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Projects Abroad donates paints to Shelter for Abused Children in Ghana
Volunteers from the Human Rights project have been working with the Shelter for Abused Children in Ghana and the Department of Social Welfare for some time now. The shelter is located at Osu Ako-Adjei in Accra, just five minutes walk from the Projects Abroad Human Rights Office.
Lat month the volunteers let the Projects Abroad staff know that the shelter was badly in need of a lick of paint and so we arranged to donate enough paints to paint the whole centre. The painting work will be completed with the help of volunteers before the end of the year.
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On my way home this afternoon, I happened to catch American RadioWorks on NPR. This particular piece caught my attention when they talked about "expert blind spots".
Deep expertise in a field is obviously a critical asset that colleges look for in their professors. Koedinger says it can also be an obstacle to teaching. He says experts often have a blind spot that blocks them from perceiving a problem from a student's point of view. "If you're a chess expert, the chessboard looks different" than it does to a beginner, he says. Experts grasp patterns and relationships by second nature. In essence, the expert can't understand what the student can't understand.
In designing the OLI courseware, Koedinger and the Carnegie Mellon team work with experts to overcome the "blind spots" and break each piece of knowledge into its building blocks. They deconstruct the patterns so students can rehearse putting the pieces back together. And because the OLI software captures every click of every student's mouse, massive pools of "clickstream" data help the OLI team tease out what kinds of lessons and exercises lead students to master their subjects most effectively.
"One of the big surprises in this data set for me is when you look at the learning process from task to task, it takes a long time for kids to get better at specific content, whether it's math or science or language," Koedinger says. "The progress we see is steady, but it's slow. That's one of those things about learning we often forget — how much repetition and practice is critical to becoming an expert."
It really resonated with me because of the computer classes I teach. It has taken months to develop some of the simplified or layman explanations and examples that I give in class to talk about things that are generally taken for granted in a modern technology skill set. I've had to adjust my terminology and approach to bring computer skills down to a level where people feel comfortable and confident. I've been using computers for over twenty five years; it's a good reminder of how recent the development of the personal computer is when you are teaching people who have never used one in their life.
Whether you teach computer classes in the public library like me or in an academic setting from elementary to college, please take the time to listen to this particular episode. It's pretty damn amazing in looking at a potential of computer assisted education as well as the continued development of online courses.
If you're someone in the classroom (regardless if that is at a college, high school, grade school, or public library), what kinds of technology assisted instruction have you used or seen?

