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Why does the Leadership Team correct posts?
More and more lately we are seeing posts that are upset about posters being corrected over a coupon use, over a transaction, or over a posted trip. We have seen the following several times in posts recently:
There are many reasons the Leadership Team (Forum Leaders, Moderators, or Admin) corrects a poster when a post shows the wrong usage of a coupon. We have viewed, reviewed, discussed, reviewed some more, and have tried to decide the best way to handle these types of posts. We try to "listen" to the tones of our posts to see how our members are "hearing" our posts. Bottom line is, no matter how gently we say it, or how direct we say it, it is going to be taken wrong because no one likes to feel they have done something wrong, especially after being elated over what they feel is a great trip.
I saw this post recently-
I recently watched a show that showed blatant coupon misuse. The person on the show claimed previously that XXXX website taught her how to use those coupons. That particular website had to go into damage control because they claimed not to have taught her that use. Problem is, it was in their forums and they did not correct users.
Why are there more corrections of trips? Far more corrections than members saw months ago? Because our membership has more than tripled over the last year. The more members there are = potentially more misunderstandings regarding coupons= potentially more posts that show those misunderstandings=more times we have to show corrections on how to use those coupons. That is why you see it more on the boards.
Why do we not remove it? Because the posts are learning opportunities. When we remove the posts, members get upset it is removed. When we leave the post, members get upset if we have to correct coupon misuse. If we remove a post, then someone else is going to come along and post a similar misuse. By leaving a post, we provide opportunities for others to learn from the mistakes. At any given time, we might have 1,000 registered members, but we might have 1,500 "guests" viewing the site, that are not registered, that read the post and that think it is okay to go and do the same transaction. Sending a PM corrects that member, but not the dozens, or hundreds, or possibly thousands of users that didn't comment, that are not even registered, that think they can duplicate that same trip.
The Leadership Team understands and appreciates that couponing can seem so frustrating at times, especially when you are starting out. Believe us, we have been there and we have ALL made mistakes. But we learn from each other's mistakes and that does not mean it is a bad thing.
Some thoughts to remember next time you feel like you are defeated in this quest to save money or when a trip turns out not to be the one you thought it was:
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Dolores Cotes showed a fusion of punk and jungle trends during swim week in Miami Beach.
Check out the swimsuit trends from Friday night's at the Raleigh Hotel
Strutting her stuff, 23-year-old Hannah Davis made history at Miami Swim Week. Davis and Salon Allure co-founder Rick Fatzinger talked about her one-woman show.
Strutting her stuff, 23-year-old Hannah Davis made history at Miami Swim Week.
And if you didn't get your feet wet already at the opening soiree, here's what else you can expect to make a splash, as these are this year's most anticipated Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim events.
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L*Space 2014 designs will include beach shades and reversibility in many of the swimwear pieces.
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Driver charged in crash that killed 9-year-old in Richmond Co.
Published 8:49 AM EST Jan 04, 2013
A man has been charged in the December 8 crash that killed a 9-year-old boy in Rockingham.
Police said Thursday that 44-year-old Christopher Goodwin had been charged with felony involuntary manslaughter.
Authorities say the boy, Jody Williams, died after his car was hit on Highway 74. His grandmother was driving, and she was hospitalized with serious injuries.
Police said Goodwin was driving 15 miles above the posted 45 mph speed limit at the time of the crash.
Goodwin was being held on $5,000 bond, and it wasn't known if he had an attorney.
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Carbon membranes excel at separating liquids
Jan 27, 2012 9 comments
Two independent teams have made ultrathin, cabon-based membranes with extraordinary properties that could be used in a range of applications, from water filtration to petroleum processing. One team, based at the University of Manchester in the UK, has made membrane from graphene oxided that appears to be highly permeable to water while being impermeable to all other liquids and gases. The other group, at Japan's National Institute for Materials Science, has made membranes from diamond-like carbon (DLC) that are highly permeable to certain organic solvents, but not others.
The Manchester team is led by Andre Geim, who co-discovered graphene in 2004. Graphene is a sheet of carbon just one atom thick in which the atoms are arranged in a lattice. Graphene oxide is like ordinary graphene but is covered with molecules, such as hydroxyl groups (OH). Graphene-oxide sheets stack atop each other to form extremely thin membranes.
Geim and colleagues found that water passes through a film of graphene oxide extremely fast while all other gases and liquids are completely blocked by the film. "We know that helium, for example, can leak through several millimetre-thick glass, which blocks water completely, so the behaviour we observed in graphene-oxide membranes could not be any stranger," says team member Irina Grigorieva.
Like passing through air
The membranes consist of millions of small flakes of graphene oxide with nanometre-sized empty channels (or capillaries) between the flakes. According to the researchers, water is able to flow through the capillaries without any friction. Even more surprisingly, the water diffuses though the graphene-oxide sheets so quickly that the rate that it goes through is the same as if it were passing through empty air.
The graphene oxide sheets are arranged in such a way that there is room only for one layer of water molecules. When water passes through the capillaries it blocks the channels and so does not allow any other substance to go through, explains Grigorieva. In the absence of water, however, the capillaries shrink and do not let anything through this way. This is why the material is impermeable to everything but water.
This new property could be important for designers of filters and selective membranes, she said, and in situations where you need to remove water from a mixture or container while keeping in all the other ingredients. The work also shows that phenomena on the nanoscale are so different to those seen in the everyday, macroscopic world. "These phenomena defy our intuition but also open the door to a completely different world," she tells physicsworld.com.
Brilliant ideas wanted
"Let experts in separation and filtration techniques now mull over these new results," comments Geim. "Hopefully, they will come up with lots of brilliant application ideas." As for the Manchester researchers, they say that they will continue looking for other unusual behaviour in graphene. "You cannot help wondering what else graphene has in store for us," adds Geim.
Meanwhile, in Japan, Izumi Ichinose and colleagues National Institute for Materials Science in Ibaraki have created a carbon nanosheet that is extremely permeable to some organic solvents. Indeed, the membranes were used to separate organic dyes at rates 1000 times faster than commercially available membranes. The membranes are made of diamond-like carbon (DLC) – an amorphous material in which the bonds between carbon atoms are similar to those in diamond.
The team made its membranes by plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) of several different organic gases on an ultrathin substrate of cadmium nanostrands – which are then etched away to leave a free-standing film of DLC. The most successful membrane was made using acetylene but membranes were also made using pyridine and hexamethyldisiloxane.
