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(Dartmouth)...6'0'', 207...Edward Francis Healey, Jr. . .Three-year end at Dartmouth. . .Left coaching job to seek tryout with Rock Island in new league, 1920. . . Converted to tackle as pro. . .Sold to Bears for $100, 1922 - first player sale in NFL. . .Became perennial All-Pro with Bears. . . Rugged, two-way star. . .Called "most versatile tackle ever" by Halas. . .Starred in Bears' long barnstorming tour after 1925 season. . . Born December 28, 1894, in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. . .Died December 9, 1978, at age of 83.
When Ed Healey, who had only average success as an end at Dartmouth College, heard of a new football league being formed in 1920, he took an overnight train to Rock Island, Illinois, to try out with the Independents. He faced the Chicago Tigers in his first game and played well enough that the management asked to join the team on a permanent basis.
In 1922, while playing against George Halas, the player-coach of the Chicago Bears, Healey dominated his opponent so thoroughly Halas decided he had to have this player on his team. After the game, he bought Healey for $100. Healey was elated to get a raise to $100 a game but was most excited that the Bears had a clubhouse. ''At Rock Island," Ed explained, "we had no showers and seldom a trainer. At Wrigley Field, we had a nice warm place to dress and nice warm showers."
Throughout his NFL career, Healey was a true warrior. Halas often called him "the most versatile tackle in history." He was an all-league pick five times during his eight-year NFL career. Blessed with good speed for a tackle, Healey was involved in at least two unforgettable plays as a Bear. In 1924, "Big Ed" ran more than 30 yards to nail his own teammate, who had run the wrong way with an intercepted pass, just short of the wrong goal line.
Two years later during the Bears' long barnstorming tour that featured the famous Red Grange, Healey made a touchdown-saving play before 60,000 fans, a play he called his greatest pro football thrill. Los Angeles All-Stars running ace George Wilson broke through the Bears line and into the open, but Healey hurdled several of his own teammates and caught Wilson from behind after a long chase.
Full Name: Edward Francis Healey, Jr.
Birthdate: December 28, 1894
Birthplace: Indian Orchard, Massachusetts
High School: Springfield Classical (Mass.)
Died: December 9, 1978
Enshrined into Pro Football Hall of Fame: September 6, 1964
Presenter: Harry Stuhldreher, Member of Notre Dame's four horsemen
Other Members of Class of 1964: Jimmy Conzelman, Clarke Hinkle, Link Lyman, Mike Michalske, Art Rooney, George Trafton
Pro Career: 8 seasons, 89 games
Drafted: Healey played prior to the NFL draft being implemented
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Animals in Ukraine are also in crisis.
The director of Kharkiv Zoo in northeast Ukraine warned Friday that their animals could start dying as a result of a food shortage due to lack of funds triggered by the surrounding political unrest.
"Our animals are not fighting for power, they do not share anyone's political views, they just want to live," the zoo said in a statement on its website, according to the Agence France-Presse.
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In the second-largest city in Ukraine, "our zoo is living through difficult and terrifying times," the statement said.
A Facebook page, "Kharkiv Zoo Friends," created to raise awareness of the status of the animals has asked for food donations from the public. According to the page, as of Saturday, the food supply was reported to be stable thanks to public donations.
"We just got back from the zoo — literally the entire city had brought bags and bags of food to donate: cabbage, bread, carrots, beets, greens, you name it! The zoo staff was using tractors to haul the food around. We spoke to the zoo director and she said they'd also received some cash donations," the page posted.
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Those who are inclined to celebrate the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas holding the prohibition of homosexual sodomy to be unconstitutional on privacy grounds may want to take a look at the Supreme Court's first application of Lawrence yesterday. The Court entered an order vacating the conviction of a then 18-year-old Kansan for oral sodomy with a 16-year-old boy under a Kansas statutory rape law. According to Linda Greenhouse in today's New York Times, the Kansas law at issue is a variety of a statutory rape law, making sodomy with any child under the age of 16 a crime. However, Kansas law treats underage heterosexual sex more leniently than underage homosexual sex.
The Court's opinion in Lawrence was decided on privacy grounds under the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment; only Justice O'Connor's concurring opinion held the Texas law unconstitutional on equal protection grounds. By its terms, Lawrence should have nothing to do with the Kansas case. The Court nevertheless remanded the Kansas case to the Kansas Court of Appeals for reconsideration of the defendant's conviction and 17-year sentence in light of Lawrence.
UPDATE: Our reader Dafydd ab Hugh writes: "I think you've gone off the deep end here, BT. An eighteen year old Kansas boy gave a you-know-what to a sixteen year old. Everyone, including the prosecutor, agrees that if the sixteen year old had been a girl, the boy would have gotten a few months in a minimum security county jail.
"But since the sixteen year old was a boy, the older boy got *seventeen years* in a state penitentiary — more than he probably would have gotten had he MURDERED the younger teen. For consensual oral sex!
"The Supremes overturned this verdict, remanding the case with the strongest possible hint that the lower court should consider Lawrence v. Texas and make the sentence proportional to what he would have gotten had he been straight, not gay.
"And BT…you really think *this* is going to make people leap up and start shouting that a great miscarriage of justice has been done? That we desperately *need* to lock up teenagers for years and years for gay sex, but only three months for straight sex?
"'The Court's opinion in Lawrence was decided on privacy grounds under the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment; only Justice O'Connor's concurring opinion held the Texas law unconstitutional on equal protection grounds. By its terms, Lawrence should have nothing to do with the Kansas case.'
"I understand your point. But this is so inside-baseball, it's physically painful. Here is your case on a nutshell: sure, it may be horribly unjust… but legally speaking, the kid should have had to serve out his whole sentence, because damn it, Lawrence was only decided on Due Process, not Equal Protection grounds, so there! Let him rot in hell!"
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This year for Razy's birthday we had a ballerina party. We wanted to make it special and send each of the invited ballerinas home with a party favor. What better than their very own tutu and a handprint tutu. Want to make your own? Your in luck, they are super easy.
Stretched Canvas (or even paper)
Pink Card stock (or any color you would like
Two colors of pink (or any color you choose)
Hot glue
mod podge
lighter to burn ribbon edges
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1. Take your card stock and fold it in half to cut out n symmetrical leotard. I actually found that doing this on a piece of paper and then tracing it onto the card stock was easier and you didn't get a line down your card stock.
2. Mod podge one side of the card stock and lay it onto your canvas (or paper).
3. Using the light colored paint, paint your child's hands and have them press four times (twice for each hand) onto the canvas under the leotard for your tutu.
4. After washing your child's hand, paint it in the darker color and place one print of each hand to make the tutu look fuller and have a little depth. Let dry.
5. Cut a piece of ribbon to fit across the bodice, above the tutu prints. I like to burn the edges to keep from fraying to to make it look cleaner. Hot glue the ribbon down.
5. Tie a bow, burn the tails and hot glue it onto the ribbon you already glued down.
6. Hot glue ribbon to the back of your canvas so you are able to hang it.
7. Sit back and smile at how cute your project turned out. Don't forget to write the date on the back so you remember how old your little one was when they made this cute project.


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RWTH Affiliated InstitutesCopyright: RWTH Aachen
There is a close collaboration between RWTH Aachen University and its so-called "Affiliated Institutes." As a rule, these are funded by industry associations and companies.
