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ACTT III - The Third Year Report of the Accelerated Construction Technology Transfer Program
ACTT Now
"With the growing demand for faster solutions to transportation
problems, the transfer of ideas among DOTs and the engineering
community will be increasingly employed to meet this demand...
Knowledge and experience must be spread much faster."
Jack Lettiere, Former AASHTO President
and Commissioner, New Jersey DOT
The past year has been one of change and uncertainty for those involved in the transportation arena.
Undoubtedly, the biggest news this year was that President George W. Bush signed the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) into law on August 10, 2005. SAFETEA-LU authorizes the Federal surface transportation programs for highways, highway safety and transit for 2005-2009.
This year also saw the South ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and, to a lesser extent, Hurricanes Rita and Wilma. In light of the new transportation funding levels and the much-needed emergency relief allocations for rebuilding hurricane-damaged infrastructure, programs such as ACTT will play an even more prominent role in saving time and money and reducing motorist inconvenience nationwide.
This is evidenced by the fact that ACTT is being incorporated into the project development process from coast to coast: several States, including New Jersey, California, Illinois and Iowa, have held multiple ACTT sessions, and Ohio has three planned for the upcoming year. What's more, accelerated construction practices now reach deep into the transportation community nationwide, as highlighted in AASHTO's Accelerating Project Delivery: It's About Time, available online. Familiarity breeds demand - ACTT's time has come.
The ACTT concept was originated by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in conjunction with FHWA and the Technology Implementation Group (TIG) of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). Following the completion of two pilot workshops, one in Indiana and one in Pennsylvania, the originating task force, A5T60, passed the concept off to FHWA and TIG to continue the effort. They have done so by coordinating a series of ACTT workshops around the country, with several more pending in 2006. The October 2005 FHWA ACTT Implementation Memorandum and accompanying "How To" Guide offer step-by-step guidance for States adopting ACTT as standard practice.
The ACTT process is successful because no one person or organization serves as the driving force: Accelerated Construction Technology Transfer is a collaborative effort in the truest sense of the word. It works because it brings together public- and private-sector experts from across the country in a setting that encourages flexibility and innovation. As the chart on page five shows, the program is applicable to projects of all sizes and timeframes.
Workshops at a Glance
|Project Cost
|Project Construction Timeframe
|$90 Million
|6 Years
|Rhode Island
|$30-$40 Million
|5-6 Years
|$235 Million
|3 Years
|$550 Million
|To Begin 2008
|$35-$45 Million
|To Begin 2010
|New York State Thruway Authority
|$155 Million
|7 Years
|Iowa* (I-80 / I-29 / I-480)
|10 Years
|Report in Progress
|7 Years
|Iowa / Illinois
|Report in Progress
|To Be Determined
* The Iowa DOT also hosted an abbreviated workshop in Boone and Madison Counties in February 2005. No report was issued for that workshop.
For more information, please visit https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/construction/accelerated/.
Inside a Workshop
With an increasing number of highway construction projects underway nationwide, State departments of transportation are looking for innovative ways to reduce construction time and traffic congestion and to "Get In, Stay In (and get it done right), Get Out and Stay Out." The ACTT program helps owner agencies achieve these goals by bringing national transportation experts to the planning table.
A structured workshop is the centerpiece of the ACTT process. Once a State indicates that it wishes to host a workshop for a specific project, it must identify the project timeline, goals and sets of skills required to meet particular challenges. Using this information, the State invites national experts to their workshop for two days of intense brainstorming and discussion. At the end of those two days, each skill set provides counsel on innovative ways to accelerate construction, reduce project costs and minimize impacts to the community.
For more information and for reports detailing the recommendations of completed ACTT workshops, visit https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/construction/accelerated/.
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Manhattan, Kan. — The Department of Grain Science and Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan., is hosting the third and final workshop titled, "Methyl Bromide and Alternatives: Past, Present, and Future" on May 11-13, at the International Grains Program and Conference Center.
The state-of-the-art Hal Ross Flour Mill, adjacent to the conference center, will be fumigated with methyl bromide during this workshop. The workshop is limited to 50 participants and the registration cost is $150 per person. This workshop is part of a larger effort by Kansas State University, Purdue University, USDA-ARS Center for Grain and Animal Health Research (CGAHR) and industry stakeholders to improve the structural fumigation process and advance the adoption of methyl bromide alternatives. This workshop is part of a research and technology transfer project supported by a grant from USDA to compare cost-effectiveness of three structural treatments: methyl bromide, sulfuryl fluoride, and heat treatment.
This is the first notice to hold the date. Additional workshop details will be available by visiting www.oznet.ksu.edu/grsc_subi.
Two previous workshops on methyl bromides alternatives were held in May and August of 2009 and information presented at these workshops is available at http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/grsc_subi/Conference/confrence.htm.
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The Russian connection: See all our coverage | Read about our investigation
John Derbyshire responds to my post about science yesterday:
I see from that Kevin Drum piece that our own Kevin [Williamson] linked to, that at least one liberal has already sold the pass, or at least half of it, on the heritability of intelligence. (Though Drum, along with the rest of liberaldom, is still clinging for dear life to the dubious Turkheimer paper I had some words for here.) What price, then, those grand liberal plans to Fix The Schools, Kevin (Drum)?
These National Review guys sure are weird. I'm pretty sure that none of them read me regularly — and there's no reason they should — but first Williamson and now Derbyshire seem awfully sure that they know all about me anyway. What's the deal with that? Liberal I may be, but I've been writing about the genetic basis of cognitive traits for years and have been a skeptic of school reform plans nearly as long.1 They can disagree with me all they want, but if they're going to do any more than that they should at least have the courtesy of figuring out what I actually think about stuff.
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Hold down L2, and then hold down R2, and let go of L2. If you do this correctly
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Four years on, India remembers the victims of 26/11 attacks
Mumbai News | Press Trust of India | Monday November 26, 2012
Mumbai's sorrow was tinged with some relief as solemn tributes were paid to the victims and martyrs of the 26/11 terror attacks on its fourth anniversary, five days after the sole surviving perpetrator Ajmal Kasab was sent to the gallows.
Ajmal Kasab's hanging homage to my husband: Smita Salaskar
India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday November 21, 2012
Smita Salaskar, wife of slain encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar who fell victim to the bullets of terrorists during the Mumbai carnage, on Wednesday described the hanging of Ajmal Kasab as a "homage" to her husband.
India News | NDTV Correspondent | Monday September 12, 2011
Divya Salaskar, daughter of slain Mumbai Police officer Vijay Salaskar has been appointed as Assistant Commissioner, Sales Tax.
26/11 martyr Vijay Salaskar's daughter gets government job
India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday July 21, 2011
More than two years after 26/11 terror strike in Mumbai, the daughter of slain cop Vijay Salaskar has been given a government job after the intervention of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.
Death for Kasab; he killed Kamte, Salaskar, Karkare: Bombay High Court
India News | Tejas Mehta and Ketki Angre | Monday February 21, 2011
Ajmal Kasab, sporting a stubble and wearing a white kurta-pyjama, watched via video- conference as the Bombay High Court confirmed his death sentence for waging war against India with the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in 2008. He did not react after the verdict was announced."There is no scope of reform or rehabilitation of the Convicted-accused," said t...
26/11 martyr Vijay Salaskar's daughter to join Yuva Sena
India News | Press Trust of India | Monday October 25, 2010
Divya, daughter of slain top cop Vijay Salaskar who was killed in the 26/11 terror attack, is likely to join Shiv Sena's recently launched youth wing, a party leader said."Divya would be soon joining the Yuva Sena in presence of party executive president Uddhav Thackeray. There are some other youngsters also joining the party," a youth wing leader ...
Kasab denies shooting Karkare, Kamte, Salaskar
India News | NDTV Correspondent | Monday December 21, 2009
Kasab, the only Pakistani terrorist caught alive during Mumbai's terror attacks, claims he was not at Cama Hospital on the night of 26/11 last year and did not shoot Mumbai's top cops - Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar.
Umpire who lost friend Salaskar recalls 26/11
Press Trust of India | Thursday November 26, 2009
Sameer Bandekar was not his usual self as he came to field with the haunted memories of last year's terror attack in which he lost his friend Salaskar.
Witness account of Karkare, Kamte, Salaskar's death
India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday July 15, 2009
The decision of slain ATS chief Hemant Karkare to rush to Cama hospital in pursuit of the 26/11 terrorists was taken on the "spur of the moment" and on his own volition.
