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Cane Ridge Unit of Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge Selenium Concentrations Dropping
Following discovery of elevated levels of selenium in the water and aquatic life at Cane Ridge Wildlife Management Area in southwestern Indiana in the spring of 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took several actions designed to reduce selenium levels available to endangered least terns and other birds feeding on the refuge. In 2008, the Service stopped accepting selenium-contaminated water from Duke Energy's Gibson Lake into Cane Ridge, drew down the ponds and wetlands, removed approximately 4 tons of fish, disked the soil on the bottom of the ponds and wetlands to redistribute selenium in the soil and reduce the surface average concentrations of selenium. Duke Energy has provided a new and clean water supply for Cane Ridge and has stocked minnows in the tern pool to provide a less contaminated source of food for the nesting least terns.
Environmental Contaminants Program biologists at the Bloomington, Inidana Ecological Services Field Office continue to monitor selenium concentrations in sediments, invertebrates, fish, bird eggs, and evaluate red-winged black bird nesting success at the Cane Ridge Unit of Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge to assess the success of these actions. The results have been very positive. Selenium residues are down 30% in forage fish, 38% in invertebrates and 71% in sediments of the tern pool management unit in our 2010 samples. The majority of the red-winged black bird nests successfully fledged young this year, although some did not. These nest failures could be the result of adverse weather, monitoring disturbance or other factors in addition to the unlikely possibility of selenium toxicity. It is likely that through this work biologists will be able to assess trends in selenium contamination in these habitats and track the improvements of clean-up measures taken in preceding years. Additional laboratory results are expected this fall, and a final report completed in FY2012.
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Environmental Contaminants biologists from the East Lansing Ecological Services field office partnered with Eastern Michigan University (EMU), Detroit Zoological Society (DZS), and Michigan DNRE to conduct monitoring, research, and management that guides restoration of the common tern (Sterna hirundo) breeding population in the Detroit River and conduct a workshop to convene agencies, universities, and other scientific advisors to develop a management target and monitoring program for common terns in the Detroit River Area of Concern. Read more
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Wisconsin Field Office staff in the Environmental Contaminants Program completed a fish passage risk assessment for the Lower Menominee River. The lower Menominee River, a waterway shared between Michigan and Wisconsin, is a designated Area of Concern (AOC) site. The contaminants in the Menominee River AOC area include mercury, PCBs, arsenic, and coal tars. Six BUIs are impaired for the Menominee River AOC; 1) restriction on fish and wildlife consumption, 2) degradation of fish and wildlife populations, 3) beach closings, 4) degradation of benthos 5) restriction on dredging activities, and 6) loss of fish and wildlife habitat.
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Eco-friendly, yet sturdy.
What makes this "eco-friendly"? The glass trackpad? The "manufactured out of one piece of aluminum"?
they paid off the right groups
realistically they know what words sell.
Ah, you accidentally looked over the fact that it runs on new Ego(TM) power, not electricity. Common mistake.
You can thank your sig for inspiring this:
from ego import *
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_Now_, over an hour after I post, I see the capitalization error. ARGH.
It would seem a bit of an overkill to run all
You forgot the joint endorsement from Al Gore and Barack Obama.
I've really been trying to figure it out, but I can't. If it does have a second LCD in the trackpad as smitty97 speculates, it sure won't be more eco-friendly:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/07/04/lcd-greenhouse-gas-worries/1 [bit-tech.net]
Also if it has a 1-piece aluminum chassis, it will be more difficult to repair, therefore more likely to be replaced, therefore more hardware going into landfills, therefore less eco-friendly. The case itself is sturdier but if it's one hard piece of aluminum, the internals will take more damage and the case will take less. Again, less eco-friendly. A good case for preventing damage would be a replaceable one made of thin, soft metal.
Also getting the parts inside such a case would be a nightmare...I guess the screen would have a slit on the bottom where the internals are inserted and then clipped into place, and the body would just have removable bays as usual, but then the mobo and keyboard would be non-replaceable.
These are Apple products anyway. Out of the past 100 distinct Apple notebooks I've seen (trust me, I am not exaggerating here) in the past year, maybe five of them were not brand new MacBooks or MBPs. Admittedly, the G4s are extra-old-and-busted (biggest waste of my money ever...), but it seems that people buy new Apple computers with their spring shopping anyway.
And they can finally get full benefit from their inflated RAM and HD prices. Ballsy move, if true, but it will probably work out.
Aluminum is very recyclable. I really doubt many Aluminum chasis make it past the sorters and into a landfill. Hell, Al cans vanish out of my recycling bin before the truck even gets there. It's magic!
I disagree...
I work at an Apple Store (therefor the AC, and obviously take what I say with a grain of salt as I'm as much a fanboi as the best of em').
From everyone's perspective, having repairs done in larger part replacements are much better. There is one flaw with your statement. The large replaced part isn't just thrown away, but rather can be refurbished.
Consider an LCD display on a laptop. We'll low-ball and say there are 7 individual replaceable parts and cables. Brick and Mortar big box retail stores get shipments from all shipping companies for all different purposes from all over the globe. With Air and Ground shipping for say 4 failed parts in an LCD panel (say it's a liquid damaged LCD) and you get shipments from DHL, UPS, and FedEx delivering all of your parts over a period of 3 days. Now, if you only have to order a monitor clam-shell instead of 4 different parts, you have 1 shipment on 1 single day. When you are sending parts back to be refurbed or recycled or trashed, you are sending a single item as opposed to several different packages. From an inventory standpoint this means MUCH less paperwork per shipment and less boxes/packing material being used to ship and be trashed/recycled.
For users, repairs can be done faster. (If repairs can be done while customer waits, only one car trip out to store)
For retail stores, more repairs can be done in-store. This means fewer repairs will be packaged and shipped out to repair centers.
I just don't see how single part replacements are bad. This allows Apple to help end users more effectively. It takes less shipping and packing, and as I've understood eco-matters (and I won't pretend to be the brightest bulb on the matter), air cargo and travel are pretty big carbon emitters. Apple can then refurb/recycle the part in a larger warehouse environment that is more adept at repairing the individual components of the larger part.
Any-hoo... just my $0.04
That's a stupid point you're trying to make, the dangerous chemical use is proportionnal to the area, so having a tiny screen 1/10th the area of the main screen is going to add, what, 10% of that bad chemical at worst. Boohooooo.
Actually... the plastics on the Macbook line are very prone to damage, so prone that they are exchanged under the applecare warranty, no question asked.
I already ditched 2 keyboards and one bottom case from my macbook... I think that aluminium could be more eco-friendly in this case... specially because it can be recycled with ease.
Also if it has a 1-piece aluminum chassis, it will be more difficult to repair, therefore more likely to be replaced, therefore more hardware going into landfills, therefore less eco-friendly. The case itself is sturdier but if it's one hard piece of aluminum, the internals will take more damage and the case will take less. Again, less eco-friendly. A good case for preventing damage would be a replaceable one made of thin, soft metal.
I disagree. An eco-friendly case would ironically be made from plastic, or if necessary some GRP or CFRP. Metal and glass, to use terms of trade, need shitloads of energy to manufacture, and the process is highly lossy. We don't even want to get started about how aluminium is extracted from the ore in the first place, or that a rather rare resource is needlessly wasted. Plastic can be molded to almost the final shape in a single pass, with a relatively low amount of energy (some heat and a vacuum pump).
All that "metal is good for the environment" is bullshit. It's good for marketing, because a laptop that feels like you could use it as a blunt weapon just feels better than "cheap" plastic. And even in that area, I'd put a lot of trust into some CFRP. It's effectively stronger and lighter than aluminium.
But metal is recyclable, plastic is not really recyclable. And about 8% of our crust is aluminum, plastic is from the oil, which is disappearing quickly. You may have noticed that aluminum is extracted from the ore, but did you know how plastic become plastic?
As carbon fiber reinforced plastic, I hope you realize that carbon fibers are made from polyacrylonitrile fibers by heating. And most CFRP products are absolutely not recyclable.
Aluminum is easily recycled and doesn't really involve many toxic chemicals in it's manufacture (except for a boat load of electricity, which is usually provided by hydro dams). The polycarbonate that makes up most notebooks isn't so easily recycled and the process to make it isn't quite as clean.
Apparently the materials used to make the Air are relatively environmentally friendly
Duh. It's made of air
What makes this "eco-friendly"?
Al Gore is on their board of directors... therefore everything they make is automatically considered to be eco-friendly...
Just like Al Gore's giant house w/ huge power consumption bills... b-b-b-but I was spending that power on computing climate models to prove what horrible polluters American's are!
Higher power consumption != less eco-friendly. Gore's house has a much, much lower carbon footprint than the average American home because he gets nearly all of that energy he uses from solar and geothermal sources. Much of the reason that bill you're referring to was so high is because he's paying a premium to get his energy from clean sources.
Maybe you were just trying to make an innocent joke, but that meme needs to die.
Gore isn't saying everyone needs to cut their energy consumption down to zero, he's saying people need to make an effort to be carbon-neutral, and he's making that effort himself.
I think they made a typo.
My guess it is the aluminum that is "eco-friendly" Aluminum is super easy to recycle compared to plastic but then so is glass.
Not a lot of other info so it is all guess work at this time.
Now to make it really "eco-friendly" they should promise to support it with ten years and promise that all future versions of OS/X for the next ten years will run on it.
Not going to happen but I would so love to see the end of disposable computers.
Thought about the same thing.
Is aluminium more environmentally friendly to produce than other materials used in laptops?