Affiliated Institutes are research institutions that are legally, financially and organizationally independent from RWTH Aachen. The specific details of the collaboration are set out in an agreements between the institute and the University. The status of Affiliated Institute is granted by the Rectorate of RWTH Aachen University.
Currently, about 500 members of staff are working at RWTH-affiliated institutes. As R&D centers, they play an important role in enhancing the innovative capability of Aachen as a location for science and technology. With annual expenditures of about 46 million euros, the affiliated institutes are also an important economic factor in the region.
RWTH-Affiliated Institutes in Overview
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Access e.V. Materials + Processes (ACCESS)
ACCESS is an independent research center associated with RWTH Aachen University. It was founded in 1986 as a research center for material science in space and has developed into an internationally recognized research center in the field of metallic materials and foundry science. ACCESS is a R&D center at the intersection of science and industry.
ACTO - Aachen Center of Technology Transfer in Ophthalmology
The Aachen Center of Technology Transfer in Ophthalmology was founded in 1998 and recognized at the first private medical research at RWTH in 2011. The center's primary goal is to conduct interdisciplinary projects in ophthalmology research through the combined efforts of experts in the fields of medicine, biology, computer science, and engineering. The goal of their research is to expand therapeutic possibilities and the rehabilitation of individuals afflicted by rare diseases.
Forschungsgemeinschaft für Elektrische Anlagen und Stromwirtschaft e.V.
FGH is a non-profit research association of electricity supply industry and electrical industry, with the aim of developing and providing competence and practice-oriented technical knowledge for the construction and operation of electricity supply facilities. A focus is placed on high voltage technology and high-current engineering. FGH's goal is to promote the performance ability and security of electrical energy supply. It achieves this by ensuring a swift transfer of solutions from science into practice.
Research Institute for Industrial Management at RWTH Aachen University
The FIR is a non-profit interdisciplinary research institute at RWTH Aachen for the fields of business organization and corporate development. The institute conducts research in the fields of service management, information management, and production management. As a member of the Industrial Research Association, the FIR fosters research and development in favor of small, mid-sized, and large businesses.
Research Institute for Water- and Waste Management at RWTH Aachen University
FIW develops innovative solutions and processes for water and waste management. As an independent research institute at the University, it conducts application oriented research for solving problems in the fields of waste water management, water pollution control, river territory management, etc. Its services include concept analysis and process development, conducting studies and evaluations, market and economy analyses, and education and further education in developing and newly industrialized countries.
Research Institute for Ecosystem Analysis and Assessment at RWTH Aachen University
Through interdisciplinary collaborations with RWTH institutions such as the Institute of Environmental Research, gaic develops solutions for sustainable environmental management. One of gaiac's main goals is to determine the effects of human influence on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They achieve this through experimental research and modeling environmental processes. Fields of expertise are aquatic and terrestrial field ecology, ecotoxicology, statistics, and mathematical modeling of environmental processes.
German University of Technology in Oman
GUtech, the only German university on the Arabian peninsula, was founded in the Omani capital,Muscat, in 2006, in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University. GUtech currently offers four Bachelor of Science courses of study: applied geosciences, applied information technology, tourism and regional development, and urban planning and architectural design. The B.Sc. course of study, tailored to the needs of the Gulf region, were created by professors at RWTH Aachen and have been internationally accredited. English is the language of instruction, and German is taught as a second foreign language.
Institute for Management Cybernetics
Management cybernetics is an application oriented and integrative science, which regards businesses and organizations as socio-technical, economic, and multifaceted networked systems. Through an integrated and systemic approach, management cybernetics helps to describe and explain complex phenomena which occur within organisations. Using approaches steming from engineering, economics, and the social sciences, integrated models and solutions are developed for these phenomenons. The institue explores and develops solutions for economic and technological questions in interdisciplinary teams. It is als places a great importance on industrial proximity and cooperation.
Institut für Industriekommunikation und Fachmedien
Through application-related research, the IIF investigates problems in industry communication and provides solutions for the use and design of specialist media. The Institute's consulting services along with other services are directed towards branches of specialist information and knowledge-intensive industries, businesses, and communities, that wish to differentiate themselves from the competition using specific knowledge. IFF research includes the identification and evalution of knowledge alongside industrial supply and trade chains and the formation of the resulting communication processes with specialist media.
Institute of Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University
The IKV is working on researching the challenges of tomorrow in the field of in plastics processing. In addition to a focus on innovation, the Institute also trains students studying plastics engineering at RWTH Aachen. The IKV is highly regarded as a research and development partner to the plastics industry and is a partner to small and mid-sized enterprises. All of the Institute's research results are incorporated in the education and training courses available for the skilled crafts.
Institute of Ceramics Process and Application Engineering
Funded by a support association ("Förderverein"), the IAPK is an RWTH research institution focusing on process and application engineering for engineering ceramics and powder metallurgical parts. Apart from undertaking research in the above areas, the institute offers advising and other services concerning the manufacturing process – from the powder through the produced part –, component testing under application conditions, and component and operational simulation using FEM.
In collaboration with partners from industry and research, OWI develops concepts and technologies for the energy-efficient usage of conventional and alternative fuels, as well as innovative efficiency technologies. The aim of this research is to develop advanced low-emission technologies and solutions for sustainable heating supply and mobility. OWI sees itself as a bridge between fundamental research and application. It counts manufacturers of domestic heating systems, automotive component suppliers, and companies involved in petroleum and thermal processing technology among its clients.
Institute of Development and Assessment for Waste Water Technology at RWTH Aachen University
PIA promotes research and training in the fields of wastewater technology and environmental protection. Through the employment of the premises of a former wastewater treatment plant for the city of Aachen, it carries out research and development, assessments, and experiments concerning septic tanks, sewage and water treament on ships, and other waster water facilities. The Institute works together with all subject areas of the RWTH in research and teaching and collaborates with research and development institutions worldwide.
TFI - Textile and Flooring Institute at RWTH Aachen University
The TFI's research in the field of flooring encompasses the entire life cycle of coatings, from the use of raw materials in production, marketing, installation, and use, to their later disposal. In addition to creating products designed to meet consumer needs, the TFI also focuses on the permanent optimization of the processes, regarding production speed, flexbility, and accuracy. Quality, ecology, economy, and interaction all play a primary role as well. Researchers and engineers from textiles, mechanical engineering, chemistry, computer science, ecology, and ecomoy all work at the TFI.
WZLforum an der RWTH Aachen (gGmbH)
Located at the center of highly renowned production technical research, the WZL Forum combines the newest developments from the machine tool lab (WZL) at RWTH Aachen and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT). It also presents results in seminars, conferences, conventions, and workshops. The forum holds events to address operation questions and orients itself on the concrete tasks of professions and executives. As a skilled partner in further education, it is always available to provide support to partners in industry and craft.


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No Legionnaire's bug in Point State Park fountain
The Allegheny County Health Department has found no bacteria linked to Legionnaire's disease in the water in the fountain at Pittsburgh's Point State Park after a recent visitor became ill.
Health officials tell the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review they're still testing the water from other sources that may have sickened the man.
Park officials had added extra chlorine to the water as a precaution because the fountain was a focal point of the city's three-day regatta last week, which ended with a Fourth of July fireworks display.
The fountain reopened June 7 after four years of renovations and a man who visited the park became ill with the disease soon after. The source of his illness remains unclear.
