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10 Show-Stoppers from Las Vegas
What could the grandeur of a Roman fountain and an end-of-days bomb shelter possibly have in common? Must be time for the annual NAHB International Builders' Show, held this year (January 22-24) in Las Vegas, NV. The event, which draws builders, contractors, manufacturers and industry professionals from around the country and the world, is renowned for showcasing the latest in new building products, materials, technology, trends and innovations.
While we were hard-pressed to cover the entire 360,000 square feet of exhibition space, we were able to discover some true show-stoppers. Here are ten of them to whet your appetite.
1. Moxie from Kohler
If you're looking for another way to bring music to your bath (and actual bathing experience), consider the Moxie showerhead from Kohler. With a shower head that acts as a docking device, the wireless magnetic speaker syncs directly to your Bluetooth–enabled devices.
2. Formica's 100 Collection
Years ago, Formica was known for its striking array of solid-color laminates. Now, 100 years after its founding, the company introduces an Anniversary Collection that brings back some of its vintage color offerings, but updated with sophisticated modern design statements, like Ellipse, Endless, Dotscreen and Halftone.
3. Heat & Glo's Revo
The new REVO Series from Heat & Glo combines a super-slim profile with sleek contemporary styling. Available in square, linear, and vertical styles, the wall-mounted, direct-vent gas fireplaces require no footprint and feature the company's patented Razor burner technology.
4. DaVinci's Bellaforte Shingle
For those looking for the beauty of natural shake shingles—without the vulnerabilities and maintenance requirements of real wood—DaVinci serves up an amazing lookalike in its Bellaforte Shake Shingle. Made with a proprietary, engineered polymer and designed for quick self-alignment, the roofing is available in five color blends.
5. Eldorado Stone's Artisan Fire Bowls
Made from glass-reinforced concrete and hand-sanded through a four-step finishing process, the new line of Artisan Fire Bowls from Eldorado Stone is sure to enhance any outdoor living space. Available in two styles, four colors, and two surface finishes, bowls ship complete with CSA-certified gas components.
6. Armstrong's American Scrape
The American Scrape hardwood flooring from Armstrong is distinctive for its five-inch-wide planks and authentic, hand-scraped surface treatment. Available in domestic hickory (known for its rustic character and superior hardness) or oak, the Kentucky-made flooring comes in both engineered and solid wood applications, in a wide range of finishes.
7. GE Appliances Slate
Move over stainless! GE Appliances showcases its new Slate finish—a warm, grey metallic with a low-gloss finish that is sure to complement a variety of wall colors, cabinet finishes, and countertop materials. It also proves a good partner with black, white, and the formidable stainless.
8. Daltile's Intertwine Series
With its undulating design and basket-weave pattern, the Intertwine Series of glass and stone mosaic tiles from Daltile provides a sophisticated backsplash solution. The collection is available in eight color blends, including Reflection, shown here.
9. CertainTeed WeatherBoard
The TrueTexture wood grain appearance of CertainTeed's Fiber-Cement WeatherBoard Lap Siding is achieved by using an advanced first-transfer system of real cedar boards. It is available in a choice of five textures, 22 solid colors, and six natural wood stains.
10. Atlas Bomb Shelter
In follow-up to my early reference to end-of-days, this Survival Shelter from Atlas was on display for visitors to see, tour, and experience. Made of galvanized corrugated pipe, it can be buried up to 42 feet deep and has a lifespan of 200 years. Plenty of time for home/shelter improvements, should the need arise.
For more building products and trends, consider:
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According to legend, purple dye was invented in Tyre. This great Phoenician city ruled the seas and founded prosperous colonies such as Cadiz and Carthage, but its historical role declined at the end of the Crusades. There are important archaeological remains, mainly from Roman times.
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Tyr, où, selon la légende, fut découverte la pourpre, fut la grande cité phénicienne maîtresse des mers, fondatrice de comptoirs prospères comme Cadix et Carthage. Son rôle historique déclina à la fin des croisades. Elle conserve d'importants vestiges archéologiques, principalement de l'époque romaine.
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كانت المدينة الفينيقيّة الكبرى، صور، حيث تمّ اكتشاف الأرجوان بحسب الأسطورة، سيدة البحار، ومؤسسة المدن المزدهرة كقادش وقرطاج. فقدت صور دورها التاريخي في نهاية الحروب الصليبية. وهي الآن تحافظ على آثارٍ تاريخيّة مهمّة تعود بشكل أساسي إلى العهد الروماني.
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Древний город Тир (Сур)
Согласно легендам пурпурная краска была изобретена в Тире. Этот великий финикийский город был мощной морской державой и основал процветающие колонии, такие как Кадикс и Карфаген, но его историческая роль уменьшилась в конце периода крестовых походов. Обнаруженные здесь важные археологические находки относятся преимущественно к древнеримской эпохе.
source: UNESCO/ERI
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Dueña de los mares y fundadora de colonias prósperas como Cartago y Cádiz, la gran ciudad fenicia de Tiro fue, según la leyenda, el lugar donde se descubrió la púrpura. Su papel histórico declinó al final de las cruzadas. El sitio conserva importantes restos arqueológicos que datan principalmente de la época romana.
source: UNESCO/ERI
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source: NFUAJ
Volgens een legende werd de paarse kleurstof uitgevonden in Tyrus. Deze Fenicische stad heerste over de zeeën en richtte welvarende kolonies op, zoals Cadiz en Carthago. Haar historische rol nam af aan het einde van de Kruistochten. In de stad zijn belangrijke – voornamelijk Romeinse – archeologische overblijfselen te vinden. Sinds de 5e eeuw voor Christus werd Tyrus beschouwd als een van de oudste metropolen ter wereld. In de stad hebben belangrijke geschiedkundige gebeurtenissen plaatsgevonden: de ontdekking van het alfabet, het leveren van materialen en de architect voor de tempel van Salomo in Jeruzalem, de verkenning van de zeeën en het oprichten van handelscentra overzee.
Source: unesco.nl
Outstanding Universal Value
Brief synthesis
Located on the southern coast of Lebanon, 83 km south of Beirut, the antique town of Tyre was the great Phoenician city that reigned over the seas and founded prosperous colonies such as Cadiz and Carthage and according to legend, was the place of the discovery of purple pigment.
From the 5th century B.C., when Herodotus of Halicarnassus visited Tyre, it was built for the most part on an island reportedly impregnable, considered one of the oldest metropolises of the world, and according to tradition founded in 2750 B.C. Tyre succumbed to the attack of Alexander of Macedonia who had blocked the straits by a dike. First a Greek city, and then a Roman city were constructed on this site, which is now a promontory.
Tyre was directly associated with several stages in the history of humanity, including the production of purple pigment reserved for royalty and nobility, the construction in Jerusalem of the Temple of Solomon, thanks to the material and architect sent by the King Hiram of Tyre; and the exploration of the seas by hardy navigators who founded prosperous trading centres as far away as the western Mediterranean, that ultimately assured a quasi-monopoly of the important maritime commerce for the Phoenician city. The historic role of Tyre declined at the end of the period of the Crusades.
In the modern town of Soûr, the property consists of two distinct sites: the one of the town, on the headland, and the one of the Necropolis of El Bass, on the continent. The site of the town comprises important archaeological vestiges, a great part of which is submerged. The most noteworthy structures are the vestiges of the Roman baths, the two palaestrae, the arena, the Roman colonnaded road, the residential quarter, as well as the remains of the cathedral built in 1127 by the Venetians and some of the walls of the ancient Crusader castle. The sector of Tyre El Bass, constituting the principal entrance of the town in antique times, comprises the remains of the necropolis, on either side of a wide monumental causeway dominated by a Roman triumphal arch dating from the 2nd century AD. Among the other vestiges are an aqueduct and the hippodrome of the 2nd century, one of the largest of the Roman world.