The resulting free-standing DLC films are about 30 nm thick and about 12% of the surface of each film is perforated by tiny pores about 1 nm in diameter. The team measured the elasticity of the membranes, which they found to be in the range 90–170 GPa. This is on par with metals such as copper and titanium.
Hexane is the quickest
The researchers then looked at how permeable the films are to 10 different organic solvents. They found that hexane – a major component of petrol (gasoline) – was the quickest to move through the membrane. The alcohol butanol was the slowest to go through, moving at about 10% the speed of hexane.
According to Ichinose, the membranes are the first nanopore structures that are permeable to organic solvents – rather than water. As such, the team believes that the membranes could have a range of practical applications including cleaning up chemical spills, oil extraction in the food industry and the production of biofuels.
Indeed, Ichinose tells physicsworld.com that the team is currently working on the development of "large-scale porous carbon nanosheets". In principle, the team's technique could be used to make membranes on an industrial scale. But before this can be done, the team must find a low-cost alternative to the cadmium substrate. According to Ichinose, viable alternatives include durable carbon-fibre sheets or cross-linked polyimide sheets.
Cees Dekker of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands says that when taken together, the studies reveal an "unexpected phenomenon" – that ultrathin carbon membranes can have permeability values that are very selective for certain molecules.
The work of both teams is reported in two separate papers in Science.
About the author
Belle Dumé is contributing editor at nanotechweb.org and Hamish Johnston is editor of physicsworld.com


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Back in September, we saw footage of Mos Def and Mannie Fresh in the studio recording a new track called 'OMFGOD'. It has been quiet ever since but today we get some more studio footage. Mos Def also talks about how the collaboration came about. Look out for the full song and video coming soon.
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"image/words is just what it sounds like: a simple iPad App to put words on top of images.
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image/words is a simple tool for artists and visual people. Just choose a photo from your album (or from one of our publicly hosted images), add freeform text and you're done! Experiment with your text, thoughts or poems. The text can be large, small, transparent or opaque, colorful and with a variety of fonts.
When you're done and happy with your creation, make an iPad™ slideshow of all your hard work. If your friends are too far away to hand your iPad over to them, you can email them or share on Facebook straight from the app. And if you just want to take your images and go home, save them to your library—the high resolution images you sync via iTunes will retain their size.
When you're not feeling creative or when your cats aren't doing anything particularly funny, image/words connects you to our library of images with texts to get you started. We plan future updates that will provide additional and more refined typographical controls and a universal version that will work on an iPhone.
My desire to create this app comes through my own fascination of combining images with text, first on film, then using a computer, and now on the iPad. The tactile experience of moving text freely on the screen is unmatched.
There is a long history of artists working with text over paintings or photos. My favorite and most inspiring is Ed Ruscha, though others, like Jenny Holzer and Bruce Nauman also come to mind. They all share a fascination with language as a communication and visual medium. It's my hope that this app will inspire people to create more with their images, and with their thoughts.—Alon Koppel, fusionlab back to top
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Hunter Karnthong
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YEAR: Senior.
POSITION: Quarterback
THE STAT LINE: Karnthong found a variety of ways to contribute in the Panthers' 70-20 win over Dougherty Valley. He rushed for 106 yards and two touchdowns and passed for 95 yards and a score. He also returned a punt 90 yards for a TD, kicked two PATs and rushed for a pair of two-point conversions. All of his scoring came in the first half.
Jeffrey Prothro Jr.
SCHOOL: James Logan. SPORT: Football. YEAR: Senior
POSITION: Quarterback
THE STAT LINE: Prothro produced a near-perfect game at quarterback, as he completed 16 of 18 passes for 313 yards, five touchdowns (all in the first three quarters) and no interceptions in the Colts' 48-14 victory over Heritage. His touchdowns went for 35, 34, 3, 53 and 46 yards. He completed his first eight passes and his final eight passes.
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YEAR: Senior. POSITION: Center
THE STAT LINE: Mooney scored 16 goals in four matches of the Contra Costa Invitational, including a team-high four in the Highlanders' 9-7 victory over Ukiah in the final. She also drew four exclusions in both the semifinal and final matches and had 16 steals in the tournament.
Alex Sborov
SCHOOL: Foothill. SPORT: Golf.
YEAR: Senior
THE STAT LINE: Sborov was the medalist at the San Leandro Invitational with a 2-under 69 at Monarch Bay Golf Club and shot a 1-over 38 to be co-medalist along with her twin sister, Katie, in an East Bay Athletic League win over Monte Vista at Castlewood Country Club.
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ROBERT TAYLOR, Castro Valley, football, Jr. -- Taylor had four interceptions and rushed for 103 yards and two touchdowns in the Trojans' 40-14 victory over Liberty.
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Watchdog chided CIA for Hollywood outreach
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Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya Questions
Bring on the tough stuff - there's not just one right answer.
- Instead of following the classical three-act plot structure, Uncle Vanya is described as "Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts." How does breaking with tradition affect the audience's experience of the play?
- Why are all of the romantic relationships in the play frustrated? Some are blocked because one party is married, while others are just plain old cases of unrequited love. But why can't anyone get what they're looking for?
- Why do you think that the play is named after the figure of Vanya? Why is his relationship to Sonya highlighted (he's her uncle)?
- Chekhov is known for his realist style. Which elements of the play make it seem true to everyday life, and which aspects are less than believable?
- When Vanya tries to shoot Serebryakov, nothing really happens. What is the meaning of this anticlimax? How would the play be different if Vanya had hit his mark?
- If the play were to be presented today and set in your city, which elements would have to change and which could stick around?
- Sonya blames her lack of success with the men folk on her "plain" looks. Yelena, on the other hand, is fighting them off. Is the real difference between them just their appearance, or can you find any other clues to their different levels of attraction?
- The original version of this play had Vanya killing himself. How does the change in the plot change the meaning of the play?
