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Blackhawks dominate Jets in Toews' homecomingby Patrick Williams
WINNIPEG -- The Chicago Blackhawks made Jonathan Toews a happy captain in his return to his hometown Saturday against the Winnipeg Jets.
After letting the Jets hang around in the first period, the Blackhawks ripped apart a 1-1 game and blitzed the Jets for three goals in 4:55 on their way to a 5-1 win.
Chicago (9-2-3) has won three consecutive games. Winnipeg (5-8-2) has lost three in a row and has one win in its past seven.
Toews was scoreless playing his first NHL regular-season game in Winnipeg before a large group of family and friends among the crowd of 15,004 at MTS Centre.
"It's a great building," Toews said after playing a 15-minute drive from where he spent his childhood. "The fans are really excited and bring a lot of energy to the game. I was definitely looking forward to the game coming in, but once the puck dropped, it was back to business. It's fun to see what it's all about and be back in Winnipeg."
Niklas Hjalmarsson scored his first goal of the season for Chicago to counter one by Winnipeg's Tobias Enstrom in the first period. Second-period goals from Brandon Bollig, Patrick Sharp and Nick Leddy chased Winnipeg goalie Ondrej Pavelec, and Ben Smith scored midway through the third.
Corey Crawford made 26 saves for the Blackhawks, and Marcus Kruger had two assists.
"We had a good start to that second period," Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. "[In the] first period, we were lucky to be even there. [Crawford] kept us in the game, and then we got better as the game went on.
"But certainly we like some production across the board," Quenneville continued, "and we've been getting it the [past] three games, more representative of how we were last year and the offense that we do have on our team."
Al Montoya finished in relief of Pavelec, whom the Jets pulled from a game for the first time since last season, a 6-1 loss to the Washington Capitals on March 22. Pavelec stopped 10 of 14 Chicago shots; Montoya turned aside 10 of 11. Patrick Kane had a third-period penalty shot he failed to convert against Montoya.
"I think you could see some frustration in the way that we managed that game," Jets coach Claude Noel said. "I think that in a matter of couple of minutes, the game changed drastically, and certainly when that happens there's a lot of emotion that comes into yourself that is not good emotion, and that is what starts to get to you and is tough."
Chicago owned the League's fifth-best offense, producing 3.31 goals per game, and the Blackhawks exposed a thin Jets defense in the second period.
Winnipeg faced Chicago without Paul Postma, Mark Stuart and Jacob Trouba (all injured). The Jets recalled Ben Chiarot and Julian Melchiori from the American Hockey League earlier in the week and claimed Los Angeles Kings defenseman Keaton Ellerby off waivers three hours before the game. Ellerby did not arrive in time, but Chiarot, a third-year pro, made his NHL debut and played 10:47.
Slow starts have hampered the Jets this season, but Enstrom put them up 1-0 on their third shot. Enstrom unleashed a long, skipping shot from the left point that clipped a stick in front of the Chicago net and snuck past Crawford at 5:08. Enstrom's goal was the fourth time in 15 games the Jets scored first.
The Jets' penalty kill survived a 21-second 5-on-3 halfway through the first period, but Hjalmarsson directed a heavy shot from the left point that beat Pavelec low at 9:58, one second after Winnipeg killed off the power play in full.
Chicago took a 2-1 lead 54 seconds into the second period when Bollig and Kruger headed a 2-on-1 rush after Winnipeg defenseman Adam Pardy's ill-timed pinch. Bollig cut into the left circle before beating Pavelec with a low shot.
"That's our game," Crawford said. "Play [well] defensively, and that leads to our attack."
Sharp built a two-goal lead 1:47 later when Marian Hossa's long outlet pass reached him, sending him on a breakaway he converted with a move around Pavelec for his third of the season. Leddy scored at 5:49, taking a puck that trickled out to the top of the left circle and tearing a shot through a screen that eluded Pavelec and ended the goaltender's afternoon.
"I'm frustrated," Pavelec said. "They showed us how to play. It's a really good team. We played a really good first period, and then we slowed down and couldn't catch them. The last two periods were just embarrassing.
"Everybody expects the goalie to make the saves," Pavelec continued, "and I wasn't able to make those saves."
Smith made the score 5-1 with 10:47 left, using a shot from the left boards that trickled through Montoya's pads.
"I'm not going to sit here and fault Pavelec," Noel said. "He has made some huge saves for us and kept us in games. Before it gets to him, there are sometimes breakdowns elsewhere.
"We made mistakes before it got to our goalies," Noel added, "so I'm not going to sit here and blame our goalies. There is no rocket-science way to play when you play a team that can hurt you."
Winnipeg forward Michael Frolik, whom the Jets acquired this summer from the Blackhawks, saw a familiar brand of hockey.
"That's how they play," Frolik said. "They have a good transition. We [gave] up three goals, and after [that], it was kind of over. We said in the room [that] we have to go after them and [not] quit, but they didn't give up much."


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Finance & Development, December 1980
- Fund & Bank activity: Fund transactions, Bank loans and IDA credits
- International monetary stability-challenges and response: A review of the issues of the Fund Annual Meeting
- Currents of change: Reporting on the Bank Annual Meeting
- Managing the demand for energy in the developing world: In addition to producing more energy, oil importing developing countries could use conservation to reduce oil imports
- Managing the demand for energy in the industrial world: With energy expenditures amounting to one tenth of gross national expenditure in industrial countries, energy conservation is a major priority; implications for policymaking
- Renewable energy: alcohol from biomass: The economics of producing ethanol and its use as a source of energy
- Fund conditionality and the international adjustment process: the early period, 1950-70: The evolution of the principles and the practices of conditionality
- Stabilization programs and income distribution: A review of the short-run impact of Fund-supported programs in Bolivia, Ghana, Indonesia, and the Philippines
- Migration and manpower needs in the Middle East and North Africa, 1975–85: By 1 985 foreign workers will hold one out of every three jobs in the region: a study of the volume and occupational characteristics of these workers in eight oil producing countries
- Family planning programs and fertility decline: A report on family planning programs in 63 developing countries
- The changing gold market, 1978-80: A view of the volatile, mostly upward.movements in the real price of gold
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Hair-Raising Competition Splits the Mustache World
Facial-Fuzz Fans Part Ways, Differing on Style; 'Good Beardsmanship'
After years of merrily growing facial hair together, philanthropy's mustachioed moneymen are suddenly bristling.
Aaron Perlut, a social-media marketer, gathered a group of mostly hirsute guys at a St. Louis restaurant seven years ago to form the American Mustache Institute, or AMI. Their goal: to fight pogonophobia (fear of facial fuzz) and raise money for charity.