Criterion (iii): Metropolis of Phoenicia in past times, sung about for its great beauty, Tyre rapidly became the most important centre for maritime and land commerce in the eastern Mediterranean. The Phoenician remains reflect the power, influence and wealth of the merchants of Tyre who navigated the Mediterranean waters and filled their warehouses with goods from their extensive colonies all around the Mediterranean coasts.
Criterion (vi): Tyre is associated with the important stages of humanity. Astute navigators and merchants, the Phoenicians were reputed to have given birth to the great figures of mythology including Cadmos, credited for the introduction of the alphabet to Greece and his sister, Europe, who gave her name to the European continent.
As the exact boundaries of the site have not yet been formally approved, it must be assumed that the zones protected by the national legislation, as documented by the town plan, are assimilated into the inscribed property and include the essential attributes of the Outstanding Universal Value of the property. However, the physical vestiges of the aqueduct and some areas of the ancient necropolis, not cleared and still buried, located outside the protected area, are also attributes of the Outstanding Universal Value. As the overall archaeological prospection is incomplete, the full extent of the potential elements is not definite.
During the period of civil war (1975-1991), the urban development of Tyre progressed uncontrolled by the authorities and consequently numerous tower constructions were built in the immediate vicinity of the property. The integrity of the property is still threatened by urban sprawl and building speculation.
The key attributes of the property – the imposing ruins from the Roman city and the mediaeval construction of the Crusades on the former island, and on the mainland the necropolis, monumental way, aqueduct and hippodrome - reflect the former glory of Tyre. They are however highly vulnerable to lack of conservation and to development pressures that could weaken their ability to convey fully the significance of Tyre as powerful port city.
Protection and management requirements (2009)
The property is protected by the Antiquities Law No. 166/1933, and the Law on Protection of Cultural Property, No 37/2008. The conservation and management of the property is assured by the Directorate General of Antiquities (DGA). A Protection and Enhancement Plan is being prepared. The goal of this project is to ensure an improved presentation of the unique vestiges and to develop a new system for protection of the property that respects the international charters. A master plan for the town is already approved. It aims to provide maximum protection to the area surrounding the property and counter the phenomenon of urban sprawl that seriously affects the listed archaeological zone. The DGA controls all the construction and restoration permits. The Cultural Heritage and Urban Development project (CHUD) financed by the World Bank covers a large part of the measures necessary for the protection and management of the property.
Conditions for the safeguarding of the property are the definition of the non aedificandi zones of land belonging to the State and the ban on the construction of buildings of more than three storeys in the immediate vicinity of the protected monumental vestiges.
Activities (1)
News (4)
- UNESCO Beirut organizes a technical workshop on the conservation and restoration works of Baalbek and Tyre World Heritage sites Friday, 12 May 2017
- UNESCO Mission reports on war damage to cultural heritage in Lebanon Tuesday, 19 September 2006
- UNESCO sends experts to carry out technical assessment of the effects of the war on Lebanon's cultural heritage Friday, 8 September 2006
- UNESCO Director-General launches "heritage alert" for the Middle East Friday, 11 August 2006

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The Baby Jogger City Select LUX pram and second seat package deal now available in 2 colours: Either Slate or Granite.
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Oops, it looks like it's already been covered here: Polyvariadic functions
One cool thing you can do with type classes and instances in Haskell is to make functions that seemingly take any number of arguments, like the "printf" function in Haskell.
For example, here is a function which takes any number of Show-able arguments, and then prints them, one per line, to stdout:
class PrintAllType t where
printAll' :: [String] -> t
instance PrintAllType (IO a) where
printAll' acc = do mapM_ putStrLn acc
return undefined
instance (Show a, PrintAllType r) => PrintAllType (a -> r) where
printAll' acc = \x -> printAll' (acc ++ [show x])
printAll :: (PrintAllType t) => t
printAll = printAll' []
main :: IO ()
main = do printAll 5 "Mary" "had" "a" "little" "lamb" 4.2 -- note: the arguments can even be different types
printAll 4 3 5
Here "PrintAllType" is a type class we created specially for the use of this variable-argument function. Types of this type class represent functions that can take zero or more arguments.
The type class specifies a function, here called "printAll'", which takes as an argument some kind of accumulated state of the arguments so far, and returns the type of the type class. Here I chose to accumulate a list of the string representations of each of the arguments; this is not the only way to do it; for example, you could choose to print them directly and just accumulate the IO monad.
We need two kinds of instances of this type class:
- There are the "base case" instances, which has the type that can be thought of as the "return type" of the vararg function. It describes what to do when we are "done" with our arguments. Here we just take the accumulated list of strings and print them, one per line. (We actually wanted to use "IO ()" instead of "IO a"; but since you can't instance just a specialization like "IO ()", we used "IO a" but return "undefined" to make sure nobody uses it.)
- You can have multiple base case instances; for example, you might want an instances that returns the result as a string instead of printing it. This is how "printf" in Haskell can either print to stdout or print to string (like sprintf in other languages), depending on the type of its context. So you can kind of have a function that returns multiple types.
- The other kind of instance is the "recursive case". The type is a function type of the argument type to another type of our type class. It describes what happens when you come across an argument. Here we simply append its string representation to the end of our previous "accumulated state", and then pass that state onto the next iteration. Make sure to specify the requirements of the types of the arguments; here I just required that each argument be an instance of Show (so you can use "show" to get the string representation), but it might be different for you. Again, you can have multiple "recursive case" instances, for different types. One interesting thing to note is that since the type requirement is processed for each argument individually, we can have arguments of different types.
Note the resemblance between our function above and the following function that operates on a list (except this one requires its args to be the same type):
printAllList :: (Show a) => [a] -> IO b
printAllList = printAllList' []
where printAllList' acc [] = do mapM_ putStrLn acc
return undefined
printAllList' acc (x:xs) = printAllList' (acc ++ [show x]) xs


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Before the advent of chemical pesticides and fertilizers and modern mechanized farming methods, all agricultural products could have been considered organic. But with increased concerns about environmental and health effects, organic products are steadily gaining wider acceptance among mainstream consumers and producers.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, organic farming has been one of the fastest-growing segments of agriculture for more than a decade. There were fewer than 1 million acres of certified organic farmland in the United States when Congress passed the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, but certified organic farmland had doubled by the time the USDA implemented national organic standards in 2002 and doubled again between 2002 and 2005. Organic livestock sectors have grown even faster.
However, organics still represent a minuscule fraction — less than 1 percent — of the nearly 800 million acres of American agriculture.
In 2005, for the first time ever, all 50 states had at least some certified organic farmland. That year, U.S. producers dedicated more than 4 million acres of farmland to organic production — 1.7 million acres of cropland and 2.3 million acres of rangeland and pasture — and anecdotal evidence suggests it has grown ever since.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, Michigan was 14th among the 50 states in the number of organic agricultural operations and 20th in number of organic acres devoted to crops and pastureland in 2005.
California was the leading state in certified organic cropland, with more than 220,000 acres dedicated mainly to fruit and vegetable production. Other top states for certified organic cropland were North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas and Idaho.
More than 40 states also had some certified organic rangeland and pasture in 2005, although only four states — Alaska, Texas, California and Montana — had more than 100,000 acres each. The USDA lifted restrictions on organic meat labeling in the late 1990s, and the organic poultry and beef sectors have expanded rapidly.
Number of
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Source: USDA Economic Research Service
With the increase in the number of producers and the availability of "organic" foods to consumers, it's important to explain just what organic is, and what it is not.
