text: It has been nearly 20 years since the Soviet Union dissolved, but that hasn't stopped some Russians from using an Internet domain called .su, which stands for the Soviet Union.The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has been trying to get it shut down, but to no avail. Jessica Golloher has the details from Moscow. The Soviet Union doesn't really conjure up a warm and fuzzy feeling for many. Some of the highlights include banishment to Siberia, gulags, famine, Stalin, the KGB and the complete lockdown of an entire country. But, there's apparently still nostalgia for the good ol' USSR. People like middle-aged business owner Elena Arzumanyan don't want their world wide web addresses to end in dot-com or �.ru,� Russia's official address, but in �.su� � as in the Soviet Union. �Times were different from what we have now,� she said. �People, were more kind, you know, thinking about the country and not their own money. And maybe it will be interesting for our clients that we have this kind of domain. It is something special.� It's been nearly 20 years since the Soviet Union dissolved, but that hasn't stopped some Russians from using an Internet domain called �.su,� which stands for the Soviet Union. The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has been trying to get it shut down, but to no avail. Political analyst Dmitri Trenin said nostalgia for the USSR isn't as uncommon as you might think. �Frankly, I think that there are a lot of people here are still beholden to the the Soviet Union in so many ways,�Trenin said. �It seems to be a symbol of great power. It seems to be a symbol of superiority. Uh, it may be a symbol of those who want to reverse things a little bit in some areas.� It seems that more than 80 thousand people and organizations would like some sort of a time machine. They include businessmen and women, youth groups, bloggers and Soviet sentimentalists. One of the most famous groups on �.su� is the Kremlin-backed Nashi youth organization. The nationalistic group uses Soviet-era propaganda on it's website, www.nashi.su to try and recruit new members. Their youth leaders are even called commissars. Despite the fact that the �.su� domain seems to be relatively popular here in the motherland, not everybody is pleased about it. Armen Azmeniah thinks it's a stupid, and not to mention scary, and he said he hopes it will eventually go away. �I'm not a follower of the trend that the Soviet Union was good. I remember. I'm not a fan of that time. People need to find new trends.� Meanwhile, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers � commonly known as ICANN � has been trying to phase out the domain for quite sometime. Chris Disspain, chair of the Country Code Name Supporting Organization, a part of ICANN, said, �the problem is that there is currently no policy to deal with retirement. And so it tends to get dealt with, at the moment, as best it can.� And, Disspain said, since there is no cut and dry rulebook for domain retirement, other authorities would have to get involved and that could get ugly, especially if people are hanging on to the �.su� domain name for nationalistic reasons. �The United States government has oversight (over domain name designations). So the concept that you would have, in a highly charged political environment, what could be perceived as the US government removing something out of the root, is challenging to say the least,� he said. So for now, �.su� will be allowed to flourish, at least for the immediate future. It should also be noted that the Russian organization in charge of the country's domain name isn't really helping matters. The organization actually slashed the fee to register �.su� to about 25 dollars, a sixth of the former price; no real incentive there to switch to the new �.ru�.


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Archive for Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Maple Leaf time
Fall festival this weekend in Baldwin City
October 13, 2010
Every fall, on the third weekend in October, thousands of people descend on Baldwin City in southern Douglas County for the annual Maple Leaf Festival, billed as the area's largest fall family festival. The festival's official Web site and committee provides answers to questions about the event.
Q: When was the first Maple Leaf Festival?
A: Started in 1958, the Maple Leaf Festival began as a community event inspired by Dr. Ivan Boyd, a biology professor at Baker University.
Q: Why is the festival on the third weekend in October
A: Boyd noted that the third weekend in October was the optimum time to view the changing colors of the Maple Leaves in the area and the perfect time to celebrate the successful harvest.
Q: One of my favorite activities at the Maple Leaf Festival is viewing all of the various items on sale at the booths that line the streets around Baldwin City. What can you tell me about the booths?
A: The Maple Leaf Festival prides itself on offering a wide variety of handmade crafts from across the country. Booths line the main streets of town, Eighth and High, and populate the local fire house. Craft booths (both indoor and outdoor) are open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Arts and crafts booth items are restricted to hand-made arts and crafts only.
Q: What time and where is the parade?
A: The parade begins at 11 a.m. at the corner of Third and High streets and heads west down High Street. There, it will turn north on Sixth Street and continue to the corner of Sixth and Chapel.
Q: Besides putting on the festival, what else does the festival committee do?
A: When the festival is over, the Maple Leaf Festival Committee continues to enrich the lives of the Baldwin City community. Two scholarships are offered yearly as well as donations to local educational institutions and non-profit organizations to enhance arts, education and community pride.
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This is my last project - 4.4-4.8kW 2-phase Type1 portable electric car charger at your home - without special 32A power lines...
It uses 3phase power connection to generate one "superphase" and charge Type1 cars (Leaf). 2 phases are loaded equally. It also has a special mode for battery safe Leaf charging - read below.
If you have Type1 EV Car (like US Tesla, Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV etc) and 3-phase power in your garage, parking, home - this charger will accelerate your charging speed more than twice!
...and still can be used as normal 230V 10A charger.
Project page: http://evtun.com/type1-portable-charger.html
Crowdfunding: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/acce ... electric#/
Typical speeds at home:
Tesla - 21-22 km/h ,(4,8 kW, 20A)
Outlander PHEV - 3,6 kW (factory onboard charger limits at 14 A),
Nissan Leaf - (4,8 kW, 20A)
***** STORY - why I developed this charger, why it is really something new ******
Me & my Wife own two EV cars (Outlander PHEV and Nissan Leaf) and I'm electric car tuner (http://evtun.com). Main problem I have noticed while charging our EV cars at home is that we have 3-phase connection at home, but limited to 14,5A per phase (this is very common in Europe in small houses).
If you want to charge your EV car quicker, fuses will go off. 10A charger is a real maximum.
I decided to solve this in one step – intelligent 2-phase to "superphase" converter, that loads two phases equally. Also it monitors current and if you switch on something loading one of phases used, it will immediately reduce speed of charging of car to avoid fuses to react.
- My charger uses clever conversion from 230V phases to 240V "superphase" - this helps with another 5% acceleration because EV cars limit current and accept any voltage up to 260V.
- Beside of that, that my charger monitors phases load and reduces speed automatically if needed, you can also set basic speed as 8A (night charging), 16A (standard), 20A (fast).
- Z-wave is added, you can integrate charger with your home network.
- Charger uses profiled charging and voltage for cars with known issues or with extra capabilities:
1. Outlander PHEV – it blocks prebalancing (factory charger slows down to almost 1A, for 25 minutes if battery was empty) so Outlander charges full 3.6 kW every hour, including first hour (without that trick – 2.2 kW only within first hour). Superphase + blocking of prebalancing double the speed of factory 10A charger.
2. Nissan Leaf – charger charges it to 90% SOC, then stops, or 90% SOC, stops for 15 min to cool battery down and then – finishes charging (effectively this is faster and more safe for battery).
- I want to add bluetooth and RFID access (with cards or RFID tokens) and application to control more sophisticated parameters of charging / cooling battery.
- Charger will have detacheable 400V cable, so you may have more cables, for 230V or for 400V for instance if you take charger with you


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"When a man is tired of False Bay, he is tired of life; for there is in False Bay all that life can afford": Adapted from Samuel Johnson's description of London in 1777.
Why, however much I travel and dive in exotic locations, do I love to return to the often cold and murky waters of False Bay? It is a place with which I never tire. It may be the fact that I learnt to dive there many years ago or the amazing reef biodiversity or the fact that I can see anything there from white sharks, dolphins, seals and whales to a baitball as intense as any to be seen on the famous Natal Sardine Run. The kelp forests, that dominate the western shore of the Bay, support their own unique and complex ecosystems. Here may be found large sevengill sharks or small catsharks that roll into a ball, putting their tails over their eyes when held by a diver, thereby getting the local name of "skaamhaai" or "shyshark".