Like-minded groups soon cropped up around the country. Using humor and creative hairstyling, a fraternity of facial hair sprouted. Hundreds of thousands of men grew mustaches and beards to raise funds and awareness for charities in the same way some wear ribbons and run marathons.
Although the groups battled for the same philanthropic dollars, they often supported one another.
They raised funds for charity competitions like Bearduary and Mustache March. They attended charity Beard Balls, also known as facial-hair proms. And they participated in the World Beard and Mustache Championships—a journey that has been documented by IFC reality television show "Whisker Wars."
So when the Movember Foundation, which hosts a monthlong mustache-growing contest to benefit men's health groups, came to the U.S. in 2007, the 30,000-member American Mustache Institute and other whisker devotees say they were happy to help it grow.
They promoted the group, founded in Australia ("Mo" is slang there for mustache), directing members to form fundraising teams for Movember.
"America's facial hair community has always been immensely supportive of its own," says Mr. Perlut, the full-bearded co-founder of AMI, which doesn't have a paid staff and raises less than $100,000 a year for charity. "No one wins unless we all win."
But now Mr. Perlut and his allies are chafing at Movember's rapid growth. They accuse the nonprofit of taking the humor out of facial-hair fundraising and of failing to support other fuzz-friendly charity groups.
"The unfortunate byproduct of getting too big is people take themselves too seriously and lose their authenticity," says Alex Aizenberg, who goes by the nickname "El Beardo" and is the co-founder of Build-A-Beard, a website that chronicles the unshaven and sponsors charity balls.
For its part, Movember is keeping a stiff upper lip.
Movember traces its roots to the mustaches Chief Executive Adam Garone and his friends first grew in November 2003. He says the organization now sees hairy upper lips only as an annual attention-grabber to promote men's health.
Mr. Garone says his organization doesn't have a trademark on the mustache (though the name Movember is trademarked).
It encourages other charities to use facial hair as a vehicle for growth, but declines to promote or raise money for them, citing its legal charter as a nonprofit that is "predicated on raising money for men's health," he says.
The Movember Foundation raised $132 million last year with 1.1 million participants globally, up from $54,000 in 2004 with 450 participants.
It now boasts four offices around the world, celebrity endorsements from rapper Snoop Dogg, who has been sporting a beard of late, and lightly whiskered pop star Justin Bieber.
It has drawn corporate sponsorships ranging from Foster's, the Australia beer giant, to Toms, the slip-on shoe company. Last November, it projected a light creating a 40-foot blue mustache on London's Big Ben.
Charities like the Prostate Cancer Foundation, which counts Movember as one of its biggest funders, commends the group's contributions.
"Movember is becoming a very powerful force for cancer research, doing for men's health what March of Dimes did for polio," said Jonathan Simons, executive director of the $43 million Prostate Cancer Foundation.
The facial hair feud came to a head recently when Mr. Garone, Movember's CEO, declined to support one of AMI's biggest fundraising vehicles, the 'Stache Act, a tongue-in-cheek push to pass a $250 federal tax subsidy for every person with facial hair.
The proposal failed to gain any traction in Congress. It raised $10,000 for Millions From One, a clean-water charity, through a partnership with tax-preparation company H&R Block Inc.
Mr. Garone refused to endorse the campaign and told Mr. Perlut that it was inappropriate to ask Movember to publicly support the 'Stache Act, Mr. Perlut says.
As a result, AMI publicly cut ties with the group via a blog post that called Movember's cause "unquestionably commendable" but said "the organization's culture and manner in which it treats those that support it is often arrogant and rather shameful."
Mr. Garone confirms that he declined to support the 'Stache Act but says his comments were taken out of context.
"When you create a grass-roots movement of this scale, you're bound to get one person who takes exception to your opinions," Mr. Garone says. "I wish Aaron Perlut all the best and am sorry he feels he can no longer support us."
Although Mr. Garone and Mr. Perlut both say they prefer to part ways, some in the facial hair fraternity are urging reconciliation.
Sprouting facial hair is rooted in a long tradition of mutual respect and friendship, says Phil Olsen, founder and captain of Beard Team USA.
He is organizing the next National Beard and Mustache Championships in New Orleans in September, where people vie in various facial-hair matches such as best Dali mustache or freestyle beard.
"This is all in good fun, but it's not a joke," says Mr. Olsen, a lawyer in Tahoe City, Calif., whose bushy, chocolate-brown beard has won him such accolades as "best beard" in a 2007 contest held at the Joyce Daze Wild Blackberry festival in Joyce, Wash.
"We should all practice good beardsmanship," he says.
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- This article is for the location. For the episode with the same name, see "Lake Laogai (episode)".
Lake Laogai is a large body of water located within the Agrarian Zone of Ba Sing Se. It was stated by Joo Dee to be a vacation spot, but in actuality, it hid beneath it a secret underground prison created by Long Feng for his personal purpose of interning anyone there whose actions were contrary to his plans.[2] This hidden location eventually became the Dai Li's base of operations, where they organized their conspiracy through brainwashing and other illegal means;[3] however, it was abandoned due to its discovery by Team Avatar.[4]
Dai Li base
Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Laogai was a large underground facility operated by Dai Li agents and run by the Grand Secretariat, Long Feng. It consisted of several chambers and tunnels, which held prison cells and training facilities for both Dai Li agents and Joo Dees, as well as chambers with equipment used to brainwash people who did not adhere to the rules enforced by Long Feng and his agents. Some of the rooms were spacious enough to hold a flying bison captive.[3]
The secret headquarters is presumed to have been destroyed, as discovered by Team Avatar when they tried to convince Earth King Kuei of Long Feng's conspiracy. In an attempt to expose the facilities, Toph's raising of the ground under the lake with earthbending uncovered only a destroyed entrance to the base.[4]
In 171 AG, Avatar Korra, Tenzin, and Jinora went to Lake Laogai at Mako's suggestion, believing the Dai Li had reestablished their base to hold captive airbenders for the Earth Queen. However, when Jinora projected her spirit to scout the place, she discovered that the underground base had long since been flooded.[1]
- The term Laogai is an abbreviation for Laodong Gaizao, 勞動改造 (simp. 劳动改造), which means "reform through labor", and refers to the use of prison labor in the People's Republic of China. The Laogai are a series of camps where opponents of the Chinese Communist Party are sent to work as slave labor.