Five years after the passage of the federal law that established standards and regulations for organic products, the following definition of "organic" was passed by the National Organic Standards Board in April 1995:
"Organic agriculture is an ecological production management system that promotes and enhances biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity. It is based on minimal use of off-farm inputs and on management practices that restore, maintain and enhance ecological harmony. 'Organic' is a labeling term that denotes products produced under the authority of the Organic Foods Production Act (of 1990). The principal guidelines for organic production are to use materials and practices that enhance the ecological balance of natural systems and that integrate the parts of the farming system into an ecological whole.
"Organic agriculture practices cannot ensure that products are completely free of residues; however, methods are used to minimize pollution from air, soil and water. Organic food handlers, processors and retailers adhere to standards that maintain the integrity of organic agricultural products. The primary goal of organic agriculture is to optimize the health and productivity of interdependent communities of soil life, plants, animals and people."
Despite the emphasis on health, the definition also notes that "the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program is a marketing program and makes no claims that organic farming is 'better' in any respect than conventional farming."
The USDA's national organic standards should be considered in two parts: first, the verification system that includes certification of organic agricultural products and accreditation of certifying agents; and second, the production, handling and labeling standards under which organic agricultural products are produced and sold.
The NOP is consistent with internationally accepted guidelines for certification and accreditation. However, NOP requirements for production, handling, labeling and allowed or prohibited materials differ significantly from those of other countries, such as in the European Union, particularly in livestock production standards.
For example, the U.S. has no restrictions on irradiation in the production and handling of organic food, there are no restrictions on the source of manure and a producer may not list more than three ingredients/food groups on product labeling.
In order to become a certified organic operation, a producer must submit an Organic System Plan to a USDA-accredited certifying agent for approval. The OSP is a detailed description of how the operation will achieve, document and maintain compliance with all applicable provisions of NOP regulations.
Specifically, the organic label designates a set of farming practices and is not an indicator of "natural" food or any specific nutritional benefits. "Organic" is not synonymous with "natural." There is nothing in the U.S.D.A.'s National Organic Standards that defines or regulates the use of the term "natural," and the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service regulates the term "natural" on meat and poultry labels.
"A product containing no artificial ingredient or added color and is only minimally processed (use procedures that do not fundamentally alter the raw product) may be labeled natural," according to FSIS definitions." urthermore, "The label must explain the use of the term 'natural' (such as: no added colorings or artificial ingredients; minimally processed)."
The "free range" designation makes no claim that the livestock actually lived or fed outdoors, but simply indicates that they had access to the outdoors after a period of confinement.
If a poultry producer and certifier determine that poultry needs to be temporarily confined for their health, safety and welfare, a provision of the USDA National Organic Program permits such confinement without loss of organic certification.
Organic Trade Association member companies in Michigan, 2008
Troy (Packaging supplier)
Trenton (Manufacturer)
Grand Rapids (Manufacturer, support services)
Macomb (Personal care retailer)
Honor (Manufacturer)
Beverly Hills (Support services)
Caro (Agricultural processor)
Ypsilanti (Organic fiber manufacturer)
Taylor (Manufacturer)
Ann Arbor (Distributor, exporter, grower, importer, ingredient supplier, manufacturer)
Grosse Ile (Publisher)
Okemos (Manufacturer)
Saline (Packaging supplier)
Source: Organic Trade Association
The organic movement has gone global, according to the Organic Trade Association, with at least 31 publicly traded national and international companies involved in manufacturing, processing or marketing organic products, including Campbell Soup Co., Chiquita, Whole Foods Market and even Nike. The Massachusetts-based trade group lists thousands of member and associate member companies involved in the organics industry, including more than a dozen members in Michigan, most of them in the southeast part of the state.
Many of these companies got into the organics business in the past eight to 12 years.
"Consumer awareness was a big challenge in the early years, but organic is now an established trend," said Timothy Young, president and chef of Food For Thought in the village of Honor, about 20 miles southwest of Traverse City.
Young founded his company in 1995, which now grosses about $1 million in annual sales and employs 10 workers.
Linda Shannon, president of Chartreuse Organic Herbal Tisanes of Trenton, which produces organic herbal teas, said the company grossed $30,000 in 2006, its first full year of operation. Since then, it has seen annual sales increases of 20 and 25 percent by selling to small, independent stores in 15 states.
"No one is taking a salary," Shannon noted. "Our goal is to get into larger markets like Meijer, Kroger and Whole Foods. We do sell to two Plum Markets in Ann Arbor and Bloomfield Hills, and a few IGA stores."
But there are plenty of obstacles to be overcome when trying to make a living by selling organic products.
"Price continues to be a challenge," said Food for Thought's Young. "When none of your costs are hidden, our products represent true costs which consumers are used to paying at the point of sale."
Shannon agreed. "The economy is the worst in 30-plus years, nationally and globally; small-business loans are hard to come by, and fuel costs over the past year have increased shipping costs for us and our customers," she said.
According to Young, "Based on the latest market research, organic is leveling off. Just why is debatable, but it's likely a combination of economic hardship and the proliferation of other social value marketing such as Fair Trade and the 'buy local' movement."
On the other end of the pipeline are the certified organic farmers who supply the manufacturers with raw materials.
Certified organic farms in Michigan can be found in specific pockets of traditional agricultural regions: in the northwest, southwest and midsection of the Lower Peninsula, as well as Marquette and Houghton counties in the Upper Peninsula.
The latest Michigan Department of Agriculture figures show 52 registered organic farms in 29 counties, concentrated in the Lower Peninsula's midsection and Thumb area, and on the Lake Michigan coastline.
Number of certified organic operations
in Michigan by county, 2008
Source: Michigan Department of Agriculture
Many farmers got into the organic act within the last 15 years or so, switching from traditional agricultural practices to certified organic acreage — a three-year process under MDA rules.
Michael Findlay, whose 2,000-acre farm near Caro is one of four certified organic farms in Tuscola County, has been in organics since about 1996.
"In the last two years we added 500 (acres); we're still transitioning that into organic," said Findlay, who grows spelt (a gluten-free grain that can be ground and used like flour), corn for feed, and several types of beans, including soy, black and snap.
Because organic crops represent such a small segment of the market, Findlay said he and other growers depend on each other to share information.
"My son and I have talked to growers from all over, around the state and places like Iowa," he said. "I picked up a couple of ideas just this fall and now I'm looking forward to next year so I can try them out. If one idea works, then that's enough."
Findlay's brother Bruce had been a conventional sugar beet grower since 1978 but he, too, decided to go organic in 1996. He now raises 750 acres of spelt, corn, soybeans, dry beans and clover seed.
Bruce Findlay said the lack of a marketing network for organic crops forces growers to work hard to develop partnerships with buyers.
"There's no real infrastructure there like on the conventional side," he said. "I have to find a buyer, and I've established two or three I like to work with, and we have to establish a price, and the point of delivery could be Michigan or Pennsylvania.
"It's evolving but it will take some time," he added. "I doubt there will ever be a Chicago Board of Trade for organics because it is such a small part of the market. With the Internet I can look at market prices guys are getting in New York or different regions of the country."
Fruits and vegetables are a big part of organic farming, and Almar Orchards in Flushing has been very successful in creating a high demand for its products in a short period of time.
"Since 2002 we brought small blocks in at a time and we've been totally organic for three years; before that we'd been in business since 1946," said manager Dick Alday.
Almar grows 20 varieties of apples on its 125 acres, along with organic tomatoes, pumpkins, squash and corn. Almar also raises organic pork.
Environmental concerns helped drive Almar's decision to go into organics.
"We were too small to stay with conventional (farming); we also wanted to clean up the orchard to help the environment because there's a creek that runs through here," Alday said.
The orchard is able to charge a little more for organics because of a crop of loyal customers, Alday said, and food co-operatives have turned out to be among the best of them.
"We established a good base of organic people, and a lot of our other people stayed with us because they liked our service," he said. "It's grown so much in the last five or six years."
Organic meats are also becoming more popular because organically raised livestock are grown without hormones, crowded living conditions or irradiation, which many consumers wish to avoid.
