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* Please note that SSO is not available for organizations in Greenhouse on our basic subscription tier.
After logging into the JumpCloud console as an administrator, click on Applications in the sidenav. Click on the green + icon to add a new app:
In the Configure New Application window, search for 'Greenhouse' and click configure
In the Greenhouse configuration window, replace the default values with your company's specific values in the following fields:
- IdP Entity ID: Enter your company's unique domain
- SP Entity ID: Enter {subdomain}.greenhouse.io
- ACS URL: Enter https://{subdomain}.greenhouse.io/users/saml/consume
Upload a private key and matching public certificate (for additional information on generating private keys and public certificates, see the note at the bottom of the page). Click Upload IdP Private Key and upload your private key. Click Upload IdP Certificate and upload your public certificate. Now your Greenhouse configuration window should look similar to this:
Click activate to complete the configuration in JumpCloud.
Fill out the form at www.greenhouse.io/asksupport to request that single sign on be enabled for your account and include the following information:
- Single Sign On URL: https://sso.jumpcloud.com/saml2/greenhouse
- Single Log Out URL: https://console.jumpcloud.com/userconsole/
- IdP Certificate Fingerprint:Copy and paste your public certificate fingerprint here (for additional information on determining your SHA1 certificate fingerprint, see the note at the bottom of the page)
Greenhouse will complete the configuration and coordinate with you to determine exactly when SSO should be enabled for your organization. It's important that this launch is carefully timed, because you'll need to instruct users about the change.
* If a new user has a JumpCloud account but not a Greenhouse account, Greenhouse will automatically create a Greenhouse user account the first time they log in via JumpCloud. They'll be created with Basic permissions. Administrators can still invite users and change permissions in Greenhouse.
* Data will be unaffected. Your users will still have access to all of their existing jobs, scorecards, interviews, etc. JumpCloud only changes the way people log in.
Note On Private Keys/Public Certificates:
To configure JumpCloud for SSO, the administrator needs a private key in addition to a public certificate. For an example of generating signed certificates on Linux, see below. Please refer to other guidance for generating keys on other operating systems.
- Create a private key: `openssl genrsa -out private.pem 2048`
- Create a public certificate for that private key: `openssl req -new -x509 -key private.pem -out cert.pem -days 1095`
- Determine the SHA1 fingerprint for the public certificate: `openssl x509 -sha1 -in cert.pem -noout -fingerprint`


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"In a sense, the pain is almost surreal, but God's grace is so real, and is provided through His tangible Presence! His grace does not take my pain away. His grace does however equip me physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually to endure the pain, and to do so with a heart that is filled with joy and is established in peace… His peace!"
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Learn more about the vibrant community and trend-setting apartments at the Ironworks website and their on-site leasing office:
SoNo stands at the intersection of a rich industrial history and the future of Fairfield County culture.A retreat for local foodies and the go-to nightlife choice, South Norwalk has become a sought after spot for those who want a little city in their suburbs. With easy access to Metro North trains, CT highways, and bike paths, Ironworks offers residents a chance to connect and to disconnect in style.
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This is where you find out about Film Trap!
Questions? Want to learn even more about Film Trap? Shoot us an email at [email protected].
Q: What is Film Trap about?
A: Film Trap is website run by Justin Decloux, a writer/director/rabid film fanatic.
Ok, here's a bit more about Film Trap! Film Trap will amaze your eyes and ears, and tickle your brain with the kind of film knowledge you never thought you'd find. In short, this is where you will discover old movies like new, and new movies like old! Weekly reviews will feature at least one film you've probably never heard of, but should really know about. Not only that but you'll get to learn about the weird things Justin knows about the filmmakers, all the behind-the-scenes goodness your heart so desires. So click on, friends! Click on!
Justin Decloux
Justin has written for TwitchFilm.com, he was the promo produce for The Bloor before it became Hot Docs, and he is one of the co-hosts for the monthly screenings at The Royal Cinema called The LASER BLAST Film Society. Not only that but he hosts TWO podcasts (The Important Cinema Club and Loose Cannons), totally dedicated to film. Justin is the writer/director for films Teddy Bomb (2014) and Impossible Horror (2016).
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Chloë Brett is a Toronto based film writer, special effects makeup artist, sometimes video store clerk, and also has a regular job! Always happy to talk about any kind of film, as long as you jog her memory, because she's probably forgotten more movies then most people have seen. Follow Chloe on Letterboxd orFacebook!
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Emily is a Toronto based film and audio producer. She watches a lot of movies, it's a byproduct of living with Justin Decloux, but she loves it. Emily tries to look at films through a feminist lens, and loves a good splatter comedy. Follow Emily on Twitter and/or check out her website!
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The government's rescue of some of Britain's biggest banks will more than double the national debt at a stroke after government statisticians decided to classify Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland as public corporations. Their liabilities – up to £1.5tn – will be added to the taxpayer's balance sheet.
That could push the country's debt levels up to 150% of national income, from a three-decade high of 48% now. The public sector net debt has already been swollen by £90bn of Northern Rock liabilities and, as of yesterday, £50bn of Bradford & Bingley's liabilities. But the two latest additions, which the ONS estimates could total between £1tn and £1.5tn, would dwarf those.
It was already widely expected that RBS's liabilities would come onto the public balance sheet since it is now 70% owned by the taxpayer but it is a surprise that Lloyds, which recently swallowed Halifax Bank of Scotland, has been classified as a public corporation given that it is only 43% owned by the state.
ONS statisticians said, though, that it was not ownership that mattered but "ability to control" a company, and for that reason it had decided Lloyds should join RBS in the public sector.
They said the ONS had taken the decision "based on a judgment that government has the ability to control the respective banks' general corporate policy through the conditions associated with the agreements signed relating to recapitalisation".
They added they would continue to publish two measures of the national debt – one including the various banks' liabilities and one excluding them – as it does now.
The ONS said it did not yet have accurate numbers for the true extent of the banks' liabilities since they were such complex instititutions and said it would take months to work out a true figure. But the hit to the public finances will be back-dated to last October when the recapitalisations were announced.
RBS owns Dutch bank ABN Amro, Natwest, several insurers and rolling stock companies. The ONS will exclude an overseas liabilities that the banks may have. Importantly, it will also exclude the banks' assets, other than very short term ones like government bonds or cash holdings. This is because of international statistical rules which insist full liabilities be counted for public corporations but only short-term assets.
Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Philip Hammond, said: "This is just the beginning of Gordon Brown's debt crisis. Even on his own figures our national debt is set to double to more than one trillion pounds. This is the true legacy of the government's economic failures, and our children will be paying it off for a generation."
"Once the liabilities of the bailed out banks are included, our true national debt is now significantly larger than our national income, adding to the risks facing the economy and the burden on future generations."
Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor Vince Cable urged the government to use the banks to increase the flow of money to the economy.
"The ONS has confirmed what we already knew. The government has in effect nationalised RBS and has a substantial stake in Lloyds.
"Ministers must now accept the reality that they effectively own two large banks and use them to ensure the flow of much needed credit into the economy."
He also criticised the fact that statistical conventions mean the public accounts would only include the liabilities of the banks, not the assets, thus distorting the picture.
Gemma Tetlow, senior economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, agreed: "This overstates the deterioration in the public sector balance sheet, because the government is not credited with the long-term assets of the banks."