Don't want 26/11 trial to be delayed: Salaskar's daughter
India News | NDTV Correspondent | Friday April 3, 2009
Shiv Sena perhaps fails to realise is that intimidating lawyers and preventing them from taking up Qasab's case will only delay the legal process
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The Bay of Plenty Times welcomes letters and comments from readers. Here you can read the letters we have published in your newspaper today.
'Chauvinistic' columnist's words fail to impress
Pardon my ignorance but I actually had no idea who Garth George was when I read "controversial columnist Garth George" (Bay of Plenty Times Weekend, Jan 21). Note to myself (no excuse, I have lived in New Zealand for eight years now).
Anyway, having read Monday Readers' Forum (Opinion, Jan 23) it sparked my interest and sent me rummaging through my recycling for Saturday's paper. Prior to that surge of interest, I spent all weekend at home mulching my much-needed garden, definitely no time for controversy.
Upon his conclusion to his article, George kindly offered readers an opportunity to call him a sexist pig. I actually feel that title does not suit and is actually somewhat overrated. "Ignorant", "illogical", "anti-choice", "chauvinistic", "behind in ideas" seem more fitting.
By the way, isn't George embracing liberalism by expressing his "lunatic" views in print?
I guess George is just doing his job to engage readers, may it be positive or negative, to react to his opinion. After all, that is what he gets paid for to do. Well, I actually don't know whether he gets paid or not. Maybe I should have googled his profile before writing this but, sorry, I cannot be bothered.
VERONICA DEMPSEY, Tauranga
Learning concern
It will no doubt be seen as provocative to suggest that, as prospective teachers already hold in their heads a model of how to teach and what learning looks like before they enter any training required, it matters not a jot whether that training be six weeks, six months or six years (News, Jan 23).
For apart from adding some tutu-ing around the edges, none of the training involved alters one whit the notions of learning and teaching involved, long since acquired in an apprenticeship that's as long as has been the trainee's prior experience of education. So in that sense, it's really immaterial what length of training is required.
To cut costs, a return to something like the old pupil teacher arrangement might be contemplated.
Far from being facetious here, the serious side of this is that it's those previously acquired and well-learnt notions are what Nuthall has found are making the learning process the inherently ineffective thing it is.
It's this very inefficient way learning gets done that's at the heart of many of the troubles education experiences, both causing the disparities we hear so much about and hindering their proper remediation.
It is high time this training issue was examined by an independent commission that has access to efficacy research such as that produced by Nuthall and John Hattie.
LAURIE LOPER, Tauranga
Comply or move
So ex-councillor Mike Baker has jumped into the fray yet again, advocating a change of rules to the RMA consents for Baypark Speedway. Strangely enough, all the other major speedway venues in New Zealand seem to be able to comply with similar restrictions.
Just to reiterate, in 1998 and facing strong submissions against the speedway being located at Te Maunga, Bay of Plenty Speedway came up with its own specific rules to comply, the main two being strict noise levels and a firm finishing time of not later than 10pm.
The evidence currently shows TCVL don't want to comply as there have been at least three time overruns this season. If speedway can't comply then close it down, get out of Baypark and relocate somewhere else well away from the residential areas.
There is no reason why this activity should be sited anywhere near the adjoining residential developments that were all in place and completed well before Baypark Speedway opened in October 2001. No one should have to put up with this nuisance for the sake of a few petrol-heads every fortnight.
Speedway and TCVL know the RMA consent rules, so simply comply with them or ship out of the place.
S PATERSON, Arataki
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Freshman Leadership Academy
Students are enrolled in special sections of SFA 101. These students will live together to encourage close collaboration on the major service projects that all four section contribute to and plan each fall while they learn improve their leadership skills. Requirement: Participant in FLA
First Year Honors
Community focuses on incorporating first year honors students into the activities and environment provided by the School of Honors. Requirement: School of Honors Criteria
Community is geared towards students interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics who are enrolled in the fall section of Pre-Calculus. Through this community, students will learn how to study for STEM areas, be exposed to collaborative efforts of various STEM areas, and gain an understanding of STEM related fields
Natural Resource Management
This RLC will focus on learning of natural resource management through programming and service learning opportunities within the Forestry, Environmental Science, and Spatial Science majors. The goal of the RLC is to facilitate the student's connection/identity to their particular major.


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TicketCity Celebrates 14 Years of Better Business Bureau Accreditation
AUSTIN, TX (BusinessWire – September 28, 2010) This month, TicketCity celebrates 14 years of accreditation by the Better Business Bureau serving Central, Coastal and Southwest Texas. As a BBB Accredited Business, TicketCity is dedicated to promoting trust in the marketplace.
According to BBB reports by Princeton Research, seven in ten consumers say they are more likely to buy from a company designated as a BBB Accredited Business. BBB is a resource for the public, providing objective, unbiased information about businesses.
"We're proud to celebrate 14 years of Better Business Bureau Accreditation because we value building trust with our customers," says TicketCity CEO, Randy Cohen. "Our BBB Accreditation shows our commitment to high ethical standards of conduct, an integral part of our business operations."
BBB Accredited Businesses must adhere to BBB Accreditation Standards, a comprehensive set of policies, procedures and best practices representing trustworthiness in the marketplace. The standards call for building trust, embodying integrity, advertising honestly and telling the truth, being transparent, honoring promises, being responsive and safeguarding privacy.
About TicketCity TicketCity offers a marketplace for fans to buy and sell tickets for all sports, concerts, and theatre events. Specializing in tickets for all college and professional sports and championship events, including college bowl games and the Super Bowl. TicketCity provides personal service to clients around the world for more than 20 years. TicketCity partners include Time Inc.'s Sports Illustrated, NBC Sports, and FoxSports' Scout network. TicketCity has been named to Inc Magazine's prestigious Inc 5000 list in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
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Popular property highlights
Located in Nusle, Corinthia Hotel Prague is within a 5-minute walk of popular sights such as Prague Congress Centre. This 5-star hotel has 539 guestrooms and offers conveniences like 3 restaurants, a full-service spa, and an indoor pool.
Have a drink at the lobby lounge or enjoy onsite dining at one of 3 restaurants like The Grill, which specializes in Mediterranean cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Savor a meal from the privacy of your room with 24-hour room service, or get a pick-me-up at the coffee shop/café. For your convenience, a buffet breakfast is available for a fee.
The 539 rooms are air-conditioned and have an array of amenities, including minibars, coffee makers, and safes. Flat-screen TVs come with pay movies, and guests can stay connected with free WiFi. Beds are dressed in premium bedding and bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries. In-room massages are available, and rooms also include desks.
Property features
Corinthia Hotel Prague features a full-service spa, an indoor pool, and a health club. Parking is available for EUR 25 per day (EUR 25 per day for valet parking), and there's also limo/town car service. The 24-hour front desk has multilingual staff ready to assist with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this luxury hotel include a sauna, free WiFi in public areas, and 22 meeting rooms.
- Walking distance to Prague Congress Centre and Vysehrad Castle
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
- Spa
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Corinthia Hotel Prague
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Guests at the smoke-free Corinthia Hotel Prague can choose from several dining options. The property features a squash court, and use of indoor and outdoor pools and a fitness facility for an extra fee. A steam room, a sauna, and 3 massage treatment rooms are also on site (charges apply).
The hotel has 16146 square feet (1500 square meters) of space consisting of a conference center and 22 meeting rooms. Free WiFi is available in public areas. Valet parking and one-way airport shuttle service are also available for an extra fee.
- Indoor pool
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Health club
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop or café
- Limo or Town Car service available
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 539
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Hair salon
- ATM/banking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Elevator/lift
- Number of floors - 26
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Full-service spa
- Free WiFi
- Express check-in
- Meeting rooms 22
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Conference space size (feet) - 16146
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Spa services on site
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Wedding services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Computer station
- Laundry facilities
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free train station pickup
- Conference space size (meters) - 1500
- Conference center
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
Corinthia Hotel Prague offers 539 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and safes. Beds feature premium bedding. Flat-screen televisions come with pay movies.
Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Additionally, rooms include coffee/tea makers and blackout drapes/curtains. In-room massages and hypo-allergenic bedding can be requested. A nightly turndown service is provided and housekeeping is offered daily.
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Room service (24 hours)
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- In-room massage available
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
The Grill - Serves a range of Mediterranean cuisine with a large selection of grilled specialties. Open for lunch and dinner.
Let's Eat! - Specialises in Czech dishes as well as offering an international menu. The decor is light and modern and the atmosphere is informal. Diners enjoy a view of the city and can watch the chefs at work in the restaurant's open-plan kitchen. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Rickshaw - Offers a combination of cuisines from Thailand, China, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. The restaurant's informal ambiance and neutral decor are accented by colorful ceramics and bamboo furniture. Open for dinner.
