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Get an overview of this hotelHotel in Aurora with free breakfast and fitness center
Situated in Aurora, this hotel is 2.6 mi (4.2 km) from Town Center at Aurora and within 6 mi (10 km) of Cherry Creek State Park and Aurora History Museum. Kennedy Soccer Complex and The Children's Hospital are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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A fitness center, coffee/tea in a common area, and a seasonal outdoor pool are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include laundry facilities, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff.
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Extended Stay America - Denver - Aurora North features a fitness center and a seasonal outdoor pool. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. This Aurora hotel also offers barbecue grills, multilingual staff, and ski storage. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Extended Stay America - Denver - Aurora North is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
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by Chris Palmarozzi, June 29 2010
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The 2010 World Cup has been an interesting one so far. As an American, I was happy to see the USA at least make it to the round of 16. Given my last name and heritage, I was disappointed in the Italian performance this year. We don't even have bad refs to blame! Regardless, the knockout round is well underway. At the same time, free online soccer games mixed with a spoonful of World of Warcraft are improving in quality and quantity.
Most are being labeled as soccer MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role playing games) and offer players not only soccer gameplay but the ability to create their own players and teams and gradually improve them. For those strictly interested in the management aspect, several quality browser simulation soccer games exist too. Before diving into specific games, I must ask international readers to forgive my frequent use of 'soccer' instead of 'football'. As a peace offering, every single one of these world cup soccer MMORPGs can be played 100% for free.
Online Soccer Games
Online soccer games now make up the majority of
sports MMORPG games
. The primary focus of these games is either to create a player or set of players from scratch and build them up over time. Then you play against other players' teams in friendly, league, or even World Cup matches. Some allow you control of only one player and some a whole team. If you need action to supplement strategy in a soccer MMORPG then these are closer to your traditional FIFA experience.
Power Soccer
This particular online soccer game offers players features for both individual character development and team development. Power Soccer requires only a browser to play yet still manages a legitimate 3D graphical experience. You start by creating your players with full control over hair style, shoes, and general appearance. Then form your own team with those soccer players and start playing in matches versus other humans. Thanks to an excellent ranking feature you will be playing the majority of games against people of your own skill level.
Another option is career mode. You will be treated to a story driven experience where you will slowly develop a single character as he rises to stardom. Whether you manage one player or several, Power Soccer provides gamers with skill points to customize their characters' improvements. You will gain these through training sessions and over time.
If you are less into the soccer MMORPG experience and more into playing soccer with an interactive community there is a cool country tournament feature. You choose your home country and play against others doing the same. As your country wins soccer games you accumulate points towards bringing home the cup or tournament championship for your fellow citizens. No matter your preference the game is a full 11 on 11 experience where crisp passing, positioning, and strong strikes will win the day.
Football Superstars
Football Superstars is the best blend of a traditional online RPG and world class soccer action. You will create and control one soccer player as you rise from the football academy to football stardom. You choose which position to play, which skills to improve, and which teams to sign with. Like any good MMORPG you'll also have the option of learning unique soccer skills to separate you from the pack. Every match is a great social experience because every player on the soccer field is controlled by a human except for the goalie.
If you are concerned about playing with strangers you can opt to form a club open only to those you invite. Play organized matches against other clubs and increase the fame of your private club. If you can't muster up 11 on each side, try some of the smaller match sizes. Football Superstars offers online soccer games with 3, 5, 7, and 11 on each side.
Football Superstars also caters to those desiring a management experience. For an additional fee you can take on your own club. Hire players, improve your stadium, and show the world you're not just a soccer star but a management guru.
Online Soccer Champions
This game is the newest entry to the soccer MMORPG scene. They recently entered closed beta and are accepting applications. Similar to Football Superstars, every player on the field is controlled by an actual human. You will create a new football player from scratch and evolve him through playing matches and other off field activities. Online Soccer Champions will provide some interesting choices for you to make for your character throughout his career to create a unique personality.
To add to the realism, this game includes soccer motion captures of authentic soccer moves. Animations will be as true to proper soccer form as possible. Online Soccer Champions is hoping their combination of freedom for your soccer star on the field and off the field will be a winning combination. Sign up for the closed beta to get playing as soon as possible.
ActionLeague Soccer
The main advantage that ActionLeague Soccer offers over it's competitors is the ease at which you can start playing. Quick play can be started without an account and because it runs through Java no client download is necessary. So if you are away from your computer or want a quick and free online soccer game then ActionLeague Soccer is your best choice. Unfortunately, it doesn't offer as much of the
sports RPG
elements the competitors offer. You can create a profile that persists from game to game and keeps track of your history and accomplishments.
FIFA Online
FIFA Online is similar to the FIFA 2010 experience but with persistent management options for your players and a cost of $0! This is a great option for those more interested in building a team in their soccer MMORPG than building a player. FIFA Online brings an easy to control mouse mechanism to the table and is great for those already familiar with FIFA gameplay. Like previous FIFA offerings all the clubs and all the players are from the real world.
Start out by taking ownership of a new team. From there you play in friendlies, league matches, or even the World Cup tournament. You can play online soccer games versus other players or play single player matches where you earn XP to improve your players. Continue to improve and compare your results to your friends. Win more matches and not only do your players improve but you can buy better equipment and sign new players. Special achievements will earn you rewards that others can view online. If you like the idea of building a new team but don't want to actually play the game there is a special management simulation mode. FIFA Online just recently entered open beta which means it isn't fully functional yet but is open to public play.
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Murry leads Wichita St. to win over Missouri St.
SAINT LOUIS (AP)—Toure' Murry scored 16 points and Ramon Clemente added 12 to lead Wichita State past Missouri State 59-46 in the opening round of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Thursday.
Wichita State (16-15), which won for the fifth time in seven games, advances to face second-seeded Creighton (25-6) in a quarterfinal game Friday.
Kyle Weems led Missouri State (11-20) with 20 points, 16 in the first half. Will Creekmore grabbed 10 rebounds for the Bears.
Wichita State used a 10-2 run early in the second half to take control 40-31. JT Durley, who finished with 10 points and six rebounds, hit two baskets to key the spurt.
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Curated by master printer and long time NIAD studio manager, Andres Cisneros-Galindo, Corresponding Views is an exhibition of prints that share a visual affinity with one another. Work by NIAD artists will be on display alongside prints created by Bay Area contemporaries. A range of different printmaking techniques will be on display, including woodcut, linocut, collagraph, serigraph, letterpress text, the application of chin colle and monotype. The exhibit will include the following artists:
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Can You Really Make a Fortune in Penny Stocks? (PINK:SHMX, PINK:EUOT, PINK:SHMX)
At first glance, penny stocks seem to make sense. After all, it's easier for a 50-cent stock to go to a dollar than for a $50 stock to go to $100, right? No. It's not. Over the years, dozens of studies have shown that lower-priced stocks don't do better than higher-priced stocks. In fact, they do considerably worse. Ironically, it's not easier for a 50-cent stock to go to a dollar. But it is a whole lot easier for it to go to zero.
There are other reasons why making a fortune in penny stocks is easier said than done…
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For starters, the vast majority of tiny, unprofitable companies are such ridiculous long shots they don't even merit your attention. Other than that:
- Most companies offering penny stocks have little if anything in the way of profits, not to mention the first prerequisite: sales.
- Secondly, you could drive a cement mixer through the bid/ask spread on many of these shares. If a stock is offered at 30 cents and bid at 24 cents, for instance, you're down 20% as soon as you get your trade confirmation. (And that's before commissions.)
- Thirdly, penny stocks are thinly traded and easily manipulated.
You may buy a penny stock and see it zip higher, but then have trouble getting out.
