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The awards to be conferred at the 2014 AIAA Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala include: AIAA Foundation Award for Excellence
X-51A WaveRider TeamThe Boeing CompanyAerojet RocketdyneU.S. Air Force Research Laboratory"For the demonstration of the feasibility of sustained air breathing hypersonic flight by achieving a 300 second flight at Mach 5."
Goddard Astronautics Award
Glynn S. LunneyNASA Flight Director and Program Manager
Rockwell Division President of Satellite Systems DivisionSeal Beach and Rockwell Space Operations Co., Houston
United Space Alliance Vice President and Program Manager
"For over 50 years of outstanding contributions to America's manned space program from Project Mercury to the Space Shuttle and Space Station."
Reed Aeronautics Award
Ben T. ZinnDavid S. Lewis, Jr. Chair School of Aerospace EngineeringRegents' Professor
Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta, Georgia"For extensive and fundamental contributions to aerospace propulsion and power technologies, research, education, literature, and workforce development."
International Cooperation Award
John E. LaGraffEmeritus ProfessorMechanical and Aerospace EngineeringSyracuse UniversitySyracuse,
New York"For stimulating multi-generational U.S.–European collaboration and coordination through AIAA's creation and sponsorship of the PEGASUS student paper competition and its participation in the annual Student Paper Contest."
Public Service Award
Kathie L. OlsenFounder and Managing DirectorScienceWorks
Washington, DC"For a lifetime of personal and professional commitment to the advancement of science in aerospace and biological fields, and for inspiring the next generation of scientists around the globe."
The Daniel Guggenheim Medal
Abraham Karem
President and FounderKarem Aircraft, Inc.
Lake Forest, California"For a lifetime of innovative fixed and rotary wing unmanned vehicle designs."
Distinguished Service Award
Michael I. YarymovychPresidentSarasota Space Associates
Sarasota, Florida"For 60 years of dedicated service to IAS, ARS, AIAA and IAF, and for outstanding leadership for the aerospace profession in government, industry and the international community."
The title of Honorary Fellow, the highest distinction conferred by AIAA, is granted to preeminent individuals who have long and highly contributory careers in aerospace, and who embody the highest possible standards in aeronautics and astronautics. The 2014 Honorary Fellows are:
The distinction of Fellow is conferred upon those members of the Institute who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics. The 2014 AIAA Fellows are:
Joao Luiz Azevedo, Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço
Neal Barlow, U.S. Air Force Academy
Steven Battel, Battel Engineering
John Blanton, GE Power & Water
John Brophy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tom Crouch, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Michael Delaney, The Boeing Company
Eugene Dionne, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Song Fu, Tsinghua University
John Kim, University of California Los Angeles
David King, Dynetics, Inc.
Roger Krone, The Boeing Company
Dimitris Lagoudas, Texas A&M University
Deborah Levin, Pennsylvania State University
Meng-Sing Liou, NASA Glenn Research Center
Robert Lucht, Purdue University
Jeffery Puschell, Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems
David Riley, The Boeing Company
Zamik Rosenwaks, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Daniel Scheeres, University of Colorado Boulder
Bob Schutz, University of Texas at Austin
Sergey Surzhikov, Russian Academy of Sciences – Institute for Problems in Mechanics
James Voss, University of Colorado Boulder
Richard Wahls, NASA Langley Research Center
Andres Zellweger, Aerospace Consultant
"The title of AIAA Fellow is among the highest honors that one can earn in the aerospace community. It represents the acknowledgement of peers that one's work is truly outstanding, and that you have made lasting contributions to significantly advancing the state-of-the art of aerospace science and technology," said AIAA President Mike Griffin. "Beyond that, the title of Honorary Fellow honors those whose work and contributions have placed each at the pinnacle of our profession. This year's selection committee has done an outstanding job of identifying those who meet these standards. I congratulate each member of this year's class of Fellows and Honorary Fellows."In 1933, Orville Wright became AIAA's first Honorary Fellow. Today, AIAA Honorary Fellows and AIAA Fellows are the most respected names in the aerospace industry. For more information about AIAA's Fellows and Honorary Fellows program, please contact Patricia A. Carr at email@example.com or 703.264.7523.
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Ryan usually gives out to me about not doing enough massaging and stretching etc. and I usually come up with some lame excuses (I've got to work on my PhD, I'm too tired, can we not ask Stew to give us a massage...?), but deep down I know he is right and I should be doing much more of this. Ryan has always been a fan of trying out new tools, but I usually lack behind in my enthusiasm for such things.
Until Ryan got The Stick.
The Stick is basically just a slightly flexible stick with 2 rubbery handles holding in a bunch of loose plastic mini-rollers in the middle.
As soon as Ryan got The Stick I started using it too. And I liked it so much I wanted one for myself. So Ryan gave me his Stick and got himself a new one. We now have a 20" Marathon Stick, which is the longest and most flexible one and a 17" Travel stick, which is slightly less flexible. And I like my Stick so much it came with me to my training camp in Gran Canaria and it's seeing much use here. The Stick is the first massaging tool that I do not find too cumbersome or time consuming or annoying to use and it actually feels good to massage your tired legs with The Stick. Both ease of use and perceived benefit are for me perfectly combined in The Stick. And it's handy enough to take with you on your travels.
So, get yourself The Stick, best massaging tool I have come across! (and I am not sponsored by them)
Sunday, January 23, 2011
3 comments :
- Ken Zelez said...
Hi Mel,
Awesome article! Great blog by the way as well. I am glad you like The Stick so much. It really is an awesome tool. I will be sure to share your article! In addition, if any readers are in Alberta, Canada, we distribute The Stick!
- January 23, 2011 at 8:04 PM
- trio said...
I'm the same, don't stretch enough. But bought a stick a few months ago and it's great. Still need to use it more than I do though!
- January 24, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- Dave Shortall said...
I found out about 'The Stick' a few months ago from my physio and after looking at the price from an Irish supplier I ended up just using a rolling pin :) (it actually works brilliant! much better that the Foam Rolls)
Like the new picture in your header... hmmm, seem to recognise it from somewhere. Glad you like it :)
- January 27, 2011 at 8:16 PM
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ebel necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 21 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
History of X
We're launching a website for selling a vast collection of history books to the home market.
Our products are generic history books, covering many diverse history topics, e.g. "History of Europe", "History of Islam", etc. We're not aiming for the professional historian, or the scholar, but the home, or amature market. Our books are factual and nonfiction, more like an encyclopedia, than a story.
We'll be selling our history books over the web. We need a simple landing page designed to promote our product. There'll be one page per book, and we need that one generic page designed. Each page will have a heading of the book, and then some text about the book / subject, and a link to the purchasing page, which is on another web app (which is already done).
The 'heading' / 'title' of each page must be the title of the book, eg "History of France". Since we will have hundreds of these, it must be possible or easy for us to replace this text.
We want to use this design for books that are being sold now and for books we're thinking of selling. Ideally there should be 1 big button that could either be "Buy Now" or "Find out more"/"More information"/"More info", etc.


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The Azaya Residence is Seattle-based Pb Elemental's latest project in their home town. After tearing down the dilapidated home that occupied the lot, the firm used the existing foundation to design and build the new three-bedroom home. The modern residence makes use of passive solar design, daylighting, natural ventilation and energy efficient systems to minimize energy use. Meanwhile rooftop decks and a green roof replace lost ground space.
Pb Elemental designed the Azaya Residence for a young couple with two children in the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle. After a lot of searching, the couple found the corner lot lot with a tear down on it and swooped it up. To minimize on site work, reduce landfill waste and new material, they decided to reuse the existing foundation of the home to build the new one. Pb Elemental designed the home around the foundation and created a two-story, three bedroom home with a flex space and a media room. Lost garden space was replaced with a green roof and two rooftop decks. The private bedrooms are located on the ground floor and the living, kitchen, dining and media rooms are on the first floor.
Passive design was used to provide ample daylighting, sun shading, and cross ventilation while in-floor radiant heating, a high efficiency water heater and appliances minimize energy use. The east-west orientation provides ample sunlight into the bright white interior and the central open-riser steel staircase helps pull light into the inner reaches of the home. Inside, the home features low VOC paints and finishes, including Lotusun paints, which mimics the self-cleaning properties of the lotus leaf.
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This third and final article on female parity effects on weaned pig averages will focus on several production parameters - weaning age, pigs weaned/female farrowed, female death loss percentage, female culling percentage, sow herd parity structure and farm size.