The Benguela Current, classified as a large marine ecosystem, is one of the most strongly wind driven coastal upwelling systems known.


text: One thousand government workers were evacuated, but there were no injuries reported during yesterday's fire in the Old Executive Office Building, which apparently started in Dick Cheney's ceremonial office. Reports say the cause of the fire is still under investigation. The Old Executive Office Building (one of my favorite buildings in Washington, which someone renamed the Eisenhower Executive Office building, when I wasn't paying attention) faces the West Wing and is part of the White House complex. A story today in time.com says one reason there have been few serious fires in the White House is because there are always people there, so smoke is not about to go unnoticed. That makes sense, but the story also says "a serious fire detection system was installed in [the White House in] 1965. And it's very sensitive. When a sensor detects smoke, a warning goes off in the Secret Service's control center in the White House." A serious 60s fire detection system? That system may be Mod, but not modern. Let's hope the fire marshal's paying attention and it's been updated a few times since Lyndon Johnson was president.


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Spinach, Bacon and Swiss Quiche
Quiche tends to get a bad wrap. Heck, even I wasn't a fan of quiche, until I tried this recipe. Imagine a flavorful, creamy quiche filled with small pockets of cream cheese, bacon and Swiss. To describe it in one word: Heavenly. I have made this recipe, no joke, about 1-2 times a month for the past few months. I think I may be addicted.
If you think you can handle the temptation, this would be a perfect dish to take for a brunch or breakfast get together. I try to save as much time as I can, so I utilize pre-made deep dish pie crusts.
Note: If you happen to buy regular pie crusts and not deep dish, you can split the filling between two regular pie crusts. In that situation you might a tad more Swiss cheese or cream cheese if the filling is a little low.
Check out Sally's post for very detailed instructions and pictures.
Spinach, Bacon and Swiss Quiche
Makes one deep dish pie
- 1 Frozen Deep Dish Pie Crust
- 10 strip bacon, fried and crumbled
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 c. Heavy Whipping Cream
- 1/2 c. Grated Fresh Parmesan Cheese
- 1 c. Shredded Swiss Cheese
- 10 ounce box frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed thoroughly
- 3 ounces cream cheese, chilled and cut into little cubes or use a small measuring spoon to scoop out small amounts
1. In a bowl, combine the eggs and heavy whipping cream until thoroughly combined. Add the Swiss, Parmesan cheese, and spinach, separating the spinach a bit as you add it so it is easier to combine. Stir until incorporated.
2. Very gently add the cream cheese to the quiche mixture and stir just a bit. Be very gentle so the cream cheese doesn't break apart. Pour into deep dish pie shell.
3. Bake in a preheated oven at 350-f degrees for 45 minutes, checking at 40 minutes for doneness. The middle of the quiche should not jiggle much when you gently shake it when it is done.
4. Let rest for 30 minutes before you cut into it or it may release the liquids. Serve immediately at room temperature (after it has rested), or store in the fridge and reheat in the microwave.
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What is a Forbearance?
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Forbearance reduces your monthly mortgage payment—or suspends it completely—during the forbearance period. If you qualify for forbearance, you and your mortgage company will discuss the forbearance terms:
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Politics, privilege and promotion
At the conclusion of a successful scout sniper operation in Afghanistan's Helmand province, Marine officers ordered personnel in the field to bring the remains of three dead insurgents back to base. Maj. James B. Conway and Maj. Edmund Clayton greeted a 7-ton truck carrying the body bags, unloaded them and inspected their contents.
The bodies were punctured with gunshot wounds, but nothing looked out of the ordinary considering the operation, Clayton observed. The officers sent the remains along to other Marines so biometric information could be collected for intelligence purposes, and they moved on to other work.
That description of events is contained in previously classified court testimony and sworn statements connected to the Marine Corps' investigation into the July 27, 2011, incident, in which scout snipers with 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., shot video of themselves urinating on those dead insurgents.
Neither officer is accused of wrongdoing, and both said they did not know Marines had soiled the dead men's bodies.
The incident mushroomed into an international scandal in January 2012, after the unit returned from theater, when a video showing the scout snipers urinating on the bodies was posted on YouTube, the video-sharing website. A sweeping investigation of the battalion was conducted, and at least eight Marines have been disciplined as a result, with two courts-martial pending.
The case captured the attention of some of the Marine Corps' most senior leaders.But descriptions of the events by Conway and Claytondo not matchthe description shared among top officers. In addition, an Inspector General complaint alleges that Commandant Gen. Jim Amos, along with officers and civilian lawyers close to the commandant, inappropriately sought to conceal evidence; influence who would be punished and how; and insulate Conway, the son of the Corps' previous commandant, from the controversial case.
At its heart, the situation raises a fundamental question about fairness: If an officer with powerful family members is connected to a scandal, will he be treated the same as anyone else in the same position?
Friends in high places
Conway and Clayton made their statements to investigators within days of the video hitting YouTube. Buta May 31, 2012, position paper sent to Commandant Gen. Jim Amos and 10 other two-, three- and four-star generals by then-Lt. Gen. John "Jay" Paxton states that Conway, whose father is retired Gen. James T. Conway, had no contact with the scout snipers. That finding allowed the generals to cut him loose from administrative hold, clearing the way for his promotion to lieutenant colonel and a follow-on assignment as commander of 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, in Hawaii— even as careers languished for other Marines in Conway's former battalion who, like Conway, were not facing charges.
"There are neither facts, evidence, nor opinions that these two officers were aware of the urination incident nor the photography of it," wrote Paxton, who at the time oversaw 3/2 as commander of II Marine Expeditionary Force. He was promoted to four-star general in December and made assistant commandant, Amos' No. 2 at Marine Corps headquarters.
"In addition," Paxton continued, "the scope of their responsibilities, geographic location and battlefield circulation did not put them in contact with or have influence over the Scout Sniper Team."
That's where Paxton's version of events deviates from Conway's.
Conway's Jan. 18, 2012, handwritten, signed statement to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service was obtained by Marine Corps Times on May 22 following publication of an investigation that detailed this and other allegations contained in a complaint filed by a Marine officer to the Defense Department Inspector General. Conway told investigators he was not aware the scout snipers had urinated on the insurgents, but that he watched the operation that day from a combat operations center in Helmand's Musa Qala district. He took personal interest in the scout sniper platoon, and convinced the battalion commander, Lt. Col. Christopher Dixon, to expand its size before the unit deployed in order to enhance the battalion's lethality, Conway told investigators.
Attempts to reach Conway were unsuccessful. He did not respond to requests for comment, but a Marine spokesman said Conway is aware of them.
Dixon, meanwhile, who was Conway's battalion CO, has remained in limbo. Although further removed from the snipers than Conway at the time — Dixon was focusing on an entirely different area for much of the deployment — his promotion to colonel and his seat at a prestigious top-level school assignment with the Justice Department remain on hold pending conclusion of the remaining court cases.
He, too, declined to comment.
Marine officials declined todiscuss the disparity in how Conway and Dixon have been treated, citing a desire to "preserve the integrity of the investigations and to ensure fair and impartial legal proceedings," according to Marine Corps headquarters in a prepared response to questions from Marine Corps Times.
The complaint
The IG complaint was filed by Maj. James Weirick, a judge advocate assigned to Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Va., which has overseen the Corps' prosecution of cases stemming from the urination video. Weirick alleges widespread wrongdoing, including efforts by Amos, or others acting on his behalf, to manipulate the legal processto ensure harsh punishments, and to protect the Corps from further embarrassment by ordering the illegal classification of videos and interviews related to the investigation.