It's pretty disheartening to know you can drive down the price of a stock simply by selling your shares at market.
Beware of Penny Stock Scammers That Promise a Fortune
There are plenty of outright scammers in the marketplace.
Often referred to as a "pump and dump," a penny stock scam is when the insiders talk the stock up on one hand while bailing out like there's no tomorrow on the other. That's usually because despite the great story – and make no mistake, the stories are fabulous – the company's business prospects are usually nil.
But penny stock promoters want you to trust them, to believe in the hot tip and ensuring fortune to be made.
If you're going to evaluate a penny stock, here's how they'd like you to do it. By the multi-billion-dollar market they intend to operate in. By the enormous profits they'll generate when their technology is finally commercialized. By the proven reserves of the mining company operating next door. By the results of their Phase I trials. By any criterion you can think of besides what the company is actually doing right now.
Because what the company is doing right now is… usually nothing.
If you insist on verifying this on your own, at least take a few basic precautions.
How to Size Up a Penny Stock
Start by reading the company's most recent quarterly or annual report. Does it have sales or earnings? What kind of debt is it carrying? How long has the company been in business? Who are the people behind it?
In other words, if you're going to roll the dice, make sure it's a genuine speculation, not just a mindless crapshoot… or worse.
Also, take a look at what the insiders are doing. If the insiders – the ones who can hardly contain their enthusiasm for the company's business prospects – are dumping the stock en masse, you know all you need to know. Run.
Some will say I'm unduly pessimistic. (Penny stock promoters, especially.) And, clearly, a few successful companies did start out as penny stocks.
But for every success story there are at least 100 penny stocks whose charts bear an uncanny resemblance to the last flight of the Hindenburg.
In short, there are plenty of smart ways to invest your money. Toying with penny stocks and expecting to bank a fortune, in my view, is one of the dumbest.
Good Investing,
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The Campbell family decided to adopt a dog as a companion for their 11-year-old daughter whose older brothers and sisters had all gone off on their own. Brandy, who was 2-years-old, had been abandoned by her owner and spent the winter in a chicken coop. Adopted by the Campbells in April of 1994, she became a loved and loving family member. She is a wonderful companion to daughter Mary Erin and, though Goldens are gentle dogs, she is the "gentle of the gentle".
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Table of Contents - Volume 494 - Symposium V – Science & Technology of Magnetic Oxides
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a2 Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ 07974
a3 Joint Research Center for Atom Technology, Tsukuba 305, Japan
a4 Dept. of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
We have investigated the magnetic anisotropies of doped manganite materials in epitaxial thin film and single crystal form. Structural characterization, including x-ray diffraction, Rudierford backscattering spectroscopy and atomic force misocroscopy, indicate that our epitaxial films arc single crystalline and have excellent crystallinity. Since lattice distortions greatly affect the magnetic and transport properties of this family of materials, it is not surprising to find the profound effect of strain in films due to the lattice mismatch between the substrate and film. Magnetic anisotropy results of single crystals, subject to no external stress, is compared to those of epitaxial films.


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"Holiday Garlands & Wreaths" — Mount Saint Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh, 10 a.m.-noon Dec. 6. Learn how to create garlands and wreaths for holiday decorating during this demonstration by Cornell Cooperative Extension master gardeners. $15 fee. Call 565-2076 to register.
Poetry Night — Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand St., Newburgh. 7 p.m. Dec. 6. Sponsored by Hudson River Poets. Read your work or that of a favorite poet. 563-3600. email@example.com.
Christmas craft and bake sale — Milford United Methodist Church, 206 E. Ann St., Milford, Pa., 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 8 and 1-3 p.m. Dec. 9. Unique gifts including decorative plates, gifts "for the birds," hand-painted picture frames, tote bags, hand-knitted dolls, baked goods and candy decorated for Christmas.
Craft Fair — Hudson Valley Hotel, 90 Route 17K, Newburgh. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 8. Benefits Operation Compassion Food Pantry in New Windsor. Bring two nonperishable food items or pay $2 admission. Door prizes, raffles and crafts from over 50 vendors. firstname.lastname@example.com. 206-9232.
Holiday Craft Fair — Cornell Street Studios, 168 Cornell St., Kingston. 11 a.m. Dec. 8. Handmade jewelry, handbags, ornaments, art, ceramics, paper goods, hair accessories, vintage clothing, baked goods. Live holiday music with Leighanne Saltsman. 331-0191. email@example.com.
Handmade for the Holidays Bazaar — Wallkill River School, 232 Ward St. (Route 17K), Montgomery, noon Dec. 8. Local gift bazaar of handmade goods from local artisans (most using local materials). Fifteen crafters will be set up around gallery and workshops space.
Readnex Poetry Workshop — Newburgh Free Library auditorium, 124 Grand St., Newburgh, 1 p.m. Dec. 8. Poetry workshop led by Readnex Poetry Squad. Free. 563-3600. email@example.com.
"Holiday Greens" — Greenwood Lake Library, 79 Waterstone Road, Greenwood Lake, 1:30 p.m. Dec. 8. Learn how to create garlands for holiday decorating. Presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension master gardeners. Call 477-8377 to register.
Winter Fair & Outdoor Marketplace — Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, 16 S. Chestnut St., New Paltz. 11 a.m. Dec. 9. Crafts, food, song, dance, artisan wares, indoor and outdoor activities. Make gifts from simple and natural materials. Call 255-0033, ext. 400, or visit mountainlaurel.org.
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- My favorite "Murph-ism" ever was created last night. In describing Patrick Eaves: "He's very tough hockey." I'm just .......... I'm not going to say anything. I don't want to ruin the moment. Just gonna leave it be, take it in. He is very tough hockey. By God.
- Odd moment happened midway through the 1st. Dallas' Jason Williams played a shift and inadvertently went to take a seat on the Red Wings bench, but nobody on either team seemed to notice.
- Toby Petersen. Haha, Toby. That's a dog's name.
- Goofy first goal from Dallas, in that you don't ever see a goal result from a defensive breakdown from Pavel Datsyuk. Stuart chased out to the high slot, leaving Pav the only Star to cover down low, Mike Ribiero, who was alone for the easiest non-empty net goal I think I've ever seen.
- 2-0 Stars .... disgusting goal from Loui Eriksson. Kronner had to have felt like the loneliest man in Detroit not keeping that puck in at the blue line. And then a rarity for Joe Louis Arena, with the home fans showing their displeasure with some annoyed boos.
- At the halfway point of the game, I was just waiting for the third Stars goal. It's a pretty embarrassing game when Mike Ribiero is doing whatever he wants (including jawing with JLA fans a little later). Then it happened, almost mercifully just to kill the tension. 3-0 Stars. You could tell that Jimmy was pissed about what was going on in front of him -- he showed it from the first Dallas goal.
- Then Ribiero got checked into Jimmy's lap and he just about lost it. Not sure I blame him.
- The best thing that Jonathan Ericsson has done in weeks is get a few punches in on Steve Ott in a 3-0 contest.
If this game were a meal, it would be a dog shit enchilada. Fuck.
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INDIAN LAKE - For the second year in a row all the buses at Indian Lake Central School have received a 100 percent passing grade from state bus inspectors.
The good news was delivered to the Board of Education Tuesday, July 11, by Transportation Supervisor George Virgil, who said, "We haven't had any failures."
Virgil gave much of the credit to mechanic Andrew Smith and the computerized diagnostic equipment that can pinpoint problems.
In a related item, the BOE approved renewing the bus storage and snow removal agreement with the Town of Indian Lake at the same rate of $825 a month.
The BOE approved a policy for admitting foreign students that sets minimum language and academic standards.
Superintendent Mark Brand believes there is a good chance the 2013/14 school year will be the first for which foreign students arrive for a year of study at Indian Lake.