Graham Farms in Isabella County's Rosebush includes a meat-packing plant on its 850-acre operation for cattle, chicken and turkeys, and manufactures organic livestock feed that is delivered statewide.
"People who come here to buy our products aren't 'shopping' per se. They already want organics, and our clientele knows what we do," said owner James Graham. "There are more people looking at where their food is coming from."
Graham predicted the current economic downturn would only temporarily affect the long-term outlook for organic foods.
"I think it will slow it down or affect the growth, but I think in years to come the idea behind the organic food and the environment is going to be more prevalent," he said.
John and Suzanne Smucker, owners of Lamb Farm LLC in Manchester, went into organic meat production in 2000 with a consumer's point of view.
"We like to think beyond organics and look at the sustainability of the way it's raised on the farm," John Smucker said. "People are more concerned with the quality of the products; more big firms are entering the field and that's changing the quality."
The Smuckers raise about 200 sheep and 40 steers on 250 acres in southwest Washtenaw County. The cattle are not certified organic, John Smucker said, "but they are pasture-raised using organic principles."
"I think one of the things you're seeing is that organics is gaining more attention," he added. "There's more of a movement to buying local and understanding who the people are who are producing the food, and that perhaps is the next phase."
Roseland Organic Farms in Cassopolis is a 1,600-acre, second-generation operation that pioneered organic agriculture back in 1985 under the ownership of Merrill Clark.
"Dad had some land and was unhappy with what he was seeing in farming, and he had an interest in trying something different," said farm manager Lincoln Clark. "We were doing it before it was called organic, but he just didn't want to see all the chemicals and things go into the land.
"Later on it became more in style, more accepted, but back then he was the oddball."
The farm's organic beef, pork, hay, feed grain and vegetables were "literally unheard of in the stores," Lincoln Clark said.
"There were a lot of people who didn't fully understand what organic means. I sometimes wonder how we made it work — it's not easy still."
Despite the economic outlook, Clark believes that the growth of the organic food industry will continue as consumers desire more choice and transparency in their food purchases.
"People are looking more at buying locally grown so they can support a family, and they don't have to wonder where the food was raised," he said.
"I think there's a great interest in knowing where your food came from."
By Edward Freundl
Federal law allows for several options in establishing or following an organic certification program. If federal or state animal health authorities determine that stricter or more prescriptive actions are required, organic producers could be required to comply with these actions.
Option 1: A state may not establish its own State Organic Program or provide certification services under the national program. Under this option, organic growers may seek organic certification by any certifying agent accredited by the National Organic Program. The state would not be responsible for enforcement of the NOP; and enforcement would be shared jointly by the national program and the certifying agent.
Option 2: A state may choose to provide certification services under the NOP only. Under this option, the state would have to apply for accreditation. As an accredited certifying agent, the state would be responsible for conducting certifications, enforcing the production and handling standards of the NOP, and maintaining compliance with other applicable regulations of the national program. The USDA would be responsible for oversight of the state certifying agent. Organic producers and handlers within that state could choose to be certified by the state or any other accredited certifying agent.
Option 3: A state may choose to establish a state program. Under this option, all organic producers or handlers in the state would have to be certified according to the SOP, which would include the requirements of the NOP and the more restrictive provisions unique to that state and approved by the USDA. The state would assume enforcement responsibility, within its borders, for the requirements in the national standards and its SOP. However, the state may not initiate proceedings to suspend or revoke the accreditation of any USDA-accredited certifying agent; that authority is left to the USDA. Organic producers and handlers may seek and obtain organic certification from any certifying agent accredited under the NOP.


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Kazu recently did a brief interview with me on my blog. Thought I would share it here too!
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Thanks again, Kazu, for your time!
Interview With Kazu Kibuishi
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On Saturday, surface mail (remember that?) brought the latest issue of the Journal of Policy History (20:2, 2008) and its lead article, "The Interstates and the Cities: The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Freeway Revolt, 1966-1973," by Raymond A. Mohl, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Professors of administrative law will find it very useful reading (alongside Peter Strauss's contribution to Administrative Law Stories) when they teach the landmark case, Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe (U.S. 1971). Of more general interest is Mohl's argument that changes in the structure of the federal bureaucracy opened up highway policy to environmental, aesthetic and racial justice concerns. As Mohl writes, the transformation of American highway policy is "generally attributed to the persistence of grassroots, neighborhood opposition movements around the nation," the "Freeway Revolt" of the 1960s. Mohl argues that the transfer of the Bureau of Public Roads from the Department of Commerce to the new Department of Transportation paved the way (as it were) for the greening of highway policy under Lyndon Johnson and, in something of a surprise, Richard Nixon. The reorganization meant that the "barbarian" highwaymen of the BPR, who believed that "God's greatest gift to America was concrete," had to report to officials with a broader view of American transportation policy. (In this, the article may usefully be read with other works on bureaus and their departments discussed in one of my earlier posts.) Federalism also figures prominently in Mohl's account: the devolution of decisionmaking to new local planning bodies, such as Councils of Government, permitted the Nixon administration to appear responsive to the public interest while shifting the burdensome task of placating private interests to someone else.
Mohl has previously written about the popular protests in "Stop the Road: Freeway Revolts in American Cities," Journal of Urban History 30 (2004): 674-706, but they remain offstage in "The Interstates and the Cities." Presumably fitting the two together is a major concern for transportation and urban historians--I know it was one of Zachary Schrag's goals in Great Society Subway (2006)--just as relating recent studies on the development of political institutions to longstanding and ongoing research on social movements is high on the research agendas of legal and constitutional historians. Photo credit.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Federal Bureaucrats and the Greening of American Highway Policy
Labels: Administrative law, Civil Rights, Federalism, Politics, Property
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The potential threat to highway funds is making the energy debate more complex, which will more than likely be a deciding wedge issue this November. The Bush administration used this report to advocate a policy approach of borrowing funds from the Transportation Department's mass transit account to help offset the
declining revenues of the Federal Highway Trust Fund. The Times suggests that this measure would balance the accounts as people drive less and mass transit
numbers increase. This sort of transfer requires Congressional approval. But is this a great idea?
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text: I don't mean to blow anyone's mind here, but Felicia Day is very pretty. She has a nice face and beautiful hair and probably doesn't get judged for being a geek based on appearance alone. That said, her devotion to geekdom is genuine — she's written and starred in five seasons of The Guild, a webseries revolving around an online gaming community, spends a large part of her time at conventions as both a fan and a panelist and is a favorite of Buffy creator/nerd overlord Joss Whedon. Basically, her Jed Whedon (brother of Joss)-directed video for "I'm the One That's Cool" comes from a real place, so let's just sit back and enjoy.


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Temperature for April 1952
In April 1952 the average high temperature in Palm Springs, CA was 0.0°F, and this was 87.7°F cooler than the average of 87.7°F. The hottest day in April 1952 was 0 April when the temperature reached 0.0°F. Overnight the average temperature in April is 55.0°F and in 1952 the average overnight temperature was 55.0°F cooler at 0.0°F.


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Hyoubu Kyousuke is currently the most powerful high level multi-powered Esper. Kyousuke is a highly skilled ESP user who has a wide range of abilities (which is very rare). He can use most of them simultaneously and combine them which make him a very capable fighter. While originally he possessed only Psychokinesis, after seeing his friends die one by one in front of him, somehow his friends' abilities transferred to him, such as Electrokinesis, Teleportation, Psychometry, Pyrokinesis and Hypnosis.
In Unlimited: Hyoubu Kyousuke uses a pin on his collar which is a limiter to keep his powers in check. when he turns off the limiter he can boost to his unlimited mode and release his full power. It was heavily implied that unleashing his power put additional strain on his body and because of that it was better to be sealed. When reactivating his Limiter, he has a habit of saying "Time, eternally stop."
