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Proponents call it water recycling. Critics call it "toilet-to-tap."
At two treatment plants in El Dorado Hills, millions of gallons of brown wastewater pour in every week, and millions of gallons of clean water pour out through purple pipes that irrigate the lawns of 4,000 homes.
Proponents call it water recycling. Critics call it "toilet-to-tap." But as the drought has taken hold in California, opposition to the idea has been drying up, and recycled water is winning acceptance. It's expected to be a significant source of landscaping and drinking water for many Californians in years to come.
Today, taxpayer money is flowing toward recycled water programs. As part of recent drought relief measures, the state allocated $200 million in grants to jump-start those efforts and slashed interest rates on $800 million more in loans.
"There's a billion dollars for recycling we did not have available to us as an industry six weeks ago," said Dave Smith, the managing director of WateReuse California, part of a nationwide group that advocates water recycling.
More than a billion gallons of treated wastewater are pumped into the Pacific Ocean each year, Smith said. The state wants to dramatically reduce that amount, and increased water recycling is seen as the way to do it, he said.
There will be more communities investing in systems that recycle water for use on lawns and crops, but much of the growth, especially in Southern California, will be in turning human wastewater into drinking water, Smith said.
In October, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that requires state health and water officials to report by September 2016 on the feasibility of developing uniform standards for recycling wastewater for "direct potable reuse." That means purified wastewater would flow straight to household faucets.
"California needs more high-quality water, and recycling is key to getting there," Brown said in his signing message for SB 322, authored by Sen. Ben Hueso, D-San Diego.
Smith said one key will be educating the public about safety. He contends that highly purified wastewater will be cleaner than the water currently pumped and treated from some of the state's major surface-water sources.
"We can produce from sewage much higher quality water than comes from the Colorado River or the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta," Smith said. "We're going to see more projects as time goes forward and communities pursuing a full range of options."
Reusing wastewater is nothing new. Starting in the late 1800s, farmers used wastewater to irrigate crops, and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, once sand dunes, was famously watered with untreated waste until complaints about the smell put an end to the practice, said Richard Mills, chief of the recycling and desalination section at the state Department of Water Resources. Treated water was used at the park starting in the 1930s, he said.
In the 1960s, water agencies in coastal areas began using highly treated urban wastewater to replenish groundwater basins to stop seawater from intruding into underground aquifers, Mills said.
A survey in the late 1970s showed that California was using about 175,000 acre-feet of reclaimed wastewater annually, primarily in agriculture, he said. The most recent survey, in 2009, showed a jump to 669,000 acre-feet per year. (An acre-foot is the amount it takes to cover an acre 1 foot deep – about 326,000 gallons, or the quantity of water two average households use in a year.)
These days, recycled urban wastewater is "being looked at more as a new water supply," Mills said. That's especially true in Southern California, where investing in recycled water is relatively cost-effective given that the area pays to import almost all its fresh water from the Sierra Nevada and other distant regions.
Earlier this month, the Escondido City Council, in northern San Diego County, approved a $285 million plan to turn all the city's sewage into irrigation water. Orange County, a leader in recycling efforts, injects highly treated water into underground aquifers and withdraws it again for drinking water – a system known as indirect potable reuse.
The process involves pushing the wastewater through ultra-fine filters that can strain out bacteria, then using reverse osmosis to remove almost all molecules that are not H2O. What's left is chemically disinfected and exposed to ultraviolet light, producing a substance on par with distilled water.
The next step would be direct potable reuse – sending the purified wastewater straight to the tap rather than into underground aquifers. The process would be similar, Mills said, but would require overcoming consumers' safety and "psychological concerns," generally called the yuck factor.
"That's the coming frontier, but we're not quite there yet," Mills said.
For now, the main focus in many communities is on increasing the amount of recycled water used for landscaping instead of spraying drinking water on lawns. A number of cities in the four-county Sacramento region already do that, including Elk Grove, Roseville, Lincoln, Galt and Rancho Murieta.
"As a region we're using maybe 1 or 2 percent recycled water," said John Woodling, executive director of the Sacramento-area Regional Water Authority, which consists of 25 water providers and affiliated agencies in Sacramento, Placer, Yolo and El Dorado counties.
That relatively small percentage amounts to less than 10,000 acre-feet a year. A regional water plan calls for upping the amount to 55,000 acre-feet by 2030, as population grows and more homes are built.
"A year like this really shows (recycled water) needs to be an increasing part of our supply, because it's relatively drought-proof," Woodling said
The Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District currently pumps out about 1,000 acre-feet of recycled water a year to parks and schools in areas of Elk Grove near its treatment plant in southern Sacramento County. Sanitation officials say they want to increase their output to subdivisions and farms nearby, but first need government funding for connecting pipelines.
"We actually have additional capacity of 3,000 to 4,000 acre-feet, but the demand hasn't materialized because of not being able to hook up," said District Engineer Prabhakar Somavarapu.
El Dorado Hills has emerged as a model for water recycling in both the region and the state. The city of 42,000 was one of the state's earliest converts to recycled water and remains a leader.
"We've been doing it aggressively for 20 years now," said Kirk Bone, government relations director with Parker Development, the company behind the upscale, gated Serrano subdivision in El Dorado Hills.
In the late 1970s, the El Dorado County Irrigation District started recycling water as a way to help meet new discharge requirements, said Vickie Caulfield, the district's division manager for wastewater operations. The recycled water initially was used only by a golf course and a local wood products plant.
But then the developers of Serrano came calling. They saw recycled wastewater as a means to building thousands of homes across parched ridges where cattle grazed and rattlesnakes basked.
"Water was always a problem," Bone said. "Early on, we realized we couldn't rely on potable water."
The developers spent $10 million to help upgrade treatment plants and install pipelines, he said. Initially it was only used on the community's golf course, but in the early 2000s Serrano moved to landscape the front and backyards of new homes with recycled water.
Now, weather stations with satellite links and soil monitors determine the precise amount of water needed, and the Serrano homeowners' association controls most front-yard irrigation to conserve water, said maintenance manager David Sanders.
That water comes from the city's two wastewater plants, which treat the sewage flowing in using an elaborate process that includes filtering through sand, coal and plastic beads. At the end, the water is run through blindingly bright banks of ultraviolet lights to disinfect it.
Some of the water is discharged to a creek flowing by, but much of it is sent by purple pumps through purple pipes to hilltop holding tanks. The color purple is commonly used to differentiate pipes carrying recycled water in systems dual-plumbed with drinking water.
"It's called reclaimed water once it hits the purple pipe, and out it goes," said Alan Planje, supervisor of operations and maintenance at the El Dorado Hills Wastewater Treatment Plant.
That plant and the Deer Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant now serve about 4,000 homes in four subdivisions in El Dorado Hills. But plans call for 5,000 more homes to be built at Serrano, Blackstone and other developments. Eventually, a total of 9,000 houses will be plumbed with purple pipe and connected to the system, officials said.
The city of Sacramento has not made similar strides, largely because in a typical year it doesn't face the same kind of water worries: The city has its own water rights in the American and Sacramento rivers and does not depend on buying water from anybody else, making for a relatively cheap and abundant water supply.
But even in Sacramento, the ongoing drought has raised awareness that water is a finite resource. This year, the city has mandated 20 percent cutbacks in usage and restricted landscape irrigation to help bolster supplies for neighboring communities that also rely on Sierra snowmelt.
