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i.atcorr module in GRASS requires aerosol model data to perform atmospheric correction using the 6S algorithm.
It seems like I need a value from one of these parameters to continue:
- Estimate of the meteorological parameter visibility v [km], or
- The aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 550nm
Is there an easy (and free) way to get such data?
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It seems that a NASA website called Space-Based Measurements of Ozone and Air Quality in the Ultraviolet and Visible got the free aerosol model data. It is organized by date and by the instruments that collected the data. Basically:
- OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument) is for data dated July 2004 onward
- TOMS Earth Probe is for data dated 7/25/96 - 12/31/05
- TOMS Nimbus-7 is for data dated 11/1/78 - 5/6/93
I'm processing a Landsat scene dated in year 2000-2001, so Toms Earth Probe data is the way to go. But as stated by @Tobi in an answer below, TOMS Earth Probe data is actually an index, and unitless (not really AOD at 550nm which I want in the 6S algorithm).
But I've stumbled upon this called A Long-Term Record of Aerosol Optical Depth from TOMS Observations and Comparison to AERONET Measurements, and they hinted how the data in TOMS observation can still be used.
I need more time to learn how to do this. Welcome any further input, always..


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Healthcare professionals play a fundamental role in tackling antibiotic resistance. The results of survey released on the occasion of EAAD 2019 show gaps in knowledge about the issue.Find out more
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Following the report on likely sexual transmission of dengue between two men in Spain, ECDC assessed the existing evidence and concludes that the risk of sexual transmission is considered extremely low for both heterosexuals and men who have sex with men.Get the details
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Whole genome sequencing: new ECDC framework suggests priority diseases and implementation options
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23 Jan 2019 - The latest ECDC work plan reinforces the role of ECDC as a strong and trusted partner for the EU Member States and the European Commission enabling and supporting them in protecting everyone in the EU equitably from communicable diseases.

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Recently I came a across a problem with my new Samsung WF80F5E0W2W Bubble Washing Machine. It had been working fine for around 2 months with varying loads of type and weight been thrown into it and it been fine.
Anyway, the other day is was loaded with a complete bedding set for a single bed and 1 pillow.
We had been used to an older style washing machine where it would just work whatever the conditions.
Anyway it washed fine but it hadn't spun so everything was still wet, we put it on a spin but it just rev'd and whirred but never spun at the 1200 it was meant too. It would complete the spin cycle but never spin. We tried this a few times and it never spun. I tried taking everything out and trying the different spin speed and it was still the same.
We left the washer turned off and empty for 1 day and when we used it next it span fine.
Eventually, we got a Samsung repair guy out and he said that the new digital washers are really sensitive to the loads that they have in them, so if it feels like its off-balance (with a heavy object on one side) it won't spin. The washer may go back and forth in an attempt to dislodge the items that are stuck and to re balance its self.
He said the best thing to do is keep putting it on a spin cycle if this doesnt work after 3 attempts to remove 1/2 of the load loosen the remaining washing and put on a spin cycle.
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Afro-Futurism: Envisioning the Year 2070 and Beyond uses art to create a future for us to aspire to. It comes from an African American perspective. Runaway slave and heroine Harriet Tubman once said, "I freed a thousand slaves; I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
Over 100 years later, writer James Baldwin praised Black revolutionaries for daring to break down barriers. He wrote in a 1970 letter to activist Angela Davis: "The enormous revolution in black consciousness which has occurred in your generation, my dear sister, means the beginning or the end of America. Some of us, white and Black, know how great a price has been paid to bring into existence a new consciousness, a new people, an unprecedented nation."
What will be the Black consciousness in the year 2070, one hundred years after James Baldwin's letter?
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With a rise in chemotherapy for pets, veterinary staff is at increased risk for exposure
During a 2006 biopsy of a worrisome growth on his thyroid gland, while a needle was still lodged in his neck, Arizona veterinarian Brett Cordes was surprised by a question from his endocrinologist.
The doctor, Cordes said, "asked me if I handled chemotherapy and hazardous drugs" at work, and he acknowledged that he did. For Cordes, who eventually was found to have a rare thyroid affliction called Hurthle cell cancer, the exchange with the physician was life-changing. Cordes vowed that, from then on, he would protect himself from the risky exposures that veterinarians and their assistants can encounter on the job, and would urge colleagues to do the same. Cordes remembered thinking to himself at the time, "I'm not as invincible as I thought I was, and I'm too cavalier. What have I been doing all this time?"
Fortunately Cordes, at age 47, says he now is considered cancer free. It's impossible to know for sure what caused his disease. But Cordes, who began working in a veterinary clinic doing cleanup while in his teens, is convinced it was his longtime on-the-job exposure to chemotherapies and other hazardous drugs used to treat pets. It spurred him to become an advocate in a successful push for tougher safety standards, due to take effect in December 2019, for handling hazardous drugs in veterinary medicine and throughout health care.
Working as a veterinarian or as an assistant in a veterinary clinic never has been for the faint-hearted. While bites and scratches are the most common injuries, other hazards abound. They include accidental needlestick punctures, afflictions known as zoonotic diseases that can pass from animals to humans, back injuries from lifting and holding animals, along with exposure to anesthetic gases and radiation.
In a 2016 federal survey, veterinary services posted the second-highest rate of nonfatal job-related injuries and illnesses among all of the U.S. industries tracked. What's more, studies have found that veterinarians for years have had high suicide rates, and the profession increasingly has focused on that problem.
But cancer treatment for pets has boomed in recent decades, reflecting a surge in spending on veterinary care as Americans increasingly have doted on their dogs and cats. The growing amount of chemotherapy has raised a safety threat: increased exposure to drugs that not only treat cancer but can also cause the disease, as well as other afflictions.
Experts say there is scant research on workplace exposure to chemotherapy drugs in veterinary medicine, and many caution against overreacting to the risk. "We want to be careful, but we don't want to be paranoid," said Annette N. Smith, an Auburn University professor and lead author of a "consensus statement" published this year that focused on ways to minimize harm to veterinary workers and pet owners exposed to chemotherapy drugs.
Still, there have been worrisome research findings in human medicine. That's particularly true for women, who dominate the veterinary work force. Studies have identified heightened risks of infertility, spontaneous abortions, chromosome abnormalities and possibly leukemia and other cancers among nurses and other health care workers who handle chemotherapy drugs in human medical care. "The only known safe level of chemotherapy exposure is no exposure," cautioned Daina Budreckis, a veterinary oncologist – a cancer specialist – in Ventura, California.
Although chemotherapy doses tend to be much lower in veterinary medicine, safety practices in veterinary settings often fall short of the norm in human health care. As a 2014 study put it, "human outpatient cancer clinics are staffed with medical oncologists and trained oncology nurses" while in veterinary medicine, "chemotherapy in local practices is literally placed in the hands of general practitioners, staff, and pet owners, without any oversight to evaluate the safety of administration."
The risks are widely thought to be greatest at rural or small-town veterinary clinics that don't routinely provide chemotherapy. They typically serve pet owners who live too far from, or can't afford, veterinary hospitals with cancer specialists.
Small-town veterinarians "have to do everything," including chemotherapy treatment that "they're not trained to do," said Lisa Parshley, a veterinary oncologist and former president of the Washington State Veterinary Medical Association. Parshley, who has worked with officials on implementing a pioneering 2011 Washington law regulating the handling of hazardous drugs, including chemotherapy agents, has observed veterinary clinics around the state. When it comes to drug handling at independent general veterinary practices, some are doing "a really good job," Parshley said. "And then I think there are some that are appalling. I won't lie."
Kim A. Selting, president of the Columbia, Missouri-based Veterinary Cancer Society and a University of Illinois associate professor, agreed that "there are certainly people who are using chemotherapy and being nonchalant about it, being just too cavalier with chemotherapy safety." That happens, Selting said, even though there are readily available devices and techniques to prevent exposures .
Advanced expertise in providing chemotherapy to animals is in short supply. Veterinary oncologists – who typically go through four or five years of additional training after becoming veterinarians — remain a rare breed. There are somewhat over 110,000 veterinarians in the U.S., but fewer than 600 are board-certified oncology specialists, according to American Veterinary Medical Association figures.
Yet even veterinary teaching hospitals — which along with big-city specialty hospitals are generally thought to do the best job in handling chemotherapy safely — may sometimes slip up. At Michigan State University's veterinary teaching hospital, federal evaluators in 2010 found substantial lapses.
Separately, a Vancouver, Washington, office of BluePearl Veterinary Partners – one of candy maker Mars Inc.'s four veterinary chains, the biggest web of veterinary operations in North America — was accused in January of 18 workplace violations by state authorities. One citation said ventilation equipment "did not function correctly throughout the time the oncology services have been offered, approximately 2 years," possibly exposing employees to toxic chemotherapy agents over that period.
