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Coenzyme Q10 with Tocotrienols includes a substantial amount of mixed tocotrienols and 100 mg of CoQ10 per softgel, in a rice bran oil base (from brown rice). CoQ10, or ubiquinone, is an essential component of the mitochondria, critical for energy production, and an important antioxidant. CoQ10 is a fat-soluble nutrient, and research indicates that oil-based CoQ10 has much greater absorption and bioavailability than the powdered form.
Tocotrienols are members of the vitamin E family and have been shown to strengthen arterial walls and support blood flow through arteries (coronary, carotid, and peripheral). Tocotrienols have been found to support the regulation of cholesterol within normal levels. Rice bran oil provides a high amount of gamma-tocotrienol and gamma-tocopherol for better absorption and utilization, enhancing the beneficial properties of this formula.

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Newtown rabbi sees Passover lesson in wake of tragedy
NEWTOWN -- Nothing is the same in this devastated town these days, and this week's religious holidays will be overshadowed, as is the rest of life, by the deaths of 26 first-graders and staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14.
Passover, which begins at sundown today, is an intensely family-oriented Jewish celebration, and although just one of the victims, Noah Pozner, was Jewish, all of the families will be on the minds of the members of Congregation Adath Israel, the one synagogue in town.
"From my point of view it's family time; it's time for us to be together, and unfortunately, that day the Pozner family will have one less person at their table," said Andrew Paley, president of the congregation.
Noah will be missed by his mother, Veronique, his father, Lenny, and his siblings, Danielle, Michael, Sophia and his twin sister, Arielle.
Of course all the victims are on Paley's mind in the tight-knit section of Sandy Hook. Being part of the school, Cub Scouts and other groups made it easy to know many of the families involved.
Just Friday, Anna Mattioli, sister of James Mattioli, one of the victims, led her fourth-grade class on a walk to celebrate James' birthday, because he loved walking.
"As a big group, as a Sandy Hook family, we all took a walk in his honor" at Fairfield Hills, Paley said.
Rabbi Shaul Praver, spiritual leader of the Conservative synagogue, will deliver the Passover sermon. He said the links between the Hebrews' escape from Pharaoh and modern-day Newtown are not obvious, but there are lessons to be drawn.
"We're talking about freedom, and I think that's the big common denominator here," Praver said. "In Egypt, we had a situation of slavery," which is "quite different" from living in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook tragedy but can serve as a lesson.
"There are several things that impinge on our complete freedoms in America," said Praver, who has been active in seeking tougher gun-control laws.
"In a free society ... you would think that if the majority of people want legislation to be passed" that it would happen. But our representatives have been "compromised by special interests, in this case the NRA."
While pro-gun control Americans have been apathetic and developed an attitude "akin to that feeling of helplessness and despair" that the Hebrews must have felt, their leaders, Moses, Aaron and Miriam, "didn't give up, and ultimately, they won."
In our day, he said, we need to fight the forces of media violence, the gaming industry and the NRA, "because if we do, we'll win."
"The NRA is just counting on us breaking our spirit and waiting for the 'Newtown effect' to dissipate," Praver said.
(The Pozners did not belong to Congregation Adath Israel).
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WASHINGTON — The richest Americans got richer during the first two years of the economic recovery while average net worth declined for the other 93 percent of US households, a report released Tuesday said.
The upper 7 percent of households owned 63 percent of the nation's household wealth in 2011, up from 56 percent in 2009, said the report from the Pew Research Center, which analyzed Census Bureau data released last month.
The main reason for the widening wealth gap is that affluent households typically own stocks and other financial holdings that increased in value, while the less wealthy tend to have more of their assets in their home, which has not rebounded from the plunge.
Tuesday's report is the latest to point up financial inequality that has been growing among Americans for decades, a development that helped fuel the Occupy Wall Street protests.
A September Census Bureau report found that the highest-earning 20 percent of households earned more than half of all income the previous year, the biggest share in records kept since 1967. A 2011 Congressional Budget Office report said incomes for the richest 1 percent soared 275 percent between 1979 and 2007 but just under 40 percent for the middle 60 percent of Americans.
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■ The wealth of American households rose by $5 trillion, or 14 percent, during the period from $35.2 trillion in 2009 to $40.2 trillion in 2011. Household wealth is the sum of all assets such as a home, car, and stocks, minus all debts.
■ The average net worth of households in the upper 7 percent of the wealth distribution rose an estimated 28 percent, while that of households in the lower 93 percent dropped by 4 percent. That is, the mean wealth of the 8 million households in the more affluent group rose from an estimated $2.5 million to an estimated $3.2 million while that of the 111 million households in the less affluent group fell from $140,000 to roughly $134,000.
■ The upper 7 percent were the households with a net worth above $836,033 and the 93 percent represented households whose worth was at or below that. Not all households among the 93 percent saw a decline, but the average amount declined for that group.
■ Standard & Poor's 500 stock index rose 34 percent, while the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index for home prices fell 5 percent.


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We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.


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Man charged with indecent exposure in Dobson hair salon
A 20-year-old county man has been charged with indecent exposure after authorities say he exposed himself to a Dobson business owner.
According to Dobson Police Chief Shawn Myers,the incident occurred on Aug. 21, when Officer James Harrison was dispatched to Hair Unlimited, located on East Atkins Street.
"Beverly Peele, the owner of Hair Unlimited, reported that a male subject came into the hair salon and was asking questions about the rates of the tanning sessions," Myers said.
Peele told police that the suspect, later identified as Lira Eduardo, of 339 Rockford Road in Dobson, asked for a pamphlet with the prices listed.
"She turned around and picked up the pamphlet to give it to (Eduardo), and at that point noticed that the male subject had his private part exposed to her while standing inside her hair salon," Myers said.
After being seen, the suspect ran outside the salon and around the building, according to police.
Myers said Peele was able to describe both the suspect and the vehicle in which he left her business.
"Officer Harrison, after a short investigation, was able to locate the suspect, who was later identified by Peele as the male subject that indecently exposed himself in her hair salon," he said.
Eduardo was arrested Thursday and was booked into the Surry County Jail on indecent exposure charges under a $500 secured bond.
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Princeton and PPPL share in $25 million nuclear arms-control project
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has named Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) participants in a new $25 million, five-year project to address technology and policy issues related to nuclear arms control. The project will include a unique process that Princeton and PPPL are developing to verify that nuclear weapons to be dismantled or removed from deployment contain true warheads.
Princeton and PPPL will join a consortium of 13 universities and eight national laboratories in the project, called the Center for Verification Technology and led by the University of Michigan. Funding from NNSA, a semi-autonomous branch of the DOE, will include a combined total of $3.5 million over five years for Princeton and PPPL for their research on verification.
"This is an excellent example of collaboration between Princeton and PPPL on scientific issues of great public interest," said A.J. Stewart Smith, Princeton University vice president for PPPL. "This research benefits from the close integration of the main campus and PPPL."
