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Ancestry.com - Search Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers
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Ancestry.com - U.S. Map Collection, 1513-1990 - Virgin Islands
A collection of a variety of maps created for different scopes and purposes, including political and geographical. The maps are categorized as follows: cadastral, discovery and exploration, military, panoramic, thematic, topographic, transportation.
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U.S. Virgin Islands. Maps, resource guide, index of wills 1671-1848, 1722 list of inhabitants, and other genealogical aids for St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.
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Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
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LibDex - The Library Index - Virgin Islands
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Retired records from New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Niala Boodhoo · Reporter's Notebook: An incubator by any other name..
October 26th, 2011
CHICAGO – Ask people who run business incubators what they do, and the strange thing is, a lot of them don't want their organizations to be referred to as "incubators". That's what I found out while researching a story I just did about what it takes to be a successful business incubator. I went to the National Association of Business Incubation to select incubators in the Illinois, Michigan and Ohio to speak with. I spoke to eight of them – and got basically eight different responses as to how they measure success. Here's what they said:
Where: Evanston, Illinois
Started: 1986
The Incubator is one of the Midwest's oldest business incubators. Since it started, the nonprofit has helped more than 350 companies. It has graduated 23 companies that employ more than 450 people in Evanston, and said a "fair number of graduates" overall is 135. Currently, it has 39 companies in the incubation stage which employ 80 people. Director Tim Lavengood said what they promote is innovation.
"We've been in the first 36 months of building a business for 25 years," he said. "The best thing an incubator can be is the institutional memory of the startup process."
Where: Chicago, IL
Started: 2007
TechNexus is one of those that says it doesn't like to be called an incubator. Co-founder Terry Howerton said they never liked the term, saying that they "set out to create a colloboration center where a very wide percentage of people would hang out." According to Howerton, 110 companies have grown inside of TechNexus, with those companies raising more than $60 million in capital and created 380 jobs. About 90 have graduated. Another 20 companies are in the incubator now. Howerton described their approach as a business-minded social collaboration.
"At the end of the day, we have a for-profit motive," he said. "We're not subsidized by the government, academia or the Illinois Technology Association."
University Technology Park at IIT
Where: Chicago, IL
Started: 2006
University Technology Park describes itself as an incubator embedded within a technology park at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The nonprofit has helped 39 companies since it started, and graduated 19. Currently, it has 20 tenants.
"We built this to be the sparkplug to try to get companies to grow to bigger spaces but stay in the city," said David Baker, its executive director.
Southwest Michigan Innovation Center
Where: Kalamazoo, MI
Started: 2003
The Southwest Michigan Innovation Center focuses on incubating and accelerating bioscience businesses. It has served 44 companies since it started, graduating five startup companies. Its President and CEO Rob DeWit said the nonprofit thinks of its success holistically – not just in terms of graduates, but in terms of "the scientific churn that we're able to create".
The SMIC said its aware of at least 35 patents that have come out of the center, at least eight new investigational drug applications as well four companies that have reached the clinical trial phase of work.
"What we're interested in, particularly the early startup companies, is how many ideas there are and how much we can help with the service of those ideas," said DeWit.
Where: Detroit, MI
Started: 2000
Techtown, a nonprofit incubator at Wayne State University, was incorporated in 2000 and opened its doors in 2004. It said it does not have a count for the number of businesses that have been there since it first began, but said they have provided training to 2,200 entrepreneurs. There are 250 companies at Techtown now. Marketing Director Allison Guilliom said the organization does not provide graduation rates because it doesn't graduate companies in the "traditional incubator sense".
"We have had quite a few companies grow and expand out into other facilities, but we do not require companies to leave after they reach a certain maturation point," she said in an email.
Cleveland Clinic Innovations
Where: Cleveland, OH
Started: 2000
Cleveland Clinic Innovations is the technology commercialization arm of the Cleveland Clinic, and includes the Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center. Each of the 35 companies within the organization are created as its own spinoff the moment it launches, with the Cleveland Clinic diluting its ownership stake as others invest. Of those 35 companies, one has gone public, two have been acquired and three to four are on permanent hold, said Executive Director Chris Coburn, who said the key thing for incubators is to "understand your place".
"An incubator is typically a nonprofit entity seeking to address a market void," Coburn said. "Understand what your special place on the spectrum represents and what it doesn't."
Where: Shaker Heights, OH
Started: 2008
Launched mostly in the past 18 months, the ShakerLaunchHouse considers itself as much a seed capital fund as it does a business incubator and accelerator. "Ideally, we focus on entrepeneurs or technology that can provide proof of concept in 90 to 180 days," said co-founder Todd Goldstein. So far, ShakerLaunchhouse has 60 companies, 29 of which it has invested in.
"On any given day, to have 60 entrepreneurs working together is a huge boost for Northeastern Ohio," Goldstein said. "We have truly developed a community around entrepreneurship that didn't exist prior to starting LaunchHouse."
Youngstown Business Incubator
Where: Youngstown, OH
Started: 2001
"I'm not really a big fan of incubators," CEO and Chief Evangelist Jim Cossler told me when I called to ask him about the Youngstown Business Incubator. When the nonprofit started, Cossler said it thought of itself a "traditional" incubator, providing free copies, rent and utilities. Then they realized they had to focus on a specific industry, and they choose software companies.
Cossler said they don't believe in graduating companies but instead keep them around on their campus and transition to paying tenants. YBI has nine companies that pay rent, including Turning Technologies, a $50 million company that employs 200 people. Another 24 to 30 are still in incubation.
"We just felt firmly we would never have the resources, never have the financing, and more importantly, never have the expertise to be good at everything," Cossler said. "And so rather than being mediocre at doing everything and saying yes to everyone to comes to our door, we decided let's be world class at one thing and one thing that makes sense for Youngstown, Ohio."
Correction: An earlier version of this story did not fully elaborate how many companies "graduated" from Evanston's incubator program, as the original number included only graduates that remained in Evanston. The director says a "fair number" of overall graduates from the incubator is 135.
Niala Boodhoo · What it Takes to be a Successful Business Incubator
October 26th, 2011
Business incubators are designed to turn an idea or concept into a successful company. The goal is for these new companies to bring jobs and revenue. Across the Midwest, some have been around for decades, while new ones are just starting up. But many tend to produce few companies. Last week, we did a series of stories looking at the so-called Magic Bullets to save our economy. In that style, here, I report on what principles incubators need to focus on to create successful offspring.
Each Friday, inside the old Northern Brewery building in Ann Arbor, 4:30 p.m. is known as "beer thirty". That's when the self-described tech geeks who are part of this informal business community gather for drinks.
The Tech Brewery houses three dozen start-ups – but don't call it business incubator.
"We don't call ourselves an incubator," founder Dug Song said. "If anything we call ourselves a start-up coop.
Song has his own start-up – Duo Security. He began the TechBrewery after being frustrated by traditional business incubators. In his opinion, they provide little more than cheap rent for lots of start-ups – instead of what it takes to get a company up and running.
"A lot of folks get to a point where they don't want to be in a hoteling kind of environment, which is a lot of what these incubators tend to be," he said. "They're a little bit more isolated."
The lack of a hotel environment drew Victor Volkman to the Tech Brewery. He had been involved in other incubators where he says his business ideas went nowhere.
"You have a biotech company next to a software company next to a something of completely different origin and we really didn't talk to each other," he said, adding the value in the Tech Brewery is running into someone in the hallway who can immediately help solve a problem.