Tax take falls sharplyThe other piece of bad news was that tumbling income tax, corporation tax and VAT revenues in January caused the public deficit for the first 10 months of the fiscal year 2008/09 to blow out to £67bn from £23bn a year ago.
The IFS said that meant the public deficit for this year to April could run up to £87bn. Just over two months ago, in the pre-budget report, the chancellor, Alistair Darling, estimated a shortfall of £78bn for this year.
Public net debt has already hit a record 47.8% of GDP, today's figures showed. The ONS also reported that the government finances worsened dramatically in January – the biggest tax-raising month of the year.
City bonuses and corporation tax receipts usually swell the national purse at the start of the calendar year, but the tax take fell sharply last month as the recession took its toll. As a result, public sector net borrowing, the government's preferred measure, recorded a surplus of only £3.34bn, some £10bn less than a year ago and the lowest January surplus since 1995.
"The public finances continue to deteriorate at an alarming rate," said Andrew Goodwin, senior economic advisor to the Ernst & Young Item Club.
"January is an important month for tax receipts so to record a surplus which was just a quarter of that achieved last January highlights the severity of the situation."
Overall government receipts were down by 11% in January. The finances were also hurt by increases in government spending, up nearly 9%, and strong public investment.
Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight called the figures "terrible". "January is a bumper month for tax receipts. Unfortunately, though, bumper hardly describes the tax receipts for this January as they have been decimated by sharply contracting economic activity, declining profitability, rising unemployment, reduced bonus payments, December's VAT cut and substantially weakened housing market activity and prices."
Over the tax year so far, government borrowing has reached £67.2bn – almost three times higher than this time last year.
Some economists warned that there could be a shortfall of close to £100bn rather than Darling's predicted £78bn borrowing forecast.
However, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "A steep fall in the tax take in the middle of a recession will surprise no one. But it is absolutely right to let the deficit grow. When companies and consumers stop spending, the public sector must fill the gap."


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Life Lately: Taking Stock 4
Learnt to: Appreciate weekends more, since I started working in this town. Last week, I was literally dragged out of my house for a
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TV shows need to do a lot to draw my interest and compel me to watch them. For House of Cards, it was another round of major award nominations, great reviews and an ad campaign at the cinema that pushed me over the edge onto the couch. It's not technically a TV show, being produced and aired exclusively on Netflix, but it is one of the best serial shows I've watched in a while and, with season 2 around the corner on the 14th of February, has potential to be a trailblazer for a new generation of entertainment.
House of Cards revolves around the life of politician Frank Underwood, played by the fantastic Kevin Spacey, and his ego-driven thirst for power. As the House majority whip, he is a major player in US politics. In the first episode he is set for the job of Secretary of State, arguably the third highest position in government, but the offer is taken from under him. With the rejection, Underwood sets out to get revenge the long way round, and sets in play a series of schemes to gain power for himself by using people, their secrets and their careers against themselves.
Underwood is a conniving villain, but still a likeable protagonist. Everything, or just about, goes exactly the way he wants it to. He often breaks the fourth wall to give the viewers an insight into his twisted plans, a representation of how egomaniacal he is. It may only be a glance towards the viewer, but that can hide a world of menace and evil in of itself. He is a fantastic character, and well worth watching on his own, but the real substance of the show is the way he affects the people around him.
Underwood's wife, Claire, heads up a non-profit organisation. She's just as ruthless as her husband and is a driving force behind Frank's ambition, helping him with his goals via her company. The story arc of the first season shows how their relationship can be close at times while distance appears between them at others, which plays out brilliantly in the last half of the season.
Zoe Barnes is another of the show's main characters. A journalist for the fictional Washington Herald, she is interested in modern journalism, against the will of her superiors at the paper. With a chance encounter at a gala event, Barnes and Underwood start a professional and personal relationship which escalates as the season goes on.
Peter Russo is a Congressman with a variety of problems on his hands. From strippers to cocaine, his personal life is a shopping list of things that can stop you getting elected, and Underwood uses this to his advantage to gain loyalty and leverage over him. The season sees Russo juggling many things at once: trying to deal with his past whilst keeping his constituents, children and his secretary/girlfriend happy. He's a good character, although I'm not quite sure whether the audience is intended to be on his side or Frank's side at times. Russo is an interesting character with particular significance near the end of the season.
The style of House of Cards is really appealing, and is as good as any high quality TV show out there. The acting throughout is superb, with the Underwoods being played particularly well. Comparing it to another political show that I'm quite fond of, The West Wing, House of Cards is gritty and dark. It shows the seedy, criminal underbelly of politics – it is never dull. Its characters are mired in ticking personal time-bombs – and the way in which they get through tough situations is clever, exciting and entertaining. Humour is wry and downplayed, and although the scripts aren't the most fluid you will find, the writing is generally very good.
Perhaps because it is only on Netflix, the way in which the season is structured is a little different from what the usual American or British show would be. The show is 45 minutes long, with no noticeable "acts": because there are no adverts. There are 13 episodes in Season 1, less than would be in a typical US TV show but more than you'd find in a UK series. Each episode isn't titled, just blandly named as a chapter. Along with this, each episode tends to fold into another. Only once or twice does an episode have a self-contained story that is set up and paid off in the same viewing. I think this is partly why the show felt so addicting to watch. You want to know what's going to happen next, and what will happen to the characters. Because the whole season was released at once, if you wanted to binge your way through it all you could. I chose the more traditional approach of spacing each episode out, to let the suspense build until the next chapter just had to be watched.
Whether you watch them together or apart, the last few episodes of the season are a textbook example of how to ratchet up the tension and excitement in a show. Without spoiling anything, branches of the storyline begin to come together on their own creating a feeling of anxious anticipation that can rarely be instilled by a show. The last few episodes don't quite wrap up the events of the season, leaving plenty of intrigue and buzz about the next one.
Simply put, the House of Cards is a show you should be watching if you enjoy a good slice of gripping TV. Its first season was a tour de force of stellar storytelling that has left me clamouring for the next one, which is released in full on Friday (great timing).
To watch it will cost you a monthly Netflix subscription, but even if you couldn't access thousands of films and other shows, it would be worth it for House of Cards alone.


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We're quite proud of our kids' gym here in Northbrook (and equally proud of our first expansion in Vernon Hills). If you've never been in, you might be surprised to see all of the interesting equipment and obstacles that we have lined up for kids' birthday parties. Well, all you have to do is take a look at this video to see all of it in action and find out more about our birthday party venue.
But you might be wondering how we came up with all of these obstacle courses. What was our inspiration, and why do kids enjoy them so much? Let's find out!
American Ninja Warrior
There's no doubt that a big part of our inspiration comes from the NBC television show American Ninja Warrior. We admit it, we love the show! In fact, we wrote an entire blog about why just about anyone who watches it can find something to like about it. It's exciting, it's friendly, and you can you can really be inspired about what the human body can do.
So why use it as inspiration? Because kids love it too, even if the obstacle courses used on the professional television program are only able to be run by adults. While only a small fraction of the population could ever compete on such a difficult course, we've brought it down to "kid scale," making them not only smaller but also group-friendly. If you'll notice, the American Ninja Warrior obstacle course is set up for one person at a time. Our courses not only get kids exercising while they're having fun, but they also teach kids to work together as a team. In fact, some courses we put together can't be solved alone, which teaches kids how to work together.