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On Combining Neuro-Fuzzy Architectures with the Rough Set Theory to Solve Classification Problems with Incomplete Data
Issue No.09 - September (2008 vol.20)
pp: 1239-1253
Robert Nowicki , Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2008.64
This paper presents a new approach to fuzzy classification in the case of missing features. The rough set theory is incorporated into neuro-fuzzy structures and the rough-neurofuzzy classifier is derived. The architecture of the classifier is determined by the MICOG (modified indexed center of gravity) defuzzification method. The structure of the classifier is presented in a general form which includes both the Mamdani approach and the logical approach - based on the genuine fuzzy aplications. A theorem, which allows to determine the structures of a roughneuro-fuzzy classifiers based on the MICOG defuzzification, is given and proven. Specific rough-neuro-fuzzy structures based on the Larsen rule, the Reichenbach and the Kleene-Dienes implications are given in details. In the experiments it is shown that the classifier with the Dubois-Prade fuzzy implication is characterized by the best performance in the case of missing features
Decision support, Rule-based processing, Uncertainty, "fuzzy", and probabilistic reasoning, Fuzzy set, Classifier design and evaluation
Robert Nowicki, "On Combining Neuro-Fuzzy Architectures with the Rough Set Theory to Solve Classification Problems with Incomplete Data", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, vol.20, no. 9, pp. 1239-1253, September 2008, doi:10.1109/TKDE.2008.64


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(Sequim) -- A Sequim man has been arrested on a warrant related to an OPNET drug case.
51-year-old John Dale Davis was booked into the Clallam County Jail Thursday.
The arrest marked the fourth time Davis had been arrested in connection with an October 2013 OPNET case.
Authorities say Davis had been sentenced to serve 24 months probation plus 3 to 6 months of intensive inpatient treatment in August 2013.
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If you are looking for a mobile phone that offers great features but at an affordable rate, then the Samsung E250 could be the phone for you. Although this handset is not the newest mobile on the market, it still offers what you need as well as the sleek design of a phone that should cost more.
The Samsung E250 looks a lot like the D900; however it has a few less features, like a 1.3 megapixel camera and only 13MB of built in memory. What is great about the Samsung E250 is its music features, you can listen to MP3 and AAC files as well as tune in to your favourite radio station thanks to a built in FM Radio.
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Great win for Purdue at Illinois last night. In fact, the Boilermakers may look back on that cold January night in Champaign as a turning point in a 2013-14 season that just wasn't getting off the ground. Watch this video to learn three things Purdue beat writer Nathan Baird learned about the Boilermakers' victory in Champaign. I learned this – OK, I already knew it – but When A.J. Hammons and Ronnie Johnson play well, Purdue is difficult to beat. And, don't look now, but Purdue soon could be 4-2 in the Big Ten after an 0-2 start.


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There were 80 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday. At that time, there were 1,467 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Robbery: A 42-year-old man was robbed at knife point at Center Street and Harding Way about 5 p.m. Monday by a woman he said was an acquaintance he had let into his car. She left on foot after robbing him.
Arrest: Police responding to a report of shots fired in the 400 block of West Seventh Street about 6:35 p.m. Monday saw someone flee and gave chase. They found Jesus Canales, 29, in possession of a handgun magazine and discovered a gun. They arrested him on suspicion of weapons-related violations.
Assault: Officers saw a fight about 11:40 a.m. Tuesday in the 3300 block of East Hammer Lane and went in to break it up. One fighter escaped. The victim said he was waiting at a bus stop when the assailants said he disrespected them. They left but returned, whereupon one struck the victim with his hands and the second with a lead-filled billy club. Police arrested Sinyan Keo, 34.
The California Highway Patrol responded to 10 noninjury accidents and three injury accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday. CHP officers also arrested three people on misdemeanor charges and recovered four stolen vehicles.
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By Laura Vecsey
Steve McQueen's Aura Lives On
King of Cool Steve McQueen was a Hollywood fixture, complete with cars, motorcycles and homes that oozed southern California lifestyle. But the hunky star was one of the first actor/celebrities to branch out to Hailey, Idaho. Now the "Crazy M Ranch" that McQueen and his third wife owned is on the market for $7.4 million.
The 500-acre compound at 100 Creek Cove Rd. is nestled at the bottom of the Pioneer Mountains. The spread is a lot less rustic than when McQueen owned it, and sports a new name, too: "Pioneer Moon Ranch.
Most Immortal Yankee's Farm For Sale
The New York Yankees may be suffering through a nightmare season with 39-year-old captain Derek Jeter nursing his aging legs and Alex Rodriguez, 38, facing a 214-game suspension in a performance-enhancing drug scandal. But there's always the ghost of Babe Ruth to bring a smile to the fans of Gotham baseball.
Now the ultimate Yankee star's former farm is for sale in Sudbury, Mass.
The Babe and his wife Helen took refuge in his beloved "Home Plate Farm" after he was traded to the Yankees, having been introduced to the area when he was playing for the Boston Red Sox. The Babe bought the spread in 1922 and famously enjoyed his time as gentleman farmer, raising chickens, turkeys and an occasional pig and horse.
While the Babe was a well-known lover of food and beer, and said the farm helped trim a few extra pounds off his voluminous midsection, none of the Yankee greats' shortcomings ever diminished his status as a baseball god.
And while Yankee Stadium was called The House that Ruth Built, the same could not be said about the Sudbury farm. After he and Helen divorced in 1926, the farm was sold. The place has gone through several owners, but the ghost of Ruth still lingers: A corner of the living room still holds evidence of Ruth's presence in the form of a mark on the floor where he used to put out his pipe.
The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bath home measures 5,231 square feet and the 2-acre lot holds the original barn, also updated, as well as several patios and a gunite pool.
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When you're the owner of one of the world's largest chains of building materials' stores, this is what you come up with: A 10,000-square-foot custom mansion complete with lap pool, wine cellar, media room and enough tile and marble to fill several aisles of Home Depot superstores.
Call this the ultimate do-it-yourself home building project, because the residence of Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus is still on the market in Atlanta. Originally listed for sale in 2011 for $3.9 million, the 5-bedroom, 8-bathroom abode at 7460 Wildercliff Dr. is now listed for $3.2 million.
Marcus bought the property back in 1985 for $260,000 and the custom construction was completed in 1987.


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The Dallas Cowboys have several players firmly on the bubble of making the roster. This year's training camp will determine which of these guys earn the right to make the team in 2013.
Part of the reason these players are on the bubble is because of the depth at their respective position. Another is the fact that some players are simply unproven.
