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Troy Shinbrot is no stranger to research that defies standard beliefs. The Rutgers University biomedical engineer focuses on grains and powders, specifically how they mix and gain electric charges. A few years ago, this specialty led him to work on what's called the Brazil nut effect: In a group of particles of different sizes (such as a container of mixed nuts), shaking makes the larger ones (the Brazil nuts) rise to the top. Common wisdom was that small particles could slip below larger ones, leaving the big ones on top with nowhere to go. Other researchers found that the grains would "convect," rising in the center and sinking at the edges. Large particles would lift up with the whole bed and then get stranded on top, unable to fit into the narrow margins at the sides.
Shinbrot and his colleagues, however, found that large, lightweight particles would sink instead of rising, dubbed the reverse Brazil nut effect—but only when the grains were vibrated above a certain frequency that makes the bed "fluidize." Then the mixture behaves like a liquid with typical buoyancy characteristics, so light objects rise while heavy ones sink.
The results were so counterintuitive that reviewers of the paper thought they were impossible. An editor of the journal Physical Review Letters tested it out for himself and confirmed Shinbrot's findings, but was still nervous. "He called me up and wanted to make sure that I wasn't playing a joke on him," Shinbrot says. "He was a little anxious that there was something funny going on that would make him regret publishing the paper."
Two years ago, Shinbrot again succeeded in convincing a journal that his unexpected results in another study were not spurious. In sandstorms, volcanic ash plumes and dust clouds in food, drug or coal processing, the grains spontaneously generate strong electrical charges and can sometime emit flashes or even explode. But the grains themselves are inert, so it's hard to understand how they could charge. Shinbrot and his colleagues proposed a mechanism whereby particles are initially polarized by an external electric field. When they collide in a cloud, the contacting sides cancel their charges, leaving one particle with an overall negative charge and the other with a positive charge. Once they separate, the external field polarizes the grains again, adding one unit of charge to each particle with each collision. But Shinbrot's results went so against accepted theories of electrostatic charging that for several years he considered the results to be unpublishable.
"Most physicists view these problems as solved; they figure the chapter is closed," Shinbrot says. "They don't look at the history and recognize that there are still many open subjects."
Now Shinbrot has made a discovery that he freely admits is very strange and hard to understand, but he is pretty sure his results aren't mistaken.
The problem started with powders destined for pharmaceuticals, which electrostatically charge during processing and stick to surfaces. "So there are problems where you want to mix two powders, and one of them might charge and one of them might not, or they might charge differently," Shinbrot says. "That can cause them to separate, which is a severe concern when you want to have known amounts of drugs in each tablet."
Because of his prior interest in dust storms, Shinbrot was aware that electrical discharges from moving powders were possible. He had also heard about visible flashes being reported at the time of earthquakes. "We had this instrumented tumbler, and these instruments for measuring charge," he says. "To my knowledge nobody had put these two pieces of equipment together, and I just thought 'well, I wonder what will happen.'"
And he was not expecting what did happen. "It seemed so utterly implausible," Shinbrot recalls. He and his colleagues reported their results in the June 11 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.
As the powder tumbled, before a large slab of it fractured off in what is called a slip event, the material emitted a detectable negative voltage. In other words, an electric warning signal occurred before the slip happened. Although it's not a surprise that cracks and slips occur in a tumbling tub of powder, could such signals predict an earthquake, where the soil is also essentially a compacted powder? "We realized there were conceivable connections with geologic events," says Shinbrot.
To firm up their results, Shinbrot and his colleagues used three different setups: the tumbler, a bed that simply tipped and one that slid from side to side (called a shear cell). In all cases, they tried to control for electrostatic charging in every way possible. "We increased the humidity, we used different materials, we used a static eliminator, we tried to measure in different regions," he says. "We don't know exactly how static charging would creep in, but I'm not going to rule it out completely." However, he is pretty sure the electrical signal is coming from the crack itself, not from some kind of static discharge.
One piece of evidence is that the type of bed used seems to affect how far in advance the electrical signal preceded the slip event. The signal seems to be emitted when a precursor defect opens within the material. "If you just take a bucket of powder and tip it, you'll get a precursor of a half second or so," Shinbrot says. "If you put it in a tumbler, you might get that same precursor that doesn't work its way from deep in the bed up to the surface and produce a visible effect for five seconds or so."
Additionally, the location where the researchers placed the electric probe affected the amount of signal received. "It seems like cracks start at a particular location in the bed, and that's consistent with our speculation that maybe the cracks are what are producing the voltage," Shinbrot explains. "But why the cracks start there we have absolutely no clue."
In the shear cell, which Shinbrot filled with ordinary flour, he and his colleagues could watch the electrical signal happen repeatedly as the cell slid from side to side and the same crack opened and closed. "But it still remains very strange that you can put a powder like flour into a container and get 200 volts out of it," Shinbrot says.
Although Shinbrot cannot explain why cracks produce voltages, he theorizes that the mechanism is related to the dilation of grains before a slip event. "If you think of a stack of marbles, they're all sort of interlocked because they're all sitting against one another," he explains. "If you try to move one, you actually have to lift it up over a little hump before it can flow."
The effect, Shinbrot says, seems to be similar to other unusual behavior in everyday materials. It has been reported for some time that when transparent tape is peeled off of its roll, it emits light at the point of separation. Biting a wintergreen Lifesaver also produces a flash, with some of the energy large enough to produce x rays.
