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Coal Seam Gas in Gippsland
Over a year ago Gippsland landholders began to notice the growing number of exploration licences for unconventional gas mining covering farming properties across the region. As the interest from companies exploring for these resources has grown, so too has the opposition to unconventional gas mining from a grassroots level.
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What is CSG?
Coal seam gas or CSG is a natural gas extracted from coal seams underground. It is made up predominantly of colourless and odourless methane. When extracted it is used in gas fired power stations to generate electricity and for domestic heating and cooking.
In some cases CSG is extracted from the earth using the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking'. To find out more about this process follow this step by step interactive graphic.
In some places, gas companies drill horizontally into the coal seam as an alternative to fracturing.
Coal seam gas is just one of the unconventional gas resources explored for in Gippsland, other types that use similar extraction methods are shale gas and tight gas.
First signs of discontent
In early 2012 protest groups began to form in West and South Gippsland against coal seam gas mining.
The groups were mainly made up of landholders who were concerned about the impact of contamination from this type of mining on prime agricultural land and in the water table.
The State Government urged these groups at the time that the current process of reviewing unconventional gas mining licences worked to protect farmer's interests.
"There's a reason why we don't have any CSG [coal seam gas] production in Victoria at the moment, that is because our environmental standards and our mining legislation is far more stringent than in other states," said Michael O'Brien, the then Victorian Energy and Resources Minister.
Council opposition
South Gippsland and Bass Coast Shire Councils decided to take a stand against coal seam gas mining based on uproar from their constituents.
Both councils called for a moratorium on the mining.
Other landholders in the Latrobe Valley and Central Gippsland called on their councils to take similar action.
State Government action
In late 2012 the State Government announced a moratorium on 'fracking' the method used to extract coal seam gas.
The ban will remain in place till mid 2015 to allow the government to conduct more community consultations and for an independent study on what impact this type of mining may have on water tables and aquifers.
Peter Reith who sits on the taskforce advising the State Government has handed down a report on coal seam gas mining saying it will help manufacturing in Victoria.
"They're creating a $60 billion industry in QLD and that means they're building these massive LNG plants and then in the Hinterland, Bowen basins they are creating really the first ever coal seam gas industry.
That production of gas is going into those LNG plants and going to China and they're going to make a lot of money out of it and it's going to produce huge incomes in for Australia," he said.
In 2014 the State Government started holding a series of open days across Western Victoria and Gippsland, where landholders were asked about their opinions and questions on onshore gas mining.
The information gathered from these sessions will be compiled into a report and presented to the government in January 2015.
Ongoing protests
To unite protest groups across the region, a Gippsland Lock The Gate group was formed.
The Lock the Gate movement is responsible for protests against coal seam gas mining in other areas of Australia such as Queensland.
Founder of the movement, Drew Hutton, met with landholders in Leongatha.
"We're not cooperating until governments actually enact protective legislation," he told ABC Gippsland Mornings.
Individual towns were also the scene of local protests.
Residents of Poowong and Seaspray both formed human signs.
The message of opposition to mining companies was clear, Poowong's human sign read 'We are CSG free', whilst Seaspray's spelled out 'No Gasfields'.
Gippsland featured in an anti-CSG documentary Gippsland is Precious made by Melbourne based producer Pennie Brown.
In late 2013, 400 protesters from Gippsland also marched through the streets of Melbourne declaring their opposition to coal seam gas.
Mining companies
More than 24 licences to explore for uncoventional gas cover different areas of Gippsland.
Various companies have an interest in extracting the resource from the ground.
Esso, an affiliate of ExxonMobil, who has licences covering the Central Gippsland area met with residents in the Wellington Shire to answer their questions.
"We're not going to be producing any gas, producing any water, we're not going to be using any hydraulic fracturing technique, we're purely taking samples of the coal to understand whether that has gas. We will only move forward with a project if we can demonstrate to ourselves and to the community that the gas can be extracted safely," said Chris Welbery, Esso spokesperson.
Executive Chairman of Lakes Oil, Rob Annells, has also spoken out about his company's exploration for tight gas in the Seaspray area for more than 10 years.
"We haven't caused any effect [to the environment], nor would we," he said.
Mr Annells said if the State Government's moratorium on fracking remains in place, companies like his will start to look to explore and mine in other states.
"The economic development of Victoria is going to suffer," he said.
Weighing in on the coal seam gas debate
Various figureheads from both Gippsland and afar have had their say when it comes to coal seam gas mining.
Anglican Bishop of Gippsland, John McIntyre, said he was unsure that extraction of coal seam gas was safe.
The Bishop said if he were a landholder he would lock the gate to mining companies.
"We as members of the church should be concerned and of course many members of the church are landholders themselves," he said.
New South Wales author, Sharyn Munroe, spoke in Central Gippsland about her book Rich Land, Wasteland- how coal is killing Australia.
She spent one year travelling around coal mining areas of Australia, exploring what she calls the 'human cost' of the mining boom.
"The whole push everywhere around Australia to support coal and coal gas seam industries is at the expense of renewables [energy], it is delaying renewables," Ms Munroe said.
Now retired Independent MP Tony Windsor urged the Victorian Government to base any future decisions on coal seam gas projects on scientific research rather than commercial interests.
"If the Victorian Government is issuing licences as has happened in Queensland and starting to happen in northern New South Wales, issuing licences willy-nilly... you've got to base all the decisions on science and risk. If there's a low risk, my personal view is I'm not against these things but if there's a high risk of cumulative impacts and mixing of groundwater systems and upsetting rivers, maybe we should slow the process down and get it right," he told ABC Gippsland Mornings.
At a national level
Coal seam gas has been mined and used in Australia for nearly 30 years.
Community concern over this resources' extraction has already arisen in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.
ABC Rural follows the coal seam gas debate in all areas of regional and rural Australia.
In an effort to get a national consensus on the issue, the Standing Council on Energy and Resources part of the Coalition of Australian Governments' or COAG formed a Draft National Harmonised Regulatory Framework.
Some Gippsland landholders called the framework little more than a political stunt, as it didn't take into account the possibility of banning coal seam gas mining on land used for farming.
"What they're thinking through this report is they want to reduce political risk," said Sarah Myhill, a landholder from Kilcunda.
State and Territory Governments endorsed the final National Harmonised Framework, including Victoria.
Victorian Energy and Resources Minister, Nicholas Kotsiras said the national framework sets out the minimum requirements State and Territory Governments must adhere to in regulating coal seam gas mining and will promote more understanding of coal seam gas mining.
"That's the important aspect that in the past has been lacking, it's the information that the community needs to make up their own minds. To me it's very important that the community has an input and a say," he said.
This hasn't satisfied Gippsland protest groups who say their submissions to the framework were ignored.
"We've done our best, we've put in a huge document, very comprehensively responded to all the points and outlined lots more and we've had absolutely no response. We haven't received any indication at all that the government is sincere," said Gayle Margaret, a member of the group CSG Free Mirboo North.
Editor's note: Amendments have been made to the story to clarify. A reference to LNG has been removed and a reference to domestic heating and cooking added - "Coal seam gas or CSG is a natural gas extracted from coal seams underground. It is made up predominantly of colourless and odourless methane. When extracted it is used in gas fired power stations to generate electricity and for domestic heating and cooking." In addition, a reference has been added to other drilling techniques: "In some places, gas companies drill horizontally into the coal seam as an alternative to fracturing."
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Legislation seeks to streamline regulations to boost drinking water supply
Would you object to recycled wastewater being used in the drinking water system?
Yes 60% (754)
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1258 total votes.
Every year California dumps enough wastewater into the ocean to fill Lake Oroville, one of the state's largest sources of drinking water. Even thirsty San Diego pours thousands of gallons of wastewater into the Pacific off Point Loma every day.
The reasons this supply-starved state wastes so much wastewater are both simple and substantial. There is a natural recoil to drinking water that has been flushed down the toilet, even after it's been cleaned. New plants and high-tech treatment can be cost prohibitive. Moreover, the state has enacted a Byzantine array of regulatory controls that critics say strangle agencies seeking permits to clean and send recaptured wastewater to taps.
And that's where legislation carried by Assemblyman
"My bill has the impact of creating more storage across the state without big expensive dam projects," Hueso said.
Here's how:
• Wastewater would be regulated depending on the level of treatment. The goal is to make it easier, quicker and cheaper for districts to mingle the cleanest — called "advanced treated purified water" — with groundwater and reservoir supplies. The state Department of Public Health, after adopting updated standards, would take over the permitting responsibility from the state Water Resources Control Board and its affiliated regional agencies.