Brand said one host family is confirmed and four foreign students from Europe and Asia have expressed interest in attending this fall.
The board is taking a wait-and-see approach to the possession and use of cell phones in school by students. Brand said, "So far I'm not hearing any complaints about cell phones being used in classes."
Brand and the board agree that as long as students limit their use of cell phones to the cafeteria and hallways there is no problem with them.
But Brand did make it clear he considers study hall a class and cell phones should not be used there.
-- The board approved tenure for Business teacher Jeff Reynolds, effective Sept. 27.
-- Jon Voorhees was reappointed as BOE president and David Harrington was reappointed as vice president.
-- The New York State Public High School Athletic Association has waived a $500 fine. The fine was imposed because the varsity softball team did not complete the post-season schedule.
The fine was waived because the school successfully argued the team was unable to complete the season due to games postponed due to weather, which caused a conflict with testing.
-- Brand reported the school would reapply for a North Country Regional Economic Development Council grant for purchasing and installing a wood pellet boiler to heat the school.
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A much-buzzed-about motion-sensing PC controller from startup Leap Motion has secured a distribution deal with Best Buy (BBY). The Leap Motion controller will be in all of Best Buy's U.S. big box stores (about 1,400 locations) by late this quarter, San Francisco-based Leap Motion announced Wednesday. The BestBuy.com website will begin taking U.S. preorders for the $70 device in February. The Leap Motion controller measures about 3-inches long,
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Obama has narrowed the 'God gap' considerably
The "God gap" isn't what it used to be. The churchgoers who helped return Bush to the White House don't appear to be supporting McCain to the same degree.
For several elections, Republicans have dominated among the most religious and Democrats among the secular. Based on the first wave of exit polls, Barack Obama has narrowed the God gap considerably, dramatically improving on John Kerry's 2004 performance among those who attend church frequently.
George W. Bush beat Kerry among weekly churchgoers by 61%-39%. John McCain is beating Obama 54%-44%.
Another key group is the Sorta Religious, those who attend a few times a month or a few times a year. The few-times-a-month set went for Bush 50%-49% in 2004. Obama is winning this group, 52%-47%, according to the early exit polls.


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Rose Mofford
|Rose Mofford
|18th Governor of Arizona
|In office
April 4, 1988 – March 6, 1991
Acting: February 8, 1988 – April 4, 1988
|Preceded by
|Evan Mecham
|Succeeded by
|Fife Symington
|12th Secretary of State of Arizona
|In office
October 20, 1977 – April 4, 1988
|Wesley Bolin
Bruce Babbitt
Evan Mecham
|Preceded by
|Wesley Bolin
|Succeeded by
|James Shumway
|Personal details
June 10, 1922
Globe, Arizona, U.S.
|Political party
|Lefty Mofford (1957–1967)
Rose Perica Mofford (born June 10, 1922) is a retired American civil servant and politician. Beginning her career with the State of Arizona as an office secretary, she worked her way up through the ranks to become the state's first female Secretary of State and first female and 18th Governor of Arizona.
Early life[edit]
Mofford was born Rose Perica in Globe, Arizona on June 10, 1922. The youngest of six children, her parents, John and Frances Perica, had immigrated to the United States from Austria–Hungary. The first female class president in the history of Globe High School, she had great success in both academics and athletics. She played basketball and was an All-American softball player.[1] She graduated in 1939 as class valedictorian and, based upon her father's advice, turned down an opportunity to play professional basketball with the All American Red Heads.[2]
Perica married Lefty Mofford, a captain with the Phoenix Police Department, in 1957. The couple divorced after a decade but remained friends until his death in 1983. They had no children.[3]
Civil service career[edit]
Following high school, Mofford began her career as a secretary for State Treasurer Joe Hunt. Two years later, when Hunt was promoted to the Arizona Tax Commission, Mofford followed her boss to the new position.[1] In 1945, she left the Tax Commission and became business manager for Arizona Highways. Mofford returned to the Tax Commission in 1947 as executive secretary. Following Hunt's retirement in 1960, new commissioner Thad Moore fired Mofford, saying "we felt it was better to have a man in that job."[2][3]
Following her dismissal from the Tax Commission, Mofford was hired as an executive secretary by Secretary of State Wesley Bolin. She remained in the Secretary of State's office until 1975, when she became assistant director of the State Revenue Department (formerly the Tax Commission).[2]
Elected office[edit]
When Governor Raúl Castro announced his resignation to become Ambassador to Argentina, Secretary Bolin ascended to the governorship. Arizona has no lieutenant governor; the secretary of state stands first in the line of succession to the governorship. Bolin in turn appointed Mofford to serve the remainder of his term as Secretary of State.[4][5] Bolin died in office on March 4, 1978. Although Mofford was Secretary of State, she did not succeed to the office of Governor, because she was not holding her office by election, as required by the Arizona Constitution. At the end of the term she ran for Secretary of State and won election three times in 1978, 1982 and 1986.[3]
Mofford became known in the state capital as the friendly woman with a beehive hairdo, and her office gained a reputation as an efficient operation. She herself was noted for her punctuality, answering her own phone, and replying directly to her mail. In addition to her state position, she served from 1982 until 1983 as president of the National Association of Secretaries of State.[6]
Governor Evan Mecham was impeached on February 8, 1988. Per the Arizona Constitution, Mecham's powers were suspended and Mofford became acting governor, since by that time, she was holding the office of Secretary of State by election.[4][7] While most observers complimented her on the job she performed, Mecham objected to Mofford replacing the one state department head that he had appointed.[4][8] Upon Mecham's removal from office following his impeachment trial, Mofford was sworn in as Governor on April 4, 1988.[9]
Mofford's primary goal as governor was to return stability to Arizona. Her efforts were widely held as providing a calming effect following the tumultuous impeachment and recall proceedings of her predecessor.[10] State Senate Democratic leader Alfredo Gutierrez said of her actions, "What she did was reinvest the system with dignity and honor."[1] In early 1990, she announced that she had decided not to run for election to a full four-year term.[11] She was succeeded by Fife Symington III, who later was involved in similar straits as Mecham, involving improper use of money, and was convicted of a felony in his second term. Symington's conviction, however, was overturned in 1999 by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Before Symington could be retried, he was pardoned by President Bill Clinton.[12]
After office[edit]
Since leaving office, Mofford has dedicated her time to civic and charitable activities.[1]
In 1997, a scholarship fund was established in her name.[13]
She is a member of the Arizona Softball Hall of Fame,[5] and municipal softball fields are named in her honor in both Butler and Phoenix.[14][15]
She served as chair of the campaign committee of Attorney General Terry Goddard's unsuccessful 2010 election bid for Governor of Arizona.[16][17]
After the death of Raúl Héctor Castro on April 10, 2015, Mofford became the oldest living Governor of Arizona, in addition to being the oldest living Secretary of State of Arizona.
- ^ a b c d Kamman, Jon (April 25, 2007). "BIO - Rose Mofford". The Arizona Republic.
- ^ a b c Jennings pp. 177
- ^ a b c Gruson, Lindsey (February 7, 1988). "Jokes Aside, She is Acting Governor". New York Times.
- ^ a b c "Mofford is New State Secretary". The Prescott Courier. April 4, 1978.
- ^ a b "Rose Mofford Will Seek Office". Kingman Daily Miner. April 5, 1978.
- ^ Jennings pp. 180
- ^ "Replacement for Mecham Says She will be `Healing Governor'". The Spokesman-Review. February 9, 1988. p. A2.
- ^ "Many Give Mofford High Marks So Far". Mohave Daily Miner. February 21, 1988. p. A3.
