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Relay for Life Ann Arbor and Relay for Life Ypsilanti combined forces to host an American Cancer Society Relay for Life event on the campus of Washtenaw Community College on Saturday.
The 24-hour event is the first time the two organizations have combined efforts in 15 years.
"Merging the events helps bring both communities together in the fight against cancer," Ypsilanti Relay for Life Specialist Steve Windom said. "We are set up to walk around for 24 hours. We will be up all night, because cancer never sleeps. "
The merged event has brought a renew sense of excitement to this year's event, as walkers have noted the financial benefits of sharing operating costs and the symbolic gesture of walking together to defeat cancer.
"This is the 17th relay that I've been in," breast cancer survivor Cathie McClare said. "I've been walking since our first year at Eastern Michigan University, and this is the first time in about 15 years that the events have been held together.
It is really exciting to have both teams back together. I think it means a lot. We are all here, trying to raise money for research to get rid of cancer."
Thirty-three teams participated in this year's event, putting up stands along the dirt track to sell items and collect donations for cancer research.
Sasha Popkov is the owner of Crafts for a Cure, a small business that donates proceeds from her sales to the American Cancer Society.
"It all started when I was 13," Popkov said. "My mom had breast cancer when I was 10, and I wanted to start doing something about it. We started out by making bracelets, and then we began to sell more things and started a business."
In addition to the stands, cancer survivors and advocates for the American Cancer Society gave testimonials on their experiences with cancer.
Julie Lubeck-Hofer gave a testimonial on her personal experiences with cancer, including losing her mother to pancreatic cancer and her own experience with surviving melanoma cancer.
"It is important of me to come here, it is important for me to take time to remember my mother," Lubeck-Hofer said. "We are here to keep working and keep fighting and make sure cancer is eliminated one day.
"You don't know when you are going to have a family member of friend who will be diagnosed with cancer; and you don't want to be in that situation. So we need to raise awareness to make sure the funding is there and that the research is there."
This year's event was the benefactor of great weather, leading to plenty of foot traffic for the teams' stands.
"We have been really fortunate in terms of the weather and the crowd," Ann Arbor Relay for Life Specialist Sam Lewis said. "The track has been really full, and it was been a big success. My father passed away from cancer when I was 6 years old, and it wasn't until high school that I really found a community that could support me and what I went through.
"This is a chance to remember loved ones lost and find a community that supports the journey caregivers go through. I feel so blessed to be part of an organization that helps so many people."
Relay For Life Ann Arbor will host its Colors of Cancer 5K on Sept. 13, for more information visit www.colorsofcancer5k.org.
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No, it was good. Now, you gave me a wonderful panorama on the phone about how generational economic changes wrought, and you compared the experiences of White ethnic immigrant groups coming off the boat and, and, um, with that of Blacks, and, um, so, I'd like to ask you a question that will get into that. Are we ready?
Why and how are White ethnic immigrants able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, while Blacks needed affirmative action?
Almost anybody who didn't have a stigma to him or her could pull themselves out, up, if they came in the late 19th or early 20th century because the wonderful American economic machine drank up all the labor it could find. Reached out to the far reaches of Europe, and thus the Poles and the Jews and the Italians and the Germans and this great variety of Americans that have assimilated into our population now got off boats with no skills, with only their, their drive and their, their yearning for a new life. Ah, they experienced enormous deprivation, enormous discrimination, overt and terrible discrimination, the, the grandparents of the Jews and the Irish and the Italians will tell you about that. The difference is that a White skin quickly absorbed them into the workforce, they were needed desperately, and up they went generation by generation. Meanwhile, there was, in the South of the United States, an indigenous workforce, that spoke the language, knew the customs of the country, and had an extraordinary work e--work ethic, and those people, of course, were African-Americans, but they could find no work in the North or the South. Both labor unions and corporations are conspired to keep them out of jobs. Not until World War I interrupted the sunses--the supply of White labor from Europe was there any tendency to hire Blacks at all, even in Northern factories where there was no de jure segregation, ah, and then Blacks were hired only in the meanest jobs, for which there was no, there were no White takers. That artificial effort, that specifically and overtly excluded Blacks, when jobs were available, but when they went wanting, that effort, after the Civil War, until virtually the time of, of World War II, is responsible for the retardation of Blacks in the workforce compared with the wholesale success of White immigrants. We would not need affirmative action today if Blacks had been let into the factories the way the White immigrants were, and if, if, if they had been, the controversy that now surrounds this issue never would have taken place. We now are making up for, ah, what we did not do when jobs were readily available, and of course the great tragedy is that Blacks have gotten the right to work, where only Whites worked before, only as the economy has become stagnant and no longer drinks up labor as it did in the late 19th and early 20th century. It is a, a real American tragedy. The only way to make up for it now, of course, is by using what amount to artificial means, temporary remedies, affirmative action remedies, that bring Blacks in, even as the bring women in and Hispanics in, ah, ah, who have also been excluded, and then fall away after the entrance of these groups who were kept out, ah, del--and deliberately kept out.

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U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson on Monday denied an appeal by attorneys for convicted murderer Henry W. Skinner.
A Gray County jury convicted Skinner, 45, of capital murder in 1995 for the Dec. 31, 1993, slaying of his girlfriend, Twila Busby, 40, and her two mentally retarded sons, Elwin Caler, 22, and Randy Busby, 20, all of Pampa. Skinner received the death penalty for the killings.
In the ruling, Robinson said, "The objections filed by the petitioner are without merit and are hereby overruled."
Skinner filed his notice of appeal May 9 with five claims of ineffective assistance of counsel including: failure to effectively cross-examine witness Andrea Reed; failure to effectively present the blood spatter evidence reflected in police report of officer Morse Burroughs and use the evidence in final argument; failure to advise the defense toxicology expert of petitioner's codeine allergy; failure to develop additional evidence as to Robert Donnell as a suspect; and failure to have additional DNA testing performed.
Police said they found Caler sitting on the porch of a neighbor's home with a blanket pressed against his side where the young man had been stabbed. Caler died a short time later in a Pampa hospital.
The body of Randy Busby was found in a bunk bed in a bedroom that he shared with his brother. He apparently was stabbed in the back three times.
Twila Busby was strangled into unconsciousness and struck 14 times about the face and head with a club, court records show.
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Another member of Gov. Rendell's inner circle has left to work for a Marcellus Shale natural gas producer, the third high-ranking administration official in the last year to move directly into the fast-growing industry.
Sarah Battisti, one of Rendell's five deputy chiefs of staff, has taken a government affairs position with BG Group, a British gas company that recently bought a stake in Pennsylvania's natural gas business, Steve Crawford, Rendell's chief of staff, said Monday.
With seven months remaining in Rendell's term, Battisti's departure could signal a migration of experienced administration aides into the natural gas industry, which is regulated by the state Department of Environmental Protection and is deeply enmeshed in a legislative debate over proposals to tax gas extracted from the Marcellus Shale formation.


text: I wish this was a story about how I met Wynton Marsalis in a basement down in New Orleans and how we had a few drinks together. But … it isn't. There's a basement and a drink in the story, but I wasn't with Marsalas in person and we weren't in New Orleans. I was playing a club called the "Rudyard Kipling, which is downstairs, hidden away from the rest of the city in Louisville, Kentucky. There's room for about forty people. You walk through the door and down the stairs and you see an old piano, some books thrown about, lots of old pictures, and elephants. Yes. Elephants. The tables are checkered and crammed together; the bar is small and made of old wood. This is what I'd call a classy joint … a place where musicians can feel the good vibes as they settle into their corner to play; the kind of place that makes songs want to relax and feel out each note. We had a few odds stacked against us for our show selling out. First, Ed Sheeran had sold out his show. Next, there was a winter advisory. Lastly, it was a Tuesday night. Not the greatest set-up for a full house. It didn't matter. We started our first song with three people and we ended the show with eight. We doubled our audience! In business, we'd look good on paper ;-). I wasn't so concerned with that, though. The place was cool and we were feeling the mood. After our third song of the set, the bartender yelled across a table and said, "You guys are amazing. Did you know that Wynton Marsalis played here? You are in good company!" With that, she brought me some whiskey and I started to play my piano. I couldn't help but feel Marsala's presence in that room brush across my hands. The room was small, and there weren't many people there, but the people who were there made everything all right. They started dancing and we started jammin'. We all start somewhere, and I'm glad I got to start with eight classy Louisville locals and some good vibes left by Wynton Marsalis.