His complaint also alleges Amos may have "engaged in selective prosecution in the case" as a favor to his predecessor as commandant,Conway's father.
It's a sensitive issue in the Corps, where there is a rich legacy of senior officers whose children go on to serve and, like their fathers, rise through the officer ranks. Prominent examples include the late Lt. Gen. Victor "Brute" Krulak, Lt. Gen. Ron Christmas and Gen. Carl Mundy, the 30th commandant. In Krulak's case, his son Charles became the 31st commandant.
Gen.Conway has two sons currently serving: Lt. Col. James Brandon Conway and Maj. Adam Scott Conway, operations officer at Marine Special Operations Regiment, out of Camp Lejeune. The retired commandant's daughter, Samantha, is married to a Cobra helicopter pilot, according to a military news release. The older son goes by his middle name, Brandon, according to two Marines who know him.
As a staff judge advocate with Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Weirick provides legal advice to Lt. Gen. Richard Mills, its commanding general and the convening authority for the scout sniper cases. His complaint specifically names Amos and Gen. Joseph Dunford, who was assistant commandant until December and is now the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. It also names Maj. Gen. Vaughn Ary, the commandant's top uniformed lawyer; Col. Joseph Bowe, his deputy staff judge advocate; and two civilian lawyers who have senior legal counsel positions with Amos, Robert Hogue and Peter Delorier.
"I do not bring this complaint lightly," Weirick wrote before signing his complaint. "This has weighed on me for some time. I am sad for the Corps and the military-justice system."
The investigation
The battalion deployed from February to August 2011, earning praise from the top commander in the region at the time, then-Maj. Gen. John Toolan, who was impressed bythe scout snipers' effectiveness. They are credited with combining to kill at least 200 insurgents in Musa Qala and Now Zad, in part by pairing with Marines in M1A1 Abrams tanks and exploiting their powerful optics to identify insurgents at long ranges.
After the video came to light, the service launched an investigation headed by Lt. Gen. Steven Hummer, thencommander of Marine Corps Forces Reserve. Weirick's IG complaint alleges the investigation, along with a number of other videos showing the scout snipers misbehaving, was classified in February 2012 without justification, as required by law. That occurred, the complaint says, despite protests by Mills' legal advisersat Quantico.
Weirick says in the complaint that after Lt. Gen. Richard Tryon, deputy commandant for plans, policies and operations, signed a memorandum classifying the videos and investigation, he petitioned a classification authority outside the Marine Corps. Army Maj. Gen. Karl Horst, chief of staff at U.S. Central Command, reviewed the investigation and the videos and "properly declassified" them in June 2012, Weirick's report claims.
Marine Corps Times independently obtained a number of the now-unclassified statements compiled during that investigation. They show that Dixon, Conway, Clayton and a number of other Marines in 3/2 were interviewed, and that many of them expressed embarrassment and surprise at the urination incident. They indicated that the snipers had been respected and viewed assquared-away.
Dixon told investigators that when he spent time with his scout snipers downrange, he did not have the sense they were losing professionalism, according to a summary of his sworn interview. Rather, they showed good judgment, maturity and discipline, he said. A number of the battalion's leaders, including Conway, Sgt. Maj. Dennis Downing and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Anthony Penwell, the unit's gunner, circulated the battlefield, he said, allowingthem opportunities to observe the scout sniper platoon.
After returning from Afghanistan — but before the video was published online — Conway received the Bronze Star for meritorious service during the deployment. His award citation credits him with performing "all duties of the Executive Officer in a superior fashion," and overseeing operations in Musa Qala district while Dixon focused on neighboring Now Zad, where 3/2 Marines also operated.
"His greatest contribution was his ability to act as the Battalion Commander for extended periods and assume command and control of the Musa Qal'eh [Musa Qala] District, which encompasses two-thirds of the battalion's combat power," the citation said of Conway. "The result allowed the Battalion Commander to focus on the failing governance of Now Zad District in order to improve Afghan performance, preparing it for transition to full Afghan control."
The urination video was shot in Sandala, a village in Musa Qala. Conway's handwritten statement says he saw nothing unusual the day it was recorded.
"We did a cursory inspection and saw nothing out of the ordinary," Conway's statement says. "After this event, I did not hear of any desecration to the bodies, nor have I ever heard of such a thing on any operation 3/2 conducted."
Clayton, the operations officer, told investigators he discussed the snipers' operations with Dixon more and more as the deployment wore on, and that Downing considered them special. They had name and face recognition at the battalion level, especially as their number of kills increased, Clayton said. He declined to comment for this story, saying he didn't want to compromise the investigation.
The brass
After the scandal erupted,dozens of Marines in the battalion had their promotions and follow-on assignments put on hold as the investigation unfolded, according to emails between general officers obtained by Marine Corps Times independent of Weirick's complaint.
That caught the attention of senior leadership. An email from Paxton to Amos, to which he attached his May 2012 position paper, says the 3/2 cases came up at the Executive Offsite, a quarterly meeting that includes three- and four-star generals and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Mike Barrett. They recommended unanimously to "grant well supported exceptions" to Conway and another officer, then-1st Lt. Edward Leslie, who commanded the battalion's 81mm mortar platoon, but not others in battalion leadership.
In his email, Paxton told the commandant "your guidance after the EOS was clear and it was communicated and was being executed." It was written May 31, 2012, about a weekafter Conway's name was published on a June 2012 officer promotion list. At the time, Conway was still under an administrative hold preventing his promotion.
Paxton appears apologetic in addressing Amos.
"In no way was there ever intent to deviate from your guidance or present a fait accompli on any individual or case," Paxton's email said. "… Per the recommendations proffered in the attachment please know that all of us are united and convinced that these [courses of action] are best for our Corps as an institution, for you as our Commandant, and for all individuals in the proper execution of due diligence and justice."
Most of the Corps' top officials are copied on the email, including Dunford, Hummer, Toolan, Ary, Hogue and Mills. Also copied were Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, whom Amos replaced as convening authority in the urination cases;Robert Milstead, deputy commandant for manpower and reserve affairs; now-retired Lt. Gen. Dennis Hejlik, then the commander of Marine Corps Forces Command; Maj. Gen. L. Walter Miller, who served under Paxton as commander of II MEF (Forward.); and Maj. Gen. Angela Salinas, director of the Manpower Management Division of Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
Paxton'sposition paper included a "Summary of CMC Action," referring to the commandant of the Marine Corps, and detailed how each case would be handled. It left room for Amos to approve or disapprove, and to leave comments about each recommendation.
Ary responded days later, saying the commandant did not want to make himself part of the decision-making process. He wanted the necessary actions to be taken care of by Paxton and Mills, the convening authority in the ongoing criminal cases.
"No sweat; we'll work through it," Paxton responded. "Think I'm very clear on CMC intent."?
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WASHINGTON – This Earth Week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is empowering Americans across the country to act on climate change through simple actions to reduce carbon pollution in their daily lives.
Across the country, EPA will be holding events to talk about common-sense action to reduce carbon pollution and promote a cleaner energy economy while ensuring that all Americans have the information they need to act on climate change.
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On April 22nd Region 1 Administrator Curt Spalding will join Administrator McCarthy for an Earth Day event at the New England Aquarium with U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Aquarium President & CEO Bud Ris, the Massachusetts Congressional delegation, and teens from the Aquarium's three youth programs.
On April 22nd, Region 1 staff will honor individuals and groups for their environmental work at the annual Environmental Merit Awards at Faneuil Hall in Boston.