Whether through draft picks or free-agent signings, Dallas is stronger at certain positions than it was a year ago. Acquiring a spot in the secondary or at tight end could be especially difficult this summer.
It's a coach's dream to have competition at every position, but it means that some good talent gets left off the roster.
These Dallas Cowboys will need to show their worth or most likely get left off the 2013 roster.
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"Painstakingly researched and crafted, Larry Berman's Zumwalt is a compelling and rich portrait of one of the nation's great patriots."
—Walter Anderson, former editor and CEO of Parade
Zumwalt is a compelling portrait of the controversial military man who is widely regarded as the founder of the modern U.S. Navy, Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt. Chief of Naval Operations during the decades-long Cold War crisis, Zumwalt implemented major strategic innovations that endure to this day, especially in his campaign against racism and sexism throughout the fleet. Larry Berman, the author of Perfect Spy, offers a fascinating, detailed look at an extraordinary man—winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom—an inspiring portrait of leadership that is essential in these troubled times.
Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr., the charismatic chief of naval operations (CNO) and "the navy's most popular leader since WWII" (Time), was a man who embodied honor, courage, and commitment. In a career spanning forty years, he rose to the top echelon of the U.S. Navy as a commander of all navy forces in Vietnam and then as CNO from 1970 to 1974. His tenure came at a time of scandal and tumult, from the Soviets' challenge to the U.S. for naval supremacy and a duplicitous endgame in Vietnam to Watergate and an admirals' spy ring.
Unlike many other senior naval officers, Zumwalt successfully enacted radical change, including the integration of the most racist branch of the military—an achievement that made him the target of bitter personal recriminations. His fight to modernize a technologically obsolete fleet pitted him against such formidable adversaries as Henry Kissinger and Hyman Rickover. Ultimately, Zumwalt created a more egalitarian navy as well as a smaller modernized fleet better prepared to cope with a changing world.
But Zumwalt's professional success was marred by personal loss, including the unwitting role he played in his son's death from Agent Orange. Retiring from the service in 1974, Zumwalt spearheaded a citizen education and mobilization effort that helped thousands of Vietnam veterans secure reparations. That activism earned him the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Today Zumwalt's tombstone at the U.S. Naval Academy is inscribed with one word: "Reformer." Admiring yet evenhanded, Larry Berman's moving biography reminds us what leadership is and pays tribute to a man whose life reflected the best of America itself.
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"A splendid biography of an extraordinary leader who commanded U.S. naval forces in Vietnam and as Chief of Naval Operations dragged the Navy into the twentieth century. The chapter on Zumwalt's war against the paranoiac secrecy of the Nixon White House is a gem of historical research and analysis." — George C. Herring, author of America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
"An engaging and highly readable portrait of one of the Navy's truly transformative figures and arguably the most innovative and controversial CNOs of the Cold War era." — Ronald H. Spector, Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University
"Zumwalt was a visionary whose charismatic brand of leadership was grounded in an unflinching dedication coupled with a belief that barriers to equality and progress have no place in America. This volume is rich with moving details from countless individuals who were inspired by his integrity and courage." — Thurgood Marshall Jr.
" Zumwalt was an iconic figure for generations of sailors who served under his command or who were motivated by his example. His dedication to his country and the US Navy was a model for those who want to serve." — Adm. Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
"ZUMWALT may be Larry Berman's best book on Vietnam. Exhaustively researched, beautifully written, here is the war through the prism of one of America's greatest officers. I loved it and learned from it. Read it." — Marvin Kalb, Edward R. Murrow Professor Emeritus at Harvard and co-author of Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama.
"Bud Zumwalt was a fearless leader. He was also a fascinating, thoughtful and brilliant sailor. I learned a lot about leadership from him over the years - so will you when you read ZUMWALT." — Donna E. Shalala
"This is a fine tribute to a man of high achievement and character." — Booklist
You can't understand today's Navy without acknowledging Zumwalt's role in modernizing its technology and renewing its soul. He believed in a Navy worthy of our nation...those who chose to serve in it were deserving of respect and dignity. Zumwalt is the story of a true American hero. — President Bill Clinton
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Liang, YL; Colgan, W; Lv, Q; Steffen, K; Abdalati, W; Stroeve, J; Gallaher, D; Bayou, N (2012). A decadal investigation of supraglacial lakes in West Greenland using a fully automatic detection and tracking algorithm. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, 123, 127-138.
AbstractThe sudden drainage of supraglacial lakes has been previously observed to initiate surface-to-bed hydrologic connections, which are capable of enhancing basal sliding, in regions of the Greenland Ice Sheet where ice thickness approaches 1 km. In this study, we develop a robust algorithm, which automatically detects and tracks individual supraglacial lakes using visible satellite imagery, to document the evolution of a population of West Greenland supraglacial lakes over ten consecutive melt seasons. Validation tests indicate that the algorithm is highly accurate: 99.0% of supraglacial lakes can be detected and tracked and 96.3% of reported lakes are true supraglacial lakes with accurate lake properties, such as lake area, and timing of formation and drainage. Investigation of the interannual evolution of supraglacial lakes in the context of annual melt intensity reveals that during more intense melt years, supraglacial lakes drain more frequently and earlier in the melt season. Additionally, the lake population extends to higher elevations during more intense melt years, exposing an increased inland area of the ice sheet to sudden lake drainage events. These observations suggest that increased surface meltwater production due to climate change will enhance the spatial extent and temporal frequency of lake drainage events. It is unclear whether this will ultimately increase or decrease the basal sliding sensitivity of interior regions of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Castlestone Management Inc products in offshore probe
Castlestone Management Incorporated has become involved in a regulatory investigation in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) after the watchdog there launched a probe into its funds, Investment Adviser can reveal.
The BVI's Financial Services Commission (BVIFSC) has brought in accountancy giant Grant Thornton to investigate the fees and expenses being charged by eight funds managed by Castlestone Management Inc and domiciled in the offshore financial centre.
Grant Thornton has also been instructed to probe the BVI funds' internal controls and corporate governance and the independence of their directors. The BVIFSC last week confirmed that the investigation, which was initiated in the second half of last year, was still ongoing. (*But see footnote, below, for an update on the regulatory investigation referred to in this article, which concluded in 2013 with no adverse findings.)
The BVIFSC also last year issued a directive obliging a total of 18 BVI-based funds run by Castlestone Management Inc to provide full details of their activities on a weekly basis.