BluePearl is appealing the citations. BluePearl and Mars officials declined to be interviewed for this story but, in an email, company officials said they "disagree with many of the factual findings" by state inspectors.
A key issue, safety advocates say, is the inconsistent training and supervision of staffers who are the workhorses of veterinary practices. There are two-year college programs for veterinary technicians, and four-year programs for veterinary technologists, but much of the work force is trained on the job.
State credentialing programs – such as programs to become a registered veterinary technician – include some occupational safety training. However, "there are veterinarians out there who are using people who are untrained and don't know any better and can end up exposing themselves" to chemotherapies, X-ray radiation or other hazards, said Liz Hughston, a registered veterinary technician in San Jose, California, and president of the fledgling National Veterinary Professionals Union.
Cordes left veterinary practice for nearly a decade after developing cancer. He worked in the pharmaceutical industry, selling safety products to veterinarians. Then, in 2015, Cordes returned to practicing veterinary medicine by opening a clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, that he says was built with a focus on workplace safety.
But when it comes to dealing with chemotherapy drugs, Cordes is finished. If his clients want chemotherapy for their pets after he lists the pros and cons, Cordes refers them to a veterinary oncologist, counting on these specialists to take strict safety precautions.
"We don't handle chemotherapy drugs," he said. "That's my solution. It's to abstain from it."
This story was produced by FairWarning, a nonprofit news organization based in Southern California that focuses on public health, consumer and environmental issues. A longer version of the story appears at www.fairwarning.org.


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The honeymoon was soon over between Journey lead guitarist Neal Schon and ex-Playmate of the Month Ava Fabian. And now, so is the litigating.
Fabian, 50, the August 1986 Playboy magazine starlet, and Schon, 58, had a 20-month relationship together in San Anselmo, according to the Marin Independent Journal. She sued him for $20,000, claiming that he agreed to support her financially after they broke up in September 2011, the newspaper reported.
Fabian says she devoted time and energy to raising Schon's children and taking care of his mother. She also says that when she had "reconstructive chest surgery," she was unable to please Schon sexually and was as a result thrown out of the home, the newspaper reported.
In return, Schon asked a judge to have Fabian return a 3.3 carat diamond valued at $100,000.
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Signs of a Healthy Ferret
When choosing a ferret as a pet, it's very important to find a healthy and happy one to bring into your home. This list shows you things to look for when shopping for your new fuzzy family member:
Fur is soft and shiny, and there are no patches of missing fur.
Eyes are clear and bright.
Eyes, ears, and nose free from any discharge.
Underside of the ferret is clean and healthy looking and has no signs of diarrhea or bloating.
The ferret is inquisitive when you approach and may be jumpy and playful. He does not cower orrun to a hiding place.


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Treasure Valley high school signing/commitment list
Below is a list that includes Treasure Valley athletes (2016 graduates unless otherwise noted) who have either signed a letter of intent or have verbally committed to compete for a college or university on a scholarship or as a walk-on.
The information was provided to the Statesman by high school coaches and administrators or by club team officials.
College commitments and signings can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Chase Barrera, Vallivue, Treasure Valley CC
Kyle Carpenter, Vallivue, Northwest Nazarene
Sean Coffey, Centennial, Walla Walla CC
Jace De Grange, Centennial, Mesa CC
Jake Engelson, Timberline, Treasure Valley CC
Nick Flesher, Mountain View, Spokane Falls CC
Payton Harris, Timberline, Skagit Valley College
Ryan Kim, Timberline, Portland
Kole Lane, Eagle, Spokane Falls CC
Spencer Lipkin, Capital (2012), Santa Barbara City College
Blake McFadden, Meridian, Treasure Valley CC
Parker Price, Timberline, Gonzaga
Joe Puzio, Bishop Kelly, Treasure Valley CC
Riley Runyon, Borah, Treasure Valley CC
Justin Slattery, Borah, Gateway CC
Trey Steffler, Timberline, Lewis-Clark State College
RJ Syverson, Bishop Kelly, Corbin University
Cameron Sutton, Vallivue, Blue Mountain CC
Austin Van Horne, Caldwell, College of Idaho
Dimick Wood, Borah, Walla Walla CC
Tanner Woolsey, Vallivue, Walla Walla CC
Gavin Zickefoose, Capital, Olivet Nazarene
Connor Desaulniers, Centennial, Lewis-Clark State College
Evan Henning, Boise, College of Idaho
Tanner Kramer, Parma, College of Idaho
Mike Martinez, Bishop Kelly, Dordt College
Blair Moore, Rocky Mountain, Lewis-Clark State College
Talon Pinckney, Centennial, College of Idaho
Damen Thacker, Mountain View, Southern Virginia
Michael Wachsmuth, Liberty Charter, Multnomah University
Chloe Curry, Columbia, College of Idaho
Issy Hadden, Boise, Idaho
Gabi Harrington, Bishop Kelly, Montana
Laura Irish, Boise, Coast Guard Academy
Allison Law, Kuna, College of Idaho
MaQuenna Quintero, Columbia, Mt. Hood Community College
Mackenzie Royce, Middleton, Snow College
Destiny Slocum, Mountain View, Maryland
Malia Teriipaia, Skyview, Wenatchee Valley College
Devenee Villareal, Mountain View, Wenatchee Valley College
Zoe Wessels, Council, Northwest Nazarene
Lindy Westendorf, Cole Valley Christian, College of Idaho
Dominique Williams, Centennial, Weber State
Nino Alibegic, Rocky Mountain, Arizona Western
Andrew Anderson, Nampa Christian, College of Idaho
Kenton Bartlett, Centennial, Portland State
TreyTon Bell, Mountain View, Idaho State
Zack Bennett, Rocky Mountain, Arizona Western
Christian Blaser, Rocky Mountain, Boise State (preferred walk-on)
Calin Criner, Rocky Mountain, Eastern Washington
Valentino Daltoso, Boise, Oregon (preferred walk-on)
Nick Eden, Borah, College of Idaho
Conner Falk, Emmett, Eastern Oregon
Mason Farnsworth, Emmett, Idaho State (preferred walk-on)
Joe Farris, Mountain View, Carroll College
Caden Finkley, Bishop Kelly, Western Oregon
Bryce Fox, Meridian, University of Puget Sound
Jared Gibson, Mountain View, Idaho State
Alex Gilbert, Timberline, College of Idaho
Caleb Harrel, Middleton, George Fox University
Tamir Hill, Rocky Mountain, Western Oregon
Chris Hugon, Borah, Eastern Oregon
Harrison Irwin, Bishop Kelly, South Dakota School of Mines
Levi Irwin, Rocky Mountain, Snow College
Jake Johnson, Kuna, Idaho State
Parker Johnson, Nampa Christian, Idaho State (walk-on)
Trey Jones, Boise, Whitworth
Josh Kraft, Rocky Mountain, Rocky Mountain College
Justin Lawrence, Timberline, Mississippi College
Mikhail LeBow, Payette, Willamette
Layne Lehman, Vallivue, Montana Western
Luke Leonnig, Eagle, Oregon State (preferred walk-on)
Esai Longoria, Vallivue, Montana
Jacob Molenaar, Capital, Idaho State
Chawit (Sam) Phiriyakulkit, Nampa Christian, Dordt
Kyler Ray, Kuna, Pittsburg State
Tate Richter, Mountain View, Eastern Oregon
Jake Roper, Rocky Mountain, Boise State (preferred walk-on)
Luke Thomas, Fruitland, Weber State
Steve Tiersma, Nampa Christian, College of Idaho
Joey Tuccinardi, Rocky Mountain, College of Idaho
Ben Vering, Capital, Boise State (preferred walk-on)
Justin Walker, Eagle, Idaho
Denton Wetherell, Rocky Mountain, Rocky Mountain College
Saige Wilkerson, Emmett, Eastern Oregon
Tyson Young, Meridian, Eastern Oregon
Henry Bernard, Rocky Mountain, Northwest Nazarene
Josh Gliege, Eagle, Texas A&M
Connor Johnstone, Vallivue, Boise State
Hunter Ostrom, Bishop Kelly, Notre Dame
Sam Tidd, Rocky Mountain (2018), Oklahoma
Natalie Beggrow, Eagle, Northwest Nazarene
Irvin Angulo, Vallivue, North Idaho College
Damian Bautista, Vallivue, North Idaho College
Parker Billings, Timberline (2017), College of Idaho
Daniel Camargo, Caldwell (2015), College of Idaho
Conner Chappell, Bishop Kelly, Pacific University
Bekir Cinac, Centennial, College of Idaho
Kasey Dunn, Bishop Kelly, Saint Martin's
Ryan Elsberry, Mountain View, College of Idaho
Eli Fox, Boise, Carroll College
Cole Fuller, Timberline, College of Idaho
Darion Green, Mountain View (2014), College of Idaho
Alex Grimaldo, Caldwell, Walla Walla CC
Muga Katanga, Boise, Seattle Pacific
Emanuel Montanez, Renaissance, Corban University
Oscar Padilla, Weiser, North Idaho College
Dante Pennell, Mountain View, Walla Walla CC
Carter Perry, Boise (2014) & Utah Valley, College of Idaho
Jose Perez, Weiser, North Idaho College
Reagan Phillips, Boise, Chico State
Sam Rucklos, Boise, Seattle Pacific
Lucas Schlake, Rocky Mountain, College of Idaho
Dylan Shaw, Mountain View, Saint Martin's
Cesar Sosa, Skyview, Northwest Nazarene
Emma Bailey, Eagle (2017), BYU
Lauren Bouvia, Weiser (2017), UC Davis
Maggie Burton, Eagle, Baylor
Emily Carrell, Meridian, Spokane CC
Kilie Cheney, Columbia, Eastern Oregon
Makayla Christensen, Centennial (2018), Utah
Brittney Ciavarella, Mountain View, College of Idaho
Jordan Daniels, Rocky Mountain, Northwest Nazarene
Danelle Davidian, Eagle, Eastern Oregon
Johanna DiLulo, Boise, Eastern Washington
HanSena DiNoia, Centennial, Westminster
Brooke Felzien, Timberline, Northwest Nazarene
Felicitas Gonzalez, Vallivue, Northwest Nazarene
Hannah Knoll, Timberline, Wellesley College
Bailey Kroll, Rocky Mountain, Dixie State
Christa Lewis, Mountain Home, Western State Colorado
Mackenzie Malach, Centennial, College of Idaho
Samantha Patterson, Rocky Mountain, Treasure Valley CC
Emily Rigsby, Boise, Whitman College
Sydney Sandburg, Kuna, West Point
Corrinah Schaefer, Timberline, Northwest Nazarene
Shayla Schoensee, Boise, Embry Riddle (Prescott, Ariz.)