The biggest cost for start-ups is office space. That's why most incubators provide free or reduced rent. But it's not just about office space. Having the same type of companies together helps everyone grow – something Volkman said he has found at the Tech Brewery.
Volkman left the traditional incubator environment because it didn't work for him. That turns out to be a common sentiment.
The University of New Hampshire at Manchester's Kelly Kilcrease studied incubators across the country. Out of the almost 500 entrepreneurs he surveyed, Kilcrease found that their opinion of incubators was "lukewarm – at best".
Based on Kilcrease's research, the happiest – and most successful clients – came from a specific type of incubator:
"Those that stress a certain type of clientele, deliver high quality services and those who have professional managers are more apt to be successful than those that do not," he said.
Kilcrease thinks an incubator's true measure of success is its graduation rate – the companies that actually make it on their own, apart from the incubator.
Often, incubators – like TechTown in Detroit – don't publish graduation rates. The Incubator in Evanston, Illinois is one of the oldest in the Midwest – it celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. They've helped more than 350 companies and have graduated 23 companies that remain in Evanston. Director Tim Lavengood said a "fair number of graduates" overall is 135.
(Ask an incubator about how they define success and each one answers differently. Check out these profiles of eight business incubators across the Midwest.)
Jim Cossler is the CEO and Chief Evangelist of the Youngstown Business Incubator. It started out in 1995 in what Cossler describes as a typical incubator:
"You know – here's some cheap office space, here's a photocopier, here's a fax machine," he said, adding: "We don't really care what you're doing, but please turn yourself into a globally successful corporation."
They quickly realized that approach wasn't going to work. In 2001, they began to focus on software technology firms.
Today, the organization has a network of more than 1,000 people virtually through a private LinkedIn group, as well as four buildings full of clients – including nine companies that no longer need the incubator's help. In fact, these companies pay rent which makes up about a third of the nonprofit's $750,000 total budget. (A rent, by the way, that Cossler says is a premium on other commercial office space in Youngstown.)
Ten years ago this month, Turning Technologies walked into the Youngstown Incubator with its idea – adapt audience response technology to be used in classrooms.
Today, it's a $50 million company that employs 200 people. One of the YBI's paying tenants, the company takes up an entire building.
Co-founder Mike Broderick says the YBI is "fairly rare" in its level of success, which he attributes to their focus.
"What we really needed the most was expertise," he said. "The introduction to potential clients, to people who had been through the type of thing we had done before, who could provide advice."
Broderick told me something academic research backs up – he thinks the company would have succeeded even without the incubator. But the YBI's network accelerated his company's progress. And he thinks that's the best an incubator can do – accelerate a potential company's growth.
This story was informed by the Public Insight Network.
Correction: An earlier version of this story did not fully elaborate how many companies "graduated" from Evanston's incubator program, as the original number included only graduates that remained in Evanston. The director says a "fair number" of overall graduates from the incubator is 135.
Pete Bigelow · Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: The Opposite Of His Predecessor And Mentor, Richard M. Daley
October 24th, 2011
Rahm Emanuel earned his political breakthrough while working as the chief fundraiser for Chicago's Richard M. Daley during his first mayoral campaign in 1989. When Emanuel moved on to positions in the White House and a Congressional job, Daley often functioned as a mentor.
Yet in his first five months in the office formerly occupied by Daley, Emanuel has laid the foundation to dismantle many of the core tenets of Daley's long tenure as mayor. Changing Gears senior editor Micki Maynard, writing in The Atlantic, examines the changes outlined by Emanuel.
In part, they're driven by finances. In facing an unprecedented $637 million budget deficit, Emanuel has proposed police and fire department cuts – two sacred budget lines in the Daley era – among a laundry list of other proposed reductions.
On Friday, Emanuel's proposed $10 million cut to the city's library budget, one that would cost the city 284 jobs, drew a frosty reception from some city aldermen, according to our partner station WBEZ.
After a dozen years of deficits, Emanuel has no choice. "The highest priority is to get the city's fiscal house in order," Joe Moore, an alderman from the city's north side, tells Maynard.
But the differences between the two mayors branch beyond fiscal conditions. Stark differences also exist in their approaches to communication, their transparency in government dealings and personal style.
As The Atlantic headline suggests, Emanuel has become "the Anti-Daley."
Pete Bigelow · Midwest Memo: Ohio Unemployment Rate Steady, Chicago Food Deserts Dwindle, Wisconsin Owes $1 Billion To Government
October 24th, 2011
Three stories making news across the Midwest today:
1. Chicago food deserts dwindle. Fewer Chicago residents are living in food deserts, according to a recently released report. In the past five years, the number of residents living in so-called food deserts – a low-income census tract where a substantial number of residents lack access to a grocery store – has dropped 40 percent. The study's author, Mari Gallagher, tells partner station WBEZ that some "big name" stores have arrived in poorer communities, but that the remaining problem lies in African-American neighborhoods on the city's south and west sides.
2. Ohio unemployment rate holds steady. Ohio's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.1 percent in September, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It marked the third consecutive month the Buckeye State's unemployment rate was at or above the 9 percent mark. State officials found some promise in the numbers. "We're in a recovery, we just think it's going to take some time," Angela Terez, spokesperson for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, tells our partner station Ideastream. "We're seeing some good things like initial unemployment claims going down, and the number of layoffs going down."
3. Wisconsin repaying $1.18 billion. The state of Wisconsin owes the federal government $1.18 billion borrowed to pay unemployment benefits, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The state has made $42.4 million in interest payments to date in 2011, and is taking several steps to pay the money back, including enforcing a one-week waiting period for people seeing unemployment benefits. Among 27 states that owe the federal government money, Wisconsin ranks 11th. California takes dubious top honors, owing $8.63 billion, according to the newspaper.
Changing Gears · Three Big-City Mayors Discuss Issues Facing Local Governments to Kick off Chicago Ideas Week
October 20th, 2011
A few years ago, crime topped the concerns of residents in Atlanta, Chicago and New York. These days, residents expect low crime.
The mayors of those three cities spoke Monday, all agreeing those concerns have shifted. Anecdotally, they say that, these days, citizens ask them most about concerned with housing costs and their jobs.
"And if they have kids, school," Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York said, while speaking Monday, October 10, during a panel discussion that kicked off Chicago Ideas Week. "They don't care about what's at a national level or state level. If they haven't lost a house or job, they're worried about it. It is very local."
Bloomberg was joined by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on the panel about issues facing local governments, which was moderated by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and sponsored in part by Changing Gears and our partner station WBEZ.
Emanuel said that laying the foundation for economic growth and job creation has been the central focus of his first five months in office. He said Chicago's central U.S. location has given the city a geographic advantage in maintaining – and hopefully expanding – its infrastructure.
"We're the only airport system with two major carries, and a quarter to a third of the nation's rail freight comes through Chicago," he said. "Rails, roads and runways. We invest in those, Chicago will continue to recruit companies and expand."
Here's a look back at their discussion:
Pete Bigelow · Here & Now's Robin Young Will Moderate Changing Gears' Town-Hall Meeting Next Wednesday in Ann Arbor
October 20th, 2011
Next Wednesday, Changing Gears will co-host a town hall-style discussion that explores the global economic crisis and its impact throughout the Great Lakes region.
Robin Young, host of public radio's Here & Now program, will moderate the event, which begins at 7 p.m. in the Blau Auditorium at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Admission is free and the event is open to the public.
Panelists include Linda Lim, Professor of Strategy at the Ross School, Doug Rothwell, President and CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan and Changing Gears senior editor Micki Maynard.