We selected 94 farms from the Swine Management Services database, located in Canada and the United States. To be part of the dataset, farms must have weaned at least 20 pigs weaned/mated female/year (PW/MF/Y) the last 52 weeks and have a mature sow farm. Several different genetic lines were represented.
The 94 farms represented 222, 362 females, averaging 2,364 females/farm. These farms reported 25.70 PW/MF/Y, on average, for the 52-week period. The top 21 farms, averaging 3,129 females, produced 27 PW/MF/Y.
Chart 1 shows average weaning age, by parity. The average weaning age for all farms was 19.68 days. The top 21 farms averaged 19.17 days at weaning. The chart shows the weaning age ranged from 20.11 days for Parity 1 sows to 19.10 days for P7+ females. The top 21 farms ranged from 19.74 days of age at weaning for Parity 1 sows and 18.41 days for Parity 7+ females. In this dataset, 45% of farms weaned pigs between 19 and 21 days of age, with a range of 17.1 to 24.1 days of age.
Chart 2 shows most of the high producing farms are weaning pigs at 17 to 21 days of age, with top farm weaning at 20.9 days. The data shows you do not have to wean pigs at 21+ days of age to attain top production. This allows the use of farrowing facilities to be used to their fullest. However, as we wean more and larger pigs, farrowing crate design will probably have to be updated. In the future, I see farrowing crates being 8 ft. long and 6 ft. wide.
Charts 3 and 4 show pigs weaned/female farrowed. Chart 3 shows the vast variation among the farms in the data set. The average pigs weaned/female farrowed for all farms was 10.57 pigs. By parity, females averaged 10.78 in Parity 1, 11.08 in Parity 2, 10.89 in Parity 3, 10.60 in Parity 4, 10.31 in Parity 5, 10.03 in Parity 6, and 9.64 in Parity 7 and above.
For the top 21 farms, pigs weaned/females farrowed for Parities 1 through 6 were 11.42, 11.70, 11.41, 11.14, 10.84, 10.60, respectively, and 10.27 pigs for Parity 7+. All females averaged 11.19 pigs.
To get to 30+ PW/MF/Y, you need to wean 12+ pigs/litter with 2.50 litters/mated female/year. Chart 4 shows that increasing pigs weaned/female farrowed had a direct effect on PW/MF/Y. The top farm in the dataset weaned 12.45 pigs/female farrowed. To get top production, you must push females to nurse larger litters and they must wean a large percentage of those pigs at a desirable age and weight.
Sow Death Loss' Effect on PW/MF/Y
We also took a look at female death loss for the 94 farms. In Chart 5, percent female death loss is broken down by parity. Clearly, there is a lot of variation from farm to farm.
Average death loss for all farms was 7.6% and slightly less (7%) for the top 21 farms for the 52-week period. When broken down by parity, we see a death loss of 11.4% for Parity 0 (gilts), then 18.2%, 14.1%, 13.9%, 12.9%, 11.6%, 8.5% for Parities 1 through 6, respectively, while Parity 7+ mortalities came in at 6.3%.
Chart 6, displaying percent female death loss by PW/MF/Y, shows a range of 2.3 to 17.2% (all farms). The trend line shows that lower female death loss generally means the number of pigs weaned is higher. As a rule of thumb - each 1% change (Improvement) in female death loss increases PW/MF/Y by 0.25 pigs. Therefore, a 4% decrease in female death loss increases production by one pig.
How Sow Culling Affects PW/MF/Y
To look at female culling percent, we took the 99,093 females that were culled from the 94 farms and broke them down by parity. As Chart 7 shows, culling increases in later parities - 28.6% were culled at Parity 7 and higher, 12.9% of culls were Parity 6 sows.
For all farms, 44.5% of sows (all parities) were culled. The culling rate was even higher for the top 21 farms at 50.7%. The chart shows the top farms cull more gilts and Parity 1 females and fewer of the older parity females, with only 22.3% being Parity 7 or higher.
Chart 8 (all parities) shows a range of culling from 21 to 68%. We feel replacement rate is more affected by the price paid for culled females than it is by a designed replacement plan.
Chart 9 looks at PW/MF/Y by farm size. In the past, most of the top producing farms had less than 1,000 sows. However over the last two years, some of the larger farms produced some of the highest numbers. As you see, three farms with over 6,000 sows are now at 27 PW/MF/Y or higher. Apparently, the larger farms are better able to adopt more of the management changes that increase total pigs born. They do a better job of developing gilts as well as extending the number of hours someone is available to attend farrowing and assist sows when needed. They have fewer stillbirths, dry pigs immediately after birth to reduce chilling and split suckle pigs the first 24 hours to make sure each pig gets a share of the colostrum.
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We hope that our monthly articles are interesting and valuable to Weekly Preview readers. We are grateful to the farms that work with Swine Management Services and allow us to utilize their farm data in our composite database. If you have a topic you'd like to have us address, please drop us a note or give us a call. We wish you and your families a happy and safe holiday season.
Key Performance Indicators
Tables 1 and 2 (below) provide 52-week and 13-week rolling averages for key performance indicators (KPI) of breeding herd performance. These tables reflect the most current quarterly data available and are presented with each column. The KPI's can be used as general guidelines to measure the productivity of your herd compared to the top 10% and top 25% of farms, the average performance for all farms, and the bottom 25% of farms in the SMS database.
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Kitty Felde | March 19th, 2013, 8:53am
Pope Francis, who celebrated his first mass Tuesday morning in Rome, is the first Jesuit to head the Catholic Church. A congressman from San Diego might have found his way to Rome too, but instead is now serving in the nation's capitol.
Democratic freshman Congressman Juan Vargas spent five years as a Jesuit. Had he continued with the religious order, perhaps that could have been him waving to the crowd in St. Peter's Square.
"Well, that would have been a cool job!" Vargas said.
The congressman said the Jesuits taught him that you have to make changes for social justice. He worked with Central American refugees and became a lawyer working on political asylum cases.
Juan Vargas is not the only former Jesuit in California politics these days: Governor Jerry Brown is also a former novitiate from the order.
"The Jesuits are interesting people," Vargas said. "They're very aggressive in the sense of trying to do great things for God. That's sort of the mission of the Jesuits."
But Vargas said Jesuits aren't supposed to seek powerful positions.
"The only position actually you can seek is to be Novice Master because it's such a crummy job, to train these novices," said Vargas.
But he says Jesuits are "supposed to try to change the world and that's why I think you see a lot of Jesuits involved in great things."
In Congress, Vargas wants to work on immigration reform. He thinks the new pope could play a role in the debate and he cites Matthew 25 – the same passage Pope Francis quoted in his first sermon, saying a pope is supposed to protect the hungry, the sick, and the stranger.
Vargas said churches are: "doing a very good job" of saying that's 'how you're going to be judged, how you treat these strangers, how you treat the poor.'"
He says the Pope could "give great help right about now" as Congress debates immigration reform.
The Pope's inaugural mass in Rome was attended by 132 official delegations, including more than a half-dozen heads of state from Latin America – home to 40 percent of the world's Catholics.
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Why BP Does Not Want an Accurate Measurement of the Gulf Oil Spill
Why BP Does Not Want an Accurate Measurement of the Gulf Oil Spill
By Brian J. Donovan
June 13, 2010
The amount of oil that will ultimately be released into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon blowout of April 20, 2010 may never be known.
On April 24, BP reported that approximately 1,000 barrels of oil per day (bbl/day) were being released into the Gulf.
On April 28, it was estimated that approximately 5,000 bbl/day were being released into the Gulf of Mexico. Repeated endlessly in news reports, this figure became conventional wisdom. However, the 5,000 bbl/day estimate was hastily produced in Seattle by a NOAA unit that responds to oil spills. It was calculated with a protocol known as the Bonn convention which calls for measuring the extent of an oil spill, using its color to judge the thickness of oil atop the water, and then multiplying. Alun Lewis, a British oil-spill consultant who is an authority on the Bonn convention, said the method was specifically not recommended for analyzing large spills like the one in the Gulf of Mexico, since the thickness was too difficult to judge in such a case.
On May 27, USGS Director Dr. Marcia McNutt, Chair of the National Incident Command's Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG), announced that the amount of oil flowing from BP's leaking oil well was estimated to be 12,000 to 19,000 bbl/day.