• Dozens of related regulations and codes would be redesigned to streamline permits. Agencies would have to pay more filing fees, but those supporting the bill said that's worth it because delays caused by wading through different regulatory processes are even more expensive.
The measure is likely to come up on the Assembly floor later this week, and is expected to also undergo significant modifications this summer before a compromise could be struck sending it to Gov.
San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce officials were in the Capitol recently lobbying for various causes, including Hueso's measure.
Chamber President Ruben Barrales recognizes that creating tap water out of wastewater is expensive. "It costs a lot less than not having water," he reasoned. "It's insurance."
Water agencies are under mounting pressure to recycle more water as the state grows and supply shrinks. State law already requires districts to recycle 2.5 million acre-feet by 2030. That's enough to serve 5 million average Southern California homes for a year.
"We are pouring perfectly drinkable water into the ocean," Hueso said, referring to supplies that could be treated up to health standards.
A 2009 state report suggested that up to 1.4 million acre-feet of wastewater could be recirculated back to taps. And the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst has said returning wastewater to the general supply is one of the "least cost, highest gain" alternatives to increasing availability.
Nevertheless, Hueso's Assembly Bill 2398 has drawn fire from the vocal Russian River Watershed Protection Committee based in Northern California. Its members oppose provisions taking some permitting authority away from regional water quality boards. Also, there are complaints that required reporting of unauthorized discharges of some types of wastewater are too lax.
Several residents have also lodged protests. Howard Wilshire of Sebastopol, for example, wrote that more stringent standards and regulations are needed.
"In view of the rapidly growing body of scientific evidence of the drastic effects of poorly regulated discharges of toxic materials into our waterways on aquatic and human life, a proposal to reduce the standards for discharge of treated, but still contaminated, waters is not defensible," said Wilshire, a retired federal geologist.
Some environmentalists are wary given the complexity of more than 70 pages of Hueso's proposed changes to highly technical state law governing wastewater reclamation.
Jill Witkowski, legal clinic director for San Diego Coastkeeper, said "some of our partners have raised concerns about this bill that we are looking into." The local group has not settled on a position, but "we are excited to see water recycling being addressed at the state level. It's crucial from an environmental standpoint and water security standpoint to facilitate water recycling."
Price also has been a nagging issue, beyond plant construction costs. But just like turning seawater into drinking water, the costs of capturing wastewater is coming down with technological advances, supporters say.
"As far as recycled water goes, it's the most important bill in the last 20 years," said Deven Upadhyay, a water resources manager for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
Is toilet-to-tap losing its yuck factor?
The term "toilet to tap," while fading, still dogs San Diego. It became a household slogan that derailed the city's bid for a purification project in the 1990s.
"That was a political campaign designed to instill fear," Hueso said.
The National Academy of Sciences in January issued a study touting water purification.
Actually, San Diegans already drink water cleansed of contaminants. Sewage, farm chemicals and industrial waste are routinely poured into the Colorado River and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta systems feeding into San Diego. Water agencies then treat the water to meet public health standards.
"The legislation will not strip away any protections for public health," said Dave Smith, managing director of WaterReuse California, which is sponsoring the measure,
The California champion of turning wastewater into drinking water is Orange County, where wastewater has been purified and mixed into groundwater for drinking water use since 2008. The commingled water is even delivered to
The Orange County Water District, which manages 350 square miles of a vast basin in the region, plans to enlarge its reclamation plant to handle 100 million gallons per day by the fall of 2014.
San Diego region projects may benefit
The legislation could be a boost for two major wastewater reclamation programs in San Diego.
The city of San Diego is operating an $11.8 million demonstration plant at its North City facility in Sorrento Valley to convert small amounts of wastewater to tap water. None of the recycled water flows to taps — yet.
The plant goal is to produce 16 million gallons of purified water daily.
A just-released two-year study suggests that a successfully permitted expanded facility would save ratepayers and provide more reliable supplies. But hurdles, including an estimated $3 billion price tag, remain.
Capitol officials suggest that the legislation's streamlined regulations could help speed up the city's progress as it moves from a pilot program to permanent use in the future. That alone could save the city $200 million, according to Hueso's estimate.
The city of San Diego proposes to build a 23-mile pipeline from the reclamation plant to carry the purified wastewater to San Vicente Reservoir, where it would blend with imported untreated water. It would then go through another round of cleansing before delivery.
The city's goal is to recycle 100 million gallons of wastewater per day. That is about how much is used by 850,000 residents. But even under the legislation none of the purified wastewater would go directly to taps. It would have to be first mixed with either reservoir supplies or in groundwater basins for six months.
Roger Bailey, the city of San Diego's public works director, has embraced the legislation, saying it "consolidates recycled water policy into a practical and usable regulatory framework."
In doing so, the legislation would "eliminate the need for costly, time-intensive and redundant regulatory hurdles" for the city when it applies for permanent permits, Bailey said. In addition, East County officials with the Helix Water District and Padre Dam Municipal Water District are eying the legislation as they work on a joint venture to purify wastewater and pipe about 5,000 acre-feet a year into nearby Lake Jennings.
Carlos Lugo, Helix's general manager, said the agencies hope the legislation knocks down some regulatory hurdles. Implementation of Hueso's bill would save the two districts $1 million, he estimates.

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BUILDINGS and their taken-for-granted amenities—heating, cooling, lighting—account for 40 percent of total energy consumption in the United States. Reducing this massive carbon footprint through smart architecture, engineering, and use of materials is what the University's new Green Building Research Laboratory is about.
The new lab allows faculty researchers from around the state to comprehensively analyze green buildings. This includes extensive study of buildings' energy use and conservation, air and environmental quality, building material performance, and storm water runoff.
The lab is a signature research facility of the Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center, an independent nonprofit established by the Oregon Legislature in 2007 to grow the state's reputation as a national innovator in sustainability, natural resources, and renewable energy.
Run by David Sailor, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, the lab incorporates faculty from PSU's engineering departments as well as Architecture, Urban Studies and Planning, and programs throughout the Oregon University System. The facility also supports the region's booming green building industry through applied research projects and gives students hands-on experience with new and innovative building technology.


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Chemo brain is not going away, not mine anyway. I think that it is gradually getting better though. I can read novels and focus much better, but honestly, my funny is gone. I am really a witty and humorous individual, but not so much since battling cancer. I thought that maybe it was because of feeling the seriousness of cancer, but as time progressed I realized I'm not as funny and quick-witted because my brain is not functioning as quickly. So now I wonder if I will ever get back to normal or if this is just the new me. I'm not even very good at entertaining myself, and I'm my biggest fan.
I have dealt with chemo brain a lot on this blog in the past, but it is something that many of us are continuing to live with. What is surprising it that there are no real breakthroughs on this condition in the medical community. I know more doctors and researchers are taking this condition seriously, mostly because more cancer survivors are complaining about it.
I am three years out from chemotherapy, so I am truly distressed about this condition. What if I am stuck like this? Now that for sure is not funny. The only answer that my doctor had was to prescribe anti-depressants, but I can tell you they didn't work.
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Now translated into Japanese by Ryuhei Uehara: http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~uehara/books/howtofoldit/ :
Errata (Updated 9 May 2012)
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The book includes descriptions of ten open problems (see the Index under open problem, p. 176). Inevitably, some will be resolved as time passes and before a Second Edition is prepared. Here I will maintain a list of those Open Problems in the book which have been closed, or on which some notable advance has been achieved.
The special case of convex polyhedra has been solved (Yes, they can all be continuously flattened!) by Jin-ichi Itoh, Chie Nara, and Costin Vilcu in the following paper: "Continuous flattening of convex polyhedra," XIV Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry, 2011, Centre de Recerca Matematica Documents Vol. 8, pp. 95-98.
See also the longer list of Closed/Open Problems associated with the more advanced monograph, Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra.
Below appears some supplementary material, organized by chapter. Click on links to jump to that chapter's material:
|Animation by Akira Nishihara. (Click on image to see animated GIF): Nishihara web page.
|Fig. 3.14 (p.51)
|Uncurling of a unit 90°-chain as it stretches to its maxspan configuration.
[Video by Julia Patterson]
|Final frame of animation
The video is a first attempt at animating the uncurling of the spiral unit 90°-chain. The jittering near the end of the stretch is under investigation...