As part of this project, Princeton and PPPL are developing a "zero-knowledge protocol for nuclear warhead verification" — a system to confirm that a putative warhead actually is one without measuring classified information that could lead to nuclear proliferation if the data were to be leaked. The research fires high-energy neutrons at a test object containing non-nuclear materials. This target, called a British Test Object, will be used to test the validity of the novel approach to verification.
"The goal is to prove with as high confidence as required that an inspected item is a true nuclear warhead while learning nothing about the materials and design of the warhead itself," said Robert Goldston, a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton and a fusion researcher and former director of PPPL. He is developing the zero-knowledge protocol with Alexander Glaser, an assistant professor in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton. Both physicists are associated with the Princeton Program in Science and Global Security.
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Estrid Ericson began showing new pewter jewellery in December 1943. Some of the pieces were modelled after the National Historical Museum's jewellery from the Bronze Age. However, the majority of jewellery was her own creations that she developed in the workshop together with Svenskt Tenn's talented Thure Carlsson. The jewellery quickly became fashion accessories. This pendant in the shape of a shell is made in classic pewter.
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Matt Zoller Seitz was named television critic at New York magazine, editor-in-chief Adam Moss announced today.
Mr. Seitz, most recently the television critic at Salon, replaces Emily Nussbaum, who took the same position at the New Yorker.
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Thank you runnerup for this nice piece of work!I have some questions for you, since I really need to expand this library for the Micro/Leonardo.So that is what I will do, but maybe you can help me in the right direction.In your estimation, can I better build of of ATimerDefs or BTimerDefs?Do you have any idea how I could implement the difference in structure of the new 8 - 10 - 16 bit pins and fast PWM?I want to change some of the timer--pin assignments for my project. Is that something that you think will work correctly with the construction you used for the library?I will find my way in the end, but can you give me some places to start looking for the registers and stuff?Any hint is welcome.
Thank you so much for this library as it has been fantastic in helping me get a pump driver up and running.I have a question regarding timers using the 328. I have noticed that the library functions do not allow you to set the frequency on TIMER2A and was wondering if there was a specific reason why the library would not allow you to set this timer as I can't really find a default use for TIMER2A that would interfere with any other arduino function.Thanks,-matt
I want to use your library to up the frequency of the PWM on my motor control project (motors are noisy) on a Uno. It is a twin motor control so I use pins 5, 6 for one and pins 9,10 for other.Pins 5, 6 are timer0 and I don't want to mess with that timer.So the next step would be to change it to pins 3, 11 to use the other timer. This would mean hacking my shield.And that is why I don't understand the above. Does this mean I can map the PWM output to any pin?
where can I look up which timer on the Mega 2560 is connected to which pin?Also how can I turn PWM Pin 2 & 3 into phase correct mode?
If I understood you right, your library sets the timer in to a phase and frequency corret pwm instead of fast pwm?
// simple move forward and backward one motor on the l298n using pins 12 13 9/ 9 being PWM#include <PWM.h>int ENA = 9;int IN1 = 12;int IN2 = 13;int32_t frequency = 20000; //frequency (in Hz)void setup (){ Serial.begin(9600); InitTimersSafe(); bool success = SetPinFrequencySafe(ENA, frequency); pinMode (ENA, OUTPUT); pinMode (IN1, OUTPUT); pinMode (IN2, OUTPUT);}void test_motor_1 (){ for (int i = 256; i < 512; i++) { digitalWrite (IN1, HIGH); digitalWrite (IN2, LOW); analogWrite (ENA, i); delay (30); Serial.println(i); } delay (100); digitalWrite (IN1, LOW); for (int i = 256; i < 512; i++) { digitalWrite (IN1, LOW); digitalWrite (IN2, HIGH); pwmWrite (ENA, i); //was analogWrite delay (30); Serial.println(i); } delay (100); digitalWrite (IN2, LOW);}void loop(){ test_motor_1();}
I discovered in a recent project involving an Arduino microcontroller that there was no method to change PWM frequency without directly manipulating low-level memory. As far as I can Google, there is no general purpose library that can change PWM frequencies on Arduino Microcontrollers. The internet is full of partial examples and code snippets for changing PWM frequency, but in the end I still had to consult the 400+ page sec sheet (http://www.atmel.com/Images/doc2549.pdf) to get the code for my Mega functional. It is my speculation that the programmers at Arduino have not released any methods for changing PWM frequency because it is difficult to write a simple and intuitive wrapper for hardware timers that wont run the risk of confusing a beginner (the whole draw to Arduino in the first place). The hardware is has very specific limitations that present themselves in odd ways. Allow me to share a few:PWM behavior is determined by integrated components called timers. Every timer has two to four channels. Each channel is connected to a pin. Changing one pin's frequency requires changes to the timer it connects to. Which in turn changes the frequency of other pins connected to that same timer.Timer 0 is usually used for Arduino's time keeping functions, (i.e. the millis() function). Changing the frequency on timer 0 will break the time keeping functions you may or may not be using in other parts of your projectThere are two types of timer, 8bit and 16bit. Long story short, they have nuances that make common code difficult to implement without limiting one or the other.Creating custom frequencies (beyond messing with the prescaler) with an 8bit timer requires the sacrifice of one channel. In other words, each 8bit timer that creates a custom frequency loses the ability to perform PWM on one pin (the one connected to the A channel to be more precise). All Arduinos except the Leonardo have two 8bit timers, meaning that setting all timers to a particular frequency will sacrifice a total of two pins on said Ardiuno.Regardless of this, I still felt it would still be worth while to make a library/wrapper for hardware timers so that I, and anyone else who chooses to use this, will not have to spend quite as many hours needlessly digging through blocks of bug prone bit wise and preprocessor slurry.The library has five global functions:InitTimers()Initializes all timers. Needs to be called before changing the timers frequency or setting the duty on a pinInitTimersSafe()Same as InitTimers() except timer 0 is not initialized in order to preserve time keeping functionspwmWrite(uint8_t pin, uint8_t val)Same as 'analogWrite()', but it only works with initialized timers. Continue to use analogWrite() on uninitialized timersSetPinFrequency(int8_t pin, int32_t frequency)Sets the pin's frequency (in Hz) and returns a bool for successSetPinFrequencySafe(int8_t pin, int32_t frequency) Same as SetPinFrequency except it does not affect timer 0The library also has five functions for each Timer 'object'. I could not get the code size down to what I felt was reasonable so I ditched C++ classes and did some fancy macro work instead. Each of these functions are technically preprocessor macros with nice self explanatory names that swap out for more cryptic functions inside the library header just before compile time. For timer 1 the functions are:Timer1_GetFrequency()Gets the timer's frequency in HzTimer1_SetFrequency(int frequency)Sets the timer's frequency in HzTimer1_GetPrescaler()Gets the value (not bits) of the prescaler. Don't know what this means? Don't worry about it, just use SetFrequency(int frequency)Timer1_SetPrescaler(enum value)Sets the prescaler*Timer1_GetTop()Gets the timer register's maximum valueTimer1_SetTop(int top)Sets the timer register's maximum valueTimer1_Initialize()Initializes the timer*The prescaler is inconsistent among different timers. I figured using