Military obstacle courses have been around for a long time as a way to prepare troops for the conditions they might encounter. These were the original ropes courses, tire climbs, balance beams, and other types of obstacles that have inspired up here at Hot Ground Gym. In fact, both of our founders are ex-military, and they've certainly been through their share of military-grade obstacle courses. While our course might be hard, it's not quite military-hard!
No doubt about it: American Ninja Warrior is just a big playground for adults! We're also inspired by playgrounds, because they've been created by companies that watch how kids play and develop them accordingly (and safely). So we grab some pointers from them in order to make our kid's obstacle courses as fun as possible. The best thing about playgrounds is that kids are getting exercise without even knowing it. They might be exhausted after visiting our kids birthday party place, but they'll probably be wanting their next birthday party here too!
Hot Ground Gym has taken elements from all of these inspirations and made our own unique birthday party place that focuses on kids' fitness. Learn more about our birthday party venue right here and sign up today!


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Pollution-Patrolling Robotic Fish Have "Muscle" Movement Like Real Fish
Credit: G.L. Kohuth, Michigan State University
We've heard a lot about robotic fish over the last year, including that they'll patrol for pollution, and gather information to monitor climate change in the oceans. Michigan State University researchers are bringing another version of a robotic fish to the scene, having just received funding to move the project forward. However, these fish have some very life-like features. The researchers behind the project were awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to put their research into practice.
To mimic how fish swim and move around in the water, Xiaobo Tan, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering who is working on the project, builds "fins" for the robotic fish that work in the same way that fish use their muscles. The fins use electro-active polymers that change shape with the application of electricity. From the press release, "Similar to real muscle tissue, ion movements twist and bend the polymer when voltage is applied. The effect works in reverse, too - slender "feelers" could signal maneuvering circuits in a sort of electro-active central nervous system. Infrared sensors also could be used for "eyes" to avoid obstacles."
Once let out into open water, the fish can collect data to be used by researchers studying pollution and climate change effects of marine ecosystems. The broad range of data they'll collect will give scientists a full picture of the impact climate change is having on the oceans.
With so many robotic fish projects in the works, it seems like we'll have quite a bit of biotech-diversity among "species" of robotic fish out in the ocean, all collecting climate change data.
Outside of oceans, the researchers want these particular fish to be useful in freshwater environments as well; for instance, detecting toxic algal blooms, which are increasingly problematic.
So far, the researchers have devised a 9" prototype modeled on the yellow perch. The device needs to be improved so that it can resist strong currents and go in the direction it wants to go, including various depths of water. Once that is achieved, it'll be ready for the open ocean.
More on Robotic Fish
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Unfortunately, transcribing videos or creating captions can be challenging. Good news, though, there are a number of services that can help make the process less painful.
Here are my favorites:
CaptionTube is a service that let's you add captions to YouTube videos only. It is a DIY service. Just sign up for an account and enter the URL of the video you want to transcribe. A workspace will then pop up where you can start and stop the video as you add captions. When you are finished, you can export a file that is ready to upload to your YouTube account.
Cost: Free
Zencaptions will provide captions that appear inside your videos (like the "closed captions" you see on TV and YouTube). They do all the work and return a file you can upload to YouTube or your video editing software. Sign up and get your first 10 minutes of video captions for free.
I love done-for-you services likes this…they are well worth the money (vs. the time it would take you to do the work).
Cost: $1/minute of video
VideoNote.es is an interesting service powered by Google Drive that let's you take notes to accompany videos. Any notes you take are automatically synchronized with the video. When you view your notes later, you can click on a line of notes and the video will jump to the relevant part.
It is easy to share your timed video notes using Google Drive (great for teachers with their students, or businesses sending customers how-to videos, for example). You can also make your notes private.
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A recent Science Daily article noted that tea extract can heal skin that has been damaged by radiation. The study was done on cancer patients who underwent radiation therapy that caused skin damage. It showed that the tea extract worked on the cellular level of the skin to reduce inflammation and toxicity. Both black and green tea extracts worked well, although green tea proved more effective, at least in some patients.
This is good news for tea lovers who are concerned about the health of their skin. And even if you are not much of a tea drinker, you can purchase skin care products that contain tea extract to take advantage of its natural properties. There are also a number of health drinks that contain green tea extract as an ingredient, and you could include them in your diet if you prefer.
Of course, the skin care properties of green tea have been known for some time by natural health enthusiasts, but it was not until relatively recently that the scientific establishment has documented findings that agreed with the advice doled out by traditionalists.
Another special property of black and green tea is that they contain natural compound known as catechins, which are natural antioxidants. Catechins are highly present in the Camellia sinensis plant, which is the source of various tea products, including green tea and black tea.
Antioxidants are effective chemical compounds that counter the effects of free radicals on skin. Free radicals, which are highly reactive oxygen molecules, cause damage to the skin proteins that keep your skin smooth and elastic. When these proteins are damaged, your skin becomes prone to wrinkles. Antioxidants are able to absorb and heal the effects of free radicals on skin, and thus slow down some of the visible signs of aging.
The catechins found in green tea and black tea are only one type of naturally occurring antioxidants. Caretenoids, coumarins, and indoles also belong in the antioxidants group and in fact they are all more common than catechins. All of these natural chemical compounds are found mainly in plants. That means that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables would provide your body with a healthy supply of antioxidants that can help you keep younger-looking skin for much longer. Supplementing such a diet with green tea intake can prove even more effective.
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"There's a blurred spot in my vision . . . there . . . no, there . . . no, no . . ."
—Adele Maliss-Morey, as the Woman with Dirty Glasses in Doc Hollywood
I respect and admire John Lewis. He is rightfully regarded as an icon of the 1960s civil rights movement, and his record of achievement—and personal sacrifice—in this regard is undeniable. I actually had the privilege of meeting him once, and found him to be intelligent and engaging.
But he's wrong on this one.
In a New York Times op-ed last Friday, Lewis invoked the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King in calling State voter I.D. requirements racist "poll taxes." He claims that these provisions disproportionately affect minorities, and are "clearly crafted to affect not just how we vote, but who votes." The basis for this claim is his assertion that "as many as 25 percent of African-Americans lack acceptable identification." One suspects that that number is complete nonsense, especially when you consider the variety of I.D. that is actually acceptable in most states. Interestingly, just as Debbie Wasserman-Schultz did back in June in calling voter I.D. laws "literally" a return to Jim Crow, Representative Lewis cites no source for his figure,* and it isn't clear whether he's referring to ¼ of all blacks, or ¼ of voting-eligible blacks.
Most significantly, however, Lewis only says these people "don't have" I.D. He doesn't say they "can't get" I.D., nor does he cite a single example of someone who wanted to being unable to get appropriate I.D., much less somehow being denied that I.D. because they're black. And there's the real crux of the issue.
I recognize I'm operating at a disadvantage as a white male born after the era of Jim Crow and the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s. I've never seen a "whites only" sign. I haven't marched, and I haven't suffered the beatings and imprisonment and other indignities Representative Lewis has. But there has to be something more to the charge than it's racism because I'm civil rights hero John Lewis and I say it is. He diminishes his message, discounts his achievements, and cheapens the sacrifices he and others have made when he cries racism where it isn't.