"The drought has given new impetus to recycling," Mills said.
©2014 The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, Calif.)


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So said Chris Matthews about Fred Thompson — from a list of quotes of the year assembled by Glenn Greenwald, who editorializes that Matthews is "fantasizing about the pleasing, manly body smells of Fred Thompson." Greenwald's unnumbered list is hit and miss, but I'm amused by the manifestations of male enthusiasm for manly males.
"What's appealing about Rudy Giuliani is not the generous side, what's appealing about him is the tough cop side.
Right. You just wait until daddy gets home.
Yes, that part...
That Daddy.
... of the daddy. It's the tough cop side, so...
Yes. Yes" --
Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman, breathlessly sharing their excitement over the firmness of their Daddy, Rudy Giuliani.
He has "chiseled-out-of-granite features, a full, dark head of hair going a distinguished gray at the temples, and a barrel chest . . . . and has shoulders you could land a 737 on" --
Roger Simon, The Politico's chief political columnist, enthusiastically admiring numerous parts of Mitt Romney's body.
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An informational meeting is scheduled March 27 regarding Morenci's school bond issue. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the middle school library.
The "Vote Yes" committee—Joe Farquhar, Adam Johnson, Penny Baumgartner and Carrie Dillon—will attend the meeting to answer questions about the bond issue and information sheets will be available for district residents to take home.
The Morenci Board of Education is seeking approval from taxpayers to leave the existing middle school millage rate at its current level for five years.
The millage is scheduled to begin dropping from the original 7.0 mill rate this year. By leaving it unchanged for five years, the board could tackle $1.4 million worth of maintenance needs.
The bond would cover the cost of work at the elementary school, constructed in 1957, and the high school, constructed in 1969. It would pay for various other needs including replacement of the deteriorating running track.
Board members see the bond as a means of paying for maintenance work that has to be tackled eventually, but doing it without an increase in existing debt millage.
The bond would cost the owner of a $100,000 home less than $40 a year over the five-year period.


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I guess the more musically inclined reader should know this dude. Besides, being the producer of many Bob Marley and the Wailers records, Lee scratch Perry and Mad Professor where something like the inventors of psychedelic funk and helped the emergence of Reggae, Ska and of course Dub in Jamaica. There is a quote that I read that pretty much gets to the heart of it: "Lee "Scratch"Perry is the Salvador Dalí of Dub."
So this outstanding musician – living legend has made a new record with release date aujourd'hui (10.08.2010). Maybe it is not the best album he ever made, but it is definitely worth mentioning. This guy is still making tunes being 74 years old. I am not sure how many records actually go on his account, he might have produced one for every year that he lived…
Revelation is somehow less bubbly and psychedelic then some of his former work but its none the less interesting. It shows a new side in his music. It's actually really funny in parts having a thoughtful and Ironic approach towards topics of our time. For instance the diss of the Kabbalah hype in the track books of Moses or the mockery on Michael Jackson asking "why did your cut of your nose? why did you change your big pretty nose into a little little funny nose?", in the track freaky Michael.
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The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."
In the name of tolerance, tolerance is being abolished; this is a real threat we face.
That Christianity gives joy and breadth is also a thread that runs through my whole life. Ultimately someone who is always only in opposition could not endure life at all.
Evil too, will always be part of the mystery of the Church. And when we see what men, what the clergy have done in the Church, then that is nothing short of proof that he [Christ] founded and upholds the Church. If she were dependent on men, she would long since have perished.
No one is forced to be a Christian. But no one should be forced to live according to the "new religion" as though it alone were definitive and obligatory for all mankind.
The last full week of the year came, and this naturally included the Feast of the Nativity, or Christmas as it is more popularly known.
As one might intimate from my blog, I am not a fan of Bergoglio in the slightest. However, he is not totally useless, as he at least keeps me away from home on Christmas Eves.
To be fair, I had more or less decided to attend the Christmas Midnight Mass even before Bergoglio popped up dressed as pope, but he nudged me over the edge, and now I attend Christmas Mass every time, or the closest approximation we have of it anyway.
I used to enjoy watching Pope Benedict XVI celebrate Midnight Mass, even though I had come more and more to despise the Novus Ordo mass he used for the celebration, so chances are that I would have stopped watching sooner or later. I remember that they had a very beautiful statue of the baby Jesus who they put in the crib after the Midnight Mass.
Then came Bergoglio and the beautiful baby Jesus statue was replaced by something which looked more like what one picks up from one of those cartons they dish out with children's meals at fast food restaurants, except much bigger. Some claimed it looked like something from a Lidl store, but having bought a lot of quality stuff from that store, I can assure my readers that it has far better quality than whatever they made that statue from. It was more or less the most plactic thing I had seen, and the sad thing is I am not even sure it was made from plastic/rubber. It looked like one of those rubbery shapes one fills up with water to float in a bathtub.
As we now know, turning to ugly is part of Bergoglio's main strategy for destroying the Catholic faith and it has gone even more downhill from there.
It was a quiet week in the Church - at least I did not pick up on any scandals or any overly good news. The one thing that made the news was how much Bergoglio's attendance numbers at the Urbi et Orbi speech have dwindled. There is no doubt that he has fewer numbers now than he had during his first speech, and definitely far fewer than Pope Benedixt XVI had at his last.
It was indeed interesting to compare the two images as one can clearly note that Pope Benedict XVI on his final Urbi et Orbi speech had a far larger crowd coming to listen to him in 2013 in less pleasing weather, than Bergoglio had on a sunny day in 2017.
The word is out: If I want to be insulted for being Catholic I can save money and time and avoid the Vatican and simply get my insults from any third-rate raving leftist closer to home, or failing that, on the television.
In other Church news, one of Bergoglio's closest perverts, Cardinal Tobin, says that he is in favour of female cardinals. He says he sees no reason why that should not be the case, and then adds "maybe my theology isn't sophisticated enough". In other words, he is trying to say that he doesn't get it, surprising nobody, since the list of what Tobin gets would seem to be shorter than the number of times the man has skipped a meal. That we can have lay cardinals is one thing, but of course, cardinals have always been considered part of the Church hierarchy, and the hierarchy in the Church is partriarchal. Maybe he deos have a good - by his standards - intention. It could be that he realises that news of homosexual orgies at the Vatican is extremely negative and he wants to tidy up some headlines by spicing up the orgies at the Vatican or some such thing. One is inclined to conclude something to that effect as we can almost certainly rule out a moral motive.
We were also informed that another of Bergoglio's close associates - perhaps his closest - is suspected of huge financial corrpution in Honduras. He naturally denied it, and Bergoglio even went as far as offering his condolences to him for the trouble that others are causing for him. This is, of course, the cardinal who was revealed - through Wikileaks - of having accepted a large sum of money in order to help Bergoglio's trip to the U.S. have a decidedly leftist bent - as if Bergoglio or his advisors needed any help with that agenda.The Eponymous Flower titled their article "Pope Intimate and Poverty Poser Receives $600,000 a Year to Do Nothing" which, if it were true, I would happily approve - if all it took to get Maradiaga to do nothing was to pay him a small fortune.
Whatever one may think of Bergoglio, one cannot avoid at the very least the fact that he keeps very corrupt and perverted company, and then we ought to recall something about birds of a feather and flocking together.