Or is it the process of making it out of one piece of aluminium as opposed to using several pieces of aluminium? =/
Why, so you can glance up and down constantly to see what you're doing, and then curse occasionally as you press the wrong spot on the trackpad and open several programs at once?
I hope under the glass trackpad there's a little display just like the iPhone's.
Presenting the new smitty97 MacBook Touch [wikipedia.org].
Dock the iPhone where the trackpad would be, to lower manufacturing costs. Could use the iPhone's screen so that the trackpad would be more than just input, it would be a second display.
What are the advantages of a glass trackpad? Wouldn't your finger stick to it?
As an owner of a few Apple laptops in my day I can say that the initial smooth surface of the trackpads wear off over time and whatever material is underneath, while functional, isn't as smooth making usage of the trackpad for long sessions uncomfortable. Your fingertips feel slightly "raw" after a while.
I would imagine glass doesn't have this issue.
The superior solution is obviously the clit mouse [xkcd.com].
This is interesting. Although I've seen quite a few worn-down touchpads (especially on Dells), the one on my 12" Powerbook's looks pretty much just like new after 3 years of heavy use.
I wonder if Apple use different materials for touchpads on their "Pro" line than they do on their cheaper consumer-grade stuff.
I've not used an iPhone or iPod touch for long, but I got the impression that they were designed to favour short finger motions on the pad for precisely this reason.
I have to say, I've had an iPhone for a year. At first I was skeptical of the glass because of fingerprints, etc, but in practice I never notice any smudges, and I've *never* had any skipping, etc. In fact, it's remarkably precise, considering the blunt nature of a fingertip.
My theory on the way it works is that it finds the centroid of the pressure region. I've used drawing applications with it, and it's actually amazing how well it works drawing thin lines with a fingertip.
I don't know about a multitouch touchpad, that seems kind of lame. What makes multitouch cool is touching directly on the screen.
Modern touchpads don't function with pressure but sense the capacitance of your finger. Just sliding along the srface is enough. That helps deal with skipping.
All the current MBPs have multitouch track pads. They're quite nice. When I use my old MBP I really miss the reverse-pinch gesture to increase the font size in Safari.
Multitouch on the track pad isn't nearly as cool as directly on the screen though.
so the wifi range can be shorter O_o
It seems like they're assuming an iPod touch screen surface would be required to have a multi-touch trackpad.
This is not the case.
It seems like they're assuming an iPod touch screen surface would be required to have a multi-touch trackpad.
Hmm. My current MBP does multi-touch already. Heck, Apple's MBP marketing already states this [apple.com].
the MacBook Pro already has a multi-touch trackpad [apple.com], so I'm not sure where the rumor part comes in...
If Apple wanted to be cool, they'd dump the trackpad entirely and add a trackpoint.
Yes, that's right. They should switch to the nub. The pencil eraser. The clit mouse. The keyboard clit.
C'mon, it'd be awesome.
What? Why?
Because trackpads are annoying and make laptops a chore to use.
I love trackpoints. My old Toshiba Tecra M3 (RIP 2005-2007) had both a trackpoint and a trackpad. I used the Synaptic/ALPS drivers to configure the trackpad as a circular scroll wheel (a la iPod) and mapped middle-click to one of the corners. Scrolling and middle-click were the only things I used the trackpad for. For everything else, I used the trackpoint (bet you thought I was going to say MasterCard).
The trackpoint is the perfect pointing dev
Yes, it would. I'm infinitely more comfortable using one of those then any trackpad. Put it in the same area as touchpads are and my very capable left thumb (thank you sega, sony and microsoft) would have no trouble navigating my screen. Hell, throw in a second one on the right for scrolling vert and horiz.
Or they could save everyone some time and just include a mini already-paired bluetooth mouse in the box.
They called him Mr. Glass.
To counter act a man who had super strength and fortitude but a slightly below average intelligence (but still in the range of normal), but humble is a man who is super frail and sickly with a slightly above average intelligence, with a Huge Ego.
But I really would like to see something that I could use a day or two on a charge. If they can make it paper thin and still run a few hours, then surely, they could make something twice as thick that would go for a day?
I use my macbook pro heavily, so for me a 3 hour battery life vs 5 makes no difference. I have to plug it in either way, so I'd rather it be thin, sleek and easy to carry over to the nearest outlet. Now if it could go for, say, 10 hours, that would be worth sacrificing a bit of portability and style, so probably tripling the size (and cost) of the existing battery.
I have a MacBook and aside from the ordeal I had to go through getting basic developer tools working, the edges are so sharp that I'm gonna have to take some sandpaper out or file them down before the pain in my wrists become too much for me.
Surely glass is a really bad idea for laptops? It's heavier than plastic, and less durable in terms of scratch resistance and shattering. Worse still it has more friction than some plastics, so not ideal for moving your finger over.
Surely glass is a really bad idea for laptops? It's heavier than plastic, and less durable in terms of scratch resistance and shattering. Worse still it has more friction than some plastics, so not ideal for moving your finger over.
Actually, glass is more scratch resistant than most plastics (try dropping your plastic sunglasses on the beach, once. Then try again with a pair of proper glasses, made from glass).
Glass can also be made less sticky by roughening up the surface. Now, I agree that it's indeed
Round corners reminds me of the old joke;
Q;Why do they make macs so big?
A: So mac users cant put them up their asses.
Q: Why do macs have round corners?
A: Just in case they manage the above!
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Two Memphis-area nonprofits are six months away from a 180-degree turnaround in their respective public relations efforts.
Members of PRIZM Ensemble, left, and West Tennessee Veterans Home, right, will receive pro bono PR assistance from Obsidian Public Relations, center.
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West Tennessee Veterans Home and the PRIZM Ensemble music group have won six months of free PR and marketing services from Obsidian Public Relations as part of the firm's yearly PR 180 project. The project's goal is simple: At the end of the period, Obsidian will have helped two nonprofits achieve a 180-degree improvement toward marketing and publicity success.
Obsidian takes its pro bono work through the initiative seriously. The winners are treated like any other client of Obsidian, the roster of which includes Gold Strike Casino Resort, Kroger Delta Division and Southern College of Optometry.
Both winning organizations get about 180 days' worth of marketing services based on each group's needs. The previous winners of the initiative, announced this time last year, were the Fire Museum of Memphis and The Blues Foundation.
To choose the winners, Obsidian asked this month for nominations from nonprofits. From that pool, the public voted on who the winners should be via Obsidian's Facebook page.
"Participants nominate themselves, and we do that purposely so that they already know what kinds of services and help they need," said Kerri Guyton, Obsidian's director of client services. "So, it's not a supporter surprising them with a nomination and telling us, 'We think this would be a great group for this.'
"And we treat the winners like our other clients. We do a communications analysis with them in the beginning and lay out a strategic plan, and they get reported to monthly with ongoing meetings. Some of them are surprised and think this was going to be a side project for us, but no – they get added to our roster. And we'll do this again next year."
Obsidian, she added, wants the project to be seen as something nonprofits can look forward to every year. The firm got more than 1,700 votes over two rounds of voting, and representatives of both winning institutions had similar responses.
Leaders of both groups said they were lucky and feel that Obsidian's help can elevate work that each group sees as important.
"We are extremely excited to be working with Obsidian as one of the winners of Obsidian's PR 180 initiative," said Lecolion Washington Jr., PRIZM Chamber Music Festival founder and director and assistant professor of bassoon at the University of Memphis. "It's wonderful to know that there are companies like Obsidian that show a commitment to supporting nonprofits in Memphis, and we're blessed to be working with them. We look forward to giving our community an opportunity to learn more about what the PRIZM Ensemble has to share."
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"When we say we want to build a veterans home, most people misunderstand, and the majority believe we already have one," Swogger said. "The veterans home that is needed is a highly skilled nursing facility that is dedicated to providing veterans with the long-term care and rehabilitation services they have earned and deserve.
"There's no such facility in Shelby, Fayette or Tipton counties. The closest one is in Humboldt, 100 miles away. Our area has the largest number of veterans in the state of Tennessee, and we believe Obsidian can help us deliver the proper message to the business and general community and help generate the necessary support."
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Other features available leading to the 4:30 p.m. lighting ceremony are roasted chestnuts, gingerbread, locally made foods and traditional mulled wine.
Seasonal concerts and theatrical performances will be available during the lighting festival. That includes a theatrical performance of It's a Wonderful Life at 8 p.m. on Dec. 3 at the Festhalle Theater just a block from the lighting ceremony.
The lights will be lit all week long in Leavenworth during the festival, though the actual lighting ceremony will only be on Saturday and Sunday evenings during the first three weekends of December.
Leavenworth is more than just Christmas lighting and ceremonies, though, as several fall events are planned through the month of November.
These include the Christkindlmarkt on Nov. 25-27, the weekend after Thanksgiving, when holiday shopping and food booths will be available in downtown Leavenworth.
On Saturday, Nov. 12, there will be a ski swap at Cascade High School in Leavenworth.
On Tuesday, Nov. 22, the Banff Mountain Film Festival will visit Leavenworth during a showing at the city's Festhalle at 1001 Front St. The festival is an international film competition featuring the world's best footage on mountain subjects.
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text: Kim Hyeong-bae is a Korean comics artist who made his debut in 1965 with 'On the Battle Field'. He earned a lot of fame thanks to his 'Taekwon V the Robot' comic, wihch was inspired by a television series of the 1970s. In the 1980s Kim Hyeong-bae created mainly comics in which he mixed science fiction and war stories, such as in 'The Knights of the 20th Century' and 'The Last Fight'. He also produced more realistic war stories, such as 'Touihoa Blues' and 'Hwangsaek Tanhwan', in which he commented on the Vietnam war.