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|Templates B&W
|Fig. 4.4
|Degree-6 vertex
|Fig. 4.7
|Degree-6 non-flat
|Fig. 4.8
|Maekawa-Justin Theorem
|Fig. 4.14
|Map puzzle
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|Fig. 5.2
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|Irregular Triangle
|Fig. 5.9
|Square & Rectangle
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|Letter 'A'
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labeled crease in Fig.5.11(c).]
|Letter 'A' with hole
|Fig. 5.12
Here is a dynamic version of Figure 7.11: The Latin cross unfolding of the cube.
|Cube to Latin cross. [Video by Katie Park]
Here is an edge-unfolding of a cube to a 'Z'-shape, and then a refolding of the 'Z' to double-covered parallelogram. (This example is not in the book, but related.) All the Platonic solids but the dodecahedron have similar edge-unfoldings and refoldings to a parallelogram. Template below in Chapter 9 section.
|Unfolding cube to 'Z'.
|Folding 'Z' to parallelogram.
|[Videos by Katie Park]
These four videos show animations of the orthogonal terrain algorithm described in Section 8.1, especially Figures 8.2 and 8.4. For more detail, see my note, "Unfolding Orthogonal Terrains."
|10 x 10 Terrain, Example 1
|10 x 10 Terrain, Example 2
|10 x 10 Top only (dynamically rescaled)
|20 x 20 Terrain
The video below illustrates the basic construction that underlies the algorithm described in Section 8.4 Above & Beyond, especially Figure 8.8. For more detail, see the paper, "Epsilon Unfolding of Orthogonal Polyhedra."
|Helical unwrapping one box to a staircase shape.
[Video by Robin Flatland and Ray Navarette]
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Which folds to cube?
(Not in book)
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|Square perimeter-halving.
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The strength in farmland values continues to ease, according to the monthly survey of rural bankers across 10 Midwestern states conducted by Dr. Ernie Goss, Creighton University. The farmland index included in the Rural Mainstreet Index (RMI) declined for the sixth time in the past seven months, Goss found. The index decreased to 58.4 from 62.1 in May with 50 considered "growth neutral."
"Our farmland price index has been above growth neutral since February 2010. However we are tracking a clear downward trend in farmland price growth. I expect that growth to continue to fall as the U.S. dollar strengthens and agriculture commodity prices weaken," said Goss.
"This downward trend in agriculture commodity prices has softened the growth in both farmland prices and farm equipment sales," said Goss. After expanding by almost 9% for 2012, farm product prices have been flat for 2013 and while the farm equipment sales index expanded for June to 53.2 from May's 52.4, sales are softer than earlier in the year."
The rural economy, meanwhile, continues to improve, his monthly review finds. The Rural Mainstreet Index (RMI), which ranges between 0 and 100 with 50.0 representing growth neutral, climbed to 60.5 from May's 58.8. "This year's healthy rainfall for much of the area has boosted growth over the past several months compared to the same period last year," says Ernie Goss
The confidence index, which reflects expectations for the economy six months out, increased to 60.0 from 54.5 in May. "Consistent and positive growth in the national economy, along with improving crop conditions, are boosting bankers' economic outlook," says Goss.
The Senate Farm bill cuts about $4.1 billion in food stamps over the next decade. "According to our June survey, 56.6 percent of bank CEOs think the cuts are too small," reported Goss.
Each month, community bank presidents and CEOs in nonurban, agriculturally and energy-dependent portions of a 10-state area are surveyed regarding current economic conditions in their communities and their projected economic outlooks six months down the road. Bankers from Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming are included.
This survey represents an early snapshot of the economy of rural, agriculturally and energy-dependent portions of the nation. The Rural Mainstreet Index (RMI) is a unique index covering 10 regional states, focusing on approximately 200 rural communities with an average population of 1,300. It gives the most current real-time analysis of the rural economy. Goss and Bill McQuillan, president of CNB Community Bank of Greeley, Neb., created the monthly economic survey in 2005.
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Today I got to spend some time hanging out with my friends who run Stylelikeu, one of the best things to come out of the internet and one of my favoritest things ever. This you will understand when you get lost in their videos. I recommend starting with Illona and Annakim and Rachel from Supercute. And, it's the best site for procrastinating homework, because you are learning LIFE LESSONS! Getting to talk about style with them in real time was a delight.
Here are today's photos I took for GARAGE Magazine's STOPS, as explained in this Fashion Week's previous posts.
Emmaline, who is like if Penny Lane was way more of a badass, and Lei Lei, who is like that lady where you're like, HOW DOES SHE DO THAT? In a you-look-magically-fancy-and-casual-at-the-same-time kind of way, not in a Sarah Jessica Parker kind of way.
Lily made a Stella McCartney sweater seem like its story is just as unique as that of her other clothes -- the scarf is made of bedsheets. I am wearing a Vaselines tee, my Twin Peaks/rosary necklace, a vintage skirt, and shoes gifted to me by Rachel Antonoff. I had a flannel layer and lots more skull and Jesus jewelry but it got exhausting. LIFE IS HARD.
We also had a get-together for the New York Rookie staffers, involving cake and pizza and PIZZA T-SHIRTS.
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Caused turnovers: 2 (at Boston College 3/21/09)
Ground Balls: 3 (several times)
Senior · 2012
Named to the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll ... Recorded two saves versus Cornell.
Junior · 2011
Started in goal in all 16 games of the season … Amassed 93 saves on the season, including a season-high 10 against No. 7 Virginia … Sported a goals-against average of 10.25 … Had seven or more saves in six games … Second on the team in ground balls (26).
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Made four appearances in goal for the Crimson … Posted a 1-2 overall record … Stopped 17 shots … Recorded a 13.45 goals-against average.
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Started between the pipes in all 14 games she played in ... Sported a 12.95 goals-against average ... Ranked sixth in the Ivy League in saves per game (6.93) ... Compiled 97 saves throughout the season ... Finished her rookie campaign with a record of 4-8 ... Collected a career-high 11 saves against Connecticut and No. 3 Penn ... Allowed a season-low four goals versus Columbia ... Made collegiate debut against Holy Cross.
Earned four letters in lacrosse ... A two-time US Lacrosse Academic All-American ... Named a 2008 Women's Division National Tournament Senior All-Star .... A two-time first-team All-Galaxy recipient, a three time first -team All-Suburban, first -team all-North Jersey and all-conference recipient ... Named a first-team all-league honoree four times ... Also received second-team All-Suburban and second-team All-North Jersey honors as a freshman ... Team won four straight NBIL Championships ... Holds Ramapo high school and Bergen County records for career saves (891) and most saves in a game (29) ... A member of the National Honor Society and World Language Honor Society ... AP Scholar with Distinction ... The 2008 Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholar ... Received the President's Award for Excellence in Education in 2008 ... Received the South Jersey Model UN Conference High Achievement Award and Rutgers University Model UN Best Position Paper Award ... A volunteer for the Emanuel Cancer Foundation monthly food drive and the Inter Religious Homes Shelter ... Sister, Caitlyn is a midfielder for the Vermont women's lacrosse team and brother, Brendan, played lacrosse at St. Michael's College.


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Now- hear me on this one. If you gave up one of those things, then good for you. I am not slamming your decision. But for me, it's not the right choice.
I had this conversation the other day with my mom about how many hours a day my grandmother spends on the phone. Y'all, it would be an insane amount of hours if someone actually added it up. My mom and I were trying to figure out how a person can physically talk on the phone for that many hours and we essentially decided that we spend equally as many hours on various social media outlets as my Granny does on the phone. Maybe it's generational. Maybe older people who aren't raising kids and running around as much have more time to talk on the phone.
If you go back to every sitcom about women in the 60's and 70's there is this image that we conjure up of women in their cute little dresses, running around the kitchen actually tethered to the wall by a phone cord. (My kids totally do NOT understand this concept of needing to be connected to the wall to talk on the phone. Gone are the days of hiding in the closet to talk to your boyfriend with a cord poking out from under the door giving away your location.) And gone are the days when we have hours of time to chat on the phone with everyone we want to keep up with. I find now that people are more busy than ever. If I call one of my mom friends, the conversation usually goes like this:
Her: What's going on with you guys?
Me: Same old stuff. Miles! Stop licking my leg!
Her: Ethan, get off the top of the refrigerator. Oh my God! Ethan's trying to jump off the top of the fridge. ETHAN! I'll call you back!
Days later, we finally connect again...
Me: How did your doctor's appointment go?
Her: It went great. All the test results came back normal, I go back...
Me: MILES! Do not push your brother down the steps! Sorry, you were saying?
Her: Oh, just that I go back in two weeks to see if I need...
Me: Holy crap! Noah's bleeding all over the place. Call you back...
And so it goes and so it goes. But with Facebook, and email, and twitter and all of those other things? Well, I can keep up with my friends in snippets when it's convenient for me. And the same goes for my friends. We can oooh and aaaah over each other's family photos at 3 am if we want to. Now, it's no substitute for a cup of coffee with your bestie or an uninterrupted phone conversation, but sometimes as busy people, it's the best we can do.