Over at the Southern Orders Page, Fr. Allan J. McDonald once again proves that celebrating the Tridentine Mass is no guarantee of Catholic sanity as the man argues that Pope Paul VI should be canonised - there are rumours that a secodn miracle has been approved or soon will be in any case. The intersting thing is that he offers Humanae Vitae as the reason why Paul VI should be canonised, and the fact that he put aside Bugnini. So he is asking us to believe that although Pope Paul VI allowed the heretical notion that contraception could be permitted before condemning that notion, although not in any way enforcing that condemnation by means of ecclesiastical penalties, and then tossed Bugnini away from Rome after Bugnini had managed to ruin the Church's liturgies and disciplines he showed "heroic virtue" or can be held up...
Unlike VoxCantoris, I would argue Bergoglio is far from deluded when he says:
The Church is not falling to pieces. It has never been better. This is a wonderful moment for the Church, you just need to look at its history.
The Church is not falling to pieces. It has never been better. This is a wonderful moment for the Church, you just need to look at its history.
For the record, it is not the first time that Bergoglio has said that.
The Bergoglio juggernaut never seems to stop rolling, it is. Today we have him encouraging the young to sin by telling us them that God prefers them sinful and weak, so that he can show his mercy. I know, that sounded like a misquotation, but sadly it is not. The only thing we can hope for is that it is a mistranslation, but that really is grasping at straws at this point. I suppose there is still the possibility that somebody framed him by just making this up.
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Intriguing Assortment of Rays Choices for Trade Deadline Shoppers
Always a great guessing game trying to decipher correctly the needs, wants and desire of any of the 29 other MLB squads for anyone on the Tampa Bay Rays roster. Sure there might be a few GM's just coming by doing some future window shopping or prod and nudge a bit of the merchandise, but is there really any top shelf Rays that will exit before the end of the Trade Deadline?
Can't be easy time span for a player either with a large contract or even a " walk" season under their belt until the clock strikes midnight on August 1st. Sure even then deals can still be hashed out, but the large majority of the transactions will be at least attempted in the next few working days. But even the best deal can be stricken down by the might pen of the M L B Commissioner Bud Selig if it seems unfair or has too much cash considerations.
So who among the 25 currently rostered Rays players do you think will garner the most attention? Who do you feel will be showcased now for departure in the off season? There are plenty of options, including a few that could either make or break the Rays post season surge. Then again, if the Rays do go into a tailspin over the next few series( Kansas City/Oakland/Toronto), they could instead purge before the last moments in July?
Even the Great Kreskin would have a difficult time trying to summarize some of the gossip and whispers currently doing the rounds in the MLB circle. With the emergence of SP Alex Cobb and Rays Manager Joe Maddon staying with a 6-man rotation. Could this be a precursor to a starter leaving town?
James Shields has reconstructed his delivery and career to a point some teams are eager to get a guy who can push out innings and provide strikeouts. Shields might have de-valued himself a tad during his recent 4-game tailspin. With a team friendly $ 7 million dollar salary for 2012, Shields is still affordable and could be in the plastic bubble until this time in 2012.
Do the Rays instead sell high on SP Jeff Niemann while he is on his own hot streak? The Tall Texan might not garner a top tier return, but a few teams do have veterans who might walk after this season, and if they fit into the Rays mold….Niemann could be on a flight by August 1st.
With that in mind, why not put SP/RP Andy Sonnanstine on the top shelf to see who wanders by for a long look. Sonny has all the qualities a good team needs with MLB experience, stability and is a solid "company man". He can be used in a variety of ways, and his tenure with the Rays might be on unstable ground with the emergence of Cobb and others pushing hard to break through the Triple-A ceiling to the majors. Sonny, like Niemann will not collect a bevy of returns, but his shelf life with the Rays might be getting near its expiration point.
Cesar Ramos is a southpaw, and with the Rays currently having 3 in their Bullpen, excess might not be the keys to the Rays Bullpen success. He might bring in a better haul than Sonny, but knowing the Rays and their love of the crafty lefties, he might stick. Still, the Rays would not offer up fellow relievers Jake McGee or J P Howell unless the return was something they could not refuse.
That brings us to the Rays field players. A few names possibly jump out at you, but one that I truly think is "off limits" is First Baseman Casey Kotchman. The job he has done since he cemented himself at First has been incredible. With only 1 error this season, Kotchman might be tied to this Rays team soon for the next 3 years. I have heard a few whispers in the hallways.
In the infield, with the thoughts also swirling that SS Reid Brignac is taking backward steps, this effectively closes any possible discussions on Elliot Johnson or Sean Rodriguez. Their stability will be needed now more than ever, and cutting loose even one of the pair would be disastrous unless an infield MLB caliber upgrade is received.
With the recent injuries surrounding the catching position, it might be a hidden blessing for C Kelly Shoppach. Still, the Rays could deal the often offensively maligned backstop for prospects, or maybe even a little cash. The market is not seeking Shoppach with gusto, but a back-up with experience heading into the stressful last months of the season and beyond can be a blessing to a young team.
That leaves the outfield has one of the biggest question marks with at least 4 possible Rays players getting a few glances and maybe trade discussions. Still think Desmond Jennings is here to be looked at by not only the Rays, but by 29 other teams. I really think the Rays have a lot of questions about Jennings, and he could be traded for the right package.
You might have thought I would thrust B J Upton in the top spot for trade discussion, but I truly think the Rays will keep Upton until the end of the 2011 season, then listen intently to offers. Upton might not be the most attentive player on the bases, but he plays solid defense and has trimmed his swing a bit to be more productive. Who in their right mind thought he would get over 15 Hrs in 2011?
Still, with the Washington Nationals eager for Upton, and with names like INF Ian Desmond or RP Drew Storen being put on the end of the pole, the Rays could bite and fill a future hole in their team with young replacements who are starting to show their MLB potentials. Still it is a long shot these names are included with Upton's'. Then again, Friedman can deliver brilliance with Bull-hockey pucks.
The guy who might garner the most outfield attention doesn't actually play there on a daily basis. Johnny Damon could bring a nice haul in return from a team on the cusp of contention, or wanting to stay hard in the race until the end. But is he worth the gamble of leaving with the type of offense and ability to help charge up this team with a single swing?
You can't buy that kind of massive production on and off the field this time of year. But if the Rays are truly in a mood to upgrade now, Damon might be the perfect carrot to dangle in front of the MLB herd. There is another player who has emerged to a point his status might be at its zenith, and a downward spiral is definitely in the cards.
I think the world of the abilities and freestyle aerial moves of Sam Fuld, but I also know MLB is treating him more like a novelty act right now than a budding star or long producing commodity. Here is another Rays player who might be at the peak of his trade value right now. Combine his on-field heroics with his solid base running and you get a nice threat either off the bench or in the field heading into the post season.
There is still the possibilities the Rays just bluff and stay with their current format, but the more realistic approach is someone will go, changes will be made. Upton should be planted in CF until the off season, Shields even though he turns 30 in December is a great anchor for this Rays rotation.
That being said, Sonny and Niemann could be on the "watch list" and be the two pitchers most likely to exit stage left. Shoppach could still be dealt even with the Rays catching corp down to their bare knuckles. This is one part of the Rays farm system that seems loaded for bear, and could endure a spell without remorse.