Lounge 62 - Offers a large selection of cocktails, fine cigars, and a unique collection of whisky, with live jazz bands.
Nearby Things to Do
The Apollo Day Spa and Fitness Centre (surcharge for access; free for guests in Executive rooms) on the top floor is home to the hotel's indoor pool, which is surrounded on 3 sides by floor-to-ceiling windows, and provides panoramic views across Prague. On the other side of the pool is a dark, slate wall concealing showers, saunas, and steam rooms. The center also contains a full range of exercise equipment. Personal trainers are available to assist with workouts and guests can also join aerobics classes (additional surcharges may apply).
At 1,640 feet (500 meters) from the hotel, Vyšehrad Park's paths for walking and jogging provide an alternative to indoor exercise.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Segway rental/tour nearby
Spa Services
For relaxation, the top floor Apollo day Spa provides a swimming pool located on 26th floor with city views, modern equipped gym, sauna, steam room, solarium, beauty parlor and massages (charges apply).
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Number of treatment rooms 3
- Manicures and pedicures
- Massages
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for EUR 40 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Additional policies and fees may apply when booking more than 6 rooms or more than 14 nights. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.60 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 12 years of age.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 22 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 25 per day
- Valet parking fee: EUR 25 per day
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 40 per night
- Facilities fee: EUR 14 per person, per day and includes use of:
Hotel Name
- Corinthia Hotel Prague
- Corinthia Prague
- Corinthia Prague Hotel
- Hotel Corinthia Prague
- Hotel Prague Corinthia
- Prague Corinthia
- Prague Corinthia Hotel
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the train station. Guests must contact the property with arrival details 48 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Right after the Three 6 Mafia won the Academy Award for Best Song from a Motion Picture in 2005, host Jon Stewart famously quipped "Three 6 Mafia 1, Marin Scorsese 0". It was a somewhat unlikely run, but it was the first time that many truly realized how far Rap had reached the mainstream. Three 6 Mafia did not reach their heights by selling out, but by delivering the same type of Hardcore Rap they always did. If this group can win an Oscar, can they win an induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as well?
The Bullet Points:
Eligible In:
Country of Origin:
U.S.A. (Memphis, TN)
NIHOF's Favorite Album:
Most Known Unknown (2005)
NIHOF's Favorite Song:Stay Fly (From Most Known Unknown, 2005)
Should they be in the Hall of Fame?
Definitely put them in! - 50%
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Probably not, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. - 0%
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Local Golden Apple Award Winners are automatically nominated for the National Golden Apple Award – To be considered for the national award – submissions must be received by January 1, 2018, 11:59 pm Eastern.
Highlighting excellence in education at the chapter level
Since 1996, the Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence has highlighted medical school professors that are committed to the advancement or improvement in medical education. AMSA members are urged to nominate a chapter educator that deserves notoriety for their contributions to field of academic medicine or that has made a significant impact on their personal academic career.
Eligibility Requirements
- Any medical school professor who has made a significant impact on medical students' education.
Nomination & Selection Process
- Nominations for the Local Golden Apple Award are accepted year-round.
- Any AMSA medical student members can submit nominations through the online nominations form.
- You may nominate more than one physician and/or educator.
- Any nominations received from April 1, 2017, – January 1, 2018, will be automatically eligible for the National Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence.
Presentation & Award
- AMSA will send a personalized award to the nominating student of the professor winning the award so they may present during an AMSA meeting, special event or in the classroom.
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A blade was held at his wife Nancy's throat, while his children were threatened with having their fingers cut off, during the robbery on Wednesday night at the family's home in St John's Wood, north-west London, The Sun reported.
Both mother and children are thought to have been separated in different rooms during the burglary.
The gang are understood to have made off with cash and jewellery.
Steve Kutner, Wright's manager, told the newspaper: "It was a terrifying ordeal. They marched Ian's wife from room to room."
The 50-year-old former Arsenal striker tweeted last night: "You won't get away with it!"
Wright, who has been working for ITV in Brazil, flew home immediately as soon as he heard the news and arrived back at London's Heathrow Airport on Thursday afternoon.
He emerged briefly from his home earlier and told reporters his wife was "feeling good that I am back".
"All I want to say, really, is that my missus, my girls, everyone's safe," he said.
"The police are trying to get on doing what they are doing."
A spokeswoman for Wright said earlier: "Nancy is really shaken up. Their kids are so young that hopefully they aren't going to read into it too much. They are all physically OK - Nancy and the kids."
She added: : "Hopefully, with enough media coverage, this won't happen to any other players or people who are over in the World Cup. Ian is trying to get the message out."
Detective Chief Inspector Mick Gornall, of the Metropolitan Police, who is leading the investigation, said: "We are trying to trace these four men, and I'd ask anyone who may know anything to get in touch with my team and help us.
"Fortunately no one was injured during the burglary, but it is still very frightening to have people force their way into your home and threaten you.
"Last night officers went to the address and started carrying out house-to-house inquiries. We are also seizing and reviewing CCTV."


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Troubled waters between the stormwater task force, Mayor Bach
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Is Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach refusing to be a team player when it comes to fixing storm water problems? Or is he just being careful with taxpayer dollars?
County Commissioner Amy Lathen is criticizing Bach's refusal to participate in the stormwater task force. This all came to light at a meeting yesterday, and now we learned the mayor isn't even allowing city employees to participate in task force meetings.
"We have just continued on despite the fact that city staff has not been allowed to participate," said Lathen.
Mayor Bach said the commissioner's comments are puzzling.
"Amy knows, as do all the commissioners and all the councilors, our plan in the city which does involve working regionally," said Bach.
But prohibiting employee participation means the city hasn't been working regionally. It is doing storm water projects of its own in areas like Mountain Shadows.
"We are spending $46 million this year in our city on storm water improvements. It would be interesting to know frankly, what the county is doing," said Bach of the ongoing projects.
Lathen said Bach might know the county is continually working on projects too, if he came to a meeting.
The Colorado Springs City Council, Colorado Springs Utilities, and other regional agencies continue to attend task force meetings.
Bach stopped participating in the task force when the price tag for stormwater projects jumped from $88 million to well over $700 million. He is getting a private company to give him a second opinion., and results will be ready in the fall.
The stormwater task force says it supports the mayor looking for a second opinion, but that the region cannot stop working until the fall results are available.


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...what type of batting did you use? I have a pattern that calls for a lofty polyester batting, but I've only used Warm & Natural in my quilts. I guess "puffy" would be better. Any opinions?
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...what type of batting did you use? I have a pattern that calls for a lofty polyester batting, but I've only used Warm & Natural in my quilts. I guess "puffy" would be better. Any opinions?
I made mine with puffy because I didn't know any better. In the beginning it was bundlesome to fold but as it aged, the batting lost some of its fluff and was easier to fold. I made one for my car using only flannel ... it was tooo flat. It seems Warm & Natural would be perfect - not too fluffy and not too flat. I'm interested in your results.
Make it a scrappy happy day!
I made one probably 15 years ago. I used pellon fleece, but would use Warm & Natural if I made another.
I used the quilters dream cotton in the last one I made....worked great!
We made HUNDREDS of these in the 80s. My MIL had a shop. We always used poly batting BUT they were just tied. If you are willing to quilt them some or tie closer than we did you could use W&N. We used a medium loft.
I still have one left on the couch in my basement. I think that is the last of them.
you can use any batting you want- the directions call for lofty-poly batting so the (pillow) is like a pillow- they will fold up flatter if you use warm & natural or some other low-loft batting- it is a personal choice- some people like them lofty-fluffy, cozy- if you like the flat-stiffness of warm & natural then use that.
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I made some back in the 90's. Don't remember what I used for batting. Bought the material at a Ben Franklin store in western KY. Probably just bought whatever they had in the store.
I made some back in the 90s, too. I use high loft and tied so the pillow would be plump. I also made a couple kids ones recently using fleece and a smaller pillow which worked well.
When you sleep under a quilt, you sleep under a blanket of love.
I used poly, cause its supposed to be a pillow, also. I would add straps to the kids themed quillows for overnight bags, so they could carry their pj's in them.
I will be making at least one t-shirt quillow for my son-in-law, and plan on using a low-loft poly batting in it. I have a number of other t-shirts of my SIL's that will be made into quilts, and for those, Warm and Natural is my choice.