enumerators was the best solution because most types of invalid input will be caught at compile time. For a normal timer, use one of these as a parameter: ps_1, ps_8, ps_64, ps_256, ps_1024. If those give a type error, then the timer you are using is one of the inconsistent ones, and you should use psalt_1, psalt_8, psalt_32, psalt_64, psalt_128, psalt_256, or psalt_1024 instead.If you want to mess with a different timer, just change the number (i.e Timer2_GetFrequency() to get timer 2's frequency). It is up to your discretion whether or not you want to use the timer specific functions. The global ones should be good enough for most situations.With this Library, 16bit timers have a frequency range from 1Hz to 2MHz. 8bit timers have a range from 31Hz to 2MHz. As the frequency becomes larger, the smaller the range power duties for a pin becomes. It is technically possible to push the frequency to 8MHz, but the range of possible power duties get stupidly small by that point. To be sure the frequency was correctly set, be sure to check the return value. If you don't want to sacrifice any 8bit PWM pins, don't call the initialize function for that timer, try changing the prescaler to manipulate frequency instead. There are many tutorials on how the prescaler affects timers and this library contains methods that make easier and less bug prone to manipulate. So far, I have tested this library on an Uno and a Mega. This library should be compatible with all Arduinos except the Leonardo and Due. If you have an Arduino that is not a Mega or Uno, please test it and tell me how it went. If somebody has an oscilloscope on hand to verify the frequencies being generated are correct, that would also be helpful.For now, consider this library to be in beta. Developments on this library are described in later posts. Here are some of the current features of this library:Wraps timer specific properties (such as timer top and prescaler) with functionsHas pin based (timer agnostic) functionsHas functions for getting and setting frequency at the timer level and pin levelHas tools for measuring timer resolution at the timer level and pin levelThe latest is version .05link: http://code.google.com/p/arduino-pwm-frequency-library/downloads/list
There are technically libraries out there that allow you to set the PWM frequency. They are, however, typically labeled as audio "tone" libraries. It doesn't matter if the library is designed for audio, it's still just a PWM library. I've written some of these libraries, some of which will output PWM signals at up to the gigahertz range.


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Has anyone been to Pekanbaru? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Has anyone been to Pekanbaru? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Indonesia View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message deryaJoined: 07 Jul 2003Posts: 39 Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject: Has anyone been to Pekanbaru? Please, please provide me with any info. regarding Pekanbaru. What type of place is it? I have been offreded a job there and I need info. urgently. Thanx Derya Back to top Mr_GernitJoined: 01 Apr 2004Posts: 1 Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:09 am Post subject: Working in Pekanbaru Hi Derya. Well I would be your best source on Pekanbaru as I work for the company in question and it is my Job you will be taking over I have worked for Thames in Pekanbaru 2 terms now and I must say it has been a pleasure. The management of the school is very well and you always get your salary on time. They look after everything for you. You will of course be sharing accomodation and you get the best room in the house (fully a/c). As for contract, you will get the same contract all of us get which covers everything (medical, insurance, visa, accomodation, working hours etc). As for 24hrs teaching per week you are never expected to do anymore then that *there are times when I have not taught even 12hrs in a week and if this is the case, you still get your full salary if you put in the 40hrs a week. 24 hrs is part of the 40hrs). Most of the course materials (class slides) are already provided on our IVC (intranet service). I have worked for this company now for 4 years and they have always been genrous and fare, not to mention try real hard to help you, especially the staff here in Pekanbaru. The staff here in Pekanbaru and the students (this includes management) are like one big happy family and every one gets on well. As for Pekanbaru, it is a big country town, peaceful and quite. It is really cheap to fly any where in Indonesia from this point (and I mean cheap). There are a lot of areas which surround Pekanbaru worth looking out (very beautiful) even ask Imelda (Imelda needs a lady friend here to go shopping with, as I am too boring hehehe) to take you to her home town which is on a very beautiful beach. I will say it can get boring here at time until you make friends, however there are cinmas, shopping centres, bowling and billyard centre and western style places to eat (especially daves cafe a teacher who works here from bali, he is a top guy). There are time when they promote the school it will get busy and there are times it gets really quite. I even have time to go home at lunch for 3 to 4 hrs for a sleep before afternoon class. Just one thing I will say, just don't walk around here on your own.. because like all parts of developing countries, there are kids which will try and hit you up for money on the street, but just tell them to p... off, they tend to be scared of westeners when we get mad I can say, once you settle in you will enjoy it here and your salary will go along way here, because everything is cheep, cheep, cheep and you will only pay for food and consumables. If you have any more questions just email me on [email protected] Regards Geoff... 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Police hope to show 'human side' of department on 'Boston's Finest'
Greg Dankers and Diamantino Araujo are two of the police officers featured on the new TNT reality show "Boston's Finest,'' which follows Boston police on the job.
Members of the Boston Police Department's
fugitive task force and
gang unit, respectively, say that while they were reluctant to do the show at first, they're now comfortable on camera and hope the series shows a side of a big city police department that doesn't always translate on TV: "the human side,'' Araujo says.
Both men are married with two children. Dankers, 42 and a US Army veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm, has 4-year-old twins with his wife, Nancy — also a Boston police officer, whom he met while working patrol in West Roxbury six years ago.
Araujo, 33 and a native of Cape Verde, moved to the United States when he was young.
He grew up in Roxbury and is now partnered in the gang unit with his childhood best friend, Officer Manny Canuto. His inspiration to become a policeman? Watching "Miami Vice'' reruns when he was a kid.
"We live in the city. We love the city. We are each one of the people in the city,'' says Araujo, a seven-year member of the Boston Police Department. "A lot of people can be intimidated by police. The cameras captured us doing things you don't always see from the police, like walking the streets, talking to shop owners, playing basketball with the kids, just making ourselves accessible. This is all stuff we do anyway, but maybe now people will see it and see us in a broader light.''
While "Boston's Finest'' certainly isn't the first reality show about law enforcement, it aims to give viewers a look at the entire police department, including patrol officers, detectives, SWAT team members, and special task force officers. That stands in contrast to such other law-enforcement reality shows as A&E's "The First 48,'' which focuses on homicide
investigations, and Spike TV's "DEA,'' which focuses on drug
"There really are a lot of shows out there, so this isn't a completely new thing,'' says Dankers, a 14-year Boston Police Department veteran, who has been in the fugitive unit since 2010. "Still, in the beginning it's ingrained in us to be suspicious. You don't know what the true intentions are of the film crew. You don't know how things are going to be perceived. But I have to say, the camera people were cool. They put us at ease. And after a while, we got to know them and understand them, too.''