Region 2:
On April 22nd, Region 2 Administrator Judith A. Enck will join Brooklyn, New York Borough President Eric Adams and Emily Maxwell of The Nature Conservancy to promote the EPA Earth Day #natureselfie photo project in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
On April 23rd, Region 2 Administrator Judith A. Enck will host the recipients of the region's Environmental Quality Awards, presented annually to individuals and organizations that have contributed significantly to protecting the environment during the past year. The region will also recognize the winner of the President's Environmental Youth Award.
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On April 22nd, Region 3 Administrator Shawn Garvin will speak at a press conference with state and local officials to highlight climate change issues and the proposed Waters of the United States rule in Wilmington, DE.
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On April 22nd, Region 4 Administrator Heather McTeer Toney and staff will celebrate Earth Day with participating in a cleanup effort at the Proctor Creek in Atlanta, GA from 12:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
On April 22nd, EPA's Office of Research and Development staff will host the 4th annual Earth Day Science Day at Bethesda Elementary, Durham, NC.
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On April 22nd, Region 6 Administrator Ron Curry and EPA staff will co-host an Earth Day webcast with NASA's Digital Learning Network from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CST. This year's theme is Climate Change and will feature interactive data from satellites on a high-definition Climate Simulation hyperwall.
On April 22nd, EPA's National Risk Management Research Laboratory will host the 10th Annual Earth Day Waterfest at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. From 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST, 4th through 6th grade students will visit and learn about water quality.
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On April 22nd, Region 8 Administrator Shawn McGrath will deliver remarks at the National Center for Atmospheric Research reception. He will speak about scientific integrity, climate adaptation and resilience, and the National Drought Resilience Partnership, as a front-door for communities in need of help.
On April 22nd, Region 8 staff will host Earth Day Denver 2014 from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. MDT at the Wellington Webb building in Denver, CO.
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On April 22nd, Region 9 Administrator Jared Blumenfeld and EPA staff will hold an event with Congressman George Miller (CA-11) to announce the awarding of nearly $5 million to five projects aimed at restoring water quality and wetlands throughout the San Francisco Bay watershed. The event will specifically highlight work at Breuner Marsh in Richmond, CA.
On April 22nd, Region 9 will issue a press release announcing the opening of the nomination period for Region 9's annual environmental awards, which recognize environmental heroes in the Pacific Southwest. Past winners have included scientists, citizen activists, students, universities, tribes, cities, non-profits and businesses. Approximately 6 to 9 winners will be announced this fall.
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On April 22nd, Region 10 Administrator Dennis McLerran and EPA staff are partnering with the Seattle chapter of Surfrider Foundation and Seattle Parks & Recreation to clean up Golden Gardens Beach & Park in the Ballard area of Seattle.
On April 22nd, Region 10 staff from EPA's Alaska Operations Office will volunteer at the Alaska Botanical Gardens at 1:00 p.m. UTC to help get the garden beds ready.
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It's a freezing afternoon in late March, and I'm standing in a dark abandoned warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn, with an excitable architect. A few stories below us, construction workers are drilling and hammering away, causing the old wood floors to rattle. My hard hat doesn't fit quite right.
The architect, Jay Valgora, isn't fazed. He's standing at the forefront of our tour group, talking animatedly about how excited he is to carry out the reconstruction of Empire Stores, a side-by-side collection of massive, dark red brick buildings ominously presiding over Water Street. Abandoned since the 1950s, the historic landmark, once it's refurbished, is being billed as New York's next big tech and business epicenter–a pulsing slice of San Francisco on the other side of the East River. Valgora hopes to open for business in the fall of 2015.
At the moment, though, its insides are hollow and dusty, the exterior shuttered and dilapidated. Our group is having a hard time staying warm.
"Open your hand," says Valgora, a tall, elegantly disheveled creative-type who thinks fast, talks faster, and still chooses his words with precision. I can see the frost from his breath. He kneels, picks something small off the ground, and drops it in my palm. It's a coffee bean. "These beans," he says, beaming, "are all over a century old."
With the last of the seven buildings completed in 1885, all 300,000-square-feet of these four- to five-story warehouses were once used to store, pack, and ship coffee. Chutes, slides, and mechanical pulley systems cut through the middle of the floor plan, as if magically transposed from a steampunk nerd's imagination. All told, the cavernous interior is a haunting relic of old-timey Brooklyn.
Valgora's enthusiasm for the renovation seems to inoculate him against the cold. He tells me he first fell in love with the Civil War-era space 20 years ago, when he moved to New York from London. "This area was terrible then," he recalls. "At that point there were bodies washing up on the river front, and the street was full of abandoned cars." In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Empire Stores provided a physical buffer between the criminal thrum of the piers and the lives of everyday Brooklynites. Now it's a shuttered monolith, sandwiched between an enormous carousel and a trendy art gallery.
"I went to a party in a warehouse near here, where people were living on one floor and artists were on another one," Valgora recalls. "So I came to a party, and walked to the waterfront, and walked in front of these buildings, which were all boarded up and sealed off. It was literally my first week in New York. I said, 'This is the most amazing neighborhood. I wonder if something's ever going to come of it.'"
In March of 2013, Brooklyn Bridge Park issued a call for proposals to rejuvenate the abandoned site, with one caveat: To preserve the historic integrity of the buildings. (A similar competition had fallen through a decade earlier.) One architecture firm submitted a proposal to convert Empire Stores into a multi-hyphenate boxing museum, sports center, and shopping center. (Think: Chelsea Piers.) Another group entered the competition with plans to transform the roof of Empire Stores into an urban farm.
Valgora's vision was ambitious: His firm, Studio V, proposed to build a sprawling business and retail hub where tech firms could sow their Brooklyn roots. The proposal aimed to build something of a Silicon Valley tech campus, engendering a technology-driven culture of collaboration and creativity. Retail stores, bars, restaurants, and a history museum devoted to coffee will occupy the rest of the real estate, which, if all goes according to plan, should re-infuse the space with new life. "The original building had shutters and slides that you were always opening and closing," Valgora tells me. "There was this kind of life to it. The architecture wasn't static. I want to bring back this feeling."
In many ways, the $150 million renovation isn't unlike James Corner's High Line in Manhattan–a little bit of old mixed with a whole lot of new. "To me it's all about authenticity and creating contrast," says Valgora. "The new elements have to be true to their own time. For example, I'm using state of the art glass technology to create these very sheer, elegant walls. Then I'm slicing through these old walls to reveal and express where the old wood is. It's about keeping each element true to itself, and about maintaining the authenticity and integrity of each one."
On the top of the site will be a green roofpark partially ensconced in glass. Yet the boldest element is a schism carving through the middle of Empire Stores like a winding river, revealing an open courtyard. The radical concept was inspired, at least in part, by the work of artist Gordon Matta Clark. "When these [other architecture firms] didn't get it, I think they were cautious," says Valgora. "They were trying to be respectful, which I understand. But Brooklyn is bold and daring. You come here to meet people creating new products, new furniture, new designs. The architecture has to reflect that."
By some measures, tech is New York City's fastest growing industry. A recent report from HR&A investors found that the tech ecosystem ballooned to nearly 300,000 jobs over the past decade, an overall increase of 18%. Individually, tech is now a bigger industry in the Big Apple than media or retail, comprising 12.6% of New York City's total workforce. And while major companies like Google and Facebook are planting their Silicon Alley roots in Manhattan, Brooklyn's "Tech Triangle"–which is home to more than 500 startups–doesn't have a centralized hub.
"Young people in tech firms, they're inhabiting the building," says Valgora. "They're not sealed off and putting in their eight hours there. They're coming and going; eating and drinking; working, playing, sleeping. They're hanging out in there."
That 24/7 work culture celebrated by technocrats certainly has its share of drawbacks, as HBO and Valleywag like to remind us. And maintaining such a space certainly won't come cheap: Rent will run $65 per square foot of office space ($90 for the rooftop), reportedly setting a record for the borough.