The funds were instructed to refrain from paying certain fees and expenses without written consent. That directive continues to apply, the BVIFSC confirmed last week.
The BVI action continues a year after the FSA, assisted by the City of London police, raided the UK offices of Castlestone Management Limited, a separate entity.
According to the BVI company's website, Castlestone Management was founded by former Macquarie Bank USA president Angus Murray (pictured). Mr Murray subsequently helped launch a series of Dublin-based funds managed by Castlestone Management Plc – a separate entity to Castlestone Management Inc – and marketed partly to UK retail investors.
In June 2011, it was announced that Irish regulators had temporarily suspended three of the Dublin-based funds. The FSA raided the offices of UK-based Castlestone Management Limited – a third company – in July last year.
In August, it was announced the Dublin-based funds of Castlestone Management Plc were being shut down. Mr Murray later said he was relocating to the BVI to focus on Castlestone Management Inc. Castlestone Management Ltd went into administration in October.
Castlestone Management Inc said the BVIFSC investigation was routine. It said it would expect its funds to be reviewed from time to time, especially since the BVI regime was recently toughened up under the Securities and Investment Business Act (SIBA).
A spokesperson said: "It was prudent, a year ago, for the BVI regulator to review Castlestone Management Inc's funds as part of a normal process following the interactions with other regulators. There has been no negative impact on the funds and they have continued to trade normally.


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PANKER: of New Bedford, formerly of Cuttyhunk, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Susan J., 61. Daughter of the late Alvin Basnight and Mildred (Allen) Fullerton. A graveside committal service will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Cuttyhunk Cemetery, Cuttyhunk. Arrangements are by the WILSON CHAPEL, 479 County St., New Bedford.
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Law student receives national Aboriginal award
UVic law student Elizabeth Zarpa is receiving national recognition for her contributions to the Canadian Inuit community. She is one of three youth award recipients in the 2013 Indspire Awards, previously called the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards. Zarpa will receive the Inuit Youth Award at a gala event Feb. 15, 2013, in Saskatoon.
"This award shows I'm on the right track. I feel honoured to be surrounded by such high achievers," says Zarpa. "I am humbled and thankful for this opportunity to be among such an amazing group of dedicated people."
Other award winners among 14 total recipients include: BC's Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, the AFN national chief, in the education category; and former NHL player Theoren Fleury of Manitoba, in the sports category.
Zarpa, a 25-year-old from Labrador, is currently a Juris Doctor candidate for 2015 at UVic. She chose UVic over other institutions—she was accepted at several law schools— "because UVic is seen as a progressive school for Indigenous students," and she began studying here in September, following a summer in the Program of Legal Studies for Native People at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law.
She says the Indspire award recognizes constant dedication to her education.
Zarpa left Labrador in 2006 to pursue post-secondary studies in Halifax at Dalhousie University, a school with a population roughly equivalent to her home community in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. She graduated in May on the dean's list, with a BA in international development and political science.
While studying, she also spent three summers in Ottawa working with Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, and as an intern with Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national advocacy organization and voice of 55,000 Inuit living in 53 communities across Inuit Nunangat (the Inuktitut words meaning the place where Inuit live). The highlight of the latter position was an opportunity to attend the residential school apology delivered by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on June 11, 2008.
Her other involvements include participating in the prestigious Circumpolar Young Leaders Program, coordinating the Annual Multicultural Youth Gathering in Labrador, working with the University of the Arctic International Secretariat in Finland and volunteering with Canada World Youth for six months. In 2010 she was one of three Canadian youth elected to the national board for Canada World Youth, a program that pairs Canadian and foreign volunteers on exchange programs, and last year she was elected a youth member to the board of directors for AnanauKatiget Tumingit, a non-profit association representing the interests of Labrador Inuit women.
Zarpa is passionate about education and sees more schooling in her future aside from her current studies, possibly pursuing a masters, and perhaps practising law.
"My education has brought me to many beautiful places with many interesting people," she says.
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Joan Berry Emerick Allphin
Joan Berry Emerick Allphin, 82, of Marietta, passed away at 10:50 p.m. on Monday (July 30, 2012) at Marietta Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing. She was born in Marietta on May 31, 1930, a daughter of Emmett Russell Berry Sr. and Grace Marie Covey Berry. Joan was a 1948 graduate of Marietta High School and graduated in 1968 from the first nursing program in Marietta. She was a LPN at Selby General Hospital and The Woman's Home and was a member of Women's Auxiliary VFW.
In 1948, she married George F. Emerick and later married in 1972 William Allphin, both preceded her in death.
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Joan is survived by her children: George Russell (Deanna) Emerick, Eddie R. (Rhonda) Emerick, David D. (Teresa) Emerick, Randall R. "Bazz" (Sue) Emerick, Jack B. (Karen) Emerick, JoEllen Emerick all of Marietta; 12 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren; her brothers, Harley Dean (Barbara) Berry and Emmett Russell (Sarah) Berry Jr.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, and son, John W. Emerick.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday (Aug. 3) at McClure-Schafer-Lankford Funeral Home with Dave Michael officiating. Entombment will be in East Lawn Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home beginning today after 6 p.m. with family present from 6 to 8 p.m. and on Thursday with family present from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Messages of sympathy may be sent at www.mslfuneralhome.com.


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She had been on an episode of Bones.
Abigail has recently guest starred on Ghost Whisperer as Cindy Brown, a race car driver.
In Abigails spare time she enjoys yoga, Pilate's and dance class.
Abigail starred in the Lifetime series Angela's Eyes as FBI Agent Angela Henson.
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Abigail has appeared in movies like Campfire Stories (2001) as Melissa; Truth and Dare (2003) as Skye; Jekyll (2003) as Talia Carew; Fathers and Sons (2005) as Clarissa; Hooked (2006) as Wendy.
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a1 Princeton University
a2 Pennsylvania State University
a3 Harvard University
a4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Identifying causal mechanisms is a fundamental goal of social science. Researchers seek to study not only whether one variable affects another but also how such a causal relationship arises. Yet commonly used statistical methods for identifying causal mechanisms rely upon untestable assumptions and are often inappropriate even under those assumptions. Randomizing treatment and intermediate variables is also insufficient. Despite these difficulties, the study of causal mechanisms is too important to abandon. We make three contributions to improve research on causal mechanisms. First, we present a minimum set of assumptions required under standard designs of experimental and observational studies and develop a general algorithm for estimating causal mediation effects. Second, we provide a method for assessing the sensitivity of conclusions to potential violations of a key assumption. Third, we offer alternative research designs for identifying causal mechanisms under weaker assumptions. The proposed approach is illustrated using media framing experiments and incumbency advantage studies.