As people we need connection. I can remember in the days before Facebook, being a stay at home mom and feeling so isolated. I felt like I was an island. I felt like I was the only mom in the world who might not love being home all day with a child. My friends weren't home during the day for me to call and shoot the breeze with and I didn't think they'd appreciate me calling them at work just because I needed some adult conversation. Then in came Facebook and blogs and people were able to connect in ways that we never had before. When my second kid came along and I was still feeling like an island, I can remember reading a blog about post partum depression and finally feeling some one else felt like I did. I remember seeing someone update their status about how they cried all day when they registered their kid for kindergarten and there was comfort in the fact that someone else out there had the same thoughts and feelings as me. I remembered posting a picture of Miles on the day that he become a US citizen and how nearly 100 people commented their congratulations and well wishes for us and I felt so loved and cared for. Connection. It's huge.
I can't do without that connection. Do I waste a lot of time on the Internet? Yup. Do I see how it is not always a good thing? Yup. But do I see how it sometimes fills the void when our friend aren't available for a cup of joe or when my kids are being too nutso for me to get through a phone conversation. You bet. I need community.
So I understand why Facebook and it's time sucking ways are something that could be a distraction and overly consuming and thus worthy of giving up for Lent. But as for me? I'm choosing connection. There's a whole conversation amongst awesome adults and I LIKE being a part of it and I REFUSE to feel guilty about that! And this, dear friends, is why you will NEVER ever find me giving up Facebook.
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Scrapbook How To: Create Graphic Flowers with Decorative Tape
In the May/June 2013 Creating Keepsakes issue, Riikka Kovasin shows how to make graphic flowers in a jiffy, using simple scrapbooking supplies like decorative tape and a button. The shallow pleats mean that the resulting flowers are thin, and perfectly suited for storage and slipping under her trendy paper layers.
Street Art layout by Riikka Kovasin in the May/June 2013 Creating Keepsakes issue.
Make a Graphic Flower Using these Steps
Step 1: Punch cardstock circles, and pleat tape around outer edge of first punched circle.
Step 2: Pleat tape around inner edge of second circle.
Step 3: Layer circles and add button.
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Firefighters Knock Down Fire at Lanesborough Truck Repair Shop
LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — A swift response knocked down a small fire in a garage bay at Village Truck Sales on Thursday evening.
A motorist notified police that he believed there was a fire at the Route 8 business and Fire Chief Charlie Durfee said the call of a structure fire came in at 5:39 p.m.
"The first engines to pull up on scene were Lanesborough and Cheshire's Engine 2, because they come for us right away, and they found a small fire inside the [bay] door on the left," he said. "We got in and knocked it down quick. ... There was more smoke than anything."
The blaze was contained to the inside corner in the northern-most bay and Durfee estimated the damage at probably not more than $5,000. A few items, including a toolbox and some car parts, were pulled out of the damaged bay. The area above the door was blackened from smoke but did not incur any fire damage.
Durfee said the cause is still under investigation but he's considering it an accidental fire.
"They got lucky," he said. "The guys did a great job."
The business is outside the water district so both Cheshire and Dalton sent tankers and Lanesborough set up its pool as a water supply. Lanesborough Ambulance, Lanesborough and Cheshire Police and state police from the Cheshire barracks also provided aid.
The busy highway was closed and traffic detoured over Old State Road for about an hour. The road was reopened at about 6:45 p.m.
Camper Destroyed By Fire at Lanesborough Campground
LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — A camper at Mount Greylock Campsite Park was completely destroyed by fire Friday evening, on the first day of the season.
According to Fire Chief Charlie Durfee, the owner of the camper had arrived that day, set up the camper, put her stuff inside, and then left to go shopping. While she was out, the camper caught fire and the fire took off from there to a point firefighters had no chance of saving it.
"There was black smoke billowing in the sky, fully involved, we called Hancock Fire Department for their tanker. We had their tanker, our tanker, and our two engines," Durfee said.
Durfee said there was a threat of attached propane tanks and Capt. Cody Sanderson had arrived first, removed those, and moved them away from the scene. But the fire had already been going too strong that firefighters could just put it out with no chance to save it.
The camper was toward the top of the hill of the Scott Road campground, with a narrow dirt road leading to it. There are no hydrants anywhere nearby.
"The challenges are, there is no water. We are up in the middle of nowhere. And campers are like a mobile home, they go up like that. It's minutes and they are gone. Nine out of 10 times you will never ever save a camper or a mobile home fire," Durfee said.
Campground owner Gordon Hubbard said the owner does have insurance on the camper. Interestingly, this is the first year Mount Greylock required all who lease sites to have insurance on their campers whereas before it was optional. Hubbard said in this case, the owner has carried insurance on it for years.
Nonetheless, the fire is "devastating" for the owner, Hubbard said, because the woman had lost everything she had put in it.
"Everything she has in there is gone, a total loss," Durfee said.
Durfee said he doesn't know what caused the blaze but if he had to guess, it was probably electrical.
"We'll never know what caused it. It is so burnt, we'll never know," Durfee said.
Hubbard praised the work the volunteer fire department did given the circumstances, saying they arrived quickly and put out the fire.
Animal Cruelty Case Continued Without Finding
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A local man was given a continuance without a finding after killing a 10-month-old puppy.
Coty Dakin, 29, had entered to an admission to sufficient facts plea to a single county of animal cruelty on March 12. The case was continued without a finding for one year. Police had accused Dakin of crushing the skull of his girlfriend's 10-month old Chihuahua, Chichi, in Lanesborough in 2017.
Police said on Nov. 20, 2017 officers were dispatched to the girlfriend's home for a disturbance during which it was reported that Dakin had killed his girlfriend's dog. Police said Dakin was asked about the incident and he claimed he kicked a chair into the wall and accidentally killed the dog.
"He explained that he had found that the dogs made a mess in the living room and he was cleaning it up when he became angry. The dogs ran and hid behind a reclining chair at which time he kicked the chair into the wall. He stated he heard one of the dogs yelp so he moved the chair away from the wall to find the dog bloody and not breathing," reads the police report.
However, officers sent the puppy's body to Forensic Veterinary Investigations in Boston for necrology and Dr. Martha Smith-Blackmore said the injuries did not align with that story.
"The constellation of injuries in this 10-month-old Chihuahua puppy are consistent with manual crushing of the skull during ineffective 'wringing' of her neck (manual dislocation of the head from the neck by applying torsional forces). In my opinion, rather than dislocating the head from the first cervical vertebra, the skull crushed and shattered under considerable manual force," the report reads.
"The shattering of the bone at the base of the skull pierced into the oropharynx causing the bleeding from the nose and mouth. The shattering bone at the skull compromising the inner/middle left ear cause the bleeding out of the left ear ...
"In my opinion, Chichi's death was accompanied by intense pain and suffering."
The multi-page report debunked Dakin's story and Smith-Blackmore determined that the injuries "are inconsistent with an accident crushing injury between a piece of furniture and the wall."
Friends reported trying to get Dakin to seek psychiatric help and witnesses who were there that day cited a few things that did not quite seem to back Dakin's story, such as a lack of blood in the supposed chair area and the number and severity of the injuries to the dog.
Police returned to question Dakin further about the incident and the findings but Dakin maintained his story. However, police said that between Dakin's admission of kicking the chair into the wall, admitting to having anger problems and "coming to a boiling point that day," admitting he did not want the dog in the first place, and the necropsy report, warranted the charge.
The case has been going through the district court process for about a year and ultimately Judge Jennifer Tyne agreed to the continuance without a finding.
In a follow-up letter, the owner of the dog wrote about the pain of losing Chichi and the impact it had on her children.
"There's not much I could say that could describe the hurt I felt then and still do, it isn't something that can just be erased and whereas I've felt so many emotions in this matter from anger to loss, sadness, and even guilt. Still, I feel that no judgment is going to bring back what we lost, it isn't going to fix what's already been broken," she wrote.
Lanesborough Police Seeking Info on Vape Shop Break-in
LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — Police are asking looking for help in identifying a group of individuals who broke into Uniq Vape on South Main Street and stole upward of $9,000 worth of products.
Police were notified of a burglar alarm at about 3:10 a.m. on Wednesday. Upon arrival, police found a side door kicked in with two muddy footprints on it. The store was in disarray and a glass display was destroyed.
According to police, video footage shows two parties checking the doors at about 2:49 a.m. and then returning 25 minutes later and kicking in the door. Those two were then joined by four others who ran through the store taking items. Those involved got into a vehicle and left and a K9 search was unable to track them.