On June 3, BP sawed off the riser pipe that had been kinked near the seafloor, constricting the flow of oil from the leak. The clean cut allowed the company to secure a containment cap to the pipe, capturing some of the escaping oil and funneling it to ships at the surface.
On June 10, is was guesstimated that the well was gushing 20,000 to 40,000 bbl/day. This latest figure is for the size of the leak prior to June 3, when BP sawed off a bent riser pipe, potentially increasing the amount of crude escaping by as much as 20 percent. According to Marcia McNutt, director of the U.S. Geological Survey, a projection for the current rate of oil flow has not been developed. Preliminary figures from a team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientists suggest the well could be leaking as much as 50,000 barrels a day, McNutt said.
According to Dr. McNutt, the "most credible estimate" for the size of the leak before the riser pipe was cut is 20,000 to 40,000 bbl/day. Based on the midpoint (30,000 bbl/day) of the latest approximation, from April 22 when the Deepwater Horizon rig sank until June 3 the well gushed 1.26 million barrels of oil, or 52.9 million gallons. The midpoint guesstimate of 30,000 bbl/day is six times more than the figure that BP and the federal government used from April 28 to May 27.
BP alleges that it is capturing about half of the new estimated flow rate from the Deepwater Horizon well, almost a mile down on the seabed of the Gulf of the Mexico, and siphoning it to ships on the surface. BP reportedly collected 15,520 barrels of crude at the surface between noon on June 9 and noon on June 10, the last 24-hour period for which data is available. According to the midpoint of the latest estimates from the group of scientists, this means at least 15,500 bbl/day of crude oil are currently being released into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
BP does not want an accurate measurement of the Gulf oil spill for two reasons:
(a) the Oil Pollution Act of 1990; and (b) the Clean Water Act.
Pursuant to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), for an offshore facility the total of the liability of a responsible party and any removal costs incurred by, or on behalf of, the responsible party, with respect to each incident shall not exceed the total of all removal costs plus $75,000,000.
However, this limit on liability "does not apply if the incident was proximately caused by gross negligence, willful misconduct of, or the violation of an applicable Federal safety, construction, or operating regulation by, the responsible party, an agent or employee of the responsible party, or a person acting pursuant to a contractual relationship with the responsible party."
OPA broadened the scope of damages (i.e., costs) for which an oil spiller would be liable. Under OPA, a responsible party is liable for all cleanup costs incurred, not only by a government entity, but also by a private party. In addition to cleanup costs, OPA significantly increased the range of liable damages to include the following:
• injury to natural resources,
• loss of personal property (and resultant economic losses),
• loss of subsistence use of natural resources,
• lost revenues resulting from destruction of property or natural resource injury,
• lost profits resulting from property loss or natural resource injury, and
• costs of providing extra public services during or after spill response.
Given BP's documented violation of federal safety regulations aboard the Deepwater Horizon, e.g., using an improper cementing technique to seal the well, failing to adequately test and maintain blowout prevention equipment and drilling deeper than BP's federal permit allowed, there will be no limitation on BP's liability. (Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 33 U.S.C. 2704).
BP may be liable to the United States and to Louisiana for damages resulting from lost royalties. Pursuant to Section 2702 of OPA 90, "Notwithstanding any other provision or rule of law, and subject to the provisions of this Act, each responsible party for a vessel or a facility from which oil is discharged, or which poses the substantial threat of a discharge of oil, into or upon the navigable waters or adjoining shorelines or the exclusive economic zone is liable for the removal costs and damages specified in subsection (b) of this section that result from such incident…", including revenue losses such as "taxes, royalties, rents, fees, or net profit shares due to the injury, destruction, or loss of real property, personal property, or natural resources, which shall be recoverable by the Government of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision thereof." (Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 33 U.S.C. 2702(b)(2)(D)).
BP also faces uncapped liability under a little-known Clean Water Act (CWA) civil damages provision.
Pursuant to Section 1321 of the CWA, "Any person who is the owner, operator, or person in charge of any vessel, onshore facility, or offshore facility from which oil or a hazardous substance is discharged in violation of paragraph (3), shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount up to $25,000 per day of violation or an amount up to $1,000 per barrel of oil or unit of reportable quantity of hazardous substances discharged. In any case in which a violation of paragraph (3) was the result of gross negligence or willful misconduct of a person described in subparagraph (A), the person shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $100,000, and not more than $3,000 per barrel of oil or unit of reportable quantity of hazardous substance discharged." (Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1321).
Under the CWA, the basic fine is $1,100 per barrel spilled. But the penalty can rise to $4,300 a barrel if a federal court rules the spill resulted from gross negligence. As noted above, the fines were originally set at $1,000 to $3,000 but that was raised in 2004 to keep up with inflation. Accordingly, the number of barrels of oil being released from the well is going to be critical.
If the government pursues civil fines based on the volume of oil spilled, it would take into consideration whether BP has made its best effort to mitigate the spill, its prior history of offenses, if any, and whether BP can bear the cost of fines, among other factors. Interestedly, BP received the third-largest criminal penalty, of $50 million, for an environmental offense in U.S. history for a Texas City refinery fire in 2005. BP subsidiaries remain under federal probation for prior offenses in Texas and Alaska.
Under the CWA alone, gross negligence penalties based upon a discharge rate of 30,000 barrels per day would total $129 million per day. BP's net profits in the first quarter of 2010 were approximately $6.7 million per day.
It is obvious why BP, despite having the ability to obtain a very accurate flow rate through ultrasound, does not want a more accurate measurement. It is also very obvious why BP does not want to collect a great deal of the oil spill. Since April 22, 2010, BP admits that it has been able to recover only approximately 475,000 barrels of "oily liquid." This equates to collecting a total of only 47,000 to 71,000 barrels of oil.
BP's strategy, to systematically underestimate the rate of the oil that's being spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, involves: (a) prohibiting independent measurement of the rate of oil flow from the well by unbiased third party scientists and engineers by denying direct access to the Deepwater Horizon well; and (b) applying an unprecedented amount of dispersant to the oil spill both on the surface and underwater.
Denying Direct Access to the Deepwater Horizon Well
Dr. Ian R. MacDonald, an oceanographer at Florida State University who is an expert in the analysis of oil slicks, said he had made his own rough calculations using satellite imagery. They suggested that the leak could "easily be four or five times" the government estimate, he said. Steven Wereley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, analyzed videotape of the seafloor gusher using a technique called particle image velocimetry. A computer program simply tracks particles and calculates how fast they are moving. Wereley put the BP video of the gusher into his computer. He made a few simple calculations and came up with an astonishing value for the rate of the oil spill: 70,000 bbl/day.
Dr. MacDonald believes NOAA has been slow to mount the research effort needed to analyze the leak and assess its effects. Sylvia Earle, a former chief scientist at NOAA and perhaps the country's best-known oceanographer, said that she, too, was concerned by the pace of NOAA's scientific response.
Prior to May 27, BP and the federal government had made no attempt to update its estimate of 5,000 bbl/day since releasing it on April 28th. "I think the estimate at the time was, and remains, a reasonable estimate," said Dr. Lubchenco, the NOAA administrator. "Having greater precision about the flow rate would not really help in any way. We would be doing the same things."
Scientists have come down hard on BP for refusing to take advantage of methods available to measure the oil. On May 13, The New York Times reported that BP was planning to fly scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute to Louisiana to conduct volume measurements. The oceanographers were poised to use underwater ultrasound equipment to measure the flow of oil and gas from the ocean floor when BP canceled the trip.
On June 8, in responding to a question regarding the rate of the flow of oil from the BP well, Admiral Thad Allen told ABC News, "Everything we know and everything we see is through either the remote sensors or remote-operated vehicles that are like looking through a particular keyhole at a particular time." Access to that keyhole is still completely controlled by BP.
An accurate measurement of the flow of oil could change the way people remember this spill and their opinion of BP. Once the leak is plugged and the oil is dispersed throughout the oceans of the world, who's to say for certain whether BP's oil well blowout gushed an average of 5,000 or 80,000 bbl/day of oil? By allowing BP to obscure the spill's true magnitude, the federal government appears to support BP's strategy.
Dispersants: An Out-of-Sight, Out-of-Mind Strategy
To date, more than 1,000,000 (one million) gallons of dispersant have been poured into the Gulf of Mexico by BP since the April 22 sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig, an unprecedented application and for a duration and at depths also without precedent. BP has an additional 805,000 gallons of dispersant on order.