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Googie Architecture
Alternatively known as "populuxe", "doo-wop", "space age", or "atomic" architecture, Googie was popularized in the years following 1949. That year, John Lautner, a Michigan native, designed a Los Angeles coffee shop – not coincidently named "Googie" – for Mortimer C. and Lillian K. Burton.
The coffee shop's exaggerated forms, as they were then considered, attracted the attention of Douglas Haskell, then-editor of House and Home magazine. Haskell referred to Lautner's design as "Googie architecture," deeming it "modern architecture uninhibited." Other architects and architectural critics did not share Haskell's assessment, instead dismissing the style as a "laughable caricature of modern design." Even today, Googie is rarely considered in serious architectural discussions, and the term itself is often dismissed as synonymous with 1960s Las Vegas kitsch.
Criticism notwithstanding, this new architectural style, and its name, captured the imagination of an increasingly mobile and affluent public – bolstered by what seemed to be a national fascination with the dawning of the space age and all things atomic.
Despite the overstated forms, there was a functional component to Googie. Increased automobile ownership and a growing national highway system translated into increased travel, and business owners sought a way to quickly capture the attention of passing motorists. For many of them, the answer was the unique shapes, bright colors and glowing neon of the new Googie style. Googie's functionalism has, unfortunately, also been its curse, as the style is often viewed as a novelty.
Googie in Michigan
In Michigan, as in other states, Googie can be found in the signs and buildings of the coffee shops, gas stations, bowling alleys, car dealerships, roadside restaurants and motels built in the middle part of the twentieth century.
Though not always as elaborate as their western United States counterparts, there are some notable examples of Googie in Michigan. The former Dawn Donuts buildings, with their steeply-pitched roofs and sharp angles, stand out as examples of the architectural style in Michigan.
Another great example of Googie in Michigan is the Ypsi-Arbor Lanes sign.
As is the Skyline Motel in Sault Ste. Marie:
While the former Schumm's Restaurant and Lounge in Chelsea lacks the standard whimsy generally found in Googie restaurants, it can be considered a product of the era with its circular form and its overhanging roof.
Regardless of criticism or praise, Googie is undoubtedly a product of its era. Though we may be encouraged, through playful forms, to neglect the ills of the middle part of the last century, we cannot ignore the optimism with which so many Americans then viewed the future. Perhaps we should thus ask: if the current era gave rise to an architectural style, what would it look like?
Googie Architecture Online (Web site)
Books and Other Sources:
Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture by Alan Hess.
The Architecture of John Lautner by Alan Hess
"From Googie to Great: Uncovering Truth and Beauty in John Lautner's Architecture" by Hilary Jordan Scurlock. Master's Thesis, University of Southern California, 2010.
"The Development of Googie: A Brief History and Michigan Resource Guide" by Anne Stevenson. Final Paper, GHPR 547, Eastern Michigan University, 2011.


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ROCHESTER — Monday night, the Maple Street Magnet School opened its doors to an open house of sorts, educating potential Maple Street parents on what life could be like should their students be accepted to the state's first magnet school.
Superintendent Michael Hopkins and Principal Robin Brown addressed dozens of parents inside their auditorium area, explaining how project-based learning and individualized learning plans work for students, but the crux of questions centered on one point — the school's lottery acceptance system.
Parents wished to know how many openings there were and when they would know if their students were accepted and whether siblings would be automatically accepted if just one child placed.
The next lottery for the 2013 to 2014 school year will take place on March 27 and parents should expect to see results that day, Hopkins said. The school is currently a kindergarten through fourth-grade school but next year, a fifth-grade level will be added. Should a child be granted an opening in the lottery, their siblings will be accepted if there are openings. Hopkins also said there are limited spaces available, with dozens of students wait-listed from last year who will get priority. Hopkins noted students living in the former Maple Street School range would not be given first priority as they were last year.
Controversy swirled around this topic last summer when, in a 7-6 vote, the Rochester School Board allowed a Maple Street Magnet teacher's child to be automatically accepted.
Following the meeting, Hopkins told Foster's there are approximately five to eight open positions at all grade levels for next year, with 17 or 18 openings at the kindergarten level.
Brown educated the crowd as to what students do each day, a school with a 200-day calendar year, an emphasis on parent involvements and French lessons three times a week. Students get to choose the things they would like to study, as well — some are being educated in guitar, ukulele, food preservation and yoga during project-based learning time.
There have been several field trips to local museums, and the school has collaborated with the Children's Museum in Dover to create a heritage project that will soon be displayed.
Hopkins added students' tests scores are up and teachers are more at ease knowing they have more time within the extended year to fit their curriculum.
One parent asked at what point the School District would create a second magnet school to accommodate the growing interest in the community, to which School Board member James Gray encouraged residents to reach out to their elected officials. He said the board is waiting to see how students do with the magnet system years from now, pointing to the fact it costs more to keep a school open for an extra 20 days each year.
"Pressure your School Board members," he said.
After the presentation, Rochester resident Denise Sandahl said she has a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old she would very much like to see accepted to the school.
"I like the lower student-to-teacher ratio … I like the real-world projects," she said.
Sharon Gullage, with preschool-aged children of her own, said she worries whether her students will even get in.
"I like the project-based learning and the smaller class size," she said. "I just wanted to see what all my options are."


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CG-Connect provides you with a way to move data, regardless of its format, from one source to WEBFLEET. It covers most forms of communication to make this possible, from file exchange to SOAP. We set up CG-Connect to cover the desired data content, source(s), destination(s) and the way to connect to these targets. A source –or destination– can be a database, fileserver, webserver or mobile system. Should your original design or specification prove insufficient, changes can be made almost instantaneously – judge if you're getting the desired results and tweak the set up until you do. CG-Connect also offers ways to pre-check data before it enters your system– no more 'garbage in/garbage out'.
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yoko: Generic Programming with Disbanded Data Types
Based off of the paper "A Pattern for Almost Homomorphic Functions" at http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~nfrisby/papers/yoko.pdf, submitted to ICFP 2012.
yoko views a nominal datatype as a band of constructors, each
a nominal type in its own right. Such datatypes can be disbanded via the
disband function into an anonymous sum of nominal constructors, and vice
versa via the
band function. This library uses extensive type-level
programming to enrich its
instant-generics foundation with capabilities
derived from the constructor-centric perspective.
For example, consider the following nominal datatype.
data Beatles = John ... | Paul ... | George ... | Ringo ...
This type can of course be understood as a sum of the individual constructor types.
data John = John ... data Paul = Paul ... data George = George ... data Ringo = Ringo ...
yoko's conceptual foundations start there. In particular, this allows a
constructor, say
John, to be used independently of its original range type
and sibling constructors.
As a generic programming library,
yoko extends
instant-generics with
support for constructor-centric generic programming. The
file distributed with the
yoko source demonstrates defining a
lambda-lifting conversion between the two types
ULC, which has lambdas,
Prog, which has top-level function declarations instead.
data ULC = Lam Type ULC | Var Int | Let [Decl] ULC | App ULC ULC data Decl = Decl Type ULC data Prog = Prog [FunDec] TLF type FunDec = ([Type], [Type], Type, TLF) data TLF = Top Int [Occ] | Occ Occ | App TLF TLF data Occ = Par Int | Env Int
These types are defined in separate modules, since they have constructors
with the same name. Indeed, the fact that they having matching constructors
App is crucial for
yoko's automatic conversion from
App. As written, the generic lambda-lifter would continue to
work for any new
ULC constructors (e.g. syntax for tuples or mutable
references) as long as constructors with the same names and analogous fields
were added to
TLF and the semantics of those constructors doesn't involve
binding. This default behavior of the lambda-lifter is specified in about ten
lines of user code.
