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There hasn't been a so-called killer application of the virtual currency bitcoin yet, but remarks from three venture capitalists suggested that funding would be readily available for such an application.
Hemant Taneja of General Catalyst Partners, Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Micky Malka of Ribbit Capital spoke Tuesday at the CoinSummit conference in a panel dedicated to investing in the bitcoin space.
Malka said that his firm is looking for people who are building user cases on top of the bitcoin code, adding that the "killer" application hasn't come out yet. An example of a user case built off of bitcoin is one of Ribbit Capital's investments, BTCJam, which he described as a lending club run over bitcoin.
General Catalyst Partners has made one investment in the bitcoin space, in the Boston-based company Circle Internet Financial, said Taneja. The investment in Circle, which aims to make bitcoin easy to use, was more about leveling the playing field for small businesses rather than about investing in a bitcoin company, he said.
Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew said that entrepreneurs should look outside of the U.S. in thinking of new use cases. Lightspeed has invested in the Chinese bitcoin exchange BTCChina. While most people have faith in the U.S. dollar, that's not always the case in currencies of other countries, he said. That means the idea of bitcoin as a store of value, which hasn't taken root in the U.S., could take root in economies in crisis or with rampant inflation, he said.
The store of value concept is "powerful," said Malka, especially outside of the U.S. That concept is the lowest hanging fruit for entrepreneurs, he said.
Developments could also come in the micropayments space, said General Catalyst's Taneja. That idea that has been pitched for newspaper paywalls, paying a fraction of a bitcoin for a single article rather than paying a subscription. It could also be used in email spam prevention, said Taneja.
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Wachau Valley
One hour west of Vienna, between the small towns of Melk & Krems, is one of the nicest parts of the Danube valley with vineyards, castles, monasteries and enchanting villages, called the Wachau. Most noteworthy is the medieval village of Dürnstein, where Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned in a castle on a steep hill after his return from a crusade. The Wachau produces Austria's finest white wine and homey Heurigen to taste them are plentiful everywhere.
Eisenstadt & Neusiedler See
Buses to Eisenstadt (1 hour) leave from Südbahnhof. Josef Haydn lived (and is buried) there – you can visit the HaydnMuseum in his former residence and there is also a concert hall dedicated to him in the baroque Schloss Esterházy. From Domplatz, you can catch a bus to the picturesque small town of Rust (40 minutes) on the shore of Lake Neusiedl – most of it is a national park (Europe's only steppe lake). Rust produces outstanding red wine which can be tasted in many Buschenschanken (wine taverns). Lake Neusiedl is also really famous for water sports and other sport activities.
No other European capitals are as close as Vienna and Bratislava. The "Twin City Liner" speedboats leave at Schwedenplatz and do the trip in 75 minutes (EUR 16–30 one way).

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My mission is to oblige you and ye ol' editor any way I can. About the time I started receiving e-mails from R&C readers wondering if I had any more info on the Trucksters I drew up for the Aug. 2007 issue, Editor Kevin called wondering if I would be interested in expanding on the Trucksters deal with a sort of exploded view, "kinda like model car instructions." Of course! The idea in hot rodding is to do the most for the least, but those old car bodies are making it increasingly diffi cult to do the "less" part. So I proposed cutting up a 1950/'60/'70s truck cab-which are abundant, cheap, and, as a bonus, already have the back bucket portion for a lakester or roadster pickup look-and patch together a body with the proportions and feel of a traditional hot rod.
Among the examples, I drew a cool roadster that started out as a body. Though I have deviated from that original design, before you is essentially how the thing would look and go together. It's a little wacky because I'm incorporating both a bed and a T-tank-which I don't think I have ever seen-and there may or may not be a reason for that. The body would be narrowed, with the door panels used as the sides. The hood and front are the continuation of the body as it moves through the cowl and into the grille. The cowl and grille would, obviously, be narrowed as well. Length, height, and proportions are all up to you. place some 2x4s on the ground, roll in some tires and wheels, and start mocking it up. Once you like what you see, build a frame similar to our T-bucket-style frame shown, then start cutting and attaching your body pieces.
To add a little interest, I have angled the rear of the body to follow the Z'd or kickup portion of the frame. The doors would actually latch at the corners of the body along the sides of the seat back, so the shut line would be to the back of the body. Doing eitherof these two things wouldn't be necessary; it's just something a little different to ponder, yes?
It's a lot simpler than it looks-I know. But where else but R&C would you find a magazine with the balls to propose this in the first place? Don't forget, this will work on almost any truck you choose, so if you're into Chevys or Mopars, check them out. you've got all the views, plus a simple profile roughly showing engine and seating location, and of course, Kevin's model-style exploded view and the stock cab showing where the critical cuts would be made. now it's up to you to follow through and build one of these.
This roadster pickup drawing was the inspiration for the Truckster,which is an affordable and creative alternative if you can't find or afford a real roadster pickup body.
Exploded View
The frame is similar to the tried-and-true T-bucket with which we're all familiar. First, mock up the body so you can determine where the wheels will be located and where the body will tie into the kickup. Set the body at ride height and roll up your tires until you get the look you're after. Be sure you have enough room to stand back and scope it out from different angles. Don't do this stage in a one-car garage! Give yourself plenty of legroom, yet keep this as compact as you can-you don't want the proportions to end up making the roadster look like a cigar.
Front 3/4 View
you can see the makeup of the narrowed, stock truck grille that houses the lights. I have added a slight spoiler to finish off the bottom, though a rolled pan or nothing at all could be alternatives. To give this a real old-timey look, you could replace the modified truck grille with a cut-down Deuce grille. If you did that, you could also heave the hood sides, which together would save a ton of fabricating. The firewall could be flat, or incorporate some or all of the original cab's firewall with all the indents and stiffening ribs.
Rear 3/4 View
Our rear view gives you some idea of how this would all come together. The "thing"in the bed is a pocket to clear the Model A spring, which we need to clear the quickchange.you can see how the doors tie into the seat sides. This is where the latch mechanism would be. A 1941-style dash keeps people guessing whether this is old or older.
Side View
This gives you the proportions of the whole deal.Obviously, you could lengthen the hood, doors, bed-you name it. Conversely, shorten up some of the components based on how tall you are and which drivetrain you choose. If the tank/bed combo is bothering you, this could all be done with only one of those elements-but you may have to bring the rear wheel centerline closer to the body if you opt for the tank only.