- ^ "Arizona's Mofford Sworn In". The Milwaukee Sentinel. April 6, 1988.
- ^ Jennings pp. 182
- ^ "Arizona Race in Turmoil As Governor Bows Out". New York Times. January 21, 1990.
- ^ Rudin, Ken January 26, 2001, I Beg Your Pardon Washington Post
- ^ "Raymond Chavez Wins Scholarship". The Pendleton Record. June 29, 2007.
- ^ "Bagdad Trip Shows How Much Softball has Grown in Arizona". Kingman Daily Miner. September 16, 1982.
- ^ "Park Named for Mofford". Arizona Daily Star. June 11, 1997.
- ^ "Governor's race in sight for Goddard". The Arizona Republic. November 7, 2009.
- ^ "Governor's race in sight for Goddard". The Arizona Republic. November 7, 2009.
- Jennings, Marianne M. (1989). "Rose Mofford". In Myers, John L. (ed.). The Arizona governors, 1912-1990. Phoenix: Heritage Publishers. pp. 177–84. ISBN 0-929690-05-2.
|Political offices
|Preceded by
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|Secretary of State of Arizona
|Succeeded by
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|Preceded by
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|Governor of Arizona
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In 1985, Rowe, in his early forties and eager to pursue a livelihood that would enable him to support himself in the increasingly expensive Wood River Valley, gave up the stage and started a recycling pickup business. Local garbage haulers quickly quashed the venture, leaving him with an order for a large truck—and the paperwork for a pending loan. Then, like a fairy godmother, Marla Hansen, who would become Rowe's co-director at Idaho Dance Theatre, gave him a call. She was choreographing a production of Cinderella for the American Festival Ballet in Boise. Would he like to be one of the ugly stepsisters? The answer, of course, was yes.
That collaboration led to others. Two years later, deeply involved as a choreographer with the fledgling Idaho Dance Theatre and wearied by the commute, Rowe made the difficult decision to leave Ketchum for Boise. There, he met his future wife, Tracy, bought a house, and has been instrumental in building the city's reputation as a budding center for the arts.
Somehow, Rowe had found spare time between dancing and earning a living in the Wood River Valley to begin to paint. "The land around Sun Valley always had a big impact on me," he explains. "I thought it was gorgeous. And when I'm attracted to something, I want to interact with it."
At first he drew, in black and white, the hills he could see from the window of his Ketchum home. Then, at the encouragement of a visiting painter friend, he moved on to color, using borrowed brushes and tempera paint. "I found I could actually do it!" he exclaims, still sounding surprised at the discovery. "It was a revelation. I mean, the last image I had of myself as a visual artist was from junior high, and back then it was, 'You can't do this.'"
With no formal visual arts training, he applied the strict discipline of a dancer and set out to teach himself. "These are my mentors," he says, gesturing to a tall shelf in his studio brimming with thick books whose spines read like a catalogue of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection. Knowing that it would be essential to gain credibility, he built a resumé by entering competitions. Then, encouraged by several awards, he approached galleries and found widespread interest. No one was painting the land of south-central Idaho like he was.
Rowe's Idaho is a dancer's landscape. Sensual forms flow across his canvases, recalling the curves of hip, torso, thigh. He acknowledges that dance has influenced his painting from the beginning, especially the stage lighting, which is often strong, from the side, and colored to emphasize the shapes of the body. What the Impressionists "discovered" over a century ago—that the color of an object is largely dictated by the color of the light shining on it—Rowe learned in the theater.
The luminous surfaces of Rowe's canvases result from a lengthy process of laying on an underpainting, then layering on top of that a combination of thin glazes and thick daubs. He scrapes, scrubs, adds, and blends until he's satisfied. Sometimes this takes days, although it can take longer when the painting is what Rowe almost tenderly calls "a problem child." He uses a relatively new paint known as alkyd, a synthetic oil-based medium that marries the best qualities of oils and acrylics.
Developed recently in England by Windsor and Newton, whose products were used by the likes of Turner and Monet, alkyds dry faster than oils (which can take days or weeks, depending on the pigments) but more slowly than acrylics.
Rowe paints around the one-inch edges of each work. He began this practice early in his career after a client hung a landscape above his mantel, then sat on the couch to enjoy it—only to see the white under-edge glaring out at him. He called Rowe and asked him to finish the painting. Rowe happily complied, and has been employing the "wrapped canvas" technique ever since. While Kneeland Gallery offers the option of framing, gallery director Carey Molter reports that she installs most of Rowe's work unframed, for a contemporary look that works well in many modern homes.
Each painting begins out in a field, so to speak, although Rowe tries to avoid places with large bulls. He and Tracy travel throughout the West, traipsing through meadows and up mountains, driving back roads, and rafting Idaho's rivers in search of the raw material for his paintings. Half the fun for him is what he calls "prospecting": taking hundreds or even thousands of pictures, using the camera as a tool to frame compositions. He leaves his brushes at home.
Back in the studio above his garage—a spare, bright space whose white walls are stacked with finished and partially finished canvases—he sifts through the images, using the strongest as springboards for paintings. Rather than slavishly copy, he simplifies the scenes, taking liberties with details and color. "I couldn't make up these hills," he explains, agreeing that visual fact is, indeed, stranger than fiction. "But I try to see how much I can leave out while still evoking what I'm trying to get at."
So what is Rowe trying to get at?
He tells a story of a recent trip to the Boise Art Museum to view a retrospective of work by Idaho artists from the early 1900s. Two young men in suits were marveling over a painting of turn-of-the-century Boise—just a small cluster of houses. One said to the other, "You know, I'll bet it really looked like that once."
Rowe is only too aware that the subject of his work exists on borrowed time. "Landscape painting now is different from when the Impressionists were working. Monet's haystacks . . . no one thought that there might be a two-thousand-house development on them in 10 years." He shrugs helplessly. "I really feel like I'm painting an epitaph."
The illusion of temporal stability marks all of Rowe's work. In Trail Creek (2003), painted just east of Sun Valley, scorched summer hills recall the Egyptian pyramids in a composition so solid that it feels complete in itself, a land that has no use for the touch of human hands. "All good art yanks us out of our pettiness and ties us back into something worth our attention, even our devotion," Rowe says. He speaks sadly of how technology so often trumps common sense: "We live in a society that allows technology's ability to affect things go pretty much unchecked. As a landscape painter, all I can really do is say, 'This is what I find beautiful. This is what you're going to lose.'" He did not set out to make a cultural statement but, in the choice of his subject, the statement was inadvertently made.
In Hills with Trees (2003), the ochre slopes of August rise voluptuously, like the buttocks of an odalisque. Hillcrests holding the last of the light slide like pale green snakes between shadow and sky, some areas morphing into abstraction, all dioxazine purple and cadmium orange. Viewing this sumptuous vocabulary of forms, a longtime resident might become wholly aware for the first time that the valley walls above the Big Wood River really look like that at, say, four o'clock in mid-September. They resonate with familiarity, these flowing triangles of liquid gold set off by implausibly blue, massy shadows.
Rowe uses both of his art forms as means of expression. "For me, choreography is about getting at what it feels like to be human," he explains. "Painting is about how I feel about where I live." He admits that painting is easier because choreography, as a translation process through dancers to the audience, involves people. "Paint is never in a bad mood," laughs Rowe. "It never gets sick or forgets."
As long as he's physically able to dance, however, Rowe will continue to choreograph and direct. He treasures the freedom to push artistic limits on stage. He admits to being more conservative in his painting, simply because a painter's reputation is built on a consistency of style.
