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Otitis media with effusion (OME) is when there is thick or sticky fluid behind the eardrum in the middle ear, but there is no ear infection.
OME; Secretory otitis media; Serous otitis media; Silent otitis media; Silent ear infection; Glue ear
The Eustachian tube connects the inside of the ear to the back of the throat. This tube helps drain fluids to prevent them from building up in the ear. The fluids drain from the tube and are swallowed.
Otitis media with effusion (OME) and ear infections are connected in two ways:
The following can cause swelling of the lining of the Eustachian tube, leading to increased fluid:
The following can cause the Eustachian tube to close or become blocked:
Getting water in a baby's ears will not lead to a blocked tube.
OME is most common in winter or early spring, but it can occur at any time of year. It can affect people of any age, although it occurs most often in children under age 2. (It is rare in newborns.)
Younger children get OME more often than older children or adults for several reasons:
The fluid in OME is often thin and watery. It used to be thought that the longer the fluid was present, the thicker it became. ("Glue ear" is a common name given to OME with thick fluid.) However, it is now believed that the thickness of the fluid has more to do with the particular ear than with how long the fluid is present.
Unlike children with an ear infection, children with OME do not act sick.
OME often does not have obvious symptoms.
Older children and adults often complain of muffled hearing or a sense of fullness in the ear. Younger children may turn up the television volume because of hearing loss.
The doctor or nurse may find OME while checking your child's ears after an ear infection has been treated.
The doctor or nurse will look for certain changes when examining the eardrum:
A test called tympanometry is a more accurate tool for diagnosing OME. The results of this test can help tell the amount and thickness of the fluid.
An acoustic otoscope or reflectometer is a more portable device that accurately detects the presence of fluid in the middle ear.
An audiometer or some other type of formal hearing test may help the health care provider decide what treatment is needed.
Unless there are also signs of an infection, most health care providers will not treat OME at first. Instead, they will recheck the problem in 2 - 3 months.
Some children who have had repeat ear infections may receive a smaller, daily dose of antibiotics to prevent new infections.
Certain changes may help clear up the fluid behind the eardrum:
Most often the fluid will clear on its own. You doctor may suggest waiting and watching to see if the condition worsens.
If the fluid is still present after 6 weeks, treatment might include:
If the fluid is still present at 8 - 12 weeks, antibiotics may be tried, although they are not always helpful.
At some point, the child's hearing should be tested.
If there is significant hearing loss (> 20 decibels), antibiotics or ear tubes might be appropriate.
If the fluid is still present after 4 - 6 months, tubes are probably needed, even if there is no significant hearing loss.
Sometimes the adenoids must be removed to restore proper functioning of the Eustachian tube.
Otitis media with effusion usually goes away on its own over a few weeks or months. Treatment may speed up this process. Glue ear may not clear as quickly as OME with a thinner effusion.
OME is usually not life threatening. Most children do not have long-term damage to their hearing or speaking ability, even when the fluid remains for many months.
Call your health care provider if:
Helping your child reduce the risk of ear infections can help prevent OME.
American Academy of Family Physicians; American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery; American Academy of Pediatrics Subcommittee on Otitis Media With Effusion. Otitis media with effusion. Pediatrics. 2004;113:1412-1429.
Paradise JL, Feldman HM, Campbell TF, Dollaghan CA, Rockette HE, Pitcairn DL, et al. Tympanostomy tubes and developmental outcomes at 9 to 11 years of age. N Engl J Med. 2007;356:248-261.


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Glastonbury organizer says Oasis won't be playing festival
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At least one possible explanation for Liam Gallagher's cryptic "OASIS" tweets has been ruled out.
Glastonbury organizer Emily Eavis says the defunct Manchester band will not be playing this year's edition of the U.K. festival.
Rumors to the contrary began buzzing around the Internet after Gallagher tweeted the word "Oasis" one letter at a time without offering any explanation for the posts.
Many fans are hoping the tweets lead to news of a reunion, especially as this year marks the 20th anniversary of the band's debut album, Definitely Maybe.
Meanwhile, more acts are still expected to be added to the Glastonbury lineup, which already includes Arcade Fire, Kasabian, Jack White, Elbow, and many more. The sprawling festival is scheduled to take place June 25th through the 29th.
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An embolism is a clot that travels from the site where it formed to another location in the body. The embolism can lodge in an artery at the new location and block the flow of blood there. The blockage deprives the tissues in that location of its normal blood flow and oxygen. This can result in damage, destruction, or even death of the tissues (necrosis) in that organ. Arterial embolism requires prompt treatment, usually with hospitalization.
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If you only ever read one thing I write about ethics. Let it be this.
This is a long, comprehensive, systematic defense of a naturalistic atheistic ethics, grounded in an attempt to be rationally coherent, consistent, and developed based on objective, factual premises that should not be very controversial in themselves.
This post also features an explanation of how we can say ethics is rooted in nature without coming to anti-LGBT conclusions that Catholics claim "natural law" would dictate. It also includes an explanation about how we can talk about power as a good thing (contra-Christian messaging) without endorsing abuses of power. And it has an explanation of how we can talk aspirationally about an ethics of maximizing human greatness without being ableists who throw the "disabled" under the bus in the process.
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Even with surging interest in green building and sustainability, new construction and renovation projects continue to deplete vast quantities of resources. Remodeling, in particular, is a double-edged sword—the new house consumes materials, the demolition of the old structure generates debris.
You can build efficiently with sustainable products, and many architects do, but reusing building materials salvaged from old structures is yet another way to help Mother Earth. The concept is simple: the tons of usable materials that already exist in commercial and residential applications can be carefully deconstructed, cleaned up, and reused in new buildings.
Recycling in this manner is an old tradition, but the practice has grown as an increasing number of architects consider it the ultimate sustainability strategy. "Using something old is often easier on the environment than buying new," Jennifer Roberts writes in Redux: Designs That Reuse, Recycle, and Reveal (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2005). "Reuse reduces pressures to extract or mine nonrenewable resources from the earth or to harvest slow-growing renewable resources."
John Abrams, founder and president of the West Tisbury, Mass.-based design/ build firm South Mountain Co., has long advocated the reuse of building materials. He says the built environment already has many of the materials we need and sees no reason to "fill up our vanishing landfills with perfectly good materials."
It's hard to argue with his logic. With increasing frequency, architects and builders are scoping out high-quality materials during renovation and restoration projects and using them in new ones. They're also mining salvage yards, which can be excellent sources for period fixtures and fittings.
revivalist thinking Salvaged lumber is one of the most popular reuse categories for the recycling savvy. "In many cases, the materials in old buildings are of far better quality than new materials," Abrams argues. The reason: "Old buildings were often built with slow-growing first-growth timber, which is denser and more stable than new, fast-growing second-growth or plantation timber," he says. This explains why South Mountain uses salvaged lumber in more than 80 percent of its interior and exterior finish work, he adds, and why the firm designs buildings with salvage availability in mind.
Minneapolis- and San Francisco-based LOCUS Architecture also takes this approach. Though the firm sets no limits on the materials it uses, wood products of all types make up a large portion. "In one of our first projects, 60 percent to 70 percent of the wood was reclaimed," says principal and partner Paul V. Neseth, AIA. Reclaimed products included maple and oak flooring, dimensional wood framing lumber, and redwood trim.
Lumber is just one of many salvaged materials available for reuse, however. Bathtubs, chalkboards, sinks, cabinets, mantels, shutters, stairs, and tile also can be reclaimed. LOCUS, for example, has used old plumbing fixtures, billboard vinyl, and sidewalks that were cut and installed as pavers and stair treads. "Most commodity items, such as dimensional lumber, timber, bricks, and stone, can have value," says William Zoeller, senior architect with Norwalk, Conn.-based Steven Winter Associates. "Plumbing fixtures—especially sinks—and finished hardware are also good choices, and lighting fixtures can be easily rewired and upgraded."
Getting your hands on such materials is getting easier too. In recent years, nonprofit salvage yards offering high-quality building materials have proliferated. One of the largest is The ReBuilding Center of Our United Villages, a nonprofit in Portland, Ore. The center started as a small yard but soon grew into a large operation that now diverts 4.5 million pounds of reusable building materials from landfills each year. It even has a division that provides deconstruction services.
Reuse opportunities need not always come from houses or buildings, however. John Hong, AIA, LEED AP, and Jinhee Park, principals of Cambridge, Mass.-based Single Speed Design, prove that a little imagination can turn the most unlikely elements into beautiful architecture. Single Speed had been exploring the idea of reusing a local armory building when a client approached the pair with a challenge: build a house with steel and concrete salvaged from Boston's Big Dig highway project. Their efforts produced an industrial, yet beautiful, 4,300-square-foot home with a structural system comprised of more than 600,000 pounds of recycled materials from the nation's largest public-works project.