Truck Cab
Cannibalizing a car or truck body is fun, especially when you have a plan for what you'll do with the pieces. If you're real lucky, the engine and trans from the donor truck will have low miles, and the rear will be a 9-inch you can narrow. Rather than having to fabricate the sheetmetal, your job is to stitch together all the pieces, transforming it into a roadster body.


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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Merry Christmas!
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
and what has Ava been up to you ask?
I don't know what it is, but somewhere in the past couple of months I feel as though I blinked . . .and Ava was this grown up little girl.
She's such a fun kid - incredibly thoughtful, too smart for her mom's liking at time and has a huge inclination to tease (wonder where she got that from?!?!). It's so fun to feel like she does more and more alongside me and to watch her independence grow.
Well who am I kidding.
That independence thing is fun MOST of the time. ; )
Despite the reason we were there, it was really special to get to be with my whole family in Michigan for my grandma's funeral. Ava LOVED the time with her cousins. Since Amy and her family can't make it home at Christmas, we took advantage and snapped a quick shot of mom and dad and all the grandkids.
Since my mom usually does gingerbread houses with all the grandkids, I was on the look out for something fun to do with Ava that didn't involve lots of work on my part. : ) I found this really fun gingerbread TREE kit. It's less intensive than the house (which was great for Ava's age) and really let Ava get pretty involved. It was the perfect size.
Have I mentioned Ava likes frosting? This is in case you've never noticed. I'm going to start sending all of Ava's uneaten cupcakes, cookies and cake to Ava's Grandma Prevo to eat (she only eats the frosting off and hands the rest to me EVERY time). I have a feeling Ava got her love for frosting pretty honestly.
Hey - it's only Christmas once a year. I let her go to town. : )
Putting decorations on her tree.
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it's busy being 9 months old.
Waiting for Daddy to come home.
Getting in your sister's toys.
Making beautiful music on the noisy fireplace screen.
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9 month old pictures?!?! kind of.
I figured when I got my Babycenter.com's weekly update for my 9 month and 3 week old babies, it was time to get some new photos up. : )
Sorry for the silent blog of late.
Many of you know but my grandma passed away the day before thanksgiving.
So between time spent in michigan and coming back and trying to catch up with the holidays, blogging has been the thing that went.
And truth be told, my heart wasn't in it and I was quite ok with that.
Thanks for the many sweet words, cards and hugs.
I miss Grandma. I'm so thankful she's home for christmas but I miss her. And I wasn't quite ready to write about it. One day I want to. And I will.
But today?
Today's catch up time.
Shortly after the twin's 9 month bday (Dec. 3rd), I tried to take some pictures.
At 9 months old these two little girls are all action and fun. I thought it would be more fun to just show the attempts.
(can you tell I got sentimental looking back?) : )
Attempt #1
And so it begins to unravel.
For real mom? MORE?!?!
Can you tell me who is who?
Attempt #2. Surely with Daddy around to help it will be better?
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Coach Withus is in her 26th season at the helm of the Old Dominion men's and women's swimming and diving programs. She remains one of a very small handful of women in the nation who coach both the men's and women's programs on the Division I level.
Withus earned her sixth conference coach of the year honor in 2018, earned Co-Head Coach of the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) after leading the men's team to a second place finish. She also guided freshman Parker Harp to CCSA Rookie of the Year honors.
Withus also guided junior Ashley Brem to a Conference USA title in the 100 breaststroke, Brem became the first ODU female to win a swimming event at the C-USA Championships.
During the 2015-16 season, Withus helped Monarch senior Reed Mathews (Denver, CO.) finish 17th in the nation in the 200 Butterfly at both the NCAA Championships and the US Olympic Trials. Mathews set new school records in both the 100 and 200 fly under Withus' direction.
In the 2014-15 season, Withus led the Monarch men's squad to a second place finish at the Conference USA Championships and was named C-USA Coach of the Year.
The 2013-14 season saw Withus help Sidni Hoxha to three Conference USA first place finishes and a berth in the NCAA Championships, his second consecutive NCAA appearance.
During 2012-13, Withus helped men's swimmer Sidni Hoxha earn CAA Swimmer of the Year. Under her guidance, Hoxha qualified for the NCAA Championships where he competed in the 50 and 100 free.
At the 2013 CAA Championships, Withus' squad set an astonishing 15 school records and won 13 medals. Lady Monarch Kimberley Rashleigh secured six gold medals while Hoxha was named Co-Most Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet. Outside the pool, Withus' Lady Monarchs achieved Scholar All American status for the Fall 2012 semester.
Withus has earned conference Coach of the Year laurels six times; 2018, 2015, 2008, 2006 (men and women) and 1998. She was named CAA Coach of the Year four times, including garnering the award in the 2006 season on the men's side. She guided the 1997-98 men's team to a perfect 12-0 record and it's first ever CAA Championship. The men's squad in 2008 also capped off a perfect season with a 10-0 record.
During Coach Withus' tenure at ODU, eight athletes have qualified for the NCAA Championships. Four swimmers have competed for their respective countries at the Olympics – Sidni Hoxha (Albania - 2016, 2012, 2008), Arni Arnason (Iceland – 2012, 2008), Erla Haraldsdottir (Iceland – 2008) and Khemo Rivera (St. Croix – 2000).
Withus has also coached the most prolific swimmer in CAA history, Mary Kay Bolduc, who became the first athlete (male or female) to win four CAA Swimmer of the Year honors (1995-99). Former Lady Monarch, Kara Fichthorn won the same title during her tenure (1999-03) with the team, giving Old Dominion and Withus the honor of having the CAA's best female swimmer in five of nine years.
In 2009 Withus coached the CAA Men's Swimmer and Rookie of the Year and 2008 Icelandic Olympian in Arni Arnason. Arnason was chosen as the 2011 CAA Men's Swimmer of the Year and the 2011 CAA Championship's Most Outstanding Swimmer. In 2012, Arnason swam the 50-meter freestyle for Iceland in the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Withus has also coached another two-time Olympian in ODU swimming alumni, Sidni Hoxha. Hoxha swam the 50 freestyle for his native country, Albania, in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In 2010, Hoxha was named the CAA Rookie of the Year and two years later he competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games in the 100 freestyle.