- After the Hundred Year War, a pro-bending team named the Laogai Lion Vultures was formed.[5]
- Lake Laogai was redesigned in The Legend of Korra to more closely resemble Lake Tahoe.[6]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hamilton, Joshua (writer) & Zwyer, Melchior (director). (July 11, 2014). "In Harm's Way". The Legend of Korra. Season 2. Episode 4. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ From older Avatar: The Last Airbender official site, originally on Nick.com (link). No longer updated, encyclopedia now broken though archived here.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hedrick, Tim (writer) & MacMullan, Lauren (director). (November 6, 2006). "Lake Laogai". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 17. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 O'Bryan, John (writer) & Spaulding, Ethan (director). (November 17, 2006). "The Earth King". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 18. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ Welcome to Republic City. Nickelodeon (May 11, 2012). Retrieved on May 11, 2012.
- ↑ Bryan Konietzko on the DVD commentary for "In Harm's Way".


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To assist the National Research Council's Decadal Survey Committee in gathering input and ideas from all segments of the astronomical community, The Space Telescope Science Institute and the Johns Hopkins University hosted a Decadal Survey Town Hall meeting. The meeting was open to the public, and astronomers were encouraged to bring their ideas and opinions.
The Astro2010 Committee has emphasized the importance of diverse, comprehensive input from the astronomical community. Town Hall meetings are one of the recommended formats to provide input, especially on broad research topics that may not be ideally suited to white papers or other forms of input. Representatives from the Decadal Survey attended; the Organizing Committee summarized the inputs received during the meeting for the full Survey Committee.
The format of the meeting was designed to allow a broad range of inputs and an interactive discussion. Because of the relatively short time available for such a large community, the majority of the meeting was in the form of an open discussion on each of the three major areas into which the Decadal Committee has organized its survey: Science Frontiers, Infrastructure and state of the profession, and Program priorities. There was some time as well for short, individual "open mike" statements as an additional opportunity for those whose research interests would not be suitably covered otherwise.
Here's the link to the Summary Report for this meeting: STScI & JHU Report.
Astro2010 Survey, Panel, and Study Group Participants
Carol Christian
Julianne Dalcanton
Debra Elmegreen
Tim Heckman
Richard Kelley
Richard Mushotzky
Antonella Nota
Neill Reid
Chris Reynolds
Eun-Suk Seo
Mike Shull
David Spergel
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Henry Ferguson (STScI)
Daniel Apai (STScI)
Stefano Casertano (STScI)
Suvi Gezari (JHU)
Eric Grove (NRL)
Anton Koekemoer (STScI)
Erick McKenzie (UMD)
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Phishing is the practice of sending out fake emails, or spam, written to appear as if they have been sent by banks or other reputable organisations, with the intent of luring the recipient into revealing sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, account IDs, ATM PINs or credit card details. Typically, phishing attacks will direct the recipient to a web page designed to mimic a target organisation's own visual identity and to harvest the user's personal information, often leaving the victim unaware of the attack. Obtaining this type of personal data is attractive to blackhats because it allows an attacker to impersonate their victims and make fraudulent financial transactions. Victims often suffer significant financial losses or have their entire identity stolen, usually for criminal purposes. This KYE white paper aims to provide practical information on the practice of phishing and draws on data collected by the German Honeynet Project and UK Honeynet Project. This paper focuses on real world incidents that the Honeynet Project has observed in the wild, but does not cover all possible phishing methods or techniques. Attackers are constantly innovating and advancing, and there are likely to be new phishing techniques already under development or in use today.
After a brief introduction and background, we will review the actual techniques and tools used by phishers, providing three examples of empirical research where real-world phishing attacks were captured using honeynets. These incidents will be described in detail and include system intrusion, phishing web site preparation, message propagation and data collection. Common techniques and trends are then analysed, including the growing integration of phishing, spamming, and botnets. Examples of the malware used by phishers to automate harvesting of email addresses and sending of spam email are reviewed, and we also present our observations on network scanning techniques and how compromised machines are used to spread phishing emails and other spam. Finally, we conclude this paper with an overview of the lessons learned in the last six months and suggest further research topics.
This white paper includes extensive amounts of supporting information, with many hyperlinks to more detailed data on specific attacks available inline. Lastly, no confidential personal data was collected in the process of this research. In some cases, organizations involved in phishing attacks were contacted directly, or the incident data was forward to local CERTs.


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The Minority Access to Research Careers – Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research Program (MARC U*STAR) at Fort Lewis College is funded by a research training grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health.
The objective of this honors undergraduate research training program is to prepare Native American, African American, Hispanic, and Pacific Islander students majoring in scientific disciplines to pursue Ph.D.s and long term careers in biomedical or behavioral science research. Faculty mentors at FLC train a small group of highly qualified junior and senior under-represented students in an honors program strong in research opportunities and science curriculum.
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BALTIMORE (AP) -- President Barack Obama is leaving behind scandal-focused Washington to focus on the country's slowly improving jobs picture.
Obama is to fly by helicopter Friday about 40 miles north to Baltimore, which has had its share of tough times in the move from an industrial to service economy. But Maryland has experienced job growth this year as part of a nationwide economic recovery.
The White House said the trip is designed to focus on three areas of needed investment to grow the middle class -- jobs, skills, and opportunity.
The president plans to highlight one of the manufacturing companies still thriving in the city by speaking at Ellicott Dredges. It makes equipment for excavation under water and on beachfronts around the world.
Obama also plans to visit a community center that provides job training to parents and an elementary school that provides early childhood education. Obama has proposed that public preschool be available for all 4-year-olds from low-income families.
The focus on Obama's economic agenda comes at the end of a week that has been consumed by a trio of political controversies. They include the targeting of conservative political groups by the Internal Revenue Service, the administration's response to last year's deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, and the seizure of Associated Press phone records by the Justice Department as part of a leak investigation.
Obama's turn to the economy comes in a state that added 31,200 jobs over a year to climb to a 6.5 percent unemployment rate in April, according to the most recent data by the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. April saw a downturn, with Maryland losing 6,200 jobs after four consecutive month of job growth.
"Last year, we had the best-rated job creation of any state in our region and we have very nearly recovered 100 percent of the jobs that we lost during the recession," Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said at a bill-signing ceremony on Thursday.
Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland's only Republican congressman, criticized Obama's trip as a photo opportunity, instead of staying in Washington to work on economic problems. For example, Harris said Obama has been dragging his feet on developing the Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil from western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast and create jobs. The administration has not yet taken a position on the project, which is opposed by environmentalists but supported by the president of Ellicott Dredges, Peter Bowe, in testimony before Congress Thursday.
"That would boost jobs at Ellicott Dredges, but other than that, it's just going to be another photo op on a campaign-style tour when the president should be in Washington tending to the nation's business and to address the huge scandals that are popping up on a daily basis in Washington," Harris said in a conference call with other Maryland Republicans.