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Sony Pictures Animation picked up the rights, Reuters reports, and is "developing the project as a live-action/CGI hybrid."
Harald Zwart (The Karate Kid [2010]) will serve as executive producer and may direct. RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, the last entry in the theme park strategy game series, was released in 2004. A version of RollerCoaster Tycoon for the original Xbox hit in 2003.


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THis is great tho' -- to know that others share this fetish. The sight of grey trackpants is a big eye-catcher for me... and BONUS if the guy is freeballing or has a big basket and you can see the bulge.
Massive turn-on!
^^ It's literally called guysinsweatpants.com
Here's a few good ones.
I freeball all the freaking time. Feels great. Love watching people look at me as I walk around doing it.
It's a luck boys are blessed with crotch indecency in all possible configurations, tight, baggy, semi-tight, whatever. Skirts make it still more indecent. The Scots are forced to wear a pouch there to prevent all casualities. Omnipresent male crotch indecency. We are blessed.
^^ he is a cutie
"Tighty Whities have their place"
but not in this thread
"Free Ballin today, tomorrow & forever more"
Thanks for the thread
Guys in sweatpants + no underwear = just about as fuckin' hot as it gets.
Guess I'm going to have to start doing this! :P
any ideas where I should start showing off? I'm a little bit shy :\
I am forever checking out guys bulges at the gym! Super hot fetish for me!
this honestly is even been than seeing them naked sometimes...I have no idea why. So fucking hot.
He's more of a man than a boy, but here's a great pic of actor Steve McQueen working out in sweats while freeballing. Very sexy.
Me getting horned
Hot thread. More pics plz
Now let's see without the sweatpants.
Here are some pics of me in my mesh shorts. Not sure whichs better: wasitband rolled up or not?
Love this! It's the best part of spring haha
I love seeing the outline of their cock, the ridge from their cockhead, and watching it swing as they walk. Makes me want to kneel down and suck!
I used to at school cut lining out of mesh shot so i where them with no underwere around school you could see my cock.
Bro has a feel
You guys have me so hot with these pictures and stories. I would love to see this but a little more extreme, like the freeballer in the supermarket with a hard cock. Here are some more extreme examples.
Home Depot can be very hot too. I have had some real fun there. I followed a freeballer around one time and he was so loving it. He touched himself keeping it in a state of semi hard. We were in the hardware department and I knelt down close to him to look at something on the bottom shelf. He moved closer "looking" at something on a higher shelf until he was actually standing over me and allowed his now hard cock to rub across my face as he reached across me to retrieve an item above. We moved around and did that a few more times until I reached up and put my hand around his hard cock that was really bulging in a beautiful display. I squeezed it and was able to touch my finger tips around it... nice. Of course it is good that I wasn't freeballing because I was all kinds of wet by then. I think he got scared and left but I still look out for him.
Here's a hot one of Kellan Lutz!!
This is beautiful!
Love the muscles and the bulge.
He looks like a guy I know when he goes to the toilet but can't piss.


