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366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 297/366 Twelve Kingdoms
Day 297/366
Twelve Kingdoms oh those poor school girls that get sucked into another time!
Simple grey uniforms. Kinda like how it looks like there's 2 bows since the white collar gives that impression.
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chii Finally Made One!
Favourites are a great thing. What makes these shows mine is that I think about them very often when I'm thinking about anime and wish to watch them more than once. Some of them I've already watched 5+ times. To be a favourite they also must be entertaining as a whole series. So if they have season 2's or more, I should have loved them just as much as their season one. Everything on the list below applies! I've been meaning to make this kind of list for many years now and I've finally sat down and mulled through all my anime titles and picked these 100 to be my absolute favourites.
Like digitalboy I'll be updating this list regularly from now on but not once a month. I will only update when I feel an anime has stood up to my standards to break into this 100 anime list. I will keep a list at the bottom of this page which of which anime has moved in and which it has kicked out. I doubt that it'll happen very often but time will tell. Check out my Does Not Want List for a taste of my dislikes.
1. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
2. Fullmetal Alchemist
3. Full Metal Panic!
4. Hikaru no Go
5. Macross Plus
6. Romance of the Three Kingdoms
7. Jyu Oh Sei
8. Baccano!
9. Ristorante Paradiso
10. Infinite Ryvius
11. Mushishi
12. Princess Mononoke
13. Serial Experiments Lain
14. Ninja Scroll
15. Berserk
16. Super Dimensional Fortress Macross
17. Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
18. Strawberry Marshmallow
19. Hi no Tori
20. Nasu: Summer in Andalusia
21. Gintama
22. Neon Genesis Evangelion
23. Koi Kaze
24. Oseam
25. Rose of Versailles
26. You're Under Arrest!
27. Durarara!!
28. Kare Kano
29. Kita e ~Diamond Dust Drops~
30. Twelve Kingdoms
31. Kemono no Souja Erin
32. Cowboy Bebop
33. Crest of the Stars / Banner of the Stars
34. Mobile Suit Gundam 00
35. Himitsu: The Revelation
36. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni / Umineko no Naku Koro ni
37. 3 x 3 Eyes
38. Whisper of the Heart
39. Honey and Clover
40. Now and Then, Here and There
41. Katanagatari
42. Kurenai
43. s-CRY-ed
44. D.Gray-man
45. Hunter X Hunter
46. Yakitate!! Japan
47. Detroit Metal City
48. Battle Angel Alita
49. Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
50. Last Exile
51. Turn A Gundam
52. Guin Saga
53. Blue Submarine No. 6
54. Haibane Renmei
55. Astro Fighter Sunred AKA Tentai Senshi Sunred
56. One Piece
57. Detective Conan
58. Kara no Kyoukai - The Garden of Sinners
59. Bokurano
60. Claymore
61. House of Five Leaves AKA Sarai-ya Goyou
62. Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
63. Chobits
64. Vandread
65. Hotori: Tada Saiwai o Koinegau
66. Tytania
67. Heroic Age
68. Dirty Pair
69. Millennium Actress
70. Neko Rahmen
71. Kuruneko
72. Kuragehime
73. Puni Puni Poemy
74. Excel Saga
75. Arakawa Under the Bridge
76. Giant Robo
77. Dominion Tank Police
78. Canaan
79. Antique Bakery
80. Tokyo Godfathers
81. Iria: Zeiram The Animation
82. Nodame Cantabile
83. Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
84. Grave of the Fireflies
85. Trigun
86. Alien Nine
87. Gunbuster
88. Texhnolyze
89. Rurouni Kenshin
90. Patlabor: The Mobile Police
91. Junjou Romantica
92. Ryofuko-chan
93. Gravitation
94. Gungrave
95. Sora no Otoshimono
96. Video Girl AI
97. Simoun
98. Shangri-La
99. .hack//SIGN
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Picking up the trail of his granduncle Joseph who had disappeared without a trace in 1945, Laurent Guillet and his companions, a forty-person team, had a short stop also at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. The institution's French Liaison Mission had contributed to the book he titled "Il...learn more
"As long as I find people I will continue to do this," says Kitty Brom from Hummelo, the Netherlands. The hobby genealogist helps locate relatives of former concentration camp inmates so that the International Tracing Service (ITS) can return their personal effects. The ITS archive still contains nearly 2,900 personal...learn more
Vladimir Kukin, director of the Office of Maintenance of War Graves and Commemoration Work in the embassy of the Russian Federation in Berlin, spent two days at the International Tracing Service (ITS / International Tracing Service) in Bad Arolsen to get an overview of the archival records, the request handling, and...learn more
Pava Raibstein, Director of the Youth Aliyah Committee in Frankfurt, recently visited the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen to explore the possibility of a collaboration. Her visit was twofold: she was also interested in discovering details about her father´s fate. "I know the basics about my father´s...learn more
For several days, Claudia Stefanetti Kozrowicz of the University of Buenos Aires researched in the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) the subject of Polish Displaced Persons (DPs) who immigrated to Argentina after the Second World War. "We are aware of the two groups -- of the former Nazis and of...learn more
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Ingrid Schupetta, Head of the Nazi Documentation Center in Krefeld, has passed four days of intensive research at the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen for a renewal of the 20-year-old exhibition of the center. "I have been looking at the documents in the ITS database from various...learn more
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"Since my son is extremely gifted, as his teacher confirmed, I beg you to let me have the piano that the evacuated Jews left." With this request, an Offenbach citizen approached his tax office in 1942. At that time, the tax office was already involved with the "recovery" of property of the deportees...learn more


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|"There is no war within the walls. Here we are safe. Here we are free."
|— A Dai Li agent brainwashing Jet.[1]
Brainwashing was a technique developed by Long Feng in order to incapacitate those who opposed him[2] and utilized by the Dai Li during the Conspiracy of Ba Sing Se as a means of keeping citizens from speaking of the Hundred Year War. The technique allowed the Dai Li to change attitudes, alter beliefs, augment personalities, and erase an individual's memories.
The method was used on Jet when he was arrested, following his claim that Iroh and Zuko were firebenders.[1] After chiding a downcast Joo Dee for falling behind in her duties, Long Feng induced a hypnotic state over her by reciting a special phrase, indicating that she had been brainwashed in the past. When Team Avatar infiltrated the Dai Li base underneath Lake Laogai, they saw a roomful of women being brainwashed into believing they were Joo Dee, ready to carry out the Dai Li's bidding.