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Hong Kong's Latest Expat Hot Spot
For a historic enclave on the city's western edge, a subway's arrival opens doors; luxury buildings on the rise.
The trains haven't started running through Kennedy Town yet, but this historic neighborhood on the western edge of Hong Kong Island is already humming.
For much of the last century, Kennedy Town was a haven for immigrants from the mainland who worked in its stockyards and slaughterhouses, unloading animals from arriving boats. Since the meatpackers packed up in the 1990s, Kennedy Town has evolved into a modest residential area, with a mix of businesses catering to ethnic Chinese.
Now another transformation is turning Kennedy Town into a destination for Hong Kong's expatriates and affluent professionals. Buildings that once housed garages, warehouses, tiny markets and scrap-metal dealers are filling up with high-end French bistros, bars and cafes, as luxury apartment buildings rise beside them. Analysts expect over a thousand new units to come on the market in the next three years.
On the Market in Kennedy Town
Behind the flurry of activity is a long-awaited subway station that, when finished in 2014, will make Kennedy Town the terminus of the island's main east-west line and put this sea-facing section within eight minutes of Central, Hong Kong's financial district.
The numbers attest to the changing makeup of this once Chinese-dominated area. In the last decade, the proportion of Kennedy Town's population that speaks Cantonese—Hong Kong's native Chinese dialect—has fallen to about 75% from 80%, government statistics show; over the same period, the number of native English speakers has doubled.
The changes make for some jarring contrasts: A chic French bistro, for instance, might fill a storefront on the ground floor of a rundown, low-rise 1960s apartment building, with laundry drying on clotheslines, next door to a tower of luxury homes.
"This is a very mixed community and a very lively place," says 63-year-old Allan Piper, a former British journalist who has lived in Kennedy Town for five years. Mr. Piper, who said he was drawn by the area's gritty charm, now operates a bar out of a converted garage on the waterfront. The area, he says, represents a "fusion of West and East."
Other attractions in the area include a network of prestigious schools and Hong Kong University.
With Hong Kong facing one of the highest income-inequality rates in the world, some locals worry about the impact of Kennedy Town's upheaval on lower-income residents and small-time shopkeepers.
"The new development projects will force significant changes on Kennedy Town," said Wong Leung-Sing, head of research at Centaline Property Agency Ltd. "More and more highly paid expatriates will flock there, inevitably forcing low-income locals and traditional shop proprietors to move from the west end."
For Kennedy Town—named for Arthur Edward Kennedy, seventh British governor of Hong Kong—the prospect of improved transit links raises the temperature of an already-bubbling property market. Centaline says home prices in two of the area's major luxury developments, the Merton and Manhattan Heights, have doubled in the past four years, while private rents have jumped nearly 50%.
The remaking of Kennedy Town began nearly a decade ago as plans to extend the subway line firmed up after more than 20 years of talk and developers rushed to cash in.
One of the earliest projects was the 1,182-unit Merton, completed in 2005. The three-building complex offered sweeping water views and helped catalyze activity along the relatively undeveloped waterfront area.
Newer, ritzier developments under way include Cadogan, a high-rise with a rippling facade and European-inspired interiors, being built by Kowloon Development Co. 0034 -0.26 % The 49-story, 197-unit complex is expected to be completed in mid-2014.
Real-estate agents say Cadogan flats have sold for more than $2,500 a square foot, far above prevailing rates in the area.
Even so, Kennedy Town's average rents of about $4 a month per square foot compare well with the $6.50-a-square-foot rate in Mid-Levels, the ribbon of foothills neighborhoods behind Central that are popular with foreigners.
Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. SUHJY 0.62 % , one of the city's largest developers, is launching at least two projects in the area. One will consist mainly of two- and three-bedroom apartments targeting the middle class.
Still, it's properties like the Merton, Harbour One and Cadogan that are increasingly defining Kennedy Town as an upscale community.
One local business owner, who identified herself only as Madam Li, says the transformation has been a win-win for the neighborhood and its former residents. The influx of Westerners "has made the area more high-class," said the 70-year-old, who has run a tiny grocery store in the area for four decades. "Many households received several million [Hong Kong] dollars in compensation and left here happily," she said.
Snapshot: Kennedy Town
Located at the west end of Hong Kong island, it was part of historic Victoria City, one of the earliest British urban settlements in Hong Kong.
- Population: 17,000
- Average rent: $3.67 per square foot
- Top Sales: One of the priciest sales in 2011 in Kennedy Town was a 2,197-square-foot apartment sold for $4.5 million.
Famous Buyers:
- Local pop icons Gillian Chung and Joey Yung have reportedly bought upper-floor homes in the luxury development Harbour One, where apartments cost about $3.5 million.


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On Wednesday, August 31, quintessential rock and roll pioneers YES descended from their London based headspace and gave The Mountain Winery of Saratoga, CA a theatrical spectacle to remember.
YES officially kicks off their 2016 U.S. summer tour, billed as "The Album Series: Drama + Topographic 1 & 4," this Monday, July 25 in Lancaster, PA.
Long-time YES fans, rejoice! Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick
Wakeman are proud to announce that after a hiatus of 25 years, they are to reform the definitive YES line-up as – Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman (ARW).
YES announced today (4/11) their 2016 summer touring plans. Billed as "The Album Series: Drama + Topographic 1 & 4," the tour will feature the 1980 album DRAMA performed in its entirety, for the first time ever, and sides one and four of 1973's double album TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS, plus a selection of their greatest hits.
Grammy Award-winning bass guitarist, vocalist, and founding member of Yes, Chris Squire, has been diagnosed with Acute Erythroid Leukemia (AEL), an uncommon form of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Chris will be receiving treatment in his hometown of Phoenix over the next few months.
Yes will be honoring their commitment to their North American summer tour with Toto, as well as confirming their performances on the Cruise To The Edge in November.
World-renowned recording artists YES and Toto today (4/6) announced they will join forces this summer for a co-headlining North American tour. Among the world's most influential, ground-breaking, and respected progressive rock bands, Grammy Award-winning YES has sold nearly 40 million albums in a career that has so far spanned more than four decades.
The iconic and Grammy-winning rock band YES have announced their first-ever festival--YESTIVAL, a day-into-night musical adventure in full quadraphonic sound--for Saturday, August 3 at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, NJ.
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With technology at our fingertips texting is often too tempting.
"It's really hard not to text and drive I'll tell you that – because so much of what we do now days. People don't even call you anymore they text you everything," says Tara Warner, who gave up texting and driving.
"I do see people do it all the time. I want to take their picture and text it over to the police station," says Vince McDowell, who doesn't text and drive.
The state of Florida banned the practice as of October 1st and for good reason.
"Once a week, twice a week, we have fatalities from distracted driving coming through our front doors," says Mark Tesoro, injury prevention analyst with Lee Memorial Health System.
Mark Tesoro analyzes data from Lee Memorial Hospital's Trauma Center. To gauge the problem, he took a hard look at local traffic and found laws barely make a dent in the problem.
"Now we count the number of people that aren't on the phone," says Tesoro.
Five seconds is the minimum amount of time your attention is off the road and on your phone when you're sending or reading a text. If you're driving 55 that's the amount of time it takes to drive the length of a football field while you're looking at your phone.
"A lot of people think that if you're doing hands free it's a better situation. It really isn't. The numbers suggest that texting or driving or talking on the phone while driving is a .08 blood alcohol level. So it's the equivalent of being drunk on the road," says Tesoro.
A sobering statistic. Federal figures found texting and driving make a crash 23 times more likely. Add in peak drive times and you have danger ahead.
"You are not only putting your own life in your hands, but you're putting somebody else's life at risk," says Tesoro.
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A court date has been set for six individuals involved with the fire in Belvidere that destroyed several small buildings in late October. The Vermont State Police issued citations for various crimes to Joshua Boomhower, Eric Ingalls, Linda Ingalls, Conrad Slayton, Elana Manning, and Christopher Slayton after interviewing those on Monday, November 19.
The fire that caused the investigation occurred on Saturday, October 27, when local authorities and fire departments were called to the scene of a remote fire near 204 Boarding House Hill Road in Belvidere Center on land owned by Joseph Russo. Upon responding to the scene authorities were able to locate the fire after some difficulties caused by the remoteness of the region. Further investigation revealed that the fire occurred in the 500 acre sugar bush owned by Russo and that a small eight by 12 foot warming hut had been destroyed as a result of the blaze before it burned itself out. No one was injured as a result of the fire.