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Candles lit at time of remembrance
The West Texas Children's Advocacy Center (WTCAC) and High Sky Children's Ranch once again partnered to sponsor the Eighth Annual Family FunFair on Wednesday at the Nolan County Coliseum. Many families, totaling about 400 people in attendance, enjoyed games and prizes from 27 agencies and food donated by the Sweetwater Kiwanis Club at the event. The highlight of the event was the Time of Remembrance for child abuse victims. Local community leaders including District Attorney Ann Reed and local pastor Jeramy Thompson spoke at this event declaring April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. There was also a group of small children's chairs with eight candles representing the eight children who have died as a result of child abuse in our area in the last five years. Shown lighting the candles were sisters Sonya Sanchez and Marissa Sanchez.


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(CNN) — Authorities kept their distance as a fire raged on board a pair of fuel barges on Thursday morning, hours after exploding at a docking area on Alabama's Mobile River.
Steve Huffman with Mobile Fire and Rescue said conditions remain too volatile for fire crews to approach.
At least six explosions have been reported and were heard up to 20 miles away.
Just half a mile across the river, Alan Waugh, the general manager at the Ft. Conde Inn, said he saw and heard the initial explosion when it happened.
"We were up on a second floor balcony and the sky lit up in orange and yellow," he told CNN affiliate WALA TV.
"It sounded like planes above you dropping bombs when it first went off."
Huffman said Wednesday night that authorities hadn't determined what caused the blasts, but were in the process of being prepped for reload when the explosion happened.
The fire department's Twitter feed said they were filed with gasoline.
A one-mile safety zone has been set up around the barges, U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Eric King said.
Authorities have closed the shipping channel and were letting the fires burn.
Three people who were burned were transported to a local hospital, according to Huffman.
CNN affiliates reported that the victims were taken to USA Medical Center and are in critical condition.
All people from the scene are believed to have been accounted for, Huffman said.
The fires burned near the docking area of the Carnival Triumph, he added.
The Triumph has been based at the BAE Shipyard in the Port of Mobile since an engine fire in February left it crippled and adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4,200 people aboard.
For four days, tugboats guided the disabled ship into the port as passengers complained about miserable conditions onboard.


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And that's exactly what happened to my jeep, I couldn't afford it, the cost of gassing it up verses the mileage it got towing a trailer was terrible.
This will be more within budget for me, and while I don't expect it to do this: I do expect it to do it's intended job for an economical price.
I almost fell out of my chair, and spewed coffee dangerously close to my laptop. That was the funniest 8 seconds I've seen all week.


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The tablet computer has made enormous strides in the last few years. Thanks to popular tablets like the iPad*, the thin, touchscreen-operated computers have become the weapon of choice for many computer users as they offer a great experience when browsing the web or using one of thousands of specialized apps.
Tablets vary by their power and operating systems. Processors like the Intel® Atom™ provide considerable power for the current generation of tablets, and some tablets have dual core processors, including the Motorola Xoom* and Asus Eee Transformer*.
Tablet operating systems. Most tablets use a special operating system designed to make the most of a touch interface, this gives the tablet the cool interactive feel that makes them fun and useful. A good operating system is an important part of a great tablet computer.
Popular tablet operating systems include the Honeycomb* version of Google Android*, mobile versions of Windows 7* and XP*, and Apple's iPad OS*. All of these operating systems have distinct advantages and disadvantages and all feature proprietary app stores which expand the capabilities of tablets.
Apps include everything from games to specialized word processors and even instruments. Generally, apps make use of a tablet's touchscreen to deliver an experience that a user couldn't get from a typical computer. A touchscreen is a very intuitive control system, so tablet manufacturers try to deliver the most easily accessible operating systems and apps possible to make sure that tablets offer a different experience from what a user would get from a laptop or netbook.
Keyboards and docks. Nevertheless, there are quite a few situations in which a tablet can benefit from the addition of a keyboard or keyboard-equipped docking station. While it's possible to type on the face of a tablet, an attached keyboard can make this process much easier.
Tablets like the Asus Eee Transformer have optional docking stations with built in keyboards which cost extra, but can basically turn a tablet into a full-featured netbook. Apple also sells an optional keyboard for use with its iPad.
Cameras. Most of the current generation tablets also have forward and rear-facing cameras. These cameras are meant to make it easy to use video-conferencing apps and to take a quick high-res photo. It's another way that tablets differ from traditional computers. Since they're flat and portable, an included camera can be a great feature.
Newer tablets have serious power and numerous apps to take advantage of that power. They're an ideal way to browse the web, read an eBook, or to play games. Tablets are a casual type of computer, although they do have professional applications (especially for doctors and lawyers). They can be extremely engaging and useful, especially as prices drop below the $400 mark and the list of features provided by modern tablets continues to grow.


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Elis' Depth Aids Victory
PHILADELPHIA – The Yale men's swimming and diving team defeated Dartmouth and Penn on Saturday at Sheer Pool in Philadelphia. In the most competitive meet of the season thus far, Yale defeated Dartmouth 154.50 to 145.50. Yale defeated Penn 176 to 124.
Junior Tyler Pramer and freshman James McNelis started the Elis with strong showings in the diving well. Pramer finished first in the 3-meter and second in the 1-meter event. McNelis placed third in the 3-meter and fourth in the 1-meter.
The Elis opened the swimming with a showcase of their depth in the 200-yard medley relay. Yale teams placed second, fourth, and sixth in the event.
Freshman Victor Zhang provided the first victory in the pool Saturday, winning the 200-yard freestyle. Zhang is only one of many talented freshmen on the roster to make an influence on this season's results.
The Elis picked up where Zhang left off with a strong showing in the 100-yard backstroke. Sophomore Mike Lazris placed first. Senior Mike Dominski placed fourth and freshman Kevin Stang placed fifth. Stang and Lazris placed first and second in the 200-yard backstroke later Saturday afternoon.
Yale provided a similar finish in the next race, the 100-yard breaststroke. Sophomore Andrew Heymann placed second. Sophomore Ronald Tsui and freshman Danny McDermott placed fourth and fifth, respectively.
The Bulldogs about wrapped the meet up with the 200-yard butterfly. Yale swept the podium with sophomore Alwin Firmansyah placing first, senior captain Jared Lovett placing second and freshman Jake Goldstein placing third.
Firmansyah also placed first in the 100-yard butterfly. Juniors Ed Becker and Paschall Davis placed fourth and sixth in the same event.
Yale would hold on to victory despite the efforts of Dartmouth's Nejc Zupan. Zupan, the Slovenian junior, won four events.
Yale's next meet is against Rutgers, Fordham and Rider in Piscataway, N.J. on Saturday Jan. 26th. Events begin at 10:30 a.m. EST.
Report by Charles Tuggle '14, Yale Publicity


