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The Central American and Mexican Video Archive (CAMVA) Project is a four-year Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) grant that will allow Indiana University to create a digital archive, making accessible hundreds of hours of raw footage, videos, and films that are currently preserved in a precarious state. The archive will annotate, index and deliver the footage in such a way that it might be used in college and high school classrooms throughout the US, Mexico, and Central America. More on CAMVA»
Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology
The Audiovisual Lab (LAV) of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) was established in 2006 with three goals: first, to create a digital archive of rough-cut as well as professionally produced film; second, to strengthen the link between the social sciences and audiovisual resources both in terms of research methodologies and in sharing results; and thirdly, to increase the presence of CIESAS in national and international events that use audiovisuals in anthropological investigation.
Institute of the History of Nicaragua and Central America
The Institute of the History of Nicaragua and Central America (IHNCA) creates and shares knowledge of the history of Nicaragua and Central America. It preserves, enriches, and shares cultural patrimony, and democratizes access to information through new media and technology.
Museum of the Word and the Image
The Museum of the Word and the Image (MUPI) has collections of manuscripts, photographs, audio, cinema, video, posters, objects and publications donated to the museum through its collaborations with the El Salvadoran people. The donations are a response to the call to "resist the chaos of forgetting." The MUPI is located in San Salvador and mounts exhibits about identity, culture and historical memory in San Salvador and throughout the country. It also produces books, audiovisual material and numerous educational and cultural activities.


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CWRU awarded grant to build battery for smart grid, renewables
A Department of Energy agency that funds high-risk, high-payoff research, has awarded engineers at Case Western Reserve University $567,805 to develop a "rustbelt" battery with unprecedented flexibility and utility.
For more than year, the Cleveland-based researchers have been investigating ways to build a flow battery primarily using water and iron, hence the name. A flow battery is essentially an unwrapped battery that can be scaled up to hold and supply electricity to a home or an entire community.
In addition to using cheap, plentiful and environmentally friendly materials, the battery is designed to improve the efficiency of the power grid and accelerate the addition of solar and wind power supplies.
The project was one of 66 funded by DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy in the round of awards announced this week, federal officials said. The battery would enhance the nation's economic and energy security and help ensure that the U.S. maintains a technological lead in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies – two of ARPA-E's goals.
The key is a new battery architecture that enables greater energy storage capacity while permitting greater power density.
"You can use the analogy of a car engine," said Robert Savinell, professor of chemical engineering and the project leader. "If you need more horsepower, you need a bigger engine, but the range is limited by the gas tank. To add more range, you add another gas tank."
The researchers plan to add another tank and some new technology to take advantage of the added storage space in their iron flow battery.
The design would enable them to increase the power density, which in turn drives down the cost of operation. At the same time, the new design eliminates the problem of decreased battery discharge time. Think again of the car: an engine delivering 400 horsepower will go through 4 gallons of fuel faster than the same engine delivering 200 horsepower.
By extending the discharge time as needed, the battery would be more useful for a broader range of applications, including storing energy from wind turbines and solar panels and supplying energy when wind wanes and the sun sets. This version of the rustbelt battery could be integrated into a smart grid—charging up when use is low, then adding electricity when demand is high—for industrial and home energy supplies and more.
Due to its flexibility, this new design could be a useful alternative to current storage technologies, such as pumped hydro and compressed air systems, which require large water supplies and land with mixed elevations, or access to airtight caverns.
When demand is low, pumped hydro stations use excess electricity to pump water from a river or reservoir to a reservoir at a higher elevation. When demand rises, the water is released downhill through turbines that produce electricity. Compressed air stations pump air into caverns when demand is low then release the compressed air through gas turbines to produce electricity at high efficiency as demand increases.
The batteries, which can be placed almost anywhere, could also replace "peak power plants" which suppliers turn on, burning fossil fuels or biomaterial to produce power when peak demands exceed the available energy on the grid. The batteries could thereby reduce emissions.
In standard batteries, power and energy densities are limited by wrapping all the materials used to convert chemical energy to electrical energy inside a single cell. The electrodes, which are part of the fuel, are consumed over time, leading to performance loss.