Obama planned to tout another effort to create jobs in his visit to Ellicott Dredges. He signed a memorandum Friday to federal agencies directing them to update infrastructure permit processes with the goal of cutting their timelines in half. The White House said it's an important step in his goal of creating jobs by making urgent repairs to roads, bridges, and railways.
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The Weakening of the Safe Water Drinking Act
In The Drink: Georgia
In 1993 and 1994, more than 53 million Americans drank water that did not meet Safe Drinking Water Act standards. In The Drink is the first analysis of EPA's Safe Drinking Water Act compliance database to document these violations of tap water health standards on a community-by-community basis.
Widespread failure to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act is a symptom of increasing problems with drinking water quality in the United States. Drinking water plants are old and out of date, and water supplies are increasingly at risk from chemical and biological contamination. Georgia is not immune from these problems; many cities and towns -- both large and small -- experienced violations or exceedances of EPA standards in the last year. These included violations of Maximum Contaminant Levels, (EPA's enforceable standards for chemical and biological contaminants), exceedances of the Lead Action Level, and violations of the Surface Water Treatment Rule (which requires water systems to adequately filter and disinfect water to prevent disease outbreaks).
The compliance data, which is supplied to EPA by state authorities, indicate that Fairway Villas (Acworth), Southwood Acres Mobile Home Park (Woodbine), and Green Acres Mobile Home Park (Sylvania) were the three water systems with the most violations or exceedances of drinking water standards in 1993 and 1994. Among large water systems (those serving more than 10,000 people) in Georgia, Tifton, Statesboro, and Smyrna had the most reported violations or exceedances of drinking water standards in 1993 and 1994, according to EPA data.
The most common contaminant of state water supplies was ColiformGross Alpha Radiation. Georgia utilities such as Cobb County (Marietta) and Marietta were affected by exceedances of the Lead Action Level, meaning that health threatening levels of lead were present in the water in many homes. Residents served by the Winterset Shores Estates (Waycross) drank water that contained chemicalseoplepplies was Coliform or radioactivity above health-based standards, and water systems like Lagrange and Statesboro were affected by violations of microbial contaminant standards such as Total Coliform.
As this report goes to press, Congress is poised to weaken the baseline public health protections provided by the Act. These changes would weaken standard-setting provisions, curtail water safety monitoring, diminish the public's right to know about drinking water problems, and reduce protections for small and medium sized communities. Ironically, much of this effort to roll back standards is being driven by a massive lobbying effort by the nation's water utilities. As In The Drink documents, it's time to strengthen, not weaken, the law that ensures that America's drinking water remains safe.


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Don't wait until spring to begin thinking about soil fertility, says Robert Mullen, director of agronomy for PotashCorp. Instead, start your plan by examining whether it's time to take soil samples and, if so, how to gather them accurately.
Reviewing your soil-sampling methods will help maximize yields next year.
"It's just like anything else," Mullen says. "If it's something you're very familiar with, you tend to overlook it."
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Start by plugging your yield data into a nutrient removal calculator. One such tool is available from PotashCorp, a primary producer of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Using the free online calculator, growers can approximate the volume of nutrients crops have removed from the soil over the last one to two years.
Based on the results, decide whether to sample this year or whether nutrient levels are adequate to wait for next year, Mullen says. Assuming a fertility upgrade is needed, it makes good sense for farmers in the Midwest to take soil samples in the fall rather than the spring.
"If you're planning on doing all of your field activities in the spring, you're going to put yourself in a bit of a bind timewise," Mullen says.
Next, visit the website of your local land-grant university for soil-sampling recommendations. For example, The Ohio State University Extension recommends pulling soil samples at a depth of 8", while Oklahoma State University Extension recommends sampling at 6".
The risk of pulling too shallow a sample is that the resulting soil will contain a high concentration of nutrients not representative of the entire soil profile. Conversely, samples pulled from too great a depth might be lacking in nutrients that are present elsewhere.
A good rule of thumb is that once depth is determined, between 15 and 20 cores should be pulled to create a picture of how the soil is leaning, on average, as it relates to pH and nutrient levels.
"We have to collect the correct number of cores to compose a composite," Mullen says.
When collecting cores, be sure to use a clean sampling probe and a clean shovel. Place cores inside plastic buckets as opposed to those containing iron or other oxides, which can throw off micronutrient levels during lab testing.
Finally, be sure there is sufficient moisture in the ground to take a soil sample. In some cases, Mullen says, it might make sense to sample for pH in the spring, when more accurate data can be obtained.


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The last time an electrician or communication technician for PayneCrest Electric and Communications could not report to work because of an injury on the job was Jan. 5, 2005. Seven years and more than five million total man hours later, PayneCrest is celebrating a safety achievement for an industry that is annually ranked as the most hazardous in the nation. During that span of time, PayneCrest has safely completed more than $530 million in complex electrical installations for industrial, commercial and institution projects throughout the country.
"According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Lost Time Incident Rate, a large electrical contractor the size of PayneCrest should expect to have about 49 lost-time injuries over a seven-year span based on five million man hours," said Erin Mutert, loss control specialist for JW Terrill, a full-service provider of insurance, risk management, and employee benefit solutions. "To have zero like PayneCrest is truly remarkable."
"We have been able to instill a culture of safety at every level of our operations," said David L. Payne, president of PayneCrest. "Our project managers, supervisors, and the journey workers of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local One, who we employ, can all be very proud of this great achievement in the nation's most hazardous profession."
According to the latest figures by the BLS, construction accounted for more fatal work injuries than any other industry in 2010.As PayneCrest was achieving its milestone in safety, the firm was engaged in several complex projects including the modernization of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, Tenn.; data centers for Thomson Reuters and BJC HealthCare, St. Louis; seed company Pioneer Hi-Bred's production plant, New Madrid, Mo.; the Abengoa Solar, Inc. Solana solar power plant near Gila Bend, Ariz.; and another solar project for Abengoa near Victorville Calif.
At PayneCrest, new hires are trained in more than 30 areas of safety. Additionally, employees are trained in a dozen additional safety measures that are specific to the particular project to which they are assigned. All office and field supervisors are OSHA 30-Hour certified while most of its electricians and communications technicians are OSHA 10-Hour certified.


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September was a rather lonely month for Del. Bob Brink, who is unopposed in his quest to retain his seat in Virginia's General Assembly.
Brink has been attending civic association forums and going door-to-door to meet constituents, but admits it's not quite the same without an opponent.
"I think I owe it to these folks not to take them for granted," said Brink, a Democrat who has represented the 48th District, in central and north Arlington, since 1998. "But I would prefer to have an opponent. I enjoy debating the issues."
Because he is running unopposed, Brink is concentrating more on his goals for the upcoming legislative session, which begins in mid-January, then on campaign promises and electioneering.