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Upper East, from 59th Street to 110th Street, from the East River to Fifth Avenue, with Sutton Place and Carnegie Hill as separate enclaves.
The Upper East Side historically exemplifies serious landmark-type apartments but remains a neighborhood where a co-op or condo can be found for everyone. Strict co-ops (some with incredible Central Park views) continue to prevail in the Upper East Side from Park to Fifth Avenues, but there are plenty of studios, one- and two-bedroom condos, and rentals on the Upper East Side as well. New luxury condo buildings include 20 East End Avenue, inspired by the pre-war architecture of the Upper East Side, and Citizen360 which is committed to sustainable building practices.
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An unusual Holocaust documentary has brought near-capacity afternoon crowds to the Laemmle Town Center 5 for almost a week.
They've come not only to see "Ladder in the Lions' Den," but to meet its subject, 107-year-old Austrian survivor Leopold Engleitner. | PHOTOS
Sitting quietly in his wheelchair outside the theater, the frail but remarkably resilient Engleitner met adoring fans from all over Southern California after Monday's screening of the 40-minute-film. It recounts the Jehovah's Witness' refusal to join Hitler's army during World War II and subsequent imprisonment in three Nazi concentration camps.
"It's really something that everybody should know about but very few people do," said Dave Butler, a Jehovah's Witness who drove down from Bakersfield to see the movie and meet the man. "Leopold doesn't speak English, I'd love to talk to him, but I think he's awesome. He's expending his limited strength and resources to come out and meet people and do this tour; it's amazing. It's very generous of him."
Born in 1905 with a bent spine and raised in a lakeside village not far from where Hitler grew up, Engleitner was appalled by the slaughter of World War I and joined the pacifist Jehovah's Witnesses in the early 1930s. When Austria joined the German Reich in 1938, members of the religion were rounded up. They could get out of the camps if they signed a paper - the ladder of the title - renouncing their religion and accepting the Nazis' warlike ways.
According to the film, the Austrian Witnesses, including Engleitner, refused to do so. Many, of course, paid with their lives.
Through narration and re-enactment, the movie recounts Engleitner's harrowing ordeal, which included the time when, starving on a march back to camp from a work detail, his testicle was crushed by an SS guard's boot, which prevented him from ever fathering children.
Decades later, Engleitner met a young Austrian, Bernhard Rammerstorfer, in a park in his hometown. Taken by the older man's story, Rammerstorfer wrote a book about Engleitner, "Unbroken Will," and produced an earlier documentary about him as well as "Ladder in the Lions' Den."
Independent up to age 105, Engleitner has lived with Rammerstorfer, his wife and their young daughter in their home country for the last two years.
"He deserves it," Rammerstorfer said. "His last period of life should not be in a nursing home, but in a family. So it was important to give him a warm family environment, and he enjoys it very much."
Obviously, though, the old guy still gets around. Indeed, Engleitner's racked up 95,000 travel miles in less than two decades, making appearances and speaking to audiences throughout the world.
"I like it very much," Engleitner said, with Rammerstorfer interpreting. "Now I've found open ears and can tell my story through the film. One of the most important things to me is to teach people tolerance, humanity and peace.
"I especially appreciate that the youth are so interested and open," Engleitner continued. "I like to speak to youth because they are not prejudiced and they are open to everyone."
Andrew Sanchez, 22, is an example of that. He came up from San Diego with several fellow Jehovah's Witnesses to see the film Monday.
"We heard about this movie talking about his faith in action," Sanchez said. "It changes your perspective when you meet someone in person who you talk about in school and read about in history books.
"It drives it home for you, makes you feel a little more a part of it."
"I hope that educators will pick it up and realize the important message that is there," the film's narrator, Sun Valley resident Fred Fuss, said. "Leopold did a very significant thing: he just said no. When he was being bullied, browbeaten, threatened with his life to give up his principles, he didn't, because of his conscience. Isn't that the message we try to give our young people?"
While not suggesting that it was in any way easy, Engleitner said that his stubbornness in the face of evil was, quite simply, inevitable.
"It's important that you live your life according to just principles," Engleitner explained. "I found them in the Bible, and that's what also gave me strength - my strong belief in God."


