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LOCK HAVEN — Clinton County Judge J. Michael Williamson has denied a petition by Fabian Smart appealing his murder conviction in the beating death of a Lock Haven area man nine years ago.
Judge Williamson filed the response to Smart's Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act petition on Tuesday.
Smart was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the death of Jason McMann. On Oct. 1, 2007, he filed a motion under the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Collateral Relief Act, asking that the conviction be overturned and that a new trial be held.
Smart is serving his sentence in the State Correctional Institution in Waynesboro.
Judge Williamson rejected all three arguments raised by defense counsel and Smart at a PCRA petition hearing earlier this week:
The defense argued that Smart's trial attorneys were ineffective because they failed to compel forensic tests of victim's fingernail cuttings and a towel found near McMann's body.
Judge Williamson said the decision by attorney Ron Travis and co-counsel Eric Linhardt not to request DNA testing of those materials was based on trial strategy. Travis, who was Smart's attorney at the time of trial, testified he believed it would be "too risky" to seek testing because of the possibility that testing would confirm the involvement of his client in the crime.
"After consideration of all evidence, we are satisfied beyond any question that the strategy was reasonable and intended to be in the best interest of the defendant," Williamson wrote.
Smart also contended that the trial attorneys were ineffective in failing to pursue his claim of racial bias, based upon the information provided by one of the jurors after the trial.
At this week's hearing, Travis said one jury member contacted him after the trial and told him jury members used racial slurs (Smart is black) which were brought up "early and often."
Unfortunately for the defense, Williamson said, the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence provides that, "A juror may not testify as to any matter or statement occurring during the course of the jury's deliberations."
"Because we believe we are precluded from considering the proffered testimony, the defendant's claim must fail," Williamson wrote.
Finally, Smart contends he was entitled to a new trial because of newly discovered evidence, in the form of a trial statement McMann secured a PennDOT photo identification card after the date of his presumed death.
A check by the District Attorney Mike Salisbury and defense counsel David Strouse, who was appointed as special counsel in connection with the legal proceedings, indicated the most recent card issued to the victim was secured at noon Nov. 14, 1998, several months prior to the incident and assumed date of death.
During the trial one witness said McMann had purchased a PennDOT identification card between the date of his death on Jan. 23, 1999, and Groundhog Day on Feb. 2 that same year.
McMann was last seen alive in the winter of 1999 near a home occupied by Lock Haven University students at Center and North Fairview streets, and was reportedly involved in a fight with Smart and others at that location.
Three months after his reported disappearance, McMann's body was found along a stream in a rural section of the county.
Two alleged participants in the event said they helped Smart load McMann into a car, and a third said he and Smart drove to a remote and wooded area near Sugar Valley, where Smart pistol-whipped the unconscious man, struck him with a tree branch and rolled him down a steep incline near a stream, where McMann succumbed to his injuries and exposure to winter weather.
Smart, an LHU student at the time of McMann's death, was arrested in June 2002, and was later convicted of first-, second- and third-degree murder, kidnapping and conspiracy.
Also charged in McMann's death were Willie Williams, Jermaine L. Ballard and Quincy Teel, also Lock Haven University students. All three testified against Smart, eventually pleaded guilty to various offenses and were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their part in the crimes.


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Food-Waste Recycling Faces Hiccups
More States Want to Compost Table Scraps, But Infrastructure to Turn Them Into Fertilizer or Electricity Isn't Ready
JOHNSTON, R.I.—More states want to recycle their food waste instead of dumping it into landfills, but they have run into a snag: The infrastructure needed to turn huge quantities of table scraps into fertilizer or electricity isn't ready.
In Rhode Island, a landfill in this town outside Providence handles most of the 1.5 million tons of garbage the state generates annually. While the Central Landfill isn't forecast to fill up for 25 years, the long and costly task of finding more space is prompting officials instead to try to cut down the trash stream by keeping food waste out of it. But first, they need somewhere to send it.
"I see a nationwide push on this, because it's the biggest segment in the solid waste pile today," said Michael OConnell, executive director of Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corp., the quasi-state body that runs the landfill. But "the infrastructure's not there" for food recycling.
Americans tossed out more than 36 million tons of food in 2012, but less than 5% got recycled, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Much of it ended up rotting in landfills, releasing methane—a potent greenhouse gas—into the atmosphere. That worries officials concerned about climate change.
Most people are willing to try separating their food waste for compost, but they aren't willing to pay more for its disposal that way, according to a recent poll commissioned by the National Waste & Recycling Association, a trade group. In many places, however, it may no longer be optional.
Connecticut, Massachusetts and a number of big cities including New York adopted laws in the past few years that will require food scraps to be separated and recycled by hospitals, supermarkets, college cafeterias and other establishments that generate large amounts of waste. San Francisco in 2009 began requiring all residents and businesses to separate and recycle food waste. Vermont will phase in a similar requirement by 2020.
Rhode Island is among states weighing such rules, designed to encourage large-scale commercial construction of digesters—which convert food waste into fuel used to generate electricity—and composting facilities.
"There is definitely an infrastructure gap between what people would like to do and what they can do," said Cary Oshins, education director at the U.S. Composting Council, which promotes the composting industry.
Many U.S. composting operations are small, and nearly all of the country's anaerobic digesters are designed to treat sewage or manure, not food waste.
State officials say they recognize that bringing new recycling facilities online will take time. The Connecticut and Vermont laws for now exempt businesses located more than 20 miles from a suitable recycling facility. "There's a lot of development that needs to happen to get the infrastructure in place," said David Mears, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation.
Government subsidies are on the table in some communities. Connecticut is offering $6 million in loans or grants for anaerobic digesters. Massachusetts is handing out $1 million in grants. Many states require utilities to supply at least some power from renewable sources, which could nudge companies to buy the electricity made from food waste and provide an additional source of revenue for those projects.
Advocates say the mandates would guarantee a steady supply of raw material for new plants. "It makes the case that we make to our investors to back these projects so much stronger when we have this law," said Amy McCrae Kessler, co-founder of Turning Earth LLC, which plans to build two anaerobic digesters in Connecticut.
In Rhode Island, not everyone is waiting for lawmakers to act. The classroom kitchens at Johnson & Wales University's culinary school in Providence generate a lot of waste, so last year the university leased a digester that students nicknamed "Chewy." Now, students dump leftover food into the silver box, which converts the food into fertilizer over 24 hours.
The university expects the program will eventually pay for itself, because it won't have to pay as much to send trash to the state's Central Landfill.
Chewy also is a teacher of sorts. "Any good chef wants to reduce food waste," said William Idell, a department chairman at the university's College of Culinary Arts.
A recycling bill passed the Rhode Island Senate on Wednesday, and may be taken up soon by the House. It would require establishments that generate the equivalent of two tons of organic waste a week to, starting in 2016, recycle that material if a composting or digesting facility is within 15 miles.
The Ocean State's restaurants, though, have been wary of a recycling mandate. "In concept, this is something we want to address…but we would really like to see the infrastructure in place first, because we have no way of knowing how much this is going to cost," said Rhode Island Hospitality Association President Dale Venturini. "It's like they're going to build the house and build the foundation later."
Even some of the state's longtime recycling advocates are wary. At Earth Care Farm in Charlestown, owner Mike Merner charges people $30 a ton to drop off food scraps that he turns into rich, dark fertilizer. If new anaerobic digesters are encouraged by government subsidies, he worries they might be able to undercut his prices. "If they come in with low, low tipping fees it'll be the death of the compost industry," Mr. Merner said.
But state Rep. Donna Walsh, who is pushing for a food-recycling law in Rhode Island, said there should be more than enough waste to go around. "There is room for small and large facilities in this state," the Democrat said. "I see nothing but positive benefits."