In flow batteries, chemical reactants used to produce electrical energy are stored in two tanks and the electrodes, which are not used as fuel, are housed in a separate chamber. Reactants are pumped through the cell stack and electrons are delivered in one direction to charge the battery and the other direction to discharge the system.
This new battery would exchange the conventional solid electrode in the negative half of the battery cell with a slurry that can be used to help convert chemical energy to electrical and vice-versa. As much slurry as needed can be pumped through the negative chamber and stored in a separate tank. The volume stored determines energy storage capacity, independent of the power density, or, back to the car, how hard you're driving.
"Instead of being limited by the constraints of a traditional electrode and chamber to providing a kilowatt for an hour, the slurry can be pumped in from another tank and enable you to provide a kilowatt for an hour, or two or 10 or 10s of hours," Savinell said
Savinell is working with Jesse Wainright, a fellow chemical engineering professor at Case School of Engineering, and Mirko F. Antloga, director of the university's Electrochemical Engineering and Energy Laboratory.
Their goal is to devise a slurry that enables the battery to discharge at least 90 percent of the energy that it takes to charge and provide an energy storage efficiency of better than 77 percent.
The researchers say the need is growing rapidly and point to studies that forecast the market for grid-level storage will exceed $228 billion over the next decade.
The most common flow batteries are based on vanadium, a metal mined primarily in Russia, China and South Africa. The form used in batteries has recently cost about $5 to $15 per pound. Iron is plentiful in the U.S. A form useful for a flow battery has recently been selling for less than 30 cents per pound.
Vanadium batteries use highly-corrosive sulfuric acid for the electrolyte. Because flow battery tanks can be the size of a freight train car or several of them, the researchers plan to use a benign electrolyte with a pH of about 4, for the safety of workers operating or maintaining them.
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A vicious murder happens in a town that the party happens to pop in at. Under heavy suspicion as they are strangers, the party is forced to discover the perpetrator or have their reputations blackened, especially as more and more murders occur in the town, and mysteriously stop and restart when the party leaves to go kill off that evil necromancer who kidnapped the princess.
The only problem is that a demon, possessing one of the party, is the perpetrator. And the demon makes no signs that its living in the PC's head.
In fact, for all the party knows (except for the possessed person's), their companion is an evil murderer.
Do they try and execute their friend as he's a vicious murderer, and no evidence points to demonic posession? Or do they flee town with him, trusting him, and have their reputations destroyed?
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The father of a 14-year-old child used in a minor Lake Orion marijuana bust is claiming that local police 'shouldn't have played cops and robbers with my son,' a situation a top prosecutor admits was dangerous.
In a recent drug investigation, the boy played a major role in the arrest of Edward Mark Watkins, 35, for attempting to sell drugs to a minor.
On Monday, the father - a Lapeer man who prefers to stay anonymous - said he just recently found out about the incident.
He was never called, neither asked for permission, nor even informed, he said.
'I'm not trying to get the father of the year award here ... if (the police) would've called me, we wouldn't be talking about this right now,' said the man.
Lake Orion Police Chief Jerry Narsh said that while these types of investigative tactics are 'not common,' there were extenuating circumstances that called for the boy's assistance.
The original bust occurred March 15, when the boy's mother contacted Lake Orion police.
'(The boy) had a relationship with the child of (Watkins') girlfriend ... they were neighbors,' said Narsh. 'This was a known adult, by virtue of the kids, who had a relationship with (the boy) for over a year.'
He said Watkins - a Southfield resident with a long criminal history - had the 14-year-old's cell phone number and was pressuring the boy to buy marijuana from him that same day.
The boy's mother 'was fed up,' said Narsh. 'She came to us and said, 'We know this guy.''
After talking with officers, the boy agreed to participate. His mother consented, and the case was built, Narsh said. An arrest warrant was authorized shortly after by the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office.
The bust took place in a parking lot in the Village of Lake Orion, near the intersections of Anderson and Front streets. The child's mother was brought along to witness the sting, said Narsh.
Watkins was arrested shortly after the sale to the minor was made.
After he was taken into custody, Lake Orion police put a felony warrant on Watkins and requested a further parole detainee hold 'as a further way to protect the family,' said Narsh. 'We wanted to get this guy off the street, so we put that extra hold on him.'