Araujo agrees. "You kind of filter things until you're sure about the people following you around with the cameras,'' he says. "But once that trust is established, you almost forget the cameras are there.''
Inevitably, Dankers says, once they relaxed and just concentrated on doing their jobs, rather than how they were perceived, "real life'' happened.
"That's the funny thing about this kind of job. You don't have to make stuff up,'' he says. "The craziness comes to you.''
One afternoon with the cameras rolling, Dankers was sitting in plainclothes in a car surveilling a house, when a guy left the house and approached the car.
"He just walks up, knocks on the window and then starts asking if we want to buy bootleg CDs and DVDs,'' Dankers says.
All laughs aside, both men say they're grateful to be on television — Araujo for the broader perspective it gives of the police and their work, and Dankers for his kids.
"A lot of people have asked why we would want to do this show,'' he says. "One of my biggest reasons is that I can't bring my kids to work. My job is too dangerous. I can't bring friends or family, either. So this is a way to create a record for my kids to see what their dad does. And maybe it will inspire them to try to be good people when they're older.''
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OWEN CANFIELD: Jumping from pillar to post as summer starts
I don't write politics, but as a veteran, taxpayer and proud American, I have to speak up once in a while. We all do. So . . . It bothers me that no real answers have come forth about the four murdered diplomats in Benghazi on 9-11-12 , other than Hillary Clinton's absurd, "at this point what difference does it make how they died?'' I don't know about you, but, as a taxpayer, one of those who pays the former Secretary of State's ample salary, I'd like a real answer and an honest accounting of the bloody incident that took the lives of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other loyal Americans who were apparently hung out there alone to fend for themselves against murdering terrorists. Is this , now, America's way of doing things?
I'd also like to know why President Barack Obama wasn't right there on the job and calling the shots when it was happening. I, like most Americans, also have numerous questions about the scandals bubbling up in government. Mr. President, answer us, will you? Don't look away. Don't change the subject. Answer us.
Gov. Dannel Malloy has many questions that scream for answers as well. Such as, how can you give millions in taxpayer money to corporations that don't need it and build an unnecessary bus-way, spending more gazillions, and reduce aid to hospitals. HOSPITALS! People deserve answers, but they must stand up and demand them. Where is leadership, real leadership?
Gloom in the Room
Did you check out the Wednesday newspaper photograph of Obama and Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland? Have you ever seen more doleful expressions? Another thing - doesn't anyone wear a necktie anymore? The picture depicted stark sadness in a casual setting. I'm surprised they didn't kick off their shoes, too. The dark mood came from disagreement of the two leaders over Syrian policy.
Back to Malloy. The governor showed a decided lack of good judgment (I was going to say lack of class) by barging in uninvited on Texas Gov. Rick Perry's reception for Connecticut gun makers and others last week. It looked like a pouty, panicky bumble by Malloy.
I'll be pleased and relieved when Obama and Malloy have left their public posts. Both, in my view, have done considerable damage to our country and our state.
OK, Enough. There are better topics to explore.
Goodbye and Good Luck
Brianna and Bill Chase and kids are leaving Torrington for Havelock, N.C. and Cherry Point Marine Air Base. He is a (civilian) aviation Inspector. Brianna has been brightening days for customers of Price Chopper Pharmacy for 5 ½ years with her constant smile and cheerful words. She'll be missed.
Rev. Tiano Moving On
Torrington will also soon bid goodbye to the Rev. Christopher Tiano, whose seven years as pastor of the Torrington Cluster of Catholic Churches ends July 1.
South Windsor, his next assignment, gets a terrific priest and tireless worker. He dropped in and gave me communion one day when I was recuperating from a serious accident at Litchfield Woods. That day he said he had just come from the home of the late Tim Considine, a beloved figure in our town (Torrington) who eventually lost his battle with Lou Gehrig Disease.
A Classy Class Reconvenes
Jean Wylie Reid of Harwinton emailed Thursday: "A great lunch yesterday .. . Our intrepid Marcia Bennett Gutherie drove up from New Jersey and Sue Deming Prince was visiting from Florida and she joined us . . . We learned Shirley Ricci Hanrahan is still in Hartford Hospital after last Thursday's seven-hour operation. Also Marian Radzevich Wadhams remains in a nursing home.''
At that luncheon, which I attended, Jean rapped her water glass and asked for a few seconds of silence for Al Teti and Bertha Eschenbrenner Signorelli, who have died since our last meeting.
Jean Reid is a wonder. More than that, she cares. We'd be lost and scattered without her. Hope she knows we all appreciate what she does.
Mr. Cool, in his Panama
So, I bought a Panama-style hat at Target, clapped it on my head and headed for my car. I passed a woman in the parking lot and boldly asked, "Do you think this hat is too big?''
She looked at me, and said, "No . . . but don't forget to take the price tag off.'' I whipped off the hat and there was the price tag, dangling from the brim in the back.
OMG! Embarrassment City. "Oh no,'' I said. "You must think I'm the hick brother of Cousin Minnie Pearl.'' But the pleasant shopper was very nice and laughed along with me, not at me.


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COROT overview
- Searching for rocky planets outside our Solar System, COROT is an important stepping stone in the European effort to find habitable, Earth-like planets around other stars.
- By studying the acoustical waves rippling across the surfaces of stars, with waves as high as a few meters, one can penetrate into the so far 'invisible' stellar interiors and learn about the physics of stars. This is the engine driving the most important energy source in our universe, which creates the environment necessary for life on the surface of planets.
For more in-depth scientific and technical details of our Space Science Programme and missions, follow this link.
COROT is the first mission capable of detecting rocky planets, several times larger than Earth, around nearby stars (planets outside our Solar System are referred to as 'exoplanets'). It consists of a 30-centimetre space telescope. It was launched on 27 December 2006.
COROT will use its telescope to monitor closely the changes in a star's brightness that comes from a planet crossing in front of it. While it is looking at a star, COROT will also be able to detect 'starquakes', acoustical waves generated deep inside a star that send ripples across a star's surface, altering its brightness. The exact nature of the ripples allows astronomers to calculate the star's precise mass, age and chemical composition.
This technique is known as asteroseismology and ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has been taking similar observations of the Sun for years. The COROT data is therefore essential to compare the Sun with other stars.
What's special?
From the ground, the only planets detected around other stars have been giant gaseous worlds (Jupiter-like planets), over 10 times the diameter of the Earth. Not affected by the distorting effects of the atmosphere, COROT will be the first spacecraft capable of finding worlds made of rocks.
Such rocky worlds are smaller than the gas giants but several times larger than the Earth, itself the biggest rocky planet in the Solar System. Such planets would represent a new, as yet undiscovered, class of world that astronomers believe exists. With COROT, astronomers expect to find between 10-40 of them, together with tens of new gas giants, in each star field that COROT will observe. Every 150 days COROT will move to a new field and begin observing again.