Shinbrot doesn't yet know whether the electrical warning signal will be as clear if the grains are not all the same size. When the cracks are of a more jagged shape and less clearly defined, the signal is also affected. Both of these factors might impact the phenomenon's usefulness for something like earthquake prediction. Shinbrot's next move is to size up the test bed to a meter or two, as a first step in determining whether the effect might happen at all on a geologic scale. It's possible that an increased area could decrease the stress on the grains and drop the signal—or the opposite could occur, and with more areas of contact to be broken the result could be magnified.
"If the effect grows with size, then we'll try to collaborate with geophysicists and look at larger scale systems," he says. "If it decreases with size, then we'll just say 'well this was an interesting trip,' and we'll go on with something else."
Assuming there is a relationship between the group's results and seismic events, Shinbrot hopes to coordinate the work with other indicators. For instance, earthquakes are known to emit acoustic signals, and Shinbrot plans to explore any possible connection between them and the electrical discharges.
But he faces some unusual challenges in this area, for which his history of unconventional studies may have prepared him: "If you look up 'earthquake lightning,' you'll find an equal number of websites that talk about it having something to do with UFOs or government conspiracies or whatnot, as authentic scientific research. We don't want to be tarred by the same brush. But it made this topic a very interesting one to study. In the past 10 years there have been some serious scientific studies, and I think there is hope that in the next 10 years this may get on a firmer scientific footing."
It seems likely that no matter what, Shinbrot will persevere in finding the exceptions in physics that show that the field is still full of surprises. As he says, "That's what makes it fun."
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/cracking-with-electricity/1
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It's a great visual to help us think about how libraries and technology departments can contexutalize making decisions about our resources, and how we should try to meet our community's academic needs through our purchases and services. As we embrace a 'just in time' collecting model – one that allows us to purchase that book a faculty member needs on a moment's notice or to have a cache of power cords for students to borrow to charge their laptops in the library – how do we think about software as not just a tool, but also as something to collect?
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Hamra Abbas resists pinning down what her art is about, but her primary subjects are love and war and the relationship between the West and her native Pakistan — in history, in the colonial era, and since September 11.
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As Peggy Noonan and Ed already opined this morning, all of the scaremongering over the sequester coming from the Obama administration is getting just a tad on the overly dramatic side, with all of the dire predictions about the many ways in which our societal infrastructure will crumble in on itself — and it looks like the White House has identified one of those talking points as having maximum Chicken-Little impact on the general public. Bringing out the Obama administration's most high-profile 'Republican' to do the talking, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood insisted that sequester cuts are "going to be very painful for the flying public" in terms of the delays and cancellations that will start up when the FAA starts furloughing employees:
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"I suggest that my former colleagues on the Republican side go see the movie 'Lincoln,' because in the move 'Lincoln' it shows how hard it was back then to get things done," he said. "But what Lincoln did was he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them, trying to work with them, and when that happens big things get solved." …
Still, LaHood said, "What I'm trying to do is to wake up members of the Congress on the Republican side to the idea that they need to come to the table, offer a proposal so that we don't have to have this kind of calamity in air service in America."
Hold up: It's actual news when the president bothers to merely telephone the leaders of his opposition in Congress (the same day he shamelessly demagogued the bejeesus out of their motives, by the way), but Obama's political wheeling-and-dealing tactics are like Lincoln's? …Rand Paul, for one, is not impressed with the way the White House is playing this:
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Justice Tuck, who is the first woman elected to the Supreme Court of Arkansas, began her legal career as a paralegal at Wright, Lindsey & Jennings Law Firm in Little Rock. She graduated in 1977 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law and later became a partner at the law firm.
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OK---those are some more great minis!!
OK...love the miniatures.
Mirabelle/Jeanie....I love the new block. What an addition to the"playground"!
QNS...you have a treasure trove of beautiful quilts. Thanks for showing them off. I'm glad you're feeling better but I would suggest that you "idle" once in awhile. Full Steam Ahead while preparing for surgery might not be exactly whet the Dr. orderred.
Carrie...I've never heard if letting school out early for heat either but it is probably a good idea.
Dubib...how much longer before the old house is ready for sale?
DD...sun shining in your heart? I sure hope so.
anael...I just realized I've never commented on the Grands.....what a difference time makes! They are darling! Also like the Ode to Mom blocks.
Honchey...how many grands do you have? If you've mentioned it I've forgotten.
JanRN...any more FARTS planned?
Attention international quilters.....this site has shipping at 50% off for international shipping through August 30 with an order of at least $50. Enter the promotional code Peach at check out.
everyone else....go to her site and check out her photos. She is also a photographer and travels the world to attend quilting things. She shows some beautiful work! Oh and shipping is free in the US through August 30 so she might have some fabric that wants to come to your house. I have not ordered from her. I like the touch and feel.....
last couple of days I've harvested some tomatoes and made salsa. My DH says it isn't salsay enough but would make a good base for chili so nothing is lost. It's getting hotter by the day so today I'm in the sewing room catching up.
Ok...great mini quilts you have put together again. I love the one I have. I feel so lucky to have it.
Mirabelle, what a great new member from Jeanie for the MB collection. I am guilty of putting names on mine so I can remember where they came from. I treasure every one of them; showed them to dh and he approved of everyone of them, too. I like the variety that I have.
GG, I have not received the CD yet; maybe today. Your .... did not name a site, but is it equilter.com? I have ordered from her, but they only sell by the yard...and I do not always want to order a whole yard of fabric. Yes, I am trying to 'catch up' again...feeling the effects of driving and riding in the car yesterday this morning. More Thera-Gesic on the knee and I am going again...at a slow pace.