"People know Bob, and know what he has done, so we don't need to do sound-byte campaigning," said Tom Connally, Brink's campaign manager. "He understands the concerns and issues in great depth and the success he has had in the past is one reason he is unopposed."
Raised in Chicago, Brink moved to Arlington in 1972 after a stint in the Army, which included a tour in Vietnam. After graduating from The College of William and Mary's law school, Brink worked as a Congressional aide for 15 years. During the first Clinton administration he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs. He was first elected to Virginia's General Assembly in 1998, when Julia Connally, whom he previously had worked for as campaign manager, retired.
"I think any staff person who watches their boss closely thinks, 'hey, I could do that,'" said Brink, who has been married to his wife Debbie for 30 years and has two grown children. "I have always been interested in shaping policy and I finally had the chance to run for office."
When asked to list his strengths as a legislator, Brink, renowned for his self-deprecating humor, asked facetiously, "how many hours do you have?"
"What I bring to the table is a background in the legislative process," Brink said. "I always try to draw solid pieces of legislation that don't have unintended consequences."
BRINK HAS CONSISTENTLY heard from constituents that Arlington's transportation woes are a major concern. As the Metro system begins to show its age, and the county's highways are consumed by gridlock, the legislature will have to devote more funding to solving the region's transportation problems, he said.
In this year's session, Brink hopes to shepherd another constitutional amendment on home-owner's tax relief through the House of Delegates. Last year a similar amendment was killed in the state Senate. The act would have exempted up to $100,000 of the value of one's home from taxation.
His proudest accomplishment to date in the legislature has been the Children's Health Insurance program, which provides medical care for working low-income families. Brink collaborated with the Warner administration to lower the eligibility requirements and improve the program's outreach and information campaign.
"It's very rewarding to see kids getting medical care and be off to a better start," Brink said.
Delegates and senators vote on nearly 3,000 bills in the approximately 60-day session, a condensed scheduled that vexes Brink. He wishes he had more time to spend crafting bills and drumming up support for worthwhile legislation.
The legislature gets side-tracked debating "divisive" social issues, instead of devoting more time to passing acts that could benefit communities, Brink said. He points to "various assaults" on a women's right to choose and the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, as well as the much-ridiculed "droopy-pants bill."
This year Brink expects a contentious debate over immigration issues, especially in the wake of the controversy surrounding Herndon's new day-laborer site.
"Republicans believe the state should impose its will on localities trying to deal with a real problem," he said. "Arlington tries to regulate and control the process that otherwise is bad for the community."
Because he has no opponent, Brink has spent much of the campaign season stumping for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Timothy M. Kaine and other local Democrats running for office.
"I'm optimistic about this election," he said. "Tim will maintain the progress we've made over the past for years and I think we have a good chance to gain a couple of seats in the legislature."
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EDUCATION: BA, Monmouth College (IL); JD, College of William and Mary
QUALIFICATIONS: eight-year record as member of House of Delegates


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BUCKEYE BUZZ: Meyer has no plans to mess with Buckeye traditions
- Written by MATT HAMMOND
While new head coach Urban Meyer is giving the Buckeyes a makeover on the field, he has no plans to mess with the program's long standing traditions off of it.
When asked this week if he planned to continue putting Buckeye leaves on the OSU helmets as a reward system for the players, Meyer immediately answered yes.
After a couple of seconds, he then asked rhetorically, "Could you imagine (if we didn't?). I would need security everywhere."
According to the OSU Web site, the Buckeye leaves were first placed on football helmets in 1967 and have been there ever since.
They will remain there for at least as long as Meyer is leading the Buckeyes.
"The Buckeye leaves are a huge deal for me," said Meyer. "That will be one of the biggest inspirational and pride reward systems we have."
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When I quit medical school in India and came to the US, two months before 9/11 hit the nation, I wasn't quite sure which direction my life would take. I knew that a good liberal arts education would help me decide what I wanted to do with my life. Marketing and PR seemed a good choice and I was good at it and so I majored in those subjects. Speaking skills, presentation skills and selling ideas, this came naturally to me. As America sought to understand Muslims and Islam, I co-founded the nation's first publicly funded Muslim student organization at the University of Minnesota. Here, I was able to conduct workshops and presentations on Islam at high schools and community centers, churches and hospitals. I joined the Islamic Speakers Bureau and created packets of useful information on Muslims so that I could help contain the hysteria Americans were facing with George Bush's War on Terror.
I graduated in 2004 and moved to Washington, D.C. That same month, Muslim Public Affairs Council's national office offered me a position. Working at a policy shop such as MPAC was the best place to get the pulse of the Muslim American community and be able to define a unique Muslim identity for ourselves. Planning national communication strategies for MPAC's 'Countering Terrorism' initiatives, helping abate the media frenzy during the Danish cartoon crisis, and fighting Islamophobic rhetoric stateside and abroad, helped me develop an appreciation for a focused strategy in media communications and an understanding of framework and messaging that is utilized in brand management.
The more we were in the spotlight of the media, and the more we were meeting with top government officials, the more I saw the need to change the paradigms that were present in our media systems. It wasn't enough that we had a civil liberties organization like the Council on American Islamic Relations, looking out for our best interests. It wasn't enough that top government liaisons for the Muslim community understood the predicament that American Muslims were facing because of the actions of a few misguided Muslims halfway across the world. To make the American people understand what was going on in the world, you had to get into their living rooms. I felt that if any change was to happen, it would be through the American media system. And that's when I realized I wanted to be a journalist. I was busy telling the story for so long, I didn't realize that the mike was turned off.
When I got a job as a reporter for Voice of America, for the first time, I felt like I was making a significant contribution. I was telling the true American story to the people of Pakistan and there was a considerable effect. We would get calls from viewers in Pakistan amazed that a hijabi Muslim in America was able to report on a story without being attacked on the street for being visibly Muslim. At VOA, I was able to bring the American-Muslim story to light for the Muslim populations worldwide. Our show was broadcast to 11 million viewers across the world.
Having worked for VOA for a year, and done numerous stories on American Muslims, concluded that the way forward was not to remain in the reporter track, but to become a producer. Producers control the content of the show. They decide what to air and what not to air. They have the final say in what stories get covered and how the show will be structured. I realized that if you wanted to change the dynamics of America's newsrooms, the best route is to be a producer.
And for this, I went back to school.