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When a scholarship student is accepted to an elite graduate school program, she encounters a world run by good-looking, rich boys that she has never experienced before. Zoey Taylor (Dawn Morrow) is a talented dancer from a middle-class family who receives a full scholarship to attend the exclusive Ellison University, a school catering to the rich and famous. There, she meets Liam Montgomery (Joseph Almani) and his entourage of wealthy, good-looking friends, known as the F4, who rule the school by fear and coercion. Despite her best efforts to steer clear of the F4, Zoey finds herself entangled with the bad boys in unexpected ways. Can she survive her new school environment? "Boys Before Friends," also known as "Between Boys and Friends," is the highly anticipated American remake of the popular Japanese manga "Hana Yori Dango," which spawned "Boys Over Flowers" starring Lee Min Ho in Korea, Meteor Garden (Taiwan) and similar remakes in other Asian countries. To make the series more accessible to American audiences, the storyline moves from a high school to a very exclusive graduate school and features a much more multiracial cast.
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With her Midwestern charm, girl-next-door persona and keep it simple ethic, Katie Brown demonstrates how to make a house a home in her new series, KATIE BROWN WORKSHOP. Everyday life at home is a joyous adventure for Katie, whether she is planning and cooking a dinner party, working in her garden, redecorating a room or meeting the daily needs of a young family. Her imaginative and budget-conscious approach to the home arts has been a breath of fresh air for a new generation of homemakers, earning her praise from People Magazine as TV's meat-and-potatoes Martha Stewart. From her real-life workshop, Katie uses seasonal foods and colors to prepare simple and enjoyable meals, demystify the science of gardening and transform holiday decorations into works of art.
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Back in June, with the official presentation of Windows Phone 8, it was announced that Huawei will join Microsoft's Windows Phone camp as well and at that time it was even said, that the first devices could be expected end of 2012. Now, only one month too late (which isn't bad at all), Huawei officially unveiled its first Windows Phone 8 smartphone, the Huawei Ascend W1. The Ascend W1 is 10.15 mm thin and features a 4" IPS LCD 480 x 800 touchscreen with OGS Technology. It's powered by the high-end Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8230 dual-core CPU at 1.2 GHz and an Adreno 305 GPU. With a 1950 mAh battery, the Ascend W1 has 470 hours of standby time, the longest among all smartphones in its class.
It features a visually iconic design inspired by a tropical island and comes in an array of bold colors including blue, red, black and white. The Ascend W1 is a smart and stylish alternative for consumers looking for great technology at a price that is right. The Huawei Ascend W1 has a low reflective IPS LCD display with full lamination technology, which provides brilliant visibility under any lighting condition. The Windows Phone 8 Start screen lets users customize and pin Live Tiles with topics of personal interest, providing real-time updates that are uniquely theirs. Additionally, a dynamic lock screen allows users to select the photos or updates most important to them and have them ready at a glance, even when the phone is locked.
The Huawei Ascend W1 will be available in China and Russia from January 2013, with Western Europe, Middle East, USA and other selected countries to follow.
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During the final week of the General Assembly Session this year, the Virginia State Senate Democrats worked with Gov. Robert McDonnell to reach a compromise to pass a transportation plan — a plan that is funded in part by funds not yet appropriated from Congress — funds unlikely to ever materialize for Virginia. In return for the Senate Democrats' votes for the transportation plan, the Governor signed an agreement on Medicaid expansion. We thought this agreement was made in good faith. We are disappointed that Governor McDonnell appears now to be backing out on this agreement, choosing to pacify the right wing of his party instead of working for the health and well-being of our Commonwealth.
In a letter to the Obama Administration, McDonnell stated that there has been no agreement to expand Medicaid. "Some media outlets and elected officials have labeled this [the compromise agreement] as approving Medicaid expansion in Virginia. This is absolutely incorrect," he wrote to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Medicaid expansion would provide health care for more than 400,000 Virginians who work but are unable to afford insurance. It would also provide some 30,000 jobs. Cost for Medicaid expansion will largely be borne by federal funding. Refusing these funds will send millions of Virginia tax dollars to other states. Virginia presently ranks 48th out of 50 states in Medicaid spending.
Senate Democrats agreed to approve this transportation plan only after we believed that Governor McDonnell was agreeing to the expansion of Medicaid. We were misled. I am extremely disappointed that the compromise was not what I thought it was.
Linda T. "Toddy" Puller
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When TV's go-to guest star Stephen Root drops in on "Fringe" this Friday, fans of "Office Space" can only hope there's a cosmic incident involving a red stapler.
No stranger to projects with a devoted cult following ("King of the Hill," "Newsradio" and several Coen brothers films among them), the beloved character actor tells PopcornBiz he's making his first-ever on screen acting appearance opposite his real-life wife, actress Romy Rosemont – whom "Glee" fans will recognize as Finn's mom – on the fourth season episode of Fox's sci-fi series titled "And Those We've Left Behind."
"It was a great opportunity to be able to work with her," says Root. "We have been able to do readings and things like that for films, but never in front of a camera. It was tremendous to be able to work together – I think the first day that we worked, was just the two of us and the director and the crew. It was a joy."
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In fact, it was his wife who provided the hook-up, reveals Root: "Romy had went to Northwestern with one of the executive producers [Jeff Pinkner] and we were actually at a party and talking to him. They were saying, 'Would Stephen be interested in doing a "Fringe?"' And Romy popped up 'Well, yes – If you invite ME.' And strangely enough, Mr. Pinkner a while later said, "Yes, please. Come on and do the show." We were just more than thrilled to be able to work with each other and come on a quality program.
As to exactly what the couple will be doing on the episode, Root says he can't reveal much "or they'll kill me. But I can tell you that they're a husband and wife that are both scientists and have something going on in this universe, not the other one. We actually didn't get to work with a lot of the cast. It was mainly us and Josh [Jackson]. Anna [Torv] we saw a little bit. It was kind of an insular episode for us, which was good in that there was limited involvement. It's kind of a stand-alone thing. It was a nice little arc to play. I really appreciated the chance to do it, especially with my wife."
"I think to play husband and wife and be real husband and wife, it's easier to emotionally connect quickly to a big emotional place, since we're actual husband and wife," adds Root. "You don't have a lot of time on television to do that usually. There is not a lot of rehearsal time. Us knowing each other so well, probably knowing where the other person is going to go emotionally, was a help."
And the actor says he got a kick out of taking part in a sci-fi-driven show. "I've been a sci-fi guy from way back, including comics in the 60s and sci-fi from the time I was 13 years old. It's always fascinated me, whether we're in a situation where, "Are there multiple universes? Is it possible to travel back through time?" That kind of stuff has always fascinated me. I'm happy to be addressing it a little bit in this show."
It's been a while since he's played in the genre – all the way back to "Star Trek: The Next Generation," he recalls. "Back in the beginning of the 90s when I was doing a lot of guest star stuff, it was fun doing a Klingon because I could actually use my Shakespeare training to talk over the dentures. That was interesting."
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he Iraqi air force struck back at the militant group ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, killing more than 200 militants, Iraqi state TV reported Monday morning. The air raids took place in Saqlawiyah, northwest of Fallujah, according to a graphic run by state TV.
ISIS has been ruthlessly fighting to take control of Iraq and has apparently posted chilling photos on jihadi Internet forums seeming to show the executions of Iraqi security forces.
CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the images purportedly posted by ISIS. CNN is examining the terrain in the images, some of the signage on buildings in several of the pictures and the uniforms of the apparent victims. Those details suggest the photos are real and were taken in Iraq.
A caption on some of the images reads: "apostates heading to their hole of doom."
ISIS, an al Qaeda splinter group, wants to establish a caliphate, or Islamic state, that would stretch from Iraq into northern Syria. The group has had substantial success in Syria battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's security forces.
On Friday, a tweet on what was claimed to be an ISIS Twitter account claimed that its members killed at least 1,700 Shiites. CNN was unable to verify the authenticity of the account, and the account appeared to have been taken down Sunday.
In a statement, the U.S. State Department condemned the claim by ISIS, also known as ISIL, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
"The claim by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that it has massacred 1700 Iraqi Shia air force recruits in Tikrit is horrifying and a true depiction of the bloodlust that these terrorists represent. While we cannot confirm these reports, one of the primary goals of ISIL is to set fear into the hearts of all Iraqis and drive sectarian division among its people," part of the statement read. "Terrorists who can commit such heinous acts are a shared enemy of the United States, Iraq, and the international community. "
The militants' quick advance in Iraq has been helped by many Sunnis who feel that the Shiite-dominated government has marginalized them.
ISIS seized Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, last week and has threatened to march on Baghdad, Iraq's capital and largest city.
But "Mosul didn't fall," a defiant Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told military leaders in Baghdad in a speech televised Sunday on state TV. "The ones who have fallen are the politicians who have bet against Iraq." The Prime Minister said, "We will not allow anyone to divide the Iraqi people."
Al-Maliki called on his top brass and soldiers to march and fight against ISIS, while criticizing Iraqi politicians conspiring against their homeland and Iraqi soldiers who have refused to continue to fight when confronted by ISIS.
"We will march on every inch, with all our weapons, with all our will and faith, so we can liberate and cleanse every inch of Iraq -- from the southernmost point to the furthest point in the north," he exhorted the military leaders.
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Despite al-Maliki's bold statements, ISIS accumulated several victories across Iraq on Sunday.
The northwest Iraqi city of Tal Afar fell to ISIS, according to Iraqi Gen. Mohammed al-Quraishi. Many Tal Afar residents -- ethnic minority Shiite Turkmen -- fled the fighting north toward Iraq's Kurdish region. Tal Afar is in Nineveh province, midway between the country's border with Syria and Mosul, north of Baghdad.
Before Iraqi security forces lost Tal Afar, several mortar rounds landed on a busy area in the town and killed at least seven and wounded 33 people, security officials in Baghdad and Tal Afar told CNN.
Also Sunday, ISIS gained control of two villages in Adhaim, in its first push into Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.
On top of that, Iraqi security forces and gunmen believed to be ISIS clashed near al-Khalis, about 18 miles from Diyala's capital, Baquba, al-Khalis police officials told CNN. Three mortar rounds landed near a recruitment center opened recently for volunteers to help the Iraqi army fight against ISIS.
Baquba is about 37 miles northeast of Baghdad. Baquba is an ethnically-mixed city, though Sunnis represent a slight majority.
Given Baquba's proximity to Baghdad, if Baquba were to fall, it could give ISIS militants three-pronged access to Baghdad -- from Anbar province to the west, Ninevah and Salahuddin provinces to the north and from Diyala province from the northeast.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, CNN Senior International Correspondent Arwa Damon was in the Iraqi Kurdish province of Kirkuk, where last Thursday militants took control of two villages.
She asked the local governor, Dr. Najmaldin Karim, whether the United States should launch airstrikes to help fight back ISIS.
"I think they know how to do it, but blanket bombing is not going to work here," Karim said, explaining that that approach ignores the fact that ISIS is too blended into the civilian population in Kirkuk and innocent people could die. But there should be targeted bombing in both Iraq and Syria, he said.
"I don't think anyone is safe from these people," said Karim.
Partial staff relocation at U.S. Embassy
Between 50 and 100 U.S. Marines and U.S. Army personnel have arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, a U.S. official told CNN on Sunday.
A U.S official acknowledged to CNN that the additional embassy security personnel being added include U.S. Marines who specialize in embassy protection during high-threat conditions.
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The U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003. American military forces ended their withdrawal from the country in December 2011.
At the time of the U.S. drawdown, Iraq's leadership had agreed that a residual U.S. military presence was desirable, but the talks broke down over the prickly issue of legal immunity for U.S. troops in Iraq.
The Obama administration had said any deal to keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the withdrawal deadline would require a guarantee of legal protection for American soldiers. But the Iraqis refused to agree to that, opening up the prospect of American troops being tried in Iraqi courts and subjected to Iraqi punishment.
Read about five predictions for Iraq
This week, President Barack Obama continued to consider options with regard to the situation in Iraq but ruled out sending troops into the country.
On Sunday, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that some U.S. security personnel will be added to the staff at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and other staff members will be temporarily relocated to consular offices in Basra and Irbil and to the Iraq Support Unit in Amman, Jordan.
A "substantial majority of the U.S. Embassy presence in Iraq will remain in place," Psaki said in a statement, and "the Embassy will be fully equipped to carry out its national security mission."
Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said that a "small number of Defense Department personnel" are augmenting State Department security assets in Baghdad. Kirby said that the relocation of some embassy personnel is being done with commercial, charter and State Department aircraft flights.
The U.S. military can airlift people if the State Department asks for that, Kirby said.
The State Department is warning U.S. citizens against "all but essential travel to Iraq." The official travel warning says U.S. citizens in Iraq "remain at high risk for kidnapping and terrorist violence."
While that continues, Iran has recently entered the fray, according to a senior security official in Baghdad who spoke to CNN on Friday. That official said that in recent days, Iran has sent about 500 Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops to fight alongside Iraqi government security forces in Iraq's Diyala province.
However, Iranian officials, including President Hassan Rouhani, denied reports that some of its elite forces are in Iraq to help bolster al-Maliki, a fellow Shiite.
"If the Iraqi government wants us to help, we will consider it," Rouhani said, according to an English translation of his remarks Saturday in Farsi by state-run Press TV.
But, he said, "so far they have not asked specifically for help," and added that Iran could give strategic guidance if requested.
The Obama administration is exploring possible direct talks with Iran over the deteriorating situation in Iraq, two senior U.S. officials tell CNN.
Both officials ruled out any type of teaming up with Iran because the United States and Iran don't have a lot of common interests -- other than a stable Iraq.
The United States is wary of furthering Iran's already considerable influence in Iraq. The Shiite Iranian regime is al-Malaki's closest ally in the region. Additionally the administration is concerned appearing to team up with Iran would both alienate Iraq's Sunni majority and worry Sunni allies of the United States in the region.
The State Department statement said the United States "will do its part to help Iraq move beyond this crisis," and a senior State Department officer told CNN that Kerry spoke to his counterparts from Jordan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to discuss the threat posed by ISIS.
The administration has not yet determined what the mechanism would be for talking to Iran, the senior U.S. officials said.
Ex-U.S. ambassador: Kerry should go to Iraq
On Sunday U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham argued on CNN's "State of the Union" for more intervention in Iraq.
The South Carolina Republican, a frequent critic of the Obama administration's approach to foreign policy, called Obama "stubborn-headed," "delusional" and "detached" over his decision on how to react to the unfolding crisis.
"Time is running out to turn this around," Graham said. "Get involved with air power. Stop the march toward Baghdad. Deal with Syria. But get a new government (in Iraq) in place as quickly as you can that will bring the Iraqis back together for a counteroffensive."
Graham: Obama 'delusional' on Iraq
Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2007 to 2009, told CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday that he thinks Secretary of State John Kerry should fly to Iraq immediately.
"We need the secretary of state out there in Baghdad right now," Crocker said. "We need the President on the phone to the Iraqi leadership because the reality is the Iraqis are not in a position ... they were not in a position when I was there, they are not in a position now, to work out hard compromises on their own."
The United States is the "middleman among Sunni, Shia and Kurds," Crocker said. "Ambassadors can go just so far."
Crocker, now the dean of the George Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University, said he would support "very carefully targeted airstrikes" in conjuction with high-level diplomacy.
"We have got to help the Iraqis come together," Crocker urged, "in a unified fashion to confront a common threat."