"We reviewed the security camera footage and observed at 2:39 a.m. what appears to be two males, one wearing black and/or grey Adidas brand striped pants and sweatshirt, and the other wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt with a red Under Armour logo approached the building and attempt to gain entry through the front windows. After failing to gain entry from the front, the two parties walked around the building trying other windows before appearing to leave the area," reads the police report filed by Officer Ben Garner.
"A short time later at 3:04 a.m. the same previously described parties return to the building and one kicked in the south-facing side door. Immediately after the two males enter the building, four more parties ran from behind the BP gas station directly to the south and entered the building also. All six parties took various items from the store before exiting through the same door and running back behind the BP gas station."
Store owner Syed Quaseem provided police with surveillance footage of the incident and authorities are asking anyone with information to contact them at 413-443-4107.
Man Rescued After Getting Stuck in Lanesborough Cave
LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — Firefighters freed a man stuck upside down in a cave off Silver Street on Saturday night.
Fire Chief Charlie Durfee said the local man had slipped on wet rocks at about 9:15 p.m. while checking out a cave behind 96 Silver St. and fell head first into the cave opening. Durfee said the man was attending a birthday party when he and a friend took a walk to look at the caves.
He was stuck there for about two hours while the Western Mass Technical Rescue Team worked to free him.
"He was probably in the hole for about two hours," Durfee said.
More than a dozen local firefighters who serve on the technical rescue team was joined by another dozen from the Lanesborough Volunteer Fire Department on the call.
Durfee said he also received assistance from Dalton Fire Chief Gerald Cahalan and Pittsfield Fire Chief Robert Czerwinski. Durfee added that another one of the partygoers is a paramedic in another town and kept the man calm as they waited for first responders to arrive.
"It was tedious getting to where he was," he said. "It was a great team effort."
Durfee said freeing the man proved to be tricky because rescuers couldn't simply lift him out. But eventually, using a number of ropes, harnesses, and other tools, the man was freed and taken by County Ambulance to Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. He suffered only a laceration on the back of his head.
"These guys are highly trained in tactical rescues," Durfee said.
There are some 58 caves in Lanesborough and about half of them are located in the Silver Street area. But this the only cave rescue Durfee can remember.
"We've never had a cave rescue in the 37 years I've been on the department," he said.


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Z-Lynk technology is designed for a near-zero delay from your detector
to your headphones. The Garrett Z-Lynk Wireless System operates with a
17-millisecond delaysix times faster than Bluetooth. This means you are
hearing your target signal while the searchcoil is directly over the target,
helping you to pinpoint and recover your targets more accurately.
Frequency-hopping technology creates an infinite number of channels to
prevent interference with nearby headphones and other wireless devices.
Each Z-Lynk Wireless System Includes:
wireless transmitter
wireless receiver
Two USB charging cables
Mounting strap
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- Z-Lynk can be used with both VLF and pulse metal detectors.
- These modules can be paired with any Garrett wireless-enabled
device. This wireless system is nearly universal, designed to work with
almost any brand of metal detector and almost any wired headphone.
- Power On/OffPress and hold power button ( ) for 1 second to switch
ON or OFF. Note: WT-1 will switch on when it receives detector audio.
Modules will automatically switch off after 10 minutes without a paired
mate, or after 30 minutes of inactivity.
- VolumeAdjust with WR-1 volume control buttons. If using
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adjust WR-1 to maximum desired level. While hunting, additional
adjustments can be made with headphone volume controls.
- PairingSwitch both modules on. If the pairing indicator ( ) is blinking,
bring modules within 3 feet (1 meter) of each other (and away from any
other Z-Lynk device), and then quickly press and release the power button
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- LED IndicatorsBattery indicator ( ) begins blinking when there are
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October 27, 2000
Jeanne Oswald
(609) 292-4310
The Commission on Higher Education today adopted budget recommendations for Fiscal Year 2002, stressing that an increased investment in colleges and universities is essential for New Jersey's future economic competitiveness and societal well-being.
The Commission's budget policy statement recommends strategic investments to assure the state's continued competitiveness and extend prosperity to all of its residents. The Commission calls for increased aid to the state's four-year colleges and universities, expanded programs for disadvantaged students and high-tech research and workforce development, and a new teacher preparation initiative.
"Given the economy's escalating dependence on advanced knowledge and technology and higher education's pivotal role in preparing the next generation of workers, citizens, and leaders, now is the time to make a significant investment in our state's future," said Commission Chairman Al Koeppe.
The Commission recommends an additional $87 million for the state's three public research universities and the nine state colleges and universities - a four percent increase in operating aid as well as full support of negotiated salary increases and contractual increments for these institutions. The proposed increase will help these institutions meet the challenges of the future without large tuition hikes to cover increasing costs.
The Commission recommends a $3 million increase for the state's independent colleges and universities, which contribute significantly to access, diversity, and economic well-being. The budget statement also calls for a continued commitment to the community colleges.
To keep higher education affordable and close the gap between those who have economic opportunities and those who do not, the Commission calls for additional funding to help disadvantaged students succeed in college. The Commission seeks an additional $1.5 million for Educational Opportunity Fund campus-based support programs and $2.1 million to expand precollege programs for middle- and high-school students in the Abbott school districts.
In addition, the Commission recommends that New Jersey maintain its position as a national leader in need-based student aid by increasing Tuition Aid Grants (TAG) to maximum current year tuition levels and extending the program to economically disadvantaged part-time students.
New Jersey faces significant demand for new teachers, and the Commission, in cooperation with the Department of Education (DOE) and institutional representatives, developed an innovative package to address those demands. The first component will expand the state's capacity to produce highly effective teachers who can equip all students with a higher level of skills. The recommended $10 million investment will help public and independent colleges and universities with teacher preparation programs move teacher education to the top of their institutional agendas and heighten involvement of arts and sciences faculty. It will also build program capacity, link programs with P-12 core curriculum content standards, and expand collaboration with elementary and secondary schools. Ongoing support is recommended for additional faculty positions created at the public institutions through this initiative. Two related proposals, to be administered by the Department of Education, will address teacher recruitment and professional development.
Recognizing that academic research and high-tech programs are fundamental to economic growth and workforce development, the Commission seeks funding to build on the success of two higher education initiatives launched this year under Governor Whitman's New Jersey Jobs for the New Economy program. The Commission recommends a minimum of $15 million for a second round of High-Tech Workforce Excellence Grants to address the current and future workforce needs of key New Jersey industries by building on strong programs in select science and technology disciplines. It also seeks a minimum of $10 million to increase university research capacity in biomedical and other high-tech areas and attract more federal and corporate research grants to New Jersey.
Click to view the full text of the Commission's budget policy statement for FY 2002
and the supporting document, Higher Education: Meeting Challenges of the Future.
|General Operating Support
|Senior Public Colleges and Universities (12)1
4% increase in operating aid
Full funding of salary program (estimated)
|$87 million
|Community Colleges (19)2
Operating aid
|$12 million
|Independent Colleges and Universities with a public mission (14)3
|Independent College and University Assistance Act
|$3 million
|Student Support
|Educational Opportunity Fund
Article IV student support programs: counseling, tutoring, academic, career exploration, pre-freshman and other support services
|$1.5 million
|College Bound Program
Expansion of program to serve disadvantaged 6th - 12th graders in up to 6 additional Abbott districts
|$2.1 million
|Tuition Aid Grant Program
Maximum current year tuition levels (full-time students)
Part-time TAG
to be determined
$9.8 - $11 million
|Investment in Excellence
|Teacher Preparation and Development
Teacher preparation initiative
DOE recruitment and professional development programs
$10 million
to be determined
|High-Tech Workforce Excellence Grants
Second round of competitive grants
|$15 million
|University Research
Continued investment to build research capacity and attract grant funding in biomedical and other high-tech areas
|$10 million
1 Public research universitites: NJIT, Rutgers, and UMDNJ
State colleges and universities: College of NJ, Kean Univ., Montclair State Univ., NJ City Univ., Ramapo College, Richard Stockton College, Rowan Univ., Thomas Edison State College, and William Paterson Univ.
2 Community/ county colleges: Atlantic Cape, Bergen, Brookdale, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Raritan Valley, Salem, Sussex, Union, and Warren.
3 Independent institutions with a public mission: Bloomfield College, Caldwell College, Centenary College, College of St. Elizabeth, Drew Univ., Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Felician College, Georgian Court College, Monmouth Univ., Princeton Univ., Rider Univ., Saint Peter's College, Seton Hall Univ., Stevens Institute of Technology.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday voted to extend the life of the National Flood Insurance Program for 60 days, giving lawmakers time to work on a long-term extension that would seek to restore fiscal solvency to the debt-ridden plan.