Sadly, there was a time when charges about racist voting laws were legitimate. But this isn't 1963, and this isn't Jim Crow. Mr. Lewis, you've won that fight. Nobody is going to prevent you from getting an I.D. to vote. Voter I.D. isn't the same as the old "literacy tests" administered subjectively by boards of white people. I.D. is tied directly to the constitutional requirements for voter eligibility: citizenship, minimum age, and residency. There is nothing racist about trying to ensure that only people who are supposed to vote are doing the voting. And for those who want to dismiss the argument as a false crusade against a problem that doesn't exist, consider the following:
· This Spring an NAACP official in Mississippi was recently sentenced to 50 years for, among other things, voting in the name of others, including dead people;
· Earlier this month ACORN was assessed the maximum possible fine after a voter fraud conviction by a Nevada judge who cited ACORN's long history of voter registration violations;
· The Colorado Secretary of State's office has determined that some 12,000 non-citizens registered to vote in 2010, and as many as 6,000 actually voted;
· The State of New Mexico is investigating 64,000 cases of possible voter fraud;
· A Milwaukee Police study found there was an illegal organized attempt to influence the 2004 elections;
· In Ohio the NAACP has been repeatedly found involved in fraudulent voter registrations;
· In Troy, New York, the City Clerk recently pled guilty to voter fraud charges.
Voter I.D. measures are directed at curbing this kind of abuse, and they have nothing to do with keeping blacks from the polls. The test is objective and simple—do you have I.D. In Texas all it takes to get a driver's license or State I.D., either of which would suffice (other documents are also acceptable, but these are by far the two most common) is a $16 fee ($25 for a DL), and proof of identity and citizenship taken from a pool of acceptable forms including:
· Birth certificate
· Social Security card
· School records
· State or federal government I.D.
· Texas inmate card
· Texas or federal parole card
· Medicare or Medicaid card
· Vehicle registration
Are you really telling me with a straight face that a significant number of blacks who are actually interested in voting can't come up with this? If voter I.D. opponents were really interested in preventing the alleged racist impact of such measures, they would spend their time helping people get the necessary I.D. instead of railing against the requirement or registering dead people. That they don't speaks volumes about their true motivation. Heck, they could even hold a fundraiser to foot the $16 fee.
I'll bet Warren Buffett would write that check for you on the spot if you stop coddling him and ask.
In point of fact, claiming that requiring I.D. is racist is not only ludicrous in 2011, but the charge is in itself racist just as former Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson was being racist when he argued that raising admission requirements for athletes was racist. Both claims rest on the fundamental assumption that blacks are incapable of meeting the requirement, and thus need the rules to be dumbed down for them. Lewis himself should know better, and should bristle at the suggestion.
He is a shining example to the contrary.
The unfortunate fact is that what the Left learned in the 1960s is that applying the "racism" label is a powerful political tool. No one wants to be branded a racist, and tapping into white guilt can get you a long way towards achieving just about any political aim you please. So they use it, whether it applies or not. In so doing, they perpetuate the very racism they claim to be working to defeat; at some point, we can't get past the racial injustices of our national past if we don't actually allow ourselves to get past them and move on.
You want to honor Dr. King's memory and his vision for a time when men are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin? Then stop calling "racism" every time there's something you don't like politically. Stop selling the black community short by insisting they're handicapped when they're not. All modern voter I.D. requirements are trying to do is ensure that the people casting votes are the people who are supposed to be casting votes.
As Lewis himself said in his speech at the 1963 March on Washington, "One man, one vote is the African cry. It is ours too. It must be ours."
* I can surmise that they both are referring to a 2006 paper published by NYU's Brennan Center for Justice that extrapolated a 25% nationwide figure for voting-age blacks based on unverifiable responses given in a telephone survey of 987 participants "randomly selected" from an unidentified pool in an undisclosed geography. The survey asked vague questions about whether respondents had identification they could "readily access" with no real tie to actual voter identification requirements. More importantly, the survey makes the same mistake as Mr. Lewis and Ms. Wasserman-Schultz in that it is only concerned with whether people had I.D. right then at the time of the call, and not the salient question of whether they could obtain the proper identification if they needed it to vote.


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It's that time of year again that we get all excited and prepared for the Christmas lunch or dinner food fest and of course the turkey is the most important part. Cooking a turkey can be a little intimidating faced with a 5kg bird that needs to be done to perfection. It's really is not that difficult, just be patient and give yourself plenty of time.
What you need
This is a tip that I picked up on Nigellas program that works extremely well to keep the turkey moist and is really no fuss. Take a large bucket of cold water the day before, toss in a quartered onion, a quartered lemon, a few cloves and a few chopped celery sticks, 1 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of salt and a cinnamon stick and a handful of black pepper corns, unwrap your turkey and soak it in the bucket, in the fridge overnight.
Remove from the water, place on a rack to drain off the water and dry the skin thoroughly.
What you need
5kg Turkey
250g melted butter
1 large onion quartered
Salt and pepper
The process
Once the turkey skin is thoroughly dried, place in a roasting pan. Pour over the melted butter and rub it all over the turkey, then season it well with salt and pepper (don't be shy here) and stuff the oinion quarters into the cavity.
Cover the turkey with tin foil and place in a preheated 200 Celsius oven for 1 and a 1/2 hours. Remove the foil, spoon some of the juices over the breasts, reduce the heat to 180 and roast for a further 1 hour checking to see that the skin is browning nicely and basting with the juices every 20 minutes or so.
For the vegetables, I like to do
1. The perfect roast potatoes of course
2. Green beans that have been lightly steamed (still crunchy) that have been tossed in crisp bacon bits and butter.
3. Cinnamon and syrup roast pumpkin
Cut the pumpkin into 3-4 cm cubes, place in a roating pan, dot bits of butter around the pumpkin, sprinkle with cinnamon and trickle over the maple syrup, roast for about 40 minutes at 180 Celsius under the turkey.
Here is a Christmas glazed gammon recipe , a Christmas cake recipe and of course, perfect roast potatoes.
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A great summer read, out today from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is "Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World," by Glenn Stout. Trudy Ederle was the daughter of a German butcher who had a prosperous shop on Amsterdam Avenue, on the Upper West Side, and a summer cottage in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. The book swishes around like the tide, from the history of swimming (especially women's swimming and the development of the American crawl) to the conditions that created the English Channel—"some of the roughest and most unpredictable waters in the world"—and its legendary conquerors. One of the first crossings was by an American, Paul Boyton, in a "primitive dry suit" invented by C. S. Merriman:
Weighing nearly thirty-five pounds, Merriman's suit was made of vulcanized rubber and, save for the face, covered the body completely. The suit contained a series of inflatable air chambers and was capable of supporting three hundred pounds, a man, and up to nine days of provisions stored in a special pouch. The wearer of the suit carried a paddle to propel himself through the water, and it was even possible to attach a small sail to an iron hook that protruded from the sole of one of the suit's rubberized feet….
Press reports noted that Boyton looked "like a giant porpoise" when he waded into the water at 3:00 A.M. and began to paddle his way through choppy seas toward England, floating on his back in a horizontal position, a human boat. He looked completely absurd in the suit, an odd marriage of a sailboat, a kayak, and a diving suit, but it was nonetheless effective.