Wonder what quilt is laying on your beds.....anyone want to contribute to our own show and tell????
GG, that's ok, I don't comment on everything either
OK, as always beautiful mini quilts!
Mirabelle, you got a beautiful block from Jeanie!
QNS, I'm glad you're going at a slow pace
Eat, quilt, sleep, repeat
well I think today is my Birthday and Christmas all rolled into one!!! after I took the kids to school I went by the mailbox and BEHOLD it was stuffed full of missed mail! things that went missing months ago! and you guessed it! TWO wonderful MB from Jan
So I get home and that Sugar pootch of mine who has been laying by the steps for five days nonstop is nowhere to be found... so I grab a can of dog food and go on a hunt for her.... it didnt take long to find her and the 11 squeeky little pups
OH, GOOD DAY so far
Candace is Deranged
so many babies.. sew little quilts
Jeanie--great block for Karen!
Jan--your blocks are so fun....D_D happy to hear they arrived!
D_D those are great blocks from Jan. Nice to see some 'eye candy'. And Sugar delivered 11 little white pups...amazing to watch them grow up!! Pictures of the puppies growth after they open their eyes and start exploring, please, they are so cute then!!
Oh nice blocks DD! Great work Jan! Did you have word with the postal service about all this missing mail? I would have trotted all this stuff down there and shown them the dates! That is totally ridiculous!
Great news on Sugar! I'm like QNS - can't wait to see photos of them. Wow 11 puppies, can she feed that many at a time???
"You have enough quilts made when your soul is filled, your creativity satisfied and your fingers just won't work anymore."
Great eye candy for this morning, I am about to dash out the door it is 7am and I am heading to patchwork and then to DD's tonight and embroidery club tomorrow. Will be home late tomorrow afternoon. Have a great day everyone.


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Happy Halloween and New Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week.
Dakster Sullivan - Avengers vs. X-Men: Consequences
The past two weeks have been torture for me since all of my local comic book stores have been sold out of Avengers vs. X-Men: Consequences. One store told me the popularity of it just came out of nowhere for them. Thanks to a friend at Marvel, I was able to read them digitally this week and get my AVX fix.
AVX: Consequences is a mini series that shows us what happened after the war between the Avengers and the X-Men was over and the repercussions that came from it.
Thanks to Hope, Scarlet Witch, and the Phoenix, the mutant population has started to flourish again and the world is coming to grips with the new influx of mutants popping up. For the most part, everyone is free to go back to the normal lives they lived before the war and others are helping to search for the rest of extermination team (lead by Cyclops).
Hope is trying to figure out where she belongs and just wants to try to be normal for a while. Cyclops is in a high security prison that couldn't care less if he wakes up breathing. He appears to lack guilt for the deaths he caused and his only desire at the moment is to become a martyr for the mutant cause, a desire Wolverine is sorely tempted to fill.
After reading issues #1 and #2, I hate to say I'm starting to have some sympathy pains for Cyclops. I don't believe what he did was right, but I also don't think he should be receiving the torturous care he is getting in the prison. It will be interesting to see how he gets out and what his life will be like once he does. I can imagine his relationships with some of his former teammates is not going to be as great as what he might hope it to be.
I would love to see an issue focus on the school a little and what the students went through while the war was going on. I'm also curious to see what will happen to Hope now that she is free to live her own life for the first time.
The Avengers vs. X-Men graphic novel is up for pre-order on Amazon now.
Curious to know what I'm pulling this week? Check out my pull list on Comixology.
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Fort Carson troops volunteer to help tornado survivors
More help for Moore from Fort Carson
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo - It was a working Memorial Day long holiday weekend for 11 Fort Carson soldiers from the Fourth Engineer Battalion. They worked long hours for four days in Moore, Okla. What needed to be done was done says 1st Ltnt Chad Baker, "They had jobs for everyone, from carrying water in and out of trucks to clearing away debris from tornado hit homes. When you get to ground zero and see all that, there are hundreds of people helping and they still need more people."
Chad and his men didn't flinch to volunteer for this duty. They felt it was their duty, "A lot of my guys didn't have any money and we went down there. They were still willing to volunteer and I felt very proud of them. It says a lot about you. They were willing to help brothers and sisters in need in this country. It's nice to see that."
That's why are honoring this group of soldiers as our Wear Red Friday Heroes. If you know someone who is deserving of this title, go back to our homepage and send me more about this person or people. I would love to read it, interview them and let Southern Colorado know their story. They can be military or those who support the military.


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Inspirations for B Scent Perfume
Mark talks about the B Scent perfume:
"When you think of perfume, it's impossible not to think of France. When I was young, I had a crush on a beautiful French waitress who smelled of lemons. I didn't realize it at the time, but she must have been wearing good traditional cologne. It's probably one of the reasons why I have a bit of a thing about cologne.
Later, when I was working on the perfume, I ate some lovely soup with just a touch of fennel and it inspired me to add some to the fragrance. I like the fresh, soft, lemon opener and the floral heart, but I'm very happy with the elegance of the fennel flourish. Just foodie enough to make you smell good enough to eat."
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|CHESS FOR PEACE by Abbey Emmanuel Alo of Ghana
|Written by MonRoi Support on Tue, Aug 16 2011 (05:48)
We thank Abbey Emmanuel Alo of Ghana, who sent us this letter, which we publish in its original form.