"But I'm lucky: I'm painting exactly what I want to paint, how I want to paint it," Rowe says, adding with characteristic understatement, "and people seem to like it." His blue eyes light up when he talks about facing a blank canvas. "All the possibilities in the world exist. So much of life, you know, is a continuation of things that never end. You can't sign your name to them, or really ever finish. I can finish a painting, and it is a record of who I am at that moment. If I didn't like the last one, I can start over. It's this area of your life where you get to redeem yourself every time you start. And that's exciting."
Betsy Andrews works at Galena Lodge in the mountains north of Ketchum, where she can ride her bike from the door of her yurt out into a Carl Rowe landscape. She has a degree in art history.
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Chipotle Lime Fish Tacos
Todays recipe comes to us from Kevin Lynch of Toronto, Canada a FoodBuzz featured publisher whose blog, Closet Cooking, presents a wealth of great recipes.
As Kevin says, I came to realize that my meals were boring and that I had been eating the same few dishes over and over again for years. It was time for a change! Now I spend my free time searching for and trying tasty new recipes.
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Victoria Beckham�s growing fashion empire just got even better, as the designer launches her debut e-commerce website.
Previously just an online lookbook for the label�s collections, the new site, victoriabeckham.com, will be transactional and offer VB fans the opportunity to shop online for the first time in the brand�s history.
Upon entering the revamped web platform the user is prompted with a page that gives them the option to �Look� or to �Shop�. The former will showcase ever-changing brand content including footage from the designer�s must-see catwalk shows, documentary snippets, design inspiration and news, while the latter will feature her main ready-to-wear collection, the more contemporary Victoria, Victoria Beckham line, accessories, eyewear and denim.
Other products up for grabs from today include an exclusive selection of reissued dresses from previous seasons in a variety of fabrics and colours that the former Spice Girl wears herself. The Icon collection currently offers five dresses with new pieces dropping online every few months.
Victoria told us exclusively: �I have been an online shopper for quite a long time. Since I travel so often, e-commerce can be with me wherever I go, they can ship to wherever I'll be, so for me it's very convenient.�
She added: �With victoriabeckham.com I am to offer the upmost experience in online shopping. I think people expect the best from me, and I want to deliver them the best. I wanted to offer a sophisticated, cool yet easy shopping experience for my customer.'
As well as transactional sales, the new site will also feature interactive social media tools that allow visitors to share content across their own personal accounts, as well as the numerous Victoria Beckham channels including Twitter and Facebook.
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Iraqi Gas Discovery Boosts EU Hopes of Gas Independence
One of the European Union's long-term energy policy aims has been to reduce its dependence on imports of Russian gas. A large gas discovery in Iraq's Kurdish region increases the chances that they will succeed, although big challenges remain.
U.K.-listed oil explorer Heritage Oil said Wednesday it has discovered the largest gas field in Iraq for 30 years. Investors in Heritage were none too pleased with this news–they had been hoping for oil, which is more valuable and much easier to bring to world markets. By mid-morning, the company was trading down 16.5%.
However, the discovery is good news for the Nabucco consortium–a group of European utilities and oil companies hoping to build a pipeline through Turkey that would bring natural gas from Central Asia, Iraq and possibly Iran to southern Europe.
Nabucco is not just a commercial venture, it is a play to shift the balance of power in European energy politics. If the 3,300-kilometer Nabucco is built, it will be the first major natural gas pipeline into central and eastern Europe that isn't controlled by Moscow.
This is important because the EU fears Russian control of such a large chunk of its gas supply. Several EU member states have also suffered severe winter gas supply disruptions in recent years as Russia fought with its neighbor Ukraine over transit rights.
So Nabucco has strong political backing from the European Commission, and is treated with disdain by the Kremlin.
However, the project has been dogged consistently by doubts about whether it will be able to secure sufficient gas supplies to justify the estimated €7.9 billion ($10.8 billion) cost of construction.
When the Nabucco plan was first floated several years ago, Iran was seen as a potential source of supply, but worsening relations and tighter sanctions make that unlikely in the near term. Earlier this month, Azerbaijan promised gas for Nabucco, but doubts linger over whether this supply alone will be sufficient.
Iraq looks increasingly important if the pipeline is to succeed.
"Nabucco welcomes the news of a major discovery at the Miran gas field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The shareholders are in negotiations with potential suppliers and this will be considered a further advantage for Nabucco," said Christian Dolezal, a spokesman for the Nabucco consortium.
The Miran West discovery is significant. Heritage said the field could contain between 6.8 trillion and 9.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, although not all of this will be recoverable. That is enough to supply all the countries in the Nabucco consortium–Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Romania and Turkey–with natural gas for more than a year.
Some members of the Nabucco consortium are already directly active in Kurdistan. The lead member of Nabucco, Austrian oil and gas company OMV, has stakes in several gas discoveries there and continues to explore.
"The Kurdish Region of Iraq offers world class opportunities for oil and gas exploration and has huge untapped reserves rivaled by very few places in the world," OMV says on its website.
OMV, or one of these companies in the consortium, may want to buy Heritage's stake in the Miran West field, said Evolution Securities analyst Richard Griffith.
However, while finding oil and gas may be geologically straightforward in the Kurdish region of Iraq, getting it out has been a nightmare. New oil discoveries that were developed and ready to export in 2009 were shut down because the Kurdish and Iraqi Baghdad governments couldn't agree on financial terms for the foreign companies operating the fields.
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Falling unemployment and 14-months of job growth is surely a welcome sign for President Barack Obama as he ramps up his 2012 re-election campaign.
The unemployment rate dropped to 8.6% in November – the lowest rate since March 2009 – from 9% in October. While that rate is still high, political economists tend to believe it's the change that matters. And for Mr. Obama, the trend is positive.
In addition to falling unemployment, the economy added 120,000 jobs in November for 14-straight months of job growth. Some argue that the rise in payrolls is an even more important number than the unemployment rate when it comes to predicting election results.
The White House was careful early Friday not to sound too excited, an acknowledgement that plenty of households are still under strain.
"Today's employment report provides further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression," Alan Krueger, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers wrote on the White House blog Friday, "but the pace of improvement is still not fast enough given the large job losses from the recession that began in December 2007."
Not all of the Labor Department's Friday report was good news: More than half of the drop in the unemployment rate came from people dropping out of the labor force. That could be a sign that unemployed workers are getting discouraged and giving up the hunt.
Republicans seized on that point. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement, "Today's unemployment report is positive news for American families heading into the holiday season but fails to mask the damage President Obama's policies have inflicted on the U.S. economy. The new number reflects a troubling trend: workers are leaving the labor force in droves as they give up looking for work."
The improving job numbers hardly guarantee Mr. Obama will win re-election. Some economists believe the unemployment rate could tick up again in coming months. The economy was gaining steam when George H.W. Bush ran for re-election in 1992, but the unemployment rate ticked up midyear before ultimately dropping before Election Day. The drop wasn't big enough and didn't come fast enough. The rest is history.
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Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) was a French general and political leader who enthusiastically supported the American Revolution. The Continental Congress appointed him as major general in 1777, before France had officially entered into an alliance with the United States. Lafayette was wounded at Brandywine in September 1777, and endured the miserable winter at Valley Forge with Washington and his troops.
Today Lafayette's name is prominently memorialized in the U.S. capital, most notably in Lafayette Park, directly behind the White House—a clear indication of the indebtedness Americans felt to him after his valiant service to their cause. Lafayette played a critical role in the ultimate victory of the Revolutionary War, co-leading American forces in the successful siege of Lord Cornwallis' British armies at Yorktown.


