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FBI nicks 22 in classic bribery sting
Hoover would be proud
The FBI has arrested 22 people, including three Brits, in a classic bribery sting.
Investigators used a supposed African defence minister to lend credence to their claim to be looking for someone to sell them arms for a Presidential guard unit. As part of the deal, the accused allegedly agreed to a 20 per cent bung to be paid to the minister on top of the $15m cost of the weapons and kit.
In fact, the sales agent requesting the bribe was an undercover FBI agent. The suspects were told half the money would go straight to the minister, and the rest would be kept by the sales agent. The 22 accused created two separate invoices - one for the true price and one for the price plus the fraudulent 20 per cent commission.
The FBI, in true 419er style, even got them to engage in a small test deal in order to show the minister that he would indeed get his ten per cent cut.
21 of the accused were arrested in Las Vegas at a military hardware trade show and one man was arrested in Miami.
The three Brits arrested are: David R. Painter, 56, and Lee M. Wares, 43, the chairman and director of a United Kingdom company that markets armoured vehicles and Pankesh Patel, 43, the managing director of a United Kingdom company that acts as sales agent for weapons companies.
Some 150 FBI agents raided 14 addresses in the US and City of London Police executed 7 search warrants as part of their own investigation into the companies involved.
Tony Blair famously pulled the plug on a long-running Serious Fraud Office investigation into bribery allegations against BAE in relation to deals done with Saudi Arabia, a decision described by the courts as "abject surrender".
This is the full list of the accused:
• Daniel Alvirez, 32, and Lee Allen Tolleson, 25, the president and director of acquisitions and logistics at a company in Bull Shoals, Ark., that manufactures and sells law enforcement and military equipment
• Helmie Ashiblie, 44, the vice president and founder of a company in Woodbridge, Va., that supplies tactical bags and other security-related articles for law enforcement agencies and governments worldwide
• Andrew Bigelow, 40, the managing partner and director of government programs for a Sarasota, Fla., company that sells machine guns, grenade launchers and other small arms and accessories
• R. Patrick Caldwell, 61, and Stephen Gerard Giordanella, 50, the current and former chief executive officers of a Sunrise, Fla., company that designs and manufactures concealable and tactical body armour
• Yochanan R. Cohen, aka Yochi Cohen, 47, the chief executive officer of a San Francisco company that manufactures security equipment, including body armour and ballistic plates
• Haim Geri, 50, the president of a North Miami Beach, Fla., company that serves as a sales agent for companies in the law enforcement and military products industries
• Amaro Goncalves, 49, the vice president of sales for a Springfield, Mass., company that designs and manufactures firearms, firearm safety/security products, rifles, firearms systems and accessories
• John Gregory Godsey, aka Greg Godsey, 37, and Mark Frederick Morales, 37, the owner and agent of a Decatur, Ga., company that sells ammunition and other law enforcement and military equipment
• Saul Mishkin, 38, the owner and chief executive officer of an Aventura, Fla., company that sells law enforcement and military equipment
• John M. Mushriqui, 28, and Jeana Mushriqui, 30, the director of international development and general counsel/U.S. manager of an Upper Darby, Penn., company that manufactures and exports bulletproof vests and other law enforcement and military equipment
• David R. Painter, 56, and Lee M. Wares, 43, the chairman and director of a United Kingdom company that markets armoured vehicles
• Pankesh Patel, 43, the managing director of a United Kingdom company that acts as sales agent for companies in the law enforcement and military products industries
• Ofer Paz, 50, the president and chief executive officer of an Israeli company that acts as sales agent for companies in the law enforcement and military products industries
• Jonathan M. Spiller, 58, the owner and president of a Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., company that markets and sells law enforcement and military equipment
• Israel Weisler, aka Wayne Weisler, 63, and Michael Sacks, 66, owners and co-chief executive officers of a Stearns, Ky., company that designs, manufactures and sells armour products, including body armour
• John Benson Wier III, 46, the president of a St. Petersburg, Fla., company that sells tactical and ballistic equipment
All the accused face charges of breaking the Foreign Corrupt Practises Act, conspiracy and money laundering charges. The conspiracy and FCPA charges carry maximum sentences of five years each, the money laundering charges a maximum of 20 years. ®