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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Parents, doctors and women who have been surrogate mothers are strongly criticizing a Kansas Senate bill to void existing surrogacy contracts and make it illegal to pay women to serve as surrogates.
The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee heard testimony Monday on the measure drafted by committee chairwoman Mary Pilcher-Cook, a Republican from Shawnee.
Pilcher-Cook and other supporters of the bill said they're worried about the health of surrogate children and the women who bear them, as well as the possible exploitation of poor women.
But women who have been surrogates testified that it was a positive experience, and parents of children birthed by surrogate mothers said others shouldn't be denied the same option.
And Wichita physician David Grainger said such a law would have criminalized Jesus' conception.


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Having signed an exclusive recording agreement with Deutsche Grammophon at the age of 15, his debut recording on the prestigious label features Mozart's Piano Concertos K. 466 & 467 with the Symphonieor-chester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Christian Zacharias. Nominated for a Juno Award for classical al-bum of the year 2013, the CD was described by the New York Times as "pristine, lyrical and intelligent […] direct, unmannered and fresh". Lisiecki's second DG album, released in April 2013, features Chopin's Études op. 10 and op. 25.
Recognised for his poetic and mature playing, Lisiecki has been awarded many prestigious awards. In 2013, he received the Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, in 2011, Jeune Soliste des Radios Francophones, and in 2010, Révélations Radio-Canada Musique. In 2012 he was named UNICEF Ambassador to Canada after being a National Youth Representative since 2008.
2013 performance highlights include Lisiecki's debut with Claudio Abbado and Orchestra Mozart, his BBC Proms debut with Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at Royal Albert Hall in London, and his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Bravo Vail Festival. Jan's official subscription debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra is scheduled for April 2014 where he will be performing three different Mozart concertos in one week. The 2013/14 season in-cludes his debut with Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala in Milano under Daniel Harding, return engagements to Orchestre de Paris, debuts with the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and NHK Symphony in Tokyo, recital de-buts at Santa Cecilia in Rome, in San Francisco, as well as his Wigmore Hall debut in London. Since the 2012/13 season Jan is a member of Konzerthaus Dortmund's series "Junge Wilde".
Highlights of past seasons included Lisiecki's New York Philharmonic subscription debut under David Zin-man, the season opening concert of Orchestre de Paris under Paavo Järvi, and his debut with the BBC Sym-phony under Jiří Bělohlávek. Lisiecki has played at Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Barbican, Salle Pleyel, Tonhalle Zürich, Konzerthaus Vienna, and Suntory Hall. He has substituted for Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire, and has shared the stage with Yo-Yo Ma, Pinchas Zukerman, and Emanuel Ax. He has performed in Armenia, Belgium, Brasil, China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, the USA, and throughout Canada. Worldwide recital debuts included Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, Frankfurt, Gstaad, Hamburg, Lisbon, Nagoya, Osaka, Seattle, Tokyo, Vienna, and Zurich. Since summer 2011 Jan has appeared frequently at various festivals including Verbier, Radio France, La Roque d'Anthéron and Chopin and his Europe.
Lisiecki's live performances of both Chopin piano concertos with Sinfonia Varsovia and Howard Shelley were released in 2010 by the Chopin Institute in Warsaw. The recording received the Diapason Découverte award in May 2010; Diapason describes Jan as "an unmannered virtuoso already with virile and, above all, irresisti-bly natural playing." The BBC Music Magazine commended "Lisiecki's mature musicality," and his "sensi-tively distilled" interpretation of the contrasting concerti, played "with sparkling technique as well as idio-matic pathos," noting that "even in a crowded CD catalogue, this refreshingly unhyped debut release is one to celebrate."
Jan's performances have been broadcast on CBC Canada, BBC Radio, Austrian Radio, French Radio, German Radio, Luxembourg Radio, and Polish Radio, as well as on French Television 3 and on TV 1 and 2 in Poland. He was featured in the CBC "Next!" series as one of the most promising young artists in Canada, and in the 2009 Joe Schlesinger CBC National News documentary about his life: "The Reluctant Prodigy". In May 2013 the German ZDF featured Jan in the news show "Heute Journal".
Upon the school board's recommendation Jan was accelerated four grades and graduated from high school in January 2011. Since September 2011 he has been studying for a Bachelor of Music at the Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto, Canada.


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Extension > Garden > Yard and Garden > Vegetables > Bacterial diseases of garden beans
Bacterial diseases of garden beans
Common blight, halo blight, and bacterial brown spot are bacterial leaf spot diseases of garden beans. The symptoms expressed and the life cycles of these three bacterial diseases are all very similar. Therefore, making an accurate diagnosis can be difficult. Fortunately, all three diseases can be controlled with the same practices.
Fig 1: Bacterial infection on beans.
Photo: U of MN Plant Disease Clinic
In the spring, bacteria surviving in plant debris, infected the previous year, become active. These bacteria are spread from infected plant tissue to healthy plants by windblown rain, splashing water, leaf-feeding insects, tools, and people. Upon arrival, the bacteria enter plants through natural openings and wounds. Bacteria can also enter gardens in the spring on infected seed.
Fig 2: Halo blight on leaves.
Photo: H. Schwartx, CSU, bugwood.org
Fig 3:Halo blight on beans.
Photo: M.A. Hansen, VAPISU, bugwood.org
Common blight caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. phaseoli, halo blight caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola, and brown spot caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae infect the leaves and pods of many different common beans. Not all beans are susceptible to these three bacterial diseases.
Most bacterial leaf infections initially appear as a small angular or circular, water-soaked (dark green) spot. As these infections develop, the spots turn brown and dry, while a yellow halo of leaf tissue encircles the brown spot. Severely infected leaves often appear yellow and shredded as the dry, brown spots disintegrate or fall from the leaf. Halo blight infected leaves are usually the most yellow. Pods infected by these three bacterial diseases develop water-soaked spots, which later turn brown. It is possible to have both water-soaked spots and brown spots on the same pod.
The best way to control these bacterial diseases is through prevention. Plant commercially grown disease-free seed. Gardeners who save their own seed should not plant seed from diseased plants. Use resistant bean varieties whenever possible. Remove and dispose of all plant debris at the end of the growing season. Diseased plants should not be composted since the pile does not reach a high enough temperature over winter to kill bacterial organisms. Practice crop rotation and avoid planting beans in the same location for more than three years in a row. To minimize the spread of disease, avoid overhead irrigation and stay out of the garden when plants are wet. Remove all infected portions of the plant or the entire plant from the garden, as soon as disease is detected.
ReferencesHall, Robert, ed. 1991. Compendium of Bean Diseases. APS Press, St. Paul, MN.
Howard, R. J., J.A. Garland and W.L. Seaman, eds. 1994. Diseases and Pests of Vegetable Crops in Canada. Canadian Phytopathological Society and Entomological Society of Canada.
Sherf, A.F. and A.A. MacNab. 1986. Vegetable Diseases and their Control, 2nd edition. John Wiley & Sons. New York.
Revised by Chad Behrendt and Crystal Floyd 2000


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Insider's Guide to RV Road Tripping
Recreational vehicles sit somewhere between hotels and tents. The upside: RV life is autonomous—your quarters travel with you—and allows for spontaneous stops. But then again, RVs need loads of gas and can be tricky to park. In any case, they represent a truly unique mode of transport that's tailor-made for road tripping. Here's your guide to getting started.