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GGal ... I hadn't heard there was a new 8900 on the market! What are you sewing with now? Don't let your rational self get too much in the way of what might be a good step for you. I really like my 6600 and am sure you would love the 7700 ... and knowing its history would be reassuring.
Honchey ... Oh goodness! I'm sure you were so PC with that woman ... I'm not sure I would have been! You mentioned Joann's ... is the store you work for, set up within JOann's. Would be nice to have a job that you can "play" at!


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I saw this in the Better Homes and Garden (BHG) magazine when I was on the treadmill the other day and of course I had to try it!
Walt and I agreed not to exchange Valentine's gifts this year. This is something I said I would never let happen but the reality is we do little things for each other all the time and we have several big expenses coming up so I reluctantly agreed. At first, I agreed thinking, "OK sure, whatever, you don't have to get me anything but I'm still getting you something" but then I thought that wouldn't be fair AND it could actually be fun finding ways to show my love and affection for my husband without spending money. It was a great opportunity to be creative!
I found the BHG template online which made this easy!! I'm not going to share my husband's potential prizes because he sometimes reads the blog but they are all things he loves or asks for often. I asked around and a few common suggestions were breakfast in bed, a guys night out, a massage, date night of their choice, sleeping in, candlelight dinner at home and of course there were some more intimate ones.
Once you decide on the prizes, print the card. The card template is an 8×10 which I thought was a little big so I resized mine to be 5×7.
To make this card, you need a sheet of cardstock paper, a printer, metallic acrylic paint, dishwashing liquid, clear contact paper and a flat paint brush. YAY, all of which I had in stock so I consider this free!
Trace the heart shape and cut it out to use as a template.
Using the heart template, draw four hearts on the clear contact paper. I made a few extra hearts because I made Jacob a card too (pictured above).
Mix 2 parts Metallic acrylic paint and 1 part dishwashing liquid.
Apply paint to the hearts on the contact paper using a flat brush. Let the paint dry between coats. I painted 3 coats. You can see by the picture below that I didn't stay within the lines – very unusual for me but we were headed out of town so I was in a hurry! I also only waited only 5 minutes between coats which is probably not recommended.
Cut the hearts and then remove the contact paper backing and apply it to the card.
I didn't have an envelope so I used a piece of red scrapbook paper and this template to create my own. I had to modified the measurements to fit my 5×7 card. I folded the sides and then glued the bottom piece to the folded sides.
Viola!! This was another fun project to do! I love the personalization!!
I decided to do one for Jacob too because he loves scratch offs. His prizes are:
- No Chores
- Breakfast of his choice
- A Movie
- He gets to stay up an extra hour
Interestingly, we recently heard on NPR that couples spend $137 each on Valentine's day. I'm excited because we are doing Valentine's Day way under the average $274 this year!!
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.Albert Einstein
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.Aldous Huxley
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.Andrew Heller
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.Freeman Dyson
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.Steve Ballmer
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.Aldous Huxley
While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.Leo Gomes
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technologyJohn Tudor
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.Marshall McLuhan
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensableJoseph Wood Krutch
There is a powerful tension in our relationship to technology. We are excited by egalitarianism and anonymity, but we constantly fight for our identity.David Owens


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The Australian government and others are right to take a good hard look at the merits of the Singapore Exchange's takeover of the Australian Securities Exchange, but the conclusion should be that there's no rational reason not to let the deal happen.
Unfortunately for ASX shareholders, who look to be getting the deal of a lifetime, right now it looks more likely that the minority Gillard government could well succumb to political pressure to block the deal.
Perhaps the ASX and the Singaporeans are hoping that the issue will die down over time. At the moment that looks unlikely and no doubt the proponents of the deal have been a bit surprised at the level of opposition stirred up by those that know that there's always some political mileage in a little xenophobia.
From this side of the Pacific Ocean, some of the arguments in opposition to the deal seem flimsy and a tad hypocritical, particularly if you believe it is inevitable capital markets become more global as time goes by.
The ASX is surely no corporate icon (whatever that means), though having one's own home-grown and owned exchange may be some sort of symbol of a country's economic power and prestige.
But even if you believe the latter, the ASX's infrastructure is not going anywhere and the exchange will still be regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Opponents of the deal need to ask themselves whether a change in the exchange's ownership really makes any difference in the scheme of things.
There is also some hypocrisy in the sense that closer integration with Asia has been seen as a good thing for the Australian economy, yet as soon as the Singaporeans come along, it seems that attitude changes.
Talking to some people whose job it is to help promote Australia overseas, the concern is that this could make it a little harder to sell Australia as a global financial services hub if instead Australia is somehow perceived as a branch office of Singapore. Perhaps, but why should it since again the ASX is not going anywhere?
The main reason that Australia is seen as an attractive place to do business for global financial services firms is its relatively stable economy and its massive pool of superannuation savings. Its monopolistic stock exchange with a tendency to charge its customers too much is surely not one of the reasons that global financial firms open offices in Australia.
Perhaps the most specific concern that Empire State has heard is that the takeover might somehow mean companies will now decide to do their initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore or somewhere other than Australia, perhaps because the ASX will be less focused on attracting capital.
This would mean fewer good investment opportunities for Australia and a loss of brokerage commission for Australian stockbroking firms.
But there is not much evidence that the Singapore Exchange's takeover is going to make a lot of difference on this score.
IPOs are indeed a big source of income for exchanges (15 to 20 per cent in the case of NYSE Euronext), so exchanges spend a lot of time trying to lure the best companies from around the world.
But in most cases of course, companies will list in the market where most of their businesses is or where their investor base resides.
The fact is that an Australian company, in most circumstances, will list in Australia, unless there is a good reason not to. International companies will list in Australia if they feel there are benefits to doing so.
Generally that will come to valuation. For instance, certain industries might be more highly valued – trade on higher multiples in other markets – because investors there are more interested in those stocks or there is a deeper pool of investors/analysts that closely follow that sector.
It should be said that a fair number of Australian technology or biotech companies listed on the NASDAQ or other exchanges where they felt they might get a better price for their stock. But the ownership of those exchanges didn't have any bearing in the decision, that's for sure.
Some big exchanges have struggled to attract listings – the London Stock Exchange is one – but that would seem to have more to do with the state of the UK/European economy and financial markets than anything else.
In mergers like NYSE/Euronext, there is no evidence that Euronext companies switched their listing to the NYSE.
Having said this, the Singapore Exchange and the ASX still need to convince everyone there's some benefits to the transaction for Australia.
The transaction will lower the cost of delivering technological infrastructure and those benefits should be shared with customers of the exchange (brokers and investors). The merger should allow for greater capital flows in both directions, which should hopefully expand the amount of activity and the number of companies that trade on both exchanges.
The Australian Financial Review


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National Australia Bank chief executive John Stewart has told his top executives to cut the corporate fat by eliminating hundreds of unnecessary jobs in his new, slimmed-down structure.
The bank's corporate affairs division, which handles media and government relations, is the first to undergo the systemic review to reveal what jobs have been duplicated or made obsolete by the corporate makeover.
It will be followed by a review of other departments at head office, such as finance, risk, people and culture, technology, contractors and back-office functions but will not involve branch or the front-office "rainmaker" roles.
Robert Hadler, general manager, group corporate affairs, said the bank had held talks with the Finance Sector Union about the review, redeployments and any redundancies.
A spokesman for the union, which is fighting a bitter industrial campaign with Commonwealth Bank over redundancies, said: "We wanted to make sure the staff were not being punished for mistakes of senior executives and the board."
Mr Stewart used this week's announcement of full-year results to highlight the reduction of complexity in the business to reduce costs, including a smaller corporate centre in Melbourne.
"No one has said that they would see that (a large restructuring charge) as a major problem," Mr Stewart said yesterday. "One institution said, in some ways, almost the larger the better, because you assume there will be a relationship between the charge and the benefit."
"National in Australia", the new structure under Ahmed Fahour, combines all of NAB's business units in Australia - Financial Services Australia and the Australian operations of MLC and Institutional Markets and Services.
At present the combined corporate affairs departments from the three divisions totals about 50 staff, with possible duplication in public relations, advocacy and marketing functions.
It is believed that some senior employees have already been told their positions will be retained while others, in cases in which their role has been duplicated, are being asked to reapply for the job. The process is expected to be completed next month.
"Corporate affairs is probably the first cab off the rank. The focus is redeployment," Mr Hadler said.
One senior manager, who did not wish to be named, said that in many cases the review would be about moving people from roles that were no longer needed into areas where they were.
NAB shares yesterday rose for the second consecutive day, up 5 ¢ to $28.39, as investors bet there would be reversal in the bank's fortunes.