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Randy Rhoads - The Ultimate Shred Master!
Despite his short career, he is cited as an influence by many contemporary heavy metal guitarists. Here's his bio and gear guide...
Randy Rhoads, the influential Heavy Metal shredder...and much more!
Randall William "Randy" Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982) was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. A devoted student of classical guitar, Rhoads often combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style. While on tour with Ozzy Osbourne, he would often seek out classical guitar tutors for lessons.
Rhoads started playing guitar at age 7 on his grandfather's old Gibson "Army-Navy" classical acoustic guitar. According to Rhoads' mother, he learned to play folk guitar, which was a popular way to learn guitar at the time, although he did not take lessons for very long. Rhoads was always evolving toward a hard rock/metal lead guitar style, but he was heavily influenced by classical music as well. This can be heard on Ozzy Osbourne tracks like "Dee" (an instrumental he named for his mother Delores), "Mr. Crowley", "Diary of a Madman", "You Can't Kill Rock And Roll", "Crazy Train" and "Revelation (Mother Earth)".
Aged 17, Randy formed Quiet Riot with his best friend, Kelly Garni. Quiet Riot initially played in small bars in Hollywood and local parties in Burbank, eventually playing at the two main L.A. music clubs of the day — the Whisky a Go Go, and The Starwood. While the band had a strong following in the L.A. club scene, they were unable to secure a major recording contract in the United States. Eventually, however, the band was able to land a record deal with Japanese label CBS/Sony Records and Quiet Riot and Quiet Riot II were released in Japan.
But Randy Rhoads' big break came when he was drafted in to play guitar for Black Sabbath legend Ozzy Osbourne.
In 1979, ex-Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne was forming a new band. Future Slaughter bassist Dana Strum recommended Rhoads to Osbourne. Rhoads got the call for the audition just before his final show with Quiet Riot. He walked in with his Les Paul guitar and a practice amp and started warming up; Osbourne immediately gave him the job. Rhoads recalled later, "I just tuned up and did some riffs, and he said, 'You've got the gig.' I had the weirdest feeling, because I thought, 'You didn't even hear me yet.'" Osbourne described Rhoads' playing as "God entering my life." Rhoads subsequently recommended his friend Greg Leon to replace him in Quiet Riot, and then departed for the UK to write and record with Osbourne in November 1979. One of the best partnerships in Heavy Metal history was born.
The band, then known as the Blizzard of Ozz, headed into the studio to record the band's debut album, which would also be called Blizzard of Ozz. Rhoads' guitar playing had changed due to the level of freedom allowed by Ozzy and Bob Daisley and he was encouraged to play what he wanted. His work with Quiet Riot has been criticized as being "dull" and did not rely on classical scales or arrangements. Propelled by Rhoads' neo-classical guitar work, the album proved an instant hit with rock fans, particularly in the USA. They released two singles from the album: "Mr. Crowley" and the hit "Crazy Train". The British tour of 1980-81 for Blizzard of Ozz was with Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake. After the UK tour, the band wrote another LP before the US Blizzard of Ozz tour. But before the US Blizzard tour, both Lee Kerslake and Bob Daisley were fired by Sharon Osbourne. For the US Blizzard tour, Tommy Aldridge and Rudy Sarzo were hired. Diary of a Madman was released soon after Blizzard of Ozz in October 1981, and since Kerslake and Daisley were already out of the band, Aldridge and Sarzo's photos appear on the album sleeve. This was the source of many future court battles. You Said it All and You Looking At Me, Looking At You would become rare gems with the first to be only released on a handful of singles. Tribute would be released years down the road.
Around this time Rhoads remarked to Osbourne, fellow Ozz bandmates Tommy Aldridge and Rudy Sarzo, and friend Kelly Garni that he was considering leaving rock for a few years to earn a degree in classical guitar at UCLA. In the documentary Don't Blame Me, Osbourne confirmed Randy's desire to earn the degree and stated that had he lived, he didn't believe Randy would have stayed in his band. Friend and ex-Quiet Riot bassist Kelly Garni has stated in interviews that if Randy had continued to play rock, he might have gone the route of more keyboard-driven rock, which had become very popular through the 1980s.
Randy and his classic V-shaped guitar
It was at this time that Rhoads was beginning to receive recognition for his playing. Just before his death Jackson Guitars created a signature model, the Jackson Randy Rhoads or Randy Rhoads Pro (though it was recommended to be called the Jackson Concorde). Randy received two prototypes — one in black and one in white — but died before the guitar went into production. Rhoads also received the Best New Talent award from Guitar Player magazine.
Randy Rhoads' last show was played on Thursday March 18, 1982 at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee. On March 19, 1982, he tragically lost his life in a freaky flying accident. Rhoads, despite his well known fear of flying, agreed to go on a "joyride" flight, where attempts were made to "buzz" the tour bus where the other band members were sleeping. They succeeded twice, but the third attempt was botched. The left wing clipped the back side of the tour bus, tore the fiberglass roof then sent the plane spiraling. The plane severed the top of a pine tree and crashed into the garage of a nearby mansion, bursting into flames. Rhoads was killed instantly.
But Randy's place in history was already guaranteed by then, and he'll never be forgotten. And it's safe to say that other Ozzy guitarists who followed - including Zakk Wylde - have not matched his talent and influence.
Randy Rhoads Gear Guide
1964 Cream Gibson Les Paul Custom (dated by Randy Rhoads - unverified - as Les Pauls single cut stopped in 1960)
1957 Black Gibson Les Paul Custom
Karl Sandoval Polka Dot Flying V
White Jackson Randy Rhoads w. black pinstripes (called the "Concord" and was a prototype at the time)
Black Jackson Randy Rhoads
Guild 12 string acoustic
Mid 60s Fender Stratocaster
Gibson Firebird 12 string electric guitar
Martin 6&12 string acoustics
Crybaby Wah pedal
MXR Distortion + Script
MXR 10 band equalizer
MXR Stereo flanger
MXR Stereo chorus
Maestro Phase Shifter
Maestro Echoplex
Roland FV-300H Volume Pedal (try the Boss FV-500H)
Roland Space Echo (get that sound with Boss RE-20 Space Echo)
Marshall vintage Super Lead Plexi 100w amp heads (2) (if you want something similar but can't afford it, try the Hayden Classic Lead 80)
Marshall 4x12 White cabinets with Altec Lansing speakers (2)
Marshall 4x12 Black cabinets with Altec Lansing speakers (2)
Marshall Plexi MKII Super Lead 100 watt amp (modded with cascade mod)
Ampeg 4x12 cabinet with Altec Lansing speakers
Peavey standard 130 watt amp
Fender Harvard 1x12 amp
Randy's FX pedals order, onstage, was: wah > distortion > EQ > flanger > chorus > delays > two amps
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PeopleTalk: A conversation with Bill Yuhnke
Bill Yuhnke was 14 when he took a job pumping gas for Yellow Cab of Buffalo. He never dreamed that 20 years later he would own the cab company. Yuhnke, who grew up on the city's West Side, worked for a handful of local radio stations and also served in the U.S. Army Reserves before he returned to the cab business.
Yuhnke launched Liberty Cab in 1987 with only a couple of vehicles. In May 2003 he bought Yellow Cab. Today Yuhnke is 61, and as president of Liberty and Yellow cab companies he oversees a fleet of 140 vehicles, 200 drivers and about 20 employees, some of whom man the computer-aided dispatch service.
Throughout his 35 years in the cab business Yuhnke repeatedly has shown his commitment to the community. "You can't outgive God," said the civic-minded businessman who gives free cab rides to cash-strapped voters, blood donors, prom-goers and drivers too drunk to operate a motor vehicle.
In 2004, Yuhnke was named small-fleet operator of the year by Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association.
People Talk: You're sitting on top of cab mountain.
Bill Yuhnke: I've had offers to sell quite a few times. I didn't, and not because of the financial offer. The last one was so outrageously high that people told me I need my head examined. The sticking point was my drivers and staff. The buyer was so large, he didn't need my staff.
PT: How did you choose the name Liberty Cab?
BY: I woke up in the middle of the night with two names in particular. One was Lincoln, and the other was Liberty Cab. I didn't want to be known as a cab company that services one particular area, like South Buffalo Taxi, Airport Taxi, Kenmore Cab.
PT: Describe your management style.
BY: I've always opened the door. My ex-wife has even worked here. We started the business together, and we can still work together and be civil. A lot of marriages could not end that way. I always say my funeral will be a very interesting one; I've been married four times.
PT: How long do your drivers stay with you?
BY: I have drivers who have been with me for 25 years. The average driver working full time here can make $200, $250 a day.
PT: What have you done to fight crime against cabbies?
BY: Right now we know in real time where our cars are at all times. We have a trouble button, which means the whole [computer dispatch] screen goes dark and the rest of the fleet is alerted that one of our drivers is in some type of trouble. All available cars proceed to that location. We call it the Liberty SWAT Team.
PT: What types of people come out to drive cabs?
BY: You'd be surprised at the people. We have lawyers, medical students, engineers. I've had ministers behind the wheel. The public likes women drivers. They seem to be more helpful.
PT: You have a diverse work force. How does that impact your operations?
BY: I've had to educate some of my middle managers about some employees' religious beliefs. At noon, a number of our Muslim drivers who practice Islam call out of service to go to mosque, and they're out for a couple of hours praying. During their Ramadan, they pray every three hours. One time, an employee was kneeling at my door praying, and some of my staff were wondering what I did to him.
PT: How strong is your faith?
BY: I consider myself a Christian. Even with the success of Liberty Cab I consider myself lucky, but I'm actually blessed. I remember the days I was struggling to make payroll. I'm going to say that if you just work hard and you keep giving, it comes back.
PT: What kind of a kid were you?
BY: I never skipped school. I had a paper route. My mom was really strict. She would never charge room and board as long as I deposited half of my earnings a week. I bought my own clothes at 12, 13. I was a delivery boy for a supermarket. I was a maintenance man on weekends.
PT: Your free-ride program for intoxicated drivers on New Year's Eve and St. Patrick's Day has drawn much attention. Would you consider expanding it to other holidays?
BY: With any program you'll get a little bit of abuse as far as the usage goes, which kind of upsets me. We actually had people calling us up on Dyngus Day to ask what free rides we were giving out. The intent was to get the drunk driver off the street, and it has worked. Our busiest day was St. Patrick's Day. We also get a lot of referrals from local police departments. A lot of times drivers are given a choice by police: either call a cab or get arrested.
PT: And now you are developing a fleet of wheelchair taxis?
BY: It's fairly new. It offers the disabled community the same rates as regular taxis. I now have two in my fleet, but under a federal grant we will get six more. We were awarded $187,761 from the federal government, and I'll put in $47,000. It gives our wheelchair community the opportunity to go to the Sabres games or out to dinner on Mother's Day.
PT: Don't you also have a program for seniors?
BY: It's a gift card that helps those with elderly parents to ensure their transportation needs are met. Money designated for cab service is placed on a gift card, and the children can track the account online.
PT: You are the P.T. Barnum of cab promotion.
BY: We are looking with WBBZ-TV to do a spinoff of "Taxicab Confessions," a TV show where passengers are filmed while talking to a cabbie. You've got to find the right driver to get the people to talk.
PT: Let's say I want to take a cab to New York. How much would it cost?
BY: We've done that. The fare was around $1,000.
PT: Are any of your cabs shabby?
BY: In the City of Buffalo, cabs cannot be more than 10 years old. I'll put my cabs against anybody's.
PT: What do you do for fun?
BY: Just recently, my wife and I – she goes away every summer, and I try to find things to keep me busy – bought a boat, a 30-foot cabin cruiser. We'll call it Liberty. That's a side of me that most people won't see. My plan is to bring my staff and employees on the boat.
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William B. McKinnon
Washington University
Campus Box 1169
1 Brookings Dr
Saint Louis MO 63130-4899
Research Interests
Outer Solar System Geology & Geophysics
Professor McKinnon's research focuses on the icy satellites of the outer solar system and the physics of impact cratering. The last twenty odd years of planetary exploration can be characterized by both the unveiling of the outer solar system - initially by the Voyager missions, but now by the Galileo mission to Jupiter as well as ground- and space-based telescopes - and the growing realization of the importance of impacts in solar system evolution. Professor McKinnon and his students and colleagues are dedicated to exploring this frontier, concentrating on the origin, structure, evolution, and bombardment history of outer planet satellites and Pluto. This includes understanding the relative importance of large impacts, orbital dynamics, and internal processes for tectonics and other surface modifications, the origin and evolution of impactor populations, and the cratering mechanics in ice and other targets.
Professor McKinnon is interested in extending our geological and geophysical perspectives to worlds where water ice is a major, if not dominant, constituent. These worlds include the satellite systems of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, which resemble miniature solar systems in part. Galileo image and other data received over the last several years has transformed our view of the Jupiter's major moons - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto - in particular. Ganymede and Callisto are especially interesting, as they are very similar in bulk properties, yet startlingly different in appearance. Work has focused on their internal structures, convection in their icy mantles, viscous relaxation of impact crater topography, and on Ganymede, topographic and morphologic evidence for water-rich volcanism. Other work has concerned the links between the extreme volcanism and towering mountains on Io, the solar system's most active solid body.
Of all of the Galilean satellites, though, Europa, with its complexly tectonically and volcanically deformed icy surface and probable subsurface water ocean, has clearly emerged as the star. Active research involves linking the tectonic patterns seen on the surface to sources of stress, the conditions necessary for subsolidus convection within both the surface ice shell and the interior silicate mantle, and the geophysical and geochemical consequences thereof. The latter are of deep interest because of the theoretical possibility of a subsurface biosphere, hosted in hydrothermal systems on Europa's ocean floor.
Understanding the ice-rock bodies of the deep outer solar system is especially challenging. Pluto and its moon Charon are important because they are survivors representative of the planetesimals that accreted to form Uranus and Neptune. Triton, Neptune's major satellite, may have been captured from solar orbit, and thus be similar to Pluto. Work in this area concerns the origin and interrelationships of these bodies and the ice-rock bodies of the Kuiper Belt, within which Pluto is found and from which Triton probably escaped. Recent work has redated the volcanic terrains on Triton, taking into account the impacts of smaller Kuiper Belt objects, and finds Triton's terrains to be much younger than previously thought.
The reconnaissance of the solar system is now complete, except for the significant exception of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt beyond. The cratering records of the solid planets and satellites contain the most direct evidence of the accretion of the solar system, a process that is not absolutely complete as the 1994 Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts with Jupiter attest. Much remains to be learned, especially as concerns the impact process itself and effects on target bodies. The Earth has not been spared from such collisions, and while infrequent today, the effects can be catastrophic. Magellan radar images of Venus and Mars Global Surveyor high-resolution images and laser altimetry open up other vistas. Past work has dealt with atmospheric effects on cratering, and the formation of multiringed craters, on Venus.
Planetary science suffers from no shortage of data to study and interpret, and the next twenty years should see new infusions from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Cassini mission to Saturn, new missions to Mars and Mercury, and if all goes well, missions to Europa and Pluto as well. Professor McKinnon is actively involved in NASA's effort to plan and launch these new missions to the frontiers of the solar system, particularly a return to orbit Europa and the first reconnaissance mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Planetary science remains vital and exciting, a field of central importance for our species and - as we are, like it or not, in charge around here - for all other species as well.
Bland, M. T., McKinnon, W. B., 2013. Does folding accommodate Europa's contractional strain? The effect of surface temperature on fold formation in ice lithosperes. Geophys. Res. Lett. 40, 2534-2538, doi:10.1002/grl.50506.
Bland, M. T., McKinnon, W. B., 2012. Forming Europa's folds: Strain requirements for production of large-amplitude deformation, Icarus 221, 694-709.
Bland, M. T., Singer, K. N., McKinnon, W. B., Schenk, P. M., 2012. Enceladus' extreme heat flux as revealed by its relaxed craters. Geo. Res. Lett. 39, L17204.
Dombard, A.J., A.F. Cheng, W.B. McKinnon, and J.P. Kay (2012). Delayed formation of the equatorial ridge on Iapetus from a sub-satellite created in a giant impact. J. Geophys. Res., in press.
Kirchoff, M.R., W.B. McKinnon, and P.M. Schenk (2011). Global distribution of volcanoes and mountains on Io: Control by asthenospheric heating and implications for mountain formation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 301, 22–30, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.018.
Singer, K.N., and W.B. McKinnon (2011). Tectonics on Iapetus: Despinning, respinning, or something completely different? Icarus 216, 198–211, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.023.
Schenk, P., D.P. Hamilton, R.E. Johnson, W.B. McKinnon, C. Paranicas, J. Schmidt, and M.R. Showalter (2011). Plasma, plumes and rings: Saturn system dynamics as recorded in global color patterns on its midsize icy satellites. Icarus b, 740-757, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.08.016.
Collins, G.C., W.B. McKinnon, J.M. Moore, F. Nimmo, R.T. Pappalardo, L.M. Prockter, and P.M. Schenk (2010). Tectonics of the outer planet satellites. In Planetary Tectonics, R.A. Schultz and T.R. Watters, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press), 264–350.
Bland, M.T., W.B. McKinnon, and A. P. Showman (2010). The effects of strain localization on the formation of Ganymede's grooved terrain. Icarus, 396–410, doi:100.1016/ j.icarus.2010.06.008.
Dones, L., C.R. Chapman, W.B. McKinnon, H.J. Melosh, M.R. Kirchoff, G. Neukum, and K.J. Zahnle (2009). Icy satellites of Saturn: Impact cratering and age determination. In Saturn From Cassini-Huygens, M.K. Dougherty, L.W. Esposito and S.M. Krimigis, eds. (Dordrecht, Springer-Verlag), 613–635.
McKinnon, W.B., R.T. Pappalardo, and K.K. Khurana (2009). Europa: Perspectives on an ocean world. In Europa, R.T. Pappalardo, W.B. McKinnon, and K.K. Khurana, eds. (Tucson, Univ. Arizona Press), 697–710.
Waite, J.H., W.S. Lewis, B.A. Magee, J.I. Lunine, W.B. McKinnon, C.R. Glein, O. Mousis, D.T. Young, T. Brockwell, J. Westlake, M.-J. Nguyen, B.D. Teolis, H.B. Niemann, R.L. McNutt, M. Perry, and W.-H. Ip (2009). Liquid water on Enceladus from observations of ammonia and 40Ar in the plume. Nature 460, 487–490, doi:10.1038/nature08153.
Schenk, P.M., and W.B. McKinnon (2009). One-hundred-km-scale basins on Enceladus: Evidence for an active ice shell. Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L16202, doi: 10.1029/2009GL039916.
The Solar System; Planetary Geology; Planetary Geophysics and Dynamics; Advanced Planetary Geology