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I've been use XAMPP in Linux and it was great , now I'm trying to install it in Solaris 10 but I found lots of issues. I hope you help me in order to get rid of these issues. The story is:
I had Solaris 10 with MySQL Community Server 5.1.59 and Apache Tomcat 7.0 installed via pkgadd command, MySQL worked perfectly and tomcat work only if I add HTTP port # to IP address 127.0.0.1:8080 and MySQL configured with password for the root user. after that I've add php package and its dependencies from sunfreeware.com unfortunately php didn't work at all (calling php scripts in tomcat directory via browser didn't parsed). then I decided to use XAMPP, everything goes very will except MySQL that is accessed via phpMyAdmin without password (that's good) but it didn't work on terminal ( my favorite way to deal with MySQL ) due to this error:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
and I have to mention that new Apache works alongside the old Tomcat (When enter IP address without 8080).I google it to find out what's the problem, I've been try all of available solutions that I found but no one work for me . I talk to myself that's the moment to remove every thing except tomcat (using pkgrm and rm -rf /opt/xampp) and reinstall only XAMPP again. But it was very bad idea coz phpMyAdmin (it prompts me to enter user and password although I keep everything to default (no password), when enter anything into user and password fields, it shows error that prompts me to check Apache and php logs ) stop working and mysql (and mysqladmin) didn't work totally from terminal (command not found), then I installed MySQL Community Server 5.1.59 the terminal worked good but phpMyAdmin still showing the same problem and php failed in connecting to MySQL database then I go to php.ini and edit mysql socket attribute from "/opt/xampp/...etc" to "/tmp/mysql.sock" and still didn't work. things that I have to mention:
1. All stop commends didn't work at all (/opt/xampp/xampp stop, /opt/xampp/xampp stopapache, ...etc).
2. After deleting XAMPP(rm -rf /opt/xampp) Apache Server still work!!!!!
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Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings has asked us genealogy bloggers to talk about a satisfying genealogy research moment for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. I'm happy to report on my latest, which happened today!
I've been meaning to look into the history of the building in which I'm living — a huge Victorian mansion in Easton, Md., that has been divided into apartments. My landlord had mentioned that it was built in the 1880s, and that's all I really knew.
I started with Sanborn maps of the area and was able to find the home on a 1919 map, along with its original house number and the house number at that time (which is still different from today's). This is really valuable information to have when looking for a street address in other resources like the census, which was my next stop.
Now, usually one starts searching the census with a name, but I didn't have that yet. Sanborn maps don't typically show who owned a property. I know something about the history of the area though, so I plugged in a family name I knew would have been in Easton in the early 1900s. After locating the page where that family was listed, I started paging through until I reached the neighborhood where my house is located. Easton is a small town — this technique probably would not have worked for most other locales.
I live on one of the main drags in Easton, so there were still lots of listings to sift through. I also wasn't having much luck finding the particular house numbers I'd seen listed in the Sanborn maps. Still, I made notes on which families seemed to be located nearby and then tried to find them in the subsequent census — my hope was that in the next census, the house I was looking for would appear close to the same names.
Or so I thought. I had begun my search in the 1910 census and then moved on to the 1920 one. No luck. I was getting pretty frustrated after repeating the technique in the 1930 census, especially with the quantity of un-numbered house listings that were on my street. Was the census taker being lazy or what?
Then my eyes latched onto a name: Wilson Tyler. BINGO. Tyler's Lane is the name of the alley that runs behind my house — the biggest house in either direction for a block or more. In retrospect, I could and probably should have started there, but there are equally large houses on the other side of the alley — I didn't want to make too many assumptions as I dove into this project.
The 1930 census has information on the approximate value of the dwellings recorded as well — the listing for the Tyler home was $20,000 — far more than those surrounding it. (I still need to figure out what that is in today's dollars.)
So now I'm relatively certain I have the right name. I went back to the previous censuses (censi?) and discovered that there were actually two different spellings — Tyler and Tylor.
Then, I went to your friend and mine, Google. There, I turned up the fact that Wilson Tylor was the editor of the Easton Gazette (now the Easton Star-Democrat) in his day — big news indeed! I felt that would ensure there would be plenty of material by and about him — I wasn't disappointed.
A quick search of the catalog at my local library brought up two books, including The Tylors of Talbot and Caroline County. I wasted no time high-tailing it to the Maryland Room at my library.
A picture at the front of the book — a group shot from the silver anniversary of the Tylors — teased me with the possibility it may have been taken on the front stoop of my house. The photo was cropped close around the group, but the posts holding up the front porch roof above their heads had the same design as those at my house; the latticework under what was then a porch extending across the entire front of the house looked an awful lot like that under a side porch on my building. (I had my laptop with me and had pulled up a picture I took of the house earlier this year.)
I beamed when I opened the book to page 74 and there was my building in all its original glory the year it was built, 1888, with some of the Tylor kids posed in front of it. The text on the page said that the house cost slightly less than $5,000(!) at that time.
The book I found also gave names of those who rented rooms from the Tylors over the years and details how it once served as a boarding house for nursing students working at the hospital across the street (it's still a popular rental spot for travelling and other nurses working at the hospital).
So, mystery solved! I'm excited to know more about the history behind where I'm living. Turns out that the books I found at the library are written by a relative of the Tylors. He's still researching and planning to write another book on his family's history — I may look him up and drop him a note.
ADDENDUM (10-11): I'm saddened to discover that Laurence G. Claggett, the Tylor relative and historian/author of The Tylors of Talbot and Caroline County that I mention above, died only last month. According to the Easton Star-Dem, he passed away Sept. 1.