Raimee Sherle, Rocky Mountain, Boise State
Sierra Smith, Boise, Seattle Pacific
Qarli Stone, Eagle, Troy
Maddy Watts, Boise, Sonoma State
Keneika Webster, Mountain View, Cal State Bakersfield
Makayla Welch, Rocky Mountain, Carroll College
Tennyson Young, Mountain View, Northwest Nazarene
Makayla Aberasturi, Homedale, Treasure Valley CC
Megan Browne, Mountain View, Eastern Oregon
Isabelle Butler, Boise, Boise State
Elena Cook, Boise, Portland State
Tristan Corta, Homedale, Treasure Valley CC
Bradie Fillmore, Eagle, California
Hailey Fisher, Eagle (2017), Weber State
Samantha Furtado, New Plymouth, Walla Walla CC
Samm Hamilton, Mountain View, University of Jamestown
Hailey Hicks, Rocky Mountain, College of Idaho
Lexi Knauss, Meridian (2017), Montana
Gardenia Machuca, Homedale, Treasure Valley CC
Autumn Moffat, Eagle (2017), BYU
Jade Montoya, Rocky Mountain, Asbury University
Carolyn Murrey, Centennial, Indiana Tech
Courtney Pestka, Rocky Mountain, Weber State
Hannah Spero, Capital, Central Washington
Cheyenne Stallions, New Plymouth, Yakima Valley CC
Madison Strickler, Eagle, Northwest Nazarene
Martha Tooley, Eagle, College of Idaho
Zach Andrew, Bishop Kelly, Oklahoma State
Sam Brixey, Capital, Washington State
Peyton Brothers, Nampa Christian, Northwest Nazarene
Garrett Calhoun, Timberline, Oklahoma State
Marcos Cervantes, Bishop Kelly, College of Idaho
Noah Horsburgh, Mountain View, Boise State
Payton Jolley, Bishop Kelly, Eastern Oregon
Rylan Manzer, Melba, Northwest Nazarene
Cory Mullanix, Centennial, Idaho State
Joe Mullener, Capital, Carroll College
Connor Oswald, Mountain View, Idaho State
Joe Petty, Mountain View, Idaho State
Michael Slagowski, Rocky Mountain, Penn State
Sophia Adams, Bishop Kelly, Weber State
Sara Christianson, Borah, Oregon State
Carli Corpus, Rocky Mountain, Eastern Washington
Bethany Danner, McCall-Donnelly, Northwest Nazarene
Tori Funk, Capital, Occidental College
Carissa Kalpakjian, Timberline, Biola
Olivia Konecni, Capital, Coast Guard Academy
Kendra Noneman, Eagle, Boise State
Kaylee Oyler, Rocky Mountain, Montana State
Hannah Putnam, Timberline, Utah State
Audrey Rustad, Boise, Williams College
Sophie Stands, Timberline, Idaho State
Kooper Crow, Fruitland, Idaho (preferred walk-on)
Colin Fisher, Caldwell, Willamette
Kyle Gonelli, Nampa, Lewis-Clark State College
Zach Rawls, Boise, Lewis-Clark State College
Riley Clayeux, Mountain View, Linfield College
Skylar Schossberger, Eagle, Middlebury College
Hailee Ackerman, Skyview, Eastern Oregon
Michal Bilger, Borah, Northwest University
Nikole Cook, Kuna, Central Washington
Jade Crowe, Caldwell, Northwestern College
Kelly Driscoll, Eagle, Saint Martin's
Rebekah Farris, Kuna, Dixie State
Micaela Hulsey, Liberty Charter, College of Idaho
Savannah Ipsen, Centennial, Westminster
Maddy Johnson, Capital, Western State Colorado University
Chloe Lampman, Middleton, College of Idaho
Gretchen Litzsinger, Eagle, Southern Oregon
Madison Loar, Columbia, Snow College
Jasmine Martinez, Caldwell, Highline College
Megan Mowry, Skyview, BYU
Megan Nelson, Centennial, Northwest Nazarene
Allison O'Harra, Centennial (2017), Pepperdine
Kayla Sale, Vallivue, Northwest Nazarene
Victoria Terry, Eagle, Rocky Mountain College
Lexi Ward, Timberline, Northwest Nazarene
Kenzie Willis, Mountain View, Westminster
Kelsi Wilson, Mountain View, Treasure Valley CC
David Griffin, Meridian, Highline College
Harrison McLenna, Rocky Mountain, Colorado Mesa University
Levi Perry, Kuna, North Idaho College
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Taylor Anderson, Boise, Loyola Marymount
Bailey Clifford, Bishop Kelly, College of Idaho
Taylor Gordon, Timberline, College of Idaho
Owen Gibson, Bishop Kelly, U.S. Coast Guard
Brandon Palmatier, Rocky Mountain, Navy
Hannah Beagley, Eagle, BYU
Connor Armstrong, Eagle, Monmouth College (Ill.)
Blake Branscombe, Timberline, Rockhurst University
Drake O'Neill, Timberline, Rockhurst University
Dylan Shepherd, Eagle, Washington & Jefferson College
Cade Talbert, Timberline, Lindenwood University
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The effectiveness of antivirus protection has never been under greater scrutiny but McAfee and Check Point believe they have found a new story to counter some of the the doubt - sandboxing.
McAfee's story at this week's RSA Show is built around its recently-acquired ValidEdge, a small startup that came with an appliance for carrying out binary-level analysis and reverse-engineering of suspected malware files to see how they might affect endpoints such as PCs.
Importantly, the analysis involves actually running the application in a sandbox to see what it does in real time, an onerous procedure that requires full kernel isolation.
The system can also generate signatures from detected malware which can be used to remediate infections on PCs targeted while outside the network perimeter using the firm's established ePolicy Orchestrator management, McAfee said.
Check Point's equivalent comes in the form of its new Threat Emulation Software Blade, an upgrade aimed at customers already running the firm's systems.
The design principle is the same as McAfee, however, and involves emulating files in a sandboxed environment it believes to be suspicions, that is unknown to its ThreatCloud database.
Both systems are designed to fill the sort of gaps conventional antivirus has often struggled with such as spotting attacks that use malicious attachments without generating false positives.
Is sandboxing a fix-all? Despite the optimistic pronouncements of both companies, almost certainly not. The anxiety, of course, is the spate of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks that anecdotal evidence suggests are getting round today's defences without much trouble.
Part of the reason for this is that some of these attacks are infecting systems such as mobile devices outside the firewall, before being brought behind the perimeter when returning from their travels.