Stout takes us hour by hour through Ederle's successful swim, on August 6, 1926. She was the first woman to swim the English Channel. That she has been largely forgotten, and did not make a fortune, he attributes, in part, to her failure to capitalize on the two-piece suit that she and her sister made (a bikini way before its time) and on the special leakproof goggles that she sealed onto her face with candle wax. Ederle died on November 20, 2003, at ninety-eight. She never married, though at one time she was "practically engaged." She had been hard of hearing since childhood (a side effect of German measles), and got inreasingly deafer over the years. "With my poor hearing, it might be hard on a man," she said to her intended, who, instead of protesting, said, "I guess you are right." And that was the end of that. Years later, Trudy said, poignantly, "Maybe I didn't hear him right."


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I cannot quite believe we are now well and truly into October after what has been a fabulously busy and hot summer.
I love this time of year, not only because it is my birthday month!, but now we can spend time looking back at our work, enjoying all the photos sent to us from the hugely talented photographers we work with and can share very special days and memories with you.
Heading back now to the gorgeous month of May, before our rather extreme heatwave took a grip on Spain this summer, we spent most of this month in the vibrant city of Seville. In fact I was even beginning to search the real estate agents and thinking of buying a crash pad there!
Who cannot love this city, the capital of Andalucia, a hotbed of flamenco, passion and tapas bars, stunning architecture and one of the most beloved places here in Spain so where better to host a wedding!
K and K contacted us as they wished to host their intimate wedding in Seville with close family and friends. With a Spanish family already here and the rest of their guests travelling with them from the States, Seville was the perfect location for everyone to make the journey to celebrate their marriage.
Casa Guardiola is a stunning palace house located just opposite the Alfonso XIII hotel and was the ideal location for K and K's wedding celebrations.
The afternoon started with a lovely ceremony in the garden room followed by a longer than usual cocktail in the Patio de Caballos where the guests were entertained with a jazz band, jamon cutter and a wonderful cheese table.
Dinner followed in the stunning Patio de Columnas with some lovely touches organised by the family as a surprise for the newly weds such as a wonderful video and some beautiful favours of chocolate and photo frames for each guest.
Whilst K and K wish to remain private we had to share such a stunning location with you and some of the details of their gorgeous day of which we have very fond memories.
Thank you to Joseba and Mar from Romance Weddings for, yet again, taking such lovely images of such a beautiful day and thank you to my team, especially Isabel, for working so hard to create yet another stunning wedding and dashing around the city to buy cake stands!


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Hey pallies, today's Dino-post is more on the MDA Labor Day Weekend Telethon from our pallies over at the Frank Sinatra blog "blue-eyes.com." Mr. Gregg Dispenza shares some of his fondest memories of the Lewis extravaganza over the years, includin', of course, the year 1976 when our Dino reunited with the jer.
As Dispenza shares that amazin' experience, "I can remember watching this and feeling like an incredible historic moment had just happened." Indeed pallies, likes I does believe that this was the most important event ever conveyed through the small screen. We thanks Gregg for sharin' his memories and for usin' to great pixs of our Dino, the Jer, and Frankie.
To view this in it's original format, likes just clicks on the tagg of this Dino-post. And we sez our thanks to our pallies over at "blue-eyes.com" 'cause each and every Dino-day they share a link to the latest happenin's here at ilovedinomartin. With Dino-appreiato, DMP
Labor Day & The MDA Telethon
by Gregg Dispenza on September 7, 2010
"Frank, It's Labor Day again." "What do you need and when do you want me ?". As Jerry Lewis would recount the story most years, that was how he usually described Frank Sinatra's agreeing to appear on that year's Labor Day Telethon for MDA.
That kind of a story also harkens back to a different kind of show business; a time when the slogan uttered hourly by announcer Ed McMahon, "Stay up with Jerry and watch the stars come out." meant a great deal more to even the casual viewer than it does today.
Regardless of the reason, the truly one-of-a-kind "name" performers aren't seen anymore because that type of in-one entertainment has virtually disappeared. Every generation has its nostalgia, but in my case, staying up to watch legendary or recognizable names in show business, that crossed generations, each year on the telethon was the reason that my best friend and I would plan an all-nighter, with pasta and other food, just to see who might appear. Before the days of home video, one didn't want to take the chance of missing something, especially because it was also one of the very few LIVE things on the air.
Of course, Las Vegas, where the show has mostly emanated from since 1973, was different then, too. Ensemble glitz and overall spectacle, along with a difference in audience preference today, has replaced the type of nightclub legend that would result in someone like Liberace opening the proceedings, to the wee small hour likes of Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, Abbe Lane, Keely Smith and Sam Butera, to the culminating hours with Jack Jones and Ray Charles, with Sammy Davis Jr. usually in the closing spot before the final tote and Jerry's concluding song.
Watching this year's telethon made me think about how much has changed. Our local station (one of the original four that made up the "Love Network"), has gradually carried less and less of the overnight hours, and this year presented the first two hours on Sunday and then started again at 5am on Monday.
But, for the moment, it's 1975 and the heralding of Sinatra's appearing for MDA is the announcement that Ol' Blue Eyes will be seen in three mini-concerts. My recollection is that each of these ran an extended amount of time, compared to the other performers, with Sinatra doing about 3-4 songs each time. I also seem to recall, at one point, Sinatra making pledges for different people on his staff or retainer, in fairly sizeable amounts, supposedly without their knowledge.
Of course, the appearance that everyone remembers is from 1976 when Sinatra sang "Stargazer" featuring Sam Butera, and then said he had a friend backstage that he wanted to bring out. When the cameras captured Dean Martin's entrance, I can remember watching this and feeling like an incredible historic moment had just happened. This was borne out when the segment was replayed via videotape the next afternoon, and it made the papers. People would ask if I had stayed up and seen it live, and it felt like a badge of honor to say yes. Watching Sinatra and Martin just have fun through a long medley, with Dean alternating glances at Jerry offstage, was priceless.
Over the next years, when Sinatra appeared for MDA it was mostly done as a cut-in to his concert that night, or a song or two might also be taped from that same show and then played as a bonus appearance the next day. The one that stands out the most for me was at a time when there was a lot of press about the deterioration of Sinatra's voice. Needless to say, when Sinatra appeared, I wasn't sure what to expect. This might have been the telethon when Jerry told Frank that if he had wanted the whole amount raised right then, "I would've asked you." but I'm not sure. What I am sure of is that FS nailed "Mack The Knife" so hard that it made one take notice, and then killed with "New York, New York". The result ? Both the audience at the concert and in the studio stood up and cheered continuously.
A time when the stars, indeed, did come out…
Thursday, September 09, 2010
When the cameras captured Dean Martin's entrance........
Posted by dino martin peters at 7:17 AM
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- Always On Watch said...
I saw that "reunion" live.
In fact, for many years prior, I tuned into the telethon in the hopes that our Dino would appear. He finally did!
- Thursday, September 09, 2010
- dino martin peters said...
Hey pallie, what a cool little story Miss AOW, good for you ma'am...just full of Dino-hopin'...and yes indeed your Dino-dream come true....keeps lovin' our Dino.....
- Thursday, September 09, 2010
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WIRE BASKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!April 14th, 2011 in member junk
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One of my blog followers posted about a give away going on for these wire baskets...I love them and thought I'd share them with my junkin' friends. They are sort of giving me an idea for some old fence wire I have...hmmmm.