ESA then plans to continue its search for Earth-like worlds into the second decade of the century with the launch of the Darwin mission. This flotilla of 4 or 5 spacecraft will take pictures of Earth-like worlds, allowing scientists to search for signs of life.
The payload of the COROT satellite consists of a telescope, two cameras - one for each of the two mission objectives (exoplanet search and asteroseismology), and the on-board computer processors. The latter were manufactured in ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) by the Research and Scientific Support Department as one contribution of ESA to the COROT mission.
The telescope is made out of two parabolic mirrors, having a 1.1-metre focal length. The field of view is a square of 2.8 x 2.8°, half for the seismology mission, the other half for the exoplanet mission. A prism, used by the telescope for certain aspects of the mission, will separate colours, enabling scientists to study stellar activity during a planetary transit.
There is an external 'baffle' on the telescope (designed at ESTEC). This is a device for shielding a lens from 'light pollution' from sources other than those objects at which the telescope is looking.
After launch, COROT was placed on a circular, polar orbit that allows for continuous observations of two large and opposite regions in the sky for more than 150 days each. Within each region there are many selected fields that will be monitored in turn. The reason for the oppositely sited regions is that, because of the Earth's movement around the Sun, the sun's rays start to interfere with the observations after 150 days. COROT then rotates by 180 degrees and start observing the other region.
COROT was first proposed in December 1996 by the French National Space Agency (CNES) and, over the next three years, the project was researched to see if it was feasible. In September 1999, a call for potential European partners was made and in March 2000, CNES gave the green light to carry out COROT.
COROT is a mission led by the French national space agency, CNES. ESA has joined the mission by providing the optics for the telescope and testing of the payload. Through this collaboration a number of European scientists have been selected as Co-Investigators in open competition. They come from Denmark, Switzerland, the UK and Portugal. As a result of ESA's participation in COROT, scientists from ESA's Member States will be given access to the satellite's data. The baffle of the telescope has also been developed by a team at ESA's ESTEC site.
ESA's Research and Scientific Support department (RSSD) at ESTEC is a full partner in COROT by providing the on-board Data Processing Units (DPU's). Other partners in COROT are Austria, Spain, Germany, Belgium and Brazil.
The ground stations used for COROT are located in Kiruna (S), Aussaguel (F) Hartebeesthoek (South Africa), Kourou (French Guyana), with mission-specific ground stations in Alcantara (Brazil) and Vienna (A).


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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today $18.8 million in grants for 216 humanities projects.
This funding will support a wide variety of projects, including fellowships for scholarly research and the development of new undergraduate courses in the humanities, traveling exhibitions, production and development of films, the development and staging of major exhibitions, digital tools, and the preservation of and access to historic collections.
The grant awards announced today highlight the breadth of high-caliber humanities projects and research supported by the Endowment. With NEH support, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia will mount an exhibition and website on the lasting social and medical impact of the Civil War's unprecedented number of deaths and battlefield injuries, and researchers at the University of California at Berkeley will create a digital tool to help scholars identify authors of texts with ambiguous origins through analysis of its grammatical and stylistic features.
This round of funding will also support the production of a four-hour documentary examining the ecological and economic causes and consequences of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and enable the expansion of a publically accessible online database of recordings made between 1900 and 1950 by RCA Victor Records, the largest record company in the U.S.
NEH grants will allow college and university teachers to develop new approaches, courses, and curricula within the humanities around essential questions such as "why do humans write?" and subjects like the experiences of Southern soldiers in the Mexican-American War. Grants announced today will also allow humanities scholars to pursue advanced research on topics as diverse as the Morrill Act's remaking of American higher education against the backdrop of the Civil War, the history of cultural encounter and exchange between Austria and Turkey from the late 19th century till today, and Ralph Waldo Emerson's stance on antebellum political debates over equality.
"From documentaries and exhibitions that bring to life the events that have shaped our country to the use of new technologies that enhance our capacity to understand the past, these projects represent some of the most innovative work happening in the humanities today," said Jim Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This award cycle, institutions and independent scholars in 39 states and the District of Columbia will receive NEH support. Complete state-by-state listings of grants are available here (40-page PDF).
In this cycle, grants were awarded in the following categories:
- America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning and Implementation Grants support projects that create new ways to excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways.
- America's Media Makers: Development Grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare programs for production.
- America's Media Makers: Production Grants support the preparation of a media program for distribution.
- Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants encourage innovations in the digital humanities by supporting the planning stages of projects.
- Enduring Questions Grants allow faculty members to develop a new undergraduate course that grapples with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities.
- Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions provide scholars with research time and success to resources that might not be available at their home institutions.
- Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grants allow institutions to preserve and provide access to collections essential to scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities.
- NEH On the Road Grants help small sites defray the cost of hosting an NEH traveling exhibition.
- Picturing America School Collaboration Projects Grants provide teachers and librarians whose schools display Picturing America images to incorporate them into the school's core curriculum.
- Preservation and Access Research and Development Grants support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources.
- Teaching Development Fellowships support college and university teachers pursuing research aimed specifically at deepening their knowledge in the humanities to improve undergraduate teaching.


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NEA president thanks Coakley for years of service, congratulates U.S. Senator-Elect Brown
WASHINGTON - January 20, 2010 -
WASHINGTON—National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel offered the following statement regarding the election of Scott Brown in yesterday's special election in Massachusetts to fill the balance of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy's unexpired term.
"The National Education Association, representing 3.2 million educators across America, thanks Martha Coakley for her years of public service and for her work campaigning to be Massachusetts' next U.S. senator. NEA and the Massachusetts Teachers Association have been and will continue to be honored to work with Attorney General Coakley on issues of critical importance to educators and the students they serve.
"As Attorney General for Massachusetts and for the last 20 years of her career as a public servant, Martha Coakley has been a leading voice for public education. She is an advocate for public safety in schools and communities, she works tirelessly to open up the doors of higher education by ensuring that student loan policies are fair and she is working daily for the rights of children.
"We congratulate U.S. Senator-elect Brown on his victory and look forward to working with him in service to the people of the Commonwealth and the United States. There are a host of issues that will require Brown's immediate attention, not the least of which is health care reform. An estimated 46 million Americans, including 8 million children, are without health insurance. We look forward to working with U.S. Senator-elect Brown to tackle this and other issues facing America's middle class families. We are hopeful that U.S. Senator-elect Brown will continue the tradition of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy of making support for public education a top priority.""
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Desperate for some frontcourt help, the Rutgers men's basketball team made a last-minute addition to its 2010-11 roster Monday with a 6-foot-7 transfer from New Mexico State.
Robert Lumpkins, a senior who is eligible to play right away because he's already earned an undergraduate degree, will add depth to a front line that had numbered just three scholarship players—senior Jonathan Mitchell, sophomore Austin Johnson and freshman Gil Biruta.
