already violated the taking clause....
frack the taking clause. They don't care!! they will take all they can - and more.
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Mayopoulos credited much of the turnaround in Fannie Mae's fortunes to "building a new book of business that will be profitable" while "managing the legacy book to minimize losses." He also said the company is focusing on pricing risk more appropriately.
But while things seem to be coming up roses for the GSEs, it shouldn't delay policymakers' discussions about the future of housing finance and the government's role therein, Mayopoulos warned.
"There is a risk that policymakers will look at our profitability and say we don't need to act on this soon," he said. "I think that would be a mistake."
Uncertainty still clouds the housing finance sphere, which continues to prevent a greater a role for private-label mortgage financing in the meantime. The sooner there is more clarity about the future housing finance system will look like and what regulations will govern it, the sooner private capital will return to the market and the sooner entities such as Fannie and Freddie can step away from the outsized role they played in mortgage financing in the wake of the housing collapse.
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Still, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's recent profitability gives lawmakers a fuller range of options when it comes to charting the future path of the housing finance system, Mayopoulos argues, and eliminates the assumption that doing away with the GSEs means accepting billions of dollars in taxpayer losses.
"What this has done is freed policymakers to think about what the full range of possibilities should be," he said. "The key is getting to an answer in the foreseeable future because no matter what you think the future housing finance system should look like, everybody agrees that at the moment the taxpayer shouldn't be on the hook for 90 percent of the market.
"That doesn't make sense, no matter what you think the future of the housing finance system should look like."


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Christof Rühl and I met three years ago and we shared an appearance in Moscow last month, although unfortunately not on the same day, so we missed each other. Christof is Chief Economist of BP, but unlike many in Big Oil, he long ago understood the multiple implications of the shale revolution. I wish he was taken more seriously by many in his own company who, like colleagues at other oil majors, often still can't get their heads around shale.
Notwithstanding the popular perception of economists as dismal number crunchers, the best often divine the story the numbers are telling us long before the conventional communicators in PR and journalism
Christof recently posted a series of articles on Linked In, republished at Energy Post, the most recent being "The five global implications of shale oil and gas". Regular readers know I'm a sucker for this big picture type of thing. Much of what he says has been discussed here over the years, but one section is worth reproducing in it's entirety.
Before that, in the second section Rühl looks ahead and drops this in:
Our industry is fond of distinguishing "above ground" from "below ground" factors when debating resource access. Below ground is geology, circumstances inherited from nature; above ground lure man-made conditions, such as the political, legal or economic framework.
The role of "above ground" political discussions is likely to reach new heights in determining whether, where and when shale resources will be accessed. These debates will evolve around local, as opposed to big geopolitical, concerns – simply as a corollary of the widespread geographic distribution of shale resources.
Above ground has been dominated by the environmental movement the last few years. The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change are fairly typical of governments most places in being two entirely different departments pushed together by politicians of the past. Now this is like a shotgun marriage for life: They wont' dare get divorced for the sake of the kids in the Cabinet, but reflecting their real world industries they manage to spend so much time speaking across one another that nothing to the satisfaction of either party ever gets done.
One reason, and I think I speak for the industry here, is that the natural gas industry isn't getting across a key message. This is the final section of Rühl's article, where although every word is important, I've highlighted those more important than others:
5. A decision point for those of us interested in the environment
Generating a kilowatt-hour of electricity with a modern gas fired power plant leaves about 50% less carbon emissions in the atmosphere than doing the same with coal fired generation. The consequences are stark.
Last year the US, not known for conscious climate policy, not only had the world's largest increase in oil and gas production, but also recorded the largest decline in CO2 emissions worldwide – because of a massive displacement of coal in power generation with cheaper shale gas. In the EU, in contrast, carbon emissions fell only marginally and only as a result of the economic recession – as shown in the chart below. Carbon intensity – the amount of carbon emitted per unit of energy – rose, as Europe's economies replaced gas in power generation with cheaper coal, imported from the US.
US coal is being chased into exile by the shale "revolution": Replaced by cheaper shale gas at home, coal is shipped to Europe, where it replaces more expensive liquefied gas imports in power generation. The foregone gas imports, in turn, move into Asia, where they are wanted at premium prices – among other uses, to substitute for the lack of nuclear power in Japan (you may remember reading about this phenomenon in a previous blog). In this way, European power generation is creating an unfortunate mirror image of the US: In Europe, the share of coal rises and the share of gas declines; in the US, the other way round. The consequences for carbon emissions are obvious.