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Redlands police issued six citations Saturday under the city's new social host ordinance that targets parties where alcohol is served to people younger than 21-years-old.
The ordinance, passed by the City Council on Feb. 5, results in fines ranging from $100 to $500.
Police ticketed six people at a party in the 900 block of East Brockton Avenue on Saturday - three hosts and three guests who possessed alcohol, police said.
Officials say the department plans to focus heavily on the ordinance as high school graduations draw near.
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Day 2 At The 2011 Billabong Pipe Masters In Memory Of Andy Irons
Normally a drop in the swell means a drop in the action. Not today. There were fewer sets breaking on the third reef but the ones that did come through focused squarely on the first reef. Even the mixed crew of Pipe specialists and World Tour warriors weren't able to paddle into these beasts.
I kicked off the day watching a few heats at the Quiksilver house right on the beach. I couldn't figure out why the barrels on some of the bigger waves would pinch at the end. Leave it to Ian Walsh to explain the clamp factor, "It's because the swell is so west. You need just a touch of north in the swell to open up the barrels." That was an issue in the morning when dudes were getting absolutely smoked by pinching barrels and rogue clean up sets. By late morning things had cleaned up and it was game f—king on at Pipeline.
So who was the man today? Evan Valiere is the man! The quiet killer from Kauai took out XXX. While Evan's accomplishments can't go without notice the real star of the day was John John Florence…again. The kid was absolutely on fire. What can you say about teenager who comboed 11-Time World Champion Kelly Slater in their midday matchup? Between him and Jamie O'Brien (who also flared up like crazy today in his backyard) there are no two better surfers at the Backdoor/Pipeline arena. And lest we forget Kelly Slater. "The King" had a shocker against John John earlier in the day but redeemed himself in a big way against local Pipeline mad dog Kalani Chapman.
Tomorrow figures to be a banger of a finish. The waves are still gonna be firing and the weekend crowds are gonna be massive and keen for carnage. What a way to finish the year! We'd like to throw out a special shaka to two of our fallen brothers; Malik Joyeux and Andy Irons. The first day Pipe broke was the same day that Malik passed away a few years ago and yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the birth of AI's son, Axel. Thanks for the macking swell boys—we miss you but will see you on the other side.—Justin Coté
ASP Press Release…
Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons
ASP World Title Event No. 11 of 11
Banzai Pipeline, Hawaii, USA
December 8 – 20, 2011
Quarterfinalists Decided in Firing Conditions at Billabong Pipe Masters
BANZAI PIPELINE, Oahu/Hawaii (Friday, December 9, 2011) – The Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons ran for the second consecutive day in firing 10-foot (3-4 metre) Pipeline and today's action saw local talent John John Florence (HAW), 19, post the event's highest scores while the contest's Quarterfinalists were decided.
The final stop on the 2011 ASP World Title Series, the Billabong Pipe Masters also marks the final jewel of the prestigious Vans Triple Crown. John John Florence, current leader on the Vans Triple Crown ratings, further asserted his dominance among the field today, securing both the event's highest heat-total of a near perfect 19.10, out of 20, in Round 3 and eventually went on to seal his second 10-point ride in Round 4. "That 10 was just a perfect double-up, I just held my line and it was sick," Florence said. "The waves keep coming in and they're so perfect. It's so fun being out there with three guys and I want to go on every wave."
The young Hawaiian's flawless score was earned compliments of a deep no-grab backside barrel, which saw the natural-footer relegate ASP World Champions Kelly Slater (USA), 39, and C.J. Hobgood (USA), 32, to Round 5 while advancing directly to the Quarterfinals. "I was so nervous going in to that heat because C.J. (Hobgood) and Kelly (Slater) are so gnarly," Florence said. "I've looked up to those guys and it's fun surfing against them. I think it's the second time I've surfed against Kelly and it's the first time I've beaten him. This is definitely a dream surfing my home break with three guys out and beating Kelly, I'm so stoked."
Kieren Perrow (AUS), 34, kept his ASP Dream Tour campaign alive with another valiant effort at Pipeline today. Perrow, who needed a 5th place result to maintain his position among the elite for next year, charged back to life in his Round 4 heat to overtake Shane Dorian (HAW), 39, with a near-perfect 9.83 barrel-ride, securing both his berth in to the Billabong Pipe Masters Quarterfinals and his position on the ASP Top 34 for 2012. "I just can't event believe it, I thought it was done, especially after Shane got that first one," Perrow said. "You just never give up really. That wave came and I just had my toes on the tail trying to make that drop. I knew Shane only needed a low score so it wasn't over by any means. It means the world not having to surf a man-on-man heat because winning that guarantees me for next year. Now I can just go home and get some rest and try and win this thing tomorrow."
Kelly Slater (USA), 39, got the best of a low-scoring battle over Hawaiian talent Marcus Hickman (HAW) after taking several ugly wipeouts during the affair in his Round 3 bout and despite falling to Florence in Round 4, returned to form in Round 5 with some amazing Pipe barrels of his own to earn his Quarterfinals berth. "I just didn't get in sync in those in those first couple of heats," Slater said. "In the first one I was really off. John John was in sync in that next one and being in the right position here is only a matter of a few feet. You're either in the right spot or not and when it's a guy's heat it's his heat. I got breathed off on the first wave I took in that last heat and Kalani (Chapman) got a good one and I got cleaned up. I was thinking 'This probably isn't a good way to start a heat.' I was patient after that. I got that first one and the second was just a better wave. That one was nice and open."
Slater, an 18-year veteran of the elite ASP World Tour, is still fired up to compete at the Billabong Pipe Masters after nearly two full decades of competition at the perilous Hawaiian barrel. "I love this event," Slater said. "Ask everyone on tour and they'll probably say it's their favorite. You get the chance to surf Pipe with a few guys out and have your pick. All young surfers look at it and dream about it. I had a picture on my wall of Pipeline and I thought I'll never catch a wave like that, so to surf it with one guy with priority, it's awesome."
Michel Bourez (PYF), 25, current No. 3 on the Vans Triple Crown ratings, kept his hopes of winning the prestigious Hawaiian title alive today when he scalped two heat victories in the firing Pipeline conditions to earn his spot in the Quarterfinals. "Winning a Triple Crown would mean to world to me," Bourez said. "After the World Title, everyone wants to win the Triple Crown. It's really hard though, because John John (Florence) is leading and he's on fire right now. It's going to be an exciting finish for sure."
Evan Valiere (HAW), 28, continued to dismantle top ranked surfers again today, besting Owen Wright (AUS), 21, and former Billabong Pipe Masters Champion Taj Burrow (AUS), 33, via his immaculate forehand barrel-riding skills. "When I was watching the heat before mine I didn't think there would be that many waves out there," Valiere said. "It seemed like it was set-after-set in that heat and we were having lots of fun. It's just really exciting to get that barrel and I'm putting everything I have in to it."
Gabriel Medina (BRA), 17, current ASP World Tour rookie, is well-known for pushing the boundaries of high-performance aerial surfing, but proved he can easily adapt in all conditions when he took out two heat victories in barreling Pipeline to advance to the Quarterfinals today. "That was a fun heat with three guys in the water," Medina said. "I'm just stoked to be here. This is my first contest at Pipe and I'm so happy. It's amazing to be out there. I've been here for a month and yesterday was the first day Pipe was breaking. This is only my second day at Pipe and I'm trying out my boards now. Yesterday I got some waves and I feel confident and hopefully I can get some better waves in my next heat."
Event organizers will reconvene tomorrow morning at 7am local time for a possible 8am start and will possibly crown a 2011 Billabong Pipe Masters Champion by day's end. For all of the LIVE action log on to vanstriplecrownofsurfing.com/billabongpipemasters2011. For additional ASP information log on to www.aspworldtour.com
Billabong Pipe Masters Round 3 Results:
Heat 1: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 7.34 def. Aamion Goodwin (HAW) 5.03
Heat 2: Kalani Chapman (HAW) 10.27 def. Dusty Payne (HAW) 6.83
Heat 3: Jamie O'Brien (HAW) 6.46 def. Adriano de Souza (BRA) 4.10
Heat 4: C.J. Hobgood (USA) 8.40 def. Julian Wilson (AUS) 6.83
Heat 5: John John Florence (HAW) 19.10 def. Damien Hobgood (USA) 14.40
Heat 6: Kelly Slater (USA) 9.50 def. Marcus Hickman (HAW) 3.56
Heat 7: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 12.77 def. Travis Logie (ZAF) 2.27
Heat 8: Michel Bourez (PYF) 6.40 def. Adam Melling (AUS) 5.90
Heat 9: Evan Valiere (HAW) 16.14 def. Owen Wright (AUS) 15.67
Heat 10: Shane Dorian (HAW) 11.24 def. Jordy Smith (ZAF) 5.66
Heat 11: Kieren Perrow (AUS) 18.73 def. Josh Kerr (AUS) 11.60
Heat 12: Taj Burrow (AUS) 8.93 def. Ian Walsh (HAW) 5.36
Billabong Pipe Masters Non-Elimination Round 4 Results:
Heat 1: Jamie O'Brien (HAW) 13.92, Joel Parkinson (AUS) 12.06, Kalani Chapman (HAW) 12.00
Heat 2: John John Florence (HAW) 17.67, Kelly Slater (USA) 8.50, C.J. Hobgood (USA) 5.43
Heat 3: Michel Bourez (PYF) 13.10, Evan Valiere (HAW) 10.84, Gabriel Medina (BRA) 8.17
Heat 4: Kieren Perrow (AUS) 13.66, Shane Dorian (HAW) 11.87, Taj Burrow (AUS) 7.83
Billabong Pipe Masters Round 5 Results:
Heat 1: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 12.83 def. C.J. Hobgood (USA) 7.74
Heat 2: Kelly Slater (USA) 16.80 def. Kalani Chapman (HAW) 14.33
Heat 3: Evan Valiere (HAW) 16.03 def. Taj Burrow (AUS) 10.87
Heat 4: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 9.23 def. Shane Dorian (HAW) 2.30
Upcoming Billabong Pipe Masters Quarterfinals Heats:
Heat 1: Jamie O'Brien (HAW) vs. Joel Parkinson (AUS)
Heat 2: John John Florence (HAW) vs. Kelly Slater (USA)
Heat 3: Michel Bourez (PYF) vs. Evan Valiere (HAW)
Heat 4: Kieren Perrow (AUS) vs. Gabriel Medina (BRA)


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GSA's Byron White Courthouse Wins Presidential Design Award
October 30, 1997
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WASHINGTON, DC -- As a result of the US General Services Administration (GSA) and the imaginative intervention of its designers, the Byron White United States Courthouse epitomizes what a courthouse should and can be in America, according to the jury that selected the historic structure as a winner of the quadrennial Presidential Award for Design Excellence.
The Presidential Design Awards, established in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan, are administered by the National Endowment for the Arts and are presented every four years. The awards encourage and recognize the design successes of federal agencies and honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to federal design. This year's awards were presented by Mrs. Albert Gore in a ceremony today in the Indian Treaty Room in the Old Executive Office Building.
The preservation of the Byron White Courthouse, located in downtown Denver, demonstrates a strategy which combines respect for the past with the thoughtful integration of new spaces for new uses. The 80-year-old courthouse was restored and now houses officials of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth District, and the U.S. District Court. On August 10, 1994, the building was rededicated as the Byron White United States Courthouse.
In receiving today's award, GSA Administrator David J. Barram said, "This courthouse illustrates our belief that America's federal buildings are public buildings, and we strive to make them part of the fabric of our communities while preserving our Nation's heritage."
The GSA worked with Michael Barber Architecture of Denver to restore the exterior and important public interior spaces in the lobby and second floor gallery. The remaining space was converted to federal courtrooms. Furthermore, all building systems were brought up to U.S. Courts Guidelines and Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards.
Built from 1910 to 1916 as the Federal Courthouse/Post Office, the 244,000 square-foot structure was once known as the "Mile High City's grandest Neoclassical Structure". Its Renaissance Revival interior was especially noteworthy for its abundant natural light, most evident in its massive skylights and interior courtyard.
By the late 1980s, however, the rich design, grandeur and natural light had been greatly diminished by layers of insensitive remodeling. So much of the original architecture had been destroyed or compromised that, when the need for new court facilities arose, serious consideration was given to building a new courthouse. Instead, the Judges' Restoration Committee urged GSA to acquire the derelict building in 1988 with the goal of restoring it to serve the needs of a 21st century judiciary.
In the end, the team restored the building's natural light and recreate the original spirit of the building. The exterior was completely cleaned, with minimal repairs to the marble to preserve as much of the original work as possible. The former post office lobby, now called the Grand Hall, was restored. The main corridor of the second floor, which had been reduced to a fluorescent five-foot corridor in the 1960s, was restored to its original proportions, lit once again by the natural light of the interior courtyard and by recreations of the original cast bronze sconces.
All five courtrooms are new, as is the Ceremonial En Banc Courtroom centered in what was once the main post office work area. Although the massive sky lights are not visible, the light from them suffuses the translucent panels.
At a cost of $115 per square foot, the building has the same estimated useful life as new courthouses currently benchmarked from $145 to $170 per square foot, depending on height, scope, location and other construction variables. Currently valued at $200 million, the Byron White Courthouse is proof that good design is good business, increasing the economic value of federal assets while enriching communities and American heritage.
GSA and the National Endowment for the Arts recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to leverage their expertise and resources to strengthen and jointly administer the Federal Design Improvement Program, including the Presidential Design Awards.


