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NEW BREMEN — Fans in attendance of the Cincinnati Reds game against the Washington Nationals on Friday were greeted with a different announcement before the national anthem.
"Ladies and gentlemen, at this time we ask that you please remove your caps, place your right hand over your heart and face the American flag," the announcer told fans at the game.
The addition of "place your right hand over your heart" was made after New Bremen Middle School students in Angie Niemeyer's class exchanged a series of e-mails with the team about the importance of the civilian salute. The students had spent the first half of the school year researching and creating a video about the civilian salute and have since continued to educate others about its importance.
The students began by approaching schools close to home.
"When we were researching, we sent the info to the athletic director and changed the announcement at sporting events," Claire McClurg said.
After making a change locally, the sixth-grade students focused on a bigger scale. Jane Homan said the idea to contact the Reds came after their teacher attended a game.
"Mrs. Niemeyer went to a Reds game and noticed that not all the players did the civilian salute," she said.
The students then compiled their research to send to Cincinnati Reds Director of Promotional Events Zach Bonkowski, asking that "place your right hand over your heart" be added to the announcement.
"They said they have been doing research themselves and were trying to do what we have done in New Bremen for the baseball teams," Hunter Drewes said.
After several e-mails were exchanged with Bonkowski, "place your right hand over your heart" was added to the announcement for the first time at the May 11 game. Bonkowski told the students he wanted to see how the fans reacted to the addition to the announcement. After the game, the students were told the team will continue to keep "place your right hand over your heart" in the announcement for now.
In addition to the change they were able to make with the Reds, the students also took a national approach to spreading their message about the civilian salute.
"Before we contacted the Reds, Paige sent a letter to the president," Tara Berning said, noting that he sent a letter and a few pictures back that are now on display in the classroom.
Ashley Bowers noted the president had a positive reaction to the students' work.
"The president was inspired by our enthusiasm," she said.
After all their hard work, the students said they were pleased with what they had been able to accomplish.
"I feel proud of our grade for starting a chain reaction at the Reds, and it might spread to other teams across the United States," Lilly Hirschfeld said.
Emily Bertke said she was also proud of their accomplishments.
"I feel proud that our video from a small town has made a difference," she said.
Katie Paulus noted it was nice to have made a difference.
"It feels good that we've made a difference to a lot of people," Katie said. "The video has over 2,000 hits, so we've made a difference to 2,000 people."
Lexi Blaine said the project has taught the students to be proactive.
"We learned that we can make a difference and to be proactive about the civilian salute because it's important," Lexi said.
In the future, the students plan to continue to educate others about the importance of the civilian salute.
"I'm hoping that even when I get to seventh and eighth grade, we can keep it going on," Adrienne Laughmar said.
Classmate Joe Maurer also hopes to continue spreading the word.
"It's important to keep passing it on to other people as we get older," he said.
The video that the students created, which has been watched more than 2,600 times, can be viewed at http://Youtube.com/watch?v=v7bHeqb4Pbg or search "New Bremen Civilian Salute" on YouTube.com.


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Fans can share their opinions on top 16 using hashtags on the "The X Factor USA" app, TheXFactorUSA.com, Twitter and Instagram
In a unique new engagement, "The X Factor" is asking fans to be the fifth judge and allowing the at-home viewers' opinions to be heard in real time using special hashtags. Viewers can begin supporting their favorite acts via the "The X Factor USA" app, TheXFactorUSA.com, Twitter and Instagram starting today at noon, and continuing through the East Coast broadcast of tonight's show.
Tonight (8-10:05 p.m.), the top 16 acts will perform live for the first time and viewers can support their favorite acts by using the special hashtags listed below. During the broadcast, fans will be asked: "Which Boy has The X Factor?"; "Which Girl has The X Factor?"; "Which of the Over 25s has The X Factor?"; and "Which Group has The X Factor?" As acts perform, watch the poll rankings shift in real time as at-home viewers root for their favorite acts. The poll results then will appear on-screen during the judges' comments, perhaps even influencing the judges as they see which acts America thinks should get a spot in the top 12. Following the performances, each judge must choose three of his/her four acts to move forward in the competition, leaving one act from each category to be eliminated as this season's top 12 finalists are revealed.
Below is a list of the special hashtags that fans can use to support their favorite acts:
Which Boy has The X Factor?
Which Girl has The X Factor?
Which Over 25 has The X Factor?
Which Group has The X Factor?
"The X Factor" continues Thursday, Oct. 31 (8 p.m.), with the all-new "Meet the Top 12" episode. On Wednesday, Nov. 6 (8 p.m.), the top 12 finalists will perform for the judges and America's votes when the voting lines open immediately after the show. Find out who will be eliminated on Thursday, Nov. 7 (8 p.m.).
"The X Factor" format has created more global superstars, including One Direction, Leona Lewis, Little Mix, Cher Lloyd and Olly Murs, than any other singing competition television show. "The X Factor" is now aired in 205 countries, and local versions of "The X Factor" are now commissioned in 45 territories.
Fans can "Like" "The X Factor" on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/TheXFactorUSA. Follow the series on Twitter @TheXFactorUSA and join the discussion using #xfactor.

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Move Aside, Monopoly Iron: The Cat is Here
Monopoly fans voted in an online contest to add a new cat token to the property-trading game, replacing the iron. George Stahl has details on Markets Hub.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Microsoft Releases Service Pack 1 for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013
The SP1 updates for the Windows Installer (MSI) versions of the Office 2013 desktop products, and for the SharePoint 2013 server products, are available from the Microsoft Download Center today, as well as from Microsoft Update and the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) catalog.
After a 30-day period, SP1 will begin releasing as an automatic update through Microsoft Update.
Those who have an Office 365 subscription will get the SP1 changes automatically in their next regular
SP1 provides fixes to improve general stability, functionality, and
security in Office, SharePoint Server, and related products. Among the
functionality improvements and changes are the following:
A detailed list of SP1 fixes is available for download.
Additionally, SP1 includes all the Public Updates (PU) and Cumulative
Updates (CU) that have been released since the 2013 family of products
first became available, up to the December 2013 CU and January 2014 PU.
In order to determine if SP1 is installed for Office 2013 or a
related product, look for the program version in the list of installed
programs in the Programs and Features control panel. If SP1 is
installed, the version will be 15.0.4569.1506 or higher. Additionally,
if you've installed the SP1 update for an MSI product, SP1 will be
listed in Installed Updates in that same control panel.
Microsoft has also released SP1 for Exchange Server 2013. SP1 has already been deployed to production mailboxes in customer environments via the Exchange Server Technology Adoption Program (TAP). In addition to including fixes, SP1 provides enhancements to improve the Exchange 2013 experience. These include enhancements in security and compliance, architecture and administration, and user experiences. Visit tMicrosoft's Exchange team blog to learn more about it.


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High-Dose Chemotherapy and Stem Cell Transplant for Retinoblastoma
Doctors are studying the use of this type of treatment in children with retinoblastoma that has spread outside the eye and who are unlikely to be cured with other treatments.
A stem cell transplant (SCT) lets doctors give higher doses of chemotherapy (chemo) than could safely be given otherwise). In the past, this type of treatment was commonly referred to as a bone marrow transplant.
The bone marrow is the soft, inner part of some bones where new blood cells are made. Chemo drugs can affect quickly dividing cells like those in the bone marrow. Even though higher doses of these drugs might be more effective in treating tumors, they can't be given because they would cause severe damage to bone marrow cells, leading to life-threatening shortages of blood cells.
To try to get around this problem, the doctor may treat the child with high-dose chemo (sometimes along with radiation therapy) and then use a stem cell transplant to "rescue" the bone marrow.
How is it done?
The first step in a SCT is to collect, or harvest, the child's own blood-making stem cells to use later. (These are the cells that make the different types of blood cells.)
In the past, the stem cells were often taken from the child's bone marrow, which required a minor operation. But doctors have found that these cells can be taken from the bloodstream during a procedure similar to donating blood. Instead of going into a collecting bag, the blood goes into a special machine that filters out the stem cells and returns the rest of the blood to the child's body. The stem cells are then frozen until the transplant. This process may need to be done more than once.
Once the stem cells have been stored, the child gets high-dose chemotherapy in the hospital, sometimes along with radiation therapy. When the treatment is finished (a few days later), the stem cells are thawed and returned to the body in a process similar to a normal blood transfusion. The stem cells travel through the blood and settle in the bone marrow.
Over the next few weeks, the stem cells start to make new blood cells. Until this happens, the child is at high risk of infection because of a low white blood cell count, as well as bleeding because of a low platelet count. To avoid infection, protective measures are taken, such as using special air filters in the hospital room and having visitors wear protective clothing. Blood and platelet transfusions and treatment with IV antibiotics may also be used to prevent or treat infections or bleeding problems.