(Online publication November 10 2011)
c1 Kosuke Imai is Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University, Corwin Hall 036, Princeton NJ 08544 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
c2 Luke Keele is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, 211 Pond Lab, University Park, PA 16802 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
c3 Dustin Tingley is Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, CGIS Knafel Building 208, Cambridge MA 02138 (email@example.com).
c4 Teppei Yamamoto is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
The companion articles that present technical aspects of the methods introduced here are available as Imai, Keele, and Tingley (2010), and Imai, Keele, Tingley, and Yamamoto (2010, 2011). All of our proposed methods can be implemented via an R package, mediation (Imai et al. 2010), which is freely available for download at the Comprehensive R Archive Network (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mediation). A Stata package mediation by Raymond Hicks and Tingley is available at IDEAS (http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s457294.html). The replication archive for this article is available as Imai et al. (2011). We thank Ted Brader, Gary Jacobson, and Jonathan Katz for providing us with their data. We also thank Christina Davis, Michael Donnelly, Kevin Esterling, Marty Gilens, Don Green, Simon Jackman, Gary King, Arthur Lupia, Rose McDermott, Tali Mendelberg, Marcus Prior, Cesar Zucco, and participants at the West Coast Experiment Conference, the NSF Conference on Politics Experiments, and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Summer Lecture Series, as well as seminar participants at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago for helpful suggestions. Comments from an APSR co-editor and three anonymous reviewers significantly improved the presentation of this article. Imai acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation (SES-0849715 and SES-0918968).


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Definition of ellipsoid in English:
A three-dimensional figure whose plane sections are ellipses or circles.
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The Meridian Police Department has officially classified the death of David Caraway as a homicide.
52-year-old David A. Caraway was found dead in an alley behind Hope Village Thrift Store June 30.
Officials say they did not publicly classify the death as homicide because investigators felt it would jeopardize the investigation.
At the time, investigators said there were certain aspects of the crime that, until that point, only investigators and a suspect or suspects would know.
Now officials say, according to a preliminary autopsy report, Caraway suffered superficial, non-life threatening wounds to his head and face area as well as defensive wounds to his hands. Police say his death was actually caused by blunt force trauma to the internal organs by a physical assault.
The MPD is still awaiting the full autopsy report from the Mississippi State Crime Lab, as well as the toxicology report.
Officials ask anyone who may have information about Caraway's daily activities, friends, and visited locations, to please call Crimestoppers at 601-485-1860.


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The term pareidolia describes what is, for many, a lighthearted amusement - seeing delightful images or faces in clouds, seeing the face of the man in the moon or - if one could see from the height of a satellite � catching a glimpse what almost appears to be a turquoise sea monster swimming lazily towards a beautiful island.
On February 3, 2014 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA�s Terra satellite captured this striking true-color image of brilliant colors in the deep blue waters off of New Zealand�s South Island. Near the center of the image, where the clouds part, delicate turquoise filigrees, surrounded by duller green swirls, can stir the imagination and conjure the concept of a creature swimming through murky waters.
Psychologically speaking, imagining a sea creature is a curious misperception of a vague or obscure stimulus, where something insignificant appears to be something of significance, such that the unreal seems to be real (pareidolia). Scientifically speaking the perception in this image is close to reality. Although no sea monster exists the colors are, indeed, created by living organisms. They are called phytoplankton.
Each summer the waters off the east coast of South Island come alive with vast blooms of phytoplankton. These living, plant-like organisms form the first link in the marine food chain and, like plants, contain chlorophyll. Chlorophyll allows photosynthesis, which drives the changing of light energy to chemical energy, as well as absorption of carbon dioxide and release of oxygen, both of which occur in phytoplankton. Chlorophyll and other pigments also give color the organisms themselves and, when favorable conditions spur rapid growth, the colors of massive blooms of these phytoplankton bring stunning hues to ocean waters � sometimes for hundreds of kilometers at a time. Although the lifespan of each organism is brief, the bloom itself may exist for many weeks when conditions are favorable.
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Satellite: Terra
Date Acquired: 2/3/2014
Resolutions: 1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
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Age of Ultron
Book 2
Written by Brian Michael Bendis
Pencilled by Bryan Hitch
Inks by Paul Neary
Colours by Paul Mounts
Letters by VC's Cory Petit
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Just about a year ago now I was in San Francisco. It's a beautiful city and both exactly, and nothing, like how it's presented on screen. It is however, very hilly and the navy is actually in Alameida, so Star Trek IV didn't lie about that. Which, honestly, is a relief. When I was there, I spent four blissfully happy months learning to boogie board, rock climb, taking up yoga, discovering the joys of the bottomless coffee cup and adjusting to weather which didn't range from 'sort of okay' to 'why has there no been change in the ambient light outside for twelve hours.' It's a wonderful place, a second home and I'm positively giddy with excitement at the thought of returning in a few weeks.
And one of the biggest things in San Francisco's favor? At no point, at all, was the city obliterated by a hive mind AI returned from space with nothing but cold analytical vengeance on its mind. Seriously, I would have remembered.
Unfortunately the Marvel universe's San Francisco isn't quite so lucky. Opening in the ruins by the bay, Book two of Age of Ultron shows us just how bad things have got there. There's no colossal structure towering above the city but there's precious few people left and those that are can be divided into survivors, targets and heroes. Black Widow and Moon Knight are the heroes, and they kill a survivor inside the first five pages. This is a new world, certainly, but there's nothing brave about it. This opening vignette, much like last issue, could be accused of decompressed storytelling but, again, it works. Widow, carrying a ghastly injury to her face, and Moon Knight, are the perfect choices for survivors, firstly because of what they've been trained to do and secondly because Moon Knight was on the first places we had echoes of what was coming here. Alone, and hiding out in a SHIELD safehouse (With a Barber's shop cover and everything!) they stumble on a board covered with polaroids of heroes and villains. Fury knew something was coming, knew he'd need an army but what? And how? And what can they do with this information?