Spotting those means monitoring traffic moving inside the network and out through the firewall, often sent using encrypted command and control channels that are inherently tricky to detect. Many victims notice nothing until it is too late.
In McAfee's architecture, the command and control channel is supposed to be detected by Web Protection layer while in Check Point's universe the equivalent security is provided by its Anti-Bot Software Blade.
"Point products can't provide adequate protection against these advanced attacks, which is why McAfee is delivering an integrated, multi layered, managed solution that provides comprehensive malware protection across endpoints and networks," admitted McAfee general manager of network security, Pat Calhoun.
What the coming of the APT age heralds is that defences should be integrated and layered where once they would have been static shields looking after specific pieces of infrastructure.
It should be noted that sandboxing and emuation are far from a new technologies in the antivirus world; Sunbelt Software (acquired by GFI) started using it in earnest four years ago but only now is it being integrated into enterprise systems with sudden haste.
Check Point said its new Blade would be on sale by Q2 while McAfee plans to have integrated ValidEdge's technology in the second half of 2013, the firm said.
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n the newly formed state of Indiana on the western frontier, Abraham Lincoln spent 14 of the most formative years of his life growing from youth into manhood (1816-1830). Many of the character traits and moral values that made Abraham one of the world's most respected leaders were formed and nurtured here. It was here on a rural farm that he learned to laugh with his father, cried over the death of his mother, read the books that opened his mind, and triumphed over the adversities of life on the frontier.
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, a unit of the National Park Service, preserves the site of the farm where Abraham Lincoln spent his life from the ages of 7 to 21. The park includes a memorial visitor center built by the state of Indiana in the 1940s; a cabin site memorial; the cemetery where his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, is buried; and a recreated living history farm where visitors can experience frontier life.
About This Lesson
Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
Putting It All Together: Activities
How the National Register
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
The lesson is based on the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial has been designated a National Historic Landmark.


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El Salvador Gang Truce Expanded to Include Extortion (REPORT)
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El Salvador's involvement in a truce between the country's two major street gangs has grown, with the government now pursuing a reduction in gang extortion in addition to homicides.
Although the daily homicide rate has declined sharply since 30 leaders of the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs were transported to a more relaxed prison facility in March, reports of extortion have continued and even risen in some departments, according to the country's Attorney General.
Transportation unions in particular have reported an increase in the monetary losses incurred by gang extortions.
Straying from prior denials of government involvement in the negotiations, La Prensa Grafica reports that Justice and Security Minister David Munguia Payes has stated that "the government cannot sit down to negotiate with criminal groups, but if other institutions do, we will facilitate the dialogue." The Church and former congressman Raul Mijango have already initiated efforts to negotiate a reduction in extortions with the gangs.
Munguia claimed that he is unsure of what the gang leaders will ask for in exchange for a reduction in extortions, but the government is prepared to do whatever is necessary to facilitate a dialogue, so long as concessions remain within the scope of the law. Currently, the government is considering some "gestures of goodwill" that gang leaders have requested, such as allowing imprisoned gangsters to be visited by their children, or lengthening the allowed visit time.
According to the minister, all the dialogue can do is "create opportunities." If negotiations through Mijango and the Church are fruitless, the government will be forced to explore other options. However, he is convinced that the reduction in homicides that resulted from the truce can only be followed by a reduction in extortion, auto theft, and illicit arms acquisition.
The Salvadoran government's continued facilitation of the discussion between the Church and the country's two largest street gangs points to the state's deepening investment in the deal.
The consideration of new concessions to curtail gang extortion also sheds light on the leverage that the gangs have in the negotiations.
Minister Munguia appears confident that dialogue between the Church and the gang leaders will lead to the decline of several criminal activities, but brokering a truce between two gangs at war is very different from convincing the groups to cease the activities that dictate their way of life.
Each of the myriad illicit activities that Salvadoran gangs engage in may require new government concessions.
As Insight has suggested, inadvertently delegating this kind of political power to gangs could compromise the justice system, as well as any peace that has already resulted from the negotiations.
---This piece originally appeared in INSIGHT HERE.


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Presented by the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School in collaboration with the Child Care and Early Education Fund
With the creation of EarlyLearnNYC in 2012, New York City reinvented its system for subsidized early care and education for children from low-income families. Officials sought to ensure high quality, developmentally smart care--but a string of financial and logistical hurdles posed difficulties for many of the nonprofit organizations that run these programs. Today, some thrive while others have lost their contracts or struggle to remain open. Now, as the city launches an expanded Pre-K network for 4-year-olds, what will happen to subsidized child care for younger kids? Can the reform vision of EarlyLearn be put fully into action, and sustained? A conversation with experts in the field, and the release of findings from a new Center for New York City Affairs report on early care and education.
- Steve Barnett,director, National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University
- Maria Benejan, associate commissioner, Division of Early Care and Education at New York City Administration for Children's Services
- Takiema Bunche-Smith, education director, Brooklyn Kindergarten Society
- Gregory Brender, policy analyst, United Neighborhood Houses
- Maria Contreras-Collier, executive director, Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation
- Abigail Kramer, associate editor, Center for New York City Affairs
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Potato Recipes
Coconut Roasted Potatoes
After pan-frying fillets of sole for little Aria and myself last night, I realized pairing the fish with roasted potatoes in coconut oil might lack a toothsome bite. In an attempt to create the perfect balance of texture, I added an extra step to the potatoes by breading them with a mixture of breadcrumbs, Parmesan cheese, garlic and coconut shreds. The crunchy potatoes helped balance the texture of the fish and the addition of coconut shreds might sound a bit unusual but it was a reminder of the coconut oil used previously.
You can also find gourmet potato dishes in my first cookbook, Haute Potato, which is an ode to this root vegetable. In this book, I've included one of my favorites, which hails from India: a spicy potato cutlet stuffed with ground beef, or kheema. To illustrate the versatility of potatoes, the book is separated into chapters based on the primary flavor profile or texture of the dish. Each section is an exploration of the ways in which the potato can be used. So, though it may start its life in the ground, when combined with the right techniques and ingredients the potato can truly be haute cuisine.
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Zucchini Potato Gratin (Gratin Dauphinois aux Courgettes)
Gratin dauphinois is one of the gourmet potato dishes featured in my first cookbook Haute Potato. It consists of just potatoes, cream, cheese, butter and a little salt, with fresh-cut herbs on occasion.
This potato gratin is delicious and easy to make. Today, I prepared a version using zucchini. This is a great way to conceal a nice portion of vegetables, especially if you're trying to feed children who don't like to eat their veggies. You can easily replace it with other greens such as broccoli. It's that easy! "Le tour est joué" (That's all there is to it! in English).
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Thinly Sliced Baked Potatoes
After publishing my first cookbook Haute Potato (75 gourmet potato recipes) and feeding our family our favorite potato dishes for years, I thought I had come up with all of the possible ways to cook the starchy, tuberous crop. This potato recipe is an adaptation of my potato flower crisp. This variation is a little easier and quicker to prepare than the original. It's the result of improvising for a dinner party; instead of using individual servings, I laid uniformly mandoline-sliced potato slices in a pretty design on a baking pan and baked them just as you would the potato crisp. The finished product is a thinner potato layer, which might not be as visually festive but it's just as delicious.
So next time you're tempted to create the crispy potato flower but are pressed for time, opt for this quick and easy version.
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Impressive Quinoa Appetizer Recipe
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Mushroom Potato Galette Recipe
Sometimes the simplest things make the most delicious dish. For this vegetarian recipe, I only used 3 ingredients plus seasonings and tried to showcase them in one easy dish. Red potatoes from my garden, button mushrooms and ghee (clarified butter). Very thinly sliced potatoes were arranged into a galette and stuffed with mushrooms. That's all. I also flavored the ghee with oregano and seasoned the potatoes with salt and white pepper.
If you check out my Instagram account, you'll see multiple photos of my gardening experiences, the dishes I prepare for the family and of course, baby Aria. I upload them to Instagram on a daily basis. If you like it, don't hesitate to follow me PhamFataleCom.
It's amazing how easy it is to grow potatoes: bury the potatoes into the soil 3 weeks before the last "frost" date. For the Bay Area, I usually wait until late March. Remember to water regularly. You'll be able to harvest the first potatoes when the flowers open up. Check back often; the main part of the plants should be pulled once the foliage has died.
Photos of the girls gardening a few years back...
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Some Small-Business Employees to Have Only One Health-Plan Choice
Eighteen States Will Offer One Plan When Small-Business Exchanges Open
Small employers in 18 states will offer only one health plan to workers when the Affordable Care Act's small-business exchanges open this fall, federal officials said Tuesday.