The child can usually leave the hospital once their blood cell counts return to a safe level. They may then need to make regular visits to the outpatient clinic for about 6 months, after which time their care may be continued by their regular doctors.
Practical points
A SCT is a complex treatment that can cause life-threatening side effects. If the doctors think your child can benefit from a transplant, the best place to have it done is at a nationally recognized cancer center where the staff has experience with the procedure and with managing the recovery period.
A stem cell transplant often requires a long hospital stay and can be very expensive, often costing well over $100,000. Be sure to get a written approval from your insurer before treatment if it is recommended for your child. Even if the transplant is covered by your insurance, your co-pays or other costs could easily amount to many thousands of dollars. It's important to find out what your insurer will cover before the transplant to get an idea of what you might have to pay.
Possible side effects
The possible side effects from SCT are generally divided into early and long-term effects.
Short-term, early side effects: The early complications and side effects are basically the same as those listed in the Chemotherapy for Retinoblastoma section, but they can be more severe because the drug doses are higher. Side effects can include:
- Low blood cell counts (with fatigue and an increased risk of infection and bleeding)
- Nausea and vomiting
- Loss of appetite
- Mouth sores
- Diarrhea
- Hair loss
One of the most common and serious short-term effects is an increased risk of serious infections. Antibiotics are often given to try to keep this from happening. Other side effects, like low red blood cell and platelet counts, may require blood product transfusions or other treatments.
Long-term and late side effects: Some complications and side effects can last for a long time or might not occur until months or years after the transplant. These can include:
- Radiation damage to the lungs
- Problems with the thyroid or other hormone-making glands
- Problems with fertility
- Damage to bones or problems with bone growth
- Development of another cancer (including leukemia) years later
Be sure to talk to your child's doctor before the transplant to learn about possible long-term effects your child might have. For more on the long-term effects of this and other treatments, see the section Late and Long-term Effects of Treatment for Retinoblastoma.
To learn more about stem cell transplants, see Stem Cell Transplant for Cancer.
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InfoQ Article: Lean Kanban Boards for Agile Tracking
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Agile projects are not the only ones to use "big visible charts" - Lean manufacturing, for example has its Kanban Boards. In Japanese "Kanban" means, loosely translated, 'card or sign'. In a Lean production system, each Kanban card is "pulled" into the system only when the work represented by an "in progress" card is retired. In this InfoQ article, Visualizing Agile Projects using Kanban Boards, Kenji Hiranabe explore visualizations currently used in Agile, then proposes using Kanban Boards to organize three viewpoints (Time, Task, and Team) to track project status and enhance collaboration.
The visualization tools he talks about are:
- Kanban Boards. Use a card as a token (Kanban) of a task, story, feature and stick them to a timeline (board). There are several levels of granularities, in three main combinations:
- Release-Feature,
- Iteration-Story and
- Daily-Task
- Burndown Charts. Count the number of Kanbans (backlog tasks) and track it in a timebox to show the trend of work accomplished. There are also several levels of granularities.
- Parking lot Charts. Summarize the top-level project status.
- Calendars. There are a lot of variations of using calendars to show project status or plan.
In the article, Hiranebe introduces a uniquely Japanese addition to status tracking: the Niko-Niko Calendar, on which team members track their mood from day to day.
Hiranabe also mentions his software tool "TRICHORD" that implements Kanban Boards to realize project visualization from the three viewpoints.
Kenji Hiranabe is a frequent blogger and has translated a number of English Agile and XP books into the Japanese language.
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Tracking relative to budgeted/available hours
John Rusk
Kanban Yahoo Group
HIRANABE Kenji
Hi Kenji,
I liked the paper you gave me to read. I wanted to make a comment about the parking lot diagram. It was first introduced on the original FDD project in Singapore and was first documented in Peter Coad's 1999 book, UML Modeling in Color in Chapter 6, the chapter written by Jeff De Luca.
And he started up a new Yahoo Group about Kanban Boards.
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Deborah Hartmann
TRICHORD has been released English Available Version.
Kondo Hiroki
We have released English Available Version on Sep.11,2007.
If you are interested in TRICHORD,Please visit our Site.
Re: TRICHORD has been released English Available Version.
HIRANABE Kenji
Excellent article
Bonnie Aumann
Kanban should be real,touchable
yongji zhang
Re: Kanban should be real,touchable
Alen Balja
a board based on a sharepoint blog
Bogdan Nedelcu
Re: Kanban Yahoo Group
David David
Online Kanban Tools
Sergei Podbereschi
Works well when you have distributed teams, need history records, conversations recorded, etc.
Kanban Tools
Sudheer Raju
Here comes all Kanban tools list....
Parking Lot Charts, WIP and Parking Lot Charts
Stephen Palmer
It is interesting to note the hierarchy of feature and user story. FDD has always used a three-level feature-list hierarchy of feature or subject areas containing sets of features for each activity containing features. In FDD features are defined at a level of granularity close to that of a typical user story IME. Features are broken down into tasks during iterations but task progress itself is not reported in any formal way; feature milestones are tracked instead ... but then FDD was designed from the beginning for a larger project and team than the typical Scum/XP 7+/-2 project teams. See also borland.typepad.com/agile_transformation/2009/0...
One important concept for a Kanban board is work-in-progress limits. IMHO, it is this that makes it a true Kanban board. Otherwise, the board is little more, and probably less informative, than the old FDD feature milestone chart.
Stephen R. Palmer
Great post!
Setawut Phannara
You introduced many tools that I never heard. I believe that many people have done something similar to Kanban Boards; however, Burndown Chart is my new visualization method. It is such a good tool to show your current status and demonstrate the rate of progress through the actual path. I have also done things called "How'd your day go?", it composes of 3 easy questions to get members' feedbacks after the day's work. I think it is similar sort of a smiley calendar. Lastly, I agree with you that graphical methods can encourage collaborative and fun among teams.
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Just sold 2 RPMs after 1 year of kiting. They have some serious flaw in canopy design — trailing edge wear. In the end both kites had many small holes parallel to trailing edge, where black material ends. Had to put there some ripstop, so I could sell them.
Talked to few repair guys, that are riding RPMs and fixing them. This is the first part that breaks there. You have to check it ofter and sell kite when this part starts to fall into pieces.
Why SS can't reinforce this part with dacron? It could make these kites much durable. But no changes in 2013, only this black line of ripstop was made little bit bigger. Nothing close to other brands solid trailing edge with 10-20 cm of dacron.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - On Friday night, the No. 8 Northeast regionally-ranked MIT men's tennis team blanked No. 11 Vassar College, 8-0, in the J.B. Carr Tennis Bubble. The undefeated Engineers are now 5-0 for the season, while the Brewers dipped to 3-6.
In the top spot for doubles, juniors Edwin Zhang (Falls Church, Va.) and Curtis Wu (Yorba Linda, Calif.) won against Andrew Guzick and Dan Freeman, 8-3. The MIT pair are now 3-0 for matches they have played in the No.1 position so far this season. Seniors Matthew Skalak (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and Larry Pang (Torrance, Calif.) defeated Nick Jasso and Daniel Cooper, 8-4, and freshman Kevin Wang (Havertown, Pa.) and sophomore Eugene Oh (Alparetta, Ga.) won against Christian Phelps and Evan Udine with a score of 8-3.
Zhang started off singles with an exciting three-game thriller in the No. 1 position, losing the first set to Guzick, 6-4, but winning the final two, 7-6(5), 6-2. Wang defeated Freeman, 6-4, 7-5 in two very close sets, and Oh walked away with a win against Jasso with scores of 6-3, 6-4.
In the No. 4 spot, Wu easily defeated Phelps, 6-4, 6-1 and, to end the match, senior Tymor Hamamasy (New York, N.Y.) won against Udine, 6-3, 6-4.
MIT will return to the tennis bubble tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. when it hosts Franklin and Marshall College.


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This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine.
On a dreary stretch of Interstate 95, shadowed by the corporate office towers of Wilmington, Delaware, an overpass spans a narrow valley. Passing motorists, zooming through on their way toward Baltimore or Philadelphia, might cross a hundred times and barely notice the gorge's existence: hardly more than a wrinkle in the landscape, a glimpse of treetops vanishing in the rearview mirror. They would hardly guess at the little world enfolded within it, much less that it conceals what is arguably one of America's great waterways.
The Brandywine River is not, to be sure, the Mississippi, the Colorado, or the Hudson. It has inspired no epic novels, gouged no mighty canyons, carried on its bosom no famous ships. Indeed, in most places the Brandywine is navigable only by canoe or kayak, and you can easily skip a stone from one shore to the other. Its main stem is a mere 20 miles long, and for several centuries geographers have disagreed over whether it is a river at all or merely a creek. Yet no one could dispute that throughout those centuries, this bantam-size stream has consistently punched far above its weight. The Brandywine has powered technological revolutions, fueled gold rushes and wars, dazzled famous artists. A battle for the young nation's survival was fought on its muddy banks.