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By Michael Howell
In the wake of Stevensville Mayor Lew Barnett's recent resignation, the Stevensville Town Council began defining the process by which a new mayor would be appointed. At the September 12 council meeting a process was defined and a schedule of procedure established. It involved narrowing the field of six applicants down to those who would be interviewed, defining and scheduling the interviewing process, forming the questions for the applicant interviews, conducting the interviews and making the final selection.
The six applications for appointment to the Mayor's office included Sarah Armijo, Susan Evans, Clayton Floyd, Paul Ludington, Gene Mim Mack, and current Council President and Acting Mayor Pat Groninger.
Public comment at the meeting centered around Council President Pat Groninger's application and how the selection process would work.
Jan Perrin kicked off the public comment session by recounting Groninger's activities as a member of the Stevensville School committee working toward passage of a building bond. Perrin was asked to chair the committee and Groninger asked to be included in the committee.
Perrin learned from the County Attorney that Groninger, without the knowledge of anyone else on the committee, had gone to him questioning the legality of the committee's negotiations with the low bidder on the process. She said Groninger created a great deal of work for the County Attorney, the School Financial Officer, and herself, only to prove the committee was within its legal rights.
"Not only was he not a team player," she said, "but he lost the trust and respect of all involved. I would ask that you give serious consideration before appointing him to any position. In my personal experience he not only lacks leadership skill, but is not a trustworthy team player." She said she had plenty of documentation and records to back up her remarks.
Bitterroot Star publisher Michael Howell stated that although Mayor Barnett had resigned and was gone, the questions he raised in his resignation remained and needed to be answered, particularly the question of who the Town Attorney works for.
Howell raised the issue of Councilor Groninger's accusations against former councilor Clayton Floyd that led to Floyd's censuring by the Council. He noted that the Town Attorney had helped Groninger prepare that document on his own without approval by the Mayor or Council. Howell said his understanding of the law was that only the Council or Mayor could get legal opinions from the Town Attorney and that no individual council member had that authority.
Howell said that when the issue was subsequently brought before the Council, the result was that the Council passed a rule confirming that any employee or councilor could use the Town's Attorney. But following a government workshop, Councilor Dan Mullan returned and said that he had been advised at the workshop that the rule they had passed was probably not legal, since a municipality cannot pass city codes that violate state law. As a result the council repealed that rule.
"This puts us back under state law," said Howell, and he asked the Council to consider making a policy on the matter that was consistent with state law.
Groninger stated that Barnett requested through the town attorney that he (Groninger) proceed with that and that he did so at the request of the Mayor.
Town Attorney Keithi Worthington said that she was contacted by Mayor Barnett on the telephone because he was going out of town on vacation and had concerns about Councilor Floyd's behavior that he wanted to convey and "directed me toward Pat Groninger in his absence." She said that nobody had ever asked her how that transpired. She said afterwards Barnett refused to acknowledge that he had requested that work so in July she sent him an e-mail asking that in the future he put things in writing.
Former councilor Clayton Floyd spoke, defending his actions as a councilor and denying three out of the four allegations that Groninger, with Worthington's help, accused him of. He said the Council owed him an apology.
Mayoral applicant Gene Mim Mack said that he hoped the interviews would be conducted in public. He suggested that the voting issues surrounding the appointment needed to be clarified. He said the fact that Groninger is an applicant and also interviewing applicants raised some questions.
Attorney Worthington said that the interviews would be open to the public. She said that each councilor is allowed to select one nominee to be interviewed and the appointment would be filled by majority vote. As a result the Council could end up interviewing up to four applicants. Or, if each councilor selected the same applicant, only one would be interviewed.
Councilor Mullan said that what he envisioned was a public meeting "where we publicly nominate whoever we want to fill the position." He said he wanted to see as much transparency as possible.
It was noted that candidates would be sequestered from each other's interviews. When the question was raised as to how that would work for Groninger if he was conducting the meeting, Mullan snapped, "He won't." Mullan noted that Groninger did have a vote according to Council rules.
Groninger said he had nothing to do with the process and was not making any suggestions. He said that he would do whatever Council and legal advised on the issue.
Howell asked Groninger, "How could you meaningfully and responsibly vote if you were not at the interviews with the other applicants?"
Groninger said, "I'm going to do what I'm told. If I'm told I'm not going to be there, I'm not going to be there. If I can vote, I'll vote. I might not even nominate myself. You don't know that."
"Let's just say that you are allowed to vote but not to attend the other interviews, " said Howell. "How can you meaningfully vote without having interviewed the other candidates, or witnessed their interviews?"
"I would vote in so far as record and knowledge of that person," said Groninger.
Mullan called it a "cumbersome process, but if it came to a vote he could abstain." The remark drew a round of applause.
In response to a question, Worthington explained that Groninger would have a vote as councilor but would not be able to cast a vote as acting mayor to break a tie in this situation.
Roxanne Stout expressed concern over the notion expressed earlier that each councilor could make one nomination and that if they all nominated the same person only one person would be interviewed for the position.
Dan Severson said that with six applicants for mayor and some of them really good, that the council had the opportunity to go in the right direction.
"It looks like you have some latitude in the way you go about this process so why don't you develop a procedure so you can interview all six applicants," said Severson. "You are throwing away a great opportunity if you just come up with one."
He said the council needed to appoint somebody with leadership ability. He said that he served on Jan Perrin's committee and "for a committee to be undermined by just one person, that really did happen. That's the kind of leadership we don't want."
Mullan told the audience, "It's nice to see your faces. Unfortunately I don't see you very often. It always seems to happen, when there is blood in the water, the sharks show up. When the blood goes away, so do the sharks." He said personal agendas and personal dislikes had no place at the table.
Mullan said that bullying was unacceptable, but that he had not seen any bullying at the table.
"At this point I have not had the opportunity to be made aware. So if those things are happening I think the council should be made aware of that," said Mullan.
Mullan then criticized Councilor Desera Towle, without naming her, for stating publicly that she was resigning and then taking it back. Towle had verbally stated that she was resigning effective September 1 and then had verbally withdrawn her resignation on August 31 after accepting a job locally. In an interview with the Bitterroot Star, Towle said she was relocating because she couldn't find a job here. She also told the paper that she was tired of fellow council member Pat Groninger's tactics, saying he was "untenable to work with" and "a bully."
"It becomes an issue when a person says I am resigning and blames the council for letting bullying happen," said Mullan. "If there are any incidences of bullying then I'd like to be made aware of them so council can take action."
"I have to agree with Dan," said Councilor Robin Holcomb. She criticized Towle for talking to the press and said the public hasn't had a chance to hear the other side.
"I think it's wrong to publicly humiliate someone instead of bringing it to council so we could work things out," she said.
Victoria Howell said that she had been at many meetings and seen the pattern of humiliation, disrespect, and intimidation aimed at Councilor Towle.
"I find it difficult to believe that the three of you can't see it," she said. "I think it's brave of her to come back. She's in the minority on a number of issues, but that is no reason to disrespect her."
Michael Howell said, "About the allegations of intimidation, I've got a bunch of them here from when Groninger was Mayor. Citizens outraged at his behavior started a recall petition and submitted 22 allegations of misconduct which included allegations of harassment, threatening behavior, intimidation, and other displays of anger. The Council should ask him about these allegations when they interview him for Mayor."
Howell noted more recent allegations of intimidation from Justice of the Peace Marty Berkeneder, Groninger's actions in driving Councilor Clayton Floyd from the council, and then Mayor Barnett.
"How many times do you have to hear the word 'intimidation' to realize that there is a problem, of perception if nothing else, but it is a very serious problem and somebody needs to address these numerous charges of intimidation on this man's part," said Howell.