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The great grandmother of Jesus was a woman named Ismeria, according to Florentine medieval manuscripts analyzed by a historian. The legend of St. Ismeria, presented in the current Journal of Medieval History, sheds light on both the Biblical Virgin Mary's family and also on religious and cultural values of 14th-century Florence.
"I don't think any other woman is mentioned" as Mary's grandmother in the Bible, Catherine Lawless, author of the paper, told Discovery News. "Mary's patrilineal lineage is the only one given."
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Nothing might seem more natural, under the cloudless skies of Rome, than to stretch out in view of some crumbling monument and crack open a can of beer.
But, this European summer, extra caution is in order after Rome's Mayor, Gianni Alemanno, declared war on such activities.
In a new law passed with immediate effect last Friday, the following activities are now forbidden on pain of a 50 euro (NZ$103.80) fine: littering, sleeping, eating and drinking by the wayside, graffiti, sticking up posters, shouting, singing and selling merchandise without a licence.
Most were in fact already banned by other laws but Mr Alemanno's intention is to make the police actually do something about them.
If the new law was imposed rigidly, life in the city centre would come to a dead halt because Rome's touristic life consists of little else.
The Bangladeshi who goes from table to table selling roses, the Senegalese selling counterfeit handbags, the accordion and violin players, the tourists who eat pizza in sight of the Pantheon or the Trevi fountain, the visitors sleeping off the Chianti under the umbrella pines - all would become fugitives.
Mr Alemanno knows that, of course.
"The checks must be made using common sense," he said last week.
The law's real objective is to tackle the drunken squalor that prevails at night in the city centre.
This week, police made their first effort to enforce the rules.
Closely trailed by a posse of reporters, they pounced on three Tunisians who were eating their lunch and drinking beer on the Spanish Steps; two Indians, one eating near the Forum, the other napping on the pavement nearby; two tourists asleep on the steps of Santa Maria Maggiore and another on the steps of the Trevi fountain.
The Tunisians were predictably miffed.
"If I've done something wrong, I'll pay," said Hafed, 30, "but this is a strange law".
His friend, Mario, added: "There are no signs saying these things are banned. It's absurd!"


text: According to the factory service manual, the procedure for bleeding the brakes on my '95 Suburban is as follows: 1. Install Combo-Valve Depressing tool J39177. 2. Bleed all four wheels (pressure- or pedal-method) in sequence (RR, LR, RF, LF). 3. Remove the Combo clip, then use a Scan Tool to run 4 functional tests while applying the brake firmly. 4. Repeat steps 1 and 2. It seems many people (myself included) simply skip steps 1 & 3. But I've never been happy with the way the brakes feel in my Suburban. My '95 Cavalier's brakes feel much better - nice, progressive, firm. The truck, on the other hand, is slow to apply and the pedal is slow to return. I'd like to bleed the brakes properly. I bought a Combo Valve clip. And I have scan-tool software on the laptop that can read the fuel-injection computer, but not the ABS computer - is there one available at a homeowner-friendly price? Or is there a way of cycling the ABS without it? Or some other bleeding method that gets the air out of the ABS system?


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What is THAT beer doing under my tree?
This morning after dropping a fare at SJC, I passed by the new BevMo on Lincoln Avenue in Willow Glen. Noticing a Grand Opening banner on the storefront I wondered how the business was faring.
Any chain store opening in Willow Glen is met with trepidation. When Longs announced wanting to locate here alarms sounded throughout the village. Everything from too much traffic to shopping carts hanging out on every corner would be the ruin of us all. Longs is now a fixture and so far Willow Glen has suffered no curses.
BevMo went through much the same. Overheard in the Glen the quivering voices–What will become of the wine shop up the Avenue?– We already have a liquor store!–Dirty men will be sitting in the gutters tossing back little brown bags. Hide the children! Hide the dogs!


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The Government's effort to establish Britain as an "innovation nation" has been dealt a fresh blow after 3i, one of the country's biggest private sector backers of technology start-ups, decided to abandon the sector.
The timing of the move by the former state-owned investment firm was embarrassing for the Government, coming just a week after it published a White Paper singing the praises of the UK's innovative companies and suggesting a wide range of initiatives to foment further start-ups. As the credit crunch tightens the screws on small companies, the exit of the UK's largest listed venture capital investor was pointed to as the latest evidence that the sector has been critically weakened. One venture capitalist said: "Entrepreneurs can't rely on the traditional venture capital marketplace to fund their businesses anymore. The model is not working here."
Since the internet bubble burst in 2000, money available for technology companies in Britain has steadily ebbed away and firms dedicated to the sector have shut. The rise of mega-buy-out funds has exacerbated the situation, attracting capital that would have otherwise gone to smaller venture capital firms.
"As long as private equity firms are raising these giant funds of several billion pounds, in all honesty, it's going to be difficult to get these mega-funds to invest over a longer period at the early stage," said Jonathan Kestenbaum, head of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, a £50m fund dedicated to backing the youngest, most risky companies.
3i's decision creates a new £200m hole – nearly a fifth of the £1.2bn it invested last year was in venture capital deals. The Government has sought to fill the void by pledging to pump hundreds of millions of pounds into regional development agencies and programmes to promote university spin-outs. Such schemes are dismissed by critics as simply tinkering at the edges.
Worse, because they often do not apply the same rigour that private investment firms would when making investment decisions, the schemes have been criticised for nurturing a whole crop of commercially unviable companies. Mr Kestenbaum said: "Too many public funds have degenerated into the equivalent of charitable giving, and that does nothing for the commercial culture needed in early stage companies."
3i, which had a string of successes including CSR, developer of the technology underlying the ubiquitous Bluetooth wireless devices, is not the first to make such a move. The buy-out giant Apax Partners ended its early stage investing last summer. The London-based partners of Benchmark Capital, one of the most influential Silicon Valley venture capital firms, last year broke away from the parent company because it wanted to focus on investing in more mature, later-stage companies rather than the youngest groups in which Benchmark specialised.
All were motivated by the same reasons. While America is home to an array of massive successes, from eBay to Yahoo! and Google, the same can't be said for the UK. There are fewer firms willing to invest in the earliest days of a company, and Europe's public markets are much less receptive to striving young companies than they are in America. The upshot is a death of "home-runs", the lifeblood of an industry where nine out of 10 investments will fail. "Groups like 3i, Apax and Benchmark used to participate in all the [financing] rounds, but now they are gone, so there is much less competition between firms, which means [company] valuations don't get that uplift. And because there are so few home runs, the model just falls apart in the end," said the venture capitalist.
The BVCA, the venture capital industry group, is lobbying for tax breaks such as R&D tax credits to get the sector on its feet again. "The BVCA has for some time been calling for a range of measures to help foster a more successful venture capital industry in the UK," said the BVCA chief executive Simon Walker. "These firms are currently denied access to a range of schemes available to other small businesses. This is a legislative anomaly and it would be easy to change."
The Government has been accused of giving mixed messages to the industry. On one hand it pushed through an 80 per cent increase to the capital gains tax rate, which was seen as a key for innovative companies. On the other, the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills last week laid out its vision to create a formalised channel by which small companies will be able to tap in to the Government's £150bn annual procurement budget.
It wasn't until 2006, as the private equity and stock markets reached their peak, that money invested in the sector reached the levels they did at the apex of the internet mania in 2000. As the economy slows, investors are worried that venture capital funds will again fall off a cliff. This time they have less far to fall.
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The future is now! Or at least it seemed to be back in 1983 when Herbie teamed up with Bill Laswell to record this classic album of computer-driven keyboard grooves! Whatever you might think of the music, the record was a genius move for Herbie – who was kind of flopping around in a number of different styles on previous albums, most of which we like, but none of which seemed to earn him the same cred as his albums in the 70s. Well this one not only earned him plenty of cred, but also a lot of cash, and continued assurance to Columbia that their contract with Herbie was well-placed – and it certainly cast Bill Laswell into the spotlight as well, given that his efforts really provided the core of the album. Tracks include "Rockit", "Earth Beat", "Future Shock", "Autodrive", and "Rough". © 1996-2017, Dusty Groove, Inc.
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Excerpted from a report submitted to the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) by Rebecca H. Sell and "The Lazaretto: The Cultural Significance and Preservation Plan in the Spirit of the Burra Charter" by Rebecca H. Sell, A Thesis in Historic Preservation, Master of Science in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania, 2005.