Today the Brandywine is drawing new attention thanks to a tract of land alongside it that may become the core of a new national monument: the 400th unit of the National Park System and the first within the state of Delaware. If proponents prevail, the rest of the country will finally notice the Brandywine—and the outsize course that it has cut through American history.
At 50 yards' distance, the Brandywine's brown surface often appears still, almost stagnant. Draw closer, though, and you realize that it is moving fast. You are rarely out of earshot of the chatter of water passing over smooth stones or of its soughing as it tumbles down a milldam.
Waterpower: That one word sums up the long history of this river. From its source waters in the sandstone hills of southern Pennsylvania, the river falls seaward down a series of sloping planes. Except when in flood, this is not a whitewater river; it gathers its force not in headlong rushes but with a steady, businesslike insistence. In the final ten miles or so before its mouth, it drops 160 feet before plunging over low falls and feeding the deepwater harbor at Wilmington.
For much of its length, the Brandywine gorge's steeply wooded flanks are lined with the imposing remnants of a vanished society—although many of the ruins are little more than a century old. They are relics of the era when America's industrial and technological revolutions were powered by water. The Brandywine is just strong enough and just gentle enough, just narrow enough and just shallow enough, and just close enough to several great Atlantic ports to have made it the perfect incubator of industry.
At Hagley, an area not far from downtown Wilmington and the river's mouth, a row of what look like massive granite mausoleums juts into the stream. Inside these stone buildings, rusted machinery lies in neat rows, like stacked sarcophagi from the Iron Age. Near this spot, just after the turn of the 19th century, a family of minor Parisian aristocrats named du Pont settled with the intention of constructing a gunpowder factory. Hounded from their homeland by the French Revolution, they had headed for the new United States, seeking just the right power source for their enterprise. They found it here. Before long, the Brandywine's water was turning machines that crushed, mixed, and processed the raw ingredients: sulfur from Sicily and saltpeter from India, blended with charcoal from the valley's own native willow trees.
By 1860 the DuPont Company was the largest manufacturer of gunpowder in the nation and soon was one of the largest in the world. Its products—with brand names like Eagle Gun Powder, Diamond Grain, and Louisiana Rifle—blasted the way for the Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroads; opened veins of California gold and Nevada silver; cut terrible swaths of destruction through Confederate armies, Indian tribes, and buffalo herds.
That gunpowder also touched off the explosive growth of one of America's great family fortunes. Soon the rapidly proliferating du Pont descendants filled the highlands along the Brandywine with their estates, each more magnificent than the last, crowding the river like châteaus along the Loire. Most still stand today, surveying the valley with lordly hauteur: great stony piles crowned with turrets and cupolas, swaddled in topiary and wrought iron. Those that have not become museums remain, to a large extent, in the hands of du Pont descendants (who now number in the thousands). A visitor to the Brandywine often gets the sense that it is one of the few places in America to which the word "feudal" can be applied.
Yet the du Ponts were, in a sense, late arrivals. It wasn't a French aristocrat who launched the industrial revolution along the Brandywine, but rather a Delaware shoemaker's son named Oliver Evans, one of America's greatest unheralded inventors and the godfather of automated manufacturing. In the 1780s he created a new system of flour milling that, with an ingenious arrangement of water-driven wheels, gears, and shafts, almost removed human labor from the process of turning wheat into flour. Visiting millers were incredulous to see Evans's mill grinding busily away as if by magic, completely unattended, while the owner himself worked placidly in a nearby field. Soon Evans-style gristmills—for which the inventor received the third U.S. patent ever granted—were lining both banks of the Brandywine, and their basic principles were being adapted to manufacture paper, textiles, and other products. The Brandywine Valley was to automation what Silicon Valley would later be to microprocessing.
Now, after 200 years, the core of the proposed national monument is emerging from the legacy of those fortunes. At its center is a 1,100-acre tract of upland meadows and woods known as Woodlawn, preserved from development a century ago by a Quaker textile manufacturer and philanthropist. It is one of the last large undeveloped sites in an area increasingly hemmed in by the encroaching outskirts of Wilmington and Philadelphia. On summer afternoons the song of cicadas blends with the whoosh of traffic from a nearby road lined with fast-food restaurants and strip malls.
Still, within the valley's narrow enclave, time's passage often seems suspended. Colonial stone houses, neat and dignified, stand amid rolling cornfields. They look almost like natural outcroppings of rock, cut from the same stone—ash gray gneiss and granite, tinged here and there with rusty orange—as the Brandywine gorge itself. History and landscape blend.
It is this uncanny confluence that has powered another of the river's outsize contributions: the movement in American art often known as the Brandywine school of painting, over which the Wyeth family has held sway for more than a century. The clan's exuberant patriarch, N. C. Wyeth, came here as a 20-year-old art student in 1902 and eventually made it his home, entranced as he was by the peculiar eloquence of his surroundings. "The tawny hills all around us speak volumes," he wrote his parents back in Massachusetts.
In Wyeth's famous illustrations for the works of Robert Louis Stevenson and other authors, the Brandywine Valley's woods were transmuted into the forests of England, its meadows into the highland heaths of Scotland. Today a Continental Army greatcoat hangs from a peg in the painter's studio, alongside costumes from other eras that helped make historical ghosts visible.
N. C.'s equally famous son, Andrew, spent much of his long life in an ancient stone house on a corner of the Brandywine Battlefield. Here, in 1777, British troops under General William Howe trounced George Washington's army in one of the largest land battles of the Revolution. Andrew Wyeth's paintings—meticulous watercolors and temperas of time-weathered barns or the windburned faces of neighboring farmers—seem to hover in some indeterminate moment between the 18th century and the 20th.
Though it is often called the First State—a reference to its primacy in ratifying the U.S. Constitution—Delaware is the last one of all 50 states to have a unit of the National Park System established on its soil. The proposed First State National Historical Monument would attempt to make up for this by including not only the Woodlawn property but also a string of smaller historical sites throughout the state.
One of these, a 1740 plantation house that once belonged to the Revolutionary-era patriot John Dickinson, stands 50 miles south of the du Ponts' and Wyeths' domains, on a knoll overlooking flat marshes and misty fields. It feels far more distant. If the Brandywine Valley often seems tinged with New England hues, the middle and lower parts of the state resemble the tidewater South.
On Dickinson's plantation some five dozen slaves once harvested corn and wheat. Their master, one of the first and most eloquent advocates of American resistance to British tyranny, wrestled with the contradictions of espousing liberty while owning human beings as property. Unlike most of the new nation's founders, he moved to address this cruel paradox while the ink was practically still wet on the Declaration of Independence. In 1777 he drew up a deed of gradual manumission—and then, nine years later, freed all his remaining slaves immediately and unconditionally.
Among the other potential sites in the national monument is a 17th-century Swedish colonial church and fort, an early settler's house, and—perhaps most resonant of these—the Dover Green, a grassy quadrangle at the heart of Dover, Delaware's small capital. It was here that, in December 1787, delegates from across the state gathered to endorse the new federal Constitution recently signed in Philadelphia. They put their state the very first in line. There may be poetic symmetry if the National Park Service finally brings Delaware into its fold, this time as the last of all.


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How To Become An Occupational Therapist Assistant in Missouri
In order to qualify for Physical Therapy jobs in Missouri, you should compare all available technical schools in your target area, as well as consider taking some of your courses online. Check with each nursing school below for assistance with certificate program requirements, degree prerequisites, and class registration. You may request information from several different schools below, without making a commitment.
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Occupational therapy assistants collaborate with occupational therapists to develop and carry out a treatment plan for each patient. Plans include diverse activities such as teaching the proper way for patients to move from a bed into a wheelchair and advising patients on the best way to stretch their muscles. For example, an occupational therapy assistant might work with injured workers to help them get back into the workforce by teaching them how to work around lost motor skills. Occupational therapy assistants also may work with people who have learning disabilities, teaching them skills that allow them to be more independent.
Assistants must monitor rehabilitation exercises to make sure that patients are doing them correctly. They record the patient's progress and provide feedback so that the physical therapist can change the treatment plan if the patient is not getting the desired results. Occupational therapy aides, by comparison, typically prepare materials and assemble equipment used during treatment. They may assist patients with moving to and from treatment areas. After a therapy session, aides clean the treatment area, put away equipment, and gather laundry. Further, occupational therapy aides fill out insurance forms and other paperwork and are responsible for a range of clerical tasks, such as scheduling appointments, answering the telephone, and monitoring inventory levels. Beyond major requirements within the rehabilitation department, you may consider Mississippi State audio engineering as a complementary elective.