The 2010 law called for new online insurance marketplaces, which were supposed to open last year, for small businesses to pick group plans to cover workers. But those...


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Maitland's win comes in the wake of former GA CEO Neil Bennett's move to the financial PR agency as managing partner. But Lastminute.com corporate comms manager Lucy Dare claimed the switch was unrelated to Bennett's move, saying the account would be led by Maitland consultant Brian Hudspith.
Bennett, who led the lastminute.com account at GA, is working out his period following his resignation in May.
Dare said the switch to Maitland was because the company had 'come on another level' since appointing GA at the beginning of the year through recent acquisitions including Online Travel Company in March, First Option in January and Med Hotels in December.
GA replaced Hudson Sandler as Lastminute's financial PR adviser in January.
In a separate move, Lastminute marketing director Vijay Solanki has become a casualty of a shake up in the company's marketing following January's appointment of UK MD Richard Bowden Doyle.
Solanki's merchandising responsibilities have passed to Bowden Doyle. But Lastminute is to expected to appoint a new marketing director who will retain responsibility for all marketing and PR.
Solanki said he had decided to leave the company once the moves had been communicated to him.
'I have chosen to leave because of the structural changes and will be taking some time out. I am getting married quite shortly,' he said.
His exit this Friday comes only weeks after Biss Lancaster resigned the company's PR account. Solanki called in Freud Communications to handle its summer holiday PR blitz.
Head of promotions and partnership Emma Seward is to assume Solanki's duties on an interim basis until a successor is found.


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inCarDoc provides a quick and easy way to communicate with your vehicle's on-board diagnostic system and turn your mobile phone into a highly capable automotive scanner. Simple Application allows reading real-time and stored parameters from ECU of OBD-II compliant cars. The App supports data reading from the cars with one ECU. Several ECU data reading is also possible but the data may be unstable (this feature will be upgrated soon).
- Real-time engine & vehicle parameters: speed, rotation, temperature, pressure, lambda and multiple other sensors' data supported by your car
- Read diagnostic trouble codes
- Clean trouble codes (turn off Check Engine, MIL)
NOTE!!! Avoid simultaneous running of multiple OBD reading applications, be sure that other applications are not keeping live OBD connection.
NOTE!!! To launch car OBD system to mobile phone one needs OBD-II Wi-Fi cable or Wireless OBD2 Adapter.
NOTE!!! Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
1.Plug the OBD-II Wi-Fi cable to your car's OBD-II port (usually it required to be within 2 feet (0.61 m) of the steering wheel).
2.At your iPhone device, in the Settings, chose connect to Wi-Fi network.
3.Once connected to Wi-Fi network, click the small blue arrow to go to the advanced settings for it.
4.Set the IP Address to Static.
5.Configure the IP address to 192.168.0.11 and the Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0
Then, go back and exit the settings.
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My girlfriend and I went for appetizers. The vegetables were not tasty at all. I understand it is a steak place but the poor vegetarians would be disappointed. I do not remember the other appetizers. We went to La Encantada to walk and have dessert. Did not want to try FLemmings. There was a car show there and they gave out tastings from FIre Bird and the veggies were really good.
Fred's is a long drive from Tucson, off Sierrita Mountain Rd. and not so easy to find, but worth the effort. It's nothing fancy - just an old-school steakhouse with good food and a great, out-in-the-country atmosphere. The beef is the best thing to order on the menu. Fred's has a roping arena and also stores a lot of the rolling stock used in the Rodeo Parade. We have been going to Fred's for over 30 years, even though we no longer live in Tucson. It's a taste of what Tucson was like before the population explosion.
Probably the best ribeye i have ever had. My wife said her filet was equally as good. This place is a hidden gem. Some friends suggested we give this place a try and we are so glad we did. I am putting this restaurant in my all time top five. Somehow I found room for dessert and the chocolate mousse was killer.
Some friends recommended this restaurant and we gave it a try. Best steaks we have had in the last 10 years and at a very reasonable price. My wife said best filet she has ever eaten. We will definately be back.
Still the best steaks and ribs in Tucson. We go here every time we are in town
Hard place to fine, but lot's of fun!
Great Americana food. Awesome breakfasts, burgers and dinners. Dont let the stakehouse name fool you, this is more of a diner. Great food at a reasonable price. No frills, good service. Owners George and Dina always greet you with a smile.
We were in for dinner tonight, which we visit about once a month. I always order the King size Prime Rib. Tonight I have to tell you, I am not sure we will be back! I made the mistake of answering yes when the waitress ask if I cared to have it seered on the grill! The cook BUTTERFLIED MY 21.00 PIECE OF PRIME AND COOKED IT LIKE A STEAK! Why would someone EVER do that WITHOUT ASKING THE GUEST IF THAT'S OKAY! seriously, it took all the juice out of the meat, the bottom piece of butterfield meat was about an 1/8 of inch thick, and if I wanted a steak I would've ordered a t-bone! they were gracious enough to take the dinner off our bill, but it kinda ruined the dinner of which I have maybe one to two nights a month that I that I am not too busy to go out to eat! We use to visit the Outback on Ina, but it has seriously went down hill also! Not sure where we will go now? The poor server was shocked when I handed her the 20.00 tip, and said she could accept it, but I quickly told her it was NOT her fault, IT WAS THE COOK!
Food has taken quite a decline. Very disappointing.
Food is no longer fresh and steaks are not longer premium grade.
Great place for a steak!!! Fabulous food & atmosphere with live music on the weekends.
Love their steak and beans, and salads...never have enough room for dessert. Servers have been friendly. We enjoy walking around the trail dust town, and shop a bit...don't visit much anymore since moving to a rural area SE of Tucson...have to drive to Sonoita for a decent steak now :D
For my money, this is THE best steakhouse in Tucson for those who want to get ALOT of great food at an extremely affordable price!
The food is hideous
Love this place. I have been coming here since I was a kid ( 30 + years sgo) Always great steak and beans. Pit beef is also excellent. My kids love the wild west show, train, and general store. My first choice for a steak dinner.
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Rather crappy tasting food. Sorry but this place isn't good these days. Soggy tacos, mushy undercooked tamales, rice and beans served at room temperature, and the beef tastes like 5 day old leftovers. Maybe they used to be good? I notice more and more graffiti on this side of town to. Is everything going downhill around here?
Inconsistent is the word that best describes Little Mexico. Some days the food is decent. Not great, but decent. Other times when we went the food was pretty bad.
Just east of South 6th Avenue on the Eastbound frontage road, this place beats all the rest for prime rib, steaks, chicken and ribs. We especially like the very reasonably priced prime rib. My sister & brother-in-law and their friends from Dallas declare that it is better than the Dallas prime rib mecca, Lawry's. For me, and about 20 of my friends, there isn't a better slab of prime rib in Tucson than the one they serve at the Silver Saddle.
Its the atmosphere which makes this place a destination. The food is average at best. The open grille area is fun to watch and be sure you are not a soft talker or your dining companions will not be able to hear you.
Why anyone would come here a second time is beyond me. Among all the cities I've lived in, I have to say Tucson is at the bottom food wise. Still, there are several better steak houses than El Coral.
Good soups and cinnamon iced tea, but their lunch and dinner platters aren't very good at all. Been there more than once. So many Mexican eateries in Tucson yet so few good one. Unfortunately this is another miss.


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I really love 12:31, a project created by the art director Croix Gagnon and by the photographer Frank Schott.
Well the technique is not new, but the idea, the story (read story here) and the theme selected to do this photographs series from long exposure are incredible! Check out the results, just organic! See more;
This animation represents the entire data set (1,871 slices) of the male cadaver from the Visible Human Project. The animation was played fullscreen on a computer, which was moved around by an assistant while being photographed in a dark environment. The resulting images are long-exposure "light paintings" of the entire cadaver. Variations in the movement of the computer during each exposure created differences in the shape of the body throughout the series.


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Summit Up 12-26-12: Where we're dealing with our remaining goodies
Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that's stuffing its face with Christmas leftovers. The only thing better than all that delicious food is combining it together in a creative way to make sure you can eat it all before it goes stale or grows sentient mold.
We here at Summit Up have varying ideas about the best way to deal with the remaining goodies. Some suggest combining your turkey scraps into a sandwich with cream cheese and cranberry sauce. Others proudly claim that they never have leftovers and therefore don't need creative food-saving recipes. Well, to them we say, you obviously aren't cooking enough!
Fortunately, the Internet has not failed us, and we've found plenty of intriguing leftover recipe ideas. These suggest anything from recycling your ham into ham and swiss bread pudding to stuffing the rest of your stuffing into portabello mushrooms. Clearly, people on the Internet are much more ambitious than many of us at Summit Up. And more braggy about it.