A representative for the site's developer, Midtown Equities, says that "about a dozen" tech firms are in talks to relocate their operations to Empire Stores, though he declined to offer specific names. Brooklyn-based West Elm has already signed on to relocate its headquarters and flagship store to the site. And, fittingly, coffee roaster La Colombe will be open for business as well. "I want the building to be responsive to them," says Valgora. "I think that's really important. Most office buildings are not living things. They're hermetically sealed off. I want it to be changeable and responsive to its environment. I want it to be social, to build a community."
Indeed, Valgora envisions Empire Stores becoming a pulsing, hyper-caffeinated fixture of New York's burgeoning tech economy, a shining symbol that Brooklyn–in his words–"has arrived."
Not everyone is a fan of Empire Stores' imminent resurrection, with the ribbon-cutting set–at the earliest–for fall 2015. "The massive addition will alter the building forever without making it better," says Doreen Gallo of the Dumbo Neighborhood Alliance. She's hardly alone. Another resident, Ethan Goldamn, argues that the redesign will ruin Brooklyn's view of the Manhattan skyline, transforming the roof into "a glassed-in party venue destined to become just another wedding mill."
The criticisms leveled at the rebuild come at a time when rent in the borough is skyrocketing, nearly rivaling that of the tiny concrete island across the East River. According to Bloomberg, the median monthly rent in Brooklyn is $2,900, up 13% from a year earlier. The influx of new money will cause new, periphery businesses to spring up all around the destination. Dumbo will become even more expensive than it already is.
And it might not even be the first major renovation hoping to attract a new creative class to the neighborhood. On Thursday, the New York Daily News reported that a cluster of buildings owned by the Kushner Companies, including the infamous Dumbo Watchtower, is about to get transformed into a similar high-tech mecca, catering to New York's Tech Triangle. It is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2015.
Yet the New York described by E.B. White has always been a city defined by its divides, a delicate balancing act between new and old; insiders and outsiders; haves and have-nots. Like the Miami-style high rises in Williamsburg or the Barney's in Cobble Hill, Empire Stores may just be the latest evidence that the Manhattanization of Brooklyn is all but inevitable.
After our tour concludes, our group retreats back into Dumbo, looking for a place to warm up. A pizzeria-slash-craft beer bar turns us away–they're closed between lunch and dinner. Instead, we settle on a minimalist coffee shop that, according to one Yelp review, is "the perfect place to have after dinner espresso and yummy pumpkin whoopie pies." Valgora and I sit at a counter, facing out toward the cobblestone street. "I want the courtyard to open during the summer–so you can smell the air–and closed during the winter, but still have sight lines and views," he tells me, leafing through a few renderings. "I want it to be a living thing."


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Eric Hamel challenged the sentence, saying he shouldn't have received a sentence that's longer than that of his co-conspirators.
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday rejected his appeal, saying the differences among the three sentences reflect the differences in conduct.
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The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus has made slow but steady progress over the years toward the goal of becoming a downtown hub of medical care, research and education. But 2013 promises to make slow and steady a thing of the past.
A slew of projects are expected to get under way this year that will focus public attention and mark a significant turning point in developing the medical corridor.
There are now about 12,000 people working on the campus. By 2016, as the projects proceed, employment is expected to grow to 17,000 said Matthew Enstice, president and chief executive officer of Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Inc., the umbrella organization created in 2001 by the institutions located in it.
Among the key initiatives to look for:
• The University at Buffalo last year purchased land at 960 Washington St. for $1.2 million, the first of three parcels it is assembling in the area of Main and High streets for construction of a new medical school. The university was expected to buy the two additional parcels for the project by late January.
UB plans to relocate the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences from its South Campus to the downtown Medical Campus, starting this fall in a project estimated to cost $375 million. Discussions continue between UB and the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority regarding the Main-Allen Metro Station, which the university would like to incorporate into the medical school building.
UB selected the international architectural firm of HOK – Helmuth, Obata & Kassabaum – to lead the building design, which calls for more than a half-million square feet of space. It's expected that a design will be unveiled in the next few months, said John Della Contrada, a UB spokesman.
• Women & Children's Hospital is moving from its longtime Bryant Street location in the Elmwood Village to the Medical Campus. Groundbreaking for the new facility, which will be renamed the John R. Oishei Children's Hospital, is expected in the spring and completion in early 2016.
The 10-floor hospital will include a range of specialized pediatric services and a family resource center. A Women's Pavilion will house labor and delivery, postpartum care, the regional perinatal center for high-risk pregnancies and a women's health center for prenatal and gynecological care.
In addition, officials announced last year that Kaleida Health, which operates the pediatric hospital, and Roswell Park Cancer Institute will combine services they now provide in separate locations to care for young patients with cancer and blood diseases on one floor of the hospital.
The $200 million building will go up at the corner of Ellicott and High streets, across from, and connected by a walkway to, the Buffalo General Medical Center.
"The children's hospital is a huge move," Enstice said. "But the medical school is the critical mass that will be the tipping point for the campus."
• Ciminelli Real Estate Corp. is expected to begin construction soon on a medical office building on the block bounded by Main, High, Ellicott and Goodrich streets.
The major tenants will include doctors associated with the UB medical group known as UBMD and many services connected to the new children's hospital, which will abut the office building.
The $98 million building is planned to be just less than 300,000 square feet over six floors, but it could grow to seven floors, depending on interest from additional tenants, officials have said. Completion of the building, which will include two levels of underground parking for 318 vehicles, is scheduled for spring 2015.
The pediatric outpatient surgery center in the new children's hospital will use space in the Ciminelli building, which will act as the "front door" of the surgery center. The second and third floors of the building will connect seamlessly to the pediatric hospital.
Kaleida Health also will use the Ciminelli building for a number of other children's services, including a pharmacy, a laboratory and clinics, including dialysis, therapy infusion and the Robert Warner Rehabilitation Center.
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute announced last year that it had raised enough money to begin work this year on a major addition to the cancer center – an 11-story Clinical Sciences Center at Michigan Avenue and Carlton Street, abutting the cancer center's main hospital building.
Services in the new building will include a breast care center, an expanded chemotherapy infusion clinic, a clinic for adolescents and young adults, patient education programs and office space for physicians and researchers. Relocation of some services to the new Clinical Sciences Center also will allow for renovation and expansion of other services in the main building.
• Medical Campus officials plan to redevelop the trademark portion of the massive Trico Complex at Ellicott and Goodell streets and to remove the remaining four buildings to build a 250,000-square-foot expansion of the Innovation Center, a biomedical business incubator.
The decision, which still requires reviews by city boards and is the subject of debate among preservationists, reversed a plan to tear down more of the city block-sized complex.
Enstice said the current Innovation Center has 35 companies and is expected to be full by the end of March.
• Albany Molecular Research, an Albany-based drug company, is supposed to open a research center and labs on the campus. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo late last year announced the deal, saying the state is putting $50 million toward the project, mostly to buy new equipment.
Officials contend the investment in infrastructure tied to the new AMRI lab will spark $200 million of unspecified private investment and lead to 250 jobs overall over time – not all of them at Albany Molecular Research, a 21-year-old company based in the Albany area that researches and produces drugs on a contract basis.
Enstice said the governor's commitment is a major advancement for the campus and, because most of the money will go toward upgrading public institutions, the investment will benefit the community regardless of AMRI's fortunes. He also said AMRI provides a service – contract drug manufacturing – that existing startups on the campus say is needed.
"We're putting the infrastructure in place to lure companies," he said.
One other key issue on the Medical Campus that often gets overshadowed by the construction is jobs for the people who live nearby.