Mullan said he had been on the Council for 14 months and has seen lots of rude behavior but if he is going to clean up his own house then he will clean it up.
"But I don't need to get blamed, not in the newspaper, let's try to fix things here ourselves," said Mullan. "Maybe I'm all wet, I don't know."
Howell responded, "If you were unaware of all these allegations then what does it take to make you aware? The public is aware and has been for a long time. We watched him beat up on Clayton Floyd till he quit. We watched him beat up on the Mayor till he quit. We watched all of this, and where were you?"
Roxanne Stout reiterated that Groninger had been recalled as mayor and then elected as council person.
"Shame on us for electing you to the city council," she said. "We don't want you for Mayor again." She said that if the council picked him for Mayor that a recall effort would begin immediately.
"People are going to start signing those and we are going to start asking you not to be mayor again," she said.
Ken Bransby, a Stevensville attorney, said that a person with a perceived conflict of interest usually recuses himself from voting. "Your sitting on the council and also running as an applicant seems like a conflict of interest."
Christa Wortman said that she had been to a majority of meetings in the last 15 months and not seen any bullying or any evidence of what people are talking about.
"I would support you to sit in that chair again," she said to Groninger.
A few more pleas were made to interview all the candidates. A move was made by Councilor Towle to suspend the rules and interview all the candidates, but the motion died due to lack of a second.
"The old saying is, don't believe everything you hear, or read," said Groninger. He said that Roxanne was "a nice, upstanding person" but that she had failed to ask him if "the lies being put out there are true." He said his door was open 24/7 and he was available to talk at any time.
Groninger said that he was not here to bash Lew Barnett. "I still cannot say anything bad about Barnett," said Groninger, but then proceeded to say that Barnett was a liar.
"Here's the facts," said Groninger. "You want to believe the lies? Believe the lies. Because that's what they are. You want to believe the press? That's what they do, they write. For the record, I did not forcefully pursue Clayton Floyd." He said that he was asked by the Mayor and legal counsel to do it.
He said that the only thing he has done as interim Mayor is, "I've allowed our police department and our clerk and any council person to notify legal counsel anytime they see fit."
"It's embarrassing that the only time we have a packed house is when there's blood. You want to believe the lies? Believe the lies. You want to ask me about the lies? Ask me. But don't judge me if all you want to do is sit back there and do your thing. And I say this to all, not specifically to any individual, have the respect for this table, have respect for our clerk and our office and our employees. That's all I want to say and I will not take any questions."
Later in the meeting Town Clerk Sue Gibson asked if she could speak and said, "I've been sitting here listening to this crap all night and I have been quiet." She remarked how petty the discussion seemed compared to the serious events of 9/11 which were just celebrated.
"And so I just want to say, as a recovering alcoholic, that you have to forget about what happened in the past and you've got to move forward because you are going to have your opinion and no one is going to change it. So let's move forward," said Gibson.
At a subsequent meeting on September 13, Groninger, as acting Mayor, scoffed at the need to do a roll call for council attendance, but relented when the clerk insisted.
Councilor Towle raised the issue of the limit on each councilor to nominate only one applicant for interviewing. She noted that the Council Rule that defined the policy for filling a vacancy did not include such a limitation.
Attorney Worthington disagreed, saying that the issue had already been discussed and decided. She said the interpretation, though not actually spelled out, was a "reasonable" interpretation of the rule.
Towle said simply, "You gave us false information."
Then, without discussion, each councilor announced the name of the applicant they chose to interview. Councilors Mullan and Holcomb both named Gene Mim Mack. Towle selected Clayton Floyd. Groninger nominated former mayor Susan Evans to be interviewed. Groninger also resisted taking any public comment at the meeting, stating that none was required since the business was over and there was nothing to comment on. Groninger finally relented and said, "O.K., let's chat."
Howell said that, without getting into questions of intent, the limitations set on selecting applicants to interview were presented incorrectly at the last meeting, because the limitations are not in the rule. He said that allowing each councilor to make two selections would be just as logical.
The interviews of Mim Mack, Evans and Floyd were to be conducted on Monday, September 19. The appointment of a new Mayor will take place on Wednesday, September 21, at 6 p.m. The swearing in of the new mayor is scheduled for Thursday, September 22, at 10 a.m.


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I am a research fellow working on quantum machine learning, computational methods in quantum correlations and quantum simulations, and scalable learning algorithms on supercomputers. Trained as a mathematician and computer scientist, I received my PhD from the National University of Singapore. I have been involved in major EU research projects, and obtained several national and industry grants. Currently I work in the Quantum Information Theory group in ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences. I have been affiliated with the University of Borås since 2010. I did longer research stints at several institutions, including the Indian Institute of Science, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Tsinghua University, the Centre for Quantum Technologies in the National University of Singapore, and the Quantum Information Group in the University of Tokyo.
Apart from my academic pursuits, I am also a member of the NUS Overseas Colleges Alumni, a society promoting entrepreneurship. I have been involved in various startups, I serve as the chief of quantum machine learning in the Creative Destruction Lab in the University of Toronto and I am a technology advisor to Fuzzie.
Research Interests
Quantum machine learning: The intersection of quantum computing and machine learning is an emergent research topic with exciting new possibilities for learning theory. Apart from reduced time complexity of quantum learning algorithms, generalization performance may also improve compared to classical optimization methods.
Computational methods in quantum physics: The inherent complexity of quantum mechanics implies simulations with a limited scope even on a supercomputer. Novel algorithms may allow researchers to model far more intricate systems in the near future. Topics include obtaining upper and lower bounds on the ground state and calculating the evolution of quantum systems.
Machine learning with high-performance computers: The range of machine learning algorithms is diverse, but effective ones come with high computational requirements. To scale them to real-world applications, a high degree of parallelism is an inevitable requirement. Machine learning on HPC resources investigates algorithms that scale in an embarrassingly parallel environment, such as a distributed GPU cluster.
Current Projects
Approximating the Ground State of a Many-Particle Quantum System with Semi-Definite Relaxations (2013-2016): Identifying the ground state of a many-particle system whose interactions are described by a Hamiltonian is an important problem in quantum physics. During the last decade, different relaxations of the previous Hamiltonian minimization problem have been proposed. Interestingly, they provide lower bound the ground-state energy, complementing the upper bounds that are obtainable using variational methods. These algorithms can be understood as lower levels of a general hierarchy of semi-definite programming (SDP) relaxations for non-commutative polynomial optimization. The main goal is to identify physically relevant situations in which SDP relaxations beat any of the existing numerical methods to establish lower bounds to the ground-state energy and, in particular, exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian. Sponsored by European Commission Seventh Framework Programme under Grant Agreement Number FP7-601138 PERICLES, by the ERC grant QITBOX, by the Red Española de Supercomputación and by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing.
Pericles (2013-2017): Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving Semantics (Pericles) is an integrated project in which academic and industrial partners have come together to investigate the challenge of preserving complex digital information in dynamically evolving environments, to ensure that it remains accessible and useful for future generations. We address contextuality and scalability within the project. Contextuality refers to probabilistic framework that considers the broader and narrower context of the data within a quantum-like formulation, whereas scalability allows executing algorithms on massive data sets using heterogeneous accelerator architectures. Funded by European Commission Seventh Framework Programme.
Past Projects
ChiP-SL (2013-2014): Big data asks for scalable algorithms, but scalability is just one aspect of the problem. Many applications also require the speedy processing of large volumes of data. Examples include supporting financial decision making, advanced services in digital libraries, mining medical data from magnetic resonance imaging, and also analyzing social media graphs. The velocity of machine learning is often boosted by deploying GPUs or distributed algorithms, but rarely both. We are developing high-performance supervised and unsupervised statistical learning algorithms that are accelerated on GPU clusters. Since the cost of a GPU cluster is high and the deployment is far from being trivial, the project Cloud for High-Performance Statistical Learning (ChiP-SL) enables the verification, rapid dissemination, and quick adaptation of the algorithms being developed. Funded by Amazon Web Services.