Academically the Monarchs have earned CSCAA All-Academic team awards for the past three years. In 2015 Mackenzie Payment (Powder Springs, GA.) was awarded the Wilkins-Howard Scholar-Athlete award with the highest GPA of all graduating senior athletes with a 3.94 in mechanical engineering. This was the seventh time one of Withus' swimmers has garnered the award. Payment also earned C-USA Swimming Scholar-Athlete of the Year her senior season.
Before beginning her career at Old Dominion, Withus was the head women's coach at New York University, where she compiled a 55-12 record. She coached eight NCAA All-Americans and was named Metropolitan Conference Coach of the Year twice. Her 1992 squad finished runners-up in the Metropolitan Conference Championships with a 10-1 record during her final year at NYU.
Withus is a native of North White Plains, NY. She graduated from Adelphi University in 1985 with a degree in physical education. She earned her masters degree at Ohio University in 1986 with a degree in athletic administration.
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This past weekend has me thinking.....family and junking are all a girl really needs. Old Crow is a family affair! Moms, dads, sisters, brothers, grandmas, grandpas, husbands, wives, toddlers, cousins, and friends who are like family all help in making what Old Crow is today.
Kasey and I are blessed to have all of these people in our lives. We all put in countless hours. From our moms, grandma, cousin, and aunts who help take care of our girls while we hunt, clean, and pretty up our junk to our friends who help us clean, organize, and price the many piles of junk. They are our Crow Crew!
Our barn, the junk, the smiles, the sweat, the laughter, the snuggles, the "ah ha moments", and even sometimes the tears is what life is all about.
We love and even giggle when our family brings us junk! They have been trained to never leave a piece of junk behind. Especially, without asking Kasey or jojo first!
There will always be good junk. That I know, but family can't be taken for granted. This weekend my dad was visiting us from Colorado. We had 3 days to enjoy with him. It turned out to be 6, one would think 3 extra days yay! But, they were spent in the hospital. On Saturday we had to take my dad to the ER. 6 hours later we found out he had blood clots and would have to stay in the hospital until today. He is doing much better and is being treated with medication. Thank god! Life truly is so precious.
Our families make Old Crow possible. With their love and support Kasey and I get to do what we love. Of course thats rescuing cool junk! This is our first big work weekend and the grandmas are on call. There's about 4 weeks or so until the Bonanza and the Crow Crew is ready!
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They don't call Nashville "Music City" for nothing. This city loves a catchy tune, and country music isn't the only game in town -- venues stage rap, rock, jazz and gospel concerts every night -- but country is king. See Elvis' golden Cadillac and Ralph Stanley's mandolin at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, or take in a performance at the Grand Ole Opry. Nashville's nightlife is legendary. Honky-tonks along Broadway thump with music and beer-drinking dancers late into the night. You really should go. After all, today's starving artist could be tomorrow's Carrie Underwood.
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You don't need to be a country music fan to enjoy the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Legends are honored here with a vast audio archive of important points in the evolution of country music as well as in displays of Hank Williams' fringed jackets and Willie Nelson's bandana. There is plenty of memorabilia on crossover stars too, including Elvis, Lynyrd Skynyrd, even Bob Dylan. The Grand Ole Opry Museum pays tribute to the staples of that famous radio show: Patsy Cline, George Jones, Dolly Parton and many, many more.
Walk along Broadway downtown for the quintessential Music City shopping trip. Ernest Tubb Record Shop has been selling Nashville's greatest hits -- in vinyl, cassette tape and now CD -- for over six decades. If it's country, you'll find it here. Across the street Hatch Show Print made its mark producing concert posters. The shop still maintains its monster collection, and visitors can buy newly printed copies of classic posters featuring their favorite artists and festivals.
Nightlife and Entertainment
Music City does live music like nowhere else. Catch country, blues, gospel, jazz and any number of live concerts across the city. The Bluebird Café is Nashville's premier venue for new and established songwriters. Music in the round features at least four songwriters performing their work. No trip to Nashville is complete without a little time spent honky-tonkin'. Dance and drink to live bands on Broadway at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge and Legends Corner.
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Some of Nashville's finest restaurants are located within the sprawling Gaylord Opryland Resort. Chief among them is the Old Hickory Steakhouse, where the steaks are measured by the pound and award-winning wines are served in an elegant antebellum mansion, where every diner can look out the window at a winding (indoor) river. The Loveless Café wins the award for nothin'-fancy, down-home Southern cooking, dishing up heaping helpings of country ham, red-eye gravy and buttermilk biscuits to clean up your plate afterward.


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Book I
Drawn to Ravenloft from their respective Planes and Spheres the group found the one way out of the Demiplane of Dread – The World Serpent Inn. Bound somehow to the legendary Spelljammer they try to unravel it's mystery while operating under a letter of marque from Prince Andru of the Rock of Bral.
Having earned the emnity of the Tenth Pit and House Muwara of Bral they were embroiled in danger from the start. Powerful patrons like Large Luigi and Tain the Reigar enabled them to survive the webs of intrigue until their visit to the Sapphire Mage's castle at the edge of the demiplane of time. It was there that they took their haunted hammership, The Nomad, through the plane's currents – a course which took them fifteen years into the future.
That future turned out to be grim. The Known Spheres were at war, The Unhuman War II. Tain arranges for them to take a mission for the Elven Fleet – retrieve the key to activate a Witchlight Marauder before the scro get to it. Their quest takes them to a sphere trapped in the Dreaming, and a demented demiplane called The Harrowed Realm. It was here they met up with Melchior. After defeating the native storykin and taking possession of the demiplane they freed the sphere from the Dreamstone's influence.
Now it seems that the Queen of Thistles has her eye on them and their Reigar patron wants to use them as his team competing the Damnation Epoch, a once a century gladiatorial event on the Plane of Dreams.
Book II
Two years after claiming The Harrowing something is stirring. The restless spirits on The Nomad have awakened with a vengeance and the river to The Maelstrom has appeared. While the Unhuman War II rages the forces of legend gather. Something mythic this way comes.
Statblock – Planejammer: The Spelljoined
Rules: Pathfinder, augmented with a large variety of non core WOTC books and third party publications as well as extensive house rules. We also use the Paizo Critical Hit and Critical Fumble decks.
Setting: Spelljammer / Planescape [This means that most standard / homebrew settings can exist somewhere in the multiversal framework.]
Rating: Adult themes, NSFW.