On Tuesday, October 30 Russo, a Highgate business owner, contacted members of the Vermont State Police and asked that a further investigation be conducted regarding the fire. The next day a member of the Vermont State Police Fire Investigation Unit conducted the investigation and found that the fire was suspicious in nature. On Friday, November 16, investigators received further information that a second warming hut had been intentionally burned on the same sugarbush at the same time as the original blaze. The initial damage report for the first burned hut was $500.
New damage reports may be filed.
Authorities continued their investigation, and on Monday, November 19, they brought six individuals to the Vermont State Police Barracks in Middlesex for questioning. Following their interviews the individuals were cited. Joshua Boomhower, age 24 of Belvidere, was charged with Second Degree Arson and Unlawful Mischief; Eric Ingalls, age 42 of Belvidere, was charged with Second Decree Arson; Linda Ingalls, age 39 of Belvidere, was charged with Accessory Second Degree Arson; Conrad Slayton, age 29 of Belvidere, was charged with Accessory Second Degree Arson; Elana Manning, age 29 of Belvidere, was charged with Accessory Second Degree Arson; and Christopher Slayton, age 36 of Belvidere, was charged with Accessory Second Degree Arson.
The six individuals are scheduled to appear in Lamoille Superior Court – Criminal Division on Wednesday, January 16 to answer the charges against them. The total damage estimates that resulted from the blaze are still being gathered by the landowner and will be provided to the Lamoille County State's Attorney at a later date.


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On March 25 Professor Copan delivered the lecture, "Slavery and Genocide? A Fresh Look at Two Old Testament Ethical Issues" at Tyndale University College. In this lecture Copan considers arguments from people like Richard Dawkins that suggest the Old Testament depicts God as condoning slavery and genocide (among a host of other morally dubious practices) and offers a response that takes seriously the objection and the relevant Biblical texts. For more development of the material in this lecture see Copan's 2010 book Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God.
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Mauricio Shogun Rua was a star in Pride FC, utilizing stomps and soccer kicks along side of his agressive style he dominated his way through the Pride middleweight grand prix and winning it in 2005. The first round of the tournament Mauricio saw Rampage Jackson, as a heavy underdog many people didn't think much of Rua, until he dominated Jackson that is. He broke many of Jacksons ribs and finished the fight with soccer kicks to the face of Rampage. People then were fully aware of his skill set and he went into the second fight with a much larger fanbase, and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira was fully aware of this skill set but there was nothing he could do to stop the young up and comer. Rua won the fight via unanimous decision and saw himself in the semi-finals of the middleweight grand prix. The last two rounds were held on the same night, first it was Alistair Overeem the very qualified dutch striker who was also favoured in that fight. Once again Shogun impressed the world with a first round knockout, advancing him into his second fight of the night but more importantly the finals of the grand prix. Much like his fight just a few hours prior, he knocked out Ricardo Arona.
After a heartbreakin loss and a huge upset to Forrest Griffin he rebounded and revenged his second career loss to Mark Coleman, stopping the wrestler late in the third round. This win pushed him up the ladder Chuck Lidell, he pulled a trick out of Lidells game plan and kocked him out in the very first round of their bout at UFC 97. After he shocked the world again, the UFC was impressed and gave him a title shot against Loyoto Machida. Many people didn't give Shogun the chance he deserved going into the fight, after all it was the "Machida era". After a 5 round war which I scored 3-2 for Shogun, a very contriversial decision saw Machida keeping his belt. Shogun was determined to win his second bout with Machida after it was official he was getting an immideate rematch. The second fight went much differently then the first, Rua wasn't going to let it get to the judges this time and he knocked Machida out at 3:35 in the very first round.
Shortly after the fight Rua's knee was bothering him and it was declared the he needed surgery to repair the demage. How will Shogun recover from this setback? We will find out against the strong Rashad Evans at UFC 128. One thing is for sure, Shogun will not be the underdog this time.
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You could of summed it up with he was a young underdog till he beat the hell out of Rampage, then he was regarded as the best.
When he started in the UFC, he was absolutely awful fighting Forrest and Coleman. When he fought Chuck he won, early KO, but there was a question mark still considering Chuck was KNFO his previous fight and Shogun's two lackluster performances.
Coming in against Machida, he shocked a lot of people by moving and striking like he did in Pride, seemingly healthy again. During the 2nd fight he was the clear favorite. Against Rashad he'll be the favorite again.
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I think Shogun should be the underdog again after his return next year against Rashad. I mean when did he look good after a knee surgery?
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Although this knowledge is out there.. it's still exhilarating to read again.. I cannot express how much i admire the Chute Box style ! I love the vicious Muay Thai, devastating leg kicks, and under-utilized knees!
I have been a fan of Shogun since Pride.. it's a shame he had to destroy Alistair on his way to the title.. but atleast Alistair has the fight under his belt.
This article makes me miss Pride..
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4-Down Podcast, Ep. 67: Game-winners, Mexico and beatdowns
It's been an interesting week, to say the least, for the San Antonio Spurs. From Mike Budenholzer's return to town, to a smoky night in Mexico, to a beatdown at the hands of the Indiana Pacers, the fun kept on coming. Who said December in the NBA is boring?
Andrew joined me for another edition of the 4-Down Podcast on Sunday night, a weekly occurrence from here on out. Yes, I know I've said this before. But we WILL have a weekly podcast. I'll bet you on that and I'll win your money because accountability is an effective thing.
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Can't picture it? Owners of an innovative type of housing known as earthships can.
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Earthships currently exist in every U.S. state and in several other countries, but the Earthship World Community, about 15 miles northwest of Taos, N.M., is ground zero for this alternative form of dwelling. It's forbidding country: flat, arid, high-altitude and really hot in summer. And really cold in winter.
As you head west on U.S. Highway 64, you come across a collection of about 60 oddly shaped but wonderful-looking houses off the right side of the road. And you immediately notice one thing: each and every one of them is built into the side of a small hill.
But it's not just any hill. It's a south-facing hill. That's crucial, because it means each earthship has its major windows facing south. And anyone who's ever put a minute of thought into the way their house is oriented knows that facing south means being directed toward the most sunlight--in the northern hemisphere, anyway.
And this is one of the keys to the whole concept: sunlight, and lots of it.
I learned all of this when I visited the earthship headquarters during Road Trip 2007, my journey around the Southwest in search of the most interesting science- and technology-related destinations.
The word "earthship," my host Kirsten Jacobsen told me, comes from the houses being in and of the earth--that is, made of earthen materials and built into the ground. The term also refers to the experience of living in a ship, which requires dwellers to be autonomous from outside help.
Jacobsen then explained the six major points that define the earthship philosophy: thermal solar heating and cooling; building with natural and recycled materials; using electricity only from solar and wind; harvesting water from rain and snow; on-site sewage treatment and containment; and the last, and most recent development, producing food in the house itself.
The keys to the system's success are the south-facing windows and solar arrays; walls made from materials that store heat, such as stone, dirt-filled tires and adobe blocks; and a natural ventilation system. These factors work together with the natural temperature of the ground, and with the sun and the seasons, to heat and cool the house without ever requiring air conditioning or heating. Plus, construction is geared toward circulating air throughout the dwelling.
I had been intrigued since I read about earthships in my Southwest guidebook, which said almost nothing about them except there was a community of people living in off-the-grid houses built into the ground. So I didn't know exactly what to expect.
I had no idea, for example, that many of the earthships would be beautiful exercises in aesthetic architectural design. Or that having a greenhouse in your living room could be a livable scenario, let alone a crucial one.
Even if I had known those things, based on what the guidebook said, I might have expected earthships to be smelly, bug-infested claptrap cabins.
Instead, I saw an elegant, modern, fully appointed home that would have fit in almost any community.
The brand-new, one-bedroom house--which Jacobsen's boyfriend, Ron Sciarrillo, built and is selling for $299,000--has a lovely, airy feel. It's bright inside, and has all the amenities one might expect in a newly constructed house: a full kitchen, washer and dryer, flat-screen TV, Wi-Fi, a regular bathroom, a nice bedroom and more.
And it has internal greenhouses, which, Sciarrillo explained, provide an extra buffer to the sunlight, making a major difference in how the house regulates its temperature.


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City Rec Junior Tennis Tourney gets underway indoors
General McLane's Derek Sawer was among the victors after the first day of the City Rec Junior Tennis Tournament.
Monday's matches were moved indoors to Pennbriar Athletic Club after an afternoon storm soaked the courts at Frontier Park.