Michigan Radio and the Ross School of Business are co-sponsoring the event with Changing Gears.
Niala Boodhoo · Magic Bullets: Can Small Businesses Rebuild Our Economy?
October 20th, 2011
All week, our Magic Bullets series has focused on big ideas that political leaders say can boost the economy. One you hear mentioned often is small business. But can small businesses really grow enough to help the overall economy? That's what I set out to find out.
The way politicians tell it, small business IS the backbone of the economy. President Obama has said this many, many times – especially the idea that small business is "the key for us to be able to put a lot of folks back to work".
It's not just Obama. Warm feelings about small business come at all levels of governance, and on both sides of the aisle. Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Synder is the darling of the state small business community. Earlier this summer, at the Small Business Association of Michigan's annual meeting, he urged members to "Talk about the jobs you're creating, even if it's one", because, he that would be the "backbone of the reinvention of Michigan".
This is more than just political talk. In addition to the landmark federal Small Business Job Act of 2010, Midwestern cities and states have created their own policies. Michigan exempted most small business from its 6 percent corporate tax rate earlier this year. Cleveland's Cuyahoga County is shifting its economic development strategy to help small-to-medium-sized businesses, saying that focusing on the "big project" doesn't make as much sense anymore.
All of this prompted University of Chicago economist Erik Hurst to explore whether if small businesses do contribute to job growth. Hurst, who teaches at the Booth School of Business, has a pretty simple answer: "No".
"I think when people talk about small businesses they think about the business that starts small and gets really big, like Google or Wal-Mart," Hurst said. "They start in someone's basement, or with one store, and they eventually grow to something quite sizeable. But most small businesses don't do that."
Hurst just published research based on an analysis of federal government and foundation data about small businesses.
The Small Business Administration defines small businesses differently according to the type of company. For example, in the case of manufacturing, the SBA thinks a small business is anything with less than 500 workers.
Hurst uses a definition of small businesses of having one to 19 employees, according to his research, what 90 percent of the businesses in this country are.
In Illinois, three-quarters of the 1.1 million small businesses are made up of just one person – people who are self-employed.
"Most small businesses are closer to your normal dentist than they are to Groupon or Google," he said. "Most small businesses are dentists, plumbers, a small doctor's practice."
More importantly, Hurst's research also looked at intentions of small business owners. This was his big finding: most of them don't want to grow.
"The vast majority of small businesses are in a very few categories and most of them never grow. Their desire is to be a couple of employees and stay that size into the foreseeable future," he said.
When Dr. Mark Gamalinda began his Chicago dental practice almost 25 years, it was just "me, myself and I," he told me.
"For the first year, I was just just slowly growing the practice," said Gamalinda, who runs his practice from the North side neighborhood of Andersonville.
Dr. Gamalinda seems like the perfect dentist for nervous patients. He's quiet, his office an oasis of warm, golden walls. Quotes from people like Emily Dickinson are painted inside patient rooms.
Over the years, his practice has grown. He now has a patient base up to almost 4,000, and three assistants, a hygeneist and a receptionist.
He buy supplies for the office at Costco. He supports small, local business too, sending out some work to a lab, and using another company that makes crowns and other dental prostheses he can't make himself.
Now that he's 50, he's thinking about adding one final worker – another dentist who can eventually take over his practice.
Dr. Gamalinda told me he's proud of his practice, and how it has helped support his family over the past few years. He does believe he's part of not just the economic fabric of his neighborhood, but of Chicago, and the broader economy.
The few blocks that make up the business area of Andersonville are 93 percent locally owned like Dr. Gamalinda's, according to the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce.
Ellen Shepard is its executive director. She disagrees with Hurt's findings – and said that she thinks small businesses, independent businesses, are vital to the economy.
"When we think about the model for economic growth, I think we have to think less of the growth of the wealth of the economy and more towards the growth of self sufficiency, internally, within communities," she said.
It's clear those big companies – those Googles, and Groupons – and yes, Wal-Marts still are the biggest drivers of the economy, and of job creation. But Shepard said that doesn't mean we should count out even the one-man business – because maybe a healthy combination of both is what the new economy should be.
What do you think?
Pete Bigelow · Midwest Memo: UAW Ratifies Ford Contract, Great Lakes Shipping Report, Milwaukee Unveils Lakefront Proposal
October 19th, 2011
Three stories making news across the Midwest today:
1. Ford deal official. In a final tally, the United Auto Workers announced today that 63 percent of production workers and 65 percent of skilled-trade workers voted in favor of ratifying a four-year contract with Ford. "I believe UAW Ford workers understood the importance of each and every vote," UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles said in a written statement. Earlier this month, UAW workers approved a new contract with General Motors by similar margins. Chrysler is the only Big Three automaker without a new contract, although voting began Tuesday on a tentative agreement.
2. Great Lakes crucial to economy. Cargo shipping throughout the Great Lakes supports 227,000 jobs and channels billions into the U.S. and Canadian economies, according to a report released Tuesday. "This report bears out what we've long known – that the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway is crucial to the U.S. economy," U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told WBEZ, our partner station. In July, Changing Gears reporter Kate Davidson examined the economic impact of Great Lakes shipping – and found a dredging backlog threatened to cripple the regional shipping industry.
3. Milwaukee lakefront plan unveiled. An "ambitious" plan to redevelop Milwaukee's lakefront was unveiled Tuesday at a public hearing,calling for better pedestrian access to waterfront attractions and room for several blocks of development. The plan, submitted by Milwaukee County's Long-Range Lakefront Planning Committee, endorsed tearing down freeway ramps, terracing O'Donnell Park and bulldozing the Downtown Transit Center, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Let's take downtown and take it to the lake and vice versa," Parks Director Sue Black said of the pedestrian portion of the plan.
Dan Bobkoff · Cleveland's Music Industry Generates Dollars, but Few Jobs
October 19th, 2011
Back in April, we did a story on the untapped potential in the Midwest's music industry. Today, we have a better sense of the state of Cleveland's music industry. For the first time, researchers have conducted a comprehensive study on employment and spending in the sector.
First, the economic impact number: $840 million. That's how much the study says the music industry contributes to the Cleveland area economy.
But that impact comes from relatively few workers. In Northeast Ohio, about 6000 people work in the music industry. That includes everything from orchestras to record shops. In Cuyahoga County just 2700 work in music. That's less than half a percent of the workforce.
"We weren't entirely surprised," says Kristin Puch, research manager at the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture. That organization advocates for the industry and conducted the study.
"It's really quite remarkable how small but mighty the industry really is," she said.
Puch says there's a lot more potential here. Cleveland has a music reputation: for its Rock and Roll legacy and the Cleveland Orchestra. And, she thinks the music scene could benefit more from the region's traditional industries: manufacturing and healthcare. Making musical instruments and music therapy are two areas for growth, she says.
The study is considered the first comprehensive look at the industry. It used a combination of surveys and labor data. And, while the total employment numbers are tiny, the report found that the music industry's employment was actually more stable than the workforce on the whole.
Niala Boodhoo · U.S. Latino families – including its children – are much poorer now
October 18th, 2011
CHICAGO – Think the recession has been rough on your wallet? Consider this: Latino families, an ever growing part of the Midwest, saw a 66 percent decrease in wealth between 2005 and 2009, losing $2 for every $3 saved during that time.
That's the first of many sobering statistics about Latino families that were presented by my public broadcasting colleague Ray Suarez of PBS NewsHour this morning at a Latino Policy Forum breakfast. Suarez said that Latino familes' average wealth went from $18,359 in 2005 to just $6,325 in 2009.