The original Lazaretto Quarantine Station consisted of a complex of resources including the Main Building, Bargemen's House, Kitchen House, Physician's House, Stable, Gate, Boat House, Watch House, Quarantine Master's House, Hospital, Ice House, Laundry House, Power-house, Passenger's House, Quarantine Landing, Gardens, Burial Ground, Government Store House or Barrack, Wharf, and Old Custom House. However, the only remaining resources are the Main Building, Kitchen House, Bargeman's House, Physician's House, Stable, and Gate. Although the dates of construction and/or demolition of some resources are unknown, tracing atlases, renderings, and written documentation speculation can be made about the development of the site.
Another remnant outbuilding on the Lazaretto Property is the Bargemen's House located southeast of the Main Building facing the Delaware River (see figures 65-67). It is a fifteen-by-fifteen-foot, cube, brick structure, covered in stucco, with a one-story elevation. According to historical drawings it abutted the banks of the river (see figure 27 and 28). However, today it is separated from the banks by later land fill. There is one entrance on the north elevation of the structure. The façade, now covered in ivy, has a large, arched inset window facing the river (see figure 67).
The Bargemen's House date of construction is unknown as it was not mentioned in the Board of Health Minutes. The Bargemen's House was paired with the Watch House, now demolished, that was placed southwest of the Main Building creating symmetry in plan. When vessels were sighted by a lookout in the Watch House, bargemen facilitated the Lazaretto Physician and Quarantine Master by boarding a barge or steam tug (applied for in 1868) traveling out to the location of the inbound vessel in the River, and bringing them back to land.
To the north of the Main Building, on the Lazaretto Property, is a small, brick garage that is speculated by local historians to have been used as an outdoor kitchen (see figures 61-64). The date of construction is not known. Although historically kitchens were located in the wings of the Main Building, heavier cooking may have taken place in this structure. Many changes have been made to the Kitchen exterior. On the north wall there is evidence of a door opening, since blocked off with brick (see figure 62). A small modern window was added to the left of the door outline. The west wall has been removed and wooden garage doors were installed (see figure 61). The south wall appears to have maintained a perhaps original window opening with large wooden shutters and original arm hinges (see figure 63). It appears as though no change has been made to the east elevation and a door opening exists in the center (see figure 64). The roof is steeply pitched and covered with the same green shingles as the Main Building.
Located on the Riverside Yacht Club Property, once part of the Lazaretto Property, the Physician's House was commissioned and constructed with the Main Building circa 1799. It is a two-and-one-half story, single forty-eight-by-twenty-four-foot block, five-bay, common bond brick structure that faces the waterfront (see figures 72-74). Its exterior design coincides with the Main Building's late-Georgian architectural style. A sketch drawing, by Frank H. Taylor in 1895, simplistically illustrates the façade of the Physician's House as having only two bays, leaving out three additional bays (see figures 29 and 30). However, a watercolor by T.L. Cernea, date unknown, shows the five-bay façade of the Quarantine Master's House, built in conjunction with the Physician's House and mirroring its design (see figures 27 and 28).
The first story, now covered by an enclosed porch, once had a central door opening, and two flanking windows. A low-pitched porch ran across the length of the first story as well. The second story remains the same with five, evenly spaced, ten-by-ten-light, sash windows. Three dormer windows protrude from the hipped roof. There are interior chimneys on either side of the house. The rear of the house, much like the Main Building, also has five bays of sash windows with the central window set lower to light the interior stairwell. The first story has four windows and a later, central door opening covered by a porch with Doric columns and a decorative balustrade. A one-story wing was added to the east side of the main block of the house some time after 1919 and before 1929 (see figures 24 and 111).
According to the Hand Book of the Lower Delaware River of 1895, an annual publication by the Philadelphia Maritime Exchange, the interior of the Physician's house had seven rooms, two attics, and eleven-foot high ceilings. Bath and water closet appliances "of the most approved sanitary plumbing" were provided as well.
Today, there is a modern, one-story, modern addition flanking the west side of the building. Information regarding the addition is limited due to access restrictions. The interior of the original Physician's House has since been modified for recreational club use.
The Stable is located on the Riverside Yacht Club Property, which was once part of the Lazaretto Property. It is a wooden building with large iron arm hinges on the doors. The Hand Book gives a description of the Stable situated one hundred feet northwest of the Main Building, measuring seventy by forty feet. Today, the stable is boarded up and left unused; however, the interior retains a remarkably intact loft, ladder, stalls, and an uncharacteristic, turned balustrade, possibly relocated from another source (see figures 75-81).
Like other remaining structures, the Stable's date of construction is not known. However, its design, materials, and location indicate that it dates to the early nineteenth century. It should be noted that an article in the Upland Union newspaper indicates, "a brick stable belonging to the Lazaretto was discovered on fire by John F. Dyer . . . the building was insured for 500 dollars."
The Gate, which exists north of the Physician's House just west of the Stable also on the Riverside Yacht Club Property, runs east and west and remains fully intact (see figures 83 and 84). Although its date of construction is unknown, there is a gate illustrated at this location in a diagram dating to 1870 (see figure 20). At one time the Lazaretto Property was entirely enclosed by a whitewashed board fence, according to newspaper articles from the 1870s.
Historic sketches, drawings, maps, diagrams, and descriptions of the Lazaretto site indicate the existence of additional resources since demolished (see figures 15, 16, and 18 to 25). The historical documentation of these resources indicate that they were significant to the site and their historical development must be addressed. It should be noted that there were other resources that were erected and demolished at various times throughout the property's history, but due to lack of sufficient documentation they will not be addressed.
The earliest illustration of the Lazaretto is a diagram, produced in 1870, called "Diagram No. 1 of the Lazaretto Station" reporting the positioning of the brig "Home" in the Delaware River. This ship from Jamaica was believed to be responsible for a yellow fever outbreak in June of that year, that killed at least ten people including the Quarantine Master, Lazaretto Physician, Steward's wife, and a nurse (see figures 20 and 21). This drawing illustrates the original 11.32-acre complex of the Lazaretto Property and the additional six acres to the west that belonged to the United States Government, but was used in conjunction with the station. On the Lazaretto Property, the diagram shows the Main Building, labeled "Hospital," Lazaretto Physician's House, Stable, Gate, Kitchen, and Bargemen's House, which still exist today. In addition there was a Watch House, a Quarantine Landing extending southward into the river, a Boat House on the southeast corner of the plot, a Quarantine Master's House on the southeast mirroring the Lazaretto Physician's House, an Ice House north of the Main Building, and a Hospital, labeled "Small Pox Hospital," located northwest of the Main Building, all of which have since been demolished. On the adjoining six-acre Government Property, a Wharf projected southward from the bank into the river and a structure called the "Government Store House" was north of the Wharf yet south on the property.
Another valuable resource that documented resources and their locations is an account from the 1895 Philadelphia Maritime Exchange Hand Book. This report indicates that there was also a Laundry and Wash-house, Store-house, and Power-house located on the Lazaretto Property. However, their positions were undefined. On the Government Property, the Hand Book describes a Barrack, a Pier that projected southward into the river, and a Steam Disinfectant Plant and a Power-house on the wharf. In 1889, historian Henry J. Ashmead also recalled an "old Custom-house building" at the Lazaretto Quarantine Station. None of these structures stand today.
The 1870 diagram shows the Boat House as located on the Lazaretto Property southeast of the Main Building. There is no written documentation of the Boat House represented in the 1895 Philadelphia Maritime Exchange Hand Book accounts. The date of construction and demolition is unknown.
The Watch House was located on the Lazaretto Property, southeast of the Main Building, and once abutted the water's edge. Although it is not clear when it was constructed, it may have been built with the Bargemen's House. The two designs were identical — a fifteen-by-fifteen-foot, cube, brick structure, covered in stucco, with a one-story elevation and a large, arched inset window facing the river. It was used to house a watchman or lookout who rang a bell hanging inside to notify the staff of an inbound vessel. Its date of demolition is also unknown, however it may have been around 1913 when the property was taken over by a seaplane base. A photograph of the Lazaretto Property from 1916 shows the Watch House intact, but a 1929 photograph shows that it had been razed, probably to make way for a seaplane ramp (see figures 109-111).
The 1895 Hand Book depicts the Quarantine Master's House in the same description with the Physician's House (see figures 28 and 30). It was located one hundred and twenty feet southeast of the Main Building on the Lazaretto Property. Built along with the Main Building and Physician's House at the turn of the nineteenth century, the Quarantine Master's House was home to the Quarantine Master, his family, and servants. In 1895 the house was "temporarily occupied by the crew of the boarding tug" (see figure 9). It measured forty-eight feet by twenty-four feet, consistent with the 1870 diagram, and was "two-and-one-half stories high, [had] seven rooms and two attics each, and [had] ceilings 11 feet high." Matching the Physician's House, the Quarantine Masters House was also fitted with "bath and water-closet appliances of the most approved sanitary plumbing." Although its date of demolition is unknown, it was standing in 1895 according to the Hand Book and not in a photograph taken in 1916 (see figures 109 and 110).