Onto respect then I guess-
Any mention of a 'Major' is Hyoubu:
Episode 1: Paranormal Jailbreak
The show starts right off with showing the Major casually slaughtering troops in order to get some attention.
A squad of trained soldiers is entirely unable to deal with the Major's antics, he also barely demonstrates the slightest amount of stress during these events.
He appears to teleport and fight with his abilities simultaneously, making him hard to keep track of.
It is shown that he can easily rip a human body apart without even being near them.
He demonstrates some combat tactics by teleporting a fuel-tank down a narrow alley instead of himself; tricking soldiers into shooting it.
Then there are some tanks, they fire upon the Major who shields himself from the shots before teleporting a tank skywards and throwing it on the other two.
He finishes his assault off by disabling 3 helicopters with a snap of the fingers before allowing himself to be captured.
A very Berserker-looking ESP experiment is unleashed against the Major, who fights it without extreme difficulty.
It should be noted that the Berserker has limited precog- something the Major does not. He is still able to outmaneuver it for the most part through sheer speed and quick thinking.
The Berserker is more or less bullet-proof, although they did appear to cause it some pain. Its precog doesn't work on the Major's ally because he is immune to ESP abilities.
The Major activates Unlimited Mode, allowing him full access to his powers. Cue stock footage.
The Major shows off a little bit by allowing his steps to make larger and larger craters in the floor.
He follows this up by hurling the Berserker to the ceiling and then making it explode.
That concludes Episode 1.
Episode 2: The Melody of Assassination
The Major himself doesn't have a great deal of feats in this episode.
You can see his allies beating up some mafia types though; with nearby tourists being none-the-wiser.
While offscreen, it appears the Major was attacked- he is very nonchalant about it.
The Major responds to a sudden (though expected) betrayal, extra style points for making the enemy look good before they die.
Oh right, details; he controls the enemy troops' minds to make them think they actually shot him.
Then he hypnotizes the entire group into believing everyone else in the room is him, followed by them all shooting one another dead.
The Major mentions that he died when he was betrayed before engaging an enemy esper at long range.
Said esper throws a wave of energy several blocks to shatter all of the windows in the Major's room.
The Major stops every shard of glass from flying and cutting him and his allies before lowering them to the floor.
The Major fires a return blast- leveling everything between him and his enemy.
That concludes Episode 2.
Episode 3: Cleanliness and Pollution
Again, not a lot of feats- except for one big one that I'm not 100% sure the Major is responsible for- though the detective involved specializes in knowing Hyobou's abilities and says only he could do it.
Every female in the city took on the appearance of the princess thanks to mass hypnosis. Hyobou can still use his typical abilities while maintaining this.
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Artists Ana Sokolović
Collection QB / CQB 2026, CQB 2026_NUM / 2020
Collection QB / CQB 1925, CQB 1925_NUM / 2019
Collection QB / CQB 0805 / 2008
Ana Sokolović was born in 1968 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She studied composition at the University of Novi Sad with Dusan Radic and at the University of Belgrade with Zoran Eric, prior to completing her master's degree at the Université de Montréal with José Evangelista. Her repertoire includes orchestral and piano works and several chamber music compositions. She has also written numerous theatrical scores. Between 1995 and 1998, Ana Sokolović received three prizes from the SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers. In 1999, she was awarded two prizes in the CBC National Young Composers' Competition, first prize in the "Chamber music" category, and the major prize, in "All categories." In 2005, Ana Sokolović received the Joseph S Stauffer Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2007, she was awarded the Prix Opus — Composer of the Year and in 2008, the SOCAN Jan V Matejcek Prize for the "présence exceptionnelle de la musique de concert pour l'année écoulée" (exceptional concert music presense during the past year). In December 2009, she received an award from the National Arts Center in Ottawa consisting of commissions, artist-in-residencies and teaching projects for the next five years. In 2005 she created her first opera, The Midnight Court, performed by the Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Co. During the summer of 2006 the work had its European premiere at London's Royal Opera House. Currently she teaches composition at the Université de Montréal. In 2011-12, Ana Sokolović was the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) Homage Series composer, an event where her works were showcased at more than one hundred events and concerts.
Ana Sokolović
Belgrade (Serbia), 1968
Residence: Montréal (Québec)
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text: Ӄhrizby 14 Posted February 24, 2019 Hey all, I know I haven't been exactly active in the modding community in years, but I was recently approached about my previous work on my HK-47 Melee/Saber Mod. It came to my attention that since the disappearance of LucasForums, my tutorial on how I did it is no longer accessible. However, I managed to dig up an old copy. Given how long it's been this information may be old news, but I figured I would repost it here in case it is of use to anybody else. This is the original instructions I made to create the HK-47 mod, it was a rather crude and experimental procedure for me at the time, so it can definitely be refined and improved. Feel free to reply with any updates or experiences. Without further ado, here is the original tutorial: Spoiler Part 1: Prep Alright, let's get started. First you need to find your models. You need the model you want to put animations on, and one model with all the animations already on it. If the model you want animations on is an only body model (no head on it), you should extract a player body, like clothing or an armor. This ensures that you can change clothing/heads on the model. To make it easy, let's use PMBAM, the basic male 'underwear' model. If your unanimated (or underanimated) model is female, you can use PFBAM if it makes you feel good, but I don't think it'll make any difference. However, if your unanimated model includes a head, you need a model with animations and a head. For KotOR, I've used the Wookiee model, and for TSL I've used the Wookiee model and the Weequay model. I find the Weequay model superior because it doesn't have a hunched posture like the Wookiee, which you can see I used in my HK-47 Melee/Saber Mods. If the model you want to give animations has a cape, I'd use the Jedi robe model, which also has a robe/cape. You can use any model if you check them by this method first: import them into gmax/3dsmax. Choose the 'modify' tab and select the Aurorabase (named after the model). Look for 'super' (Screenie 1). If it says 'NULL', this model has it's own animations and can't be used for animating another model. Also, I'd recommend extracting the textures of your models into the same folder as them. It just helps to see what's what. Part 2: Setting the Bones Now that you have chosen your models, extract them with KotOR Tool and compile them with MDLOps. Once you have your -ascii models, open two windows of NWMax. Yes, two (2). In one, import your unanimated model, the one you want to put animations on. In the other, import the ones with the animations you want. Just the geo only. Be sure to click 'set environ' in both windows (Also screenie 1). For now, select the skin (all textured parts, be sure to include the eyes, teeth, and tongue). In the already animated model, delete it. You won't need it, and it's easy to forget to delete it, which makes a mess. In the unanimated model, make a group out of it. Type an easy-to-remember name (how many of you will choose 'skin'? ) in the box in the upper toolbar and hit enter (See Screenie 2). Now you can select it all at once by clicking that name. Do that now, and hide it. You'll be left with just the bones and helpers. Now you need to get the bones of the animated model into the same position as that of the unanimated model. This prevents warping and stretching in the skin, as well as oddly placed and randomly floating parts. Usually this happens around the fingers. Anyway, I like to start with the torso, and work my way down the arms and legs. In the window containing the animated model, choose the move tool and select your first bone. Click the 'unlink' function (Screenie 3). Along the bottom, you can see the location of the object. Copy all three numbers from the unanimated model and paste them into that spot on the same bone on the animated model. The object should move to the same location as it is in the unanimated model. You'll notice that some other bones move with it. That's okay, as long as you remember to unlink the one you're moving. Otherwise it'll try to move and stay linked at the same time, and just rotate randomly. After you move a bone, you can hide it, just to get them out of the way. Do this until you've moved every single bone into place. Also remember to do this with the weapon placement helpers, the blue boxes usually named 'rhand' and 'lhand', or you'll have floating weapons. Usually I don't worry about rotation, but in the case of the weapon placement helpers