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BMW New Zealand is adding to its range with the introduction of the luxury 4 Series coupe next year.
The production of the concept vehicle was just announced by BMW head office with its arrival in New Zealand expected by late 2013, and pricing to be announced closer to launch date.
The company hasn't announced engine sizes yet but industry website Autoexpress.co.uk speculated the lineup would include a 2-, 3- and 3.5-litre petrol engines and maybe 2- and 3-litre diesels.
Sitting above the premium 3 Series models, the 4 Series coupe's wheelbase is 50mm longer than that of the existing 3 Series Coupe with 45mm added to the front track and 80mm to the rear track. At 1.826m wide, the BMW Concept 4 Series Coupe is 44mm broader than its predecessor, its roof line is 16mm lower and it is also longer at 4.641m - all combining to give dynamic proportions.
"The latest addition sees BMW building on the fine tradition of its large BMW 6 Series and BMW 8 Series Coupes, with the '4' stands for greater sportiness, greater exclusivity and even clearer differentiation from the BMW 3 Series range," said Edward Finn, BMW Group Corporate Communications Manager.
Its long wheelbase, long sweeping bonnet, set-back passenger compartment and short overhangs will create the strong on-road impression for the BMW 4 Series Coupe.
The most eye-catching feature of the car's nose, beyond the familiar BMW kidney grille and twin circular headlights, is the large air intake in the front apron. Its wide opening hints at the extra air required by the powerful engines and guides the eye around to the muscular flared wheel arches.
The two vent surrounds on either side of the intake replicate the contours of the hexagonal headlight graphics to lend the front end an even wider and more sporting look. Three strikingly sculptured, satin-finish aluminium trim elements in the intake provide added presence.
The sides of the two flanking vents are of differing thickness and lend the front end a particularly dynamic appearance. At the same time, they mark off specific areas of the intake for brake and oil cooling and for the Air Curtain. This EfficientDynamics feature channels the incoming air around the outside of the wheels, ensuring the airflow "hugs" the wheel arches and fuel consumption is noticeably reduced.


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The Edmonton Oilers certainly gave themselves enough chances to score on Saturday and took advantage in a come-from-behind victory. They now aim for their first winning streak of the month on Tuesday night as they play host to the Los Angeles Kings.
Edmonton found itself down by three goals on two occasions against the Colorado Avalanche over the weekend, but thanks in part to a club-record 56 shots it battled back for a big 6-4 victory.
Ales Hemsky scored twice, including a momentum-shifting goal with just four seconds left in the first period, and Magnus Paajarvi netted the game-winner with 1:34 to play in the third period.
It was Paajarvi's second goal of the campaign and came after he was scheduled to be a healthy scratch for the contest before Lennart Petrell took a shot off his head in warmups.
"He was probably eating hot dogs already before the game when we pulled him in. He didn't have a warmup and he scores the winner," noted Oilers coach Ralph Krueger of Paajarvi.
Jordan Eberle had two goals, including an empty-netter, and an assist, while Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored for the first time in 25 games as the Oilers broke their previous single-game record for shots by one.
"You're going to get goals when you shoot the puck 50 times on net," Nugent- Hopkins said of his team's shooting barrage. "It's something that we want to keep working on."
Devan Dubnyk gave up three goals on 12 shots and was pulled after the first period. Nikolai Khabibulin allowed just one goal on 17 shots the rest of the way as Edmonton won for just the second time in eight contests and has now split the first two of a five-game homestand.
Petrell, meanwhile, is unlikely to play in this game as he was still dealing with a headache and slight dizziness according to Krueger on Monday.
The Kings, meanwhile, try to avoid a second straight setback after failing to secure a third straight win with Sunday's 3-2 setback to the Chicago Blackhawks. Los Angeles trailed for most of the game and didn't get on the board until Mike Richards scored a pair of power-play goals in the third.
"They really brought it to us in the beginning and we were a bit back on our heels," said Richards, who has four points in the last three games. "I thought we did a good job rallying there in the third, just fell a little short."
Drew Doughty assisted on both goals and Anze Kopitar also had a helper, giving him nine points in his last 10 games.
Making his first start in three games, Jonathan Quick posted 34 saves in the loss as the Kings fell to 3-5-1 on the road this season.
The Kings will be looking for some revenge on Tuesday after a heart-breaking 2-1 loss in Edmonton on Jan. 24. The Oilers' Nail Yakupov scored the game- tying goal with just five seconds left in regulation before Sam Gagner won it in overtime.
It was just Los Angeles' third loss in its last nine versus the Oilers and it has still won seven of the past nine played in Edmonton.


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Soto re-ups with Rangers on one-year pact
By T.R. Sullivan / 12/03/12 12:30 AM ET
NASHVILLE -- The Rangers have signed catcher Geovany Soto to a one-year contract, pending a physical. The deal has not been announced, but is expected to be finalized in the next 24-48 hours.
The Rangers non-tendered Soto on Friday when they couldn't reach an agreement before the tender deadline. He had been eligible for arbitration after making $4.3 million in 2012. But the two sides were able to come to an agreement just two days later. Soto is eligible to be a free agent after this upcoming season.
The signing came on the eve of the Winter Meetings, which officially begin on Monday here at the Opryland Resort. Rangers officials arrived on Sunday and spent most of the evening meeting among themselves to discuss their various options.
The Rangers acquired Soto from the Cubs on July 30 to pair with Mike Napoli behind the plate while releasing Yorvit Torrealba. Soto played in 47 games for the Rangers and hit .196 with five home runs and 25 RBIs. He had a .253 on-base percentage and a .338 slugging percentage.
The Rangers are still looking for more catching help and they met with Napoli last week in Arlington. Napoli is also being pursued by the Red Sox and the Mariners, among other possible suitors. The Rangers have also expressed interest in Blue Jays catcher John Buck, who was acquired by Toronto in their trade with the Marlins last month.
The Rangers have two other catchers on their 40-man roster in Luis Martinez and Konrad Schmidt. But together they have played in just 40 games in their Major League careers.