Another prominent building on the Lazaretto Property was the Hospital, or Smallpox Hospital, located about three hundred feet northwest of the Main Building (see figure 9). Construction of the Hospital dates to around 1858 or 1859 when the project was proposed to the City Council. This structure boarded and treated passengers and Lazaretto staff afflicted with smallpox, while the wings of the Main Building contained the main hospital operation. In 1870, this structure was also known as the "Dutch House" because it accommodated many German immigrants afflicted with ship fever. (It should be noted that "Dutch" was a common misnomer, dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries, for people of German descent or heritage. ) In 1895, it was described as "72 feet long by 24 feet wide, two stories in height, contains two wards on the first floor, each 22 by 22 feet, ceilings 10 feet high, and these [were] exactly duplicated on the second floor, which also contains a Nurse's room, Dispensary, Bath-room, and Water-closet, all of the best modern plumbing work." On the west side of the Hospital was an adjoining Kitchen, sixteen by twenty-four feet, and a similar building on the east described as a dead-room or Morgue. Although the date of demolition is unknown, a photograph from 1929 shows the Smallpox Hospital situated at the northwest corner of the Lazaretto Property, but is no longer there in the 1946 Sanborn Map.
There is little documentation about the remaining outbuildings on the Lazaretto Property. The 1870 diagram shows an Ice House in the center of the property, north of the Main Building, and east of the Stable. This suggests it was about one hundred feet or more north of the Main Building, as the 1895 Hand Book notes the Stable being the same distance. The Hand Book also describes the Ice House as thirty feet square.
The 1895 Hand Book describes a Laundry House or Wash-house on the Lazaretto Property as thirty by twelve feet. There is no mention of its exact location, date of construction, or date of demolition.
The 1895 Hand Book describes a Power-house on the Lazaretto Property as "substantially built" twelve feet square over an artesian well. Like the Laundry House, there is no information regarding its exact location or dates of construction and demolition.
Constructed shortly after the completion of the Main Building, Physician's House, and Quarantine Master's House, other buildings were erected including a Passenger's House. According to Scarf and Westcott "a temporary lodging-house for emigrants who were not sick" was one of these structures. An inventory of the Lazaretto Quarantine Station taken on June 20, 1833 indicates the Passenger's House contained "nine new bunks, fifteen small tables, and one bier for the dead." Its exact location and date of demolition is unknown.
Indicated as extending south into the Delaware River from the Lazaretto Property on the 1870 Diagram, the Quarantine Landing was a significantly large structure and a grand entrance to the Lazaretto. A mid-nineteenth century watercolor by architect Thomas Lester Cernea (1834-1876) shows the long stretch of a landing on several piers in the water and a decorative trellis covered with vegetation at the end. A large flagpole is situated at the northern tip of the Landing. An early photograph shows that the dock was made of wooden boards and whitewashed railings lined either side (see figures 33 and 34). The tall white flag pole can also be seen in the photograph. The Quarantine Landing's date of demolition is unknown, however the 1929 photograph does not show the structure.
The Lazaretto Property was highly regarded for its extensive and very productive Gardens and were reported as "worth seeing." The Quarantine Master's House and Physician's House were outfitted with their own private gardens. However, the Gardens that served the remainder of the staff and patients covered several acres of the Lazaretto Property. An article dated April 30, 1869 from the Delaware County Republican illustrated the condition and care of the Gardens:
"It is under the care of Mr. Louis Kuglen, a practical, hard working and industrious man, who fully understands his business, and 'can make two blades of grass grow where none grew before, and deserves more of his country than whole race of politicians put together.' The glass cold frames, if placed contiguous, would cover several acres, under which are growing, in the most luxurious profusion, tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, radishes, egg plants, potatoes and vegetables of nearly all kinds. The plot of ground in front of the house is beautifully laid out, and covered with early vegetables, and a great quantity of small fruits, and flowers of choice kinds. Mr. Kugler is assisted in his operations by William Dillmore, an industrious man and a good horticulturist. The management of this garden demonstrates what can be done by application and a knowledge of what is requisite to make the earth produce abundant crops. The services of such a man as Mr. Kugler are invaluable."
Since the quarantine station at the Lazaretto was mandated to bury on the grounds those who died at the facility and other victims of contagious disease in the area, the site at one time had significant burial grounds. The main burial site was located near the Hospital in the northwest corner of the Lazaretto Property, however there may have been several other burial sites. The graves were largely unmarked and those that were have since lost their headstones. There are, however, articles and citations in newspapers discussing the many deaths and burials at the Lazaretto.
An excerpt from the Upland Union issued July 8, 1846 writes,
Another excerpt from the Delaware County Republican issued August 29, 1851 writes,
A narrative description in the Delaware County American, November 19, 1862, discussed the condition of the Lazaretto and its graveyard.
A detailed account of the Lazaretto burial ground is described in an article, "The Forgotten Dead: Neglected Graves at the Old Quarantine Station at Essington," in the Chester Times on December 5, 1899. This article was written during the period when the Athletic Club of Philadelphia was using the Lazaretto as a summer home called the Orchard Club.
The article also explained that the Bureau of City Property petitioned City Council for $1000 to remove the bodies to Arlington Cemetery near Angorra, Pennsylvania to a "proper graveyard" for a "decent burial." By April 13,1900, "under the supervision of Colonel S. Lewis Good, Chief of the Philadelphia Board of Health office, the several hundred bodies interred in the old burial grounds at the Lazaretto, in Essington, [were] being exhumed and placed in small pine boxes for removal to the Arlington Cemetery, Upper Darby." According to photographs of the Orchard Club's baseball field, the gravesite would be somewhere northwest of the Main Building near the site of the now demolished Hospital building (see figures 9 and 32). The author visited Arlington Cemetery in what is today Drexel Hill. The Records Manager could not find a record of where the remains were buried and indicated that often anonymous or unknown reinterment burials were also left unmarked in their cemetery.
In 1870, the Government Store House was one hundred and twenty feet in length and situated north of the Wharf of the Government Property(see figure 9). According to Ashmead, in 1871, the United States "had completely repaired the large stone government warehouse used for storage of cargoes from infected vessels detained at quarantine" near the Wharf. The 1895 Hand Book describes this building as "a Barrack built of stone, one hundred and fifty feet long by forty feet wide, two-and-one-half stories high, each floor divided into two main rooms, seventy-four by twenty-eight feet each." It goes on to describe the Barrack as having one large room to the east that was "subdivided into three, two equal-sized rooms having been fitted up as large bath-rooms, each bath-room containing twelve tubs abundantly supplied with hot and cold water, and heated by steam." This suggests these three accounts are describing the same structure and its change in use from a storage unit for infected cargo to a barrack for bathing and washing. Although a photograph indicates that this structure was may have been standing in 1929, its date of demolition is unknown (see figure 112).
The best account of structures on the Government Property, today the Lagoon, comes from the 1895 Hand Book. At the same time that the United States Government was repairing the Barrack or Government Store House, in 1871, it had also rebuilt the 288-foot wharf. Shortly before the 1895 Hand Book publication, the Government again maintained the "very dilapidated" pier and adjoining dock and spent $900.00 on the repairs. The Hand Book gives a detailed description of the structures on the Wharf:
"On the wharf are located a steam disinfectant plant, 15 feet square, a Power-house adjoining the same, and which contains a twenty-five horse-power upright boiler of recent make. The disinfecting house proper is a frame building, and although erected as a temporary structure, is a well constructed and well braced. It is built of two thicknesses of yellow pine siding with felt between, and is lined throughout with the best quality of tin, all joints being soldered. In this building a temperature of between 215 and 220 degrees Fahrenheit has frequently been obtained for a period of four hours without intermission. On this pier are also located large coal bins, which, at the time of this writing are charged with 300 tons of pea coal."
The "old Custom-house" on the Government Property, as recalled by Ashmead, was "an ancient brick building . . . three stories high, which we learn from a letter written on Jan. 5, 1847, by Joseph Weaver, Jr., United States custom officer, had not been occupied for many years previous to that time for any purpose, and then suffering much from neglect." Later, the United States rented it to store goods. There was indeed a Custom officer, or Deputy Inspector, who lived with his family in quarters on the premises of the Government Property. It should be noted that naturalization or immigration processing did not take place at the Lazaretto Quarantine Station. It was purely a medical and purification facility.