Trotter-Suzuki Approximation (2012): The Trotter-Suzuki decomposition leads to an efficient algorithm for solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation and the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Using existing highly optimized CPU and GPU kernels, we developed a distributed version of the algorithm that runs efficiently on a cluster. Our implementation also improves single node performance, and is able to use multiple GPUs within a node. The scaling is close to linear using the CPU kernels, whereas the efficiency of GPU kernels improve with larger matrices. We also introduced a hybrid kernel that simultaneously uses multicore CPUs and GPUs in a distributed system. This project was a research visit to the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre funded by HPC-EUROPA2.
SQUALAR (2011): High-performance computational resources and distributed systems are crucial for the success of real-world language technology applications. The novel paradigm of general-purpose computing on graphics processors offers a feasible and economical alternative: it has already become a common phenomenon in scientific computation, with many algorithms adapted to the new paradigm. However, applications in language technology do not readily adapt to this approach. Recent advances show the applicability of quantum metaphors in language representation, and many algorithms in quantum mechanics have already been adapted to GPU computing. Scalable Quantum Approaches in Language Representation (SQUALAR) aimed to match quantum-inspired algorithms with heterogeneous computing to develop new formalisms of information representation for natural language processing. Co-funded by Amazon Web Services.
SHAMAN (2010-2011) was an integrated project on large-scale digital preservation. As part of the preservation framework, advanced services aid the discovery of archived digital objects. These services are based on machine learning and data processing, which in turn asks for scalable distributed computing models. Given the requirements for reliability, the project took a middleware approach based on MapReduce to perform computationally demanding tasks. Since memory organizations which are involved in digital preservation potentially lack the necessary infrastructure, a high-performance cloud computing component was also developed. Funded by Framework Programme 7.


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Microsoft's new Surface Pro is tough to pigeonhole. Is it a tablet that doubles as a laptop? A teeny laptop that doubles as a tablet? An upgrade to last fall's Surface RT that runs actual Windows 8? A svelte solution to the age-old hassle of taking work home or on a plane?
On the surface, here's the Pro: an $899 tablet that, with a couple nifty add-ons, morphs into a $1,100 micro-laptop. With its sharp, HD display and Windows 8's "live tile" apps, the touch-screen tablet will keep its owner engaged for four or five hours without a power cord. Outfitted with a $130 compact "Type" keyboard and a tiny $70 "Wedge" mouse, the Surface Pro is a laptop suitable for nearly any professional use.


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Name of website or photo Just Peachy Blossom Square
What materials did you use? Hobby Lobby's I Love This Yarn/ Light Pink, Pale Green, Pale Yellow, White
What are you most proud of? Putting this together in the length of time I had to complete it. I did 30 squares with an I hook. They are 7" each with an H hook so mine are a little over 7". The pattern calls for 5 colors - I used 4 in my square - pink, yellow, green and white. I did not write down the edging I used ( dumb!) and cannot remember even where I got the edging pattern from.
i looked for the pattern and couldnt find it but i have to admit im also new to the site.
Once you get to the pattern page scroll way down and you'll see the Just Peachy Blossom Square. It closer to the bottom than the top, probably 3/4 or so down the page
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Zoe Kazan woke up one morning with an idea. "I quickly got down as much as I could - five pages or so," she recalls.
And then she showed it to her boyfriend, Paul Dano. The two actors live together in Brooklyn.
"Paul said, 'You're writing this for us, right?'
"And it hadn't occurred to me," she says, "because these characters felt so real that I was just concentrating on them. But when he said that, I thought, Yeah, obviously I am. So I wrote the rest of the screenplay with us in mind."
That screenplay, finished in the spring of 2010 and called He Loves Me, and then The Girlfriend, before coming around to Ruby Sparks, is an ingenious comedy fantasy romance. It stars Kazan in the title role, and Dano as a novelist who enjoyed huge success with his literary debut - published when he was all of 19. Now, 10 years on, he's grappling with a crippling case of writer's block.


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- Hometown: Oneida, New York
Adam has played a role in helping the university envision its future as it makes big plans for growth in the coming years.
Adam Blair came to UB intending to major in mechanical engineering, but knew to keep his mind open. "I came to UB because of its size—I wanted to make sure I had other degree options and that I wouldn't be limited." Wise move: After exploring those options, he realized that he was more interested in the social and political sides of engineering. So he met with RJ Multari, director of advisement at UB's School of Architecture and Planning. "He was really inspiring, and he told me a lot of things about environmental design, a lot of things I'd never known." Once he'd committed to environmental design, Adam looked for ways to put his studies to practical use.
He heard about Professor Robert Shibley's Urban Design Project, which was doing some work for the university's master plan for growth, a component of UB 2020. The idea of taking part really excited him. On a whim, he asked if they were taking on interns. One quick interview and he was hired. On the project, Adam created GIS maps of the new campus master plan and contributed to studies that have helped shape the plan's overall framework.
Adam and Susan Cronin working with emissions monitoring equipment during bus testing for Erie County.
But Adam's interests go beyond the built environment and into transportation's impact on public health. That's why he became involved in a collaborative research project to help reduce bus emissions for a local school district. With county funding, the group installed monitoring equipment on buses and tested their emissions systems before making recommendations on ways to improve their performance. "The retrofits we did definitely reduced the levels of toxic material—but there's more work to do," he says.
Even closer to home, he also helped analyze the emissions of UB's own shuttle fleet. "We tested the emissions of the Stampede running on diesel and then running on biodiesel, and biodiesel burns cleaner," he says. "Even a small blend will help."
Adam and the Urban Renewal Student Association in New Orleans to renovate homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Now Adam has joined with some UB graduate students to create Buffalo Car Share, a nonprofit, community-based car sharing program funded in part by the New York State Department of Transportation. Currently more than 200 members share seven cars, helping to reduce fuel emissions while they enjoy convenient and affordable transportation. The team is working on expanding to the Amherst campus so that UB students without cars will have even greater access to the city.
According to Adam, Buffalo is an ideal place to study—and practice—urban design. Once he started at UB, he immediately loved the city. It deeply enhances the learning experience, offering opportunities you won't get from a lot of other places and smaller schools.
"There's a lot of history in the architecture, and there's a lot more passion in this area for good design and good planning," he's noticed. And he finds no greater evidence of this than in Buffalo's park system, particularly Delaware Park. "We're lucky to have the Olmsted parks system, which is rare for a lot of cities," he says. "I can definitely see myself coming back here to work."
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Today in labor history: Great Hawaiian Dock Strike
Today in labor history in 1949 the Great Hawaiian Dock Strike, a six-month struggle to win wage parity with mainland dock workers, ends in victory.
U.S.A. May Day: We are Chinese, Arab, Filipino, Latino...all people, together
SAN FRANCISCO - Thousands of immigrants and their supporters marched across northern California May 1, calling for legalization of all undocumented immigrants, an end to deportations, reunification of families, labor rights and fair wages, and an end to human trafficking.
Lack of paid sick days fueling record flu epidemic
Workers in almost every industry are reporting that people all around them are sick.
Republicans take the "Walk of Shame" in Michigan
Before they were sworn in this morning, legislators got an earful as they approached the Capitol.
Year ends with 7.8 percent jobless rate
The U.S. ended 2012 with a 7.8 percent jobless rate in December, unchanged from the month before and down 0.7 percent from the end of 2011.