Think of the sheer order of magnitude. Gas and coal account for about a quarter and a third of global energy consumption, respectively; renewables (without hydro) for a little more than 2%. Inescapably, this leads to the question whether CO2 targets are better served by advocating more global substitution from coal to natural gas, including shale gas, rather than by the gradual and expensive build-up of renewables alone. The argument to make better use of scale and global trade – for example by taking carbon pricing seriously – is strengthened by the efficiency with which the two fossil fuels are traded across borders and even continents, something not yet possible with the wind and the sun.
And so the question arises – what is it going to be, fear of fracking or the conscious advocacy of replacing more coal with natural gas on a global scale, including shale resources? I have my own guess on that one. Fracking is a local problem, carbon emissions are abstract and global. We know how these things tend to end. But for now the point is only that, in much of the environmental debate, the question isn't even asked.
This concludes the piece on the global implications of shale. Keep in mind, this was based on the – by now – old Energy Outlook, published in January 2013. But it also was done in preparation of its successor, due January 2014, for which you can now sign up for the webcast on January 15th.
The failure to even contemplate the question by many in the environmental movement is matter of frustration to the industry, but it isn't only down to a failure of them to communicate. Many greens don't get this message because they do not wish to get the message. Extremist, doctrinaire views have produced nothing apart from Greens driving down a blind alley with their eyes wide open. They support each other so much in self-referential publicity campaigns that they haven't noticed that the debate is passing them by. They then lash out and blame the media or call everyone except themselves "deniers", yet another self-destructive behaviour. Green leaders have to reverse out of the blind alley they've only put themselves in, or face the fact they will only slowly become irrelevant. It's their choice and there are many people who want them to remain in the debate. But ultimately, they are the decision-makers at this particular crossroads: Achieve some of what they want, or achieve nothing. The latter would be a great failure for everyone, but is there a single environmentalist of note willing to break with their followers on natural gas? We - the industry, the environmental movement, the world- desperately need some.


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I just got an old Creative Zen Micro. I plugged it into the computer, and the system wouldn't acknowledge that there was any sort of device plugged in. Turns out Creative Zen Micros were only made to run on windows systems.
Then I find out that there's this program you can install for Linux systems called KZenExplorer, and it's supposed to enable your system to detect the device and manage it. The package is a tar.bz2 file, and I found out how to install that sort of package, but when I tried to do it that way, it got stuck in the configuration process and had an error that wouldn't let me proceed normally. The website for KZenExplorer mentioned something about required libraries and listed them off. There were only two of them, libnjb and taglib.
I looked up more information and a bunch of people on multiple different forums were talking about how they had to download the libraries, and build the package themselves or something like that. First of all, I have no Idea where to put these libraries, what they do, how to build anything, I really have no clue how to go about doing this at all.
I'm stuck, I'm losing patience. If anyone knows anything about KZenExplorer and how to get it to run on Ubuntu 12.04.


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Cajun Black Beans And Brown Rice
- 1 tablespoon Pure Wesson Canola Oil
- 1 cup instant brown rice, uncooked
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 cup reduced-sodium vegetable broth
- 1 (15 ounce) can Ranch Style Black Beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can Hunt's Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes with Garlic, undrained
- 1 (10 ounce) can Ro*Tel Original Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies, drained
Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add rice and chili powder; cook 2 minutes or just until rice begins to turn golden brown, stirring constantly.
Stir in remaining ingredients until combined.
Cover skillet, reduce heat to medium-low and cook 15 minutes or just until rice is tender.
Let stand 5 minutes. Fluff rice with fork before serving.
Recipe reprinted by permission of ConAgra. All rights reserved.
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If you've never been there and done that, then you really don't have a frapping clue what it is like: and neither would I.
I've flown combat missions over North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. I've lost the best friend I ever had on a combat missions over North Vietnam, and I've lost my roommate on a combat mission over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos.
But I have absolutely no idea what it's like to lose the person I love in combat.
That's what "The Reluctant Sorority" by Dana Chwan is all about.
The National Alliance of Families describes "The Reluctant Sorority" by Dana Chwan as a faction - fact seamlessly mixed with fiction to tell the story of three women whose husbands died in Vietnam on the same day, at the same place during a bombing raid on a strategic bridge in North Vietnam.