Dispersants break oil into droplets that decompose more quickly. But scientists worry that extensive use of the chemicals in the BP spill is increasing marine life's exposure to the toxins in oil. Environmentalists consider their use effective for ridding surface waters of oil but say when the toxins are broken down and become embedded on the sea bed they pose a significant threat to marine life. Experiments by John Nyman of Louisiana State University indicate that the combination of Louisiana crude and the dispersant used on the current spill is more toxic to marsh-dwelling invertebrates than oil alone would be.
BP is using the dispersant "Corexit 9500." While Corexit 9500 is on the EPA's approved list, BP is using this dispersant in unprecedented volumes and has been using it underwater at the source of the leak, a procedure that has never been tried before. The EPA has acknowledged that "much is unknown about the underwater use of dispersants." Moreover, of all the chemicals approved by the EPA for use on oil spills, Corexit 9500 is among the most toxic to certain organisms. It also is among the least effective in breaking up the kind of oil that is prevalent in the area around the spill site, EPA tests concluded. Corexit might also be contributing to the formation of large undersea "oil plumes" thousands of feet below the surface. The undersea plumes may go a long way toward explaining the discrepancy between the flow estimates, suggesting that much of the oil emerging from the well could be lingering far below the sea surface.
Sylvia Earle, the National Geographic's explorer-in-residence and former chief scientist at NOAA, stated that "the instructions for humans using Corexit warn that it is an eye and skin irritant, is harmful by inhalation, in contact with skin and if swallowed, and may cause injury to red blood cells, kidney or the liver." "People are warned not to take Corexit internally," she said, "but the fish, turtles, copepods and jellies have no choice."
Earle further states, "We don't know what the effect of dispersants applied a mile underwater is; there's been no laboratory testing of that at all, or the effect of what it does when it combines with oil a mile underwater." One problem with breaking down the oil is that it makes it easier for the many tiny underwater organisms to ingest this toxic soup. "The effort should be in recovering the oil, not making it more difficult to recover by dispersing it," says Earle. The chemical assault appeared geared, she says, "to improving the appearance of the problem rather than solving the problem."
Carl Safina, president and co-founder of Blue Ocean Institute, a New York-based conservation organization, believes BP's dispersant strategy has more to do with PR than good science. "It takes something that we can see that we could at least partly deal with and dissolves it so we can't see it and can't deal with it," he said. It's not at all clear to me why we are dispersing the oil at all," Safina said. "It's an out-of-sight, out-of-mind strategy. It's just to get it away from the cameras on the shoreline.
Sinking Agents
The National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan, more commonly called the National Contingency Plan or NCP, is the federal government's blueprint for responding to both oil spills and hazardous substance releases. The National Contingency Plan is the result of our country's efforts to develop a national response capability and promote overall coordination among the hierarchy of responders and contingency plans.
Pursuant to NCP Section 300.310, "As appropriate, actions shall be taken to recover the oil or mitigate its effects. Of the numerous chemical or physical methods that may be used, the chosen methods shall be the most consistent with protecting public health and welfare and the environment. Sinking agents shall not be used."
Sinking agents means those additives applied to oil discharges to sink floating pollutants below the water surface.
The question is whether BP's dispersants are "sinking agents" when they are applied a mile underwater at the source of the well leak.
BP is knowingly and systematically underestimating the size of the spill to limit the financial impact on the company. Under the CWA, the company faces fines of up to $4,300 for each barrel spilled. Furthermore, pursuant to Section 2702 of OPA 90, BP may be required to pay royalties (18.75%) owed to the federal government for the oil gushing from the well.
Bhattacharyya, S., P.L. Klerks, and J.A. Nyman. 2003. Toxicity to freshwater organisms from oils and oil spill chemical treatments in laboratory microcosms. Environmental Pollution 122:205-215.
BP is Not the Only Responsible Party, available at: http://renergie.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/bp-is-not-the-only-responsible-party/
Clean Water Act
EPA: http://www.epa.gov/oem/content/lawsregs/opaover.htm
MMS: http://www.mms.gov/
National Contingency Plan
NOAA: http://www.noaa.gov/
Oil Pollution Act of 1990
USA Today: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/05/how-responsible-is-us-government-for-gulf-oil-spill/
USCG: http://www.uscg.mil/
About the Author
Brian J. Donovan is an attorney and marine engineer with thirty-five years of international business experience.
Mr. Donovan, a member of The Florida Bar, The U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida and The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, holds a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law (where he was recipient of the "Global Law & Practice Award" as the outstanding graduate in the areas of International Law and International Business Law) and a B.S., with honors, in Marine/Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
Mr. Donovan, with deep family roots in southern Louisiana, has first-hand knowledge of the catastrophic devastation of the Louisiana Gulf Coast caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He fully appreciates that the damage caused by Katrina and Rita may pale in comparison to the massive and potentially unprecedented environmental and economic impact of the BP oil spill of April, 2010.


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Health Care Changes In Primary Care: A CEO's View
June 21, 2016
Hosted by Maureen Metcalf
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Dr. Wulf and Jim talk about the leading work Central Ohio Primary Care (300 physicians) is doing and preparing for in the next five years with health care reform accompanied by new innovations in medical care. We will discuss how they became a leader in their field and what they are doing to shape how the field of medicine and how it is practiced (and led) into 2020.
During the interview we will discuss:
1. COPCP background and how has it changed over the years?
2. COPCP is trying to build a business outside of the "conglomerate" model, What does the leadership look like in the kind of business?
3. How will healthcare changing for the Primary care physician, and what challenges does this present?
4. What kind of physician leader will be needed to move healthcare in the future?
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The show features interviews of thought leaders and academics combined with executives in a range of industries to identify their biggest issues and discuss the innovative approaches they are using to turn turbulence into a business advantage. We present concepts and tools that have been proven to improve organizational success and discussions about how you can apply them to drive success in your organization.
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The jobs numbers were 171,000 and 7.9%. Let there be an election. Let the people decide if this is right! So our socioeconomic election coverage comes to an end with the markets making a bounce attempt and President Obama recovering some lost ground. This race has become too close to call, and amid the chaos of the storm I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see a repeat of the 2000 election where we don't get a winner for days or weeks.
Thankfully, this is an era that has come to an end. The worst part of this fiasco is a Congress that totally obstructed a president's agenda and a president who put his own legacy before the will of the American people. Barack Obama created the Tea Party, and it was the Tea Party that created the debt ceiling debacle that was so ruinous to the country.
By his own admission, the President stated that he didn't care if he became a one-term President if it meant getting Obamacare passed into law. He pursued the health care issue even as his staunchest and most senior advisors told him to forget it.
Never in my life have I seen such opposition to such an important piece of legislation that was not passed with the vast majority of the American people. This is the legacy of the last 2 years. 2012 was a total waste of time while millions of people struggle along to put their lives back together in the wake of the greatest run of greed in the history of the world. That's what the financial crisis was. I'm not going to get started on this tangent but the years 2002-07 should be remembered as a time of going for the short cut, doing things the easy way to creep out of a recession and instead things got out of hand when people, institutions and regulators lost of all sense of reality. Had we attempted to rebuild the infrastructure of our cities, especially in the Northeast when we had the money we certainly would not be dealing with a massive debt load. Our cities in the Northeast are so old and need of repair. We missed a golden opportunity to take care of it after the Internet bubble bear ended.
Unfortunately, New York is now not only forced to rebuild, they must think way out of the box to consider building sea walls to protect lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. How much is that going to cost? Supposedly this was the 100 or even 1000 year storm. But who can guarantee it won't happen again next year?
They don't have the money. I read in yesterday's paper the original plans by Army Corp of Engineers for a safeguard project for the low lying areas of Staten Island were developed in 1965! Due to complacency and more urgent needs NYC never followed up on those plans.
When I was there last year for the aborted hurricane, the big story was the increase in tolls over the next few years to cross the bridges and tunnels to get into New York City every day. The good folks of New Jersey would pay roughly $12 per day (approximately) to either use a tunnel or cross a bridge to work in the city. These tolls are systematically increasing to 15-17 over the next several years to pay for all the infrastructure work needed to keep the bridges and tunnels from falling apart. This was before any thought of a storm. Now the estimates to put the NY metro region back together again is $50 billion and Wall Street people think it will be double that. Where are they going to get the money to do it? Are they going to raise taxes? They can't do that because New York is already the highest taxed place in the country. Are they going to increase the tolls? They've already stretched people to the limit of what they can pay. I want to say that New York is going to come back from all of this and they will but there will likely be another exodus of people out who just can't afford to live there. New York will make it collectively, but individually that is not likely to be the case.