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Do you remember the olden days of losing a phone? Crap! You lost all your contacts! What do you do? You probably didn't have a smartphone and you probably didn't sync your contacts, instead, you went to Facebook and told your friends to give you their numbers. Those phone numbers are still on Facebook.
Buzzfeed FWD looked at the ol' lost phone problem and found that countless Facebook Groups were created for the sole purpose of getting people's phone number back. It was simple, people invited all their friends to post their phone number to the Group so they could add to their new phone. The problem is that even though groups are defunct now, the posts of your phone number are still there. Even worse, none of the old groups' members (other than the creator) know about this, as they've been exorcised from the group long ago.
Which means, no one knows what graveyard post their phone numbers continue to live in. Which means, those numbers could be "harvested by nefarious individuals like text-message scammers and spammers". Which means, that's totally not cool. Read the whole report on FWD. [BuzzFeed FWD]


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|Steve Gordon and Ashok Krishnamurthy, interim co-executive directors of OSC
To compete in a global environment, OSC depends upon powerful technology, vital services and – most importantly – talented people. We have developed a strategic vision to achieve and sustain national prominence as an academic and industrial supercomputer center that is focused on meeting and exceeding researcher needs and expectations. Our staff has the expertise, experience and flexibility to work closely with researchers to best achieve their goals using our computational
Our mission is simple: empower researchers to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations; partner with industries to leverage computational science as a competitive force; and lead efforts to train Ohio's workforce on key skills to help them secure 21st century jobs.
In this report, you will find a small sampling of the research successes achieved through ready access to OSC resources – from identifying a drug that will allow the body to block brain tumors and designing solar cells with organic materials to extending the battery life of electric cars and developing algorithms to predict the likelihood of armed conflict.
Through the award-winning Blue Collar Computing program, we show industry members how to use custom web portals to design improved products and take them to market faster; and with the Ralph Regula School of Computational Science programs, we facilitate college students' pursuit of a groundbreaking minor and an associate degree curricula.
We invite you to read, enjoy and be inspired by the work of researchers and industry partners who are redefining the realms of science and even the deployment of advanced technologies like supercomputers.
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Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 15 September 2012 (IUCN) – As economic difficulties continue to dominate international debate, IUCN's World Conservation Congress has put nature back centre stage in the quest to recover our natural assets and use nature to solve a growing list of economic and social issues.
"The Congress, which has become known in Korea as "Nature's Olympics", has brought home gold for conservation," says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN Director General. "It has demonstrated how nature-based solutions, as expressed in the Congress slogan "Nature+", help us address many of our most pressing challenges."
More than 10,000 people participated in the 2012 Congress on Jeju Island, including over 5,000 conservation experts from 153 countries and more than 550 events.
The crisis facing the natural world was underlined with new statistics on the decline of Caribbean corals and the publication of the top 100 most endangered species. Other highlights include updates on the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems, the IUCN Green List of Protected Areas, the Protected Planet Report and new findings on locally managed forests.
A strong emphasis was put on business responsibility. Major corporations, such as Nespresso and Rio Tinto, set new standards in sustainable practise, while Microsoft and Google signed up to support innovative conservation technologies. A €20m investment in biodiversity and protected areas management was announced by IUCN and the European Union.
More than 180 motions were proposed to the Members' Assembly, IUCN's unique global environmental parliament bringing together governments and non-governmental organizations to debate and vote.
The Assembly approved resolutions on a wide range of issues including action to recover Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks and avert extinctions of rare dolphin species; shutting down illegal bear farms; scaling back offshore drilling in French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana; and providing better payment channels for ecosystem services in poor countries.
Action on stopping the escalating poaching of elephants and rhinos was approved, and the push for a globally binding treaty on protecting wildlife from mercury contamination was endorsed, as was greater enforcement of laws on wildlife crime and reducing the impact of recreational divers on marine environments.
IUCN's work programme for the coming four years was also approved, recognizing that global production and consumption patterns are destroying nature, and at the same time, people, communities, governments and business are underutilizing the potential of nature and the solutions it provides. The new programme builds upon IUCN's niche as the world's leading authority on biodiversity conservation.
As the Congress drew to a close, Zhang Xinsheng of China was elected as the new President of IUCN for the coming four years. Zhang is co-founder and Executive Chairman of Eco-Forum Global, and a devoted advocate for environmental protection and sustainable development.
"I am honoured to have been elected IUCN President in such an era when the world needs IUCN more than ever," says Zhang. "This Congress has showed, more than ever before, how by valuing and conserving nature, we can achieve a more prosperous and harmonious society"
Editors Notes:
The Forum:
- Nature+: Better knowledge is contributing to better conservation and human well-being—the focus on quantitative evaluation of success and sharing lessons learned is enabling successful approaches to be scaled and replicated across the planet.
- Nature+ people and governance: Local involvement is crucial for conservation and management of biodiversity and ecosystems in order to meet peoples' needs.
- Nature+ development: Biodiversity and business are learning each other's language—the impact from development on biodiversity and ecosystems needs to be addressed in sustainable development frameworks.
- Nature+ food: The services nature provides and nature-based solutions can provide a strong foundation for rethinking food security and sustainable food production.
- Nature+ climate: Where ecosystems are resilient, environmental and socio-economic impacts are substantially reduced.
The Assembly:
The following motions have been adopted at the 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress: http://portals.iucn.org/2012motions/
More about the IUCN World Conservation Congress:
- Congress website: www.iucn.org/congress
- Congress fact sheets: http://www.iucnworldconservationcongress.org/news___press/press/fact_sheet/
- IUCN on Korean environmental issues: http://www.iucnworldconservationcongress.org/about/korean_environmental_issues/
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No holidays or hot showers: Everything Jo Nemeth gave up to live without money
It's no secret that the cost of buying or renting a property has reached knee-buckling proportions.
But what if you could sidestep the whole shebang and ditch not only mortgage or rent payments, but the need to spend any money, ever?
To most of us, living without cash or cards sounds like an impossible dream. But for Jo Nemeth, who documents her journey under the name of Jo LowImpact, it's the new norm.
More than two years ago, Nemeth ditched her job, rental house, car and bank account and built a shack from discarded building materials on a friend's farm in Koonorigan, in northern NSW.
"We [her former partner, and her now-adult daughter] had a pretty idyllic life but I was working and I was stressed, and I was seeing all the damage that I was doing to the planet, and that I was doing to other people and it got to me so much," says Nemeth, 48.
"I thought at least if I stop buying stuff I will reduce my own impact, I won't be adding to the burden on the planet," says the former community development officer.
Nemeth was also deeply concerned about the social impact of her purchases – particularly the damage large supply chains were causing. "You know we have child slavery, we have people being pushed off their land, we have people working in factories in developing countries in dangerous situations."
Her first step to going money-free was striking a laidback arrangement with friends, who agreed to let her live on their land for a year in exchange for help growing vegetables.
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She swapped a hot shower for a cold bucket wash, a modern toilet for a compost bucket toilet, a washing machine for hand washing and a kitchen for a hand-built rocket stove.
Before closing her bank account (she still has a small amount of superannuation), Nemeth bought one solar panel, a battery and an inverter, saying goodbye to electricity bills for good.
"It's a very, very small system that's just enough to charge my laptop and my phone and to run a light," she says.
After the recent floods in Lismore forced her to move, Nemeth has parked a wagon handmade by her father in a friend's backyard in North Lismore. In exchange, she's transforming the yard into an oasis of free food.
Without heating, the depths of winter may prove chilly. But Nemeth can always snuggle under her blankets with her laptop and a DVD from the library.
Using Wi-Fi at home is off the cards – she accesses it at the library or at friends' houses – as is making phone calls.
As she establishes the latest vegie garden, Nemeth says she gets food by helping out a stallholder at a local organic farmer's market, and hitchhiking back to her friend's farm weekly to help out.
She also happily accepts any food her friends or family are throwing out. "If they've got flour that's got weevils in it I'll take that and sift the weevils out."
Nemeth has more swapped or donated clothes than she knows what to do with. And holidays aren't a big deal. "I don't think about holidays now as my life is pretty cruisy and interesting," she says.
Before leaving the rat race, Nemeth set up a fund with her dentist, now down to $700.
There have been definite challenges along the way, such as a lack of hot showers. Then there's the impact this life choice has had on her personal life.
"The one thing that I've realised recently that I sacrificed, that I gave up to do this, was my relationship with a man that I loved," she says.
Challenges aside, the change has been overwhelmingly positive, she says.
"The way that I'm living, very simply, was actually a very common thing to do not that long ago. We've really lost touch with that."
Nemeth dreads the thought of "ever going back to that kind of moneyed life where I have to get a job and live a normal life".
"I have this incredible sense of freedom – I wake up in the morning and I don't know what I'm going to be doing for the day, I don't know what friends I'm going to be hanging out with, who's going to come and visit me, what I'm going to build or create.
"You know it's just exciting, I feel filled with this sense of freedom and excitement."