Jennings is the Rays top field prospect, and I have a sneaking feeling his up-coming promotion to "The Show" has a hidden agenda. Exposing Jennings to MLB caliber pitching with 10 days left could persuade someone to take a risk or gamble on a guy who might not be considered the best outfielder even on his Triple-A squad. But if the Rays do keep Jennings, Upton better look over his shoulder later in the season.
Fuld might be safe, but if his average goes South along with his "Legend", his time and days will be numbered. Damon is the best Rays commodity right now and might be plucked. But Friedman will not trade him for a "rental" player or even a marginal player or prospects. When you have a guy who is putting up consistent numbers like Damon, the price tag has a few zeros in it, even for the short term.
This is the time of the year where guessing, predictions and even off-the-cuff remarks come with a glance from the baseball world. Teams want to chuck, acquire and sometimes streamline for different reasons. The only reasons any of these players might be plucked off the Rays roster is if this team truly thinks they have the horses for a playoff run.
Upgrading by trading would be the only reason right now the Rays would open their doors for change.
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Intriguing indeed! I would like southpaw Cesar Ramos but unfortunately my Bums are not in a situation to become buyers.
Good luck to the Rays!


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Rate : Euro 550/person
Participant : Minimum 2 person
Duration : 05 Days 04 Nights
Flores Overland Adventure Tours 05 Days 04 Nights
Day LABUANBAJO-RUTENG (-/L/D)
After lunch a local restaurant for lunch. Then drive to Ruteng with stops in Cancar to view the spider web style rice terraces and Ruteng Puu traditional village. Late afternoon arriving in Rueng and check in at Dahlia Hotel for dinner and ovenight.
Day RUTENG-BAJAWA (B/L/D)
Morning visiting the local market then proceed to Bajawa with stops in Rana Meze Lake and Aimere to see the locals making palm wine. Afternoon arriving in Bajawa and check in at Bintang Wisata Hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day 3 BAJAWA-MONI (B/L/D)
Morning visiting Wawo Muda to see twin color lakes. Then drive to Moni with stops et Bena megalitchic village, Boawae and Wolotopo traditional villlage. Afternoon arriving in Moni and check in at Flores Sare Hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day 4 MONI-KELIMUTU-MAUMERE (B/L/D)
Early morning visiting Kelimutu to see its picturesque three color lakes. Proceed to Maumere with stops in Moni local market, Jopu traditional village and Sikka weaving village. Afternoon arriving in Maumere and check in at Flores Sao Resort for dinner and overnight.
Day 5 MAUMERE-DENPASAR (B/-/-)
Morning visits local market and Wuring fishermen village before transferring to the airport for your flight back to Bali.
Price included:
- All accommodation based on twin share
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- All Meals ( Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner )
- English Speaking Guide
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After taking a day off for both Christmas and NBA domination, college football bowl season resumes with two bowl games this evening. Hey, what else to you have to do the day after Christmas?
Bowl Games
Pizza Pizza.
Graham Watson previews tonight's Little Caesars Bowl featuring Pitt vs. Bowling Green. (Dr. Saturday)
Crossing Jordan.
Watson previews the Poinsettia Bowl matchup between Northern Illinois and Utah State. It will be the final college game for NIU senior quarterback Jordan Lynch. (Dr. Saturday)
Give Me Liberty.
Alan Ferguson previews the Dec. 31 Liberty Bowl matchup between Mississippi State. (AP/Yahoo! Sports)
Ducks vs. Lame Duck.
Christian Corona previews the Dec. 30 Alamo Bowl confrontation between Oregon and Texas. It will be the final game for Longhorn head coach Mack Brown. (AP/Yahoo! Sports)
In other news....
Did He Jump or Was He Pushed?
Pat Forde reports that Mack Brown was forced out of the head coaching job at Texas by University of Texas president Bill Powers. (Yahoo! Sports)
Extended stay.
Georgia gets a longer look at Jacksonville than it usually does for the annual Georgia-Florida game as part of the week leading up to the Gator Bowl confrontation with Nebraska. (The Athens Banner-Herald)
Is Connor Shaw elite?
Barrett Sallee makes the case for South Carolina starting QB Connor Shaw being an elite QB. (Bleacher Report)
He's just not that into you.
Florida tight end Kent Taylor is transferring to Kansas. (ESPN)


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What does it mean for two polyhedra to be combinatorially equivalent? I've looked on the internet but in vain. If it's not a standard definition, then it might help to say that I found this term in a paper on flattening polyhedra: Continuous flattening of convex polyhedra by Jin-ichi Itoh et al.
The set of all faces of a polytope, partially ordered by inclusion, is called its face lattice. Two polytopes are combinatorially equivalent if they have isomorphic face lattices.
A nice introduction to the combinatorial aspects of polytopes can be found in this pdf.
An equivalent condition for combinatorial equivalence between two polytopes is that their face-vertex incidence matrices differ only by column and row permutations.
For convex 3-dimensional polyhedra you can determine if two such polyhedra are combinatorially equivalent by looking at their vertex-edge graphs. It is known that a graph is the vertex-edge graph of a convex 3-dimensional polyhedron if and only if the graph is planar and 3-connected (Steinitz's Theorem). So if two convex 3-dimensional polyhedra have graphs which are isomorphic they are combinatorially equivalent. For higher dimensional convex polytopes you have to look at the face lattices.


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» Brief history of the community of Groß-Bieberau
Brief history of the community of Groß-Bieberau
Natural conditions attracted settiers nearly 5.000 years ago to this small region at the intersection lines of the streamlets of Fischbach and Gersprenz. The location at one end of the triangular basin giving access to the montainous area of the Odenwald from the Rhine-Main plain seemed to be of great importance for the settlement. At the borderline of these completely different morphological structures of the surface which developed into a range of hills Sediments of loess were deposited. This fertile soil was used by early farmers in the Neolithic period. Even today these fertile loess and clay soils are the basis of intensive wheat and sugarbeet cultivation.
In the early Neolithic period makers of band ceramics from the Danube basin in Hungaria and of string ceramics from Thuringia settled in the Gr.-B. area. Numerous archeological finds, tumuli in the forests and the ancient roads along the watersheds inform us about continuous settlement in prehistory. In those days the first landmark of the region a hill fort 'Heuneburg' - still vivible today near Lichtenberg on a hill called Altscheuer - was buüt which became the centre of the settlement and the economical development of the region; the ancient roads developed into political borderlines lateron.
In early history the Romans, Alamannians and the Franks had the political control. They came as conquerors taking the place of their predecessors. Relics of Roman estates hidden in the ground remind us of these settiers. One of these estates situated in the central area of Gr.-B. was on the site ofthe 'Schönberger' brewery.
There are not many finds of Alamannian origin; so far these have been restricted to the area of the 'Heuneburg' which seems to have served as a refuge camp for the settiers of the region. But there are more finds from the period of the Franconian settlement when another estate on the old Roman site served the same purpose. The importance of this estate can be seen from the fact that it was situated at the junction of two ancient roads of neighbouring ranges of hills which connect the low plains of the upper Rhine with the Rhine-Main basin merging near Reinheim.