The Federal government will come in with FEMA money to put people back on their feet and help them rebuild their homes. But what about the businesses who were lost in this disaster? I'm thinking of the sandwich shop down the street from the NYSE who has been there for 20 years but the water destroyed the entire inventory. What will these people do? They don't have insurance for that. It's been speculated there are hundreds if not thousands of these small mom and pop type businesses who may shutter forever as a result of this storm.
So we have an election and a disaster. Markets took somewhat of a beating on Friday that leaves them near the lows achieved last week at this time. It ought to give Romney one final boost heading into the big day. But at the end of the day, the stock market correction of October 2011 wiped away the incumbent's lead. I just hope that no matter who wins, Washington gets to the serious business of leadership in the next session of Congress because we need it and both parties are equally to blame. Congress and the President needed to find it within themselves to do things for the good of the country as opposed to personal political gain.
I have to continue on the story of the week and probably the story of the year. If there was one thing that could put the most important election in our lifetime off the headline, this was it. From a social mood perspective I think there is a link between the greed over the years on Wall Street and concept they could still have a marathon this weekend. The idea they could stage an event like that while people are suffering the way they are is reprehensible. They came to their senses proving old ways die hard. The Sunday papers reported that badly needed generators from the event were still sitting idly by while thousands of people remained without power. We all realize the economic impact of the NYC Marathon to the community but the minute that storm was over and they realized what happened every possible generator should have been put in a position to help people. Real leadership gets in front of problem, not lag behind. The Mayor has been mostly good to this point over his tenure but this was a bad miss.
OK, for now this storm hits GDP for up to half a percent which is something this economy cannot afford. Better hope that Christmas season which is just about upon is very merry this year.
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Sept. 9, 2007
The Lady Bisons attempted another second half rally, but were not able to take game two of a three-game home stand, losing 4-1 to Arkansas-Little Rock.
Freshman forward Halie Proffitt scored her first collegiate goal in the game. She has a goal and an assist in her last two games.
The Lady Bisons held Arkansas-Little Rock to only one first half goal.
Jessica Beaver scored the first goal of the game for Arkansas-Little Rock at the 28:15 mark of the first half.
She struck again with the first goal of the second half at 46:26.
Proffitt's goal pulled the Lady Bisons to within one goal at the 63-minute mark. Freshman midfielder Danielle Stewart was credited with the assist, the first of her collegiate career.
Arkansas-Little Rock opened the lead with a goal by Laura Johnson at 70:13 and another by Courtney Renfro at 79:56.
The Lady Bisons had 10 shots, including five shots on goal. Eight of their shots were in the second half. Proffitt led with both four shots and two shots on goal.
Arkansas-Little Rock made 31 shots, 14 shots on goal. Alex Rustad led with both six shots and three shots on goal.
The Lady Bisons are 0-4. Arkansas-Little Rock is 2-3.
The Lady Bisons close out the home stand Tuesday afternoon at 3 when Jackson State visits.


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Y fydh Pennseythun Kernewek an 14ves - 16ves a vis-Meurth.
..There will be a Cornish Language Weekend on the 14th - 16th March.
Y fydh synsys yn Sandy Lodge Hotel, Tewynn Pleustri.
..It will be held in Sandy Lodge Hotel, Newquay.
Kost an ostyans yw £60 rag an dhiw nos gans hansel ha koen.
..The accommodation cost is £60 for the two nights, with breakfast and dinner.
Omlowenha gans dyskansow, ilow, bardhonieth, gwariow, arethow, vyaj a-ves ha moy!
..Enjoy lessons, music, poetry, games, talks, a trip out and more!
Kost an hwarvosow ma yw £25 rag an dhew dydh, gans te, koffi ha li synsys ynno.
..The cost of these events is £25 for the two days with tea, coffee and lunch included.
Na borth own! An dhyskadoryon a dhynnergh tus na woer unn ger a Gernewek! Y fydh bagas bras a dus a'n par na.
..Don't be afraid! The teachers welcome people that don't know one word of Cornish! There will be a big group of people like that.
Pur hegar yw. Dha weles ena!
..It's very friendly. See you there!
Pella derivadow dhiworth /More information from - firstname.lastname@example.com
Cornish Language Weekend
Rag an re na ujy ow cowsel Kernowek a nivel elvennek ew an glapva ma / Rag an re na usi ow kewsel Kernewek a nivel elvennek yw an glapva ma
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If we wanted to go, who would be contact?
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
and everything will be sorted.
By the way, you don't have to take the accommodation - you can stay somewhere else or at home and turn up whenever you like for as long as you like. But you do have to pay £15 for one day's activities (all day Saturday is best value!) or £25 for two day's activities (which essentially covers the whole weekend from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon - and you'll be practically fluent by then ).
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- 1 - 14.75 oz. can salmon
- minced onion up to ½ medium onion
- 2 eggs lightly beaten
- 1 tsp. ground pepper
- 1 tsp. lemon juice
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 whole pkg. saltine crackers crushed
- Empty salmon & juice into a mixing bowl . remove bones if you like
- Add the rest of the ingredients, mix well.
- Form into patties 3/4 to 1 inch thick. Set aside on plate or wax paper (make 5-6 patties).
- Let set 5 minutes.
- In large frying pan heat 1/8 inch cooking oil to med. high temperature.
- When oil is hot place patties in pan and cook 4-5 minutes per side. Make sure patties get cooked all the way through. Center should not be cold.
- Patties will be beautifully browned, a little crunchy on the outside!
- Taste great as is or served on a bun with tarter sauce.
- This mixture can be formed into a loaf and baked as well! Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
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31243, Hymns, In Memory of the Crucified, no. 190
1. In mem'ry of the Crucified,
Our Father, we have met this hour.
May thy sweet Spirit here abide,
That all may feel its glowing pow'r.
2. Our Savior, in Gethsemane,
Shrank not to drink the bitter cup,
And then, for us, on Calvary,
Upon the cross was lifted up.
3. We rev'rence with the broken bread,
Together with the cup we take,
The body bruised, the lifeblood shed,
A sinless ransom for our sake.
4. Our Father, may this sacrament
To ev'ry soul be sanctified
Who eats and drinks with pure intent,
That in our Savior he'll abide.
Text: Frank I. Kooyman, 1880-1963. © 1948 IRI
Music: Alexander Schreiner, 1901-1987. © 1948 IRI


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Still calling itself the largest restaurant seller of responsibly raised meat, Denver-based Chipotle Mexican Grill insists it has not changed its standards for responsibly raised beef, chicken and pork. The goal is that these products continue to come from animals that are never given antibiotics or added hormones.
"We decided to start serving meat from animals that have never been given antibiotics or added hormones more than a decade ago," says
While the company has considered new protocols, including one that would allow animals to be treated with antibiotics only when necessary for their continued health, that protocol has not been implemented.
At this time, Chipotle's protocol allows the use of antibiotics to treat sick animals, but those animals must be removed from Chipotle's supply.
However, the company is currently evaluating if this strict "never-ever" antibiotic protocol is best for the animals, or whether animals can be treated when necessary and allowed to remain in the herd.
"We are always looking to improve our protocols in order to ensure that we are buying the very best sustainably raised ingredients," Ells says. "Many experts, including some of our ranchers, believe that animals should be allowed to be treated if they are ill and remain in the herd. We are certainly willing to consider this change, but we are continuing to evaluate what's best for our customers, our suppliers and the animals."
Last year, Chipotle served more than 120 million pounds of responsibly raised beef, pork and chicken. The company does occasionally experience shortages of responsibly raised meats. These shortages can last a few weeks, and impact a small percentage of its restaurants at a given time. During these shortages, the company posts notices so customers are aware of the change.
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Response To MD5 Collision
Earlier today at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, three researchers presented a paper in which they had used an MD5 collision attack and substantial computing firepower to create a false SSL Certificate using the RapidSSL brand of certificates.
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I'm happy to announce that this attack articulated this morning has been rendered ineffective for all SSL Certificates available from VeriSign.