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USF Riverfront Park
Tampa, Florida 1 course · 18 holes Driving directions
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+0 votes Steve Wallace › September 22, 2011
Always considered my home course here in Tampa. Know the angles, the staff, the flood stages, and even the Gator on No. 4. Very fair course. Woods, water, accuracy, and distance all test you. One of my favorites all time.
+0 votes Shaky jake › March 4, 2014
+0 votes Enoch Lowry › October 9, 2011
Drove up from fort myers to play the Sunday league and was greeted by some friendly locals who help show me the course ...great mix of shots with some o.b. areas some open holes mostly wooded though can b tough to find an errant throw on a few holes but overall a great course ....thanks to mike an bob for the hospitality
+0 votes Vinny Piperato › October 1, 2010
+0 votes Levi Fisher › April 21, 2014
+0 votes Mike Schweitzer › June 23, 2011
+0 votes Brian Nowokunski › November 20, 2011
Nice flight today! A little wind on the front nine.......
+0 votes Joshua Broer › November 10, 2010
+0 votes Seth McDonald › May 18, 2011
+0 votes JohnE McCray › October 7, 2011
short course with single chain baskets.Great wildlife and dangerous wildlife.
+0 votes Paul Speed › February 18, 2012
+0 votes Patrick Treude › December 29, 2017
This is really a great course with a variety of challenges. Front nine in a parkland setting with the back nine in the forest. It test all the shots and has some short technical holes as well. It has variety due to its duel basket locations. Overall, a very fun course to play.
+0 votes brian groch › August 18, 2013
+0 votes Kevin Herrington › September 23, 2013
+0 votes John B › January 7, 2014
Solid course. Some decent diversity and a couple ace-able holes. I saw a snake here once, in the rough, slithered away before I could get too close, didn't look dangerous at all. Slight water hazard around 2 and 4. The course is located on usf grounds, but no one cares. It says USF students only but the staff doesn't seem to mind. Course is well laid out and easy to follow. Pads on every hole with signs. Also a warm up pin located near 1. The rough can be a bit unforgiving but hey just don't throw it in hat eh rough and you'll be fine:)


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Alaska-Express Tiramisu
Martin Braun KG
Alaska-Express Tiramisu is a powdered fresh cream stabilizer with freeze-dried marscarpone powder. This product has a mascarpone flavor. It is freeze stable, cut stable, and safe and efficient to use. Alaska-Express Tiramisu is used in the production of various baking applications, including tortes, slices, desserts, Swiss rolls, and omelets.
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Martin Braun KG is a producer of various high-quality ingredients for the food and beverage industry. Their extensive product portfolio includes cream stabilizers, flavoring compounds, baking mixes, chocolate shavings, cream powders, gelatinous fruit fillings, and other food additives. The company is a well-recognized leader in the supply of products for bakery and confectionery applications.