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Crater Lake snowshoe hikes
Through April: Rangers at Crater Lake National Park lead free snowshoe hikes at 1 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday. The hikes last two hours and cover about a mile of moderately strenuous terrain in forests and meadows on the crater's rim. Hikers must be at least 8 years old and be in reasonably good physical condition. No previous snowshoeing experience is necessary. Hikers must have warm clothing and water-resistant footwear. Free snowshoes are available or hikers can bring their own. A limited number of hikers can participate in each group hike, so advance reservations are recommended. Hikes for groups of 10 or more can be arranged on weekdays or weekend mornings. The park's visitor center and the Rim Village Cafe and Gift Shop are open daily. For information or to sign up, call the park's visitor center at 541-594-3100.
KS Wild hike
Saturday, Jan. 29: Snowshoe hike up to the Rabbit Ears rock formation on the backside of Mount Ashland for an invigorating day in the snow. Weather permitting, this trek allows for expansive views of Mount Shasta, the Marble Mountains, the Siskiyou Crest and the Rogue Valley. This will be a moderately difficult trip covering approximately four to five miles. Meet at Evo's Cafe in Ashland at 10 a.m. Bring water, lunch, snowshoes and appropriate clothes. Mountain Supply outdoor store on the plaza in Ashland rents snowshoes for a reasonable rate, and they offer a 10 percent discount to KS Wild members. Group will hike in light weather, but strong snow cancels the trip. Call Laurel at 541-488-5789 for details.
Rogue Valley Walkers
Saturday, Jan. 29: Grants Pass historic walk meets at 10 a.m. in the parking lot of Rays Food Place on 7th Street (north of Savage) in Grants Pass.
Southern Oregon Nordic Club
Saturday, Jan. 29: Beginner ski lesson with Dan Bulkley. Call 541-535-5979 for details.
Sunday, Jan. 30: Ski lesson with Michael Dawkins, 541-482-2703.
Sunday, Jan. 30: Advanced backcountry ski outing led by Gene Robbins. Call 541-482-0180 for details.
Wednesday, Feb. 2: Intermediate ski tour led by Stefanie Ferrara, 541-890-2979.
Saturday, Feb. 5: Beginner ski lesson with Dan Bulkley, 541-535-5979.
Saturday, Feb. 5: Follow-up novice tour with Seldom. Call 541-582-3855 for details.
Sunday, Feb. 6: Intermediate ski lessons with Michael Dawkins, 541-482-2703.
Sunday, Feb. 6: Novice/intermediate ski tour led by David Lewin, 541-512-0436.
Monday-Friday, Feb. 7-11: Senior ski camp at Diamond Lake. Call Suzanne Rotz for details at 541-776-7579.
Wednesday, Feb. 9: Intermediate ski tour with Stefanie Ferrara, 541-890-2979.
Saturday, Feb. 12: Novice ski tour with Seldom. Call 541-585-3855 for details.
Sunday, Feb. 13: Intermediate ski lessons with Michael Dawkins, 541-482-2703.
Wednesday, Feb. 16: Intermediate ski tour with Stefanie Ferrara, 541-890-2979.
Saturday, Feb. 19: Advanced ski tour at Union Creek led by Andy Dungan. Call 541-488-0796 for meeting place and time.
Sunday, Feb. 20: 25th annual John Day cross-country ski races at Diamond Lake ranging from 5K to 20K. Call Reider Peterson for details at 541-488-8830.
Wednesday, Feb. 23: Intermediate ski tour with Stefanie Ferrara, 541-890-2979.
Friday-Sunday, Feb. 25-27: Weekend ski tours and lesson at Lake of the Woods. Call Stefanie Ferrara for more information at 541-890-2979.
Saturday, Feb. 26: Advanced/Intermediate ski tour at Burton Butte. Call Andy Dungan, 541-488-0796, for details.
Sunday, Feb. 27: Intermediate ski lessons with Michael Dawkins, 541-482-2703.
Couple Truffle Shuffle
Saturday, Feb. 12: The 5K and 10K Couple's Classic starts at 9 a.m. at Griffin Creek School, 2430 Griffin Creek Road, Medford. Cost is $10 for solo entrants (10K only) and $15 per couple. Race-day registration is from 8-8:45 a.m. For details call Susan Holt at 541-857-8002 or go to the Southern Oregon Runners website at www.sorunners.org.
Rogue River Run
Saturday, Feb. 19: Half Marathon and 5K begin at 9 a.m. at Fleming Park at the corner of Rogue River Highway and Depot Street in Rogue River. Packet pickup is at Fleming Park from 7:30-8:30 a.m. on Saturday. Pre-registration must be postmarked by Monday, Feb. 14. No day-of-race registration. For details call Stan Goodell, 541-956-5908, or Robert Vaughn, 541-582-3428, or go to the Southern Oregon Runners website at www.sorunners.org.
Recurring road rides
Every Saturday: A brisk, two- to four-hour ride begins at 9 a.m. at Cycle Sport in Medford. The course changes from week to week. Call ride leader Alex Hayes for details at 541-857-0819.
Every Saturday: Mellow 20-mile ride (10-12 mph) begins at 10 a.m. Location and route varies. Contact Phil Gagnon for details at 541-488-4289.
Every Sunday: A 20-mile training ride begins at 1 p.m. along the bike path behind Bad Ass Coffee Co. in Medford. Race pace. No ride leader.
Every Monday: Siskiyou Velo Club 25-mile coffee ride begins at 9:30 a.m. at Colver Park in Phoenix and journeys to Jacksonville. Gently rolling terrain, brisk pace. No ride leader.
Every Wednesday: A 25- to 40-mile Siskiyou Velo Club show-and-go ride begins at 10 a.m. at Rogue Valley Roasting Co. in Ashland. Moderate terrain, brisk pace. No ride leader.
Recurring mountain bike rides
Every Tuesday and Thursday, Ashland: Rides organized by the crew at Ashland Cycle Sport, 191 Oak St., Ashland. Meet at the Plaza in Ashland at 6:30 p.m. Riders of all abilities are welcome on the Tuesday ride, which usually lasts until dark. The Thursday ride is usually longer (2 to 2 1/2 hours) and faster paced. Lights are highly recommended. Helmets and a safe, functioning bike are required. Call Scott at 541-488-0581 for further information. Website is at www.roguecycle.com.
Every Wednesday, Jacksonville: Starting at 6 p.m., Cycle Analysis hosts a two-hour ride on either the Britt trails in Jacksonville or nearby John's Peak, which has almost 200 miles of trails. All comers are welcome — no age or ability limits. Helmets are mandatory and lights are required during the winter. Contact Jana Jenson at 541-899-9190, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Rogue Valley Audubon Society
Wednesday, Feb. 2: Monthly first-Wednesday birdwalk at Little Butte Creek in the Denman Wildlife Area near White City. Meet at 8:30 a.m. on TouVelle Road in the northeast section of the wildlife area. For details, contact Murray Orr at 541-857-9050 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Friday, Feb. 11: All-day field trip to the Klamath Basin for waterfowl and wintering raptors. This will be mostly car birding with stops for scoping. Bring lunch and snacks. Meet at Ashland Shop 'N' Kart (park on the dirt lot adjacent to their parking lot) at 8 a.m. to carpool. Expect to return by 5 p.m. Leaders are Jim Harleman and Gwyneth Ragosine. Trip is limited to 20 people. Sign up by contacting Ragosine at 541-552-1945 or Harleman at 541-664-7124.
Klamath Bird Observatory
Saturday, Feb. 5: Birdwalk to Denman Wildlife Area. Vince Zauskey will lead a half-day trip along Kirtland Road, High Banks Road and the Gold Ray Road area. Wear warm shoes or waterproof boots, and be prepared for light walking. Group will look for waterfowl, a variety of wintering sparrows, raptors and northern mockingbirds. Bring a lunch. Meet at 8 a.m. at Northwest Nature Shop, 154 Oak St., Ashland. Limited to 15 participants. To register, call 541-482-3241.
Saturday, March 5: Birdwalk to Emigrant Lake to spot waterfowl, wading birds, raptors and songbirds wintering at this Ashland lake. Bring a spotting scope if you have one and be prepared for short walks along trails. Meet at 8 a.m. at Northwest Nature Shop, 154 Oak St., Ashland. Leader is Harry Fuller. Limited to 15 participants. To register, call 541-482-3241.
Saturday, April 2: Birdwalk to Lily Glen, Hyatt Lake and Howard Prairie Lake. New KBO birdwalk leader Gretchen Oosterhout Hunter leads an early spring tour of the Howard Prairie/Hyatt Lakes area. Group will start around Lily Glen horse campground looking for sandhill cranes, raptors, songbirds and shorebirds. Weather will be unpredictable this time of year, so dress in layers and bring a lunch. Group will return to in the early afternoon. Meet at 8 a.m. at Northwest Nature Shop, 154 Oak St., Ashland. Limited to 15 participants. To register, call 541-482-3241.