We applaud security research of this sort and are glad that white hats like the "MD5 Collision Inc." group make a point of investigating online security. This group went to great lengths to keep its findings private, and unfortunately that included ensuring that VeriSign did not receive information about the findings ahead of the actual presentation, rendering it impossible for us to begin work on mitigating this issue prior to this morning. Fortunately, VeriSign has already removed this vulnerability. Here are some likely questions and their responses based on what we know as of this morning :
Are the researchers' claims about the MD5 vulnerabilities accurate?
Because the researchers did not brief VeriSign on their findings, we have only gotten this information today. There is nothing in the research that upon cursory examination appears to be inaccurate. As we have the opportunity to properly examine this paper, we will have a more definitive response to this question.
How has VeriSign mitigated this problem?
VeriSign has removed this vulnerability. As of approximately 11:00 am this morning, the attack laid out this morning in Berlin cannot be successful against any RapidSSL certificate nor any other SSL Certificate that VeriSign sells under any brand.
As a site operator what do I need to do to protect the security of my site?
No action is required of our customers. No existing certificates are affected by this attack and the vulnerability has been rendered ineffective for all RapidSSL Certificates moving forward.
Is VeriSign going to stop using MD5 as a result of these findings?
VeriSign has been phasing-out MD5 over the past two years; the planned phase out date has been on the road-map for late January 2009 (less than one month from now). In light of today's presentation, VeriSign will be accelerating this phase-out to the earliest safe date. We will notify the public when the phase-out is complete. As of today, we have discontinued using MD5 when we issue RapidSSL certificates, and we've confirmed that all other SSL Certificates we sell are not vulnerable to this attack.
Why has it taken so long for VeriSign to phase out MD5?
Sunsetting a legacy technology within a business ecosystem takes time to be phased out as revoking and replacing certificates could potentially halt a customer's online business. As mentioned above, VeriSign will be accelerating this phase-out to the earliest safe date. We will notify the public when the phase-out is complete.
How many Web sites are affected?
Zero. The attack, when it worked, was a potential method for a criminal to create a new, false certificate from scratch. The researchers did not demonstrate an attack against existing end entity certificates. In other words, you can't use this attack to break a certificate that already has been issued to a site.
Does the vulnerability impact only sites using RapidSSL certificates?
This vulnerability doesn't affect any existing end-entity certificates including RapidSSL.
What happens to customers who have certificates in place using the MD5 hashing algorithm?
Today's research revealed a potential attack that required the issuance of new certificates. Existing end entity certificates are not at risk from this attack. Nonetheless, any customer who would like to do so can replace any MD5-hashed certificate free of charge. Until further notice VeriSign is suspending its normal replacement fees for these certificates. Because this replacement is not necessary to ensure the continued security of sites, we are not requiring the replacement of such certificates, as we have previously with the likes of weak Debian keys.
The researchers mentioned that Extended Validation SSL Certificates are not vulnerable to the attack because they do not allow MD5. Is that true?
This is correct; EV SSL Certificates utilize the latest hash algorithm and are not affected by the newly-revealed MD5 vulnerabilities. Today the MD5 researchers specifically reinforced that EV SSL Certificates are safe from this attack. They stressed the need for consumers to move to EV-compatible browsers to get the most benefit from EV.
Is Internet security broken?
Hardly. The presenters of this morning's paper stressed that it took them a long time and a great deal of computational power to succeed in their collision attack. VeriSign has already eliminated the attack as a possibility.
Source : VeriSign, Inc.


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Schools, homes, shoes and jobs. Love. Hope. As myriad as the needs of those swept up in poverty, abandonment and disaster are the people who pour out their time and treasure to help.
In Howard County, we have a commendable reputation for helping our own, but there are some whose hearts reach beyond our borders. Across the sea, in the mountains and valleys and deserts, they root their hearts in lives of strangers. What inspires them to use precious vacation time to bathe dirty orphans and erect shelters on the rubble of earthquakes? How do they keep going, when the need seems never to end, and their bank accounts bleed money like a hard punch in the nose? Here are three stories of local residents who are trying to make a difference in other lands. To learn more, visit the websites listed at the end of each story.
Beyond All Boundaries: Schools in Haiti
What inspires a woman making a six-figure salary to quit her job and move to Haiti to feed children and send them to school?
Peanut butter sandwiches.
It's a story that Audrey Boatwright loves to tell.
On a mission trip a few years ago to Gonaives, Haiti, Boatwright had a jar of peanut butter with her. She bought some bread for $5 and, with the help of other volunteers, made sandwiches, cut them up and walked out into the street to give out the pieces to a few hungry children. The next thing they knew, those kids ran and got their friends.
"We fed 60 kids. I'll never forget that," says Boatwright.
While the decision to leave her job as a vice president for a local desktop publishing company to feed children in Haiti doesn't solely rest on those sandwiches, her story certainly is a metaphor for what Boatwright hopes to accomplish in that Caribbean country with her charity, Beyond All Boundaries. With help from those who have much, combined with a few resources and the heart of the Haitian people, many lives can be made better.
To be completely truthful — before the peanut butter sandwiches — it was another woman, Vera "Ma" Boudreaux, who planted the needs of Haiti in Boatwright's mind. The California missionary had been working in Haiti for 20 years when she came to speak at a prayer retreat in 1997 at the Long Reach Church of God, which Boatwright formerly attended. She was recruiting people to go to Haiti. Boatwright, a military brat who was 37 at the time she met Boudreaux, raised her hand and said, "I'll go."
"I was at a place in my life where I believed there was more," says Boatwright. She went on her first mission trip to Haiti on Jan. 19, 1998.
"I hadn't seen anything like the poverty there. But I saw hope. I kept seeing businesses, schools, opportunity," remembers Boatwright about those two weeks helping at the schools in Gonaives, a city about 100 miles north of, and a two-and-a-half-hour drive from, Port-au-Prince.
"People were begging for money, work. They had no shoes. In '98, kids were still naked," she recalls.
When she returned to Columbia, she couldn't get Haiti out of her mind. So she went back that June for three weeks to distribute food and clothing, teach English, and learn how to sew school uniforms on a pedal sewing machine.
"I took this one dress apart so many times," says Boatwright, laughing. But she mastered it.
Haiti, with a population of 9 million, is one of the poorest countries in the world, as many people were reminded after last year's earthquake. Most of the schools and orphanages are run by missionaries.
"There's no government subsidizing, no welfare programs or soup kitchens," says Boatwright, although she has hopes of a public education system coming soon.
In May 1999, she quit her job and moved to Gonaives to help "Ma" Boudreaux. She was supported by her church, family and friends. In 2003, she returned to the United States and worked for a high-tech company for a while, making occasional trips back to Haiti.
During that time, Boatwright's doctor, Phyllis Campbell, accompanied the missionary to Haiti, along with two nurses. They held a medical clinic one day and saw more than 80 people.
"Haiti is a beautiful place, but the poverty you see is heartbreaking. It's indescribable," says Campbell, who practices in Columbia. "It humbles you about how you look at life and possessions."
Campbell says she was impressed with Boatwright's knowledge of the people and the country. "She knew the system," explains the gynecologist. After that trip, Campbell says she was "catapulted" into medical missions and has gone to other countries since then.
"I want to go back to Haiti," she says, then pauses. "I am going back."
In 2008, Boatwright started Beyond All Boundaries, an organization dedicated to helping the Haitian people become self-sufficient.
"I didn't just want to be a beans and rice program," says Boatwright. "I wanted to holistically meet the needs of the total man. I wanted to teach people to fish, not hand them a fish."
She taught herself to speak and read Creole and raised money for four schools, two in Gonaives and two in rural areas north of the city, including one mountain school. She helped build a seminary, and she also sends young adults to trade schools for nursing, construction, driving and sewing.
Currently she is building an orphanage to house 30 kids, many of them victims of last year's earthquake.
The country already had been hit by two hurricanes in 2004 and 2008 and was trying to recover from those storms. Hurricane John in 2008 hit Gonaives directly, leaving mud 15 feet high in the city, according to Boatwright.
"A lot of people died," she says. Boatwright had just purchased $10,000 in supplies to build a school when the hurricane hit.
"It all just blew away."
Somehow the school got built.
Even though Gonaives didn't feel the physical effects of the 2010 earthquake, the homeless and orphaned of Port-au-Prince made their way north.
"People brought orphans to Gonaives and just left them," says Boatwright.
"Life is hard in Haiti," she says, and there really aren't a lot of jobs.