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Community Outreach Week
This award winning week of service is aimed at uniting Lakers from around the globe in providing volunteer support and outreach to their communities in ways meaningful to each individual or group. This is a joint effort between the GVSU Alumni Association and the Community Service Learning Center. Volunteering has no boundaries. To broaden our Laker impact, all alumni Clubs and Chapters, students, as well as faculty/staff are encouraged to coordinate and/or participate in a community service project during this week in the name of Grand Valley.


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Doctor to test for Ebola in Guinea
A senior doctor in England is to travel to Guinea to help combat the Ebola outbreak.
Dr Christopher Logue is a virologist who will lead tests at a laboratory to check if patients with symptoms have actually contracted the potentially deadly virus.
So far more than 1,000 people have died and almost 2,000 suspected, probable or confirmed cases have been recorded in West Africa since the outbreak was first detected.
A high level isolation apparatus suitable for treating Ebola victims in a secure unit at The Royal Free Hospital, London
Dr Logue grew up in Park in Co Londonderry and is a senior virologist at the Novel and Dangerous Pathogens Training unit of Public Health England, based in Wiltshire.
The laboratory has an international reputation in scientific research, with a long established record in the safe handling of hazardous pathogens.
On Sunday the senior medic will travel to the scene of the outbreak and expects to remain there for a month as part of a team using rapid diagnosis tests on patients which can identify the presence of the Ebola virus in blood samples within a few hours.
Guinea has closed its borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia in a bid to halt the spread of the epidemic. Almost 400 people have died there.
Dr Logue told the BBC: "When you think about the sheer number of people that these doctors have to deal with, even with the best protection in the world, accidents can happen."
He added: "I'm not so much worried, because we've worked with Ebola for over 30 years and any time there's a suspect case coming into the UK it would be sent to us to test.
"With respect to being on the ground, it is slightly worrying but now we're quite far into the outbreak.
"Local teams have done a great job of informing local communities, and community leaders are going out to rural areas and informing people about the disease so they can be treated and looked after. It's a bit more stable now, which helps alleviate any fears we might have had."
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Two remarkable legal proceedings are currently wending their way through the federal criminal courts. The cases involve very
different parties: Conrad Black, one of the most consequential public intellectuals and businessmen of our era, and James "Whitey" Bulger, a Boston-based alleged racketeer and serial murderer. But both cases highlight some of the same profound problems with the way federal prosecutorial business is done these days.
In both cases, as in countless others, the feds have used certain techniques that virtually assure convictions of both the innocent and the guilty, the wealthy and the poor, the violent drug dealer and the white collar defendant, indifferent to the niceties of "due process of law," particularly the right to effective assistance of legal counsel. In order to prevent a defendant from retaining a defense team of his choice, federal prosecutors will first freeze his assets, even though a jury has yet to find them to have been illegally obtained. They then bring prosecutions of almost unimaginable complexity, assuring that the financially hobbled defendant's diminished legal team (or, as is often the case, his court-appointed lawyer) will be too overwhelmed to mount an adequate defense.
Prior to 2004 Conrad Black was a columnist, as well as chairman and chief executive of Hollinger International (now part of Sun-Times Media Group), a newspaper publishing giant whose holdings include the Chicago Sun-Times and the Daily Telegraph. He remains a highly regarded historian and author. In a case of enormous (and unnecessary) complexity, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice went after him on the basis of a dubious and controversial theory that in arranging the sale of Hollinger's assets, he finagled and structured the deal so as to personally receive a larger share of the proceeds than his ownership percentage entitled him. Rather than test their theory by filing a civil lawsuit on behalf of the minority shareholders, the feds brought an indictment running 75 pages, with 15 complex counts. After many years of litigation and several partially successful trips to the Supreme Court, Black found himself still convicted on two criminal counts, for which he served 42 months in prison.
It is quite possible that Black might have totally prevailed in his case, unnecessarily obscure and complex though it was, had he been able to employ from start to finish his initial legal counsel of choice: the fabled Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly, which had been representing him with considerable vigor in the pre-indictment stages. But the DOJ did what it routinely does in well-defended cases brought against well-heeled targets: it froze the bulk of Black's considerable assets, including the $9 million proceeds from the sale of his New York apartment that Black had specifically allocated for his legal defense. Black could no longer fight utilizing his "A" team.
After Black had exhausted his last appeal to the Supreme Court, and after he was finally released from prison, the courts dissolved the asset freeze, and Black found himself once again in a position to employ a top-flight legal team. He and his lawyers-of-choice brought an innovative legal attack on his conviction, claiming that the improper asset freeze had deprived him of the constitutionally-guaranteed effective legal counsel of his choice. To raise the issue at such a late date, Black's lawyers, the highly regarded Cleveland-based firm BakerHostetler, relied upon an ancient but rarely used common law-based procedure known as a petition for a writ of error coram nobis—the same procedure used in 1983 by Fred Korematsu to declare the World War II relocation of Japanese-Americans (including Korematsu himself) unconstitutional.
Meanwhile, in Boston, Whitey Bulger was having similar problems. A reputed mobster with a long history of violence, Bulger was captured in California in June 2011, rousted from his apartment where federal agents found an arsenal of illegal weapons and $800,000 in cash (which, importantly, had not been traced to any identifiable illicit activity) hidden behind a wall. Bulger was wanted in Oklahoma and Florida state courts for murder. In addition, the federal court in Boston charged him with racketeering, in two separate, sprawling indictments, one from 1994, and one from 1999. The 1999 indictment also subsumed 19 alleged murders.
Without much doubt, the 1999 Boston indictment would have been the most difficult, complex and expensive case for Bulger to defend against. Yet the feds chose to proceed on this case and dropped the 1994 indictment. As with Conrad Black, they froze all of Bulger's assets, including the cash found behind the wall. Bulger had to satisfy himself with a court-appointed lawyer. It happens that the appointed lawyer was someone of considerable reputation and experience, but the feds neutralized the appointed lawyer's skill by pouring more than 360,000 pages of disorganized documents onto him.
The federal magistrate and the judge have been very spare in their granting adequate relief to Bulger's lawyer in terms of time and resources needed to organize and study the mountain of documents. While the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution provides that "the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy . . . trial," the courts have twisted the law by claiming that the public, including Bulger's alleged victims, have a similar right. This, then, is used as an excuse to rush Bulger to trial before his rather skimpy legal team can be fully prepared.
Thus, Bulger will ultimately encounter much the same disability as Black: an inability to put up a fair fight in a case of unnecessary complexity defended against by a legal team inadequately equipped for the task because of a lack of sufficient time and resources.
These techniques are the rule, not the exception, when the Department of Justice really wants to win a case. When federal drug enforcers decide to go after physicians who recommend drugs for the alleviation of chronic pain in quantities or for conditions that roam outside of drug warriors' notions of the "good faith" practice of medicine, they indict the doctors under statutes aimed at drug dealers, then freeze their bank accounts.
I wrote in my 2009 book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent, about the 2006 prosecution of Dr. Peter Gleason, who was targeted for touting the benefits of the drug Xyrem for a number of medical conditions beyond what the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved. His assets frozen, Dr. Gleason, represented by an appointed Federal Defender, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in a plea bargain. Gleason expressed anger at having to drop his fight, assuring me of his innocence (assurances I examined and accepted) until February 7, 2011, when, worn out by the battle, he committed suicide. (The U.S. Court of Appeals later ruled, in the case of Dr. Gleason's co-defendant, that the FDA's application of its regulations was unconstitutional.)
When corporate executives are investigated and charged, the Department of Justice has been known to pressure their employer corporations to refuse to live up to contractual agreements to pay attorneys' fees for indicted executives. This practice was immortalized in a series of Department of Justice directives, one of which, signed June 16, 1999, is known as the "Holder Memorandum" in honor of its drafter, the current attorney general, at that time the deputy attorney general in charge of the Criminal Division at the DOJ. (In 2006, United States District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan declared the DOJ's practice unconstitutional, a decision affirmed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Kaplan wrote that the corporation only "refused to pay because the government held the proverbial gun to its head.")
Federal prosecutors, in contrast to most of their targets, operate on the basis of munificent funding (even if the money is borrowed by the government). They invariably have more resources than all but a tiny number of defendants. But this advantage is significantly magnified when a defendant's assets are frozen just as he seeks adequate and effective defense counsel to handle massive document dumps and overwrought indictments.
Lord Black's coram nobis petition (his title derives from his membership in the British House of Lords) is being closely followed around the country, as is Whitey Bulger's more sensational prosecution. Both cases, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of other federal prosecutions currently lodged in the bloated federal criminal justice system, raise the question of whether the federal Constitution, which supposedly guarantees defendants a fair trial, prohibits the feds from bringing unnecessarily complex charges and then financially disabling defendants from engaging in a fair fight. Hinging on the answer to that question is nothing less than a defendant's chance at an accurate outcome dictated by the facts and the law.
(The research and editing assistance of paralegals Juliana DeVries and Zachary Bloom is gratefully acknowledged.)