Later, during a battle in the underground base, Long Feng managed to hypnotize Jet with the same phrase, "the Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai", prompting him to respond with, "I am honored to accept his invitation", before proceeding to attack Avatar Aang.[3]
The main reason for the use of brainwashing methods was to maintain cultural order within Ba Sing Se and to prevent anyone from mentioning the Hundred Year War to its citizens.[3]
The Dai Li often brought victims to their secret headquarters beneath the surface of Lake Laogai where they would proceed to brainwash them. During the process of brainwashing, agents would repeatedly recite anything they wished for the victims to believe. When the Dai Li were brainwashing Jet, they used a dim lantern which revolved on a rail slowly around the agent brainwashing him while stone cuffs prevented him from moving his arms, legs, and head. The agent repeated phrases to assure Jet he was safe, and that there was no war within the walls. In the case of brainwashing the young women, the women would simultaneously repeat the words of a single agent. The process could also give the subject a secondary task, to be accomplished after saying the trigger-phrase "The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai." Long Feng used this code phrase on both Jet and Joo Dee.[3]
One Dai Li agent was specifically assigned as an "instructor" by Long Feng. In truth, he was hired to brainwash a number of women into becoming Joo Dees and to recreate them as the Grand Secretariat's reliable propaganda machine. He was responsible for teaching the Joo Dees "charm, poise, and the dissemination of the Dai Li party line." This particular Dai Li agent was assigned this task entirely on account of his smile, which became the "perma-grin" worn by every Joo Dee.[2]
When brainwashed, people are tricked into believing anything the brainwasher states. The victim forgets any information the brainwasher wishes to erase from their mind. Long Feng could also activate the subject's secondary task with the code phrase. When this was done, the subject entered a trance state and answered the code with "I am honored to accept his invitation." In Jet's case, the task was to attack Aang. In Joo Dee's case, she was told to wait for specific orders.[3]
There are only two known methods of curing brainwashing.
The waterbending technique of healing has been known to be capable of bringing a subject out of their hypnotic state. Jet's brainwashed state was broken when Katara used her healing abilities on him.[3]
Familiar surroundings
Oftentimes, familiar surroundings are able to slowly regenerate the memory of a brainwashed victim or even completely reverse the effects of brainwashing. Visiting the Dai Li's secret underground base evidently revived Jet's memory of being captured and brought there by Dai Li agents. After a brief duel ensued with Long Feng battling Aang and Jet, Long Feng was able to bring Jet under his control by reciting the code phrase, which prompted Jet to attack Aang. However, when Aang reminded Jet that he was a Freedom Fighter, his brainwashed state was once again broken.[3]
Known victims
- Jet
- A large group of women who called themselves "Joo Dee"
- People who caused problems relating to the Hundred Year War in Ba Sing Se during Long Feng's reign as Grand Secretariat
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hedrick, Tim (writer) & MacMullan, Lauren (director). (September 22, 2006). "City of Walls and Secrets". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 14. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 From older Avatar: The Last Airbender official site, originally on Nick.com (link). No longer updated, encyclopedia now broken though archived here.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Hedrick, Tim (writer) & MacMullan, Lauren (director). (November 6, 2006). "Lake Laogai". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 17. Nickelodeon.


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Lipscomb rising senior Eddie Ard will join six Southeastern Conference basketball players in traveling to China Monday to participate in a basketball tour coordinated by Reach USA, a division of Sports Reach.
"I'm excited about having the opportunity to travel to China and see a new culture and just get to play basketball, which is something I love to do," said Ard.
Ard averaged 15.0 points and 5.8 rebounds per game during the 2006-07 season while starting all 31 games for the Bisons. A member of the 2nd team All-Atlantic Sun, Ard led the conference in free throw percentage at 83.0%.
"I know that my teammates are going to be very competitive playing in big games and in front of large crowds," Ard said.
"Going to play against competition with the size and strength equal or above SEC quality is going to help him understand how he can raise his level of play," said Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson. "This can give him confidence in the level of competition he can play with and against and hopefully springboard him into his senior year."
The complete team includes Ard, LSU's Garrett Temple, Mississippi State's Brian Johnson, Texas-Pan American's Paul Stoll, Auburn's Quan Prowell and Rasheem Barrett, and Alabama's Mikhail Torrance and Demetrius Jemison.
The team arrives in Beijing on Wednesday and will play eight games in ten days throughout China against various professional teams.
"Competition brings out the best in you," said Ard. "When you are not facing the top competition, sometimes you can play sloppy. These games will force me to bring my A game."
The squad is coached by Texas-Pan American head coach Tom Schuberth and assisted by Auburn assistant Bryan Bartley.
Last summer, Lipscomb assistant coach Jay Walton coached a similar tour to China.
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|The Oliver House
224 East Adams Street
Jackson, MO 63755
|The Oliver House (left) is a renovated home from the late 1800's which has been turned into a museum for the public. It has a rich history, and provides a rare look at home life from 1850-1900. The museum is open to the public during visiting hours, and special tours may also be arranged.
Photo taken by Randy Reisenbichler of Jackson
|Visiting Hours & Information
May – December
1st Sunday of each month
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
For information about special tours or events, contact the
Jackson Heritage Association
The Oliver House in the snow
The year is 1881, Robert Burett and Marie (Watkins) Oliver are moving into their recently purchased home. In 1878, Mr. Oliver moved his law practice to Jackson and was elected to serve as prosecuting attorney. The young lawyer was elected to the Missouri State Senate in 1882. His political career brought William Jennings Bryan, three time presidential candidate, to the Oliver House. Mrs. Oliver also gained notoriety as "Missouri's Betsy Ross," as she along with a friend designed the Missouri state flag. The sewing kit that she used is now part of the Oliver House's collection.The museum will be open the first Sunday in May, July, October and all three Sundays before Christmas in December for guided tours at 1:30 p.m.(Note: during December the Museum is decorated in a traditional Victorian theme.)Adults $3.00
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ADDISON COUNTY — For almost 50 years, naturalists, hikers and government officials have dreamed of blazing a trail that would connect two of the country's longest hiking routes: the Appalachian Trail, which runs along the East Coast from Georgia to Maine, and the North Country Trail, which stretches from Crown Point, N.Y., to North Dakota.
The missing link?
A roughly 40-mile stretch of prospective trail through Addison County.
STARKSBORO — The Starksboro community will have to adjust to life next year without their long-time principal. Come August, he'll be 2,000 miles south.
Dan Noel, principal of Robinson Elementary School, and his wife Nicki Bergstrom-Noel, an English teacher at Mount Abraham Union High School, made the decision to take a one-year leave of absence next year and take their two daughters — Delia, 4, and Hazel, 2 — on the adventure of a lifetime. The two educators are relocating their family to the 65-square-mile Caribbean island of St. Kitts.
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BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Union High School board has reconfigured the leaderships at the Bristol school, a move that could cut costs.
The change comes as Co-Principal Leon Wheeler next year will leave to become principal at Winooski High School and Dean of Students Nancy Yannette also will leave Mount Abe.
BRISTOL — The Bristol selectboard kicked off its Monday meeting by holding annual public hearings for the water district, sewer district and landfill.
All three spending plans for next fiscal year reflect decreases from this year. Next year's spending level for:
• The landfill was set at $155,250, down 1.5 percent from this year's budgeted spending of $157,600.
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BRISTOL — When Katie Raycroft-Meyer — the newest addition to the Bristol Planning Commission — received a call from Bristol Town Administrator Bill Bryant Tuesday morning, she was surprised, to say the least.
Bryant informed her that she might lose her newly appointed seat because of her potential participation in a legal proceeding in which the town is involved — an accusation she adamantly denied.
BRISTOL — Three Mount Abraham Union High School teachers are hoping their students can invent new technology while learning marketable job skills for high-paying industries.
VERMONT — Superintendents and principals across the state are bracing for looming cuts in federal education aid.
The "potential catastrophe," as Vermont Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca put it, could lead to teacher layoffs and the end of crucial services for those students who need extra help, local education officials said.