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In addition to being the best time to buy a toaster for $5 at a door buster sale and the worst time to ship a package, this is the time of year when the automotive press begins rendering its verdicts on which car models represent the best and brightest offerings in the auto industry.
This year the big winner appears to be the Chevy Volt, mostly because it's the first mass-market plug-in hybrid in automotive history. What do you think? Does the Chevy Volt deserve all the love it's getting, or is it just the beneficiary of years of hype? Any surprises among the other awards?
Motor Trend Car of the Year: Chevy Volt
Money quote: "In the 61-year history of the Car of the Year award, there have been few contenders as hyped -- or as controversial -- as the Chevrolet Volt. The Volt started life an Old GM project, then arrived fully formed as a symbol of New GM, carrying all the emotional and political baggage of that profound and painful transition. As a result, a lot of the sound and fury that has surrounded the Volt's launch has tended to obscure a simple truth: This automobile is a game-changer."
Automobile Magazine Automobile of the Year: Chevy Volt
Money quote: "This is the most sophisticated, most important vehicle on the road today. The Volt model could very well be the standard of the future: a smartly sized battery backed by a frugal range extender, whether that's a diesel, a turbine, or a gas engine. In fact, several automakers already have plans to develop similar plug-ins with usable electric driving range and supplemental fossil-fuel power. For being an automotive pioneer, the Chevrolet Volt is the 2011 Automobile of the Year."
NADAguides Car of the Year: Buick Regal
Money quote: "The Buick Regal has had a revolutionizing effect on Buick," said Troy Snyder, director of product development for NADAguides. "The brand is definitely on the right road and it's clear that the Regal is just the beginning of Buick great vehicles to come."
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Individual models that had the best projected resale value in their category: Honda Fit, MINI Cooper, Honda Accord, Ford Taurus, Lexus IS, Audi A5, Subaru Imprexa WRX, Ford Mustang GT, Volkswagen Golf TDI, Honda CR-V, Toyota FJ Cruiser, GMC Acadia, BMW X5, Toyota Tacoma, Ford F-Series Super Duty, Toyota Sienna, Subaru Outback.
Money quote: "Consumers should take a good look at the projected resale value of a car when choosing their next new-vehicle purchase, and they would be wise to carefully consider the 2011 Best Resale Value Award winning vehicles and brands on this year's list," said James Bell, executive market analyst for Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com.


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i have a bryant furnace that pilot works but will not lite furnace sometimes its a too wire pilot assy heard that you can clean these an it will help how do you do this or is it better to replace pilot assy thanks
a furnace that uses a 2 wire pilot you are better off to replace the furnace IMO
However, yes you can remove the assembly and clean it and the pilot orifice. Best left to a PRO who deals with gas everyday. IMO
Remove the pilot tubing from the gas valve, then remove the tubing and pilot assy as one and then disassemble and clean, then reassemble and check for gas leaks.
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Heater has mysteriously stopped working.
I have a 1965 Plymouth 273 V8 with automatic transmission., and the heater has mysteriously stopped working.
About a month ago the heater core started leaking inside the car. I removed it for cleaning and discovered it had a special shut off valve built in the core that was leaking. It was impossible to find another one, so I cut that off and installed a manual shut off valve in the heater hose coming from the water pump. I had the heater core professionally cleaned out, reinstalled the whole thing tback in the car and it worked perfect until now, (about a month later)
I am geting only cold air, (after the engine reaches operating temperature) so I thought the heater core must be plugged up. I disconected both hoses to the heater core, hooked up a garden hose and I am getting great flow from either hose I flush water thru.
The thermostat works because the engine reaches operating temperature in a few minutes, the water pump works good because the engine does not over heat, I get good water flow thru the core from the above test, I get good air flow from the fan across the heater core, but all I get is cold air. Anyone have any ideas.
With the engine warmed up, feel the 2 heater hoses. Are they both hot? If they are not, water is not flowing through there. Check that manual valve that you put in.
If both hoses are hot, you have good flow through the heater. Is there a door between the blower fan and the heater core that could be closed?
Check the heater core hoses like Poncho said. If they're both hot, check the blend door in the heater case (just follow the cable from the "HOT/COLD" selector lever to whatever arm it actuates and make sure it's attached/operating).
Make sure your heater valve is open when you fill your cooling system to allow all the air to be pushed out. Like BstMech and poncho suggested , feel your heater hoses - a cool hose may indicate an air lock in the heater matrix .
Still no heat - A real head scratcher???
I tried everything that was suggested and still no heat. The two hoses were both hot. The vent to heater core is open and I get good air flow across the heater core. The manual valve I installed is open.
Am I assuming correctly that the water is supposed to flow from the water pump, thru the core, then thru the hose back to the intake manifold? If not how does it flow?
I tried disconnecting the hose going to the intake manifold thinking I hsould get the return water from the heater core, and did not get any water at all when I started the car and ran it a few minutes.
Is it possible the water pump is pumping to full capacity. How would I check this. Thanks for all the help so far.
If both hoses are hot, there is water pumping through it, or it wouldn't be hot. This is a real puzzler.
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Just because the engine temp is getting warm in a few minutes like it supposed to doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't the thermosat. I may be stuck partially closed allowing the engine temp to warm up but prohibit the correct water flow. Most thermostats are cheaply produced parts that sadly to say you have about a 50/50 chance of getting one that doesn't go bad quickly. I would say replace the thermostat and try it again.
I had the same thing happen to me a while back, right after I put on a new water pump. Both my hoses were hot but the core stayed cold. I pulled the flow valve and found a peice of gasket material had laid itself flat up against the opening in the valve. It's amazing how small the opening is in some of those control valves. I guess the engineers figured the heater core didn't need full flow. They were right - once I got it cleared, the heater ran me out of the car.
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Inmate dies Tuesday morning
A 67-year-old inmate at the Monroe County Detention Center on Stock Island died of apparent natural causes Tuesday morning, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The man's name was not released pending notification of next of kin, said Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Becky Herrin.
He was arrested Thursday on drug-related charges and had medical issues, Herrin said. He was under supervision and taken to Lower Keys Medical Center about 6:11 a.m. after a nurse found him pale and breathing shallowly. CPR began en route to the hospital, where he died. Detectives reportedly found no signs of trauma. An autopsy will be done and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating, Herrin said.
Traffic directed this weekend
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office is expecting heavy traffic after lobster mini-season, which is today and Thursday, particularly northbound on U.S. 1. Deputies will be stationed to direct motorists at one chokepoint, the intersection entrance to Duck Key, said sheriff's spokeswoman Becky Herrin.
On the Memorial Day holiday weekend, traffic backed up for miles there due to a temporary construction light.
Even with deputies directing traffic, the Sheriff's Office anticipates a delay of up to 20 minutes for vehicles exiting Duck Key. Deputies ask for motorists' patience as they work to keep traffic flowing.
DOT secretary to visit Aug. 6
Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad is coming to Key West to meet with concerned residents and businesses the first week in August.
Prasad will meet with the Coalition of the North Roosevelt Boulevard Businesses from 4 to 5 p.m. Aug. 6 at Old City Hall, 510 Greene St.
After that, he will meet with residents from 5 to 6 p.m. in the City Commission chambers there.
Many residents and businesses have complained about the slow progress of the $41.5 million reconstruction of the island's main artery. The project is expected to take three years, with a targeted completion date of September 2014.


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US Air Force builds supercomputer out of PS3s � GamePron
US Air Force builds supercomputer out of PS3s: "US Air Force builds supercomputer out of PS3s
Geeks like to make things by combining other things (just look at Minecraft), but the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has taken this to extremes, connecting 1,760 PlayStation 3 gaming consoles together to create a massive supercomputer."
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PlayStation Move sells 4.1 million
PlayStation Move sells 4.1 million - Official PlayStation Community -PlayStation.com: "Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that the sales of PlayStation®Move motion controller for the PlayStation®3 (PS3®) computer entertainment system reached over 4.1 million units worldwide*1. The milestone was reached in just 2 months since its release in September for North America, Europe/PAL territories and Asia, and 1 month since the release in October for Japan."
The Move Controllers look awful, but what can we say? They are selling them...
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I am Minereadam, 2 year ago! i bought nikon d 40 digital camera, new system i poor understanding that camera and i use external battery for long time create video. But sad news! 1 week later my camera full damage and i not found available spare parts in my town so my camera lost.
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