Emphasis: Role Playing, not roll playing. XP bonuses for good characterization and role playing are standard. XP Bonuses are standard for creating setting material- character journals, sketches, etc.
Psionics: Yes, using Psionics Unleashed for core psionic rules. Psionics are different, limited.
Firearms: Emerging Firearms
Starting Level: 3rd, Generated according to our campaign standard.
Starting Characters: Due to the multiplanar nature of the setting all character concepts will be considered. Eberron, Ptolus, Ravenloft, Greyhawk, Planescape, d20 Modern, Dragonstar, Dragonlance, Spelljammer, Iron Kingdoms and most other d20 based settings are subsets of the main game and are valid choices.
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Galax has played some pretty good teams this year, five of which are still alive as the postseason enters its second round. Bath County is up there with any of them.
"Physically they're the best I've seen, top to bottom," Galax coach Mark Dixon said. "Big people who can move. Their O-line is impressive. They don't just lay on you; they stay on blocks and move their feet. They have two really good runningbacks, and one kid can do everything. I'm not knocking EastMont or Radford, but I think top to bottom they're as good as I've seen."
Suffice it to say, if Galax wants another crack at Eastern Montgomery, it'll have to get through a team just as good to get there.
The Maroon Tide will make the arduous trek to Virginia's Highlands tonight for the semifinals of the Region C Division 1 playoffs when Galax and Bath County meet for a 7:30 kickoff at Carl F. Williams Field. The third-seeded Maroon Tide (8-3) is coming off a convincing 55-21 win over Rural Retreat while the Chargers (6-4) should be fresh, earning a free pass through the quarterfinals as the No. 2 seed.
Galax will be seeking just the third playoff win in school history against a team accustomed to playing for region championships. The 1995 and 2001 state champion Chargers also have two state runner-up finishes in the last 10 years and played for two of the last three region championships.
While Galax has the athletes to match up with about any school its size, and its scheme has proven worthy against bigger opponents, the foundation of what Dixon is trying to instill at Galax will be put to the test tonight.
"We've been teaching assignment football all year," he said. "When you play this type of offense, you run to a blocker and fit up to a blocker instead of the ball. It's a case study for us."
Bath's big line operates out of a two-point stance and doesn't so much create holes as it allows defenses to do it for them.
"They let you go whatever direction you want, and then they're on you," said Dixon. "That reminds me more of a college or NFL concept – let the defense create a hole and the back will find his way through."
The other facet will be sheer physical strength.
"The thing that worries me is the weight room," Dixon said. "You can see a difference in them, physically. If we fall short anywhere it will be there. It may be an eye-opening experience as far as seeing the type of strength you need to be able to play playoff football."
One thing that doesn't make an impression on Dixon is Bath's pedestrian 6-4 record. After a 1-4 start the Chargers have reeled off six straight Ws.
"We're pretty close statistically, but they've played better teams," he said. "Six-and-four is not what they are, 10-0, 9-1 is where they are. They've built their program to where this is what they've been gearing up for. They're not worried about the first five weeks."
Bath does have the advantage of being on the home side of a considerable distance between the two schools. Dixon likens it to his NFL days when Miami would be playing on the other side of the country.
"That's how I compare it to where I come from, this is an east coast-west coast game," he said. "It's three hours to the west coast, and at this level it's just scaled down. You always wonder how you're going to handle that trip.
"I don't worry about the physical part as much as your mind-set after being on a bus for four hours, and how intense you are when you get off the bus."
This will be the biggest football game any Galax player has ever been a part of, but the Tide has responded well through a series of big games so far.
"I'm kind of waiting for where the moment is too big for them, and it hasn't happened so far," said Dixon. "It's a unique group of guys who, for whatever reason, think they can do it, and that's 90 percent of the battle. I don't know what will happen, but they'll play hard and they'll play smart. And they'll play the whole time."
Region C Division 1 semifinals
Galax (8-3) at Bath County(6-4)
Friday, 7:30, Carl F. Williams Field
Radio: WWWJ 1360AM
Internet: www.wwwj1360.com
Last week
Galax defeated Rural Retreat 55-21
Bath County had a bye
Last meeting
2001 Region C Division 1 finals
(Bath County won 57-0)
Last Galax win
Galax is 0-1 in the series
Common opponents
Eastern Montgomery
Galax lost 38-26 Sept. 10
Bath County lost 27-20 Aug. 27
Craig County
Galax won 30-21 Sept. 24
Bath County won 28-15 Oct. 22
Galax won 34-6 Oct. 22
Bath County won 27-12 Oct. 8
How they advanced
Galaxentered the playoffs as the No. 3 seed after a 7-3 regular season and rolled to a 34-point win over Rural Retreat in the Maroon Tide's first playoff game since 2002.
Bath Countyhad a bye week as the region's No. 2 seed after finishing the regular season as the Pioneer District champion with a 6-4 record.
The season
Galax Bath County
D Northwood 45-0 8/27 L to EastMont 27-20
D Alleghany, NC 35-0 9/3 D East Hardy, WVa 34-7
L to EastMont 38-26 9/10 L to Buffalo Gap 19-13
L to Radford 27-21 9/17 L to Alleghany 35-13
D Craig County 30-21 9/24 Open
Open 10/1 L to Pocahontas WV 7-6
D Grayson Co. 23-14 10/8 D Covington 27-12
L to Ft. Chiswell 20-16 10/15 D Parry McCluer 21-0
D Covington 34-6 10/22 D Craig Co. 28-15
D Bland County 32-7 10/29 D James River 28-0
D Narrows 41-0 11/5 D Pendleton Co. WV 32-8
Region C Division 1 playoffs
D Rural Retreat 55-21 11/12 Bye
at Bath County 11/19 Galax
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Newport Beach surfer Jack Shimko was honored in front of the best surfers in the world Thursday night at the Surfer Poll awards held on the North Shore of Hawaii.
Shimko, 32, was given the Surfer Poll "Agent of Change" award, a prestigious nod by the surfing community that recognized his extraordinary accomplishments for cancer awareness.
For the past few years, the cancer survivor has raised awareness through his Paddle2Live fund-raising events. Shimko had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma just days after his 29th birthday, and while on chemo treatment in 2010 started the non-profit Paddle2Live and paddled 150 miles to prove he wouldn't be defeated by the disease.
That paddle offered pristine weather, with calm seas and a manageable goal. So for the following year, in 2011, he decided to up the ante and shoot for paddling 260 miles.