The Michigan Offender Tracking Information System currently lists Watkins as a parolee who is being held under custody. He also has a criminal background - stretching back more than 15 years - that includes convictions for first-degree retail fraud, which is shoplifting; felonious assault; fleeing a police officer; malicious destruction of property; uttering and publishing; larceny in a building; and receiving and concealing stolen property.
The boy's father said that he's glad Lake Orion police were able to catch Watkins, but 'they didn't have to approach (the 14-year-old) like that.'
'It's child endangerment, in a way,' said the father. 'I asked my son, 'What's going to happen when this guy gets out of jail? What if something did go wrong?''
The Lapeer man said he's unsure if his son is protected as an informant. In any case, he's not happy about the situation, he added. He recently found out about the sting from a friend, and he said he's more worried about the repercussions for his son - he may get bullied in school or worse, said the Lapeer resident.
'(Narsh) told me that using my son was the only way to get (Watkins),' said the father.
Narsh said that while this is not a normal situation, it's also not a random event.
'I fully respect the father and his concerns,' said Narsh. 'But (Watkins) was a predator who had this kid in his cross-hairs.'
Narsh added that the younger teenage population is the fastest growing demographic that drug dealers are targeting now.
A survey by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, revised December 2012, states that not only has illicit drug use grown at least 8.3 percent since 2002, but most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
According to Narsh, the 14-year-old may have to testify against Watkins if a trial occurs. He said that while this situation was a unique one, 'we have 17-year-olds that participate in tobacco stings ... and 19-year-olds that participate in illegal sale of alcohol stings.'
A call to the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office Monday revealed that, while prosecutors approved Watkins' arrest warrant, officials did not agree with the Lake Orion Police Department's investigation tactics.
'The behavior in which they were engaged is dangerous,' said Chief Assistant Prosecutor Paul Walton. 'We would never sanction it, but it's not our call.
'We don't get to authorize or dictate how they do their investigations.'
Walton went on to say that what is needed when determining whether to sign a warrant is probable cause that a crime was committed.
As to whether the boy will have to testify, Walton said, 'We won't be making (the minor) do anything if we don't have to. We've got to look at the evidence.'
In general, he said, prosecutors attempt to get a substantial amount of evidence needed for burden of proof.
'If we don't have to call the witness, we don't call the witness,' he said.
Prosecutor Jessica Cooper, agreeing with Walton, questioned what the officers were thinking.
'I can't imagine using a 14-year-old kid as a(n) ... informant ... all for a $20 bag of marijuana,' said Cooper.
This is the first case Cooper said she's seen with a minor participating in a drug bust.
The boy's mother has expressed, through Police Chief Narsh, that she did not want to comment on the case.
Selling drugs to a minor is a felony charge that carries an eight-year penalty.
Watkins will appear April 22 in 52-3 District Court in Rochester Hills for a preliminary exam on charges of controlled substance (marijuana) delivery to a minor, a felony that carries up to eight years in prison.
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Vietnamese Chicken Salad Recipes
Ga Muoi Ot: Vietnamese Chicken Salad Recipe
As you may have noticed, I love sharing cooking tips. I recently told our family friend Cô Hoa that chicken salad tastes so much better if the chicken is boiled in fried-onion flavored broth. She invited us over to her house and we made a món ăn Miền Trung, "Central Vietnamese dish" in Vietnamese, called gà muối ớt (salt and chile chicken). The recipe is ultra simple. Cô Hoa assured me that all you need is the freshest chicken possible, ginger, a little chile and salt. Nothing more, thing less. The chicken is cooled to room temperature, then shredded and mixed with rau răm, a fragrant Vietnamese coriander.
You could either store the leftover chicken broth in the freezer for future use, or on the next day make cơm gà Hải Nam, which is a flavorful chicken rice. Nothing goes to waste!
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Vietnamese Chicken Salad (Goi Ga)
The key to great, flavorful gơi bắp cải gà (chicken and cabbage salad in Vietnamese) is to boil the chicken properly. Flavoring the broth prior to boiling the chicken is essential. This is the one chance you have to infuse additional flavor in the meat. As Tatie Danielle (aunt) says, "everyone knows how to make the sauce, not everyone knows how to cook the meat properly." She used to run a restaurant in the early '90s and is the best Vietnamese chef I know.