Pattern or design used: Forgotten Way Farms
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CottageElements writes: Super cool baskets!
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junkermidge writes: Yeah, hmmmm is right! You've definitely got my brain twirling. Love those!
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JunkSituation writes: I really like the sign piece and big rings! I love these :)
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Four-time NBA Champion, All Star and NBA Legend Horace Grant and the New York Knicks City Dancers were in town recently as the NBA celebrities of the first-ever NBA 3-on-3 Philippines 2011 presented by Sprite.
Besides exciting on-court competitions, NBA fun games and skills challenges, one of the highlights of the event was an NBA Cares Basketball Clinic that Grant conducted among Pasay City kids at the Pasay City Sports Complex. Over 100 boy and girls playing in barangay leagues in Pasay participated in the event.
Above, the former Chicago Bull and LA Laker teaches a Pasay City kid the importance of defense at the clinic. The National Basketball Association through its NBA Cares program initiates social responsibility campaigns and extends the NBA's efforts to help communities around the globe.


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Hands on with the BBC Micro-bit (MozFest15)
So it was my first time at MozFest this year and it certainly lived up to the hype. It's one of the most random conferences i've attended – it definitely has a festival vibe about it – organised chaos and lots of distractions everywhere! Anyway I digress… the awesome Spencer Marsden from BBC A/V was...
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Building a voting system with a Raspberry Pi
Our pals over at @joypadbar had an idea for a new retro video gaming night – Video Game Democracy – a change to settle age old gaming arguments by voting on which games should get played next. Sonic vs Mario, Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat, Pacman vs Donkey Kong – the audience will decide! [GGSGamer...
Visualising some 'open data' from Devon County Council
In June, DCC released their first dataset on Github. It wasn't perfect, merely a collection of excel files, but it was a starting point. I thought I would try to do something with the data (approx 147,000 spreadsheet rows) to demonstrate that with a little effort, their raw data files could be translated into something...
Sundown 2014 – Postmortem
For 3 days in June, we helped to run Sundown (DemoScene Party) down in sunny Budleigh Salterton. We've been doing this for a number of years now in conjunection with Ruairi Fullum (@rc55), Dan Barber (@danbee) and other helpers (Waffle, Ziphoid to name but two). This year was absolutely spot on, the atmosphere was buzzing...
Gadget Time: My Pebble Smartwatch
Wearable technology has made some huge progress over the past 12 months, with fitness trackers like the Jawbone, FitBit, and SmartWatches like the Samsung Galaxy Gear. Kris manages to track down a Pebble from the USA and shares his experience with it
We won the hackathon at PHP UK Conference 2014!
Coffee, Coding and Conferences – a story of our winning hackathon entry at PHPUK14.
Reducing memory usage on SBS servers
Learn to tune the exchange information store (store.exe) and WSUS databases to reduce the memory footprint on SBS servers
Quick'n'dirty exchange rule for marking .zip attachments as spam.
Setup a quick rule to mark .zip attachments as spam on your Exchange2010 server
How to upgrade Business Contact Manager 2010 to 2013 when the database tool doesn't work
How to upgrade BCM2010 databases to 2013 manually
Sundown 2013 report
Kris and Hannah setup infrastructure for Sundown 2013
Vagrant – making development life easier!
Vagrant has been on my radar for a while now (thanks to @jr261) and has been high on my list of things that I must try out. Well, thanks to Jeremy Quinton's excellent talk at this years PHP Conference I finally got around to giving it a spin. Overview Vagrant (through the power of virtualisation) ...


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Audio Fidelity To Release Classic Alice Cooper Album 'Billion Dollar Babies' On Hybrid SACD On February 4, 2014!
"Camarillo, CA – Alice Cooper fans worldwide rejoice! Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity is releasing Alice Cooper's classic album 'Billion Dollar Babies' on Hybrid SACD on February 4, 2014! As a bonus, along with the meticulously reproduced artwork, enclosed in every … Continue reading
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Frequency Drift have just released their first ever video.
The video is for the song "Run", which is taken from their forthcoming album "Over". The CD will be released on 14 February 2014. The album can now be pre-ordered at www.frequencydrift.com Here is a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNULZBfxz2s … Continue reading
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"The Boerderij" won third place "Best Prog Venue" contest
Cultuurpodium Boerderij is once again the only non-British venue to reach the top 10 in the category 'Best Prog Venue' in British PROG Magazine's 2013 readers' poll. Last year we reached number 7 but this year we came in 3rd! … Continue reading
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After a months-long quest After The Silence is finally back with a keyboardplayer! The band is complete again! On the age of 6 Hans began with piano- and guitarlessons and over the years he experimented with various bands with various … Continue reading
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DICE to release 20th album may 2014
2014 is a special year for the band DICE. A double anniversary: 40 years DICE (Today the Leipzig-based band was founded in 1974 in Gütersloh / East Westphalia) And in May appears the 20th DICE album. The new 20th DICE album will be … Continue reading
UNICORN DIGITAL presents the first album from Canadian Progressive Rock Band HUIS (Pronounced House)
Huis ("home doors" in french, and "house" in dutch) is a five member musical project officially formed by Pascal Lapierre and Michel Joncas at the end of 2009, after an oustanding and inspiring trip in the Netherlands. At that time, … Continue reading
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Magnum to release new album 'Escape From The Shadow Garden'
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Jack Bruce to Release New CD "Silver Rails" on 24th March
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PROGSTRAVAGANZA XVII: Progression Artwork Revealed
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Kingcrow at 'ROCK ITtervoort' Festival
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Audio Fidelity To Release Critically Acclaimed 1976 Debut Solo Album By YES Legend Jon Anderson
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Kingbathmat at Headwayfestival!
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RBG goes Boerderij – Metal Edition > FREE!
On Saturday January 18, a little Dutch Progmetal festival RGB goes Boerderij – Metal Edition is taking place at the 'Podiumcafé' of the Boerderij venue, Zoetermeer Holland. Three fine new bands present themselves. And it's FREE! http://cultuurpodiumboerderij.nl/en/programme/birmingham-sunset/ You will see … Continue reading
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Clive Nolan's 'Alchemy in Concert' at The Boerderij February 8th, 2014
The link to the Boerderij event: http://cultuurpodiumboerderij.nl/programma/alchemy/ Preview of 'Alchemy in Concert': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2XhhGB-4FE Preview of 'Alchemy' theatre shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVQiwwWfTE4 'Alchemy' official website: http://www.alchemythemusical.com/
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Autonomous Preservation Tools in Minimal Effort Ingest. Asger Askov Blekinge, Bolette Ammitzbøll Jurik, Thorbjørn Ravn. Andersen. Poster, iPres 2016. (Proceedings p. 259-60 / PDF p. 131).
This poster presents the concept of Autonomous Preservation Tools developed by the State and University Library, Denmark. It is an expansion of their idea of Minimal Effort Ingest. In Minimal Effort Ingest most of the preservation actions are handled within the repository when resources are available. The incoming data is to be secured quickly, even when resources are sparse. Preservation actions should happen when resources are available, rather than by a static ingest workflow.