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From Calgary to Pittsburgh: Diehard fans share love of Steelers north of the border
Frank Mafrica, Joe Ferraro make trek to tailgate in 'Blitzburgh Bus' before home games at Heinz Field
Inside the black and gold "Blitzburgh Bus," it looks like any typical pregame tailgate before a Steelers game at Heinz Field, but upon closer review, it's being led by a group of diehard fans from 2,500 miles away.
"I'm a wannabe Pittsburgher, a wannabe yinzer," said Frank Mafrica, who, along with his buddies, travels all the way to the Steel City from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to tailgate before every home game.
They've been fans of the franchise ever since they were kids.
"Franco Harris was my idol, as far as I was concerned. The Italian heritage, him being half-Italian was great," said Mafrica. "And everyone knows the rest is history."
"I think it just goes back to I was in high school and Franco Harris and the Italian Army and that intrigued me, and I started watching the Steelers play and I just have a love for them. It doesn't go away," said fellow Calgarian Joe Ferraro while sporting a Troy Polamalu jersey.
Mafrica and Ferraro have assembled their own small Italian army of fans to cheer on their favorite team. The bought a bus that would be dubbed the "Blitzburgh Bus" for $30,000 and shipped it from Miami to Pittsburgh. (Photos: Go for tour inside 'Blitzburgh Bus')
"We want to preserve the past, which on the one side of the bus we have Franco and Terry Bradshaw and of course Jack Lambert," said Mafrica."And on the other side of the bus, we have the current Steelers, with Ben (Roethlisberger), Troy (Polamalu) and Maurkice (Pouncey). And then of course on the back of the bus, it is a bus, we have Jerome ('the Bus' Bettis)."
A number of Steeler greats, including Pouncey, Rocky Bleier and Louie Lipps, have signed the interior of the bus, which is decorated with images of the franchise's six Lombardi Trophies and Super Bowl rings, leather seats, field turf and a satellite TV. It's all a tribute to the Pittsburgh way.
"Blue collar, call it what you want. I don't find … in my travels, Pittsburghers, you find a fellow Pittsburgh Steeler fan, it's like you're family," said Mafrica.
And many members of his extended Steelers family have stopped by for pictures, tailgating and a tour of their $100,000 investment on wheels.
"We get a lot of looks everywhere. It doesn't matter where we go. I was thinking of charging a dollar for every picture. I think we'd have this thing paid for," said Ferraro.
And while Mafrica and Ferraro are making their impression on the city, the city is also making a lasting impression on them.
"No team travels better than the Pittsburgh Steelers. And Dallas is not America's team. Pittsburgh is," said Mafrica with a smile.
"I love Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is such a great city. The more I come here, the more I like it," said Ferraro. "It feels good, you know? The attention we get just driving down the street. It's all part of the hype, so we have 30 more years of that planned."
The Steelers' 0-4 start to the season may have been difficult, but Mafrica and Ferraro hope to be driving the "Blitzburgh Bus" from Pittsburgh to the Meadowlands for the Super Bowl in February.
"Keep the faith. We're going to be there. We're going to be there and, you know, go Pittsburgh. Go Steelers," said Mafrica. "Like I said, I'm a Steeler for life."


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WKMS report about a local celebrity
Edgar Cayce is a celebrated native of Hopkinsville that I've studiously avoided writing about. I am not interested in studying his life because I don't trifle with the supernatural. However, if you are curious about him (or if you've never heard of him), this recent WKMS broadcast about Cayce's early life is informative.
In February, 2006, I wrote about Aunt Mary's Antiques -- a new business at the corner of 7th and Virginia Streets. This is the building mentioned in the WKMS broadcast as the site of Dr. Ketchum's office.


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…over at the Lincoln Institute blog. I had the privilege of asking him some questions about his work on Lincoln, which he was kind enough to answer. We're hoping to do an occasional series of these conversations with Lincoln scholars, so stay tuned.
We've got an interview with William Harris
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|Bear in mind track is not set in stone and will likely shift before event occurs.
The reason why this storm is not going south is because of the ridge and the cold air. It is a 'sandwich' situation, with two factors on the outside and the storm in the middle. The stronger component (ridge or cold air) will be the more determining factor for this storm. At this point, it appears that the ridge will be stronger and thus will push the storm farther west and north. If, for some reason, the models backtrack and decide that the ridge will be much weaker, then the storm track would likely short farther south. What is interesting about that is how the GEM model is following that potential of a stronger cold blast.
What may also be a factor is how fast the storm moves, and may play a bigger part than we may be noticing. The GEM has the storm track more south because that cold blast is coming out first instead of the storm as the storm moves slower and is thus pushed south. The ECMWF moves very fast, much faster than some other models. Thus, the storm comes first rather than the cold air. This would be a lose-lose situation, because less snow would fall and more rain would fall as the storm moves faster and is actually a bit north of the forecast graphic above.
We are consulting with other weather enthusiasts for their take on the storm track, so if you have anything to offer, drop a comment below- we'll respond to any questions you have.
Remember- this graphic is nowhere near set in stone, and was created to show current model guidance. The situation will change, and it looks like the situation should get itself intact going into the weekend.