Even though this is referred to as a salad, it is typically eaten as a main course. Not only is it a great, filling meal, but nothing goes to waste. With the leftover broth, you can make súp bún măng gà, literally bamboo and chicken rice noodle soup, or a rice congee (cháo gà in Vietnamese), which is a type of chicken and rice porridge. The porridge in particular is great in the winter. I'll post the recipe when it starts getting really cold. For now, enjoy some Vietnamese Chicken Salad!
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Each county in the six-county Operation Christmas Child collection area of Northeast Alabama surpassed its 2012 goal for donation of filled shoeboxes. A total of 22,024 boxes were donated by area residents.
Each county in the six-county Operation Christmas Child collection area of Northeast Alabama surpassed its 2012 goal for donation of filled shoeboxes. A total of 22,024 boxes were donated by area residents.
Albertville First Baptist Church served as the area collection site, with churches and offices in the five other counties serving as relay sites.
From Albertville, the boxes were transported to the Operation Christmas Child regional distribution center in Atlanta.
Northeast Alabama relay sites were Stevenson First Baptist Church, Southside Baptist Church, the Cherokee Baptist Association office in Centre, Pine Ridge Baptist Church in Fort Payne, Weaver First Baptist Church, Golden Springs Baptist Church in Anniston, First United Methodist Church in Arab and Unclaimed Baggage in Scottsboro.
Boxes from the Atlanta region will be distributed to children in poverty-stricken, war-torn and natural disaster-devasted parts of Belize, Ecuador, Gabon, Georgia (of the former Soviet Union), Ukraine, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Ghana, India, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Donors filled boxes and marked them according to the appropriate recipient's age — 2 to 4, 5 to 9 and 10 to 14. The boxes also were labeled for a boy or a girl.
The contents were up to the donor, with most giving school supplies, toiletry items, small games and toys, small items of clothing, flashlights and batteries, etc. No liquid items or toys related to violence are allowed.
Volunteers in Atlanta examine the boxes' contents to make certain that all contents are appropriate and safe. They then are loaded for transportation to the assigned countries.
The Operation Christmas Child program is a project of Samaritan's Purse, of the Franklin Graham ministries.
Boxes can be accepted any time during the year at the Samaritan's Purse Headquarters, c/o Operation Christmas Child, 801 Bamboo Road, Boone, NC 28607


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The team of Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg blasted their way to the top spot at the box office, as the action comedy "2 Guns" won the weekend with a $27.3 million debut for Universal.
"The reason for going to see this movie was Denzel and Mark," Universal's head of distribution Nikki Rocco told TheWrap. "The director Baltasar Kormaku did a great job of showing off their chemistry and delivering with the action, our marketing team played it just right, and it clicked."
Critics were cool to "2 Guns" (58 percent positive on Rotten Tomatoes) but audiences, which broke down 51 percent women and 77 percent over 25 years of age, gave it a "B+" CinemaScore.
Also read: Ellen DeGeneres as Oscars Host: Good Job, America
Minority audiences turned out in force, with Hispanics making up 14 percent of the crowd and African-Americans a whopping 28 percent.
"That's Denzel," Rocco said. "And it's a solid action film, too.
The week's other wide opener, the family film "The Smurfs 2," took in $18.2 million over the three days and finished third behind last week's No. 1 movie, the Hugh Jackman superhero sequel "The Wolverine," which wound up with $21.7 million in its second week.
Battling family fatigue in a summer loaded with films aimed at kids, Sony's live action-animated 3D mash-up has taken in a soft $27.7 million domestically since opening Wednesday. But the real target for this movie is foreign audiences.
The original "Smurfs" made more than $420 million overseas in 2010, and this one should top that. It opened in 43 foreign markets this weekend and took in $52.5 million.
The horror movie "The Conjuring" and family film "Despicable Me 2" both held very strongly to finish fourth and fifth, with $13.6 and $10.3 million respectively. The animated film's indefatigable minions passed the $700 million mark worldwide over the weekend.
Overall, the weekend was strong, with the domestic box office up by about 10 percent over the comparable weekend last year.