During my three-year joint degree Masters program in International Media through the School of International Service and School of Communication at American University, I developed a solid academic grounding for how international media and communications work in today's ever-shrinking world. In my coursework, I learn about international communication theory and why certain countries manage their journalists the way they do. I learned about propaganda, its role in mass media, the elements which make it effective and how to turn them in our favor. I also learn the art of producing a well-crafted news show that has a multi-media platform, including radio, video, web, and social media networks. I am also working on becoming a producer trained for long-format programming that is more conducive to good story-telling. My final Masters project is a biopic documentary highlighting the historic tolerance and pluralism found in pre-independence India between the Hindu majority and the Muslim minority. Such narratives of tolerance and harmony need to be told, both for the American Muslim audience and for the Muslims around the world.
I have had the opportunity to learn the art of journalism at various prestigious media institutions during my degree program. I was a research assistant with The Kojo Nnamdi Show at NPR's local affiliate in Washington DC. My input was most appreciated not when I was giving them a story idea about Muslims or Islam, but when I was giving them a fresh perspective on an existing story idea. They appreciated my nuanced insight on various subjects, political or otherwise.
I was also the assistant producer intern at the internationally acclaimed Riz Khan Show on Al-Jazeera English. There, I provided research and story ideas for the live daily talk show. I was able to direct the show to do stories that are under-represented in the media. Al-Jazeera English is keen on becoming the 'Voice of the South' and was open to my suggestions.
Just last week, the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale rolled out a new communication strategy with the Muslim world, one that involved pro-actively shaping global narratives. In a statement to Congress, she announced a redefining of the State department to include a position for Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Media. This would bolster communications outreach to "inform, inspire, and persuade target audiences and to counter misinformation." There is a visible paradigm shift in such a strategy compared to previous administrations that were trying to 'win hearts and minds' by bolstering those voices that helped their cause. Countering misinformation is a bigger, more challenging task and media efforts weakening the effects of disinformation is a more powerful strategy.
After working for a number of years in the news networks, I see myself working for the Public Diplomacy arm of the State department as an international media expert. Having worked with international media networks, I will have insight into what are the effective ways to utilize messaging to generate a positive response vs. those that create media trauma.
As for the Muslim American community's media needs, there is a significant gap between the effort that the Muslim American media outlets are putting into getting the word out on the peaceful nature of Islam and the impact of this effort. This gap needs to close, if there is to be any change in the minds of the American people about Islam and Muslims. Public relations efforts and putting out fires as the Muslims American community is hit by one media nightmare or another is not the solution. A concerted effort is needed wherein Muslim journalists have a set identity within the media networks of the nation. The Muslim journalist is not exclusive with his/her reporting. There cannot be just a Muslim beat, or an ethnic or religious beat for the Muslim. Juggling various identities fluidly is the mark of a Muslim journalist today.
I want to be a journalist because I want Muslims to be able to present their stories, their narratives, their perspectives, their understanding of the world around them, without feeling that they are constantly defending their religious and cultural identity. Muslim Americans have a lot to offer to the diverse fabric of America. The United States of America is one of the best places to live as a practicing Muslim today and our job is to make sure that the press fulfills its duties to the citizens of our great nation.


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One of my favorite products is their Coconut Cream Concentrate, a delightful product that goes by the name of coconut butter by other brands and in the blogosphere. I've made my own coconut butter before (shredded coconut + food processor + patience), but the texture is always a little gritty. While the dollar amount is much friendlier on homemade coconut butter, I really prefer the creamy smooth texture of the storebought. So, sometimes I splurge and buy a jar. Or, I agree to do a giveaway and take part in a little complimentary coconut goodness.
Coconut Cream Concentrate is made from the flesh and fat of raw coconuts. It is white, thick, and fragrant, full of coconut goodness. When chilled, it is very firm, almost like candy. When softened, it is creamy and smooth, like a delectable spread. It can also be mixed with hot water to create a natural coconut milk or used in soups, stews, and daals to create a wonderfully rich coconut broth. Because it is naturally sweet, Coconut Cream Concentrateis also the perfect way to satisfy a sweet tooth on a sugar-free diet. A little chunk on its own is a wonderfully satisfying treat, and it is brilliant included in sweet treats from pie to truffles, cookies to smoothies. Because it hardens at cool temperatures, it is great to use when you want a firm consistency in raw desserts.
In addition to being delicious, Coconut Cream Concentrate offers all the awesome nutrition of raw coconut, including fiber, protein, medium-chain fatty acids, a variety of vitamins and minerals, and lauric acid (a naturally occurring acid with potentially antimicrobial and antiviral properties).
Please note that Coconut Cream Concentrate or coconut butter is different than coconut oil. Coconut Cream Concentrate contains fiber and fat, while coconut oil is just oil. Since they have very different properties, the two cannot be used interchangeably. Coconut Cream Concentrateshould never be used as a cooking oil, and cannot substitute coconut oil in any recipe.
Inspired by my love for Coconut Cream Concentrate, I made a recipe for you. It is kind of like fudge, kind of like candy, and totally delicious. Even better, I'm giving away a 32-oz. jar of Coconut Cream Concentrate to one lucky reader!
How To Enter the Giveaway
UPDATE 5/19/2011: THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER - see followup at end of post for winner!
To enter the giveaway, simply leave a comment below this post sharing the ways you'd like to try using Tropical Traditions Coconut Cream Concentrate in your own kitchen. Make sure to include an email address in the comment form (it will not be visible on the blog) so I can contact you if you win.
Contest will end on May 18, 2011, 11:59 pm CST, and is limited to residents of the United States and Canada. Winner will be announced May 19, 2011 in an update to this blog post and by a personal e-mail from me. I will share the winner's contact information with Tropical Traditions, who will ship the 32-oz jar of coconut cream concentrate.
Good luck! Thanks to Tropical Traditions for this great giveaway. And, in the meantime, you may want to try this tasty raw dessert...
Raw Coconut Cacao Bites
yield about 24 squares or balls
- heaping 1/2 cup raw cacao nibs
- 9 large medjool dates, pitted
- 3/4 cup softened Tropical Traditions Coconut Cream Concentrate or another brand of raw coconut butter (NOT COCONUT OIL)
- 2 Tbsp raw cashew butter, or other raw seed/nut butter
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- handful unsweetened coconut flakes, lightly crushed OR a handful unsweetened shredded coconut
- pinch unrefined salt
Soften the coconut butter in a double boiler until it is soft enough to smoosh with the back of a spoon. If it is not soft, it will not mix properly with the other ingredients.
Place half the cocao nibs in a food processor and process on high on they are coarsely ground. Then add dates and remaining cacao nibs and process until a paste forms. Then add softenend coconut butter, cashew butter, salt, and cinnamon, and process on high until soft crumbs form. Then add a handful of coconut flakes and pulse a few times to combine. The mixture may look dry, but it should be very soft and malleable when you form it. If it crumbles when you try try to form a ball, add more cashew butter or softened coconut butter bit by bit, just until it is soft enough to form.