"Robert is a veteran player with high-level experience," Rutgers coach Mike Rice said in a statement. "We are very excited to welcome him into the program. Robert's addition is going to provide us additional versatility and depth in our efforts to play a tenacious style for a full 40 minutes."
A Washington, D.C. native, the 215-pound Lumpkins played a year of junior college ball at Kilgore (Tx.) before joining the Aggies. He mostly came off the bench there for two seasons, averaging 2.6 points and 1.3 rebounds as a sophomore and 4.0 points and 3.8 boards as a junior.
"I am very grateful for the opportunity Rutgers has given me," Lumpkins said. "Growing up in Washington, D.C., I have always followed Big East basketball. Now I get to be a part of it. I'm going to do whatever I can to help the team."
Rutgers still has three open scholarships. Classes begin on Sept. 1.


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It's almost as if Mel Gibson's The Passion has come to life. In Chicago's largely Hispanic Pilsen neighborhood, some 7,000 people gather at Providence of God Parish for the beginning of the Via Crucis or "Way of the Cross" every Good Friday. This is no symbolic walk through the park, however; "Pontius Pilate" is dressed in Roman garb, as are the soldiers who accompany "Jesus" the 12 blocks to Harrison Park, where he will be literally tied to a cross.
Some find the realism a bit disturbing, but it makes perfect sense to Latino Catholics, says Timothy Matovina, associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. "Suffering is a reality for Latino people. Our people have suffered and we continue to suffer," he says. "In the Latino world, the celebration of Good Friday is a radical acceptance of life as it is."
The important part of the Via Crucis isn't the realistic blood dripping from the real crown of thorns but rather the sense of accompaniment–with Jesus and with Mary–in the procession. "The idea is that you go be with someone in their suffering, just as you would go be with a friend or even an acquaintance who has had a death in the family," he says.
The day continues with a service featuring the Siete Palabras or Seven Last Words, the Pésame or condolences to Mary, and finally the Santo Entierro or holy entombment.
This connection of Christ's suffering to that of the people is extremely significant in popular Latino devotion as well as in liberation theology. "If Christ's suffering is redemptive, then our struggles will also have a higher meaning," Matovina explains.
This doesn't preclude working to end suffering, nor is it dangerous for victims, he says. "In fact, while people are left to wallow in their suffering, I think to remove the symbols that provide meaning to that suffering would be spiritually detrimental," he says.
Although some say that Hispanics could stand to put more emphasis on Easter, there's also a danger in skipping the suffering that comes before Resurrection. "Of course, we always need to move toward the hope of the Resurrection," Matovina says. "But, at the same time, the rest of us need to focus on the suffering of the world. That is an essential part of being a disciple."
This article appeared in the March 2005 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 70, No. 3, page 15).


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The new healthcare reform legislation contains a tax that could spell the end of employer-sponsored health coverage for many small business employees. In just over one year, insurance companies will become subject to a tax called the Health Insurance Tax (HIT).
Small businesses already suffering under the weight of ever-rising premium costs will be disproportionately affected by this tax, which will be passed on to the carriers' customers in the form of increased premiums. It is time for your small-business clients to begin preparing for the very real possibility that employer-sponsored health care coverage will be prohibitively expensive after the HIT becomes effective.
How Does the HIT Work?
The HIT is a tax on insurance carriers imposed in proportion to the carrier's outstanding net premiums, meaning that insurance carriers with a higher market share will pay a higher rate. Though the HIT is technically a tax on insurance carriers that provide health insurance, the additional cost to insurers will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher premium payments.
The tax is set to increase each year according to an index based on net premium growth. In the first ten years that the HIT is effective, it is estimated that it will generate approximately $87 billion in revenue—increasing to about $208 billion in its second decade.
The proceeds from the HIT will be used to fund health insurance exchanges and finance subsidies for those without health coverage. However, by imposing a tax on health insurance carriers that will be passed on to small-business owners, the HIT essentially increases the number of employees that will need to rely on these subsidies.
Unintended Consequences
The HIT will have a disproportionate effect on small-business owners because it specifically excludes companies who self-insure; the vast majority of small businesses do not have the resources to self-insure. Further, small business owners have significantly less leverage to negotiate lower premiums with insurance carriers.
Your small-business clients are likely already having difficulty with the high costs of providing health coverage for their employees. The average small business saw a 9.9% increase in the cost of providing health benefits in 2011. If the new health care reform legislation is held to be constitutional, providing health coverage will become even more expensive for small businesses.
The result could be harsh—many of your small business clients could be forced to eliminate health coverage as an employee benefit. It is also possible that they may reduce the cost of the insurance that they do provide by eliminating dependent coverage or increasing the proportion of the cost paid by the employee.
At minimum, the HIT will increase the costs of health coverage for small businesses, thereby limiting growth and reducing hiring among companies struggling to cover the high costs of health insurance.
The likely results of a healthcare reform package that includes the HIT could substantially hinder the ability of small businesses and the self-employed to purchase comprehensive health coverage. Your self-employed and small business clients need to prepare for the possibility that their health premiums will increase even further in 2014 and beyond.
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Mike Lazaridis Leaves BlackBerry
It's the end of an era at BlackBerry.
As part of its fourth-quarter earnings announcement early this morning, the company said that co-founder and former CEO Mike Lazaridis will retire as vice chairman and director on May 1.
"[BlackBerry CEO] Thorsten [Heins] and his team did an excellent job in completing BlackBerry 10," Lazaridis said in a statement. "We have a great deal of which to be proud. I believe I am leaving the company in good hands. I remain a huge fan of BlackBerry and, of course, wish the company and its people well."
A smartphone pioneer who established BlackBerry in 1984 as Research In Motion, Lazaridis now plans to focus his attention on Quantum Valley Investment, a fund targeting commercial applications in quantum information science.
"Mike revolutionized the mobile communications industry and is widely recognized as one of Canada's greatest innovators," BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said of Lazaridis during a Thursday earnings call. "He's played a pivotal role in the last 15 months with the launch of BlackBerry 10. I deeply respect his desire to devote his full-time efforts to his new venture."
Lazaridis was an occasional guest at our D conferences. Below, video of his sessions at D7 and D:Dive Into Mobile:


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Hispanic College Enrollment Grows Sharply
Increase in the Hispanic population, ages 18-24, from 2009 to 2010: 7%.
Increase in Hispanics enrolled in college, ages 18-24, from 2009 to 2010: 24%.
Those numbers are from a new Pew Hispanic Center analysis of Census Bureau data from the Current Population Survey. According to the analysis, a record 1.8 million Hispanics, ages 18-24, were enrolled in college in October 2010.


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Morenci Middle School teacher Doug Rupp was a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes organization when he was growing up in Wauseon.
He still recalls many good times and valuable lessons learned from his days with FCA. A year and a half ago, he decided to see if Morenci students were interested in creating some memories.