Why? Suarez spoke about the "tumbling dominoes" of the heavy concentration of Latinos who work in construction, as well as families' disproportionately high exposure to sub prime loans and diminishing home equity.
(The Economic Policy Institute wrote a few years ago about the tie between Mexican workers in construction and how housing start data can be correlated with the actual amount of money being sent back to Mexico.)
Those factors have helped contribute to the vast drop in wealth, and it also means that Latino kids now have the highest rate of poverty in the nation.
Suarez noted this was the first time in U.S. history that there were more Latino children living below the poverty line than their white counterparts. Overall, Latinos now make up 16 percent of the US population, 23 percent of nation's children, and more than 30 percent of its poor children.
Why should you care? The 2010 census, which Changing Gears looked at last spring, showed us how fast the Latino population was growing as the country's largest ethnic minority.
"This community is now too big for American to try to succeed without it," said Suarez. "Our future prosperity is this country's prosperity. If we don't make it, it won't just be us that's worse off for it – everybody will be worse off for it."
As Suarez pointed out: these children are the tomorrow's wage earners, and not just in the workforce – they'll be responsible, as he said, for paying his Social Security check.
(Interested in more? Check out my stories and posts about Latinos across the Midwest.)
Update: The Latino Policy Forum has posted the video of the speech:
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Statewide Initiative Supports Energy Conservation
A free program called Energizing Indiana has emerged out of the Statehouse to potentially reach more than two million Indiana residents, businesses, schools and nonprofit organizations.
The program provides rebates, information, and installations that not only save money but also combat energy waste.
"Several years ago, the (Indiana) Utility Regulatory Commission decided that they wanted to see a more consistent approach to energy efficiency programs," Bob Nuss, executive director of Energizing Indiana, says. "So they created an initiative with the five large utility companies and the Indiana Municipal Power Agency."
In the fall of 2011, Bob Nuss and GoodCents, a demand-side utility solutions company, were selected to bring the Energizing Indiana team together. Since then, Nuss and his group have been working to raise awareness and invite participation in the Energizing Indiana project.
Over 45,000 fifth-grade and sixth-grade children across the state have already taken Indiana-approved science curriculum that teaches students how to spot and stop waste. The students are given compact fluorescent light bulbs, faucet aerators, and low-flow showerheads.
"Our goal is to reach 48,000 homes by the end of the year," Nuss says.
Using customer dollars, the companies (Energy heavyweights Duke Energy, Indiana Michigan Power, Indiana Municipal Power Agency, Indianapolis Power and Light Company, NIPSCO and Vectren) are giving back to their patrons on an immense scale. Participating energy companies have had conservation programs included in customers' bills, and now those customers have an opportunity to reap those benefits.
"Approximately 80 percent of utilities customers in the state are on utilities that are participating in the program that covers all customer classes," Nuss says.
Five Cost Free Programs
Energizing Indiana provides five cost-free programs for residential customers or businesses.
One program has benefited over 300 businesses with commercial and industrial rebate incentives that reward businesses that have invested in efficient heating, cooling, lighting, and major appliances.
The remaining programs assess utility usage in homes, streamlining residential energy consumption and home weatherization efforts.
With the goal to service 48,000 homes, Energizing Indiana has been proactive in engaging nonprofit organizations. According to Jessica Nuss, one of seven community outreach coordinators, the group enrolled 1,000 homes in April. (Editor's note: Jessica Nuss is Bob Nuss' daughter.)
Energy won't last forever
"This program is unlike any other," says Bishop Carl J. Mimms III, 48, who has served at The Freedom Tabernacle of Praise for the past nine years. "It's a program that really helps people, and I like helping people and that appealed to me."
Mimms learned of Energizing Indiana at a monthly Inter-denominational Minister Alliance meeting.
"For every person who takes part in the Energizing Indiana program, we donate $25 to the nonprofit," Jessica Nuss explains.
The amount of funding that the nonprofit organization earns grows along with the demand.
"Our first check was fifty dollars, because we signed up only two people when we began," Mimms says. "Our second check is $675, and it's going to keep increasing because we are constantly getting people to sign up for the service."
The Freedom Tabernacle of Praise is comprised of people living on fixed income, according to Mimms. He says his congregation feels they are able to give more to the church by participating in the program.
"I would advise everyone to become a part of this program," Elice Stowers, a 56-year-old stay at home mother and wife who has been with The Freedom Tabernacle for four years, says.
Beyond giving Stowers nine efficient fluorescent light bulbs and replacing her faucet heads, Energizing Indiana gave her an insight into which appliances were driving up her energy bill.
"It was informative. Had [the Energizing Indiana representative] not come in, I wouldn't have known about the refrigerator," Stowers says. "Then to note what was needed around our house; I'm an older lady, I would have never got up on a ladder and looked into the attic to see that we needed more insulation."
If her family qualifies, Stowers may also be able to take advantage of the Income Qualified Weatherization program Energizing Indiana provides.
People are much more likely to trust their pastor rather than a stranger, Jessica Nuss notes.
If you are interested in utilizing the Energizing Indiana initiative, you can call 1-888-446-7750 or visit their website here.


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that was my thoughts exactly I would have never gussed there were monsters in the woods of D7. Now I just have to spend more time there.
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that was my thoughts exactly I would have never gussed there were monsters in the woods of D7. Now I just have to spend more time there.
Just got back to Colorado from California and saw my hunting buddy who will be going to Wyoming with me in a few of weeks. He told me that Reds Meadows Pack Station had called him and the trail to our old hunting area west of there was closed because of too many downed trees fro a really high wind. He also said the Devils Postpile area is closed too...same reason. Looks like no deer hunt this year! The damn USFS in that area looks for any reason to close down the entry at this time of the year. They are not really very hunter friendly. Several years they wouldn't even validate our deer tags!
Ya Cali is ran by to many libs. Its a shame.
Red, how high were you when you found that rack?
I was 9500' in some prety rugged country.
Looks like I'll make one last D7 wilderness hunt in 2013. My Dad passed away last Friday and I want to spread some of his ashes in his favorite hunting area in the backcountry. I figured if I was going back I might as well hunt deer again. If you have seen some of my previous posts you know my family has hunted the same area since about 1940. Dad was 94 and made his last trip there on 2005 when he was 87. Pretty good that he could do the 6 to 7 hour horseback ride into camp at his age!
Sorry to hear about your dad CC. I wish your family the best!
Thanks sj. He had Alzheimers and recently it was pretty bad...he isn't suffering anymore and is definately in a better place.
Sorry to hear that, but like you said, he's in a better place.


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- Alabaster: At least once a year we participate in what is called the Alabaster Offering. It is an offering that is collected through the Nazarene denomination for the construction of buildings around the world. Since it began in 1949 well over 8,000 churches, hospitals, clinics, missionary homes, and the like have been constructed from funds raised through this excellent initiative.
- Family Promise: is a ministry with which we partner that helps families to move from homelessness to sustainable self-sufficiency. At least once a year we host a group of families, providing them a place to sleep and food to eat while we enjoy their company at our facility. For more information about how to help (by volunteering, donating food, clothing, or funds) contact the church office.
- The Haiti Water Project: Haiti is the most water impoverished nation in the world, a problem that can be solved. For several years now we have partnered with this incredible organization, a part of Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, to help provide clean, safe water for communities in Haiti.