Among other things, Enstice said, Medical Campus officials have developed a database of 4,000 residents and plan to develop a centralized office where individuals can go to see what job opportunities are available at all the institutions within the campus boundaries.
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2009-10 Season (Junior): Atlantic Sun Player of the Year … Atlantic Sun Conference First Team unanimous selection … Named Honorable Mention All-American by the Associated Press … All-District 3 First Team selection by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) … Second Team Mid-Major All-American by CollegeHoops.net … Named Atlantic Sun's Most Valuable Player by CollegeInsider.com … Named to the Atlantic Sun All-Academic team … Averaged 22.7 points and 9.1 rebounds per game … Started all 30 games … Second leading scorer in the nation and leading scorer in the Atlantic Sun … Has scored in double figures for 57 consecutive names, the longest streak in the nation … Led the nation in field goal percentage at 60.4 percent … ranked 44th in the nation and 2nd in the Atlantic Sun for rebounding (9.1) … was named Atlantic Sun Player of the Week for the weeks ending Dec. 28 … Had 11 double-doubles … Scored 20 or more points in 22 games … Had 10 or more points in all 30 games … Had 11 or more rebounds in 10 games … Averaged 22.9 points in non-conference action for the second highest tally since at least the 1996-97 season … Career field goal percentage of 59.5 percent is third highest among active players, second highest among active juniors, and highest among Atlantic Sun players … Led Lipscomb in scoring in 21 games … Led Lipscomb in rebounding 20 times … Scored a career-high 37 points on Feb. 27 against Mercer going 15-of-21 from the floor. Also had 17 rebounds in the contest … Set a Lipscomb record with 20 rebounds against Kennesaw State on Feb. 25 … In the final three games of the season, he finished with double-doubles with an average of 30 points and 18.3 rebounds … Scored 34 points on 14-of-21 shooting and had 13 rebounds in Lipscomb's 83-82 overtime loss at Arizona on Dec. 21 … Scored a team-high 18 points at both Ohio State on Nov. 24 and Cincinnati on Dec. 19 … Scored 20 or more points in the final 12 games of the season. Atlantic Sun Games … Led Lipscomb to a regular season championship with a conference record of 14-6 … Led the conference with 22.4 points per game … Highest scoring average in Atlantic Sun conference games since Mercer's Reggie Elliott averaged 22.6 points during the 1995-96 season … Second in the A-Sun for rebounding at 9.2 per contest … Led the A-Sun in field goal percentage at 60.9 percent … Scored 20 or more points in 15 conference games … Had seven double-doubles.
2008-09 Season (Sophomore): Averaged 17.1 points and 7.1 rebounds per game … played in 30 games, starting 29 … named Atlantic Sun First Team All-Conference … Led Lipscomb in scoring (17.1), rebounding (7.1), and field goal percentage (.587) … had seven double-doubles … ranked 21st in the nation for field goal percentage (.587) … was named Atlantic Sun Player of the Week for the weeks ending Dec. 29 and Feb. 16 … ranked 5th in the Atlantic Sun in scoring (17.1) … ranked 8th in the Atlantic Sun in rebounding (7.1) … ranked 2nd in the Atlantic Sun for field goal percentage (.587) … ranked 10th in the Atlantic Sun for free throw percentage (.744) … Scored a career-high 30 points while shooting 14-of-16 from the field at ETSU (Jan. 17) … scored over 20 points ten times and in double figures in 28 games … finished the season with an active streak of scoring in double figures in 27 consecutive games … had seven games with ten or more rebounds … led Lipscomb in scoring 19 times … led Lipscomb in rebounding 14 times … named Mid-Majority Baller of the Week for the week of Mar. 2. Atlantic Sun Games: Averaged 18.2 points and 7.5 rebounds per game … played in 20 games, starting 19 … Led Lipscomb in scoring (18.2), rebounding (7.5), and field goal percentage (.604) … shot 79.1 percent from the free throw line over the last ten games of season … averaged 19.1 points per game during Lipscomb's nine game win streak … ranked 4th in the Atlantic Sun in scoring (18.2) … ranked 7th in the Atlantic Sun in rebounding (7.5) … ranked 3rd in the Atlantic Sun for field goal percentage (.604) … ranked 11th in the Atlantic Sun for free throw percentage (.740)
2007-08 Season (Freshman): Atlantic Sun All-Freshman Team … Averaged 8.9 points and 4.3 rebounds per game … played in all 31 games, starting 16 … averaged 17.6 minutes per game … led team in field goal percentage (58.8%) … third on team in points per game (8.9) … second on team for field goals made (114) … fourth on team in rebounding (142, 4.3 per game) … third on team in offensive rebounding (53, 1.7 per game) … third on team in blocked shots (11, 0.4 per game) … scored a season high 24 points against Gardner-Webb (Feb. 28) … scored in double-figures 15 games and four games over 20 points … recorded only double-double at Gardner-Webb (Jan. 5 – 14 points, 10 rebounds) … season high 10 rebounds at Gardner-Webb (Jan. 5) … season high two assists versus ETSU (Jan. 19) and Gardner-Webb (Feb. 28) … Grabbed seven or more rebounds in eight games … Grabbed five or more rebounds in fifteen games including final five games of season … Averaged 14.1 points and 5.8 rebounds per game over the final eight games of the season … Led the team in scoring five times … Led the team in rebounding five times … Tied a team season high with 11 field goals made versus Gardner-Webb (Feb. 28) … Led the Atlantic Sun Conference in Field Goal Percentage (58.%) … Atlantic Sun Games: Averaged 12.2 points and 5.7 rebounds per game … played in all 16 games, starting 14 … averaged 22 minutes per game … led team and Atlantic Sun Conference in field goal percentage (62.9%) … led team in rebounding (91, 5.7 per game) … tied for 23rd in the Atlantic Sun for scoring (12.2 points per game) – leading Freshman … tied for 16th in the Atlantic Sun for rebounding (5.7 per game)
High School: Averaged 14 points and 7 rebounds per game during senior year at North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Shot 62.1% percent from the field ... Senior Year Honors: All-State, All-County, All-North Team, All-Conference, Academic All-Conference ... Pre-season All-State Honorable Mention during Junior year ... Member of North Central High School team that was ranked as high as 12th nationally. North Central was 41-9 during his Junior and Senior years. North Central was runner-up for the 4A state championship. Teammate of Eric Gordon, former Indiana Hoosier guard and current guard for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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DeRivera is the first research faculty member to be hired by the Institute. Her expertise in marine systems, marine invertebrates and introduced crab species compliments ongoing projects at the Institute that address invasive species in freshwater and ballast water transport of non-native species into Oregon waters.
Earlier this month, a study conducted by deRivera (while at the University of California, San Diego) appeared in the August issue of the journal Animal Behaviour. The research found that female fiddler crabs Uca crenulata, are the most selective animals known: they check out up to 106 males and their burrows before finally deciding on a mate. Females that mated and incubated their eggs in male burrows of just the right size released their eggs at the optimal time, suggesting this extreme choosiness for a mate and his burrow improved offspring survivorship.
"I am excited to join a University where I can conduct meaningful research, disseminate my findings to habitat managers and policy makers, and spend time teaching in a friendly and supportive place to work. This combination is surprisingly hard to find," said deRivera. "I look forward to mentoring students and teaching classes that include components on environmental ethics and management challenges."
At Portland State, deRivera's primary research focus will be on the ecology and behavior of non-native marine and estuarine species in the Pacific Northwest and continuing her study on impacts and range limits of the invasive green crab, Carcinus maenas. DeRivera will also teach courses in Marine Ecology, Biological Invasions and Biological Diversity.