Form into bite-size balls, or form into a square or rectangle about 1-inch high on a parchment covered pan or plate. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes, or longer. Serve the balls as is, or cut the squares into bite-size pieces. Serve!
If your house is below 72º F and you don't mind a slightly softer fudge/truffle, these can be stored at room temperature. Any hotter than that and the coconut butter starts to get too mushy for room temperature storage!
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Health Risks from Dioxins: Evaluation of the EPA Reassessment (July 2006)Report in Brief
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for assessing health risks from dioxin and related compounds, which are chemicals that are unintentionally released into the environment from many industrial processes. Public concern over dioxin began when it was found in Agent Orange, an herbicide widely used during the Vietnam War. Dioxin and related compounds persist in the environment and build up in the food chain. People are exposed primarily when they eat beef, pork, fish, and dairy products, although occupational or accidental exposure are typically much higher. Efforts to reduce dioxin and related compounds in the environment in recent years have resulted in an almost 90% decrease in emissions. This report evaluates EPA's latest draft "Reassessment" of the health risks from dioxin and related compounds. The report finds that EPA comprehensively reviewed the available scientific literature, but it did not adequately quantify the uncertainties associated with the risks, nor did it adequately justify the assumptions used to estimate them. Using different assumptions may result in a lower estimated cancer risk for humans exposed to low doses of dioxin and related compounds. The report also encourages EPA to further address health risks other than cancer by establishing a "reference dose" below which it anticipates no adverse effects--information valuable for establishing risks faced by populations, including workers, who may be exposed to more than the reference dose. This study was sponsored by EPA, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.


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Obama, Romney duel
Once again, unexpected and frightening events abroad have planted themselves squarely in the middle of a presidential race at home, as Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama warred Wednesday over how the U.S. should handle attacks that killed four U.S. officials in Libya.
Romney ripped the White House for a since-disavowed statement Tuesday issued by the U.S. embassy in Egypt on the day that mobs attacked the American embassy in Cairo. At a press conference on the campaign trail in Florida, the GOP nominee said the embassy's statement was "akin" to offering an "apology" to the violent protesters, and he called it "disgraceful to apologize for American values."
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Obama swung back at Romney in a CBS special report that aired Wednesday afternoon.
"There's a broader lesson to be learned here: Gov. Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first, aim later," he told CBS's Steve Kroft. "And as president, one thing I've learned is, you can't do that. It's important for you to make sure that the statements you make are backed up by the facts and that you've thought through the ramifications before you make them."
( PHOTOS: Anti-U.S. attacks in Cairo, Libya)
At his press conference, Romney insisted that Obama be held responsible for the U.S. embassy statement.
"It's their administration," he said. "Their administration spoke. The president takes responsibility not just for the words that come from his mouth, but also the words from his ambassadors, from his administration, from his embassies, from his State Department. They clearly sent mixed messages to the world. And the statement that came from the administration—and the embassy is the administration—the statement that came from the administration was a statement which is akin to apology. And I think it was a severe miscalculation."
Romney's broadside came after angry mobs attacked U.S. diplomatic buildings in Cairo and Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday, 11 years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. The incident immediately ignited a war of words between the Obama and Romney campaigns and sparked fiery reactions from across the political spectrum. In Libya, four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to that country, died in the attacks, according to the Associated Press, while in Egypt, angry protesters scaled the walls of the embassy and desecrated the American flag, replacing it with an Islamic banner.
Speaking earlier Tuesday from the Rose Garden Wednesday morning, Obama steered clear of Romney and the political flap, instead offering condolences to the families and friends of those who died in Libya, and pledging that justice would be done.
"We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act, and make no mistake: justice will be done," Obama said. "But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers. These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity. They should give every American great pride in the country that they served and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity."


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A Little Humanity Goes A Long Way: School Admins, Police Officer Ditch Policy-Limited Thinking To Make A Difference In Teens' Lives
from the ...-in-a-sea-of-cyborgs dept
As we're all perhaps painfully aware, school administrators and bad cops are frequent targets here at Techdirt. Those covered here are usually the worst of the worst, not necessarily representative of the whole. But there are plenty of lesser evils that go ignored every day, the end result of too much power and bad incentives. Adding cops to schools has exponentially increased the number of terrible decisions being made.
But sometimes, those in these positions of power use it in a positive way. They're perfectly capable of bending rules or showing compassion, but it honestly seems as though those efforts are few and far between. They're also less likely to receive widespread coverage. So, here's one from each category, showing what happens when cops/administrators decide to be human beings, rather than just the public-facing interface of an emotionless system.
The first story (sent in by an unnamed Techdirt reader) details what one school did to make sure a student's mother could see her daughter graduate before she succumbed to a terminal disease.
Battling cancer for four years, Maryland mom Darlene Sugg set a goal — she wanted to see her daughter Megan graduate from high school.The school administrators not only allowed Megan Sugg to hold her own personal graduation program early and off-campus, but it sent its own personnel to ensure it happened with all the dignity of the on-campus ceremony. Instead of deferring to policy and/or expressing a reluctance to make exceptions (out of the irrational fear that granting one means granting exceptions for everyone), the school honored this mother's request.
Last week, as her condition took a dire turn, Sugg got her wish with the help of school administrators who threw together a bedside cap-and-gown ceremony for the teen a month before the official commencement date.
There wasn't a dry eye in the room Thursday as Glen Burnie High School Principal Vickie Plitt read a speech she had written just for Megan. Darlene Sugg managed to open her own eyes during the touching address.
The importance of showing compassion can't be overstated. Schools tend to be places that prioritize standardized testing and the ability to line up in an orderly fashion over helping individuals explore their own strengths and weaknesses. A cohesive whole is almost always preferable to a school full of unique humans. That a school would go out of its way to allow a daughter to share perhaps the proudest moment of her life with the woman who raised her speaks volumes to the rest of the student body. Hopefully, this will also reach the eyes and ears of other administrators who may find themselves in situations requiring a more human touch (and preferably not by limiting exceptions to those involving imminent death) and push them towards closing the policy manual and addressing the person as a person, instead of as a problem.
The other story details the efforts one police officer made after being contacted by a teen who simply didn't want to go home.
A few weeks ago, 13-year-old Cameron Simmons called Sumter police because he was upset after fighting with his mom. The teenager told police he didn't want to live in the house with his family anymore.Officer Acerra's first response may have sounded a bit glib. And perhaps it was. But when Acerra escorted the teen back to the house he wanted to escape, he saw something that changed his outlook.
Officer Gaetano Acerra responded to the call.