With the help of colleague Dan Hoffman, Mr. Rupp launched a Morenci chapter for sixth, seventh and eighth graders in October 2007 and the club remains strong.
Many times FCA membership starts to dwindle following the initial meetings, Mr. Rupp said, but not with the Morenci group.
"We've been pretty consistent with 25 to 40 students each time," he said.
Morenci's huddle—as each small group is called—was organized through Buckeye Border FCA that includes five northwest Ohio counties, plus Lenawee and Hillsdale in Michigan.
For a $40 annual fee, each huddle receives a magazine and program ideas.
The group meets every other Wednesday during lunch hour. Participants pick up they are lunches at the cafeteria, then head to Mr. Rupp's classroom to meet.
"I had no idea if it would go, because that's their free time," Mr. Rupp said.
Discussion focuses on a pre-arranged topic at each meeting and a video features the trials and tribulations of a well-known athlete.
The theme of the discussion ties Christian concepts to action on the athletic field—behavior on the playing field, how athletics can tie into daily life, etc.—but all students are welcomed to join in, whether or not their playing organized sports.
Morenci graduate Zac Johnson, a student athlete at the University of Michigan, will visit the group this spring.
Discussion has taken a side step recently as the group plans for its annual fund-raiser, a middle school dance. The event is scheduled in the cafeteria Friday night, with a DJ furnishing the music.
Morenci than 100 students attended last year's event.
Proceeds from the dance will help send some students to FCA camp in the summer.


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9:24 pm
December 6, 2012
PIO Haut Blows the Lid Off Roswell
Explosive Video Testimony: Blanchard Lied about Marcel's Flying Saucer
Have you seen that shocking interview of Walter Haut talking about Roswell's flying saucer press release? If not, stop reading and click this link. I watched the entire 30 minute Haut interview on YouTube (the link for the full video is below) and it opened my eyes.
Here's a short transcript of the most incredible revelation.
Interviewer: What, uhh, once you wrote up the new release, what happened after that?
Haut: As I said, I had to take it into town. Uhh, he (Roswell Army Air Field's base commander Colonel Blanchard) told me to take it in so that if there was any validity to the fact that this was a flyin' saucer, that, and information got out to other news media other than our own, he felt that he wanted our people there in Roswell to have first crack at it... didn't want them to feel that he had given the information out to someone who got it to the, uhh, press services outside of Roswell.
If there was any validity to the fact it was a flyin' saucer? IF?
Is that really what Blanchard really said?
If so, why would he 'order up' a press releasestating the USAAF absolutely recovered a flying saucer if he wasn't certain?
Does that make sense to anyone?
Could it be Blanchard was nervous? Drunk? Have his head up his ass?
Haut said he's almost positive Blanchard saw the debris before he authorized his press release… that he was surprisingly calm and business-like that day… that he knew what a weather balloon when he saw one, was a West Pointer, an accomplished Air Force officer, intelligent, and not the type to go off half-cocked.
Again, I'm baffled. Haut's assessment suggests Blanchard would have realized his flying saucer press release stood to revolutionize the world's understanding of religion and science. Fairly significant, wouldn't you agree? If I'd been in Blanchard's boots, I would've been excited to the point of crappin' my pants.
However, there is one possibility…
What If Blanchard's Press Release was a Lie?
If Blanchard was lying about the flying saucer, then his odd behavior and lack of excitement make more sense. An ambitious young colonel could only remain calm while releasing world changing information to the press if he was reasonably confident he could scapegoat a gullible boob. Enter Jesse Marcel.
Whutch Ya Got There, Jesse?
In the video, Haut says Major Marcel was smart too. But was he? I can think of 2 reasons why he wasn't.
For starters, he took the debris home to show his family. The question here is how did he know the debris wasn't radioactive? He was a crash investigator at a base where planes carried atomic ordnance, right? Radioactivity should have been on the mind of a competent military flight crash investigator, right? So why would he risk the lives of his wife and 11 year-old son? Doesn't sound too smart to me.
The other reason—what right did he have to show any civilians (even his family) the debris he recovered while on duty? Sure the debris hadn't been classified top-secret at that point in time, but he was an intelligence major and he believed with all his heart he recovered a flying saucer. He had to know the debris (if it really was a saucer) would become highly classified material the moment he returned to Roswell Army Air Field. Revealing top-secret or classified military secrets is a serious offense—apparently he wasn't smart enough to understand or care about national security.
Still Think Jesse Marcel Sr. was Smart?
I don't. I think he was a boob. Why? We know from the video Marcel told his family the debris was part of, or from, a flying saucer. We also know from the video he never claims the debris in Texas was not what he recovered – only that some was left outside and the media didn't see it all. Yet it's a fact (based on photographs taken at Ramey's press conference) Marcel's saucer debris was either a weather balloon and a rawin target, or parts of a Project Mogul balloon and a rawin.
Bruce Hutchison posted a great article on his site The Roswell Files, and I found the following sentence particularly interesting.
"Interestingly, in two Efficiency Reports completed during his time with the 509th, Jesse was ranked last or second-to-last by the report author (Col. Blanchard was one) when asked to compare him to the other officers in his command."
In other words, Blanchard thought very little of Marcel. This is a key point because someone had to answer for the apparent flying saucer press release security breach.
Would you like to know why Blanchard and Air Force Command might have faked a flying saucer and blamed Marcel? Read on.
See Walter Haut's interview in its entirety. Administration Roswell Reunion: Number 1, 07/11/1990 - 07/12/1990 His part starts around the 62 minute mark (drag the little button if you want to skip the first 2 interviews).
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Why Being Gay Is a Hard Play in Rugby
The Australian Rugby Union says it will develop a policy to combat homophobia building up to the 2014 Bingham Cup tournament, the unofficial gay rugby World Cup, being played in Sydney. Andrew Purchas, president of Bingham Cup Sydney 2014, tells the WSJ's Deborah Kan how difficult it is for players to come out while playing professional rugby.
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JMU researchers awarded $45,650 in 4-VA grants
Researchers from JMU received more than $45,000 in 4-VA grants Friday, Feb. 15 to stimulate collaborative research projects or to redesign courses.
Dr. Costel Constantin, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, received the program's first $20,000 scale-up grant to involve students in a project he directs with a colleague at the University of Virginia, Dr. Patrick Hopkins in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Students from both schools involved in the research will be exposed to a wide variety of instruments, including a state-of-the-art laser system built for time domain thermo-reflectance measurements.
The research data obtained during summer 2013 will be used as preliminary data in seeking external funding from the National Science Foundation and other available funding agencies. The collaboration will enhance JMU's ability to motivate students to pursue an advanced degree in physics and engineering. U.Va. is matching the grant with $20,000.
In addition to the scale-up grant, six 4-VA mini-grants totaling $25,650 were awarded to seven JMU researchers.