He faced a beasty ocean – where he'd disappear in canyons of 10-foot swells, and gusts of wind blowing about 30 knots for portions of the trek. He finished in 10 days – paddling an average 15 to 20 miles a day — touching each of the eight Channel Islands along the way.
He does the events to push himself, and to inspire others to support and help raise money to one day find a cure for cancer.
Last year, he developed a Junior Waterman's Academy to train a younger generation to take on expeditions for the cause.
"Wow, this is really cool," he said via video. He couldn't be at the awards ceremony because his wife went into labor and delivered a baby girl at Hoag Hospital.
In the video, he thanked everyone who has been a part of Paddle2live in the past, and all the people involved.
"Without you guys, we would not be here today. This is a testament to all of those who have fought, are fighting, and are surviving cancer today," he said.
The Surfer Poll awards each year recognize stand-out surfers who have made their marks in contests, filmmaking and activism. Eleven-time World Champion for the 18th year took home the top spot for the men's award, nearly 20 years after he first won it in 1993.
"Obviously I'm stoked, it's been a long time with a lot of support from a lot of people," said Slater, according to the press announcement. "It's definitely nice to be recognized by the surfing community and to come out at the top position."
Three-time women's world champ Stephanie Gilmore won the top honor for women's, and the movie "Dear Suburbia" took home the honor for Movie of the Year.
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So you want a real private cloud?
I had a customer ask me last week what differentiated our Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud solution. He had reviewed many of the vendors in the space of private cloud software stacks including some of the virtualization vendors and was somewhat impressed to see that overall the industry was making progress in building out these solutions. He did have a nagging thought in the back of his head that going with many vendors meant he was getting a "prefabricated" cloud experience much in the way prefab homes are offered.
His management wanted a private cloud, wanted it fast, but was not sure exact what a private cloud would look like or how it would operate. His enterprise had specific needs, whether they be naming conventions for VMs or physical servers, or any number of integration points into 3rd partner products. What his company really wanted was a home built to their specific needs for their private cloud. This did not mean a fully custom house, but something that could use standard components (think of all the standard construction components we use now a days) to build a designed to spec home.
This did not mean they needed high end digs right away but the ability to start in a pragmatic way and to enhance, extend, and build upon that first home. This requires an underlying framework that can be used to build a company's first pragmatic cloud and to grow up, much like my 63 year old house in its fourth remodel over the years. The basic platform is present, we are just making much needed changes to support the needs of 2012.
After we got on the same page about clouds and why he would want to build his companies 5-10 year strategy of cloud on an extensible framework, we moved on to the composition of the solution: product license, Cisco TAC support, and Cisco Advanced Services. Given a clear business driver for the private cloud (such as in-sourcing of rogue VMs in the cloud, or driving infrastructure support of elastic business needs, or leverage Cisco network functionality for multi-tenancy) the financial conversation resulted in a positive outcome for both sides. Of note was that building this individual's Enterprise Private Cloud means that he was going to consume a good amount of Cisco Advanced Services. To him this was a good thing as he was leveraging the knowledge and experience of the Cisco team to build and configure his cloud to start out and to scale out. Just like when I am building a new great room in my house, I want the best people figuring out structural loads, making construction recommendations for extensions and to build out those special design features.
That is the thing about REAL private clouds, they need effort to configure it the way your company wants to operate it.
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The merits of a partitionless filesystem
So I've got a block device, say
/dev/sda or
/dev/loop0. Clearly if I want to boot from the former, or I want to subdivide it into segments with separate filesystems, I need to partition it. But suppose I don't have those needs. Instead, I just plan to use my entire block device as storage. Maybe I'll make it part of a raid volume, or maybe I'll encrypt it with cryptsetup, or maybe I'll make it a PV for LVM. Or maybe I just want to install a filesystem on it directly. In at least some of these cases, there doesn't seem to be any technical obstacle to using the device unpartitioned. That's what we generally do with block devices generated by losetup, and one can do it too with regular hard disks. I know because I've done it.
Now, there are dangers to this. For instance, if you ever go on to run
fdisk /dev/sda, you won't see anything sensible. And you might accidentally write a partition table or something like that to your device, and then the data you had on the unpartitioned device would be hosed. Maybe if you even boot into Windows with the device attached, it will get hosed. People tell scary stories.
But I'd just like to understand, if the device is only ever connected to your Unix setup (and to keep things simple, let's stick to Linux only), and you never try to write a partition table or MBR to it or anything like that, are there any other downsides to using a storage device unpartitioned? I'm not proposing to do it; I just want to understand what the genuine reasons for not doing it are.
On the flip side, is there any obstacle or downside to partitioning the block device
/dev/loop0? Perhaps there'd be no advantage to doing so. But I expect it would work, wouldn't it? Here, too, I'm only asking because I want to understand the reasons behind our standard practices.


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Shower head, rubber glove, 50mm...tilted!!!
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this is really cool, u have some kind of instructions of how you built it?ReplyDelete
Thanks, working on the instruction now but I must add that each design is different and everything is very much dependent on the lens used in tilt projects. Instruction will be available soon. Stay tuned.ReplyDelete
thanks, yes I bet it's not easy to make a proper instruction for all the lenses, but it would be nice to know what and how you were using to build the extension, thanks!ReplyDelete
THANKS A LOT! also the pictures are really nice! congrats!ReplyDelete
This is a great DIY and the pictures looks lovely. Did you use plastic tigheners to hold the rubber to both the lens and the bayonet? Also, how is the control using the modified showerhead? Any need to add some rubber seals for added control?ReplyDelete
Thank You, yes i use cabel ties to keep rubber in place, for control i use focus ring, the movements, tilting is smoot enough end easy to control.... Like on the picture nr3 lens is disconnect from bayonet only, rest of the lens is still there, that why i still got focusing working. For bayonet you can use lens adapter ect. dependent of camera you use.ReplyDelete
Very cool, but i can't understand how to build it. I hope you will write some new instructions ;)ReplyDelete
The money-less guys will thank you :DReplies
updated!!! check this http://maciekpp.blogspot.com/2012/02/inside-job.htmlDelete
I have a b0rked K-Mount lens (a zoom lens actually) that I can transform... well I have a ton of old manual lenses too. I will definitely give it a try!