In reality the greatest pursuit of man is "peace"- the harmony of the universe. Peace is the absence of storm but it is also surprising that even in the presence of a raging storm the human soul can find peace in its very eye. This is where we all desire to live forever and the Comparative Human Enlightenment Strategised Systematically (CHESS) for peace is the road-map to the greatest dream of humanity. And this CHESS is our cultural, ecumenical, demographical, geographical, racial and ideological differences that cannot be taken from us and at their best are impossible to deny, this reality is what makes our world amusing and dreadful at the same time. It is a troubled soul that would learn how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live. Such human generation is a curse to the universe, but we have come to a point in time that sometimes our ignorance about our need of one another destroy the world system (how we live) and the earth (where we live- our home).
And for the chess-player the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named "combination."
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ISSUE 127 | October 2009 | nga.gov.au/socialmedia
Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, C�zanne and beyond is only two months away, buy tickets online now to avoid the ticket queue. Local masters give us Emerging Elders this month—a stunning look at contemporary indigenous art. October sees the final weeks of McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907–17, so it's your last chance to see these light-filled Australian masterpieces in one exhibition. Don't forget that the National Gallery offers assisted tours to help provide access to the national collection for everyone.
Emerging Elders:
Maringka Baker Kuru Ala 2008 (detail)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Purchased 2009
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(top) Harry Tjutjuna Wangka Tjukurpa (Spiderman) 2007 (detail)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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part of Emerging Elders
The artists featured in Emerging Elders are self-taught and have only recently, over the last decade, created and consistently shown their work throughout Australia. Although considered emerging artists, years of personal experience and cultural knowledge inform their work. Their ability to visualise significant stories gives rise to some of Australia�s most dynamic and stunning contemporary works of art.
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Frederick McCubbin Golden sunlight 1914 (detail)
McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907–1917
Frederick McCubbin
Shelling peas 1912
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with the assistance of a special grant from the Government of Victoria, 1979
Talk and wine tasting with Max Allen
A Melbourne education
Musical musings on McCubbin
A Melbourne education
Frederick McCubbin
Louis McCubbin (as a boy in fancy dress) c 1908
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Hugh McCubbin 1960
Poetry and music for cities and seasons
Celebrity talk and screening:
Curator�s dinner: McCubbin
Melinda Harper Untitled 2001 (detail)
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Contemporary art focus 2009:
John Olsen in front of his Sydney sun 1965 at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
September, 2009
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Divine creations: Tibetan silk applique
Ancestral sculpture of Papua New Guinea
The fabric of society:
There is no place more horrible
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
The clown Cha-U-Kao 1895
Mus�e d'Orsay, Paris
© RMN (Mus�e d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
part of Masterpieces from Paris
2009 Temenos lecture
Conserving Indian paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Basic etching workshop for adults
A curtain raiser
Imants Tillers Mount Analogue 1985 (detail)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Purchased 1987
Courtesy of the artist
Rendezvous with art
Mother: a dance tribute through stories, songs and poetry
Childrens activities
Stories of Hindu gods and goddesses
Kota school
Krishna's fluting summons the entranced gopis; shrine hanging [pichhavai] c 1840 (detail)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Purchased 2005
Story-making in McCubbin
A little look at art
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KLAPHEKE DEATH: Abilene police believe three CPS supervisors may have tampered with evidence in child neglect case
ABILENE, Texas - Abilene police searched offices at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Tuesday as part of an investigation into Child Protective Services' handling of a neglect case that resulted in one child dying.
The police investigation was sparked by the death of 22-month old Tamryn Klapheke. The little girl was found to have died of neglect. Her mother, 22-year-old Tiffany Klapheke is in the Taylor County jail charged with three counts of injury to a child. She is being held on $500,000 bond.
In their Affidavit for Search Warrant, police investigators named CPS supervisors Bit Whitaker, Gretchen Denny, and Barbara McDaniel as being suspected of tampering with evidence in the CPS investigation of conditions at the Klapheke Dyess Air Force Base home. Tampering with evidence is a third-degree felony.
Tuesday, uniformed officers monitored the exits at CPS as APD detectives worked inside. The search started about 11:30 a.m.
According to reports, a CPS supervisor allegedly closed an 11-month-old investigation involving Tamryn Klapheke -- six days before officers found the young child had died as a result of severe neglect
* Here is a press release from Abilene Police Chief Stan Standridge after a Tuesday afternoon press conference *
ABILENE, TX – On August 28, 2012, the Police Department investigated a child death on Dyess Air Force Base, located in Abilene, TX. Twenty-two month old Tamryn Klapheke was pronounced deceased at Abilene Regional Medical Center. The person responsible, Tiffany Klapheke, remains in the Taylor County Jail on bonds totaling $500,000. She has retained legal counsel.
In the initial stages of this investigation, Abilene Police Detectives had concerns about Child Protective Services' cooperation with the investigation. Specifically, section 261.301 of the Family Code mandates that CPS and local law enforcement conduct joint investigations. However, in the ensuing days following the death of the child, the Department became aware of instances in which CPS employees were told by supervisors not to cooperate with law enforcement. Additionally, records were requested by Detectives as part of the ongoing investigation. However, those records were not immediately rendered. Eventually they were provided, but only after several days had lapsed and the District Attorney requested the same records. Even then the records were not believed to be complete, thus complicating law enforcement's investigation into the child's death.