Sawer swept Adam Stormer 6-1, 6-1 in the first round of the boys 18 singles division. The senior-to-be for the Lancers, who are seeded fourth, drew Alec Thomas as his quarterfinal opponent today. Thomas won 6-1, 6-1 over Richard Vicary.
Jake Labonte, a sophomore-to-be at McDowell, also advanced when No. 3 seed Mike Siegel withdrew because of an illness. Labonte next faces Quinn White, who eliminated Thomas Burt 6-4, 7-5.
First-round winners in girls 16 singles were No. 3 Sophia DiNicola and No. 4 Sarah DeMarco. Also victorious was unseeded Stephanie Ace, a Fairview player who swept Elise Heinlein 6-2, 6-1.
Today's matches at Frontier Park will start at 5 p.m.


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The week before the NHL playoffs started last year Andersson, Nyquist, Dekeyser and Lashoff were sent down to GR in a paper transaction allowing them to be used to the AHL playoffs after the wings elimination. My understanding is that Mantha doesn't fall in to this category as he has played in the CHL and will be able to join the Griffins after game 7 with Val D'or
Ah, wasn't aware of the "paper transaction", that sums it up.
Thanks for the info.


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Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen that killed 17 American sailors and injured 39 others.
The U.S. Navy destroyer was docked and refueling at Aden Harbor on Oct. 12, 2000 when suicide bombers drove a boat full of explosives into the Cole, tearing a 40-foot by 60-foot hole in its side.
Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, but to date, no one has been brought to justice for the bombing.
Despite being cleared of any wrongdoing by the Judge Advocate General's office, Cmdr. Kirk Lippold -- the USS Cole's commanding officer -- was denied promotion and retired from the Navy in 2007.
The USS Cole is still in service in the U.S. Navy and recently returned home from a deployment.
Memorials were held Tuesday at the ship's home port at the Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va.
Adm. J.C. Harvey Jr. addressed the assembled audience, which included families of the victims of the attack. The memorial ceremony also featured a laying of a wreath.
Over the past decade, Yemen has become a terrorist hotbed. Some terror experts consider the country home to Islamic militants of al Qaeda on the Arabian peninsula.
The sailors killed in the USS Cole attack were: Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter, Richard Costelow, Lakeina Monique Francis, Timothy Lee Gauna, Cheron Luis Gunn, James Rodrick McDaniels, Mark Ian Nieto, Ronald Scott Owens, Lakiba Nicole Palmer, Joshua Langdon Parlett, Patrick Howard Roy, Kevin Shawn Rux, Ronchester Mananga Santiago, Timothy Lamont Saunders, Gary Graham Swenchonis Jr. Andrew Triplett, and Craig Bryan Wibberley.
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Applications for the class of 2017 have now closed. For email notification of the next application process please email LCanty(at)leadershipjohnscreek.com.
Leadership Johns Creek (LJC) is designed to develop leadership talent in individuals representing the Johns Creek community through a structured series of learning experiences. The program consists of an evening orientation, one two-day retreat, seven one day sessions, a class project and a graduation. Meetings and activities are distributed over a ten-month period beginning in August.
In addition to leadership training and development, class participants gain insight into business, government, community quality of life, volunteer service and local history. LJC graduates are projected to be the future leaders of Johns Creek, leading civic and business organizations for community action and improvement. LJC Alumni are expected to take an active role in planning the next year's Leadership curriculum.
A vital component of LJC is community service. The graduating classes to date have made substantial contributions to the community. Some of the projects have included: The Newtown Park Community Garden, the Educational Pond at Autrey Mill Nature Preserve, Historical Markers, a Video History of Johns Creek, a certified Natural Wildlife Habitat along the upgraded Johns Creek Greenway near JCHS, and the "Billy Badge Program" to introduce Public Safety to elementary school children!
Potential participants are encouraged to email our Executive Director, Lynn Canty to be informed about the 2018 class application process. Because it is both an honor and a privilege to be selected for the Leadership Johns Creek program, the highest degree of commitment is expected of all participants.
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Applicants should come from a cross section of the community, including business, labor, government, education, the arts, community-based organizations, and human services.
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Applicants from a corporation or organization must have the full support of their employer or sponsoring organization. (Individuals not associated with a business or organization may also apply.)
Applicants must be able to fulfill program attendance requirements, including mandatory attendance at the overnight opening retreat (in September) and full week-day sessions once a month from October through May. In addition, they must work with classmates to complete a community service project. (No exceptions.)
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3) As a 2.0-kg objectmoves from (2i +5j) m to(6i– 2j) m, theconstant resultant
force acting on it isequal to (4i– 3j) N. If thespeed of the object at the initial
position is 4.0 m/s, whatis its kinetic energy at its final position?
4) A 4.0-kg block islowered down a 37° incline a distance of 5.0 m from point A topoint B.A horizontal force (F = 10 N) isapplied to the block between A and B as shown in the figure. Thekinetic energy of the block at A is 10 J and at B it is 20 J. Howmuch work is done on the block by the force of friction between Aand B?
5) A 2.0-kg block slidesdown a plane (inclined at 40° with the horizontal) ata
constant speed of 5.0 m/s.At what rate is the gravitational force on the block
doing work?
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(force constant = 0.80kN/m). The block is initially at rest at its equilibrium
position when a force(magnitude P= 80 N) acting parallel to the surfaceis
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Top Ten Prospects: St. Louis Cardinals
Complete Index of Top 10s
By Will Lingo
Baseball America's Top 10 Prospects lists are based on projections of a player's long-term worth after discussions with scouting and player-development personnel. All players who haven't exceeded the major league rookie standards of 130 at-bats or 50 innings pitched (without regard to service time) are eligible. Ages are as of April 1, 2005.
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The offense was the most potent in the National League, leading the league in both average and runs. And a pitching staff that was considered a question mark when the season began finished behind only the Braves in the NL with a 3.75 ERA. The result was 105 wins and a runaway in the NL Central, as well as the team's first trip to the World Series since 1987.
Aside from Albert Pujols, St. Louis had few significant contributors to their pennant run who were produced by the farm system. Pujols and So Taguchi--a veteran player who was signed after playing several years in Japan--were the only everyday players originally signed by the organization. On the pitching staff, Dan Haren and Matt Morris were the only players with at least 45 innings who started their careers with the Cardinals.
While St. Louis hasn't incorporated homegrown talent into its major league roster, it has skillfully used prospects in deals to bolster the big league club. Key 2004 contributors such as Jim Edmonds, Edgar Renteria, Scott Rolen and Woody Williams came over in trades. General manager Walt Jocketty made another blockbuster last summer, sending three minor leaguers (the best of whom was lefthander Chris Narveson) to the Rockies for Larry Walker.
Jocketty followed it up with an even bigger deal after the season, recognizing that the pitching staff, while solid, lacked an ace. So he sent the organization's best hitting prospect, catcher Daric Barton, along with Haren and Kiko Calero to the Athletics for Mark Mulder. Mulder clearly strengthens the pitching staff, but the trade took away another premium prospect from a system with precious few of them. The organization has also been hurt by injuries to its prospects over the years, particularly pitchers. Last year's top two prospects, Blake Hawksworth and Adam Wainwright, missed significant time in 2004.
Trades and injuries aren't the only reason the system is thin, however. The Cardinals haven't been satisfied with their production from the draft, so they overhauled the scouting department for 2004. Assistant GM John Mozeliak took leadership of the department, and St. Louis hired Jeff Luhnow as vice president of baseball development to assist their scouting efforts with improved technology.
The new approach was said to mimic the Athletics, but in truth the Cardinals have always leaned toward college players in the draft. The lean became even more pronounced in 2004, however, with St. Louis drafting just four high school players out of 47 picks and signing none of them.
Mozeliak said the Cardinals didn't exclude high school players from their scouting, but rather wanted advanced players who could add immediate depth. Early returns indicate they did get players who will patch holes in the minors, but few who could be significant big leaguers. Only first-rounder Chris Lambert cracked our St. Louis Top 10 Prospects list.
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In France, James Cameron's Titanic stands as the No. 1 movie in box office history.
Second is a 2008 Provencal farce, Welcome to the Sticks.
And third on the list of all-time biggest cinema draws? Well, that would be The Intouchables, the indigenous buddy comedy that opened quietly last fall and quickly earned $166 million within Gallic borders. Outside of France, it has earned $173 million, for a blockbuster tally of $339 million.