I rotate them the same way they are in the original model, so the weapons point in the correct direction. Now you're set for the fun part, weighting the skin! (Don't get too excited, there) Part 3: Skinning Remember the skin that we hid in the unanimated model at the beginning? Time to bring it back. Flip to the unanimated model, right click and hit 'unhide all'. If you haven't done it yet, save this. Now go to your animated model window. Select everything, and group it under a good name. Hide it all. Click file > merge. Select the other model you saved, and select all the skin geometry; head, torso, etc. Be sure to include the eyes, teeth, and tongue. When you open it, click 'yes to all' if a dialogue box pops up. This keeps everything pretty much where it should be. You'll notice that gmax didn't obey you; there's a lot of bones it imported too! Not to worry, that's supposed to happen. Those are the bones that the skin is currently attached to. Don't delete them! Normally weighting is a tedious, time consuming task, but I've found fairly simple way to shortcut this, so hold onto those bones. Select the skin again, and group it in this window the same way it was in your other one. Now hide it. Group the remaining bones that were imported to something that'll make you remember which ones they are, so you can get rid of them later. Something like 'trash bones' or so. Now unhide everything. Hide just these new bones, so you're left with the new skin and the original bones. Often times the eyes/teeth/tongue (what a troublesome lot!) are out of place, so you'll need to take a look at your unanimated model to get them in the correct place. Move these the same way you did the bones. Now we can start actually taking the skin off it's old bones and putting it on it's new body. Ugh, that sounds gruesome, doesn't it? Anyway, select a piece of skin, any piece; it may be distorted and mangled looking, but double-click on the 'editable mesh' modifier and it should snap into shape. No, we're not actually going to edit it, but we need it selected, with the blue vertices showing, or else what we're going to do won't work. Now, with the vertices still showing, select the 'skin' modifier. Now click 'edit envelopes'. It should overlay the model in blue, with different shades of red and yellow where the skin is attached to a certain bone. In the list on the right, select the top bone. Delete it. Only delete that bone. Now click 'add bone', and select the exact same one as you just deleted. Actually, if you remember, the one it was originally weighted to is hidden, so the one you selected is the same one of the original bones from the animated model. When you add the bone, you should see that the same colors as were there before you deleted the old ones reappeared. If you have the vertices showing, when you delete a bone then add a new one, the new one takes on all the weighting left in the area around it . . . which are the places now vacant from the deleted bone. So you saved all the time of weighting the skin one vertex at a time, or the randomness painting the weights, which usually turn out horribly inaccurate, and got the weighting from one set of bones to another. Do this to every bone on the list, then move on to each other piece of skin. Well, that doesn't include the eyes or teeth (But does include the tongue this time). They're rather special, so we'll get to them later. Just hide them if you want and get back to skinning. I'd recommend saving a lot, 'cause at least for me, gmax tends to crash sometimes when doing skins. Once you do all the bones in all the skins, unhide everything. Now select the new 'trash' bones and delete them. If you see sudden distortion among the skin, you missed some bones. Go back and try it again. You did save, right? If nothing changed (except for the bones disappearing of course), then you did good. At least, as far as we know; often things happen differently in-game. Part 4: Re-Linking Now we get to re-link everything. All the pieces in a model are linked to each other so they move together; for example, when an arm moves up, the hand follows it. When we rearranged the bones, you should've unlinked mostly everything so they can move without changing alignment. Now we need to fix that. Refer to you unanimated model window for what's linked to what (look to the right panel when an object is selected), and link the one in the animated model that way. Do this by selecting your bone, clicking 'link' (next to 'unlink', big surprise) and selecting the parent by name (hotkey 'h'). It'll be fairly easy to know if you missed a piece in-game, because that part will stand static in one place while the rest of the model twists and turns past it. When you've linked every bone the way they should be, select all of the skin except for the eyes and teeth. Now link the selected parts to your aurorabase (The blue box on the bottom named after you model). Otherwise, the skin will be invisible. Next, select all pieces of your eyes and your upper teeth and link them to the 'head_g', and link your lower teeth to 'f_jaw_g'. That's all for linking! Part 5: Finishing Up Next is exporting and preparing our finished model. Select your aurorabase. It's currently named after the model you used to steal animations from, the pre-animated model. Rename it to be the model whose skin is on it, the previously unanimated model. Now click 'export geom only', to a different location than your original files. The exported file will be a .mdl. But it isn't really. Gmax deals in -ascii.mdl files. So rename this file to filename-ascii.mdl. That's just adding "-ascii" before the extension. Now put it in the same location as your original .mdl and .mdx files of the originally animated model, not the model you used the skin of. If there's already any -ascii models from when you compiled models at the beginning, delete them. Rename the original .mdl and .mdx to that of the originally unanimated model. Now open MDLOps. Select your new -ascii file and click 'read and write'. You should have 2 new files in the same directory labeled filename-ascii-k2-bin.mdl and an .mdx of the same name. This example is for TSL, but if this is a model for the original KotOR, it'll have 'k1' in it's name instead of 'k2'. Move these two files to your override folder. Remove the 'ascii-k2-bin'. It should now be named the same thing as the original files you extracted. Congrats! Now you have your model, complete with animations! Drop it in the override, change your appearance with KSE if necessary, and fire it up! We'll soon know how closely you paid attention... Here's some common problems and possible solutions that I encountered: Nothing at all shows up in-game -- You probably forgot to link the skin to the aurorabase. There are no animations on just the arm/leg/upper torso etc. -- If you didn't link one piece, it affects the whole section. For example, if you didn't link the bicep to the collar, the whole arm won't work. Thanks for taking the time to read all this. I hope it helps out some people, though I know that there's only so many models that fit the criteria for this. If you have any questions or comments, ask in my thread. Thanks everyone for your support, and to the whole community for making modding such a great thing! Ӄhrizby 6 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
"The Messenger of Allah (saw) came out to us one day. He stood before us and said:
'Last night I saw something amazing. I saw a man from among my Ummah to whom the Angel of death came to seize his soul, but his honoring of his parents came and kept the Angel of death away from him.
'I saw a man whose torment of the grave was about to come upon him, and his wudu (ablution before prayers) came and saved him from that.
'I saw a man from my Ummah whom the devils had seized, but his remembrance of Allah came and banished the devils from him.
'I saw a man from my Ummah whom the Angels of torment had seized, but his prayer came and saved him from them.
'I saw a man from my Ummah tormented by thirst. Every time he approached the cistern, he was pushed back, then his Ramadan fasting came and gave him to drink and quenched his thirst.
'I saw a man from my Ummah, and I saw the Prophets sitting in circles.
Every time he approached a circle he was repulsed, then his doing ghusl (full ablution) to cleanse himself from janaabah (impurity) came, took him by the hand and brought him to sit beside me.
'I saw a man from my Ummah in front of whom was darkness, behind him was darkness, to his right was darkness,to his left was darkness and above and beneath him was darkness. He was stumbling in darkness; then his Hajj and Umrah came and brought him out from that darkness into the light.
'I saw a man from among my Ummah trying to protect himself with his hands from the flames and sparks of Fire, then his sadaqah (giving in charity) came and formed a barrier between him and the fire and shielded him.
'I saw a man from my Ummah speaking to believers but they did not speak to him. Then his upholding of family ties came and said: "O Muslims he used to uphold ties of kinship so speak to him." then the believers spoke to him and shook hands with him and he with them.
'I saw a man from among my Ummah whom the guards of Hell had seized, then his enjoining of what was good and forbidding of what was evil came and seized him from them, and brought him to be with the Angels of mercy.
'I saw man from among my Ummah kneeling down, with a screen between him and Allah. Then his good manners and attitude (adab) came and took him by the hand and brought him before Allah.
'I saw a man from among my Ummah teetering at the edge of Hell, but his hope in Allah came and saved him from that and he moved on.