Dana Chwan is the widow of Air Force First Lieutenant Michael Daniel Chwan, who was shot down in North Vietnam and has been Missing in Action (MIA) since September 30, 1965.
Dana Chwan's husband, Michael Daniel Chwan, was a young pilot, a GIB (Guy in the Backseat); of an F-4 fighter-bomber assigned to the 47th Tactical Fighter Squadron, at Ubon RTAFB, Thailand.
You can find Michael Daniel Chwan's name on Panel 02E Line Panel 099. That's 99 lines down from the top of the second panel on the right from the center of the V of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. That's early in the war, really early. Long before the rest of us realized what was going down.
The other two men who were shot down during the same raid that day are Chwan's aircraft commander, Captain C. M. Chesnutt, and Lt. Col Melvin J. Killian, an F-105 pilot stationed at Takhli, RTAFB.
"Have you ever sat in some quiet time and wondered just how in the heck your life had ended up as it has?"
The opening words to The Reluctant Sorority by Dana Chwan
On September 30, 1965 a combined force of F-4 and F-105 aircraft from Ubon RTAFB and Takhli RTAFB in Thailand struck the road and railroad bridge at Ninh Binh, North Vietnam.
During the strike, two aircraft were shot down:
An F-4C tail number 64-0660 from the 47th TFS, Ubon, crewed by Captain C. M. Chesnutt and 1st Lt Michael D Chwan, was hit by large caliber AAA fire and crashed immediately; neither crewman escaped the aircraft.
An F-105D, tail number 61-0117, from the 334th Tactical Fighter Squadron, stationed at Takhli RTAFB, flown by Lt. Col Melvin J. Killian, was hit by a surface-to-air missile, caught fire, and exploded. Lt. Col Killian, Commanding Officer of the 334th TFS, did not eject from the aircraft.
I was stationed at Takhli, and I can vividly picture the site of the bombing mission
The remains of all three men were repatriated on March 20, 1985, with positive identification announced on April 8, 1985.
In Chapter 1 of "The Reluctant Sorority," which is titled, The Heart remembers – Dana's Story, Chwan writes about what it is like for her to go to The Wall.
"Some things you just have to face alone."
So true.
You're wife and children cannot possibly comprehend what it' s like to walk along The Wall looking for the name of someone who meant so much to you.
It's impossible. They can't possibly understand what it's like to get up in the morning and go to work knowing you could be shot down and disappear from the face of the earth forever.
But that's the way it is when you fly combat missions.
That's the way it was for Michael Daniel Chwan, C. M. Chesnutt, and Melvin J. Killian.
Never forget, never forgive; and never believe a politician.


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Woodrow Barnes, of York Springs, Pa. describes himself as an Army brat.
In 1946, Barnes family was transferred to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where he met his "first hero, Johnathan Mayhew "Skinny" Wainwright IV, who served in World War I, in the Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives, in France, as the Assistant Chief-of-Staff of the U.S. Army 82nd Infantry Division. From 1918-1920, Wainwright was promoted to the rank of Major, while serving with the 3rd Army occupation forces in Koblenz, Germany.
Following the outbreak of World War II, Wainwright was promoted as a temporary Major General to serve in the Philippines, in December 1940, reporting to General Douglas MacArthur. During the December 1941 Japanese invasion of the Philippines, where Allied forces had retreated onto the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor by January 1942, where they were the sole defenders of the entrance to Manila Bay.
After MacArthur went to Australia in March 1942, to serve as the Allied Supreme Commander of the South West Pacific Area, Wainwright was promoted to the rank of temporary Lieutenant General, defending Bataan and Corregidor. On June 9, 1942, Lt. Gen. Wainwright was forced surrendered to to minimize casualties. Taken prisoner, he was held at various camps in China, until the camp was liberated by the Chinese Red Army in August 1945.
"The majority of guys who came back from Bataan, either went to Jacksonville or they went to Fort Sam," Barnes, who served in the U.S. Navy, said. "Around the quadrangle, at the parade grounds at Fort Sam, there were all these houses where these guys live. At the time, I wasn't old enough to be a newspaper boy, so I helped the newspaper boy, when, one day, Wainwright caught me and said he wanted me to go to the liquor store and buy six cases of scotch. He gave me a silver dollar for the errand and it became a routine."
In 1950, his father was transferred to an American army base in West Germany, where Barnes was enrolled in school on the base. During his time in Germany, Barnes, thanks to a friendly German librarian, had the opportunity to meet and form relationships with many World War II German Luftwaffe fighter pilot aces.