Prior to joining Portland State, deRivera was the coordinator for a multi-institutional West Coast-wide study, "Research on Patterns of East Pacific Marine Invasions," and a postdoctoral fellow in the Marine Invasions
Research Lab and the Crab Lab at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. In addition, she was an assistant professor of Biology at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. DeRivera has also lectured and taught at the University of California, San Diego. Her research has identified major spatial patterns in non-native species and has identified native crabs that limit the spread of an invasive species.
Established in October of 2004, the Aquatic Bioinvasion Research and Policy Institute provides an important catalyst for multidisciplinary understanding and management of biological invasions in coastal marine and freshwater ecosystems. The Institute combines the respective strengths of PSU and SERC in freshwater and marine systems, and seeks to develop novel approaches to research, management and policy on biological invasions. Through collaborative efforts with additional institutions and agencies, the Institute includes a diverse range of disciplines that are relevant to invasion processes, including biology, environmental science, economics and trade, engineering and social sciences.
About Aquatic Bioinvasions
Biological invasions have wide-ranging and potent effects on species diversity, ecosystem services, food resources, water supplies and human health. In the U.S. alone, annual economic losses due to these invasions are estimated to exceed $137 billion, impacting many dimensions of society. The rate of new invasions has increased tremendously, at times exponentially, throughout the world—an expected but unintentional outcome of globalization of trade and travel. Organisms are transferred between global regions at ever faster rates with people and commodities. Examples of resulting invasions abound, including the Eurasian zebra mussels that spread rapidly throughout the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley (and now threaten the western U.S.), the European green crab that now occurs along both the U.S. Pacific and Atlantic coasts, and New Zealand mudsnails and aquatic weeds that have invaded many freshwater systems in Oregon.
Various activities such as transoceanic shipping and overland transport of boats breach natural barriers to species dispersal, such as ocean basins or mountains, and allow non-native species to establish populations beyond their historical geographic ranges, and result in biological invasions. Developing ways to conduct trade in a manner that is ecologically as well as economically sustainable is crucial to a vibrant economy and a priority for Oregon and the United States. Currently, there are no broad-based programs advancing an effective, multidisciplinary approach to managing these biological invasions.
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Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli is airing a new TV ad that seeks to untangle his campaign from a scandal that has mired Gov. Bob McDonnell in criminal investigations involving a nutritional supplements company and its top executive.
The new commercial comes as fresh polling finds Cuccinelli struggling with issues of trustworthiness as a result of the scandal that touches him in addition to the Republican governor. McDonnell and his family received more than $145,000 in gifts and loans from Jonnie R. Williams Sr. of Star Scientific Inc., most of it not reported on state economic interest forms.
Cuccinelli, however, received $18,000 from Williams and his company over four years.
Cuccinelli, the state attorney general, has distanced himself from the troubled governor before, but his new ad goes even farther. In it, Cuccinelli takes credit for launching an investigation into whether the gifts to McDonnell violated the state's ethics law.
The 30-second ad, set for an indefinite broadcast run in every Virginia television market except for Washington, D.C., and its suburbs, also attempts to shift the focus back to a federal investigation into how GreenTech Automotive, an electric-car company that Democrat Terry McAuliffe headed until December, and an allied company used a federal program that grants permanent U.S. residency to large foreign investors in companies that create jobs in America.
Cuccinelli's ad alleges that McAuliffe himself is under investigation. While McAuliffe's former company is under a Securities and Exchange Commission probe for actions that took place while McAuliffe was its chairman, he has not been identified individually as a subject of the investigation.
The ad accurately notes that Cuccinelli, the state attorney general, initiated inquiries into the Executive Mansion that he hopes to occupy in less than five months.
"Cuccinelli personally launched the investigation into Bob McDonnell,'' a narrator in the ad boasts.
Cuccinelli's office turned over to Richmond's Democratic commonwealth's attorney, Mike Herring, an investigation into whether McDonnell violated state ethics laws by not disclosing gifts from Williams. That investigation remains active. McDonnell has defended his decision not to report them, noting that state law exempts gifts to family members from disclosure.
Federal prosecutors are also investigating McDonnell's ties to Williams and Star Scientific and whether the governor used his authority to benefit them.
During the past month, McDonnell has acknowledged receiving gifts and loans, said he and his family are returning or repaying them, and apologized for his actions. He has not, however, independently itemized the gratuities.
Cuccinelli's ad also accurately notes that Herring's investigation cleared him of violating state law with belated disclosures of Williams' gifts. Herring, however, noted that the lapses expose easily exploitable gaps in Virginia's public ethics and financial disclosure laws, rated among the weakest in the nation.
In April, after media reports of Cuccinelli's ties to Williams and his ownership of more than $10,000 in Star Scientific stock, Cuccinelli amended four years' worth of annual statements of economic interest to include thousands in gifts that he said had slipped his mind earlier.
Among them were a $3,000 summer vacation and a catered $1,500 Thanksgiving dinner at Williams' luxury waterside chateau on Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountain foothills. Cuccinelli has said he will not reimburse Williams because no money ever changed hands.
Cuccinelli also found himself battling new allegations this week that his office fought to block disclosure of emails indicating the attorney general's office collaborated with lawyers for two energy companies facing a class-action lawsuit by southwestern Virginia residents. The plaintiffs claim the companies owed them millions of dollars in royalties for natural gas deposits taken from beneath their property. A judge expressed shock at the seeming collusion between the attorney general's office and the companies, prompting an ongoing investigation by the state's inspector general. The corporate parent of one of the energy companies contributed more than $100,000 to Cuccinelli's campaign.
In polling released Tuesday by the independent Quinnipiac University, McAuliffe led Cuccinelli among likely Virginia voters 48 percent to 42 percent. The live telephone survey conducted Aug. 14-19 among 1,129 respondents found that one factor in its results was McAuliffe's slight edge on the issue of honesty and trustworthiness.
"Guilt by association may not be fair, but it sure is politically powerful,'' Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, observed of Cuccinelli's woes linked to McDonnell's problems.
The poll's overall results had a sampling error margin of plus-or-minus 2.9 percentage points.
Cuccinelli Ad Says He Launched McDonnell Probe
Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli is airing a new TV ad that seeks to untangle his campaign from a scandal that has mired Gov. Bob McDonnell in criminal investigations involving a nutritional supplements company and its top executive.


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Track 00.0 Sect 6 has CRC error in data field
Track 00.0 Sect 6 has fuzzy bits
Track 00.0 Sect 6 Long sector 17289 µs (489 bytes over clocked)
greatguy wrote:Is this normal for a disk with Rob Norton protection?
greatguy wrote:I have a small request.
I would like to be able to open compressed SCP-files directly in the Aufit program. (Zip & 7z for example)
Is this doable?
greatguy wrote:I know that you have a long list of things to do on Aufit, but I'd like to add one more item if that's okay with you.
One thing that I really miss is that I cannot save a log file when creating a pasti image. Should be really nice to include such a log file when sharing files with others.
greatguy wrote:I have made an SCP image of Police Quest 2 that causes Aufit to crash.
Have also made an image from a different set of Police Quest 2 disks, and that version loads just fine in Aufit.
I include a link to the faulty and working image if you're interested in finding out what causes the program to crash in the first place.
Police Quest 2 Disk2 [U1].SCP (Working image)
Police Quest 2 Disk2 [U2].SPC (Image that causes the crash)
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greatguy wrote:I get this error on a couple of the SCP images I've created, still the pasti image created seems to work flawlessly.
What exactly does this error mean?
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5.1.6 Invalid Data in Gap
Description: During the format command any character loaded into the data register of the WD1772 is written to the disk with a normal clock pattern. However the characters $F5 and $F6 are used to write the Synch Marks and the character $F7 is used to generate of two CRC bytes. This implies that it is not possible to have a character ranging from 245 through 247 ($F5-$F7) inside any of the GAPs7. Reading these characters into GAPs requires using a read-track command. In order to read these invalid characters correctly with the read-track command it is recommended to precede them with one or several sync character.