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SmartState a smart investment
New numbers show state's investment in academic research has billion-dollar impact on state's knowledge-based economy.
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The South Carolina SmartState Review Board delivered a timely report to the South Carolina General Assembly in preparation for the upcoming legislative session. According to its fiscal year 2012 Annual Report, the SmartState Program has resulted in more than $1.4 billion in non-state investment entering, or committed to enter, the South Carolina economy. The program has created 8,078 new jobs.
The more than 8,000 SmartState-related jobs were created in part by companies that invested or expanded in South Carolina because of the SmartState Program, by start-up companies that were launched based on SmartState research, and by research universities in the form of positions funded by grants and Center investments. Nearly 1,100 of these new jobs are from the state's burgeoning automotive industry, with other SmartState job sectors which include the energy and biomedical industries. The average salary of jobs created by the SmartState Program is $77,000—more than twice the 2010 annual personal income per capita in the state.
The $1.4 billion investment in South Carolina is more than seven times the $180 million in South Carolina Education Lottery proceeds that the General Assembly appropriated for the SmartState Program between 2003 and 2008, including more than $1.1 billion directed into the South Carolina economy, plus more than $300 million in committed investments scheduled for the near-future. The total represents a 7-to-1 return on investment for the state. No additional funds have been appropriated to the program since 2008.
"Such a wellspring of corporate and philanthropic investment in public academic research demonstrates that the private sector believes South Carolina is ready to sit at the table as a major player in the global knowledge economy," said SmartState Review Board Chair Regan Voit. "One of the most gratifying facts is that the SmartState Program was built with lottery revenue—not tax dollars."
By the numbers
The $1.4 billion total comes from a variety of sources including corporations, non-profit organizations, federal agencies, and private philanthropy. More than $191 million derives from direct matches of state award dollars, as required by statute. These funds were used to create 48 unique research centers, called Centers of Economic Excellence, representing a variety of commercially-viable science and engineering fields at the state's three public senior research institutions, Clemson University, Medical University of South Carolina, and University of South Carolina. Each Center of Economic Excellence is led by one or more world-class researchers, known as SmartState Endowed Chairs, who have been recruited to the state from prestigious institutions such as Northwestern University, Georgetown University, and Harvard University.
In addition to the $191-plus million in match investments, the SmartState Endowed Chairs and their research teams have secured more than $715 million in extramural (outside) grants from industry and the federal government to propel their research and commercialization efforts. Of this total, more than $408 million in grant funding has already been received, with $315 million in near-future commitments.
Finally, corporations that need to be in close proximity to the Centers and the SmartState Endowed Chairs have invested nearly $530 million to develop major infrastructure projects in South Carolina. These plans include the construction of factories and innovative research and development facilities by companies such as American Titanium Works, Proterra, and Trulite.
Currently, more than 40 companies and organizations have made direct investments of $500,000 or more in SmartState Program Centers for a total of $111 million. Examples of major direct investment contributors include BMW, which has invested $11 million, and The Duke Endowment and Health Sciences South Carolina, which combined have invested nearly $30 million.
Keeping talent in-state
Another strength of the SmartState Program is the incentive for South Carolina students to remain in-state to study with the SmartState Endowed Chairs and their world-class research teams. For a third straight year, the SmartState Program partnered with the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics to place rising seniors with SmartState Endowed Chairs in special summer laboratory internships. The SmartState Program is also a recruitment tool for the best and brightest science and engineering graduate students from outside the state. According to the University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business, the impact from graduate students who stay in South Carolina following their mentorship under SmartState Endowed Chairs annually is $4.2 million.
"South Carolina's investment in research and innovation distinguishes our state and helps attract new industry and new jobs," said South Carolina Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt, a former member of the SmartState Review Board. "Partnerships with industry and academia are essential to fueling innovation and industry growth in South Carolina. The SmartState Program is transforming South Carolina so we can better compete in the global economy."
Competing in the global economy is not just good business. It is the future of developing local businesses and an educated workforce in practical ways.
"The SmartState Program has attracted more than $1 billion in outside investment to South Carolina and helped to create thousands of new, high-paying jobs in businesses large and small, but the greatest yield is ahead of us as these Centers of Economic Excellence continue to produce tangible and practical results," said University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides.
South Carolina is no longer perceived as primarily a beautiful place to live and travel. Industry influencers are well aware that the state is serious about developing its knowledge-based economy.
"Today, pharmaceutical companies and medical device companies are actively looking at South Carolina as a prime location for research and development," said Ray Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina President. "This was unimaginable just a few years ago, and the SmartState program was a key ingredient in building the platform for this success."
South Carolina's research institutions play a critical role in the development of the state's knowledge-based economy and serve as incubators of commercialized research endeavors.
"This report is another indicator of the critical role that research universities play in creating jobs and economic growth, both by providing a highly educated workforce and generating innovations that support existing and emerging industry sectors, from agribusiness and manufacturing to biotechnology and energy systems, as well as the launch of new startup enterprises," said President James Barker of Clemson University.
The Advisory Group at Huron, a Washington, D.C.-based consultancy firm, called the SmartState Program "an extraordinary effort by the state of South Carolina to invest in its Knowledge Economy and … a best-in-kind program that is, or should be, the envy of other states." In 2012, the SmartState Program was nominated for an Innovations in American Government Award by the Harvard University Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
About the SmartState Program
The SmartState Program was created by the South Carolina legislature in 2002 and is funded through South Carolina Education Lottery proceeds. The legislation authorizes the state's three public research institutions, Clemson University, Medical University of South Carolina, and University of South Carolina, to use state funds to create Centers of Economic Excellence in research areas that will advance South Carolina's economy. Each Center of Economic Excellence is awarded from $2 million to $5 million in South Carolina Education Lottery funds, which must be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis with non-state investment. To date, 48 Centers of Economic Excellence have been created and 42 SmartState Endowed Chairs have been appointed to lead the Centers. For more information, please visit www.smartstatesc.org .
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what about the pain?
I'm 12 weeks along with my second. I'm not sure I want an epidural again but the thought of those contractions haunt me. Does being in water ease little or much of the pain? How easy or difficult is it to concentrate past the pain?
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Hi c_northern,
Water definitely does ease the pain of contractions. In fact I remember my midwife telling me that water acts as a natural epidural.
I gave birth to my first 3 babies outside of the water, and then had water births with my last 2 babies. Though I will say that the water wasn't exactly the equivalent to an epidural, I will say that contractions were less intense and everything progressed faster.
Also, I didn't tear at all with the water births, because the warm water helps the tissues to relax.
I laboured in the water with 4 of my 5 babies (with one, I didn't have time to get in the water once the midwife arrived). The water was extra soothing for me. I rocked back and forth in the water (which helps labour to progress).
Here's a page with more information about water birth. Enjoy looking around the site!
Warm Regards,
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Wow! Thanks. I'll be sure to check out that website.


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Pronunciation: kwan-dê-ree • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A predicament or dilemma that causes great perplexity and confusion.
Notes: The heads-up for today's Good Word is the second A. Because it is unaccented, it often falls victim to the "loose vowel syndrome" (LVS) so that the word comes out as quand'ry. However you pronounce this word, don't forget to include the second A when you write it. Remember to change the Y to an I in the plural, too: quandaries. Predicaments, dilemmas, and quandaries are very similar, but a predicament is a difficult situation with no easy way out. A dilemma is a situation in which you face two choices, neither of which is pleasant. A quandary can be either of these accompanied by perplexity and complexity.
In Play: The most common usage of today's Good Word is in the phrase 'in a quandary' as in: "Correy Publican finds himself in a quandary: if he gives his employees bonuses this year he will have to fly the company jet less often, keep the yacht in port all fall, and limit his own bonus." But quandaries arise in everyone's life: "Crystal Ball faces a serious quandary: whether to marry Cary, who is rich, but homely, Barry, who is poor but handsome, or Larry, who is charming and funny."
Word History: What word in English more appropriately puts etymologists in a quandary than today's Good Word? No one has any idea where this word came from. It was first published in 1579, which means that it was in existence well before that date. However, no one has any clue as to how it made its way into English. Suggestions have been made of a relationship to Latin quando "when", but that relationship has never been explained. Someone even suggested that it is a dialectal variation of wandreth, but failed to explain how the inflectional form of a verb became an uninflected noun. So, where does that leave us? You guessed it. (We face no quandary at all in deciding whom to thank for suggesting today's Good Word: it is our old friend Susan Lister.)


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WATCH: Justin Bieber fake deposition questions on 'Late Night with Seth Meyers'
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Justin Bieber's surly deposition video has been analyzed from every angle, but the original "unedited tape" made its debut on Tuesday's "Late Night with Seth Meyers."
In the footage, we see the "real" questions the pop star was being asked.
It's amusing.
Check out the video below!