Thanks! Ok i will open my diy tilt to show how that look from inside but you have to wait untill weekend, i am now bit busy for next two days.ReplyDelete
Then stay tuned!
amazing photos! thank you for this tutorial!ReplyDelete
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Love this! Looking forward to seeing more instructions.ReplyDeleteReplies
brilliant brilliant work - excellent DIY lens-ing - also love the colours of your photos - what are your secrets...?ReplyDelete
Thank you, secrets will be reveal soon i let you now guys on flickr and here... thanks againReplyDelete
amazing DIY. 2 questions:ReplyDelete
1. Can you still use the focus ring for focusing?
2. How much shift/tilt and rotate can the rubber handle without totally distorting the view?Replies
1. Yes focus is still working by rotating front element of the lens(not the focus ring not the rubber) just check my new post "Inside Job" you can see there.
2. I can easly tilt lens around 30 degree, shift i realy small maybe 2-3mm.
Technically, you've made more of a lensbaby than a tilt-shift lens. Tilt shifts are just the big trend right now for creating the same effect you can do way cheaper with a lensbaby.ReplyDelete
A true tilt-shift lens is meant for correcting verticals in architectural photography. And this lens doesn't actually shift at all. Only tilts.
Cool idea though.Replies
Thanks, this lens is shifting but only 2-3 mm every direction. Bit busy now but before this weekend i tray get some samples.Delete
The hard part for me has been find the spherical piece, something I can sacrifice to make this work. I have the lens (an old Minolta 50mm normal lens) disassembled. I have tried a couple of things where you use the glove (bicycle inner tubes, punctured ones are free at any bike shop, plumbing fittings which seem to be a little too stiff and inflexible). I'll keep looking around.ReplyDelete
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The type of gloves I'm describing are the cheap cotton gloves widely available at discount stores.ReplyDelete
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swietna robota, podoba mi sie efekt, jak makieta, malutkie ludziki, samochodziki, uliczki i domki.ReplyDelete
Great shower Head.ReplyDelete
Although, for the massages.... Good luck.
Massage Shower Heads
Rubber products are gaining more and more popularity now days so using those rubber products would be more effective for us and there is no harm in that.ReplyDelete
Parker seals and adhesives play a very important part. They have several roles to play, and they play these roles rather successfully.ReplyDelete
If more people that write articles really concerned themselves with writing great content like you, more readers would be interested in their writings. Thank you for caring about your content.ReplyDelete
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Integrating Linear and Dependent Types, Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami, Pierre Pradic, Nick Benton. The technical report with proofs is also available.
In this paper, we show how to integrate linear types with type dependency, by extending the linear/non-linear calculus of Benton to support type dependency.
Next, we give an application of this calculus by giving a proof-theoretic account of imperative programming, which requires extending the calculus with computationally irrelevant quantification, proof irrelevance, and a monad of computations. We show the soundness of our theory by giving a realizability model in the style of Nuprl, which permits us to validate not only the β-laws for each type, but also the η-laws.
These extensions permit us to decompose Hoare triples into a collection of simpler type-theoretic connectives, yielding a rich equational theory for dependently-typed higher-order imperative programs. Furthermore, both the type theory and its model are relatively simple, even when all of the extensions are considered.
Sometimes, it seems like every problem in programming languages research can be solved by either linear types, or dependent types. So why not combine them, and see what happens?
Mtac: A Monad for Typed Tactic Programming in Coq, Beta Ziliani, Derek Dreyer, Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami, Aleksandar Nanevski, Viktor Vafeiadis.
A website with Coq source and tutorial is available.
Effective support for custom proof automation is essential for large-scale interactive proof development. However, existing languages for automation via tactics either (a) provide no way to specify the behavior of tactics within the base logic of the accompanying theorem prover, or (b) rely on advanced type-theoretic machinery that is not easily integrated into established theorem provers.We present Mtac, a lightweight but powerful extension to Coq that supports dependently-typed tactic programming. Mtac tactics have access to all the features of ordinary Coq programming, as well as a new set of typed tactical primitives. We avoid the need to touch the trusted kernel typechecker of Coq by encapsulating uses of these new tactical primitives in a monad, and instrumenting Coq so that it executes monadic tactics during type inference.
Since I'm not the main author of this paper, I feel free to say this is really good! Mtac manages to strike a really amazing balance of simplicity, cleanliness, and power. It's really the first tactic language that I want to implement (rather than grudgingly accepting the necessity of implementing).


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Sales were exceptional in vendor's first appearance
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The Hillsboro Arts and Craft Fair continues to be one of the largest in the state with more than 300 vendors attending to sell their wares each year on the third Saturday of September.
Vendors such as Gina Hook have been preparing diligently for Hillsboro Arts and Crafts Fair on Saturday.
This is Hook's second year selling at the Hillsboro show. She will be located close to Hillsboro Ford this year. She makes items for babies and toddlers. Her company is called Neat Seat and More.
"I make different things to help mommy and daddy care for their kids," she said. "I make shopping cart and high chair covers, as well as something we called a towelpron."
A towelpron is an apron made of towel fabric that keeps parents dry while bathing little ones and after can be used to dry them.
Hook said she expects to do well at the show this year. She has made hundreds of items over the last few months to prepare. She said she sews continuously as a way to unwind and to restock her supply.
"We did exceptionally well last year and sold 95 items our first year. We hope to do better or close to the same as that by selling at least 50 more," she said. "Were thinking if we do we might attend the show every year."
Hook said she attended the show 20 years ago, and after she starting selling at shows, thought it would be the perfect place to sell her high chair and shopping cart covers. She will have help from her daughter, Emily Moulin, and husband, Wayne Hook.
"This year we have a double booth so people will have room to come in and see what we're selling," she said. "Me and Emily will be helping customers and Wayne will be running credit cards, and getting us lunch," she said jokingly.
Hook had to submit photos of her items to be considered by a panel of judges that determine what new vendors can sell at the show.
Tanner Lacy of Hillsboro, submitted his work before the judging panel for the first time. His booth, featuring pottery, will be located in front of Emprise Bank on Grand Ave.
"I specialize in things that are useful like dishes, mugs, and oil lamps," Lacy said. "It's a hobby, but I was getting to have quite a lot of pieces laying around and thought this would be a good way to get rid of some of them."
If Lacy does well at the show, he said he would consider making and selling pottery more of a career.