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Fishman originally built its reputation by developing pickups that literally changed the way acoustic stringed instruments were heard and experienced in live performance situations. Now the company is pleased to introduce a new line of premium pickups for Violin, Viola, and Cello at Winter NAMM.
A result of Fishman's special expertise in the field, an intensive R&D effort spearheaded by company founder Larry Fishman, and today's most sophisticated transducer technologies, these new pickups offer an extraordinary level of performance, tone quality and accuracy for stringed instruments.
The new piezo-ceramic Concert Series pickups for Violin (V-300), Viola (V-400) and Cello (V-200) are preinstalled in a high quality Despiau bridge to provide the ultimate performance in terms of a precise and perfectly balanced tone from string to string.
In addition to an exceptionally clear, true and natural tonal response that reveals the true character of the instrument, these new pickups sound remarkably consistent every time they are played.
The new stringed instrument pickups are also optimized for use with the Fishman Aura Imaging Pedals to provide a higher level of sound quality and added sonic versatility in live performance. Violin, Viola, and Cello pickups include a Carpenter jack.
An impedance-matching preamp for these pickups is recommended, but not required.
The new V-300, V-400 and C-200 pickups are available now all priced at £199 RRP inc VAT. Professional installation is required.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Feb 2008 20:50 UTC, submitted by Mark Wielaard
The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools and provides replacements libraries for the binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project. This release adds the "Zero-assembler" port which will allow IcedTea to run with zero (ok, minimal) porting effort on any GNU/Linux architecture that has a gcc and libffi port available. JNLP support has been added through the addition of NetX, which makes a lot of java webstart applications work out of the box. Check out the screenshots. Gary Benson will give a talk about the zero-assembler port at FOSDEM during the free Java developer meeting where GNU Classpath, OpenJDK and many other Free Java projects come together to plan the future of Free Java on GNU/Linux.


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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition is demanding that the government explain how a former Iranian official ended up with a check in Venezuelan currency worth about $70 million.
Venezuela's opposition coalition said in a statement on Monday that the government should clear up why the Iranian had a check for 300 million Venezuelan bolivars that was found by German customs authorities.
The German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported in its Sunday edition that the man who was trying to enter Germany with the check was Tahmasb Mazaheri, Iran's former central bank chief.
The weekly reported that customs officials at Duesseldorf airport found the check in his luggage on Jan. 21 upon his arrival from Turkey, and that Mazaheri told authorities the money was to be used for the construction of 10,000 apartments funded by the Venezuelan government.
President Hugo Chavez's government has built close ties with Iran's government in recent years, and Iran has helped build public housing in the country.
Opposition official Ramon Jose Medina called it a "clear irregularity" and said there should be a thorough investigation.
"We demand that there be an immediate explanation to the country about those funds," Medina said in the opposition coalition's statement.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles also expressed concern, saying in a message on Twitter on Sunday: "What explanation will the government give Venezuelans about what happened with the Iranian ex-minister?"
Venezuelan government officials have yet to comment on the matter. Officials at Iran's embassies in Caracas and Berlin could not be reached for comment.
German customs had issued a statement on Friday saying that a check for 300 million Venezuelan bolivars issued by the Bank of Venezuela was found on an unidentified 59-year-old man. They have declined to identify the man, who is now free to go about his business while officials investigate the funds.
Bild am Sonntag reported that German police and customs were investigating possible money laundering.


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Bell Labs
Since the early 1900s Bell Telephone Laboratories, or Bell Labs, has been a major source of technological experimentation and change. Bell Labs has sponsored research far beyond the limits of its original focus, the telephone. From telephones to radar to computers, the scientists at Bell Labs have had a hand in the most important inventions of the 20th century.
The roots of Bell Labs lay in the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), which became the parent organization of Bell Telephone System. Founded by Alexander Graham Bell in the 1870s, by 1910, AT&T had grown from a tiny firm to a large corporation with several subsidiaries, one of which was the Western Electric Company. Western Electric, the manufacturing branch of AT&T, made telephones, switchboards, and other types of equipment. Following in the footsteps of Thomas Edison's famous research laboratory in New Jersey, Western Electric in 1907 created a special research department to bring together various experimental efforts aimed at improving telephone equipment, and to develop and patent new products to keep ahead of the competition. During the rest of the decade and into the late 1920s, Western Electric engineers developed new types of switchboards (notably the panel switch) and telephone cables and the first electronic amplifiers, Harold Arnold's high vacuum tube. The success of the latter, which solved AT&T's most pressing technological problem, how transmit a telephone signal across the North American continent. convinced AT&T that investing in in-house research and development was a sound business strategy. Bell Labs found many new uses for the vacuum tube, exploiting it in areas including public address systems, radio, electrical phonograph recording, synchronized sound motion pictures, and transoceanic radio telephony.
By the early 1920s the research effort had grown so large—over 3600 employees by 1924—management decided to split it off into its own organization. This new subsidiary Bell Telephne Laboratories Inc. began operations on January 1, 1925. It was owned jointly by AT&T and Western Electric, and occupied the existing research building in New York City. Bell Labs was on its way to becoming the world's largest industrial research laboratory.
In the 1930s and through the end of World War II, Bell Labs continued to expand. The company established new research facilities in New Jersey, where open land was still plentiful and cheap, and radio research could be conducted free of the interference found in New York City. The huge resources of AT&T, which had a monopoly on telephone service, enabled Bell Labs to undertake fundamental research that had only loose ties to ordinary telephone service. In 1933, for example, Karl Jansky, working at the Holmdel, New Jersey facility, discovered radio astronomy. Another trend was closer cooperation with the military, which had begun during World War I, and which continued in the 1930s as Bell Labs began working on radar and military communication systems. When World War II came, Bell Labs invented or improved numerous military systems, such as the two-way radio, proximity fuses, semiconductor devices, radar, sonar, computers, the "bazooka," and the first encrypted communications systems. This system, Sigaly, enabled US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to hold regular telephone conversations across the Atlantic.
At the end of the war Bell Labs was at the peak of its power. From the late 1940s through the late 1970s, it reigned unchallenged as the largest and perhaps most inventive industrial laboratory in the world. Its engineers and scientists invented or brought to fruition numerous technologies, including the first transistor and many of its important variations. Although the integrated circuit was invented elsewhere, construction techniques invented at Bell Labs established many of the necessary precursors to it. The same could be said for fiber optic transmission, electronic switching systems, cellular telephony, satellite communication, solar power, and other technologies we use today. Although not all of their elements were invented at Bell Labs, it was there that the long and incredibly expensive development process brought them to maturity. And while there were notable failures, such as the "Picturephone" system, there were numerous inventions, some little-known at the time, which later became very important. The Charge-Coupled Device or CCD, now universally used in digital cameras, video cameras, the Hubble telescope, and elsewhere, was one such development. Bell Labs engineers Willard Boyle and George Smith invented it in the 1970s.
The dominance of Bell Labs faded after 1984, when the courts found that AT&T was a monopoly and mandated that the company divest itself of its local telephone operations. These divested operations became the seven regional "Baby Bells." The small portion of Bell Labs whose research supported local telephone operations was spun off as well as Bellcore, jointly owned by the Baby Bells. But with Bell Labs now being owned by a much smaller company in the competitive businesses of long distance telephone service and telecommunications equipment, the financial resources were much smaller, and Bell Labs gradually contracted, particularly in pure research. In 1996, the remaining AT&T split again, spinning off its manufacturing operations as Lucent Technologies. The labs split as well, with researchers following the business whose work they supported. Three quarters of the staff, and the Bell Labs name went to Lucent Technologies, while the remainder remained with AT&T as a new AT&T Labs. Today's Bell Labs, a part of what is now the Alcatel-Lucent Corporation, is a smaller but still very important organization that focuses its research on next-generation products for voice and data communication.
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"The Inbetweeners 2" set for August UK release
'The Inbetweeners 2' will be released in the UK and Ireland on August 6.
The comedy will have Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas reprise their roles as Will McKenzie, Jay Cartwright, Neil Sutherland and Simon Cooper respectively, as they head to Australia, in the sequel to the 2011's hit film.
The films are based on the E4 sitcom of the same name, which was created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, and followed the story of teenager Will and his three of his friends at Rudge Park Comprehensive.
The cast were a ''tight-knit family'' while they worked on the series and 'The Inbetweeners Movie', and came on board quickly when the decision to make a sequel arose.
A source previously said: ''It wasn't easy for any of the guys involved to call it a day after the last film. They were a tight-knit family and really missed each other when it all came to an end.
''The writers, Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, have been knocking ideas around for a while and came up with something they thought would be good enough to maintain the high standards they have set.
''They never thought all the lads would be up for coming back so soon as they have become big stars in their own right. But when James said he was game the other week, everything seemed to click into place.''
Emily Berrington, Freddie Stroma and David Field are new cast additions.