The House last week approved a one-month extension of the program, and the two chambers will have to decide on a common approach before the insurance provider's charter runs out at the end of the month.
The program, started in 1969 to allay federal costs from flood disasters, now covers some 5.6 million policyholders in 21,000 flood-prone communities. Failure to renew it could have consequences for the fragile housing market, because people in flood plains would be unable to obtain flood insurance, preventing them from closing on mortgages.
"If it were to expire, new housing construction would stall, in fact, in many places, just come to a halt, real estate transactions would come to a screaming halt, taxpayers would be on the hook for future disasters," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
The Senate bill passed with an amendment by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., that eliminates premium rate subsidies for people buying second homes and vacation homes in flood-prone areas.
The House measure passed last week also includes some changes, including taking steps to encourage private-sector participation in the flood insurance market.
Currently, with private insurers unwilling or unable to compete in the market, the federal government handles almost all flood insurance.
The program was largely self-sustaining before 2005, when hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced the program, run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to borrow heavily from the Treasury. Currently it owes the Treasury nearly $18 billion.
The House last year passed a five-year extension for the program that allowed for increased premiums and ended some subsidies as means to make the program more fiscally sound. But the Senate has yet to bring a companion bill to the floor for a vote.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., said Thursday he planned to move a long-term reauthorization of the program to the Senate floor. That could take place next month.


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The First Lady visited Virginia today, motivating supporters in Richmond and Fredericksburg to get involved:
"We won Virginia by 235,000 votes [in 2008]. Now, that's wonderful. And while that might sound like a lot, think about this: When you break that number down, that's just 100 votes per precinct. Now think about that—100 votes. That could mean just a couple of votes in your neighborhood, just a single vote in your apartment building.
"So for anyone here who might be thinking that your vote doesn't matter, that your involvement doesn't count, that in this complex political process, ordinary folks can't possibly make a difference—anyone who is thinking about that, I want you to think about those 100 votes. Think about that. I want you to think about, with just a few evenings on a phone bank, with just a few weekends knocking on doors, just a few of you here today could swing an entire precinct for Barack Obama. Just you all here could do that."
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A Woodmen of the World.
b. Jan 1, 1901, d. June 14, 1960.
Cemetery is at Superior, AZ.
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Serious, you ask? Serious, I say - just look at the collection of kites below that were flown on a windy day back in 1957 at the University of Illinois' Kite Derby Day. Each is more mathematical-inspired than the last.
They're certainly a world away from the colourful cartoon-like kites flown by kids on grassy knolls nowadays, eh? [Mondo-Blogo via But Does It Float via WonderHowTo]


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COLUMBUS – Justin Meram was denied once by the referee. But he would not be stopped by Chivas USA goalkeeper Dan Kennedy with the ball on his left foot and the match in the balance.
Meram, who entered in the 80th minute when Eddie Gaven suffered an injury, scored off a headed back-pass by Jairo Arrieta nine minutes later to give the Crew a critical 1-0 win against Chivas USA on Wednesday.
Afterward, Meram dedicated the goal to Crew rookie midfielder Kirk Urso, who died Aug. 5. The second-year forward from Michigan has been wearing a wrist band to commemorate his teammate.
"The referee made me take a band off and told me to put it in my sock," Meram told the media afterward. "I put it in my sock, and funny, two minutes later I scored. My man Kirk, I love you to death, was with me tonight."
Columbus (13-10-6, 45 points) broke a two-game losing streak and are 5-2-2 since resuming play following Urso's death, moving into playoff contention.
Anything less than a win against a struggling Chivas squad (7-14-7, 28) that are now winless in eight could have been devastating. But thanks to Meram, the Crew sit in the final Eastern Conference playoff spot and are a point back of fourth-place Houston.
It didn't look good for the longest time until Tony Tchani, who entered in the 67th minute, slotted a pass through two defenders to an awaiting Federico Higuain on the left wing.
"I was trying to go toward the goal but it was kind of crowded and I saw Federico wide," Tchani said. "I opened myself and he saw me."
Higuain, who was limited to stoppage time duty Saturday at New York because of inflammation in his right foot, pronounced himself somewhat fit.
"It's been better than the last couple of games but it's still sore," he said. "I need to keep working on the rehab and get rid of the pain as soon as possible."
He was well enough to send a cross to Arrieta at the 6-yard box. Arrieta got a foot on the ball as he went to the ground but Kennedy was there for the save.
The rebound went Arrieta and he picked himself up and managed to knock the ball to Meram.
"It was a good cross from Federico," Arrieta said. "I tried to score. He made the save. I got up and tried to score. Luckily, the free ball went right to Justin and Justin did a great finish and gave us the three points."
Meram ran onto the ball for his fourth goal of the season but first since May 23.
"I just wanted to connect it and I hit it with pace," Meram said. "I didn't want to place it and after that, I was fortunate it went in."


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Open Sound System
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Advantages and disadvantages vs. ALSA
- 3 Installing
- 4 Testing
- 5 Volume control
- 6 Configuring Applications for OSS
- 7 Troubleshooting
- 8 Tips and Tricks
- 9 Experimental packages
The Open Sound System is a commercially-supported sound architecture that works on several UNIX-like and POSIX-compatible systems, including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and BeOS/Haiku.
Please note that this article is not about the old OSS, which is included in the Linux kernel sources and is more than 10 years old by now.
This article is about the new OSS versions (often called OSSv4). These versions were previously proprietary - OSS became open source again in July 2007, and is currently available under GPL, BSD or CDDL licenses.
Advantages and disadvantages vs. ALSA
Advantages over ALSA (for users)
- Includes a transparent software mixer (vmix) in kernel space. This means multiple applications can access the sound device at the same time without problems.
- The vmix mixer controls allow you to adjust the volume of each application individually.
- Better support for some sound card models, for example for the Creative X-Fi.
- Sound quality is usually better. reference needed to validate this statement
- Better support for applications written for the OSS API, of course. The OSS API is widely spread and a lot of applications support it. The ALSA's OSS API emulation, however, is often buggy.
Advantages over ALSA (for developers)
- Cleaner and easier to use API.
- API is much better documented.
- Support for sound drivers in the userspace (oss_userdev).
- Portability across all supported platforms. If the application works using OSS under Linux, it will work under FreeBSD and Solaris too, for example.
- Portability across operating systems. It's easier to port OSS to a new operating system.
Disadvantages vs. ALSA
- USB audio devices support is currently experimental and USB recording is not implemented.
- Bluetooth audio devices are currently not supported.
- AC'97 and HDAudio dial-up soft-modems (for example Si3055) are currently not supported.
- MIDI support is currently not finished. However, you can still use MIDI with a software synthesizer like timidity or fluidsynth.
- Suspend is currently not supported. You need to unload OSS (by using Template:Codeline) before suspending, and to reload OSS (by using Template:Codeline) after resuming.
- Automatic jack sensing currently doesn't work properly with some HDAudio-powered motherboards. This means that, depending on your motherboard model, you may have to manually switch off your speakers when plugging your earphone.
The OSS install script unload all ALSA modules automatically. If it fails for some reason to remove the modules issue the command: modprobe -r soundcore. You should balcklist the ALSA modules (to prevent them loading at boot) by editing Template:Filename as described below.
MODULES=(!soundcore ..............
Install OSS by running:
# pacman -S oss
Be sure the user is part of the audio group:
# gpasswd -a USERNAME audio
Start OSS by running:
# /etc/rc.d/oss start
Add oss to your DAEMONS variable at Template:Filename, so OSS is loaded automatically at each boot.
In the case OSS is not able to detect your card when starting it, run :
# ossdetect -v
Then Template:Codeline to reactivate it.
You can test OSS by running:
$ osstest
You should be able to hear music during the test process. If there is no audio, try to adjust the mixer as explained in the following sections and/or read the Troubleshooting sections.
Volume control
To control the volume of various devices, mixers levels will need to be set. The command line mixer is called ossmix. It's very like the BSD audio mixer (mixerctl).
A graphical mixer, is available too. It's called ossxmix. It needs the optional depend gtk2 to work.