"It's stress relieving," he said. "I figure start small and see what people like and see if there's a possibility of making a business of it."
Lacy started potting in 2011 after taking an elective pottery class at Tabor College.
"I loved playing in the mud as a kid, so pottery worked out great for me," he said.
Lacy has his own kiln and throwing wheel in his house. He already has 200 pieces made, but hopes to have several hundred more before Saturday.
With the help of his wife, Hanna, and a friend, Lacy hopes to do well at the show and enter more throughout the year.
Lacy and Hook will be two of 300 vendors that will line the streets for the arts and crafts show.


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Intel tears up CPU branding scheme
Centrino to move from laptops to Wi-Fi chips
Intel is to ditch its Core 2 and Core 4 brands, along with their Solo, Duo and Quad sub-brands in favour of, simply, Core.
Well, sort of. Intel's plans aren't quite that clear cut. Rather than nuke and pave, Intel is rolling out the new brand pland as it rolls out new products, while clearing out the old brands through natural wastage.
Still, it's about time Intel tackled its profusion of brands, and yesterday it pledged to "clear away the confusion of evaluating and comparing different processor brands" by stating that this "mind-boggling array of derivatives" will "go away... over time".
Confirming the existence of not only Core i5 but also Core i3 parts, Intel said these two lines would join Core i7 to form the basis for its desktop and mobile product branding.
"Intel Core i5 and Intel Core i3 processors will launch in the coming months," it added.
Intel will still offer Pentium - which stands for the values "dependable and proven" - and Celeron processors - "value and reliability" - even though these lines are arguably interchangeable. Atom will remain is brand for netbooks, internet-centric desktops and mobile internet tablets.
The Centrino, reported by many websites to be for the chop, will actually next year become the brandname for the chip giant's wireless products.
The vPro moniker will be extended to Core i3, i5 and i7 to mark out systems' business friendliness. Since vPro technology is as much a part of the chipset as the CPU, Core i5 vPro machines, for example, will have to be Intel through and through.
Intel's intention is that punters will choose products according to model number, using the rule that i7 is better than i5 is better than i3, and that, say, the 975 is better than the 920. Essentially, i3 means entry-level, i5 mid-range and i7 high-end.
It's not clear whether the Extreme suffix will stay or go. Given those chips' higher model numbers, the word's unnecessary.
Clear enough, for you?
Just in case you still don't get it, Intel said it will apply a star-rating to each CPU's logo:
"Each processor is assigned between one and five stars depending on a combination of features, including cores, clock frequency, cache and other technologies. More stars indicate greater features and increased capabilities compared to other Intel processors."
Today's Core i7s, for example, get - surprise, surprise - five stars. Core 2 Quads and Core 2 Duos get three or four stars, depending on model. Pentiums get two stars, and Celerons get one. Essentially, the rating scheme is there to re-inforce the model numbers. ®


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Feeling severally hormonal, having previously wept at the picture of the mummy oranutang kissing the baby oranutang better, yesterday was not good day to finish reading Fannie Flagg's latest book, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven on the train home.
I was inspired to read the book after watching the adaptation of Flagg's 1987 novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe with N last week. This is a beautiful film, of an even more beautiful book. Flagg's style is good ol' fashioned Americana (think Steel Magnolias meets, well Steel Magnolias I guess!), conversational, slightly saga-esque. If she were British, she's be writing about apple orchards and village greens (very much like the excellent and very readable Apple Tree Lean Down by Mary E Pearce), if she were Irish, she'd be a slightly more flippant Meave Binchey.
I have read four of her books, my favourite being Standing in the Rainbow, a sprawling tale of 50s Missouri, which carries on with the same characters from her earlier book, Welcome to the World Baby Girl (excellent story about the treatment of people of colour in America over the past 50 years, masquerading as a hard-working-girl-discovers-the-best-things-in-life-are-free-er). Set in Elmwood Spring, Missouri, a town which is just about as nostalgically twee as you can get, the book revolves around the family and friends of possibly one of my favourite characters, Neighbour Dorothy, who runs her own radio show from her sitting room. Flagg celebrates the richness of life (horrid cliche) and celebrates how hard-work, and an appreciation for the good times, makes for strong communities and friendships. Although the plot meanders along at no particular rate, a characteristic found in Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, you'd be surprised how affecting the style is, how much you fall in love with the characters (even the annoying ones) and how much you blub yourself silly at the end. Just like Steel Magnolias, in fact! (God that a good film I've not seen in a long time, N? Whatdaya say?)
Fried Green Tomatoes is probably her 'best' of the books I've read. I especially love her character Evelyn dealing with the menopause 'I'm too old to by young and I'm to young to be old'. Trouble is, I feel that way most of the time and I'm 25. And defiantly not menopausal. I may cry at samsung ads (when the dad is filming his daughter on the beach and gets that look in his eye which you just know means he doesn't see her as much as he wants...oh God I'm actually welling up as we speak), but its not for want of lady-mones. The film is just plain brilliant, and stars my namesake Jessica Tandy, so next time your having a girly sleepover, rent it. But make sure you have plenty of tissues.
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The next Travelling Suitcase Library and Amazing Portable Book Swap will be in Arcadia on the 11th July from 3 till about 7 ish.
Oxfam are having a book fest at Nation of Shapkeepers the same day- so please please go to both. If you have to pick one, pick them!
I'm also presenting the TSL at Bettakultcha III on the Tuesday, I think tickets for the event are still available, will let you know
Hope to see you soon (unless you can only dedicate yourself to one thing on the Sunday, then I won't, because you'll be supporting Oxfam, won't you?)
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SC'11 Roundup
As usual, I'm exhausted — in a good way — at the end of an SC week. Whew!
Thanks to all who came to see my demo (showing 5.17us NetPIPE MPI latency over Ethernet via Linux VFIO and Cisco's "Palo" NIC — no, that's not iWARP and it's not IBoIP a.k.a. RoCE — see my prior post for a little more info), and thanks to all who came to the Open MPI BOF. I counted about 100 people at the BOF. The BOF slides are available, if you missed the actual event.
Brock and I did a [probably incredibly embarrassing] short video spot with Rich Brueckner at the end of the show (another in the RCE-Cast <–> InsightHPC crossover series). The convention announcer guy was literally saying "The show is over; please leave" over the PA while we were recording. Whenever Rich gets to posting the video, I think you'll see why I usually stick to writing. 🙂
One thing that I neglected to mention in my prior post about Open MPI + VFIO is that VFIO is not upstream in the Linux kernel yet. The demo we did was with a snapshot of the current status of VFIO; the KVM/virtualization Linux kernel group is working hard on finishing VFIO, but it'll still be a little while before it becomes generally available.