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Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State women's basketball team derailed the George Mason Patriots 55-52 on the first day of the Aggie Hotel Encanto Thanksgiving Classic. Sophomore transfer Danesia Williamson collected a career high 18 points on the night.
Williamson powered through the first half of play with 14 of her buckets, which already surpassed her previous career total of 11. The 5-6 guard dropped four behind the three-point arc for a season high. She also worked for four assists on the night.
NM State went on an eight point run in the middle of the first half that included a three pointer by freshmen Sasha Weber and Abby Scott each. NM State shot 50 percent from the three-point arc in the first half and collected a 42.9 field-goal percentage in the opening 20 minutes of play.
The work of Williamson and Weber, who had two three's in the first half and three on the night, vaulted the Aggies to a 37-26 lead as the clock ran out on the first period. On the evening, Weber collected 13 total points with two assists and a steal.
A slower second half proved to be no issue for the Aggies as the team wrapped its second home win of the season 55-52 over the Patriots. Senior Kelsie Rozendaal picked up five points in the second period, and Abby Scott earned two steals in the half. Scott also finished the game with six points and two assists, all of which mark career-high stats for the freshman.
With nearly five minutes scoreless for NM State and the score halted at 47 Aggie points, the Patriots managed to take their only lead of the night by collected six points. A jumper by Williamson with just under three minutes left took back the 48-47 lead for NM State. A three by Weber moved NM State ahead even more. The Patriots and the Aggies traded buckets for the remainder, but Trakh's Aggies came out on top.
The Aggies combined for 12 second-chance points with a team total 31 rebounds and 12 assists.
The Aggies take back to the hardwood on Saturday, Nov. 24, against UC Irvine at 6:30 p.m. UC Irvine topped Drake in game one of the Aggie Hotel Encanto Thanksgiving Classic 69-64. Drake will meet George Mason at 4 p.m. in the Pan American Center.


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The town of Longboat Key's candidate qualifying period ended at noon, Dec. 21, confirming three contested races and one preliminary election.
Only District 5 commissioner Robert Siekmann's seat is not being challenged in next year's election.
The town will hold a preliminary election Tuesday, Jan. 26, because Country Club Shores residents Lynn Larson, Lee Pokoik and incumbent Lee Rothenberg are running for the seat.
Chairman David Brenner will run against District 3 Commissioner Peter O'Connor, who is seeking his third consecutive term in office.
And Bay Isles resident Phillip Younger is running against At-large Commissioner Hal Lenobel, who is seeking his second consecutive term.
Early voting for the District 1 preliminary election will run Tuesday, Jan. 15, through Tuesday, Jan. 22. Early voting for the Tuesday, March 16 general election will run Friday, March 5, through Friday, March 12.
Contact Kurt Schultheis at [email protected].


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When you open the paper you'll have something like this below. You can keep adding paint each time you reopen the paper. You want to put wet paint blobs so that the paint will transfer. If the paint is dry tit will not print on the other side.
I know we'll be creating more Heart Blottos soon! They make very unique Valentines! You could create a message on the back and send them to all your valentines!
Blottos are fun to make when creating Butterflies like Tinkerlab did in this post !


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As some of you know Henshen Engine recently hit it's initial funding goal on kickstarter, however sometime within yesterday and today, the Dreamcast stretch goal was hit. As of now no update reflecting it has been posted by the devs, but expect one soon! Only 5 days left in the kickstarter, so act soon if you are interested in reserving a copy
Image of the main Henshen Engine KS page as of 9/30 at aprox 8:30:
Link to the kickstarter:
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I created this card to fit a few challenges as well! I used Lawnscaping Challenge #16 to use one paper layer, CAS-ual Fridays #16 to emboss, and Crazy 4 Challenges #101 to use brads, embossing & make a square card. This is what I came up with!
Stamps: Lawn Fawn (Many Thanks set)
Ink: Tsukineko (Versamark) & Clearsnap (Pigment: frost white)
Embossing Powder: Stampendous! (detail white)
Ribbon: Renaissance by Design
Button: Fancy Pants
Twine: The Twinery
Brad: Doodlebug Designs
Jewels: Kaiser Craft
Corner Rounder: Creative Memories
Julie Campbell
Latisha Yoast
Lea Lawson {You are here!!}
Lynnette Kauffman
Teri Anderson
Tiffany Johnson
And as always, there will be lots of giveaways on the Lawn Fawn blog this week!! Click on these links and follow the comment instructions for your chance!!


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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
What is it about us that ultimately make us who we are? Our genetic nature, upbringing, culture, religion? If it is a combination of all of them that defines the way we think and feel about things, the way we treat family and friends, the way we think about ourselves, then what is left when all of that is changed or dissipated or lost?
The human mind is a wondrous and fragile thing, a spongy mass protected by a hard shell of bone, and I have known bright, articulate men who, after head injuries, became sad, babbling idiots. I have known dementia and Alzheimer's patients, including my father, who could barely recognize his own children. What conclusion can be made other than that the mind, the so called seat of consciousness, that central sense of self and ego that imagines the world and visualizes thoughts in 3 dimensions, depends on nothing more than the proper workings of the electro-chemical transmitters in the grey matter of the brain.
And if that is so, what is this "soul" then, this spark, this essential presence said to be within us that is a speck of the Divine Mind, a mote of the Godhead? Is it this undetectable soul that causes us to breathe in reverence the name of God when we glance upward toward the heavens? Is it this mote without locus that is the better angel of our natures, the mirror that when polished reflects God's light?
It may indeed be so, and even if we come to a state of confusion and memory loss due to age or disease or injury, that place is inviolate; the higher self of consciousness and awareness.
But when consciousness dissipates after death, does awareness remain? My own out of body experience, that I have written about here, suggests that it does in some form. This question was also once put to Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, late Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order. He said in answer, "A drop falls into the ocean and becomes one with the ocean, but it does not lose its wetness."
God knows the truth!
Ya Haqq!