The R-rated "2 Guns" didn't hit the $30 million some analysts has expected, but it's still another feather in the box office cap for Denzel Washington. It's the 11th consecutive wide opening film to debut north of $20 million for Washington, according to BoxOffice Mojo.
Also read: Denzel Washington: Mr. Dependable Looks to Extend Box-Office Hot Streak With '2 Guns'
In this one, directed by Baltasar Kormaku from a script by Blake Masters, he plays a DEA agent who finds himself on the run with a naval intelligence officer (Wahlberg) after an attempt to infiltrate a drug cartel goes bad. Paula Patton, Bill Paxton and Fred Ward co-star.
"2 Guns" reunited Wahlberg with Universal for the first time since last year's breakout box-office hit "Ted" and represents a box-office rebound for him. Earlier this year, Wahlberg was in Paramount's "Pain and Gain" and Fox's "Broken City," both of which disappointed.
The No. 1 opening is the seventh of the year for Universal, out of nine releases. "Despicable Me 2," "Fast and Furious 6," "Identity Thief," "Mama," "Oblivion" and "The Purge" have debuted in the top spot. Only the "Jurassic Park" 3D re-release and "R.I.P.D." missed.
The critics were lukewarm on "2 Guns" and audience gave it a "B+" CinemaScore.
Also read: How Horror Films Like 'The Conjuring' Win by Scaring Up Young Women
"2 Guns" was in 3,025 theaters, considerably less than "The Wolverine" (3.924) or "The Smurfs 2" (3,866).
"The Smurfs 2' hit its demographic target. Eighty percent of the audience was families, and they gave it an "A-" CinemaScore. But the presence of the rival family films "Despicable Me 2' and "Turbo" had to hurt. Disney had a hit with "Monsters University" last month and opens "Planes" next weekend, and the extremely crowded animated field put the "The Smurfs" at a disadvantage from the start.
"We're a little disappointed in the domestic numbers, but there is a lot of PG DNA in the market right now, and $80 million is a great worldwide number," Sony's distribution chief Rory Bruer said Sunday.
Warner Bros.' "The Conjuring" upped its domestic total to $108 million in its third week. That's just a 41 percent drop from last week — an exceptional hold given horror films' typical propensity for steep dropoffs after their first week.
Sony's Adam Sandler comedy "Grown Ups 2" added $8.1 million and raised its domestic total to $116 million after four weeks.
The DreamWorks animated snail tale "Turbo" took in $6.4 million to up its total after three weeks to nearly $70 million. That was enough to top Summit's "Red 2," which made $5.6 million over the weekend and has taken in $45 million in the U.S. in three weeks.
The Sandra Bullock-Melissa McCarthy comedy "The Heat" ($4.7 million) and Warner Bros. giant robots epic "Pacific Rim" ($4.5 million) rounded out the top ten.


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Exterior Design: *****
The Sky is the hotness. The creased lines give it an aggressive look that almost eliminates the extreme aura of femininity that surrounds every small convertible, almost. That said, the styling is the Sky's best element. It even looks decent with the top up. It's too bad there's only one exhaust pipe, but that's just another reason to wait for the Sky Redline.
Interior Design: **
It's already been said that the Sky's interior bests that of the Solstice, but that's not saying a whole lot. The chrome accents and glossy finish to the HVAC controls look pretty good, though. But cheap plastic aside — it's only a $25,000 — the Sky's interior is deeply flawed. This is mostly due to the complete lack of storage space, not counting the tiny pockets next to the door sills and the storage bin between the seats. Also, adjusting seat recline, by way of a rotary knob, is difficult to manage with the door closed.
Acceleration: **
Adequate is never a good word to describe performance, and the Sky's performance is barely adequate. Off the line, the Sky can get a good jump on traffic, but those in a hurry will discover the Sky is brutally slow. Cornering becomes an act of momentum conservation, because it's virtually impossible to power onto the straights. And the engine noise neither wins friends nor influences people. The 260-horsepower, turbocharged Sky Redline is probably worth both the wait and the price premium.
Braking ****
The pedal feel is perfectly weighted and progressive. The Kappa platform borrows a lot from the Corvette, so good brakes are really not much of a surprise.