Harvey Weinstein, the man who acquired another French title, The Artist, and rode it all the way to five Academy Awards this year, is releasing The Intouchables in U.S. theaters on Friday. And Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, the film's co-writers and directors, couldn't be more ecstatic.


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Brannon Cho balances a MacBook on the piano bench in his basement music room. He sets up a chair just behind it in the doorway, where light streams in from a window, and via Skype, begins a cello lesson with a teacher based in Chicago.
When he's done playing, he can open another tab to see himself on YouTube, where he is one of 15 finalists of the first national "Big Break" contest run by Carnegie Hall and National Public Radio's "From the Top." The winner appears on the radio show and as the featured artist on a Carnegie Hall family concert.
"I wasn't that confident when I saw the other videos, but I made it, so I was very happy," Cho says.
At 15, the Short Hills resident has already garnered such honors as the grand prize, twice, at one run by the American String Teachers Association of New Jersey. He was the youngest winner in its history at age 10. But "Big Break" relies on public votes, so it's a different kind of contest — an "American Idol" for young classical musicians with the potential to launch a new star.
While the first major competition for young musicians of its kind, "Big Break" follows a precedent. In 2009, the first YouTube Symphony Orchestra — assembled from audition videos made by musicians all over the world — debuted at Carnegie Hall. The videos received 15 million hits by the time of the concert.
"The internet is a fantastic teaching, learning and communication tool," emails Cho's cello teacher, Hans Jørgen Jensen from Chicago.
"Music students can see performances on YouTube of some of the greatest musicians of all time," he says. "It is a fantastic inspiration and I can clearly see a higher level of cello playing due to that."
At youtube.com/bigbreak, where voting continues through Dec. 14, Cho powers through the rough-and-tumble virtuoso terrain of Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály's Solo Sonata Op. 8 on his $150,000 instrument, with startling self-assurance and technical prowess. Other contestant videos show a mop-topped 13-year-old pianist tackling music by Franz Liszt, a 17-year-old marimba player dancing through a concerto excerpt, as well as emerging masters of the harp, guitar, violin, viola and double bass. With unusual modesty for a successful musician his age, Cho voted for some of his competitors instead of himself. Organizers expect to post the winner as early as Dec. 15.
"They're all deserving," says Bill McDevitt, president of the New Jersey Music Educators Association. "It's an amazing opportunity," he adds, "And for kids to see their peers up there with such talent is huge."
"Up until now, I didn't know how much public popularity mattered," says Cho's mother Michelle, who hopes that voting for their peers will give young people a stake in classical music.
After beginning with the piano at age 6, Brannon started cello at 7 with Marnie Kaller, who Michelle Cho calls his "cello mom" and "the best teacher in New Jersey for beginning musicians."
When he first won the ASTA competition, Cho was invited to the prestigious Meadowmount School of Music, a summer camp for young string players that counts Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman among its alumni. There, he met Jensen and was quickly drawn into his strict, to-the-point teaching style.
"Brannon is already a very professional young musician," says Jensen. "He is totally dedicated to practicing and is in addition very bright and gifted."
For nearly three years, Cho and his family flew out to Chicago every month or so to meet Jensen. He supplemented those trips and now his Saturday morning Skype lessons by meeting Jensen's son Jun in New York every Sunday morning.
"No sleeping in," Cho remarks.
Cho's drive, maturity and levelheadedness come through constantly. A straight-A sophomore at Millburn High School, Cho was also a national finalist at the Siemens Challenge Science Competition in 2009. He used to devote much of his time and passion to swimming — his YouTube name is swimmer1215 — but he had to give it up to meet the demands of high school and, increasingly, cello.
The biggest hurdle he's faced so far has also been one of the most exciting moments. He recently became the proud owner of a 1940 Becker cello, an instrument he chose for its warm, deep sound after trying about a dozen others.
"A lot was expected from me," he says. "Before, I was not as intense. I wasn't as passionate. Going from that level to really serious was a difficult adjustment."
On school days, he usually practices two to four hours; on weekends, five or six.
"He is very talented, but I don't know if he will continue this for his life or not," says his father Stephen. "It's up to him."
Cho's devotion to music and the support of his family are beyond question, but like young musicians throughout the ages, the love comes bundled with sacrifice.
"Sometimes I want to spend time with my school friends but that opportunity comes kind of rarely, so I just learn to deal with it," Cho says. "I focus on what I'm doing and what I have to do and what my rewards could be."
Cho's heart rate escalates every time he's about to step on stage — he eats bananas to try to calm down — but the nerves vanish when he begins to play.
The pressure to succeed doesn't, but that's a challenge Cho eagerly accepts.
"People expect you to go further and further each time," he says. "It's pressure, but also I have confidence in myself, so it's not bad."


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The Northern Virginia Military Shooting Series: Operational Validation of Geospatial Predictive Analytics
By Colleen McCue, PhD, Senior Director, Social Science and Quantitative Methods, GeoEye Analytics; Lehew Miller, Lieutenant, Virginia State Police, Criminal Intelligence Division, Director, Virginia Fusion Center; and Steve Lambert, Captain, Virginia State Police, Criminal Intelligence Division, Bureau of Criminal Investigations
n October 2010, someone deliberately fired a number of rounds at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia. This was the beginning of a series of shootings that targeted multiple locations of interest to the military in northern Virginia. Five shooting incidents occurred over the next several weeks, targeting the U.S Marine Corps (USMC) Museum, the Pentagon, and Marine Corps and Coast Guard recruiting stations, after which the shooter went dormant.
More than six months later, on June 17, 2011, Yonathan Melaku, a former Marine Corps reservist, was apprehended in Arlington Cemetery. Searches of his backpack and home revealed bomb-making materials; instructions for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs); videotaped evidence of the shootings; extremist materials; and spray paint, which he planned to use to vandalize markers in the cemetery.1 He subsequently plead guilty to the series of shootings.
Given that these incidents were eerily reminiscent of those perpetuated by the Washington, D.C., sniper several years earlier, the public safety and homeland security challenges associated with responding to this latest series of incidents were significant. The response was further complicated given the fact that the shooter was targeting facilities of interest to the military, which are abundant in northern Virginia and the National Capital Region. Moreover, during this time, the co-occurrence of several high-profile events including the Marine Corps Marathon, Veteran's Day, and the Marine Corps Birthday further heightened the concern and complicated the response requirements. This was particularly challenging as it was unclear whether the shooter would continue to be satisfied with shooting unoccupied buildings during the night or would escalate to targeting people. Finally, the area of concern was extremely large, including multiple jurisdictions and numerous agencies. Even if the resources had existed, covering the entire area of concern was not practical.
As the agencies involved worked aggressively to respond to the shootings, geospatial predictive analytics was considered as an asset that could enable information-based decisions regarding resource allocation and optimization. By statistically characterizing the environment associated with previous or known incidents, geospatial predictive analysis allows the end user to identify statistically similar areas at increased likelihood for future or even previous, yet undetected incidents. The resulting model allows the end user to focus resources on areas at increased likelihood for a future incident. This so-called area reduction supports risk-based deployment wherein resources are deployed specifically when and where they are likely to be needed.2
Representing one of the foundational elements of the predictive policing model, the primary goal of risk-based deployment is to prevent future incidents by identifying the when, where, and what of crime in support of proactive resource allocation and related tactics and strategy. The second goal of risk-based deployment is rapid response to incidents that do occur, increasing the likelihood of apprehension and associated crime reduction through arrest. Again, the ability to know when, where, and what provides the insight necessary to anticipate future incidents, which supports information-based decisions regarding the prepositioning of resources, thereby enabling prevention and rapid response. Ultimately, the ability to anticipate crime supports proactive approaches to crime prevention, thwarting, mitigation, and response—changing outcomes while enabling agencies to do more with less.3
The law enforcement community has been exploring the use of advanced analytics to support operational decisions for several years.4 Representing an operationally relevant and actionable extension of this model, geospatial predictive analytics is an analytic technique that can be used to assist public safety and national security professionals to make decisions about allocating resources.5 Used throughout the law enforcement, defense, and national security communities, geospatial predictive analytics is based on the premise that human behavior is not distributed uniformly or randomly. Rather, individuals develop certain place preferences that include attractors or enablers, as well as factors that inhibit or deter their behavior. Similar behavioral preferences are seen in the commercial sector and are exploited regularly for marketing purposes.6 In the operational public safety and homeland security environment, the methodology is used to identify and model geospatial preferences associated with a perpetrator's conscious and unconscious affinities and aversions, planning, and activities leading up to an incident. By applying a structured geospatial model, hundreds or even thousands of geospatial factors or variables can be fused together with past events to identify and characterize geospatial patterns of statistical similarity among criminal or terrorist location preferences. The result is a map that shows areas of low to high likelihood of a future event occurring within a given area of interest.