Barnes, pointing at a black and white photo hanging on the wall of his rural home, said he was in ninth grade when he first met German Gen. Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz, who served in World War I as a non-commissioned adjutant officer to the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. In World War II, Bodenschatz served as liaison officer between Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler. Bodenschatz, who was never charged with war crimes, was seriously injured by a bomb blast at the Wolf's Lair headquarters, Rastenburg, East Prussia, during the 1944"20 July plot," to assassinate Hitler, better known as Operation Valkyrie, Barnes said. In 1946, Bodenschatz was called as a witness at the Nuremberg Trials of major Nazi war criminals/ He died in 1979 at the age of 88.
It was through Bodenschatz that Barnes was introduced to other German air aces. Barnes did not know Adolf "Dolfo" Joseph Ferdinand Galland, was, when he first met the former German Luftwaffe general at Bodenshchatz' home. Galland flew 700 combat missions in Europe, and was credited with 104 aerial victories against the allies.
"Being in the Army, my father hated Germans," Barnes said. "You weren't supposed to patronize this kind of stuff. Before the Berlin Wall came down, you didn't talk about that … and when I came back to the U.S., no one believed I had met these men."
Barnes, who is an aviation preservationist and a retired military illustrator and graphic artist, has portrayed German officers at the World War II Weekend sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, which runs this year, June 6-8. Barnes, who also participated in Civil War reenactments, said he met and got to know many World War II aviators and other veterans at the World War II event.
In 2006, Barnes became friends with German air ace, Walter Schuck; and retired U.S. Air Force, Col. Joe Peterburs, who flew combat missions with the 55th Fighter Squadron of the 20th Fighter Group, flying a P-51 Mustang escorting Allied bombing missions over Germany. Peterburs flew a P-51D in 76 combat missions during the Korean War.
During the Vietnam War, Peterburs served during the surprise Jan. 31, 1968, New Year's Eve Tet Offensive launched by about 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, against more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. While sleeping that night, a Viet-Cong 122mm rocket hit Peterburs barracks, blowing up his room.
During Peterburs 49th mission, April 10, 1945, he shot down an Messerschmitt Me 262 turbo jet, (the first jet fighters used during World War II), piloted by Schuck. Later that day, Peterburs was shot down by enemy ground fire while strafing an airfield. Captured by the Germans, he escaped and fought with a Russian tank unit to the Battle of Wittenberg on the Elbe River, Barnes said.
"In 1985, at an Old Bold Pilots event in California, Schuck was introduced to Peterburs," Barnes said. "Walter (Schuck) came over to Joe (Peterburs) and said 'you're the man who saved my life.'"
Barnes explained that the day after Schuck was shot down, 600 Allied bombers and fighters flew into Germany and in all likelihood Schuck would have been shot down and died. Peterburs and Schuck became close friends and co-authored a book about their war experiences. Barnes was responsible for bringing both men to the air show at Reading.
In March 1958, Barnes enlisted in the U.S. Navy, following graduation from high school. Barnes had wanted to become a pilot, but was never told by the recruiter, prior to his enlistment that pilots were required to have a four-year college education. Barnes made it into air as an Air Control Warning, ACW, crew member with the Airborne Early Warning Squadron Two, at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River.
During the early years of the Cold War, WV-2 type aircraft, such as the Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star, were used for intelligence gathering. The aircraft were part of the U.S. early warning system.
"During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, we provided intel gathering from the North Atlantic with other subsurface/surface/air tracking of trawlers carrying Russian Missiles into Cuba," Barnes said. From January 25 through February 5, 1961, were involved in the Santa Maria Incident. We pursued her through the Caribbean to her surrender in Recife, Brazil."
The average air mission lasted 20 hours, Barnes said. Flying the Dew Line Barriers, near the Arctic Circle, in northern Canada, it was not uncommon to encounter Russian military aircraft.
"About every four hours we ran into a Russian Bear, Tupolev Tu-95 Bear bombers)," Barnes said. "As you are on the DEW Line, before you were heading south toward home base, the Bear seemed to be stationary because you were both on the same course, same speed and you're at the same altitude and you're taking pictures of each other. We carried no weapons."
When his unit was not flying the DEW Line, secondary duties included NASA's down range missile tracking and reentry/recovery of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo crew capsules. Those missions flew out of Bermuda, the Azores and the Canary Islands, Barnes said.