Ride ****
If you pay very close attention you can feel a little bit of chassis flex on rough roads, but overall the Sky is solid and rides well. Wind noise is a bit of an issue with the top down, and with the top up the roof sounds like it's about to get torn off.
Handling ***
The steering feels good, but ideally it would communicate more about the road. This is likely due to the Sky's tires, which would be more fun if they weren't so wide. Ultimately, the Sky has more grip than power and that definitely limits the fun quotient. If you actually approach the adhesion limit, the Sky gets a little bit twitchy.
Gearbox ****
The test car came with a five-speed automatic. Get ready for this — it's actually better than the manual transmission. One of many reasons being that third gear is spaced more evenly between second and fourth, so there's less of a precipitous drop in acceleration as the engine falls out of its power band. Moreover, the Sky needs to shift to provide any increase in forward momentum, and when it happens this often it's just as easy to have the car do the work for you.
Audio/Video **
The upgraded stereo, a $590 option, features a CD/MP3 player and auxiliary input. But the 225 watts on this seven speaker system (with subwoofer) are not enough. At highway speeds with the top down the volume can be turned all the way up without being too loud. And at full volume the speakers distort, and not in a Pete Townsend guitar solo distortion way, but in a "this sounds like crap" way. (Yes, Austin loves the classic rock, and he's still defending any Eagles track with Glenn Frey on vocals.)
Value ***
The Sky is an emotional purchase, such that value doesn't really enter into the equation. But go ahead and twist our arm. The Sky costs about the same as a luxed-up Miata, and it's less expensive than a Mustang V6 convertible. Of course, if all you really want is a convertible top, the Chrysler PT Cruiser, Miata, and Solstice all start closer to 20 grand than the Sky's base price of $23,115.
Toys *
There are pop-out cup holders near at the rear of the center console, and a single pop-out cup holder on the passenger's side of the transmission tunnel.
Trunk *
To reiterate a point from Part 1, kludginess like the Sky's trunk design tend to happen when engineers are forced to bring a concept car to life in a short amount of time. The trunk is hinged at the bumper, meaning you have to press down the top's flying buttresses every time you open the cargo hold. And the gas tank bulges out in the middle, eating up most of the space. With the roof down, you can squeeze a few soft bags or maybe some groceries in between the folded top and the rear of the trunk.
Overall ****
The Sky is refreshingly fun to drive. It's flawed, but it is also a very solid first effort from a company (GM as a whole, not just Saturn) that has made far too few exciting low-volume sports cars. It's not quite as well developed or as fun to drive as the Miata, but it definitely beats the Mazda on styling — and this is coming from a Miata fan. The only thing lacking is power, which will be fixed with the debut of the Sky Redline. The extra power is definitely worth the wait, although it might elevate the price into the territory of the Honda S2000.
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Can a new study help put county residents back to work?
County Council hopes a $20,000 workforce study it approved in September will help find new ways to decrease unemployment in the county. Greenville-based marketing research and workforce development agency 10-x presented an outline of the study to several members of County Council during an economic development committee meeting on Monday night.
You can enjoy the Elgin Volunteer Fire Department's tasty barbecue today and Saturday.
But members of the department, the community helpers who assist with the barbecue and some current and past Lancaster County officials got a taste of it at a special event Thursday.
The event wasn't just a preview of coming attractions – it was a celebration of an accomplishment of the Elgin department and those volunteers who make its twice-yearly barbecue possible.
A historic building that has made headlines in recent months is now depicted on a shiny holiday fixture.
The old Lancaster jail on Gay Street is featured on the 2010 Lancaster Christmas Ornament. Each year, one of the county's historic places is featured on a ornament. The series began in 2000.
Jimola Wade, marketing coordinator for See Lancaster SC, unveiled the newest ornament Tuesday evening at the Springs House.
"I think we've got a great ornament this year," she said. "It'll make a wonderful Christmas present."
Police are looking for suspects in an early Sunday morning shooting that left two Lancaster women wounded.
Officers came to Springs Memorial Hospital after receiving a call from the hospital staff about the two gunshot victims, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
The shooting is believed to have taken place between 1 and 1:45 a.m. Sunday.