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New York City, N.Y., Feb 21, 2013 / 02:42 pm MT ().- Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York is calling on his archdiocese to pray in a particular way for Pope Benedict on Feb. 22, the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter.
"I have...asked that tomorrow, February 22, the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, we remember Pope Benedict in a special way with special Masses and Eucharistic adoration," Cardinal Dolan wrote today in his column for "Catholic New York."
"In these days of novelty and uncertainty, when many may be anxious and nervous, we need more than ever to return to the Lord, as individuals and together as the Church."
On Feb. 11, Pope Benedict announced his intention to resign the office of the papacy, which will be effective on Feb. 28. It marks the first time a pope has abdicated since Gregory XII in 1415.
Cardinal Dolan has also instituted a novena in the New York archdiocese lasting from Feb. 20 to 28 to pray in thanksgiving for Pope Benedict, for his health, and for "guidance as awe await his successor."
The Chair of Peter is an important feast for the papacy, Cardinal Dolan explained, because it marks the authority and mission of the pope for the universal Church and reminds us of the history of the office, stretching back to Christ's appointment of Saint Peter as "universal pastor."
"We need Peter among us. Without the charism of Peter in the Church, we would be tossed about by every gust of wind, every false doctrine, every silly trend," reflected Cardinal Dolan.
"Peter is the gift of Jesus to the Church, a teacher to hand on the deposit of the faith, and to be a sign of unity."
Cardinal Dolan reflected that in the modern age in which the pope is "immediately present" to Catholics throughout the world, Pope Benedict's abdication left some feeling adrift or abandoned.
"To them I would like to address a few words," he said. "Benedict himself reminded us this week that it is Christ Jesus who remains always the Supreme Pastor of the Church. Popes, bishops, parish priests – yes, even cardinals – all come and go; Jesus alone remains."
"Peter is the rock to be sure, but it is the Lord Jesus who is the cornerstone and the sure foundation of the Church. The news of this past week should be a reminder of that."
Marking the contrast between Pope Benedict's decision, and the decision of John Paul II to remain in office until his death, Cardinal Dolan reminded us that "holiness is not uniformity." Their differing decisions can both be admired, and manifest the harmonious diversity which reflects the grandeur of God.
New York's archbishop re-assured the faithful that Pope Benedict's decision was the fruit of prayer, of dialogue and friendship with Christ. The pope realized that another must take up the task of strengthening the brethren.
Cardinal Dolan exhorted prayers for the future pontiff, saying that "in these Lenten days we need to pray and offer penance for the man who will be the new successor of Peter among us."
He also sought prayers for himself, as he prepares to travel to Rome for the conclave.
"When I was created a cardinal, I knew in theory that one day a conclave would come. Now it is a reality, and I ask your prayers for me as your archbishop that I might be an instrument of the Lord's grace and providence in the days ahead."
St. Peter's response to Christ when many followers deserted him – Lord, to whom shall we go? – must be at the forefront of the cardinal-electors' minds, reflected the head of the New York archdiocese.
"I ask you to pray for me that, in the midst of all the conflicting voices, I go to the Lord Himself, ascending those steps in a way that will be pleasing to Him on the day of my death and judgment."
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RALEIGH — Republican legislators say Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue is threatening the prompt return of income tax refunds to North Carolina residents by borrowing money in a way that violates the state constitution.
Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis said today that Perdue's plan to take $491 million from pots of money and state agencies is flawed. They point specifically to the $100 million collected from unemployment taxes and sitting in reserve. The General Assembly's bill drafting director says in a memo she can't take the unemployment money without legislative permission.
Perdue defended the plan and calls it a cash-management tool.
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At Cadillac, Style Isn't Just About the Vehicles
On any given day at Cadillac, employees might be test-driving vehicles in simulated weather conditions, sculpting full-scale car models out of clay or promoting the brand at auto shows or racetracks. The office style at General Motors' Detroit headquarters and its Eero Saarinen-designed Technical Center, which together employ some 23,000 GM workers, reflects that range of responsibilities.
"Cadillac has always been about style and design and prestige, and you can't help but be affected by the brand you work with," said Sean Thornton, advertising manager for the Escalade, who said his style subconsciously became more polished when he moved from Chevrolet, another GM brand, to Cadillac.


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Welcome to the Academic Enrichment Center (AEC). Our goal is to help any student succeed academically and holistically while at Taylor and beyond. We provide a variety of services and support to help students, including:
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The AEC faculty and staff are trained professionals who care deeply about students and helping them develop holistically into life-long learners. We invite all students to seek us out to use our resources for any type of academic help and support they may need.