- Crisis Care Kits. At least once a year we make a push to put together Crisis Care Kits, bags of essentials for people around the globe who face disaster of some kind. We usually make these as our way of celebrating St. Valentine's Day. St. Valentine was an early Christian Martyr who was known to help oppressed Christians in Rome.
- Several times a year we take a group to help put together food boxed with Feed My Starving Children.
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The Salt River Police Department, like all law enforcement agencies, takes appropriate actions with regard to drug offenses. People who transport drugs in any jurisdiction face the possibility that they will be arrested, prosecuted, and that the vehicles they use to transport drugs may be seized.As the U.S. Attorney's office made clear in its May 2, 2011 letter to the Arizona Department of Health Services, Arizona law including the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act, does not apply to Indian Country. The Community will therefore continue to enforce tribal and federal laws as they apply to drug offenses. While the Community has no desire to interfere with individuals' exercise of their rights under Arizona law, given that the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act has not been fully implemented, it does not appear that drivers within the Community, including those traveling on state or federal rights of way, have the legal authority to possess marijuana within the exterior boundaries of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
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I have had my vehicle in impound for four years, after being stopped and searched by a K9. My Native American Advocate, who is the only counsel that has the right to represent me, has told me all I can do is wait for the Tribal Council to grant an appeal date. The trial was over four years ago. I was pulled over for stopping in the middle of a cross walk while exiting the 101. I was told that the the stop should have been before the crosswalk. My reason is this, I stopped where I did, for if I stopped any earlier, I would have not been able to see oncoming traffic to my left. I can't tell you how many times I've taken that same exit to see if anyone stopped there, no one has yet. After signs of agitation and confusion for this stop, the officer then radioed for help, for at that point I was displaying signs of someone under the influence of drugs. I had just gotten work, and my route home was the the same as if I were headed to Old Town Scottsdale. Eleven O' Clock on a Friday night. My Mother had just passed five months earlier, and that was the only thing of monetary value she was able to leave me. Also, if I hadn't transferred the car in my name a week prior, or if it weren't paid off, I would have the vehicle back. I try to pay attention to history as much as I can. I am aware that the reservations given to the Native Americans were not because the United States Goverment thought they were owed that land, only because the American people were becoming aware of the reasons for the diminishing Native American population. As a Growing Nation, we have recognized our mistakes and those of others and chosen not repeat them. A Nation is not expected to be perfect, but this one has stood the test so far. Again not perfect, but in this country, we strive to exist in equality, and if not followed there is always the moral majority that has the right to preserve the guidelines for freedom. I am reminded every time I cross into the alternative governed land, that is exempt from exerting the same rules. As if an attitude passed down from prior generations long gone is still carried out.
Proof pot is legal Federally For medical use District of Columbia (DC)Amendment Act B18-622 (80KB) "Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Amendment Act of 2010" -- Approved 13-0 by the Council of the District of Columbia on May 4, 2010; signed by the Mayor on May 21, 2010|
Effective: July 27, 2010 [After being signed by the Mayor, the law underwent a 30-day Congessional review period. Neither the Senate nor the House acted to stop the law, so it became effective when the review period ended.]Approved Conditions: HIV, AIDS, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, cancer, other conditions that are chronic, long-lasting, debilitating, or that interfere with the basic functions of life, serious medical conditions for which the use of medical marijuana is beneficial, patients undergoing treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy.Possession/Cultivation: The maximum amount of medical marijuana that any qualifying patient or caregiver may possess at any moment is two ounces of dried medical marijuana. The Mayor may increase the quantity of dried medical marijuana that may be possessed up to four ounces; and shall decide limits on medical marijuana of a form other than dried. The Reservations is Federal jurisdiction just like Washington D.C..Why are they doing this Stop the Ignorance
In need of Expert advise my car has been taken from me over a blunt in the cup holder while gambling in the casino, if anyone knows anything that could help me please , I would really appreciate it , I am also a medical marijuana patient
In need of Expert advise my car has been taken from me over a blunt in the cup holder while gambling in the casino, if anyone knows anything that could help me please , I would really appreciate it , I am also a medical marijuana patient
Man Im getting to the breaking point man, I know more & have been though more than most people even dream about in there whole life time & Im only 21, Im manly white, but a 1/8 cherokee, not only that but have ALWAYS loved native america history, real & fiction, this shit needs to stop, native americans used cannabis all the time(among MANY other herbs, they used the land, but gave back just the same) this bs, ignorant, FUCKED UP shit we call a "drug free america" needs to stop, it will NEVER happen, you can take all the illicit drugs off the planet, outta space, outta the universe(yes some of the more natural chems HAVE been found in space, exp alcohol) to have a "drug free america" is not possible becuz to do so you wouldn't have life, depending on you interpretation of the true def of a drug, if it applys also to plants & simple life, if you would remove "drugs" life wouldnt exists, of course we ALL know what they mean, but it shows the ignoraces the "drug war" causes like a schedule one drug dmt that is found IN THE BODY, in VERY VERY small amounts but its still there, same chem that is illegal, cannabis another schedule one drug, a plant yes, but has drug activity, the main, cannabinoids, cannabis & our own endocannabinoids the ONLY two natural sources of cannabinoids with the endocannabinoids system having a hand in every system in our bodys, mostly directly, Im getting tired of this shit IT NEEDS TO STOP
If your holding just don't pull over until you're off the res. id rather have a fine then loose my car
I am native, and I would never expect this from any tribe. I am actually quite furious. I guess that this is the reason why whites carried guns in their saddle while traveling
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All the more reason to take your gaming money to Las Vegas, the odds of winning are better compared to the electronic machines at Tribal Casinos, and who needs to have to worry about their vehicles being seized on tribal land.
This is to all you assholes out there, whether your white, black, yellow or red, I would encourage you to research how cannabis is curing cancer, the paradigm is shifting, you will no longer be allowed to steal from marijuana users, you are going to have to lose your prejudicisms and find another way to profit of the backs of others, why don't you try buying stock in Cannabis Science Inc. it's allready up a penny from where it was this morning.
im white man on an indian rez.they're corrupt, lazy, and generally backwards.case in point: female child is raped by adult, needs surgery to remove uterus and restitch skin because anus and vag were ripped into one big hole.no one charged. even though it was the girls neighbor.
these indians get money from the federal government and do nothing but sit around all day. the indian governemnts love to stay away from usa governments, but they are so corrupt and always giving kickbacks to family members.
In the 4 corners area Indians are laying drunk in the road and begging money. They wreck cars killing people while drunk and run back to the reservation. To hell with them if they take my car when I drive on a road paid for by my taxes when I have a valid medical marijuana card.
Someone steals my vehicle and I'll consider it an act of war.
Too sad that they have lost their own medical culture in favor of the white man's laws. They don't even remember using herbs as medicine anymore. Nice to see they've lost their culture completely and now ascribe to the greed is good mentality. Take what you can, give nothing back. So sad.
Well, this all goes to the re-scheduling issue. So not only can the Indian authority take your car when you gamble it away, now they can take it for having a debilitating condition. Guess you guys are not going to mind us spreading the word that if you are a medical marijuana patient then you do not need to gamble at a casino cause they might throw you in jail!
"While Valarie Tom, a spokeswoman for the tribe, wouldn't comment on any specific bust, she did confirm that "medical marijuana registration cards don't apply" on that stretch of the 101, or anywhere else on tribal lands."This part may not be completely true.....^ It has to do with state and federal easements on tribal land. Governments ( water, power, ROADS, ect.) have a specific right a way on everyone's property.