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Modern Gingerbread Houses
We don't know about you but the gingerbread houses at my house are pretty simple square boxes with crooked little roofs. They're perfectly charming but sometimes a little extra inspiration is necessary. Mine will never look like these but that's okay; I just want to ogle.
Don't let the awesomeness of these gingerbread houses get you down. Some of them were designed and created by architects. And they're all fun eye candy.
1. Eco Gingerbread House (via Inhabitat)
2. Kristina Hahn Atelier Cake Study House 09 (via Babble)
3. Mod Gingerbread House by Hometta (with downloadable instructions)
4. "Gingerbread" House from Creative Room's 2009 competition
5. Mod Gingerbread House by Apartment Therapy reader Liz


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Sharp will manufacture and start shipment of a new mobile phone developed for the Vodafone Group having a common design worldwide. The Vodafone 902SH features a 2.4-inch high-contrast wide-viewing-angle Mobile Advanced Super View LCD and a 2.02-effective-megapixel CCD camera with auto focus and 2X optical zoom.
This new handset features a large Mobile Advanced Super View LCD that takes full advantage of Sharp?s Advanced Super View LCD technology developed for our AQUOS*1 LCD TVs, enabling brighter and more vivid display with a contrast twice as high as previous models*2. The same technology delivers wide viewing angles (160° vertically and horizontally*3) with no color distortion even as the angle is changed. The Vodafone 902SH also supports voice communication, e-mail, Web services, and video calls*4 outside of Japan. It also has Bluetooth?*5 connectivity, which enables wireless data communications and hands-free conversations, supports 3G/GSM auto roaming, and more.
The Vodafone 902SH will be released by Vodafone K.K. in Japan on December 29, 2004.


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Learn from Others
NGS provides opportunities for family historians to come together and learn about their pursuit, whether as a hobby or profession. Check this web page often for the latest information about our annual conference and research trips, as well as all types of genealogical events and family reunions across the United States.
NGS Family History Conference
From beginners to the experienced researcher who aspires to certification, the annual NGS Family History Conference has something for everyone. The location changes yearly, so chances are good we'll come to your neighborhood soon. Learn More.
Research Trips
There's no better way to fill in the branches of your family tree than with a research trip to a world-famous repository. Learn More.
Events Calendar
See what's happening with family history at the national level and in your neighborhood. Check the Events Calendar regularly.
Family Reunions
NGS provides a free listing for family reunions. Look for your surname and get together with kin, or give us the details of your next reunion so others can find you. Learn more.
Questions? Contact the NGS Conference Manager at [email protected].


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February 05. 2013 11:23AM
High-speed lanes at Hampton tolls closed Wednesday night for maintenance
By GRETYL MACALASTER
New Hampshire Union Leader
HAMPTON - The open road toll or "high-speed" lanes at the Hampton Toll Plaza on I-95 will be closed overnight Wednesday for maintenance work.
The closure is scheduled from 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, through 5 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7.
According to the N.H. Department of Transportation, the closure is necessary to perform routine maintenance on the overhead equipment.
Motorists will be guided via signs and traffic cones to the non-ORT portion of the toll plaza.


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today's winning feature goes to jennifer {http://www.thelawsofmylife.blogspot.com/} and the baby einstein party she threw for her twin boys!
this party is so adorable. jennifer came up with so many clever ideas to go along with the theme.
thanks for your submission jennifer! congrats on winning today!
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Pace University's School of Education, the Lower Hudson Teacher Center Network, the New York Technology Educators Network, Southern Westchester BOCES and the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center will hosting a conference, "Rethinking STEM-D Education: Innovative Practices from the Field" on Thursday, May 15 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The conference will be held in Pace's Graduate Center at One Martine Avenue, White Plains.
It will be geared toward practitioners and administrators who are interested in student success in STEM-D fields such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics and design -- including pre-K-12 teachers, pre-service teachers, afterschool and museum educators and school and non-school program administrators.
Participants will attend workshops to learn from teachers and researchers who have helped engage students, from elementary through high school, in effective STEM-D instruction. Workshop topics will include robotics, Scratch programming, lunar rover design, roller coaster physics, MaKey MaKey, 3D printing, game design, digital design lab, MakerSpace and nature and science for young children.
There will be two keynote addresses by renowned science education innovators including: • Stephen Jacobs, associate director of the Rochester Institute of Technology's new MAGIC Center and its Technological Literacy Lab, will present "Games for Learning & Education: A Historical Look Back, A Survey of Today's Landscape and Predictions for the Future That Will Be Proven Wrong Later." • Vicki Cobb, innovator in hands-on-science and author of the book "Science Experiments You Can Eat," will present "How To Teach Science: It's Not the Answers That Count, It's The Questions."
The cost for the conference is $25, which includes morning refreshments, lunch and a raffle entry to win one of 10 Kindle Fire tablets. Attendees may register online through Pace University or if paying by Purchase Order through MyLearningPlan. For more information, visit www.pace.edu/soe or contact Merrill Lee Fuchs at (914) 773-3884 or email@example.com.


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Pauline Daniel died December 18, 2012
Pauline Choate Daniel of Heber Springs died December 18, 2012, at Seven Springs Health and Rehabilitation Center. Born in Heber Springs on August 1, 1921, she was 91. She was the daughter of the late George and Ludie (Rodebush) Choate.
She is survived by one son, Chester Daniel of Heber Springs; one granddaughter; and three great-grandchildren. She is also survived by other relatives and her many friends.
Visitation will be held December 22, prior to the funeral service at 1 p.m. in the Olmstead Chapel with Dr. J. R. DeBusk officiating. Interment will follow in the Heber Springs Cemetery.


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Madonna & Lourdes Leon are Material Girls
Madonna is collaborating with a new artist – her daughter, Lourdes!
The two have created Material Girl, a juniors' clothing making its debut at Macy's this fall!
"[Working with Lourdes] is good because she does have good taste in fashion," Madonna shared with the AP. "I respect her taste and I rarely disagree with her."
"[Stella McCartney] started giving Lola fabrics and inviting her into her showroom and asking her opinion on things, giving her sketch books and stuff like that," Madonna continued. "Stella always pushed her."
FYI: Madge is toting around the $30,000 Jimmy Choo "Blythe" bag.