BRISTOL — Most of the roughly three dozen people at Holley Hall Monday evening for the Bristol selectboard's first public hearing on a new draft of the town plan showed overwhelming support for the general vision of the proposal. Nevertheless, a range of fundamental changes were proposed.
The selectboard will consider these proposed changes at its May 21 meeting, and likely will hold two more hearings, selectboard chairman John "Peeker" Heffernan said.
BRISTOL — Despite an imposing lineup of Addison Northeast Supervisory Union teachers picketing for new contracts before Monday's teacher contract negotiations meeting at Mount Abraham Union High School, no issues were resolved.
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On Wednesday, Aug. 28, more than a dozen people underwent training for the 2013 CROP Walk in preparation for this year's event on Oct. 13. Leading the event was be Amy Bobbette from Syracuse, the new leader of this region's CROP Walks. New and veteran walkers alike heard Bobbette give a PowerPoint presentation about her experiences with Church World Service in Central America.
Bobbette is pictured in the back row, third from the left, next to Grand Island CROP Walk coordinator Paul Robinson.
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For those who care... here it is.
link: http://www.nflcombine.net/files/invl...name_sort.html
For those who care... here it is.
link: http://www.nflcombine.net/files/invl...name_sort.html
I don't see Steeler Addicts on that list anywhere !! Somebody call the NFL, tell them there's been a major screwup !
Is that the short list?...lol
"Give me a 6 pack, half hour of rest and lets go play them again....We can beat them."
--Jack Lambert
"They say that when you're the champs, everybody will try to beat you. Well, I'm glad we're the champs, so bring 'em on, bring 'em all on. If we die, we ain't gonna die running. It's gonna be a fight."
--Joe Greene
Does anyone know where Palko is projected to go?
If you are a QB hoping to land a NFL job this is not exactly the scouting report you would like coaches to see! I think he will be a day 2 pick!QUARTERBACKS
Tyler Palko/Pittsburgh Ht: 6007 Wt: 215
Arm: 32 1/4 Hand: 9 7/8
Monday Practice Notes: He clearly showed that his arm lacks strength and velocity although his passes were accurate for the most part
Tuesday Practice Notes: He showed a little improvement with his accuracy but his lack of overall arm strength is clearly evident. His footwork was better on the second day and he seemed more comfortable in the offense. Palko still doesn't have an NFL arm and that's been clear from his first throw in the first practice on Monday.
Wednesday Practice Notes: This was clearly his best practice of the week so far. He threw with great accuracy and also improved on his deep throws. His foot work and pocket awareness were also better.
Thursday Practice Notes: As has been the case this week, Palko wasn't able to get to the ball down field well. He was able to hit well on much shorter passes. Again, he just doesn't have the arm strength.
Analysis: His arm strength is clearly a problem and while his accuracy was decent, he had trouble getting the ball down field consistently. He didn't help himself this week.
The draft is still so far away
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2014 Seaosn: Qualified for the NCAA Seattle Regional as a specialist on vault…tied for 23rd at the meet with a 9.800…competed on vault in 11 meets…posted a score of 9.750 or better in eight meets, including her first five…season high of 9.825 came at Utah State on Feb. 28…finished first against Southeast Missouri with a 9.800…was in the lineup on floor in seven meets and on beam in four…also performed exhibitions on bars, beam and floor…scored 9.775 on floor at San Jose State on March 14 for her high…best beam mark was 9.675 at Utah State.
Prior to Sacramento State: Competed for Apollo Gymnastics in Woodbridge, Va…was coached by Ken Anderson and Nancy Gregory…finished second in the all-around at the NIT in 2013…also placed second on floor in that same meet…placed first in the all-around at the Eastern Championships in 2013…was third on vault at the 2013 Region 7 meet…named the club's MVP in 2013 and was awarded the "Hardest Worker" in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Personal: Has yet to declare a major…graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS in 2013…competed on the school's gymnastics team where she earned All-America honors all four years…was also on the diving team for one season…was a member of the National Honor Society…parents are Calvin and Jan Konner.
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|9.825 at Utah State (Feb. 28, 2014)
|9.425 (ex.) at NorCal Classic (Jan. 5, 2014)
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Diane Shattuck filled a prescription in December for a generic antibiotic called doxycycline. With insurance, she paid $4.30 for 60 pills at a CVS store in Orange.
She returned at the end of February to refill her prescription. This time, she was told her cost for the drug would be about $165.
"It was bizarre," Shattuck, 73, told me. "And no one at CVS could explain why the price was so high."
Unfortunately, I won't be able to offer a clear-cut answer, either. But my effort to untangle Shattuck's situation cast a harsh light on the shadowy world of drug pricing.
It revealed that different manufacturers can charge wildly different prices for what is essentially the same generic medicine, and that drugstores can rake in unconscionable profits by passing along marked-up meds to customers without the slightest explanation.


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2011 Nesting Season Summary
During the 2011 annual census, a total of 1,828 singing males were counted, an increase from 1,773 in 2010. The total count included 1,805 from Michigan with an additional 21 males observed in Wisconsin, and 2 males observed in Ontario, Canada. Follow this link for a review of previous survey data.
Eleven nests were documented in central Wisconsin and two males were recorded in Ontario. This was the fifth consecutive year that nesting has occurred outside Michigan.
52 cowbird traps in Michigan's Lower Peninsula captured 1,625 cowbirds, aiding in efforts to prevent nest parasitism. A total of 153,365 cowbirds have been trapped during the 40 years of this program.
For information about the brown-headed cowbird and how it affects migratory birds, see Cornell's fact sheet.
Management of jack pine forest continues in the Huron-Manistee National Forest, Hiawatha National Forest, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service lands, and Michigan State lands. A total of 6,552 acres of jack pine habitat were regenerated through the combined efforts of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in 2010.
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This diary was recovered during the agency's October 16 raids on the offices of the group following its FIR alleging corruption in the allotment of Talabira block to Hindalco. This recovery was detailed by the CBI in its status report to the apex court.
The dates on which these payments have been made, sources said, are around the time of two Lok Sabha elections and several elections of state Assemblies. The CBI has handed over this diary to the Supreme Court and is awaiting directions.
Another diary, being described as a "notebook," recovered by investigators of the Income Tax Department, shows receipts adding up to almost Rs 100 crore and top CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) sources have confirmed to The Indian Express that the Birla group has agreed to pay taxes on these receipts.
Responding to a detailed query on these diaries by the investigating agencies, the Birla company spokesperson told The Indian Express: "Since there is an ongoing investigation into this matter, it would not be appropriate for us to comment.''
Sources said that while the CBI searched the offices of the group in four cities, the Income Tax Department was called in to help in the recovery of Rs 25 crore in cash from the group's corporate office in New Delhi.
Simultaneously, the Income Tax investigation wing confronted officials of the Aditya Birla group with another "notebook'' listing receipts totalling almost Rs 100 crore. This "notebook" was recovered by IT investigators from the same address where they found the Rs 25-crore cash and, significantly, this amount is understood to be part of the listed receipts.
Following the recovery of cash, the company issued a statement saying it is "taken aback by the discovery of cash at one of its offices by the investigating agency. It has taken a very serious view of the matter...''
Sources said the IT Department has already approached the CBI with a request for a copy of the "political'' diary to establish whether the purported payments to politicians and MPs have been declared by the company or whether they have claimed tax exemption for the same.