'I saw a man from among my Ummah who had reached the gates of Paradise but the gates were locked and he was shut out. Then his testimony (Shahadah) that there is no God except Allah came and opened the gates for him and admitted him to Paradise.'"
– A hadith (saying) of the Prophet (pbuh) narrated by Abdur Rahmaan ibn Samurah.
Ya Haqq!


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Optics Planet is having a Sale , and there are a lot of discounts available . Especially if you're looking to upgrade to a bigger scope . Many manufacturers are included in this sale , and it covers 3-9x40's up to NXS's , so pick one and go for it .
I just purchased another Vortex Viper 6-24x50 HS-T , VMR-1 MOA reticle for $562.00 ( Retail is $639.39 ) ,for my new build , and received the normal free shipping . ( 7-10 business days )
This scope is also available with a MRAD reticle if that's your preference. But the HS-T model is a SFP scope. One would have to go up to the HS-T / LR to get the FFP scope , for about $250.00 more in price . But is also being included in the sale pricing .
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It's not exactly breaking news to say that no one knows still what happened to Malaysia Air Flight 370, and no one seems to be getting much closer. In fact, we still aren't sure that what we do supposedly know is correct about the flight. Yesterday a pilot offered a simple explanation for the sharp left turn and the apparent direction of the plane after contact was lost, which then swept the Internet for its simplicity. In Chris Goodfellow's scenario, a fire broke out on the flight killing the communications and forcing a rapid change in the flight to the nearest emergency landing field capable of handling a Boeing 777. The altitude changes can be explained by a last-ditch effort to put out the flames, with the flight then going into a similar dead-stick finale as seen in the death of golfer Payne Stewart.
Not so fast, John Dickerson argues at Slate. While that might cover a few of the known facts about Flight 370's actions, it leaves out critical points — such as course changes that deviated away from that airport:
Goodfellow's account is emotionally compelling, and it is based on some of the most important facts that have been established so far. And it is simple—to a fault. Take other major findings of the investigation into account, and Goodfellow's theory falls apart. For one thing, while it's true that MH370 did turn toward Langkawi and wound up overflying it, whoever was at the controls continued to maneuver after that point as well, turning sharply right at VAMPI waypoint, then left again at GIVAL. Such vigorous navigating would have been impossible for unconscious men.
Goodfellow's theory fails further when one remembers the electronic ping detected by the Inmarsat satellite at 8:11 on the morning of March 8. According to analysis provided by the Malaysian and United States governments, the pings narrowed the location of MH370 at that moment to one of two arcs, one in Central Asia and the other in the southern Indian Ocean. As MH370 flew from its original course toward Langkawi, it was headed toward neither. Without human intervention—which would go against Goodfellow's theory—it simply could not have reached the position we know it attained at 8:11 a.m.
Not only that, but new reports indicate that the first, sharp course change got entered into the navigation system twelve minutes before the last communication from the flight crew:
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An NBC News report that sources familiar with the investigation say data from the plane's communications systems indicate someone manually programmed a turn into the Boeing 777's navigation system 12 minutes before a voice from the cockpit said "all right, good night," to Malaysian air traffic controllers.
If that is what happened, it could mean that whoever was at the controls had already planned a sharp turn to the west — well off the jet's planned Kuala Lumpur-to-Beijing route — before the seemingly routine sign-off.
That turn is why the search for the jet has extended thousands of miles south across the Indian Ocean and thousands of miles north into Central Asia.
The focus on the pilots, therefore, looks at least appropriate. Malaysian officials earlier noted that the captain had a flight simulator program in his home computer, which isn't terribly unusual. Overnight, though, they updated that part of the story to note that some files had been deleted from that system, and officials want to see whether they have any bearing on this mystery:
Malaysia's defense minister said Wednesday that files were recently deleted from the home flight simulator belonging to the pilot aboard the missing Malaysian airliner, while a massive multinational search unfolded for the jet in the southern Indian Ocean.
Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference Wednesday that investigators are trying to retrieve the files. He also said that the pilot, Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, is innocent until proven guilty of any wrongdoing.
It's hardly unusual to delete files from a computer either. If the captain was trying to hide his actions, it would make more sense to get rid of the flight simulator program entirely.
Meanwhile, some of the families of the missing passengers staged a demonstration today over Malaysia's poor handling of the crisis:
Frustration with the search for missing flight MH370 boiled over into chaotic scenes as Chinese relatives were dragged away from journalists.
They were attempting to speak to Chinese journalists outside the daily press conference in Kuala Lumpur.
A BBC reporter was pushed away from the relatives, who were carrying banners criticising the handling of the case.
Teams from 26 countries are trying to find flight MH370, which went missing on 8 March with 239 people on board.
One of the relatives, a middle-aged woman, cried: "They give different messages every day! Where's the flight now? Find our relatives! Find the aircraft!"
Who can blame them? The mystery has been intensified by errors, miscommunications, and a lack of international coordination that didn't get addressed until days into the search. Officials still vacillate on results of their investigation, creating more and more confusion. We still aren't even sure which direction to look, but the longer this goes without any sign of the passengers, crew, or potential malefactors becoming visible, the worse this looks.


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State vs. State: The Toledo War
The History of Michigan's Own War
When the Toledo War took place in 1835 and 1836 between Michigan and Ohio, the conflict over the Michigan-Ohio Border was already nearly fifty years old. From what essentially boils down to a misunderstanding, both Michigan and Ohio claimed a certain 468-sq-mile piece of territory, in which lies what we now know as Toledo, Ohio. In 1835, this cold conflict came to a head when both Michigan and Ohio, each spurred on by the other, tried to pass official legislation claiming the territory under their governing authorities. At the time this war took place, Ohio was already a state, while Michigan was merely a territory. In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance had been passed, providing for the division of the Northwest Territory into states by extending "an east and west line drawn through the southerly or extreme end of Lake Michigan." The problem developed because Michigan and Ohio interpreted that line differently. Michigan citizens believed that Toledo belonged in their state; Ohioans believed Toledo was theirs.
The bloodless battle over the disputed "Toledo Strip" finally began in April 1835. Raids continued through the summer of 1835. Eventually, in December 1836, a compromise was accepted by Michigan, which gave Toledo and the disputed territory to Ohio and the western Upper Peninsula to Michigan. Acceptance of this compromise was necessary before Michigan could enter the Union. On January 26, 1837, President Andrew Jackson signed the legislation that made Michigan a state.
Comprehending the Process
Studying the Toledo War will help students to understand the process of becoming a state, including gains, losses, pros, cons, and the compromise that is/was needed in order to become official, and of course students will be much more knowledgeable on Michigan history after studying this war.
Key Components: You Will Need…
Worksheet: The Toledo Strip [PDF]; pencil, and paper;
Powerpoint: ToledoWar [ppt]
Michigan Mitten: The Toledo War
Setting the Scene
Hand out the Michigan Boundaries & Toledo Strip map (pdf under Materials Needed). Display the questions for discussion on the board prior to and during the lesson. Show the powerpoint presentation, visually explaining the territories that surrounded Michigan and how those territories changed over time. Read Michigan Mitten: The Toledo War with students so they can gain an understanding of the Toledo War. Following the presentation, ask students to think about the information they were presented and initiate a class discussion on the questions from below.
Talk About It: Discussion Questions
- What were some of the natural resources gained by adding the western Upper Peninsula to the state of Michigan? Were people aware of these resources in 1837?
- Find Toledo on a map of Ohio. For which Great Lake, bay and river is it a port? (Lake Erie, Maumee Bay, Maumee River) How would having Toledo have helped Michigan's trade with states south of the city?
- How would Ohio have fared if Michigan had been given the Toledo strip?