N. Calif. registered nurses still fighting Sutter takeaways
For the seventh time since fall 2011, registered nurses were walking picket lines at eight Sutter Health facilities in northern California.
Sharp partisan split on labor's issues
The voting records on labor-selected issues in the second session of the 112 Congress reflect, as might be expected, the sharp partisan split between the two major political parties.
Unions reach agreement with Verizon
The Communications Workers of America and the Electrical Workers (IBEW) have reached a tentative agreement on a contract with Verizon.
Mill owner cheats on jobs, wages in biomass project
Building trades workers were hoping for desperately needed union-wage jobs when Nippon Corporation announced plans to build a $71 million biomass cogeneration plant.
Connecticut labor builds political movement
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The web-slinging super hero goes next-gen.
UK Video Game Chart: Forza 2 in pole position
Forza Motorsport 2 has become the third fastest selling Xbox 360 title so far and enters the chart at No.1.
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PS3 release of Spider-man 3 ensures movie tie-in makes it three straight weeks at the top.
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Spider-man 3 continues to hang-out at the top of the chart, fending off strong competition from Command & Conquer 3.
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Donkey-milk cheese is not thought to have many fans. But the few it does have are likely to be sadder than Eeyore to discover that all of next year's output has been bought by Novak Djokovic.
Vans are serving up classy dishes from authentic burritos to luxury chocolates. Alice-Azania Jarvis steps aboard
A donkey that was forced to go parasailing by her keeper last summer, causing worldwide revulsion, has died. The 18-year-old animal, named Anapka, suffered a heart attack after falling ill in December, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said.
In so many ways it was fitting that Pakistan headed west yesterday. That was exactly where their cricket appears to have been going for most of the past decade.
In finest Fleet Street tradition, 'The Sun' raced to the rescue of this poor animal. But, as David Randall discovers, a donkey is not just for the silly season ...
Israeli blockade leaves animals starving and owners with no choice but to sell up
You wouldn't have picked her out as the ideal holiday companion. Yes, she was pretty and petite, with soulful eyes and beguiling eyelashes. But Salomé was also narrow-minded, with a strident voice, crooked teeth, a curious body odour and a broad, hairy backside.
The Hottest Place on Earth, BBC1<br />Red Riding, Channel 4
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Apologies if maybe too specific a question but just wanted to try asking if anyone might know where I might be able to find more info etc.
In May this year a flew with my aunt to Madeira (Funchal) from Gatwick, flying with Thomson. From the flight plans I found (from Fs) the route was meant to take a Southampton departure and then fly over France and Portugal a little but from what I remember looking out the window we took off from runway 8R, made the left turn to head west and kept heading west more towards Cornwall and the West coast before heading directly over sea all the way to Madeira.
Was just wondering if anyone else might know this route or have flown it etc. and what routing it might have taken. I'm pretty sure we didn't depart via Southampton but can't find any other SID where the departure is to the West (the KENET SID I think is close but has a turn to the north-west which I'm pretty sure we didn't make).
Also a few years ago we flew to Tampa with British Airways. Again from what I remember the flight took off from 27L and then just flew straight out direct towards Newquay where we started the TransAtlantic crossing. However again I don't think we flew to Southampton (though maybe I'm mistaken) but there doesn't seem to be any other SID which flies directly West.
Again apologies if probably too specific a question but just wondering in case anyone might have more experience with such routings etc. (if it wasn't so nerdish and probably annoying I should have asked the pilots maybe!).
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May 3, 2013
Saint Vincent College will present three planetarium shows this summer and fall in the Angelo J. Taiani Planetarium and Astronaut Exhibit in the Sis and Herman Dupré Science Pavilion on the campus of Saint Vincent College. Admission is free and open to the public. The one-hour shows, all scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., include Early Summer Sky Show and Oasis in Space on Saturday, June 8; Mid-Summer Sky Show and Two Small Pieces of Glass on Saturday, July 20; and Late Summer Sky Show and IBEX—Search for the Edge of the Solar System on Saturday, Sept. 14. The shows are conducted by one of the faculty members in astronomy from the College's Department of Physics, Dr. John Smetanka or Dr. Daniel Vanden Berk. Selected deep sky objects – star clusters, nebula and galaxies – will be viewed along with simulated trips to planets and moons in the solar system. The shows will end with a 25-minute theatrically-produced full-dome immersive video. A second, 30-minute show appropriate for children age 3 to 10, The Sky Over Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, will be presented at 12:30 p.m. on each date. The show will explore the sky with Mr. Rogers and the animated characters from the land of make believe. Because of limited seating, advance reservations are requested and may be made by contacting the Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Computing at 724 805-2631. Private shows for groups of 15 to 35 people may also be scheduled at other times by contacting the Boyer School. Scout groups who wish to fulfill requirements for merit badges are especially encouraged to make appointments. The Angelo Taiani Planetarium and Astronaut Exhibit is the centerpiece of the glass-walled atrium entrance to the Dupré Pavilion. The state-of-the-art planetarium was made possible by a gift from Angelo Taiani, a 1948 graduate of Saint Vincent who enjoyed a successful career as an aerospace engineer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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We have some wonderful deals (or I prefer great value) homes here in Perris to fit many different needs, ranging from New Home Construction to older homes in established communities. Of course it's all relative. and depends on how you define a "great deal".
I am a realtor who has sold homes in Perris and also purchased a home here. If I can be of further assistance please contact me.
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What a difference a week makes.
After Week 9, I wrote that the Chicago Bears were more playoff-ready than the Houston Texans.
Boy, was I wrong.
The Texans proved that not only are they ready to make a strong push to the 2012 NFL playoffs, but they also proved they might be the best team in the NFL right now.
The Bears, on the other hand, proved they can be exploited by a dominant defensive front, and their Week 11 matchup at Candlestick Park on Monday Night Football against the San Francisco 49ers will be a season-defining game.
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A Rich Do-gooder Named Winthrop Turns Detective to Solve a Brutal Murder
Beekman Winthrop and Wallace Youmans never met, and would have had little to say to each other if they had. Youmans was a poor, unskilled 18-year-old black who was shot down one night in 1970, apparently without motive, as he walked past a white-owned grocery store in the small town of Fairfax, Allendale County, South Carolina. No charges were filed, and the case seemed headed for obscurity until 1972, when a mortally ill former Fairfax constable confessed that he and five other unnamed white men had committed the crime. According to the constable's statement, all six had agreed to kill the first black man who passed by—in apparent retaliation for the wounding of a white man the week before. Despite the "deathbed" confession, state officials unaccountably still failed to take action.
Winthrop read a newspaper story about the case while vacationing with his wife and infant son at their new $100,000 home on the family's Groton plantation in Allendale County. The plantation consists of 25,000 acres, fully one-tenth of the county, and is owned by Winthrop's father Nathaniel and two uncles. Part of the land is rented to tenant farmers, but much is kept as a hunting and vacation preserve. The estate has been in the family since the turn of the century, and "Beek" Winthrop has spent long vacations there since he was a child. Although he lives most of the year in Washington, D.C., Winthrop does not consider himself an outsider in South Carolina.
The newspaper account disturbed Winthrop, and he began to make inquiries. Over the next 18 months he spent some $4,500 of his own money in a lonely and at times monomaniacal quest for justice. The cost in emotional terms was far greater. During his investigation he was threatened, arrested, harassed and often reduced to despair. His nerves frayed, he needed tranquilizers to go to sleep. Yet he persisted because, as he puts it: "The Youmans case was my opportunity to step in and make a difference."