In contrast to other hot-spot methodologies, though, geospatial predictive analytics enables the analyst to identify new locations, including those that are not contiguous with the previous events. This is particularly important in that it provides the insight necessary to move from chasing crime as it may jump around the community to being able to effectively anticipate and get in front of it in support of proactive approaches to prevention and response.
As part of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate research and development project focusing on the translation of analytic methodologies developed for defense applications to the law enforcement environment, a team assigned to the Virginia Fusion Center (VFC) created a model of the first four shooting incidents.7 Four shooting incidents targeted facilities of interest to the U.S. military in northern Virginia October 17–29, 2010. The first and fourth shootings targeted the USMC National Museum, the second involved shots fired at the Pentagon, and the third target was a USMC Recruiting Station in Chantilly, Virginia (see figure 1).
Figure 1. Location of the first four shootings in the series, including the U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Station in Chantilly, Virginia; the Pentagon; and the National Museum of the Marine Corps, which was shot at on two occasions.
Geospatial predictive analysis was then used to create a statistical model of the first four incidents and identify the locations that the shooter would most likely target next, based on areas that were geospatially similar to the first four events. Given the size of the area of interest (AOI) and potential resource constraints, the thresholds on the model were set to capture the top 2 percent "most likely" areas for a future shooting. This feature enables the end user to calibrate the area reduction and identify the highest likelihood locations in a very large area, making informed decisions regarding allocation of limited or otherwise scarce resources. The resulting area reduction map has been illustrated in figure 2. As can be seen in the figure, the locations most similar to the previous incidents have been identified and highlighted on the map as the most likely locations for a future incident. Again, this analytic product visually illustrates the highest likelihood locations for a future incident in an operationally relevant and actionable manner that can be used by nontechnical end users to make information-based decisions in the operational environment.
Three days after the initial product identifying high likelihood target locations was disseminated and briefed, a new shooting incident was reported (see figure 3). The fifth incident, a shooting at a U.S. Coast Guard recruiting station in Woodbridge, occurred in an area deemed high likelihood by the model, despite the lack of Marine Corps affiliation common to three of the four prior incidents.8 Moreover, this incident occurred in an area physically removed from the previous shooting locations, further underscoring the importance of being able to model incidents statistically and identify new locations, including those that are physically distinct or disparate, rather than being confined exclusively to those locations that are in proximity to or contiguous with prior incidents. This particular benefit allows the public safety community to assume a proactive posture and get in front of crime rather than merely respond to each incident as it occurs.
After the initial validation of the model, a decision was made to share the results more broadly with the agencies responding to the series in support of resource allocation, including patrol and surveillance assets. Again, the results of the assessment were depicted visually in a geospatial environment. This format can be used to effectively convey complex statistical relationships in an operationally relevant and actionable manner that can be given directly to nontechnical end users, including operational personnel for direct use in the field. Moreover, the ability to overlay the assessment layer onto an imagery foundation layer enabled the end users to leverage their tacit knowledge regarding the community and the environmental context in support of operational planning and related resource allocation, tactics, and strategy. It also supported additional interpretation of the results with regard to environmental context including operational requirements as they related to access, egress, concealment, cover, and other physical and spatial attributes associated with the areas identified as being at high likelihood for a future incident, providing additional insight into the series. In this particular case, the assessment products were saved as shapefiles that were loaded onto laptops and carried to agencies supporting the resource deployment effort, including proactive patrol and optimization of surveillance detection assets (see figure 4). This approach enabled the team to protect the analytic products generated and associated operational plan.
Another unique benefit that surfaced in this particular series was the fact that the team was able to leverage previous experience with shooting incidents in another locality in support of the model development. Geospatial predictive analysis was used previously in Jersey City, New Jersey, to characterize shootings in support of information-based approaches to crime prevention.9 While not identical in either modus operandi (MO) or motive, the series was similar enough that the models and the analytic tradecraft developed originally for use in this Jersey City case study were employed as starting points in an effort to build on an existing knowledge base and respond to a rapidly evolving public safety threat. The team also was able to share identified MO characteristics, trends, and patterns characterized previously without sharing the original data. This ability to share without disclosure and an emphasis on behavior facilitated the transfer of knowledge in an operationally relevant and actionable manner that supported effective deployment of the capability and rapid analytic response without compromising sensitive data resources. Shared technology, techniques, and tradecraft also supported the development of a virtual fusion center that tapped into existing analytic resources across multiple geographically disparate and distinct locations, including two regional fusion centers, enabling a level of functional interoperability that served as an analytic force multiplier in response to this rapidly developing threat.
Given the pending high-profile events, additional specialized analyses were conducted using high-resolution geospatial data to evaluate specific locations and possible high-profile targets using sniper preference models and three-dimensional line-of-sight or viewshed analysis. Briefly, these techniques were used to analyze the space in three dimensions to identify locations where the shooter would have the line of sight necessary to effectively identify and shoot a potential target, with the standoff similar to previous incidents. By integrating these capabilities with the geospatial predictive assessments, the analysts were then able to visually illustrate areas of place preference for the shooter, which also allowed for the standoff consistent with the previous incidents and the line of sight necessary to actually take the shot. In other words, the combination of these two analytic approaches enabled the analysts to visually depict locations that the shooter preferred where they could also set up the shot based on information from the previous incidents, while also considering the spatial attributes and visual constraints of the location. Again, the analytic products generated from this effort included assessment layers and shapefiles that were shared in support of additional location- and domain-specific analysis and resource allocation, including proactive patrol, resourcing, and optimization of limited surveillance detection assets.
On June 17, 2011, approximately six months after the fifth and final shooting in the series, a suspect was apprehended in the Arlington National Cemetery. The suspect identified was a former Marine Corps Reservist, Yonathan Melaku, who was in the cemetery with plans to desecrate the graves of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and leave explosive materials as part of, "a solitary campaign of 'fear and terror' that included the earlier shootings."10 Materials found in his backpack and the subsequent search of his residence included supplies and instructions for making IEDs; extremist materials including references to Osama bin Laden and The Path to Jihad; videotaped evidence linking him to the shootings; and spray paint, which he planned to use to vandalize the markers of service personnel who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Investigators familiar with the case noted that it was fortunate that the suspect had been apprehended because it was, "unclear what might have been coming had he not been caught," suggesting that the suspect may have escalated from shooting into unoccupied buildings to something more concerning. 11 Of note, the location where Melaku was initially discovered and then apprehended had been identified previously as a high likelihood area and was consistent with the shooter's original place preference in the models created during the active phase of the series, further validating the assessment (see figure 5).
Beyond the direct and immediate value of the specific analytic products generated as this particular series was developing, this case study represents a "proof of model" for the fusion centers and the critical role that they play in both vertical and horizontal integration, analysis, and operational support. The fact that this particular series crossed jurisdictional boundaries and functional domains further underscores the unique challenges and the concomitant benefit of the fusion centers in integrated approaches to analysis and functional interoperability. Ultimately, the fusion centers were the ideal organizations to respond to this fast breaking series that transcended traditional law enforcement, homeland, and national security domains. While other agencies supported the investigative mission directly, the VFC's coordination and leadership role was critical to enabling the regional analysis required to effectively address the resource allocation and deployment challenge, particularly given the broad AOI. Again, the analytic products were operationally relevant and actionable and used by an array of local, state, and federal agencies in the region to prioritize and optimize their resources. Key to this success was the common capabilities, the technology, and the analytic tradecraft that had been established at the regional fusion centers, which enabled cross–fusion center collaboration in support of an analytic force multiplier in response to a rapidly emerging, fluid threat environment, thereby leveraging the fusion center network in support of a common mission.
Recently, budgetary limitations have created an environment where agencies have moved from doing more with less to doing almost everything with nothing, and the agencies directly responding to this series were no exception. The ability to ensure public safety using fewer resources has become an urgent necessity given the economic challenges and associated constraints facing most agencies but also represents a unique opportunity for police managers as they begin to realize the promise of advanced analytics in the operational law enforcement environment.12 Again, the AOI associated with this particular series potentially included the entire National Capitol region, which spans two states and the District of Columbia. It was not practical to put a cop on every corner in this situation, regardless of the urgency of the threat or the resources available to support the effort. Rather, area reduction was necessary to optimize resources and place them in or near locations at greater risk for an incident.