A criminal investigation into this conduct is ongoing. Specifically, the Police Department is investigating the alleged offense of Tampering with or Fabricating Physical Evidence, Penal Code 37.09, which is a third-degree felony. Penal Code 37.09 stipulates that a person commits an offense if, knowing that an investigation is in progress, he alters, destroys, or conceals any record, document, or thing with intent to impair its availability as evidence. I want to make it clear that this investigation does not concern overwhelmed CPS caseworkers. I acknowledge CPS caseworkers carry a high case load, and most CPS employees are exceptional people trying to safeguard our children against abuse. Instead, this investigation stems from the refusal of certain CPS supervisors to cooperate with the Abilene Police Department regarding the Tamryn Klapheke death investigation.
This morning, at approximately 11 am, detectives executed search warrants for the local CPS office, as well as a CPS supervisor's residence and vehicle. The Department had probable cause to suggest that documents and electronic media exist to support the continued investigation of tampering. Evidence was seized that will require extensive follow-up investigation. At this time, no arrests of CPS employees have been made. More investigation will be done, and more details will be released at a later time as the investigation allows.
Thank you,
Chief Stan Standridge
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On Internet freedom, India's perilous trajectory
By the time the first story based on former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's disclosures splashed across the front pages of the world's newspapers, India had reportedly begun deployment of its own major surveillance architecture, the Central Management System (CMS). The system is a $132 million project that allows central access to all communications content and metadata carried over Indian telecommunications networks. According to documents reviewed by The Hindu:


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Dessert often gets overlooked when hosting a backyard grill party. Making a finishing dish for your barbecue is easy to do, and with a little…
Mediterranean Two (6.5" & 8") Burner 208V Cooktop
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Kenyon Mediterranean Two (6.5" & 8") Burner 208V Cooktop - Ceramic Glass
Ramp up your cooking experience by using the Kenyon Mediterranean Two (6.5" & 8") Burner 208V Cooktop (B41591). This ceramic glass cooktop - featuring one (1) 6.5" and one (1) 8" burner - not only has an elegant look, but can also cook elegantly. The textured surface for each burner allows for it to keep a better grip on pots and pans, minimizing the amount of spills and accidents to keep you safe. A durable ceramic glass can take heavy pots and pans without leaving dings and scratches all over the unit, and can be easily cleaned and maintained.
Heat limiting cooking surface protectors and indicator lights add an extra level of protection, alerting you to the presence of a hot burner to avoid an accident. The push and turn knob controls make cooking easy, while the included GFCI power cord keeps your unit protected against power outage and surges so the unit does not short out. Perfect for the amateur and professional cook, this unit will be a wonderful addition to your kitchen.
Push & Turn Knob Controls:The manual knob controls make cooking much easier, allowing you to control the temperature for your food
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- Model: B41591Kenyon Mediterranean Two (6.5" & 8") Burner 208V Cooktop
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Dr. Lamothe teaches courses in world and African history. His research focuses on nineteenth-century Northeast African history.
Ron Lamothe
Professional Title: Assistant Professor of History
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise: African history; Northeast African history; Sudanese history; military slavery; Scramble for Africa; British Empire; Africa in film
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: African and world history
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught: World Civilizations I & II; Africa in the 19th & 20th Centuries; Field Studies in the Humanities; Africa in Film
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William (Bill) Francis Kaestner, age 60, passed on May 22, 2014 at his home. He is survived by his wife, Joanne Kaestner nee Schultz, one son William Joseph Kaestner (spouse Svetlana), one daughter, Bridget Victoria Kaestner, mother Ruth Kaestner, two sisters Mary Eisman, Margaret Lobo, two nephews and one niece.
There will be a Celebration of Life on June 14, 2014, at 2 p.m., in the activity room of the Big Pine Moose Lodge, 21 Wilder Road, Big Pine Key.


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I think I will lock the Feature Request forum until further notice. I am not sure that it still serves its original purpose.
And I do still have quite a lot of stuff my to-do list that originates from old Feature Request posts.
Perhaps after I've addressed all that to-do stuff, I will re-open the forum.
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How's the Christmas shopping going? If you're anything like me you've not even thought about starting yet but will inevitably take some hurried hours, sometime between December 22 and 24 to sprint round a major shopping hub, list in hand and, if you're anything like me, at some point you'll start thinking of the present you'll be getting yourself.
You know you don't mean to - it will just sort of present itself when you're meant to be looking at Lego, or Kindles. You somehow find yourself in the record shop, the Apple store, the fine whisky emporium and … "Do you want me to wrap that for you?" "Er, no." And what's wrong with that, eh? It's Christmas - go on, spoil yourself.
They're both the sort of present your mother-in-law might arrange for you - or any other relative who has no idea what to get you for Christmas. And they're the gift that keeps on giving - every quarter, in fact.
Now if there's one thing I've learnt writing this column it's that when it comes to grooming, especially when it comes to grooming products, men are pretty slow on the uptake. We tend to like what we like and stick with it. The old tried and true. The set and forget.
If you asked most women what the one thing was that they'd like from grooming product world, the answer would be instantaneous and detailed. If you asked most men what the one thing was that they'd like from grooming product world, the answer would be a mumbled variant on "Lynx?".
So bear with me, then, when I mention this as a gift idea for yourself. A box of grooming essentials delivered four times a year. No, really. It might not stack up against a bottle of the finest single malt or a two-stroke leaf blower, but it has got a lot going for it.