From these concepts they created the idea of Autonomous Preservation Tools which are more like software agents rather than a static workflow system. The process is more flexible and allows for easy updates or changes to the workflow steps. A fixed workflow is replaced with a decentralised implicit workflow which defines the set of events that an AIP must go through. Rather than a static workflow that must process AIPs in a fixed way, the Autonomous Preservation Tools "can discover AIPs to process on their own". Because AIPs maintain an record of past events tools can determine whether or not an AIP has been processed or if other Tool actions must be performed first. So the workflow is the tools finding and processing items correctly until every item has been processed. This becomes an alternative method of processing.


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Ski bums sought for Canadian winter adventure
Kootenay Rockies Tourism Launches The Powder Highway Ultimate Ski Bum Blow Your Mind Contest
Mon., Oct. 26, 2009
If you consider yourself one of the best and biggest ski fans around, here's the chance to prove it.
Kootenay Rockies Tourism just kicked off "The Powder Highway Ultimate Ski Bum Blow Your Mind Contest" which invites skiers of all ages and skill levels to submit a 90-second video why they should be the Ultimate Ski Bum, and why they deserve to have their mind blown by one of the most incredible winter destinations on planet earth.
Videos can be submitted from now until Nov. 22, and the organizers will choose a lucky winner to give unlimited skiing to for three months at some of the top skiing spots in North America.
"This place has long been a haven for ski bums from around the world. We're sharing that adventure through the experiences of one person—the Ultimate Ski Bum," said Chris Andrews, Kootenay Rockies Tourism. "No agenda, no job, just snow, mountains and a road that links it all together."
The Powder Highway includes seven Canadian ski resorts in the Rockies, Purcells, Selkirks and Monashees, plus remote areas with plenty of powder accessible only by helpicopter or snowcat. All the areas are connected by one road.
The winner will be announced Dec. 1, and will be chosen by a combination of official judges and votes from visitors to the www.PowderHighway.com/SkiBum page. The site also has details about the contest and how to enter.
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The MPCA has identified 13 stream sites in the watershed to characterize watershed water quality. This project will supplement and complement the identification of the top 50 sites in the watershed that are contributing to water impairment and also help in identification of priority watersheds in the re-write of the watershed comprehensive plan. Water samples and field measurements will be collected at each monitoring location ranging from baseline events to high flow events.
The Zumbro River Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) project will continue existing efforts to calculate seasonal pollutant loads for the Root River. The Zumbro Watershed Partnership (ZWP) along with Olmsted County Environmental Services will assist the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) with water quality monitoring and pollutant load calculations of four sub-watershed sites. Approximately 50 grab samples per site (total of 200) between ice-out and October 31 of 2016 and 2017 will be collected along with field measurements and observations.
Peer Engineering, Inc. (Peer) will evaluate and recommend to MPCA groundwater monitoring staff prospective sites/locations for the installation of groundwater monitoring wells to evaluate contaminant/pollutant concentrations from various sources. Peer will oversee the installation of monitoring wells by retaining a state drilling contractor or preparing bid documents to retain well driller through the Department of Administration. Superfund staff will assist in the project by providing oversight of contractual requirements and provide technical assistance as needed.
This project will place the Cedar River watershed on a sustainable and clearly understood implementation process for comprehensive water management. All people living in the watershed and all groups operating and managing land in the watershed, are responsible stakeholders in the effort. Objectives for this phase of the project include:
1. Develop a comprehensive watershed restoration and protection strategy.
2. Continue development of a more coordinated and comprehensive citizen participation process.
This project will build upon existing planning and implementation efforts already taken on in the project area. The collection of existing information will be used to complement water information in support of a more successful and sustainable water quality improvement and protection implementation program. This will be achieved by active civic engagement activities throughout Phase I of this project.
This project will provide fiscal resources for South St. Louis County Soil and Water Conservation District (SSLCSWCD) to participate and lead efforts to attain geomorphic data sets, dissolved oxygen assessments, culvert inventory, and civic engagement activities in three major watersheds, Nemadji River, South Lake Superior and St. Louis River. This work is currently being worked on as a part of the MPCA's Watershed Restoration and Protection Planning efforts.
This project continues the total maximum daily load (TMDL) and watershed restoration and protection strategies (WRAPS) process for the Duluth Metropolitan Area (DMA). The DMA is defined by water, sitting at the juncture of Lake Superior and the St. Louis River Estuary, and surrounded by semi-mountainous terrain. The project serves as a bridge into the next phase of restoration and protection identified by the Duluth Urban Stream TMDLs and WRAPS. In the first phase of community engagement, a collaborating organization was formed to define a framework for the DMA communities.
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) requests assistance from local partners to collect samples and field data at designated stream monitoring sites for the purpose of assessing water quality and calculating annual pollutant loads.
The overall goal of this project is to perform water quality monitoring and load calculation duties to accomplish Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) monitoring efforts at the seven sites within the Redwood and Cottonwood River watersheds as well as the Minnesota River site near Morton. To accomplish this goal the requested funds will provide for technician's time, mileage, lab costs, supplies, as well as equipment calibration and upkeep.
This project will gather watershed data necessary for the development of a comprehensive watershed management plan with parameter-specific thresholds that will maintain or improve water quality for the Kawishiwi Watershed.
The purpose of this contract is to augment data collection efforts for the St. Louis River (SLR) Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) and for four impaired Duluth beaches. For the SLR WRAPS, activities include: attaining datasets for watershed stressors and geomorphic conditions, water quality gap monitoring, and a civic engagement component. Impaired beaches activities include: collection of field observational data, field water chemistry, and water quality samples for analytical analysis.
This project will provide a protocol for prioritizing sites in the St. Louis Area of Concern (AOC ) for restoration based on site-specific bioavailability considerations. Despite large data collection efforts focused on sediment chemistry, the extent to which sediment with moderate levels of contamination is available for uptake into biota and therefore contributing to Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI)s is still largely unknown.
The St. Louis River Area of Concern (SLRAOC) conservation partners are focused on removing Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI) in the estuary and eventually delisting the SLRAOC. Cooperative efforts between multiple resource agencies and regional stakeholders have identified a host of restoration objectives, developed project support activities, and partially secured funding that includes a state commitment through the Minnesota Clean Water Fund.
This purpose of this project is to evaluate the conditions of eight streams in the Cedar River Watershed and one site on the Wapsipinicon River. Monitoring will take place for two years. Mower Soil and Water Conservation District staff will collect samples following Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Intensive Watershed Monitoring (IWM) sample collection protocols and will organize and review all field and laboratory data, along with field notes and photos.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, fieldwork, data management, and interpretation expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities.The ambient groundwater monitoring network describes the current condition and trends in Minnesota's groundwater quality.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities within the described priority watersheds.
Lake Monitoring: Lakes are monitored for nutrients, clarity and other information to provide the data needed to assess the aquatic recreation use support.
This St. Louis River Watershed assessment will include the waters of Dempsey Creek, West Two River, St. Louis River, Mud Hen Creek, Embarrass River, West Swan River, Partridge River, Barber Creek, East Swan River, Helen Lake, Pine Lake, Cadotte Lake, Colby Lake, Loon Lake, St. James Pit, Strand Lake, Nichols Lake, Ely Lake, Silver Lake, Elbow Lake, Mashkenode Lake, Carey Lake and Island Lake. These lakes and streams are found throughout the St. Louis River Watershed, which spans parts of St. Louis and Itasca Counties.