In 1964, Barnes qualified for pilot training at West Point, in New York. Unfortunately, just before Barnes would have been assigned to being transferred to fixed-wing flight school, he was told all of the openings had been filled. He was offered a chance to fly helicopters, but decided to leave the military.
"I got a civilian job at West Point, as an architect, because I did that on the side in high school … it came natural to me," Barnes said.
From 1964 to 1973, Barnes worked as a general staff illustrator for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. In 1973, Barnes was hired as a staff illustrator at the U.S. Army War College, in Carlisle; where he was promoted to art director in 1982, a position he held until his retirement in 1988.
As an aviation preservationist, Barnes researches and illustrates military aviation equipment and machines. In the past, he has written articles and created illustrations for German military history aviation magazines.
Suggested Links
- World War II book about secret rescue from Nazi-occupied Albania
- WW II vet shares story of being shot down over Holland
- Wings of Freedom WWII aircraft land at York Airport for educational tour
- World War II veterans honored at Dill's Tavern
- WW II vets escape from Nazi occupied Belgium worthy of a movie


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CLEMSON — K.J. McDaniels scored a career-high 20 points and Clemson used a big first-half run to put away Stetson, 71-51, Friday night, the Tigers' 29th straight season-opening victory.
McDaniels scored his team's first 11 points, and the Tigers used a 33-5 run the final 15 minutes of the opening half to lead 46-15 at the break.
Stetson rallied in the second half, cutting Clemson's lead to 65-49 in the final two minutes. But McDaniels connected on his fourth and final 3-pointer on the Tigers next trip down court to surpass his previous best of 17 points.
McDaniels also had seven rebounds, tying Josh Smith for the team lead.
Aaron Graham led the Hatters with 11 points, all but one in the opening half.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2013/11/09/3086794/clemson-opens-mens-basketball.html#storylink=cpy


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Hydrogen is the simplest element on the planet but, when it's combined with metal, a surge of power can result. Always looking for ways to get the community excited about sustainability, Moraine Park Technical College recently purchased two hobby grade Remote Control (RC) cars — fueled by the power of hydrogen.
Underneath the shell of these small hobby cars lies the latest technology in hydrogen fuel. They are two of the world's only hydrogen fuel cell hybrid power-train for high performance hobby grade model RC vehicles. Matt Hurtienne, Moraine Park's dean of informational technology, explained what this means for sustainability and for Moraine Park.
According to Hurtienne, the hydrogen cars are powered through the combination of water and metal. The reaction causes electricity, and the electricity creates power for the small cars to operate.
Purchased through a Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) energy grant, the cars are perfect for demonstrating to middle and high school students the use and importance of hydrogen power for our environment. "Water surrounds us," said Hurtienne. "It's clean and accessible, but technology makes it expensive to use water to power vehicles because of the equipment needed. Because water is a renewable source, science needs to look this way, and we hope getting area students excited about this concept will be a start."
Starting in spring, Moraine Park plans to pair their existing renewable energy trailer (also purchased with funds from the WIRED grant) with the two hydrogen cars — taking the vehicles to area high schools and middle schools to build interest in hydrogen fuel and getting students to consider future careers in the sciences and sustainability.
"As a technical college, Moraine Park prides itself on being innovative and educated about the latest technology. We are hoping a hands-on demonstration like these cars will really intrigue middle and high school students," said Hurtienne. "These may just be hobby cars, but it gives the community a glimpse of the larger hydrogen vehicles that will be present in the very near future." For more information on Moraine Park's sustainability efforts, visit morainepark.edu/sustainability.
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Riley County Police Department Director Brad Schoen has served the community of Riley County since January 1983. He has served as Director of the department since November 2007. Through Schoen's service at Riley County Police Department he has been assigned to Patrol, Patrol Commander, Training, Internal Affairs, Accreditation Manger and Division Commander. Prior to working at RCPD, Schoen served as a Military Policeman for 3 years. Schoen was raised in Kansas and earned a degree in Sociology (Cum Laude) from K-State and is also a graduate of the 185th FBI National Academy. He is married and has two children. Schoen holds the department to a high standard of excellence and has integrated several core values at RCPD. He is also a supporter of data driven policing and efficiency in what the department does.