Officials said the CBI has since asked IT authorities to approach the Supreme Court for the diary. A formal request from IT is expected to reach the Supreme Court by early next week.
Diary, Notebook
*One lists estimated 1,000 payments purportedly made to politicians and MPs of several parties by a Birla company trust over a 10-year period
*Another shows receipts adding to Rs 100 crore
*Birla group said to have agreed to pay taxes for these
*IT wants copy of 'political' diary
*Spokesman: "Since there is an ongoing investigation into this matter, it would not be appropriate for us to comment.''
Ritu Sarin : New Delhi, Fri Dec 06 2013, 08:42 hrs


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Born December 31, 1922 in Lebanon, Indiana, Zissis was the youngest of four children of John George and Georgia Antonakou Zissis. He interrupted his college work at Purdue to serve as a meteorology and photo intelligence officer with the U.S. Army Air Force in England during World War II. After the war, he returned to Purdue University where he completed his master's and doctoral degrees.
Zissis spent a year as senior scientist with the Westinghouse Atomic Power Division, where he designed power reactors. In 1955, he joined the University of Michigan (UM) Institute of Science and Technology at the Willow Run Laboratories, later the not-for-profit Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM). From 1963 to 1964 he was on leave in Washington, D.C. with the Institute of Defense Analysis. There he was a leader in counterinsurgency task group research and was a member of IDA /ARPA Defender Panel on Optical Discrimination. Upon his return to Ann Arbor, he pursued remote sensing research with IST and lectured within the UM Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.
Zissis served as the director of the Infrared Information and Analysis (IRIA) Center and head of the IST Infrared Physics Laboratory for five years and later served as chief scientist and technical manager. Among the various projects he directed were an aerial infrared survey of Antarctica and the Ballistic Missile Radiation Analysis Center Project AMOS (the Mt. Haleakala Observatory on Maui).
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President Obama deserves to be congratulated for his victory, as well as reminded that his win, with 50 percent of the vote, means that half of Americans who cast their ballots preferred either Mitt Romney or some other candidate. The victory offers the president the opportunity to win over people who voted against him—people who obviously felt that his performance during his first four years had not measured up. In fairness, most of those who voted against Obama did so out of ideology or partisanship. But at least 8 million people who voted for him in 2008 didn't do so in 2012.
The question to ask right now is this: How will the next four years be different from the last four? Or, more specifically: What did Obama learn from the first term that he will apply to the second? He has conceded that he has not been a perfect president and has made mistakes, but I've never heard him elaborate about what mistakes he thinks he has made. As a result, I have no idea what Obama might believe he should do differently.
If he asked me, I'd say he might start by engaging Congress, maybe even getting to know members a little and starting a dialogue. When senior members of the president's own party admit that they have had virtually no interaction with him, and when I hear Democrats say that no representative of the White House has stepped foot in their offices in four years, that's a problem. This issue persists across party lines, whether it's Obama's relationship with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner, or House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Whether the tea party freshmen have or haven't been obstructionist can be debated, but when a president has virtually no relationship with members of his own party and congressional leaders of the opposite party, he's hurting himself and his agenda.
It is very hard to spend any time on Capitol Hill without getting an earful from both sides of the aisle about the president's poor relations with Congress. And this isn't talk from freshman or sophomore members who have little reason to think they should be interacting with the president. We're talking committee and subcommittee chairs and ranking members—people who have been with him on some awfully tough votes and have gotten very little love back for it.
Without question, Obama's dealings with Congress are the worst in modern history, and that includes President Carter's pitiful relationship with congressional Democrats when he was in office. In his 104 rounds of golf as president, Obama has played with only two members of Congress, according to the records of Mark Knoller, White House correspondent for CBS Radio and also the unofficial presidential statistician (Knoller is truly a national resource). These rounds were played on June 18, 2011, with Boehner at Joint Base Andrews, in what was obviously more of a photo op than a round of golf, and twice with then-House Majority Whip James Clyburn on Aug. 24, 2009, and Aug. 20, 2010, on Martha's Vineyard. Knoller reports that of Obama's 40 basketball games that he knows about, only one included members of Congress, when on Oct. 8, 2009, he played with 11 House members and several members of his Cabinet. It's easier to find a liberal Democratic member who visited the White House family quarters while George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush served than under Obama.
It was widely reported that before taking office four years ago, Obama read historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's fabulous book about Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals, and that it may have been the inspiration for his decision to ask former opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton to be his secretary of State. Might I suggest another book: Robert A. Caro's The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Actually, I recommend all four of Caro's volumes on Johnson that have come out so far, but for the moment, Obama should read the volume covering Johnson's first six months as president and how he successfully pushed through Congress the late President Kennedy's stalled income tax cut and the Civil Rights Act. It highlights the wheeling and dealing, cajoling, seduction, and threatening that is required to move heaven and earth to be a successful president.
Johnson didn't outsource congressional relations to congressional leadership—or, for that matter, to his staff. He listened to the concerns, objections, and demands of key members to ascertain what he needed to do to get their support or, failing that, secure a pledge not to actively oppose his agenda. Whether one approves or disapproves of the substance of Johnson's actions as president, he was the gold standard in terms of dealing with Congress.
Unfortunately, Obama spent only a brief time as a senator. Really, he had just 2005 as a full-timer, since much of his 2006 was devoted to being the most in-demand surrogate speaker in the Democratic Party for that year's midterm elections, while 2007 and 2008 were spent running for president. By every indication, Obama doesn't know many members or show much interest in getting to know that many. As one longtime Democratic lobbyist told me, "It seems like their [the White House's] motto is, 'No new friends.' "
So, as we look ahead to avoiding the fiscal cliff and to putting together a grand bargain on the budget next year, the most important question in my mind is whether Obama chooses to engage the Hill, or to remain distant and aloof and to continue to farm out his dealings with members of Congress.


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WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Not many men can sing a good Frankie Valli cover. (Ooo, those high notes.)
But this rendition of "Working My Way Back to You" felt like it might blow the tin roof off this town's charming old Power House Theatre, which up until a year ago was just an old powerhouse.
I was at February's premiere weekend of "The Four Tenors," a musical showcase for four men who've starred on the casino, cruise-ship and musical-theater circuit.
Despite the show title's wink at famed tenors Pavarotti and Placido, there was much more here of Branson — mid-America's capital of cornbread cabaret — than of La Scala.
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Scar revision is surgery to improve or reduce the appearance of scars. It also restores function, and corrects skin changes (disfigurement) caused by an injury, wound, or previous surgery.
Alternative Names
Keloid revision; Hypertrophic scar revision; Scar repair; Z-plasty
Scar tissue forms as skin heals after an injury (such as an accident) or surgery. The amount of scarring may be determined by the wound size, depth, and location; the person's age; heredity; and skin characteristics, including color (pigmentation). Not all the factors that affect a scar are completely understood.
Depending on the extent of the surgery, scar revision can be done while you are awake (local anesthesia), sleeping (sedated), or deep asleep and pain-free (general anesthesia).
Medications (topical corticosteroids, anesthetic ointments, and antihistamine creams) can reduce the symptoms of itching and tenderness. A treatment called silicone gel sheeting or ointment has been shown to benefit swollen, hypertrophic scars and may help flatten them or make them less painful. There is no evidence showing that any other topical (applied directly to the scar) treatment works. In fact, Vitamin E applied directly to the skin may actually cause the wound to heal more slowly and may cause irritation.