There is little in Beek Winthrop's background to suggest the relentless crusader. Wrapped in purple since the cradle, he earned two degrees at Columbia, studied for the church at Harvard, married a Vassar girl and gravitated to Washington, where he works as a consultant for a nonprofit antipoverty organization called the Center for Community Change, which he also helps support. (The Winthrop family fortune came from banking.)
In his elegant Georgetown house with his wife, baby, three dogs and two cats, Winthrop enjoyed the easygoing life of the well-bred do-gooder. Even in his student days, he did not join any radical groups, nor was there anything of the malcontent in his nature. But if he was not a maker of waves, Winthrop was very much a moralist, and his wealth had made him uneasy. "I have always felt somewhat guilty about my circumstances," he said once. "I felt some obligation to make something of myself."
Once he had committed himself to the Youmans case, it became an obsession. He badgered the U.S. Justice Department and South Carolina officials to reopen the inquiry, interviewed potential witnesses and wrote a 110-page report called "Fatal Shooting of Wallace Youmans, May 16, 1970." Finally, he got results. Citing Winthrop's "sheer persistence," the Justice Department reopened the case in October of last year. Later, and with some reluctance, state agencies also took up the investigation, and in April a South Carolina grand jury indicted five white men for the murder. "I'm not saying that my involvement brought about the indictments," Winthrop says, "but for years there weren't any, and suddenly now there are." Trial is set for later this month.
To the blacks of Allendale County, the shy Winthrop has become a hero. From the start, his wife, sister and father supported his lonely crusade. "My father said he thought that it was my bent," Winthrop says. "He encouraged me to do what was right." But elsewhere in the Winthrop family there is outrage, led principally by his two uncles, Frederick, a country gentleman living outside Boston, and Robert, a retired New York investment broker. "They're caught in an embarrassing position," says Winthrop. "They think it's very inappropriate for me to have become involved. They feel this is a part of the world that hasn't been disturbed and that it is great to have it as old-fashioned and out of the 20th century as it is. They and my father are in a position to enjoy this part of the world on their own terms. That means coming down and shooting birds and vacationing and having people feed them and set their fires—a very quaint, old-fashioned life."
Winthrop is deeply troubled by the rift he has created in his celebrated family. Once, after a severe dressing-down from one of his uncles, Winthrop says he broke down and cried. "In a way," he says, in a moment of self-doubt, "maybe I'm imposing. They are the owners, and maybe it's not my place to get involved."
He has also come to know the discomfort of being a pariah among many of the whites of Allendale County, where he spends some three months each year. Although he says he is not afraid for his safety, he was once warned by a sympathetic policeman that he should "watch out." "I think the people in the community are sort of 'gunning' for me," he says, "and if I make a false move they will try to get back at me in any way they can."
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Waldorf College will host a Scholarship Day on Saturday, Feb. 12 to give prospective freshmen a chance to win one four-year, full-tuition scholarship and five, four-year $2,000 scholarships. The full-tuition scholarship is worth $17,900 per year.
"Many students will wait until March to start their scramble for scholarship opportunities," said Carl Childs, director of admissions at Waldorf College. "This occurs once they realize that graduation is right around the corner and that their senior year went faster than they could imagine. By participating in Scholarship Day, they will find themselves ahead of the game."
The event will be conducted from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Atrium, located between Salveson and Thorson halls. Students must sign in beginning at 8 a.m. in the Atrium. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Parents are welcome and encouraged to attend.
As a part of Scholarship Day, participants will write an essay and interview with faculty and staff members. Students not selected for the scholarships will receive textbooks at no cost during their first fall semester. (Textbooks must be returned at the completion of the semester in normal wear-and-tear condition.) The event also will allow students to tour the campus, meet with faculty and learn about activities offered at Waldorf.
"They will also have the experience of touring the campus and community with their potential roommate or classmate," added Childs. "To many parents and prospects, this is a very nervous time. But it just amazes me to see how they come together and share ideas and concerns of what each family is looking for in a college. Many times, they sell each other on Waldorf."
Students and parents also can participate in respective student and parent panels to get their questions answered. In addition, a session will be committed to financial aid.
New freshman applicants can qualify to compete for scholarships if they:
In addition to applying online, students must fax or mail a copy of their high school transcript and ACT scores to the admissions office by Feb. 4. Information should be faxed to (641) 585-8125 or mailed to Waldorf College Admissions, 106 S. Sixth St., Forest City, IA 50436.
After the college receives the application materials, a representative will e-mail participants Scholarship Day details, including directions to the Waldorf campus, a schedule of activities and lodging information for Forest City. In December, 18 students competed in a Scholarship Day at the school. The following scholarships were awarded:
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Erie Wounded Warrior benefit held Saturday
Rich Weismiller said he is moved when he hears the plight of veterans returning to civilian life, especially when he hears stories like one about a returning, wounded veteran who considered suicide before the Wounded Warrior Project provided him with support and a canine companion.
He said the hope that more of those stories can have happy endings is why the East Erie Moose Club, 6060 Iroquois Ave. in Harborcreek Township, played host to its second annual fundraising festival for the Wounded Warrior Project on Saturday. That organization says it strives to "honor and empower wounded warriors" through counseling, rehabilitation, financial support and peer networking.
"Life is about giving," said Weismiller, lodge manager. "And it's what we're really about, too."
The event included a car and motorcycle show, vendors, crafters, a gift auction and music.
The mobile unit for the Vet Center, a division of the Department of Veterans Affairs that focuses on helping people readjust to civilian life, was also there.
Weismiller said in 2012 -- the first year for the fundraiser -- the club managed to raise about $11,000. The goal this year is to surpass $20,000.
He said that is doable partially because the club covers all the operating expenses out of pocket, leaving all the money raised through things like auctions and T-shirt sales to the Wounded Warrior Project. Many vendors also donate a portion of sales.
Dave Johnson, a veteran himself, and his wife, Mari, who works at the Erie Veterans Affairs Medical Center, were among those attending the festival.
"There are so many veterans who serve," Mari Johnson said, noting that their son had just enlisted. "It's definitely still present. And people come back changed. And it's a great weekend for it. It's the Fourth, and it's important not to take our freedoms for granted."
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Maybe for the night, theyll consider rebranding as Dead Dogs. Tinny, drawling, joy divided post-punkers Blank Dogs bring their pretty detachment to Home Sweet Home, a tiny, basement Lower East Side bar replete with creepy-kitsch taxidermied animals at every turn. Either the Brooklyn outfit will situate themselves next to the horse head or jam into the equally crowded rear dance floor; last years debut, Under and Under, couldnt find a weirder space to be revisited live. Its a bizarre New Years miracle. Part of the Wierd Party, run by DJ/artist Pieter Schoolwerth.
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"Obviously a game like this is extremely frustrating," said head coach Derek Waugh. "We don't match up well with the way they play and I thought they were a little more physical than we were."
The Hatters came out strong, building a 13-6 lead seven minutes into the game. Gardner-Webb out-scored Stetson 25-9 the rest of the half. Stetson's cold spell lasted nearly 15 minutes into the second half, by which time the Bulldogs held a 57-35 advantage.
"It is hard to win on the road and this trip is a real grind," Waugh said, "But I wish we could have pulled it out."
For the first time this year, not a single Hatter scored in double figures. Garfield Blair came the closest with nine points on 3-for-9 shooting. He also topped the club with six rebounds. Gabe McMillen dished out three assists with three steals and eight points.
Takayo Siddle led the Bulldogs with 17 points and six assists. Chris Gash put in 15.
"Gash is a warrior,' Waugh said. "He handles himself really well."
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Stetson dropped to 8-17 overall and 4-10 in the A-Sun.