Project FeederWatch
Saturday, Jan. 29: Help count birds that visit the feeders at Jefferson Nature Center with the help of Rogue Valley Audubon Society volunteers. The information collected is submitted to Cornell University's FeederWatch project, a nationwide bird monitoring effort. The program alternates weekends with the FeederWatch program at Ashland's North Mountain Park. Jefferson Nature Center is located at 2931 S. Pacific Highway, behind Harry & David Field and just before the bridge to U.S. Cellular Sports Park. For information contact Judd Hurley, 541-621-3918. Free.
Saturday, Feb. 5: Help count birds that visit the feeders at North Mountain Park Nature Center, 620 N. Mountain Ave., Ashland. The information collected will be submitted to Cornell University's FeederWatch project, a nationwide bird monitoring effort. The program alternates weekends with the FeederWatch program at Medford's Jefferson Nature Center. For ages 10 and up. Free.
Ashland Woodlands and Trails Association
Wednesday, Feb. 2 and Tuesday, Feb. 22: AWTA has scheduled two public hearings to discuss a proposed trail system in the Ashland Watershed. The Ashland Watershed Master Trail Plan includes a proposal cooperatively developed by walkers, runners, bikers, equestrians and other users of the watershed. Both meetings will be held at 7 p.m. in the Gresham Room of the Ashland public library, 410 Siskiyou Blvd.
North American Rock Garden Society
Tuesday, Feb. 8: Loren Russell will present "Habitat for Humidity," a focus on bog gardening and plants that like wet places. Russell spent several years developing a bog in his Corvallis garden and will share tips on construction and plant selection based on his own trial and error. Meet at the Medford Congregational Church, 1801 E. Jackson St. at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. Call 541-664-5934 for more information.
Siskiyou Chapter, Native Plant Society Of Oregon
Thursday, Feb. 17: "Genetics of Noble Fir and Red Fir." David Oline will present the results of an ongoing genetic study that is investigating the distribution and relationships of noble fir and California red fir. In particular, he will address the issue of the intermediate Shasta red fir (Abies magnifica shastensis) in our region, which the genetic data suggest is the result of hybridization. The talk is at 7:30 p.m. at Southern Oregon University, Science Building, Room 171. Refreshments served at 7:15 p.m.
Winter Wings Festival
Friday-Sunday, Feb. 18-20: The 32nd annual Winter Wings Festival, held at the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, offers 23 field trips, 17 workshops, seven mini-sessions, two reception events, a banquet dinner and two keynote presentations by nationally recognized leaders in their fields: Writer Jeffrey Gordon and bird photographer Art Morris. The festival is produced by the Klamath Basin Audubon Society. Online registration and mail-in registration are now available. For more information, e-mail the festival at firstname.lastname@example.com; call 877-541-2473; or see www.winterwingsfest.org.


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Three different Android devices are making headlines today thanks to major updates in the works. According to the latest news and rumors from around the web, Droid 4 and Xperia P users should get ready for an update to Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0, while Galaxy S III users can rest easy knowing Jelly Bean will be available for their device before the end of the year.
Announced on the Sony India Facebook page, it has been revealed that the Xperia P will be receiving an update to Ice Cream Sandwich between the dates of August 19th, and August 25th. Some two weeks from now. It doesn't get more forward than that.
Unfortunately, Motorola has not been as open about an upcoming "soak test" for an update scheduled for the Droid 4. But as pointed out by DroidLife, there's good reason to believe the update will be Ice Cream Sandwich. Not only did Motorola promise an update to Android 4.0 would land in Q3 of this year, users of the "ICS Waiting Room" thread on the Motorola Droid 4 forums were reminded by a moderator to opt-in to the Motorola Feedback Network. Hint, hint.
Finally, we have some great news for Galaxy S III, S II, Note and future Note II users. According to SamMobile, a usually reputable site when it comes to Samsung related rumors, all four of Samsung's latest Galaxy devices are slated to receive an update to Jelly Bean sometime in Q4. The S II, S III and Note are all rumored to have tested well with the update internally at Samsung. As for the Note II, a quick update to Jelly Bean would only be necessary if the device is launched with ICS.
What do you think, do you own any of these devices? Excited for an update to keep your device feeling a little more modern? Let us know in the comments below.


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In Windows 7, Microsoft introduced an incredibly handy pop-up dialog that allows you to easily manage multiple display output. Pressing
win+p allows you to use the dialog to cycle through the different output options (clone, extend, second only, first only). This eliminates the need for vendor-specific tools to achieve the same goal. Great little feature.
A lot of laptops have a key to switch between displays - it more or less achieves the same goal via the keyboard controller, WMI, or ACPI. In Linux, these events are all turned into a
KEY_SWITCHVIDEOMODE which makes it easy to create standardised behaviour. The clever cookies among you probably know by now what Microsoft is doing.
Microsoft is recommending this:
So, the end result is bug reports like this one. Laptop vendors are following Microsoft's recommendation, and new laptops now map the display switch key to
win+p. Older laptops sometimes receive a firmware update to achieve the same goal. This means that users who used to be able to switch display outputs in Linux by pressing the display switch key are now confronted with a "p" being registered.
"So, if your display switch button now just makes the letter 'P' appear, say thanks to Microsoft," Matthew Garrett writes on his blog, "There's a range of ways we can fix this, although none of them are straightforward and those of you who currently use left-Windows-p as a keyboard shortcut are going to be sad. I would say that I feel your pain, but my current plan is to spend the immediate future getting drunk enough that I stop caring."
It are little things like this that make Microsoft so incredibly hateable. This is Microsoft still assuming, after al these years and all these antitrust cases, that they are alone in this world. They still cannot imagine someone would be running anything other than Windows on their machines.
It's a tiny little thing, but it's so illustrative. Microsoft, you suck.


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During the first several weeks of the fall term, the Office of Public Affairs will post Record announcements for student organizations that are not currently set up for Web publishing. During the month of September, the CLC will offer training for those organizations that don't already have a Record page or that do not have a member who can maintain and upload an existing Record page. See the notice to student organization presidents about the training sessions.
To accommodate organizations that cannot post announcements prior to training, the Office of Public Affairs will post announcements for them on a consolidated student organization page through the October 6, 2008, Record issue. Simply e-mail the announcement to email@example.com by 5 p.m. on Wednesdays, and we will post them on the consolidated student organization Record page.
Beginning with the October 13 issue, all student organizations will be responsible for maintaining and uploading their own Record pages.
Student organizations: Please use the customizable
template page to create your first Record announcement page incorporating the Record
design and navigation. Check with the CLC's Help Desk, email@example.com,
extension 6-5300, room 525, if you have questions about posting Record announcements.
Departments, academic units and administration: Check with Sarah Cnota in the Office
of Public Affairs, extension 6-5115, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
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Saturday night's Big Air contest served as verifiably extreme exclamation point to the day. Truth be told, it was more of an exhibition than a contest because there were only four shreds selected to send it. The jump was a step-up gap that had the crowd craning their necks with jaws dropped and fists raised in approval. Stuff of X-Games legend.
Andreas Wiig, Torstein Horgmo,Travis Rice and Kevin Pearce were the four heads that handled the jump.
This was the format: Three shred-on-shred face-off rounds with the winners advancing. Each dude got to give 'er twice.The judging was split between the fans voting via text message and living legend Todd Richards.
In the first round Wiig threw a back rodeo nine, but Kevin came in hot with a front 10 tailgrab. Both guys failed to put down their second jumps, with Wiig missing his double cork 1080 and Pearce washing out on an attempted 1260. Pearce advanced.
In round two Horgmo chucked a switch back 1260 and stomped the snot out of it. Rice countered with his double-backside rodeo 1080 and also landed bolts. In their second run Horgmo gave the switch back 12 another go, but didn't put it down, and Travis slow-rotated a shifty back three, relying on his first run to earn him the advance. But, the viewers and Todd gave it to Torstein.
In the finals Horgmo dropped first and again sent it switch backside, but only managed a 1080. Pearce attempted a front 12, but didn't stomp it. Second run: Horgmo again spinning switch backside, but now dropping a shoulder and bringing around a 9. Pearce tried a front 10, but could make it happen.
In the end Horgmo got 68 percent of the viewers text votes, the nod from Todd and a gold medal to match his Oakley frogskins. Rock star status confirmed.


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Acne can hit you at almost any time in your life from teenage years through to your older more mature years, unfortunately acne holds no bounds.
Suffering from the effects of acne in your teenage years can be extremely difficult but when it appears later on in life then things can become rather embarrassing for the sufferer.
Perhaps you are now suffering from acne and need to find a solution to help control it. If so then have you tried a product that contains the wonder of sea kelp?
Sea kelp, also known as seaweed is an effective ingredient in the fight against acne. You may know that it is used as a culinary ingredient in many Asian foods around the world, the Japanese diet has included sea kelp for many centuries and breast cancer for Japanese women is between five to ten times lower than it is in many other parts of the world.