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Snowboarding Wallpaper: Powder Boards
For Gentemstick founder Taro Tamai, this is the future: creating a closer connection between the rider, deck, and mountain. Inspired by this type of riding, craft, small-batch board designers across the world are beginning to draw their own lines and grow their own followings.
In search of the origin of these boards Jesse Huffman toured from Vermont to Japan with my hisLukas Huffman and pro riders Dave Short, Mads Jonsson, and Mark Carter. They met snow-surfing's original and emerging shapers, and explored the mountains that inspired them. From the tight trees of the Northeast to the open powder fields of Japan, they shared rides on decks that were paired down to the essentials, shaped for the local terrain, and deeply rooted in a primal snowboard ethos.


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This is the '70s swinger of the sea slug world—the sea hare.
Named for the rabbit-ear-shaped growths on its head, these floppy rhinophore tentacles actually are the creature's nose, which it uses to find food and mates.
It floats gracefully through the water on its two wing flaps, seemingly without a care.
And why not? It's toxic, making it extremely unpopular with predators.
It dines on algae and seaweed, available everywhere.
And when it's time to mate, it calls up everyone in its little black book. Everyone.
Sea hares are hermaphrodites.
The first sea hare acts solely as a female, and is mounted by a second sea hare...who acts as a male to the first and female to a third...and so on down the line, to the last hare, who acts only as a male.
A pregnant sea hare will lay spaghetti-like strands of millions of eggs, anchored for safety to the kelp beds.


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Exodus International, a group that bills itself as "the oldest and largest Christian ministry dealing with faith and homosexuality," announced late Wednesday that it's shutting its doors.
Exodus' board unanimously agreed to close the ministry and begin a separate one, though details about a new ministry focused on gender and sexuality are still being worked out.
The announcement came just after Exodus President Alan Chambers released a statement apologizing to the gay community for many actions, including the organization's promotion of efforts to change a person's sexual orientation.
Exodus functioned as a support group for men and women who were struggling with their sexual orientation. Early on, it embraced the idea that gays and lesbians could become straight through prayer and counseling.
But the belief in "reparative therapy was one of the things that led to the downfall of this organization," Chambers said in an interview, noting that Exodus in recent years redirected its focus to helping men and women work through their sexual identity.
"I am sorry we promoted sexual-orientation-change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents," Chambers said in the apology. "I am sorry that there were times I didn't stand up to people publicly 'on my side' who called you names like sodomite or worse."
Chambers, who is married to his wife, Leslie, said his core beliefs about sexuality have not changed and admitted he still wrestles with his own same-sex attraction.
The announcement comes at a critical point for gay rights as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to issue two potentially decisive rulings on gay marriage and public opinion shifts rapidly in favor of gay rights and same-sex marriage.
A recent Gallup Poll showed that 59 percent of Americans now view gay or lesbian relations as "morally acceptable," a 19-point swing since 2001 and the biggest change seen on any social issue, including divorce, extramarital affairs and other issues.
When Chambers was hired in 2001, he said he told the board, "Success looks like Exodus going out of business because the church is doing its job." Three years ago, he said, Exodus had more than 20 employees in its Orlando, Fla., office. Today, it has nine. In July, it will have three employees before it completely closes.
"Maybe I'll get my wish," Chambers joked, "and be a decorator and be a peacemaker on the side."
Chambers had already disavowed reparative therapy at the annual Gay Christian Network conference in January 2012, and his apology "is the acknowledgment many of us have been waiting to hear for a long, long time," said GCN executive director Justin Lee.
"Alan has been moving this way for a while … but this apology is much more explicit and leaves no room for support for change therapies or demonizing gays," said Warren Throckmorton, a psychology professor at Grove City College who has long observed the ex-gay movement.
"Exodus has been a lighting rod for Christian discussion about homosexuality over the years and with today's events will probably continue to be for a while."
John Paulk, who was spotted at a gay bar in Washington, D.C., in 2000 and left his role as chairman of Exodus, also recently apologized for the reparative therapy he once promoted.
Chambers announced the closure of Exodus at the ministry's 38th annual conference in Irvine, Calif. Locally affiliated Exodus ministries, which are autonomous, will continue, but not under the name or umbrella of Exodus.
"Headlines about Exodus closing down will cause celebrations across the gay community," said Mel White, who ghost-wrote Jerry Falwell's autobiography years before he came out as gay and launched the gay-rights group Soulforce. "What's going to replace it is the question. I'm skeptical of it. At this point, I say thank you, I am grateful. But have you changed your basic theology?"
Exodus began in 1976 by a gay man, Frank Worthen. "Perhaps nothing has brought Exodus into the mainstream of evangelicalism more than its embrace by James Dobson's Focus on the Family," wrote Christianity Today in 2007. The ministry has faced some challenges in recent years, including a split with Willow Creek Community Church outside Chicago and other dissolved partnerships.
In his apology, Chambers acknowledged stories of people who went to Exodus for help only to experience more trauma.
"I have heard stories of shame, sexual misconduct and false hope," he said. "In every case that has been brought to my attention, there has been swift action resulting in the removal of these leaders and/or their organizations. But rarely was there an apology or a public acknowledgment by me."
On Thursday, journalist Lisa Ling's program "God & Gays," which features Chambers among others, will air on The Oprah Network. "The organization needs to shut down. Shut down!" a man in the trailer tells Chambers.
"It was excruciating to sit through a group of a dozen people who shared a lot of pain and anger," Chambers told Religion News Service. "To sit with them and listen and take it is something the church really needs to do."
Chambers said that 18 months ago, he proposed the idea of Exodus' closure to its 150 leaders. Ling's program was not the impetus for shutting things down, he said, but it did provide timing.
"Sitting there listening to those stories did speed up the process a little bit," Chambers said. "I think it's time in the church that we wake up and realize our culture has changed and the church isn't in charge anymore."


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Foo Fighters To Play Crowdfunded Concert On September 17th
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Foo Fighters fans in Richmond, Virginia can mark their calendars. Dave Grohl and the guys have picked a date for the crowd-funded concert fans in Richmond helped stage earlier this year.
More than a thousand people forked over $50 for a non-existent ticket in the hope that the band would come through and put on a show. The Foo Fighters agreed to do just that, and now they're set to take the stage in Richmond on September 17th.
.@foofighters_rva @Tilt How's Sept. 17th @TheNationalRVA sound? Let's do it. If you pledged, check your email for details!
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The gig comes a month before Grohl's HBO docuseries "Sonic Highways" premieres on October 17th, and two months before the Foos' Sonic Highways album arrives in stores on November 10th.
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Mines library receives $25,000 for mineral law collection
GOLDEN, Colo., June 17, 2008 –The Society of Mining Law Antiquarians, in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, has established a new endowment at Colorado School of Mines with a $25,000 contribution to Arthur Lakes Library. The RMMLF matched the Society's initial $12,500 gift, enabling Mines to build a robust mining law history collection to be housed in its Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive.
The Society of Mining Law Antiquarians/Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Endowed Fund will support the collection of historical materials exploring the origins and evolution of mining law, particularly in the western United States. "This endowment opens new doors for the Wood Mining History Archive," says Library Director Joni Lerud-Heck. "Such a generous investment in the future of Arthur Lakes Library enables us to assemble a comprehensive collection of mining law materials that will serve as an important resource for the entire community."
John Lacy, president of the SMLA, said, "We are delighted to partner with the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation to contribute to Mines in this way, and glad to play a part in strengthening the School's mining law resources for the benefit of students, faculty, industry and the broader community."
Craig Carver, RMMLF president, said, "The Foundation is grateful that Mines has committed to preserving these original sources of Western history, and we know that many of our members – faculty and lawyers alike – will be among those who make good use of these invaluable materials. We look forward to an enduring collaboration with the SMLA and Colorado School of Mines, and appreciate the opportunity to assist the library."
The Society of Mining Law Antiquarians is an organization of mining lawyers and historians that promotes the preservation of books and materials related to the history of mining law.
The RMMLF is a Colorado-based nonprofit educational organization that provides scholarly research on the laws and issues affecting domestic and international mineral and water resources.
Arthur Lakes Library serves the Colorado School of Mines community and the general public, housing technical materials to support teaching and research in engineering and the applied sciences. The Russell L. & Lyn Wood Mining History Archive houses non-circulating collections of books, journals and other materials that cover mining history throughout the world, with emphasis on the Rocky Mountain region. The mining law collection is the newest addition to the archive's special collections. For more information on Arthur Lakes Library and its mission, see www.mines.edu/library/. To contribute to the SMLA/RMMLF Endowed Fund, contact the Colorado School of Mines Foundation at 303.273.3275.
Founded in 1874, Colorado School of Mines was established to serve the needs of the local mining industry. Today, the School has an international reputation for excellence in both engineering education and the applied sciences with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's resources. For information, visit www.mines.edu.
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Packers rout Vikings
(Minneapolis, MN) -- The Packers held onto first place in the NFC North with a 44-31 spanking of the Vikings behind two Aaron Rodgers touchdown passes to Jordy Nelson. The first connection was for seven yards and the second went for 76. Nelson finished with seven catches for 123 yards. Rodgers was an efficient 24-for-29 with 285 yards and no turnovers. Eddie Lacy grinded out 94 rushing yards on 29 carries and scored a TD. Green Bay is 5-and-2, a half-game ahead of the Lions. Cordarrelle Patterson returned the opening kickoff 109 yards for a touchdown while Christian Ponder completed 14-of-21 passes for 145 yards with one rushing TD making his return to the lineup. It was Ponder's first action since Week Three. Adrian Peterson ran for 60 yards and hit pay dirt as Minnesota fell to 1-and-6.