The first reference of Biberaha in a document is dated from 787 (September 2nd) during the reign of Charlemagne. In the Middle Ages there was a further development of the settlement. The heyday of the development in those days was the granting of privileges by Emperor Heinrich VII - like those for the town of Oppenheim - in favour of Earl Dieter IV of Katzeneinbogen for the 'village Bibera beneath the castle Lichtenberg'. The pronunciation 'Bibera' still exists in the local dialect. Apart from that the village was granted the privilege of a weekly market on Tuesdays in a document dated from July 19th, 1312. Thus it became a so-called market covering for the demands of the medieval castle of Lichtenberg which had already become a second landmark and the political centre of the region. Gradually there were 4 annüal fairs added which developed into cattle markets and ended only recently. Thus the name market for Gr.-B. on signposts was justified. A privilege dated from 1312 allowed the Earl of Katzeneinbogen to have 12 Jews as 'guests' in his territory who had to pay high taxes for their pro-tection. They were the predecessors of a lateron large Jewish community. With all those privileges the emperor granted Gr.-B. in connection with eastle Lichtenberg rights as a 'Minor Town' as it is called in terms of modern research on the history of towns, because the term 'town' as well as the privilege of fortification (town walls) are not mentioned in the document.
But life was not always peaceful. The settlement with the restricted privileges of a town was caught up in the whiripool of politics and thus in armed conflicts. We are informed about pillage in the years 1422 and 1518, involvement in the Peasants' War in 1525 and the very hard period of distress during the 30 Years'War impres-sively described in his chronicie by Joh. Daniel Mink then vicar of the village.
Lateron Gr.-B. developed into a prosperous village again with numerous large farms. With the crafts necessary for the farms lathe shops thrived which are the basis for the industrial development of today. On this background a 'höhere Bürgerschule' was built which gradually developed from a 'Realschule' (Secondary Modern School) to a 'Gymnasium' (Grammar School). They were combined to a Compre-hensive School (Secondary Modern and Grammar and Sixth Form School) which forms the educational centre of the Fischbach and Upper Gersprenz valley.
Typical of the 'town' - a title given to Gr.-B. in 1962 - is apart from the half timber houses of past centuries the Protestant Church built in 1730. It can be traced back to a chapel (dedicated to St. Michael) of the Franconian period on which later a medieval church was erected. Parts of it can still be traced in the spire. In 1957 a Catholic Church was built after numerous expellees from former East German and Sudeten territories had found a new home in Gr.-B.
Other important buildings are the War Memorial on the Haslochberg, the Element-ary school built in 1950 to 52, the Fire Station of 1954 enlarged in 1979, the Hall on the cemetery erected in 1961, the Comprehensive School completed in 1967, the new kindergarten of the Protestant community opened in 1972, industrial buildings and the new premises of the Sparkasse (bank) built in the seventies housing the day centre for elderly people which was opened recently. The erec-tion of a building for the Fischbachtal area providing for social Services is planned. Less obvious are the Townhall and the former school; they are rather plain buildings. The centre is surrounded by modern housing areas which made the rural and industrial community into a mainly residential area.
Since January Ist the former village Rodau has been incorporated. Its so-called 'domain' - situated close to the village - was an estate belonging to Lichtenberg.
(By H.H. Weber and W. Wackerfuß, transl. R. Liste)
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SAN ANTONIO – After spending the last 12 months featuring musical events across the city, KRTU-FM 91.7, Trinity University's non-profit, listener supported radio station, will close out its Year of Jazz celebration with a concert at home. The grand finale will include the second public performance of the well-received San Antonio Jazz Suite and a performance by the legendary Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The concert will begin at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, in Trinity's Laurie Auditorium and is free and open to the public.
Along with being the final concert in the Year of Jazz celebration, the event will mark the 10th anniversary of KRTU-FM becoming a primarily jazz radio station.
The San Antonio Jazz Suite, a musical composition commissioned by KRTU-FM to mark its 10th year of broadcasting jazz, will be performed by the King William Jazz Collective. The jazz suite was written by Aaron Prado, a composer and former music director for KRTU-FM. The composition, dedicated to San Antonio, features three movements telling the story of the city with a mixture of different musical styles and narration. Jim Beal, music columnist and entertainment reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, called the jazz suite one of the best events of the 2011 music scene.
The grand finale will end with a performance by the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, which has been a fixture on the San Antonio Riverwalk for decades. The Jim Cullum band also plays classic jazz on their long running, nationally syndicated show on Public Radio International called "Riverwalk Jazz."
Following the concert at 7:30 p.m., the celebration will continue with a presentation at a photo exhibition titled "Masters of Jazz" at the Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery located in the University's Dicke Art Building. Anna Hodgson, curator for the jazz themed collection, will present a lecture on the exhibit.
The Year of Jazz celebration kicked off in October 2011 with the "Sunday in Brackenridge Park: Jazz Family Showcase," held at the Sunken Garden Theater. The free event featured music, children's activities, and the world premiere of the San Antonio Jazz Suite.
More events followed every month hosted by arts and community organizations across San Antonio, including the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, the Carver Community Cultural Center, the Southwest School of Art, and the McNay Art Museum.
For more information, contact KRTU-FM at 210-999-8917 during regular business hours or visit http://www.yearofjazz.org/.


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U.S. athletes selected for IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ― U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, announced today that five athletes will represent the United States at the 2013 International Paralympic Committee Nordic Skiing World Championships, Feb. 23-March 5, in Solleftea, Sweden. The roster includes U.S. Navy Lt. Dan Cnossen (Topeka, Kan.) and Andy Soule (Pearland, Texas), retired Army, who combined for five medals at the recent IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup event in Cable, Wis.
"We are excited to enter a strong team of athletes for the 2013 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships," said John Farra, high performance director for U.S. Paralympics Nordic skiing. "All of the athletes selected are coming off a very successful IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup on home soil in Cable, Wis., where Dan and Andy medaled. The other three have closed the gap and are climbing toward the podium. It is going to be fun to see what Team USA can do next month."
Each athlete on the U.S. team is an active duty or veteran serviceman. Competing for the United States in Solleftea with Cnossen and Soule: Eric Frazier (Maple Hill, N.C.), retired Marines; Sean Halsted (Spokane, Wash./Twin Lakes, Idaho), retired Air Force; and Jeremy Wagner (Honolulu, Hawaii), retired Army Reserves.
Team USA won 13 medals at the IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup in Cable. Cnossen led the way with four medals, two in biathlon and two in cross-country, while Soule won a silver medal in the middle biathlon event. At the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, Soule won a bronze medal in 2.4km biathlon, becoming the first U.S. athlete to medal in biathlon at the Olympic or Paralympic Winter Games.
An estimated 150 athletes from 15 countries will compete in biathlon and cross-country races at the competition, which marks the final world championship before the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
U.S. roster for 2013 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships
- Lt. Dan Cnossen (Topeka, Kan.), Navy
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Cheese Shop manager Adam Serfss doesn't get a haircut often. He let's a long braid grow for a good two years before he even considers a cut.
But when he does get a cut, he get's most of it chopped off.
Yesteday, Serfass went to Sherlocks onW. Highland Avenue to have all the hair below his shoulders removed by Kathleen Wallace. The hair is then donated to Locks of Love, a charity that uses he hair to make wigs for children who have lost their hair to chemotherapy and radiation treatments.


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Here at TAG, we've been inspired by the brilliant marketing campaigns we've seen over the past few days. These three stand-out strategies set fire to our creative fuel, so we're giving them the attention they definitely earned.