It's been a good holiday and we wish our Millions of Summit Up readers luck with wading through piles of cast off wrapping paper and deciding how best to prepare those tasty leftovers. We out.
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Beyond the green hills lining the Vayoron River lies the desolate wasteland known as the Border Marches. These lands, subject to the Great King only in name, have long been unpoliced and untaxed by any official Imperial force. Control of swathes of this dusty, chilly land thence fell into the hands of opportunistic counts, retired Imperial generals, warlords, and bandits. In some places in the craggy hills above the dustwallowing valleys of the Marches, the ancient black towers of sorcerors (once driven out by Imperial might) were seen once again lit with glowing windows. But many of the tenants of this land, who taxed the land and patrolled it with their own hired men (with the Great King's tacit approval) found the wastelands, quite obviously, to be barren, poor, and difficult to make a sustenance of. Many landlords simply abandoned with their retinues the ancient, crumbling keeps into which they had tenanted, after struggling to establish any kind of power or wealth in a land of blowing dust, starving cattle, nomad herdsmen, and the curses of black-eyed wizards. Others were done in by the struggle, or slain by bandits and raiders, or by foul magic, leaving their holds wasted and empty, and stuffed full of unwatched treasure. Most inticing to bold adventurers, the Border Marches are so thinly populated and so barren, and the reputation of some of the forts so fearsome, that many have never been plundered! Surely, the riches and wealth of this baron or that must remain in a keep in the wastelands.
One such keep is this place, a crumbling conical pile atop a windy scarp. The populace of the village below, who grow a pitiful plot of maize in the shadow of the hills, claim that the fort is haunted and that none ever return from its dark walls. It has been untenanted for over a hundred years; village legend states that it was the keep of the Count Jjun of Irgoz, a cruel and bloodthirsty individual.
It is said that Jjun of Irgoz offended the God of Gods by trapping and murdering a guest in his home, and for his misdeed, his entire household was struck down by a plague in a single night. His retinue mouldered away before his eyes, his advisers and friends thrashed screaming in the blood of their own sick lungs, and his great guard-hounds feasted on the bodies of his family. But Jjun of Irgoz did not die, the villagers say, but remains eternally pox-stricken and in terrible pain, alone in the dark with his sorrow. And that, conclude the warty village wives in their cord skirts and painted arms, is why one must please the Gods by honoring guests with a cup of water and safe passage (but as the heroes will find, not much more than that).
Room 1: The High Door And The Hounds
The heroes, drawn by promise of treasure, seek the door of the keep through a narrow, high stair hacked out of the craggy face of the cliff. This stair, not wide enough for two men to walk abreast, and steep enough that hand holds (some of which house nests of yellow-banded wasteland scorpions) were hacked into the rock at intervals, is buffeted by dangerous winds and random gusts. Further up the stair, a rusty chain has been bolted to the steps to aid as a handhold, and stretches up to a metal post by the doors. The post is loose and weathered by age, and if two many of the heroes throw their weight against the chain, they will unknowingly pull it loose, with disastrous consequences.
The doors are slotted deeply into the scarp walls down a slight defile carved out of the bare rock; windows in this rock were probably arrow slits for the defense of the keep, but looking into them now reveals only what appears to be a partially-collapsed chamber filled with rubble and broken wood.
The doors swing open with a rusty squeal. It has been quite some time since anybody entered here- a layer of wasteland dust, blown in over time, lies spread thickly across the pavement. The heroes stand in a tall central room. They can just make out the brick walls of the conical structure in which they stand in the gloom; a shaft of golden sunlight spears down through the center of the room through a window high above and behind their heads. As their eyes adjust to the dimness, they recognize the pale shapes of scattered bones spread in patches across the floor.
In this chamber, the heroes meet their first test. Out of the darkness, the heroes sense a presence, shuffling silently just beyond the edge of the visible. Lurking in this chamber are the gigantic guard-hounds Vvikush and Vvoralgu, who have become huge, immortal, and terribly ravenous from feeding on the cursed flesh of Jjun of Irgoz's stricken family. Their bristling, silvery fur is crusted with filthy brown and black from the seeping blood of numerous infected sores, and their enormous drooping-lipped jaws peel back in demonic snarls to reveal shattered and bleeding teeth and diseased gums. These creatures have lurked in this chamber for over a hundred years, gorging their cursed hunger on the foolish ones who trespass within the unholy fort, and a century of undying fear and rage has stripped them of any previous allegiance they might have held to mankind. These beast-dogs provide the heroes with a terrible battle.
Room 2: The Mechanical Door And The Tragic Family
Having laid put the hounds Vvikush and Vvoralgu to rest, the heroes descend one of several small stairways that exits the dusty, bone-strewn entrance hall (there are four; three of them lead to deserted dusty servants' quarters, barracks, and kitchens with little loot to speak of besides rust-eaten pieces of iron and the scattered bones of the baron's stricken retinue and vassals). They find themselves in what appears to be a throne chamber. A moth-eaten rug and dusty tapestries hang from the walls, depicting the victories of the hero Nastra of the Lightning Hair. Behind the throne is heavy bronze door with an intricate mechanical lock on it.
In this room lie the gruesome remains of Jjun of Irgoz's tragic family, who died from the horrible disease inflicted by Jjun's curse and whose bodies were fed upon by the devilish hounds- three age-blackened and dog-savaged mummified bodies in the faded tatters of ancient gowns, their limbs and faces unnaturally twisted in disturbing ways by rigor mortis. The corpses of the cursed count's two daughters lie in each others' arms at the foot of the throne, their legs separated from their bodies and their stomachs ruptured by the corpse-eating hounds. Their shriveled eyes are small black pits and their teeth shine very whitely. Across the room, the body of the lady countess Tleyeson lies on her back, surrounded by a black coating of some flaky black substance, actually the rotten material that the countess wretched up before she died. Her body, too, was savaged and eaten of by the dogs, her face is twisted in a horrible shriek.
This sight, while tragic, seems irrelevant to the heroes. They must be more concerned with opening the mechanism which seals the door, a contraption obviously constructed by a sorceror learned in mechanical arts. It is a combination lock, and in order to open the door, four ivory wheels (each marked with a number symbol) must be rotated to form the correct code. But what could the code be?
Clues lie on the door itself. It is a great, heavy, bronze relic, worked with symbols of the traditional birth-to-death cycle of the Sun Dog (from young pup, to angry warrior pierced by arrows, to one-eyed leader, to emaciated dying elder). If the heroes look closely, they can see indicated in the relief the phrases: "Let answers spring forth as lightning" and "A hair is the breadth between the open door and the closed", old proverbs. The words "lightning" and "hair" are juxtaposed. If the heroes are very good at inference, they will know that the numbers of the combination are hidden in sequence on the tapestries of Nastra of the Lightning Hair, worked into scenes therein.
There is a simpler solution, though it is likewise obscured by time and age. All three corpses of Jjun's family know the combination, if the heroes can convince them to divulge it. After a few minutes of inevitable frustration in which the heroes cannot devise the solution, the body of the youngest daughter will speak in a low, hissing whisper:
"Father is inside. He doesn't want us to see him."
A startling interjection from a hundred-year-old mummy! The youngest daughter is the most forthcoming, and will divulge the combination to the door if it is promised that she will see her daddy and that she will marry the handsome Prince of the Kingdom someday (she is a bratty and fickle little child who wants her dreams fulfilled, even in the grip of undeath). The other two corpses are angry and bitter, having dwelt a century beyond the veil of death, and are very mistrustful of the heroes (recognizing them as the treasure seekers that they are), and will not speak unless the heroes can prove that they will see be allowed to see Jjun of Irgoz one last time.
Room Three: The Hall Of Dust And The Giant
The great bronze portal opens with a sigh of old musty air. Within, the heroes perceive a long hallway lined with thick Kaitakian carpets. At the far end, a short stair is elevated into the baronial bedroom.
The heroes pace up the carpet, their footsteps raising puffs of heavy dust. Thick cobwebs tear apart as they brush through them. Approaching the stairway, they discern a large dark figure, seated on the steps and slumped against the wall.
This figure is Xaggarng, the count's personal bodyguard. Loyal to his death, this huge man died puking out his rotten innards into his lap (like the countess), and his shriveled corpse is encrusted with the gruesome dried remnants.