As much as sea kelp is enjoyed in sushi rolls it also has some amazing benefits as part of skin health. For thousands of years herbalists have used sea kelp to treat an array of problems. It contains over 60 vitamins and minerals which are needed by your body to help it function well. It also contains high levels of Iodine which naturally support your thyroid. Your thyroid gland controls your metabolism, which can help keep your weight in check and boost your energy levels.
A compound that is found in sea kelp can have a dramatic effect on acne breakouts. The sea kelp which contains an important ingredient which can help regulate your oil production on your skin, remove bacteria and reduce redness with the help of its anti-inflammatory properties.
Sea kelp can also be used as a natural exfoliator by helping to remove dead skin cells which can cause blocked pores and further acne breakouts.
Zenmed Derma Cleanse System is an ideal product if you suffer from acne and have extra oily skin. It contains both alpha and beta hydroxyl acids which help to balance your skin out. It helps to remove excess oiliness from your skin leaving it refreshed and radiant. With this particular acne control system you receive a cleansing gel, acne mask, acne gel and moisturizer, as well as an oil free day lotion.
As this contains sea kelp, you'll notice such a huge improvement to your skin, which not only will make you look better but you will feel so much better about yourself.
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If you suffer from either acne or rosacea then I highly recommend that your skin care products contain sea kelp.


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European Commission
Siim Kallas
Vice President of the European Commission
Inland waterways
NAIADES II Launching event/Strasbourg
10 September 2013
Thank you very much, Mrs Trautmann and good morning everybody. It's a great pleasure to be sailing with you through the port of Strasbourg this morning. I know that all of us on board have an interest in ports and waterborne transport, but I wonder how many of you know that we already send 500 million tonnes of freight along our rivers and canals each year. That's the equivalent of 25 million trucks that are NOT driving along our already congested motorways.
However, the problem we face is that even 500 million tons is not enough. And to increase the amount of freight going by water, the waterway transport industry needs to develop over the longer term into a high quality sector. We can help, but the industry needs to act as well. We both need to remove the bottlenecks holding it back, and we need to invest in the skills of its workforce.
In order to help achieve that we at the Commission have today adopted a programme of measures called Naiades II. The Naiades, in case you are wondering, were a type of water nymph in Greek mythology. Our Naiades is a seven year programme covering four main areas of activity.
First and foremost, we want to make it easier for freight to move around. Many of the locks that barges pass through, and the bridges that they pass under, need to be upgraded. Big rivers like the Seine and the Scheldt need wider canals between them if large vessels are to navigate from one to the other. Implementing the TEN-T guidelines will have an important role to play here.
Then we want to make waterborne transport even greener than it already is. We will be proposing new standards for marine engines and encouraging operators to switch from diesel to LNG - liquid natural gas.
But however good waterways are, they also have to link in with other forms of transport. And that's another frequent source of bottlenecks. So we will be looking at better connections between rail, road, seaborne transport and inland waterways. Strasbourg, with its Northern Container Terminal, is a good example of those links in practice. We need more like this.
Finally, twenty-first century waterways will need a twenty-first century workforce. At present, although a boat-master's qualifications may be recognised from one EU country to another, the picture is much more complex and fragmented for his or her crew. We want to modernise and harmonise qualifications and the way they are recognised.
I should mention that in all these areas we are enjoying a very fruitful collaboration with the CCNR – the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine – whose secretary general is with us today.
We are all having a very easy journey round the port this morning. I would like the journey to be just as easy for all that freight.
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US urges countries to help Ukraine's economic rescue
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has urged other countries to contribute more to the economic rescue of Ukraine.
He told the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that Ukraine's "sizeable financing needs" meant other nations must add to its $1bn (£597m, 720m euros) loan guarantee.
The appeal came as Ukraine's interim prime minister offered to devolve more powers to eastern regions.
Pro-Russian separatists there are defying the government.
Meanwhile, Washington on Friday announced a third round of sanctions against individuals it has linked to Russia's annexation of Crimea.
The US Treasury said it had frozen the US-based assets of one former Ukrainian official, a Crimea-based energy firm and six Crimean leaders, including the chairman of the Crimea electoral commission and the mayor of Sevastopol.
Immediate steps 'critical'
Mr Lew says the US is "bolstering the IMF program through a complementary aid package, which includes a $1bn loan guarantee and additional technical assistance," in a statement to the IMF.
"It is critical that the international community - multilateral development banks and bilaterals - take immediate steps to also support the IMF program by providing financing support, given the sizeable financing needs," he adds.
The IMF announced a rescue package worth as much as $18bn last month in a bid to aid Ukraine's economy, and this has been bolstered to $27bn with contributions from Europe and the US.
In exchange, the IMF has demanded from Ukraine strict government spending cuts and tax increases.
Ukraine is being squeezed by Russia's decision this month to stop providing Ukraine with subsidised natural gas.
That discount had been agreed between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's then President Viktor Yanukovych, in which Russia also said it would buy $15bn-worth of Ukrainian government bonds.
Separately on Friday, Ukraine's interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk offered to devolve more powers to the east of the nation and is holding talks with regional leaders in Donetsk, where activists demanding self-rule had occupied a government building.
The separatist protests in Ukraine's eastern cities follow Russia's annexation of Crimea last month - described as the biggest political confrontation in Europe since the end of the Cold War.
The IMF is also asking Ukraine to crack down on corruption and end central bank support for the Ukrainian currency.
Ukraine's new government has said it needs $35bn to pay its bills over the next two years.
Ukraine has not paid off its debt to Russian gas supplier Gazprom despite the passing earlier this week of a deadline for the nation to start reducing its debt. Gazprom says Ukraine owes it $2.2bn.
European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told Austria's ORF radio he was working on a plan to help Ukraine pay its gas bills to ensure its debts do not rise.
Gas supplies
On Friday, President Putin moved to assure the EU it would not cut off gas supplies. Brussels said it would stand with the new authorities in Kiev if the Kremlin carries out a threat to turn off the tap to Ukraine.
"I want to say again: We do not intend and do not plan to shut off the gas for Ukraine," Mr Putin said in televised comments at a meeting of his advisory Security Council, the Reuters news agency reported.
Russia has turned off the gas tap to Ukraine before, in 2006 and 2009. As the 2009 row escalated, gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine were suspended for two weeks.
But Russia may be reluctant to do it again as it is dependent on revenue from EU customers.
The EU and US have imposed sanctions on a number of Russian and Ukrainian officials in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea.
The US Treasury says its latest round of sanctions target the US-based assets of one former Ukrainian official, a Crimea-based energy firm and six Crimean leaders, including the chairman of the Crimea electoral commission and the mayor of Sevastopol.
Talks between Russia, Ukraine, the US and the EU - the first four-way discussions since the crisis began - are scheduled to take place on 17 April in Geneva.