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Which tutorial did you try? What is not working? Which error messages do you get?
kinda new to linux and i have tried the bridging tutorial, that didnt work. all i have is the bt3 live cd, laptop hard drive broke... long story. so i have no idea how to go about doing this if somone can help me it would be greatly apreciated.
Some more information would be great.
Which tutorial did you try? What is not working? Which error messages do you get?
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sorry, i tried this, linux-foundation.org/en/Net:Bridge i didnt get any error messages but i wasnt able to get an ip address.
I think what flyingmunkiez is trying to say is that he wants to bridge say wlan0 to eth0.
If that's the case and you're asking if BackTrack has bridge-utils installed by default, I do not believe it does.
Also, if you're running from CD it will be harder to do, that is if you're planning on installing bridge-utils. I'm pretty sure you have to enable 'networking -> 802.1d Ethernet Bridging' in the Kernel, not sure if it is on BT2 or 3 by default.
hope this helps.
So, i'm an idiot and didn't even think to answer your question about bridging. You're actually thinking about routing or forwarding (Masquerading).
Just boot to the BT3 CD and try something along these lines:
The cat will turn ip forwarding on and the iptables command will forward ALL traffic OUT (-o) interface wlan0.Code:bt~#cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1 bt~#iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wlan0
Example: I have eth0 on network 192.168.2.1 and wlan0 is connected to my wireless as 192.168.1.100. If I plug a cross-connect cable into eth0 with a Windows PC as 192.168.2.2 and tell it that its gateway is 192.168.2.1, then, hopefully, I can browse the internet on the Windows PC.
This is basic, but it should work for the low-tech quick fix you're looking for.
Let me know if it doesn't work and we'll figure something out.
Shouldn't the first command be:bt~#cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1
Or will the cat command achieve the same result?Code:bt~#echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1
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U.S. Geological Survey
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Landslides and Related Features, Pennsylvania [Pittsburgh
1- by 2-Degree Sheet]
by J. S. Pomeroy and W. E. Davies
General Note
The maps on landslides and related features in the Pittsburgh 1- by 2-degree quadrangle were prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey in the late 1970s as part of an Appalachians-wide study of landslides. The report is a compilation of 128 quadrangle maps at 1:24,000 scale.
Limitations and Appropriate Use of the Maps
The features shown on the maps were identified from aerial photographs. Field checking was minimal (average one day per quadrangle of field work). The maps are not intended to be used to indicate landslide susceptibility of specific sites, but rather as a guide to areas where more detailed investigation is appropriate when making decisions about land use or development.
The following files contain important information concerning the content, completeness, and accuracy of the features shown on the maps and the quality of the images. It is the responsibility of the user to read these files before using the maps, and each user is responsible for the appropriate application of the data.
U.S. Geological Survey note on each 1:24,000-scale map.
Pennsylvania Geological Survey distribution liability and access constraints.
Pennsylvania Geological Survey general notes on imaging.
List of Quadrangles
The following is a list of quadrangles in the Pittsburgh sheet. The index map shows the location of the quadrangles on a county base map. The list has links to the map images, which are in PDF format.
Please address comments or questions regarding this page to Helen Delano, 717-702-2031.


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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Comerica Park
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- sportsdude89 said...
Hey I live in Michigan just North of Detroit City! I was also @ the 2 games that the Twins lost at Comerica Park just before the break!
I wondered if anyone else noticed that they had the old logo on the scoreboard. I saw it at a game in April and just figured they would change that by July, wishful thinking I guess!
I agree with you on the fact about the fans being really rude, I hate to break it to you but they are always like that. But I love pissing them off by wearing my Twins stuff all around town everyday!
- July 28, 2010 at 5:50 PM
- NoDak Twins Fan said...
The fans disappointed me but the great thing is you can wear your jersey around right now and ask Tigers fans how they are doing :-P Hopefully the Twins continue this hot streak and the Tigers continue to move in the opposite direction. Go Twins!
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Dodgers Lose Game 4 Against Cardinals
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles Dodgers will try to avoid elimination today when they play host to the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers fell behind three games to one in the best-of-seven series with a 4-2 loss Tuesday at Dodger Stadium as Matt Holliday hit a two-run home run in the third inning and pinch-hitter Shane Robinson slugged a solo home run in the seventh before a crowd announced at 53,992.
Zack Greinke will pitch for the Dodgers, opposing Joe Kelly in a rematch of the Game 1 starters.
Manager Don Mattingly remained optimistic about the Dodgers' chances of winning their first National League pennant since 1988.
``I've got one of the best pitchers in baseball pitching tomorrow,'' Mattingly said after Tuesday's game. ``If we come out here and play well tomorrow and get a win, I've probably got the best pitcher in baseball pitching (Friday),'' referring to Clayton Kershaw.
``If there are any good thoughts it's that I know tomorrow we'll come ready to play. It's a quick turnaround. We don't have time to feel sorry for ourselves.''
Greinke allowed two runs and four hits in eight innings in Game 1, striking out 10 batters and walking one. Kelly, a graduate of Corona High School who pitched three seasons for UC Riverside, allowed two runs and six hits in six innings, with five strikeouts and two walks in a game eventually won by the Cardinals, 3-2, in 13 innings.
All auto and stadium gates will open at 10 a.m. The Dodger Stadium Express will operate starting at 10 a.m. from Union Station to Dodger Stadium.
The team is encouraging fans to arrive early, carpool and use public transit for the sold-out game, whose first pitch is set for 1:07 p.m. Pregame ceremonies will begin at 12:40 p.m.
Orel Hershiser will throw the ceremonial first pitch on the 25th anniversary of being the winning pitcher in the most recent World Series game to be played at Dodger Stadium. Hershiser was the MVP of the 1988 World Series.
The Cardinals scored all the runs they would need in the third on Tuesday. Daniel Descalso led off with a single, moved to second on Lance Lynn's sacrifice bunt and scored on Matt Carpenter's double. Holliday homered one out later off starter Ricky Nolasco, who allowed three runs and three hits in four innings and was charged with the loss.
Lynn, the St. Louis starter, was credited with the victory, allowing two runs and six hits over 5 1/3 innings in what manager Mike Matheny called ``a real gutsy performance with a lot of heart.''
``He got himself in trouble a couple of times, wasn't afraid to make tough pitches in tough situations and put people in scoring position to get to a spot that he wanted to be, then he made the pitches he had to,'' Matheny said.
Three relievers shut out the Dodgers over the final 3 2/3 innings, aided by double plays in the sixth and ninth. Trevor Rosenthal pitched the ninth for the save.
The Dodgers scored both their runs in the fourth. Adrian Gonzalez led off with a double and Andre Ethier walked. Yasiel Puig followed with a single, driving in Gonzalez and advancing Ethier to second. Ethier moved to third on Juan Uribe's fly out and scored on A.J. Ellis' single.
Just one Dodger advanced past first base for the remainder of the game --
Nick Punto, who doubled with one out in the seventh, but he was picked off by reliever Carlos Martinez.
``That was unbelievable,'' Matheny said. ``That's instigated by (shortstop Pete) Kozma... then it has to be natural instincts and athleticism by Carlos Martinez. I don't know many guys that pull that off. To have the guts to wheel and let it fly like that in a game like we have right now, it's off the charts.''


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Valley business owner up for national retail award
July 20, 2014
The owner of Nevada Unique Store and the Sierra Gourmet Grill and Wine Bar is a nominee for a national retail award to be given at the end of July.
Larry Rice, a member of the National Retail Federation, will participate in its legislative retail advocates summit in Washington D.C. where he may be awarded America's Retail Champion.
"It's very exciting," Rice said.
"On a local level we work with Main Street Gardnerville to support that organization and we do work hard to provide something unique to the area."
Rice's store and restaurant provides food, art and furniture handcrafted by local artisans, he said.
"We're proud to give exposure to folks who can't get their stuff into larger box stores," Rice said.
Rice said that box stores have their place, but he would like to promote buying local first.
Legislators will have a chance to hear from Rice and 150 other business owners during the summit.
Two issues affecting Rice's business are online business taxes versus "brick and mortar" business taxes and the "red tape" that takes up a small businesses time, he said.
Rice sells items online as part of Nevada Unique Store's business and also has his physical business located at 1378 Highway 395.
"It'll be interesting because I'll be able to tell our legislators both sides of the fence," he said. "There is a discrepancy between taxes for online business and brick and mortar businesses and I understand both sides of the issue."
Rice said he would also like to speak with legislators concerning all the "red tape and paperwork" that needs to be taken care of in order to run a business.
Rice will leave for the summit at the end of the month and is "ecstatic" about possibly winning the retail champion award.