Existing generic libraries don't use constructor names to the degree that
yoko does, and so cannot accomodate generic conversions as well.
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At RSNA Dell made several announcements involving significant customer and partnership alliances for its cloud-based medical image archive platform, pushing the company to the forefront of cloud-based medical image management. In fact, in September, Frost & Sullivan recognized Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences with its 2012 North American Company of the Year Award, based on the firm's analysis of the enterprise imaging informatics market.
More details can be found in the news releases included below:
· Dell Leading With Industry's Largest Cloud-based, Vendor-neutral Medical Archive
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As ALA Annual returns to Chicago this month, it will be my second time there for a library conference. I enjoyed seeing the city when Annual was held there 4 years ago. I hadn't been to Chicago since I was a high school freshman. My parents and I lived south of the city for a year, and we frequently visited. As I did 4 years ago, I plan to do some historical sight seeing. Below are a few local history books I have read and enjoyed about Chicago.
Chicago: A Biography by Dominic Pacyga
From a seasonal hunting ground of Native American Indians to a frontier trading post to a major metropolitan city, the history of Chicago is told as a biography. I learned a lot about the city reading this book. The 1871 fire is only one event of many in Chicago's history. Pacyga is a native of the city. Maps and black and white illustrations included.
Then & Now: Chicago's Loop by Janice A. Knox & Heather O. Belcher
Originally published in 2002, the famed Loop is shown in past and present photographs. The name dates to 1882 when an old cable car route ran through what was then the business district. Some places have changed since the photos were snapped while others still remain intact today.
Marshall Field's by Gayle Soucek: THE department store that helped define Chicago.
The store was founded by Marshall Field, a transplant from Massachusetts. At the time of Field's arrival in 1856, Chicago was a bustling city. However there weren't many stores to shop. Field changed that. Harry G. Selfridge, founder of Selfridges in London, got his start here. (His life story is the subject of "Mr. Selfridge" on PBS's "Masterpiece Classic") My parents and I visited the famed store a few times.
As an aside, I was shocked to see the same building renamed as Macy's in 2009. It was bad enough seeing Hecht's, a longtime D.C. department store chain, renamed as Macy's!*
State Street by Robert P. Ledermann
If you went to shop in Chicago, this street is where you did it. Take a look back of what it was like to be on State Street and what's ahead for the famed street. It includes a chapter about other well known stores and lots of wonderful photos.
Lithuanian Chicago by Justin G. Riskus
Lithuanians were among the immigrants of various nationalities who settled in Chicago during its history. Released in January by Arcadia Publishing, this book is a photographical history of the Lithuanian-American community. If you have a Lithuanian relative or two who settled in Chicago in your family tree, this book should be of interest.
Encyclopedia of Chicago: an online resource about Chicago with maps and other special features
Finally, if you have a chance to see it, the Oscar winning 1937 movie "In Old Chicago" is a fictional dramatization about the O'Leary family and the 1871 fire. It is in black and white; it is currently available on DVD.
Whether you've been to Chicago previously or going for the first time, enjoy visiting the city and see you at McCormick Place!
* Two of Hecht's sister stores were Filene's and Kaufmann's, based in Boston and Pittsburgh respectively.
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Atlanta - (April 22, 2014) - A comprehensive survey released today by The Building Green Initiative at Clark Atlanta University in recognition of Earth Day says historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are driving energy efficiency on their campuses and promoting sustainability through their policies, practices and curriculums.
The survey ranked the nation's most eco-friendly HBCUs and found the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Florida A&M University were the top green campuses among public institutions. Spelman College and Howard University topped the list for private schools, BGI director, according to Felicia Davis.
"Black colleges are going green," Davis said. "This survey provides a clear picture of the wide-ranging activities underway at HBCUs to generate renewable energy, build to LEED Gold Certification standards and engage students in green initiatives, ecological curriculum and sustainable lifestyles."
UMES' partnership with a private-sector vendor to install a grid of 7,800 solar panels that began generating electricity in 2011 stood out in the survey, Davis said.
Rankings were determined by analyzing responses from 43 participating HBCUs in the areas of administration, energy efficiency, green building, recycling, renewable energy generation, food, transportation, purchasing, and student involvement.
"We determined that students are getting more involved in the environmental movement on HBCU campuses," said Andrea Harris, president of North Carolina Institute for Minority Economic Development, the company commissioned to analyze the survey. "HBCUs are also using innovative, green technologies to address health, economic, and educational challenges in underserved communities."
According to the survey results, all of the top institutions have signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, created sustainability committees, and are taking steps to reduce campus emissions.
Innovative renewable energy solutions landed UMES as the top ranking school among all HBCUs.
"The 17-acre solar farm we opened three years ago is now paying environmental and economic dividends," said G. Dale Wesson, UMES vice president for research and economic development. "Our future plans will reduce our carbon foot print and also fully engage faculty and students in production-scale renewable energy generation research projects."
UMES' Somerset Hall, a 1950s-era building renovated five years ago, received a "Gold" certificate in 2011 from Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), a green building certification program. The university's new aviation science-engineering building set to open in the fall of 2015 will utilize geothermal energy.
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Shane Stutzman raised more than $12,000 in funds and donated materials and spent two years creating what is now the Ranch Community Garden on land adjacent to the Beth-El Mennonite Church in Colorado Springs. Stutzman, a member of the congregation, said when the church relocated to its new building in 2005, it had surplus land, some of which was made available to the community for trail access. He convinced the congregation to allocate 11,000 square feet of open space between Union Boulevard and a heavily forested hill for new gardening space.