"I said, "You have it good, you have a roof over your head,'" said Acerra.
The officer brought Simmons home, and realized the boy didn't have a real bed. In fact, Simmons didn't have nearly anything he needed for a bedroom.On top of the tense relationship with his mom, Simmons had nearly nothing to call his own. Acerra took it upon himself to change that.
A few weeks after the call, Acerra showed up at Simmon's house with a truck full of gifts.Acerra made Simmons' home a better place to be. Even if Acerra can't fix everything wrong in this teen's life, he at least gave him something to sleep on and a few things to make spending time there a little more pleasurable. He also gave Simmons his personal phone number and told him to call him anytime.
"Bed, TV, desk, chair, a Wii game system that somebody donated to me because of the story I told them," said Acerra.
Acerra said he didn't do it for personal acclaim but simply because "it was the right thing to do." Once again, humanity shines through. Acerra could have simply returned the child to his home and walked away. If Social Services hasn't delivered the case to the PD, there's no reason to care what Simmons' quality of life is. Runaways tend to be picked up on truancy or curfew charges, rather than asked why they would choose to leave a situation that at least puts "a roof over their heads."
A few extra minutes with a troubled youth exposed one of the reasons Simmons wanted out. There was not much "home" at home. Now there is. And if things unrelated to his new bedroom setup get worse, Simmons has someone he can call -- a one-man rescue unit named Officer Gaetano Acerra.
It's understandably hard for police officers to view citizens as anything more than another potential problem. That's the nature of the job. Arrestees are hardly distinguishable from the rest of public -- the only difference is the handcuffs. Not every criminal looks like one. But Acerra's willingness to do just a little more than what was required (return child to home) changed that child's life, and possibly Acerra's as well.
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DT Post by Ally - Cute teacher gift!
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This gift holder came together so nice and quick. I stamped my tag on a chalkboard clothespin from Pick Your Plum. *Just for you* is a sentiment from the
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I printed the teacher's names on red paper, stamped the apple from the
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Fun Shape Card for the Happy Couple!
'Tis the season for weddings! This card is for one of my daughter's friends from high school, who is now almost done with college. Where do the years go?!
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Simple Gift Bag!
Hello, my crafty friends! This bag is oh, so simple, but perfect for the no frills man whom I love. We have been married for 24 wonderful years now! :)
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SDN for Universities: Campus Slicing 101
In the wake of our Open Network Environment (Cisco ONE) announcements, we are continuing our series on software defined networking (SDN) use cases, this time focusing on the primary use case for OpenFlow and universities, campus network slicing. If interested, a more detailed solution brief on this scenario and the Cisco SDN OpenFlow controller can be found here. And check out our demo video below.
University campus networks offer an increasingly wide array of networking services to one of the broadest user bases of any "enterprise." Some universities have medical or high-security facilities and must maintain regulatory compliance accordingly. Student networking services vary depending on whether they are on or off campus, and in almost all cases students and faculty bring their own devices. Administration offices must also be able to manage the day-to-day activities of the university. Often event management must include the rapid provisioning of point-of-sale terminal support and back-end payment reconciliation. And faculty must have both data and video access within the university campus, across campuses, and further out to other universities.
As a result, the ability to partition networks (called "slicing") based on SDN has risen in popularity. Although slicing is being performed today on isolated networks, the need to perform it on production networks is now becoming a priority. Cisco controllers and agents, as part of the Cisco Open Network Environment for network programmability, are aimed at addressing this need.
Much of the early research and collaboration between universities on OpenFlow and SDN has been driven by the adoption of National Science Foundation (NSF) projects such as GENI, an open, collaborative research environment to explore networking at scale.
One of the basic premises of SDN is that the abstraction of control plane management, out of each network device and into a centralized "controller," can create high business agility through automation with relatively lower OpEx and low risk. SDN is a natural fit for the class of requests universities need to service.
One of the primary components to the emergence of SDN on campuses has been the ability to create logically isolated networks and allow them to be partitioned and programmed using slicing. In SDN, this is facilitated with an abstraction layer in the network device called a flowvisor. Today, many universities use flowvisors within their isolated networks in conjunction with SDN controllers to manage their slicing requirements. In many cases these slicing activities are still performed off the campus backbone, as the software used to implement both the operating systems and slicing functions does not provide the policy management consistency required for production network applications.
Cisco adds value to the campus slicing use case in several ways:
- The Cisco SDN controller has been designed to eventually transition SDN to production networks (available today for pre-production/test environments). Connectivity to policy creation and security tools used to manage the conventional network is transparent. Additionally, Cisco has created Topology-Independent Forwarding (TIF), which enables flowspec-level policy management to be enforced for each of the slices issued by IT.
- Cisco has integrated the flowvisor functionality. This eliminates the need for a flowvisor. It enables IT managers to take advantage of TIF for each slice, allowing the sandbox to conform to conventional policies yet also allowing slice owners to manage their networks as needed (for example, quality of service [QoS] and bandwidth management).
- The Cisco SDN controller offers Java and REST language-based northbound interface support, assuring that a wide range of sources can integrate their applications into the Cisco infrastructure. This is an important piece to harmonize the use of SDN within the major aspects of network provisioning on campus, that being the service, the administration, user and faculty access needs, and the research requirements, all from the same architecture.
- The ability for the Cisco SDN controller to access the vast amount of intelligence present in Cisco network devices allows a richer set of analytic data to be presented to applications to improve the results of fusing applications and network behavior. Cisco offers these as extensions that are presented as extended analytics to the applications using the controller.
Universities now have the opportunity to mature their SDN use cases to include proper production network management and control while these networks expand to meet the wide use of requirements through higher automation and dynamic reconfiguration. Cisco is starting out by working with a limited number of universities in 2012 with a proof-of-concept SDN controller and OpenFlow 1.0 agents supported on a limited number of platforms, notably the Catalyst 3560-X and 3750-X switches, to start. Two Big 10 Universities, Indiana and Wisconsin, helped participate in our Cisco ONE launch at Cisco live two weeks ago and have been enthusiastic supporters of our SDN efforts so far.
And, finally, here's the demo:
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Brent Salisbury
Thanks for sharing Gary,
Can I attach any controller (Nox, Beacon etc.) out of the box to a provisioned sliver on the controller? Just curious if that needs to be rolled via onePK by us or is is the controller exposing a northbound OF API . Obvious reason would be for a researcher, or in the real world a tenant, to attach to their provisioned sliver. The self-provisioning potential of slicing is always a fun use case to imagine or dream, cut a sliver of a global SP network, OpEx is software, interconnects and power. Simplifying it obviously, but fun nonetheless!
Guessing, v1.0 agent support implies agnostic switch vendor support?