A qualified patient told New Times that he was recently stopped -- for "no reason" -- on the 101 by a tribal cop, and that his car was seized by the tribe after a few grams of marijuana was found.The man said the tribal officer pulled him over claimed his reverse lights were stuck on. "They weren't," he saidI can't remember the case, but here are some cases and decisions.. It has to do with what easements the tribes have negotiated with the Federal Government... and along with the state government. It had partly to do with taking firearms through reservations, and not getting in trouble because of traveling on state, and federal roads, highways. I would have asked if the officer had a dash cam to prove the light issue??? And then let them know that the ADOT feed for the freeway cameras would be checked as well... Lets be honest now!!! If it was a BS stop.. they have drop this. There are cameras all over this country. The term, Indian country, for purposes of civil jurisdiction, is not defined under federal law. As a general principle, however, the definition of Indian country contained at 18 U.S.C. 1151- all lands within exterior boundary of reservation, all Indian allotments and rights of way through them, and all "dependent Indian communities"- for criminal jurisdiction is generally accepted for civil jurisdiction. See DeCoteau v. District Court, 420 U.S. 435 (1978). 117 S.Ct. 1404 (1997). In A-1 Contractors, a case arising on the Fort Berthold Indian reservation, the Court held that the tribal court had no subject matter jurisdiction over a personal injury action brought by one non-Indian against another on a state highway running through the reservation because the Tribe had granted an easement to the State and had not reserved the authority to regulate the highway. That decision has been carried further by the Ninth Circuit which ruled in Wilson v. Marchington, 127 F.3d 805 (9th Cir. 1997) that a tribal court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over a personal injury action filed by a tribal member against a non-Indian arising on a federal highway running through Indian country. 450 U.S. 544 (1981). In Montana, the Supreme Court determined that Indian tribes can regulate the activities of all persons that occur upon trust or allotted lands, but could only regulate the activities of non-Indians on fee land if the non-Indian has entered into a consensual relationship with the tribe or its members, or the activities of the non-Indian have a serious impact upon the political integrity of the Tribe or health and welfare of the Tribe. This appears to be a difficult standard to meet.
This is a prime example of why we need to quit jumping through hoops to please prohibitionists over medical marijuana,,legalize for all and this ends. And it will take one state at a time doing it,just as the ending of alcohol prohibition did.
What I want to know is how do they know which cars have marijuana in them? Are they posting a NEON sign? Or pulling over EVERY car as harassment?
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I recently flew into Pheonix on my way to Tuscon. My buddy had a number rolled and ready but I was so paranoid to be back in sherrif Joes territory(Maricopa County) that I wouldnt let him spark it until we were in Tuscon where I feel (comparatively) safe. If you're a cannabis user stay out of Maricopa and stay off the Res.
Stupid fuckin indians. We should have killed them all a long time ago.
wow that is some bullshit if i ever saw it. talk about discrimination!!!!!!!!!
When did 'Native' Americans brcome Republicans?
So the fed recognizes the tribes sovereign law if it is against marijuana (in a state that allows medical marijuana), but when another tribe makes a law that allows them to grow hemp (not even marijuana) the DEA comes in and tears up its crops and completely ignores their sovereignty, Hypocrisy in action.
If they pull me over, now I am aware, I will carry several small ams and when pulled over, I have the constitutional right to shoot the officer so I can protect my rights and property. It actually sounds fun.
How come, the red man still prefers firewater?
they're either just jealous, or the need some cars. but how do they know who has these cards? maybe they're checking your license plate out. get the info that way.
The discrimination of Cannabis users has no borders, its hate and fear all rolled into one, kinda like the gays, blacks, jews or anyone who has seen a corrupt system turn its sights on them! Its not that cannabis is evil bad or even that harmful, its that people have been told it is, so due to ignorance comes the hate and fear that drives the discrimination we see right here! That and the fact they are profiting(selling off impounded cars) due to that hate and fear, using discrimination for profit, capitalism at its finest, right up there with for profit prisons that seek our more arrests to fill them! The word I would use to describe this time in our nations history, CORRUPTION!
Dude no way man thats jsut downright messed up man. Seriously?www.Total-Privacy dot US
Just another way to make money and keep you beat down,soo you will be without,car,,cash,,and now a felon,,They charge 40$ a month at the JCS here(prob. off.),service charge, while you trying to get by,,and make a living.What a racket,,you get in there,,YOU may never!!! get out.Good luck to them and everyone,,Knocking at my door now...............
And that's the definition of the word I-RUN-EEEEE.
Tyrants! I hope the thousands of cannabis consumers in the area cut this tribe off. Don't help them, do business with them. Encourage others in the area to do the same. Reach out with educational media, maybe appeal to the tribal council respectfully, peacefully. But be strong! That is aggressive non-peaceful action.
I guess the tribal cops have learned well from the feds; a lucrative "legal" theft of cars.
I grow more disgusted every day. Give me a freakin' break!!!
tribal cop at tabaco hut: gimme a pak of Americcan spirit and a paper bag for my wild turkey wiskey man this oxy just doesn't help my back enough i need a couple shots right now. Worker: sorry to here that, you had any more problem with those dam mmj stoners? Tribal cop:yeah got a new truck and a convertable last week I love my job (wink) Worker: will you be at the peyote ceremony later Tribal cop:right after im done busting dangerous dopers driving home from work lol Worker: lol Both: lol good grief*
I wonder if their "Let's Have A Native Drug Free Life" sign includes that drug known as alcohol? Or is it just selective drug free life? Just wondering out loud.
Well... it looked better and was easier to read when it was separated.... Sorry
Dick, your name suits you.
Stupid??? We move them to land no one else wants,that won't grow weeds and they find a casino seed that the whites are too stupid to plant.
We beat these people into submission and they come back,,they're resilience and stamina is to be admired.
And they are just as greedy as any other police force and have slid right into "Search and Seize" instead of "Protect and serve" .
That's like saying..."stupid fuckin Americans." because of prohibitionist federal thugs actions. The feds don't represent the "subjects" that are required to live under their tyranny, any more than the tribal cops represent the tribe...they are prohibitionist cops..
You are a violent racist.
It shouldn't be linked that way. You are supposed to verify the patient through the state verify program, and you are supposed to have the alpha numeric patient id. If this info is available through plate, and name..... we have a serious violation of the law. (privacy-wise)
I agree with you whole heatedly Good grief with all the meth epidemic awhile back on native amerrican reservations you would think they would welcome folks using cannabis but hell no idiots tyrants running our country.so sad.
This is what's called the Kali-yuga, yes?
Being without a car is a 'blessing in disguise" if one takes to the time to actually think about it.
No longer are you a slave to those who would have you travel EXORBITANT amount of miles to toil away at an underpaid job and expect YOU to pay for the PRIVILEDGE!!!!
No longer are you a slave to the government who forces you to buy PRIVATE INSURANCE just so you can be pulled over by corrupt police, ticketed, have your vehicle impounded, and then jailed?
You will learn that WALKING is THE best way to travel, not only for your own health, but the health of the environment and the living world around you.
It takes imagination, which is lacking in today's society.
How long do you think the whole "car culture" will remain sustainable? It's already at the point where only the people with "disposable" income can afford to buy overpriced gasoline and insurance.
But the cities are designed by those on planning commissions vested in the auto/oil/insurance scam. That's too bad.
Other cities in other countries have caught on to this and are designing sustainable cities in which cars/gas/insurance or a lack thereof, will pose any threat whatsoever!
Imagine that!
unfortunately there really isn't any business around this area other then a Casino.