Finally, this work also represents another example of the importance of public-private partnerships, which are being highlighted as the new model of public service delivery. The law enforcement community has been walking the talk, particularly as it relates to the adoption of advanced analytics in support of the predictive policing model, and deserves recognition for their thought leadership and innovation in this area. Moreover, as budgets become increasinglylimited and priorities are reevaluated, the fusion centers provide a unique opportunity to leverage advanced analytics, optimize data and analytic resources, and create a unique force multiplier through their unique vertical and horizontal integration role, as well as the emerging partnerships with the private sector. This particular model mirrors the "managed service" model in the private sector, which has emerged as a method of optimizing scarce or expensive resources, including data, software, and analytic talent, while conferring a level of functional interoperability across agencies supporting a common mission or geographic space. Again, the fusion centers and their constituent agencies bring a unique and direct benefit to local, state, and federal law enforcement, as well as to the larger homeland and national security domains. Their thought leadership and willingness to adopt innovative technology and collaborative models as well as their ability to transcend geographic and functional boundaries underscore the value of the fusion centers to the public safety community.
The Northern Virginia Military Shootings series provided a real-world operational test of geospatial predictive analytics in response to a rapidly emerging series that transcended traditional basic crimes and national security domains and involved local, state, and federal agencies. The results of the model created from the first four shooting incidents accurately anticipated the location of the fifth incident, despite the lack of specific Marine Corps affiliation common to three of the four prior incidents. Moreover, while we cannot state definitively that the heavy deployment in areas identified through the assessment prevented future incidents, the suspect ultimately was apprehended in a location identified as a high likelihood target location. The common capabilities, the technology, and the analytic tradecraft at the regional fusion centers were key to this analytic success. This enabled cross–fusion center collaboration and support, creating an analytic force multiplier that effectively leveraged the fusion center network and underscores the role that information-based approaches can play in operational law enforcement decision making and resource allocation.
In closing, as the use of advanced analytics in the law enforcement and homeland security environment is considered, ask, "Why just count incidents and react when you can anticipate, prevent, thwart, and respond more effectively?" The use of predictive analytics in law enforcement and homeland security analysis enables the development of meaningful, information-based tactics, strategy, and policy decisions in the operational environment. Ultimately, the ability to identify and characterize threats and anticipate incidents represents a game changing paradigm shift in the operational public safety domain. ?
Notes:1Josh White, "Yonathan Melaku Admits Shooting at Pentagon, Military Buildings," Washington Post, January 26, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/plea-agreement-hearing-for-alleged-pentagon-shooter/2012/01/25/gIQAYduHRQ_blog.html (accessed December 18, 2012).2Colleen McCue, Data Mining and Predictive Analysis: Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis (Oxford, United Kingdom: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007); and Colleen McCue and Paul J. McNulty, "Gazing into the Crystal Ball: Data Mining and Risk-Based Deployment," Violent Crime Newsletter (September 2003): 1–2.3Charlie Beck and Colleen McCue, "Predictive Policing: What Can We Learn from Wal-Mart and Amazon about Fighting Crime in a Recession?" The Police Chief 76, no. 11 (November 2009), http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=1942&issue_id=112009 (accessed December 18, 2012).4Colleen McCue and Andre Parker, "Connecting the Dots: Data Mining and Predictive Analytics in Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analysis," The Police Chief 70, no. 10 (October 2003), http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=121&issue_id=102003 (accessed December 18, 2012).5Jason R. Dalton and Michael D. Porter, "Geospatial Preference Models in Signature Analyst" (white paper, SPADAC, Inc., McLean, Va., 2009).6Charles Duhigg, "How Companies Learn Your Secrets," New York Times, February 16, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 (accessed December 18, 2012).7This case study is based on the testing performed at the Virginia Fusion Center of the Signature Analyst geospatial predictive analytic software produced by GeoEye as part of an ongoing project by the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate to determine the viability of transferring technologies and associated methodologies from the military and intelligence community to domestic law enforcement.8This particular location was in the top 9 percent area but immediately adjacent to the top 2 percent area reduction depicted in figures 2 and 3, which still enabled the functional exclusion of 91 percent of the AOI.9Raymond Guidetti and James W. Morentz, "Geospatial Statistical Modeling for Intelligence-Led Policing," The Police Chief 77, no. 8 (August 2010): 72–76, http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&article_id=2152&issue_id=82010 (accessed December 18, 2012).10White, "Yonathan Melaku Admits Shooting at Pentagon, Military Buildings."11Ibid.12Beck and McCue, "Predictive Policing: What Can We Learn from Wal-Mart and Amazon about Fighting Crime in a Recession?"
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Colleen McCue, Lehew Miller, and Steve Lambert, "The Northern Virginia Military Shootings Series: Operational Validation of Geospatial Predictive Analytics" The Police Chief 80 (February 2013): 48–52.
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Leo Smith, 57, from Adelaide, South Australia contacted MyHeritage.com to thank us for helping him record and research his family history. So far he's found a Dutch and a French Canadian connection in his family as well as various stories ranging from family members fighting with William the Conqueror to relatives being early American settlers and serving in the Revolutionary war. Find his experiences with using our site below:
|Leo, as a young boy
I became a member of MyHeritage.com in October 2009 when I found myself with a lot of time on my hands after a heart surgery. A neighbour told me about his family tree and I got interested. After trying a lot of sites I finally decided on MyHeritage.com. It was easy to use and with Smart Matches it become easier as time went on, so I finally upgraded to Premium Plus for better results.
In the short space of time I've been a member I've added 1753 People and 401 families to my tree. I have traced my mother's side is back about 17 generations and II'm yet to really start my fathers side. My mother's Marvell family dates back to France prior to the invasion of England by William the Conqueror as the Marvells went to England with him.
The family name, Marvel is the result of an adoption of the French place name Merveille by the first man who bore it, as I've discovered from the historian Bettye Wheat of Fairfield, who has looked into the history of the name. When the gallant Robert de Merveille left his hometown in France to pursue fame and adventure with William the Conqueror, in the eleventh century, he became the progenitor of a family who for nine hundred years have had his name.
Drawing on different sources I've discovered that the first Marvells were recorded in the 16th century. But this lineage has been extended to Sir Rogerus de Marvyll of Sandbach, Kunsford, County Chester, who came out of France with William the Conqueror in 1066. With some imagination, it can be said that my ancestors include Hugh de Meurville who was one of the four Knights who assassinated Archbishop Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. The bishop had been engaged in conflict with Henry II of England over the rights and privileges of the Church and was assassinated by followers of the king. The Marvell or Marvel family settled in the parishes of Cambridgeshire where they resided for centuries. The name is now almost extinct in this locality, although there are a few of the name in Yorkshire, who no doubt are descended from this same family.
The mainstream family has originated from Cornwall in England. I've done a lot of research into the Nicholls family who were stonemasons in the Cornwall area, and built the church at St Kevernes in Cornwall. In fact I've discovered that they have established a family tradition of over 250 years of stonemasonry. As in many rural communities, skills are passed on from one generation to the next and, so, continuity and tradition are maintained. The name of Nicholls is quite common in the parishes of Ménage and is amongst the earliest entries in some church registers. Today, almost four hundred years later, there are still many families of this name resident in the area.
|The St Keverne church in Cornwall
The first Nicholls stonemason in St. Keverne that I've found is Walter Nicholls who married Mildred Bossorrow at Manaccan in 1684. The family, without doubt, then moved from to St. Keverne in the mid 1690s, where I've found records of the baptism of their children, as well as of work that Walter and his brother George had done liming the church and repairing the church floor for the total sum of seven pounds.
This was the start of a line of stonemasons stretching nine generations, of who William John Nicholls, whose exact birth date is unknown but who lived around the mid nineteenth century, is probably best remembered; for sixty-five years he carried on a family business which was responsible for the construction of many important buildings in the parish, including schools at St. Keverne, Coverack and Porthallow and both Polventon and Treleague House.
Sadly, with his son's Richard Nicholls' death in 1954, this particular family business came to an end and so concluded over two hundred and fifty years of family history, nine generations of Nicholls stonemasons of St.Keverne.