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The United States of America (more commonly known as America, United States, the States, or simply U.S. or U.S.A.) is a large and very diverse country located in North America. It shares land borders with Canada and Mexico, and a maritime border with Cuba along the Florida Strait, and Russia in the Bering Strait. 48 states are located between Canada and Mexico, while Alaska occupies the northwestern-most region of the continent. Hawaii is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. The capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. The American wizarding community does not appear to have much influence over that of Britain, of which some eastern states were former colonies.
No-Maj society
In 2006, The Guardian reported that the then-current Dalai Lama was given the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States, which China objected to strongly,[1] presumably due to the Tibetan sovereignty issue.
Magical government
The wizarding population of the United States of America is governed by the Magical Congress of the United States of America; by 2014, the President of the Magical Congress of the United States of America was Samuel G. Quahog.
The seat of the American magical government is Woolworth Building in New York.
Magical education
Many young American wizards and witches attend Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry the American wizarding school.
The Salem Witches Institute is in Salem, Massachusetts for adult witches. The Salem Witch Trials were also held here during the 17th century.
Magical games and sports
Quidditch is played, but the similar sport of Quodpot is more popular. The U.S. has its own Quidditch League: the United States League. The Sweetwater All-Stars is a Quidditch team based in Sweetwater, Texas. Another team is the Fitchburg Finches, a team in Massachusetts.
The U.S.A. has its own National Quidditch Team: the American National Quidditch team. In the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, the American team beat Liechtenstein's team and shot red, blue and white sparks into the air in jubilation.
Magical history
Kendra Dumbledore was possibly born in the United States or Canada, as she was thought to have been of Native American descent, so her sons Albus and Aberforth and her daughter Ariana may have had Native American blood in them even though the Dumbledore family lived mainly in Britain. This suggests that Kendra's husband, Percival, may have visited the U.S/Canada. or that Kendra visited Britain, either being curious about the other's home country.
Amarillo Lestoat, the vampire author of A Vampire's Monologue, was born in the United States.
Newton Scamander visited New York, the most populous city in this country, in the late 1920's presumably after conducting his research on magical creatures that led to his authorship of wizarding bestseller Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in 1927.[2]
Locations in the United States
Behind the scenes
- J.K. Rowling said in an interview that Voldemort affected American wizards as well, possibly hinting at his eventual plan to take over there as well.[3]
- The city of Boston, Massachusetts may contain a significant wizarding population, as the Daily Prophet considered its weather of note for reporting in its international weather section.
- Both the book and motion picture of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone were released in the United States under the name Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, because the publishers were concerned that most Americans were not familiar enough with the term "Philosopher's Stone" to gain the correct impression from the title (the renaming of books for international distribution is a common practise, even for highly known and internationally recognised authors. The decision was made to choose a title that was "more suggestive of magic", the naming of "Sorcerer's Stone" used with J. K. Rowling's endorsement after contemplative of several possibilities). The change had no effect on the sales figures, and the Harry Potter series rapidly became one of the most-in-demand among young readers, who seemed to be undaunted by the ever-increasing length and complexity of the novels. The same changes were made for the film adaption and the video game adaptions, along with other American translated media the "Philosopher's Stone" is mentioned in.
- The "Harry Potter effect" in education was not as strong in the US as it was in the UK, but it did have noted effects after the debut of the books. This was a study in economics that throughout much of the 1990s attendance at boarding schools had been lacklustre and generally considered unpopular, being seen as antiquated compared to a more mainstream government-run school. Following Harry Potter's introduction and the telling of Hogwarts, attendance at boarding schools spiked as it seemed to give an impression to children that boarding can be a positive experience on a child's development.
- Another phrase adapted for the American market was the Muggle sport of football. Because association football is different from American football, the sport is called "soccer" in the American editions of the books.
- Due to the Salem Witch Trials many Pure-blood families chose not to emigrate to the New World. This lead to many No-Maj-borns to start their own wizarding families.
- It is currently unknown how race affects one's social status & standing in the American wizarding community (as is prominent in the No-Majs' society either past or present), but information releases (from Pottermore & the upcoming film) implies that, as in the Old World, race is a negligent factor as opposed to being "magical".
- Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (Seen on flag)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (mentioned on newspaper)
- Quidditch Through the Ages
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
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Township of Union Community Garden
Township of Union Community Garden was started by members of the Union Garden Club as an extension to our community efforts. It's goals are to provide accessable garden sites for those that do not have access, or have unsuitable property to grow. The Township of Union has supported us by providing land. We have been planning and networking with the schools, scout troops and community to start this project in the spring of 2014. We have planned raised garden beds that the scout troops will help build, and plan to seek donations of pallets to build a compost bin and soil retention bin. We have set aside 4-4x8 beds to plant and maintain by our board members where the yield will be donated to the local food pantry.
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On Thursday February 12th the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of York County 2015 will officially get underway as cancer survivors, caregivers, families, schools, companies, faith-based and civic organizations gather at the Wells Junior High School Cafeteria at 6:00pm for a kick-off rally to launch their fundraising efforts for the year.
The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is a life-changing event that gives everyone in communities across the globe a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease. People from all walks of life come together with a shared mission of furthering the American Cancer Society's vision of creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays.
April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day and to celebrate, thousands of people are coming together to shine a light on autism. Join Autism Speaks Light It Up Blue initiative to show your support this April.
100+ Maine women meet four times a year and each member writes a $50 check to a local charity they have voted on. Find out how you, too, can make a difference.
Today, Congressman Bruce Poliquin spoke on the House Floor in support of the Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment. He released the following statement:
"In the Second District, hard-working families gather around the kitchen table and balance their checkbooks. The time has come for Washington to do the same; which is why I have become an original cosponsor of the Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment. This amendment will not only help lower taxes and interest rates, but it will help job creators expand their businesses and create more jobs for the Second District and beyond."
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With colder weather approaching, Spectrum Generations is in full swing helping older and disabled adults in central Maine get the assistance they need to stay warm and safe this winter.
Take a moment and look at the portrait above. Try to come up with a story about the woman. I'll give you a few prompts. Her name is Aimee. She's 41 and the mother of three daughters.
Read Aimee's story and learn why her portrait is part of an exhibit called SeeingME: Profiles of Resilience.
If you've been diagnosed with prediabetes, it means your blood sugar is higher than it should be, but not high enough to be considered diabetes. It's not inevitable that you'll eventually develop diabetes, but it increases your risk. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about one-third of the adults in this country have prediabetes. Most of them have no idea.
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Six Flags and Gospel Music
February 15, 2011 - Emily Dimov-Gottshall
Sounds like a great event coming up!
Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro announces Marvin Sapp as the headlining artist for the 2011 Praise in the Park: A Gospel Explosion on June 25! Sapp will be part of a full day of music and praise at the Maryland theme park. Also new this year, groups attending the event may be eligible for priority entrance to the concert venue for the Sapp concert.
Marvin Sapp to headline Six Flags America's
"Praise in the Park: A Gospel Explosion"
Maryland theme park's annual celebration of gospel music scheduled for Saturday, June 25
(Bowie, MD)- February 7, 2011- Six Flags America, the Mid-Atlantic's premier destination for affordable family entertainment and Maryland's only theme park invites guests to GO CLOSE to see BET Award-winning Gospel Artist Marvin Sapp as he headlines the 2011 "Praise in the Park: A Gospel Explosion" on Saturday, June 25, 2011. This full day of song and praise held throughout the stages of Six Flags America begins at 10:30 a.m. and will culminate with the Marvin Sapp concert at the GOTHAM Arena. Doors open for Marvin Sapp at 3:30 p.m., with Sapp taking the stage at 5:00 p.m.