"Unless we create them, the people won't have them," she says.
Their definition of success is different, too. Americans might think that Haitians are lazy and don't want to get ahead when, in reality, the Haitian mindset is focused on the present, Boatwright explains.
"Haitians think, 'I just want to survive today,'" says Boatwright, who was recently ordained as a chaplain. Boudreaux, now 88 and still working for Haiti, came to the ceremony at Cornerstone Community Church of God, in Kings Contrivance.
Boatwright travels to her adopted home every other month and plans to spend at least six consecutive months there in 2012. She always needs volunteers. Taking in clothes is also more expensive now. Her organization could use vehicles and would welcome funds to pay for shipping containers or airline costs.
While labor is cheap in Haiti, materials are not, she says. Land for the orphanage was donated by Boudreaux's mission. The walls are up. She estimates the cost of finishing the orphanage at $50,000 and another $100 to $150 a month per child to run it. She also wants to add grades to her school in the mountains. Right now, the school serves kids age 3 to second grade.
"If I make life better for one child, that keeps me coming," says Boatwright. "We don't always get it right every time. Sometimes it's just taking it one day at a time, or one grade at a time, in the case of a school." www.beyondallboundaries.org
Global Vessels: Orphanage in Tanzania
Walk into the Columbia home of Virginia and Frazier Mathis and the first things you might see are bags of shoes — big bags, full of sneakers for their kids. Oh, the Mathises' children are grown and have their own little ones, but they don't need shoes, not like the orphans in Tanzania.
In this east African country, just south of Kenya, the Havilah Children's Village in Arusha houses, feeds and educates 20 orphans, ages 3 to 11, because of the efforts of the Columbia couple.
Havilah children and staff wake up each morning to breathtaking views of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Neru. Tourism is the economic driver here. Many Europeans come to Tanzania to go on safari.
However, despite the infusion of outside dollars into the local economy, the number of orphans is rising.
Malaria is the No. 1 killer in the Arusha region, but HIV/AIDS may soon surpass it. Most reported cases are female. Orphaned children are left in the care of grandmothers or other relatives with few extra resources. According to the region's government, Arushan women are underserved and undereducated.
Progress is slow and mostly focused on the next generation of Tanzanians. That's why the couple started Global Vessels.
"There's really no middle class there," says Frazier Mathis. "You either have or you don't."
Frazier is a cabinet maker; Virginia teaches computer science at a private school in Takoma Park. They started the charity in 1998, after going on a mission trip with their church to Ghana. They spent one day bathing 28 orphaned babies being raised in a house the size of their Howard County living room.
Through Global Vessels, the couple provides for the basic needs of orphans while also contributing to Arusha's local economy by employing teachers and laborers and buying local goods — except shoes and clothes, which are donated by Americans.
"We want to raise these children to be the very best Tanzanians they can be," says Frazier. "We believe these children are one day going to be the leaders in their country."
During the school year, Frazier flies to the African country once a quarter for 10 days to monitor Havilah's operations. On a recent trip he went to the local market and bought bags of beans. Taking them back to Havilah, he had the children divide the beans into smaller bags and take them to the families in the town.
Later he did the same thing with sugar, then clothes. The children gathered the clothes that had been donated to them that they had outgrown, and took them to neighboring children. After all the clothes had been given out, the orphans hopped into their van to go home when a child came running out into the street crying that he didn't get any clothes. A Havilah child, Simon, 5, jumped out of the van, pulled off his T-shirt and gave it to the boy, recounts Frazier.
"They're orphans, but that doesn't negate that you can go and help someone else," he says.
Havilah was built concrete block by concrete block (the orphanage has its own block making machine) by the joint efforts of American volunteers and Arushans. Every summer, the Mathises take a team of volunteers, both teens and adults, to build and to work with the children. In July, the 32-member team had a goal of putting a second floor on the administration/school building.
One of the volunteers, Tom Gross, however, had a unique job. Gross, who owns Fireside Stone & Patio in Kendall's Hardware in Clarksville, met Frazier Mathis in the store one day. After learning about Havilah, he asked if it got cold in Tanzania. Yes, replied Mathis. They deal with it by using small space heaters and lots of extra blankets. Gross offered to get two wood burning stoves donated to the orphanage. With the help of Jotul stoves and Simpson Duravent, two stoves and venting were shipped in a sea container, along with desks and chairs surplussed from a nearby school district. When Gross learned that there was no one to install the stoves and vents, he knew what he had to do.
"I'm blessed with so much. I just felt a call to go," he says.
As a result, Gross and his wife, Beth, joined the 2011 team in Tanzania.
It takes about $40,000 a year to run the orphanage. That includes paying the house mothers, the teachers for the preschoolers, parochial school tuition for the older kids, food and medical care. The directors, who are usually Americans supported by mission organizations or family and friends, get a very small stipend. "Enough to buy deodorant," says Virginia Mathis.
There is a third house ready to house 10 more children, but the Mathises are resolved not to take any more in until they have a sponsor for each child.
While the Mathises are exploring opportunities to help in other countries, they're not rushing ahead.
"An orphanage is a lifelong commitment," says Virginia.
"It's every day asking people, 'Do you want to help us?' " says Frazier.
When he contemplates what's been accomplished so far, and what lies ahead, he can only thank God.
"He places a desire in your heart, and then he puts people around you to help you. All we are is just willing. There's no way we could've orchestrated this. No way." www.globalvessels.org
Worldwide Shelters: Shelter after the storm
Many have seen images of the tent cities that pop up so quickly after a devastating hurricane or earthquake. So often, they are slow to come down again, flapping in the wind with every successive storm, unless they are just blown away. Worldwide Shelters, a nonprofit in Glenwood, believes there's a better way to provide shelter to people hit by natural disasters. It's called transitional housing.
Made in the United States of galvanized steel, the frames interlock with minimal tools. No construction skills are required.
"It's almost like a Tinkertoy thing," describes Jeannie McMahon, executive director of Worldwide Shelters.
In the short term, a tarp can be thrown over it. In the long term, a metal roof and walls made of local resources can make the shelter more permanent.
Worldwide Shelters was started in Glenwood five years ago by five businessmen as a for-profit venture.
The men, who all wish to remain anonymous, moved on except one western Howard County resident who still believed that transitional housing was the answer to long-term disaster recovery and for poor countries with large groups of people who have no shelter, such as Indonesia and Haiti. The organization achieved nonprofit status in 2009.
Taking the helm of the organization last January, McMahon, who also lives in Glenwood, is tasked with finding partnering agencies and persuading them of the value of transitional shelters. She also needs to raise money for the shelter costs, about $1,000 each. Since Worldwide Shelters' administrative costs are completely funded by the anonymous founder, McMahon says that 100 percent of donations and grant monies go to the shelters. Her strategy is to get them erected in needy countries where nongovernmental agencies are already at work so they will consider buying them instead of tents.
"The transitional shelter model is the next generation," says McMahon. "Hopefully, the next time there's a hurricane in Honduras, people won't be sending tents."
She and her son, Danny, 23, joined a volunteer group from California-based Samaritan's Feet in Harere, Zimbabwe, this summer to put up six shelters. Zimbabwe has the highest rate of hyper-inflation in the world, according to McMahon. By partnering with Samaritan's Feet, which has relationships in the country, McMahon hopes to bypass the local red tape and any corruption that might exist.
The nonprofit could've used a partner like that in Haiti, where 12,000 transitional shelters were sent. "It was problematic. There was so much corruption," she says.
Three people can put up one shelter in less than a day. The Zimbabwe team hoped to have all six erected in the five days allotted to the project. Worldwide Shelters also will provide roofing material, one window and one door for each shelter. Later, local residents will build walls with bricks made in Zimbabwe to make the shelter permanent.
"With this concept you have a lot of buy-in from the end user," says McMahon. She's also looking for a partner in Indonesia, where the shelters will be finished off with bamboo walls.
That's all part of being "culturally correct," says McMahon.
She also is working on fundraising and is looking for platforms to share with others.
"This cause resonates with women," she says. One of her ideas is to find women to host "Moms for Shelter" cocktail parties.
McMahon's background is in sales, and she also made curtains for 20 years. As she became more involved in local fundraising activities at her kids' schools, she remembered how energizing the work could be.
"I felt like I got my mojo back," says McMahon. It was through her PTA and high school Booster activities that she was asked to join Worldwide Shelters.