For Shane Stutzman, starting a garden was a ministry and a mission. "I grew up on a farm in Idaho; I've always been around farming and growing things," said the computer technology specialist who gardens and raises chickens in his backyard with his wife and their two small children. The inner farmer came out when he was brainstorming a community service project for his church. He realized many people no longer have the option of growing their own food. "We can fill a need by providing an opportunity for people to grow something," he recalled thinking at the time. Stutzman raised more than $12,000 in funds and donated materials and spent two years creating what is now the Ranch Community Garden on land adjacent to the Beth-El Mennonite Church in Colorado Springs. Stutzman, a member of the congregation, said when the church relocated to its new building in 2005, it had surplus land, some of which was made available to the community for trail access. He convinced the congregation to allocate 11,000 square feet of open space between Union Boulevard and a heavily forested hill for new gardening space. With the popularity of healthy, fresh, locally grown produce, Stutzman saw an avenue for sharing common ground with the community, he said. With an estimated 450 apartment residences within walking distance, a garden was a way to offer a unique amenity that would also bring people together. The city's resident expert on community gardens, Larry Stebbins, executive director of Pikes Peak Urban Gardens, said a handful of churches around town have started community garden projects but he expects many more to jump on the idea. Churches often have property that is being underutilized, he pointed out. "I think they see the need to provide food for people, but they also understand the concept of that parable about giving a handout and you feed people for a day versus if you teach them to fish you feed them for a lifetime," he said. He added that while churches used to be the center of their local neighborhoods, people are now more apt to travel across town to attend religious services, diminishing those neighborly connections. Churches do have a unique capacity to restore those fraying threads by starting gardens, Stebbins said. "They set up a social network that is very welcoming," he said. "I'm seeing people rub shoulders who otherwise would have never met each other. That is neat. I'm eager to work with more churches." Pikes Peak Urban Gardens has helped boost the number of community gardens to over a dozen in just a few years, but Stutzman said availability is still short of meeting demand. He compares Colorado Springs to Denver, which now has more than a hundred gardens. He knows at least one person locally who waited four years to get a gardening bed. "Most of the community gardens are full," he said. "We definitely have a need for more of them. But besides parks, there aren't a lot of other options for where to put them." Unique garden design With around 120 beds, Stutzman's Garden Ranch site had no shortage of takers. Production from 12 of the plots is designated for the local food bank, a deliberate choice that is loosely based on the Garden Writers Association's Plant a Row for the Hungry Campaign. With demand for food assistance growing by 70 percent in just a few short years, the association encourages gardeners to plant an extra row to give to charity; the group claims that since 1995 18 million pounds of produce have been distributed to food pantries "with no government subsidy or bureaucratic red tape" involved. One unique feature of Stutzman's garden is the sophisticated drip irrigation system embedded under it. The cost was considerable, with six volunteers devoting six days straight to installing it. But Stutzman says as a result gardeners only need to visit once or twice a week at a minimum to hand water from hydrants also installed on-site. "The system automatically runs once a day, but there is a shut-off value at each bed," he explained. He has his own drip system at home and considers it the most efficient way to water a garden. "We expect to save a lot of money in the long term with water costs increasing every year," he added. He also drew on his own gardening experience to design and build 4-by-8-foot manageable raised beds that could be easily planted, harvested and maneuvered around. "I wanted to create a grid to maximize our use of the space," he said. A board of directors oversees the garden, and meetings are held once a month. The entire space is perimeter-fenced. Plot holders, who pay $15 a year along with a $10 deposit, can enter at any time using an electronic keypad code. Stutzman's next goal is to launch a composting project, using a community-wide leaf collection this fall, while also collecting food waste from the church and its members. In addition, he envisions the garden becoming a hub for youth and education activities, including church camps and Vacation Bible School. He would like to see it used as a natural backdrop for community-wide gardening and cooking classes and an annual potluck harvest festival. Stutzman admits the project has been intense. "My goal is to step away from it in three or four years, and then have another garden member or someone else from the church step into the role of president of the garden board," he said. But in the meantime, he said the garden has fulfilled what he hoped to accomplish, increasing access to fresh food, cultivating new relationships and getting the church more engaged with the surrounding community. "Even in an urban environment, we still don't have a lot of interaction. It's hard to meet people," he said. "This is one way to plug in. Since I started this project, I've talked to more people in the community and in the church than I had in the previous four years."


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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:32 am
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I was wondering: How many of us got into the hobby through the Boy Scouts? I learned woodcraft at summer camp, earning merit badges, Indian Lore with the Order of the Arrow, Camping and paddling once or twice a month. Black powder and archery from all of the above, Blacksmithing and carpentry from working at the Philmont High Adventure Base, Specifically at the Kit Carson Museum at Rayado. The Scouts rely heavily on British patrol and irregular warfare technique of the late 19th cent and in the US on Indian crafts, lore and a dash of old fashion maritime skills. If you get a chance, go to a used bookstore or Amazon and find an old Boy Scout Field Book, It covers all the bases in North American Fieldcraft. Dan Beard's A Young Boys Handybook covers useful ground also. Beard started the US Boy Scouts at the end of the 19th century and he was an old man with memories. Beard was also a good friend of Sam Clemmons, and I do not think the two ever grew up. Also Huck Finn is a gold mine of edge of the frontier lifeways and detail. Danny
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Real Name: Edwin McDilda
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I didn`t get my start in the boy scouts I was doing this stuff long before I could join them The only grandparents I knew were my stepgrandparents and they were sioux my grandfather and great grandfather thaught me there ways when growing up....
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I did a seacrh and found that this topic was covered much earlier. Maybe some new members have something to share too.
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I got my start with Royal Rangers. they have a group that is similiar to the O/A, called the Frontiersman Camping Franterity. It is based on mainly the Mountainman, but starts at the F&I War thru the Civil War.
I have the rank of Wilderness in the FCF and the Brotherhood rank in the O/A. I now work with the BSA as an ASM in T-47 in OKC, OK. In the Last Frontier Council, of the BSA, most everyone knows me as the Mountain Man.
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Got involved with my 2 sons as cubs to webelos to scouts. They both earned their Eagle rank and we went to summer camps (them more than me) and one went to Philmont twice and Catalina Island. We all went to Boundary Waters. We backpack as a family outside of scouting.
My sons are in college now so I'm not very active with the troop other than the annual pioneering campout in the winter and presenting a winter camping dress and food session in December. Went into pioneer camp last year from a beaver trap line in 1820s gear and we skinned it and I cooked up the legs and backstrap and tail muscle for the scouts. I have occasionally visited other troops in period dress to talk about the mountain man era and the skills and organization of trapping parties.
I served as outdoor program coordinator for several years and as committee chair for Troop 21, Eagle District, Last Frontier Council out of Edmond, Oklahoma. I'm a O/A Brotherhood member. I've served as a crew advisor at Philmont and in the Boundary Waters and as acting scoutmaster at summer camps.
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That is more or less how I got started. I was working as a Boy Scout camp councilor at Camp Averyhand Mansfield, Ohio in about 1994 some guys brought in their muzzleloaders and put on a bit of a show. A few years later when I turned 18 scraped up $300 and bought a Dixie Tennesse Rifle at the Log Cabin Shop by Lodi Ohio and have been adicted to flintlocks ever since.
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I learned that Daniel Carter Beard ("Uncle Dan") formed
The Sons of Daniel Boone
in 1905. He changed the name to
The Boy Pioneers of America
after a name dispute. He merged his group into the BSA in 1910, after the BSA was
and incorporated by W. D. Boyce. Mr. Beard was 60 at the time. He passed away in 1941.
A lot of what is contained in those early BSA manuals is based on the writings of Earnest Thomas Seaton, who founded the
Woodcraft Indians
in 1902, as well as the writings of Beard. Boyce and Seaton were both friends of Lord Baden Powell who started the scouting movement in England. It was through his friendship with Seaton that Beard was introduced to Baden Powell. The Woodcraft Indians were also merged into the BSA. Seaton was Chief Scout for the BSA from 1910-1915 and Beard is reported to have been the founder of BSA Troop 1, in Flushing NY, the oldest troop and still operating.
Another author from that time period who influenced early woodcraft ideas, and preserved some of the skills, is Horace Kephart. You can find a reprint of books merged into one volume under
Camping and Woodcraft
. I recommend it for it's information on early cooking recipes, especially the bread and the rations sections.
I got into "survival" when we read
My Side of The Mountain
in 5th grade. I wanted to learn more, and read all that I could, but I was only 10, so my dad got me into scouting. I've kept at it ever since, and a stint in Marine Corps Infantry helped a great deal.
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Many of my closest friends are still guys who I was in scouting with in Europe and in Missouri. Still attend roondy voooos with many of them every year.
This is a great website that has alot of old manuals online (and free!!) from Seton, Powell, Beard and others. Great resources for outdoor skills and re examining what kind of experiences a boy needs to become a man (IMHO)
Boulanger- Eagle Scout and Vigil Honor member, who worked tonight on his daughters Brownie science badge.