The other interesting stories I've found concern Colonel James Brittian who is my great great great grandfather, whose claims to fame include his high rankings in the Revolutionary war, a life spent as a magistrate and the 'founding' of the Presbyterian Church.
|Rebecca Hill, Colonel Brittains gr. gr. granddaughter
Colonel James Brittain was a loyalist who fought for the British in the Revolutionary War. His house was robbed and plundered by rebels, Colonialists, from whom he escaped into the woods, where he was fed secretly by his wife for a month. He then joined the New Jersey volunteers, a Loyalist corps under Cortlandt Skinner. He went to New Brunswick, Canada with his Regiment in 1783. James served first as a Private in the 1st New Jersey Volunteers and was promoted to Lieutenant of that Battalion in 1782.
He served throughout the War and is said once to have been taken prisoner by the Colonials near the Delaware River and sentenced to death, but escaped and swam the Delaware to rejoin his corps. At the end of the War he sought refuge in the new Province of New Brunswick, Canada, where he settled on the free grant of land granted to the officers of this Regiment in what is now Kingsclear Parish. He was also a magistrate. At his death, he was the oldest magistrate in his county. He died at Greenwich at age 87. He had ten children.
Finally he also contributed to the founding of the first American Presbyterian church in Carolina by helping to erect, in 1797, a small log building on ten acres of his land to be used for religious and schooling purposes.
But I haven't just been finding stories; I've also been finding relatives all over the world. I have been blown away with not just finding relations close by but also in so many other countries, by research, and through Smart Matches on the site.
I've continued my tree in all directions across the world, finding cousins and direct ancestors and their stories. I have contacted several of my relations across the globe and have had a great response, I haven't yet finished contacting people as there are so many, I have found quite a few also using MyHeritage.com which has made it very easy to get information and become acquainted. I have actually just found a Dutch connection, and a French Canadian connection and have yet to explore those sites. The French Canadian connection is the Family Belyea who married Elizabeth Brittain, Colonel James Brittain's daughter in Canada, and the Dutch connection is the family Neeltjen (Elinor), Colonel James Brittain and Elinor his wife's grandparents.
Getting MyHeritage was the best thing I have done in the way of satisfaction and interest and I do not regret starting a history I can pass on to the rest of my family and grandchildren.
The continuing results still amaze me and the Smart Matches keep driving me further into research. I sincerely thank My Heritage for this great software package and support.
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- I am also researching the name of Robert de Marvelle, he is also in my family, I come from that line on my fathers side. My fathers name is Robert Craig Erlandson but that is his adopted name, he is really a Marvel. Craig was my grandmothers maiden name, Erlandson, my StepGrandfathers name. Anyway I was very excited to see this story about the name, the internet is awesome.
- I too trace back to Robert de Marvelle through the Marvels. They migrated from Cambridgeshire England to VA to MD to Sussex County Delaware. Of all things I trace through the name Wilson, but it turns out the true family name is Marvel. My Grandfather died in the same year my father was born and we lost the history. Thanks for the info.
- hi i am descendants from Robert de Marvelle my family are direct lines from them my grand father was john marvell and married a Margaret coincidentally !
John (Marvell) Marvel born c. 1504, married Margaret (?), born c. 1508. from Cambridgeshire, England.
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Coming to the recipe, fried green tomatoes are a southern (US, that is) favorite. Folks here fry the heck out of anything and everything, I think. I'm not complaining, coz I like to eat anything and everything deep fried. This recipe is adapted from the Neelys show on Food Network. I've added cornmeal though, which according to a Southerner, is a must-have in any decent fried green tomato recipe. I have pan fried these, instead of deep frying them.
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1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp garlic powder
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1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1/2 cup cornmeal
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1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 cup oil for pan frying
salt and pepper for seasoning
Cut unpeeled green tomatoes into 1/3 inch slices. Season both sides with salt and pepper. Keep aside.
In a shallow bowl, combine flour and garlic. In another beat egg and milk/buttermilk together. In a third shallow bowl, combine breadcrumbs, cornmeal, cayenne and paprika.
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> EAA Witness = CZ97?
April 2, 2003, 08:41 AM
I'm thinking of buying a EAA Witness 45acp and am wondering if the CZ97 is the same? If not, what is the difference? Thanks.
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April 2, 2003, 09:03 AM
The Witness .45 is based off of clones of the CZ 75. The CZ 97 may share some similarities to the CZ 75 but it is its own design. The grip geometries are similar because this is one of the notable strengths of the CZ along with the slide rail arrangement.
April 2, 2003, 09:04 AM
The diff is ones a CZ ones not.....:rolleyes:
The CZ 97 is an excellent example of great CZmanship.....yes, a real word in my vocabulary.
Its finish, fit, trigger and accuracy is beyond reproach.....
Im not saying the Witness line isnt....but quality, dependability and customer service isnt what you get with a CZ in general.
The 97 by ALL who have tested, reviewed, shot and played with is accepted as one of the best out of the box guns for just about any price....never heard that about the witness...
Shoot well.....
April 2, 2003, 11:28 AM
I know you really like CZs PCRCCW, but you have to admit the CZ97 is a pretty big honkin' gun. You can get the EAA in a standard full size (not over super full size) or compact.
Sidetracker, the CZ97 and the Witness share very little except original design idea. Go check them both out if possible. They are definately different guns. I think the CZ is a better finished product but the EAAs aren't exactly junk. Have a friend that has a Witness 45 Compact and he's very happy with it. Very pleasant to shoot as well.
April 2, 2003, 11:59 AM
On the other hand the Witness "wunderfinish" is supposed to be really nice stuff. Much like a tenifer finish. It is supposedly very resistant to corrosion, etc.
April 2, 2003, 12:19 PM
They do take the same magazines, though.
April 2, 2003, 01:54 PM
CZmanship? I have to agree. For pure craftsmanship and
target quality, accuracy, and soft shooting.. the 97B is tops.
For a trustworthy knockabout field and defensive gun..the
Wintess in Wonderfinish takes the cake.
The 97B costs alot more than the Witness. You get what you
pay for.
April 2, 2003, 02:17 PM
Stop in at a gun store, and compare them side by side.
If somebdy hadn't told you they were based from the same design, you prolly wouldn't even find any similarities.
The CZ97 is in another class. Fit, finish, execution, all better by an order of magnatude.
IMHO, the CZ97 is the best example of a CZ currently available, save possibly for a P01, which I haven't examined personally.
April 2, 2003, 05:19 PM
The reason I'm asking is I once owned a CZ97 but it was just to big for my hand and last night I got to handle a Witness and it seemed to fit my hand much better than the CZ. Does the Witness have a smaller(different) frame than the CZ97?
April 2, 2003, 08:59 PM
The witness grip and the CZ97 grip are different. I'm not sure if the witness is smaller, but the geometry is proportioned better for some people. Looks like you might be one of them.
April 2, 2003, 11:34 PM
I bought a Witness .45 in WonderFinish a few months ago. I checked out the CZ-97 and was willing to spend the extra money. However, the Witness has a more narrow grip and felt "right"; only double stack .45 that fits me.
Mine cost $337.00, new. Fit/finish is very good; possibly better than most other Witness pistols.......maybe I got lucky.
I have almost 1000 rounds thru it with no malfunctions. The most accurate of my five handguns (excluding my 10" Ruger MKII).
I feel that the Witness is one of the best values on the market. My only complaint is that the front sight is not removable. YMMV
April 2, 2003, 11:39 PM
Yes, the Witness frame is smaller than the CZ97. The Witness in 45ACP, 38 Super and 10mm are the same size if I'm not mistaken. And then the 9mm and 40S&W are the same size. They are all very similar but not interchangable. The larger pistols (45, 10 and 38 Sup) are interchangable with a slide, magazine and slide stop swap.
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The man accused of going on a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army base is out of the hospital and apparently headed to jail.
Maj. Nidal Hasan has received his "discharge physical" from the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
There's no word on when he will be released from the hospital, however, negotiations between Fort Hood representatives and the Bell County Jail have reached their final stages.
On March 22, the Bell County Commissioners Court approved an amendment to the contract for Hasan's imprisonment.
"The extraordinary circumstances surrounding this inmate require unusual and extraordinary security measures," Bell County Sheriff Dan Smith said. "These issues could not have been addressed without this amendment."
A police officer shot Hasan during the Fort Hood massacre Nov. 5, leaving him paralyzed.
It's estimated it will cost more than $200,000 to contain Hasan for the remainder of the year at the Bell County Jail. Modifications have had to be made since the suspect is paralyzed from the waist down.
Hasan is being charged with 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.
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