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District 60 school leaders have been working on an emergency crisis plan that everyone would follow immediately. Schools everywhere have always practiced fire and tornado drills. But now, in principals and teachers are also preparing for possible terrorist attacks.
At Heaton Middle School, students are practicing what they would do in the event of a dirty bomb or chemical attack. They have devised a plan to get all the students to the gym, while the window, doors and vents would be sealed with plastic and duct tape. No one would be allowed to enter or leave, including parents.
The school is also keeping emergency kits with flashlights and radios on hand for communication. There should be enough in the kits to last at least two days.
The crisis plan has also been coordinated with police and the sheriff's department as well as the Red Cross.
Officials say they don't have any reason to believe that something would happen in Pueblo, but they want to be ready.
The district will soon be sending out a letter to parents, with details of the emergency plans.


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(WSJ) — Federal regulators who spent nearly two years probing Google Inc.'s search engine for possible antitrust violations came up virtually empty-handed, in a decision that confounded the company's competitors by upholding Google's central argument that its innovations benefited users.
The Federal Trade Commission won some narrower concessions from Google GOOG, -0.33% . The company agreed to make voluntary changes to its search practices and give online advertisers more flexibility to manage ad campaigns with rival websites. Also, Google agreed to a settlement resolving FTC charges that the company was stifling competition by misusing key mobile-device patents it acquired when it bought handset maker Motorola Mobility.
But the FTC's five commissioners voted unanimously to close without action the core investigation into whether Google favored its own products and services in its search results and unfairly harmed rivals.
"Although some evidence suggested that Google was trying to eliminate competition, Google's primary reason for changing the look and feel of its search results to highlight its own products was to improve the user experience," said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz.
Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.05% and other technology firms had pushed the FTC to bring a broad antitrust case against Google, similar in scope to the landmark case the Justice Department brought against Microsoft in the 1990s.
Google's foes expressed dismay at the outcome. The FTC move "represents a deeply disappointing missed opportunity to protect innovation in the Internet economy, and the consumers and businesses that rely upon it," said a spokesman for Yelp, a website that hosts user reviews of restaurants and other businesses.
The commission said in a written statement that it would "remain vigilant and continue to monitor Google for conduct that may harm competition and consumers."
For full story, visit WSJ.com.


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text: VMware is highlighting a number of different offerings at MES East 2013. The first is vSphere with Operations Management, which combines its vSphere virtualization platform with vCenter Operations Management Suite. The second is its vCloud Suite offering, which is for customers interested in building in-house cloud infrastructure. The third is vSphere Data Protection Advanced, which is an integrated, scalable, virtualization-aware backup and recovery solution for vSphere. Lastly, it will be sharing its hybrid cloud plans that give midmarket customers options to seamlessly leverage a mix of resources from their own IT infrastructure and resources from public-cloud infrastructure, giving them a lot of flexibility as they grow. "We're making it easier for midmarket organizations to manage, deliver, secure and control desktops and data," said Brandon Sweeney, vice president of midmarket and small-business customer segment at VMware.


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In July my Dad, Ernie Margheim, fell as he was going to a doctor appointment and broke his left leg in two places. Since that accident, I've been helping Dad quite a lot, since his mobility is limited and strenuous. Although my days are physically tiring with the extra hours of work and activity, they've also provided me with precious opportunities to visit with my Dad one-on-one. I've sat with him as he's eaten his meals, I've introduced him to Facebook, and I've driven him to countless doctor appointments. Earlier this week, as we arrived in Pueblo, Colorado at a medical clinic, Dad commented "Isn't it amazing that we never run out of things to talk about!" When you're a genealogist and have time alone with your Dad, who's very willing to share stories from his 87 year lifetime, there's never a shortage of conversation!
This morning I was mentally listing the little tidbits of information he's shared with me just this week. Things like:
1. My great-grandfather, George Koleber was a very nice and gentle man, and would always stop to straighten a picture that was hanging crooked on the wall.
2. My grandfather, John Margheim, was always called "Lute", a nickname for his middle name Ludwig, as he was growing up. It wasn't until he was married that he became known as John. I never knew that!
3. I was showing Dad some acreage my son has purchased that will be his home site in the future. It's at the very edge of a rural housing development. Dad said "Your mom would call that "Plum and Nearly". I queried "Plum and Nearly?" "Ruby would say that was "Plum out of town and nearly in the country". Was that just HER expression, or was that a common expression in the 1940s?
4. My great, great, grandfather George Daniel Dietz had a small lake on his home property and Dad said he had the opportunity as a small child of 6 or 7 to sit on the bank and watch Daniel fish---with a homemade 3-pronged spear that he made. How lucky am I to listen to my own father tell about fishing with his great-grandfather, a man who was born in 1852!
5. In an effort to keep my Dad's vehicle in good running condition, and since Dad hasn't driven since his accident on July 29th, my husband started his car this week and drove it around town. As he approached the car in Dad's garage, a small brown leather case caught his eye. Naturally drawn to such "treasures, my husband opened it and found that it protected a grade-school reader with the name "Alfred Margheim" written inside. My Dad's brother Alfred died in 1933 at age 9. I gently laid the book in a bookcase with other books my dad has saved that belonged to his beloved little brother. Dad explained that he had a friend make that case during World War II and Dad sewed it together with the leather binding. It was used to carry his Bible during the war. Now it protects Alfred's reader. What a treasure!
6. Dad told me of the "emergency" baptism of my uncle Leonard Margheim and his twin sister Laverna Margheim due to a critical illness Leonard was suffering. He obviously recovered, having celebrated his 79th birthday last Saturday.
Thanks to the technology now readily available to us, I was also able to teach Dad something in return for all the "treasured tidbits" he's taught me this week. His mother, Amalia Koleber, her two older brothers Daniel and George, and their parents, George and Katie Koleber, immigrated to America from Russia in July, 1904. I introduced Dad to the Ellis Island web site and showed him the ship's manifest listing their names, as well as a photo of the ship they traveled on.
Dad and I have used our time together wisely these last three months and are enriching each other's life in countless ways. I'm grateful for these hours and days we have together. I'm grateful that, at age 87, Dad has a brilliant and very clear mind, an excellent memory and a great desire to leave these treasures with me!