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i am an eagle scout. though my dad had always wanted to do the rendezvous stuff but never did i have a pair of buck skin pants from when i was about 4 or 5. we have recently in the past 5 years started getting heavy into trekking and woodcraft. i have been reenacting at fort nisqually here in washington for about 10 years and have in the last 5 years started going 100% correct. when i was in boy scouts i tried to learn as much as possible. my goal was to be able to live in the woods with my pocket knife. i have never tested this but i will someday. i learned knot work, wilderness survival, canoeing, and many more. i would hike as much as possible. i have recorded in the few years of boy scouts over 2500 miles hiked including 5 mountains. i did as much as i could to teach anyone and everyone who wants to learn the things i know and still do this day. i enjoyed my time in boy scouts and was an adult leader for a while after i had finished.
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The Snooki Universe is expanding far past the Jersey Shore – and, sadly, way beyond the real world.
When "The Real World" premiered nearly two decades ago, the cast was the MTV Generation version of a Warner Bros. foxhole.
Instead of the standard set of characters in World War II flicks of yore – the smart-aleck Brooklyn kid, the sheltered country boy, the tough-as-nails sergeant – we were treated to the naïve Southern girl, the gay painter, the dangerous pretty boy, the writer who challenged his roommates on perceptions of race.
If being plucked from obscurity and tossed into a Manhattan loft bore little relation to reality, the setup at least removed the cast members from their various closed worlds, and made for some TV-friendly conflict. But like with many so-called Reality TV shows, the first season proved the most effective, and no shift in lineup or location could quite recapture the original chemistry.
In December, "Jersey Shore" smashed the long-running "Real World" model with constant fist-pumping – powered by a largely Italian-American cast that shares a love for muscles, tanning and partying, and a predilection for proudly describing themselves with a slur.
Now the success of this "Real World" mutation reportedly is spawning limited-gene-pool imitators – everything from a Russian-American version to an Asian-American version to a Persian-American version.
We could be in for a bizarre Balkanization of reality shows where the primary commonality is young people trying to out-stereotype one another to get on TV. These probably are not the folks you would want to be in a foxhole with – unless you needed to get to the nearest tanning salon to save your life.
Perhaps what's most disturbing about "Jersey Shore" and its ilk is that the usual Reality TV credo of bad or silly behavior as a path to what passes for fame is being attached to a twisted conception of ethnic pride. At least in most Reality TV shows, we see people from a variety of walks of life making fools of themselves, instead of an hour-long, constant reinforcement of a particular stereotype.
But hey, take a look at the bright side: perhaps down the line there will be an all-star show with characters from "Jersey Shore" and the various planned ethnicity-based reality programs. They can call it "The Real World: Snooki Rules."
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Keep aspect ratio when resizing. Also cropping the photo will provide a much nicer image within the 500px width size.
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I use Photobucket and have good luck with it. You can edit, resize, crop to name a few.
As far as seeing pictures in a post; I found out the hard way that if I delete a picture in Photobucket the posted picture goes away too.
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You know, part of the reason why it is so difficult for so many of us to move on with our lives and take control of our future is because we are stuck in the past. We are constantly spending time going over why something happened or it occurred. The lower division of our spirit called in Kamta the sahu (or the subconscious part of our being) makes us want to know why a thing occurred. It forces us to seek a "logical" explanation, so that it will not occur again. It is sort of like the first time we touched something hot. It was our sahu that remembers the pain and reminds us so that we do not burn ourselves again.
But, there are something that can't be explained by logic alone. For instance, a lot of people still ask the question why were some of the Native Americans in the Caribbean, North and South America defeated the way they were? Why did slavery occur? Really, because we are a spiritual minded people even when we don't want to be, what we really want to know is why did God allow genocide and slavery to occur? In fact, let's go a little bit deeper, why does God allow evil to exist? I mean really, why does God allow terrorists to bomb churches with four little girls or bomb mosques and other religious sites?
Many of us have struggled with these questions for a while now and the traditional means has not provided a good explanation. In fact, no matter how much information we learn, nothing seems to give us solace so that it will never occur again.
Well, I have found that the best way to deal with issues in our past where a logical explanation is not sufficient is to lean upon the Story of Osar (Asar, Ausar, Osiris in Greek) for understanding and peace of mind. In the Story, after Ra the grandfather of all things gives Osar the enlightenment he wanted to build a peaceful nation, and after Osar successfully unifies his people and builds a prosperous civilization. He is brutally murdered by his brother Set who usurps the throne. (Osar by the way is associated with our ba or higher self, which is the explanation as to how and why Osar built a prosperous civilization. Set on the other hand, is associated with our sahu. This is the reason our past haunts us because it is Set who knows the weaknesses of our mind likes to torment us with it. Keep this in mind because we will come back to it shortly.)
Now, Hru (Heru or Horus in Greek), the hero of the story engages his evil uncle Set on the battlefield, but his victories are not consistent and most of them end in stalemates. In one epic battle, Set manages to get close enough to our hero and is able to gouge out his eye. Hru I imagine, battered, blinded in one eye and hard to see out of the other, flees and finds his father's old vizier Djahuti (Tahuti, Tehuti or Thoth). Through magical means Djahuti repairs Hru's eye perfectly. As a result, today people from all walks of life happily adorn their bodies and themselves with this Eye of Hru because they understand that it is a symbol of protection but, why and how?
Well, the magic and the power of the Eye of Hru (also called the Left Eye of Hru) is based upon how we interpret the first parts of the Story. For one we have to understand that the Story is alluding to the concept that Hru only one eye or one perspective, which was based solely upon what he could physically see. This corresponds to the Eye of Ra, hence logic.
The fact that Ra, in this case, symbolizes the Creator and is Osar's and Set's grandfather could mean the farther one gets away from the Light or the Source, the easier it becomes to lose your way. Another point that I want to bring out is that because Ra is the grandfather of both Osar and Set, means that the Creator is not bias and doesn't see the world as we do in black and white, right and left, correct and incorrect. It is all relative to the Creator because to the Divine they are all two sides of the same coin. A while ago, it was put to me this way, that the same life energy that fills your lungs also fills the lungs of our enemies, which means the Divine stays out of the whole matter. One can say that the Divine sees the fight between Osar and Set as sibling rivalry. Think about that the next time you wonder why God allows certain injustices to occur, that the Divine has no say so in the matter.
This is because from a spiritual perspective, both good and evil are needed to justify the other's existence, hence the whole good and evil dichotomy is actually a cycle where one experiences highs and lows. Note this is why Osar sought Ra in the first place because his people were wild and out (the low). Then Osar introduced to them the Maa and they became civilized (the high). Next, Set usurps the throne and forces the people back into a world of ignorance (another low). I am highlighting this part so that you can reflect back on your life and see the high and low periods in your life. Note when you are in the highs or at the low points, because this is you life pattern. For instance, I have noticed that I usually get a lot of material blessings around February and March, which is my annual zenith. I can't explain it, I just know that that is when one of them usually occurs and I have a second one as well. It is like I get a sudden burst of blessings then they wane like the waning moon. So chart your annual cycle. You can also chant your monthly, weekly and daily cycles as well. The monthly cycles are relatively easy because this is when most of us get a paycheck. Notice your energy level. Take note if things are exciting or chaotic because of bills. As with the weekly cycle, note how your energy is come Monday. Do you really feel blue on this Moon-day or is it because everyone say you do? Does Wednesday feel like a hump day, can you really see Npu at the crossroad of the week? Are you really looking forward to Nebhet's Friday, and if so why? Really take a look and see how your energy level is during the day, week, month and year. See how it cycles or oscillates like a serpent or sin and cosine wave.