- Compromise: The settlement of an argument by mutual concessions
- Dispute: An argument, a controversy, a difference of opinion; often relating to facts
- Legislation: Law, or a group of laws that have been/are enacted
- Ordinance: Law: public regulation for or against something
At the Michigan Historical Museum
Look at the display entitled "The Great Toledo War." Slide the **** to see the areas of land affected by the resolution of the "war."
Enter the "Statehood" gallery to see what else needed to be done in order for Michigan to become a state.
Find Out More
These websites have a bounty of further information on the Toledo War. In order to teach this lesson, both teacher and students should be well familiar with the events that led up to and followed the actual war.
OhioHistoryCentral.org; The Toledo War
Dept. of Military & Veterans' Affairs; The Toledo War
Michigan Social Studies Curriculum Content Standards
This lesson presents an opportunity to address, in part, these standards:
- SOC.II.3. Location, Movement, and Connections. All students will describe, compare, and explain the locations and characteristics of economic activities, trade, political activities, migration, information flow, and the interrelationships among them.
- SOC.II.4. Regions, Patterns, and Processes. All students will describe and compare characteristics of ecosystems, states, regions, countries, major world regions, and patterns and explain the processes that created them.
- SOC.IV.5. Trade. All students will describe how trade generates economic development and interdependence and analyze the resulting challenges and benefits for individuals, producers, and government.
- Baker, Patricia J. (1986). Stevens Thomson Mason. Great Lakes Informant, Series 1, Number 5. Lansing, MI: Michigan Department of State, History Division.
- George, Sister Mary Karl (n.d.). The Rise and Fall of Toledo, Michigan. Lansing, MI: Michigan Department of State, History Division.
- Grimm, Joe, Editor (1987). Michigan Voices, Our State's History in the Words of the People Who Lived It. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press (pages 44-47).
- Stapler, Harry (1985). Pioneers of Forest and City, A History of Michigan for Young People. Lansing, MI: Michigan Department of State, Bureau of History (pages 79-80).
- Without the "Toledo War," do you think Michigan would have received the western Upper Peninsula? Why or why not?
One Response to State vs. State: The Toledo War
Akash November 28, 2017 at 2:30 pm
My friends and I are learning about the Toledo War, and we stumbled upon this site. We are working on a project for National History Day. It would be amazing if you could give us an email interview about the Toledo war.
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Want to present 3 main ideas why cruises vs. hotel. 1. On a cruise it is a contained environment so your forced to interact more. 2. makes the meeting and idea of the meeting more exciting by visiting different locations. 3. it can cost up to 30% less to host a meeting on a cruise ship than a hotel. So getting clients to call, to be able to explain that is our number one priority.
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A FREQUENCY-BASED MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF BINOCULAR COMPLEX CELL RESPONSES by Benjamin L. Raskob A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Benjamin L. Raskob
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|A FREQUENCY-BASED MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF BINOCULAR COMPLEX CELL RESPONSES by Benjamin L. Raskob A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Benjamin L. Raskob


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The June 26 issue of Civil War Emancipation discussed an unintentional defect of the Contraband of War policy–that it only gave refuge to slaves of disloyal owners, while slaves of both loyal and disloyal owners wanted to be free. The policy's weakness was illustrated in late June 1861, when George, the slave of a Rockville, Maryland woman, fled her custody and was allegedly taken in by Ohio troops. As the Ohio soldiers were part of Irvin McDowell's Army of Northeastern Virginia, McDowell ordered Brig. Gen. Robert C. Schenck, a brigade commander in Daniel Tyler's division, to investigate.
There was silence on the matter until July 5, when commander of the 1st Ohio Infantry, Col. Alexander M. McCook wrote the Assistant Adjutant of Schenck's brigade, Donn Piatt. His letter stated:
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the letters from the Headquarters of the Army relative to a runaway negro from Montgomery County, Md., purporting to belong to Mrs. Caroline Noland, of said county. Mrs. Noland says "by the interference of soldiers which seemed without control they (my sons) were not permitted to reclaim my negro." This piece of information as she was not here herself of course she obtained from her sons. It is absolutely and unqualifiedly false. The officer of the day was sent through camp with the Messrs. Noland. No violence was offered them nor threats uttered save by myself which will be explained further on. The Messrs. Noland were especially taken through the company quarters where one of them thought he had seen the negro in question the day before and then were returned to headquarters and expressed themselves satisfied that their negro was not in my camp. I then sent them with the officer of the day to the camp of the Second Ohio when a like protection was given them.
Mr. Noland or a man named Sergeant Noland, a messenger in the War Department, handed me a letter from Col. E. D. Townsend, assistant adjutant-general, U. S. Army, in which Colonel Townsend states "from Mr. Noland's account the Ohio troops have been practicing a little of the abolition system in protecting runaways." I was very much surprised to hear such sentiments expressed by the chief of staff about my brave men. I then told the Messrs. Noland that the man who gave Colonel T. such information stated what was false and that if he was the person I would have no hesitancy in marching him out of camp. Sergeant Noland denied in the presence of my entire staff that he had ever given Colonel Townsend any such information; that he, Colonel T., was in no manner authorized to make such a statement; and more than that had he known what the contents of the letter was he would not have delivered it. I then told Sergeant Noland that he might have been mistaken about having seen his negro in my camp; that even if he had the negro might have been in the camp temporarily. I then told him to go to the Connecticut camps but he did not go.
The same day Major Bartholomew, of the District militia, accompanied by a friend came into my camp on a similar errand. I extended to him the same protection. He saw the negro that was represented to be the property of his friend but said he was mistaken and acknowledged that he had been misinformed and thanked me for my attention and left the camp. I do not believe Mrs. Noland has a negro in this camp and from the lying propensities of her sons I am now in doubt if she ever owned a negro. I inclose a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Parrott on same case. I know nothing of Mrs. Howard's negro.
Whether the slave George actually was in the camp of 1st Ohio Infantry is unknown from Col. McCook's letter and not important historically. But from the last paragraph it is clear that even in the earliest months of the war, African Americans found ways to attach themselves to the Union army. No doubt, most if all not all of them were slaves, so even if these Ohio troops were not "practicing a little of the abolition system in protecting runaways," clearly the army as a whole already was effectively acting as abolitionists (even if they did not intend so), and not just for the slaves of disloyal owners, but also for those of presumably loyal owners like Caroline Noland. Many soldiers and officers found escaped slaves could provide all manner of useful services they were loath to do without. Likewise, just as white Northerners had found enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act distasteful at home in the 185os, their feelings had not changed in the 1860s as they moved into slave territory as soldiers. Alexander McCook's hostility to the Noland family in his letter clearly manifests that attitude. It would have much to do with the role of the Union army in undermining the slave system early in the Civil War. While they were ready to fight for Union, they did not see slave catching as part of that mission.
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The Time Is At Hand!Monday, June 30th, 2008
Comic Books were introduced to the American public in the early 20th century. Since then they have been reinvented countless times. Now they have evolved once more, but this instance, it's a quantum leap! We have arrived on new shores, the new world of the Information Age has just gotten underway. The Industrial Age is over. Comic books, magazines, and news papers are being replaced by web sites at an astonishing rate as we enter into the 21st century. Manual distribution and limited supply are no longer an issue, digital content is available to anyone with a computer and a connection to the World Wide Web. No need to worry about missing an issue of your favorite comic book anymore. No chance of being turned down by the manager of the local comic shop who won't order that obscure title you been anxious to snag onto. Now you can get it online right on your personal computer.
Many comics can not only be browsed with your favorite web browser, many are available to be downloaded in pdf files to be opened with a pdf reader program such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and even printed in full color on your very own Ink Jet printer. Other online comics have limited run old style printed companion issues or collected Trade Paperback volumes for sale OR print on demand digital printed copies available for ordering. T-shirts, mouse pads, calendars and all manner of merchandise are often also available directly from the comic creators.
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