A release on the runway
In case you missed it, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson took to the Valentino runway during Paris Fashion Week in order to promote the Zoolander sequel. The stunt not only announced the motion picture in style, it also grabbed some major attention. Part of the success of this promotion hinges on the serious attitude surrounding Fashion Week and its designers, critics and brands. The surprise appearance was a comedic twist to Valentino's catwalk, earning buzz not only for Zoolander 2 but also for the well-respected fashion brand.
A campaign so subtle, you can't ignore it
The #NotThere campaign was launched by No Ceilings for International Women's Day, bringing attention to the state of gender equality worldwide. Implementing dramatic absences of women from billboards, magazine covers and commercials, this campaign not only drew attention through subtraction, it also achieved high success by supporting its messaging with an excellent landing page, well-organized and visually appealing data and clear calls to action.
Bad stock photos make for great advertising
To promote their new movie Unfinished Business, actors Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco and others helped create a series of business-related iStock photos by Getty Images. Playing on the campy and cheesy aspect of stock photos, the cast managed to insert themselves into some laughably terrible stock images—that aren't a far cry from the actual selection available to and oft-used by marketers. The blankness of stock photos is both the appeal and the detraction when crafting campaigns and promotions, making them the perfect stage for Vaughn and company to tout their new movie.
We're excited to take these pieces of marketing inspiration and put our uncommon energy to work creating successful and meaningful campaigns that stick with our clients' audiences long after they launch. From surprise appearances to disconcerting disappearances, these campaigns have heated up our creative atmosphere. TAG—we're it so hot right now!


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From our public notices web page:
The Insurance Commissioner has scheduled a hearing for March 27, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time in his Tumwater, Washington office to consider whether he should approve or deny Humana Inc.'s request to acquire Washington-based Arcadian Health Plan, Inc.
Arcadian Health Plan, Inc. offers Medicare Advantage health products through the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and is wholly owned by its parent company, Arcadian Management Services, Inc. Arcadian Management Services, Inc. is currently owned by five venture capital investment funds affiliated with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and by Arcadian employees. Humana Inc. proposes to purchase the parent company and all of its subsidiaries including Arcadian Health Plan, Inc.
Humana Inc., which had $36.8 billion in revenue in 2011, and has 11.2 million covered individuals in its medical plans and another 7.3 million in its specialty plans nationwide, is proposing to acquire all outstanding stock of Arcadian Management Services, Inc.. If approved, Humana Inc. would wholly own Arcadian Management Services, Inc. and all six of its subsidiary health carriers including Arcadian Health Plan, Inc.; Arkansas Community Care, Inc.; Arcadian Health Plan of North Carolina, Inc.; Arcadian Health Plan of Georgia, Inc.; Arcadian Health Plan of Louisiana, Inc.; and Arcadian Health Plan of New York, Inc.
The public is notified that all interested parties may submit letters of support or objections and/or may participate in the hearing by appearing in person or by telephone. To view the Notice of Hearing, which includes advice on how to participate and other related documents, go to http://www.insurance.wa.gov/orders/hearings_proceedings.shtml
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I'm playing the 1756-63 campaign as Austria and the Russians have entered the war. However the large force which includes Apraxin, seems stuck in the Wierzbolow region where it spawned. A few turns have passed (it's now 1757 Early Sept) and it's still impossible to move any of the Russian forces from Wierzbolow. I can't move them back to either of the Russian off-board zones, nor into Poland (I get the message about Polish territory being out of bounds), nor into any adjacent Prussian-controlled regions, even if I turn them Austrian with some of the other, free-moving Russian units. Wierzbolow itself is showing as 100% Polish control and "cannot be entered".
Is this right? Is there some event that will eventually fire and release the Russian forces?


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The DC chapter of the User Experience Professionals' Association is a highly active local community of individuals interested in usability, user experience design, interaction design, and their many related fields.
UXPA DC is a regional chapter of the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA).
The User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) supports people who research, design, and evaluate the user experience of products and services.
UXPA is the organization of choice for user experience professionals worldwide. UXPA was established in 1991 as the UPA (Usability Professionals' Association) when usability was considered to be an umbrella term for what our members do. In 2012 the name was changed to UXPA to reflect the change in members' job titles to User Experience (UX) and to continue to represent their breadth of work.
UXPA holds yearly international conferences, publishes new findings through both the Journal of Usability Studies (JUS) and through User Experience Magazine, and has 50 chapters around the world. In 2004, UXPA established World Usability Day, which in 2011 was celebrated in 44 countries.
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first of all, sorry about my bad english and thx for the time you spend reading this.
this is a functios from a problem of 2D packing( a 2d boards with 2d tiles, like the knapsack, returning boolean if the tiles can fit iniside the board)
i tried to make a function that getting a board in different situations, and a tile, and return an array wich contain all the coardinates that avaliable for the corrent tile.
for example, a board as big as 2X2, and a tile of 1x1, the function will return an array like:
the problem is with the fact that i dont know how many coards will be, before initalizing the array.
so i managed to make another function that removing the unwanted "000000" in the end.
(sound aufull, i know, but i cant use Objects because we didnt leaned it yet)
the problem starts when my function sometimes leaves another 0,0 in the end.
any alternative or solutions??
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public static int[][] allAvaliablePlaces(int[][] board, int length, int width){
int[][] coards = new int[board.length*board[0].length][2];
int index = -1; // will index the new array, and chek if there are coardinates at all
for(int i = 0 ; i < board.length ; i++) // i run over rows
for(int j = 0 ; j < board[0].length ; j++) // j run over columns
if(placeValid(board, i, j, width, length)) { // chek if the place is valid
coards[index][0] = i; // the row component
coards[index][1] = j; // the col comp
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For the next few days a group of mainland journalists and bloggers are having the opportunity to do a few FREE or cheap things on the Big Island.
Today started off with a scavenger hunt at the Hilo's Farmer's Market where each of them were given $10.00 and were sent off to find food for lunch for everyone to make a picnic out of.
The highlight of today was being able to see the volcano here on the Big Island from both the top where the Halema'uma'u Crater is… to the bottom of the flow in Kalapana.
What they didn't know was that they were going to be treated to a rare occurrence where the entire floor of Pu'u O'o collapsed into the crater. Andrew Cooper, author of the blog A Darker View, wrote in his post today "Kilauea is up to Something":
This afternoon the entire floor of Pu'u O'o has collapsed into incadescent rubble. For the last few months the crater at Pu'u O'o has hosted a lava floor that occasionally floods. This had formed a solid crust hundreds of meters across with spatter cones and small fresh lava flows across the floor. This has now completely collapsed. At the same time the rift has experienced a large number of small, mostly magnitude 2 earthquakes. At he same time there was rapid deflation at the summit caldera and at Pu'u O'o. Where has the lava gone?…
Well when I talked to Jessica Ferracane of Irondog Communications, she stated that the folks did in fact hear something happening at the time and it was quite spectacular! Ferracane posted on her facebook account the following account:
Is listening to Halemaumau Crater boom and gasp as rocks fall into Pele's home. Amazing!
I met up with the mainland media folks in Pahoa and then we cruised down to Kalapana to see what was going on down there.
They were fortunate in that they got to go to a house down there on the lava flow and were treated to a spectacular view of the flow from there while remaining in a safe atmosphere.
As the sun went down… we could begin to see the orange glow of the lava making it's way down the hillside.
Once the sun was completely down… you could see a nice flow from the top of the mountain down to the bottom of the hill.