When to have scar revision done is not always clear. Scars shrink and become less noticeable as they age. You may be able to wait for surgical revision until the scar lightens in color, which can be several months or even a year after the wound has healed. For some scars, however, it is best to have revision surgery 60 to 90 days after the scar matures. Each scar is different.
There are several ways to improve the appearance of scars:
The scar may be removed completely and the new wound closed very carefully
Dermabrasion involves removing the upper layers of the skin with a special wire brush called a burr or fraise. New skin grows over this area. Dermabrasion can be used to soften the surface of the skin or reduce irregularities.
Massive injuries (such as burns) can cause loss of a large area of skin and may form
hypertrophic scars. These types of scars can restrict movement of muscles, joints and tendons ( contracture). Surgery removes extra scar tissue. It may involve a series of small cuts (incisions) on both sides of the scar site, which create V-shaped skin flaps (Z-plasty). The result is a thin, less noticeable scar, because a Z-plasty may re-orient the scar so that it more closely follows the natural skin folds. Skin graftinginvolves taking a thin (partial, or split thickness) layer of skin from another part of the body and placing it over the injured area. Skin flap surgery involves moving an entire, full thickness of skin, fat, nerves, blood vessels, and muscle from a healthy part of the body to the injured site. These techniques are used when a large amount of skin has been lost in the original injury, when a thin scar will not heal, and when the main concern is improved function (rather than improved appearance).
- Tissue expansion is used for breast reconstruction, as well as for skin that has been damaged due to birth defects and injuries. A silicone balloon is inserted beneath the skin and gradually filled with salt water. This stretches the skin, which grows over time.
Why the Procedure Is Performed
Problems that may indicate a need for scar revision include:
keloid, which is an abnormal scar that is thicker and of a different color and texture than the rest of the skin. Keloids extend beyond the edge of the wound and are likely to come back. They often create a thick, puckered effect that looks like a tumor. Keloids are removed at the place where they meet normal tissue.
A scar that is at an angle to the normal tension lines of the skin.
- A scar that is thickened.
A scar that causes distortion of other features or causes problems with normal movement or function.
Risks of anesthesia are:
- Reactions to medications
- Breathing problems
Risks of scar revision surgery are:
- Bleeding
- Infection
Blood clots
- Scar recurrence
- Keloid formation (or recurrence)
- Separation (dehiscence) of the wound
Exposing the scar to too much sun may cause it to darken, which could interfere with future revision.
After the Procedure
For keloid revision, a pressure or elastic dressing may be placed over the area after the operation to prevent the keloid from coming back.
For other types of scar revision, a light dressing is applied. Stitches are usually removed after 3 to 4 days for the facial area, and after 5 to 7 days for incisions on other parts of the body.
When you return to normal activities and work depends on the type, degree, and location of the surgery. Most people can resume normal activities soon after surgery. Your doctor will likely tell you to avoid activities that stretch and may widen the new scar.
If you have long-term stiffening of the joint, you may need physical therapy after surgery.
Avoid exposure to the sun for several months after treatment. Use sunblock or an adhesive bandage to keep the sun from permanently tanning the healing scar.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Whenever there is a cut through the skin, a scar results. No scar can be removed completely. How much the scar improves depends on the direction and size of the scar, the person's age, skin type and color, and hereditary factors that may affect the healing process.


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Burke's Four TDs Sparks Wabash Winby Howard W. Hewitt • October 23, 2010 Share:
GRANVILLE, Ohio – Wabash College's Little Giants were missing six starters Saturday but didn't miss a beat in thumping Denison, 55-20.
Junior quarterback Tyler Burke threw for 350 yards and four touchdowns in his first Little Giant start. He had scoring throws of 19, 45, 23, and 40 yards.
"I thought he played good," Coach Erik Raeburn said. "He's been in several other games but last week I thought was his shakiest performance of the year against Oberlin. I was really happy to see him bounce back this week."
Burke spread the ball around to six different receivers. Jonathan Horn had more than 100 yards for the fourth time in five weeks. He had 128 yards, including a 45-yard scoring play, against the Big Red (3-5) on five catches. Junior Geoff Wright had 96 yards on just two receptions, but one went 40 yards for a score mainly on extra effort.
"I don't think I'm as athletic as a lot of these guys out here," Wright said. "I'm working hard and I think the coaches see that and they've given me the opportunity. When I get the opportunity, I don't want to let it slip by."
Brady Young added three catches for 44 yards and a score. Derrick Yoder caught one pass for a 23-yard touchdown. The senior running back added 33 rushing yards. Sophomore Vann Hunt had 46 yards on six carries. Freshman Tyler Holmes carried the ball five times for 56 yards and a fourth quarter score.
The defense did its part getting the Little Giants going early after the first of two Spencer Whitehead field goals. Jake Martin picked off a pass and returned it 18 yards to post Wabash to a 10-0 lead in the game's first five minutes.
But it was a familiar combination in the second half that really sparked Wabash play. For the third time this year defensive back Sam Smith blocked a punt and for the third time sophomore Jonathan Koop was on the spot to pick it up and run it in 25 yards for the touchdown.
"Sam did a great job of getting in there and blocking the punt and Koop … the guys are giving him a hard time, he's either super smart getting in the right place at the right time or he's real lucky," Raeburn laughed. "All those punts that Sam blocks bounce right up to Koop and he knows what to do with it once he gets it."
The blocked kick was Wabash's ninth of the season, a new Wabash record. Sam Smith tied the single-season record with his fourth block.
"We just practice every week and try to execute the punt block," Koop said. "The blockers just go in there as fast as they can to get the block and the gap opens up. I'm just looking to get the ball - scoop and score."
Defensively, Arizona freshman Nate Scola led Wabash with seven tackles. Dan Ryan Wood, Sam Smith, C.J. Gum, and Pat Clegg had six stops apiece. The defense recorded four sacks and recovered a fumble.
Raeburn was particularly happy since many of the missing six starters were on defense.
"Honestly, we had a ton of defensive linemen hurt and out this week," the coach said. "I thought our young linemen did a nice job. But some of the younger guys that went in there like Grady Phillips, Brady Tolle, Tyler Buresh, and Jorge Diaz-Aguilar played well. I think when we watch the film we're going to see some great plays out of those young linemen."
At 55 points, obviously the Little Giants ran up some big numbers on the statistic sheet. Wabash compiled 518 total yards to Dennison's 259. They out-rushed the Big Red 168-128 and gained more passing yards 350-259.
After struggling with penalty problems in recent weeks, Wabash cut penalties down to just five for 52 yards.
The 6-1 Little Giants now enter the toughest stretch of their season. Wabash will host Allegheny Saturday before traveling to Wittenberg and then return to home for the Monon Bell Game with DePauw.
Photos - (top right) Jonathan Horn makes an over-the-shoulder catch down the Denison sideline in the first half. Horn caught five passes for 128 yards and one touchdown in the Little Giants' victory.
(Bottom left) Junior Luke Zinsmaster scrambles after a loose football. Wabash forced three turnovers in the contest.


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The City of Lincoln today announced a new partnership with the Downtown Lincoln Rotary Club to develop design guidelines for entryways into the city. The first phase, a design study for the Interstate 80 corridor from North 14th to North 27th streets, was presented to the City Council this morning.