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2. Have your doctor give you a clinical diagnosis or get a biopsy done to confirm the flare. There are many differential diagnoses for your disease so you want to be sure it is what you suspect.
3. Discuss with your doctor a treatment strategy and begin right away.
4. Track your disease activity in a log, this will help you determine if you condition is improving.
5. Follow up with your doctor regularly and advocate for yourself. Seeing your doctor every 4-6 weeks is recommended. If you have an aggressive flare you may need to see your doctor more frequently.
6. If you need support, contact the IPPF and talk with a Peer Health Coach. Coaches are available to answer questions and help you decide how to best handle your flare.
It is common for flares not to be as intense as your first experience with the disease, but all patients have different experiences. The important thing is to be proactive and stabilize the disease activity as soon as possible. Flares are part of living with pemphigus and pemphigoid but if they are handled quickly and with a positive attitude you can eliminate them sooner.
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Genetically, of course, a spork
Is half a spoon, and half a fork
A laboratory in New York
Created them, then popped the cork.
Please, gentle reader, do not swoon,
But there was also, once, a foon
(That's half a fork, and half a spoon)
Created, sadly, all too soon.
In cutlery, one tempts the Fates
When artificially, one mates
Utensils from across the plates
Regardless of recessive traits.
A careless thought: "let's cross F-1
Again with forks, and have some fun."
The simple plan was soon begun,
Then all too soon: "What have we done?"
With thirst for blood and killing drives
Such meddling ends in loss of lives
I only hope someone survives
To tell—the sporks have found the knives!
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Our goal is to raise $100,000. Every lemonade stand counts!
Lemonade for Livy is an initiative that raises epilepsy awareness and research funding for the Epilepsy Foundation. The event occurs yearly over the course of the fourth weekend in July. It is an effort that brings people from around the world together to give hope to those with epilepsy and their families that new treatments will be discovered.
10-year-old Olivia Scheinman (Livy) is the inspiration and symbol behind Lemonade for Livy, a movement created by her family's organization, Livy's Hope.
Your Honored Hero: Join Livy as a hero and build a lemonade stand for someone you know with epilepsy too!
We all have our unique stories and experiences with epilepsy. Collectively, we make up the epilepsy community and family. As a family, we need to work as one to raise awareness and to fund research that will lead to a cure. 65 million people around the world live with epilepsy. That doesn't include the tens of millions of family members and friends who are also impacted by the disorder. Think of the power we have when we all work toward a common mission.
Honored Hero: Since birth, Livy has been plagued by the damaging effects of epilepsy. She has endured multiple major brain surgeries but the seizures persist. What started as one neighborhood lemonade stand to raise money in honor of Livy is expanding into a global campaign. It continues to grow because of Livy's twin sister Hailey and the special bond the girls share, a mother's love and a father's promise made long ago. For more information about Lemonade for Livy, please visit www.LivysHope.com.
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What a week this is turning out to be in Las Vegas. I am jazzed coming into the IBM Edge2014 event and our Platinum sponsorship.
I might be dating myself now but what is going on in the industry today is an inflection point much like that back in 1998, when shared storage for the masses was rolling out en masse in a technology called Fibre Channel. However, the landscape is different now and we need to get today's networks ready for tomorrows workloads. IBM and Brocade are doing just that. Listening to the "Fast Data Forum Livestream Webcast," I chose to key off of one of Tom Rosamilia's (STG GM of Storage) summary statements at time marker 1:20:50 in the video, for the title of my Blog, "You can't manage the DATA if you can't manage the INFRASTRUCTURE". There were many salient bites in the video but this statement strikes home to many. It is clear customers are having difficulty keeping up with the amounts and velocity of data from business, social and mobile sources that are being pumped into the cloud and analyzed.
It became clear that IBM's announcement of Elastic Storage is an underpinning for a new technology direction -- a direction that will help customers control of data in such a way that manages pools of storage (which at a time were stationary), and advance management to the rivers of data which are streamed by data centers and cloud infrastructures. Jamie Thomas (IBM Software Defined Systems) has a team of innovators working to solve these problems, with breakthroughs that are available today – and technologies that are on the horizon for tomorrow.
The timing of these technologies and directions are mirrored in our own recent announcements. Where IBM has Elastic Storage, Brocade has Fabric Vision. These are complementary technologies directed at addressing the same problems customers are facing. Customer data volumes are increasing, there is a need for speed of access to some data, flexibility for other, and smarter storage and smarter storage area networks.
These technologies are driven by high density server virtualization, cloud architectures, and flash based storage. But they come with a price: complexity and cost. That is why Brocade has innovated in the storage area network to create Fabric Vision: management tools in the network designed to optimize availability and performance and simplify management. These tools let you pre-validate infrastructure components such as cables, optics, and connections or the entire SAN fabric at full line rate prior to deployment, without the need for hosts, storage or test equipment. This helps customers reduce risk, accelerate new deployments, and identify/resolve connectivity issues in less time. Other advancements provide a threshold monitoring and alerting service that takes only minutes to deploy and is based on best practices that minimize the need for high level san expertise or complex switch configurations. These tools reduce administrative time and improve availability. These tools optimize the data economics much like elastic storage.
Many of the discussion points from the IBM Fast Data Forum Webcast discussed the problem customers are having with how to manage so much data velocity and variety in a dynamic data world where application awareness is becoming crucial. Software defined storage is providing for the flexibility, such that the system can respond quickly to the elasticity clients need and require. IBM Elastic Storage is built on technology from the IBM research group, the same research that built Big Insights, and some of the same technology as IBM Watson uses.
Brocade Fabric Vision is built on tried and true technology as well in the form of Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel. Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel offers advantages to meet new and evolving requirements, including: low latency and high I/O Operations per Second (IOPS) performance maximizes the number of virtual hosts per physical server. The Data Center proven, purpose-built architecture minimizes risk and fault domains of high-density server virtualization. Non-stop networking and automated management minimizes operational cost and complexity. Integrated advanced diagnostics, monitoring, and Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) capabilities simplify management and increase resiliency. We also address bandwidth optimization and data protection with integrated ISL data compression and encryption. Low overhead and low latency eliminates I/O bottlenecks and unleashes the full performance of Flash, SSD, and 16 Gbps-capable storage.
Brocade's Gen 5 technologies allow customers to access their data quickly, and provide the infrastructure for software applications to ingest and process that data on the right tier and at the right time. The network provides for the speed, agility and intelligent utilization of the infrastructure, while clients are increasingly applying analytics to their business processes, driving new requirements in storage speed and flexibility.
Not just is the data getting large within the Data Center, Russell Schneider Principle Consultant at Jeskell one of IBM's largest federal resellers indicated in the IBM Webcast that Big Data is became Bigger Data. Not just in the enterprise, but externally as well. Data in several agencies is being pulled together and data is now being looked at by many in a global view. Neither the traditional storage pool environment nor HPC can manage the amounts on their own. Data must now go on autopilot and intelligent tools are needed to know which data to keep, which to discard, which to use later, and which to use today. The term Data Democracy was mentioned which allows the data itself to cast votes to tell the system where it should belong on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday etc. The systems in some sense need to go on autopilot. Brocade provides infrastructure solutions to address data in disparate locations such as Business Continuity solutions and the IBM SAN Volume Controller Stretched Cluster Solutions.
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Michael Factor an IBM Distinguished Engineer in IBM Research discussed the software defined object storage capabilities they are looking into and the research they are doing on Storlets which is a move whereby the computation is moved to the data itself instead of the data to computation. Importance was placed on the openness of the solutions and the work going on in the OpenStack communities. Brocade shares this importance on standards direction and has shared its research with the Openstack community. Brocade has embraced this open source cloud platform in order to promote multivendor and system-to-system interoperability for cloud environments. Brocade supports OpenStack users in three ways: The Brocade data center portfolio delivers the visibility, extensibility, and adaptability for changing environments offered by OpenStack. Brocade is drawing on its data center networking expertise to contribute major architectural enhancements to the core OpenStack framework and Brocade partners with leading open source providers to offer a consumable, supported path to orchestrating The On-Demand Data Center.
My final thoughts are elements from Carl Kraenzel's (Distinguished Director Watson Cloud Technology & Support) where Watson provides the cognitive technology in elements of Elastic Storage. There will be a new normal driven by social, mobile, and cloud data coming together. Not just pools of data but rivers of data flowing by us. We cannot handle data as static records. The Data will know about itself and can tell you about it. Business models will change. There will be a need to get content and systems to be aware of context of what we are doing. Cognitive computing with rivers of data flowing by will need to have a smarter infrastructure. You will not be looking for a simple "needle in the haystack" any longer, but a "needle in a river". Elastic storage is critical to this new data model.
Software Defined Storage is here, now. IBM and Brocade have provided technologies and solutions that customers can use and get started on now. For those that don't get started now, driving the new data model adoptions will become increasingly difficult in their business tomorrow.
Enjoy the event everyone! There is much to learn for all of us. I know I have learned a lot already, and the event is just starting up.
Great insight in this article. The volumes and velocity of data are growing beyond the current policy based methods (Data age, data type, Content, file access dates, etc..) of data management. Data needs to move from being a static object to an active participant.
This will require intelligence in the infrastructure which requires visibility at all levels and big part of that will come from Fabric Vision and OpenFlow.


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I've noticed that several people (like myself) are looking at ways of limiting the current (from HOB filters) in their tanks so as to not stress the fish and plants. Lots of different ideas have been tossed around from limiting water intake to using a rheostat to slow down the impeller in the pump... but I think you'll find this quite a bit easier and pretty much for free as most of you probably already have everything you need to do this little project.
Supplies needed:
20 OZ (591ml) Life Water/Gatorade style thick plastic bottle
Shears or heavy duty scissors
Box Cutter or Sharp Knife
Emery board or sand paper
That's all ya need!
First you need to remove the label from the bottle and wash the inside AND outside of the bottle.
If you want to remove the label glue you're going to have to fill the bottle with very hot water, cap it, then scrub the glue off the outside with, again, very hot water and an abrasive kitchen scrubber.
If you don't want to bother with the glue you need to plan your cuts on the bottle so that the glued area is the part that goes over the rim of your tank so it's not in the water.
Now that it's clean it's time to section the bottle into three pieces. Check out the pic below. Find two ridges on your bottle, one near the top of the side of the bottle and one near the bottom. Using the valleys on the bottle will allow you to cut a straight line with your box cutter/knife and also the slight curving into the valley will give the diffuser the strength to keep from distorting from the flow.
In my case I didn't want to scrub off the glue so the cut you need to make from top to bottom is right along the right edge of the glue. This edge is folded back twice upon itself. Now there's no hard set rule on wide to make these folded over areas and is based on how thick the rim of the tank is that you'll be using it on. I tend to just make them about 1/2 an inch and just eyeball it.
Use your shears to round any sharp corners and such. Use the emery board/sand paper to smooth all edges that've been cut. This is a very important step as you don't want your more inquisitive fishes from injuring themselves on sharp edges. Sancho, my betta, actually goes into the diverter and 'plays' in the current.
Some people put put some gravel in the diverter to act as extra material for you bio filter to load up. You could put phosphate remover in it, or peat. I wrapped a chunk of Java Moss around a bit of lava rock. This works out great for me as the moss drags at the water flow slowing it greatly plus the moss gets first dibs on the nutrients in the water.
Now you may think "this can't work all that well" and it's good to question but here's a video that shows just how well this little thing works. This is my 1.5 gallon tank that's being filtered by a Marineland Penguin 100 Bio-Wheel filter. At it's best flow rate, the entire volume of water in the tank is being filtered about once every minute.
If you want to diffuse the water more you can drill small holes in the diverter. But a word of warning! If you do this you have to make sure that EVERY hole been deburred or your fish could easily get cut!
You can use .5L water bottles instead but the plastic is VERY thin and may not hold up over time.
I hope that this has been helpful to you all. I do not take credit for coming up with this general idea but I do believe that my version is superior to all that I've seen.