It was a great day and evening for the mainland folks and they were treated to the award winning Kaleo's Restaurant in Pahoa for dinner.
The media folks will be heading over to the other side of the island in the next few days to see some of the cheap and free things to do on that side of the island… it was great to meet them and I look forward to reading their media write ups on the Big Island when they return home.
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Pu'u 'O'o crater floor collapse followed by middle east rift zone eruption
At 1:42 p.m. HST this afternoon, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) monitoring network detected the onset of rapid deflation at Pu'u 'O'o and increased tremor along Kilauea Volcano's middle east rift zone. At 2:00 p.m., Kilauea's summit also began to deflate.
Between 2:16 and 2:21 p.m., the floor of the Pu'u 'O'o crater began to collapse, and within 10 minutes, incandescent ring fractures opened on the crater floor a few tens of meters away from the crater wall. As the floor continued to drop, lava appeared in the center of the crater floor, the northeast spatter cone within Pu'u 'O'o collapsed, and an obvious scarp developed on the west side of the crater floor, with lava cascading over the scarp toward the center of the crater.
At 2:41 p.m., the scarp on the west side of the crater floor appeared to disintegrate, exposing incandescent rubble. Five minutes later, the collapse of a large block along the east crater wall produced a dust plume.
Webcam images showed that the Pu'u 'O'o crater floor continued to drop through 4:26 p.m., when fume obscured the camera view. HVO Webcam images can be accessed at http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/.
Coincident with the collapse in Pu'u 'O'o, an earthquake swarm began along Kilauea's middle east rift zone in the area of Maka`opuhi and Napau Craters. Tiltmeters showed east rift zone deflation, which continues as of this writing.
At 5:15 p.m., an HVO geologist flying over Kilauea's middle east zone reported "an eruption in Napau Crater." The eruption is now known to be located between Napau Crater and Pu'u 'O'o.
Updates on the status of this eruption will be posted on HVO's Web site at http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/activity/kilaueastatus.php.
According to Jim Kauahikaua, HVO's Scientist-in-Charge, "This event is remarkably similar to a 1997 eruption in and near Napau Crater, which lasted less than 24 hours."
Kilauea's summit also continues to deflate, and the lava lake level within the Halema'uma'u Crater vent continues to drop, facilitating rockfalls from the vent wall.
In response to the current volcanic conditions, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park has closed the Chain of Craters Road and all east rift zone and coastal trails, along with the Kulanaokuaiki campground, until further notice.
Daily updates about Kilauea's ongoing eruptions, recent images and videos of summit and east rift zone volcanic activity, and data about recent earthquakes are posted on the HVO Web site at http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov.
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If you didn't get a chance to see Saving Lincoln in theaters, it's available on DVD now. Using actual period photographs for its settings, the movie explores the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Ward Hill Lamon, the Virginia-born attorney who went from lawyer to presidential bodyguard. Lamon isn't as well-known as some of Lincoln's other associates, but the two men had a remarkable and longstanding relationship.
They met in Illinois, where Lamon was admitted to the bar in 1851. Although he was born a Southerner, Lamon joined the young Republican Party and played an instrumental role in securing Lincoln's nomination in 1860, packing the convention hall with his friend's supporters by printing up extra tickets.
It was during Lincoln's inaugural train trip that Lamon's stint as a self-appointed bodyguard began. After detective Allan Pinkerton brought Lincoln word of a possible plot to assassinate the president-elect in Baltimore, an armed Lamon accompanied Lincoln as he passed through the city secretly by night. Neither Pinkerton nor Lamon thought much of the other's abilities; Pinkerton dismissed Lamon as a "brainless, egotistical fool," while Lamon later claimed that the purported assassination plot was a sham. (He reversed this opinion in some of his postwar writings.)
Lamon wanted a diplomatic post, but spent Lincoln's presidential years as a U.S. Marshal of the District of Columbia. In this position he managed to offend some powerful people, with some senators eventually demanding that he be fired. Lincoln entrusted him with a number of delicate missions, including a controversial trip to Ft. Sumter before that installation fell to the Confederates. Despite Lincoln's wish to hold the fort, Lamon gave Southern authorities the impression that the Union was prepared to abandon it. But if Lincoln was angry at Lamon's handling of the Charleston trip—and some sources indicate that he was—it didn't stop him from allowing his old friend to take responsibility for presidential security. The burly Virginian often patrolled the White House grounds at night—armed to the teeth with a pistol, knife, and a set of brass knuckles—sometimes sleeping on the floor right outside Lincoln's bedroom.
Perhaps one reason Lamon was so conscientious when it came to presidential security was the fact that Lincoln himself seemed so cavalier about it. An exasperated Lamon wrote to him in 1864, "I regret that you do not appreciate what I have repeatedly said to you in regard to the proper police arrangements connected with your household and your own personal safety.…To-night, as you have done on several previous occasions, you went unattended to the theatre. When I say unattended, I mean that you went alone with Charles Sumner and a foreign minister, neither of whom could defend himself against an assault from any able-bodied woman in this city." Lincoln's lifelong tendency toward fatalism probably contributed to his seeming indifference toward his safety. He told associates that if someone wanted to take his life badly enough, there would be little anyone could do to stop it. Lamon wasn't on hand on the night one of Lincoln's enemies finally got the chance to strike a fatal blow, having been sent on a mission to Richmond.
He returned to his legal practice after the war, setting his name to a poorly-received ghostwritten biography of Lincoln. After Lamon died in 1893, his daughter assembled some of his material into a second book, published in 1895. Some of his personal effects—his watch, marshal's badge, and ashtray—are highlights of the collection of LMU's Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum.
As its title implies, Saving Lincoln focuses on Lamon's role as bodyguard, but it nicely balances the public and private aspects of Lincoln's life in the White House. Tom Amandes effectively conveys Lincoln's affable side in a performance reminiscent of Sam Waterston's portrayal in the TV adaptation of Gore Vidal's Lincoln. (History buffs may recall that Amandes spent two seasons playing Eliot Ness in The Untouchables.) Lea Coco, Penelope Ann Miller, and Bruce Davison all give convincing turns as Lamon, Mary Todd Lincoln, and William Seward, respectively. The film includes a few incidents that don't usually make it into Lincoln movies, such as the controversy over Lamon's performance of a traditional song during Lincoln's visit to Antietam. I'm glad to see it available in DVD format; anyone interested in history will find it well worth watching.


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As we move into a period of post-2015 'stock-taking' in advance of the UNGA at the end of September, Participate partners have been critically reflecting on the participatory approaches they have employed in attempts to shift power in policymaking – including the engagement with the post-2015 process. This blog introduces the 'hydrology of policy' to help illustrate the complex process of bringing research into policy influencing.
Knowledge generated by people living in poverty and marginalisation flows across different influencing levels, feeds into different spaces, leading to potential changes in discourse (and sometimes practice) and in policy that revert to affect the lived reality of people on the ground. But this is not a one way process: changing discourse can open new spaces, and changes in practice can influence discourse. Local level changes can proliferate 'horizontally' to other communities; and likewise 'vertically' these changes can influence what happens at the national or global level. This can be understood as the 'hydrology of policy' (see illustration below).