Meanwhile back in New York we get a definitive answer on which Spider-Man this is (Peter) and a chilling vision of the moment Ultron took over. It seems to be instantaneous, the machines appearing over New York and punching through buildings to secure themselves in seconds, We also get some interesting exploration of exactly what was going on last issue; why were Hammerhead and Owl looking to sell Peter to Ultron? Why was Ultron interested? Who else had they done this to already? These questions are raised and almost immediately brushed away by Tony Stark and his band of shattered, terrified survivors. There's no hint of a plan, no hint of anything beyond getting to the end of the day; rats in costumes, picking through the ruins of the world they used to own. It's, again, a startlingly dark way to close an issue, though there's a neat callback to, and build on, the final page of issue 1. Peter arriving at the helicarrier has consequences, and for better or for worse, the New York heroes have a plan now. The only question is what? And how will Widow and Moon Knight's discovery in San Francisco effect that?
Age of Ultron continues to be the most interesting event either of the big two have produced in some time. There's a real air of doom to it, and as the scale of destruction is explored (It's a nice touch by the way that Widow and Moon Knight, on an operation when Ultron struck, have no idea how bad things are, and neither do the heroes in New York) it becomes clear that if this is the core Marvel universe, then these changes may be felt for a long time. Regardless, it's hugely fun in a way that reminds me of the original Terminator movie in terms of sheer, dark fun. Bendis' script neatly handles changes in pace and tone and you'll be poring over that double page spread of polaroids for a while I'm sure, whilst Hitch, Neary and Mounts continue to show us the end of the world in wonderfully dark tones and intricate, cold, mechanical detail. However it's the little moments that stay with you, and here, those belong to the final page (No spoilers, promise) and Widow. Her rage at what's happened and calm, pragmatic fatalism at what she's going to have to do are both utterly in keeping with the character and very poignant. Natasha's not been written this well for a while, and the fact I'm honestly worried if she'll make it out alive, movies or no, shows just how well she's portrayed here. Rounded out, once again, with great lettering by Petit, one of the hardest working letterers in the business, this is another intriguing piece of the Age of Ultron puzzle. Bring on issue 3.


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Transportation Asset Management Case Studies
LCCA: The Colorado Experience
What is LCCA?
Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) is an evaluation technique that supports informed investment decisions. While it builds on principles of economic analysis that have been used to evaluate highway and other public works investments for years, LCCA considers both near— and long term activities required to maintain highway assets above some minimum performance level. Specifically, when it has been decided that a project will be implemented, LCCA will assist in determining the lowest-cost way to accomplish the project. The LCCA approach enables a cost comparison of competing design (or preservation) alternatives or system investment strategies. Differential costs that occur throughout the life of an alternative are included. LCCA does this by incorporating discounted long-term agency and user costs that occur over the life of highway, bridge, and other roadway assets to identify the best value for investment expenditures (e.g., the lowest cost that satisfies the performance objective being sought).
Figure 1: Transportation reconstruction and expansion project on I-25 in Denver.
Note From the Director
The Federal Highway Administration's Office of Asset Management is aggressively promoting a different way for transportation agencies to distribute their resources among alternative investment options. This new way of doing business, referred to as "Asset Management," is a strategic approach to maximizing the benefits resulting from the expenditure of agency resources.
For any transportation agency, the progression toward Asset Management will involve a myriad of activities. These endeavors will differ from State to State. For example, some agencies will pursue a data integration strategy in order to ensure comparable data for the evaluation of investment alternatives across asset classes. Others will move to deploy economic analysis tools to generate fact-based information for decision makers. Still others will want to integrate new inventory assessment methods into their decision-making processes.
Much can be learned from those who are integrating into their organizations the tools of Asset Management. To spark the exchange of information, we have prepared a series of case studies focused on agencies that are leading the way. Four tracks of Asset Management case histories are available covering data integration, economics in Asset Management, the Highway Economic Requirements System (HERS)—State Version, and Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA). As the series progresses, we will add new State reports to each of the tracks and create new tracks addressing additional facets of Asset Management, such as change management and performance measurement.
On behalf of the Office of Asset Management, I am pleased to provide this series. We believe the case studies will help agencies meet the challenges of implementing Asset Management programs, providing vital insights into approaches for which demand grows in our economic times.
Butch Wlaschin
Director, Office of Asset Management
Note to the Reader
The Transportation Asset Management Case Study Series is the result of a partnership between State departments of transportation and the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Office of Asset Management. FHWA provides the forum from which to share information, and the individual States provide the details of their experiences. For each case study report, State transportation agency personnel were interviewed by FHWA, and the resulting material was approved by the State. As such, the case study reports rely on the agencies' own assessments of their experience. Readers should note that the reported results may or may not be reproducible in other organizations.
Figure 2: Aerial view of I-70 near Vail.
Executive Summary
A diverse landscape, central geographical location, and growing population are among the constant factors influencing the Colorado Department of Transportation's (CDOT's) decisions and activities. But in the last few years, economic conditions have added complexity to the State's highway program. Not only is transportation funding at an all-time low, but inflation and the rising cost of materials have reduced CDOT's buying power. In addition, the agency faces intense public scrutiny about the use of taxpayer funds.
To demonstrate its concern over the effective use of funding for Colorado's transportation system, CDOT has adopted an innovative and rational approach to investing in its roadways — Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA).
After more than 25 years of evaluating its transportation asset investment decisions, CDOT can be considered a leader in the application of LCCA to support those decisions. Since the early 1970s, the agency's pavement office has meticulously developed an LCCA process that incorporates results from statistical research, as well as knowledge from actual pavement projects, into its policies and procedures to produce a sound, long-term approach to managing assets.
CDOT's pavement engineers have continuously evolved the LCCA process by adapting innovative technologies and approaches to meet the needs of the State's transportation assets:
- In the late 1990s, CDOT began to shift away from the deterministic method toward the probabilistic method for LCCA in order to address variability in the LCCA input values.
- At the same time, the State began using an upgraded version of the Federal Highway Administration RealCost LCCA software to establish costs under both types of analyses.
- A Pavement Type Selection Committee made up of transportation authorities helps mediate pavement options if the results of the deterministic and probabilistic analyses are statistically close.
- Industry stakeholders also have the opportunity to provide input to the Committee, an element of openness that has earned respect for CDOT's process.