Officers said one of the victims, age 20, evaded their questions. She could not remember details and changed her stories, the report said.
Lancaster pharmacy owner Hugh Mobley became the first person to officially throw his hat into the ring for the District 16 state Senate seat on Tuesday.
Mobley, a pharmacist and owner of Mobley Drugs, said he will run for the seat, which will be vacant after Republican Mick Mulvaney of Indian Land assumes his duties in the U.S. Congress. Mulvaney bested Democratic incumbent John Spratt of York for the 5th District congressional seat in last week's midterm elections. Spratt has held the seat since 1983.
No arrests have been made in an armed robbery that took place shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday outside an 11th Street home.
A 59-year-old woman said she pulled into her driveway, opened her car door and started to pet her cat when she looked up and noticed a man standing there, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office incident report.
The woman told deputies that the man pointed a handgun at her and demanded all of her money.
The assailant took $300, the report said.
A West Hood Street man tells police three men entered his house, robbed him at gunpoint and made him strip naked Sunday night.
The victim told Lancaster police he was sitting on his couch watching TV when three men came through his front door and robbed him about 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
The three men each had handguns and were wearing ski masks, according to an incident report.
The victim told police the intruders hit him in the face with a gun several times and made him take off all his clothes. They took $200 from his pants pocket, the report said.
Local Boy Scouts are doing their part to help the less fortunate in Lancaster County.
The L&C (Lancaster and Chester) District of Boy Scouts of America will again be taking part in the organization's annual Scouting for Food drive.
From about 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, members of local Boy Scouts units will be going throughout neighborhoods in the county collecting food, which will be given to HOPE in Lancaster.
John Rumford is the mayor-elect of Fort Lawn.
He defeated incumbent Charles "Clif" Ferguson by a vote of 121 to 54 in Tuesday's Town Council election.
Rumford, chairman of the Fort Lawn Community Center, beat Ferguson, the town's 10-year mayor by a more than 2-to-1 margin.
"I'm very gratified by the support of the people of Fort Lawn," Rumford said. "I look forward to working with the council, the staff and the people of Fort Lawn to make decisions that are best for the town of Fort Lawn."
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CS100 Siphon Overflow box by CPR Aquatic
CS100 Specifications:
* Flow Rate: 800gph
* Outflow Size: 1" Bulkhead
* Width: 9 3/8"
CPR CS100 SIPHON AQUARIUM OVERFLOW BOX by CPR Aquatic
**** Overflow Box Selection Chart ****
A built-in overflow is the most efficient method of draining aquarium water to a filter. If your aquarium does not have built-in overflow, CPR Continuous Siphon Overflows/Prefilters are the best means for getting water from an aquarium to a filter system without expensive modifications to the tank. They quietly skim up to six times more water than units with tubes.
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* Quiet operation.
CS100 Specifications:
* Flow Rate: 800gph
* Outflow Size: 1" Bulkhead
* Width: 9 3/8"


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| December 31, 2012, 8:30 am
If you find yourself with a pile of leftover cranberries from the holidays, or you simply have a couple of sad cans of cranberry sauce taking up valuable space in your pantry, this is the perfect recipe for you — especially if you're on the hunt for a special new cocktail.
I recently ended up with about seven extra bags of cranberries and didn't know what the heck to do with them… You can only string so many cranberry garlands before you feel a bit crazy!
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text: The Next Nature website has a cornucopia of information about how humans have modified our foods through artificial selection, the process that partially inspired Charles Darwin to realize that nature does the same thing on its own. For example, they tell the story of how all carrots came to be orange in the 17th century to honor William the Orange by Dutch growers for founding a free Netherlands. Before that, carrots were various shades of white, yellow, red and purple.


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My question is as follows.
If $(X,\mathcal A)$ and $(Y,\mathcal B)$ are two measure spaces and $\mathcal A_n\subseteq \mathcal A$ is a decreasing sequence of $\sigma$-algebras with $\mathcal A_n\downarrow \mathcal A_\infty$, then we have $$\mathcal A_n \times \mathcal B\downarrow \mathcal A_\infty \times \mathcal B$$
One direction is easy, but I am stuck at the other direction. Thank you for helping me with this.