"We want to give visitors to our city a good first impression," said Mayor Don Wesely. "On behalf of the whole community, I want to thank the Downtown Rotary Club for its investment in this project. We hope it will spur other individuals and civic and community groups to get involved." Wesely also commended City Council member Jeff Fortenberry for his leadership and work on the project.
The Downtown Rotary Club has committed to partially finance the study. The Club's past civic involvement has included the paving of 16th Street from "O" Street to the State Fairgrounds, the building of Lincoln General Hospital and the donation of the Seniors Park in Antelope Park.
"Our Club is celebrating its 90th anniversary, and for all those decades, one of our aims has been to support Lincoln and its people," said U.S. Circuit Court Judge Arlen Beam, president-elect of the Downtown Rotary Club. "We've been watching this particular project and believe it will have lasting value to the city."
The plan was prepared by Erickson Sullivan Architects and Kim Todd, Landscape Architect. It proposes: * the development of building design guidelines along entry corridors; * the development of special sign standards for those areas; * the development of new landscape and screening standards; * close cooperation with the Nebraska Department of Roads to identify opportunities for enhancements in the public rights of way; and * close cooperation with landowners and developers in the corridors to seek excellence of design wherever possible.
"This entryways initiative is similar in intent to the billboard initiative recently adopted by the city," Wesely said. "Both are working to improve the visual attractiveness of our community."


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Saturday, December 6, 2008
A Grim Look At Christmas Still To Come...
December 10th in the USA, December 11th everywhere else.
You've Been Nicked
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- Mark don't do nothing said...
So very Very Pretty.
Really looking forward to reading this proper mate.
- December 6, 2008 at 5:30 PM
- Youri said...
Can't wait for this!
- December 7, 2008 at 11:12 PM
- Andy said...
Oh yes!
- December 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM
- Declan Shalvey said...
Looks to me that the only Xmas worth having this year is a Maximum one.
- December 9, 2008 at 6:01 PM
- Declan Shalvey said...
Oh wait ....'Grim Look' ...i get it!
- December 11, 2008 at 1:14 AM
- Nick said...
Not yet, you haven't...But you will, you lovely, lovely concept of a man.
- December 11, 2008 at 7:17 AM
- Martin Fisher said...
Nick, you are an elusive guy to find.
I've been buying a few original art pages lately from the other IDW guys, and one day I will get you to part with one :)
- December 13, 2008 at 4:46 PM
- a w e n g said...
hey Nick.. hows it goin?
Hope ur having an awesome christmas.
Dude, just dropping in to say well done man on max dinos #1. Ur work its truly brilliant. The passion u put into it is evident in every frame yo. This is by far ur
best work. (I'm sure there are other best stuff which is not on display)
Anyways, keep it up man. Seriously.
Cheers mate.
- December 20, 2008 at 4:16 PM
- masonica said...
Just giving you a quick "Hi" good to finally meet you after all this time and cool way to have done it. The movie was such a rush.
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In addition, I now manually make adjustments to scores when players report a problem. This is very time consuming and simply not sustainable or scalable (as we add more players).
I therefore plan to implement a forgiveness policy starting with Q3 2010. We will "forgive" a certain number of missed days or low scores per month/quarter. Once this is in place, we will also no longer make adjustments to scores, such as when your quiz submission is interrupted and you have to go back and "take the quiz" a second time.
I share with you below my ideas on how to implement/apply this policy. I would love to hear what you think. It may take a little while to sort it all out, but of this you can be certain:
The forgiveness policy will be applied at the end of Q3 (and every quarter thereafter). The determination of participation in the championship playoff will be made after I apply the forgiveness algorithm. So if you miss a few days of quizzes, do not panic!
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- Must be applied equally to everyone. That is, if I do not miss any quizzes, I should not be penalized, relatively speaking. Even I should see a benefit from the forgiveness policy.
- Apply forgiveness to 10 days of quizzes in a quarter(out of about 60 days).
- For each missed quiz (up to 10), give that person a score equal to average of all scores for that day. This way, you do not take the "full hit" of a 0 score, but you also will not "jump ahead" of those who rank lots higher than you (and remember: this only happens for a small number of days out of the total).
- If you missed less than 10 quizzes in a quarter (let's call the balance N), then I will apply a different algorithm to the N lowest ranked days in that quarter. Suppose, for example, you usually rank in the top 100, but on 15 days during the quarter, your ranking was around 200. You also missed 3 quizzes. Then I would "forgive" 7 of the lowest ~200 ranked days.
- Forgiveness for low ranking: change your score for those days to match the score of the ranking on that day that equals your average ranking throughout the quarter. In other words, if you average ranking is 125 then on a day in which you were ranked 250, I find the score of the person ranked 125, give you that score, and then re-rank.
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In recent weeks, I've been to Frank Charles Park, Spring Creek Park and the beaches by the parking lots of the Joseph Addabbo bridge on Crossbay Boulevard. It is really disgusting to see the amount of trash along the beaches of Jamaica Bay. Among the usual collection of bottles, cans and debris, we have families coming to the beach and conducting religious ceremonies. They bring bags of food, which are dumped into the water, and all the seagulls, geese and swans go into a feeding frenzy. They leave behind hundreds of clay pots with candles, coconuts, fruit, reams of colored cloth, plastic bags and even religious pictures in glass frames.
How can this go on in a natural wildlife area? When I asked a park ranger at the Visitors Center, he acknowledged it's a big problem and they are working with the community. I didn't witness any signs discouraging these acts or is it a case of religious freedom?
The National Park Service hasn't done a very good job in Queens. Jacob Riis Park is in a dismal condition, Spring Creek Park has a rusted car and trailor along with rusted construction pipes along the beach and the ATV and dirtbike crowd have free reign to race in the sand dunes. There isn't any police presence at all. My wife and I were shocked that Frank Charles Park had so much litter. We filled three large garbage bags and gave up. We could have filled ten more.
Why doesn't the National Parks Department (NPS) give the land to the New York City Parks Department? The NPS admit that they don't have the funds to do a good job and are facing future budget cuts. The NYC Parks Department does a pretty good job and recently we've seen many large capital projects in Queens such as new parks, pools and ice rinks.
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Governor's Task Force on Infant Mortality
Message from the First Lady
I am truly honored to be chairing the Governor's Task Force on Infant Mortality. One of my greatest joys in life has been being a mother and watching my children grow. As a former teacher and librarian, I have a deep commitment to the health and well-being of all South Dakota children.
As Dennis and I have traveled across the state, we hear about budgets and roads. We also hear about issues facing children and families. Unfortunately, we are losing too many babies before they reach their first birthday – about 79 infant deaths a year. The Governor has made it a priority to reach out to the best experts in South Dakota to develop strategies to address this problem.
As one of my initiatives as First Lady, I am eager to lend my support to help protect our state's most precious resource – our children. We already know many of the factors that contribute to infant deaths. Too many mothers use tobacco when pregnant, not enough mothers receive prenatal care in the first trimester, and more families need to learn about the importance of safe sleep positions. I want to help reinforce the same message from health professionals about healthy pregnancies – but on a more personal level.