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- Free wired high-speed Internet
- MP3 docking station
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
- Room service (limited hours)
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free WiFi
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Cable TV service
Where to Eat
The hotel provides a complimentary continental breakfast from 7 AM to 10:30 AM each morning in the breakfast room. Room service is available during limited hours.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible bathroom
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Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is 10 AM
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- Pets not allowed
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
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No cribs (infant beds) available
Optional extras
- Valet parking fee: USD 48 per night
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text: Donald R. Bias Sr., 74, of Macksburg, passed away Monday (March 10, 2014) at Marietta Memorial Hospital in Marietta. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Chandler Funeral Home, 609 West St., Caldwell. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in the Chandler Funeral Home chapel with Pastor Mitchell Bias officiating. Burial will follow in Dudley Cemetery.


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News 12 First at Five, June 11, 2008
AUGUSTA, Ga.---There is a new park along the Augusta Canal. It's called the Aqueduct Park. It is located off Goodrich Street near Sibley Mill west of downtown.
Aqueduct Park is the latest Augusta attraction where the city meets the great outdoors.
"We are going to make this entire Savannah River corridor look like the interior of the Augusta National just without a golf course," said Scott Hudson.
Scott Hudson is coordinator of the First Saturday Foundation. The group brought new life to an area that had been abandoned for more than 100 years.
"The idea was just to say hey citizens this our area. We own it. Lets clean it," said Hudson.
A team of more than 150 local volunteers took on an area that had become a dump yard.
"People would pull their pick-up trucks up and dump you name it down into that area," said Hudson.
This comes after just one day a month of cleaning for the last year with the help a few familiar faces.
"We've recovered probably a 5 acre city park that's unparalleled in the United States," said former commissioner Andy Cheek.
"Particularly when you consider high gas prices these are passive recreation spots that are there for our citizens to use at little to no cost. They can ride their bikes down here so it's a great asset to the city," said Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver.
City leaders stopped by to take in the scenery. "God gave us this natural area, and all we got to do is just clean it up, and everybody can enjoy it," said Hudson.
We should give a word of caution: Take Your Time on the drive out. You will come to a dirt road with several hills. Drive slowly. It's worth the wait.


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Definition of nosepiece in English:
1.1chiefly North American another term for noseband.
Example sentences
- They really didn't fit properly: her muzzle was too broad for the nosepiece.
1.2The central part of a pair of glasses that fits over the bridge of the nose.
Example sentences
- The rubberized, non-slip nosepiece was easy to bend to fit.
- This could probably be helped by some rubber pieces on the nosepiece and by the ears to reduce sliding.
- Beretta's new Deluxe Shooting Glasses feature replacement nosepieces, nylon case and three interchangeable lenses in smoke, vermilion and yellow.
2The part of a microscope to which the objective lenses are attached.
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Home Protect Personal Devices & Data Protect Your Data What is Encryption?
What Is Encryption?
Encryption "scrambles" data in a way that it can only be read by someone who possesses the corresponding decryption key. If unauthorized individuals obtain access to a device with encrypted data, but do not have the decryption key, they see only random "gibberish" instead of sensitive data.
Besides actually protecting confidential data from unauthorized disclosure, encryption has the added benefit of saving you the cost and embarrassment of having to notify potentially affected individuals when your mobile device is lost, stolen, confiscated etc. Because a properly implemented encryption solution is recognized as an adequate protection mechanism against even the most determined attacker, most notification laws provide for an exemption if sensitive data on a lost or stolen device is encrypted. Due to the high costs and negative publicity of notification along with the potential fines and legal ramifications associated with a sensitive data breach, encryption of sensitive data is often cost justified.
First, decide on the general approach you want to take. Broadly speaking, there are two options: Use the encryption solution(s) that are already built in to the device(s) you use, or opt for a third-party "add on" solution. Our recommendation is to take the built-in approach unless the range of different mobile devices results in so many different "built-in" solutions that it exceeds some usable and manageable number. For example, if you are a lone researcher storing sensitive data on a laptop, use the encryption solution that is already built in to that laptop.
It is essential to encrypt data that is both at rest and in motion. 1 Encryption mitigates the most prevalent threats associated with mobile devices. Encrypting data at rest mitigates the disclosure of data when a mobile device is lost or stolen. Encrypting data in motion mitigates the threats (e.g., eavesdropping) associated with the transmission of sensitive data over insecure public networks that mobile devices often connect to.
Encryption, of course, does not address every mobile device concern. For example, encryption does nothing to prevent a mobile device from being lost or stolen in the first place. This FAQ talks about other safeguards that can be used in conjunction with encryption to address a range of mobile device concerns.
Using a "boot" (BIOS) password and/or account password along with a password-protected screensaver is a recommended best practice for keeping honest people honest. These "boot" or logon passwords, however, do nothing to prevent an individual from accessing a hard drive if they want to. All an "interested" individual needs to do to bypass a boot password is to put the hard drive in another machine. All that is needed to bypass an account password is to insert a different boot disk. In short, passwords provide no protection when physical security is breached as in the case of a stolen, lost, or confiscated device.
Besides actually protecting confidential data from unauthorized disclosure, encryption has the added benefit of saving you the cost and embarrassment of having to notify potentially affected individuals when your mobile device is lost, stolen, confiscated etc. Because a properly implemented encryption solution is recognized as an adequate protection mechanism against even the most determined attacker, most notification laws provide for an exemption if sensitive data on a lost or stolen device is encrypted. Due to the high costs and negative publicity of notification along with the potential fines and legal ramifications associated with a sensitive data breach, encryption of sensitive data is often cost justified.
Deciding on an encryption solution can depend on a lot of factors. Some decision points such as usability, cost, and platform support are easy to understand. Other decision factors, such as algorithm support are complicated but less interesting because, in the end, different solutions will support the same techniques. One influential parameter that is worth understanding further, however, is the approach used to secure the files on disk. The two competing philosophies are File/Folder-level encryption and Full-Drive encryption.
The benefit most often cited for full-drive encryption over file/folder-level encryption is that full-drive encryption leaves less doubt about whether all instances of sensitive data were actually encrypted. This is because operating systems and applications write data in caches, temp directories, page files, hibernation files and other areas that are difficult to identify let alone selectively encrypt. Furthermore, humans make mistakes. Users may simply forget to store sensitive data in the right (encrypted) folder. Techniques and solutions exist to mitigate all of these file\folder-level shortcomings, but such solutions are typically only viable in "managed" environments where the mobile devices are managed by an IT department and end-users do not log in with administrative privileges.
First, make sure you have a choice.2 Your unit, or authoritative compliance office, may already mandate a specific encryption approach. If the File/Folder versus Full-Drive approach has not already been decided, we offer the following guidance:
If both approaches are available for the effectively the same cost 3, then use the full-drive encryption approach.
However, if the cost of full-drive encryption significantly outweighs the cost of file/folder level encryption, then that cost needs to be weighed against the likelihood and incremental impact of the lost or stolen laptop. When considering this tradeoff we offer these baseline recommendations:
Full-drive encryption is recommended for regulated environments because, as explained in the answer to the previous question, full-drive encryption reduces doubts that people (users, administrators, auditors, investigators, customers, research subjects etc.) have regarding the possible exposure of sensitive data when the device is lost or stolen. In fact, in Japan, only the full-drive encryption approach is recognized as sufficient for avoiding notification when a device containing private personal information is lost or stolen.
That being said, highly "managed" environments—those run by an IT department supporting end users that do not have administrative rights—may be able to successfully deploy a policy-based file/folder level encryption solution even for regulated or other highly sensitive data. For these environments, a good centrally managed policy-based file-folder encryption solution may be as transparent and demonstrably comprehensive as the full-disk encryption approach, but the IT department should convince themselves of that.
1 Data at rest is data that is stored on some physical storage media like a hard disk, flash drive, or DVD. Data in motion refers to data that is traveling as packets through a network (e.g., as an email makes its way across the internet). Note that data on a thumb drive is considered data at rest even though the thumb drive itself may be mobile.