Creation: It is not possible with the WD1772 to write a character within the range 245-247 in any GAP. Therefore writing any of these characters into GAPs requires special hardware.
Detection: Can easily be done with a read-track command.
Duplication: Require special hardware.
Preservation: It is necessary to save the content of the track in the preservation file.
Example: Operation Neptune Track 50, Dragon Flight (???)
greatguy wrote:I tried to make an STX from my fully working Chambers Of Shaolin SCP image without success. First I thought it was due to some emulation problem in Steem, but the Atari Mania version boots just fine.
The SCP images are sampled with four revolutions and disks written from them works on real hardware.
Files attached below.
Mug UK wrote:Nice one. Is it worth me redoing the ones that failed in the past with previous versions of AuFit? Or should I redo the Kryoflux images first and then use the new Aufit when it's available?
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Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
Far too often we create in our own minds a sense that God is simply there
in our lives to judge us. We can begin to live our lives in fear of this
judgment by God, rather that as a response to the love that God has for us.
We need to listen today to our hearts and to center them once more on the
love that God has for us and for all of His creation and for all peoples
and all persons.
The Second Letter to the Thessalonians tells us not to be shaken by rumors
that the end is coming soon. We need to know that the Day of the Lord is
always at hand - that means that no one knows when it will happen and that it
could happen any day. This is the same reality that each of us faces each
day: we might die today! Most of us don't get terribly disturbed by such
a message, even though we know that it is true. Instead, such a message is
supposed to invite us to be aware of the presence of the Lord in our life
and to respond to that presence.
The Gospel from Saint Luke today is a delight. We are told about Zacchaeus
that he was short of stature. This is a short man who wants to see the
Lord. He knows that he won't have a chance in the crowd and so goes ahead
of the crowd and climbs a tree. This is a man who has money and a good
home and a role in society. People must have laughed their heads off to
see such a prominent person climbing a tree! We should also laugh at this
story just as we also recognize that the deep desire of Zacchaeus is worthy
of our imitation.
Think of the wealthy men or women of our own time, who have a social
prominence, who are involved in high government positions. Can we imagine
any of them being willing to climb a tree because of wanting to see
What about us? Are we willing to climb trees and make fools of ourselves
in order to know the Lord?
The bystanders are amazed that Jesus wants to go to this man's house and
they grumble among themselves. This is so typical of us humans: that
person is no better than I am. Why would anyone want to go to his house?
In fact, that person is worse than I am and does bad things in society.
Why is this religious leader going there?
The good news of Jesus Christ is that God loves each one of us and is
willing to come to our house - if we invite Him. We need to get over
thinking about others and think about our own, personal relationship with
God. Do I invite Him? Do I really try to live His word? Do I have enough
interest in God to make a fool of myself for Him?
My sisters and brothers, let us invite the Lord today! Let us be willing
to make fools of ourselves because God loves us. Blessed be God!
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**UPDATE: The deadline for signups is December 20, so you have plenty of time.**
So as you know I hit 100 followers about a month ago. *cue the screaming* And for celebration, I started a…
Writing challenge! YAYAYAYAYAY!
As you could probably see by all the comments, a lot of people have been requesting to be on Team Meadows. So this is going to be a first come first serve basis, so please don't be too disappointed if you don't get your first choice for a team. I will do my best. 🙂
Also, please SPREAD THE WORD about this! I'd like to get as many contestants as I can. If you could, that would be awesome!
|How long will the challenge last?|
It will last for six weeks (six challenges, six submissions), so the month of January and two of February. Each round of the challenge will last around 4 days to a week, so that's about how long you'll have to write your story.
|How do I get points for my team?|
- You can take photos or draw pictures to illustrate your story. You will get 2 points per photo.
- Creativity. This is how creatively you use the prompts. At the end of each round I'll select my favorite story and that person will earn more points for their team.
- If you use the name of you team in your story, you can earn a point for your team. (e.g forest; the forest was dark and gloomy)
|Anything else?|
Each round, I will give new writing challenges.
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Multiple high-performance ARM processors enable energy-efficient connected home STB devices
EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands & CAMBRIDGE, U.K. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — January 5, 2010 — NXP Semiconductors and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)], will showcase the recently announced NXP 847x/8x/9x SoC family, which is based on multiple ARM® Cortex™ processors, at CES this week. The NXP PNX847x/8x/9x represents the world's first fully integrated 45nm Set-Top Box (STB) SoC platform incorporating multi-channel broadcast receivers. The NXP PNX847x/8x/9x utilizes the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore™ and ARM Cortex-M3 processors to enable a high performance, energy-efficient solution in a low-cost form factor.
"The NXP PNX847x/8x/9x platform provides an optimized system that significantly reduces the manufacturer bill-of-materials costs and power consumption enabling an improved home entertainment experience," said Christos Lagomichos, executive vice president, business unit home, NXP Semiconductors. "With STBs and DVRs getting more and more complicated, power efficiency has been one of the major challenges for the industry. By leveraging low-power and high-performance processors from ARM, we are able to bring the next-generation HD STB and DVR features to our customers."
The fast growing adoption of broadcast and broadband services into home entertainment equipment means that digital TVs and STBs are required to deliver higher processing performance within the tight power envelope for compact, high-density thermally constrained environments. The ARM Cortex-M3 processor coordinates the power management for the entire system, enabling the NXP PNX847x/8x/9x family to deliver flexible power optimization with an ultra-low power stand-by operation, enabling STB OEMs to comply with the latest EnergyStar and Voluntary Agreement.
Based on the high-performance, power-efficient ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor architecture, the NXP PNX847x/8x/9x delivers advanced system level performance for secure, multi-room DVR video streaming on home networks and for fast execution of Java-based STB middleware engines. Combined with NXPs rich set of hardware and DSP-based content decoding technologies, the ARM Cortex-A9 processor, with its comprehensive internet software ecosystem, delivers industry-leading performance for user interface environments based on Adobe Flash and web browser technologies. By adopting the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor for the STB market, NXP also benefits from the comprehensive and expanding ARM ecosystem.
"The showcasing of ARM technology by NXP is a highly visible demonstration of the growing momentum behind ARM Cortex processors in set-top boxes," said Mike Inglis, executive vice president, processor division, ARM. "The combination of high-performance, low-power technology enables ARM to provide NXP with the scalable performance demanded by next-generation DVR & STB devices."
Dedicated hardware for flexible content format decoding, alongside the ARM architecture optimizations for Javascript and Flash Player 10 components, ensures that the NXP PNX847x/8x/9x can deliver the most responsive and robust user experience for online VOD and other content delivered via the internet. In addition to the superb power efficiency, the PNX 847x/8x/9x family also features a 3D graphics processing unit to render advanced programming navigation user interfaces, games and other 3D content. The new NXP PNX847x/8x/9x is currently available in sample quantities.
For more information, please visit: http://www.nxp.com/applications/set_top_box/index.html
NXP will demonstrate the PNX847x/8x/9x family at the NXP booth (Wynn Hotel, Alsace 1 &2 meeting rooms ) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, January, 7-10, 2010.
About NXP
NXP Semiconductors provides High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product solutions that leverage its leading RF, Analog, Power, Digital Processing and manufacturing expertise. These innovations are used in a wide range of automotive, industrial, consumer, lighting, medical, computing and identification applications. Headquartered in Europe, the company has about 29,000 employees working in more than 30 countries and posted sales of USD 5.4 billion in 2008. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.
About ARM
ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, video engines, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
ARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. Cortex and MPCore are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries: ARM Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Limited.; ARM Taiwan Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; ARM Norway, AS and ARM Sweden AB.
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