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Georgia, famous for its peaches and Scarlet O'Hara, has a colorful history and plenty of records available to the public. Although Georgia makes many of its records open to anyone, birth and death records are restricted due to privacy laws. Georgia birth records and death records can be requested from the Department of Public Health, as well as limited marriage records. Georgia marriage records are not restricted and can reliably be requested from the local Probate Court that issued the record. Georgia divorce records are also considered Georgia public records and can be requested from the local Clerk of the Superior Court. Georgia criminal records are available to the public and may be searched online through the Georgia Technology Authority in partnership with state law enforcement. Historic Georgia public records are available at the Georgia Archives, including military records, death, cemetery and court records.
About Georgia Public Records
Georgia restricts access to birth and death records to protect privacy and prevent identity theft. Only authorized individuals may request copies, which includes the person of record, an immediate family member or a legal representative. However, Georgia public records that aren't restricted include Georgia marriage records and divorce records. Although the Department of Public Health maintains records of marriages after 1952, it is often easier to request copies from the local Probate Court that recorded the marriage. This is also a good place to view historic marriage records, which aren't recorded by the state.
Georgia divorce records are maintained by the Clerk of the Superior Court that handled the case and are not maintained in a state repository like other vital records. These Georgia public records are readily available. Certain Clerks of the Superior Court offer online access to divorce records, but methods for requesting copies depends on the specific court.
Searching Georgia Public Records Online Free
Georgia does not offer a central court case database, although the Georgia state courts are described on their main website. Also, links are provided for the individual local courts, as well as descriptions of the types of cases handled to make your search easier. Accessing Georgia public records online free is limited to the Superior Courts that offer online court case access. Fulton County, for example, offers an online search tool that enables anyone to look up civil, criminal and divorce cases.
Most older court records need to be requested in person or over the phone from the specific court that heard the case, as these haven't been placed into the online databases. However, any court with online access includes most recent cases. Other public records online in Georgia include the felon search database, although this is a fee-based service to learn whether someone has a criminal record in Georgia.
Performing a Public Records Search in Georgia
The Georgia State Archives offers public access to its vast collection of historic records pertaining to state history. It's located in the Atlanta suburb of Morrow. The research room is only open to the public on certain days, so phoning ahead is recommended. Included in the State Archives are Georgia military records, cemetery records and death records. Military records include Civil War records, Spanish American War and Revolutionary War, just to name a few. Georgia death records and some marriage records are included in the records collections open to the public.
The State Archives offers an online search of the Virtual Vault, which allows you to plan your visit by learning which records held there are of most interest. There is no fee to research, just to make copies.
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What Came First: Fish, Turkey, or the Egg?
Spiced Haddock or Tilapia
1 tablespoon olive oilAdd oil to a nonstick cooking pan. Place over medium-high heat until hot. Add onion and garlic; cook, stirring constantly, until soft. Stir in paprika. Remove from heat and let cool. Spread onion mixture on both sides of fillets. Sprinkle with dill. Lightly coat a broiler pan using a paper towel moistened with olive oil. Broil fillets and garlic cloves on high 3 inches from heat for 8 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork. Sprinkle with lemon juice and garnish with broiled garlic cloves. Braised Bok Choy makes a quick and delicious side dish. Serves 4.
1/4 cup onion, minced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
4 4-ounce haddock or tilapia fillets
2 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped
6 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Turkey Spinach Burgers
1 pound ground turkey breastCombine the ground turkey, spinach, bread crumbs, onions, parsley, Worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce in a large bowl. Mix well. Divide turkey mixture into 5 equal portions and form into patties. Coat grill rack or broiler pan with cooking spray. Grill or broil until nicely browned on both sides and cooked through, about 7 minutes per side. Serves 5.
10 ounces frozen, chopped spinach, defrosted and drained
1/4 cup dried bread crumbs
1/4 cup chopped onion
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
1 1/2 tablespoons vegan Worcestershire sauce (found in health food stores)
1 teaspoon hot sauce
Vegetable Omelet
olive oil (small amount)Using a paper towel moistened with olive oil, lightly coat skillet. Sauté the onions, peppers, mushrooms and tomatoes over medium heat for 10 minutes until tender. Add basil and eggs and cook over med/high heat until done, about 8 minutes, turning over with spatula occasionally. Sprinkle with black pepper. Serves 2.
1 medium onion, diced
1 medium green or red peppers, diced
1 cup fresh shiitake mushrooms, stems removed and chopped
1 cup diced tomatoes
1/4 teaspoon dried basil
4 eggs, beaten
black pepper, to taste