The 'hydrology of policy' shows how the ideas, needs, proposals for change and experiences from the poorest and most marginalised people can be represented as the water that starts from springs in the local isolated places where they live, flowing into little streams. These streams of ideas, needs, proposals and experiences join to create rivers that feed the big river that represents the global debate on the post-2015 themes. Most of the decisions are taken in places where marginalised voices are hardly heard, because the springs are far away from where the big river joins the sea. From the illustration it is clear that the rivers go through a winding route, with obstacles such as dams along the way that limit and control the flow of the water. This represents the challenges faced while trying to bring the voices of the poor and marginalised to the place where the decisions are taken. Often they only reach after an 'evaporation' in which their perspectives on the change they want has almost disappeared and are little considered by the decision-makers.
The results of the global debate are represented as clouds which depict the general discourse and practice of 'development' from the perspective of the decision-makers. The clouds move towards land and arrive back at the source of the spring as a 'rain' of projects, programmes or simple promises from government and social actors. As in the real world, rain can be light, causing drought, or can be heavy, like a storm, in both cases not responsive to the poorest and marginalised.
Bringing research into policy influencing at multiple levels is a complex process, and engaging across different levels to achieve changes in development that prioritise the poorest and most marginalised people is not without challenges. Demand for change needs to happen at every level of the system – from local to global and global back to local.
This blog is an edited version of Carlos' contribution to Participate's latest publication 'Knowledge from the Margins: An anthology from a global network on participatory practice and policy influence'.
Dr Carlos Cortez is a member of the Participatory Research Group and is based at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico (UAM-X).


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I was at the back of the very last car on a train from Silver Spring to downtown. At one of the next stops, a guy gets on, presses the emergency intercom button at the back of the car and starts chatting up the train driver.
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Cori Walters, 32, right, hugs her daughter Hannah Walters, 6, at the California Institute for Women state prison in Chino, Calif., May 5. An annual Mother's Day event, Get On The Bus, brings children in California to visit their mothers in prison. Sixty percent of parents in state prison report being held over 100 miles from their children.
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The children bounded off the bus and ran excitedly towards a tall fence topped with razor wire. In the distance, through layers of fencing overlooked by a guard tower, huddled a group of mothers in baggy blue prison-issue clothes, pointing, waving and gasping. Many had not seen their children in over a year.
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Mothers watch their children arrive to visit at the California Institute for Women state prison in Chino, Calif., May 5.
Frank Martinez jumped up and down, shrieking with delight. "Stay right there Mommy," he yelled. "Don't cry." As the children disappeared into a building to be searched and x-rayed, a couple of the mothers began sobbing.
An annual Mother's Day event, Get On The Bus, provides free transport for hundreds of children to visit their incarcerated moms at California Institute for Women in Chino, and other state prisons. Sixty percent of parents in state prison report being held over 100 miles from their children, and visits are impossible for many.
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Fulorise Gadson, right, of Riverside hugs her daughter Ken'yida Draper, 7.
California locks up more women than any other state in the U.S. — 11,250 in 2007 – and three quarters are mothers. The children left behind with family or in foster care often feel abandoned and some don't see their moms for years.
Regular prison visits lower rates of recidivism for the parent, and make the child better emotionally adjusted and less likely to become delinquent, according to The Center for Restorative Justice Works, the non-profit organization that runs the Get on the Bus program.
Reuters reporter Mary Slosson and I choked back tears as we walked into a large room packed with mothers throwing their arms around their kids, spinning them round in tight hugs. A shriek rose above the cacophony of voices and laughter every time a new child was escorted in.
"You've grown!" "Your feet are as big as mine!" "I've missed you," came the cries.
Outside, Norma Ortiz, 31, cooed and fed her eleven-month-old son Axel with a bottle of milk for the first time since he was taken away after she gave birth to him in the prison. Her mother Olga, 55, and her three sons surrounded her protectively. I asked Norma how it felt to see her baby. "I can't talk about that," she said, nodding towards her sons. "I need to be strong for them".
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Levell Jones, 7, who has not seen his mother in 17 months, holds up a card for her.
Other mothers chased their children around the climbing bars, and down the slide in a small playground, as a burly prison guard paced the perimeter. Most quietly chatted, or played board games during the few hours they had together.
Children stood on tiptoes to push the coins they had brought into vending machines, which were off limits to the inmates. They carried back bags of chips and soda gifts for their moms.
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Camille Glinton, left, kisses her mother Luz Gonzalez.
"I know how to do side flips," boasted seven-year-old Levell Jones to his mother Shonta Montgomery, 28, who said she was serving time for involuntary manslaughter. It was the first time he had seen her in seventeen months. Montgomery clasped his face, sat him down, and began tying his shoe lace. "When you go home, wash your laces just like we used to do," she told him.
"No-one wants to see their relative behind bars," said Christal Huerta, 22, who was visiting her mother Sonia Huerta, 36, with her 12-year-old sister Breeanna Huerta. Their father was deported to Mexico three years ago, and now Christal takes care of her two sisters at their grandmother's home. "It's kind of sad, because you expect to have both parents with you, teaching you how to become an adult and how to become responsible," she said. "But they've taught me enough to teach my other sisters."
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Cali Farmer, 4, cries as she hugs her mother, Netta Farmer.
"You need to have a lot of strength and patience to deal with things that come. I'm just glad my parents are still alive, and I could see them. Others aren't so lucky. I'm just very happy for the things I do have. I always try to stay positive."
As the afternoon slipped away, and the guards began to call for children to board buses back to different cities in California, a quiet settled over the yard. Lakisha Perry, 29, cradled her daughter Stephanie with her arms and kissed her forehead as they both stared into the distance. "I want to stay here with you," Stephanie said.
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Levell Jones, 7, looks out of the bus window as he leaves his mother.
A few children cried as they touched their mothers' hands across a line of tape on the floor, marked with "Do Not Cross," as they were ushered out of the room by a prison guard. Most shuffled out in stunned silence.
Back on the bus, the children hugged cuddly toy animals they had been given and stared trance-like out of the window at the receding prison fence. A couple of girls curled up in the fetal position under blankets on the seats and fell into a deep sleep. The bus carried them back to Los Angeles to resume serving their own time.
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Orbiting in space since 1999, XMM-Newton is studying high-energy phenomena in the Universe, such as black holes, neutron stars, pulsars and stellar winds.
Even when moving from object to object, the space telescope collects data. These slews are represented by the bright strips of X-ray data in this image, which records over 1200 individual slews between 2001 and 2012, and covers about 62% of the sky.
It is a mosaic of 73 178 individual images of 1 x 0.5 degrees and is shown in Galactic projection, with the Galactic plane lying across the centre of the image.
A number of well-known X-ray sources are seen in the image. The brightest feature, lying in the Galactic plane at the right of the image, is the Vela supernova remnant, which occupies an area of sky 150 times larger than the full Moon.
On the opposite side, to the left of the Galactic plane, is the Cygnus Loop, an expanding shock wave caused by a star that exploded as a supernova less than 15 000 years ago.
Just above the centre of the image is the powerful X-ray source known as Scorpius X-1, the first source to be discovered in X-rays in 1962. Lying about 9000 light-years from Earth, it is the strongest source of X-rays in the sky, aside from our own Sun.
Nestled in the south ecliptic pole within the concentrated region of overlapping slews at the bottom right of the image are the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, dwarf galaxies that our part of our Milky Way Galaxy's local neighbourhood.
The full Slew Survey Catalogue can be accessed here. Furthermore, the XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue has also been recently updated and now contains more than half a million X-ray sources.