The ossxmix controls are explained in the following example:
______________________________ / High Definition Audio ALC262 \ ----------------------------------> One tab for each sound card /________________________________\_______________________________ | | [x] vmix0-enable [vmix0-rate: 48.000kHz] vmix0-channels \ The vmix (virtual mixer) special configurations | [ Stereo [v] ] |--> appear at the top. These include sampling rate | / and mixer priority. They are provided by OSS. | __codec1______________________________________________________ | | _jack_______________________________________________________ \ | | | _int-speaker____________________ __green_________________ | | | | | | | | These are your sound card configurations. | | | | _mode______ | | | | _mode______ | | | Every mixer control that is shown here is | | | | [ mix [v] ] o o [x] [ ]mute | | [ mix [v] ] o o [x] |--> provided by your sound card. Every sound card | | | | | | | | | | | specific control is shown here. | | | |________________________________| |_______________________ | | | |____________________________________________________________ | | |______________________________________________________________ / | | ___vmix0_______________________________________________________ \ | | __mocp___ O O _firefox_ O O __pcm7___ O O | Here are the vmix mixer controls. These are | | | | O O | | x x | | O O | virtual mixer controls provided by OSS. Each | | | | | | x O | | | | x x | | | | O O | slider is the volume control of a different | | | o o [x] | x x | o o [x] | x x | o o [x] | O O |--> application. When one application uses the | | | | | | x x | | | | x x | | | | O O | sound card, its name is shown in the place of | | |_________| x x |_________| x x |_________| O O | the 'pcm#' labels. There are also sound level | |______________________________________________________________ | meter levels for each application. |________________________________________________________________ /
Jack Definitions
For high definition audio, ossxmix will highlight the jacks to their corresponding plug color. For 5.1 surround sound the jack colors are:
|Connector Type
|green TRS 3.5mm
|stereo output, front channels
|black TRS 3.5mm
|stereo output, rear channels
|grey TRS 3.5mm
|stereo output, side channels
|gold TRS 3.5mm
|dual output, center and subwoofer
|blue TRS 3.5mm
|stereo input, line level
|pink TS 3.5mm
|mono microphone input
For the most part and for most people just make sure that:
- All green jacks (green and fp-green) are "front" and 75% from max volume.
- All pink jacks (pink and fp-pink) are input and 50% of max to avoid distortion.
Other Mixers
Other desktop environments may have support for OSS:
- Gnome - Gnome Volume Control has support for OSS. Some users report that using Gnome Volume Control is easier to setup than ossxmix.
- KDE - Kmix now has preliminary support for OSS.
Saving and restoring mixer settings
If you wish to save your mixer settings manually, run Template:Codeline. As regular user you will need permissions to use Template:Codeline in the sudoers file or you can modify write permissions to Template:Filename. Alternately, the -f switch can be used to save the mixer to a file and Template:Codeline to restore it.
Please note that the init scripts run these commands before shutdown/after starting to keep mixer settings across boot, so most users don't need to worry about it.
Configuring Applications for OSS
The skype package only includes support for ALSA. To get an OSS-capable Skype, install the skype-oss package:
# pacman -S skype-oss
If you are using x86_64, you can get the bin32-skype-oss package from AUR.
- Run winecfg.
$ winecfg
- Go to the Audio tab.
- Select OSS Driver.
By default Gajim uses Template:Codeline to play a sound. To change this go in Advanced Settings and search for the Template:Codeline variable. The ossplay program included in the oss package is a good replacement:
To use MOC with OSS v4.1 you must change section OSSMixerDevice to OSSMixerDevice= /dev/ossmix in your config (located in /home/yourusername/.moc). And now MOC should work with OSS v4.1. Or you can compile moc-svn package from AUR (he got support for new vmix). For issue with interface change OSSMixerChannel = to OSSMixerChannel = Any channel and after start mocp press w (change to sofware mixex) that will help and you can change the volume power.
Applications that use Gstreamer
Remove pulseaudio and gstreamer*-pulse programs and libraries.
To change the gstreamer setting to output the sound to OSS instead of the default ALSA, run:
Change the Default Output plugin to custom and the change the pipeline to:
For the input:
If you are using phonon with the gstreamer backend you will need to set the environmental variable. To add to your current user:
export PHONON_GST_AUDIOSINK=oss4sink
Add this to your Template:Filename to be loaded on login.
Firefox >=3.5
Firefox 3.5 introduces the <video> and <audio> tag support and can play ogg media out of the box. However, it currently can't be compiled with ALSA and OSS support at the same time. So you need to install the xulrunner-oss package.
1. Stop firefox. 2. Remove the xulrunner package without dependency check: sudo pacman -Rd xulrunner 3. Install xulrunner-oss package from AUR using yaourt or ABS. 4. Start firefox.
If you are using gui (smplayer etc.) you will find the oss output at the audio settings. Using on cli you should specify the sound output: mplayer -ao oss /some/file/to/play.mkv If you don't want to brother typing it over and over again add "ao=oss" to your config file. (/home/$USER/.mplayer/config)
Other applications
- If you can't get sound from an application not listed here, try looking at the Configuring Applications for OSSv4 page.
- Search OSS specific packages by using Template:Codeline and in AUR.
Troubleshooting HDAudio devices
Understanding why problems arise
If you have a HDAudio sound device, it's very likely that you will have to adjust some mixer settings before your sound works.
HDAudio devices are very powerful in the sense that they can contain a lot of small circuits (called widgets) that can be adjusted by software at any time. These controls are exposed to the mixer, and they can be used, for example, to turn the earphone jack into a sound input jack instead of a sound output jack.
However, there is a side effect, mainly because the HDAudio standard is more flexible than it perhaps should be, and because the vendors often only care to get their official drivers working.
Then, when using HDAudio devices, you often find disorganized mixer controls, that doesn't work at all by default, and you are forced to try every mixer control combination, until it works.
How to solve
Open ossxmix and try to change every mixer control in the middle area, that contains the sound card specific controls, as explained in the previous "The mixer" section.
You'll probably want to setup a program to record/play continously in the background (e.g. Template:Codeline for recording or Template:Codeline for playing), while changing mixer settings in ossxmix in the foreground.
- Raise every volume control slider.
- In each option box, try to change the selected option, trying all the possible combinations.
- If you get noise, try to lower and/or mute some volume controls, until you find the source of the noise.
Please note again that you do not need to change any controls in the top area nor in the bottom area, as they are virtual vmix-related mixer controls.
- Editing Template:Codeline uncommenting and changing hdaudio_noskip=0 to a value from 0-7 can give you more jack options in ossxmix
I had to edit mine to hdaudio_noskip=7 for my sub/rear speaker to work on my laptop, restart oss for the changes to take effect Template:Codeline
MMS sound cracking in totem
If your stream sounds with cracks or strange noise in totem like it did with me then you could try to play it with another backend like ffmpeg (mplayer). That "fixed" the issue for me. This will not fix the issue that somehow pops up in gstreamer when playing MMS streams but it will give you the option to play it with good sound quality. Playing it in mplayer is simple:
# mplayer mmsh://yourstreamurl
Microphone playing through output channels
OSS by default plays back the microphone through the speakers. To disable this in ossxmix find the misc section. Check off every "input-mix-mute" to disable this.
Troubleshooting other issues
- If you get distorted sound, try lowering some volume control sliders.
- If you need to change the default sound card, look at here.
- If you have another issues, try searching or asking for help at the 4front forums.
Tips and Tricks
Using multimedia keys with OSS
An easy way to mute/unmute and increase/decrease the volume is to use the Template:Codeline script available in AUR.
Once you installed it try to toggle the sound:
$ ossvol -t
Type Template:Codeline for the other commands.
If you don't know how to assign commands to your multimedia keys, see Extra Keyboard Keys.
Template:Codeline troubleshooting
If you get an error like:
Bad mixer control name(987) 'vol'
you need to edit the script (Template:Filename) and change the value of the Template:Codeline variable which is at the beginning of the script. For example mine is Template:Codeline.
- Note if you are using xbindkeys for your multimedia keys adding this
"ossmix vmix0-outvol -- +1"
raise volume
"ossmix vmix0-outvol -- -1"
lower volume
to the raise/lower volume section of your .xbindkeysrc file is an easy way to adjust the volume
Changing the Sample Rate
Changing the output sample rate is not obvious at first. Sample rates can only be changed by the superuser and vmix must be unused by any programs when a change is requested. Before you follow any of these steps, ensure you are going through a receiver/amplifier and using quality speakers and not simply computer speakers. If you are only using computer speakers, don't bother changing anything here as you won't notice a difference.
By default the sample rate is 48000hz. There are several conditions in which you may want to change this. This all depends on your usage patterns. You want the sample rate you are using to match the media you use the most. If your computer has to change the sampling rate of the media to suit the hardware it is likely, though not guaranteed that you will have a loss in audio quality. This is most noticable in downsampling (ie. 96000hz → 48000hz). There is an article about this issue in "Stereophile" which was discussed on Apple's "CoreAudio API" mailing list if you wish to learn more about this issue.