The mini-grant recipients are:
- Dr. Louise Temple, professor of integrated science and technology, who received $4,100 for a collaborative research proposal that will develop a faculty and student partnership in authentic research that will be ongoing for the next two to three years. JMU students involved in the project will preform research in the summer and spend several weeks at Virginia Commonwealth University partnering with Dr. Gordon Archer and a doctoral student. Students at JMU will build on a pilot study conducted in an advanced ISAT research class at JMU and work by a clinician and a graduate student at VCU. To enhance collaboration, researchers will utilize the video conferencing capabilities at both universities to hold virtual lab meetings every month. In addition, the grant will fund research that will lead to the submission of a joint proposal to the Commonwealth Research Board in Fall 2013.
- Dr. Susan Halsell, associate professor of biology, who received $1,550 for a collaborative research project with George Mason University on drosophila research. Students will be trained in new techniques and will hold periodic lab meetings via the 4-VA technology. Co-authored presentations will occur at national meetings such as the Drosophila Research Conference and at regional meetings. JMU undergraduates will be included as presenters at these meetings.
- Dr. Roshna Wunderlich and Dr. Mark Gabriele, associate professors of biology, received $5,000 to redesign the Bio 290 Human Anatomy laboratory class at JMU so students will be introduced to laboratory concepts prior to the lab so they arrive prepared to use the concepts. This will reduce the amount of time faculty spend introducing material and increase the amount of time using material. The project also will provide a visual database of images and videos that students can utilize after lab. The project could expand the collaboration to both undergraduate and graduate medical faculty at other institutions in Virginia.
- Dr. Michele Estes, assistant professor of learning, technology and leadership education, who received $5,000 to address the challenge of distributed labs in STEM. Estes and Dr. Stephanie Moore at the University of Virginia have extensive experience in accessibility and universal design, which plays an important role in the development of online labs and will help ensure they are designed to serve the greatest number of learners to the greatest extent possible. Estes and Moore will articulate common learning objectives and outcomes that indicate characteristics of instructional quality of online labs and develop a plan and instructional strategy for the development and evaluation of online labs. In addition, the grant will fund research that will lead to a submission for a National Science Foundation proposal.
- Dr. Robert Prins, associate professor of engineering, who received $5,000 to support faculty-led collaborative research in electric mobility. The proposal aims to fund JMU student(s) to participate in an applied research project with Moto Electra LLC, thus strengthening the relationship between JMU and its corporate collaborator.
- Dr. Anne De Piante Henriksen, professor of integrated science and technology, who received $5,000 to collaborate with the department of biochemistry and molecular genetics, and with the Center for Public Genomics, at the University of Virginia. Henriksen will participate in world-class research in the areas of neuroscience, neuroendocrinology and cell signaling. The experience will enable Henriksen to bring valuable insight and experience back to JMU undergraduates. The project will also allow for a strong relationship to develop, which could lead to future collaborations with U.Va.
The 4-VA consortium was organized in 2010 by the presidents of JMU, George Mason University, University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, in an effort to foster collaboration and to meet the needs of the Commonwealth indentified by the Governor's Higher Education Commission and his Jobs Commission.
JMU President Jon Alger said the consortium not only highlights the "great research being done here at JMU," but also provides a model for solving the day's big problems through teamwork.
4-VA scale-up grants will be awarded twice a year to faculty who already have an established research agenda, have an established partnership in the research, can demonstrate promise and past progress and are about to launch a proposal for an externally-funded grant.
The 4-VA mini-grants, which range from $1,000-$5,000, could be awarded as often as once a quarter—subject to funding availability and qualified proposals—to support faculty efforts that contribute to 4-VA initiatives related to research and instruction. Potential outcomes include shared courses, redesigned courses or collaborate research projects.
Faculty can apply for the state-funded grants anytime. Awards are typically announced during the last week of July, October, January and May.
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NEA President Dennis Van Roekel pays tribute to Hispanic Americans
Notes their contributions during National Hispanic Heritage Month
WASHINGTON - September 08, 2008 -NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, a longtime math teacher and advocate for public education, today honored the contributions of Hispanic Americans to our communities, schools and nation as part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated each year from Sept.15 - Oct. 15.
"As we celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, we must recognize the inherent responsibility of our nation to ensure great public schools as a basic right for every student in America," said Van Roekel. "We believe all students-regardless of where they live, how much money their parents have, or what languages they speak-have the human and civil right to a quality public education."
A better life for their young daughter and the search to fulfill the promise of equality in America's schools is what drove Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez more than 60 years ago to challenge in court the status quo of school segregation in Southern California. In February 1946, the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles ruled in favor of the parents in Mendez v. Westminster, saying "The paramount requisite in the American system of public education is social justice."
Seven years later, in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court of the United States reaffirmed that sentiment, declaring "the opportunity of an education … where the state has undertaken it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms." In 2007, the U.S. Postal Service honored Mendez v. Westminster by issuing a stamp with the words, "Toward Equality in Our Schools."
"Today, Hispanics are changing the fabric of cities and states from coast-to-coast and influencing all segments of American life," said Van Roekel. "They have become the largest minority group in the U.S., and that growth is reflected in America's public schools. About 20 percent of public school students - 10 million children - are Hispanics. And among our 3.2 million members are many Hispanic Americans who work tirelessly every day in our public schools and higher education to create a better future for our nation's children."
"As we honor National Hispanic Heritage Month - and in the spirit of Mendez v. Westminster - we call on all educators, parents, citizen activists, and policymakers at the local, state and federal levels to work together to confront the most pressing issues in our schools and fulfill the promise to achieve equal educational opportunity."
For additional information, please visit http://www.nea.org/
The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional employee organization, representing 3.2 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers.
Contact: Miguel A. Gonzalez (202) 822-7823


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Thieves pop air bags out of dozens of cars
Car dealership owners say dozens of air bags were stolen during a weekend burglary at multiple locations.
KCCI-TV reports cars were broken into at dealerships in Ankeny and Pleasant Hill. The damage is estimated at $69,000.
"All the dealerships that were involved are out several, tens of thousands of dollars," said Chris Leo, sales manager at Dewey Dodge, Jeep. "After they pop the airbag out-I believe it's just a few connections that actually tie the airbag on it and allow it to work properly."
Dealership owners say the thieves were professional in how quickly they broke into cars and popped off the front of steering wheels.
"They disconnect the airbag with a couple of screw from in back and unhook two wires and the airbag is free," said Jim Brincks, sales manager at Bob Brown Buick GMC.
Dealers said luckily this is an uncommon crime.
"It's such a random act. I don't believe that shutting the true customers out who do business, I don't think that that's the solution," said Leo.
Dealership owners say Illinois State Police contacted them and said arrests had been made in Chicago. The air bags have been recovered, but it will be some time before they're returned.
Authorities told dealership owners that the suspects had been on a spree in Illinois before they came to Iowa.