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Spring is a time for new beginnings, and nowhere is a fresh approach needed more than in the nation's partisan-gridlocked capital. Elizabeth Colbert Busch offers the 1st Congressional District new, responsible leadership. Voters should send her to Washington.
Ms. Colbert Busch will be a savvy, energetic advocate for the coastal district, which she correctly views as an area where new opportunities for jobs, economic development and a better quality of life are just beginning to open up.
Her optimism and upbeat approach toward the job are tempered by a recognition that the federal government's fiscal woes threaten prosperity and growth.
It's time to be realistic about solving Washington's debt problem, and to acknowledge that the cooperative efforts of both Democrats and Republicans are needed, she says.
"We have got to get this fiscal house in order," she says.
That will require spending cuts, tax reform, and eliminating waste and fraud. And it will require a bipartisan approach.
But it won't require opposing federal initiatives that will benefit the 1st District in terms of infrastructure, port improvements, university research and development, and job creation.
She notes that Sens. Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings and Strom Thurmond pursued fiscally prudent government without making it a detriment to their state.
And she insists she will pursue her efforts to that end even when they conflict with House Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi. "I obviously have my differences with the Democratic Party," she says, adding, "Nobody tells me what to do — except the people of the 1st District."
In her fiscal viewpoint, Ms. Colbert Busch offers a balanced alternative to her GOP opponent Mark Sanford. He held the 1st District seat for a self-limited three terms, then later served two gubernatorial terms marred by near-constant conflict with his fellow Republicans who ran the Legislature.
Ms. Colbert Busch's resolve to reach across the aisle would serve the 1st District — and the nation — well.
For the many who suffer from Sanford Fatigue — a malady caused by overexposure to all of the cringe-worthy details of his 2009 disgrace as governor, his ongoing efforts for redemption via the political process, his resurgent personal problems, etc. — Ms. Colbert Busch offers a welcome tonic.
She is new to politics, but not to public life. She is an experienced businesswoman who served as the first woman chair of the Maritime Association of South Carolina. As director of sales and marketing for a major shipping line, she oversaw trade lane development, budgetary objectives and her company's regional business plan.
Most recently she has been serving as director of development for the Clemson University Restoration Institute in North Charleston. The institute is doing cutting-edge research in wind turbine use for electrical power production.
She cites the Clemson project for its potential to provide thousands of jobs in the Charleston area. Incidentally, Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell, a Republican, projected similar results for the institute as its advocate while leader of the state Senate.
Ms. Colbert Busch would eschew ideology for a pragmatic approach that can be expected to achieve real results in the real world — including the 1st District.
Sens. Hollings and Thurmond took that approach. So has Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, braving the criticism of the hard right in his own party.
Ms. Colbert Busch offers a Democratic version of that goal-oriented approach to government. She deserves an opportunity to make a practical difference for the district.
Voters should give her that chance in Tuesday's special election.


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Rochester, NY 14607
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Lecture by Professor Renato Perucchio, University of Rochester (11:00 a.m., Bausch Auditorium at the RMSC, approx 35 minutes)
ABSTRACT - During the course of Roman civilization, and especially during the Empire, Roman engineers developed the structural form -- that is the combination of geometrical shapes and structural materials designed to carry loads in buildings -- to levels of innovation unparalleled until the introduction of structural steel and reinforced concrete in the nineteenth century. Breaking away from the Etruscan and Hellenistic building traditions, Roman engineers used ingeniously the arch and the truss together with structural timber, masonry and pozzolanic concrete (opus caementicium) to generate a sequence of structural solutions that continued to evolve up to the later stages of the empire, giving raise to some of the most extraordinary and enduring architectural and engineering monuments ever built.
Archaeology Activity Table staffed by AIA Rochester NY Society Volunteers (11:00-3:00, RMSC)
Part of "Science Saturday" at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. The Rochester NY Society thanks the RMSC for the chance to participate, and the Memorial Art Gallery for the loan of table materials.
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The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department was notified that a mosquito sample collected during the week of Aug. 13 tested positive for West Nile Virus.
The mosquitoes were collected from the 40504 zip code in west central Fayette County.
No reports of human infection have been made in Fayette County. This is the first indication of potential West Nile activity for Fayette County this year and the first positive result reported from a mosquito collection in Kentucky this year.
There are currently eight counties submitting mosquito samples for testing in Kentucky. The only other reported West Nile activity this year was a human case from Boone County.
In 2006, one mosquito collection tested positive for West Nile Virus in Fayette County.
The best way to reduce your risk of contracting West Nile Virus is to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes. Taking the following actions will help you to avoid mosquito bites:
● Be aware of peak mosquito activity times. The hours from dusk to dawn are peak biting times. Use insect repellent when outdoors especially during peak biting times, including early morning hours.
Look for EPA-labeled repellents containing active ingredients, such as DEET, Picaridin (KBR3023) or oil of lemon eucalyptus (p-menthane 3,8-diol). Apply repellent according to label instructions.
When weather permits, wear long-sleeves, long pants and socks when outdoors. Mosquitoes may bite through thin clothing, so spraying clothes with repellent containing permethrin or another EPA-registered repellent that helps prevent bites.
● Mosquito-proof your home and yard. Fix or install window and door screens. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in standing water. Cover or eliminate empty containers with standing water. Limit the number of places around your home for mosquitoes to breed by getting rid of items such as tires, gutters, flower pots, children's toys, pet food and water dishes, birdbaths, swimming pool covers, buckets, barrels and cans.
The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department routinely conducts West Nile surveillance activities in cooperation with the Kentucky Department for Public Health Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning.
• Mosquito trapping is done throughout the county on a weekly basis at nine different locations. The mosquitoes are then tested for West Nile Virus, St. Louis encephalitis, eastern equine encephalitis, and La Crosse encephalitis by the University of Kentucky Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab. So far this year, there have been no positive results for any of the birds or mosquito collections that have been submitted.
• Dead birds are also collected by the health department for testing. Birds that have been dead for less than 24 hours can be reported to the Division of Environmental Health and Protection at (859) 231-9791.
To help control mosquitoes in Lexington neighborhoods, the health department conducts mosquito-spraying activities through the first frost or when evening temperatures remain below 55o. Spraying is done in the early morning and evening hours when mosquitoes are most active. The revised schedule for Sept. 3 through Sept. 7 includes an additional spraying session in the zip code where the positive mosquitoes were collected:
9/3 Tuesday
9/4 Wednesday 9/5 Thursday 9/6 Friday
3:00 a.m.- 6:00 a.m. Labor Day 40502 40508 & 40507 40502 40504, 40510 & 40513
9:00 p.m. –12:00 a.m. No Spraying 40511
40505 40503 & 40514
40504, 40510 & 40513 40515& 40517
40509 &40516
The weather conditions for mosquito spraying must be within the following parameters:
● Wind speed of less than 10 mph.
● Temperature of greater than 55o F
● No rain or dense fog.
To report a standing water or excessive mosquito problem in your area, please contact the Division of Environmental Health and Protection at 231-9791.


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tags: ASICS, BWGH, Crewneck, Flamingo, Ronnie Fieg, Stanton, Sweatpant
In honor of the Ronnie Fieg x ASICS Gel Lyte III "Flamingo" shoe releasing this Friday, I was fortunate enough to team up with my good friends over at BWGH for a special apparel pack. The pieces include two short sleeve crewnecks and two special Stanton sweatshorts, one in a grey fit and the other in salmon. The body of each item is made with a lightweight Japanese French terry and features premium stitched chenille and loose ribbing. On the crewnecks, the chenille patches include blue and salmon touches to match the hues of the "Flamingo" Gel Lyte III. Each fit is handmade in Europe and includes recognizable BWGH curly yarns that also follow the color palette of the shoes. The Ronnie Fieg x BWGH "Flamingo" pack is exclusive to Kith NYC stores and KithNYC.com in very limited quantities. Pick up both fits starting Friday, August 2nd at 11am EST, $105 USD for the crewnecks and $90 for the shorts.