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Report: Daft Punk & Durex release 'Get Lucky' condoms
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This gives a whole new meaning to "Get Lucky." It seems the guys in Daft Punk are emphasizing one particular meaning of their smash single "Get Lucky" with their latest example of band merchandise.
The French DJs have reportedly teamed up with Durex to create a special line of condoms. "NME" says the "Get Lucky" condoms have, so far, only been sent to DJs in the form of a promotional package. It's unclear whether they will eventually see a wider release.
Fellow DJ Diplo recently took to Instagram to post a picture of the new packaging, which features Daft Punk's cover art for the single.


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LONG BEACH -- When most people think of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, fast cars, fast car drivers and fast cars crashing typically come to mind.
Some, however, think instead of pillows, mattresses, jewelry, bail bonds and my favorite - psychics.
While I couldn't find the male "enhancement" vendor from last year's race, vendors such as the psychic/palm reading didn't disappoint on my unusual vendor venture on opening day Friday.
In an effort to be inclusive of all vendors, I thought I'd ask a Grand Prix question, such as who would win the race this weekend.
She didn't know, but Jennifer Adams, who has been reading palms for 25 years, said that might change by today.
"I will look at it and let you know tomorrow," she said Friday.
Although business was off to a slow start, Adams remains optimistic about the weekend.
"So far, so good, but we're hoping tomorrow will be better," she said. "Business is wonderful and everyone is always so nice."
So, why palm reading at an event you can't predict? It's a fun weekend and a fun thing to do, she said.
Pillow talk
Lay your head on my pillow. At the Grand Prix? That's right. One vendor has pillows that conform to your shape so that when you return the next night, you can find comfort in the imprint of your head and neck from the previous night.
One pillow sells for $50, and two for $80.
Race and sleep
Need a mattress to go with that non-Grand Prix pillow? Then stop by the Sit 'N Sleep vendors in Hall C for a little rest and relaxation while you find the right mattress for you.
"We do (booths) at all the fairs and all the race tracks, and we've found that people everywhere need sleep," said Rickey Johnson, a sales consultant for Sit 'N Sleep. "All the vendors here, they are all selling something, and we are selling sleep."
Refusing to let the slow day get him down, Johnson engaged people in general conversation before persuading them to lie down and try a mattress.
"We just pull people out who are walking by. It's rough, but we do. We make it happen," he said. "So far, it's been all right, and sometimes we have people say, `Hey we've been looking for a mattress."'
For a while, rainfall pushed people to the inside vendors.
"They come to see racing, but when you come here and it's raining, people come in here and buy," Johnson said. "Rain is excellent for the inside vendors."
Get out of jail
Got any friends, loved ones, or significant others in need of a get-out-of-jail card? Lipstick Bails Bonds was on site to solicit its services.
"We were here last year, and we got a good response. We thought it would be great marketing since Long Beach and Lakewood are our areas," said Carmen Federico, marketing director and a bail agent. "You just never know."
"Sometimes it can be a family member, sometimes our kids. So, we (sell at the Grand Prix) for exposure."
Unlike many of the other vendors, I didn't wish Lipstick good luck.
Even if you're not a big racing fan, there's plenty to do and see at the Grand Prix. You just might find you can have fun visiting the unique and unusual vendors.
Happy Vendor-hopping.
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Theres an explanation as to why Bola isn't on anymore here:
Also the Jefferson George vs. Stephen Martin fight has just been pulled as Jefferson George missed weight. Don't know what he was second time around but first time around he was 162.6lb. (TBF there was no chance in hell he was gonna drop 6.6lb in an hour.)


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- Cartoon Characters: Blue Dragon, Shu, Zola, Jiro, Kluke, Marumaro, Minotauros, Saber Tiger.
Characters (English-Language Version): Blue Dragon, Valkyrie, Deathroy, Shu, Zola, Jiro, Kluke, Marumaro, Bouquet, Minotaur, Saber Tiger, General Logi, Dolsk, Legolas, Hippopotamus, Conrad L. Lawrence, Nene, Lemaire, Szabo, King Of Jibral, Garan General, Elder, Gustav, Ivanov.
- Vocal Talent: Masaya Takatsuka (Blue Dragon), Keiko Nemoto (Shu), Romi Paku (Zola), Daisuke Namikawa (Jiro), Erino Hazuki (Kluke), Sakiko Uran (Marumaro), Kouji Ochiai (Minotauros), Jin Horikawa (Saber Tiger).
Vocal Talent (English-Language Version): Lex Lang (Blue Dragon), Karen Strassman (Valkyrie), Michael P. Greco (Deathroy), Yuri Lowenthal (Shu), Cindy Robinson (Zola), Sam Riegel (Jiro), Michelle Ruff (Kluke), R. Martin Klein (Marumaro), Melissa Fahn (Bouquet), Kirk Thornton (Minotaur), Neil Kaplan (Saber Tiger), David Vincent (General Logi), Liam O'Brien (Dolsk), Kyle Hebert (Legolas), Michael Sorich (Hippopotamus), Erik Davies (Conrad L. Lawrence), David Lodge (Nene), Keith Silverstein (Lemaire), Kim Strauss (Szabo), Michael McConnohie (King Of Jibral), J.B. Blanc (Garan General), Steve Kramer (Elder), Skip Stellrecht (Gustav), Steve Staley (Ivanov).
- Directed By Yukihiro Matsushita.
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An Agent-based Net-centric Framework for Multidisciplinary Problem Solving Environments (MPSE).
Int. Journal of Computational Engineering Science, 1.
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GasTurbnLab: a multidisciplinary problem solving environment for gas turbine engine design on a network of nonhomogeneous machines.
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Man escapes fire, dies after going back for phone
(NEWSER) – A Texas man who escaped a burning building with his life but not his phone made the fatal mistake of going back for it, firefighters say. Rex Benson, 72, his adult daughter, and another man made it out of their Plano home when the fire started around 1am yesterday, but the two men decided to brave the flames and go back in to retrieve their phones to call 911; a neighbor tells the Dallas Morning News he had to stop Benson's daughter from following them in. Firefighters, who were alerted to the fire by someone's call and arrived within minutes of it, found the house fully engulfed in flames and Benson's body inside, NBCDFW reports. "It was big enough to get your attention," says the neighbor of the fire.
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Herriman • Call her a "Disney Dork" or the ultimate Disney fanatic, but Lynette Hamblin believes dreams do come true even if your dream is living in a house inspired by a Disney/Pixar animated film.
A California native who attended Copper Hills High School in West Jordan, Hamblin and her husband, Clint Hamblin, bought the home on her birthday in January and have kept it just as Bangerter Homes, the builders, intended it to be a life-size replica of the house from the movie "Up."
"We have always been big about Christmas. Even in California, we decorated pretty big … when we bought this house we knew, 'Ah, this is going to be awesome!' " Hamblin said inside her home decorated with snowflakes hanging from the ceiling and a Christmas tree with Tinkerbell on top.
But as part of the family's first Christmas in the home, they are bringing some Disney magic with lots of lights and inflatable animated characters on the front lawn.
"Santa's coming to the 'Up' house, so it is going to be awesome," she said.
The couple who have two children, ages 5 and 3 were waffling on the idea of having a Santa visit the house but, after hearing of the recent shooting tragedy in Connecticut, they arranged for St. Nick to greet the public on their porch Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.
"It is really cool to know that we live in the only 'Up' house in the world," Hamblin said.
When she and her husband visit Disneyland, they like to people-watch on a porch on the park's Main Street. Now she has her own.
"That is kind of my Main Street in Disneyland; I'm in here watching [spectators]," Hamblin said of her guilty pleasure.
And the house has drawn a variety of sight-seers. Residents from assisted-living homes sometimes swing by in buses and its been the destination for marriage proposals.
Hamblin never gets tired of thousands of people visiting her home in droves on the weekends.
"Thanks for coming and appreciating this house," she says, "We love this house and we love that they love this house. I like to reassure people, 'it's OK, take a picture.' "
To maintain the authenticity of the Disney vision, the couple sold off the furniture and many other possessions they had in California, so they could afford to also buy the replica furniture that Bangerter Homes had built for the "Up" house. That was in addition to the $400,000 price tag.
Growing up in California, Hamblin went to the Disney parks often and, as cliché as it sounds, she always dreamed of being a princess, finding her prince, getting married and starting a family. "I kind of feel like I am living out that Disney dream now," Hamblin said. "We dream of Disney."
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Santa visit
Santa Claus will visit the "Up" house in Herriman on Saturday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The house at 13215 South Meadowside Drive. Visiting with Santa is free, but the family who owns the house is asking for donations to Sub for Santa.