Lust Have It has been sending out regular beauty boxes to its female clients with little toilet bags of five or six samples a month. It's moved into male grooming, too, though the guys are obviously not quite as product curious: Lust Have It's men's box is delivered quarterly. Bellobox offer a similar service - $30 a quarter gets you a grab bag of men's products that's a bit like a Christmas stocking, though slightly sweeter smelling. And in a box.
This is nothing new. Organisations such as Reader's Digest have been doing something of the kind forever. In the 1970s my mother-in-law apparently had parcels of full-size skincare and makeup delivered to the door for a set fee each month, with the understanding that anything that wasn't wanted - the blue eye shadow or hair removal cream, for example - could be returned. Obligation-free and fully guaranteed. Of course nothing ever was returned. They were just rehoused to the back of the bathroom cupboard.
The guys' Bellobox contains things such as sachets of American Crew aftershave, some Bioderma shaving gel, Uspa Bambusa facial scrub, Ermenegildo Zegna eau de toilette and more. It's all appropriate to the season and although everything is really only sample-sized (they're the sorts of things one might swipe from a series of boutique hotels, or unpeel from the glossiest of glossy publications) there's plenty to keep anyone happy for ages - and some might make a man change the habits of a lifetime.
The Lust Have It men's box is similar - though with fewer products (six as opposed to 16) in larger sizes. And it's a bit cheaper.
They're both the sort of present your mother-in-law might arrange for you - or any other relative who has no idea what to get you. And they're the gift that keeps on giving - every quarter, in fact. A little treat when you get home from a hard day at the office, that sort of thing. Or you could treat yourself. Who has time to trawl chemists or the internet for products? Unless you read certain kinds of magazines, how are you supposed to know what's out there, what's new? And if you find something you like, you might carry on using it forever.
It is, after all, Christmas - so go on, spoil yourself.
What about you - do you want to get something new? Or are you going to stick with the Lynx or Armani aftershave?


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Can they? If so, and Bradshaw is hurt they should.
Can they? If so, and Bradshaw is hurt they should.
Might wanna provide a link before this gets closed.
Mood: WOOF!
If Bradshaw misses time, I say sign him. He knows the system, is a good teamate and can spell Wilson. No brainer to me.
This from a 49ers beat reporter.
Matt Maiocco @MaioccoCSN
Brandon Jacobs has been suspended for 49ers' final three games of the regular season.
Id take him back in 2 seconds. You kidding me? He has the fire and passion the giants lack.


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Giambattista Valli Fall 2012
"I'm in love with New York all over again!" exclaimed Giambattista Valli backstage at his show; the designer has recently unveiled his exciting showroom space there in the once gritty heart of the city snaked by the High Line.
Valli's Manhattan frame of mind saw him thinking of a "Nolita Girl gone uptown—for a walk in Central Park with the dog."
So moving on from the frothing femininity of his spring 2012 couture show, Valli ventured a more "urban attitude," replacing his habitual love of baroque decoration with the severity of Constructivist fabric and color blocking, and graphic Deco prints that owed a debt to Sonia Delaunay; all set to music right out of Sound Factory, the famed 80s–90s house music club in Chelsea.
The show opened with riffs on black-and-white tweed—a nubbly large-scale, hand-knit sweater over a black skirt over lean pants, say, or a sleeveless bias-tweed top over low-slung pants, for the downtown diva, and a prim shirt and pencil skirt in tweed photo-print chiffon, or a tweed coat, thickly hemmed in fox worked to imitate its black-and-white flecks, for the uptown gal. Defiantly uptown too was a sleek balmacaan in gilded alligator—a luxe material that glinted more subtly as a tee under a slim black coat.
Valli alternated cinched-waist silhouettes—a lipstick-red coat with an hourglass midriff—with wide, unfitted pieces with that tubular Bauhaus line, and added lightness to pleated wool skirts with godets of filmy chiffon.
Those Deco lines were exaggerated in eye-popping prints that were revisited for evening hostess dresses in chiffon, veiling sheaths of glinting crystal, that evoked the effortless all-American chic and Reagan-era propriety of the great designer James Galanos.
Valli's enviable front-row lineup of international fashion-making It girls will doubtless give these ladylike dresses their own insouciant boho-chic twists.


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So drunk you forget how to speak your primary language. You're so blacked out that suffocating on your own vomit is the least of your worries, rather your tongue will go so limp that it will cut off your air supply.
He was choke on your tongue drunk, he couldn't figure out how to put the keys in the ignition if he tried to drunk drive.
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28 days ago I opened my hive for an inspection: 2 brood boxes and a honey super. I never spotted the queen but I did aggressively remove drone comb from the outside bottoms of several frames. By the time I was finished I had not seen the queen and started to worry I had knocked her off.
Yesterday I opened it up again and found lots of capped brood, pollen, honey, and very few larva. I didn't see eggs, but my old eyes are not so good. I did find about 6 queen cells, which I left alone
Am I right to think my queen is still there since any egg she laid 28 days ago is already hatched, so the sight of capped brood shows she survived my first inspection: the oldest capped brood is 20 days, new bees emerge on day 21, right?
Some other math I enjoy: 21 days ago I harvested 1 1/2 gallons from a full medium honey super, yesterday it was 95% full again - time to get more honey!


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They have reached the Semi Finals twice and the Quarter Finals twice - now Jayne Ludlow believes Arsenal Ladies are equipped to go all the way in the UEFA Women's Cup.