This is a complex issue but I am confident that with the expertise of the members of the Governor's Task Force on Infant Mortality, we can improve birth outcomes and help more South Dakota babies reach their first birthday.
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Over the past 20 years, I have been studying the world's most successful people. I have been fascinated with who they are at the core. Not just what they do, but who they really are.
Over the past year, I have been doing private, personal one-on-one interviews with dozens of highly successful (though not always famous) men and women. I have carefully recorded each interview. The interview focusses on key people of influence in their life, significant turning points (though not flashy moments of change), and the crucial, quiet decisions that each made. It explores childhood to present day, in a biographical style.
The interview attempts to capture the true essence of who they are, in their own voice and style, not just an expression of what they do and how they appear on the "stage" of life. It is rich, warm, inviting, and at times extremely emotional.
Taking these interviews, I am creating a series of books, audio programs, a membership website, and other written and audio resources. These will give people around the world a unique, intimate, private look into the hearts and souls of truly successful people. It will also give them the tools and insights they need to replicate this uncommon level of peace, joy, happiness, wealth, and success in their own lives.
My target audience are men and women between 35-45 who realize that their life is not as fulfilling as it should or could be. They might have wealth, but not health. They might enjoy a great family life but struggle financially. They feel that something is missing or that somehow there is more they could have, if they only knew how.
They are seeking to fill in that "missing piece" and are known buyers of self-help and/or business opportunity products.
They are above-average educated, though many will likely be self-educated with no formal college. They are extremely ambitious and hunger for success, but restrained by a deep sense of value and, even spirituality, though they do not wear this spirituality on their sleeves.
They are the good men and women who were attracted to programs like "The Secret" but found it wanting in its shallow approach and "do nothing or little else but think" philosophy. They sense life is more than "attracting", it is working, and striving, and struggling and they find joy in this effort and how it builds them. They like who they become under its strain.
They are fearful of the difficult times we face and will yet face, but continue to move forward courageously and hopeful that they can overcome, no matter what life throws at them.
They are people ready to reach their "tipping point" and just need a guide. The Voice of Wealth is that guide.
*NOTE: I really like the "feel" of http://www.thesecret.tv. Mirror those colors/concepts/fonts and you'll be close.
The "feeling" of the logo is described in the "About Me" and "Target Audience" section of this contest.
I believe the colors should be powerful, commanding, yet warm and inviting. I'm fond of deep reds and earthen tones. But, I'm open to other schemes if you put something striking together.
The interviews entail a good amount of personal history, so, perhaps, there is a historic, mysterious feel to the logo? I'll leave this for you to consider.
The logo will be used online and in print, so the font should be clear and bold, but not boring and common.
Aside from this, I trust your core ability as a designer. I have no doubt, but that you'll carefully consider the description of the project and gain a sense of what is needed. I am really looking forward to seeing your work.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Statistician Steve Hanway had expected to spend Tuesday reviewing a tally of far-flung childhood injuries in his job at the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, a federal agency that identifies household perils.
Instead, Hanway spent the day sidelined in his home in Gaithersburg, Maryland, one of about 800,000 federal workers furloughed in the first U.S. government shutdown in 17 years.
Hanway, who says he takes pride in his agency's recent work on child deaths and injuries from swallowing magnetic toys, was deemed "non-essential" and sent home for an indefinite unpaid stay.
Luckily, Hanway, 40, has company in his suburban community of spacious family homes. His wife, Jonaki Bose, 41, a statistician for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, was also deemed non-essential and shut out of her office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Hanway joined the federal workforce two years ago after a long stint at the Gallup polling organization, hoping the change to a 9-to-5 federal job would cut down on the road trips and long hours that consumed his family time. A father of two, he worried that without a job shift "I'd be a stranger to my kids."
In the four days since the federal furlough began, he's had plenty of time at home.
The first day of the shutdown, Hanway and his wife puttered in the yard, rearranged the store room and played tennis. Another day they visited the American Red Cross blood bank and donated platelets, trying to feel useful.
Keeping busy relieves anxiety, which Hanley acknowledges is building as the stress of no paychecks settles in.
The family lives frugally, Hanway said, and they have a 'rainy day' fund to see them through a missed paycheck or two.
Yet Monday evening, Hanway and his wife became restless as they followed broadcasts of congressional maneuvers that went on past midnight. It finally became obvious no compromise was in sight. They tried to lighten the mood with glimpses of the news parody program, 'The Daily Show.'
"I'm not prone to sleepless nights, but Monday was one for both of us," he said. "There is some anxiety for the kids. You tell them not to worry, but they know what's going on."
Families like Hanway's are scattered across the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region, where 446,000 men and women, or roughly 14 percent of the area's workforce, are employed by the federal government. That doesn't count the multitudes who work as federal contractors.
Hanway's Gaithersburg neighborhood is part of a band of affluence ringing the nation's capital, where three-bedroom homes with two-car garages can top $600,000 and the public schools are among the finest in the country.
Like Hanway, many federal workers take government jobs out of a call to public service, leaving behind private companies that may offer better pay and prominence.
That makes the non-essential designation even more frustrating, since Hanway is convinced the work he does at the product safety commission's offices in Bethesda, Md. saves lives.
Employees at the agency in recent years have focused on everyday hazards like infant cradles with slats that can trap babies' heads and kitchen toasters prone to fires.
Hanway's team of statisticians helped detect a wave of emergency room visits by children who had swallowed high-powered magnets that were marketed as a novelty toy, helping raising an alarm that got the product off shelves within months.
Early in the month, he and his team receive data on injuries nationwide. It was just such a report that helped the agency detect the magnet injuries to children. He was supposed to see another report on October 1, the same day he was furloughed.
"Could something crop up that we won't be able to pounce on because so many people are absent? I think that answer is: yes," he said.
Instead, Hanway is focusing on personal fitness, finally putting the cross trainer in his bedroom to good use.
"It just feels like we're collateral damage," he said.
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It's not everyday that a candidate for Texas governor testifies in favor of a person who has been on Texas death row for more than 20 years.Kinky Friedman testified that he believes Max Soffar is innocent. Kinky has signed a petition calling for a moratorium on executions. Go to the website of TSADP to see a picture of him signing the petition. Though he told an interviewer last year that he did not oppose the death penalty, Friedman said Tuesday that he has changed his position and will campaign against capital punishment.
"The (criminal justice) system is not perfect," he said. "Until it's
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Friedman testified during the punishment phase of Max Soffar's trial that the defendant should not be executed and questioned the evidence used to convict him.
"I've seen the problems with the lawyers. Everybody's dead. All the witnesses are dead. Tthere's no evidence against him," he said. "And I can't even believe he was brought to trial in the first place."
Friedman, a musician-turned-mystery author-turned-politician, said his court appearance had nothing to do with his run for governor. Known for his trademark black cowboy hat and cigar, Friedman needs to collect more than 45,000 signatures after the March 7 primaries to be placed on the November ballot.


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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Thriller Thursday - The Thirty Cent Murder
Lexington Herald, 12/28/1917, p7
Deputy U.S. Marshal Fires Bullet Into Head of Henry M. Ringo, of Mt. Sterling
MT. STERLING, Ky., Dec. 27. - Henry M. Ringo, city clerk of Mt. Sterling, and one of the city's most prominent young businessmen, was shot and instantly killed about 11:30 o'clock last night at his cafe here by Porter C. Eubanks, deputy United States marshal, following an argument over thirty cents in change. Only one shot was fired, the bullet passing through Ringo's heart. Eubanks was immediately arrested and lodged in the county jail to await examining trial.