I only did one direction as follows: take $A\times B\in \mathcal A_\infty \times \mathcal B$, we have that $A\times B\in \mathcal A_n\times \mathcal B$ for all $n$. So, $A\times B\in \bigcap_n(\mathcal A_n \times \mathcal B)$. The latter is a $\sigma$-algebra, so it contains $\mathcal A_\infty \times \mathcal B$, which is generated by the class of sets of the form $A\times B$. This implies $\mathcal A_\infty \times \mathcal B \subseteq \bigcap_n(\mathcal A_n \times \mathcal B)$.
We need to prove that $\bigcap_n(\mathcal A_n \times \mathcal B)\subseteq \mathcal A_\infty \times \mathcal B$.
Update: I should add another condition, that both $(X,\mathcal A,\mu)$ and $(Y,\mathcal B,\nu)$ are probability spaces, and all the $\sigma-$ algebras are considered modulo the null sets. But I still want to know what happens if we don't have such a condition. Are there any counterexamples?


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Here is the transcript from 60 minutes from the Navy Seal guy who claims to be one of Bin Laden's shooters.
HE was on the show to promote his book called "no easy day" not sure of his name is Mark Owen or Matt Bissonnette. On the CBS interview he was in disguise and his voice was altered.
It keeps getting sillier and sillier.


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By Sharon Bernstein
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - Condoms could eventually be distributed to California prison inmates under a bill passed in the Democratic-controlled state Assembly on Monday, setting the stage for potential pushback from Governor Jerry Brown, who vetoed a similar measure last fall.
The bill, which must still be passed by the state Senate, directs California to develop a five-year plan to hand out condoms in the state prison system, where existing law already criminalizes sex acts between inmates, regardless of consent.
Opponents of the plan have predicted prisoners in the overcrowded system could use condoms to store contraband rather than for safe sex, while backers say it could help cut down on high rates of sexually transmitted diseases among inmates.
"Sexually transmitted disease is a tragic reality of life in prison," said Oakland Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta, who introduced the bill.
Bonta said the rate of sexually transmitted diseases that can be prevented by condom use was considerably higher in prisons than in the general population. In particular, he said the rate of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is as much as 10 times higher in prisons than among the public.
AIDS activist Michael Weinstein, president of AIDS healthcare foundation and a bill sponsor, said giving condoms to inmates could help reduce transmission rates and would help protect spouses and partners of prisoners once they are released.
"People have a right to have protection who are in prisons and jail and it's not being provided to them - regardless of whether it's legal to have sex in prisons or jails," Weinstein said.
He pointed to a pilot program in Solano State Prison that he said was successful in preventing the spread of disease.
The state's legislative analyst found that the cost of treating an HIV-infected inmate is about $41,000 per year, and said the program would pay for itself and save hundreds of thousands of dollars if it prevented 10 cases per year.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation has offered to provide the condoms as well as dispensers, Weinstein and Bonta said.
Brown, in an October veto message of last year's bill, said responsibility for condom distribution in prisons belonged to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, not the legislature.
"The department currently allows family visitors to bring condoms for the purpose of the family overnight visitation program," Brown wrote in his message. "While expansion of the program may be warranted, the Department should evaluate and implement this expansion carefully and within its existing authority."
California prisons have been in the spotlight nationwide over the past year over such issues as overcrowding and the practice of keeping some inmates in near-isolation for years on end.
To make the measure more palatable to the governor this time around, backers asked the state to develop a plan to distribute condoms, but did not require the plan to be implemented.
Brown has not indicated whether he will sign the revised measure.
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Eric Walsh)


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Made up of two PVC-coated metal discs with a one-piece neoprene sealing ring positioned between them, these conduit sealing bushings are designed to stop water, dust, or gas from entering electrical enclosures, with pressure ratings as high as 100 psi. Custom-drilled holes allow the cables into the enclosure, while a slot cut into the discs prevent induction heating by the individual alternating current conductors. The bushings are available for use with Schedule 40 rigid conduit sizes 1.5 in. to 6 in., as well as mechanical pipe, cast iron pipe, and copper tubing in sizes ranging from 2 in. to 16 in.
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