I have enough ideas buzzing around in my head after a week of intense conversations with everyone that I need to go reflect for a while to figure out what it all means.
In general, the show was great. Everyone has already remarked that it was the biggest SC ever (attendance-wise). The vendors all seemed quite positive about HPC and general technical computing market prospects, too — the mood at the show was markedly more positive than it has been in the past few years.
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Alright, today we're going to be looking at the two relatively newer heroics that have been released and how they differ from one another. The purpose of this article isn't really to tell you how all of the fights will run and share tips for the various bosses. What we're going to be covering here are the overall look and feel of the dungeons and approximately when you should feel comfortable volunteering to tank one or the other.
Right off the bat, something that you need to understand is that these dungeons weren't created on the line with the other heroics out there. Namely speaking, the two Zul instances are created to bridge a gap between the current set of heroics and the entry level raids that are out right now.
To this effect, there's an item level restriction for these two dungeons that require you to have an average of at least 346 ilevel before you can queue for them using the LFG tool. And quite often, if you're a tank, you're going to want just a little more than that for comfort, just in case the healers you're grouped with are a little sub par, or the DPS in your group take a bit longer to kill those bosses than you find comfortable. If you're taking the tank role, I'd recommend waiting till you have 359 gear in at least four slots or so before you try your hand at tanking these.
Both of these instances hit pretty hard so it's not as if one of them is just plain easier than the other but they both focus on a seperate thing to make up the bulk of their difficulty.
The bosses and encounter design in Zul'Aman focuses a lot more highly on thoroughput. When the fights are done correctly according to the letter, things aren't really too bad. But when the slightest mistake is made, the extra damage that hits the party can be absolutely mind-boggling. In essence, it tends to be a problem with the sheer amount of damage that's getting dealt to the party, not the way it's being done.
On the other end of the scale is the revamped Zul'Gurub. All of the bosses have gotten a major overhaul in mechanics and design and the group of bosses within feature some of the more unique encounter elements seen thus far. While the majority of these mechanics aren't enough to kill your group outright like in ZA, there are a lot more of them to watch out for, the snake boss and the voodoo boss are the first ones that come to mind.
So when you start running these instances (hopefully with a group you know well), try to play to your strengths. If your team is well geared and prefer to brute force encounters down, I'd start off with ZA to gear up a bit more before heading to ZG to add that little cushion from the upgrades.
If your group is better equipped to handle more complex encounters but aren't geared quite as well,start with ZG for the upgrades before moving onto ZA.
Play to your strengths rather than your weaknesses and things will turn out the better for it!


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Every year, NIJ awards several hundred grants totaling millions of dollars to state and local laboratories to help them improve their ability to conduct accurate and timely forensic testing.
As administrator of the funds, NIJ must monitor and assess how the laboratories spend these taxpayer dollars and then report to Congress on what it finds. To help accomplish its monitoring goals, in 2005 NIJ instituted a program to ensure that grantees (i.e., the laboratories) were correctly documenting their efforts and spending funds according to congressional and NIJ guidelines.
The Grant Progress Assessment program provided free, external assessments to grant recipients from mid-2005 to 2011. During that time, the Grant Progress Assessment staff examined more than 2,300 awards worth a total of more than $1 billion.
When NIJ suspended the program in September 2011 due to budget constraints, all the players — NIJ, assessors and laboratories — agreed that the program had been a great success. This article documents the lessons learned.
The program's purpose was twofold:
The program gave NIJ a comprehensive overview of the awards process as well as in-depth data about grantee performance. In addition, it gave the laboratories objective, professional feedback about how they managed their funds. Through the assessments, laboratories came to better understand the program's requirements and special conditions. Over time, laboratory staff were able to identify potential issues and resolve them before they became problems. They also improved their ability to identify successes that they could use to secure future funding.
NIJ used the Grant Progress Assessment program to monitor several kinds of forensic science grants:
On a set two-year cycle, a trained assessor or team of assessors — many of them DNA laboratory managers themselves — visited each laboratory that had an open forensic science grant.
Using a checklist, the assessors reviewed the status of the laboratory's grant and assessed the grantee's use of federal funds to increase the laboratory's capabilities and capacities — all at no cost to the agencies. Generally, the assessors spent two to five days onsite with the laboratory staff.
The checklist included everything from budgets to performance measurement data to deliverables.
The assessments were conducted primarily to ensure that federal funds were used appropriately, but they had the added benefit of teaching grantees — many of whom had never received federal funding — how to understand and comply with the rigorous requirements of their award.
When the Grant Progress Assessment program began, the assessors reported that they were as much educators as evaluators. During initial site visits, they often found records in disarray, and subsequently they spent a large portion of the visit showing grantees how to set up procedures for documenting, organizing and reporting the data required for grant compliance. As one NIJ staffer explained, "You get the quality you inspect, not the quality you expect."
Common findings from the early years of the Grant Progress Assessment program included the following:
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By the second or third year that they visited laboratories, assessors began seeing a dramatic improvement in reporting and compliance. Grantees were more organized; they had proper systems in place. They knew what questions the assessors were going to ask — for instance, about the validity of equipment purchases or whether agency asset numbers and serial numbers matched — and were ready with the answers and supporting documentation. As the program advanced, its impact became even more apparent — adverse findings became fewer and fewer and compliance became the norm.
Perhaps the biggest lesson learned by participating grantees was: Be organized!
See "Resources for Managing Laboratory Grants"
As for NIJ, a significant discovery from the Grant Progress Assessment program was that what was often thought by assessors to be a commonplace answer to a question was not always the commonplace answer in the mind of the grantee. During site visits, assessors played a critical role in bridging the gap in perceptions between the two sides.
The formalized review process introduced by the Grant Progress Assessment program helped both NIJ and grant recipients achieve their goals of ensuring that grants were being used to achieve the goals and objectives set out by Congress: Improve the capacity of crime laboratories to solve crimes.
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... including our dog Henry being so anxious to be the FIRST to know what we were having...and how he revealed it! {He is 22 months old now, but this is a favorite photo of when he was a "baby"!}
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