Vic Akers' side advanced to the knockout stages for the fifth time after three wins out of three in Russia last week. Sunday's victory over Danish side Brøndby saw Arsenal avenge last year's defeat at the same stage and secure top spot in their qualifying group, ensuring a favourable last-eight draw.
The English 'double' winners were paired with Frankfurt last season after finishing second in their group and would have faced another highly-rated German side - Potsdam - if Brøndby had prevailed at the weekend. Instead, Ludlow anticipates a simpler task against Icelandic champions Breidablik.
"We have definitely got an easier draw this time which shows how important it was to finish top of our group," she told Arsenal.com.
"We are very pleased We got three wins and you can't ask for any more than that. We had some good performances and obviously to lay to rest the ghost of Brøndby - who beat us last year - was great. We had a few injuries when we met them before and ended up facing Frankfurt in the Quarter Finals.
"Now we have Breidablik. I don't know much about them but [Arsenal striker] Julie Fleeting played for a team in Iceland during the summer so hopefully we can get some information from her. They are not going to be as strong as Frankfurt though.
"I think all the girls are confident that we can make up for last year. We were disappointed with our performance in the away leg against Frankfurt but this time I think we are definitely equipped to go all the way.
Last season's 'double' triumph cemented Arsenal's reputation as the dominant force in the English women's game. A tally of 23 goals in their opening three games this term has extended the Ladies' unbeaten league run to 51 games and they are firm favourites to claim a sixth title in seven seasons.
Europe is a different matter. Fortuna Hjorring (2003), Djurgarden/Alvsjo (2005) and Frankfurt (2006) have thwarted Arsenal in their last three continental campaigns but Akers has strength in depth at his disposal after drafting in Rachel Yankey, Karen Carney and Katie Chapman during the summer.
"We have a good team and we also have a good squad so there are plenty of options on the bench if we do suffer injuries, as we did last season," agreed Ludlow, who has been deputising for injured captain Faye White.
"If you were picking a favourite for the UEFA Cup you'd have to choose one of the German teams - Frankfurt or Potsdam. There is not much to choose between them when they meet but we will hopefully make up for last year's defeat against Frankfurt if we can get to the Final.
"We also have more scope to focus on Europe because the league results have gone our way so far, we've been winning and Everton and Charlton have dropped some points. We can't afford to be complacent in the league but the players are really looking forward to the UEFA Cup this season, we think this could be our year."
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Great day in beekeeping! I took advantage of the good weather to do an inspection and look for a few things.
First, I wanted to see how much comb they've built and what they're doing with it. Second, I wanted to find the queen if possible. Third, I wanted to find evidence that the queen is healthy and laying.
The inspection was a success! They have three good sized combs and and have started filling each with pollen and nectar. I happened to find the queen. And by looking at pictures afterwards, I found eggs in brood cells!
These bees were installed April 5, so it's been 6 days.
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I've always been fascinated with beekeeping.
I'm selling my house and downsizing out into the country and would eventually like a few hives.
They spray weekly within the city limits so I haven't been willing to try a hive in town.
Are there any Beeks with 100 miles or so of Myrtle Beach, SC?


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Can anyone recommend a suitable pump for a honey straw filling device? It seems that due to the viscosity of honey there are not many suitable pumps for working with low volumes of honey. Currently I am looking at something like this http://www.verderflex.com/file.php/284/M1500.pdf
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McNeese State has named a new assistant to its volleyball program.
The university says Ben Kaszeta, former head women's volleyball coach at Lake Superior State University, will replace former assistant Susie Williams.
Kaszeta has also served as head coach of the Huron Valley 17 National Team for four years and assisted with the Lakeshore Region Youth Select Team, which qualified for the USA Volleyball High Performance Championship in 2009, 2010 and 2011.


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Imagine one of your town's residents sitting on a bench in a local park in beautiful weather. Bikers glide by, and the cheery banter of pedestrians can be heard. The resident notices the vibrant turf, clean patios, and a kaleidoscope of colors provided by masses of flowers. A sycamore tree offers shade and the fragrance of jasmine and the sight of colorful shrubs delight the senses. The area is free of litter, sidewalks are neatly edged, and gurgling water cascades off a nearby sculpture. The setting is ideal; it makes people feel great.
Regular care and maintenance of any landscape can have a profound, positive impact on its appearance. Amount of rainfall, exposure to the sun, soil conditions, topography, foot traffic, intended and unintended uses, expectations, and resources all help determine maintenance priorities and schedules. What separates effective grounds managers from the rest of the pack is how well they use the resources available to them.
Organizations like the Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) provide several resources for the grounds superintendent to determine the best maintenance approaches for different sites, ranging from education to publications to certification programs.
As described in the PGMS publication, Operational Guidelines for Grounds Management, there are three general approaches to managing a site's grounds. The first is a zone approach—assigning a specific supervisor and crew to a particular area. This approach creates a sense of ownership, allows for continuity, increases job satisfaction, facilitates job supervision, and allows a workforce to demonstrate a sustained commitment toward making the grounds a better place.
Another option is to take a broadcast approach, the advantage of which is having crews of specifically trained people cover the whole site doing a certain type of work. In such an approach there would be an herbicide crew, mowing team, and tree crew, rather than having separate crews maintaining each area. This avoids duplication, nurtures cooperation, and allows personnel to respond to problems in a timely manner.