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MSNBC's Scarborough gave airtime to anti-gay activist Jael Phelps
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough invited Jael Phelps, an anti-gay activist whose church maintains a website called "God Hates Fags [1]," to appear on the March 1 edition of Scarborough Country. Phelps is the granddaughter of anti-gay activist Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. [2] and a member of Rev. Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated [3] a hate group. Scarborough, a former Florida congressman, challenged Phelps's views and tactics, but his show provided Phelps a forum to promote those views, which included: "The prescribed punishment for homosexuality in the Bible is death. They're worthy of death, and those people who condone that action are just as guilty."
Rev. Phelps has been pastor of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) since its founding in 1955. Beyond "God Hates Fags," WBC is known for picketing the funerals of AIDS victims and celebrating the 1998 murder [4] of gay Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard. According to the church's website [5], Rev. Phelps and WBC "intend to erect" a monument in Casper, Wyoming, where Shepard had lived, "dedicated to Matthew Shepard's Entry into Hell ... as a solemn Memorial that God Hates Fags and Fag-Enablers." The website also includes a "memorial [6]" to Diana Whipple, a lesbian who was the victim of a fatal dog-mauling [7] in 2001, which purports to count the number of days she "has been in hell."
Rev. Phelps credits his church with "more than 22,000 picketing demonstrations across America and some foreign countries during the past 12 years." On March 4, WBC plans to picket an appearance by former senator and Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards at a "Washington Days" event [8] in Topeka sponsored by the Kansas Democratic Party. A February 9 flier [9] announced: "WBC to picket the grinning, money-grubbing, pettifogger and pandering demagogue loser -- John Edwards ... in religious protest & warning: 'God is not mocked!' God hates fags & fag-enablers! Ergo, God hates Edwards, his family, and the fag-/dyke-dominated Washington Days Democrats." The flier contains a sexually provocative depiction of two men that is captioned "Kerry/Edwards family values."
Phelps' other websites include "God Hates America [10]," which calls President Bush a "bloody butcher" who invaded Iraq -- labeled "Babylon" on the site -- "with his fag army" and declares [11] that "Ronald Reagan is in hell" because he did not use "his bully pulpit" to tell America "the truth about fags and AIDS"; "God Hates Canada [12]"; and "God Hates Sweden [13]."
Phelps, a former lawyer, was disbarred in 1979 for "ethical breaches" [The Denver Post, 10/3/03]. Phelps has 13 children, four of whom have stopped speaking to him, and 53 grandchildren, including Jael [Wausau (Wisconsin) Daily Herald, 3/14/03].
Jael Phelps, who participated in picketing Shepard's funeral [Time magazine, 2/28/05 [14]], was recently defeated in her effort to replace Tiffany Muller, the first openly gay member of the Topeka City Council. In a March 1 nonpartisan primary, Phelps garnered only 202 votes. Muller, who came in second with 1,329 votes to lawyer Richard Harmon's 1,935 votes, will advance along with Harmon to the April 5 general election [Associated Press, 3/2/05 [15]].
On the same ballot, Rev. Phelps failed in his effort to repeal a city ordinance Muller had successfully pushed through the council that prohibits discrimination against gays in municipal hiring. WBC and other church congregations in Topeka had gathered enough signatures to put the ordinance to a citywide vote [The Topeka Capital-Journal, 3/2/05 [16]]. Had the repeal been successful, it would have also barred the city of Topeka from reinstating any such protections for 10 years. Fifty-three percent of voters opposed the repeal [AP, 3/2/05 [17]]. WBC issued a statement [18] in response to the March 1 vote, which refers to "filthy fag activists" and "dyke Tiffany." The statement declared victory for the church through its "heroic efforts to gather 6,333 signatures and force a ballot vote" on the issue because it "generated national publicity on WBC and GOD HATES FAGS -- second only to our picketing Matt Shepard's funeral in 1998."
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FRITZ!Box 3272 – Service - Knowledge Base
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Cannot access the Internet via another modem
The FRITZ!Box cannot connect to the Internet using an external DSL, fiber optic, or cable modem.
Note:The configuration procedure and notes on functions given in this guide refer to the latest FRITZ!OS for your FRITZ!Box.
Simply proceed as described below. After each measure, check whether the issue persists.
1 Restarting the modem
- Restart the modem by unplugging it briefly.
Note:It may take several minutes for the modem to restart. While it is restarting you will not be able to access the Internet.
2 Restarting the FRITZ!Box
- Unplug your FRITZ!Box by removing the power cable from the electrical outlet.
- Plug it in again after 5 seconds.
Note:The FRITZ!Box settings remain intact. The restart will take about 2 minutes. During this time, you cannot access the FRITZ!Box.
3 Checking the event log of the FRITZ!Box
- Click "System" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click "Event Log" in the "System" menu.
- Select "Internet connection" from the drop-down list.
- Check whether error messages are displayed.
- If the message "Internet connection failed: Reason for error: 2 (DHCPv4 no answer on DISCOVER)" is displayed and you are using the FRITZ!Box with a cable modem:
- Contact your cable provider for a solution.
- If the message "PPPoE error: Timeout [...]" is displayed:
- If the message "Internet connection failed: Reason for error: 2 (DHCPv4 no answer on DISCOVER)" is displayed and you are using the FRITZ!Box with a cable modem:
4 Configuring the Internet Explorer
Perform the following step only if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer and it displays the message "Web page unavailable while offline":
- Start the Internet Explorer.
- Open the "Tools" menu.
- If the menu "Work Offline" entry is displayed and there is a checkmark in front of it, click this entry to remove the checkmark.
- Click the "Internet Options" menu entry and then "Connections".
- Enable the option "Never dial a connection".
- Click "OK" to save the settings.
5 Checking the modem
The modem may be defective or malfunctioning. Therefore, check whether you can establish an Internet connection if you connect the modem directly to a computer:
- Use a network cable to connect the modem to a computer.
- On the computer, configure an Internet connection that uses the modem. Refer to the manufacturer of the operating system for information on the procedure.
- Check whether the computer can connect to the Internet.
- If you cannot successfully connect to the Internet:
- Contact the modem's manufacturer or the retailer you bought it from.
- If you were able to successfully connect the Internet:
- Proceed with the following section.
- If you cannot successfully connect to the Internet:
6 Reconfiguring the Internet connection in the FRITZ!Box
In order to rule out incorrect configuration of the FRITZ!Box as a cause, reconfigure Internet access:
- Configure the FRITZ!Box for Internet access using the DSL modem,
- or if you are using a fiber optic modem:
- Configure the FRITZ!Box for Internet access using the fiber optic modem,
- or, if you are using a cable modem:
- Configure the FRITZ!Box for Internet access using the cable modem.


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SRP is inviting its customers to decide which nonprofits, from a list of six finalists, will receive a solar energy system. The 10-kilowatt systems will enable the nonprofits to help offset the cost of electricity and save money on their monthly electric bills. The savings they see will help them direct more funds to the communities they serve.
The six nonprofit finalists are:
- The Boys & Girls Club of the East Valley/Thunderbirds Branch
- Child Crisis Center
- Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence
- Mercy Housing Southwest
- The Phoenix Zoo
Between now and December 31, SRP customers can vote online at www.srpnet.com/votesolar or at various events in which SRP participates around the Valley. The top vote-getters will be announced in January.
SRP EarthWise Energy is a voluntary program in which more than 5,000 SRP customers participate for as little as $3 per month, with 100 percent of the funds used to provide solar photovoltaic (PV) systems to Valley nonprofit organizations. In addition to helping nonprofits save money, the program contributes to the growth of solar energy in the Valley and educates customers on the importance of renewable energy.
"We are grateful to our EarthWise customers who provide the funds to assist these important and vital non-profit organizations," said Lori Singleton, SRP director of Emerging Customer Programs for Solar, Sustainability and Telecom. "Thanks to their generosity, these organizations are able to reduce their electric bill and redirect their limited dollars to the needs of their communities."
Since 2007, the voluntary fees paid by EarthWise Energy customers have funded projects for community-based programs including Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix, Hospice of the Valley, the Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center, Desert Botanical Garden and Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona.
For more information, call (602) 236-2922 or email email@example.com. To sign up for the EarthWise Energy program, go to www.srpnet.com/earthwise.


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'The Sabres owe Adelphia in the neighborhood of 150 million dollars. Most of that money is reportedly tied to HSBC Arena expenses. Erie County Executive Joel Giambra said, "Based on recent information I have, that the building doesn't lose as much money as purported in the past."'
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