Some example sample rates:
- 44100hz - Sample rate of standard Red Book audio cds.
- 88000hz - Sample rate of SACD high definition audio discs/downloads. It is rare that your motherboard will support this sample rate.
- 96000hz - Sample rate of most high definition audio downloads. If your motherboard is an AC'97 motherboard, this is likely to be your highest bitrate.
- 192000hz - Sample rate of BluRay, and some (very few) high definition downloads. Support for external audio reciever equipment is limited to high end audio. Not all motherboards support this. An example of a motherboard chipset that would support this includes Intel HDA audio.
To check what your sample rate is currently set to:
- Run
"ossmix | grep rate".
You are likely to see
"vmix0-rate <decimal value> (currently 48000) (Read-only)".
If you do not see a "vmix0-rate" (or "vmix1-rate", etc.) being outputted, than it probably means that vmix is disabled. In that case, OSS will use the rate requested by the program which uses the device, so this section doesn't apply. Exception: envy24(ht) cards have a setting envy24.rate which has a similiar function (see "oss_envy24" manpage). You can follow these steps, but at step 2, change with ossmix the value of "envy24.rate" as well.
Steps to affect the change:
- First, make sure your card is able to use the new rate. Run "ossinfo -v2" and see if the wanted rate is in the "Native sample rates" output.
- As root, run
"/usr/lib/oss/scripts/killprocs.sh". Be aware, this will close any program that currently has an open sound channel (examples being media players, Firefox as of 3.5 if you have xulrunner-oss installed, and the gnome volume control).
- After all programs occupying vmix are terminated, run as root:
"vmixctl rate /dev/dsp 96000"replacing the rate with your desired sample rate.
- Run
"ossmix | grep rate"and check for
"vmix0-rate <decimal value> (currently 96000) (Read-only)"to see if you were successful.
A simple systray applet
Want a applet to control volume like in GNOME? Form here I got a usable one.
Download this script and rename whatever you want, e.g.: ossvolctl. run the following command:
$chmod +x ossvolctl #cp ossvolctl /usr/bin/ossvolctl
#install -Dm755 ossvolctl /usr/bin/ossvolctl
Start ossxmix docked to systray on startup
Create an application launcher file named
ossxmix.desktop in you local application launchers directory (
~/.local/share/applications/ then enter:
[Desktop Entry] Name=Open Sound System Mixer GenericName=Audio Mixer Exec=ossxmix -b Icon=audio-card Categories=Application;GTK;AudioVideo;Player; Terminal=false Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8
To add it to autostart when loading the desktop environment:
System Settings > Advanced tab > Autostart. Then click add program and choose it from the 'Multimedia' list.
- As Root create a file /usr/local/bin/ossxmix_bg with the following content:
#!/bin/bash exec /usr/bin/ossxmix -b
Goto System > Preferences > Start Up Applications
- Click Add, Type OSSMIX in Name field and
/usr/local/bin/ossxmix_bgin Command field then click Add button.
- Login and Logout to see the changes.
Record sound output from a program
Suspend and Hibernation
OSS does not automatically support suspend meaning that OSS must be manually stopped prior to suspending or hibernating.
OSS provides soundon and soundoff to enable and disable OSS, although any processes that use sound must be terminated first.
The following script is a rather basic method of automatically unloading OSS prior to suspending and reloading afterwards.
#!/bin/sh . "${PM_FUNCTIONS}" suspend_osssound() { /usr/lib/oss/scripts/killprocs.sh /usr/sbin/soundoff } resume_osssound() { /usr/sbin/soundon } case "$1" in hibernate|suspend) suspend_osssound ;; thaw|resume) resume_osssound ;; *) exit $NA ;; esac
Save the contents of the script (as root) into Template:Filename and make it executable. Template:Filename
OSS does not support suspending but we don't care or better s2ram works fine without stopping OSS. Just create a nice suspend script to /sbin/suspend and make it executable.
#!/bin/bash if [ [ $EUID -ne 0 ] ]; then ## Checking if you are a root or not echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2 exit 1 fi s2ram -f sleep 2 /etc/rc.d/oss restart 2>/tmp/oss.txt if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then echo "OSS restart failed check /tmp/oss.txt for advice" fi exit 0
That's all your apps are fine and suspend works. \o/
ALSA emulation
You can instruct alsa-lib to use OSS as its audio output system. This works as a sort of ALSA emulation.
Note, however, that this method may introduce additional latency in your sound output, and that the emulation is not complete and doesn't work with all applications. It doesn't work, for example, with programs that try to detect devices using ALSA.
So, as most applications support OSS directly, use this method only as a last resort.
In the future, more complete methods may be available for emulating ALSA, such as libsalsa and cuckoo.
- Install the alsa-plugins package.
# pacman -S alsa-plugins
- Edit Template:Filename as follows.
pcm.oss { type oss device /dev/dsp } pcm.!default { type oss device /dev/dsp } ctl.oss { type oss device /dev/mixer } ctl.!default { type oss device /dev/mixer }
Experimental packages
Mercurial repository version
There is a oss-mercurial package in AUR. This package compiles and installs the latest OSS development version direcly from the Mercurial repository.
You can try this package if you want to contribute code to OSS or if only a very recent change in OSS code introduced support to your sound device.
If you want oss to take care of your flash sound you will need to install libflashsupport:
# pacman -S libflashsupport


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Things that make you say hmmmmm?
Once again… we are having our kids posting fights onto youtube. This one was posted yesterday with the comment "2 girls in Pahoa who can't scrap for sh*t"
Interesting title "White girls can't scrap" in that if this fight was provoked because of someone being white… it could be considered a "hate crime" as well.
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A Profile of Older Americans
Source: Department of Health & Human Services, Administration on Aging
- The number of Americans aged 45-64 who will reach 65 over the next two decades – increased by 26% during this decade.
- Over one in every eight, or 12.9%, of the population is an older American.
- Persons reaching age 65 have an average life expectancy of an additional 18.6 years (19.9 years for females and 17.2 years for males).
Projected Future Growth of the Older Population
- Between 2010 and 2050, the U.S. population is projected to grow from 310 million to 439 million, an increase of 42 percent.
- Between 2010 and 2050, the United States is projected to experience rapid growth in its older population. In 2050, the number of Americans aged 65 and older is projected to be 88.5 million, more than double its population of 40.2 million in 2010.
- About 2.6 million persons celebrated their 65th birthday in 2009. In the same year, about 1.8 million persons 65 or older died. Census estimates showed an annual net increase of 770,699 in the number of persons 65 and over.
- There were 64,024 persons aged 100 or more in 2009 (0.2% of the total 65+ population). This is a 72% increase from the 1990 figure of 37,306.
(Source: Family Caregiver Alliance – National Center on Caregiving)
Where do People Receive Long-Term Care & from Whom?
- 34 million caregivers provide care for someone aged 50+.
(Source: National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP)
- Most people—nearly 79%—who need Long-Term Care live at home or in community settings, not in institutions.
(Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
- While caregivers can be found across the age span, the majority of caregivers are middle-aged (35-64 years old).
(Source: National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP)
- The number of Home Health Aides in 2008 was 1,738,800 and is expected to grow by 48% to reach 2,575,600 by 2018.
(Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)
* Memory Impairment (Dementia/Alzheimer's)
* Other (includes respite & post-operative care)
More Stats:
More than 34 million adults –16 percent of the adult American population – provide care to someone aged 50 years or older. About 70 percent of adult caregivers get help from family members, friends or neighbors. And about 30 percent rely on help from paid caregivers. Someone caring for a spouse spends more than 30 hours a week directly caring for their loved one and is less likely to get help from relatives or friends. Long-distance caregivers spend an average of $392 a month on travel and out-of-pocket expenses as part of their caregiving duties.
Who Calls Options and For What Reasons?
U.S. Demographics
In 2009 the United States population was comprised of approximately 40 million individuals who are 65 and older, with 6,800 being added to that number each day! This number of seniors consists of 12.8% of the total population of 312 million people. By 2030, that number will surpass 75 million at which time one out of five people is estimated to be in need of home care services. In 2050, seniors age 65 and older will make up 21 percent of the total population.
Interesting Facts
- The number of men age 65 and older: 72 for every 100 women in the same age group.
- The number of men age 85 and older: 45 for every 100 women in the same age group.
- The approximate number of centenarians (people age 100 or older) in the United States in 2009: 84,000.
- The projected number of centenarians in the United States in 2040: 580,000.
- Adults age 50-64 who use the Internet: 29 percent.
- Adults age 65 and over who use the Internet: 8 percent.
- 71% of today's baby boomers have at least one living parent.


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