The heroes should know by now that the dead do not rest well in this cursed keep. As they near the doors to the bedroom, Xaggarng releases a thick sound like a deep sigh, and a cloud of black dust pours forth from his distended jaw. Flickering green embers awaken in the wrinkled pits of his eyes as he lifts himself heavily from the steps. Despite the withering of age and mummification, which has made his grey-black skin peel away from his bones and crack apart at his gruesomely-twisted teeth, he remains a giant among men, 7 feet tall, with long arms and hands that have become claws through the action of rigor mortis. He fills the narrow hall and attempts to smother the heroes in a horrible embrace. An unholy strength fills him, and driven by a loyalty to Jjun of Irgoz that lives beyond death, he will not die until hacked into pieces.
Room 4: Jjun Of Irgoz
The heroes ascend the staircase, spattered with the congealed guts and caked dust of the terrible fort. This is the count's bedroom, the family abode buried deep beneath the keep, and (hopefully) just above the coffers.
As the heroes push open the bronze doors to the bedroom, they are driven back by an overwhelming, sick stench of rot and foulness. They feel an unfamiliar wetness as the dust that cakes their sandals is washed away by a thin, warm fluid.
The heroes are standing in a dark chamber, filled with a noxious moisture and humidity not present in the rest of the dust-choked fort. The blackness of the chamber is complete- their torches gutter and flicker in it. The fluid that rushes across their toes lies in slicks and pools across the stone floor of the chamber, and has reduced a once-fine Kaitakian bed-rug into a soggy rotten mat of mushy fibers. Along the walls, several ancient divans have collapsed into wet piles of splinters and rotten silk. In an alcove in the left wall, there is a step upward into the private family shrine, containing statues of Tlonos, the Mother Goddess, One-Eyed War, and a small altar to the God of Gods. However, examining this altar will show that the sacrifice bowls of these altars have been defiled with some kind of stinking filth, and the statue of Tlonos (the goddess who preserves from harm) has been strewn with what appear to be human entrails.
The heroes move slowly through the defiled room, until coming upon the great platform of the count's bed. Lying in the center of the denuded slab of the bed is the cursed lord himself, Jjun of Irgoz.
Cursed never to die, but to live eternally, cancerously stricken by the hideous curse of disease which slew his entire household. Over the course of a century, the endless pain has driven him beyond insanity, and all semblance of what it is to be human has been lost to his rotten brain. He appears to the heroes now in a form that could only be vaguely described as human- composed of rot-blackened organs that swell and split, clustered around his crumbling bones like sacks of stinking awful, with his intestines hanging in ropey coils from his belly. His arms hang long and loose and end in twisted skeletal claws. His skull seems to have collapsed into a mass of hideous tentacular cancers that writhe and whip about in a medusa-like fashion. All that remains of his skull are the bridge of his nose and his eye-sockets, nested masklike and eerie amidst the pulsing, rotten flesh. Out of a mouth-like cavity, filthy grey-black puke, filled with shredded, bloody organs, dribbles and splashes about on the floor. This is the horror that was once Jjun of Irgoz, lord of the keep.
The horror-that-was-Jjun will not die easily. With a disturbing howl, the creature reverses its joints and crawls up the wall and ceiling of the chamber like a cockroach. The creature attacks with its flesh-tearing claws, and spits hideous plague-bearing fluid at the heroes, a substance so filled with the curse that it raises festering sores on their arms and causes them to bleed from their noses and mouths. The creature also attacks them with its intestines, which animate like arms to strangle and slap at the heroes.
This disturbing atrocity seems impervious to pain, and only after it has been hacked apart into tiny fragments (or burned) will the creature die. With the end of its life, there is a huge sighing throughout the keep, and a wave of putrescent air sweeps out from the bedroom throughout the whole tower.
Room 5: The Treasure Chamber
There is a small door at the back of the bedroom. It opens upon a narrow stairway that descends deeply into the bedrock. The heroes descend the shadowed stairway with trepidation- the bottom is illimitable inky blackness.
When they reach the landing of the stairway, they find themselves in a low-roofed long slot chamber. At the far end they find, finally, the coffers of Jjun of Irgoz.
The heroes have worked striven hard for this moment, and crack their knuckles in anticipation. The lid of the stone box is slowly pried away to reveal…
What is this? No gold bars stamped with old Imperial seals? No jewels? No silver goblets, jade rings? What have they been fighting for?
None of these things remain the box. Some of the count's unscrupulous guards and his vizier broke into this chamber and stole away with the gold, escaping the plagued household with the treasure, before dying of the disease somewhere out in the badlands.
Left over at the bottom of the cask, however, is something that might highly interest the heroes- it is a document, on vellum, marked with the gold-leaf seal of the Great King himself (of a hundred years ago). It is a deed of debt, redeemable to the Great King at any time, for a tract of land to the bearer- a gift to Jjun of Irgoz for taking on a command in a Godforsaken wasteland and giving up his ancestral tracts. This document bears the seal of a Great King, and is written in the most proper of High Sorgic. Should the heroes present this document to an Imperial governor, they are fully within their power to demand a tract of Imperially-sponsored land be given over to their lordship as their manor, with accompanying serfs and servants.


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JDI Responds to Domestic Violence Related Homicides in LGBTQ Community
August 25, 2011
Bay Windows and The Rainbow Times
Join us for a community vigil to help raise awareness and say NO MORE to domestic violence in the LGBTQ Community.
When: September 22, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Where: Boston Bandstand on the Boston Common, Corner of Tremont and Boylston Street
Who: Anyone who cares about these issues!
These two articles drew heavily from a joint press release issued by JDI and partners working to end sexual and domestic violence in the GLBT community and beyond.
Orgs respond to uptick in local LGBT domestic violence
by Hannah Clay Wareham
Associate Editor
Wednesday Aug 24, 2011
3rd Gay Male Domestic Violence Homicide in 5 Months is 7th in LGBTQ community since 2010
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August 25, 2011


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* Music from ''[[M02|The Power of One]]'' can be heard in this episode.
* {{MTR}} [[Breaking the fourth wall|breaks the fourth wall]] when he is knocked into the screen by [[Jessie]] and slides down from it after the ladder realized they're missing an {{TP|Sakura|Espeon}} to complete the then-entire set of [[Eeveelution]]s.
* {{MTR}} [[Breaking the fourth wall|breaks the fourth wall]] when he is knocked into the screen by [[Jessie]] and slides down from it after the ladder realized they're missing an {{TP|Sakura|Espeon}} to complete the then-entire set of [[Eeveelution]]s.
* This episode was banned in South Korea, likely due to the prominence of the Kimono Sisters.
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| Espeon, Not Included
First broadcast
English themes
Japanese themes
Espeon, Not Included (Japanese: エーフィとサクラ!エンジュシティふたたび!! Eifie and Sakura! Enju City Once Again!!) is the 226th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on November 29, 2001 and in the United States on September 24, 2002.
|Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
Our heroes meet up with an old friend, Sakura, and her Pokemon—an Espeon that evolved from her Eevee. They lend a hand as Sakura and her sisters prepare for an upcoming dance competition, but meanwhile Team Rocket is hatching a plan to capture a Pokemon from Sakura and each of her sisters, collecting all of the evolved forms of Eevee to present to their boss. When Sakura alone is left to face Team Rocket, she hopes she can prove her mettle once and for all, and gain her sisters' permission to embark upon a journey of her own.
Ash and his friends return to Ecruteak City and decide to make a pit stop before they go on to Mahogany Town. They rest a while in front of a store, and Misty says that they should be meeting up with Sakura here. All of a sudden, an Espeon comes running towards them. Soon afterwards Sakura runs after the Espeon. She tells them that her Eevee has evolved into an Espeon, which completes her sisters' set of Eeveelutions. They later go to Sakura's house, and the sisters come out, all formally dressed in kimonos. They explain that they are going to a place to meet a famous dance instructor. After her sisters leave, Sakura asks Misty, who readily accepts, to battle her. The two get ready for their match with Brock as the judge of the fight. Sakura fights with Espeon, and Misty sends out Corsola. The battle starts off with Espeon going for a Quick Attack. Espeon quickly gets the favor of the battle, but Corsola, on the other hand, uses Recover and Spike Cannon, seizing a win for Misty.
Later, at the place where they were going, the sisters are introduced to two people who seem to be dancers themselves. To start the demonstration, one of them sends out an Arbok and the other sends out a Victreebel, and they begin to dance with them. After the two dancer's demonstration is over, they ask the sisters to dance with their Pokémon. The sisters start off although Jolteon doesn't do much, Vaporeon jumps about, Umbreon just sits there, and Flareon runs around. Afterwards, the two "teachers" say that they will shape the Pokémon in the back room. Each one of them follows the teachers, and the door shuts behind them. They tell the Pokémon to go into another room, which looks rather suspicious. As soon as they gather in the center, Jessie and James release a hatch, and down they go into a trap! Umbreon calls out, and the sisters hear it. They make their way towards the door; finding out it was empty on the other side. When they went towards the darkened back room, the wall collapses, revealing a large Meowth head, Team Rocket's balloon! They start to float away with the Pokémon!