A third approach is to combine aspects of the zone and broadcast approaches. This involves having general crews with overall responsibility for specific areas whose efforts are augmented by roving crews of specialists. This allows a unified workforce to handle peak demands, such as mowing during the rainy season or snow removal during winter months.
Once a public works department makes a commitment to a specific approach, it should determine the level of maintenance that will be the standard goal for each zone of a site. According to the Operational Guidelines for Grounds Management, there are six levels of attention based upon the time dedicated to a maintenance task.
The first level of attention is one of very high expectations that should be reserved for a special, high-visibility area requiring maintenance levels beyond the norm. Level 2 is the standard level of attention one would expect to see on a regular, recurring basis. Levels 3 and 4 are lower than the norm and result from having insufficient staff to maintain a standard landscape (Level 2). Finally, Level 5 is one step before the landscape is allowed to return to its original state (Level 6).
This publication provides a full matrix of standards of turf care, fertilization, irrigation, litter control, pruning, disease and insect control, snow removal, surface care, repairs, inspections, and floral planting for each level of service mentioned above. Used in conjunction with PGMS's Grounds Maintenance Estimating Guidelines, these matrices allow grounds professionals to calculate what level of service is feasible based upon the number of staff members under their direction.
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Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer is a dynamic, experimental and above all, experiential exhibition that gives viewers the chance to become active participants in the artistic process, and engage directly with projects created by 11 Canadian artists and collectives: Mowry Baden, Rebecca Belmore, BGL, Max Dean & Raffaello D'Andrea, Geoffrey Farmer, Massimo Guerrera, Glen Johnson, Rodney LaTourelle, Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Kent Monkman & Jana Sterbak. Their sculptures, immersive environments and installations encourage an active exchange between viewers, the gallery space and the work of art - an interaction that is in fact as significant as the artworks themselves. By promoting these new types of relationships, the artists all share the same goal: to implicate the audience in new and exciting ways. They seek to surprise us, to challenge us, and to show us how meaning is shaped through collaboration. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada, Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer is one of the largest contemporary art exhibitions ever mounted at the National Gallery.


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Bat's & Bugs in Austin
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The drive down was fantastic. No major highways, just empty back roads with cute little towns dotted along the way. There were a couple of moments when Texas Chainsaw Massacre came to mind. Saw a house in the middle of nowhere that looked just like the one in the movie.
After a 6 hour drive, I arrived in Austin. I booked a room with a balcony overlooking Lady Bird Lake, which looks like a river, but is actually a reservoir on the Colorado river, created in 1960. The view was great. Had a birds eye view of the Congress Bridge, which was built in the 70's and became home to over a million bats! Apparently around sunset, the bats leave their home, en mass, in search of food
When I arrived at the hotel, the first thing I did was put the tv on to check the weather channel. While searching for the channel, I came across a show called Inside Edition. I though they were showing a trailer for a new horror movie called "Massacre At The Movies" You really had to see it to believe it. Even had one of those very deep dramatic voice overs. Turns out, it was actually a news report about the tragic shootings that happened the night before in a cinema in Colorado. So sad, and so very pointless. It got me thinking about some of the events similar to this that had happened in the past ie: Dunblane, Virginia Tech etc... and I remembered that Austin, Texas suffered a similar tragedy back in 1966. Charles Whitman shot and killed 16 people from a tower at the university of Texas. Very sad.
Anyway, scotch beckons... Decided to go on a little bar crawl of Austin. The great thing about this city is that everything is in walking distance, the only trouble is the heat. Was nearly a 100 degrees! As I crossed Congress Bridge (bat home) the crowds were already starting to gather, but I really couldn't be arsed to hang about, so headed off to a bar called Oilcan Harry's. Turns out they were having some charity event and the place was packed
Needed something more male after that, so walked up the street to a bar call The Iron Bear bar. Sounds butch right? WRONG! Men in cowboy hats drinking Appletinis and dancing to Kylie! Eventually I ended up at a club close to the hotel. Very mixed (gay/straight), with the strangest drag act on I've ever seen. Cross between our pals Teds and Donald, except singing his own songs that made you want to kill yourself!! I LOVED it!! My particular favourite, was "My Mother Hated Me From Birth" I kid you not!! After he finished, I didn't know if I should clap or go and give him a cuddle.
Next day, I decided to have a wander around town. I past the University and the tower where the shootings happened in the 60's. They do a tour up the tower, but didn't fancy that...too morbid even for me. Went back to the hotel to check the weather channel, as storms and flash floods were expected along the route I was supposed to be driving to Lake Charles the next day. Decided not to take the risk. Booked the hotel in Austin for an extra night, and a flight to New Orleans on Monday.
I would totally recommend Austin to anyone
At 3am (yes my body clock is still up the wall) due to my balcony being home to all the local bugs AND a spider that could jump, I decided to go out to the front of the hotel for a smoke...HUGE mistake. There was a guy there hosing down the entrance who must have found it strange seeing me in my slippers chucking my freshly lit smoke on the floor and run, screaming back into the lobby because of all the roaches running about the ground!
Oh well...New Orleans here I come!
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it has been cold here for the last 2 weeks(below 15 degrees). it has been too cold to open the hives to check them. This morning at my firsr hive that I started to regress I found many parts of bees on the landing board. So I reached in with a wire piece and pulled out about 100 bees that were in parts. I have a good mouse gard on this hive and there were no tracks in the snow around the hive and the hive next to it had no bee parts on the bottom board.
Any ideas on whats happening. I can still here activity in the hive
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