Now, if you have completed the above exercises, you will be able to really appreciate our hero in the Story. Part of the reason Hru exists is to escape that high and low energy cycle from above. In esoteric circles this is called transcending your horoscope. Note using money as an example, we all love when we get some money, but don't you hate when you don't have enough money or the money you need to get the things that you want? Of course, because we all hate the lows. Wouldn't it be great to not have any lows at all? I mean for instance, wouldn't it be great to have the money you want to take care of your needs all year around and not have to live paycheck to paycheck? Sure it does.
Have you ever asked yourself why you have these lows? I means why is it so difficult for you to save money or keep enough money so that you don't live paycheck to paycheck? Have you ever noticed that when you try to save money there is a part of you that fights your decision and wants you to spend all of your money on the things you want? Notice also that every time you try to save your money, something always comes up unexpected? This is where Djahuti comes into the Story and reveals to Hru (by repairing his eye) that our universe was built upon the foundation of Maa.
Maa is Divine Balance, Order, Justice and the Absolute Truth.
This means nothing unexpected happens. It might not have been planned but nothing happens by chance. That's right. There is no such thing as coincidences in the traditional African worldview. Everything is based upon cause and effect regardless if you can see or understand it or not. The trick of Set is to convince us that our universe has no order and that everything is based upon what we physically see, but this is an illusion. This is the reason Set rules over the desert region of TASETT on the Maa Aankh, which is full of mirages or explained in the Christian lore as the lord of the earth and flesh. Another interesting point is that the Right Eye of Ra corresponding to Ra moment hovering over TASETT, also represents logical thinking. Meaning, this is the reason logically we are not able to defeat our enemy because we are relying upon the same resources that our enemy uses, who is older and more powerful.) This is why in order to see past the illusion, we must remember that according to the Maa Aankh and other African cosmologies, that the physical emerged out of the spiritual, hence it is our thoughts, ideas, etc. that shape our physical reality.
That's correct. Everything that you physically see is basically the end product, the end or final result whose origins exist in the unknown, invisible, spiritual realm called KAMTA. Set would have us to believe that grasses, plants and trees just sprout of nowhere, thanks to the Maa and Djahuti the master of science, we know that all plant growth comes from a seed. This means there is a hidden reality beyond our physical reality that makes the things that we see manifest themselves physically. Hence, Hru's eye is repaired.
As you know, once Hru's eye was repaired he defeated Set on the battlefield. No fuss. No muss, because now he has a holistic view, hence Two Eyes are better One.
I say all that to say that evil exists to show us our weaknesses, so that we can overcome them – that is the impurities within our soul. As to why does God allow evil to exist. The hard truth for many of us to swallow is that God has no say so in the matter because the Divine gave us all free will through Hru. This is the reason God will never physically appear before you and physically take a cigarette out of our hand because it is harmful to your body. Nor, will the Divine take a bottle of poison out of our hands and prevent you from ingesting it. If the Divine saved us from our own unwise decisions all the time, how would we ever learn and take responsibility for our own life? How would we know how to manipulate fire to cook our food, warm our homes, fend off invaders, etc. if we never got burned?
Set the Lord of Chaos, Confusion and Disorganization brings about losses to show the limitation of the physical realm or TASETT and the problem with relying solely upon what we see, which is represented by the Ra moment (Midday Sun – Life) falling and becoming Ra Atum (Setting Sun – Death, our spiritual death or demise) on the Maa Aankh(see above).
This is why I tell people all of the time, "God is not going to save you. The Divine created you Hru!"
Without Set, many of us would never seek the Divine from within and learn to overcome our own shortcomings. It is only when we get really tired of Set kicking our butt from one place to the next (in the physical realm) that we will flee to Djahuti (a wise elder, a master in the field, an oracle, etc.) for some wisdom, so that we can learn how to overcome our personal enemy using both physical and spiritual means. Once you learn how to overcome your enemy, like all lessons in life, you will never be haunted again by the past.


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Sep 22, 2006
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – September 22, 2006 – Hungry breakfast buyers beware – the Loaded Breakfast Burrito™ is back at Hardee's®! After its successful launch last year, the Loaded Breakfast Burrito returns today to the Hardee's breakfast menu, just in time to help heat up cooler fall and winter months.
"Hardee's has long been recognized as an industry leader at breakfast based largely on our Made From Scratch™ buttermilk biscuits first introduced way back in 1978," said Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing for Hardee's. "However, when we introduced the great tasting Loaded Breakfast Burrito last year, it appealed to a whole new generation of fans, so it made sense to bring it back again this year. Its popularity also stems from its sheer size, since most fast-food breakfast burritos are small, skinny things that don't represent much of a meal. The Loaded Breakfast Burrito is a delicious, satisfyingly big burrito that truly is 'loaded' with eggs, ham, sausage, bacon, cheese, has rounds and salsa."
The Hardee's Loaded Breakfast Burrito offers a delicious blend of classic breakfast favorites. It's loaded with eggs, diced ham, crumbled bacon and sausage, and shredded cheddar cheese – all wrapped in a warm flour tortilla and served with a zesty salsa.
The Loaded Breakfast Burrito is available in all Hardee's restaurants starting today. Suggested retail price is $2.49 though actual prices may vary.
Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the second fiscal quarter ended Aug. 14, 2006, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,131 franchised or company-owned restaurants in 43 states and in 13 countries, including 1,072 Carl's Jr.® restaurants, 1,945 Hardee's restaurants and 98 La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill® restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.


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It seems like every other month NuForce is banging out some gorgeous audio product we want to try. The company's gear isn't always perfect, but it almost always sounds spectacular. The NuForce HP-800 headphones have £200 specs for just £110 (if they actually make their way to our sunny shores, of course). They look like winners inside and out: 40mm neodymium drivers, sturdy aluminum build, and cozy memory earpads. We'll let you know for sure if they're worthy of your office space when we get our hands on a pair soon. [NuForce]


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In "Institute for Justice Speaks Out On IRS Power Grab" at THE ROTH AND COMPANY TAX UPDATE BLOG he refers to statements by Dan Alban, a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Virginia who has filed comments with the IRS on behalf of the Institute opposing the proposed licensing requirements.
In "The IRS and the Latest Licensing Outrage" at DAILY CALLER Alban says-
"This scheme will disproportionately hurt small tax-return preparation businesses and independent preparers, many of whom may be forced out of business."
Why do those opposed to tax pro registration continue to say the costs of the new regime will be prohibitive and hurt small tax return preparation businesses and independent preparers, forcing many out of business? And that the regime will increase the cost of tax return preparation services? I wish they would explain.
You don't get any smaller or more independent than me and my practice. As I have said over and over again the costs are minimal – and hardly worth passing along to clients. $64.25 per year ain't going to break me – nor will a nominal one-time $100-$200 for the test.
Speaking from my specific individual situation – I would, to be honest, not be upset if there were no regulation of tax preparers. I have been operating profitably and happily for 39 years without regulation, and would just assume continue that way for my last 11 years. If regulation had not been proposed by the IRS I certainly would not be campaigning for its institution. But if it is to become a fact of business life I can see how it does have merit and provide benefits to preparers, taxpayers, and the IRS.