Team Rocket basks in their glory as Jessie counts the Pokémon: Jolteon, Vaporeon, Umbreon, and Flareon. All of a sudden, she gets enraged; she realizes that one is missing, Espeon!
Meanwhile, Sakura's sisters come running to the battle scene and tell everyone what has happened. They search and none of them can find the missing Pokémon. Sakura gets an idea! Since everyone but Espeon is stolen, she knows that Team Rocket will look for it. Why not use it as bait and find the balloon?
Team Rocket looks around for Espeon from their balloon, eventually seeing it. They lower down near it and snatch it with a bug net. They are successful, but the others watch where they go. They follow Team Rocket's balloon as it heads to a forest clearing. After they land at their site, Team Rocket tries to attempt to trap Espeon with the others, first off by persuading it to eat some food then with a collar and chain (or, according to Jessie, a "pretty necklace"). Espeon turns away and looks around, soon finding its friends in the cage behind the bushes. James tries to trap the distracted Espeon with a cage. Sakura calls out to it, and Espeon jumps out of the way and onto James's head. The battle starts off, Espeon and Misty's Corsola versus Arbok and Victreebel. The battle escalates until Espeon uses Psybeam onto Team Rocket, confusing them. Pikachu finishes them off with Thunderbolt. Espeon then uses Swift on the cage in order to break its friends free from the cage and everyone is rescued.
At Sakura's house, Sakura asks if she can finally set off on her own journey. Her sisters say yes! Sakura explains how she will first set off for Violet City, while Ash heads for Mahogany Town. Misty reminisces about how she started her journey, and then, she says bye to Sakura. They shout about the next time they will meet each other, and Sakura sets off on her own journey.
Major events
- Ash and his friends return to Ecruteak City on their way to Mahogany Town and meet Sakura and the other Kimono Sisters again.
- Sakura's Eevee is revealed to have evolved into an Espeon.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.
Pokémon debuts
- Ash Ketchum
- Misty
- Brock
- Jessie
- James
- Sakura
- Kimono Sisters
- Trinity (flashback)
- Mika (flashback)
- Andrea (flashback)
- Mika and Andrea's father (flashback)
Who's That Pokémon?: Drowzee (US and international), Espeon (Japan)
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Togepi (Misty's)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Psyduck (Misty's; flashback)
- Corsola (Misty's)
- Crobat (Brock's)
- Arbok (Jessie's)
- Victreebel (James's)
- Gyarados (Trinity's; flashback)
- Chinchou (Trinity's; flashback)
- Vaporeon (Sumomo's)
- Jolteon (Satsuki's)
- Flareon (Koume's)
- Espeon (Sakura's; debut)
- Umbreon (Tamao's)
- The English dub title of this episode is taken from the phrase "batteries not included".
- This episode marks the first time that Ash drags Brock away from a girl by the ear; up until this point, it had always been done by Misty.
- Music from The Power of One can be heard in this episode.
- Meowth breaks the fourth wall when he is knocked into the screen by Jessie and slides down from it after the ladder realized they're missing an Espeon to complete the then-entire set of Eeveelutions.
- This episode was banned in South Korea, likely due to the prominence of the Kimono Sisters.
- When the battle between Misty and Sakura is about to begin, Misty's ponytail disappears.
- Espeon is seemingly using Agility, a move it can't learn, when Sakura tells it to use Quick Attack.
- When the Kimono Sisters are focused on their dancing, the Poké Ball hair pin on both Satsuki and Tamao becomes completely red at one point, looking very similar to a Cherish Ball.
- When Team Rocket finishes their motto, James's right hand is colored skin tone instead of black.
- When Brock says to Satsuki "I am but your humble servant, my sweet." his mouth is closed and not moving when saying "sweet".
- When Ash grabs Brock's ear to get him away from Satsuki, he grabs him by the right ear, but when Ash drags him away, he is pulling Brock's left ear.
- When Jessie recalls her Wobbuffet, she suddenly has his Poké Ball in her hand despite having her arms crossed when he came out.
Dub edits
In other languages
|Неочакваният Еспеон
|Mandarin Chinese
|Espeon, Niet Inbegrepen
|European French
|Quatre sur cinq
|Vier sind eins zu wenig!
|פרשיית אספאוןparshiyat Espeon
|Espeon का जवाब नही Espeon ka javab nahi *
|Non c'è quattro senza cinque
|Espeon, nie!
|Cadê o Espeon?
|Espeon, Não Incluído
|Latin America
|¡Espeon no incluído!
|Falta el Espeon
|This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA - Four points are all that separated the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth track and field team from a sweep of their annual Corsair Classic at the UMass Dartmouth Athletic Complex Saturday.
The women finished first with 132 points, three points ahead of Coast Guard. The men were second with 127 points, just three behind first-place Bridgewater State.
For the women, junior Krista Chauvin (Seekonk, MA/Seekonk HS/Stonehill) won the hammer with a throw of 163 feet, sophomore Katie Sheehan (Scituate, MA/Scituate HS) won the 3000 meter steeplechase in 11:43.78, senior Jillian Van Ness (Agawam, MA/Agawam HS) took first place at 400 meters in 1:00.62, and the 4 x 100 meter relay team of freshman LaQuaysha Anderson-Jenkins (Brighton, MA/Brighton HS), junior Ezra Banks (Roxbury, MA/Newton South HS), senior Shannon Singletary (Brockton, MA/Brockton HS) and Van Ness took first in 50.75 seconds.
Senior Jamie Zizza (Stoneham, MA/Stoneham HS) was second in the high jump at 4-9 and placed third in the pole vault at 8-6 1/4, junior Lauren Roche (Norfolk, MA/King Philip Regional HS) was fifth in the long jump at 14-9 1/4 and sixth in the triple jump at 30-9 3/4, freshman Ashley Motta (Swansea, MA/Case HS) won the javelin at 116-9, sophomore Jess Connor (Worcester, MA/Doherty HS/Worcester State) was third in the steeplechase in 13:22.40, and sophomore Bailey Burke (South Yarmouth, MA/Dennis-Yarmouth HS) had a personal best throw in the hammer, finishing fourth in 125-11.
On the men's side, senior Gerald Arneaud (Dorchester, MA/Newton South HS) won at 400 meters in 50.25 seconds, junior Brett Croteau (Dighton, MA/Dighton-Rehoboth HS) won the javelin at 197 feet, one inch, sophomore Jake Texeira (Seekonk, MA/Seekonk HS) won the 400 hurdles in 55.88 seconds, the 4 x 400 meter relay team of freshman Brandon Jarousky (Attleboro, MA/Attleboro HS), Jake Texeira, junior Matt Hinthorne (Braintree, MA/Braintree HS) and Arneaud placed first in 3:26.89, and sophomore Daryl Chingono (Johannesburg, South Africa/St. Stithian's Boys School) won the fast heat in the 100 meter dash but placed fifth overall in 11.40 seconds.
"I was pleased and impressed with the women's victory," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "It shows our balance within the team, with people scoring in multiple events and everybody contributing so we were able to win this meet. The men also had good balanced scoring, and Bridgewater has one of the top Division III teams in New England. They were the Alliance and MASCAC champs in the winter, so to be within three points of them on April 6th is a good sign for us."
The Corsairs will return to action next Saturday when they visit the University of Massachusetts.


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Thursday, 8 July 2010
Yellow Ochre and Lime
9 comments:
- ngonichik said...
i love your drawings and how detailed they are. i wish i had such talent. nt that you need it from me but well done.
p.s its nt often you see someone who can draw black noses lol x
- 9 July 2010 at 03:29
- Eve said...
I love the way you do hair, and I really like the wider noses in these drawings, it's awesome!
- 9 July 2010 at 07:23
- Sharon A. Keyser-Jackson said...
Your work is beautiful!
- 13 July 2010 at 10:25
- Naarya said...
OMG! U just get better and better. I will soon run out of words.
- 16 July 2010 at 03:40
- WizzyTheStick said...
So when are you having an exhibition of your works?
- 17 July 2010 at 12:50
- tha unpretentious narcissist© said...
it's really good, what do use to do your drawings?
- 20 July 2010 at 18:18
- Sadako said...
Those are gorgeous.
- 21 July 2010 at 12:56
- hbynoe said...
these are beautiful Brianna, from the colors to the development of all the smallest details. I find as I go through your works it is within the nuances where i receive the greatest pleasure.
- 2 September 2010 at 09:29
- Lijington said...
am a person that LOVES and ADORES art and I really like these drawings..they're beautiful..
- 14 September 2010 at 18:27