Minnesota Clean Water Funds will be used to complete a paleolimological study of the St. Louis River Estuary for the purpose of providing information critical to removing Beneficial Use Impairments in the St. Louis River Area of Concern. This project will reconstruct the biological (algal load and composition), geochemical (organic and inorganic), sediment, and mercury chronology to identify historical temporal and spatial variations in the St. Louis River Estuary in order to better understand the natural and anthropogenic drivers related to beneficial use impairments for the St.
The goal of this project is to engage citizens in local watershed monitoring, work with regional partners to promote understanding and protection of watersheds, and organize and facilitate gathering of scientific data for the benefit of water quality in the Red River Basin.
The purpose of this project is to improve understanding of primary productivity in the Red River and the diversity and population structure of the algal communities occurring along the river system. This will be accomplished through taxonomic identification of periphyton and phytoplankton assemblages necessary for characterizing responses to nutrient gradients along the Red River of the North.
MN Legislative Clean Water Fund funding to engage citizens in local watershed monitoring, work with regional partners to promote understanding and protection of watersheds, and organize and facilitate gathering of scientific data all for the benefit of water quality in the Red River Basin.
The International Water Institute (IWI) will monitor 42 sites (3 basin, 12 major watershed, and 27 subwatershed) in the Red River and Upper Mississippi River Basins intensively during 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. There will also be 5 sites in the Red River Basin where mercury samples will be collected in 2016 and 2017 and sent to Minnesota Department of Health for analysis. The IWI will collect water samples across the range of flow conditions targeting sample collection at times of moderate to high flow.
In 2017 and 2018, Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area (RCRCA) will collect water chemistry samples from the 10 lakes and 24 stream sites identified in the Redwood and Cottonwood River watersheds. Six samples will be collected at 10 lakes from May through September in 2017; five samples will be collected at 5 lakes in 2018 from May through September. Eleven samples will be collected at each of the 24 stream sites following the Basic Regime in 2017. Sixteen samples at each stream site will be collected in 2017 and 2018 following the E.coli monitoring regime.
The Roseau River Watershed Assessment will include the waters of the Roseau River, Sprague Creek, Hay Creek and Hayes Lake. All of the monitoring sites, except one, are located in Roseau County, with the exception being located in Kittson County. This assessment focuses on collection of water chemistry and field parameters at one site on Hayes Lake and seven key sites on the Roseau River, which have been identified by MPCA. These sites are located in the lower reaches of each surface water system.
The objective of this sampling plan is to quantify the inputs and outputs of methyl-mercury in the St. Louis River. Mercury can be bound to organic carbon or suspended solids; therefore, it is necessary to determine loadings of them as well. To get loadings, this sampling plan includes event and base flow monitoring at key tributaries to the St. Louis River and at stations within the St. Louis River.
The goal of this project is to provide drilling services for the Sentinel Lakes Groundwater/Surface Water Interaction Network. The three new wells will be used for monitoring the interaction between groundwater and surface water in Lakes Shaokatan and Bear Head. Groundwater/lake water interactions are not well understood, and in order to produce accurate and useful Total Maximum Daily Load watershed investigations and impairment remediations, the MPCA must understand how groundwater affects lake water quality.
This project is for surface water assessment in the Shell Rock and Winnebago River Watershed including four stream sites and two lake sites. Waters of concern include Lime creek, Bancroft creek, Goose creek, a tributary to Fountain Lake, Albert Lea Lake and State Line Lake. The outcomes includes establishing baseline data for the associated sample site.
This project will augment data collection efforts for the Lake Superior South, Cloquet, St. Louis River, and Duluth Urban Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) projects. Activities include: attaining datasets for watershed stressors and geomorphic conditions, water quality gap monitoring, and civic engagement. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has been collaborating with the South St. Louis Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) to complete WRAPS related technical and civic engagement work in the Lake Superior basin for the past five years.
This project will collect water quality data in the St. Louis River watershed as part of the 10-year Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) cycle for Minnesota waters. South St. Louis Soil and Water Conservation District (SSLSWCD) staff will conduct all monitoring in accordance with Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Intensive Watershed Monitoring (IWM) standard operating procedures. The SSLSSWCD has extensive experience in stream sampling techniques, including dissolved oxygen, pH, specific conductance, temperature, total suspended solids, nutrients, E.
The goal of this project is to investigate nitrate transport and the sources of nitrate in karst for more effective implementation of best management practices that will reduce nitrate concentrations in ground and surface water.
This project will provide complementary (same year) physical and chemical data sets for three MPCA prioritized lakes in NE Minnesota to incorporate into the overall State database for MPCA assessment purposes as well as research purposes.
This project will further assess the water quality within Brown County by monitoring its rivers, streams, ditches and other waterbodies. This project will also be working in cooperation with individual volunteers to perform grab samples and visual assessments of seven waterbodies throughout Brown County.
This project will focus on stream sample collection in 2 different watersheds in Goodhue County. Sample locations on streams will utilize existing STORET station ID sites along the North Branch of the Middle Fork of the Zumbro River and Hay Creek. The Middle Fork flows from the Kenyon area east to the City of Pine Island and drains roughly 40,000 acres. Hay Creek is a ~17,000 acre watershed that drains agricultural land and rolling hills between the town of Goodhue and Red Wing.
The Zumbro River Watershed is a major watershed in the Lower Mississippi River basin in SE Minnesota. It includes parts of six counties, covering 910,291 acres. This project will assess all 13 stream reaches in the Zumbro River Watershed to determine if they are meeting their designated uses. The monitoring will entail collecting water chemistry and field parameters.
The Olmsted County Soil and Water Conservation District will assist the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) with water quality monitoring and pollutant load calculations at four sub-watershed sites in the Zumbro River Watershed. Approximately 25 grab samples per site between ice-out and October 31 of 2019 will be collected along with field measurements and observations. Samples will be collected using procedures described in the Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) Standard Operating Procedures and Guidance (SOPG).


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All students must complete an ADCI diving physical before any hyperbaric chamber or diving exposure. Some medical conditions may be disqualifying for diving.
Disqualifying conditions can include a history of seizures, chronic inability to equalize sinus and middle ear pressure, significant lung disorder/disease, major nervous system disorder/disease, and certain bone conditions.
Final determinations for fitness to dive must be made by a physician. CDI refers local students to Dr. Kenneth Anaeme MD, FACP, FAAP, CWS-P, ABPM/UHM, the only physician in the Phoenix area certified to provide fitness to dive examinations by the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Society who accepts appointments from the general public. The cost of the exam is approximately $500 and is not typically covered by insurance plans. To make an appointment with Dr. Anaeme, please contact Rapid Care Centers at (623) 547-6838. Exams are conducted at Rapid Care Centers 7615 W Thunderbird Rd Suite 106 Peoria, AZ 85381.
The physical can be completed by any physician, but all exams must be filled out using the ADCI Medical History and Examination Forms. If you are able to have another doctor complete the required x-rays, audiogram, spirometry, resting EKG, urinalysis, and blood tests (for cost, convenience, or any other reason), Dr. Anaeme is available to complete the remaining neuro exam and review of all results to complete your exam as fit to dive for a fee of $175.
To view a more thorough description of the exam and the ADCI Physical Medical History and Examination Forms, please click here.


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