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You've read the books — maybe even twice — and now you've seen "The Hunger Games" brought to life on the big screen. If that leaves you, well, hungering for more, North Carolina has an offer for you: Come see it for yourself.
Tourism officials here are hoping that the blockbuster, filmed entirely in the Tar Heel State, will spur a new wave of travel by fans eager to see and touch the world of heroine Katniss Everdeen. And it's helping things along with brochures and a Web campaign touting the Lionsgate film's locations. Want to see the shanty where Katniss lives? Or the bakery that Peeta Mellark's family owns? Then visit the Henry River Mill Village outside Charlotte where those scenes were filmed. Or learn survival skills in DuPont State Recreational Forest, where Katniss and her friend Gale Hawthorne hunted for food to keep their families alive.
With U.S. fans shelling out $152.5 million at the box office over the weekend and with 26 million copies of the books in print in the United States alone, officials are optimistic that the futuristic story of a nation under oppressive rule and the bow-and-arrow-toting girl who launches a revolution will be a boon to the state.
"I think tourism to the area will double and triple, based just on the inquiries we're getting," said Tammy Hopkins of the Transylvania County Arts Council, which is organizing a "Hunger Games" fan tour at Brevard's Dupont State Forest, where scenes of the story's games, in which 24 teenagers must fight to the death, were also filmed.
"People are calling my house, all the hotels are calling me, people are emailing" about the locations, Hopkins added. "Just today, I got emails from people in St. Joseph, Mo., and Manhattan, asking if they filmed here."
It's not as if North Carolina isn't already a popular destination. Such attractions as the Smoky Mountains and the Outer Banks have made it the country's sixth most-visited state, with $17 billion spent by tourists annually. But "The Hunger Games" is something else entirely: a franchise picture with an enormous following — and sequels already on the drawing board — that state officials and business people are hoping will be the gift that keeps on giving.
Because of this, North Carolina has adopted a multi-pronged marketing strategy that relies primarily on social media targeting the film's core demographic of teens and young adults. The tourism bureau's website, which offers a special "Hunger Games" page, and what the department is calling "The Hunger Games Experience," featuring tours, locations, venues and businesses that supported the making of the film, is being promoted on Facebook and Twitter, as well as on a "Hunger Games"-themed Pinterest board.
With its already strong international outreach, North Carolina's tourism office in Germany is getting in on the promotion, printing more than 50,000 "Hunger Games"-oriented fliers and posters that will be distributed to travel agencies and consumer travel shows. Online promotions are being done in German, and there will be a raffle, with first prize a trip to North Carolina.
"We love international visitors. They stay longer and spend more," said Wit Tuttell, the state's director of tourism marketing. "We don't have the big iconic attraction like Disney World, but the beauty with this [film and promotion] is that it helps establish an identity."
And while they're visiting, they can check in to the Hotel Indigo in Asheville, where the film's stars, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Woody Harrelson, stayed during the shoot.
Film-related tourism is nothing new here. "The Last of the Mohicans" has attracted visitors to the Chimney Rock area in the western part of the state, "Bull Durham" has helped bring tourist money into a city once known primarily for its tobacco industry, and 25 years after it was made, "Dirty Dancing" continues to attract visitors to locations in the Asheville area.
But "The Hunger Games" stands to far eclipse those tourism efforts. In this respect, New Zealand's experience with tourism for "The Lord of the Rings" and Washington state's for the "Twilight" series are instructive.
The average annual number of visitors to Forks, Wash., where the story in the "Twilight" films and books is set, had been about 10,000. But in 2008, after the release of the first of the films, that nearly doubled to 19,000, and by 2010 the figure was 73,000.
PHOTOS: 'Twilight' saga's setting in Forks, Wash.
"The fans were very loyal to the place," said Diane Schostak, executive director of the Olympic Peninsula Visitors Bureau, even though the films weren't actually shot in Forks. "We think movies being made was fueling interest in the books, and people were coming to Forks."
Since the first of the "Rings" trilogy of films was released in 2001, the number of global visitors to New Zealand has risen dramatically as well, by 40%, though only a small percentage of this is directly related to the films, tourism officials say. In the tourism business, that's called "awareness" of the destination, and that's what North Carolina is aiming for.
What movies like "The Hunger Games" and "Rings" mean "is you're always spoken about, you become talked about, you need to make sure you work those opportunities very hard," said Gregg Anderson, general manager of North American efforts for Tourism New Zealand.
To accomplish this, he says, you have to find things like scenery in the film "that will leverage your brand," look for product opportunities like location tours and use the cast and crew "to tell how positive the experience was working there."
All those factors seem to be in play here, which is why North Carolina venues and businesses are anticipating a boom.
"I'm expecting a lot of business from it. You can see the location from here, you can point to it," said Jim Sander of the Pleasant City Wood Fired Grill in Shelby, a small city near Charlotte that was the setting for many of the film's key scenes. Sander's restaurant was a favorite hangout for the production's cast and crew.
"I think a lot of people just want to come out and see places like Triple Falls that were used in the filming," said David R. Brown, forest supervisor of the DuPont State Forest. "We still have people coming out to see where 'The Last of the Mohicans' was filmed, and that was in the '90s. We have more people than we can handle already."
— Lewis Beale, reporting from Raleigh, N.C.
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I recently started going through my cellar and having a go at some aged bordeaux. I have been sharing my tasting notes here on PTC as we go through this excercise to see how these wines are holding up with some years under their belt. We started with a relatively younger wine in the 2003 Château Haut-Bailly and them moved back in time to the 1998 Château Haut-Brion. As you can probably tell by now we are working backward in time through my cellar and will eventually end with a 1970 bordeaux (not telling you which one just yet).
Today I am going to share my experience with the 1995 Château Gruaud-Larose. Gruad-Larose has long been one of my favorite Chateau and I really love their wines. The 1995 vintage in on the left bank in Bordeaux is considered a classic by most and the wines of that year have been showing a good ability to age very well.
History of Château Gruaud-Larose
The property is a baby historically compared to its peers in Bordeaux with origins dating to 1725. Seems crazy to say that makes Gruaud Larose the baby of the bunch; a testament to the long and rich history of making great wine in Bordeaux. The knight Joseph Stanislas Gruaud gets most of the early credit in the creation of what we now know as Gruaud-Larose. The property was originally called Fond-Bedeau (for some reason that makes me think of fondue) and was run by two different Gruauds; one a priest and the other a magistrate. The result of the two owners was two separate bottlings, one called Abbé Gruaud and the other Chevalier de Gruaud, the names indicating which belonged to the priest and which belonged to the magistrate.
In 1778 the magistrate, the Chevalier du Gruaud, died and his portion of the property was deeded to Joseph Sebastian de La Rose. Joe renamed his new property Gruaud-La Rose or Gruaud-Larose. This piece of land, vineyard and wine was classified as a Second Growth in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855.
Control of the property was split among multiple descendant but remained intact until 1867 when it was split in two - Château Gruaud-Larose-Sarget and Château Gruaud-Larose-Faure. The two châteaux were reunited by the Cordier family, who purchased the Sarget piece in 1917 and the Faure piece in 1935.
From 1983 until 1997 the property and château changed ownersrhip 3 times. In 1997 the Taillan Group took ownership which continues to this day. The Taillan Group is headed by Jacques Merlaut, which owns a number of other properties, most notably Château Haut-Bages-Liberal.
Soil, Vineyards and Vines
The vineyards cover 200 acres (82 hectares if you're French) of in the St. Julien appellation and the terroir is typical for the region, deep Quaternary gravel. The vineyards, with vines averaging 45 years of age, are planted to 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot and 2% Malbec.
The vineyard is managed by a winemaking team overseen by Jacques Merlaut's son, Jean. Georges Pauli is the Technical Director at the property. He is a lone mainstay at the property through the many different ownership teams and deserves most, if not all, of the credit for the consistency and quality of Gruaud-Larose despite the rapid ownership changes that often bring uncertainty that results in declining quality.
Harvest and Production
The fruit is hand picked and sorted then undergoes a cold-soak prior to temperature controlled fermentation in a mixture of wooden and concrete vats, with pumping over of the fermenting must twice a day. Up to a third of the vintage undergoes malolactic fermentation in oak barrels, before ageing the entire wine in Alliers and Nevers oak (up to 50% new) for eighteen months. The grand vin is Chateau Gruaud-Larose, and about 25,000 cases are produced annually.
1995 Growing Season
An excellent year for both the left and right bank of Bordeaux with the left bank, sight of Gruaud-Larose, being a bit better. The previous 4 vintages were very wet with a ton of rain but 1995 was choice. A mild winter and early spring was followed by a dry, hot summer. It did rain a bit in early September but the rain was less than in the previous 4 vintages and, crucially, there was perfect weather from September 20th through to October leading up to and including harvest.
1995 Château Gruaud Larose - France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien
Decanted for 4 hours. Very dark purple, almost inky in color. Classis Bordeaux barnyard, wet straw, and damp earth nose with hints of chocolate, blackberries and meat. The first night it revealed a full bodied palate of black cherry, dark berries, hints of licorice, red meat and earth. Very smooth and elegant tannins with just the right amount of acidity. It had a medium-long finish. Day two of this wine was much better. The dark berries, cherries and currant really exploded out of the wine with cassis and licorice at the end of a long and rich finish. The tannins were refined and in balance and there was still some nice acidity left. Great balance and drinking well but I still think it should be better given the quality of the 95 vintage on the left bank. I do think this will improve with more cellar time but I am down to 1 bottle - bummer! 50+4+13+17+8=92 pts (see Tasting Notes and Scoring to know what these number mean.)