text: Latest Video Analysis Foreign Ministers of Russia, Syria and Iran meet in Moscow to condemn US attack The leaders affirmed a commitment to help fight terrorism in Syria and bring peace to the region. Published 2 years ago on April 14, 2017 By Adam 768 Views Share Tweet Sergey Lavrov, Walid Muallem and Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign Ministers of Russia, Syria and Iran, have met in Moscow to affirm a united front in the aftermath of America's illegal attack on Syria from the 7th of April. Lavrov issued a statement saying: "We have reiterated our position and were united in stating that the attack was an act of aggression, which blatantly violated the principles of international law and the UN Charter. We call on the US and its allies to respect Syria's sovereignty and refrain from actions similar to what happened on April 7, and which have serious ramification not only for regional, but also global security". Lavrov later referred to the April 7 attack as 'aggression' saying, "Such acts of aggression are obviously meant to derail the peace process, which was endorsed in a unanimously adopted resolution of the UN Security Council and implies that the fate of Syria would be decided only by the Syrian people. The action was obviously deviating from this basic concept and find new protects to aim for regime change". The Foreign Ministers also called for a fully independent investigation, without any preconceptions or bias into last week's chemical attack in Idlib Governorate. Muallem emphasised that tests conducted in Turkey, far from the site of the alleged chemical attack are unreliable and that any proper investigation would need to be conducted in Syria, by international monitors. Lavrov added that if the US and its allies are totally confident in their version of events, they have 'nothing to be afraid of', in respect of allowing for an independent, transparent and unbiased investigation. Lavrov and Muallem also reminded the world that the United States had previously agreed that Syria has no chemical weapons after an agreement brokered by Russia and the US in 2013. The weapons were fully removed by 2014. Zarif noted the hypocrisy of the US which gave Iraq chemical weapons which were used in its war with Iran during the 1980s, yet now pretends to be shocked at the use of such weapons by terrorists in Syria. The Foreign Ministers affirmed previous commitments to engage in a political process to bring peace to Syria and to continue to uphold the fragile ceasefire in Syria which excludes terrorists groups. Groups such as ISIS and al-Nusrea/al-Sham/al-Qaeda are currently suffering military setbacks in their battles with the anti-terrorist coalition led by Russia, Iran and Syria. Today's meeting of the Foreign Ministers is the penultimate proof that the US has failed to pry Russia away from Syria and Iran. Earlier this week, Rex Tillerson was sent to Moscow in order to try and persuade Russia to abandon her existing partners and policies. This did not succeed. America intended to isolate Russia from her traditional regional partners, but instead, the US is increasingly isolated in the world, apart from her economically dependant allies in addition to comparatively small European powers who perennially toe the Washington line. READ MORE: Russia is not Syria's ally nor master, Russia is Syria's partner. The statements by the three Foreign Ministers confirm that neither Syria, Iran nor Russia intend to retaliate against America using military force, contrary to false stories presented by the liberal western mainstream media. The unity between Russia, Syria and Iran is quite possibly stronger than ever. It was never going to be reasonably challenged but an objective assessment of events on the ground as well as America's increasingly hysterical and unpredictable military actions in the region, has forced a stronger united front between long-term partners. Rex Tilleron's mission to change Russia's geo-political positioning was a 'mission impossible' from the beginning. Now it is clear it was also a totally failed mission. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Related Topics:RussiaSergey LavrovIranUnited StatesWalid MuallemMohammad Javad Zarif. Syria Up Next Donald Trump and the End of History: Did Trump supporters just have a Fukuyama moment? 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She always represented the interests of the European Union and those in British Parliament that backed remaining in the EU. No one in British 'high society' wanted Brexit to pass. No. One. No one in Europe's power elite wanted Brexit to pass. No. One. No one in the U.S.'s power elite wanted Brexit to pass. No. One. When it did pass The Davos Crowd began the process of sabotaging it. The fear mongering has done nothing but intensify. And May has done nothing but waffle back and forth, walking the political tight rope to remain in power while trying to sell EU slavery to the both sides in British Parliament. We're 29 months later and the U.K. is no closer to being out of the EU than the day of the vote. Why? Because Theresa May's 585 page 'deal' is the worst of all possible outcomes. If it passes it will leave the EU with near full control over British trade and tax policy while the British people and government have no say or vote in the matter. It's punishment for the people getting uppity about their future and wanting something different than what had been planned for them. Mr. Juncker and his replacement will never have to suffer another one of Nigel Farage's vicious farragoes detailing their venality ever again. YouTube will get a whole lot less interesting. It's almost like this whole charade was designed this way. Because it was. May has tried to run out the clock and scare everyone into accepting a deal that is worse than the situation pre-Brexit because somehow a terrible deal is better than no deal. But, that's the opposite of the truth. And she knows it. She's always known it but she's gone into these negotiations like the fragile wisp of a thing she truly is. There's a reason I call her "The Gypsum Lady." She's simply the opposite of Margaret Thatcher who always knew what the EU was about and fought to her last political breath to avoid the trap the U.K. is now caught in. The U.K. has had all of the leverage in Brexit talks but May has gone out of her way to not use any of it while the feckless and evil vampires in Europe purposefully complicate issues which are the height of irrelevancy. She has caved on every issue to the point of further eroding what's left of British sovereignty. This deal leaves the U.K. at the mercy of Latvia or Greece in negotiating any trade agreement with Canada. Because for a deal between member states to be approved, all members have to approve of it. So, yeah, great job Mrs. May. Mission Accomplished. They are popping champagne corks in Brussels now. But, this is a Brexit people can be proud of. Orwell would be proud of Theresa May for this one. You people are leaving. Let the EU worry about controlling their borders. And if Ireland doesn't like the diktats coming from Brussels than they can decide for themselves if staying in the EU is worth the trouble. The entire Irish border issue is simply not May's problem to solve. Neither is the customs union or any of the other stuff. These are the EU's problems. They are the ones who don't want the Brits to leave. Let them figure out how they are going to trade with the U.K. It is so obvious that this entire Brexit 'negotiation' is about protecting the European project as a proxy for the right of German automakers to export their cars at advantageous exchange rates to the U.K. at everyone's expense. Same as it was in the days of The Iron Lady. If all of this wasn't so predictable it would be comical. Because the only people more useless than Theresa May are the Tories who care only about keeping their current level of the perks of office. The biggest takeaway from this Brexit fiasco is that even more people will check out of the political system. They will see it even more clearly for what it is, an irredeemable miasma of pelf and privilege that has zero interest in protecting the rights of its citizens or the value of their labor. It doesn't matter if it's voter fraud in the U.S. or a drawn out betrayal of a binding referendum. There comes a point where those not at the political fringes look behind the veil and realize changing the nameplate above the door doesn't change the policy. And once they realize that confidence fails and systems collapse. Brexit was the last gasp of a dying empire to assert its national relevancy. Even if this deal is rejected by parliament the process has sown deep divisions which will lead to the next trap and the next and the next and the next. By then Theresa May will be a distant memory, being properly rewarded by her masters for a job very well done. Please support the production of independent and alternative political and financial commentary by joining my Patreon and subscribing to the Gold Goats 'n Guns Investment Newsletter for just $12/month. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest The DOJ Is Preparing To Indict Julian Assange Ecuador's relationship with Assange has deteriorated considerably with the election of President Lenin Moreno. Published 23 hours ago on November 16, 2018 By Tyler Durden Via Zerohedge… The US Justice Department is preparing to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange which, after sensitive international negotiations, would likely trigger his extradition to the United States to stand trial, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people in Washington familiar with the matter. Over the past year, U.S. prosecutors have discussed several types of charges they could potentially bring against Mr. Assange, the people said. Mr. Assange has lived in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since receiving political asylum from the South American country in 2012. The people familiar with the case wouldn't describe whether discussions were under way with the U.K. or Ecuador about Mr. Assange, but said they were encouraged by recent developments. … The exact charges Justice Department might pursue remain unclear, but they may involve the Espionage Act, which criminalizes the disclosure of national defense-related information. –WSJ In short, the DOJ doesn't appear to have a clear charge against Assange yet. Then there's the optics of dragging Assange out of Ecuador's London Embassy and into the United States, then prosecuting him, and if successful – jailing him. "Prosecuting someone for publishing truthful information would set a terrible and dangerous precedent," said Assange lawyer Barry Pollack – who says he hasn't heard anything about a US prosecution. "We have heard nothing from authorities suggesting that a criminal case against Mr. Assange is imminent," he added. Moreover, assuming that even if the DOJ could mount a case, they would be required to prove that Russia was the source of a trove of emails damaging to Hillary Clinton that WikiLeaks released in the last few months of the 2016 election. An indictment from special counsel Robert Mueller that portrayed WikiLeaks as a tool of Russian intelligence for releasing thousands of hacked Democratic emails during the 2016 presidential campaign has made it more difficult for Mr. Assange to mount a defense as a journalist. Public opinion of Mr. Assange in the U.S. has dropped since the campaign. Prosecutors have considered publicly indicting Mr. Assange to try to trigger his removal from the embassy, the people said, because a detailed explanation of the evidence against Mr. Assange could give Ecuadorean authorities a reason to turn him over. –WSJ It's no secret that Assange and Hillary Clinton aren't exactly exchanging Christmas cards, however would WikiLeaks' release of damaging information that was hacked (or copied locally on a thumb drive by a well-meaning American), be illegal for Assange as a publisher? Despite scant clues as to how the DOJ will prosecute Assange aside from rumors that it has to do with the Espionage Act, the US Government is cooking on something. John Demers – head of the DOJ's national security division, said last week regarding an Assange case: "On that, I'll just say, we'll see." The U.S. hasn't publicly commented on whether it has made, or plans to make, any extradition request. Any extradition request from the U.S. would likely go to British authorities, who have an outstanding arrest warrant for Mr. Assange related to a Swedish sexual assault case. Sweden has since dropped the probe, but the arrest warrant stands. Any extradition and prosecution would involve multiple sensitive negotiations within the U.S. government and with other countries. –WSJ Beginning in 2010, the Department of Justice beginning under the Obama administration has drawn a distinction between WikiLeaks and other news organizations – with former Attorney General Eric Holder insisting that Assange's organization does not deserve the same first amendment protections during the Chelsea Manning case in which the former Army intelligence analyst was found guilty at a court-martial of leaking thousands of classified Afghan War Reports. US officials have given mixed messages over Assange, with President Trump having said during the 2016 election "I love WikiLeaks," only to have his former CIA Director, Mike Pompeo label WikiLeaks akin to a foreign "hostile intelligence service" and a US adversary. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said that Assange's arrest is a "priority." Ecuador's relationship with Assange, meanwhile, has deteriorated considerably with the election of President Lenin Moreno – who called the WikiLeaks founder a "stone in our shoe," adding that Assange's stay at the London embassy is unsustainable. Ecuador has been looking to improve relations with the U.S., hosting Vice President Mike Pence in 2018 amid interest in increasing trade. Ecuador's Foreign Relations Ministry declined to comment. This month, Foreign Relations Minister José Valencia told a radio station the government hadn't received an extradition request for Mr. Assange. Mr. Assange has clashed with his Ecuadorean hosts in over internet access, visitors, his cat and other issues. Last month, he sued Ecuador over the conditions of his confinement. At a hearing last month, at which a judge rejected Mr. Assange's claims, Mr. Assange said he expected to be forced out of the embassy soon. –WSJ Assange and Ecuador seem to have worked things out for the time being; with his months-long communication blackout mostly lifted (with strict rules against Assange participating in political activities that would affect Ecuador's international relations). Assange is now allowed Wi-Fi, but has to foot the bill for his own phone calls and other communication. In October, a judge threw out a lawsuit Assange filed against Ecuador from implementing the stricter rules,. "Ecuador hasn't violated the rights of anyone," Attorney General Íñigo Salvador said after the court ruling. "It has provided asylum to Mr. Assange, and he should comply with the rules to live harmoniously inside Ecuador's public installations in London."Assange's attorneys say he will appeal the ruling – however it may be a moot point if he's dragged into a US courtroom sooner than later. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Trump Understands The Important Difference Between Nationalism And Globalism President Trump's nationalism heralds a return to the old U.S. doctrine of non-intervention. Published 23 hours ago on November 16, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Raheem Kassam, op-ed via The Daily Caller: President Macron's protests against nationalism this weekend stand in stark contrast with the words of France's WWII resistance leader and the man who would then become president: General Charles de Gaulle. Speaking to his men in 1913, de Gaulle reminded them: "He who does not love his mother more than other mothers, and his fatherland more than other fatherlands, loves neither his mother nor his fatherland." This unquestionable invocation of nationalism reveals how far France has come in its pursuit of globalist goals, which de Gaulle described later in that same speech as the "appetite of vice." While this weekend the media have been sharpening their knives on Macron's words, for use against President Trump, very few have taken the time to understand what really created the conditions for the wars of the 20th century. It was globalism's grandfather: imperialism, not nationalism. This appears to have been understood at least until the 1980s, though forgotten now. With historical revisionism applied to nationalism and the great wars, it is much harder to understand what President Trump means when he calls himself a "nationalist." Though the fault is with us, not him. "Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism: nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism … By pursuing our own interests first, with no regard to others,' we erase the very thing that a nation holds most precious, that which gives it life and makes it great: its moral values," President Macron declared from the pulpit of the Armistice 100 commemorations. Had this been in reverse, there would no doubt have been shrieks of disgust aimed at Mr. Trump for "politicizing" such a somber occasion. No such shrieks for Mr. Macron, however, who languishes below 20 percent in national approval ratings in France. With some context applied, it is remarkably easy to see how President Macron was being disingenuous. Nationalism and patriotism are indeed distinct. But they are not opposites. Nationalism is a philosophy of governance, or how human beings organize their affairs. Patriotism isn't a governing philosophy. Sometimes viewed as subsidiary to the philosophy of nationalism, patriotism is better described as a form of devotion. For all the grandstanding, Mr. Macron may as well have asserted that chicken is the opposite of hot sauce,so meaningless was the comparison. Imperialism, we so quickly forget, was the order of the day heading into the 20th century. Humanity has known little else but empire since 2400 B.C. The advent of globalism, replete with its foreign power capitals and multi-national institutions is scarcely distinct. Imperialism — as opposed to nationalism — seeks to impose a nation's way of life, its currency, its traditions, its flags, its anthems, its demographics, and its rules and laws upon others wherever they may be. Truly, President Trump's nationalism heralds a return to the old U.S. doctrine of non-intervention, expounded by President George Washington in his farewell address of 1796: " … It must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of [Europe's] politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities." It should not have to be pointed out that the great wars of the 20th century could not be considered "ordinary vicissitudes", but rather, that imperialism had begun to run amok on the continent. It was an imperialism rooted in nihilism, putting the totality of the state at its heart. Often using nationalism as nothing more than a method of appeal, socialism as a doctrine of governance, and Jews as a subject of derision and scapegoating. Today's imperialism is known as globalism. It is what drives nations to project outward their will, usually with force; causes armies to cross borders in the hope of subjugating other human beings or the invaded nation's natural resources; and defines a world, or region, or continent by its use of central authority and foreign capital control. Instead of armies of soldiers, imperialists seek to dominate using armies of economists and bureaucrats. Instead of forced payments to a foreign capital, globalism figured out how to create economic reliance: first on sterling, then on the dollar, now for many on the Euro. This will soon be leapfrogged by China's designs. And while imperialism has served some good purposes throughout human history, it is only when grounded in something larger than man; whether that be natural law, God, or otherwise. But such things are scarcely long-lived. While benevolent imperialism can create better conditions over a period of time, humanity's instincts will always lean towards freedom and self-governance. It is this fundamental distinction between the United States' founding and that of the modern Republic of France that defines the two nations. The people of France are "granted" their freedoms by the government, and the government creates the conditions and dictates the terms upon which those freedoms are exercised. As Charles Kesler wrote for the Claremont Review of Books in May, "As a result, there are fewer and fewer levers by which the governed can make its consent count". France is the archetypal administrative state, while the United States was founded on natural law, a topic that scarcely gets enough attention anymore. Nationalism – or nationism, if you will – therefore represents a break from the war-hungry norm of human history. Its presence in the 20th century has been rewritten and bastardized. A nationalist has no intention of invading your country or changing your society. A nationalist cares just as much as anyone else about the plights of others around the world but believes putting one's own country first is the way to progress. A nationalist would never seek to divide by race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual preference, or otherwise. This runs contrary to the idea of a united, contiguous nation at ease with itself. Certainly nationalism's could-be bastard child of chauvinism can give root to imperialistic tendencies. But if the nation can and indeed does look after its own, and says to the world around it, "these are our affairs, you may learn from them, you may seek advice, we may even assist if you so desperately need it and our affairs are in order," then nationalism can be a great gift to the 21st century and beyond. This is what President Trump understands. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! 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Gasification technologies convert coal and biomass into synthesis gas feed streams that can be used for power generation cycles or converted into value-added chemicals and transportation fuels. However, coal-derived synthesis gas contains many trace contaminants that should be removed prior to downstream processes. TDA Research, Inc. (TDA) is developing a low-cost, high capacity sorbent that can remove ammonia (NH3) and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and trace metal contaminants (such as mercury, arsenic, and selenium) from coal- and coal/biomass-derived synthesis gas in a single process step. TDA will determine the effect of operating parameters, conduct multiple-cycle experiments, and test sorbent life. Unlike the commercially available gas clean-up technologies, the TDA multi-contaminant control system operates above the dew point of the synthesis gas (500 degrees Fahrenheit). With this technology, the synthesis gas would not have to be cooled in order to remove the contaminants, thus improving the thermal efficiency of the process. This technology has the potential to improve the energy efficiency and process economics for producing electric power from coal gasification.
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Gasification is used to convert a solid feedstock, such as coal, petcoke, or biomass, into a gaseous form, referred to as synthesis gas or syngas, which is primarily hydrogen and carbon monoxide. With gasification-based technologies, pollutants can be captured and disposed of or converted to useful products. Gasification can generate clean power by adding steam to the syngas in a water-gas-shift reactor to convert the carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide (CO2) and to produce additional hydrogen. The hydrogen and CO2 are separated—the hydrogen is used to make power and the CO2 is sent to storage, converted to useful products or used for EOR. In addition to efficiently producing electric power, a wide range of transportation fuels and chemicals can be produced from the cleaned syngas, thereby providing the flexibility needed to capitalize on the changing economic market. As a result, gasification provides a flexible technology option for using domestically available resources while meeting future environmental emission standards. Polygeneration plants that produce multiple products are uniquely possible with gasification technologies. The Gasification Systems program is developing technologies in three key areas to reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of producing syngas: (1) Feed Systems, (2) Gasifier Optimization and Plant Supporting Systems, and (3) Syngas Processing Systems.
Syngas processing research and development underway emphasizes technologies that can be efficiently integrated into the plant, optimized with the temperature and pressure requirements of other systems, and meet product delivery specifications. A major cost element in gasification plants is converting raw syngas into a pure and specific gas used to create the plant's target product suite. High-hydrogen, low-methane, ultraclean syngas is versatile and can be used for power production with CO2 capture, fuels or chemicals production, and for many polygeneration applications. The technologies being developed are focused on high-efficiency processes that operate at moderate to high temperatures and clean syngas of all contaminants to the extremely low levels needed for chemical production—often significantly lower than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) required levels for power plants.
TDA's is developing a low-cost, high capacity sorbent for use in their multi-contaminant control system. This technology has the potential to improve the energy efficiency and process economics for producing electric power from coal gasification because it can remove ammonia (NH3) and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and trace metal contaminants (such as mercury, arsenic, and selenium) from coal and coal-biomass derived synthesis gas in a single process step and operates above the dew point of the synthesis gas (500 degrees Fahrenheit).
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