- The State has embraced the support of FHWA and actively participates in the federal agency's LCCA, pavement management, and other training classes.
As a result of these innovations, the pavement office receives frequent requests from other asset managers within the agency, such as the Bridge Design and Management Branch, for assistance with evaluating long-term decisions about additional highway assets.
Through the years it has deployed LCCA, CDOT has learned valuable lessons that serve Colorado, but are also applicable to other States' transportation systems. CDOT is confident that its success with Life-Cycle Cost Analysis as an investment strategy will continue to serve the State — and the transportation community— in the years ahead.
1. Agency Facts
What began 100 years ago as a three-member Highway Commission with a budget of $56,000 has grown into the Colorado Department of Transportation, which now manages a multi-modal transportation system with an annual budget of $1.3 billion. Six individual transportation Regions manage 9,134 miles of State highways, 3,406 State-owned bridges, and 20 State-owned tunnels.
In FY 2008, CDOT served its broad customer base by:
- Repairing and maintaining more than 8.7 million square yards of roadway surface, using 248,018 tons of asphalt and 178,841 gallons of liquid asphalt,
- Snowplowing, sanding, and/or deicing 7.2 million miles of highway,
- Replacing and repairing 67,830 signs and sign posts,
- Triggering with explosives more than 500 avalanches to reduce risk of snow slides affecting 160 Colorado highways,
- Implementing a pavement design training program, including extensive instruction about LCCA,
- Improving Homeland Security provisions to ensure a multidisciplinary approach to emergency planning and preparedness, and
- Increasing the scope of Intelligent Transportation Systems to improve and enhance mobility and traffic safety throughout Colorado.(1)
Although Interstate highways in Colorado account for only about 10 percent of the total miles in the State system, they carry 40 percent of the State's travel.
Even with these advances, CDOT faces a diversity of challenges shared by many of its sister agencies. Among them:
- Colorado highways handle more than 28 billion vehicle miles of travel annually.
- The State's population grew 44 percent (twice the national average) between 1990 and 2006 and now numbers nearly five million residents located in both urban hubs and remote rural communities.
- CDOT moves passengers, freight, and information on a regional, Interstate, and international level.
- The State has harsh winters and large variations in terrain, climate, and demographics.
- Fifty-nine percent of Colorado's roadways are rated in "fair" or "good" condition, based on the years of remaining service life.
- With a 20-year design life, the Interstate system—75 percent of which was built before 1970—now requires extensive repairs.
- Motor fuel taxes that the State currently collects are inadequate to meet mobility needs. As a result, CDOT is facing a severe funding shortfall and is considering options to increase revenue, such as raising certain truck fees and tolling existing roads.(2)
All of these factors contribute to the constant—and increasing—need to more effectively evaluate and implement new projects and maintenance programs.
Figure 3: Snow plowing on I-25 at Colorado Boulevard in Denver.
1. Colorado Department of Transportation 2008-2009 Fact Book, pp. 32-33.
2. Colorado Department of Transportation 2008 Annual Report, pp. 24-29.


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Location: Subtropical Insects and Horticulture Research
2011 Annual Report
More than 120 citranges, from a well-characterized mapping population, and other trifoliate hybrids (plus sweet orange standards) have been propagated for a replicated trial, will be planted in July 2011, and monitored for Liberibacter development and huanglongbing (HLB) symptoms. Data from this trial should provide information on markers and perhaps genes associated with HLB resistance, for use in transgenic and conventional breeding.
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Web Product Manager
There are the day-to-day stresses of dealing with demanding clients and the sometimes fruitless attempts to communicate the vision to your designers, but you can't really complain. You get to exercise your creative muscles, hang out with your best friends (computers) all day, and take home a nice paycheck.
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We just had our second earthquake in as many days (actually, according to the US Geological Survey, there have been about 15 earthquakes in the last two days in this area!)! This time it was 4.1 and I definitely felt it… But more about that in moment.
So we're all tight right? Like tight enough that I can tell you an embarrassing story?
Several years ago I participated in the AIDS Lifecycle from San Francisco to Los Angeles (I didn't ride, I volunteered with the traffice crew (with my Mom!)). We were a day or two from Los Angeles, somewhere in Podunk. I was sitting in a porta-potty when it starts to rock back and forth. My first thought was that someone was messing around with me. Then I heard someone in another porta-potty down the line from me yell, "OMG, an earthquake!" I had no clue as I had never experienced an earthquake before!
That's when I started to freak out. The only thing I remember is thinking, "Dear god, don't let me die in a porta potty!"
Flash forward to today: (Those of you quick enough will have guessed where I'm going with this!) I was sitting on the toilet when I felt the building twist and turn!
My first thought this time was, "Should I cut this short?"
My second thought was, "Oh my god, please don't let me die on this toilet!"


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Paris (AP) -- France's defense minister says a french fighter jet
fired on the convoy carrying ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Gerard Longuet told reporters in Paris on Thursday that the
French strike stopped the convoy of about 80 vehicles heading for
Bani Walid, but did not destroy it. He says that fighters on the ground then intercepted the vehicle carrying Gadhafi himself. Libya's interim leadership announced that Gadhafi was killed Thursday. NATO officials say the alliance's governing body will meet Friday to decide to end the seven-month bombing campaign over Libya. NATO's Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said after the
latest developments on the battlefield -- the death of leader
Moammar Gadhafi -- "that moment has now moved much closer." He said the decision to terminate the airstrikes would be made
in coordination with the U.N. and Libya's interim government. Diplomats said Friday's meeting would decide when and how to
wind up the operation. A diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity said this could come in the next day or two if NATO's military commanders confirmed there was no more need for the operation to continue.


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BP says oil from its broken well has stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April.
The announcement Thursday came after company officials said all
valves had been shut on a new cap over the busted well in an
experiment to stop the spill.
If the cap holds, if the sea floor doesn't crack and if the
relief wells being prepared are completed successfully, this could
be the beginning of the end for the spill. But that's a lot of ifs,
and no one was declaring any sort of victory beyond the moment.
The oil stopped flowing into the water at 3:25 p.m. EDT on
The crisis began when BP's deepwater rig exploded, killing 11
The cap is not a permanent fix. BP is drilling two relief wells
so it can pump mud and cement into the leaking well in hopes of
plugging it for good.