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Tessie Young was a pharmacist on North Street. My mother and her siblings were told by Granddad that Tessie was Granddad's "cousin." Of course, we don't know exactly how.
It was this little genealogy tidbit I heard from my aunt that confirmed for me that Skibbereen Heritage pinpointed Granddad's McCarthy-Sowney line: that of Charles McCarthy and Margaret Young of Lissane. Their son, Cornelius (1824-1900) was Granddad's grandfather.
Now I need to fill in the gap in between Margaret Young McCarthy, living in the early 1800's, and Tessie Young (1889-1964).
In the 1901 census, Tessie's mother, Ellen, was widowed. The oldest child listed, Mary, was 23. Tessie was 11.
Tessie was born in 1889. Her parents were William Young, a North Street shopkeeper, and Ellen Hurley. (Yes, Ellen was one of the Coolnagarrane Hurleys. That's another story.)
William died in 1897 at age 58. That would put his birth year around 1839.
Working backwards, William Young and Ellen Hurley married in 1875. His father is listed as John Young and both father and son are listed as shoemakers.
In Griffith's Valuation, there is a John Young listed in Coronea, Skibbereen, but no further information about occupation is given.
There is a John Young, North Street, Boot and Shoemaker, listed in Slater's 1846 commercial directory.
There is a William Young listed in the Abbeystrowry Tithe Applotment in Coronea in 1835. Update: In the Creagh Tithe Applotment from 1831, there is a John Young on North Street.
Pigot's Commercial Directory of 1824 lists a Thomas Young, saddler, in Bridgetown. There are no Youngs on North Street.
Elsewhere in the Tithe Applotment books are Youngs in Killaveenoge, Rearahinagh, Derreeny, Derryclough, and Driminidy.
Looking at the online church records, I found one William Young in Skibbereen in 1837, whose father was John Young and whose mother was Mary Collins. Other children of this couple that pop up are Thomas 1832, Joanna 1834, and James 1843. No residence is given on any of these baptism records. If John Young named Thomas after his father, perhaps Thomas the saddler is the next one up the ancestry ladder.
Unfortunately, that's the end of the rope. To find John Young who had a son Thomas in 1832, I would have to assume that John was born before about 1812, and the records just don't go back that far.
Now I have the same problem that every researcher out there has. How do I link these leather workers, shopkeepers, and pharmacists on North Street to Margaret Young McCarthy out in rural Lissane?
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The Youngs of North Street, Skibbereen
Tessie Young was a pharmacist on North Street. My mother and her siblings were told by Granddad that Tessie was Granddad's "cousin." Of course, we don't know exactly how.
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Found: missing great-great grandmother's baptism record
Good luck if you are trying to find an ancestor whose name is like Mary McCarthy. Mary ended up being a tough research problem at BOTH ends of her life. I had to write to Ireland GRO several times for her death record. If you have not read my prior post about the mistakes I made looking for that death record, you can read all about that experience here.
When I was researching McCarthys in Garryglass, Drinagh, Skibbereen Heritage couldn't originally find her record. I simply had it on faith in what my aunts were telling me that Mary McCarthy was the aunt of a man named Daniel McCarthy, who was a rather well-known schoolmaster in Drinagh.
Mary McCarthy is not in the index of the online church records. So this morning I started visually inspecting the Drimoleague & Drinagh images starting around 1835. I noticed that a number of these images have the "feature" of dark edges and a smudgey black bottom that makes some records unreadable. I immediately suspected that Mary McCarthy's baptism record was buried under such a smudge spot.
Finally, I found something in 1838. I think this is her. Only the name of her mother (Ellen Connolly), the name of the baptism sponsors, and the residence (Garryglass) are visible.
I believe there was another Ellen Connolly in Garryglass, married to somebody named Hayes. For now, I will take it on faith that this record is that of Mary McCarthy.
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Labels: searching church records
Saturday, November 26, 2011
DNA Testing for Genealogy
This is a presentation I am giving Sunday at the meeting of the British Isles Family History Society in Los Angeles on using autosomal DNA as a nice complement to your traditional genealogy research:
Guiding Your Ancestral Search with Autosomal DNA Testing
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The SN74LVC573A-EP octal transparent D-type latch is designed for 2.7-V to 3.6-V VCC operation.
This device features 3-state outputs designed specifically for driving highly capacitive or relatively low-impedance loads. It is particularly suitable for implementing buffer registers, input/output (I/O) ports, bidirectional bus drivers, and working registers.
While the latch-enable (LE) input is high, the Q outputs follow the data (D) inputs. When LE is taken low, the Q outputs are latched at the logic levels at the D inputs.
A buffered output-enable (OE)\ input can be used to place the eight outputs in either a normal logic state (high or low logic levels) or the high-impedance state. In the high-impedance state, the outputs neither load nor drive the bus lines significantly. The high-impedance state and increased drive provide the capability to drive bus lines without interface or pullup components.
OE\ does not affect the internal operations of the latches. Old data can be retained or new data can be entered while the outputs are in the high-impedance state.
This device is fully specified for partial-power-down applications using Ioff. The Ioff circuitry disables the outputs, preventing damaging current backflow through the device when it is powered down.
To ensure the high-impedance state during power up or power down, OE\ should be tied to VCC through a pullup resistor; the minimum value of the resistor is determined by the current-sinking capability of the driver.
Inputs can be driven from either 3.3-V or 5-V devices. This feature allows the use of this device as a translator in a mixed 3.3-V/5-V system environment.


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This shouldn't be a tip, or a trick, but I'm reluctant to say it's a software or hardware issue.
How do you change pages when READing a PDF with the XO's screen flipped and the keyboard hidden?
The Game Pad and Game Buttons will not change page for me, no matter what I do. They'll make a page bigger on the screen, or smaller. That's it.
Does everyone simply keep the XO in laptop form to read? Works fine, then.
What am I doing wrong? I gave up getting FBReader to install, due to the libexpat.so.0 file not being present, and not knowing which of the million out there to download etc etc etc.
I'm tempted to try wine, and use FBReader for Windows.
Thank you...


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Manchester United defender Phil Jones has called for his teammates to produce an immediate reaction to Monday's defeat to Manchester City.
The Red Devils slumped to a 2-1 loss at Old Trafford, allowing Roberto Mancini's men to close the gap at the top of the Premier League to 12 points with seven games remaining.
And Jones has subsequently demanded an improved performance in Sunday afternoon's meeting with relegation-threatened Stoke at the Britannia Stadium.
"We've got to bounce back. We'll get on the training pitch and do what we do best: recover, and we will," he told MUTV.
"There were a few sad faces in the dressing room after the game because it's not one you want to get beat in. But we've got to keep our heads up. We're still in a fantastic position.
"The title race is not over but we're in a great position and the lads deserve an enormous amount of credit for putting us there. Hopefully we go [to Stoke] on Sunday, bounce back like we always do and go on to win the league."
United looked on course for a point after Jones played a significant part in the equalizer that saw Vincent Kompnay put through his own goal, and the England defender was impressed with the way his side bounced back from James Milner's earlier strike.
"We've done that every time we've been a goal down this season," he said.
"We've responded well. We don't want to be in that situation but when it does happen we do brilliantly to get back in the game. We did that again and we were full of confidence and had the upper hand and we got stung by a late goal.
"It was a very open game from the start and both teams were attacking. We played some good stuff at times but it wasn't to be."
And, when asked whether he will claim his side's equalizer as his own despite the ball taking a sizeable deflection off Kompany, he said: "It's irrelevant, to be honest. If I score or not, I'm not bothered as long as we win so… we'll wait and see."


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A Quick Guide to Quintino for Dance Dummies + 1st Marquee NY Show Saturday
Quintino is one of the hottest house music producers in the world right now, and he'll be rocking the crowd this Saturday February, 23rd at Marquee in NYC. In case you've been out of the loop and deaf to the jams, VIBE fills you in on the Netherlands-born DJ who does over 250 shows a year. –>


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IRVING, Texas, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Two-time reigning BCS champion Alabama was rated first in the initial Bowl Championship Series rankings of 2013 released Sunday.
With a 7-0 record, the top-ranked Crimson Tide earned an overall BCS composite score of .984, well ahead second-place Florida (6-0, .935), which routed Clemson 51-14 Saturday.
The Seminoles' tougher schedule gave them an edge over No. 3 Oregon (7-0, .932), which will host UCLA next weekend.
Among the remaining unbeaten teams, Ohio State came in fourth and Missouri fifth in the first BCS poll.
They were followed by Stanford, Miami-Florida, Baylor, Clemson and Texas Tech.
This is the final season in which college football will use the BCS system to determine the national champion.
A four-team playoff will be employed starting next season.


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