Damn straightI thought for sure they were grabbing trafficers not personal amounts and roaches
Not enough money in tabaco and gambeling i guessthey should not be allowed to continue stoping non native owned carstake back the highwayjust the dam highwayor make them leave us alone
Totally dry.
Interesting line of thought - so if I came to your house and took your car, you'd be better off? What kind of car do you have? Where do you live and where do you leave your keys?
I'd be glad to shoulder the burden of taking your car away so you can enjoy not being forced to go to work. It's especially fun when you don't live in a city but in a rural area like, say, most of Arizona. Walking down the highway, hitchhiking with the wind and rain in your hair - now that's freedom!
The idea of having fewer cars on the road is a noble one, but when it's your car that's just been stolen by a crooked cop because your friend left a roach in your ashtray, it's less of an academic idea and more immediately problematic.
Then that's what to target. Boycott the casino, and watch the rules change.


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During the whole last week I've been in a lot of pain with this pinched nerve of mine. I had some pills for the it tho, enough to last till my next doc visit (Tuesday). With the pills, the pain was reduced to a 75%. It was a low dosage of the stuff, but enough to let me walk around (slowly). During the weekend, I had to work and it was very painful to sit on a cubicle chair for 12.5 hours a shift. So to take the edge off, I took one or two extra pills during my shifts. It worked, it took the pain away. My first day off came in (Sunday) and I was kinda OK.
By Sunday morning I was at home and I ran out of pills. Slowly and steady the pain level went up till the point of disability. I could not walk around or sit down. Even laying on the bed was painful. I spend the night crying, praying and cursing. I could not sleep trough the whole night.
Monday morning came in I asked my wife to call my doc and see if she could see me a day early (more pain killers please!). She had a spot in the afternoon. I waited the whole day laying on the bed, counting the seconds in excruciating pain. In the afternoon, wife, baby and me got on the car. We picked up our oldest son @ school and followed to the doc. And OH MY GOD!!! Every time the car hit a bump or made a turn I felt like my bones were being braking. Sixteen times I had to ask my wife to stop the car for a few minutes. At one stop, on the shoulder of the interstate, I got out of the car and lay on the grass for a few minutes. I can't describe shame.
My children went crying the whole trip because they could not understand what was wrong with Daddy. They are used to a strong Dad never cries. They have seen me in very bad shapes before, with a lot of bruises, bleeding from small bike accidents, etc... But I've always swallowed my pain, give them a smile and tell them "I'm OK". This time I could not.
I finally got to the doc and I now have enough drugs to stone a football team for a month... Very potent stuff. I was finally able to help my wife around the house (we just move and there's a mega-mess). I hope she likes it when she wakes up and find the living room, the kitchen, the laundry room and the office in perfect condition and with no more boxes from the move.
Now it's Tuesday morning. I haven't slept in the last Saturday afternoon, around 36 hours. Strangely, I'm not sleepy. But I'll try to force myself to sleep since tomorrow I have more medical appointments to attend (MRI, Blood tests, etc). This was without doubt the hardest/most-painful Monday of my life. I'm glad I have drugs now. I've learn my lesson. I'll never let myself run out of drugs again!


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Rock pile towers against a backdrop of the night sky in Rye, New Hampshire.
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Nature photographer Max Seigal created this playful image of an orb of light in Colorado's Gunnison National Park, by spinning a flashlight on a string.
Lenticular clouds both in the sky and reflecting in the water below, captured by photographer John A. Rossetto Jr. at 20 Lakes Basin in California.
Manish Mamtani captured this image at Joshua Tree National Park, in the early hours of May 4, 2013.
Rick Shanahan photographed the May 20, 2012 annular solar eclipse.
Alan Egan captured this beautiful sunset scene near Causeway in Kerry County, Ireland. He said the smell of blooming flowers mixed with the fresh sea air.
Stanislaus Ronny Terrance photographed the April 25, 2013 partial lunar eclipse as seen from Frankfurt, Germany.
While on the hunt for Eta Aquarid meteors, Thomas Wildoner captured 420 frames to create this composite image of star trails.
It's still International Dark Sky Week, and today's image of starry night skies and lightning strikes comes from photographer Scott Toste.
As we continue to celebrate International Dark Sky Week, we present this composite star trails image from photographer Sergio Garcia Rill.


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Today's premiere of the Will Arnett/Jason Bateman-produced web series "Always Open With David Koechner" appropriately features Bateman as guest. Watch as he and Koechner sit down to lunch and discuss their biggest fears, including Koechner's claustrophobia and Bateman's OCD-esque hand-washing habits.
The series is a cross promotion between Arnett and Bateman's digital content company DumbDumb and chain restaurant Dennys, where the series is set. It's definitely got a "Seinfeld" style "about nothing" vibe going on, and while Bateman's episode is more subdued, we bet the actual comedians slated to be future guests (Sarah Silverman, Will Forte, and more) will be funnier.
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The inspiration for Faber Fine Press (launched in November with a first set of Poetry Broadsides) was the restoration of a hand press discovered in Faber's archive – and which was once used by the famous designer Berthold Wolpe. One of the greatest of names in the history of 20th-century book and type design, Wolpe was instrumental in creating Faber's visual identity during a career spanning four decades.
Wolpe was born near Frankfurt in October 1905. He trained as a metalworker, and combined these skills with a passion for calligraphy by joining the Kunstgewerbeschule in Offenbach where he studied under Rudolf Koch and then went on to teach. During this time he designed the Hyperion typeface, an elegant italic face which presaged the sculptural quality of Wolpe's later work.
Wolpe fled Nazi Germany for Britain in 1935, where he completed work on his Albertus typeface for the Monotype Corporation and, after some years at the Fanfare Press, joined Faber & Faber in 1941, to work with Richard de la Mare, Geoffrey Faber and T. S. Eliot. He would spend the next 34 years with the firm.
Wolpe's enthusiasm for the whole world of design was all-embracing. He is still remembered at Faber, not only for his huge influence on the quality and reputation of Faber design, but for his eccentric hours of work and his lunchtime sorties around Bloomsbury, hunting down, in turn, rare books on typography and objects of design interest, rescued from skips. In a recent interview, cover designer Shirley Tucker (who designed the iconic 1966 cover for Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar) remembers what it was like to have Wolpe as a colleague.
During these years Wolpe built on Faber's commitment to quality of design, developed in the 1930s under Richard de la Mare. Wolpe gave Faber a strong and immediately identifiable branding, based, in the most typical cases, around his Albertus face, used with the boldness and confidence of a billboard, and, in others, using his skills in calligraphy to match freely drawn lettering to the subject in hand.
Wolpe was a keen scholar of printing and letter forms, and used the press that we've recently found in the Faber Archive for small format work and book cover design. Once fully restored, our Production department – who are more likely to caress a beautifully-bound book than to download a digital file – have plans to use the press once again for many similar purposes. Watch this space …
– Faber Fine Press is a new venture by Faber and its inaugural products are a series of four poetry broadsides printed on letterpress. The four poets are Simon Armitage, Jo Shapcott, Alice Oswald and Daljit Nagra. Take a look at all four here.


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Index of Memorial Resolutions and Biographical Sketches
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Jack Lenhart, age 78, died in Austin, Texas, on June 8, 1987. He was born in Huron, South Dakota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor of science degree in engineering.
After graduation, he worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority in Tennessee. In September of 1937, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas in the Department of Drawing, which later became the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He taught engineering graphics and descriptive geometry.