Now that it is in place, my only real complaints are about having to take a test after 39 years of practice without incident to show that I know what I am doing, and having to sit through 2 hours of "ethics" each year. Having to take the initial competency test is a PITA, and 2 hours of redundant ethics "education" annually is a waste of time – but it is nothing I cannot handle. Many CPE offerings had been including 2 hours of ethics for a few years now – so I have already been wasting my money.
Truth be told, regulation does not affect my practice one way or another – other than as a minor inconvenience. I am not looking to increase or expand my 1040 preparation business – on the contrary I am looking to "thin the herd". And if I did need more clients I could easily get them by telling my existing ones I was accepting new work. I already attend more than 15 hours per year in CPE classes in federal taxation. And I am honest and ethical.
Joe's post gives us a taste of what he will cover in his next volley. He promises to address "the 'do you oppose regulation for doctors, lawyers and engineers, too?' red herring". Red herring? An interesting comment. I look forward to his post, but have plenty to do while I am waiting.


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(CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida will campaign for Mitt Romney this week as the GOP presidential nominee faces off on the debate stage for the first time in the general election.
Rubio, once considered a top contender as Romney's running mate, will attend a rally Tuesday in Las Vegas, close to the site of President Barack Obama's debate preparation in Henderson, Nevada.
Washington (CNN) - Mitt Romney officials distributed talking points to Republican allies and surrogates late Sunday night outlining the campaign's message heading into Wednesday's debate in Denver.
Read the list of Romney "message points," provided to CNN by a Republican source outside the campaign, below.
New York (CNNMoney) - Economists think Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would be better for the economy than President Obama. But they're not very enthusiastic about either of them.
Nine of 17 top economists surveyed by CNNMoney picked Romney when asked who's election would help the economy grow more. Only three picked Obama.FULL STORY
(CNN) - With 37 days to go before the presidential election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney needs a strong debate performance to change the course of his campaign, according to Sunday's roundtable discussion with CNN's Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley on "State of the Union.
As polls continue to show Romney behind President Barack Obama, Republican strategist Alex Castellanos emphasized the importance of the first presidential debate on Wednesday, saying it is the first chance for voters to see Romney and the president one-on-one and figure out which of them is the "alpha dog."
(CNN) - Presidential candidate debates rarely, if ever, change an election's outcome, but they tend to be good for voters, a specialist in political campaign communication told CNN Sunday.
"People tend to look for little moments that encapsulate the whole campaign," said Bill Benoit, a professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University in Athens. He cited the 1992 debate between Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush, in which the latter's glance at his watch was interpreted by some observers as revealing impatience and aloofness.FULL STORY
Washington (CNN) - While both campaigns have been lowering expectations ahead of Wednesday's first presidential debate, two of Mitt Romney's more notable surrogates raised the bar on Sunday, with one predicting Romney will turn the race "upside down."
Both New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. John McCain said they expect Romney to shine when he shares the Denver stage for the first time with President Barack Obama.FULL STORY
(CNN) – President Barack Obama's re-election campaign said Sunday the president likely won't be flinging barbs during this week's presidential debate.
"If you're expecting that, that's probably not what he's going to deliver," campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Air Force One. "He's speaking directly to the American people, and what they want to hear is what his plan is for moving the country forward."
(CNN) – Republican nominee Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan will campaign together in the swing state of Virginia on Thursday, a day after the first presidential debate.
The Romney campaign will hold an afternoon rally in Fishersville, Virginia, guest starring country music artist Trace Adkins.
(CNN) - A new poll indicates Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is holding on to her narrow margin over incumbent Sen. Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race, but nearly a fifth of voters say they're still undecided.
Forty-three percent of likely voters back Warren, while 38% support Brown, according to the Boston Globe poll released Sunday.
Washington (CNN) - Six of the nine Supreme Court justices attended the annual Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington on Sunday. The event's speakers spoke about using faith in decision-making but largely stayed away from the controversial issues the court will face in the coming months.
Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Anthony Kennedy and Justice Elena Kagan all attended the 60th annual Mass. This was Kagan's first Red Mass.FULL STORY


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By Spencer Miller, NRCS
January 10, 2013
Julie Koeberle's job carries her over mountains by helicopter and horse, snowshoes and skis. She has encountered grizzly bears, avalanches and wolves and visited ridges that few people have seen.
Koeberle is a hydrologist and snow surveyor for USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and works on the agency's snow survey team – a group of specially trained scientists who maintain snow gauges that help provide monthly water supply forecasts between January and June.
These forecasts serve as a vital planning tool for the region's farmers, business owners and communities, especially in the wake of a prolonged drought still gripping much of the nation. The first of the year will be released next week.
With a master's degree in snow hydrology from Colorado State University, Koeberle is one of 50 NRCS snow surveyors who maintain an intricate web of snow survey gauges in more than 850 remote locations in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. These gauges are automated snow telemetry equipment, or SNOTEL, and they allow NRCS to predict the amount of spring and summer snowmelt in twelve Western states – where 50 to 80 percent of all water used comes from snowmelt.
SNOTEL sites are installed off the beaten path to avoid disturbance. Snow surveyors routinely travel to locations unvisited by even the most adventurous hikers. Visits to SNOTEL sites occur mostly in the spring and summer, and the colder months are spent in the office, where the snow surveyors analyze and interpret data published in monthly reports.
Even though SNOTEL sites are fully automated, they sometimes require attention and repair. And whether or not there are problems, snow surveyors check each site at least once a year to perform routine maintenance. Many SNOTEL sites are unreachable by road during winter, meaning Koeberle and the other NRCS snow surveyors have to get creative on how to reach sites. Visits to each site take a few hours for regular check-ups on the equipment. Occasionally, the gauges are damaged and take a few days to fix.
Damage can come from natural forces, or, as Koeberle learned this year, curious bears. This winter, her team flew into the North Cascades in Washington, to get to a pristine mountain without roads or resorts, where they repaired a structure damaged by bears. (Bears topple or tear apart the gauges occasionally.)
Sometimes horses are necessary to check the sites, including those in Yellowstone National Park, where helicopters are not allowed except for emergencies because of the disruptions to wildlife and tourists. In 2007, Koeberle and her colleagues rode horses for five days to reach a SNOTEL site.
After earning her master's in snow hydrology from Colorado State University, Koeberle worked as a meteorologist at the National Weather Service. Though she enjoyed the complexity and challenge of forecasting weather, her passion was snow. In May 2006 she accepted a position with NRCS as hydrologist and snow surveyor.
Koeberle, an outdoor sports enthusiast, especially enjoys those adventurous assignments. She has to stay in tip-top shape. Snow surveyors get an annual physical exam, and complete a week-long survival course every three years. One of their lessons is building a snow cave, which helps snow surveyors, like Koeberle, brave wintry nights on mountaintops. She has spent quite a few nights in these.
Koeberle says that she has found her dream job. She loves every moment of it – something about the combination of travel, adventure and physical challenge is irresistible. Plus, she and her teammates are tracking and logging key scientific information that benefits communities across the region.
Look for upcoming stories about snow survey, water supply forecasting, and how Western states use that information in planning and drought preparation.
Find out more about NRCS's snow survey team and Climate and Water Center.
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