Marvin Sapp is one of Gospel music's most recognizable voices, earning accolades the world over. In addition to acclaim in the Gospel music world, Sapp first achieved crossover success in 2007 with his single "Never Would Have Made It," from his Gold-certified fourth album Thirsty, which earned top-twenty spots on various Billboard Charts. In 2010, Sapp released his fifth solo CD Here I Am, a live recording that showcases the raw vocal abilities of the "pastor who sings" to continued commendation. His decorated music ministry has included the BET Best Gospel Artist Award in 2008 and again in 2010, Stellar Awards and the Gospel Music Excellence Award, as well as, Grammy, Soul Train Music and Dove Award Nominations.
New for this year's event, Six Flags America offers an opportunity for groups wishing to maximize the Six Flags fun with a catered picnic in Oak Grove Pavilion to receive priority entrance to the GOTHAM Arena before the concert as part of their picnic package. These groups will be welcomed into the concert venue 15 minutes before the general public. Groups of 15 persons or more may reserve a picnic by calling the Groups Sales department at 301.249.1500 x3700.
"Praise in the Park: A Gospel Explosion" is FREE with paid park admission to Six Flags America and is just one part of a full day of thrilling family fun. Guests can enjoy exhilarating rides, games, shows and attractions at Six Flags America including the super-fast hyper coaster SUPERMAN: Ride of Steel; BATWING, Maryland's first flying coaster; and dynamic family rides at Looney Tunes Movie Town and Whistlestop Park. There's more splashing fun at Hurricane Harbor, Six Flags America's FREE-with-admission water park, featuring the six-story funnel of fun Tornado and Hurricane Bay, one of the world's largest wave pools.
Six Flags America is located at 13710 Central Avenue in Upper Marlboro, MD, just 15 minutes west of Annapolis and 20 minutes from Washington DC. The world-class theme park and Hurricane Harbor water park offer thrills for every age. The 2011 theme park season begins Saturday, April 16, 2011 and runs through Sunday, October 30, 2011. Hurricane Harbor opens Saturday, May 21, 2011. Visit sixflags.com/america for more information about park hours and programs.


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WORCESTER – Police have identified the 85-year-old man who was killed when his wheelchair flipped backwards in a chair van on Monday afternoon as Stuart Merchant of Millbury.
Merchant died early Tuesday morning after being taken to the hospital Monday afternoon. He lived in Millbury with a daughter, police said.
At 3:47 p.m., police received a call from a driver of a Worcester-based Safeway Luxury Transportation chair van saying that a man was unresponsive after his wheelchair flipped backwards.
The driver, a 70-year-old male, told police he'd picked up three elderly passengers from a nearby day health care program and loaded them into the van for transport. He told police he traveled a short distance and then noticed the chair had flipped backwards.
The Worcester Police Crash Reconstruction Unit continues to investigate the circumstances leading up to the incident, police said, and no cause has been determined at this time.
Police said earlier this week that they will be inspecting the van and reviewing procedures regarding how the wheelchair was secured for transport.


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JACKSON NH – This event attracts a wide variety of sculptors, both amateur and professional. In fact, many of the Competing Teams will be using this weekend as a practice run for Lake Geneva and the Nationals. Other sanctioned states holding championship competitions include Alaska, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin. Each team of sculptors consists of 2 or 3 members, and in order to be eligible to compete in the State Championship, team members must be 18 years or older and reside or work in New Hampshire. The winning team of the State Championship will receive a trophy and an invitation to compete in the United States National Snow Sculpting Competition, to be held at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in 2015. Our New Hampshire State Sanctioned winners for 2013 are Team Hall (Sandy Hall, Kathy Fraize and Eric Marnich). Sandy, Kathy and Eric will be headed to Lake Geneva for the 2014 Nationals representing the entire state of New Hampshire. The winners of the Nationals then go on to compete in international competitions offered by sanctioned member countries such as Switzerland, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, China, Norway and Russia.
Other activities planned for the snow sculpture weekend include a welcome reception dinner, with a bon fire (weather permitting) along with roasting of marshmallows, sleigh rides and more. Be sure to check back as we get closer to the date of the event for complete details. Don't forget to check out our facebook page which has even more details on our events and more.
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Robert Downey Jr., who is undergoing court-ordered treatment for drug addiction at an undisclosed rehab facility in L.A., was spotted July 4 with a group of people waiting in line for brunch at Malibu's cozy Marmalade Cafe. Turns out Downey can take off-site excursions. "If he's out, he has permission and he's supervised," says a source close to the actor. In fact, Downey and company finally opted to skip the wait and left—so they wouldn't miss their yoga class. "He's working hard at maintaining his sobriety and his health," the source tells me.
Have you caught the latest Levi's ad on TV? The one featuring belly buttons singing, "I'm Coming Out"? The midriffs in the spot belong to models, of course, but the singing is by Jamie-Lynn Sigler. The actress, who plays Meadow Soprano, Tony's daughter on HBO's Mob hit The Sopranos, is also an aspiring chanteuse. Her CD of pop songs will appear in stores this October.
Wesley Snipes, who likes to do many of his own stunts, tore some cartilage in his knee during a fight scene earlier this month on the set of Blade 2 in Prague. After Snipes had surgery in the Czech Republic and flew home for what might be a long recovery, word on the set was that the mishap would suck a lot of blood out of the vampire flick's schedule if reshoots involving Snipes were needed. Not so, according to a rep for Blade 2, who claims the thriller wrapped and Snipes left as planned.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wants DreamWorks SKG to redesign its company logo, which features a boy sitting on a crescent moon with a fishing pole. The animal rights organization maintains that fishing is animal abuse and urged studio chiefs Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to replace the pole with a kite, or to show a flying fish jumping over the moon. Katzenberg's response? In a letter to PETA he states that the company isn't promoting the catching of fish—the boy is simply "fishing for dreams." The logo will stay.
Russell Crowe may be a $15 million man onscreen, but he's got a ways to go in the rock arena. He and his five bandmates in 30 Odd Foot of Grunts will split $10,000 to $25,000 per show on their U.S. tour in August. After stops in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, L.A., Portland, Ore., and two in Austin, that still ought to be enough for the Aussie to pick up a few pints for his mates.
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The replacement for the Texas Chute Out, the Texas SkyScreamer swing ride, will be twice as tall at 400 feet.
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Permanent Exhibits
Although the AHC is not a museum, small exhibits highlighting AHC collections are on display throughout the year. A premier collection of Western art is on permanent display in the AHC's loggia and George A. Rentschler Room. The collection includes paintings by Henry Farny, Frederic Remingtion, George DeForest Brush, and Alfred Jacob Miller.
Virtual Exhibits
A number of our exhibits can now be viewed online, and more will be added over time. Visit our Virtual Exhibits page to start browsing exhibits online.
Traveling Exhibits
The AHC has a number of traveling exhibits available to museums, libraries, and other institutions at nominal cost. In a typical year, approximately 35,000 people view our traveling exhibits in venues across Wyoming and beyond. To learn more, visit our Traveling Exhibits page.


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September 29, 2012
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After enjoying successful runs with iconic UK fashion houses Paul Smith and Burberry, and creating the menswear label One True Saxon, British designer Ian Paley opened the Garbstore: a clothing and accessories shop that has since become a vital outpost for the most stylish folks in London's Notting Hill. (The store's full name, Couverture & the Garbstore, includes the housewares and women's and children's clothing collections curated by Paley's wife, designer Emily Dyson.) Garbstore's house-designed offerings for men range from minimalist — a bright blue parka, a basic black nylon field jacket, cotton jersey motor sweats in classic grey — to Engineered Garments: a line of ball caps, button-down shirts, and scarves done up in wild, colorful prints. In recent years Garbstore has partnered up with Casio to design a limited edition G-Shock watch and branched out into luggage pieces like the change-over flight bag — a cotton duffel embellished with leather detailing.
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