2 File/folder and full-drive encryption are not necessarily mutually exclusive. However, this FAQ does not discuss using both approaches simultaneously because this FAQ is concerned primarily with the threat of information disclosure due to a lost, stolen, or confiscated laptop and either approach may be used, by itself, to mitigate this threat.
3 Cost includes administrative, operational and performance costs in addition to outright hardware and software costs.


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Yahoo! Pipes and Global GlassFish Aquarium ...
By bloggerkedar on Sep 30, 2007
This post is based on two facts:
- It (Web 2.0?) has definitely started to change how we look at the Web. It is a collaboration of various technologies that is ultimately going to make the Internet a better place for everyone.
- Translation is probably still a topic of active research.
I am trying to suggest an approach to translate TheAquarium into various languages so that developers around the globe can experience it and get benefited by GlassFish technologies.
Yahoo! Pipes is an interesting technology but I am not going to delve into it because there are various resources that help you get started with it. When I looked into it, the first thought that came to my mind was to use it for GlassFish and then I saw the translation module. It sort of guided me into defining the pipes as shown in attached graphic.
This shows the pipe that takes the English feed from feedburner (which is rather weird) and then translates the titles into French and creates the list.
Here is the English-French TheAquarium Pipe I published.
My French friends are going to be happy with me.
I bet this technique can be exploited to translate the entire posts so that Global Developers are attracted to TheAquarium. We might not need the Language Buttons any more (although they serve a slightly different purpose).
Isn't the Web (ever) burgeoning?


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Pens Take Children Shopping for "Project Bundle-Up"
Wednesday, 11.9.2011 / 3:21 PM ET / Features
By Michelle Crechiolo
The Penguins took some time after practice on Wednesday to participate in the Salvation Army's "Project Bundle-Up" at the Dick's Sporting Goods located at The Mall at Robinson.
Every player made an appearance at the event, which was hosted by Dick's – the Penguins' corporate sponsor – for the fifth straight year. Each player was paired with a local middle school child (or two children in some cases) and helped them pick out new winter clothing as part of the annual "Penguins Personal Shopping Day."
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"My favorite part is the looks on their faces. They smile. They're excited," forward Evgeni Malkin said, who was paired with 10-year-old Osman. "We're just happy to help. To see the kids smile just one time, it's unbelievable."
In a neat twist, Osman was actually born in Russia before moving to the U.S. at the age of four.
And while he's not fluent in the language, Osman does know a little bit of Russian and was able to exchange a few pleasantries with his favorite player.
"(Malkin) said, 'how are you,' in Russian and I said, 'I'm good,' in Russian," Osman said.
Added Malkin, "Osman speaks a little bit of Russian. He's a good guy. We did some shopping and bought some good clothes. I had a great time."
Malkin and the rest of the Penguins traveled around the store with their little buddies gathering the essentials the children will need as the weather grows chillier here in Western Pennsylvania. Fighting the cold winter months is the reason why the Salvation helped launch Project Bundle-Up in the first place. Every year, children from families that are less fortunate are ensured that they won't be cold during the long winter.
The kids, who were selected by the Salvation Army, are provided with essential winter clothing – jackets, hats, gloves, boots, scarves, etc. – and as an added bonus, they get to pick out their new winter wear with a Penguins player.
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"You don't want to be out there freezing, you want them to be able to go outside, play and enjoy it. I think by being bundled up like that and having all of the essentials is a key part to it. So to be a part of it has been awesome."
Like Sullivan, Pascal Dupuis has four young children – including three little girls.
He's had a lot of experience taking his daughters to the store, so it worked out perfectly that he was paired with a vivacious little six-year-old named Arissa. The two had a blast picking out clothing that was all in her favorite color – pink.
"How'd we do? We do good?," Dupuis asked his little partner that he dubbed 'a pretty princess,' adding, "A lot of pink stuff. Pretty much everything is pink in there except for the boots, but we still got pink on the boots."
Arissa instantly took to Dupuis, even climbing up to sit on his knee while he knelt down to her size during the interview so she could give him a big hug – which warmed the Penguins winger's heart.
"We had a great time. It was perfect," he smiled.
That just goes to show that while the kids are bursting with excitement to spend time with the Penguins, the players are just as happy to spend some quality time with their little counterparts.
"It's always fun," captain Sidney Crosby said. "We always have some good laughs with (the kids). It's always a fun event."


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Capacity vs. Performance: A Symbiotic Relationship for NAS
When thinking about symbiosis, my first thought takes me to my seventh grade science class; however, symbiosis can be applied to many fields, even network storage. Advancements in tiered storage allow storage administrators to match data to the right media. It can be very effective, but is it efficient? The answer is unequivocally, yes.
Compared to traditional storage, where data is stored on the same media, tiered storage is significantly more efficient. However, efficiency is a relative term and has to be looked at over time. Tiered storage may be efficient today, but in six months data could have grown substantially and what was once the right size storage may not fit any longer. This forces designers to over-design arrays, plan for the possibility that the tier 0 storage may be inadequate or that data may need to come from disks as opposed to SSDs. The primary role of these systems is to store data – a capacity layer. Once additional features are added, including "tiering" software (policies that dictate what goes where), you have a system that, although better than older designs, could benefit from better efficiency. These systems execute multiple processes, processes that can consume inordinate amount of resources and can actually conflict with each other. The primary role of this capacity layer is to store data, but the challenge is that we're throwing more and more data into the mix, expecting this layer to do more.
While this capacity layer is adequate, imagine having another layer that sits alongside it and complements it. This layer isn't encumbered with the overhead and duties of storing data; its role is to accelerate data movement with maximum efficiency – a performance layer. By using such a layer, you can be much more efficient in how much capacity layer infrastructure you use. In fact, you'll probably need much less of it. This performance layer can help you cost effectively scale storage, while delivering performance. And, the payback can come in two ways: it may actually allow work to be completed faster and hence contribute to revenue generation and two; it can reduce costs, capital, power, space, and cooling. And it does this by taking advantage of the NAS that you already have.
In a symbiotic relationship, the performance layer takes on data movement which otherwise could slow down the capacity layer. This allows the capacity layer to focus on storing additional data. Both layers complement each other in maximizing the NAS storage capacity you currently have, while improving performance – something that even my seventh grade science teacher would appreciate.


text: Wikipedia & PR: Still not a match made in heaven Sally Yates | 3 Feb 2012, 12:24 PM Comments: 0 With around 4 million edits per month and approaching two million articles, the English Wikipedia site is a hotbed of contention – especially when it comes the PR world. And the raging debate as to whether PRs should edit their clients' entries shows no signs of abating. Part of the problem in the past seems to have been Wikipedia's unwillingness to have a proper debate on it. Yes, there have been some abuses by some unscrupulous PRs but that's by far, far the minority – and they've been called out. The majority of us are ethical and want access to right inaccuracies, the same as any other user. Last month Phil Gomes set up CREWE – Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement. It's a brave attempt to get the discussion on the table once and for all. There's a Facebook page to join as well. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, last made a comment about Wikipedia and PR back in 2006, where he was clearly anti PRs have any editing rights to corporate pages. The good news is that Jimmy has re-engaged with the PR industry - see some of his comments in a recent Forbes article. It's worth us all keeping in the loop on this one as it could bear fruit. Share this post


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Trouble in Britney Spears-Jason Trawick paradise?
"Britney was rude to the waitress and then started arguing with Jason, saying she'd had enough. He was trying to calm her down, but she wasn't in the mood. They had been sitting down for dinner, but just over 30 minutes into the meal, Britney decided she wanted to leave," the New York Post quoted a spy as saying.