The shooting is said by eye witnesses to have been unprovoked and feeling against the slayer of young Ringo has been high. A country dance was in progress in the hall over Ringo's cafe, and Eubank, who was attending, came downstairs to purchase a sandwich. He was served by Mr. Ringo himself. In making change Eubank claimed that he had thirty cents coming to him. It is said Mr. Ringo had a clerk to give him the change, but Eubank continued to argue. Mr. Ringo was unarmed and had just laid aside a knife with which he had been slicing bread for sandwiches and turned to face Eubank when the latter pulled his pistol and shot him.
The body was removed to an undertaking establishment by Coroner Eastin and the funeral will probably be held Saturday afternoon at the Presbyterian church. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Dan Priest of Forth Worth, Texas, and Mrs. John A. Judy of this city, and one brother, H. B. Ringo, local groceryman. He was 31 years old and unmarried.
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Pretty interesting! My great-grandfather Charles Arthur Rogers was born near Mt Sterling in 1870. Where did you find this clipping?ReplyDelete
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The Lexington Herald via Genealogybank.comReplyDelete
You know I keep returning and returning as we share an interest in Mt. Sterling. Perhaps you recall that the husband of my g-grandmother committed suicide in Mt. Sterling after being involved in a shooting. This was in the 1880s.ReplyDelete
Ok, thanks! Gotta check that out!ReplyDelete
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From that last bastion of family values, the AFA, comes a tale of gay cookies and moral turpitude. "Just Cookies" bakery shop owner David Stockton felt that making cookies for gays and lesbians to eat would "not set a good example for his two daughters." He refused to fill the order for rainbow cookies, and now he faces eviction from the city-run market where he has plied his wares for over 20 years.
To make rainbow cookies to would provide "a microphone for homosexuals to celebrate their lifestyle."
Really? A microphone? A rainbow cookie is a microphone?
If I lived in Indianapolis, I think I'd go down to the shop and ask for a dozen cookies with the "Scarlet A" symbol on them, or a set of trilobite cookies for Darwin Day. He should change his shop's name from "Just Cookies" to "Just Straight Christian Cookies". Anything else is false advertising.
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High Point, N.C. --- Lees-McRae College sophomore middle blocker Joshua Jones (Christmas, Fla.) has been named the Conference Carolinas men's volleyball player of the week for the first time in his career, announced league officials Tuesday.
Jones led the Bobcats to a strong season-opening win over Limestone on Saturday, posting 15 kills, seven blocks and a blistering .571 hitting percentage. The Christmas, Fla. native averaged three kills per set and tallied 19.5 of the Bobcats' 81.5 points, accounting for just under 25% of LMC's points.
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Saturday was a great day to be in Ransomville for those who like to dance ... or to just sit and listen to the music and watch others get up and dance. At the Ransomville Country Cruisers Supercruise, Terry Buchwald had people up and dancing, then the Hot Country Liners Dance Team put on a show for those who prefer to relax and watch line dancers in action. After the supercruise ended, folks could move down the road a bit and take part in the annual Ransomville Street Dance, with music by Electric Rodeo. (photos by Wayne Peters)


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Dispatch from Rio: Incorporating 'Sustainability' into the Human Development Index
Shortly after I landed in Rio de Janeiro, I participated in a side event hosted by the Armenia government on "Sustainable Development Indices – possible options" at the 2012 Rio Earth Summit. In a previous post I mentioned the importance of metrics and indicators to help track progress toward the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of clearly defined objectives that were originally proposed by Colombia and are meant to get governments to pay attention to poverty eradication and environmental sustainability.
Armenia has been working since 1995 to transform the Human Development Index (HDI) into a Sustainable Human Development Index (SHDI). The HDI attempts to create a summary measure of human development across three basic dimensions of human development: health, education, and income. The HDI uses a single statistic to serve as a frame of reference for a country's social and economic development. It sets a minimum and maximum for each dimension, called "goalposts," and then gauges where each country stands in relation to the goalposts, normalized as a value between 0 and 1.
Using these same principles, Armenia set out to incorporate an environmental sustainability dimension into the HDI. Figure 1 shows a diagram of the environmental indicators incorporated into Armenia's version of the SHDI. They've basically divided environmental indicators into two types: those relating to the environmental state of a territory; and those relating to the environmental evaluation of human activities. The next tier of 11 indicators relate to specific environmental issues, while some of those indicators are further defined.
The structure and indicators included in Armenia's SHDI bear a striking resemblance to what I was asked to present – the 2012 Environmental Performance Index (Figure 2), a joint initiative between the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP) and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) that ranks 132 countries on their environmental performance. Like Armenia's SHDI, the EPI looks at environmental performance in two overarching objectives: environmental health and ecosystem vitality. We also include many of the same indicators as the SHDI, including access to water and sanitation, forest loss, and biodiversity protection. I was struck by how congruous our two efforts were, and how we face similar challenges in attempting to develop meaningful indices that provide a strong signal as to environmental performance and sustainability.
Some of the key lessons I took from our panel that could help guide negotiators in their consideration of indicators and metrics for SDGs include:
In developing indicator frameworks and indices, there is a tension between the "real" and the "ideal." While ideally, indices would be comprehensive, data gaps limit the ability to measure an "ideal" picture of sustainability. In the case of Armenia, they were able to include indicators of waste management. At the global level, there aren't complete datasets of national waste management statistics.
A tension also exists between complexity and simplicity. In the YCELP-CIESIN experience, we've found that simplicity and clear policy signals matter when it comes to the practical applicability of something like the EPI to help policymakers understand areas in which they perform well, and areas in which they lag. YCELP and CIESIN's first effort to produce an Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) contained 76 indicators covering multiple dimensions of sustainability was considered to be too complex. One single, aggregated number from 76 underlying indicators proved to be too weak of a signal for policymakers to truly understand how they were doing on environmental issues. Therefore, in 2005 we tightened the focus to only look at environmental performance and issues for which governments can be directly responsible. The Armenians, however, are working the other way – adding a sustainability dimension to the SHDI because they feel it is too simple and not comprehensive enough.
Time series analysis is critical in revealing sustainability and environmental performance trends. The Armenians brought up the incorporation of time series data as an inevitable next step for their SHDI. We also arrived at the same conclusion after a decades' work on indices. Therefore, for the first time, we collected time series data for each of the 22 indicators in the EPI and utilized the data in several ways:
-We used the full range of time series of data to determine policy targets for each indicator.
-We backcasted EPI scores and rankings for each country for the last decade.
-We used the time series data to evaluate the consistency and quality of data for each country, which many times led us back to the original data sources to check seemingly anomalous points.
-Most significantly, we produced a Pilot Trend EPI that ranked countries on their rate of improvement on the EPI over the last decade.
I hope that some of these lessons we – along with Armenia's experience – will prove valuable when countries are tasked with the job of developing indicators to demonstrate progress toward SDG implementation. So far, mention of indicators and the need for metrics are peppered six times in the latest version of the negotiation draft, which is still being discussed hotly in Rio.
Angel Hsu is a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and project manager of the 2012 Environmental Performance Index.


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