One of her first jobs was to get the office out of her house and into a rented space at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Glenwood. A shelter will also be erected on church property, according to the church rector, Dina Els van Klaveren.
"It would be great for our parish community to see this homegrown nonprofit and to learn more about shelter," says van Klaveren.
"It's like pulling puppies out of the water. They shouldn't be there. Someone's got to go upstream and figure out why it's happening, to change the system," she says, likening McMahon to that person of change. "She's working both ends of the stream: the immediate need and the long-term change of systems. She has a big task ahead of her."
McMahon believes in her cause. Recently, postgrad Capstone Naval students have chosen to do their theses on Worldwide Shelters' Series 1100 Transitional Shelter.
"This is great news from the advocacy perspective, since the U.S. Navy is the largest deployer of post-disaster aid," she says. "I have the feeling that if we can get this going it could become the norm. It's such a great idea." www.worldwideshelters.org


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That's the nice thing about the way they're doing the roll out. As communities step up and buy votes they'll start creeping towards JoCo. I know that Rivermarket wasn't included in he initial coverage area, but my friends that live there and their neighbors as of 10pm last night they only need 5 more people in Riverside to sign up and then they would be in the next stage of the roll out. So as cities like Olathe and Shawnee and other suburbs start gaining interest, we should start seeing Fiber availability over the next year or two.
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You know those women who love washing and drying and folding their laundry into neat little piles and delivering it happily into drawers and closets throughout the house?
I am not one of them.
I don't hate laundry, it's just not stress-relieving for me to do it. Plus there's my dryer issues. A few years ago, my 15 year old washer died. The dryer was still working, so we have we've been mismatched for awhile and lived to tell about it! A couple of months ago, it started shredding straps to tank tops and bras, which is pretty inconvenient and rude.
We proved we were rednecks and duct taped the broken plastic to keep it going. I'm not proud:
But I'm not complaining, I got a whole new appreciation for "doing laundry" last summer in Kenya. We took one suitcase for our whole family for 3 weeks–I was all "we're going to live like the people" and we hand-washed until my hands were red and chapped.
People, I am not always smart.
[Next week we're taking four for the family.]
Because I'm a quick learner.
This week (in between selling our home and trying to find a place to come home to after our trip to Kenya), I was chosen to be a Maytag Ambassador. I might have screamed a little when I found out I'm receiving a Bravos XL washer and dryer to review. My kids were all "did we find a place to live??"
"No, but momma's getting new laundry machines!"
When my kids turn 8, they get a big fat laundry lesson, so I wasn't the only one squealing!
I'm so excited to be a part of this program because if I know anything, it's dirty laundry! I can't wait to share my reviews with you over the next few months.
P.S. We found a house just in the nick of time!
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Working out at the bird sanctuary has been incredibly rewarding. It introduces physical activity where I wouldn't be up and moving otherwise. The sanctuary is 3.5 acres and I haul water, food and cleaning supplies in a wagon all over the site. In addition to my hair once again getting redder, I've noticed increased muscle tone (woot).
Besides the physical benefits, it just feels good to be doing something like this. Its totally not glamorous work, I've hosing out cages, raking them, sweating and come home covered in grit and the occasional case of poison ivy. It's fun and challenging learning the birds personalities, given the ones that love attention some snuggle time and coaxing the shy ones to take a treat from your hand. It has also become a playground for photography for me
It's been a joy and a challenge and I hope you enjoy my most recent photography. I promise more updates to come once I get DragonCon decals and 2 other special projects out the door.
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Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.—Acts 4:32-33
...unity of mind on the part of the people of God precedes the blessing. I have often heard people pray, "Oh Lord, send the Holy Spirit that we may become a united people." That is all right except it is precisely backwards. The Holy Spirit comes because we are a united people; He does not come to make us a united people. Our prayer should be more like, "Lord, help us to get united in order that the blessing might flow and there might be an outpouring of oil and dew and life." That's the way we should pray....
This teaches us that unity is necessary to the outpouring of the Spirit of God. If you have 120 volts of electricity coming into your house but you have broken wiring, you may turn the switch, but nothing works-no lights come on, the stove doesn't warm, your radio doesn't turn on. Why? Because you have broken wiring. The power is ready to do its work with all the appliances in your home, but where there is broken wiring, you have no power. Unity is necessary among the children of God if we are going to know the flow of power. Success and the Christian, 86-87.
"Lord, help us to get united in order that the blessing might flow and there might be an outpouring of oil and dew and life. Amen."
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Mitt Romney should just stop pretending to be someone he's not. It's like when your dad chaperons your middle school dance -- it's obvious he's just as uncomfortable as you are, his huge smile and attempted dance moves can't hide the fact that he'd rather light himself on fire than stand there another minute listening to Katy Perry and watching 13-year-olds grope each other. That's how I see Romney, as an embarrassed Dad, when he wears those terrible blue jeans and talks about "regular folks." It's painful to watch because it's clear it's just an act.
Take, for example, the GOP debate last night. Romney tried to show us, once again, that he's just one of the guys. This time it was a blundered Seinfeld reference that induced a nationwide cringe fest.
The crowd erupted in applause after the Governor talked about restoring a promise that Obama broke, and while basking in the love, Romney joked, "As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop."
We always get where Romney's coming from, just like we understand why Dad's trying to do the Dougie, but it doesn't make it any less difficult to watch. According to BuzzFeed, the real Seinfeld quote that Romney was likely referencing came from Jerry, who was talking to George. It went: "Showmanship, George. When you hit that high note, you say goodnight and walk off." Jason Alexander caught the quote and responded on Twitter.
Romney gave it a good go. He tried. But he needs to forget the jeans and forget pop culture and just wear the business suits he's comfortable in and talk about money and politics and health care and all that good stuff. It's his facade that makes him seem like a total toady, even if he really isn't. I find it way easier to accept someone who stays true to themselves than someone who's trying too hard to fit in.
I mean, the man is super rich and has amazing hair, so clearly, he's not one of us. And I think that's OK. Just enough with the charade already.
Do you think Mitt Romney is trying too hard to be "one of us"?
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Silverdream wrote:Not to be confused with I, SilvERdream. Seriously, I know you're just calling me silva because everyone else does but look up silvadream, he makes me look like idunno warhead.
Well I am curious too you know, the 9 artifax of pre-creation pre-date even myself, and their combined form may be the key to solving all the problems of the universe."
Keldoclock wrote:Swordsalmon: Argues about the price of bits of plastic, yet happily forks over $1 for a quarter-sized bit of plastic that does nothing but look cool.
stubby wrote:omg noob, balrogs are maiars too, don't you know anything
Silverdream wrote:This could mean the Akkadian Empire annexing all empires.
stubby wrote:But we've all seen this movie before. If someone is going for all the powerful weapons in the universe, he'll always end up getting them, because otherwise what's the point in telling the story.
And then at the end he'll be all-powerful for thirty seconds before some massive Koincidence causes him to lose everything despirte being invincible, or voluntarily scatter everything once again because he realizes they compromise his values of pure manliness, or whatever other reason best fits the narrative. If he does it right, we'll get to see bits and pieces in every battle that push him towards whatever it is in the end that's going to cause him to either lose or give up all the power.
Or, hopefully I mean. If this was Pandoranuker or somebody then I'd expect him to go with the "look at me I'm all powerful" route, for sure.
Silverdream wrote:Bragallot wrote:Silverdream wrote:This could mean the Akkadian Empire annexing all empires.
Yeah right like anyone would go with this 'LOOK AT ME IM ALL POWERFUL' crap.
Well if this goes well he'll have a weapon that makes him invincible, controls minds, kills anything automatically, can cut through anything, can summon brikthulu, cuts heads off like nothing, gives him infinite stupendous feats, can remove an entire squad from the universe, make any brik into another brik. Oh and it's piltogg, the manliest thing in the universe.
He was greatly angered by this noob who was trying to imitate his "mad style" and knew that he needed to be sentenced to a very severe punishment, so that he would learn his lesson.
I forgot the alternative scenario I was talking about yesterday in chat - when Piltogg collects all the Artifakts it immanentizes the eschaton, since the Deadly Spacemen have already shown us that there's a limit to how much ass you can kick before the universe breaks and then it has to reboot. Which means that there'd be some climactic final battle where reality itself is falling apart and everyone else is in a last-ditch effort trying to stop the Akkadians before it shatters completely.
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