"She headed out of a back door of the hotel, with Jason following, still trying to calm her down. She looked furious. It's clear there is trouble in paradise," she added.
Trawick recently resigned form being the pop star"s manager.


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NEUROTICA by Allison Garwood
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layers of greenbacks might be better suited for SF living
Gets colder further North.
Froze my ears off in SF a few years back. Love that town.
Not so much when they won the World Series last year. People screaming in the street outside my hotel until 4AM. Grump.
Almost killed by a bad lady driver in Chinatown. Again.
Loved The Asian Arts Museum and the Contemporary
Jewish Museum. Missed them the last time I was here.
Meanwhile, out on the plaza, near the church, in front of the CJM I was sitting on the steps smoking a cigar, and noticed that someone had dropped some mary jane nearby. I just pushed it into the bushes. Don't need the problem.
Went up the street and got a Wild Turkey cocktail and still love the city.
p.s. If you are a veteran go to the Top of The Mark at the Mark Hopkins Hotel and sign the veterans book. It is good for a free small drink. The old Sarge is number two in the book. See you there this fall.
The old Sarge
I used to work at a drug and alcohol rehab center two blocks from my house here in SoCal, four blocks from the Pacific. Clients would fly in from the mid west and back east packing nothing but shorts, t shirts and flip flops in the winter like they were going to Hawaii. Boy were they surprised when they stepped out of the terminal at LAX! Good thing most health care facilities have a "boutique" of donated clothing!
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AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination)
What is AVID?
AVID is an academic program designed to increase the rigor of coursework taken by West Potomac students. Every AVID student is in at least one pre-AP, honors or full AP class. AVID provides structure and support to students taking those advanced courses.
The AVID program is designed to have students:
- succeed in a rigorous curriculum (all AVID students take at least one AP/honors course)
- participate in activities of the school
- enroll in four-year colleges
- become educated and responsible participants and leaders in a democratic society
What do we do in the AVID elective class?
- Writing,
- Inquiry,
- Collaboration
- Organization
- And Reading.
- Necessary to be successful in pre-AP and AP classes, and eventually in college.
- Collaborative Inquiry
- Twice a week In the AVID class with professional adult tutors and their peers
- Discuss through questioning the topics they are learning in their other classes
- AVID binder system
- A school agenda
- Cornell Note System
- College and career research activities,
- Field trips
- and guest speakers
- CHALLENGE STUDENTS ABOUT WHO THEY ARE: One of the most important parts of AVID is helping students learn about themselves and make proper choices in life. Many of the AVID class activities, although academic in nature, often force students to reflect on who they are and who they want to become. Pointing students towards their own path to success is always our goal.
AVID Team
|Dana Hubbard, AVID Coordinator
|Kevin McMahon, AVID Administrator
|Adam Riddell - Elective Teacher
|Nicole Borghard - Elective teacher
|Colleen Shea - Elective teacher
|Robert Holloway - Elective teacher
|Rob Kerr - Elective teacher
|Kris Benton - Elective teacher


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The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Friday that production of both beef and pork declined in March from the same month last year.
The USDA said "commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 4.17 billion pounds in March, down 4 percent from the 4.35 billion pounds produced in March 2011."
Beef production, at 2.16 billion pounds, was 5 percent below the previous year, the USDA said. Cattle slaughter totaled 2.75 million head, down 7 percent from March 2011. The average live weight was up 23 pounds from the previous year, at 1,299 pounds.
Calf slaughter totaled 59,400 head, down 19 percent from March 2011. The average live weight was down 1 pound from last year, at 283 pounds.
The USDA also said that the number of cattle on feedlots totaled 11.5 million head on April 1, 2012, two percent above April 1 of last year.
The report noted, however, that placements of newly-arrived calves during March totaled 1.79 million, 6 percent below 2011, which suggests tighter cattle supplies in future months. Cattle normally spend the final three months of their lives on feedlots bulking up to the 1,300 pound slaughter weight.
Prices for cattle and boxed beef fell 7-8 percent last month in part due to worries about the controversy surrounding lean textured beef trimmings, or the pejorative "pink slime." But in the last week the wholesale market has shown signs of a rebound, with boxed beef prices up $1.02 to $188.10 as compared with $178.51 last week at this time.
Pork production totaled 1.99 billion pounds, down 3 percent from the previous year. Hog slaughter totaled 9.52 million head, down 4 percent from March 2011. The average live weight was up 1 pound from the previous year, at 279 pounds.
Iowa, the nation's fifth largest cattle feeding state, saw a 3 percent year-to-year increase in the number of cattle on feed. Iowa trails Texas, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado among cattle feeding states.
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Weathering the Storm: Women In the Financial Crisis
The bleeding stock market has dealt Americans a staggering blow.
On top of the massive loss of wealth — retirement plans alone may have hemorrhaged about $2 trillion over the past year and a half, according to the Congressional Budget Office's "Director's Blog" — jobs have been lost and credit has been threatened.
And while there's no immunity from the ills sweeping the economy, American women seem to be at particular risk.
Consider the following:
On top of persistent pay inequity, concern over women's personal finances is understandable. Results from a recent American Psychological Association survey show that women are "most likely" to report stress related to the economic climate. (See chart at left.)
Journal Women spoke with the chairwoman (Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.) and ranking member (Judy Biggert, R-Ill.) of the U.S. House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit about the possibility of a second economic stimulus package, financial anxiety and security and making a living in tough times.
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On economic stimulus:
Rep. Maloney: I think it's critical for all men and women that we stabilize our economy as quickly as possible. We passed the economic rescue package, and that's just the beginning of the process. We have other measures, including an additional economic stimulus plan, as well as regulatory reform to assure the crisis does not occur again. The second stimulus package should have funds targeted toward childcare.
Rep. Biggert: The President signed the [first] rescue package, and noted that we have to give it awhile to see how that's going to work. I think we should give a little time to see how things are going before we do another stimulus package.
On anxiety and security:
Rep. Maloney: I think that in general women feel more financial anxiety…and I think it's partly due to the continuing gender gap in pay. Women's concerns reflect the reality of their lives.
Rep. Biggert: When I was practicing law I found that particularly with women, when something would happen where they lost their livelihood, they knew nothing about finances. Young women are now much more sophisticated about it, but there are people who don't understand compound interest. Some people have no experience. There's going to be a lot more economic security among women when they take steps [to educate] themselves.
On credit:
Rep. Maloney: I think that even families and women with good credit are finding it much more difficult to take out basic home and car loans and business loans. And as credit card defaults increase, credit card interest rates will soar. That's pretty sobering.
Rep. Biggert: You know one thing about women, and why credit is so important, is that so many women have started businesses on a credit card. And I worry about what's going to happen if a credit crunch really affects credit cards, because that's the last stand for people.
On the economy:
Rep. Maloney: In downturns, with job losses it has usually been men, and the woman's salary has been the one that's the buffer for the family. But after years of struggling for job equality and equality in pay, where we achieved equality is in job loss. Another thing I think is really squeezing families is people are paying $4 a gallon for gas, and $4 a gallon for milk. Families can ill afford to lose a family member's earnings, especially as costs for basics continue to rise.
Rep. Biggert: I think the group of women likely to be hurt first are those who live off of their investment income. I do worry – I think all women would be hurt if the market doesn't [improve]. And I am especially concerned about the single moms who might have lost their homes to foreclosure — it's something you don't think about with foreclosures. We have an economy where women just can't afford to stay at home anymore so there is a need for childcare. I hope that the private sector can really work to do a lot on [child care], not just rely on the government, so that parents can afford to have child care. I'm really glad that my children are grown.
Readers: What do you see as the biggest economic and financial challenges facing women in this tough economic environment? — Ruth Mantell