He retired as a professor emeritus of mechanical engineering from the University of Texas after forty years of teaching. After retirement, he was employed as a consultant for Astro-Mechanics, and was chief engineer at Reinhart & Associates.
Jack Lenhart's students remember him as a man of patience and detail, always willing to explain things to his students, either in class or in his office.
Survivors included his wife, Marian; son and daughter-in-law, J. David and Judy G. Lenhart; daughter, Patricia L. McCulloch; grandchildren, Greg and Janis Lenhart, and Chrissy McCulloch; great-grandchild, Julie Lenhart; and brothers, Cort G. Platt, Robert J. Platt, and William E. Platt.
Funeral services were held on Friday, June 12, 1987, at Weed-Corley Funeral Home, followed by burial in Austin Memorial Park.
Larry R. Faulkner, President
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John R. Durbin, Secretary
The General Faculty
This memorial resolution was prepared by Professor Emeritus Leonardt F. Kreisle.
Distributed to the Dean of the College of Engineering, the Executive Vice President and Provost, and the President on December 7 , 1999. Copies are available on request from the Office of the General Faculty, FAC 22, F9500. This resolution is posted under "Memorials" at: http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/ .


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The complied SWF is not showing the preloader until the whole SWF completely loaded. Any hepl would be really appreciated, I googled the whole night couldnt find anything on this, at least for me.
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The best way to preload assets is to have a separate Preloader class and Main class. You want your Preloader class to export on frame 1, and your Main class and assets on frame 2.
Unfortunately, this is trickier than it should be, but here's how you can do it: Set your document class to
This will stop the compiler from automatically yanking Main onto frame 1.
Next, if you are using the Flash CS3+ IDE, go to File->Publish Settings->Flash->ActionScript 3.0 settings and change the "Export classes on frame" setting to frame 2. Then, on frame 2 of your movie, place an empty MovieClip. Inside this MovieClip, place a reference to your Main class by putting this code:
In the IDE, a helpful trick to check that things have exported in their proper place is to check "Generate size report" in Publish Properties->Flash. You can examine the report and will easily notice if junk has exported onto frame 1.
If you are using Flash Builder, FlashDevelop, or FDT, the process is basically the same--create separate Preloader and Main classes, and instantiate Main indirectly from Preloader. But to signal the compiler to compile Main on a frame after Preloader, put this metatag above
FlashDevelop can also introspect SWF files by click on the + beside it in the Project tab. It will show you what assets have been exported onto which frames. Ideally, you only want the bare minimum of Preloader on frame 1.
I've tested Mike's method in CS4. Apparently the dummy movie clip that references Main doesn't need to be on frame 2, or anywhere on the timeline for that matter. As long as the dummy movie clip is set to export on frame 2, Main will export on frame 2 because its referenced in the dummy clip's code.


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by Ken Pomeroy on Tuesday, March 22, 2011
It is not easy to pull off upsets in the NCAA tournament. Despite claims that there is more parity in college basketball this season, the first two rounds of this season's tournament did not provide any more upsets than last year. (The average seed of the remaining 16 teams is exactly the same as last year.) However, there was perhaps one less upset than there could have been because one coach turned down a terrific opportunity to tilt the playing field in his team's favor.
After San Diego State's Malcolm Thomas converted a three-point play with two minutes left in overtime, Temple had the basketball with the score tied 61-61. In any upset bid, a team needs some things to go its way, and the following sequence would be extremely beneficial to the Owls' chances of winning. Temple would work the clock until a questionable foul was called…
Log5 vs. seeds
by Ken Pomeroy on Sunday, March 13, 2011
(Now updated for Sunday's events)
With conference tourney season over today, it's a good time to review how log5 performed and it outperformed seeding pretty well. Teams given the best chance to win its tourney by log5 won
Don't get too carried away chalking tournament events up to increased parity. The lack of one-seeds winning tourneys was probably as much due to the best teams occasionally not getting one-seeds as it was to there being more parity.
When will Jimmer regress to the mean?
by Ken Pomeroy on Saturday, March 12, 2011
Jimmer Fredette's 52-point outburst yesterday against New Mexico in the Mountain West Conference semi-finals obviously highlighted his ability to score, but it also continued an upward trend on his ability to take shots. Since Brandon Davies went down, Fredette has taken a whopping 47% of BYU's shots while he's in the game. That the kind of involvement that's unsustainable over the long haul – or is it?
On the season, Fredette took 36.9% of BYU's shots entering the tournament, which ranked him third in the country. Maintaining a level close to 50% over the course of a season would be unthinkable, but perhaps it's possible over the course of a month under unusual circumstances. Brandon Davies was the Cougars second-most frequent shooter and Fredette has taken on almost all of the shots Davies' left behind. Fredette's done it for four games with mixed results. Obviously, the results against the…
The kPOY: The almost final countdown
by Ken Pomeroy on Wednesday, March 9, 2011
I'll be back on April 7 to crown the national kPOY as well as each conference's (and independents!) kPOY's as well. There's definitely going to be suspense depending on how BYU, Duke, Ohio State, and Purdue play the rest of the way, so be sure to tune in. Thanks for all of your interest in this season's award!
Standings through Monday's games. For those new here, this is an explanation of the kPOY.)
1. Jimmer Fredette, Brigham Young (Rating of .525, last week: 1st)
2. Nolan Smith, Duke (.506, LW: 2nd)
3. Jared Sullinger, Ohio St. (.502, LW: 4th)
4. JaJuan Johnson, Purdue (.499, LW: 3rd)
5. Jon Leuer, Wisconsin (.443, LW: 5th)
6. Jordan Hamilton, Texas (.429, LW: 6th)
7. Kawhi Leonard, San Diego St. (.417, LW: 10th)
8. Terrence Jones, Kentucky (.402, LW: 9th)
9. E'Twaun Moore, Purdue…
On overvaluing road play (again)
by Ken Pomeroy on Monday, March 7, 2011
There were a couple of interesting pieces last week related to the importance of road play in evaluating a team's postseason prospects. But both left me unconvinced that anyone should be emphasizing road play in particular when evaluating a team's ability.
First, there was a piece by Graham Watson at The Dagger (Will poor road teams buck NCAA Tournament trend?) which cited the fact that teams entering the NCAA tournament with a poor road record do not win many games. Of course they don't – all of the examples were seeded seventh or worse. A little additional analysis might have changed the tone of the piece altogether. Teams seeded like those listed in the piece would have been expected to win 6.5 games (using Pete Tiernan's PASE concept). They won eight, which is hardly an indictment of the heart/guts/will of teams that had a poor road record.
The kPOY: Let tournament play begin
by Ken Pomeroy on Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Jimmer Fredette expanded his lead further last week, due mostly to his team's ascension in the rankings. The Wooden and Naismith are going to go to Fredette and it's looking increasing likely the kPOY will as well. For all the fuss over Fredette's dip in efficiency, what's been lost is his in increase in usage. He's risen to third nationally, and with center Brandon Davies dismissed from the team, taking the national lead may be possible.
(Standings through Sunday's games. For those new here, this is an explanation of the kPOY.)
1. Jimmer Fredette, Brigham Young (Rating of .567, last week: 1st)
2. Nolan Smith, Duke (.516, LW: 2nd)
3. JaJuan Johnson, Purdue (.512, LW: 4th)
4. Jared Sullinger, Ohio St. (.493, LW: 3rd)
5. Jon Leuer, Wisconsin (.477, LW: 5th)
6. Jordan Hamilton, Texas (.455, LW: 6th)
7. E'Twaun Moore, Purdue…


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